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PMC SECTION A THE HERALD ELECTION Gravel taxes main concerns With less than two weeks to go before the municipal election The Herald Invites you to scrutinize the candidates and their views and urges to make a responsible choice and exercise your all important right to vote Nov Herald municipal beat reporter Chris has gleaned the following profiles on candidates for the mayoralty and all Wards 1 and council and school board seals from last week s candidates meeting In Ac ton from campaign literature and from personal interviews Next Wed nesday our Wards 3 and candidates and separate school board candidates WARD 2 LOCAL COUNCIL Sheldon The bus of her Inaugural in which she chaired the town official plan task force only whetted Sheldon appetite for more action on the local political scene Coun Sheldon has said she wants to continue working for Esquesmg residents and their inter an town council keeping taxes low and ensuring that official plan policies for the rural area arc followed Her can paign literal ure also maintains that while Iherc is a need to take a hard nosed approach to town finances road concerns In should not bo ignored thai land in he rural area not be fro zen for future use by the aggregate Industry that the official plan should be enforced lo protect valuable form land and Inform develop ers of what kind of land development Is accept able in Kills Kuiken Norton Former major of Halt on Hills Tom Hill is not with tlio needs residents in Esqucs ing whom he hopes to represent on local council after the Nov Selections Among the concerns facing rural he ten years in the household appliance bus Acton Jakt is planning to try his hand at local politics Mr is running for one of Esq lies says the high taxes in township Mr Hill r tains that dents arc paying too much for loo little He that there art two of rectifying the imbahm0 cut rural tax or put the extra money to use providing resi dents those In ing in the hamlets with sidewalks and pass sewer and water the condition of rural raids leave lot to be desired Mr Hill said acknowledging that some of them are the region responsibility aggregate mining In the township Extracting material from the Escarpment would be of less bother to done roc something de part mont user pay which sports clubs in town ships If high user pay fees are added clubs expenses it mean some will have to fold leaving youngsters with little to do rural roads He feels they need more attention dirt ones should be graded and oiled aggregate concerns which have occupied council lime recently While he notes the town will have to share its aggregate resources it should be able control where the material Is be extracted and how much will be needed lo meet the provinces tut demands While he is currently resident of Georgetown Pete Norton running for one of s local council seats lias spent much of his life living in and working for the rural Early in his campaign he told The Herald that people he has ire concerned with the conditions of roads in the towns rural area It i 1 most as if the roads become as the ditches wider he keeping the of the community active the that rural residents don t gel the services for the money they in taxes He says he also offers council his experience as small Star symbol indicates incumbent WARDS AND PUBLIC SCHOOL BOARD Bruce Hinton Howitt Incumbent Ward 1 school trustee Bruce believes that after wo years of school board experience she can now do an even belter job for her constituents in Acton She told residents last week that school board cost cutting has only be- and despite public furor arising from last year education budget Mrs Bruce believes he public school system In Ha lion is a good one She added that trustees should seek a more efficient operation of the school system thai more of the onus monitor school prog rams will fall on trustees that the current era of economic restraint public expectations of what he board can afford with Its budget may have to be lowered H Bert Hinton has been a reeve of Acton a warden of Halt on under the old county system and a former public school board trustee He wonts lo return lo the board or education lo tackle such issues as community use of schools escalating teachers salaries the problem of dec lining enrollment while school taxes arc He called on he Ion system to get back to basics on its curriculum and told an Acton last week that while he respects incumbent Arlenc Bruce he feels the community needs a strong voice control wasteful spending at the board public school trustee candidate Dick Howitt believes that the board of education has already started efforts to keep costs line and he adds that he have any magic al solutions to easy year ly budge l headaches Whatever cost cut ting the board has in mind for next year he says should be approached on a gradual basis trimming frills from schools first moving to the divisional board administrations in the north and south and then culling back at he boards central office if further measures are necessary Trustees may have con centra ted an the budget his year but Mr docsn want he on page AIO school board candidate Jim Kcnzic Is concerned that the is gradually local school boards to Mr Kemie running in Li wing township is the education ministry s bid draw school taxes directly into provincial coffers by passing local boards but later dividing the sum among hem Mr Is also con corned school board budget He has suggested that the board use zero base approach paying for programs on the basis of the quality of they provide getting people on he Continued on page AID Pomeroy keep town finances healthy Having already led town council through two of its busiest terms in recent history Mayor hopes hold onto his job to finish things he already start He anticipates that as own councils across the country deal with the light economy the nut term will be one of the regional and local levels may to consider priority changes and pro gram cutbacks In order lo balance budgets next year and keep lax In creases low One policy he helped forge and which has kept the town out of the red steers away from borrowing large sums or money and Incurring heavy interest payments there still plenty of work left in planning fut development for the town now the official plan has been endorsed by council During the next lerm the new plan will be challenged and council will have to deal with the opposition council must deal with the aggregate issue even If It means going to court to protect he rights of property owners whose land may be frozen rom future