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on fit Every time we deprive the people of North York any opportunity to voice their opinion at the polls, we ask for disinterested people - and this apathy would be mirrored in the comfort of any "appointed" position. Only while the people have a chance of a moment of truth can any representative of the Continued from Page 4 are being snuffed out by bureaucracy. Surely this last instage of democratic rule can be maintained in the fast growing inhuman machinery of local government Upon incorporation ot I municipality, the first adieu] appointed ll the munch-[Clerk The first duty d the Clerk in to not the time and place tor the maximum of candid-m Ind to conduct elections tor a Cmncil which will govern the municipality. Council, when elected, is responsible for establishing policy for the administration of the mur_ticipftlitp, The Clerk, pursuant to the Municipal Act, is the Returning Officer. He is responsible for the preparation at the voters' lists, which in the Borough of York prior to the last election contained the names of 81,547 persons eligible to vote. The appointments of 240 deputy returning officers. MO poll clerks and a number of special assistants were required for the purpose of receiving votes, tabulating results and declaring candidates elected. The cost of the election in the borough amounted to ap- proximately $60,000. This is one important reason every citizen should exercise his franchise. The Clerk has statutory duties established by the Municipal Act They are as follows: - To truly record in a book, without note or comment, all resolutions, decisions and other proceedings of Council; - If required by any member present, to record the name and vote of every member voting on any matter or question; - To keep the books. records and accounts of the Council; - To preserve and file all accounts acted upon by the Council; - __, - To keep in his office or in the place appointed for that purpose the originals of all by-laws and of all minutes of the proceedings of the Council; -To perform such other duties as may be assigned to him by Council. proceedings of the One of the major ning, Legal and other Council; departmental projects departments in the __ To perform such presently underwayisthe municipality. other duties as may be examination of 17,951 by- assigned to him by laws of the former The Clerk's Depart- Council. Township of York and ment strives to perform No matter how hard we 2,959 by-laws of the for- the above duties ef- try to control it, gover- merTownofWeston. This ficiently, to assist the ning naturally becomes involves listing the by- public. and to PFOYlde complicated. Today's laws and cross-indexing accurate information in a governments provide too the subjects contained in courteous manner to the many services and them. On completion, citizens of the com- perform too many tasks each department head munity. This is the second in a series of articles written by York Borough's department heads explaining how their departments work. This week, Borough Clerk, H.G. Courtman, who has served York for 35 years and is the sixth Clerk since the in- corporation of the municipality 120 years ago, tells about the role of one of the oldest departments in municipal government. Thanks Folks H.G. Courtman: Clerk's duties are many BROOKBANKS PAINT t, WALLPAPER It's been a pleasure serving the [maple of Westun and area. After 25 years of sacrum ful business we can retire with pleasant memories of our association. IF I CAN " OF ANY HELP WITH YOUR PRESENT INTERIOR DECORATING NEEDS PLEASE CALL ME AT " IELFIELD ROAD, REXDALE. Committee must be erected Guest eolurnrtirt, H.G. Courtunn, lay: the Clerk’s Depart- ment printed nearly 1% million pages of minutes, records, and other Intonation last year. people run scared. Politicians should be scared, should have a constant fear M, and respect for, tle wishes of the electorate and should be able to operate fully in this atmosphere of interested fear. The Clerk, as Division Registrar, is responsible tor recording all births and deaths in the municipality. It is gratifying to note that in 1970, there were 4,618 births as opposed to 1,326 dentin. One of the more pleasant duties was to issue 600 marriage licenses. The Clerk, as Lottery Licensing Officer for the borough, is also responsible tor issuing .Jottery and bingo licen- During 1970 this its. volved preparing agendas and recording minutes for 26 Council meetings, 28 Board of Control meetings, 97 standing committee meetings, and several meetings of other boards and committees. The preparation of agendas, copies of minutes, reports, and correspondence resulting from the above meetings required the printing of 1,400,000 pages. to remain simple. The Clerk's Department helps simplify matters on the municipal level. It acts as a clearing house for many government operations. Pleaée know that my ',ll.R.,q,ll,., GOOD RICH UPHOLSTERY S-l"'-""?, 24 SCARLETT no. 767-8005 UPHOLSTERY 73' h 4 ' _ a V ' h _' It 'c , wl H.