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Page THE Georgetown taxes up Acton down Treasurer Georgetown ratepayers going to shell our more to the regional man this year than their Acton counterparts according to preliminary mill rates put before regional council Wednesday Acton ratepayers In fact will be paying the regional tax less this year than last year The mill rate of Georgetown ratepayers is IS which Is up mills over 1B77 For a home assessed at the tax bill will amount to Last year the same home was charged For Acton ratepayers the mill rate Is 19 which is down mills over 1977 For a home assessed at the 1978 tax will amount to which is less than In The increase to Georgetown is due to the expanded sewage plant treasurer Don Farmer told council He predicted that 1979 would sec an increase to Acton ratepayers however because of debt charges from the ex pansion to the sewage treat plant there That portion of he preliminary mill rate in Georgetown which Is chargeback for sewers Is mills up mills over 1977 In Acton the chargeback or ewers dropped mills over 1977 Regional Flic Morrow told council the preliminary mill rate Is the first opportunity to see the productive results of the budget process started Sep tember 1977 The positive advantage in getting mill rales struck early is to let projects in the region get underway sooner he said Mr Farmer told council that Separate teachers reject offer Halton separate school hers have overwhelmingly re jected the latest board con tract offer in a vote conducted at region schools Friday Bob Boyle chief negotiator for the teachers says teachers or about per cent of the cast ballots rejected the board latest offer Only 16 teachers did not vote Mr Boyle says the vote was called because the board had Implied it was dealing with a few hard nosed negotiators who were not listening to the teachers they represented The results indicate that the teachers have confidence in the negotiating team he says and they eel the boards offer is unacceptable Their Jan 11 offer was only an increase of on the he says We been negotiating for six months and the board has only moved K They should realize that it will take more than that on the table to reach a settlement at this Mr Boyle says he has acted Jane Devlin the medial or appointed by the Education Relations Commission and re quested her to set up a meeting to restart negotiations Hartley chairman of the board salary negotiations committee says he is to continue negotiations if the teachers are willing to do so He has not yet heard from Ms Devlin he says and he will want to know the purpose of the meeting when it is called He feels it will be up to the teachers to respond to the board final offer if they want to resume negotiations Mr doesn feel the board should offer the teachers more money but he would be willing to give them more take home pay If they were willing to accept a cut in fringe benefits by 50 per cent We have already exceeded the guidelines by per cent in our final offer he say and that per cent too much in my opinion It time that the board old the teach ers how much they earn not the teachers telling the yers how much they pay Individual teachers may earn up to per cent Increas under the final offer Mr says It only the ones on maximum qualifications who won get big increases The total cost to the board from fringe benefits and teachers shifting in qualifications over all the teachers and principals is ap proximately he says The fact that they rejected our final offer docsn mean that 1 11 automatically rush in with a new bag of money and say I sorry they re upset he says We offered them a fair equitable and reasonable salary increase and that all he teachers can expect BOOKS I CHRISTIAN BOOKS RECORDS GIFTS George St S Brampton Phono Sour Cream When storing dairy sour cream in the refrigerator turn ho cirton upside down to prevent air from entering the Sour cream will last a week when stored this way BAHA1 attends I attard n Tabernacle reside a surplus has been built in to the general account and depending on the final audited figures for 1977 expenditures there may be some changes in the mill rate but only of a minor nature The proposed operating budget for region is Regional council deferred a motion by Milton James Watsonwho had asked that the consider levying a one municipalities for a resource recovery plant A one mill increase would raise about million treasurer farmer The preliminary mill role for former township of is 11 mills and for the township of in Hills For urban Milton the preliminary mill rate Is which is I mills over 1977 tor the preliminary mill rae is 19 IB which is mills less than las year and in Burlinglon the mill rale dropped a fifth of a mill to The mill rates were supplied to the regional treasury department by area treasurers who had recom mended that in areas when there was a reduction that a reserve fund be set o offset sewage costs or provide additional capital expenditures from current funds Mr Farmer said A motion by Major Harry Barrett ha a reserve fund be reduced in order to reduce the ratepayers failed o reach he table and likely will be dia cussed at a future meeting of council Region grants Come to Church MAPLE AVENUE ST GEORGES BAPTIST CHURCH CHURCH Maple Ave Georgetown Feb Kerr Sunday School 9 i Morning Worship Special Rev Gallagher A STB Feb LENT a The a ly 11am Morn ng Prayer it ii Holy Baptism 9 Sunday School 9 Nursery Provided IMMANUEL T LUTHERAN CHURCH Carole St Rev Harold Feb 1978 HALTON HILLS PENTECOSTAL ASSEMBLY Lenten Service Wednesday Trafalgar