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Waterloo Mayor Marjorie Carroll came under verbal atâ€" tack at a special meeting of the Waterloo County Board of Education last Thursday night. Kitchener trustee Barbara Fraser criticized the Mayor for her remarks following the announcement that taxpayers face a $736,000 schoolâ€"tax burden this year because of an unâ€" derestimated cost of living allowance (COLA) in teachers‘ 78 contracts. Cérroll clashes wlthboard fiustgzzgr Jg’f‘féfia. rose from 270 students in 1972 to 850 in 1973 and has reâ€" mained at this number. Dr. Bongard said enrolment is limitâ€" ed only by the number of qualified teachers. Commencing in 1973 the school became part of the board and was operated and funded through continuing éducation. More recently it was funded through the ministry of educaâ€" tion‘s Heritage Language program The spokesman criticized the board for giving parents such short notice. Funding was to have ended in June 79. ‘*All of us realize that cutting taxes is an unpleasant task You are doing your best to be fair and just. On the other hand we did not have a chance to make reasonable plans and solutions."" he said. Mr. Finch. a representative of the German Language hool‘s parents‘ organization. said the school is unique in taterloo County and the province considers its ties with /est Germanyv close enough to support a teacher exchange program in which Waterloo County is actively involved. He said that any move to disband the school at a time when Canada is trving to strengthen ties with West Germany is disappointing Mr. Finch also suggested that in the future ~the board should let people know when they plan to axe a program that provides a service to so many people. _‘ Damial Sahas. spokesman for the Greek Language School. was appreciative of the board‘s efforts to have the program funded one more vear. He said the parents were ~caught by surprise and didn‘t have any contingency plans and this gives us one more year to plan _ Greek classes are presently held at Howard Robertson public school in Kitchener and enrolment is 228 Not all of the pupils are of Greek origin (Continued from page 1) Cleanup procedures were underway Sunday morning after a Friday night fire in downtown Waterloo. The fire gutted a number of businesses at 22â€"26 King St., and kept firefighters busy for most of the night. Cause of the blaze is under investigation. > â€" rovince to fund schools Mayor Carroll was quoted in the Kâ€"W Record &s saying it is ‘‘*grossly wrong for taxpayers to have to pick up any school board deficit. * Sheâ€"suggested the school board try to take the COLA clause out of new contracts "even if it has to face the possibility of a strike." ~ The Mayor went on to suggest "there should be a major uprising of taxpayers against the board with a battle being fought at the election polts"‘. Included in the budget cut was funding for the Kâ€"W Gymâ€" nastics Club. Donald Davis. representing the parents‘ adâ€" visory group for this club. said he recognized the board‘s necessity to control increasing costs but said the club‘s Saâ€" turday morning sessions have trained over 350 individuals and are providing training unavailable anywhere else in the community. Waterloo trustee Dr. Don Baker said he understood the way in which the cut came about but said it was regrettable and the board owed an apology to those affected. He criâ€" ticized fellow trustees for making the cuts before the people involved were consulted In the future we should go to the people involved. share the problem with them and have them working with us to bring economics about. _ he said Lynne Woolstencroft. board chairman. said the board had not made the cuts at a moments notice but agreed that the people involved should be consulted. She said the groups inâ€" volved should take this as fair warning and understand the funding is for one vear only under continuing education The program operates primarily at Kitchener Collegiate Institute and the club has to date supplied $10.000 worth of equipment used by this and many other schools in the countyv. Mr. Davis stressed the club‘s involvement in both the community and the schools and said that if the board‘s fundâ€" ing was removed fees would increase from the present $30 to $60. ~‘This increase would reduce the numbers to such an exâ€" tent it‘s questionable whether the club could continue." he said. The Kâ€"W Gymnastics Club will also be reinstated and funded as a continuing education program for one more vear if and when the ministry puts their approval in writing In the past the Mayor has been opposed to the suggestion ‘that the school board become responsible for collecting its own taxes but was quoted as saying, "I‘m tired of getting complaints®‘. Now she feels it may be time for the school board to take over this collection from the municipalities. Kitchener Mayor Morley Rosenberg also suggested the board should get rid of COLA in the new contract. Mrs. Fraser considered the Mayors® remarks to be "~irâ€" responsible meddling and Mayors® Carroll and Rosenberg would have accomplished far more if they had been out yesâ€" terday cleaning the street‘. Mrs. Fraser suggested municipal officials should leave educational matters to those who know what it‘s about and stick to their responsibilities involving water. sewage. garâ€" bage pickâ€"up and asphalt. Toronto recently. A Waterloo optometrist, Dr. G.A. Grant, has been reâ€"elected to the Board of Directors of the Ontario Asâ€" sociation of Optometrists. The election took place at Dr. Grant has been practicing optometry in the Waâ€" terloo area for 10 years. He has been active on a number of committees and is a partâ€"time clinician at {he School of Optometry at the University of Waâ€" erloo. Aside from being generally junwelcomed by moâ€" torists and pedestrians alike, the snow that fell on the city over the past week will cost taxpayers close to $10,000. Waterloo‘s commissioner of works, James Willis quoted the ‘"round figure"" as a likely cost to cover snowclearing expenses in the city. Ironically, during the city‘s 1979 budget meeting, $10,000 was chopped off the preliminary figure of $179,507 covering snow cleaning expense estimates for the entire year. The preliminary figure was felt to be high in view of the light snowfall during the first three months of 1979. ‘‘We should be alright,"" quipped Ald. Walter McLean during the budget meeting, "if we don‘t have a major snowstorm before April 6." The estimate used in the budget calculations is still $30,000 higher than the actual snowclearing cost for 1978. Whether the amount budgeted is adequate will depend upon the amount of snowfall during the last quarter of 1979. The improvements, estimated to cost $75,000, will go into the section of King St. between William St. and Herbert St. as the first phase of a program covering the entire downtown area. The cost of the work will be shared by taxpayers and downtown merchants whose property lies in the revitalized area, the latter paying an estimated $25,000. Work is scheduled to begin next Thursday to bring trees and globe type street lights back to a section of Waterloo‘s downtown core. Mayor Marjorie Carroll said that Waterloo already has several procedures in place that are saving enâ€" ergy. but it is difficult to assess the exact amounts inâ€" volved. City Treasurer Don Schaefer assured the comâ€" mittee that an internal reporting system could be set up to verify future savings The program. formed by the Association of Counties and Regions of Ontario (ACRO). is designed to enâ€" courage straightâ€"forward housekeeping measures rather than capital spending." said ACRO‘s executive director. Sheila Richardson. Despite the fact City of Waterloo officials consider they have a good track record in the area of energy conservation. the Protective Services Committee voted Monday to appoint Ald. Richard Biggs their reâ€" presentative in a provinceâ€"wide program of energy conservation awareness. Daylight Saving Time comes to Waterloo at 12:01 am.. April 29. and won‘t leave us until Oct. 28. The City‘s Legislative and Personnel Committee passed a resolution Monday approving the time change Waterloo at a glance White stuff costs $10,000 Those lazy, crazy, hazy days of summer . . . Downtown revitalization work begins next week annual meeting of the association, héld in Alderman appointed to conservation group Local optometrist reâ€"elected to board