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95 -v- t fhe acton fnpess thursday october o 1966 more reasons to change flash fires minister of municipal affairs the hon j vv spooner centre is shown chatting with local officials at the unveiling of the peelhalton local government review in oakville thursday staff photo left to right are mayor les duby of acton deputy reeve r r parker mr spooner and milton mayor s g childs new counties in detail establishment of two types of county government based on a recognition of the develop ment pattern of the area ha- ton and peel urbanization in the south and a rural or agric ultural orientation jn the north is special commissioner tiil mas j pjunketts remedy lor the municipal ills that beset the present halton and peel coun ties it should be noted that while the term county has been util ized the structures envisaged are markably different in both form and substance from what is normally understood as the county in the province of oil- ario he writes for purposes of idenlilkaiinn only he refers to ihem as t he- urban county of mississuugi and the rural county of peel- halton a detailed look at his plans for the southern urban munici pality sees the new 19mun coun cil assuming all the present powers and responsibilities of municipalities presently making up the area that includes bur lington oakville tororiiivtowii- ship port credit slrottsville brampton and brainaleai only exceptions are administration of justice and the registry ol- fice which would be turned over to the province of ontario specific services they would assume include police fire roads public transportation traffic control water supply and distribution public health ambulance sewage collection and disposal air pollution con- irol public welfare including homes for the aged planning zoning building inspection pub lic libraries street lighting gar bage collection and disposal urban renewal parks licencing recreation assessment and fin ance including debt manage ment the 18 councillors would be elected by districts and the mayor elected at large seven councillors for toronto town ship port credit and streets- ville would represent 89073 per sons three councillors from brampton and bramalca woud represent 34784 persons four from burlington would repres ent 54864 and lour from oak ville would sit lor 48523 repre sentation should be reviewed at least every 10 years plunkett s i eeommends the terms of 61 lice for mayor and councillors should be three ears an executive committee inclu- dingllie mayor and two mem bers ol the council should o north halton reps designated to handle those dut ies generally assigned to boards of control under the munici pal act the mayor would have exen- ded powers and the right to ve to councils action similar to veto rights in bc and quebec if within 48 hours he submits liis written objections to a coun cil action and the subject is dis cussed at the next meeting of the council if an absolute maj ority of the council reaffirm their original action it cannot be subject again to veto by the mayor and becomes legal and valid all boards and commissions in the municipalities would be wiped out and a hydro electric commission board of police commissioners and library board would be established a commissioner of adminis tration would be appointed and under him would be 12 officers handling various tasks county clerk and chief licencing officer director of finance and county treasurer director of planning and development director of personnel director of assess ment medical officer of health director of parks and recrea tion director of welfare ser vices director of fire protection services county engineer and director of public services dir ector of road maintenance and sanitation and county solicitor besides ideas from the briefs submitted last march needs study commissioners detail ed anallysis of present govern ment systems m halton and peel pointed40 the need foe a major reorganization here are some of the reasons the growth population growth in halton has been mainly confined to oakville and burlington each of these towns has a total pop ulation exceeding the entire county population in 1951 these two towns in 1964 ac counted for 768 per cent of the total county population and 83 per cent of the total assesss- ment of the county in peel the township of tor onto and brampton account for most of the development as they have 7755 per cent of ihc total assessment and 746 per cent of thcountys population the figures show the inter relationship of the large south em municipalities population forecasts show the majority of growth will occur in these ar eas while the growth in north ern centres will be slower transportation traffic movement studies ta ken throughout the two coun ties in 1964 show a growing in terdependence between the ur ban municipalities in the south ern parts of both counties in terms of the relationship be tween where the people live and arc employed this southern part is developing an economic orientation of its own which is also lessening its dependence on the metropolitan centres to the east and west plunkett found a strong tend ency for lines of communica- f iv on vour friendly pharmacist just what is a bargain when it comes to health good health is priceless protect it with the finest quality medications com pounded faithfully from your doctors prescriptions by your pharmacist r acton pharmacy bill yundt manager 2 main st n 8531620 free pickup and delivery of prescriptions complete veterinary