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$1.000 _ before _ deciding whether or not to adopt a uniform sewage rate throughout the area. _ The funds will be spent to hire the auditing firm of Peat Marwick to assist in â€" establishing â€" accurate fiscal affects if the uniâ€" form rate was approved. A Regional finance deâ€" partment report has estiâ€" mated â€" that â€" Cambridge would pay $314,000 more in 1979 in sewage fees and Waterloo $100,000 more if uniform rates were adoptâ€" If uniform sewage rates were adopted throughout the Region, the city of Camâ€" bridge would have one more valid reason to secede from Waterloo Region. Another reason for Cambridge to leave Region That‘s the opinion of Cambridge Ald. Dave Durâ€" ward who has indicated he would start a petition to sever Cambridge from the Region if the uniform structure was adopted. Going to a uniform rate, which still has to be decided by Regional council, would cost Cambridge $246,000 next year and $314,000 in 1979 more than under the current system. Waterloo would also pay $40,000 more next year and $100,000 more in 1979 if the uniform structure was esâ€" tablished. All five other loâ€" cal municipalities would save money. ‘"What possible justificaâ€" tion is there for a Regional uniform sewage rate when assumption â€" creates such disparities and indeed hardâ€" ship upon two members of the R'egion‘.’" writes Ald. Durward in a report to Reâ€" gional council last week. â€" "It it is intended to see the dominant municipality and rural areas against Cambridge and Waterioo, then it will succeed." Some members of Reâ€" gional council, such as Kitâ€" chener Mayor Morley Roâ€" senberg. support a oneâ€"tier government as opposed to the current twoâ€"tier system. The Waterloo Region Branch of the Canadian Menâ€" tal Health Association will be holding their fifth anâ€" nual art auction on Friday, November 4. The proceeds of the auction will be used to support and further the programs of the Mental Health Association of Waterâ€" loo Region. Evie Amis, curator of Beaux Arts Internationale in Toronto, will be presenting 150 paintings, prints, lithographs and sculptures by local, Canadian and inâ€" ternationally renowned artists, our OWn Peter Etrhil Snyder among them The auction will be held at the Columbus Centre. 110 Manitou Drive,. Kitchener. with a wine and cheese preview at 7:30 p.m. Commencing at 8:30 p.m. Neil Fogel of New York will conduct the auction. Art auction for mental health The general public, particularly those interested in art. are encouraged to attend this event. The price of admission is a donation of $3.00 per person and inâ€" cludes wine and cheese | â€" Un"ifon_'n sewage rateé"""" 1 e Region to spend $1,000 before deciding In making the request for the additional study, Regional chairman â€" Jack Young said Thursday he doesn‘t doubt the accurâ€" acy of those figures but questioned the assumpâ€" tions used in arriving at the figures. ed. All five other municiâ€" palities would save monâ€" The Region is under pressure to make a deciâ€" sion before the end of the year. A $1.5 million proâ€" vincial grant is available "It is evident from the various attempts at standâ€" ardization that‘ there is considerable sympathy with their attitude. To me, this is just another nail in the coffin which contains our legislated _ twoâ€"tier _ sysâ€" tem." Ald. Durward noted. The province has made a $1.5 million subsidy availâ€" able to the Region until the end of the year to help cushion cost shifts. But Ald. Durward points out: *"Even if Cambridge were â€" given the entire amount, it would not be any bargain in face of the mounting charges. With our present plants and projectâ€" ed growth, we do not antiâ€" cipate new capacity needs for some 10 years, so do not expect any improveâ€" ment in the cost strucâ€" ture. s _ ‘"This discrimination just cannot be accepted." he concludes. "I do not dény funds have been allocated, to Camâ€" bridge. but simply submit from my knowledge of the system and revenues involyâ€" ed that our municipality could have financed the capital expenditures necesâ€" sary â€" without embarrassâ€" ment, _ without â€" expending many thousands of dollars in consulting fees and without the amount charged by the â€" Region,~ _ said Mr. Durward. former manager of the Galt PUC. to help cushion cost shifts by adopting uniform rates but that offer lapses at the end of 1977. Mr. Young has asked Ontario Treasurer Darcy McKeough to extend the provincial subsidy‘s offer until after the completion of the Regional governâ€" ment review under Wilâ€" liam Palmer. uniform rate. However, he is not optimistic that Mr. McKeough will agree to the extension. An answer is expected this week. Mr. Young also said support for a uniform to receive Mr. Palmer‘s Waterioo Chronicle, Wednesday, November 2, 1977 â€" Page 33 rate is not support for a to council by Cambridge oneâ€"tier local government Ald. Dave Durward. Ald. system. Under the current Durward feels a uniform twoâ€"tier structure, some sewage rate ‘"is just anâ€" responsibilities should be other nail in the coffin‘ of those of the upper tier the twoâ€"tier system. | palities, he said. local municiâ€" adopted, Cambridge would have another legitimate reason to secede from the it