‘ I 'r--"" . " O - I.-, For Free Estimates Call: _/Sat. Night-Weekends767-8005 BUDGET TERMS CAN BE ARRANGED Memo" of Bauer Buslness Bureau will be forwarded a book copy and thus will be in a position to assist the public more speedily. The assessment rolls which detail ownership, tenancy and value (for tax purposes) of all properties in the Borough are returned annually to the Clerk. All appeals are prams and it is the responsibility of the Clerk to alter the assessment rolls in accordance with the decisions of the Assessment Review Court and the County Judge. Community Association endorse this stand, and will vote no on any proposal to abandon any part of the present democratic system. Another responsibility of the Clerk is receiving petitions for local im- provements and upon Couneil's instructions making the necessary applications to the On- tario Municipal Board for authorization and financing of any works. A major responsibility is processing and documentation of all rezoning applications to the Ontario Municipal Board. In this regard, close liaison. must be maintained with Plan- ning, Legal and other departments in the municipality. -Remodel Yours very truly, John H. Smith, Willowdale. Rebuild -- Recover OFF TILL END - OF APRIL METRO BRIEFS “it's time a few chickens came home to roost," the controller said. Mr. Godrey, as chairman of Metro Social Services Committee, said Metro's proposed 875,000,000 welfare budget for the year may not be enough. Mr. Godfrey said there are imtieations that the proposed budget may have to be raised by another $5,000,000 to $10,000,000 to meet the unemployment problem this year. He said the federal government should assume the full cost of welfare if it is going to continue with a policy that encourages ‘unemployment while trying knight inflation. North York Controller Paul Godfrey told Metro Council last week that the women: of unemployment in Metro Toronto belongs on the doorstep of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. More police on foot patrol was the suggestion from York Mayor Philip White last week to Metro police department officials. The controller said he intends to state his views to Mr. Trudeau and "if he doesn't like it he can lump it." Mr. Godfrey said it was about time someone spoke bluntly to the prime minister. “I am sick and tired of his arrogant at- titude," Mr. Godfrey said. The controller said elected representatives should forget any idea of sweet talking their way out of the unemployment problem. He said only federal aid will solve the problem for Metro Toronto. The mayor complained that with police officers riding around in automobiles the police department was not providing as close a supervision of neigh- borhoods as it might +++ Some civic elected repre- sentatives said last week that York and East York "We put the foot patrols where we can but its a cost problem," Police Chief Harold Adamson said The chief said the department would try and put more policemen on the beat. +++ York Mayor Philip White asked why Metro police department eouldn't hire police officers under five feet eight inches in height. Metro police commission chairman Judge Charles Bick, told Mr. White, that the minimum height level was set by the province. "We used to try and em- ploy police officers who were taller than five feet eight inches," Mr. Bick told the York mayor at a Metro executive committee meeting. "Well I would think a police officer who was an expert at karate could take Not enough caps on beat Take advantage of an: . LOW DOWN PAYMENT 0 INSTALLATION IN JANUARY . NO FURTHER PAYMENTS TILL APRIL '71 Godfrey blames Trudeau for Toronto unemployment AIR TREATMENT SYSTEMS 781-7] I I Forvnrrl looking people will bee-use. right now, no one meme to um " candlllonlm at any prim. We have I big supply at hand-new Mnemp cent-l home " con- dllloners in our "rel-aux And good ttteCh.ttles with time on their una. Vibe buyers who Know that slnllm summer Ive-cm In on the way. will mun - and SAVE, They know that now in the beat time to give when, end their tnrnilieg the 1mteritx M year-round comfort and ole-num- AIR CONDITIONING at a time like this? - Who in the world would think of "tret-ere-i" Atrt__eqrmnte "o-Ai-m-tttme" mu accept more Onurio mum Corpondon public The representative: were from Scarborough which now accommodate. 