Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 10, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Commission to find Mctaggart new Job with City police commissioners vote to fire suspended detective Jyh i Tom Goudstein a suspended Winnipeg police de convicted in october of pos Sessing a weapon dangerous to the Public will be from the effective the cites police commission voted unanimously tuesday to keep Archibald Hugh Gerrard Mctaggart under suspension until the end of the month before terminating his employment with the the commission also decided it would try to find Mctaggart an other Job with the City of win Ftfe Peg during the next three defence counsel Lawrence Greenberg said he had no plans to Appeal the commissions i dont think it would be in his Best interests because it probably do any Feenberg he added that he and his Folie fit appeared briefly before the closed session in which the police Siofu Reade its has been under suspension without pay since he was charged last March in connection with a shooting incident at the Home of his estranged wife Iti which no one was after being convicted by a jury he was Given a two year suspended fined and prohibited from possessing weapons for five following Meta Garts sentence ing Greenberg said his client was in jeopardy of losing All the credits he achieved during his years of police councillor lome police commission suggested the decision to try to Field Mctaggart another Job with the City was in keeping with Green bergs com what were looking for is a horizontal he adding there Are a number of civic depart licensing and claims for example could make of Mctaggart police he also said the commission did not make the detectives dismissal effective immediately 6f the effects it would have on Mctagu Garts according to finding the detective another Job with the City would enable him to remain within the same pension group save his it would mean Start ing from Day one he Winnipeg free press january City news 2nd class mall registration lumber 0586 Alice Krueger the tory who took All the fun out of restraint goodness knows who is advising Joe Clark on economic and fiscal matters these one thing is certain its not Manitoba Premier Sterling Lyon or finance minister Don its easy to imagine How Premier Lynn and Craik must have winced when they heard their National Leader on to the other advocating an even higher Federal in a Csc interview monday said if he is elected prime he will improve the coun try economic situation by increasing the governments to re Duce current and future he the government must spend More Money now to stimulate the Clarks statement is significant for two it represents a Complete about face for the National progressive conservative until had been flailing away at the Trudeau government for its uncontrolled spending and Mas Sive Clarks new tune on the deficit is significant in that it now puts him at Odds with Manitoba progressive conservative govern which for the past 15 months has been saying and doing the exact the Lyon As Manitoban Well has been Pur suing a policy of reduced spending and a balanced provincial budget on the whats Premier Lyon and his finance minister have been among the Trudeau governments strongest critics regarding the estimated billion Federal Over the past year they have taken advantage of every Opportunity to blast the Federal government for fiscal for in his budget address of last took the Federal government to task for the size of its funding of trip sought by Ingeborg Boyens Winnipeg civic finance committee has requested a report on the costs of sending 150 performers and representatives to a summer festival in the committee was asked tuesday to consider helping to fund the projected Cost of sending 150 Winni Eggers to the 1979 Minneapolis Aqua Tennial july 20 to if the City agrees to kick in the province will match the councillors agreed that last years representation at the festival had been particularly for attracting tourists to Rick who attended the summer festival with mayor Robert said the Winnipeg representatives had been the television coverage our mayor got was very said Nordman Nordman said the two Parade floats provided for the City by the festival organizers we rent Satis mayor Steen agreed that the cites participation in the Parade and other festival activities had been Worth they want us to take a much More prominent role this said the committee chairman Abe of sky suggested the and hoc commit tee in Grants review last years with the understanding that the committee was in favor of Frank Johnson contended that the chairman was assuming everyone was in favor of a expenditure just to Send 150 people and a float away for a glorified deficit and said its spending continues to Careen out of if it was careening out of control what would he Call even greater spending and an even larger Federal deficit As his National Leader proposes then there was Lyons opening statement to a Federal provincial con Ference of first ministers in Ottawa last his advice to the fed eral government then was for a significant reduction in the rate of growth of Federal a reduction in the massive Federal deficit and Federal tax i believe that is what the people of Canada want from their Federal gov Lyon said on that i believe that such measures Are among the most effective Way government can respond to the eco nomic problems we face there Are More recent when the last Federal budget came Down just two months for exam Lyon said the additional deficit indicated Federal spending could be out of if the pollsters Are right about Clark becoming Canadas next prime then Lyon and Craik had better Start rehearsing a new song right the Law Union of Manitoba is once again concerned about whether the province is living up to its own Laws in the rent decontrol organization spokesman Vic a Vino has fired off another letter to consumer affairs minister Warner asking for reconfirmation of the governments position re Garding hearings and notice to ten ants when a unit is the Law Union has been charging for some time that apartment units Are being taken out of rent controls with out proper notice to House fire damage fire depart ment officials Are investigating a fire that caused an Esti mated damage to a residence at 394 Wardlaw Avenue shortly before a fire department spokesman said there was no Onn Home at the time and there were no there was too damage to the building and damage to the police said a 29 year old woman was to appear in provincial judges court today in with the it leaves you breathless City Grant to