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te SEV 8 TA Sb LT As SF EPEAT ES a y - i oe Fe 3 H LE Ga hy haat ak ts cad eh So Lf PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, April 9, 1980 -- 3 'Durham council still wrestling with budget ° (From page 1) Part of the reason for the share of the Durham levy increases has been the this year. application of new equaliza- The dramatic increases on factors worked out by these five municipalities are e provincial government. facing have been the centre The effect has been the five ¢ of a storm of controversy for AuiNeIPelites willbe paving the past several weeks, as wan hile e Sirham regional politicians from 5 » d Pickeri ava, these communities have Yoh 1c eIng wi been successful in blocking ote ho share of the final approval of the Region. °Y gel ood. ; al budget. In introducing the motion 3 [J [J > 2 y ( y LZ ! " ! ® : J | % Looks migh ty good! No better sign that spring is here and summer just around the corner than youngsters like this one ® slurping on their favorite flavour of ice cream. By the time this two-year old finished the cone, he was ice cream from ear to ear, but the smile on his face said it i was good and well worth the mess. last week to ask for a budget cut of $1 million, Uxbridge Mayor, Gary Herrema, said that the explanation about the new equalized factors is fine, but it really doesn't matter since the bottom line in 1980 is that some taxes will be too high. Scugog Mayor Jerry Taylor told council that he feels the budget "must get a second look, to show tax- payers and provincial government we are serious about making some cuts." Durham Region is hopeful that the provincial govern- ment will come up with - further grant money to ease the impact of the new equali- zation factors. If council is successful in trimming $1 million from the budget next week, the net effect will mean that the hike in Scugog's share of the Regional levy will go down by five per cent, to 11.3 per cent. However, that will still mean an increase of about $14 on an average house for regional tax purposes alone. But a budget cut of $1 million will mean that property owners in Oshawa, for example, will actually end up paying less Regional taxes this year than they did last year, by about two per cent. Pickering and Whitby property owners would also pay less for Regional taxes this year, if the $1 million cut is approved by council. DIRE WARNING -- Although the vote to try to trim $1 million out was unanimous last week, it was not done without some heat- ed debate at times. Oshawa councillor Bruce McArthur said any cuts in social services would be "unacceptable for me as a politician, and to my social conscience." He went on to charge that a cut in the contingency fund could result in a strike by regional employees. 'If the budget is cut, and we then can't meet union negotia- tions, the result will be a strike,"' he said. Jack Gartley, Durham's Commissioner of finance had words of warning for council, saying that a budget cut of $1 million this year will mean a financial squeeze next year resulting in tax hikes of 15 per cent in 1981. Although council went along with the request to seek a. $1 million budget reduction, members over- whelmingly voted down an amendment from Oshawa councillor Ed Kolodzie that $2 million by cut from the budget. Allan Dewar, another councillor from Oshawa laid . the blame for part of the tax municipal financing system "a mess." He mentioned conditional grants for certain depart- ments whereby Durham has to spend half in order to qualify. He also said the provincial government froze the unconditional grant structure at 1977 levels. He cited salary increases for the police department which were set by arbitration for the past four years, taking them out of the control of the Regional council. in effect, regional council had control over just a seven per cent increase in spending this year, well below the rate of inflation. Nevertheless, the combined impact of the spending hikes and the new equalized factors have been too much for the regional councillors from Scugog, Brock, Uxbridge, Newcastle and Ajax, and unless the $1 million budget cut is made April 16, it is a certainty that these councillors will vote against final approval of the increases on the provincial government, calling the Councillor Dewar said that budget. 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