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Because Controller Paisley would not retract his twice repeated statement about Mr. McGivern‘s intelligence, Aldermen Robert Yuill and John Knox left the Monday afternoon council meeting in protest. A few insults later, borough Mayor Basil Hall managed to strike a conciliatory note appeasing both combatants and the two protesting absentee aldermen were reinâ€" stated in their seats. The issue? Council had been considering the proposed construction of outfall storm sewers on Hounslow Avenue and portions of Senlac Road under the leadership of Committee of the Whole Chairman McGivern. Controller Pailsey had requested a letter be included in the item for inâ€" formation. Mr. McGivern decreed it irrelevant, and that started the battle. The outcome of the hue and cry? The whole thing goes back to the Works and Traffic Committee for another look. Metro Library Board recently sponsored a meeting of area library board trustees to get their opinion on the need for a new Metro central reference library. It was agreed that one was urgently required, it should be near a transit line and located somewhere close to Yonge St. A final decision on the site for the $17,000,000 project is expected within a The department will employ 37 nursing attendants and three general duty senior hurses to provide care for 80 bed patients. Miss York, 1971 â€" 17 year old Elizabeth Muir, â€" left Toronto International Airport Sunday night on her way to York, England to take part in the 1900th anniversary festivities being celebrated there. Elizabeth was a special guest on the inaugural flight of BOAC‘s new 747 jet. She, her family, and members of York council were given a tour of the luxurious aircraft prior to its departure. on behalf of his Catholic Youth Organization at St. Philip Neri Church asking permission to close off Richard Clark Drive or Letâ€" chworth Crescent the afternoon of Sunday July 18 for a soap box derby. â€" The borough‘s traffic director looked over the area with Max and decided that neither of those streets could be closed for the Derby, but that Epsoms Downs Drive between Tumpane Street and Epic Lane would do nicely instead for the kid‘s derby. few months strokes will also involve the employment of additional staff. Metro Housing Commissioner Arthur Varcoe said among the 67 additional staff will be 15 additional general duty senior nurses to provide more adequate superâ€" vision and direction of nursing staff. The commissioner said recreational activities both in and outside Metro homes for the aged will also require four additional employees. They will work to develop both recreational and craft programs. North York council deferred until its next meeting a motion by Alderman Robert Yuill requesting the Metropolitan Toronto council to consider financing the Spadina Exâ€" pressway from Lawrence Avenue to Davenport Road during the next three years out of current tax funds. Also deferred until council next meets was a motion by Alderman Murray Chusid requesting Metro council to hold a meeting to authorize a plebiscite throughout Metro on whether or not the residents want the Expressway to be completed in accordance with the Ontario Municipal Board approved plan. York‘s Parks and Recreation department are sponsoring a Summertime Craft program for ladies. Creative stitchery and macrame are two aspects of the program which are so popular arrangements for additional classes have been made. New classes start August 11, from 7:30 p.m. til 9:30 p.m. The cost for eight lessons is $10 and preâ€"registration is required. Call Mrs. Meadows at the Parks and Recreation Department at 653â€"2700. York has received Metro approval to spend $15,000 on the construction of a sidewalk seven feet in width next to the existing curb on the south side of Lawrence Ave. W. from Gibson Ave. west to 693 west of Pine St. Metro Housing Department is increasing its staff by 67 to meet bed care and other needs of residents of Metro homes for the hurses to provide care for 80 bed patients. Rehabilitation of patients recovering from NEWS BRIEFS ""I will not withdraw it, he is stupid," an angry Irving Paisley hollered across North York‘s council table to a startled Alex McGivern. Volume 10, Number 31 Max Von Pelt wrote North York Council YOU ARE INVITED TO OUR NEW SHOWROOM ALL MODELS ON DISPLAY from ©1990 Fighting words 17 Deyber Avenue ~ Phone 247â€"6137 O Muungme NJ 1 wask Seum of duta n +++ +++ 44â€"+ 4+4+4+ +++ +++ +++ WOODWARD AVENUE North York may have shed its villain‘s cloak on Friday for a group of Woodward Avenue residents and York councillors, when the borough‘s Works and Traffic Committee agreed to consider the citizens‘ demands they pave the entire street. Woodward Avenue was torn up by North York last October to install collecting storm sewers. The boundary between York and North York runs down the middle of the street and North York installed the sewers 15 feet under York‘s half of the street. Originally North York had intended to repave the street with asphalt similar to that used on the other streets in their borough. However, residents on the York half of the street appeared before a May meeting of the York Works and Traffic Committee requesting the entire street be resurfaced with concrete. They left with the impression their wish had been met, until last Monday when they looked out their windows and discovered a North York bulldozer ripping up just half the street. Last Thursday the residents organized an onâ€"theâ€"street meeting with York and North York borough officials. Residents of Woodward Avenue were up in arms last week when they discovered the North York works department paving just half of their street instead of the entire street. Mayor Philip White, Controller