WHITBY FRIEE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCIH 1, 1981, PAGE 3 Whitby seeks one more councillor Durham Regional Council will consider a request from the towns of Whitby and Ajax to increase their representation by one mem- ber each on that body. At its meeting last week, regional council referred the request for study to its management committee. Both municipalities have been asking for the ad- ditional member of council for some time claiming that for their respective populations, they are under represented. Whitby politicians have The fight for the develop- ment of Port Whitby will be launched on "all fronts," according to a spokesman for area residents. "We're not going to stop being aggravated," Henry Perry said last week. "We've been paying taxes regularly. I hope our sewer money doesn't go somewhere else." Perry was referring to a recent decision by Durham Regional Council to defer construction of the second phase of the Pringle Creek- Corbett Creek Diversion Sewer until next year. He said that the residents will not be happy until the new sewer is constructed and that the recent sewerage back-up problems have not been an act of God. Even though the sewer won't be constructed Perry said work must be done on other public property in the Port. He claims that residents were told by the Town of Whitby that the sidewalks in front of their homes won't be fixed because of the expec- ted sewer construction. "Residents find that they can't shovel snow off a broken sidewalk," Perry added. "Also, snow plows throw snow onto most of the sidewalks on Dufferin Street." He also claimed that the grass on public property is not regularly cut and the "people bring their dogs to the park for use as a relief centre." Residents of the area have also complained that Front Street is blocked off by a chain. "How can you close off a road by gate and lock? Is this not a road?" Perry said. Scout sale On Saturday, March 14 and Saturday, April 4, the Sixth Whitby Boy Scouts will hold a door-to-door fertilizer sale. Those buying fertilizer will get delivery on April 14. The event is being held to raise money to send the boys to the Canadian Jamboree later this year. said that this community's population is the same as that of the Town of Newcastle which has four members of regional coun- cil. At the present time, Whit- by is represented by Mayor Bob Attersley and Regional Councillors Tom Edwards and Gerry Emm. Newcastle's delegation is made up of Mayor Garnet Rickard and three other councillors. Newcastle's population is 32,000 while Whitby's is 33,000. He also charges that trucks park on the south side of the Brock Street CNR overpass despite the no parking signs in the area. The dust that they raise on Charles Street is another of Perry's issues. In addition to road arid sidewalk improvement, the residents are also deman- ding that improvements be made to the scout hall. Ajax is represented by Mayor Bill McLean and one councillor and they serve a population of 27,000. Edwards said last week that the additional Whitby councillor was needed in or- der to balance the large Oshawa delegation. "There is obviously a need to balance out the il person contingent from Oshawa," he said adding that with the present 30-person council, all Oshawa needs is five more votes to gain any measure it desires. Edwards also defended the town's request saying that the town has the "more rapid" population growth potential than Oshawa. When the region was for- med, he continued, Oshawa had 65 per cent of the region's population while Whithy had il per cent. In 1990, Oshawa is expected to have only 40 per cent while Whitby is expected to have 14 per cent of the population. "Obviously there's a shift in population," he said. During the debate over the report of the Regional Review Committee last year, Durham Regional Council rejected a similar request from Whitby and Ajax. Oshawa councillors, led by Bruce McArthur, argued that the City of Oshawa had only 33 per cent of the representation on council and paid 45 per cent of the region's operating costs. McArthur claimed that if 668-8888 668-3333 BELL & BOWMAN TAXI WHITBY'S FINEST TAXI COMPANY - EFFICIENT, FAST AND RELIABLE SERVICE TRY US the two new seats were ap- proved, then Oshawa would lose some of its political punch at the region while still paying the same share of the costs. However, if the additional regional council represen- tative was given final ap- proval by the province, it would produce some dif- ficulties at the local level. Bill Wallace, the town's ad- ministrator, said recently that if Whitby got another regional councillor, it is unlikely that the com- position of local council would be changed. "Unless the number of councillors is increased, it would seem that if council seeks an additional representative, then it would be necessary to reduce the number of wards to three from the present four," Wallace said. The north ward's boun- dary could be brought down to Rossland Road from Taunton Road with the other two wards being on either side of Brock Street. The Town of Newcastle has three wards, with a local and a regional councillor being elected from each and the mayor is elected at large. In Whitby the mayor and the two regional councillors are elected at large with the four local councillors being elected in their own wards. * ALL NIGHT SKATE - Sat. March 14 - 12 midnight to 8 A.M. Admission $5.00 includes skates - contests 2 pair FREE skates given away, courtesy Dominion Skates Ltd. Come spend puyour P.D. dayat R * Special afternoon session - 1 P.M. - 4 P.M. BAYLY AJAX ARENA CLEMENTS BARR ROADU j DRYER 6 BARR RD. AJAX, ONT. 686-2816 Rejected once before.... 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