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Page 10— Halton Hills This Week, Wednesday, December 16, 1992° Larry Baldwin Tire Bloomers and Britches Brett Corby - Money Concepts David Drew,Massage Therapist Discount Car Rental De elite Fendley Florists Food Stuffs General Convenience Store Georgetown Custom Car Sound Georgetown Quik-Lube eorgetown Rent-All 'S Electronics Gi: Halton Hills Sewing byes ee and Vacuum Services ‘el Communications Halton’ Traller Sales and Rental Ltd. Bill Hannam J.J Electronics Kiyo's Japanese Car Services Ltd. Midas Muffler and Brake Shop M.V.P. Distributors Office Magic Pizza Pizza 2-4-1 Pizza Dale Walker, Massage Therapist Winks Convenience Store Because of your generous donations, we were able to provide many deel nes in Georgetown with Discovery of erry Toys. I wish retinas _ a peppy and healthy New Year! Tax committee approval expected By Johanna Powell Special to This Week A citizens’ committee which has less than 12 moe to come up wi reforms won’t be officially el until 1993. That’s because Halton regional council must approve a plan for set- ting up the committee before municipalities can choose their rep- Tesentatives, Approval of the plan is expected to come Wednesday (today), but that is Halton council’s last meeting for 1992. That leaves no time this year for Halton’s four municipalities of Halton Hills, Oakville, Burlington and Milton to get their representa- tives approved at the regional level. The Rentners C - Cookies (12) .. Bake Sale ¢ Baking ¢ Hors D'oeuvres ¢ Gift Baskets Party Supplies ¢ Stocking Stuffers SAMPLE PRICES learance at Kentners 62 Mill Street Seeoey, December 19 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Georgetown Catering 873-0404 Emerald Isle Bedroom Gallery IS HOLDING A MATTRESS & BOX SPRING from 1/2 PRICE BATTENBURG LACE Stuffers ACCESSORIES TOWELS SHOWER CURTAINS WATCH FOR Don't Pay Department Store Prices! Emerald Isle Bedroom Gallery 130 Guelph St. 873-2753 OUR OPENING at 265 Guelph St. Sinclair Place next to Office Magi Georgetown The decision to strike a commit- tee to find some way of reforming the region’s tax system without implementing region-wide market value assessment was made at a‘. special meeting of Halton regional council which began Dec. 2 and went into the early morning hours of Dec. 3. If the citizens’ committee can’t come up with a better tax system, regional MVA will come into effect for the 1994 tax year. Today, council’s administration and finance committee decided the new committee should be made up of three citizens from each munici- ; pality. ‘ The administration committee also said a council member from | each municipality should sit on the citizens’ committee as a non-voting member. Council representatives will be denied a vote in an attempt to eliminate partisan politics. Halton Region councillors are evenly split on market value assess- ment, with Halton Hills and Oakville councillors in opposition while Burlington and Milton coun- cillors support it. The four MPPs whose ridings are involved also are to be asked to join as non-voting members or to desig- nate non-voting representatives. Wary that the region may come up with ideas which would require changes to provincial legislation, administration committee members are hoping that close contact with elected provincial representatives will avoid a repetition of the recent fiasco in Metro Toronto. Metro’s plans for market value assessment were rejected by the provincial government. Under the proposed plan, the chair will be appointed separately by council, and an independent advisory group of tax experts may All of these decisions are subject to council approval next week. When the citizens’ committee does need, it will already have a wealth of material to study. At Wednesday’s administration com- mittee meeting, Oakville councilor Liz Behrens announced the proper- ty tax working group, a subcommit- tee of the province’s fair tax com- mission, had just released its report. That report concludes the current property tax system in Ontario is not capable of both meeting the revenue requirements of local gov- ernment and school boards and imposing a fair tax burden on prop- erty owners. It describes property tax as “regressive” and recommends that local governments get significant new powers to vary taxation poli- cies in a way that reflects the finan- cial diversity of different Ontario communities. GINNY'S | DIAPER SERVICE Pick-up Fai Sdoley bea shee coy eee, ey cova } Maggs? eS Soe 0 Es