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Council decides today Get more industry region is urged Utility structure study requested The Acton Free Press Wednesday February16 11 Regional Council will be asked to authorize the establishment of a Business Development Department when council meets Burlington headquarters today The region Admini Committee recom mended such an office after hearing a brief from the Regional Chambers of Commerce In calling for increased industrial promotion The brief pointed to wanted to preserve prime farmland and then go out and spend money promoting rapid growth Committee chairman Mac Anderson suggested the only alternative to attracting industry is Taxing the peo ple out or heir skulls Regional Chairman Ric Morrow pointed out there hod been recent plant closings in Georgetown and Burlington leaving people out of work Both he and Oakville Mayor Harry Barrett saw the and other departments in the sceptical and claimed the region Resource Recovery Regional Council will be asked to give its for approval to a study on the restructuring of munlci pal electrical utilities by a provincial steering com ml I tee The study If conducted Another study won help We ve been going around circles on this for three years now What con be solved by this abatement is planned for Feb 23 in Burlington fern were Instructed to get the assurances the committee wanted and report back Medical Officer of Health Dr J H Chamberlain said the program ran last year and there were no harmful effects reported George Kerr will Industrial commission would lead to shared industrial studies concerning resource recovery and in a move away from dicated the attraction of chargeback system industry could have a very real effect on the location and viability of recovery plant We would need a very the social realities said Burlington He claimed Milton s Indus 1 trial park will give the town resource flf indugtrial to develop but we feel the land will sell itself He said Milton Council had taken a position In opposition to the regional development the another study didn t excite Regional Chairman Morrow Council and the hydro com missions had earlier rejected the offer of such a study But of several such regionB a committee and the hydro commissions arc ad vocal such a study be taken sliding tax ratio putting an lion as the number one increasingly heavy burden on the residential taxpayer For instance in 1970 before regional government the Town of Milton had a split of residential to Indus Irial assessment Today that raLio is percent com Industrial percent residential farm In Acton the ratio was 52 percent Industrial percent residential The 1976 ratio was percent indus trial percent residential Population in the same period increased from to Industries Increased from 19 to but employment increased only from 1 the brief noted There are acres of va cant industrially zoned land in Halton Hills in 1976 and 50 acres of serviced industrial land ranging in price from to 000 per acre Burlington a assessment picture is much the same The current ratio of indus trial commercial rest is per cent in percent Industrial construe on a national basis is down per cent but Burling Ion for the same lime period is down percent has several of the Region s largest Industries and employers but is cur rently in a position benefit that could accrue from the creation of such a department Councillor said an Industrial department could not have prevented the closings but it might have been able to create an indus trial climate that made the unnecessary Burl ngton Councillor Walter Mulkewich said the ndustrial commission would have lo be tied closely to the planning department but would also have to relate with the public works treasury Mary Munro said the formation of the region had left Burlington hamstrung She said the city had had an Industrial com J mission for several years but Jobs even if the majority that had to be abolished to settled along meet the requirements of Bill the corridor only the region can Even if It is in the south if Region to consider grants legally initiate the service She acknowledged that Burl nglon does have a private members bill before the leg that would allow the city to have its own commission but she added lhat was a second preference or a fall back position Councillor Watson ex plained lhal Milton was Pull the plug on development Regions Public nothing significant Works Department will no enough cause overloading longer insist on restrictions at the plant could lake place on new development In What can anyone build In Burlington with regard to e months Why don I we sewage plant capacity pull the plug committee lii chairman Jack Raflis The Public Works Com mitte considered Ihe problem Wednesday after receiving a report on the matter from Works Director Bob Moore Until now the region has told all developers in Burlington lhat no building balance in assessment The permits would be issued until result is an increasing tax the expansion of the Pollution