James Trimbee, Alderman Lloyd Sainsbury chairman of the works committee, and Works Commissioner Colin MacDonald were all there surveying the dusty street and listening to the residents story. Howard Stonehouse, of Woodward Ave., told borough officials that residents of the street have been "eating dust" ‘"‘This is an explosive situation because people are duly and properly becoming Mr. Chusid said that people were ‘"locked in" because of their equity in their condominium apartâ€" ment. Council, however, acâ€" cepted a watered down motion â€" requesting the borough‘s planning board and Traffic, Fire and Legislation Committees to consider setting the conâ€" dominium standards to prevent higher maintenance costs to condominium owners. He and Ccontroller Mel Lastman had jointly moved that North York petition the Province to enact minimum standards of building, layout and financial maintenance programs for condominium development. "I can‘t vote for any more condominium â€" development in North York until some legislation controlling their inaintenance comes into being. I‘ll just be voting for the slums of the future," declared Alderman Murray Chusid to North York council Monday evening. We were told we would get the entire reet paved in concrete at the Works York residents caught Westonâ€"York Times for Controller Mel Lastman stated in a brief that because ‘"But this cost factor is no longer there if the owners after a few years are saddled with expensive repairs," he declared. Mr. Chusid quoted the report stating 52.6 per cent of the residents listed "quality of construction‘‘ as their top dislike condominiums and 25 per cent also complained about the maintenace of the buildings. â€" Mr. Chusid quoted the National Study of Conâ€" dominium Users (December 1970) sponsored by Central Mortgage and Housing which reported that people buy condominiums for two major reasons: it is the cheapest method to rise above position of tenant and they expect easy mainâ€" tenance. The Alderman stressed he was trying to enact legislation as a safeguard against future deterioration of the buildings, not as a criticism against the current state of the buildings. _ frustrated," continued Mr. Chusid, "Their dream has become a nightmare." "Heavy trucks are using the street now and it is obvious there is irregular settling *‘ he commented. Cliff Martens, one of the original residents of Woodward Avenue said the street was "perfectly paced" before the sewer conâ€" struction was started. ‘Now the road is cracking and slipping, ‘ he complained. Alderman Lloyd Sainsbury agreed with Mr. Martens assessment of the condition of the street. meeting," he said, "Now we are getting half a street." Mr. Stonehouse explained that the residents of the York side of the street had just finished paying $650 over 10 years last year in a local improvement tax for "quality streets." Gerald Dodds, 34, an air traffic conâ€" troller of Denison Rd., told the comâ€" mittee a month ago that a path along the river bank at the rear of his property has fallen in but some people still manage to get past "clutching on to a chain link fence for their lives‘ with a drop to the river behind them. The Metro Toronto and Region Conâ€" servation Authority‘s Executive Comâ€" mittee last week rejected a plea by a York homeowner for immediate help in halting erosion of his backyard which is located on the edge of a cliff 8 feet above the Humber River. He said he no longer allows his three daughters, aged one month to seven No help for York man Weston, Ontario, Thursday, July 15, 1971 Controller Lastman also said that he had received a letter from a flooring conâ€" tractor who said many developers specify the cheapest materials possible be used in constructing and finishing a project. Add to that the current conâ€" ‘‘The developer doesn‘t care who buys from him â€" just as long as the units get sold. He could fill them with irresponsible people,"" he stated. Mr. Lastman called for minimum _ standards of construction _ materials, clause obliging builders to guarantee maintenaace of the building for 10 years minimum , standards of cleanliness and repairs and also a slow down of conâ€" dominium construction within the borough. According to Controller Lastman, the developer ‘"holds all the cards". the provincial government has encouraged the development _ of _ conâ€" dominiums, they should be taking more responsibility in protecting the buying of the units and the communities in which they exist. E.F. Sutter, the authority‘s flood control administrator told last week‘s committee meeting that it will cost at least $300,000 to stop the erosion for the benefit of virtually one property owner. He said that long term plans for dealing with river bank erosion control throughout Metro are now being worked out at the municipal and provincial level but the Dodds property is a low priority. Mrs. Florence Gell, a citizen member of the committee said the Borough of York should build a fence to stop people using the path near the fallenâ€"in spot. She added: ‘"Children have walked along the top of this slope for years. years, to play in his backyard without Mayor White teed up a meeting bet$§en himself, Mr. MacDonald and the North York officials on Friday to discuss this situation. Mr. White reports that the North York people agree the citizens of Woodward Avenue "have just cause for their concern‘‘ and they have agreed to reconsider the matter. Commissioner of Works Colin MacDonald however, warns that if the citizens demands are met, the residents will be denied access to their street for a period of 10 days when the pavement is being laid down curb to curb. Controller James Trimbee stated it would cost North York only $12,000 more to pave the entire street to avoid this