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Jointly-owned composter could mean tax hike By Stephanie Henderson Special to HHTW Operating a jointly-owned central composting facility serving Halton and Peel could mean an annual tax hike of 2.3 per cent for Halton residents, according to one regional official. And if the province further reduces grant allocations, the 1995 tax levy impact could increase to as much as 5.4 per cent, said regional trea- surer Joe Rinaldo. Halton officials are consid- ering spending $4.3 million to build a jointly-owned cen- tral: composting facility with neighboring Peel region. If such a project is given the go-ahead, the region would exfiect the province to kick in one-third of the cost, with Peel contributing two-thirds of the remainder. This would bring Halton’s share to approximately $4.3 million of the estimated $19 million rice tag. Preliminary figures pre- pared by the region’s finance department show operating the facility, in addition to existing waste management programs and the region’s new landfill site, would cost taxpayers an additional $1.3 million. This translates to a 2.3 per cent tax increase each year. At a recent composting committee meeting, a motion to evaluate a proposal by Miller Waste Systems. to build a composting facility was deferred after a closed session ran past the time allotted. The issue, including a related confidential legal item, will be considered at a meeting in August. The Miller plan was the only one accepted after the region invited proposals ear- lier this year for a private A 2B -year-old Sheridan Nurseries employee suffered broken ribs and a broken pelvis when a tractor flipped over on top of him July 26. vegetation, and was found three hours later by a co- worker, The man had appar- ently tried to climb a small incline when the tractor Georgetown and District Memorial Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The Ministry of Labor is set gh ie Industrial accident _ Place area July 27 around 3 The Acton man had left the © ‘nursery building at 1 p.m.to clear the field of weeds and flipped. He was taken to _ and 5°10”, slim build, with fair skin and light-colored’ and gray hair, who was in the Georgetown Market- when she went in to the Canadian Imperial Bank of ‘ommierce in the plaza, then followed her to Canadian | Tire parking lot, parked beside her, | to mas- turbate, then exposed him- self. The victim fled and reported the incident to police. The suspect was wearing a dress pants da li lored button 354 Guelph St. Unit 27 Georgetown, Ont. DIVISION OF HALTON FLOOR FASHIONS LTD. 877-9896 877-1666 26 Guelph Street company to build a Halton compost facility on regional land, next to the landfill site on Hwy. 25, just north of Oakville. The cutoff date for proposals was April 27. The proposal has not yet been evaluated because the tegion’s composting subcom- mittee asked for a staff eview of “a number financial and legal issues,” according to a report present- ed at last week’s meeting by Halton’s chief administrative officer, and commissioners of public works, finance and legal services. A preliminary review of the Miller proposal “has rein- forced our expectation that Halton only facility would be too small to be economically viable,” said the report. But a joint Halton-Peel facility “could result in economies of scale sufficient to achieve reasonable capital and operating costs for com- posting. This can only be confirmed by a detailed eval- uation of the Miller propos- al” An evaluation could be done for about $69,300, the report states, with Halton’s share totalling $15,400 after contributions from the Ministry of Environment and Energy (MOEE) and Peel Region. The figure is below the initial budget of $145,000 allotted for the proposal stage. Halton will spend more than $21 million on waste management in 1993, which translates to about $95.87 on each municipal residential If existing services are continued, that figure is expected to increase to Halton Hills This Week, Wednesday, August 4, 1993 — Page 3 approximately $98.75 by 1995. Noting the possibility of reduced provincial grants in the future, Rinaldo told the committee there has been no formal commitment by the government to the MRF ounce ee facility) grant fe Cominittes inaihibgs Bob Brechin, a Burlington city councillor, urged members to consider saving the 2.3 per cent impact by waiting for the private sector to develop facilities. Two private com- panies have already announced plans to build operations in Halton, but public works commissioner Art Leitch says the compa- nies have no plans to deal with residential organic waste. Brechin called for a mar- keting study to assess the impact of any competition from the private companies. “There may be a shortage of waste to operate these facilities,” he said. Oakville and regional councillor Stephen Sparling rejected the idea, saying the private companies have not acted on their plans. “T just don’t see it as a real viable thing to do at this int. 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