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Community Hydro commission forced to writeoff bills Halton Hills Hydro Commis learned the com mission has had to write off ap proximately in unpaid bills for 1989 Commission General Manager Jerry Tmdell assured the five commissioners a collection has been hired to recoup some of the money He speculated some of the bills would be paid but he would not indicate an amount The outstanding bills can be broken down into two categories accounts receivable and miscellaneous accounts Ac counts receivable totals Hydro contract awarded Halton Hills Hydro Commission Friday awarded its hydro pole con tract to Guelph Utility Pole Company The Guelph company underbid Domtar Incorporated of Trenton and BJ According to a commission report the utility orders eight varieties of poles dunng any given year Guelph utility prices ranged from for the shortest pole and for the tallest pole Domtar s prices rang ed from 65 to 778 while those of B J Carney were from 149 26 to Amendment premature Continued from Page 1 never put into effect by the com United Aggregates says their licence shouldn be changed but they can have it both ways she said If there were no changes in the licence we should have a lake right now the lake being one of the rehabilitation components Other delegations present at the meeting included Rob Cook Executive Director of the Ag gregate Resources Association of Ontario and Bob Doyle represen tative for the employees of the Acton Quarr Both men sup ported United Aggregates posi tion The delegation most opposed to increased extraction by United Aggregates was EAGLE Ecology Awareness Group represented by Giuseppe Gon He said the United Aggregates licence t valid by any of to day s criteria and there are enough doubts on the validity of the licence to give the town an op portunity to protect its natural resources He also tried to clarify that the amendment is asking for 75 acres not percent of the area As both figures were used many councillors expressed their con fusion about the amount of land that would be reduced for expan sion if the amendment was pass ed This confusion was accounted for by the prematurity of the pro posal Mayor Russ Miller said if Eagle is only asking that acres be saved it t such a large request considering there would be over acres left for the com pany to extract from Its inexcusable if you the company can t take acres out of approximately to promote the environment finished the Mayor to a round of applause from members of the crowd over filling the council chambers In the final vote nine coun favoured the staff made resolution calling the amendment premature while three coun cillors opposed it t NEW MANAGE BARBEQUED CHICKEN NOW OPEN SUNDAYS Just imagine mouth watering B B Q Chicken delicious homemade fries great chicken sandwiches and crisp fresh salads NOW AVAILABLE L Tuesday 11 30 a 8 00 p m Wednesday 1 1 30 am 8 00 p I Thursday 11 30 am 9 I Friday 11 30 a m 9 00 p I Saturday 00 p m 8 00 Sunday 2 00 p m 7 p I ALOHA BBQ 232 St corner of Guelph St 8731646 10 000 and involves 66 unpaid customer hydro bills The miscellaneous account totals 16 000 in unpaid bills One bill totals and in a traffic accident in which a vehicle knocked out two hydro poles The other outstanding bill arises from the bankruptcy of a Georgetown developer explained Mr Trudell Mr rudell said the names of those with outstanding bills is confidential The utility s Billing and tion Supervisor Norma Weir predicted following the meeting that very few of the accounts receivable will be paid The 66 customers are all people who no longer live at the billing address she said Utility Comptroller Danny wards following the meeting refused to speculate if the miscellaneous accounts will be paid saying the two matters are before the courts Commission Chairman Bill Smith requested and received direction from the other commis sioners to investigate charging interest on accounts He made his request in light of the fact that the outstanding for accounts is triple what it was the previous year The amuont was just over said Mr I believe we should charge in terest My contention is most small businesses charge two per cent interest on late payments At the present the commission charges a fixed late payment charge Once the five per cent charge takes effect explained Mr Trudell there is no other in creases To Mr Smith s Idea sioner Jim Fisher said people are on three day or four day work days and a hell of a lot of people are out of work these days Come on get off that crock if people can afford hydro they can afford to pay it replied Mr Smith Halton Hills Mayor and hydro commissioner Miller said the commission should consider the idea of lite payment interest charges but not to lose sight that not all of the utility customers are businesses Some are little kids and old people Let s not lose our urged the Mayor TOWN COUNTRY CLOTHIERS Royal Rabbins Columbia Run Fitness 8788622 TH FITNESS Mill St E Now the largest independent clothier in 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