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f I t '~More study ofprivatizatton pa 'a Hunter a a Kosterp S INCLAIR SECONDARn SCHOOL Celtics have been hot! These past few weeks have been filled with finals, matches, and championehipe. Recently, the midget and junior girls' volleyball teams competed in the LOSSA quarter-finals. Although the tearne were defeated, they celebrated a year of success. The boys' wrestling team also celebrated a great year. Recently, the curling team won the LOSSA championship with four straight victories at the tournament. Good luck at OFSSA to Scott and Kevin Sonley, Dave Oswald and Keith Maxwell. The drama department was off competing last week in the. Sears Drama Festival with their performance of Happily Ever After. Congrats to a great performance. If youre looking to get your body into shape, or just enjoy working out, Mr. Tuori once again opening the weight room Tuesday and Thursday after sciiooi for tiiose interested. The price is $10 to join and you muet have a SAC sticker. Mi girls interested in field lacrosse were called to an info meeting yesterday. If you are sti interested in joining, contact the physical education department. Ail girls interested ini a varsity wome noftballteam were cailed to a meeting last week. If you are stili- interested, Ms. Higgs is the person you should see. If you eqjoy the. game of basketbail, get a teàm of four together and ign up outaide the. gym for four-on-four co-ed basketbal -mini-tournaments. Games wiil begin aller the March break so watch for sciiedules. Ms. Curtis and Mir. Burford .are heading this event - The fabulous production of the. movie Grea.,in coming to the. Sf near you. Limited tickets are. on sale March 25outaide the ca. For only a dollar, you can se. the great John Travolta at bis best. Jomn SAC on April 3 forthe. performance. SAC has once again got our spirits upthis week with avaiety of actMvties to celebrate the. March break -Never fear: March break is near. Only two more sleeps. Tany- /AIanc- 1FROM PAGE 1 public servies. (JUPE Local 53 president Karen Wilson sald the il waste (management employeee were autounded that council was cenelderlng such action when only a few menthe before; their perorance was praised at a joint union-management meeting. "Gevernments often justiiy contracting eut by claiming that public services are poorly managed, outdated and inefficient, sid Wilson. "But instead of tackling the problems head-on, administrators can sweep it under the rug by recommending contracting eut cf services," e.said. Wilson warned committe., that private centractors are "motivated te make a profit" and te expect complainte wh.n the, contracter begins te "cut corners." :Referring te a 1982 report when Whitby laet ceneidered the issue, Wilson noted that the study recommended that garbage collection remain in municipal Ixande. "Citizen. 'tend te eévaluate the. basic character of their municipal gevernment by the. services provided," se.sald. "Tht.s hould remain a public servce, net an opotuny te, make large profits fr private corporations." Local 53 vice-president Dave Gooding challenged the. report's projected savings. Accerding te staff.the. annual coot per stop for curbside collection in the. three Durham Region municipalites - Pickering, Ajax and Clarington - which contract eut waste- collection are '$27.19; $29.29 and $35.86 respectively, while Whitby'st. $39.84. But Goodinclaimed the. figures do net Include sup.rvisory and otiier conte. When . these are factered in, Whitby's total drops te $36.15, h. said. "A contract of thi. magnitude muet provide adequate - anagment and supervision te be effective," sald Codlng. "Tii. perception among 'the. public t. that residential homeowners' garbage should b. picked up by 6 p.m.," h. said. "Councfilwlll have te deal wlth the. complainte when garbage collectera are working beyond these heurs." (Joodng sald the. union believes the. estimated savinge te b. ne higiier dman$200,000 at this point and with more time te study the. document, the figure will drep dloser te *98,000. "If the. union can find savinge cf that magnitude, I don't see the peint cf even calling tenders," h. said. 7Wiiy go througi the. aggravation and risk losing control cf an important Town function?" Wiiitby resident Sid Ryan, president or UUPE's Ontarlo division, said tii. report dees net make a credible argument for. privatization., "We've had the. report officially since Friday and unofficially since Wednesday and we've already blown a number cf holes in it," said Ryan. Pointing eut thateonly last we.k Local 53 members extended their currnt contract with the Town for another twe years and with ne wag. increase, Ryan slammed council for ite apparent haste on the issue. "I don'1 think this le the way te treat Your l eoee," he, said. Ryan cnargidthat council had ferced te union Inte "collective M. ii~i*~M ('I I I~4 ffoJ~1 QUALITY WORK * CALL fj.j5' AhnD w Buildig sevicesLwd. VVVUI* We bring aur showroom to you SALES, SERVICE & INSTALLATION Compete selection of vinyl windows Pitrs. oi &ba e. do s -Paio *or do 1Im. begglng" rather than collective bargalnlng and whlle the workrs are prepar.d te fight they want It te b. a fair on.. "Give us somethtng to work wltii," h. pleaded. "If w, have te go ln and beg for jobs, then give us the. figures for the. Town of Pickering and wiiat they're getting ln service and hew people feel aboutit." Garbage packer. eperater Steve Pearen teld committee that h. and hie colleagues do moe than "juet pick up garbage." Often they are pressed inte doing ether dies such as repeiringrzoad signe and correcting miner problemne they encounter on their routes, Pearen sald. This "personalized service" will b. lest if the system t. prlvatized, h. insisted. "Contror get paid by the stop, not the heur, " sald Pearen. "If I got pald by the stop, rm going te run the truck as fast as I cen."- ' Pearen wae critical of the. repore proposai ýte have rural residents place their garbage on only one side of the road ln order te reduce operating caes. He noted that many people live acrose frem woodlotesad this will attract animale. "There will b. garbage spread around on. part of Wbitby te the other in rural areas," Pearen warned. Recalling council's reent decision te build thr.. !ce pads at Iroquois Park ratiier than epting for a private secter partnershtp, Pearen accueed commtte. of applylng a double-standard te garbage collection. When Iâongfleld replied that e understood hie frustration but that ceuncil . saIse responsible te al residente, Pear.n becamne angry. Page 26. Whltby Free Pm"s, Wechiesday, Mam'h 6# 1996 1 . .... .... .... MW "I don't think you do. Every day we're slttlng at tue works yard wonderlng If next month wel etIll have our jobs," he eaid. While h. supported councillor Gerry Emm's motion te refer the matter back to staff,, committe. chair Dennis Fox agreed that council muet' obtain ail relevant Information. Fox sald h. did net support privatlzlng garbage collection, but that ouncll required evidence if It la te convince residents that, keeplng It as a municipal operation la the. meet cest-efficlent method. "There are 60,000 taxpayers in. thie town that we are responsible tee" hesald. -Wehave tebe able te look them ln the eye and say te, tuem that we inv.stigated and found It (privatization) net tu b. the cas (better)...as least I hope it 's. Mayor Tom Edwards concurred wlth Fox, but alec had words of caution for the employees. "I hope the suger w, heard under tue surface is restrained," eaid Edwards. "I hope tue people who provIde tuese services will keep on contributing the. way they alway have. That'. the beet thing you cen do for your brothers and eletere," h. sald. Follewing the meeting, Ryan said he was ,pleased 'by tue committeesdecisonï. "W.e bought some time sud I thlnk we turned some people on council," h.ecaïd. "I doWt thlnk tlùwas awell researched document and we plcked It apart. wWre looking at saving mayb *98,000 teo get rid of ilpeople? To me, the greateet waste of taxpayer dla comlng up ;wlth ýtis report-"