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~Whîtby Tecost of education bas syrceted as illustrated by the siebeincreasein the school mill rate for'both the public, and separate elementary schoois'. The increase to a residential taxpayer in Brooklin and the. ru ral area will be 6.7 . muaI for the public schooi supporter and 8J7 mua 'for .the separate school supporter. TheTreasurer!s Department statesthe"totai mili rates for' Whitby represent a 3.7'1 percent 'increase for residential properties o! Public sehool support or approimateiy $29.50 on the waverage house. Foi Separate Schooi supporters their mili rate bas increased by.4.9 percent or $39.50 on the average house. For the Brooklin or rural area,. it la necessary to add an additional $4 per house in'each category. "The Town's mill rate went up zero'mils.a-nd the Region's rate went up .5 milla but the Sehool rate reaiiy went up,uI Mayor Jim Gartshore said. "The'School rate is going.up"' and with hands indicatingthe skies, he stated "It really is rocketing up there." "We,, the Council and Finance Committee did our best to keep the mili rate and taxes for the Town at a reasonabie level sai d Mayor Jlm. Gartshore. >"Aiong cornes the Region of Durham"s mil rate and the miii rate for Education. The Region's rate is flot too bad'it has increased some oveërlast yea*r«but the Sehool rate has' taken «a hefty ike and it ail means an increase on the taxpayers' jbudget." The Operations Commîttee received the treasurer's report on the1979 tax ratesfor the Regional Municipality of Durham end the Boards, ofEducation, iast week.« The report presented to the^ Opérations Comzittee of Council by Town1Treasurer Fox'bes McEwenÙ, jointê«6t'thàt thé Tôwn of Whitby annuaily receives the requisitions from the Regionai Muncipality of Durham and the two Boards o! Education for the Town's share of the funds required to operate the Region and the Sehocis. It is niecessary for the municipaiity.to raîse taxes on behaîf o! the Region and the two Schooi Boards. Mr. McEwen's, report states, "the Regional Municipality of Durham has requested for the year 1979, an amount of $2,189,791. This amount is increased over the 1978. ievei by $202,627 og 10.2 per cent." The report continued that in order to raise the required amount of money, using the Town's existing assessment base, the tax rate for residential purposes increased by 1.2 Imils from 27.5 to 28.7 mils. The report pointed out to the Council that in.1974, the Town o! Whitby created a reserve to heip offset anticipated increase in the Regional rate in future years. The Treasurer recommended that an amount of $17,494 be taken from this reserve and applied to this year's tax rate, reducing the rate by an additionai .2 mils for residential purposes. By means of combining the over-ievy from previous years and-the use of the reserve fund, the Treasurer's Department is anticipating reducing the funding requirement of the Regioni by $45;494, a non recurring item which wiil automatically appear for calculation purposes- on the 1980 miii rate. The report stated that based, on the average assessment for residentiai purposes of $5,000 per unit, "a one-mill increase would'resultin an-increase, to the average, taxpayer of $5,per unit. -The Town ýofWhitby has been very fortunate in the year 1979, using its enlargedA.ax. base, to convert a, 10.2 percen.t i'reaâé in expedtr.t :i1 se éifevy,;saïd The second tax rate which affects ail taxpayers equally in the Town of Whitby is the tax rate passed for Secondary Schooi purposes. The Durham Board. o! Education has requested a le4y of $2,503,'780 for 1979, an increase of $256,654 or 11.4 percent. The Treasurer's report states, based on theilevy, the Town o! Whitby mnust- increase its mii'1 rate for Secondary School purpose s from 32.6 milîs tg 34. milis an increase of 2 milis for residential purses and from 36.2 mills to 38.4 miils an increase of 2.2 milis for commercial and industrial purposes. This increase in mil rate will reflect an, average increase of $10 per residentiai unit on the 1979,,tax 'notice.. The supporters of the Public Schooi system wiil share a budget for elementary school purposes of $2,619,875 in the year 1979. This is an increase o! $348,560 of 15.3 percent which wili require an increas e in the Whitby taxpayer's miii rate of 2.9 mils from a 1978 level of 37.4 mils to 40.3 mils i 1979 for residential purposes. There will be an increase of 3.2 mils fromn 41.6 mils in 1978 to 