Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 12, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free March councillors push win reforms continued from Page 1 and those of other were sparked by a recent free press series that examined the cites Bud get process and focused on Deli very and Cost of City Greg Selinger civic finance committee and Glen Murray Riveros both members of Winnipeg in the nineties said they want to see the City adopt More win proposals designed to Reform the Selinger said he wants to have the budget in place before the beginning of the fiscal year instead of the current system of approving the budget three months into the the Way it is if you reduce the it Means you have to leverage up the number of jobs and services so they Are were already spending Money now which Hast been Selinger said he also wants to see the administration forecast budgets for the next three there would be no More Toper cent budget increases before an election with a 16percent increase the next he a Council three years ago would have known capita budget borrowing would put a five percent increase on to Mill rates this Murray said the City has adopted about 25 per cent of the Windup ported budget reforms since they were announced last if our 15 recommendations were fully they would have More effect than a hiring he the win recommendations in clude tying spending priorities to Council determining Essen tial and nonessential services with in each listing real costs for services rather than spreading them out in different Bud get and having budget items reflect past experience rather than it makes cents pennies were poured out at the Eaton place Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce yesterday As donations were collected for the alzheimer society of Manitoba to help in support and caregiving for victims Winkler continued from Page 1 Dauphin Deputy mayor Louis Trach said the postponement of the move will Hurt the towns it wont sit Well with i can assure of Trach at the same he said he want surprised by the we All know were in a you can Only make moves that Are really Filmon justified the govern ments decision to rethink its intentions on say ing All areas of government spending Are being recons if there Are expenses involved with any aspect of government operations that cant be justified in the Short term things will have to be Filmon Downey said yesterday Only 250 jobs have been moved to Date and the target of moving 692 employees by will not be Winkler mayor Henry Wiebe said last night he was disappointed by the governments decision because it could mean the town wont get 30 jobs that would help revitalize the Community we saw this As an Opportunity to do something with our Down town Core and put More activity Down Wiebe we were hoping for a positive Impact and that Impact might not Hap despite the Wiebe said he was still confident 30 jobs from the education departments Cor Respondence would be moved because the Winnipeg building the office now occupies has been Neepawa mayor Homer Gill also said he was confident the government would relocate 30 jobs to the town by the i Haven heard anything to the so in expecting Well get them sometime in the but Gill added an announcement for tenders on the new Crown land management office was delayed for six weeks last he said he did not know Why there was a nip Leader Gary doer said the tories have been dishonest with the electorate in announcing the plan would deliver almost 700 jobs to Rural Manitoba by they didst Tell us their hands were tied last year when they said they had million for decentralization and they didst Tell us during the election that the Economy was going Bank of Canada g called to account for spending by Clyde Graham the Canadian press Ottawa the Bank of Canada seems to be spending a lot of the Money it prints on its own a plants and says the chairman of the commons finance and tory my Don Blenka added that hell Call Central Bank governor John Crow before his committee As Early As next week to find out Why his spending is up More than 11 per cent when the government is preaching were going to be having Crow before the committee Over the indians flood Back to reserves continued from Page 1 chief Sydney Garrioch of the Cross Lake band More people will require More will require More people will re quire Bill by parliament in was designed to right a historic wrong in the Indian implemented More than 100 years the amendment allowed women their families lost their status through marriage to no indians to receive treaty Federal bureaucrats originally expected about natives to regain but by last applications had been made representing of peo ple had status while thou Sands More applications Are still being since the the status Indian population in Canada has grown 19 per cent due to Bill c31 total growth has been 33 per More than applications under Bill c31 were filed in Manitoba in Cross for the band has received More than 750 applications for 450 of which have been approved so leaders expect about 80 per cent of those c31 applicants to eventually return to the Northern according to Federal the status Indian population is the fas test growing in Canada increasing at a rate almost double the rest of the from 1977 to the on Reserve population of Manitoba Indian bands jumped 68 per statistics Canada figures those same figures estimate the status Indian population will jump from about in 1986 to up wards of by the year ramifications of the instant growth spurred by c31 have been it has returned to Many a lost while others now find theirs it has created Harmony in some native while igniting animosity in this is not just a native prob Robert a University of Winnipeg history its larger than while native communities wrestle with the impacts of Bill All Canadian taxpayers have been left to foot the enormous Cost of the a Survey of Northern Community councils conducted last year compiled by the u of is Urban studies group concluded the implementation of c31 has been an unqualified the already overwhelming response to the reinstatement Issue is fast becoming an unmanageable High percentage of local Popula the report the process is very slow and Garrioch there is no mechanism right now that will get this thing under Way this is years of frustration weve gone in the Impact of the amendment on most Large reserves Jias been nothing Short of phenom Nal while some communities have hardly been affected by the Legisla others have been swamped by c31 natives seeking band member new schools on these re serves Are bursting at the on the Sandy Bay Indian where students overflow into base ment More than 100 children enter the school system each four times More than there were five years this is astronomical its growing in leaps and Dennis the bands school were just making its going to get he those kids we have in Kindergan whats going to happen when they get to Grade 6 or 7 at the education officials estimate a new kindergarten to Grade 12 school under construction will be at capacity come next projections for enrolment Esti mated at about 600 did not include reinstated status along came Bill c31 and now you have to look at expansion before you even open the Philip executive director for the swampy Cree tribal other programs such As Wel Post secondary education and medical services Are for in Cross band administrators have been swamped with welfare applications from new c31 band the band Council budgeted for welfare assistance at the begin Ning of the last fiscal those funds ran out in William welfare administrator for the Cross Lake expects welfare payments on the Reserve to each More people Are he which leaves Many native leaders wondering if the True Impact of Bill c31 has yet to be i dont think it will be Felt for a number of Angus chief of the Sandy Bay were still getting c31 theres going to be a crunch Down the line where we have to provide for the tomorrow Homecoming causes friction daily peal yesterdays results Are King of 6 of 9 of clubs and King of a match of All four playing cards on one selection wins times the a match of three playing cards wins 30 times the Wager and a match of two wins three times the overhead costs at the Bank of Canada in Blenkarn said yester Day outside the theres some concern expressed by All sides of the House on Blenkarn said Hes interested in details of spending at the Bank of Canadas imposing Glass and Stone buildings near parliament Hill from salaries to maintaining the indoor Garden and total spending by the Bank of Canada Rose by per cent in 1990 to reach million compared with million in says the Banks 1990 annual Crow was among 42 senior govern ment executives who got a per cent raise on 25 one Day before finance minister Michael Wilson brought Down a budget that put a three per cent Cap on Public service crows actual annual wage is be but the salary Range for the Job Rose to Between and from Between and the increase was retroactive to in crows annual 1990 spending on total salaries at the Bank Rose by about nine per cent to although the number of staff increased by two per and there was a 24 per cent Rise in the Cost of travel and staff to million from million in Blenkarn said there Are a lot of concerns other than including the Bank it looks pretty Juicy to pretty he its elaborate Safete and theres the people Treyve got i think theres some concern that the costs Are in the Wilson said the salary Bill at the Bank increased for a number of he said there was a Basic Struc Tural increase for Fulland part time staff at the Bank of Canada the equivalent of full time Wilson added that the Bank also Laid off some staff and replaced them with employees More highly qualified and therefore people who would be paid More he added that the staff also got performance pay because of the Banks profit Liberal my John Manley said Crow cant have the credibility to urge canadians to accept High inter est rates to fight inflation when his own costs Are rising so 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