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THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, NOVEMBER 28,2001 PAGE 3 Toronto Thieves take a seat at the bar -- literally could scoop transit funding BOWMANVILLE - Police arc seeking who had been at Einstein's, King St. E„ scats away from one of the men. but three four chair-ity cases who decided they early Sunday morning, stood up to leave, others escaped with their chairs, liked their seats at a local bar so much, and attempted to take their chairs with The chairs are described as green and they'd take them. them. burgundy, and have an estimated value of Durham Regional Police say four men, A waitress managed to wrest one of the $150 each. Clarington Leading the Way ^ CORPORATION OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF CLARINGTON PUBLIC NOTICE www.municipality.clarington.on.ca Durham solidarity needed at next GTSB meeting: Scugog mayor BY JACQU1E McINNES Staff Writer DURHAM - The Greater Toronto Services Board (GTSB) may be on the way out, but it could still cost Durham valuable transit money if politicians here don't show up and be counted ■at a meeting Friday, wants . Scugog Mayor Doug Moffatt. The mayor is calling on all 905 representatives to attend next Friday's meeting of the board to block an anticipated motion by Toronto Deputy Mayor and Councillor Case Cotes, who is expected to ask the board to return GTSB transit reserves to municipalities. municipalities. GO Transit "will probably need those reserves to fund what's going to be done," on capital projects, says Mayor Moffatt. "It just makes sense to me instead of dumping it back into the municipalities" to keep the funds for the purpose purpose for which they were cre- : ated, says the mayor. ' Coun. Cotes says there are two. separate types of reserves to be dealt with. One, he says, is a reserve fund created from a surplus from GO's annual operating budget. The funding funding .for that, came directly from' municipalities saÿs' the Toronto councillor, who adds it'has always been his posi-. lion any surplus should be returned returned to the municipalities each year if there are additional additional funds remaining. "It came from property taxes," he points out, noting the taxpayers were not told they were funding a reserve fund, only GO operating costs. The leftover balance is rightfully theirs, he argues. The second reserve account account has a balance of about $50 million remaining of an original $100 million placed in reserve by the Province for GO capital projects when the board was formed, Mr. Doles says. A report will be presented presented to the GTSB Friday as to how that account was established, established, says Coun. Ootcs. He says at this point he is unsure whether he'll ask to have that money divided among the municipalities. "If it was part of a downloading downloading formula then it should be returned to the municipalities," municipalities," he says. If the reserve reserve fund was a trade-off to municipalities for other costs they were required to pick up, now that the GTSB is being dissolved, the reserves should be divided up among the lower-tier governments based on their percentage of membership membership on the GTSB. Toronto Toronto comprises just under 50 per cent of the membership. Mayor Moffatt says Coun. Ootcs raised the motion to give the reserve funds to the municipalities at the last GTSB meeting and "just wanted to do it that day" but a number of Toronto politicians were absent and the 905 representatives representatives managed to "fight it back." The mayor is concerned there will be a better turnout of Toronto politicians at Friday's Friday's meeting because the meeting venue has been changed from the GTSB headquarters at Black Creek to the Toronto council chambers, chambers, The lime was also Changed frtim 10 a.ni; to 9:30 a.m„ he says,'suggesting this . was done for the convenience, of Toronto members to ensure their presence and vole at the meeting. In a letter addressed to Mayor Moffatt and copied to other members of the GTSB, Chairman Gordon Chong says the decision of place and date was his, as chairman, to make. NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR APPROVAL TO EXPROPRIATE LAND IN THE MATTER OF AN APPLICATION BY THE CORPORATION OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF CLARINGTON for approval to expropriate land comprising Part Lot 33, Concession 1, Geographic Township of Darlington, now in the Municipality of Clarington, in the Regional Municipality of Durham which land is more particularly described below in this Notice, for the purposes purposes of a community park. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that application has been made for approval to expropriate the land more particularly described as follows: ALL AND SINGULAR that certain parcel or tract of land and premises situate, lying and being in the Municipality of Clarington, in the Regional Municipality of Durham, formerly in the County of Durham, and being composed of Part of Lot Thirty-Three (33), Concession One (1) of the Geographic Township of Darlington, which parcel is more particularly particularly described as follows: PREMISING that the bearing of the North limit of Lot 33, Concession 1, is North 74 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds East and relating all bearings used herein thereto; COMMENCING at a point in the said Lot 33, which may be located as follows: BEGINNING AT THE NORTH-WEST ANGLE OF LOT 33, CONCESSION 1 ; THENCE North 74 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds East along the said North limit of Lot 33, a distance of 347.55 feet; THENCE South 16 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds East, a distance of 1,472.52 feet to the'Point of Commencement; THENCE from the Point of Commencement North 83 degrees 13 minutes 00 seconds West to a point in the East limit of a travelled road passing through said Lot 33, a distance of 278.28 feet; THENCE South 6 degrees 17 minutes 20 seconds West along the said East limit of travelled road, a distance of 150.00 feet; THENCE South 83 degrees 13 minutes 00 seconds East a distance of 277.84 feet; THENCE North 6 degrees 27 minutes 30 seconds East, a distance of 150.00 feet more or less to the Point of Commencement. Any owner of lands in respect of which notice is given who desires an inquiry into whether the taking of such lands is fair, sound and reasonably necessary in the achievement of the objectives of the expropriating authority shall so notify the approving authority in writing, (a) in the case of a registered owner, served personally or by registered mail within thirty days after the registered owner is served with the notice, or, when the registered owner is served by publication, within thirty days after the first publication of the notice; (b) in the case of an owner who is not a registered owner, within thirty days after the first publication of the notice. Any person wishing to ascertain if they have a legal right to request an inquiry pursuant to this notice may consult the Expropriations Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.E.26 for the meaning of the terms "owner 1 ' and "registered owner". The approving authority is THE CORPORATION OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF CLARINGTON 40 Temperance Street, Bowmanville, Ontario L1C 3A6 Telephone: (905) 623-3379 Fax: (905) 623-4169 THE CORPORA i' THE MUNICIPALITY OF CLARINGTON This notice first published on the 21 day of November, 2001. R.R'.O. 1980, Reg. 315, Form 2. Metroland's community newspapers online: www.durhamregion.com Write us ' Clarington This Week •Œfj e Canadian Statesman ' welcomes letters to the editor. Letters should be limited to 150 words and signed ' with a full first and last name OR two initials and a last marne. Letters must include a 'telephone number for confirmation ■ purposes. • Unsigned letters will not be -printed. fiflXthem: 905-623-6161 EMAIL [hem: newsroom® idurhamregion.com ■AM/Lthem: 62 King St. W„ 'Bowmanville, ON. 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