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By FRANCES NIBLOCK The New Tanner Acton teens would have one of the things they want most -- a comfortable, safe place to hang out and call their own, if on-going talks about a proposed drop-in centre between numerous Acton and area agencies and Lg work out. alton Hills Community Support and Information (formerly Assic) has long recognized the need for a drop-in centre in Acton and recently began talks in ear- nest with Parent Talk, a group of interested parents of RURe Tali HALTON HILLS Working Together Working for You! O F Thursday, April 23, 1998 for ext. 264 BID DOCUMENT Offers clearly marked as to contents will be received by the Purchasing Agent, Finance Department until 2:00 p.m., BID NO. 98-027 CONCESSION OPERATIONS PROSPECT PARK, ACTON The Recreation and Parks Department wishes to contract out the operations of Concession Services at Prospect Park, Acton for the 1998 park season. Terms of Reference and Tender Form can be viewed or obtained through the Finance Department, Purchasing Services. Inquiries should be directed to: Form of Tender: Sharon Collie, Buyer Specifications: Paul Stover, Superintendent of Facilities, Under no circumstances, will facsimile bids be accepted or considered. Highest or any bid not necessarily accepted. P.O. Box 128, 1 Halton Hills Dr. Halton Hills (Georgetown), ON L7J 5G2 Tel: 905-873-2600 Tor.: 416-798-4730 Fax: 905-873-2347 THE NEW TANNER Discuss Teen drop-in plan teens at Acton High. Parent Talk members surveyed Acton teens and the drop-in centre topped their list of wants. The proposed mission statement for the drop-in centre is to provide a safe and healthy environment for teens to enjoy a social atmos- phere where there is help and direction that will improve the quality of their lives. HHCS&1 agreed to put up $5,000 to hire a co-ordinator. "We think its going to be fairly easy to open a centre. Therg have been drop-ins in Acton is the past, but the is- sue has been how to keep them open," said HHCS&I executive Rosslyn Dowell. "Acton teens are not as well served as they could be. We're trying to get a handle on what services are avail- able locally and what this age group can access outside of town," Dowell said, adding that they are working in the preliminary stages with a Steering committee that in- cludes teens and representa- tives from public health, edu- cation, the business commu- nity and the Town to see if the plan is viable and if there is funding to keep it open. "There are a number of teens who don't have a place of their own and hang out on the street. Those requiring service are accessing the services that are available but that sometimes means refer- ral to services outside of Acton and Halton Hills. 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O44 dA hi « J THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 19 SWEET SERENADES: Members of the junior and senior choirs at Robert Litt school wait to perform at Thursday's farewell party for veteran teacher Rosema: Black, who retired in December after teaching her entire 38-year career at Robe Little. Front row, left to right: Melissa Brownlee, McCluskey, Julia Niblock, Kiersten Duncanson, Drechsel. Back: Edith Bovay, Emily Bent, Melissa Hynds, Meg: Hjoerdis Stockinger and Diar Kristin Hollaway, Amy Ross, Samant Rents, Jaimie Mitchell, Kyra Parker and Cassandra Stokes. Town will spend on roads, not on RAN The Town's budget com- mittee now has a pretty good idea how much property taxes will increase for Halton Hills residents will pay this year. Last night (Wednesday) Town treasurer Andy Koopmans briefed the com- mittee on the blended impact of the Town and Region s budgets and provincial downloading. After four days of budget deliberations over the past two weeks budget committee members -- the mayor and all councillors- asked Koopmans to prepare a sum- mary of the impact of all the increases. Councillors in- structed staff to bring back a budget with no more than a 2 per cent tax increase but additions made by commit- tee members would result in a 2.8 per cent tax increase. If that is financed through the tax levy it would translate to an additional $32 for the ay- erage residential property for Town Purposes only. Capital budget Rural road repairs won out over a high tech compu- ter system as the budget com- mittee struggled with this year's $4.6 million capital budget last Wednesday night. The preliminary budget pre- pared by staff focuses on projects that improve, reha- bilitated or replaced existing capital assets, and not buy- ing new equipment or build- ing new structures. Having already added $115,000 for Sixth Line re- pairs to staff's no-fat budget, committee members also ap- proved $20,000 for engineer- ing work for long-requested repairs on the Fifth and Eighth Lines. A demonstration of a so- phisticated computer system, a proposed corporate project to be used by four depart- ments, failed to sway the committee, which cut the $100,000 project. An extra $10,000 was approved, to double the amount the Town will spend for tourism this year. Budget committee mem- bers rejected another request from Main Street South area residents supported by the mayor, who asked for a 42,000 sidewalk to improve safety, south of Maple Ay- enue in Georgetown.. Acton Councillor Norm Elliott was upset the item was back a second time, arguing that safety was the reason that all eight of the proposed road projects referred to the budget committee were on the agenda. VANCOUVER SATARUN USPAAOTRS «FR YEUNY RTOS "CALGARY SANUADAT WEPONTURES Save ARWENS Skyservice "a "199 TED TYLER TRAVEL SERVICE iro. "Best Price, Best Service Since 1972" 853-1553 379 Queen St., Acton "I'm sure not going | leap-frog this sidewa! project to the detriment of tl people in Ward 2 who hay been asking for repairs f safety reasons for years. Elliott said, who then urgx the committee to "take a bi of reality." "All we've accomplishe so far after our third meetin is to add $115,00 to th budget and now we're tall ing about another $42,00 and we're already looking : tax increases numbers near per cent," Elliott said addin, that councillors were bein; "bombarded from every sec tor of the community" abou rumoured tax hikes. ; Treasurer And) Koopmans said that if coun cillors chose to offset th $80,000 impact of th changes they made, they would have to increase th contribution from the oper ating budget from the capi tal by that amount whicl translate to a 0.8 per cent tay hike. Operating budget The proposed $18.7 mil. lion operating budget had already been pared by addi- tional $ 460,000 by stafi when budget committee be- gan deliberations. The lion's share of the operating budget is earmarked for public works and engineering projects. Although the budget com- mittee did approve changing the status of eight contract employees to full-time work- ers, they approved only one of two fire prevention offic- ers requested in the fire de- partment's $1.7 million budget. Committee approved the hiring of a contract plan- ner to fill a long-vacant staff position with a cost of $25,717 for the remainder of the year and extended the contract of a systems support worker for the finance de- partment at a net cost of $30,469 for this year. Ward 2 Councillor Kevin Kuiack attempted to con- vince committee to cut $22,500 for a recreation and parks facilities strategy study, but he failed and the item remains in the proposed budget.