festival requested the Community Folk Art Winnipeg has asked the City for 000 to help defray the costs of promoting the 10th anniversary of Folk the civic finance committee routinely referred the request tuesday to the cites and hoc committee on Grants for representatives of the Folk Art Council appealed to City councillors to consider implementing a Cost Shar ing approach with the province and the Council As since Winnipeg is the Overall beneficiary of Fol Lorama through its attraction of the City should share in the costs of promoting the ethnic said Adam Vic chairman of the about 60 per cent of the councils budget or in 1979 is spent on said the City should also appoint a representative to Folk Oramas Advertis ing committee to act As a Liaison Between the City and the suggested the Folk Art which came into existence in was granted by the City for Startup the Fol Lorama representatives again approached the City for a Grant in but were Fol Lorama saw a profit of about at the end of the finance committee approved a Grant to the Manitoba Winter games for its official souvenir publication on the condition that the City is suitably councillors Alan Wade and Frank Johnson protested the saying it ran contrary to the cites no Grants for advertising Wade Dame said that while the motion had been it still essentially called for the Purchase of an you Are going to open the door to All sorts of requests for Wade local taxes on betting wanted City seeks new sources of Revenue Abe Yanofsky Deputy mayor Norrie by Ingeborg Boyens the escalating Cost of running the City and a depleted tax base has resulted in renewed efforts by civic officials to find additional sources of faced with projected spending in creases of million in the City is once again proposing to ask the province for the authority to Levy taxes on liquor and parimutuel bet Ting and for a greater provincial contribution towards the costs of Edu the civic executive policy commit tee will set the Pace for future discus Sions thursday by dealing with a motion raised last week by Council lors Joe Zuken and Cyril keeper calling for local tax in creased education and a tax or Levy on during the past two City Council has sought to impose a tax on liquor and betting at Assiniboia but both the former and pres ent provincial administrations have avoided the civic finance committee chairman Abe Yanofsky said Only a simple order Council is required to approve the cites two Vearold bylaw to Levy the local the liquor Levy alone could provide the City with an extra million to million in annual Deputy mayor Bill Norrie also said both provincial governments have been reluctant to Grant the City per Mission to Levy the while a local Levy on liquor and betting Cost the province the provincial govern ment must be Loath to see any additional taxes imposed on said Norrie if the province gave Winnipeg the right to impose additional it would have to allow other municipalities to take the same added the City has Long requested an increase in the provinces education Grants to offset the rising costs of education to the City and the unfair Burden on property Zuken Esti mated that education costs in the 1978 current budget and tax Bills accounted for about Norrie said that any increases in the provinces annual Grants would be unlikely in 1979 in Light of the senior governments own fiscal restraint Yanofsky said the City has not heard a word about the new fiscal arrangements promised by the conservatives in their election in provincial Grants to the City in 1978 were Cut Back by million from the previous reports last september indicated the province was consider ing granting a Block fund which would allow the City More autonomy in allocating its own but would Likely not increase such a scheme would have been helpful several years but now what we need is extra said Urban affairs minister Gerry Mer Cier said this week he had sever Al proposals to discuss with the cites official delegation Ara meeting t while he said the Grant option had been Mercier refused to elaborate on what strategies the provincial government is consider Zuken said that if the City was sincere in its search for additional it should consider recovering a greater portion of the enhanced value of property resulting from major rezoning or sub Divi this could take the form of a tax on shopping centres or housing where approval of major rezoning leads to Large shopping centres or the City should have the right to recoup at least part of the profits gleaned by the said Zuken in a Telephone Norrie said Ukens proposal want Likely to receive favourable response from the executive com the idea was impractical at this said because House building and development has de creased in Winnipeg Over the past councillors reject complaints against Pool rental Rise City councillors offered no Relief to organised swim clubs which planned new fees for use of indoor pools Are both unfair Competition and too great a Burden for their but members of the civic recreation and social services committee tuesday called for an administrative report showing the amount of nue the City makes from organized swimming before deciding any possible Breaks for swim a delegation from the Manitoba Section of the Canadian Amateur swimming association told commit tee clubs had budgeted for cent increases As they were but instead were handed rates 50 to 90 per cent higher than last the delegation represented about my competitive swimmers with no commercial John representing the said City sponsored instruction at pools with lower rates than those offered by swim clubs was unfair Competition and makes question Able the cites position that Pool users should pay 4p per cent of Pool operator eng although the committee had called for an increase of 25 per cent across City Council last december approved a Range of increases signed to earn for the City 40 per cent of the pools operating 4 Council had reasoned that continuing with the old rates would Force a general tax Phil Rizzuto scone said the delegations request was after the fact but added he would like to see committee defer something for the clubs after hear ing of one groups deficit Anne Zorowski inem vines Macdonnell noted that even with the rate increases the City is subsidizing swimmers by paying 60 per cent of operating How much fur ther can the City go she Joe Zuken labor election admitting swimming clubs were said if committee chooses to try arid a hitch councils earlier it should also consider Breaks for other groups much More worthy and needy from the Point of View of Overall ;