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THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, MAY 1,2002 PAGE A5 Apple farmer wants golf course Councillors miffed at lack of SuperBuild funding APPLE from /taxe I of one farm operation by permitting noil-agricultural uses you don't negatively negatively affect the viability of agriculture as a whole." she said. Ms. Gasser also questioned the water requirements of the golf course. The municipality has requested further studies be done on the expected expected water use but Mr. Archibald said water needs can be addressed from a pond on the property. "Water and pesticide pesticide use will be metered and minimized," minimized," he said. Golf courses and agriculture may not seem like natural bedfellows, admits admits Mrs. Archibald. But, she says, the ruling on this application for an Official Official Plan amendment is not just important important for her family. The sustainability of the family lann could rely on thinking thinking outside the box, not only by farmers farmers but also those who regulate them, she suggests. The application was referred to staff for further review. COUNCILLORS from page I there. But Bruce Taylor. Glaring- ton's manager of community services, says the department still does not have a clear understanding understanding why it received only $208,000 for the municipal municipal centre expansion and library project while similar projects in Ajax and Whitby received $1.4 million and $2.56 million re spectively. Clarington had applied applied for more than $5 million in combined SuperBuild and federal infrastructure funding. The department is considering appealing the decision. Originally. Mr. Taylor says, the department had applied for funding for three projects but was told it could only apply for one. Yet in other municipalities multiple projects were awarded funding grants, he points out. Municipalities were supposed supposed to limit their applications to one project under the infrastructure infrastructure program but may have applied under different envelopes envelopes for funding of numerous numerous projects, suggests Mohammed Mohammed Nakhooda, spokesman for SuperBuild. which falls under the auspices of the Ministry Ministry of Finance. He says MPPs do not determine where SuperBuild SuperBuild money is allocated. "It's a cabinet decision. They (MPPs) can say whatever they want, but at the end of the day cabinet makes the decision on the business case," he says. But Mayor John Mutton told council a member of Super- Build's board of directors told him otherwise. "He said it's totally totally political," Mayor Mutton said. The mayor added lie had been told Mr. O'Toole was not supportive of Clarington's project project application. Surprise surplus for board SURPRISE from page I has changed. She said projec tions can drastically shift by an initial amount of $8,653,302 year-end. up to $8,687,125 in October Until provincial grants are and now sits at $8,684,164. Ms. announced for the 2002-03 Mahoney said budget projee- school year - and they're cx- tions are a best guess in the be- peeled by mid-May - the board ginning and tighten up as the will not know how much of a year wraps up to show the difference the small surplus will board how the financial picture make in schools. ■1 U'/ie Week umbj Monday, April 29 to Saturday, May 4,2002 Draw for ^Ec pair of introducing Hew Styles <£ Colours for Spring tfest Selection in Durham Region I i "Those MPPs (in areas that received more funding) didn't refer to their administration administration centres and libraries libraries as a waste of money. I've been told by another Durham mayor that's what (Mr. O'Toole) referred to the administration administration centre expansion and library as, a waste of money. Perhaps that's why the lobbying isn't there for you," said the mayor. Mr. O'Toole says the remark remark "doesn't reflect my opinion at all." In a lengthy statement to council, Coun. MacArthur also criticized the Province for funding expansions of for-profit health-care facili ties such as Extendicarc. "In the last year your Harris/Eves government has partnered with them on many projects in which they supplied the expertise and we, the taxpayers of Ontario, supplied the money," Coun. MacArthur said. Other Clarington projects projects that did receive SuperBuild SuperBuild money include: Orono Crown Lands owned by the Province, $150,000, and Darlington Provincial Park. $345,000. St. Joseph's Catholic School in Bowmanville also received $2.7 million toward an addition already completed. 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