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" * Council wants shorter meetings ~£- 7 a Ld & rs Rs &e A « Scugog council meetings should be shorter and a little more business like in the future, if council pays atten- tion to its own advice. During a discussion on how to improve the efficiency of their meetings, all council- lors agreed that more atten- tion should be paid to a bylaw stating that. meetings must end by 11 p.m. Only a motion of council can pro- long a meeting. Mayor Lawrence Mal- colm asked each council lor to make suggestions on how meetings could be im- proved after receiving a report from the clerk stating that several councillors felt there was room for improve- ment in the meetings. - "I think what really brought this to a head was a article in the Port Perry Star by Bruce Stewart," the mayor said. - Coun, Neil Hunter said that when the meetings go on too long, he sometimes won- ders the next morning why he had been so dgreeable when some item was brought up late the night before. Coun. Bob Kenny said he would like to see the 11 p.m. bylaw adhered to 'a little closer" and that he didn't like council to hear delega- tions that 'aren't on the agenda. To get on the agen-- da, a delegation must inform the clerk prior to the meeting that it plans to attend. Coun. Bob Brinkman said Quick action on debentures Its not very often regional council gets results as fast as it did last Wednesday when it issued debentures for $2,360,000. Included in this amount was a 5 year, $20,000 deben- ture for the former village of Port Perry. Finance Commissioner J.L. Gartley had received advice for the region's financial experts that Wednesday was a good day to go to market with the debenture as long as it was done early in the day. Word had been received that London and Torcnto planned to float large deben- tures later that day and that the bond market wouldn't be as good for a couple of weeks after that. So a special meeting of the finance committee was called before the regular Durham regional council meeting. Approval was given by the committee and then council was asked to 4 pre- empt its regular business to deal with the debentures. After some protests about it being rushed through approval was given and the region's financial experts were given the word to put the debenture on the market. The debentures were com- pletely sold by the time council had. finished for the day and Durham beat London and Toronto market. The debentures were to pay for projects that former municipalities undertook before regional govern- ment came into existence. Whitby Mayor Desmond Newmand asked if the experts expected the prime interést rate to drop and said i they did, it might be better rot to pay 11.3 and 11.4 per cent interest over 20 years like some of the proposed bonds. that its an awful long day from six in the morning to 11 at night and that he thought council could operate more efficiently at earlier hours. Coun. Don Frew agreed that delegations should inform the clerk in advance and suggested that delega- tions be restricted to five or six people. He said he was the only councillor that wasn't informed before hand when a Cartwright delega- tion appeared before council some weeks ago. Mr. Malcolm said he was willing to listen to any sug- gestions and had only been running the meetings loosely because this council was a amalgatjon:of four councils. Mr. Malcolm also said all councillors were gentlemen and he had no trouble keep- ing order. - ' (REE eth DL "to set 3 Haim Ph EEE i Bal as 3 YP ARE TA SOR OR CIT TG | Coun. Reg Rpse said he didn't feel Scugog was ready up comipittees of council yet. He syid many larger municipalities have committees to do' part of the work. f Council listened to its own ady ice last night as the meeting was one of the shortest in weeks ending at 9:45 p.m. Meetings begin at , 7:30 p.m. More services for seniors If Durham's social services commissioner has his{ way, Durham's senior citizens will get better treat- ment than most others in the province. In a report to the social services cominittee, Doug Johns suggests-a new home for the elderly be construc- ted in east Ottawa to acomm- odate 180 people, 140 of whom live in Oshawa or Bowmanville. MILEAGE ONE YEAR © UNLIMITED NEW CAR Other suggestions include a day care program for senior citizens who live at home but want to spend part of the day at the centre. 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Reg Rose that they wouldn't know any more next week, than they know this week; council postponed a decision on "Cartwright garbage collection for one more week. "We are going to face this same dilemma week after week," Mr. Rose said. Coun. Don Frew said that next week a group will he coming to council with a petition about Cartwright garbage collection and after that council would have some idea what areas wan- ted garbage collection." The contract to pick up garbage for the whole town- ship expires on November' 1 and council decided a month WARRANTY AND SERVICE ~ poLcY ago to end all Cartwright garbage _ collection except along the lake. Clerk Neil Brodie repor- ted that, council would have to either add garbage collec- tion to the mill rate or else send individual bills monthly. Mr. Brodie said a check had been made with the provincial government - and as he understood it, council could not add a specific charge for garbage collec- tion to each tax-bill. 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