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Pizza Hut and Nothin’ But Pizza Hut and the Love in Christ Food Bank will be having a fund-raising campaign on March 17th where lucky diners could win free meals. Pictured above from left: Rud Whiting (Director of the Love in Christ Food Bank), Ken Bellamy (Publisher of the Halton Hills This Week) and Mike Stulz (Pizza Hut Manager) Photo by Simon Wilson. Halton Hills This Weeks Saturday, March 6, 1993 — Page 3 Continued from pag the Hickory Falls Ratepayers Association, asked council. “Would we be saving public tax dollars by taking control? Shropshall also referred to the regional staff report which outlined three options that the Region could take in assuming development con- trol. “All three options are at an extra cost to Halton taxpayers,” she said. “It’s not a question of trust,” Georgetown resident Barbara Halsall said as she explained to council that she and other environ- mentalists aren’t against the devel- opment power shift because they distrust regional government. Halsall, president of an environ- mental group called POWER (Protect Our Water and Environmental Resources), said municipal and regional levels of government have many different areas to deal with, while the NEC is one body with virtually one man- date—to protect the escarpment. She urged council not to pursue development control authority but leave it in the hands of the NEC. ’ Among those speaking in favor of regional control were a former NEC planner George Mckibbon _ and a Hamilton lawyer Herman Turkstra, representing the Niagara Escarpment Landowners Coalition C). “The increase in costs (to Halton: because of a development control shift) would be minimal, if any,” | Mckibbon said, noting that some costs can be recovered if the Region charges administration fees for development permit applica- tions. The Region already spends $40,000 annually commenting on ppitcattons before the NEC, he’ erate argued that costs can be saved if the Region gets develop- ment control because costly dupli- cation of services already exists. He - said escarpment landowners with © development applications must go - through the full municipal planning process and then through a second full planning process at the NEC. ~ Schools in grant squeeze by Trish Tervit special The Halton school board admin- istration must go back to the draw- ing board and come up with yet more savings to the 1993 budget after the announcement of reduced provincial funding last week. At last week’s finance committee meeting, business superintendent Jerry Jenkins told school board trustees that lower provincial grant levels mean that the proposed 2.85 per cent budget increase would result in a 5.29 per cent mill rate The bottom line is that taxpayers would be asked to pay. $66.76 extra. ~ on their tax bill. 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