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Cautious study needed for United Way HiUs is right to take the go- carefm approach In looking at if it can support a United Way fradraising organ says the bead of the Halton United Way Task Force Sheridan chairman of the task force said in an interview that a local United Way cannot survive unless It has strong community support and the back of a committed group of volunteers The Town must determine if these are available before organizing a United Way he said United Ways come from the com unity on up Sheridan told regional council on Wednesday and warned that political pressure was not enough to get such an organization on its feet The Soda Planning Council intends to give a local committee to study the potential support for United Way in town from local social service agencies and citizens The committee intends to hire a consultant with the money and expect a report by the fall The committee is composed of town politicians and representatives of local agencies who vary in their opinions of how effective such an organization would bo in this community Representatives of some funding starved groups like Acton Social Services and Information Centre and Helping Hands feel a group like the United Way is essential for scouring the community for more funds Other members of the committee feel that groups like the Red Cross who already have successful drives In place will be reluctant to join an umbrella organization on which they have to rdy to raise money for them They also fear citizens will prefer to support their favorite charily rather than making a lump sum payment to the United Way which then allocates the money to the participating agencies Sheridan explained that these arc frequent concerns when a community gives thought to starting up a United Way However there are significant ad vantages to a United Way he said Its cheaper to run one campaign for a lot of agencies rather than separate campaigns for each he explained By reducing administration costs you the amount available to the participating organizations Often larger groups which already have their own choose to maintain their own campaigns he said He stressed that participation by agencies in the United Way is strictly voluntary The primary source of funds for the United Way is payroll deduction plans where employees agree to have a donation deducted from their wages For employees working outside of town Sheridan said they simply have to indicate when Join a plan that the money Is to be directed to Halton Hills Some United Ways do not conduct door campaigns and the ones who do find that generally people give as much as they would to any other canvasser rather than feeling pressured to give more he Sheridan said that In the last five years there have been few United Ways established in Canadian communities Nonetheless the United Way Is well established across the country with organizations drawing on the support of over million people In 1983 a total of million was raised in total up per cent from the year before United Ways are currently operating in Metro Toronto Peel Region Milton Oak- ville and Burlington and Hamilton- Went worth If the local committee finds there is support for a United Way in Hills It will leave it to area social service agencies to organize one vBSbv GeorgetownActon Wednesday March Georgetown 1SMounMMmaRdN o77510u Toronto Regional police want public input Halton Regional Police are taking a close look at themselves and they want the publics help The force is developing a strategic plan to be completed by October which will Identify the long and short term objectives far polic ing in Halton As part of the plan development the force sending out a two page questionnaire to randomly selected residents to be com anonymously and the police also want the comments of members of the public who dont receive the survey We want to know Just how they sec the Board of Education Provincial NDP Leader Bob right shares a chuckle with Rae calls for new leadership Technological and social changes are causing Ontario to suffer a midlife crisis says provincial NDP leader Bob and he says It Is time for the party to reshape its message to voters Into a strategy for coping In a speech to Hal ton Burlington New Democrats In Milton Friday night Rae accused the Progressive Conservative government of falling to provide solutions to the many problems faced by workers in this province The provincial NDP must become the spokesmen Tor a new generation of leader ship that will give voters a preferable alternative to the Tories in the next provin cial election said It is a different province to what it was In yet we have a government that has been in power since then and whose mindset is somewhere in between 1943 and I960 I havent figured out where he Jobs are being destroyed by foreign competition and high technology women ere being denied an equal place In the work force but the Davis government is doing little he said emphasized the need for equal pay for work of equal value legislation and suggested that affirmative action hiring programs for women be required at all com panies doing business with the provincial government said are currently allowing such companies to implement affirmative action on a voluntary basis but the list of businesses which have Is growing too slowly There are only companies with action out of thousands and he said We calculate at the rate they are moving it will take 1800 years for the others to follow More money has to be spent on daycare and training programs to give women the chance to hold down good paying fulltime jobs The provinces education system is being starved and called for more fund plus greater support for apprenticeship and Job retraining programs The provincial government should not be afraid to spend money as an investment he said If we do not invest money in people today going to cheat ourselves out of our future said Its time to look at the future of work he said To cope with high unemployment he said he favors pension reform to allow for early retirement without penalization a shorter work week and a reduction in the amount of overtime being worked Is ft that some people work hours a week when others cant get a Job at all he asked The audience at the United Hall gave a standing ovation as presented Georgetown resident Morley Mills 73 with an lifetime membership to the party The gold membership card recognized Mills work for the since he joined its predecessor the Cooperative Common wealth Federation in 1942 Mills recalled his parents involvement in the United Formers of Ontario in the when they pushed for reforestation of waste land land that today Is producing good timber Way back from childhood I had a good grounding In the political field Mills said He recalled when the first woman was elected to the federal House of Commons from the CCF and Liberals and Conserva tives would walk out when she rose to speak He also reminisced about the Depression and what he called the of the Canadian government under Prime Mini ster B Bennett This was in contrast to S President Franklin Roosevelt whom he said put people before business interests In those days I thought it would be great if we Joined with the S he sold wryly That would have been a mistake wouldnt if Running cemeteries costs 103980 but Town plans to recover 61292 Running three cemeteries is expected to coat the Town over 100000 this year This area of municipal operations showed one of the biggest budget increases for this year 14 per cent This year Halton HUli is planning to spend on Greenwood and Pioneer cemeteries the for last years budget was However these costs will be offset with an anticipated income of in various cemetery fees Sale of plots fa expected to amount to for Cemetery and at Georgetowns Gree Interment and disinterment fees are pegged to bring in 7100 In Acton and In Georgetown Sale of grave foundations and c will produce aa estimated 3075 at and 9908 at Green wood Interest