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The Acton Free Press Wednesday Mar 15 1978 Parks plan consultant out town staff to do job RECIPIENT OF Queens Silver Jubilee medal Gordon Bennett left shows his medal to son at the Legion Monday was joining the Legion and his father was there to watch Capt Bennett already wears the Jubilee medal ribbon on his uniform in its properly- ranked position He was presented with the medal Friday Jubilee medal for serviceman Capt Gordon Bennett Churchill was presented with a Silver Jubilee Medal Friday evening in a ceremony at Fort York Armouries in Toronto The medal signifies the fact that he has been with the Canadian Armed Forces for years during the reign of Queen Elizabeth He Joined the army in and saw overseas service in Korea He was with the Royal Regiment of Canada most recently in the militia in Toronto Since moving to Acton he is being transferred to the Lome Scots at Brampton where he will be taking over as Quarter master This entails two nights a week The Bennett family moved recently to Acton from and they enjoy living here Mrs Bennett was also in the army which Is where they met They have a couple of sons at home Joined the Acton Legion Monday night in ceremony attended by his father Bennett thinks there would only be about people in all of Canada who would be recommended for the Jubilee medal on the basis of years service in the There will be no consultants hired to complete the parks master plan and a scaled down version will be done by town staff if council agrees with a finance committee recommendation The vote came after a heated debate with members of the Recreation Advisory Committee who strongly urged the completion of the master plan by the con sultant Clare Advisory chairman said the board felt the need of a strategy or policy to work from He said the board did push for the master plan and they support it Councillor Roy Booth con tended the town spent on consultant fees to find where the parks the town already has are located and to be told to use cemeteries as recreation areas We were a little disappointed to sec thats as far as we got for the money He termed the plan ineffective and inadequate and said he would favor a master parks plan only if the town staff did It and the recreation and planning departments combined could do an In- house study Councillor Walter agreed with this stand Ive lived here years and been disgusted with the condition of the parks and election promises where candidates repeatedly claim they will upgrade the parks stated Barry Gambles recreation advisory board member Gambles claimed the town found they owned land they didnt know they had and dis- Deans covered they did not own land they thought they did when the plan was presented He claimed sports facilities had been built in the wrong loca tions and drainage problems had occurred shortly after they were completed result ing In thousands of dollars being spent which could have been saved if done properly by qualified people He cited Cedarvale soccer pitch Moore Park tennis courts and Gordon sports area He said the recreation department is not qualified as planners or landscape archi tects Booth maintained there were glaring errors In the plan presented by the consul tant He emphasized he was not opposed to having a master plan but felt the staff should do It we must tighten our belts and not come up with a Taj Mahal plan Stu of the ad visory committee said they did not feel staff has the expertise to do a master parks plan Booth insisted the recrea tion director Is supposed to plan facilities to say our staff cannot do it is saying our staff not competent claimed the consultants fee is not exorbi tant Colin Wilde claimed the area around arena had not been planned properly resulting In an arena In the Parking lot rental debated by committee Rentalfortheparkinglotat said the church wants an Trinity United church was increase from to a year discussed Monday by the rental from the town or 2 a Hills works com- year if the town paves the lot mlttee Mr Austin said the church Engineer Robert Austin thought the snow was not 215000 OH IP increase hits taxpayers list Storm sewers stop homes According to town engineer Bob Austin it Is unlikely there will be 1G houses built In the Adams Court subdivision soon The lot is located bet ween the cemetery and Main St S beside Ransom St He said the engineering problems could be solved but at a cost of No developer can afford it he felt There wont be an agreement until the developer has the money No agreement no houses no matter what the Ontario Municipal Board does with the towns bylaw he said Correspondence from and Co had opposed the building of houses at this location and the matter had been referred to the works committee of council for discussion Monday The application is for from open space to second density residential Mr Austin said the tannery does not favor development so close to them and there are some drainage problems worth of storm sewer work would be required The developer hasnt the money yet and the town hasnt en tered into agreement with him on engineering problems Councillor Duby said that after all the problems with development drainage and erosion In Georgetown at the Metcalfe ravine the town should step gingerly on things like this development and others like it Mr Austin and Mayor Tom Hill agreed the third reading of the zoning bylaw should be held up due to the objection It was discovered later in the meeting that the bylaw had already been given three readings and sent to the OMB for approval The objection should have gone with the bylaw to the Mr Austin said the engineering problems had been under study for three years and were not totally solved yet He didnt know the towns legal position on the bylaw but the engineering agreement was not entered into because the developer cant afford it Councillor Peter Pomeroy said the objection should also be sent to the planning department Councillor George Maltby asked Is it wise to send