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INSURANCE PLAN In his report. he said. ~morally we believe there is an obligation on the city to provide coverage for any outâ€" standing claims. The employees have no say in the selection of benefit carâ€" riers and can reasonably be expected to believe that they will have continuâ€" ing coverage of benefit claaims under The city also agreed to cover the cost of any unpaid claims for city emâ€" ployees. which Hallman estimated would be about $12.000 ‘‘"Certainly. depending on the audit currently taking place (by liquidaâ€" tors), this may not be the case and it may be that certain claims will be paid or that a portion of each claim will be paid." Hallman said in his reâ€" port. We will have to wait official word on the outcome of the audit.~ In a report to council Terry Hallâ€" man. director of purchasing and Eerr sonnel. said it would a(rpear unlikely that any outstanding dental claims will be honored" by Coâ€"operative By the Chromcle Staff Counq! approved Monday a propoâ€" sal permitting Mutual Life of Canada to assume control of the city‘s dental insurance program following the reâ€" cent collapse of Coâ€"operative Health Services of Ontario whirch covered about 230 city employees Mutual gets gÂ¥f That‘s when the city brings in its 1981 budget. And it‘s also the time when council will study the latest proposal for extending transit serâ€" vice to Maple Heights. By Stewart Sutherland Residents who have spent more than a year lobbying for transit service to their southwest Waâ€" terloo subdivision will have to wait until March before learning the fate of the latest transit proposal. Council deferred Monday conâ€" sideration of cost estimates until it meets in a series of budget meetâ€" ings next month. The scheme to be considered inâ€" volves extending the existing Hallâ€" man Rd. route into the Maple Heights subdivision via Thorndale. Westvale. Gateview and Erb Sts. Full service would cost Waterloo about $20,000 annually while peakâ€" hour service would cost the city about $9,200 if the Hallman route is extended. Waterioo buys its transit service from Kitchener. Both Mayor Marjorie Carroll and city treasurer Don Schaefer have said residents will face a tax inâ€" crease this year following three years of zeroâ€"growth budgets. They have also said there may be some cuts in services provided by the city in order to keep the tax inâ€" crease down. Maple Heights bus service still possible the nod Mutual Life will cover city emâ€" ployees from March until December of this year when other companies will be asked to submit bids to the city for a longer coverage period ‘‘*We‘ve done everything we can and so has council," Glazer said. ‘‘If it doesn‘t make it into this year‘s budget then we‘ll drop it. There‘s no use kicking a dead horse around." » David Glazer. spokesman for the Maple Heights residents, said in an interview yesterday "there is a need and service is required in the (Maple Heights) area. If he had his choice, Glazer said he‘d choose the $9,200 peakâ€"hour service. For more than a year. a series of proposals and counterâ€"proposals have been sent back and forth beâ€" tween Kitchener and Waterloo councils over the transit issue and at one point Waterloo had decided to approach the Ontario Municipal Board for a ruling. a decision which was later dropped "In hindsight. it would have soived all problems if. some two yvears ago. a carrier other than Coâ€"op had been seâ€" lected for dental coverage." Hallman said. ~However. at the point in time when the decision was made there was no reason not to select Coâ€"op or to foresee the problems that would occur. We had been with this firm for three years previously with no probâ€" lems."~ **We need some norm of transit service, but we certainly don‘t want to go with full service at that ($20,000) cost."" Glazer said. Mayor Carroll said recently the Hallman extension would provide an interesting ‘‘experiment‘‘ to test the effect of extending existing transit routes into subdivisions beâ€" fore they are fully developed. Drea blamed the company‘s probâ€" lems on unnamed "sharks" who ran the firm and an uninformed board of directors As well as insuring 230 city emâ€" plovees, the company also covered 200 workers at Seagram‘s distillery and about 2.960 employees with the Waâ€" terloo county board of education And one casualty at budget time may be the