cracking. North York had budgeted $40,000 for the repairs. in middle ‘"This is a lot of tripe," exclaimed Alderman Joe Gould, "It‘s the most out standing case of using the council floor for something not in the best interest of the taxpayers." "I take serious objection to this. You‘ve been saying condominium owners are a bunch of damn pigs. I want a concrete example of what‘s wrong now. You‘ve given no evidence on this," exclaimed Mr. Sutherland. ‘"‘They are like any suburban development. A home has to be maintained too," added Alderman John Knox. dominium glut on the market, and according to Mr. Lastman, condominium owners get "suckered in by the developers, the management company, and even his own neighbours." "You‘re taking a scare approach,‘"‘ Alderman William Sutherland chastised Mr. Lastman, ‘‘There are many good developments right now in the borough where the residents have their own committees to run the buildings." Caroline Corimisso, Miss Canada 1970, assists North York Controllér Irving Paisiey wring out his tie following his dip in Mitchell Field Pool. Mr. Paisiey dove into the water to help North York Park and Recreation officials in their desnonstrations of water safety equipment. The 280 linesmen and office workers represented by Local 11, Canadian Union of Public Employees had been on strike since June 28 after their negotiators failed to reach agreement on a new wage and fringe benefits package. John Murphy, publicity chairman of Local 11 said the union won pension plan imâ€" provements which will equate members with supervisors, a 7% per cent pay increase retroactive to April 1 and a further 7 per cent hike next April. Some members of the Executive Comâ€" mittee feel that the Orderâ€"inâ€"Council received recently from the provincial cabinet ordering the halt in construction of the Spadina Expressway can be interpreted to allow for its construction to St. Clair Avenue West with the $10 million left in the original expressway fund. North York Hydro employees voted 198 to 48 last week to ratify a new contract with management which was hammered out with the help of William Dickie, chief conciliation officer for the Ontario Department of Labor. White tells Metro The provincial government‘s Orderâ€"Inâ€" Council halted all additional spending on the expressway, exclusive of the $10,000,000 already in Metro‘s hands. At its special council meeting on the Spadina issue held last week , York council had passed a motion calling for Metro to pay $200,000 to restore these homes to "decent housing standards". This sum is left over after the construction of the route to Lawrence Avenue and the aquisition of most of the property along the original full route. Mayor White had also asked Metro Executive to consider the fate of the 175 homes still on the expressway route. These homes, in the Cedarvale area, have been expropriated and York council states that 93 of them have been allowed to deteriorate to "‘deplorable conditions‘" with Metro as landlord . Metro Chairman Ab Campbell stated he was sorry Metro could not reach a decision on what to do with the houses at this time. ‘‘We have to decide what we can do about the expressway," he said, "I realize this isn‘t fair to York." Mr. Campbell did promise to get around to the problem of the homes in due course. North York strike ends York Mayor Philip White declared to the Metro Executive Committee last week that Metro can expect "a minor citizen revolution‘"‘ if it decides to proceed with the construction of the Spadina Expressway south toward Bathurst Street and St. Clair Avenue. Revolution if Spadina goes However he declared that Metro‘s postâ€" ponement of a decision on the homes was "a waste of taxpayers‘ money‘‘. Mr. White explained that the committee had delayed any decision on the fate of the Cedarvale homes pending the report from the newly formed joint Technical Tranâ€" sportation Committee which will be studying the possiblity of a rapid transit system. ‘‘Even if these homes are eventually demolished to make way for a rapid transit route, it will be two years before this hapâ€" pens.‘" he stated. In an interview, Mayor White deplored what he termed the ‘"long distance" method of communication between Metro Executive and the Ontario cabinet on this vital issue. This committee is expected to announce the results of their discussions sometime in August. Mr. White said there is a good possibility the Cedarvale homes would be in the route of the proposed rapid transit lines. > ‘‘We are only getting threads of bare inâ€" formation," he said, ‘"This is proven by all the different interpretations going around on the Ordersâ€"inâ€"Council." ‘‘Metro had an obligation to York to bring these homes up to standard," the Mayor continued. "This work should have been approved." Mr. White also requested a meeting between himself, Premier William Davis, Provincial Treasurer Darcy McKeough, Attourney General Allan Lawrence and Municipal Affairs Minister Dalton Bales to discuss the Spadina issue. Metro Executive turned down this request as premature as they have just formed a committee to interpret the provincial govenment‘s Orderâ€"inâ€"Council. He added that a journeyman linesman who got $4.63 an hour under the old contract will now receive $4.99 an hour and $5.34 next year. This will bring the average wages for a linesmen from $179.48 to $213.60 for a 40â€" hour week. The employees ratified the new contract proposals at a mass meeting held at Pineway Public School, Willowdale. Murphy said the union plans to continue its demands for a provincial inquiry into charges of "nepotism‘ against Hydro and borough officials. The union claims that sons of officials are being hired for summer work by Hydro while other youths are unable to find work. SINGLE COPY 10 CENTS