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TOW NE _ "There could be 300 school buses actively transporting children on Halton roads at any given time during the day," said Martin. The six coâ€"operating school bus operators include Stock Transportation â€" Ltd., Laidlaw (Burlington and Georgetown diviâ€" sions), Attridge, Halton School Transit, Tyler Transportation Ltd. and Charterways Transportation Ltd. Dyck said the fear of motorists illeâ€" gally passing school buses is "the biggest scare (that) goes into the school bus driver‘s heart." _ In Halton, approximately 60,000 students attend the public and separate schools. Approximately oneâ€"third or 20,000 are transported to and from school each day â€" amounting to about 40,000 daily school bus trips. Paul Dyck, general manager of Stock _ Transportation _ Ltd.‘s Halton/Peel operation in Oakville which provides busing for the Halton Roman Catholic Separate School Board, said his company tracked about 1,100 offenders in the two regions in the first month of school in September 1992. Police say they will follow all leads The program was unveiled at a Monday morning press conference at the Halton police Bronte Road headâ€" quarters. (Continued from page 1) said Halton Regional Police Sgt. Joe Martin. Last year, council approved $4,500 to allow the mayor and members of council to attend key conferences, said the town‘s accounting manager Lynn Horlor, who drafted the report. It was then up to Mayor Ann Mulvale to decide how the money would be distributed. she said. Both the mayor and Ward 5 regional councillor Liz Behrens attended the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) attend conferences held in other municipalities, according to report from the town‘s finance department. By SAL BOMMARITO QOakville Beaver Staff Oakville taxpayers paid $4,383 last year for town councillors to M 547 TRAFALGAR RD. AT THE Q.EW. OAKVILLE 8442320 | H onferences for councillors cost taxpayers $4,500 PART THREE OF A THREEâ€"PART SERIES SUNDAY,! "'c'l‘;;' o‘l"l;";':;' ';’:f;‘h; The school bus drivers still need to ithat) :es into the _ 1dentify an offending motorist and will oet o be required to identify that driver in r‘s heart. court. B ; 7 3> e as k > s nemamaemitmikn i4 itly ’\11\:1@\1\« iÂ¥ y*it 5t %Q“j LC ET "OL D S M WHO IS BOB FERGUSON " MARCH _ ith 4 CV Cclen Aboey * W .B mCP ___ & Shc?ys M Men S League just tor tun a couple of nights a week & helps out with the Burlington Minor Hockey Association. In the summer you‘ll find him on either the golf course or the ball diamond. So if you‘re a sports enthusiast Bob has a Under Operation Bus Watch school bus drivers will use a form to record details of an offence â€" including the licence plate of offending motorists â€" which will be forwarded through their bus company to a Halton Regional Police or OPP liaison officer. It will then be up to the police to determine if a charge â€" under the Highway Traffic Act or Criminal Code (dangerous driving can result if a near miss occurs) can be laid or if a warning letter, accompanied by an Ontario Ministry of Transportation guide, will be sent to the car‘s owner. He said the offence usually occurs in areas where residents are in a hurry to access major thoroughfares. The offenders might even be parents. Halton Board of Education transâ€" portation officer Reg Witoszkin said the offence is likely to occur in new subdivisions where neighborhood schools don‘t yet exist and large numâ€" bers of students are bused to other schools. Martin said several years ago, a Burlington child‘s foot was run over by an offending motorist on King Road in Burlington. "The real chronic problems exist right in the heart of subdivisions," said Dyck. annual conference held last . in Toronto. The total tab to taxpayers threeâ€"day AMO conferen $1,248.29, including regis fees. accommodations and expenses. Why did the elected representa tives stay in hotels for a conference held in Toronto? j "For any other conference they drive in and out. This is different because they were on the board of directors and they have to be there for events above and beyond the conference," said Horlor. It cost Oakville taxpayers $2,680 to send three town repreâ€" sentatives to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) conference held last June in I | istration for the August the1 W as There is an outâ€"ofâ€"court settlement of a $265 fine and six demerit points. A police survey of local vehicle insurance companies indicated drivers convicted of illegally passing : stopped school bus could face up tc 15% insurance increases. If a "near miss" doesn‘t entail the laying of a criminal charge (dangerous driving), a first offence under the Highway Traffic Act carries a fine of $200 to $1,000 and six demerit points, a second offence carrying a fine of $500 to $2,000 and six demerit points. The program was identified as a concern through a community consulâ€" tation process. Operation Bus Watch was drafted as a joint effort between Halton police and Milton OPP and the Halton Region School Bus Safety Committee (a committee comprising the two Halton school boards and their contracted bus companies). Both Martin and Halton police regional traffic unit Constable Carla Ferguson said police will be actively pursuing each report that comes to them from school bus drivers. Montreal. The mayor, Ward 2 councillor Kathy Graham and Ward 1 counâ€" cillor Ralph Robinson attended the FCM conference. A total of $383 was spent on registration fees for town represenâ€" tatives who attended the Large Urban Conference held in Waterloo, and the Horizon ‘92 Conference held in Richmond Hill. It cost taxpayers $81.20 for GO Train travel expenses incurred by councillor Liz Behrens to attend AMO meetings held from July to December. Including conferences, town council had expenses totalling $11,444, including a $7,191 car allowance paid to the mayor. The mayor is paid an annual 4ll|.TE. 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