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Tax committee faces tight deadline By Dianne Cornish Molly Monahan of Georgetown and former Halton sheriff Mac Sprowl of Acton is finding the whole experience very educational. Both are members of the Citizen’s Committee on Property Tax Reform, which is investigating property tax assessment alternatives in Halton in hopes of coming up with a system sist XPT will see as fair and equit Also meant is Hills on the committee, but unavailable for comment before press deadline, is Georgetown builder David McNally. Heavy workload During separate interviews Monday, Monahan and Sprowl teadily acknowledged there’s a heavy workload for all committee members and a tight deadline for the group to come up with recom- mendations for regional council. The 12-member committee held its first meeting Feb. 23 and has met six times since then. Between now and the end of August, the group is scheduled to meet 20 times before coming up with recommen- dations for a Sept. 1 meeting of Halton’s administration and finance committee. Regional council will consider proposals by the commit- tee at its September 8-meeting. Volunteer hours “By early September, we’ll prob- ably have put in 900 or 1,000 hours,” Sprowl said, while aig about the time Value Assessment (MVA), the tem which Halton Region had expected to implement on a region- wide basis at the beginning of 1993. Unit system explored The second working group will explore alternative tax systems. The unit system of property tax assess- ment, where taxes are based on the square footage of land and living space, will be explored, Monahan said. The feasibility of dropping education taxes from the municipal tax roll will also be explored. All committee meetings are open to the public. The next session will be held Thursday, 7 p.m. in Bishop Reding Secondary School in Milton. By Oksana Buhel Anne King, co-ordinator of the Victorian Order of Nurses’ Hospice program, claims this is the most well-known program which the VON offers. Many, ter- minally-ill individuals, their friends and family, have benefited from the service. Program was established in 1987, but limited to Oakville and Burlington. In 1989, this program merged with the North Halton Hospice program, which serviced Georgetown, Milton, and Acton. The goal of the vide terminally-ill individuals, residing in private homes, with supportive care. Volunteers donate approximate- ly 3-4 hours a week to the pro- gram. Their responsibilities may include anything from driving their clients around on errands, helping around the house, or sim- ply sitting and talking. As well as being dependable, caring, highly- motivated and made by committee members, a of whom are volutiteers. The only paid member is the chairman, Bob eal of Burlington. ‘Sprowl said the group’s early neetings focused on educating Members about the tax system and how it works. “We've got a lot of material to read and study,” he temarked. Committee focused Committee members are focused in their approach to find a workable and acceptable tax. system proposal - ‘buck Sprowl and Monahan ee extremely impressed by the lack of (political) party or regional bias in the approach taken by com- mittee members to find a fair and equitable solution,” Monahan stat- ed. “Nobody is eee this from a biased point of view.” The committee has tee divided into. two working groups, Monahan explained. One will look at Market HALTON HILLS FIRE DEPARTMENT } for Reg. $9 - $10.00 Monday to Wednesday First 75 Customers kkk kk Professional Pode Barverng Shave & Cut- Complete Bai 150 irae St, Georgetown Georgeview Restaurant) ieee Mon.-Wed. 9-6 pm, Thurs.-Fri. 9-7 pm, Sat. 8:30-5 pm. = mature, volunteers are instructed to respect the confi- dentiality and rights of the clients and their families. The volunteers are not medical- ly trained, but still must go through a 10-week training course. They are taught character- istics of various diseases, emo- tional and physiological aspects of VON volunteers excel in Georgetown life-threatening illness, communi- cation and listening skills, and other information which will enable them to make their clients more comfortable, and their days more enjoyable. A 10-week training course began Thursday at the VON office in Oakville. The next course will be starting up in the fall and everyone, even those who don’t think they have the time to volun- teer, are welcome to participate. King described how volunteers in Georgetown have been excep- tionally hard-working. Between. April 1, 1992 and January 31, 1993, Georgetown volunteers have increased the time which they spend in the program by 139%. Also, despite the fact Georgetown volunteers make up 10% of the region’s volunteers, they donate 25% of all the volun= teered hours. Another feature which distin- guishes the Georgetown volun- teers is that they visit terminally ill patients at Georgetown and Dustrict- Memorial Hospital. Milton is the only other communi- ty in Halton region which pro- vides this service. For-further information on the VON’s activities in our area, con- tact Anne King, at 1-800-387- 127. a eee WE HAVE MOVED ‘COME VISIT OUR NEW SHOWROOM. ee a ee pee Halton Hills This Week, Saturday, April 17, 1993 — Page 5. 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