Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 5, 1988, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press March Page 3 Grain producers threaten band loses funds bid for Road local nip Delegate Peter Sim Speaks out on the Meech Lake Accord As others wait their turn at party convention deficit trimmed by million revenues exceed budget set provinces debt at million by Gerald flood Manitoba 198788 deficit is expected to be Down million from projections in the Bud get last finance minister Eugene Kostyra said i think that but Ive been in finance so Long i know i dont get he opposition finance critic Clayton manness Morris said he was unimpressed by the seven percent re saying its a pittance com pared to what the Pawley government could have a com the report says the government expects to receive billion in revenues in the fiscal year ending this month million from last Springs budget spending of billion was about million higher than leaving million to reduce the deficit from the million estimated in last years Bud they missed a grand Opportunity to reduce the manness they got Revenue flows of million More than it would have led to a deficit that was million lower had they not increased spending by manness said he found it incredible that Kostyra underestimated revenues by i think this is a reflection of How massive the tax grab was last he referring to a two percent tax on net income introduced last obviously the government themselves didst know the Impact of the tax but Kostyra said the tory critic was playing a game of damned if you damned if you he said manness first complained that the government would be Lucky Kostyra admits school funding unable to meet Board needs by Allison Bray the Winnipeg school divisions provincial funding increase this year is not enough to keep up with its finance minister Eugene Kostyra admitted the minister conceded after a closed meeting with other Las and Board officials that the annual in creases which he said have kept Pace with the inflation rate Over the past few years Are still insufficient to meet the divisions Kostyra said the prov Ince has increased Grants to school divisions As much As possible this year and could go no we Are being pressed in terms of being Able to raise taxes generally and pressed because of erosion in federally supported programs for secondary and pos secondary Edu cation and the government is allocating which translates into a in million for the Winnipeg trustees say funding will Rise Only after the province collects million from the division through increases in its special property tax the division is looking at a million operating not including teacher salary Winnipeg school Divi Sion trustees and administrators met education minister Roland Penner thursday to discuss con Cerns Over the level of in a Brief to the the division expressed what it termed Strong opposition to the provinces funding Pawley promised it fails to address the needs of this division and again leaves the trustees in the position of levying additional taxes or cutting needed programs and the Brief according to the the prov Ince will be paying per cent of supportable expenditures to the Divi Sion this despite an election Promise by Premier Howard Pawley to fund 90 per cent of expenditures by and despite Penners assertions the 1988 Public schools budget would increase funding for special needs the division said the 394 increase in its categorical Grants for special needs students was invade As such Grants on a prov inc wide basis support 47 per cent of expenditures while Grants to the division support Only 32 per the Brief the division which will receive per cent of the total provincial special needs funds this year pro Vides special education to almost half of the special needs students in the the Brief if the Winnipeg school division received the provincial average sup port of 47 per cent of an additional in categorical support would accrue to the to hold the deficit to and now maintains that million is too Kostyra said the increased reve nue came largely from three sources in come tax increased Federal Transfer payments and unexpected increases in mining tax receipts due to higher Metal he said he had no Way of knowing income tax and Transfer payments estimates were Low because the Fig ures Are calculated by Ottawa based on projections Early in the the government also saved about million on debt servicing charges because of falling interest rates and the stronger Canadian he the report says the province expects to have a net debt of billion at the end of the current fiscal year billion to be repaid out of general Revenue and billion to be repaid from other sources such As Hydro and Telephone user it says the province has incurred debt equal to for every Man woman and child in Kostyra said spending beyond established budgets occurred mostly in the health department Mil lion and Community services major Cost another major Cost was about million to refinance a Swiss debt taken on by Manitoba he Kostyra said Hes confident the third Quarter deficit figure will hold up to years id stake my reputation on the deficit being at that level or lower by year for what its the third Quarter deficit is an improvement on the second Quarter which pegged the deficit at nip delegates slam Pawley Over Accord by Catherine Mitchell the new democratic party 27th annual convention opened last night with a crackling snap As delegates challenged Premier Howard Paw Leys support of the Meech Lake constitutional Magnus Eliason said Pawley is going to push for Manitoba support of the Accord regardless of the Mes Sage the attending new democrats Send to him this Eliason said Pawley was wrong to acquiesce and Promise to support the Accord drafted with fellow pre Miers and prime minister Mulron the Veteran new Democrat and City councillor was among More than a dozen delegates at the convention who spoke in a panel session on a Resolution critical of the to be debated the drafted this week by the new democrats against Meech replaces proposals from 15 constituency associations to reject the the resolutions detailed numerous flaws contained in the recipe written to bring Quebec into the Pawley has said he intends to ask the legislature to endorse the agree ment later this in weakened the new proposals fourth Point Calls upon the government to take Steps to Deal with the accords we interpret clause 4 As a very Clear signal to fix it the Accord or throw it Springfield Delegate and former Cabinet minister Andy Anstett Manitoba my Rod Murphy said the Accord will build a better Constitution than what Canada has and called upon the delegates to work amicably together on ignores indians but Rupert land Delegate Harry Daniels slammed the and the proposed because Nei ther recognized the place of indians in earlier in the Pawley said he see rejecting the Meech Lake constitutional unless a fundamental flaw is pointed out at the planned Public Pawley noted he did not see such a flaw in the he also sent a message to the delegates More than 500 had pre registered for the event that the party has a hard fight ahead of opposing a progressive conserva Tive party looking for any Chance to seize the nip has to expose the Fala cies and dangers that lie within the oppositions As Well As Pawley he downplayed reports that new democrats Are tearing up their noting there have been More memberships Ren ewed this year than at the same time last in his closing speech last Pawley touched on the pains