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R<egion fate' initia lIy lies with works area SA'YS DEWNAR "The fate of Durham region Lies initialy in the works field,- Coun. Alan Dewar Sawva), regional works èraimani, said Thursday. 0f ail the region's respons- ibilities, works is the one that is most before the public eye, and it is the one thiat peuple will cbiefl y have contact witb. ".It is crucial people know where to go," hie said, wben they have problems with water or sewer or roads. For this reason Coun. De- war believes the region will bave to work liard at public, relations, and that regional services must be readily Chatterton Electrie ORONO, ONTARIO Phone 983-5-546 Or 983-5940 ResidenitiaI-Corwmerîcal Industrial IDurham County Sa les Arena ORONO, ONT. LIVESTOCK SA LE Every Thursday Eveninig 7:30 P. M. SHEEP-CATTLE HG-HORSES BUSINESS 983-96 HOME: 623-4685 BILL MOSLEY accessible to the populace. The systemn of organizatior for tbe %works departmenl passed b *y council recently fits this bill,lbe feels. Lt calis for integrated services. Cýontaqct on a day-to-day b. ýsis witbi people wiil event- ually be organîzed out of district depots, where crews will be available for work on various regionai functions. (Wbile no definite decision bias been made on wbere these depots wili be located, exist- ing buildings tbat migbt be used are at Sunderland, Myrtie, Ajax, Mancbester and Orono). Coun. Dewar, wbo was on Osbawa 's work committee in 1973, and wihl be vice-chair- man of thiat group in 1974, as weU, as chairman at the regionai level, has a philosop- by of regionalism that dove- tails nîcely wýithbhis belief in integrated services. Regîonalismi only malkes sense if it resuits in better planning and utilization of what's available, he believes. There are several aspects to tis, of wbicb the mnost immediate is the need to rationalize tbe various ser- vices in termas of cost. The danger is that another layer of personnel. would be added doing the same work, he says, and avoiding tbat sort of duplication will help prevent an êealation of the, miii rate (caused by works). Lt is the necessîty to keep costs in fine, wbile maintain- ing and even up-grading services, that leads Coun. Dewar to see the short-termn fate, and reason for regional-' ism, in termas of works. Planning is tbe long terrn justification for regionaiisma be adds. Corne Jan. 1, some regional functions wili be operated for ,Durham by area municipalit- ies, wbite others will already be operating regionaiiy. (In Osbawa, for example, water formeriy run by tbe lublic Utilîties Commission, will be taken over except in tbe customner service area by Durham. Sewers wiii tempor- arily remain with tbe city, while there are as yet no regionai roads in the city. in som-e other mnunicipalities the split is even more pronoune- ed.) DECISIONS, DECISIONSý Deciding "who will be responsibie for wbat" is a major task facing the works tcomimittee, Coun. Dewar says Careful consultation in a long rseries of meetings with area municipalities wiil be needed to ensure that if sometbing "1works better and costs less" fat the local level it wili stay there. Equally, he believes if savings can be attained by making a function regional it sbould be transferred as soon as practicai. This ties in withi two priority tasks the committee faces in jearly 1974. One is the need to evolve a timetable ("what and when") for regional takeovers. Second, and in one way the first priority listed by Cun. Dewar, is to informn personnel of their future to the extenft the commirittee has responsib- ility for them. People should know ý,for which governmrrental level they'Il be working as quickly as possible, Coun. Dewar believ.,es, because in involves flot only their futures but their sense of security. What he calis the "horrend- ous volume of work" facing the committee will be iargely because "I feel the committee- should be' doing it." He wants the elec ted repre- sentatîves to take more re- sponsibîlity on their shouiders and lie is certain tbey. can handie it. Hie wants the committee members to have the capacity to present argu- ments rather than relying .ntrely on staff reports. Once the short-term diffi- culties are bandled, and perhaps simultaneously, more long term problems wil begin to surface. QUESTIONS The real point is "how long does the region function?" Couni. Dewar asked, listingi numerous questions yet to be answered. One that is simple to'say, but ha rd to accomplish, is how1 are present high-level servic- es to be maintained and othersupgraded at minimum cost? There wîll be pressures to upgrade areas with poorer services, much has happened to scbools when county boards of education were established. That kind of demnand will corne wi th the încreased taxes that are inevitabie under regionalism, Coun. Dewar says, altbough he doubts everyone will automatîcally want water and sewer service immediately. Some sort of balance will have to be struck bere to keep costs down, he says. In a broader context he says flatly "either we have the responsibilities or we don't for running Durham region, whiîch is one way of saying he is suspiclous of the provincial government. If Cedarwood and Pickering Airport were built as original- ly proposed it would "Totallyý alter thie region from wbat it is nnw," in which casewh have( Durham region at ail? The provincial and federal govrnen wuld be mkn aIl the decisions. GM LAYOFF IN U.S. WON'T AFFECT OSHIAWA A\ layoff of 48,000 workers in United States by General Motors will have no immed- iate effect bere in Oshawa, a GM spokesman said Satur- day. Bill Austin, director of public relations, said about 15,000 General Motors of Canada employees bere wili be returning to work Jan. 2. The GM layoff south of the border - 38,000 indefinitely and 48,000 for up to 10 days - has been blamed on a'slumip in car sales. GM of Canada though has had fine straight months of record sales and expects December to be the loth. Mr. Austin stressed there was no cause for alarm here because of the layoff of about nine percent of the auto giant's 420,000 hourly produc- tion workers in the United States. The one problem the, iayoff could cause for GM of Canada is in the production of comiponents., GM here ships components such as transmissions and motors for various types of cars to Amercian plants. the large number of provin- cial interests in Durham. Tbese include tbe proposed massive York-Pickering sew- age works (wbîch if built would tend to pattern deve- lopment a certain way in Durham), iandfiil sites, park- way belts, Hwy. 407, and water treatrnent plants. Then tbere are funamental questions involving 'he nature of wbat the region should be. For example, the building of sewage systems autornat- icaiiy implies development, yet Coun. Dewar notes no one ever questions installing the pipes beforeband. The immense and compiex problems abead make him sbake his head when he bears tbatý Ottawa-Carieton's coun- cil mnet only one a month wben, it was formed. He does n't understand how they did It. The problemns of Durham are different, but just as complex as Metro Toronto's he concludes. APPROVAL OF GRANTS TO CONSERVATION AUTIIRITIES The Hlonourable Leo Bern- ier, Minister of Natural Re- sources, announces the app- royal of a provincial grant in the amount of $97,500 to the Central Lake Ontario Conser- vation Authority for flood plain mapping in Whitby and Bowmanville. 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