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The Acton Press Wednesday March Education tax pinches 23 more Irk I Hills residents can to pay about 111 more in school taxes this according town treasurer King Using preliminary figures a homeowner will pay he at Esmicsinj the most it Mil and m tin The mill combines the finantnl needs of the elementary and in each area In the mill rite is which when multiplied an average home assessment of produces lax Actons mill rite is It with an assessment of JUKI assessment is put at 77 Last year the town homeowner pud taxes about Final on Iht tax depend on the region levy Mr Kinginid Hills may strike its budget this week Halton Board of approved its IK budget Thursday but after three tries at changing the figures Most of Hit money is spent on wages teachers and other staff plant operation Slightly more than half the avenue 50 percent comes from provincial grants while per cent comes out of taxpayers wallets Sources for the balance of the revenue include tuition fees rentals and property the percentage of provincial government grants Is down for elementary and secondary schools this year the number of dollars coming from Queen s Park is up There is a total of million more dollars for this from the province for elementary and high schools figure because of the increase in the size of the school budget however represtnts slightly less than last year General legislative grants produce revenue representing 50 per cent of total ex penditures this year compared lo last year s percent Of the million which municipalities share responsibility in raising Hills pays per cent Milton OikvilleM and Burlington 3 Oikville separate school trustee Auger failed in his bid to slice 000 from the secondary school to bring it in line with provincial ceilings He said trends appear to have higher and higher costs while secondary school enrolment drops Auger said This is the first budget to see slip above the provincial limit Board finance committee chairman Rev Gary Morton said he could identify with Mr Auger s sentiments but continued by saying he did not know where thit kind of money could be found Another trustee Burlington Bill ner challenged the administration to run a tighter ship Perhaps the will be found through the year in the operation he said Another amendment would hive elementary school budget rise closer to the provincial ceiling Oakville trustee Anne Fairfield said because the elementary schools are some below the ceiling indicates the staff is not being used as best it may Mrs proposed that all elementary schools have full time secretaries rather than part time so that principals who now perform some secretary duties can devote more time for their jobs The amendment which also failed was aimed at small schools with no assistant principals Yet another amendment look aim at the question of whether a new board of trustees is bound to their predecessors decisions One part of the budget followed up an old needs assessment study which called for the hiring of a psychologist and four trie arts trustee Crosier wanted the psych item dropped from the budget Discussion of his amendment revealed of the five people in the budget docs not translate Into hiring Board superintendent of services lion Chapman said no hiring was to be done until he returns to trustees with a specific request All trustees except Crosier and Oakville Elsie voted in favor of passing the budget Some drugs found pharmacy busted again Pharmacy was man with break and March incident again the target of break entry plus possession of Eight Acton youths and enter stolen suffering drug effects Meanwhile police re- were taken to George- say the pharmacy south covered part of the loot town and District door was ualn smashed from the first theft Memonil Hospital the during Saturday nights Behind an home an evening after the break theft which netted officer found about in Police suspect ten thieves two hollies of pills About ten dents on a school bus times that amounl was from here and Milton have been laid in eirculation suffered the effects About worth the theft of drugs They were drills was stolen from Two juveniles were taken to hospitals and the same More on also charged in the later released March link that with a drug dose incident winch sent IB North to hospitals Police charged two connection with the March break in Soon after the theft police arrested Chairman defends BIAs record downtown defence 197B has been mi- what less spectacular than the li priwois years but we hue em barked on a number of projects retiring ness Improvement i of management chairman told jO mem ben of the and quests at the in meeting last Wednesda He said the first im in 1J7B was demolition of the Hot building and em of parking I 1 and were made for the Hon of Mini Si S delayed failure 1 gel necessary approves This has been now work is to as soon as we permits ind contractor Third under taken is arrangements for entrance signs at all four entrances to They he two faced and illuminated and land scaping will be dune with the bearing half the cost Remainder Ihe money will be raised different service clubs whose emblems will appear on tin signs Don Lindsay Ihe project and reported co operation from service clubs was A com mitlee has been formed design made and modi tied to meet Ministry of Transportation Com provided for now traditional bus pirtici paled in Hick ind the S into parade as well as em students for summer under the summer yiiii will be repeated in 11TJ Mr said j activities were what he because the realization was to busy Irymg lo it Mr out of their hair He noled Ihe Ind been accused of overstepping Iheir man due misusing funds lack of interest in tin plaza issues ill which were untrue he said Mr s statement thai he I meet with the down town merch ints and only four people showed up was miscalculation the in The meetuiL w is arranged and the there wen six f them also said he would provide jobs with a in end of Acton Mr Stachyn said When his proposal wis turned down he up Willi a scaled down version the number of jobs went up to BO Ihe latest version v is rtdueed even more siid Mr but the jibs climbed up to If he keeps that up we will soon have full em ployment he quipped The retiring chairman took more swipes at Mr claims he would bring 7 customers a week into a new plaza I wonder where they would come from asked His new plaza in Georgetown would keep people there tradition illy Limehouse leans to Georgetown and and low man ean you get from Corners Mr said the plaza project turned into i for the people of Acton His il is small enough to mike money for him yet it is big enough lo have serious consequences on he downtown It has been pointed out to me supermarket ind a new bank on the outskirts would not only affect the food stores but it w mid also cause at least die downtown bank and the to reduce their staff Mr said Net result of this w juld be a community with ill strip plaza on Ihe outskirts and a core in the centre I doubt thai there would be any gain all in municipal revenue in number of jobs in Ac ion or even in the shop ping facihlies It would simply be case of moviiie the business from the downtown lo the outskirts where Mr owns the land gain would be a few parking spaces most of them in the empty downtown Mr said These are the reasons for our opposition to the plaza not of competition We want competition where we can lay our hinds on II downtown It has been done in other ties and it can be done in Acton Mr continued However it would be a mistake lo consider the recent turn of events as a victory We do recognize thai we have deficiencies in shopping and parking facilities Serious nego are now under way to correct some of these problems Your BIA board of manage ment can only provide leadership and ordination of efforts The solution to our problems lies in vidual effort and operation he said It was well expressed in a letter to the Free Press last week The was generally unsympathetic to us he finished off by saying The did not like what Mr had to offer now do bet ter We better heed this advice and look at the situation as an opportunity perhaps the Inst opportunity to do better Mr concluded Henry of group puts a bandaid on i gave for Ihe lime last Joan ford of Ihe lied opportunity to sent Mm with his donation certificate Best ever clinic The Acton lied Cross had their best ever blood donor clime last lues day in pints of blood and lil rejects Public rehlions officer Schnber pointed out a story on the front page of the I Press the week before the was responsible for bringing in a goodl portion of the donors Many she said saw the article explaining the may have lo all future chines if more donors do not fell ashamed of All worker the clinic were very pleased with lid Mrs The u he said phoned them in T At the last clinic only pmls of blood were re jects Tuesday s clinic was sponsored by Hills and Appliances and A Supermarket clinic will be held June 12 at the Acton legion Mm with a winner 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