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i ~ or Hall said. "Nobody is ZA Family Tradition for 125 Years" Rae's announcement criticized as transfer payments set at 1% By Scott Anderson The Township of Scugog will have to look for creative ways to save money, without drastically affecting services, says Mayor Howard Hall. "It's going to be a tough year for Sc Mayor Hall said following Pre- mier Bob Rae's' announcement concerning transfer payments. Last Tuesday Premier Rae announced that transfer pay- 'ments paid out to the munici- palities in the next three years would be one per c¢ént for 1992 so two per cent for 1993 and 4. : 3 This amounts to the' ysual . unconditional grant money, plus an'additional $932,000". in one per cent. Conditional grant money for specific projects are yet to be announced. "It's a tough situation," May- going to t away without feeling the ef- ects of it." Mayor Hall says the effects will be a lot mére devastating for the smaller municipalities with smaller workforces. He said even if layoffs were intro- duced, they wouldn't make an "appreciable difference." Instead of layoffs other cost- cutting measures must be intro- duced into the township to shave costs. Mayor Hall says overtime hours is one area that could be cut back as it is the eas- iest to cut. But he says people will suffer as "the paperwork won't get done as quickly." One area which won't be af- fected too drastically is the : roads department. Mayor Hall LL or a 7 g, but we will survive," says "we are too dependent on roads to make cuts." Mayor Hall said he was disap- pointed by the premiers an- nouncement last week. He felt the premier could have devised more of a plan to help the prov- ince cope during the recession. The premier would have been better to announce ways to: stimulate the economy, than to attempt to control the increase in the deficit, he said. 'The Township of Scugog's budget will be prepared by mid- March. Meanwhile, Mayor Hall says each department will have to look at ways to cut costs. He fears one of the ways to cut costs will be a reduction in services of- fered to the citizens. "I don't see how we can contin- ue to give the services we have with the increase of this type in unconditional grants," he said. "We can't keep going to the well." Dave Brown, administrator at Community Memorial Hospi- tal in Port Perry, says it will be difficult to assess the effect of the announcement until a hos- pital budget is prepared. He did say "it's going to be tough times ahead," however. Mr. Brown is not pleased with the one per cent increase in transfer payments granted to the province's hospitals, but he understands "the dilemma." Although he said it was diffi- cult to assess the affects until af- ter the budget was prepared, he did say admistration would do its best to prevent a cut back in services. "Patient care is not going to be jeopardized," he said. Mr. Brown says it is the opin- ion of the Ontario Medical Asso- ciation that the minimal trans- fer payments to Ontario hospitals is.an attempt by the government to reduce acute care across the province by 8,000 beds. He doesn't think "any commu- nity will escape" the effects of this cut back. v Mr. Brown said the an- nouncement will not have any impact on the hospital's planned expansion, however. Hesaiditis on schedule. The hospital is expected to prepare a budget shortly. Its fis- cal year runs from April, 1992 to March, 1993. Insurance Accepted Please recycle this newspaper PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, January 28, 1992 -21 Port Perry District guides, brownies, pathfinders and S will be out In full force beginning Feb. 8 selling Girl Guide Cookies. Pictured are clockwise from bottom Kristy Ashton, " spark, Angela Taylor, brownie, Kelly Corneal, guide and sitting Melissa Dawson, pathfinder. . I Forder-Parks Insurance Brokers Inc. Personal attention to all of your general insarnance needs. 34 Water Street, Port Perry, Ontario LL 1J2 985-8471 - SE RN LL = =~ One Bucket of Chicken from Kentucky Fried Chicken