44.8 mils i 1979 for the commercial and industrial taxpayers. The 2.9 miil increase for public schooi supporter- for the residential rate based on the average assessment of $5,000 la $14.50 per househoid. The Separate School Supporters face an increase in their Schooi Budget of $60,605. an increase of .23.7 percent i the expenditure for the, current year. The Separate School*Board budget for 1979 is set at $316,524. The increased epedture wil resuit in'an'increase o! 4.9 Cont'd on P. 2 Housin-gdecision deferred The Ontario Municipal Board, hearing the appeal of the Interfaith Homes deve- lopers for the development o! Manning Mews a Senior Citi- zens' residence in the Corri- dor Area, bas reserved its The legai firm o! Joyce and Goodaire, Whitby, said the Board would be notifying the participants in the appeal case by writing. The firm represented the 30 residents in the Manning Road area where the West- minister United Church is located. There were, 32 home- owners within the 400-foot limit of the proposed location for the Manning Mews, and out o! these 30 home owners o bjected to the change o! zoning from iow density re- sidential to medium density residential. They felt that'the location "is very wrong for Senior Citizens" on the grounds that it is too far away from any shopping facilities (more than a mile to K-Mlart the nearest Shopping ares) and they are isolated !romn medi- cal services when neededt. There is no bus or trans- portation servce available for the senior citizens who do flot drive or own their own cars. Some o! the residents i the Corridor Area stated, the new apartment building now under construction just north o! Cherney's on Dundas Street east of Thickson Road is a much better location for a senior citizens residence than-the proposed Manning Mews. This new apartment building is adjacent to shop- ping facilities and other services. When the Interfaith Homes developers appeared before the Whitby Planning Depart- ment and the Regionai Plan- ning Department the project was turned down by both the municipal and regional Authorities. This resulted in the develo- per making an appeal hi, the Ontario Municipal Board requesting that the Inter- faith Homes Development be permitted to proceed with their plans. Five days for placing ties UJP, ýUP [N 11EAIR! A young competitor practices a handstand before going into competition at the Ontario Gyznnasics- Federation's provincial. championships- held in tfthe Iroquois Park Arena i WhitbY. last'weekend. Gynasts from acroass the province converged on Whitby, for this imaportant mneet. Free Press Photo by Brian Winter "Where there la risk hi human life by possible de- railinent o! trains a short custodial sentence is required," said Provincial Court Judge Norman Ed- mondson as he sentenced Harry Bradlley Clemnienson, 16, of 225 Rosedale Drive, and Kevin Donnelly, 16 or l01 Dovedale Drive, to five days i jail on the charge o! obstructing the Canadian Pacific Railway mainline. .Clemmenson last Decem- ber 6 placed a pile o! ties on the railway track and Don- nelly on December 7 and 9 also placed a number o! railway ties on the track near where the C.P.R.'over- pass crosses Dundas Street East, the court was. told. Prier hi passing sentence, Judge Edmondson said: "these are most serious charges involving damage hi property, indeed substantial damage to public property." The two youths had pleaded guilty: Clemnienson hi five charges o! public mischief and one charge o! doing mischie! hi private property and Donneily to four charges o! public mis- chief and one charge o! miachief te private property. "It is indeed a most seri- ous charge; involving the placing of railway ties on tracks of the Canadian Paci- fic Railway with the view hi being struck. It involved a great risk to, human life; the number o!f ies put on the tracks might have caused derailment o! a ýtrain," said Judge Edmondson. "It is evident that you each re- quire probation service," he said. "Because of the dam- age you caused hi public property and due to age, restitution o! a kind can be done by being placed on a community services sentence. It must be such a community sentence that you wull realize the serious- ness o! the charges, parti- cularly in relation hi the possible derailinent o! a train." In addition hi the f1ve days in jail on the charge o! public mîschief, Cleminenson and Donnelly were each placed on 18 months' probation and each, are hi do 100 heurs 'of Co'nt'd on P. 2 R)E)S)