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P20) 0 [} AA A LEG LEE ps RRAE LL RIA ARIA REINER AND A FAP RN IAP TE J 3 » » » » ' " evi td eA ond id di desdbhite bisa sain fd Adsaday a I i Le c--_ < ty a rT LE a ein le 16 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, June 19th, 1974 Expenditures cut $1 million Regional Council reduced its 1974 net expenditures by a million dollars on Wednes- day following a meeting between provincial and regi- onal officials on June 10. The reduction in this year's expenditures will be achieved by deferring the levving for certain expéndit- ures this year, 'until 1975 and-or 1976 within the term of office of the present council." In their meeting with pro- vinci officials June 10, the finance committee chairman and treasurer were told that the province would consider increasing financial assist- ance to Durham only if the net expenditures for 1974 were reduced. Earlier Provincial Mini- ster John White had said Durham Region's financial spending is too ambitious, in response to criticism by opposition leader Robert Nixon that regional govern- ment was proving to be expensive. The decision to defer one million dollars will result in a lowering of the regional levy. Taxes which were originally calculated to go up by 28.4 percent in the entire region will now drop to 20.0 percent. Scugog's increase in the regional levy in terms of the local mill rate will now drop to 0.9 fromt he earlier 1.6. the equalised mill rate increase will drop to 0.1 from the original 0.2. _ Several councillors disa- greed with the method of reduction. Councillors Emm and Dewar moved an amend- ment that all committees and the Police Commission be asked to reduce their budgets by 10 percent. Councillor Des Newman moved a further amendment that the committees report by the following Wednesday (today). Both amendments were, lost, after a heated debate. Coun. Newman pointed out that deferring the expendi- ture to the next year did not imply an actual reduction; it merely meant that people would have to pay for the same things next year. The deferred expenditures relate to material costs on items like furniture, office equipment and vehicles for the police. Coun. Jim Potticary sug- gested that $500,000 be re- duced on the roads budget and another $500,000 on per- sonnel. Coun. Newman was also in favour of reducing staff to save money this year. Coun. Mike Breaugh felt the amendments were intended to thwart the motion to reduce expendi- tures. "There is an urgent need to get down to Queen's Park with actual reductions as proposed by the Finance committee," he said. / Finance Committee Chdir- man George Ashe felt (the Featuring STEVENS MARKET FRESH PRODUCE - GROCERIES Fresh Ontario Strawberries Florida Oranges 49° Highway 7 & 12 MYRTLE OPEN: Fri., Sat., Sun. -- 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. CLOSED -- MONDAY MIDDLETON'S QUEEN ST. PORT PERRY 985- 2562 ask about our HOME FOOD-FREEZER PLAN 1 aplan to fit everyones budget amenament would pring council back to square one and it would take 2 months to come up with a new levy. "If you sincerely believe there is a further 10 percent cut possible' he told council- lors "then I suggest you didn't do your job well in the first place." Coun. Robertson went even further to suggest to committee chairmen and members 'you were conning the council, and conning the rate payers of this mun- icipality, then, if you feel you' can reduce your budgets by 10 percent now." Coun. Reg. Rose of Scugog said a reduction in the social services budget and staff would "completely destroy social services in the Region." The rejections of the amendments by Council did not deter Coun. Newman from trying again. This time he suggested a deletion of the clause outlinging the defer- ral and its replacement by a substitute clause. Coun. Newman's clause would have reduced $125,000 from the Planning and Development budget, $75,000 from Social services, $200,000 from Police, $50,000 from finance, another $50,000 from Health, $450,000 from Works and $50,000 from Administration, totalling $1 million. This amendment too was defeated. A third amend- ment by Coun.Newman cal- ling for a deletion of the -deferral clause leaving the recommendation silent on the method of reduction was also defeated with Coun. Mike Breaugh saying he was "tired of getting the same amendment 5 times side- ways." Council finally passed the recommendation to reduce the net expenditures by $1 million by defering certain costs to 1975 or 1976. Coun. Newman made a last attempt to change this at the time of adoption of the committee of the whole report by Council but was not able to muster enough sup- port for his motion to delete the second clause. B Baby Beef LIVER bv. $1.09 