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#9 ie _ _|. Waterloo$ Recreation Complex is one of 10 facilities throughâ€" f mwuu.mu.:“»m--v | P Te munk Ponal lnt mt‘ Ating, Gomge dose to 60 enuries tor the aensd." _ _ * Mak recred M-dmfl’::m-:rshhw .. foaonhektwen fectiincs, pablic recreation follines, mm'mafiaubmumu feature story in Facility Forum published by the Ontario Recreâ€" ational Facilities Association Inc. and Aquatic Link published by _1 the Assoctation of Aquatic Personnel of Ontario. Waterloo regional council formed a subcom mittee of councillors to carry on the region review process at a special meeting last Thursday morning. Council chose one councillor from gach of the seven area munjcipalities within the region, as well as regional chairman, Ken Seiling, w;:eondnm ; moaiy original Waterloo Region Review panel PRA he City of Waterloo‘s representative on I the new Waterloo Region Review comâ€" mittee believes the new panel will be more effective than the old one. Coun. Mike Connolly said Sunday he is hapâ€" pier with the new committee working on the region review than with the one formerly chaired by John Sweeney because he believes the former committee didn‘t back up a number of its M sa i Pss e n t frtmna sed W w e en ons rmmmmnmmmmmenmmnmmmmmemmemmmmmmmmmmmmmmsmmce A | ,» | & [ y | & | Spthk k » : 1 Â¥ ’ L [ of Natural Resources (MNR) are seeking public input in e o. Li tie m oo ht mc e es :-:nhd ll:' n:dlo the Fisheries Management Plan _ The GRCA and MNR are being geglgted in the planning by repâ€" / The public is invited to arrend a "town hall mectin the fishery plan, Jan. 30 at 7 p.m, at Bingeman Park. The Grand:River Conservation Authority (GRCA) and the P l"l. i Pex al C +4 6 a lG.;?‘ River C«i;hvni;n Authority (Gm in its report on PAal aponee magpzine received ... Jt has.been just over six months since Flizabeth Witmer ived submissions in four careâ€" flqu:-dysdauzo::ezl uie bu&dflm Harris‘ cabinet as Minister of Labor, « public recreation * .. â€" Shortly after being sworn in last ~ _ P + Juné, Witmer said there was "a big ex has also been the cover and job ghead" of the new provincial govâ€" iblished by the Ontario Recreâ€" " ermiment, and in almost no time Witâ€" ind Aquatic Link published by mer found herself tackding that job n.w The first item on Witmer‘s plate, as â€"‘ w Gr(l:n vious NDP governments Bill 40, io meainepatcizen | Apierdemimite mt mons c@&fix:f P d it with Bill 7. . _ . */ § covering many years "Ome of the largest challenges strialization my: u-u-.yvz:‘ud" uuzmu uEmdwuu ‘ : Fisheries Management Plan mm)-li.hudn 7 ; amendment 19 Relations, _ e slgted in the planning by repâ€" Aa,'m-a:xm:- ir the wn p view. " i | es norgenprimeee . | : and it is i in |\ r-uo‘unau.z:su nmmfimfimhmwh:a 4 â€"~ guide posts. 1 did spend a lot of time on it, as did my staff, mlflh:ghg'w a@mqumlumwmuw el . _ @ go over.the three reports already tabled by :' d:hmwmdfiâ€" YOU WANT A RECLNER® _ AT DOESN‘T LOOK LIKE ONE. _ solid waste and recycling, sewer and water and governance. But so taromly some of the recom: ltnhbnhlhcwlidmudluydhg ng;nbcbauaadu yu'umlow:o-ahng, you have to have.some basis for the recommenâ€" dations,"â€"Connolly said, when asked how he feit about the old region review panel. "They (the recommendations) can‘t be gut feelings. if you do that, the perception is you‘re trying to foster something on someone." mittee will hold its first meeting sometime this week to determine how it‘s going to deal with the review and the order its going to deal with the three Sweeney reponts. The new committee has been given the manâ€" much work involved in drafting legislation and making sure Not an easy road for Labor Minister Flizabeth Witmer including any necessary financial data @ allow full public participation @ come back t regional council with final recâ€" ommendations by June, 1996 as to how regional government should function it the future As for making the procesé public, Connolly said he personally would like all of the commitâ€" tee‘s meetings to be public, held at night and jheld at one specific location. The Sweeney ireview panel held four public meetings through out the region last year and public aendance was dismal, he said. ,_ Besides Seiling and Connolly, counciliors Doug Craig of Cambridge, Karen Redman of Kitchener, Lynn Myers of Wilmot Township, Joe Martens of North Dumifries Township and Frank of Wellesiey Township will sit on the new Regional Coun. David Leis of \ Township will be its chairman. @ collect new information where necessary, "We were clected and given 2 man date to make some changes and « we have endeavored to embark or the path of making the needed «hanges," Wumer said. "Obmioushy, what we need 10 ackie is the deb which is almost $100 billion and the ner imerest payments are almos $9 bil hon per year I we leave that umouched and don‘t deal with that issue by the year 2000 we‘re going to be paying almos: $20 million (per year) in debr. That means we won‘t be able to provide any services 10 people. whether it be education. health care, or law enforce ment. So we need 10 deal with reducing the det â€" balancing the budget. And that has presenied numerous challenges * (Conmnued on page 5) that it did accurately reflect what our intent was * Witmer said when she‘s not in Toronio, she‘s kept busy a: her office in Waterloo, discussing issues and concerns with "Its been exaremely busy and we‘ve ceriainly seen an increase in the amoum of work that we do out of the local consinnency olfice as people access our offhice for information and also share their Only 2 lew recommendauons by the onginal commutier have been acied on because many of the recommendations made in the original reports advocated translerring municipal responsibilities to the regson And the governance report recommended doing away with the mumicipalsues in favor of a oneâ€"tier regional sysiem â€" a philosophy that didn‘t sit well with the majority of regsonal councillors. Magy came back from their ind: vidual municipal councils with resolutmions supporting a strong but revamped twoâ€"uer sys tem that would be efficient and accountable to Less said last Thursday he was excued by the challenge that lay ahead. He urged his {cllow councillors w "take ownership" of the review so that council can move ahead with recommenda uons instead of just endlessly debaung the % ST m&uammvm # KING STREFT . SITCHENEE 7455066 DEPENDABLE SERVICE SINCE 1950 46 King SL N., Waterioo 886â€"2040 CANADA‘S FINEST CLOSED Sunday MONDAY » THURSDaY 05230 Desprte criticism by labor orgamza tions and social service orgamzamons Witmer said she recerves encouraging from her consunuents z‘lhpwflaaalpvrmmmrn doing exactly what 1 was clecied io