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2 tho acton ft prost wodnosday soprombor ib pnutmhnac 1968 jim snow predicts twothirds of tax reforms will be adopted ontarios select committee report iminiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinniiininiiiiniiiiiiiih about twothirds of the recommendationa in the ontario legiilaturaa select committee on taxation report will be implemented by parliament hilton kast mpp james w snow predicted at a preta coriference monday afternoon the 350page white paper on fixaiionretui of threewonth itudy of lie 347 recommendation by the smllb committee on taxationwat unveiled to the public monday morning the halton tait rnember jield a press conference in hli oakville officii mohday afternoon to review the weighty report with the ridings prow this represent a great deal of work on the part of the committee he laid there were 1 1 1 personalappearance made before the committee and 118 groups and individuals submitted written briefstome of them as large as the committees final report it look us a week to write the report equitable taxation for the province of ontario it the msln purpose of the report snow said lit aim is to direct money from the provincial tax bate to the municlpalltlei to decrease the residential tax rates to the individual major items affecting halton in the report include i definition of a working farm and a solution to the thomy tax problem which land speculation li causing direct property taxation of government institutions universities hospitals and private schools and a call for regionalized government in not cheap houses ontario by 1971 mr snow said thli ii the first time anybody has had the guts to come out and define a working farm snow said he chaired the tubcommittee on agriculture for the select committee and nlggested the working farm definition wouj j have sofloti 1 farmers either happy with him ormad at him the definition is bated on grots annual tales of agrlculjura products if a farmer can prove he old 30 worth peracfe with a minimum total of j30tv he- will enjoy a farm tax rale a land tpeculator mutt farm the land and tell the produce to enjoy the tame ratet the recommendation will help the bona fide farmer and help keep farming land in u farming use he predicted on taxation of liittitutlom show predicted there could be ssoooiioofl iworrh of new aueuntcnt addingtaxet to riding nuiiiiclpallties jij tlie next five years sheridan college ln qakville and the mapjchurtt detention centre at milton cotitd total clse in 10fj0000f he said in 1 067 halton county contained s45o0o0oo worth of institutitmt and government building exempted from taxation and 362000000 in taxable properties indicating the county could right away add over 10 per cent to its assessable total if the proposal is adopted the county system should pay taxes to the town of mllum lie added while the countygoverumeul benefits every citizen of halton most of the buildings are presently housed in miluin and milfoil is supplying i services withraij taxation- he praised tlie coininltcet is p pt u ucii to regituial goverinient and noted lie- regional government implement mergers after- 71 the select committee on taxation has proposed a fourstep program to implement regional government and called on the province to take the initiative committee chairman john white outlining the proposals to a press conference in toronto monday noted the committee had rejected smith report recommendations for new names for regions he observed halton might be one regional government while in grey and bruce it might be a combination of the counties the select committee said a tyitem of regional government mutt be established as soon as possible to undertake reforms in municipal finance the committee proposes a special brunch of the prime ministers department to iuiliute supervise und coordinate a fourstep plan toward regional government first there would be local meetings within existing municipalities for internal discussions of various aspects of regional government to be completed by the end of l6 secondly meetings would be held between municipalities in local areas this stage would be carried out by the end of i 70 thirdly provincialmunicipal meetings would be scheduled for each potential region decisions would be made regarding regional boundaries and responsibilities this stage should be undertaken during i 7 1 the final step would he implementation the best boundaries for regional government the select committed believed ore those which coordinate the urban suburban and rural functions of an area to the greatest possible degree the committee agreed with smith that the new regions should have com m o n geographical economic and sociological characteristics so that some sense of community exists it disagreed with the smith proposal that regions be separated into urban urbanizing and county areas property tax hospitals province to pay remarks at the last council meeting concerning new houses built along no 7 highway were misinterpreted at they came out in last weeks free press reeve h hinton complaining that highway access for the houses created a safty hazard referred also to the houses being cheaper to build since foundations were filled around with dirt the contractor concerned with the reeves remarks felt he was calling the houses cheap but this was not the substance of mr hintons remark r hinton thought the till helped to keep construction costs down and agreed the houses were of good quality hospitals and all provincial institution in the new limits of buildings should pay full the town members were property taxes a select concerned with the loss to committee of the legislature taxation of the 8s acre site v laid la repoat taxilawwsi j released llonday during a prtw rjifccto r s i n g the r e c- conference at queens park ommendation of the previous at present universities smith report calling for colleges public hoipiult private hospitals to pay full municipal schools and provincial properties a where applicable business are exempt from property taxes the select committee taxation which increases the suggests it would remove the property taxes of other burden of providing services to taxpayers in the municipalities public hospitals from the where these exemptions are municipality in which the hospital is situated and would while milton council was redistribute the burden more considering the proposal to equitably over the taxpayers of correctional the whole province establish a it was noted public hospitals would be authorized to include the tax costs as part of their costs under the hospital care insurance plan the committee had more difficulty with the subject of taxing places of worship a majority of the committee however accepted the principle but reduced the smith proposals for the level of taxation by suggesting the maximum percentage of taxable assessment should be 20 per cent it also proposed the tax be introduced over a period of 10 years at two per cent a year wmiiomi opj hport two vehicle accidents occurrences in the town requiring police investigation were not great during the week of september 8 to september 14 1968 in all there were seven occurrences two of which were traffic accidents one theft was reported one disturbance and three other minor complaints were received traffic activities encountered in the tame time period saw 188 man hours worked and 682 miles patrolled in the acton cruiser eight traffic charges and six traffic warnings were issued the two motor vehicle accidents reported during the week were both property damage accidents nobody was injured the four vehicles involved received approximately 545 damage magistrates court at milton saw three persons convicted of various offences with fines totalling 195 very few drivers will object to strong traffic law enforcement when they understand the reason for it on a certain stretch of highway or on a municipal traffic artery or at an intersection this enforcement sometimes is in the form of a traffic ticket sometimes just a warning but the reason is always the tame to prevent accidents at your provincial department of transport points out when the accident rate increases in a location concentrated enforcement brings it down again enforcement of the traffic laws really does prevent accidents and when were forced to observe the law or do so voluntarily were all a lot safer remember this as you drive and help our police prevent accidents by observing all the traffic laws all the time for gas appliances ktpavav a richardsons tv appliances 301 main st i miiton w4m scrapbook competition sponsored by acton public library board in conjunction with book week rules for contest open topic for scrap book book judoad on originality and content s j ha in o librarians durlno book waek scortd week in november one prix for each division primary intermediate junior and books to bo judged november 16 acjom library boabp option of onetier or iwolicr reglonul governments wax being loll to the municipalities the municipalities urc ready theyre eager for regional government he noted i personally dont agree with the ilunkctl study recommendations and i dont cafe if its onetier or iwollcr government in halton church taxation was uuollirr recoihiuendalion the comniitlco dealt willi the oouuniito said churches should pay pvopcriy taxes for municipal services but only about onethird tlie level upplled in resldiincetj the churches iire basically puylng nothing snow uid they do receive municipal services so they should pay something let olfsel these costs this is not really going to create a burden on the churches and many of them feel they should he paying their way in the community he udded the select commitiee also liud ideas uir munlcipul idchfcalurevthey suggested in future the province will liamiw aiiil put lip its share of municipal debciiluic issues leaving tlie municipality with just- its owu share often half the toiab to borrow woooeoooootjejqoo thursfrisat sept 1 02031 how to save a marriage color dean martin 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