transit service to Maple Heights. At a recent press conference. Frank Drea. minister of consumer and comâ€" mercial relations said of Coâ€"operative that ~sometime in the latter part of 1980. what was once a health insuranâ€" ce company... became a scam anv contract entered into by the city He cited an amendment on surtax in Bill Câ€"54 and complained "all corporate income tax returns filed for 1980 which reflect taxable income will have to be refiled or otherwise corrected when the law passes ~How‘s that for a fine example of governmental speed and efficiency." Duffy said. "It has meant that (businessmen» must operate for almost _ two years in a state of uncertainty. This state of uncerâ€" tainty creates frustration in the business comâ€" munity.~ Duffy noted that once the legislation is approved it will be retroactive back to the date it was first inâ€" troduced As an example. he cited Bill Câ€"54, to amend the Inâ€" come Tax Act which was first introduced in the illâ€" fated Crosbie budget of 1979 and is soon to become law Duffy, managing partner of the Waterioo office of Dunwoody and Company. chartered accountants. claimed the federal government has ignored the economy and the financial stability of Canada since before the election of the shortâ€"lived Clark governâ€" ment. During this period. Canadians have had "very litâ€" tle legislation that deals with our economic reality,~ Duffy said: For the past year we have heard little eise but talk from Ottawa about bringing the British North America Act home." Duffy told the audience at the Chamber‘s annual meeting at the Rink in the Park We hear about (Prime Minister) Trudeau‘s alâ€" most paranoid preoccupation with his Charter of Rights." Duffy said. We hear much about the disâ€" sident provinces and about Ontario being in bed with Ottawa." Duffy said matters have reached the point ~where we are allâ€"fed up with all this hot air and parliamenâ€" tary bickering.~ **We all have businesses to run. and you know as well as I do how long our business would last if we ran them with the same efficiency that our poliâ€" ticians run things in Ottawa."" he said. By Stewart Sutherland Constant bickering over Canada‘s constitution has diverted Ottawa‘s attention from more pressing matters, Jack Duffv. president of the Waterioo Chamber of Commerce said last Thursday Chamber president raps the government Alderman Jim Erb (right) explains a few fine points to Liberal MPP Herb Epp (Waterioo North) following the annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce last Thursday at the Rink in the Park. Epp and Erb heard new Chamber president Jack Duffy tell the gather â€" ing that Ottawa‘s bickering over constitutional proposals has kept it from more pressâ€" ing matters IT‘S LIKE THIS WA TERLOO CHRONICLE Waterloo park‘s pathâ€" ways provide an easy route for walkers comâ€" ing from the downtown near Waterloo arena, through the park and over footbridges to the University of Waterloo campus. On Feb. 9, an 18â€"yearâ€" old Kitchener man said in provincial court that he had indecently asâ€" saulted eight women in the park and at the uniâ€" {Continued from page 1) ing the problem. partly because there is no patâ€" tern to the attacks, other than that they occur in the park. , ~*How can the business community make decisions with such waffling." he said. "As a group of businâ€" essmen and women we can express our dissatisfacâ€" tion and frustrations both colilectively and inâ€" dividually to our members of parliament. As an example. Duffy noted Revenue Canada‘s recent uncertainty while formulating policies for nonâ€"registered pension plans. ~top hat" pension plans and employee accident policies. During his speech. Duffy also took issue with Reâ€" venue Canada‘s "waffling‘ on major policyâ€"making decisions that he said have left Canadian businessâ€" men frustrated. since the law is retroactive back to January 1. 1980 WEDNESOA Y Women cautioned FEBRUARY But Hoffman said Mills doesn‘t fit the deâ€" scription of the man asâ€" saulting women in the park and that. in any event, he was in custody at the time of the Feb. 10 rape Police are continuing their search for an asâ€" sailant and, in the meanâ€" time. caution women using the park to be careful. versity since last spring. The man. Christopher Mills of 5 High St.., was convicted of indecent asâ€" sault over an incident at a woman‘s home on Jan. 14. 26. 1981 â€" PAGE 3