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Wednesday February 14 1990 Page Councillors ponder spending 9 million on capital projects ByBENDUMMLTT the Herald Halton Hills councillors poured over a capital budget Tuesday night that proposes to spend per cent more than last year The town Is considering spending in excess of million on capital projects this year The town spent just over million on capital projects last year The increase is largely due to a proposal to build a new 3 million Acton arena says town senior Cor Buikema The town expects to pay just over 2 million of the total cost The remainder is predicted to come from a capital conservation grant The town will have to row to pay its share of the arena the budget report says The town expects to pay just over 407 annually in interest over a 10year This means individual pro perty owner taxes would increase by per cent the report says Just over million of the capital budget is financed by pro perty taxes The purchase of land to build a new fire station in Acton and a new fire pumper for the Georgetown fire department are two other significant proposed purchases in the budget The combined cost of those two capital expenditures is The majority of the cost would be covered by the town unallocated capital fund The unallocated capital fund is money left over from the previous year The first in this fund goes to help reduce the tax rate for the next year the report says The remainder helps pay for capital projects These fire department are listed as two and three in the department s priority list The number one priority is a 21 emergency traffic control system The system decreases the amount of time it takes firefighters to at a fire call Money raised from property tax would be Used to purchase the new system The town wants to spend close to 480 on the reconstruction of the Fourth Line and Sideroad Construction depends on if the town receives provincial funding in the same amount The project is estimated to cost the town this year The town will fund its share using money from its unallocated reserve funds and gravel royalties town capital forecast budget for 1991 and estimates the town will accumulate a debt of about 4 million over this period to help pay for various capital pro jects the report says WITH the HERALD Your copy rs available at many of our conveniently located dealers as GEORGETOWN GENERAL STORE Downtown Georgetown m RUNAWAY RUNNING BOARD SALE SAVE OFF DEEZEE RUNNING BOARDS Sale Ends February 17th 1990 FREE RUNNING BOARDS installation DRY CLEANING INTERIORS A SHINE RUNNING FABRIC PROTECTION SUNROOFS PIN STRIPING VINYL ROOF REVITALIZING RUST PROOFING SPLASH GUARDS TOUCH UP PAINT CAR COVERS WINDOW 8730570 Guelph St Georqetown Supreme court hears appeal of Haltons landfill site Expert evidence has proven a new landfill site for Halton gar should be built in Burlington not Milton the Supreme Court heard Monday Elcanore Cronk the attorney for the Burlington landowners said the proposed Burlington site is bet ter suited for the garbage than a recommended Milton area She said the land can hold con taminants as well as Milton and the Burlington site is more distanc ed from homeowners Ms Cronk argued against a Consolidated Hearings Act board decision that endorsed the Milton area She said the board ignored expert evidence when it con eluded the Burlington site was safe All of the evidence that the joint board heard was that the Burl site was safe That it was acceptable That it could work Ms Cronk said The arguments for competing landfills appeared the Supreme Court nearly eight years after NSP Investments Ltd the owners of the site Burlington first applied to develop a landfill NSP Investments along with the Region of Halton the Town of Milton an area citizens coalition and some landowners have all en dorsed the Burlington application However a joint board formed under the Consolidated Hearings Act didn t support that proposal After an 18month hearing that board determined in the land fill should be built in Milton at a location near Highway and Bntanma Road The matter has now gone to a Supreme Court judicial review that began Monday Lawyers for NSP and other groups supporting the Burlington site say the Con Hearings Board decision should be quashed Currently Halton is without a landfill site It has been exporting its trash to areas such as Niagara Falls at a cost of about million per month In the argument for the Burl ington site Ms Cronk dismissed a judgement by the Consolidated Heanngs Board that said the area wasn safe She said there was no evidence presented to support that sion Ms said all experts who testified at the Consolidated Heanngs Act heating said both sites would be safe The Burlington site she added is located km away from any residences and is situated next to an existing landfill site and a former landfill Ms Cronk said evidence showed the area has little risk of contamination The joint board cannot ignore and reject out of hand that evidence when it was not con The 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