earned on money the cemeteries account hopefully add to Town cotters VA total of expected to be spent on maintenance of Fabview Cemetery to w for time working at cemetery em ployees are part of the works staff so portion of their wages are apportioned to the cemetery J Light water and various supplies are expected to eat up another 3070 of the budget while 9584 will be spent renting equipment used in the cemetery by other Town departments on a chargeback basis Burial costs at are pegged at for 1984 with 4473 going towards An additional is to be charged for Town equipment at Fair- view Administration costs for are estimated at 4525 for 1984 including 100 for office supplies for memberships and subscription fees for staff and for services for a landscaping and a cemetery development master plan by a consultant Wages eat up 1134 of the to be spent at and corner stone installations at this year Rental of equipment from other Town departments Is pegged at 293 and will be spent on operating supplies for this aspect of cemetery operations in Acton At Greenwood Cemetery wages will count for of the to be spent this year on maintenance Another Is to go to light water and supplies while Is the estimated cost of rental of equipment from other departments and 700 for contractural services for painting of the building The Greenwood burial costs budget in cluding for wages is pegged at 11000 Another 4290 has been set aside for rental of equipment from other Town Administration for Greenwood Cemetery is expected to cost 150 for office supplies and 50 for staff memberships and subscrip tions- Wages for workers doing foundation and cornerstone installations account for 2262 of the 3900 budget The rest of the budget Is eaten up by for rental of equipment from other Town departments and for supplies and what areas they might like to see said Constable Griffiths of the forces planning department Any comments or suggestions are welcome and as an example con range from what areas of policing the public wants to see emphasized what they think of levels of service in urban or rural areas or how they think police officers interact with the community All correspondence will be kept in confi dence and can be addressed to Chief I James Hording Halton Regional Police Force Box White Oaks Boulevard Ont L7J Barebones budget costs 108 million by Alex If the Board of Education were to cut Its proposed 147 million budget to the bore minimum allowed by law the school system would have carta uniforms but no caretakers to wear them The bare bones school system would still hove a full complement of teachers for both elementary and secondary schools operating in buildings complete with water sewer and heating services But the buildings wouldnt be clean There would still be a director of tion but no other central staff or even a facility from which to operate And the cost to Hal Ion taxpayers would still be 108 million When the 1984 budget was presented to the school board for the first time March the school trustees were unoblc to agree upon any method to trim the budget It is scheduled to appear before the school board for final approval March But where trustees begin trimming re mains a problem In order to aid the trustees all budget items were ranked in order of importance and placed Into four categories- mandatory essential highly desirable and would like at the beginning of the budget process six weeks ago To date all the would likes hove been removed and the highly desirables drastically reduced There ore 18 Items In the mandatory category which total million and cannot be touched The boards total proposed budget of about million Includes about 1B0 other items ranked according to importance If the board chooses to trim an additional million from its budget as proposed by one school trustee said a board about expenditure would have to be removed According to Hal tons director of education Wally removing million more from he budget would involve the elimination of all highly desirable items except hose hat are completely funded by grants and would cut into the essential items such as supply teachers and snow removal Some of the big items to go would be sum school transportation at the boards own bus fleet which costs about 120000 to run modifications to allow handicapped people be Integrated into public schools at and the to repair the heating systems in some schools Also gone would be the elementary trans portation and swimming program at window replacement at and program development and printing at both panels for a total of 000 Another big ticket item axed would be he surveillance system which costs The loss of that would cost the board more than it would save said budget officer Jim Fleming Updatingof classroom furniture at would be shelved along with continuing education and driver education at just over each Computer hardware for elementary schools at would be chopped along with the to repair some of the in equipment These would be the major items needed to get the budget down by million but there would be a number of smaller ones However to practically cut be budget down a number of items with grant recoverable expenses would be retained while we would likely see the removal of supplies for cocordinators and consultants and possibly the end to snow removal at the schools At the other end of the scale the last item the board would cut would be the supplies to elementary and secondary day schools which cost excess of million Cur riculum services staff at 3 million comes Just after school supplies in the prioriti zation process This would be followed by he other main segments of administrative staff such as employee services business services computer services and school secretarial Special education tran sportation Is number 13 while the train ably menially handicapped swim program Is 15 and transportation to day school at a cost of more than 3 million Is 19th Plant maintenance at 3 million is number Just on the heels of printing report cords costing Although the ranking of some items could cause debate said they represent the values of the board The board he said could argue that the train ably mentally handicapped swim is of more value to those children than school transportation or build ing maintenance In on extreme crunch the board could tell parents to transport their own children Huge increases which arc costing the board considerable said director of educa tion Beevor include a 4 per cent hike in workmens compensation per cent o unemployment insurance costs 12 per cent to Canada pension and 7 per cent for municipal services Declining enrolment said Beevor has tost the board about W million in lost grants Ultimately the reason education is costing so much more than it did a generation ago is that the educational services offered now are more specialized and sophisticated he said People are also staying in school longer Hard surfacing 3 rural roads Gravel major granular supply and ap plication for three rural roads is expected to cost the Town in 1984 Staff Initially suggested 200 for gravel but 1000 was chopped during budget commit tee deliberations Staff has proposed applying gravel to three roads to improve the base and service and allow for proper grading The three roads are a northerly portion of the Fourth Line the Fifth Line from Stories Ave to 10 Slderoad and the Tenth Line from Five to Ten Hard surfacing of these roads will follow The budget for major road surface treatment work in was actually boosted instead of cut during budget deliberations Surface treatment will go on three rural roads for the first time The designated locations Including a northerly portion of the Fourth Line where gravel will first be applied the Fifth to gravel will be put down first here too and the Tenth Line from Five to Ten another location will be put down first Also renewal of existing hard surfaced roads will be carried out on various rural roads with a new application of 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