Whitby Free Press, 30 Jan 1980, p. 1

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Drumm wants... Brooklin rep ort public By JOANNE ANDERSON Free Press Staff Councillor Joe Drumm (West Ward) said at Monday night's town council meeting that he wanted the staff report on the Brooklin development prograîn made public. Drummin said the tax payers have a right to see it. Coun. Barry Evans (Centre Ward) agreed with Drumm. "We (the council) have a duty to disclose absolutely everything on which we base pur opinions,"9 said Evans. Evans also said that it bas always been the pracice of the council ta make such documents public and that "if we have used titem in making a decision they must be made public." Coun. 30e Bugelli (West Ward) said he was concerned about the fine line between personal and professional opinion on te maLter by the staff. Bugelli said he does not want to put any individual "«on the spot." Coun. Bob Carson (North Ward) agreed with Bugelli that thte contents of the report may contain personal opinions as well as professional opinions as the report was to be held as confidential. Mayor Jim Gartshore said tat te report shold flot be released until after the Brooklin problem has been solved but that he has no objections that it be released after the problem is solved. Coun.. Gerry Emm requested titat Mayor Gartshore tell cowicil what has been planned to celebrate Whitby's 125th birthday. Gartshore said that nothing has been confirmed but several things are being looked into. It is possible that the temes of both, the county Town Carnival and thte Broakiin Fair will incorporate Whitby's birthday said Gartshore. Gartshore said that he has spoken to three service clubs in Whitby about having them create a float for the County Town Carnival outlining this theme. The maLter of a pedestrian guardrail an the Brock Street C.N.R. overpass bas been tabled until te next regular meeting of the Operations Committee. The Director of Public Works reported te the Operations Committee that additional wood curbs have been placed on tite bridge and he would be reporting further on titis. Thte committee bas been informed titat the overpass is ten- tatively scheduled for reconstruction in 1984. Our error Taxi f ares were upped Printe dai icandida tes m1eeing The Free Press is spon- soring it's own version of an aIl candidates meeting. Ex- cept in ours, the voter does not have to go to hear the candidate speak, just simply flip titrougit pages 11, 12, 14 and 16 and read their an- smers to questions cancer- ning some of the issues con- cerning this election. This week, another can- didate is responding te the questionnaire. Site is Dawn Carrel, te candidate for thte Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada. Eacn candidate's answer wil be presented with te question and their answers will be listed in aiphabetical order. After Carreil wil be liiberal Party Candidate Doug Diekerson; Progressive Conservative candidate Scott Fenneil; Libertarian Party candidate Roif Poema and New Dernocratic Party candidate Geoff Rison. The answers given are not changed in any way, simply edited for grammatical errors, if necessary. ite Free Press provides titis as a public service te our readeruhip. Due to a mis- interpetation, our story about taxifares that ap- peared two weeks ago is Lu error. Coundil approved te request for higiter fares that was made by both Circle and Bell and Bowman taxi com- paziies. Taxi fares are now up to $1.20 drop and 10 cents for every one-nintit 0f a mile. The mis-interpretation stemmed from one coun- ciilor's desire te see the fare increase tabled until Marcit, 1980. However, coundil did not approve a tabling motion and thte f are increase was subsequently granted. The Free Press apologies for any inconvience that titis inay have caused to our readers or to the taxi cern- panhes. vi, m i4 xx dut ...... ..... ... is- de. di, Ir 1. Id cre se ore see pag

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