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133rd Year No. 6 The boundaries of the Uptown Business Improvement Area may soon be expanded. Monday‘s city council directed staff to prepare a byâ€"law and a "notice of intent‘" to expand boundaries, and circulate the notice to affected business owners. lan Kirkby Chronicle Staff Under the proposal submitted to council, the Uptown boundaries would be extended south of Erb St. from Regina St. to Willow St. and also along the south side of William St. Included in the new designation would be the Erb Centre. A report to council noted, "there are no commercial businesses located on the south side of William St. at present but there are a number of industrial businesses within a building which will be redeveloped in the near future". % T w2 i 1 1 ! _ 22 P 1. none S d ge® s _ Also s‘iggdfo;d'es;g;atxâ€"ot; is a parcel of land adjacent to Alexandria School. H‘K;;;.merchant.s opposed to the designation will be able to make representation before city council before a byâ€"law is passed, said Waterloo Commissioner of Planning Tom Slomke. â€" Not included in the current proposal is an extension of the boundaries north of Erb St., including the Regina St. area, though the Uptown BIA originally hoped to have this area included. An Oct. 7, 1987 public meeting to discuss the proposal heardobjecâ€" tions from merchants composing the "Regina Side Streets" group. _ While talks continue between the Regina merchants and the Uptown, Planning Commissioner Tom Slomke said he "just drew a line on Erb St." for the current proposal. _ _ oo If the proposal is adopted by council, businesses within the boundaries will pay a levy to the city which will be redistributed to the BIA. The BIA spends most of its budget for beautification and promotion of the area. P ielldleresds i idendiih mt in ie sn s Terry Hollohan, BIA Chair is "very happy" with council‘s decision to prepare a byâ€"law. ‘‘We‘re doing it a step at a time, a couple of blocks at a time," he said. â€" e . “lt's‘a n.;t:;aâ€"l' progression of growth for the BIA. We‘ve done King and Regina and it‘s time we started cleaning up the Erb St. corridor"‘. If municipalities are allowed to decide on Sunday shopping, it could cost those who decline millions of dollars in retail investment, Mayor Marjorie Carroll told council Monday night. Commenting on a letter from the Association of Municipalities of Ontario opposing the local "option", Carroll said, "no municipality should go to any kind of referendum. We want no local option and will continue to fight it." â€"-S-fr;“;;:éée&d to council that large retailers will invest money in communities which allow Sunday shopping. _ Do To those who are happy to allow the municipality to decide the issue, Carroll argued that the province has prosecuted only one merchant of the more than 500 charged with violating Sunday shopping in the past several years. "Think of the kind of money it would mean to try and enforte (a Sunday opening ban) against anyone who defied it," she said. Wtbepmvineeannotmdlutywitwmdddlovmunicipdi' ties to decide the issue, no legislation has yet been introduced. e Sunday shopping foes could face spinâ€"off problems with retail Extended boundaries . planned for Uptown BIA New easierâ€"toâ€"operate equipment and computers With computers in place, there is a demand for aren‘t putting more free time into the hands of more information by governments, requiring time school secretaries â€" they are helping to increase the for input into the computers as well as research. workload. With increased demands more secretaries _ Besides all the other details of secretaries including are needed within the Waterloo County, said â€" petty cash and photocopying, schools have seen a 95 representations from two principal associations. per cent increase in phone handsets during the last The two principal‘s associations presented the seven years, he said. Secretaries answer between board of education Thursday with independently _ 1,000 and 1,250 calls weekly. The two principal‘s associations presented the board of education Thursday with independently written budgetary requests, each which contained remarkably similar demands. The bottom line â€" schools need more secretarial staff and larger budgets for print m_weriala. Since 1980, said Paul Atkinson, representing the Secondary School Principals‘s Association, "there has been a tremendous increase in responsibility of office staff." The increased workload was attributed to the use of computers, and the implementation of French immersion; the semester system, coâ€"op programs; special education and program changes which require additional paperwork and /preparaâ€" tion. Office overlioad cited by principals Waterloo skater Christine Hough graciously signed autographs for young supporters after a demonstration Saturday night by the Preston Figure Skating Club. One haif of the reigning Canadian pairs championship team, Hough and partner Doug Ladret left for the Calgary Olympics yesterday afternoon. See page 5 for a feature on Hough and the Preston club. WATERLOO‘S SHINING STAR 35 cents While secondary schools have seen a 19 per cent increase in the number of teachers and a 2.2 per cent hike in student enrolment, secretarial posiâ€" tions have increased by 4.4 per cent since 1980 and that was a result of the opening of a new school, said Mr. Atkinson. In his presentation, Gerry Steinman, representing the Waterloo County Principals‘ Association, detailâ€" ed similar concerns. He added, most elementary schools have one secretary who is constantly being interrupted, making it difficult to concentrate on the work at hand. Mark Bryson photo