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16- PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, December 16, 1997 "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" New projects will have to be put on hold while costs assessed: Moffatt From page 1 school funding. At the same time, however, grants from the province are reduced by $440,000. That cuts $124,000 from the township's revenues, and leaves local politicians scrambling to find a way to fill the gap. They're left, really, with just two options: raise taxes, or cut services. It's an especially bitter pill for municipalities, where successive cuts in provincial grants have made for two years of tricky budgeting. So far Scugog has managed to avoid high tax increases, massive cuts to services and significant staff layoffs, but Mayor Moffatt's left wondering now how long that atmo- sphere can be maintained. "At first blush it looks like we're going to be penal- 1zed for being efficient the last three years," he said. "I don't know where you could begin to think of cut- ting where we haven't already cut." 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