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Headquarters 581000 over budget The Acton Free Press Wednesday 7 The future home of regional government in will cost more than the original budget Regional Council endorsed plans for construe even though it had said time and time again that the building could and would be built within budget A narrow vote enough to carry the motion during Wednesday s council meeting Last February council agreed to hike the budget figure up to and include the Health Unit staff in the new building The regions building com mittee met for four hours Wednesday in an effort to come to some consensus on what should be done When Committee Chairman David Coons went before council in the afternoon he made a presentation featuring the three options open to council but afler more than two years of deliberations the OLDS PROS AT THIS GAME Amanda Deforest and Christine Couture performed a duet in a dance recital held June 11 in Robert Little School Delay rental With the backing of council Hills finance administration committee will take another look at rent increase for town offices in the Acton building Last week the committee approved a rent increase from to month of which would be paid by Acton Community Services Centre The centre would expand taking over home of the present office space it the front of the building Monday agreed with Councillor Miller suggestion approval of the rent hike be delayed while department are em to comment on use by the town of the facility lie said the committee had received a letter with regards to the budding ind it would Imi to be examined at the next eommittee meeting No other details of the reason for the rent increase approval were revealed We want out Continued from page proper and is a major issue in our criticism of government established under Bill tat Thirdly and very a major criticism we have of Regional Government under Bill 151 is the rapid and continuing escalation of coils to area taxpayers A rational perspective on how tax payers can afford seems to have disappeared with the emergence of Regional Government in both Region and locally in Hills Growth In the numbers of municipal employees has increased dramatically In creased costs of si lanes benefits pensions arc cedented Large capital ex which previously were scheduled over longer terms based on local fordability arc now lively approved by both Regional and Hills Council apparently on the presumption that a broader tax base is now sup porting these costs It is our considered opinion that our current system of local government in Halton Hills and regionally in has become loo costly to maintain at its current rate of growth in taxes We believe that some form of accountability must be re stored to government in and Halton Hills Per haps the creation of some equivalent to an auditor gen for regional government should be required It is vir impossible for the average citizen to com pre the financial operations of regional government established under Bill 151 and the establishment of an pendent auditing body reporting directly to the taxpayers would greatly increase our of and control over municipal spending We request that your Committee strongly consider this reeom mendalion In summation we are unhappy and dissatisfied with the current type of govern ment created under Bill 151 We feel that some tie arc required ticularly in the structure of what is presently the local area of Hills In general webeliecehangcsto restore more automomy to Ac tomans to control their own destinies in local area concerns is essential If this means the reestobhshment of a seat of government in Acton itself then perhaps that is the committee had no firm rccom mendatlon The three options open to the committee included accepting the low tender and taking the extra funds out of 1978 taxes accepting none of the three tenders and sending the plans back to the architect for redesigning within the budget or finally postponing or can celling building plans and renew the lease with Peter G Lush for the existing space in the Abhcy Life building on Harvester in Burlington Council accepted the low tender of of Newton Construction and agreed that an amount of be approved to cover architect fees interior design work furnishings and redesigning Newton original tender price came in at but was reduced to after deletions were made from the original specifications The proposal to continue renting appeared to gain sup port when council was advised that the current landlord G Lush would hold the rent at its current level for the next five years with the excepUon of increases to cover tax in creases Burlington Councillor Ben said the idea of stay and renting had merit He said it would work out to per foot cheaper thin the proposal to buy Mayor Harry Bar rctl said it cost the region for the archi service whether they built the building or not If wo scuttle the plans it is 125 out the window Milton Councillor Jim Watson said he would sign the resolutions authorizing construction and the over expenditure if council agreed to build it on the Milton site The savings of would be enough to w in my support he said Regional Chairman Morrow ready to introduce yet a fourth option when he said he had received a call from Rudy is a mijor Burlington developer But before he could go any further Coons cut him off Don t pull that into it now 1 don even winl to hear about it he shouted Councillor Mac Anderson said the building can tbe morally justified The staff will expand to fill any spate available so more staff can come to create the need for a new addition Don saddle the ratepayers with the cost new building Milton Don Gordon said the building wis over direction that should be taken We is citizens of the Town of Acton do not believe that the current system of municipal govern is responsive to Acton best interests We believe the establishment of Hi 111 within the framework of region was poor political judgment disruptive and detrimental to the future of the Town of Acton should be reevaluated with intensive input from Actons citizens ACTONIANS FOR ACTION Peter Papillon Chairman I Secretary Members It Arbic Bon nctte A Braida Dills Evelan C Leather land Lovcll G Malcolm B Shoemaker M Smith D Swetman designed in the expectation that people will use People won use it Staff councillors Councillor Watson said the regions first mistake was moving from Milton in the first place It seems to me the idea of a regional building In the first place was to house Ihe entire regional family the police CAS and the Board of Education We said our house isn big enough for the whole family But now the family has gone and left us anyway I say we should stay here until regional government fizzles out and then we could go back to the areas where we should be and we have our own houses there Councillor Reade said he opposed he building We don need It It is too rich Taxpayers don want to spend to solve an identity crisis They II find us here if it is important enough As a matter of fact if we pass this I think they find us Coons presentation sur prised some councillors who FOR ALL OF CANADAS Al BUILDING NEEDS MACKENZIE IT ACTON had attended Ihe committee meeting earlier In the day Some felt he was trying to sell the and were surprised when he voted against it Outside the meeting he said he t trying to sell any thing but simply point out the options He said he favored having the building rede signed without the frills and within budget Milton Councillor Jim Ken- had attended the committee meeting earlier in the day and he claimed the consensus at the meeting was to have the building redesigned A member of the committee Jim Watson said he t feci the committee had ever reached any kind of cons en Councillor Jim Kerr said there was a lot of information that came out in committee that council was never aware of He said he was angry when Halton Hills Mayor Tom Hill successfully put a motion of closure and ended a discussion before he had an opportunity to speak to it Council against nuclear race Hilts council did Its the Stockholm Appeal bit Monday to stop nuclear The Canadian Peace proliferation Congress sent the Stockholm Appeal to council for its At the urging of Councillor noting much Peter Marks council en federal money is used to Try land swap for parkland Town planner Mario said the flood tne precludes Vendittl was asked by building on five lots He Hills planning board to try to gested the town negotiate a come up with a land swap for land swop so the land could be land south of Elizabeth Drive acquired for parkland on the Acton deemed parkland edge of Fairy Lake Councillor Peter Marks maintain NO RAD The Stockholm Appeal calls for an end to the Arms race and urges disarmament Building more arms when the present stockpiles could destroy the world several times over is completely mad the letter to the town said Marks said it might appeal an endorsation from Halton Hills of the Stockholm Appeal is just a grain of 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