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‘Page 2 â€" Waterioo Chronicle, Wednesday, September 8, 1976 A public meeting for residents of Waterloo Region, Wellington and Oxford Counties and Guelph will be held on September 30, 1976 at 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. to $:30 p.m. and on October 1, 1976 at 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Kitchener Public Library Auditorium, 85 Queen Street North, Kitchener, to receive submissions, both oral and written, from local governâ€" ment representatives, property taxpayers and ak other interested parties, concernâ€" ing the proposals that have been put forward by the Government of Ontario as a means of establishing a new system of property taxation based on market value assessment. This meeting is one of a series which the Commission is conducting throughout Ontario this summer and fall, before submitting its recommendations to the governâ€" ment. ‘ The proposals, originally published in the 1976 Ontario Budget, Budget Paper E, entitiled Reform of Property Taxation in Ontario, are as follows: 1. Resigences in Ontario, collectively, _ of market value, except residences . will bear a reduced share of property which will be taxed at 50 percent of taxes. market value. 2. Residential property will be redefined 8. A uniform method of phasingâ€"in the to include only residences and a new tax system over a period of up to reasonable amount of land. five years will be available to prevent 3. The present practice of levying difâ€" abrupt tax changes. L. ferent mill rates on residential and 9. Assessment rolls will be returned and commercial properties will be disconâ€" enumeration will be performed every tinued. two years to coincide with local 4. Farmland, farm buildings, managed government elections. forests and farm residences will be 10. Assessment on provincial government assessed at market value. Farmland, property will be pooled and assigned farm buildings and managed forests between the pubtic and separate eleâ€" wilt be taxed at 100 percent of market mentary schools in the same proporâ€" value and the taxes will be paid by the tion as the taxable assessment asâ€" Province. Farm residences will be signed by the owners and occupants taxed as all other residences at 50 perâ€" of residences. cent of market value and the taxes will 11. Costs shared among municipalities be paid by the owner. There will be will be shared on the basis of the provision to recover taxes paid by the assessment on which taxes and payâ€" Province if the property changes use. ments in lieu of taxes are based. 5. All real property used for the purpose 12. Where assessment is to be used to of a business including government determine the grant to be paid to a administrative facilities will be subject municipality, the assessment used to an additional assessment of 50 perâ€" will be the assessment on which taxes cent of market value for business and payments in lieu of taxes are taxes. based. 6. All public property except residences 13. The provisions of The Assessment Act will be subject to payments in lieu of will apply to the assessment of all real taxes equal to full taxes at 100 percent property in Ontario, including areas of market value. Public residences will without municipal organizations. be subject to payments in lieu of taxes 14. Public bodies which receive provincial equivalent to full taxes at 50 percent of grants, such as school boards, will be market value. Public utilities will be allowed to include their property tax subject to business assessment at 50 payments as allowable expenses for percent of market value. grant purposes. 7. As is the present case, churches, 15. Ontario‘s property tax credits which cemetemies, and property held in trust relate property taxes to the ability to for a band or body of Indians will be pay will, if necessary, be strengthened exempt. Atl other presently exempt upon implementation of the new property will be taxed at 100 percent system. Property Tax Reform in Ontario Copies of Budget Paper E containing background and explanatory information, in addiâ€" tion to the proposals themselves, may be obtained, free of charge, from regional assessment offices or from Mr. Lawrence Close, Executive Secretary, Commission on Property Tax Reform, Fifth Floor, Frost Building South, Queen‘s Park, Toronto M7ZA 1YÂ¥7. telephone (416) 965â€"9300. If you plan to appear and present q written or oral subâ€" mission, please notify Mr. Close in advance. by letter or telephone. We would also apâ€" preciate receiving one copy of any written submission, prior to the meeting. Since the purpose of these meetings is to help ensure thai the new taxation system 1S implemented in an efficient and equitable manner, the Coemmussion hopes that all Ontamo residents with opinions and suggestrions to offer will manage to make thair representations to us. kA Ont ar The Commission t'o Review Proposals or NOTICE OF MEETING of market value, except residences which will be taxed at 50 percent of market value. A uniform method of phasingâ€"in the new tax system over a period of up to five years will be available to prevent abrupt tax changes. L. Assessment rolls will be returned and enumeration will be performed every two years to coincide with local government elections. Assessment on provincial government property will be pooled and assigned between the public and separate eleâ€" mentary schools in the same proporâ€" tion as the taxable assessment asâ€" signed by the owners and occupants of residences. Costs shared among municipalities will be shared on the basis of the assessment on which taxes and payâ€" ments in lieu of taxes are based. Where assessment is to be used to determine the grant to be paid to a municipality, the assessment used will be the assessment on which taxes and payments in lieu of taxes are based. The provisions of The Assessment Act will apply to the assessment of all real property in Ontario, including areas without municipal organizations. Public bodies which receive provincial grants, such as school boards, will be allowed to include their property tax payments as allowable expenses for grant purposes. Ontario‘s property tax credits which relate property taxes to the ability to pay will, if necessary, be strengthened upon implementation of the new system. Willis L. Blair Chairman School transit _ problems will be investigated The city‘s administrative committee will investigate the possibility of holding staff meetings between the city and the boards of eduâ€" cation to discuss transporâ€" tation problems. _Council directed the comâ€" mittee to look into this matâ€" ter Tuesday after Doreen Thomas, chairman of the Waterloo County Board of Education, asked council to pick two representatives to meet with both the sepâ€" arate school board and the public school board to disâ€" cuss transportation. HOME CARE choice of professional nursing We are in the business of helping people. COMCARE provides your IWOPIVERTRRICT PVR BMR MR CCC light housework and all those extras that make life easier for you. 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But I have a sneakâ€" ing suspicion that it‘s anâ€" other way of putting responâ€" sibility for school transporâ€" tation on the city,"‘ said Ald. Marjorie Carroll. Ald. Carroll asked the city treasurer to compare the provincial transportaâ€" tion subsidies available to the city with those availâ€" able to boards of education. to transport school chilâ€" dren than the school board," she said. +7 "It would agpear that it is more costly for the city Ald. Carroll also argued that public transit should not be used to transport school children â€" because the bus drivers do not know how to control stuâ€" dents. In her letter to council Mrs. Thomas also asked council about the possibility of constructing a crosswalk to accommodate students from the Breezewood comâ€" munity attending Empire school. Mayor Herb Epp said no land is available for a crosswalk in that area ‘"so the idea of a crosswalk is out". Organist is appointed The _ appointment _ of Clement Carelse as Organâ€" ist and Choirmaster, Church of the Holy Saviour, Waterâ€" loo, is announced. _ The appointment is effective Sept. 1. Mr: Carelse, a native of South Africa, studied music at the University of Capetown, and at Trinity College, London, England. In Canada, he has studied under Charles Peaker, Melâ€" ville Cook, and the late John _ Sidgewick, _ under whom he achieved his perâ€" former‘s diploma in organ. He has given recitals in London, England, and in Toronto, _ Brantford _ and Hamilton, Ontario. Ontamo Funeral Service Association