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Condominium ' f _ decision deferred â€" The _ proposed _ budget. which is expected to be apâ€" proved tomorrow night, is $11.9 _ million more than last year. Taxes rose on an average of $45 in 1976. The board could trim another $500,.000 if they apâ€" proved a motion tomorrow from â€" Cambridge Trustee Ross Cromwell. The revised $87.2 million would result in an average tax increase of $62 for pubâ€" lic school supporters. Waterloo County board of education _ trustees _ last Thursday slashed another $465.000 off its proposed 1977 budget. Combined with cuts made Tuesday March 8. the board has trimmed $2.8 million off a budget which had climbed to $90 million. However, council turned down a motion from Ald. Mary Jane Mewhinney askâ€" ing the planning departâ€" ment to conduct its own inâ€" dependent survey of the tenants. This motion was turned down on the grounds that it would set a bad precedent for future conâ€" version requests. Council decided Monday to defer a decision on the conversion until city planner Paul Dietrich could exâ€" amine the leases and letâ€" ters furnished by the apartâ€" ment owner, Major Holdâ€" ings and â€" Developments Ltd., outlining the tenants‘ positions. A motion from Ald. Don Meston to proceed with the A decision on the request to convert the Westmount Towers I apartment buildâ€" ing to condominiums won‘t be made until the city‘s planning department can verify that 75 â€"percent of the tenants don‘t object to conversion. Most city aldermen had few comments to make this week about Waterloo‘s lack of a fire prevention bylaw for existing buildâ€" ings. Except for Ald. Marjorie Carroll, most have adopted a "wait and see" attitude pending a meeting this week between the fire chief and the city solicitor to discuss the possibility of a fire preâ€" vention bylaw. Ald. _ Marjorie _ Carroll said she was ‘"appalled" that Waterloo didn‘t have a fire prevention bylaw and that the matter had never been discussed durâ€" Fire chief, solicitor will discuss bylaw Board 0 waterioo chronicle 122nd Year No. 11 Board staff had originalâ€" ly requested an additional $2 million. $1 million each for the elementary and secâ€" ondary panels reserve. But trustees, feeling the board couldn‘t afford that amount this year. trimmed the reâ€" quest to $250,000 in each panâ€" el. Financial _ Administrator Gary Schleuter will report on the effects the proposed cut would have. Other than that, unless decisions are reconsidered. no major changes are exâ€" petted. He wants the $500.000. which is earmarked for the reserve fund,. eliminated. In seeking the cut. Mr. Cromwell felt that the proposed â€" budget‘s _ addiâ€" tional burden to the taxâ€" payer is still too high. Although Major Holdâ€" ings didn‘t receive the green light from council to go ahead with the project, sevâ€" eral aldermen said the company could begin peâ€" titioning _ the province for the conversion on its own while the city examines the leases and letters. Richard Van Velduisen, viceâ€"president of planning and development for Major Holdings, urged council to decide the fate of the conâ€" version â€" immediately _ so Westmount Towers I tenâ€" ants would know where they stood. He said the onus was on tenants to obâ€" ject to the conversion and none had. _ His company would provide verification of agreement to the conâ€" version but ‘‘"on the basis that no one has objected, we really don‘t have to proâ€" vide any written documenâ€" tation." processing of the conversion was also defeated by counâ€" cil. Ald. Carroll, who strongly criticized the city‘s fire prevention program several (Continued on page 2) ‘"‘The ramifications of not having alarms and safety devices in the downtown buildings and preventing fire loss and loss of life are to me just astronomical," she said. ing her three years on council. Arguments against the bylaw on the grounds of economics are ridiculous she said. ‘‘To try and place a monetary value on that type of program to me is ludiâ€" crous . Wednesday, March 16, 1977 The cuts would reduce the requests to $30.562 for elementary _ schools _ and $18.265 for secondary. Trustees also trimmed $92.000 for school sites imâ€" provement _ work. _ About $65.000 was reduced for elementary schools includâ€" ing $28.000 planned for Camâ€" bridge‘s _ Ryerson _ public school. The secondary panel was reduced by $27.000 cutting The _ major _ reduction lanned tennis Thursday was $200,000 for &laterloo Coll additional furniture and stitute and in equipment for both secondâ€" _ to the running | ary and elementary schools. _ terloo â€" Oxford Kitchener Trustee John Darling _ noted. _ though. that the additions were ‘‘not a very generous allotâ€" ment." David Heinmiller‘s hat says "M‘m, m‘m good‘" but his class mates Scott Wilson (left) and Shane Reptke (right) seem to disagree as they taste fresh maple sap at Laurel Creek Outdoor Education Centre in Waâ€" terloo. The three students from Crestview public school in Kitchener toured a maple bush run by outâ€" door education consultants for the Waterloo County Board of Education. For more pictures turn to page =» More than 30 designs for a city of Waterloo logo have already been received by the city council learned Monday. To clarify the requireâ€" ments for the designers, the logo committee set down a list of rules Monday for the contest Waterloo _ Collegiate Inâ€" stitute and improvement to the running track at Waâ€" terloo â€" Oxford _ secondary school in Baden. Funds for supply teachers was trimmed $73,000. The board allocated an additionâ€" Logo rules set down courts for Waterloo, Ontario Colors used in the logo should be black and gold, the city‘s official colors. The logo should be simple in design and adaptable for use in large or small sizes. An interpretive senâ€" tence describing the design may be included but is not essential. All entries will The original staff request was for $86,000 for elemenâ€" tary and $66,000 for seconâ€" dary schools. The board also saved $18.000 by adopting a sevâ€" al $42,363 for elementary supply teachers and $37,299 for secondary teachers. Waterloo Historical Society Museum fomp: Kitchener Public Library, Queen Street North, KITCHENER, Ont. All entries must be subâ€" mitted not later than April 29 to the Logo Committee, City of Waterloo, Attention: Ald. Walter McLean. The city has offered a prize of $100 to the winning design. become the property of the city. _ > Other small savings were made in maintenance, planâ€" ning and operations, â€" and data processing categories. enâ€"year phase in plan for the replacement of educaâ€" tional television equipment. The original request was for a fiveâ€"year plan.