MAPLE LEAF SIDE BACON 95° FRESH GROUND HAMBURGER » 99¢ MAPLE LEAF BUTTER Ib. 85° Beef Steakett eake % S 1g BURNS WEINERS 10 Ib. box for freezer 715° $7 FREEZER ORDERS Sides, Hinds & Fronts of BEEF *1 2 Terms arranged Approx. per week Seagrave area Last week we said that we hoped our sick would soon be home. We got our wish. Fred Balling, Bob Nodwell, Wendy Monahan and Cheryl Standish are all back again although some of them aren't exactly frisky. Mrs. Cookson is staying for a short time with her son Jim and his family in town. Unfortunately "we have another list for this week. Roy Scott has had another bad spell and is in Oshawa Hospital. Mrs. Heywood Short is quite indisposed but is still at home and some youngsters around. the vil- lage are measley. Mr. and Mrs. Gary Brown whose son Kevin arrived a couple of weeks ago, won- dered why we hadn't repor- ted the birth. The answer is that we didn't know about it but we will gladly include any news from Mariposi Estates at anytime. Mrs. Wanamaker at the store would relay it to us if asked. The U.C.W. meeting was held last Thursday evening with a committee from Unit 1 in charge. Those taking part were: Mrs. Joyce Abra- ham (prayer) Mrs. Eleanor Sturman (scripture) Mrs. Phyllis Wray (Readings) and Mrs. Enid Belair (Topic). Reports were received from the various committees and from the treasurer. There was a comfortable balance on hand so a dona- tion was made to the board of stewards. " Meetings will be with- drawn during July and August but the ladies have accepted the challange and are preparing the church service for September 15. A highlight of the evening was the demonstration of flower arrangements by Mrs. Little of Little Britain. It proved very interesting and instructive. Meeting closed with lunch as usual. The Nodwells entertained Jean's longtime friend, Mrs. Doris Kalil of Ottawa on the week end. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Webb of Haliburton were guests at the B. Wanamaker home this week. Mrs. Clements spent Sun- day afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Harold Bayliss of Greenbank and in the even- ing had a call from Mr. and Mrs. Hooper of Port Perry. Wedding bells are rining for one of our local families. On Saturday Mrs. Violet Moon from Raglan had sup- per at the Tobin home and accompanied Mrs. Tobin, Mrs. Reg Abraham, Mrs. Ken and Janet Abraham to G2 WEN ke 3 NEW HOME? WHAT A FAMILY So CALL US NOW = WELL THOM SON Heating & Air Conditioning 985-3365 "Uxbridge for a shower at the Coxworths in honour of Sharon Don't look for garage ser- vice at Seagrave just now. The Thompson family have the Morley Bruces who by degrees are shifting to their new house. Bruce and her friend were home for the week . end. School is about "over for this year. Some of the teen- agers are starting summer news from some competition this week. The Bruce Carr family and also Mr. and Mrs. Ken Short were attending anni- versary services at Eden and some of our people were family Barron. Branton and Blair Beacock visited the S.S. birthday box. Our young people disap- pointed us and aren't taking the church service next week but Mr. Lawrence Evans of Uxbridge has consented to speak so church and S. S. will Miss Donna Two young fellows, Jay jobs. Calvin Nicholls is one of these. He is now in Florida with his cousin from Lindsay and is expected to work. The church session met on Friday evening at the home of Mrs. Boe to plan their service for July 7. Mr. Sinclair of Port Perry is their choice for speaker. Church services suffered moved to the Brampton interested in the decoration area. services at McNeil ceme- ¢, Another move concerns tery, Wick. both be held at the usual- L hours. In the afternoon the S. S. picnic will take place (weat- her permitting) at Poplar Park. It is scheduled to begin about 2 o'clock with races at 4 and supper at 5. Your lunch is all you'll need to bring. Tupperware on Wednes- day night ladies. Port Perry Intermediates win one game, drop one 'Port Perry Intermediates deteated: Greenwood Inter- mediates 9 to 1 on June 11th at Port Perry. Hurst, Gores- ki and Lawrence with two runs a piece were the big men for Port Perry. Law- rence -with a grand slam home run in the eighth inning was the big blow of the game. Annis and Pascoe had a total of eight strike outs between them. Goreski had a good game with a lot of help from the infield. On June 12, Port visited Greenwood with Green- wood winning two to one, Greenwood scoring two runs in the bottom of the ninth inning. McLeod scored the only run for Port Perry while McTaggert and Davis scored for Greenwood. WILDERNESS ADVENTURE CAMP for boys Hd Wl age 13 and up - ALL CANOEING, MOUNTAIN CLIMBING, FISHING. 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