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Page 12 — Halton Hills This Week, Saturday, November 21, 1992 HHCC set for Mayor’s luncheon The Halton Hills Chamber of Commerce will be hosting the 6th Annual Mayor’ #1 Luncheon Dec. 10 at noon at the North Halton Golf and Country Clul Mayor Russ ae will highlight the town’s past year. Guest speaker will be Linda Leatherdale, editor of Your Money for the Toronto Sun. Contact the Chamber 877-7119 for more information or to make a reser- vation. The Acton B.I.A. (nites You fi to a meeting regarding REVITALIZATION of ACTON'S DOWNTOWN CORE at Jack Tanner's Table November 24 ~ 7:30 p.m. Speaker: Mr. John Quinn from Heritage Canada All interested are welcome to attend 4 Coffee will be served f Fresh Bread & Buns Daily Cakes For All Occasions DINNER $ ROLLS “ this Ad ~ Offer valid intil Sat. Nov. 28/92 i) a vs it i tt 06% (416) 877-0596 330 Guelph St., MVA D-Day fast approaching By Dianne Cornish Halton Hills councillor Rick Bonnette of Acton is calling it “D- Day.” Halton Hills mayor Russ Miller refers to it as “a hot issue.” They’re both talking about the possible reconsideration of Market Value Assessment (MVA) and its implementation across Halton Region on Jan. 1, 1993. Wednesday afternoon, Halton Regional Council confirmed the scheduling of a meeting on MVA to be held at regional headquarters in Oakville, Dec. 2, beginning at 6 p.m. It’s Bonnette’s intention to reintroduce consideration of MVA at that meeting, although as of Wednesday there was no indica- tion that any regional councillor voting for implementation of the new tax system has changed his or her mind on the issue. Regional council is evenly split on the issue. On Sept. 23, Halton Hills and Oakville regional coun- cillors voted solidly against MVA, while Burlington and Milton rep- resentatives supported the tax reform. The result was a 12-12 tie, broken by regional chairman Peter Pomeroy who voted for the pro- posal. Since then, Bonnette and Oakville councillors have spear- headed a drive to rekindle discus- sion on the issue. However, under regional coun- cil’s rules of procedure, someone from the majority side of the issue must present the reconsideration motion before discussion can begin. As yet, that hasn’t hap- pened. But because it could hap- pen sometime between now and the Dec. 2 meeting, regional coun- cil has agreed to a request from Oakville Council that an evening meeting be held Dec. 2 to accom- modate taxpayers who might want to speak to council about MVA but cannot attend a day meeting because of employment and busi- ness commitments. Regional council meetings are generally held in the afternoon. Rather than reschedule the full agenda until the evening, council- lors decided to meet as usual at 1:30 p.m., at which time they’ll discuss items on the regular agen- da. The evening meeting will focus solely on MVA, in particular a report from regional treasurer Joe Rinaldo on the phase-in for- mula of MVA across the region. It was clear from discussion around the council table that many councillors feel the meeting will attract several delegations and will last late into the night. Councillor Bonnette, one of Halton Hills’ representatives on regional council, said during an interview two weeks ago that he sees Dec. 2 as “D-Day.” Just the hint of reconsideration has caused rumblings. Last week, the Halton Board of Education deferred a decision on whether it will support a phase-in of MVA. Instead, trustees chose to re- examine the issue after regional council’s Dec. 2 meeting. Because about 58 per cent of all Halton tax dollars support the boards of edu- cation, both the public and sepa- rate school boards have been asked to approve the phase-in of MVA over a four-year span. Public school trustees also voted 12-6 in favor of a recommendation made by Oakville trustee Cheryl Reid that the school board request the Minister of Revenue to reassess properties in Halton Region at 1992 values for. purpos- es of MVA. Under the region’s proposed scheme, MVA will be based on 1988 property values. During Wednesday’s discussion at regional council, it was noted that the purpose of the upcoming MVA meeting isn’t to re-debate the whole issue. Delegations will be required to speak on the trea- surer’s phase-in report and there’s a 10-minute limit imposed on all speakers. As regional councillors debated the merits of an evening meeting, several observations were made. Burlington mayor Walter Mulkewich asked Pomeroy to clar- | ify “the purpose of the meeting.” Pomeroy said the meeting is being scheduled to review the regional treasurer’s phase-in report. However, when Mulkewich asked Pomeroy to rule on restrict- ing delegations to that subject alone, the regional chairman couldn’t offer a guarantee because if a motion for re-consideration is. made five days before the meeting, discussion at the MVA meeting could become more broad-based. “T think people should have the right to speak on MVA because it is a hot issue,” Halton Hills mayor Miller said. Milton mayor Gord Krantz, however, predicted there’ ll be a lot of repetition from groups who address council. Burlington coun- cillor Doug Greenaway said it should be made clear that all dele- gations must speak about the trea- surer’s report. 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