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Garage sales a business How many garage sales Is a person allowed to hold before he la running a business Councillor George asked Halton HUIs works committee that question Monday night and committee decided to have the zoning administrator Doug Sargent look into it Maltby told committee in some areas of the town the garage sales almost every weekend of the summer provided the weather Is nice Some businesses ore going on under the guise of a garage sales Maltby declared He said be even think the town has anything on the books controlling garage sales Town hall Continued from Page the building should not be used until the recommends lions of Mr Zeegen were car ried out We are not suggest the building be done away with he said He said they want people to realize they are working in an unsafe building Were not pre pared to say how soon they should move out If people Intend to remain the recommendations should be complied with Alan questioned by the Free Press pointed out he did not make any recom as referred to In the Department report I just gave my observations He had not been asked to make any recommendations He explained that if a build ing has one unsafe part there can be progressive collapse there Is no question a building can be refurbished and made safe he said It Is a matter of what decision Is made Asked about the fire halt he explained It Is built Inde pendently of the town hall The structural stability of the fire nail is not dependent on the town hall he said George Elliott chairman of the Town Hall restoration committee commented that he did not see how the Department of Labor report could differ from Alan report There is no longer any way for inspectors to get up into the roof to In spect it since the fire hall addition has been completed Yet Mr Elliott and the other members of the com have had difficulty with Mr reports which seems to contradict themselves In places For instance Mr Zeegen says in one report that the roof acts as a pyramid bearing only on the outside walls The later report indicates the need of wood post supports The Town Hall committee plana for fund raising Mr Elliott says They will be contacting their architect who also had an engineering study done The feasibility study for the Town Hall Resotration Com recommended rein forcing the roof replacing defective roof and providing adequate support In its cost estimates The report also recommended stripping and the present roof Take hammering Continued from Page The Acton Free Press Wednesday Mar 15 3 ROTARY MEMBERS spent last Tuesday evening stuffing Easter Seals into envelopes to be mailed to each home in Acton and district Over 3 envelopes were stuffed Last year the club raised Half the proceeds went to the Ontario Society for Crippled Children and half went to the local Rotary club to distribute to crippled Children in Acton Dave Swetman BUI Scott EdBendicks and Ted Hansen are pictured Landlord responsible for tenants hydro bills The onus has now been put the onus on the landlord to placed on the landlord to see sure all tenants that tenants pay their hydro P bills when they move out of commission nave also the premises Ued deposit rates Acton Hydro Electric Effective immediately all Commission decided at their monthly meeting last 5 P Homes Thursday that too many electric people were not paying their pay a deposit of also Increased from out The commission gets The commission ruled that stuck with the bills In an this was the only way to effort to alleviate this the protect themselves from commission members have future delinquent customers Weed inspector hired Keith Leslie will once again serve spec tor Monday Hills works committee rehired Leslie at a salary of same as he was paid last year He is the only weed inspector in the history of Hills The town is required by provincial legislation to hire a weed Inspector by March 31 The weed Inspector works until the end of October May move planning The planning department may move from Its present Seventh Line location in Hills Administration building to the lower level of Guelphvlew Square formerly occupied by the Niagara Es commission Monday night finance committee recommended the acceptance of the tender which was the lowest Final decision will be made at the next council meeting Nominations accepted for Citizen of Year Nominations are now being accepted for Acton s Citizen of the Year for 1978 The Acton Chamber of Commerce is once again sponsoring the event with view to honoring a citizen or group Tor outstanding service to the community Deadline for the nominations is March with a Citon of the Year Banquet being held April 15 at the Acton Music Centre Dr Frank was the recipient of the award 500 coming for tourney An estimated people will be in town this weekend for the All Ontario basketball championships being hosted this year by Acton high school The games will begin on Thursday and finish with the finals on Saturday In addition to the games many social events have been organized by the school For more information see page B the word would have been a choice Councillors termed the budget misleading and coo- fusing and ordered the bud get cut by almost five per cent from a 2 per cent increase to per cent Mrs Munro said that If all the facts were on the table the committee could reach some conclusions Damn it all Mr Chair man there comes a of reckoning when we have to admit our mistakes and say we never should have handled the budget in this fashion We just haven had a grasp on the budget charged Coun cillor David Coons of Burling ton I say now Mr CAO Chief Officer go back and cut this budget by a half million dollars and re port back to this committee 1 11 be the first to stand and protectyouincounci Coons said Councillor Jim Watson said the elected people have lost control of the budget process under regional government He said it has become so complicated none of the elected people can un It Councillor Ron said he knew all current revenue Farmer had along that the budget was up to increase the budget by W per cent and criticized most to comply councillors for not having with the policy or violate the done their homework The established guidelines chairman and his staff have Several councillors Insisted dazzled us with their foot staff had misinterpreted the work said policy but after Planches allegation tion found that the policy was brought cries of outrage from Interpreted correctly but It sued for next year because committee members t say what councillors This policy docs nothing I do my homework and had intended It to about controlling spending A motion to have the policy changed was withdrawn after Chief Administrative Officer Ernie field suggested the committee was changing horses in midstream Mayor Munro said in an interview that the change in policy would have to be pur that again you better either be prepared to back it up or 1 11 take you on Councillor shouted The only homework Ron does Is his travel account You can see It all here Councillor Watson said holding up the Accounts for the month Time and time again clllors charged that treasurer Don Farmer had presented a distorted budget to the Council had earlier passed a policy that was designed to limit the amount of long term borrowing and encourage a pay go system But instead of taking 15 per cent of the capital projects and taking that money from RACEWAY HARNESS RACING Post Time Thursday Evening Sunday Afternoon Tttactor enactor Air Condntond CkjbHouM Break ACTON ARENA SCHOOL BREAK ACTIVITIES March to March 26 SHINNY Liftman Downtown Acton