line north halton municipalities were well represented it the needs study unveiling in oik- villc thursday reeve william coulter de putyreeve william hoey aiul no ike good job bod ore no fires in places where tilings are made and sold account tor nearly half the annua waste at least 600010000 is the cost ol industrial fires in the last ten years in canada fire disrupts production uul employment in a small com munitv the loss ol jobs is es pecially serious ii the plant is tile only one in town everv citi zen directly or indircctlv mil lers it it permanently told minor fires become biy ones largely because of construction weaknesses lack ot protective sprinklers and alarm systems and inherent lire hazards coin mon ol mructurul faults arc missing division walls- and unenclosed mairwivs and elevator shafts in j965 there were s uuijor fires in canacla each costinc up wards of a quarter ot a million dollars the destruction ol these 5t fires was 51172800 this was a sharp increase over the previous year when the total loss from major tires was 14- 290100 councillor ross cordon repre sented nassagaweya esques- ings delegates were reeve george leslie deputyreeve will liiie school board secretary- treasurer mrs aubrey grant and georgetown district high school board chairman don lawson irom stewarttown miltonlans attending included mayor s g childs reeve aus- tin ledwith deputy reeve charles menefv high school board chairman glyn roberts and public school board chair man h p johnson acton delegates included may or les duby deputyreeve r k parker high school board chairman tom watson and pub lic school hoaid chairman vic liristow waiden ii ii hinton and de- piit- countv clerk jim andrews represented the countv council at the function mr hinton had just arrived back earlier in the ili irom a european studv tour and brought mrs hinton and daughter kathy with him square dancing for beginners thursday oct 6 at 830 pm in the robert tittle auditorium caller norm wilcox this is the final night for beginners make the most of your last chance sponsored by acton recreation committee small town disaster boxcar figures ol the loss in n industry fire are onlv part of the story ol lire destruction particularly in a small town wfcere new jobs are not easily found the direct loss of fire in a manufacturing establishment twiiding equipment replace ment represents only a fraction of he indirect economic com munity waste the indirect loss r be five times moru garbage collection due to the thanksgiving holiday monday october 10 there will be no garbage collection on that day normal garbage collection will be resumed tuesday and thereafter jack mcgeachie clerkadministrator tion and transportation to run cast and west within the two counties and a very much les ser trend toward any such lines running north and south municipal boundaries existing municipal boundar- ics are inadequate for certain services such as sewer and wa ter services plunkett reports some intermunicipal arrange ments appear necessary pqljce protection should not be con fined to within the present municipal boundaries but could be more effective if administra tion were spread over a wider area requirements of effective planning indicate it is at least questionable if these can be met within each individual mu nicipal unit it is doubtful he says whether the two counties as at present can be developed in a rational or orderly man ner without the adoption of some larger planning area education the commissioner found a multiplicity of jurisdictions in educational facilities a contin ued separation of secondary ed ucation that can be neither sup ported or justified in the second half of the 20th century and high school districts too small to provide the three streams of academic technical and com mercial education he noted 20 separate educa tion jurisdictions in the ivo counties and only three of these are administered by boards of education handling both elem entary and secondary school ed ucation- in 1965 there were 55- 042 public school pupils and 20- 859 secondary- school pupils pu pil enrolment ranged from 164 at toronto gore public school to 22159 in the toronto town ship board or education schools twenty educational jurisdic- tionsarp considerably in excess of the number required to ad minister aji effective public school system he said more over the boundaries do not co incide with municipal boundar ies especially in the case of high school districts conservation mr plunkett found three large conservation authorities operating in the two counties he heard several complaints ab out lack of control over conser vation work at trie local level especially in smaller rural ar eas where a small municipal itys single representative could be opposed by 21 other mem bers on the authority summary the review unearthed a mul tiplicity of municipal units some of which have a status and boundaries that are no longer meaningful a bewildering variety of local boards and commissions result ing in extreme diffusion of res- ponsoility and thus from the point of tljew of the citizen mak ing accountability more diffic ult it happened in a flash like a bolt from the blue nothing can be more terrifying than a flash fire in the home especially since it usually strikes in the most innocent way an education strupture com prising a variety of jurisdict ions no longer meaningful and including a separation of res ponsibility for elementary and secondarv education a number of 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