and No Rev J Feb iv Sunday School 11 CI or me Lutheran Hour GEORGETOWN llam ALLIANCE CHURCH m Main St Directors Dave Shannon Prlno Prior Feb S a Sunday School Morning Worship Everyone Welcome Come make our church Tuesday pioneer Girl Boys Brigade Midweek Prayer Bible Study Continued from Page 1 same year in Acton would have shown a reduction of because sewer surcharge would the place of mill rate changes These are all 1B75 figures Mr Farmer said but the significant increases and decreases would still apply Mr Morrow said that under the old county system inequities developed in the road system County roads in the north obtained a greater road subsidy from the province because 10 of 14 county councillors were from the north Mr Morrow said If regional council adopts the proposed policy and Burlington would receive substantial reduction In road maintenance costs while in the north costs would in crease Mr Morrow said The province recognizes that higher costs to the north will need to be subsidized Mr Farmer said the provincial subsidy would be per cent or more if the expenditures go beyond a certain point The subsidy could go as high as per The almost million grant is an inducement by the province to encourage a non parochial approach Mr Morrow said When the grants are spent there won t be any Mr Farmer said the proposed rate structure and getting of road subsidies would increase the region rating In the money markets to Triple A from Double A Mr Morrow predicted thai the matter would be coo when it comes to the council table SCIENCE FAIR Centennial Middle school fair last week attracted entries from students who enjoy experiment Ing in physics and biology Grade 7 students Todd Osborne left and Mark irlght used a propone torch bags to prate the principle that hot air rises in the above picture while below Richard Ramsay also in Grade7 explained the steps in purifying water through filtration and the addition of chlorine Other entries ranged through simple subjects like growing crystals and how air currents move to more complex things like a self sustain ing moon lab and panels using solar energy Speyside school parents urged to keep quality education foremost By MAGGIE HANNAH Herald writer Parents of Speyside public school pupils were urged last week to keep quality of education their children as the foremost concern In their battle to retain the local school Sheldon chairman of a parent group which Is Invest igntlng the possible closing of the 17 yearold school on High way south of Acton told parents at the meeting she wants rumors about he schools Tate and take some positive action to keep It In If this is not possible she said she hopes par en is can keep their perspective and not fight to keep the school open at the expense of quality education for their children The possibility of the school being closed was raised by the passing of a board policy In November which listed a ing program for schools with dropping enrollments Once schools wilh seven classes drop on enrollment of 170 pupils or less they will be Investigated by a committee to determine ways of maintain the school viability The cut off point for closing a school with seven classrooms OBITUARY John Henry Watson John Henry Watson wage and salary officer for Region died in Hamilton General Hospital He was Mr Watson a native or Woodstock Joined the county staff as personnel of ficcr in April 1987 and transferred to the region in 1974 He was a member of the Waterdown Legion Branch Mr Watson leaves his wife Ruth and sons Rick of St Catharines Bob of Millgrove David of of Burlington and Brian of Waterdown He is also by two brothers George of Cambridge and Douglas of Funeral services will be conducted this afternoon at 1 30 m from Hitching Steeple Funeral Home in WutTdown wilh interment at Grace Anglican Church Cemetery in Bill 151 committee meets llcgionai government has operated and can continue to within the present legislation given the full support and cooperation of he area municipalities The statement from Ernest Held chief administrative officer of the region is con in a brief on the region which Bill 151 com study Friday But besides Mr fields re marks on regional government the brief also contains briefs submitied to the committee from Hills Milton Oak ville Burlington Action Noel Bales and J both of There are 13 by stiff in the brief Is pupils North area superintendent Don Gentleman told parents they had simply anticipated the board by a few months in its forming of a committee to Investigate ways of keeping thcschoolopen The board will have colled for such a commit tee under its new policy when the school begins Its 197879 year The must include the area superintendent the school principal three pa rente a teacher and a trustee he said In studying he situation the group will consider ways the school can cope with Its ion using normal resources Looking at alternate organ rational arrangements and examining potential growth as well as visiting other schools to compare the adequacy of vice between the two will be part of the group task he said Mr Gentleman said he see being closed in the foreseeable future so long as the board sticks to Its present policy past five years have seen the enrollment drop to 170 in 1977 from In Port of the reason for this is the fact that Kindergarten classes entering the school are smaller than the Grade which graduate each year This trend Is expected begin reversing In I960 how ever when the number of school age children begins again Increase also lost 10 pupils last year following the opening