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8 --Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, July 21st. 1976 School brief calls grants unfair ■Present criteria for grants in lieu of taxes from all three •lëyels of government "have been unfair in the extreme to school;boards" according to a brief from the Northumtier- land-Newcastle Board of Education. Education. And to make matters worse, worse, municipalitifes who didn't Hamiltons Insurance Service Your Friendly Agency All Personal and Commercial Insurance Sadie Hamilton Sue Sawyer Jim Hare For dependable service 983-5115 even apply for such grants appear to be getting federal and provinciàl money, often while the boards are crying for dollars. 1 ' The brief offers as critical assessment of the proposed property tax reforms in . Ontario as it applies to school boards. CHÀNELLED MONEY Many of the grants offered by Queen's Park exlude school support and federal and municipal grants, while they recognize school and municipal needs, fund the municipalities, but not necessarily necessarily the school boards. The Northumberland-New- castle board has a high percentage of federal and provincial property within its Building a House? or remodelling your present one? Then contact: ; Floyd Nicholson Ornno V83-5049 JAN'S FLOWER & GIFT SHOPPE , ; " SERVING ORONO, NEWCASTLE ; BOWMANVILLE and OSHAWA WE DELIVER MAIN STREET, ORONO, PH. 983-9500 am mi y nI ORONO, ONT. • 983-5009 J. H, STUTT E. J. STUTT STILL AWAITING WAGE DECISION - Clerical, technical and professional professional workers for the Region of Durham were last week still awaiting a reply from the Regional negotiators regarding salary increases. Terry O'Connor, president of Local 1764, stated they had heard nothing from the nego- jurisdiction, including such things as a penitentiary, uranium refinery, post offices, offices, public parks, hospitals and fish hatcheries, notes the brief. "Receipt of full taxes on these properties and on municipal-owned municipal-owned properties will constitute a source of considerable considerable relief to local taxpayers" taxpayers" says the brief. Trustees were assured to learn that the federal government government has agreed with the board's sentiments that would direct municipalités to share federal grants in lieu of taxes with them. DISCONTENT Foremost in the brief is the realization that the public is smarting and becoming less and less content to see great proportions of their tax dollar funelled into education. However, trustees agree that the local tax base must be broaderfed and to best do this the board has suggested tax exempt property be reduced reduced to a minimum. In general the board is in full agreement with the proposal to assess residential and public utility land at 50 per cent of its market value and all other property (except tax exempt land) at full market value. This would mean that school boards would pay taxes on the land on which their schools stand but the trustees estimate that the money received from federal , provincial and municipal governments governments will go a long way to offset such losses. PROBLEM However, complicating the problem for the board is the .fact; that insurance appraisers appraisers have estimated appropriate' appropriate' insurance coverage on land and properties held by the Northumberland-Newcas- tle board would come to $60 million. This, combined with estim- ate'd anhüal taxes of close to $2 million has prompted the trustees to recommend the provincial government raise grant ceilings on ordinary expenditures. One possible alternative to the raised grant ceilings would be to create what the board terms a realistic grant formula designed to cover the additional expenditures. But the board recognizes, that there may be arguments against the very idea of increasing the property taxes the public. will pay, not to mention having a portion of that increase funnelled into, educational spending. However, the trustees contend contend that while many would argue that "no portion of the educational budget should be raised. There is little doubt that accountability to the public will be greater while educational funding is parti- ally dependent on local mill rates," says the brief. tiators since January 5th. He also said that,, unless a monetary offer is made to the union it is very likely they will go for conciliation. Local 1764 is seeking wage increases ranging from $7,436 Local 1764 is seeking wage increases ranging from 11 to 24 percent in a one-year pact. Workers now earn from $7,436 to $20,228 a year unuer the old one-and-a-half year agreement which expired i$ the end of June, 1976. VJp and Down the Book Stacks TAKING SOrL SAMPLES | AT DARLINGTON SITE Ontario Hydro, under contract, contract, is having soil samples taken at the site of the proposed Darlington Hydro generating station. Core samples on the 1200 acre site have been a propject since 1971. The taking of the samples is not to preclude the construction construction of the generating station. This matter will be dealt with by the Ontario government this fall. 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