his government has suffered in the past year increases and Crown corporation problems promising to Rise to the Challenge they we Are going to straighten out the problems with automobile insure we Are going to make Manito bans proud of their insurance sys tem again that 1 Promise executive reports re leased last night show the nip is preparing for a Federal election organizing new Riding associations to coincide with the electoral bound Ary changes shaky financial the party 1987 revenues at million fell about million Short of those raised in the deficit came in at compared with the year a National election Campaign is expected to Cost the provincial Secretary report among the emergency resolutions slated last night for discussion today was one commending Svend Robin sons courage in publicly disclosing his Federal Leader de Broadbent was expected to speak surplus helps curb tax Rise by Aldo Santin the City expects to keep its tax increase below the inflation rate this year thanks to a surplus from the 1987 operating mayor Bill Norrie Norrie said yesterday the Board of commissioners has revised the operating budget estimates and predicts a Mill rate in Deputy treasurer Walter Bilow said the increase will mean municipal taxes on the aver age single family assessed in 1987 at will Rise to school division which account for about half of the tax have not been Norrie said the Mill rate increase would have been a percentage Point lower had it not been for the Short Falls in provincial Grants this he said the commissioners came up with the increase after eliminating some items from the budget revisions and applying the million left Over from 1987 when All the departments recently tallied their a report detailing the 1987 budget surplus and the commissioners la test revisions will be presented at wednesdays executive policy com Mittee Norrie said the City had saved million on its Snow Clearing budget and earned million More in Winnipeg Hydro revenues than had been the he had come from departments that saved Money by delaying staff in the commissioners projected a increase in the Mill based on total expenditures of the projections Rose to per cent following additions made by the six Community committees and four civic standing Norrie said the commissioners reduced the Mill rate increase to through budget deletions and by applying the lion he said shortfalls in provincial which totalled slightly More than placed the increase at per fouls family plans it Manitoba and Canadian egg marketing boards director William Schmitke lives in a House just off Henderson Highway with his wife and four aged and theres a kidney shaped Pool in the the red River is close by for sounds the perfect place to raise a certainly is As lung As dad and the kids dont Shower every Day or flush the toilets every time they use them youve heard of Schmitke predicament is a the Guy who sold him the property on Kamski drive in Clements forgot to mention one thing it had a septic Field sewage problem dating Back a number of Nice but then would you say anything the local building Ralph who gave him the godhead to build an Extension on his suns including a bathroom and also didst say i dont handle septic Fields and just he told me there Wen just no valid reasons to deny him an Extension u didst occur to Melo mention the sewage problem it also didst occur to members of a is Clements Council planning committee to say anything when Schymik appeared Mike Ward before they told go ahead and build a 38footby18foot swimming no in the blame for Schmitke troubles rests with Clements in it allowed Developer William Kaminski to build the is Home subdivision on Halfacre lots despite being told by the municipal planning Board the lots were too Small for septic Fields and would cause a sewage pollution John the boards planning wrote in the absence of conclusive evidence any recommendation will be subjective a on that this office cannot recommend a site area of less than two one Why the Board Ever gave approval the people involved in the Council and the Plaj Uluig Board 17 years ago be three years landscape Gardener haul Landy go sold a nearby Home and bought a Fouracre lot North of Schmitke property line he moved Stu a trailer and began work on his own dream House within gunk from four neighbouring including Schmitke began to ooze on to his land the water Supply to his Mobile Home became last Over a 10day the environment and workplace safety and health departments tested the bacterial Quality of his water and found it to contain extremely High focal Mandygo was forced to move and abandon plans to Ive been on councils Back for almost three he and they Haven done a Damn thing to Correct a problem that they caused by allowing the Homes to be built on Small come the Spring the sewage from these septic Fields is going to be All Over my its there but Mandygo said he called m area environment officer Arvyn Gray to investigate the seeping Treyve charged Rne with two counts of Schmitke said in in court on april in going to plead not guilty Clements Council should be the ones in not its their fault Gray said another Gerrid was charged this week w a pollution and his department will charge a third whom he identify until the summons is served who faces a Fine Plu costs for each said he 1 blame Mandygo for calling in the environment Hes a very Good we get along Hes going to come to court with me and give if the judge says its 1 guess 1 can Only blame when i bought the i asked the Vendor if the septic Field was i should have asked if it was u didst take Long before i realized 1 had a major but this was after i built an Extension on the House and put in a this and landscaping Cost me another i built a larger septic Field and that didst then the environment people told me to Pul in a underground have the sewage pumped out every three or four Days and get the municipality to truck it away to an open Thall Cost me Between and a under proposed amendments to the clean environment this Type of open sewage pit in Clements will be outlawed the environment people say dont Shower too often or flush the toilet every to hell with that 1 live in a House and 1 Tell the wife and kids dont Shower every dont flush the toilet Schmitke and Mandygo say the Only answer is for the municipality to install a Low level sewage system in the area Tuse vice the subdivision and other newer houses built in the area on lots because Council quickly recognized it had blown it first time the Cost for that would be about half of which Council Hopes would come from the provincial and Federal governments under a new cos sharing plan to improve Rural sewage the other half would be shared by about 50 other most of whom dont have any problem with their septic Fields because of larger Schmitke and Mandygo Arent holding their breath that neighbors Are going to be neighbourly and put up each to bail them even though a sewage system would increase their property values by about they believe the municipality should maybe the judge who hears the Case on april 26 will agree Schmitke int to blame even environment officer Gray agrees Schmitke is the and were identified As the but i have a Legal responsibility to fulfil Legal the Ball really should be in environment minister Gerard Mandygo is seeing him next month to ask him to intervene and so the minister should Ivel Trifi the ruins fund Ali lint of an injustice that Burk a Hunt a Call of ii i Usk into it 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