Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 9, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba Focus venezuelans must make decisions results devastating As too much of Burden placed on the poor sports jets lose another Vancouver shuts out the jets ending Hopes for playoffs Tempo travelogue fashion Spring fashion Story reads like trip around world Cloudy tonight 2 showers tomorrow 3 March vol117n098 free re Sun rises am Sun sets pm Moon rises am Moon sets pm real outside Winnipeg Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class Mil number 0268 tax by Michael Boci Urkiw and Radha Krishnan Thampi civic commissioners have recommended property tax rate increases of per cent this year after revised fiscal projections turned up More than million in additional the new which must be approved by civic standing committees and is about percentage Points less than the original proposed increase recommended earlier this the revision Means the property tax on a House with a current assessment value of will go up by about instead of the proposed in the original operating budget estimates presented to councillors under the revised commission ers Are proposing expenditures of million More than the expected million in the commissioners had pro posed to spend million More than the expected million in revenues this fiscal which began the tax hike is estimated to net enough to cover the new estimated difference Between expenditures and manness questions interest rate tactic policy doubts finance commissioner Les Hutcheon Attri buted the million increase in new expenditures under the revised projections to items recommended by Community and standing committees during budget debates Over the past the revision was due to the emergence of new information from City officials and finalization of provincial Hutcheon said last he warned the projections could be thrown off if the province refuses to provide million to cover the cites losses in the changed school tax remittance sched he said the million increase in Revenue was based on the following Revenue in creases d million in property see Revenue Page 4 by Gerald flood and John Douglas Manitoba finance minister says he is losing Confidence in the decor nomic models used to support Feder Al and International policies of Rais ing interest rates to fight finance minister Clayton Man Ness said yesterday it appears Feder Al interest rate policies Are failing on a National level and harming prov like Manitoba i m afraid interest rate increases is a pretty Blunt instrument and Manitoba stands to he i say the interests of Manitoba Are not Well served with what weve got manness said a recent three week tour of european Money markets has shaken his belief in the economic models he Learned in the Money is moving so Quick amounts of Money from one country to the depending on interest rates and Exchange rates in beginning to ques Tion the economic pretty esoteric the financial i dont know if we can read them any i dont know if All the economic experts really know where this i understand what in saying to you is pretty but the models i Learned about when i was going to i dont know if Treyve got the answers for what weve got manness made the comments after Bank of Canada governor John Crow warned that provincial govern ments must get their financial House in order if they want lower interest Crow said that if provincial governments controlled their spending and reduced institutional monetary control would not be need Crow told a meeting of area rotary clubs yesterday the Bank of Canada has been forced to restrict the Money Supply by increasing interest rates because governments refuse to Cut they have continued to Defi he see manness Page 4 Wayne ree press Sherry Toth shows Quarter that doctors removed surgically from her Throat teachers ignored Childs pleas for angry parents charge by Lisa priest it took an eighty Earold about 40 minutes to convince her teachers she had swallowed a her parents charged last Sandra said she is considering Legal action after two teachers and the principal at Robertson school failed to take her daughter seriously when she sought Sherry was eventually taken to seven Oaks general Hospital and had the Quarter surgically removed from her oesophagus tuesday after telephoning her father from the the doctors told me my child could have died if the Quarter would have turned the wrong Davis my child have had to insist three times to teachers that she needs i think the staff is negligent and i dont want her at that school Sherry said last night that no one listened when she said she accidentally inhaled a Quarter in the girls washroom around noon after putting her hand to her Mouth while she said she complained to her homeroom teacher and was told its pretty impossible for you to Swallow a Quarter go have a she said she complained again to a substitute then to the without see frantic Page 4 Panda plan put on to Over profits zoological society fails to obtain import permits by Heidi Graham and Aldo Santin concern Over Panda exhibition profits has prompted an International Agency to temporarily halt plans to bring the animals to Winnipeg this an application to bring two pandas to Winnipeg has been rejected and the Manitoba zoological society is revising a second application to satisfy International a society spokesman said Al society said plans to use part of the proceeds to build an educational facility at the zoo have been Davies said he expects the application will be approved once see official Page 4 top City commissioner awarded 20year Deal by Radha Krishnan Thampi the City has signed an unusually generous 20year renew Able every five with new chief commissioner Richard coun cil sources said last under a complicated the sources currently chief administrator of the regional municipality of will be entitled to receive if the City decides to fire him without cause during the first five years of the Frost need give Only six months notice to the City if he wants to quit the chief commissioners one councillor five minute glimpse but a second councillor said his understanding is that the City need Only pay one years to Frost if it decides to fire him without but the second councillor added Hes not positive because like other got to see the 15page contract with who is expected to Start in for Only about five the sources said councillors were called to a closed meeting of civic executive policy committee an hour before last nights City Council meet ing and were Given specially marked copies of the contract for about five the copies were then taken Back by the City there was no Way we could make sense of that complicated document in five a councillor councillors said they cannot publicly discuss the Deal because they were sworn to secrecy before being shown the see Cadillac Page 4 rat b task Force studies policies on women issues funds urged to fight alter welfare by Patrick Mckinley the province should spend millions of dollars to fight wife abuse and improve welfare benefits for single a report from a task Force headed by a tory la As the report on women issues casts a negative Light on the governments election Promise to retain a two tier welfare with municipal governments handling Short term recipients and the province dealing with longer term the five Montgold women task headed by tory la Gerrie recommends that stronger measures to Deal with wife and child abuse be among the governments top besides tougher sentencing for abusers and a tracking program to Monitor How the police and courts Deal with the report recommends a thorough revamping of the Way crisis shelters Are Hammond said the changes would add about to the annual Cost of the crisis shelter at shelters Are divided into full time shelters and satellite centres which do not provide around Hemlock a service that is not staffed 24 hours is the report it recommends the province provide enough funding to staff All shelters and crisis phone lines 24 hours a in shelters should be Given Long Range funding commitments so they can carry out proper it concerning the two tier welfare the report says in some areas Access to municipal social assistance is difficult to it says municipal welfare is often administered in a punitive manner using a voucher system that is degrading to single by lowering their standing in the comm the municipal system May actually make it More difficult for women to obtain jobs and get off the report it recommends that All single Parent families on welfare be granted immediate Access to the provincial welfare Hammond Kirkfield Park said the rec if accepted by the govern would Cost about million to simple she acknowledged it was at Odds with the governments election Promise to retain sep Arate systems while standardizing the rates Hammond added she hoped problems with the administration of Munici pal welfare could be ironed out during ongo ing negotiations to standardize the the 55page report also recommends changes to a Host of other government pro among other it urges improved childcare facilities for working women and women in training a see minister Page 4 ;