a bylaw to the OMB when the town will stop development anyway because there is no agreement on storm sewers Rick Roc her of Acton was one of students honored on the Deans list at the Univer sity of winter sem ester In the area of social science Rick attended Robert Little and Acton High where he was an Ontario Scholar in 1975 He will be graduating from the University In the spring Rick is majoring in mathematics and psychology and Is planning to attend teachers college in the fall The necessary requirements to make the list are an SO per cent average over a full course load five or more subjects and to be among the top 10 per cent of the class Rick is the son of Mr and Mrs Charles Roche r of Acton At course Town staff members Doug and Gerry Fendley will attend the S Anderson Road School beginning May Expenses totalling will be paid by the town Increases in the Ontario Health Insurance Plan fees announced recently will cost tax payers to cover in creased costs for benefit packages for employees of the region and the four area municipalities The benefit package for regional employees alone will jump by a year The increase In Burlington will be a year In Oakvlllc per year in Hills and in Milton about All of those employees are covered for semiprivate rooms The region and four area councils all pay per cent of the co3t for the pack age The Board of Education will not feel the impact of the 37 per cent increase immediately The collective agreement with the teachers and other unionized employees sets out a dollar figure not percent age the board will pick up The employees will have to absorb the Increase unless something different Is negoti ated In new contracts Leaves scene of accident Halton Regional Police are looking for the driver of a car which left the scene of an accident March 12 at Police say the accident took place at Greenore when Bruce of was driving a car which was in collision with another vehicle Police say the other driver left the scene of the accident before police arrived They say they have his name The vehicle received an estimated in damages plowed away as It should have been However Mr Austin reported that the snow hod been plowed in December and again In January Councillor said he had no strong feeling against paying the Increased a year fee Councillor Mike Armstrong said he couldnt understand why the church was asking a year when it has been getting a year Offer them a year and the own will try to pave it in he said We cant afford it this year Maybe we could have done the job cheaply while the paving equipment was in Acton for Mill St He thought council should try to have it done In 1979 when the Main St reconstruction is continued He said this construction is no longer planned for We are making every effort on this and I think the church understands He also felt the town should pay the fee for any year that wasnt paid Nobody knows what years the was paid Some think it may have been paid in 1974 or 1976 but they dont know for sure The engineer said what is done with this parking lot will likely have to be done with all three church lots In town at St Albans and Knox as well as the United church Robbies Hobbies ST NORTH ACTON OFF ALL STOCK OUR STOCK MUST SUMMER J rl i w nr ob q u n i m o w J Jo 1 n o i q 00 98 mB91393it0 n w i CHICKEN PIZZA 29 MILL STREET EAST a OR U11M M MIMT HOME UNHM sautlToiis INTERIOR PAINT Q88 WW MIT AT TWI MMI m m UNIT middle of 135 acres with room left for a soccer field or a baseball diamond Biehn said he felt the staff including the engineering staff an well qualified and well paid and should be able to develop a master plan He said it shouldnt be a dous job to say where parks should be before the land Is used for homes Industry or commercial development Claudette Smith claimed the committee was overlook ing the amount of time the staff would have to spend on the master plan and asked how many hours they would have left after doing their everyday work She claimed the parks maintenance is fragmented now with the works department looking after It after calls have gone to the recreation director She claimed a master plan would pay for itself In preventing repairs to facilities after they have been built only two or three years She felt a plan could advise the amount to be paid by developers for parks How long are we going to kick parks around During a discussion on parks maintenance which the board members admitted had Improved Booth sug gested they consider setting up a parks department and look at the costs of a mainten ance crew and equipment Legion is broken into Nothing was reported missing after someone gained entry to the Royal Canadian Legion last week Regional Police state Gambles retorted there was little sense in having a maintenance crew when most of the parks are dumps with green weeds on them Wilde contended the Cedar- vale soccer field Is only half finished and claimed 27 Inches of sand and topsoil called for In the specifications was not there He said the facility was not Installed the way it was supposed to be The recreation director would not corroborate this statement Chairman Miller con cluded the discussion by thanking the advisory board members and suggesting they should meet with the committee at least twice a year After the advisory board members left Booth asked Recreation Director Glen Gray If be could come up with a master parks policy state ment to be Included the Official Plan The Recreation Director said he did not think so since the department did not have the expertise the finances or the staff Family Relatives Friend No spark plugs No distributor points No carburetor No catalytic converter No tune ups And 101 km gal and km gul city DIE5EL THE ACTON FREE PRESS AutfMriiadM Stand Postal Number- BAZ MOTORS LTD SATISFACTION GUARANTEED CM YOUR MONEY CHEERFULLY REFUNDED Murray Memorial YMCA Mill Street East 8531070 1978 Spring Programs Registration Days Friday March 31 11 am Saturday April 1 11 am 2 pm Boys 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