4 - '-.-. ~. PAGE 10, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1982, WHITBY PREF PRESS Bell announces Brooklin rate increase Basic monthly rates will go up in the Brook- lin "655" exchange on January 25, 1982, Norma Wilcox, local Bell Canada manager, said Monday. Wilcox said phone growth in the Brooklin A lot of people Coil life "The Survival of the Fittest". You know, a lot of people are rlght. pR17jW7 local calling area has pushed the phone- number total above the highest total allowed for present rates. Basic rates are tied directly to local çalling area phone-number totals. A local calling area includes all ex.- changes the customer can reach via a local call. This change has nO connection with the recent general rate in- crease granted Bell Canada by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, the com- pany's federal regu- latory agency. This in- crease went into effect October 2,1981. Private line residents service will increase by 65 cents a month to a monthlytotal of $9.05. An individual business lin will1go up from $24.15 to $27.35 a month. Ail customers have been notified by an insert with their current bill.. Bell must file with the CRTC a list of ex- changes whose local call phone-number totals have exceeded the up- per limits of their rate groups. Because phone totals can drop as well as in- crease, totals have to exceed the upper iiinits allowed by at least five per cent. Bell's application to .-change the Brooklin rate group was made November 1, 1981. The local municipality was officially notified later and CRTC approval was given on December 7, 1981, to take effect January 25,-1982, TYPEWRITERS R'EPAIRS & SERVICE ALL MAKES DANFORTH TYPEWRITER Rentals, Sales & Service 408 Dundas Street West 2940 Dan forth Ave, Whitby Toronto 666-1131 est 190 698-2589 Good news foôr Whitby: taxpayers By COUNCILLOR ROSS BATTEN North Ward As finance chairman for the Town of Whitby, it is miresponsiblhity to lead council through its budget deliberations. Whitby has been fortunate to have an assessment growth rate of approximately six per cent in 1981. This achievement is second only to the Town of Pickering in the Regiop of Durham. That. growth, coupled with a-favourable year end finan- cial positior ifrom 1981, should permit council to establish a budget containing a rate of taxation in- crease less than the present rate of inflation. In ad- dition, a review, of the preliminary 1982 Capital Budget for the Town of Whitby, reveals that the town will not require the use of the debenture market to finance any of its major projects this year. The town will avoid this method of longer term financing for the fifth successive year. The dates for budget meetings have been set. Deliberations will take place on January 27 and February 2, 8 and 4. All meetings will begin at 7 p.m. It is hoped that the budget will be adopted by council at its meeting of February 8. Following this appröVal, the rates of taxation will be adopted for local municipal purposes. The total rates of taxation will not be known until the budgets of the Regional Municipality of Durham and the Durham Boards of Education have also been approved. I thought it might be helpful to review the make- up of our total tax rate. Therè are some variances between the rural areas of Whitby and the southerly urban area. For instance, residents of the rural area, including the hamlet of Brooklin, do not pay, for garbage collection and the transit system in their mill rate. Instead, a separate charge for gar- bage collection is added after the mill rate is cal. culated. The local municipal tax rate (that portion of the total budget over which the lôcaf council has con- trol) accounted for approximately 35 per cent of the taxes raised in 1981. These dollars paid for the maintenance and construction of local streets, fire protection, recreation programs and facilities, by- law enforcement, local planning matters, garbage collection and disposal, transit and administration. In addition, approximately 18 per cent of your tax dollar pays for the services provided by the Regional Municipality of Durham. These services include the maintenance and construction of regional roads, police protection, social services, homes for the aged, regional planning matters and administration. The Region of Durham is also responsible for the operation of the sanitary sewage and water systemse. The costs of these systems are not included in your tax bill, Instead, these costs are recovered via the water bill., The final 47 per cent of your annual tax payment is contributed toward the cost of our elementary and secondary education. Recently, several articles have appeared in the media relating to increases of assessment of indivi- dual properties in the Town of Whitby. Clarification has been received from the Ministry of Revenue, the provincial authority responsible for the assess- ment function. Properties in Whitby are not being re-assessed at market value. The method of assess- ment in Whitby remains unchanged since the early 1940's. THE CORPORATION OF > TH E TOWN OF WHITBY PLANNING DEPARTMENT PUBLIC NOTICE This public notice is to advlse that the Town of Whitby is in receipt of an application to amend the Official Plan for the former Town of Whitby Plann- ing Area. Canada