development because of the province perceived demand for new supplies of gravel council must con tinuc to support plans which attract new Indus try into town and help develop others like the area fledgeling tourist Industry as perceived by the North Hal ton Tow ism Association The own he old Acton residents last week at an allcandidates meeting stands lo benefit from the mar approach which the Association has taken promote the area Job creation an issue McKenzie Mayoralty candidate Glen thinks that local government should get Involved In an area normally reserved for provincial and federal minorities solving employment He told The Herald last week thai as he would be willing lo take a cut in pay if he thought It misfit help put local employed residents to work The town he said should look at areas where Is wasting money make fuller use of Its current staff and do more lo encourage Indus try settle here and provide jobs He also maintains that Acton needs better GO transit service he t I lost week all candidates meeting that there should be more buses serving residents at later hours hat the old Acton town hall should be In lis place die town should construct a community centre for use by Acton and Georgetown residents Acknowledgng the long standing between Acton and Georgetown residents Mr McKenzie said thai the own should strive to rid itself of the competitiveness and get along he best and local councils argues thai more of on of he levy should be spent in he community WARD 1 LOCAL COUNCIL Knechtel Bonnette Cargill Devine Taylor Ross hoping to secure his local council seat for a third term old voters last week that hey need experienced rcpre to deal with such weighty documents as he official plan and the town annual budget said he prefers to approach his job as a politician but As such he wants continue town til tight budgeting approach which has kept tixes the inflation rate for two work with councillors to attract new develop ment to town which will broaden the town tax base and even add to recreation facilities centralize the town administration which is currently scattered in virions offices largely In Georgetown and Esques ing township Rick Bonnette a life lime Atlon resident whose father was also in municipal politics suggests that local gov should cut down on Trills while main lining services He recommends hat the llalton regional police force man he Ac ton police station hours d ij commenting that can use more help curb the community vandalism problem town employees liv and working In Acton should be able to punch in In heir community rather than driving to Georgetown to do Some works department veh icles should be kept at he Acton works yird while taxpayers should pay for the restoration of the town hall supporters for its preservation should be allowed to use their own funds to refurbish he building If elected an Acton local Bruce Cor gill would like to curb recreation department spending and local van diltsm A Queen Street Acton resident Mr said last week that Acton la us Improved police pro tection This he said means more foot patrols and hour Service at the loco police station In addition he wants the recreation user pay em sports groups rent the facilities they use eliminated Rather than hire more people the depirtmcnt staff should be used to its fullest belter maintenance of sports facilities In town noting hat lights at a local tennis court arc kepi on until after hive finished heir gnus With new blood on local council residents will have new ideas working for them Acton Although ho lived In Georgetown Mr says he feels that having operated an amusement arcade in Acton he derstands some of he issues lacing the comm unity Among those he says Is the need lo get more policemen out on foot patrol In he is the aggregate issue and the fact that a recent map proposed by regional planners has en dangercd part of Acton expanded urban bound this he says could curb community growth is the need to slow properly tax Increases As one who has learned from experience not to make promises to const It Taylor told Ac to mans last week that as a Ward councillor she would deal with the Issues as they arise Miss Taylor a former Acton own councillor In the described this policy as plain speak She has said ha she wants to see more of he total levy region school town Hal ton Hills ratepayers face each year returned to town coffers At last week dates meeting Miss Tay The rec depart ment will be empire builders if they checked before ft loo late Get out and vote Herald Special Many people who regul make up their own household budgets and go to the bank to work out credit arrangements often abdicate responsibility when it comes to housekeeping Statistics show average turnout figures for local government elections are only per cent and in many elections only per cent or lower Casting a vole means contributing to the direct on of local resources and the quality of life down the street and In the nity Votes cast in local elections work on a day to day basis to keep basic services working the traffic flowing the water running the police and fire prepared Elected members of councils school boards and public utilities super vise the planning and running of these services this year their lerm of office has been increased from two years three to help increase Hit effectiveness of local government BARRY D TIMLECK CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT 16 Mountamview Rd S Suite 301 Hills Georgetown Ontario L7G 8776948 CORRECTION g Bag of Hallow PUBLIC NOTICE HALLOWEEN OCT 3082 The Council of the Town of Halton Hills has proclaimed by resolution that Hallowe en festivities be obser throughout the municipality on Saturday October 1982 K R Richardson AMCT Clerk Administrator 36 Mam Street South Halton Hilts Georgetown Ontario TENDERS for SNOW REMOVAL Halton Hills Hydro will receive sealed ten up to noon November 1182 Information to bidder will bo available at the Georgetown Ollico 66 Mill Street or Alice Slreet Acton Tenders bo addressed to G Manager Hills Hydro 66 Mill St Georgetown or 43 Alice Street Acton Ontario BUSINESS DIRECTOR Goebelle Wagner 87751 55 FRANK J JOHNSON Rl A mi 3630 R Clipsham Limited Stxveyoro Consotbng EHQUWcre 198Z MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS NOTICE TO ELECTORS Trio Regular Poll Day tot the Counc I School Bona Trustees una 1 Hydro Eloclr be he on November Iho hours of 1 1 rn to THnily Church Municipal Building by parson willing or out Hod to vote a proscribed form Such 1 by the Clirk RICHARDSON CLERK ADMINISTRATOR AND RETURNING OFFICER MAIM STREET SOUTH ONTARIO DATED