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PAGE 4 -- WATEHLOO macaw, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, no: mm PM _ Inside In! I 1iKEtlEiai5 ans-5m Thurs & Fr: 930-900 v w - - -- _ The mm» mung Commtttoq no - at tho Kitchen-r FW' Mark-Q cowl-Hy “who you to “and the 1962 wooing of tho arttntae-attmtt SUNDAY FESTIVAL OF ARTS & CRAFTS Walloon . Draw: ' 890cm Fenian. Upper Lev-l. Ruckus Farm" Market coma Frederick I Oak. sum OVER 'tlulo CITIZENS "I and 3rd Sunday of ouch month OPEN SUNDAY, MARCH 21st 12 noon to 5:00 p.m. Paint“ on the out: tletoat on“. and canon-on Evovythlng h 5"»th for purchase as . ml tum" or 00' that touch! .omqoetq FREE PARKING (enter gauge from Scott St.) FREE ADMISSION REFRESHIIENTS M5-721 5 s... 57" W41" C. T“ .e'htomt In “an Ora-I m. Floor. 900. 82.“ WON. Fug. 59.“ Hoot. a... use _r'i'iljiiG(r,iE, Westmount We would like to take this opportunity to welcome the return of Sher to our staff. Sher will be more than pleased to help you with any Hair Care needs. WESI'IOW PLACE Wanna-mt Rd. at an: I. W. Wm "on. poor appointment today Open Moo., Tut... Sot. 9:304 am Wed., Thur... Fri. 9:30-0:30 p.m Perms with this coupon Valid until March 31st. excluding Saturdays. 20% on "__- School hoard estimates 'ts levy increase of 9.7% For administrators at the board, the bud- get will mean a little belt tightening and some new programs will have to be re- vamped or delayed, To According to director of education Bill Town- shend the 1982 budget if approved will menu a $41.40 increase in prop erty tax to the owner of a home assessed at $5.000 and boils down to $8.28 for every $1,000 worth of assessment. Increased 'gssess- ment in the region of six per cent helped offset the impact of the budget on regional ratepayers. The board will have to levy 9.7 per cent more from the region than it did last year. The budget, which goes before the hoard tomorrow night, calls for expendituies of $149,819,585. During a meeting Saturday the board agreed to dip into re serves, slash expendr tunes, and keep hiring to a minimum. By Ray Martin Ottieiatt, with the Waterloo County Bond of Education are de- scribing it as a bare bones budget but even at that it represents increased expenditures of 13.38 per cent over last year. At the conclusion of Saturday's meeting trustees directed the administration to find new ways to use exist, ing non-leaching staff in order to reduce hir- In spite of the three- day marathon budget meeting in which pre- sentations were made from each of the boards departments many of the details of the new budget have yet to be hammered out by the administra- tors for board approval Thursday night. Those demands ac- cording to the director of education come as the result of layoffs, recession' and the in. crease in leisure time. Townshend also cited the ministry of educa- tion requirement for the upgrading of pro- grams for the gifted and handicapped (Bill 82) as another reason for the increase. tor of finance Gary Schlueter. The extra $t.5 mir lion needed this year is the result ot, "the in- creased demands placed on the board by the public," Town- shend explained. maintain the board's operations without any expansion would have required funds totall- ing 3M8,319,585, ac- cording to administra- tor of finance Gary, " .1 Um km rohogs bowed an Iroowor' Conodo unmoved texf meyttrods sift? Aum BilllrlllWlillll.tt I' t CiI[P" iilreRjIliE LIMITED 550 WEBER ST. N., WATERLOO 884-7470 grams, ttnd ways other than debenturing to cover the board's cur- rent caplul costs and consider using the $1 million reserve funds to hire needed addi- tional teaching staff. The new budget for the board is one of the first set by educators this year across the province, according to ing, minimize guts to Aid. Mary Jane Mewhinney applauded “the flexibility of the report" which, she said, "gives the club itself an idea of where they stand so they can start raising money if they wish." Funding of the project, said the report. could come from a number of sources, including Wintario and other provincial government grants, contribution from a local service club and through the fund, raising efforts of the minor soccer club. [Commued from page 1) preparation of a championship pitch. The report suggests that $235,000 be spent on stage five, (1986), to prepare extended soccer fields. However, the report said, the largest part of the funding. almost $1 million. must come from city of Waterloo coffers. Although construction of an indoor facility has been included in the staged plan, with $636,000 to be spent in stage seven (1988) and $5541.680 in stage nine (1990) the community services depart- ment has recommended that a recreation. al consultant be hired by the city to conduct a needs study before work is (65 MPGI* Soccer business administrator Jack Tummon "We are one of the biggest boards in the province and this bud get will challenge the other boards as they go about setting their bud gets. The only ones who may be able todo it will likely be those boards who are closing schools or not hiring start," he said rche My [ onv,othort WI" vow