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Rug selection to include: New â€" Semi Antique and Antique. Qum silk, Tabriz, Karshan, Kerman, Bidjar and all sorts of Tribal rugs. The Persian Carpet Centre has instructed me to conduct this auction and as their selling agent | believe this will be the largest sale of rugs sold as I will not refuse any fair bids offered at sale time.* *Note from auctioneer: Ladies gentlemen: Large sale of approximately 400 quality handknotted natural dyed Persian rugs and over 100 quality pieces of artworks. Robert R. Gosse, Auctioneer Terms: Cash â€" Cheque Major Credit Cards Regional police commission chairman confident $400,000 can be chopped from $40â€"M police budget Oakville Beaver Staff Halton police services board chair Barry Quinn feels confident that $400,000 can be cut from the police department‘s $40â€"million budget request for 1993. Halton region council on Monday (Feb. 1st) requested that the police department prepare a report outlining the possible effects on services resultâ€" ing from the reduction of $400,000 the department‘s 1993 budget request. Council wants to review those potential reductions before approving this year‘s Halton region budget. The region is hoping to shave 1.1% from a proposed 3.6% regional millâ€" rate increase. If the $400,000 reducâ€" An innovative plan by Halton Regional Police Deputy Chief John Barratt to curb crime may be the first casualty of a regional costâ€"cutting program. Deputy Chief Barratt hopes to spend $177,000 for seven new police cars so he can bolster the number of officers on the street during peak crime periods. But that â€" along with other planned police programs â€" may fall by the wayside. Monday, regional council‘s budâ€" get committee told the Police Services Board to come up with options for slashing $400,000 from the $40 million 1993 police budget, which is up $2.2 million from last years $38.8 million. Burlington regional councillor Barry Quinn, who chairs the Police Services Board, was on the firing line Cuts could doom plan to increase patrols E (on a firstâ€"come firstâ€"served basis) @® Presented by: AIC Investment Group, Oakwille, Ontario Michael Leeâ€"Chin President Founder AIC Investment Group Managers of over $12.5 billion and 64 mutual funds YOURE TO INVITED OUR SEMINAR *90% Tax Deduction on $5,000 RRSP * Selfâ€"Directed RRSP‘s *18% Foreign Content for 1993 * Maximizing your RRSP returns * Benefiting from the recovery * Reducing your income taxes * Avoiding poverty line retirement THURSDAY FEBRUARY 11, 1993 MEET THE MUTUAL FUND CO.‘S HOWARD JOHNSON 590 Argus Rd. (at Trafalgar Rd.) Oakville, Ontario 6:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. SEMINAR BEGINS TRIMARK MUTUAL FUNDS â€" â€"â€"â€"el Cl n t The Universal Group tions are achieved, it would result in a 0.6% decrease. "We have a lot of ideas for how we are going to respond," said deputy chief Wayne Jessop. "We‘re looking at a number of facts and figures and will provide a number of scenarios." "I‘m confident staff will come up with some ingenious ideas to achieve what the region‘s looking at," Quinn said. Quinn said Halton police services staff are currently working closely with regional staff to achieve that goal. "If we can work with regional staff to come up with those reductions, we‘d be willing to do that," Quinn said. Jessop and Quinn warned, howevâ€" er, that cutting $400,000 without havâ€" ing an impact on services may be more for most of the meeting as he defendâ€" ed the document against sustained grilling from budget committee members, who are seeing a proposed 5.9% jump in police expenditures for 1993. Oakville councillor Keith Bird questioned the need for the new police cars, and more than $800,000 in wage and benefit increases given that police service calls are actually down. Police responded to approxiâ€" mately 103,000 calls in 1991, and only about 97,000 in 1992. Councillors focussed on two eleâ€" ments of a proposed $541,800 proâ€" gram spending increase â€" the addiâ€" tional police cars, and the hiring of a civilian employment equity officer on a year‘s contract, at a cost of $40,000. In terms of service, "It seems to be the same for more (money)," Bird J. Richard Charlton Viceâ€"President AIC Investment Group easily said than done. "To suddenly chop $400,000, the impact is large," Quinn said. Quinn said a 1% salary increase for personnel this year represents 3.5% of the total 1993 police budget increase. This year‘s budget request of $40 milâ€" lion represents about 6% more than last year‘s total police budget. More than 80% of the police serâ€" vices budget request is made up of salaries for uniformed and civilian perâ€" sonnel. Because of that, Quinn said the cuts will probably come from elseâ€" where in the budeet. "We need the people who are there," he said. That only leaves one question unanâ€" swered: "Where do you pull the (reductions) from?" Quinn said. "The type and style of policing in Halton is bringing the crime rate down," Quinn said. "However, the type of crime that is happening is more violent and takes more of an officer‘s time." said Criminal activity generally associâ€" ated with Toronto doesn‘t come to "a screeching halt" at the "imaginary line" of the Halton border, Deputy Chief Barratt warned. Quinn said the budget had been prepared with a 1% wage settlement for the majority of officers, who are represented by a quasiâ€" union labor association. That could change, howâ€" ever, as it did last year, when the board also budgeted 1% and ended up paying 2.4%. 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