29 per cent a! all OHC haulng in Metro Toronto. York has a little over four per cent of all OHC housing in Metro and East York a little over one per cent Total North York has 22 per cent of all OHC housing in Metro Toronto which amounts to about 5,812 housing units. York has 575 housing units under OHC manage- ment, 326 under construction and 205 under development. North York has 3,902 housing units under OHC mana- gement, Mil under con- struction and 1,070 under development OHC has over 26,000 housing units in use, under construction or planned in Metro. +++ Metro Council will apply to the province for authority to remove the legislative limit of $50,000 a year in spending on reception or enter- tainment of persons of distinction or on the celebration of events of national or international interest or tor travel of council members and Metro officials beyond the limits of Metro Toronto. Metro Chairman Albert Campbell said Metro has $12,000 left from the $50,000 allocated last year. mmber of DEC units oc- cupied or under development in York is 1,106. care of himself if he was below the minimum height level," Mr. White said. Metro police were givena $55,000,000 budget to fight crime this year. The crime rate was up 15 per cent last year and the department intends to put 200 more police officers and 50 more York Mayor Philip White no? AVENUE an. o- an» " Mi) a'd'g'heo.%ra,'fa "b4131 mm non: nouns; I an. a I p... to...“ may. CHERRY WINE BASE FERMENTATION LOCKS COMPARE THESE REGULAR LOW WINE-ART PRICES CROWN CAPS waves 5 FRENCH RED GRAPEcancomm. $7 NOIROT EXTRACT WINEMAKERS EXPERT ADVICE ALWAYS AVAILABLE CLIMATE ENGINEERED BY in appointed to the grounds and building committee at the Canadian National Exhibition Association He he: also been named to the poultry and pet stock committee at the CNE and appointed vicoclnlrman d the Young Canada Building at the exhibition. +++ Metro’s civil defense organization will consider theproblem of riot control A few years ago the problem was civil defense in the event of nuclear warfare on a national scale. CHRYSLEB Metro Commissioner John Pllard in charge of Metro's Emergency Services Department said last week given full study by Canada's national EMO office and that Metro's EMO can ex- pect to take part in discussion, planning and possibly some training related to riot control. unit riot control is being police cars into service, Police Chief Harold Adamson confirmed that the North York area has had the largest increase of theft and break and enter offenses recently. "Can't elected municipal representatives do anything about this?" asked Mr. White. mew CANADA no Metro's 12 member civil defense staff will continue, however, to maintain an emergency radio communi- cation system and update civil defense planning Four years ago Metro's civil defense staff was three times what it is today and the expenditure five times as much as the' $225,000 budgeted this year. Out of the $225,000 for civil defense this year only $22,000 will come from the civic budget. The rest is financed by the federal government. "The problem of nuclear war doesn't have the same stress today as it used to," Mr. u" " tyrs " " Pollard explained. Civil defame staff is more con- cerned with problems relating to natural disasters such as aircraft disasters, fire, explosion and flood. +++ North York Controller Paul Hunt won approval of Metro Council last week for the establishment of a special committee that will consider the creation of a Metro Toronto Historical It is" expected that Mr. T, t E“? Hunt will represent North TV r ‘ York on the committee and _ 4.. Controller Douglas Saunders will represent York. BEN NY’S SAVE DIS . ' 763-3891 In our low, f Authority. TRADEMARK FURNITURE LTD. 2565 DUNDAS ST. W. (at Pacific)‘ METRO LICENSE NO. 1352 UP T05. 0/ ON ALL STOCK AND FIXTURES The authority would coordinate the preservation of historic [windings and sites in the Metro area. 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