PAGE 8, WHITBY FREE PRESS. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1987 Fund shited romlight o street work The Whitby corn- munity improvement plan has been amended to reallocate streetlighting funds into the streetscape enhan- cernent project. Both streetlighting and streetscape work were scheduled to be carried out in 1987. However, contracts for earlier streetscape work cost alrnost 50 per cent more than original estimates. The community im- provement plan had budgeted $87,000 for streetscaping in 1987. But a consulting firm re- examined costs and said the cost would actually be $124,000. Planning department recommended that the continuation of the streetlighting project - eight new decorative lights along Dundas St. E. and W., at an estimated cost of $37,000 - be removed from the community plan (CAIP). (The Town would pay haîf that amount, thé Province the other haîf in boans and grants for streetlighting). "The completion of the streetscape enhan- cernent projeet on Brock St. N. and Dundas St. is considered of higher priority than ex- tending the decorative streetlighting onto blocks currently without streetscape enhan- cernent, " s tates the planning report. Planning staff say efLrLapai na qIna~ CUSWDMCOVEQ (SALI 'i.. fa'-. H1 .1. J" (SAVIS 2095 to 3Q9ýo Now is the opportune time to create the Iook you 've always wanted at substantial savings. Express your feelings about interior design by choosing the frames and fabrics from our extensive collection. Chintz, velvet, country prints, geometrios and textures are just a few of the choices available. MON.-WED. 10-6 THURS.-FRI. 10-9 SATURDAY 10-6 TORONTO - 686-0061 WHITBY - Ã"6U-3483 216 MARY ST. E., WHITBY il, QDUSE AU HERITAGE HOUltd with the existing decorative streetllght- ing, would provide a "coordinated image-." The report states that streetlighting can be ex- tended in future provin- cial applications. mnmmý sireeLscapiné;, 1 alui work cost almost 50 per cent more . than estimated because the Town decided to use a more expensive - con- crete mortar base,1 described as 4"more reliable" than a limestone -screening base, under the decorative brick. Part of the 10w estimate was also, blamed on errors by the initial consultant for the streetscape plan. -' No comments were made at a public meeting last week about the change in the plan, with the exception of a letter from Ed Sadok who said drivers should be allowed left turns at the four corners, Brock and Dundas streets. "Hopefully, "Phase 'IV", (if there is such a phase) will discover what anyone who does not live close to Whit- by's downtown already knows - avoid that "four* corners" impedirnent to automobiles, and do not attempt to make a left turn from Dundas, anywhere near those "four corners,"y states, Sadok. "In short, it is not worth the risk to drive around anywhere near the downtown area of Whitby. Ii "cne puterize" - downtowni Whitby is not "'user friendly." Council approves garbage packer purchase Whitby council has approved the purchase of a garbage packer at a cost of $104,679.* The bid, by Amertek Inc. of Woodstock, was the only one the Town received. The bid falîs just shy of the $105,000 the Town approved in January for the packer. Ross Batten, who chairs the operations committee, said he was concerned that only one company was able to bid on the packer because of the specifications required by the Town. A second company, Frink Canada, returned,