Control Plant is complete load on shelter to cover in and cost increases for municipal government schools fire and police engineering and roads and parks In assess menl ratio was percent industrial per cent resi In 1976 it was 32 percent industrial per cent residential A typical 100 acre mixed use industrial park could accommodate as many as establishments provide potential employment for 1 people and generate an initial building construction value of between and millions At today rates this represents approxi to million In taxes annually These ore some of the more measurable benefits the brief said Tony Wilson of the Chamber of Commerce presented the brief George town Chamber President George Gray said the brief came forward with the unanimous support of all Four of the Chambers in the region The brief noted industrial development commissions In four other regions were staffed with anywhere from two to seven people with budgets ranging from 000 to Oakville Councillor Carl and Milton Coun Jim Watson provided the only opposition to the recommendation Both insisted that a good product sells itself and argued lhat Halton was in a location to attract ndufllry without spending a lot of money and bringing more urea era Is into the system suggested there was something strange when a region would claim it suggested Burlington and Georgetown have ex next to no residential growth in the last year or so because of plant restrictions A plant ex pansion is currently Georgetown as well The decision to allow But the committee development to continue lhal the plant expansion is subject to council approval close enough lo completion today Old Pensioners Guaranteed Income Supplement Application forms EVERY MONDAY BINGO Now held in GEORGETOWN ELKS LODGE Early Bird 7 PRIZES Doors Open 7PM Bingo Starts GamM 3 Special Jackpot 53 Humbert GUARANTEED Community DH action In Smill Children FREE BUS SERVICE From Acton Georgetown fill them out Send them Guaranteed Income Supplement application forms were mailed recently to all pensioners now re ceiving the Supplement To make sure that your Supplement to the Pension continues beyond March 31st you must reapply So make sure you fill in your form and return it In the addressed envelope en closed with the form as soon as you can I Health BWnitrB Canada Canada MarcLalondfl It is still In the region our people can drive lo it They don t mind that but when they hove to move their families can be upselling Miller is an employee of and among those who stand to lose their Jobs when the plant closes If council ratifies the com decision it will mark the end of an issue that has been popping up ever since the implementation of regional government Lots to do The matter was brought up shortly after the region was formed but councillors felt lhat the transformation from a lo a regional system of government left them with more than enough to do The matter comes up on an annual basis and each time It has been referred to the budget the following year each lime Council did vote to spend last year to set up an office near the end of the year and made provision hire one cler cal type person The commissions in the region conducted their own but have never made public the findings of that study Some regional councillors have suggested the results have been kept quiet because they indicate a substantial savings would accrue through restructuring Community A study team composed of vices Committee will con the four mayors a regional grants requests from at representative union least different groups and resprcsntatives and hydro organizations Tuesday Feb commission representatives will work with the steering Some of the grant requests committee on the study that will be entertained are of Acton T statutory and some others Graham of Burlington 0 follow an accepted formula Von Sickle of CampbellvUlc Regional treasurer Don of Milton and Farmer told the committee In a Green of Oakville are com a memo that he could arrange mission representatives on deputations for that meeting the study team Want assurances Prefer approval of mosquito program Final approval of the arrangements for abatement program In program but witheld final address representatives Halton has been deferred approval and other regions at pending assurances that the A seminar on mosquito the seminar chemicals used will have no detrimental effect on the ecology Region s Com munity Services Committee asked staff to go ahead with HELP US HELP Campaign for Funds BLITZDAY TUESDAY MARCH 8TH in Georgetown Acton and districts villages only f not enough canvassers Area Captains and Canvassers urgently needed If contacted please volunteer or phono 9172 1868 for Acton or 877 now and donate some t me to make calls or even less LIGHTING SHOWROOM Retail and Wholesale GERRIE ELECTRIC SUPPLY CO LTD Wholesale Armstrong Gbd FOR YOUR FREEZER HIND QUARTERS Canada Grad A 1 Beef 100 to 130 lb SIDES OF BEEF lb Canada A 200 to 230 lb SIDES OF PORK lb lt 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