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The Assessment Act
NOTICE TO
PROPERTY OWNERS
AND
TENANTS
As a result of a delay in the passage of recent amendments to The
Assessment Act, the normal return of the assessment rolls in municipalities
and localities in Ontario will be delayed.
The Honourable Margaret Scrivener, Minister of Revenue, has therefore
extended to January 19, 1978, the date upon which the annual assessment
roll is returned in all municipalities and localities in Ontario, EXCEPT those
municipalities located in The Regional Municipality of Waterloo where the
day upon which the assessment roll is returned will be extended to March
16, 1978.
This extension affects the time period during which owners and tenants
may appeal their assessments. As a result, the final date for lodging a
complaint with the Assessment Review Court in respect of any assessment
contained in the assessment rolls is extended from January 19, 1978 to
February 9, 1978. In The Regional Municipality of Waterloo the date for
lodging a complaint has been extended to April 7, 1978.
MINISTRY
OF
REVENUE
Margaret Scrivener
Minister of Revenue
T.M. Russell
Deputy Minister
6—THE BRUSSELS POST, DECEMBER 14, 1977
Child abuse program. concelled
the cases ‘0141 03 have gone agency to help in many cases but that the program has to be.an:01
unreported. that some children would have to going thing, He said if. the
The director did say that the live in a situation where they are community donated funds to keep
cancellation by the agency will being abused and not have any the program operating it would
reduce the effectiveness of the, group. or individual aware of it to have to. be .a continuous,thing with
program but that the groundworkoffer them help. the guarantee that the following
done by the community Mr, Penn said: that the year the financial support would .
childabuse committee will not be community could support the be there. He said .the only way it
in vain. He said that theeducation child abuse prevention program can be successful is if it has a
of the community would allow the through dOnations but pointed out sound future.
A program operated by the
Huron County Family and
Children Services (formerly the
Children's Aid Society) aimed at
preventing child abuse in the
county has been cancelled due to
a lack of financial support from
the Ontario Ministry of
community and social services.
John Penn, director of family
services. said Friday that budget
restrictions placed on the Huron
County agency forced him to
'cancel the child abuse program:
Mr. Penn said that the lack of
financial support was not the sole
reason for cancelling the
program. He said lack of funds
coupled with a high workload for
Huron County agency workers
gave him no alternative but
cancellation. He said that the
staff to case ratio in Huron was on
,of the highest of in south
western Ontario and that by
failing to permit the Huron
Agency to add one staff member
and reduce the workload of the
workers the ministry had forced'
him to cancel a program.
Mr. Penn said the ministry
does not consider the child abuse
prevention program as part of the
agency workload. He said the
ministry calculated the Huron
agency's workload and budget on
its 1975 files and did not permit
expansion of programs since that
time to be considered in the 1978
budget.
Mr. Penn said he could abide
by ministry judgement if the
workload ratio in Huron was not
so high. He said the ratio here is
36.3 caes to one worker, the
highest in south western Ontario
and one of the highest in the
province. He said neighboring
agencies have ratios in the low
20's and one has a ration of one
worker per 19 cases.
The agency director said the
child, abuse program had to be the
one eliminated because it was not
recognized as a budget item by
the ministry. He said had another
program been eliminated the
Huron agency would have faced a
budget cut which would have
made it almost impossible for
staff members to function.
He said he is very proud of the
effort his staff is making despite
the high case load. He pointed out
that the only way the workers can
handle their duties is to work
overtime and that they are not
compensated for that overtime,
either by pay or time off.
Mr. Penn said if the ministry
allowed the Huron workload
ratio to be reduced and allowed
the agency to take on another
staff member he felt the child
abuse program could be
maintained. He estimated the
move would cost the ministry an
additional $20,000.
The program was started a
little over a year ago and was
aimed at public education,
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indentification and reporting
procedures involved in cases of
child abuse. He said it enabled
community resources such as
doctors, police, teachers,
hospitals and the general public,
to become aware of child abuse
and to report actu al cases or
. potential problems to the agency
for assistance. Mr. Penn said the
program was very successful and
that the agency planned to
expand it.
The program was started in
March of 1976 and at that time 17
child abuse cases were on the
agency files. By March 1977 26
cases were on the files and a high
of 32 had been recognized in
August of 1977. Penn attributes
the increase to the child abuse
program pointing out that before
the establishment of the program
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