of St Joseph separate school In Acton Mr Gentleman said that lost 1 100 students last year when families migrated to areas with a lower cost of living Some of these pupils may have left Speyside Although 1 expects the school remain open Mr said some of the empty rooms in the school may be closed off completely to reduce the fixed cost of ing the facility Closing the whole school would save the board annually in fixed costs but sealing off rooms so that there is no or costs for them would save the board per room He predicts that this move may come very soon Another move the board might make Mr Gentleman says is to twin with another school He admits that he matter has been discussed informally although no decision his been made If such a decision is he predicts it will be amounted March because that is the date on which principal place- menls will be announced for the coming year Twinning schools saves the cost of principal Mr Gentle man explained because the teachers are considered to be one working in two locn Galyn Shoes LADIES SHOES ALL WINTER IN STOCK REDUCED PAIRS TO CHOOSE FROM Reg to MENS SHOES SHOES Reg to 19 39 95 ALL WINTER BOOTS LADIES MENS CHILDRENS OFF SHOP EARLY FOR BEST SELECTION Shoes Luggage SALE ENDS GEORGETOWN MARKET A parent In the audience noted that a board schedule listing schools by slie indicates that the only schools in the appropriate range 200300 students arc Glen Williams Park Joseph Gibbons and Howard Wrigglesworth Schools AH of these are in Georgetown school the stud would be sent to if side were to close Mr Gentle man said he had never even though of he question Acton would be his first thought he said because Mil ton expects quite a bit of growth in the next five years the hill toward Limehouae would make It bod or busing pupils there A parent noted that the group will have to keep an eye on outside forces which may also drop the enrollment out moving families out of the community He pointed out hat Mr Gentleman s own statement that he would recommend Grade G students be sent to so that it will middle school rather than a senior school as soon as here is room in the facility and his will cost more students Mr Gentleman was questio ned on whether the board should be giving more concern to the pupil teacher be cause parents are at the rising cost of education though enrollments are Dropping the pupil teacher ratio by I costs the board million Mr Gentleman said and research Indicates that to make any leant change In the leuatssj sltuatan for students the change has to in increments of five This makes It too costly he implied He indicated that the dm of i para professionals might In crease efficiency and reduce costs but teachers are When It was suggested that i changing the school to bring more student to the school might be a way of l keeping It open Mr Gentleman warned parents that other schools may also try this tactic when enrollments begin to drop to the danger point and then he added could lose Norman Howell a principal says the current boundary extends west along the town line two concessions west of Highway south to about runs north between the Fifth and Sixth lines to IS lurm east to the Eighth Line jogs north for half a mile turns west again half way between the Eighth and Seventh lines goes north almost to the Cssa National Railway tracks turns west to between the Sixth and Seventh Lines then sooth to between 15 and 17 Slderoads west to between the Fourth and Fifth Lines north to the extension of and west on that road to the Town The school serves mately 115 families Mr How ell said and the predicted enrollment for 1978 is 158 stud ents Tax drop sought over hydro line A per cent reduction in 197B taxes has been rcquesled by a Hills couple near whose farm two trans mission corridors will merge David and Moffat have requested the tax cut on basis of unique injurious affection presently to be with out precedent in this province according to Mr Moffat ler to council Monday Mr Moffat ho operates a pick own farm with his family at Fifth Line and Steel s Avenue Ontario Hydro maps show a minimum of six angle towers on a strip land wide near Their usual impact alone rises in proportion to cost Mr Moffat in letter All this is I jking place on prime land protected for years against such specific insiruslon by local bylaw 74 of the power grid will our premises not ijil impossible o sell at pre w Mr Moffat but also hazardous to our occupation of farming Mr Moffat reported that there was a line failure Jan near a new WOK substation and that Ontario Hydro told him II days later the cause Is si ill being Invest gated Ontario Hydro also pointed out there were no casualties and the collapsed line was Mr Moffat says This incident should Iodic ate to you as it certainly indicates to us that we are presently to become he Met of a vast bureaucratic arbitrary decision against which we have been denied any means of effective appeal This encroachment is not only without specific elsewhere in the province as such a vast grid has never preexisted but carries with It many hazards certain to affect hose residents along the rlghtsof way that will largely be identified after energization of the lines Mr Moffat says Council turned the request over the treasury depart ment for a recommendation EXPIRES feb MilHere TV doubles your savings With Low Low Prices Low Bank Rates In Addition to RCA Rebates Shop Tho Tags and Save Up of suggested list prices 20 RCA XL100 COLOR TV SPECIALS 26 628 TV Converter FROM Super on a Combination Colour TV Atrial SALES and SE RV1 C St GEORGETOWN 8773405