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Christmas at Hullett
Hullett Central Public School in Londesborough hosted their Christmas Concert on Thursday,
Dec. 20, featuring the talents of the students at the school. Gathering their courage to perform
were Hullett Hawks, from left, Oliver Sawchuk, Kiersten Bakelaar and Kaleb Martin. (Shawn
Loughlin photo)
M-T seeks grant for Bluevale stormwater projectMorris-Turnberry Council’s wish
list for 2013, includes a funding
request from the province’s $90
million Municipal InfrastructureInvestment Initiative for the $1.1million Bluevale Stormwater
Drainage Project.
The grant request, first addressed
at council’s Dec. 4 session, proved
not to be at the top of everycouncillor’s priority list.While clerk-administrator Nancy
Michie reports the $733,370 grant
request represents only two-thirds of
the cost of capital project, she says
gas tax grants and the municipality’s
roads department’s share could eat
into the remaining amount,
representing an overall lower cost to
ratepayers.
Councillor John Smuck says anumber of Bluevale ratepayers willlikely be unimpressed if the project
moves forward.
“You’re going to have a lot of
complaining when you start sending
bills,” says Smuck. “There is going
to be a lot of people and a lot of
backlash here.”
Smuck added that the
municipality might have to look at a
loan system, similar to what isadministered for tile drain projects,if it moves ahead.
Councillor Dave Baker said it is
time to tackle the Bluevale project.
“For 60 to 70 years, it’s been a
problem,” says Baker. “If we can get
this kind of money to help it out, I’m
all for it.”
Council agreed to move forward
with the grant request.
By Cheryl HeathSpecial to The Citizen
NH to research voting
alternatives for 2014
North Huron Township Council
decided to explore voting
alternatives at their last council
meeting of 2012.
While not all council members
were behind the research being
done into voting alternatives,
council passed the motion with
Councillor Bernie Bailey
dissenting.
Chief Administrative Officer
Gary Long brought the issue to
council after noting that voter
turnout for the previous
municipal election had been less
than optimal.
He presented a report to council
outlining the need to research
voting alternatives in order to have
enough time to implement them for
the next scheduled municipal
election in 2014.
Bailey said that he wasn’t sure
that municipal staff had time to
tackle the another issue.
“I question if our staff has time to
do this,” he said. “We have lots on
our plate. We’re sitting near the end
of December and we haven’t had a
budget meeting yet this year. We
have our neighbours that we’re
dealing with and it’s a full plate. I’m
wondering if staff time might be
spent better elsewhere.”
Long said that he understood
Bailey’s concern, saying that staff
was working on council’s direction.
“You set the priorities and this
initiative is part of our strategic
plan,” Long said. “We are going to
be dedicated to accomplishing this
item as our strategic plan is a five-
year window. As clerk, I believe
voter turnout was lower than it
should have been and I think that to
capture more voters we need to look
at alternatives sooner rather than
later.”
Council wasn’t sure how much
time a change or addition of voting
method would need to be publicized
before the next election, however,
Councillor Brock Vodden said he
believed the time frame is one year,
meaning council would need to
have any changes announced before
September, 2013, to be prepared for
the next election.
Vodden said that, aside from a
voting alternative, the municipality
would need to start looking at
alternative ways to update their
voter list instead of waiting for
Municipal Property Assessment
Corporation (MPAC) to catch up
with land sales and changes.
“I think that what we need to do
before the run for the next election
is have a system for checking the
completeness and accuracy of our
voters list,” he said. “It would be a
difficult task, but we have a lot of
information about who moved, who
bought and who sold what, that we
can use to check the accuracy of the
list.”
Council approved a motion to
have staff investigate alternative
voting methods.
By Denny Scott
The Citizen
Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh
Township Council will be finalizing
its draft agreement with K2 Wind
Power in a closed-door session
among township solicitor Stephen
Watt, Councillors Doug Miller,
Barry Millian and Roger Watt and
staff members Chief Administrative
Officer Mark Becker and Public
Works Superintendent Brian Van
Osch on Jan. 21.
***
Huron County Forest Conservation
Officer Dave Pullen will be receiving
an invitation to Ashfield-Colborne-
Wawanosh Township Council in the
new year to deal with the removal of
trees from the shores and banks of
the municipality.
Council agreed that they wanted to
have rules in place to prevent the
removal of trees, especially near
banks and shores where it could lead
to immediate erosion during rainy
conditions, and wanted to know how
far the protection from the county
would go and how they could build
on that.
Council will also be requesting an
update on the tree stock of Huron
County and the status of the Emerald
Ash Borer.
***
Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh
Township Council decided that
councillors would hold off on any
discussion regarding long-term
renewal of fire protection services
with North Huron township until
closer to September when their
contract is up.
Council discussed the ongoing
issues between North Huron and
Morris-Turnberry Townships
regarding fire protection services as
well as a five-year contract that had
been sent to them by North Huron,
however they felt it was premature to
discuss the issue.
***
Some confusion with the nature of
the payments made to neighbours of
wind turbines caused a heated debate
during Ashfield-Colborne-
Wawanosh Township’s Dec. 18
meeting.
Neighbours of turbines whose
homes fall within a certain
sphere of influence of a turbine may
be entitled to $1,500 from
the K2 Wind Power project
annually.
Representatives of the company
said that the money came strings
free, however others stated that they
felt it was hush money.
Members of the audience debated,
through council, whether the
money was intended to stifle
complaints, however one member of
the audience who said she supported
the project said if she was
in the position of opposing the
project, she would take the
$1,500 and use it to try and stop the
project, not claim it was hush
money.
By Denny Scott
The Citizen
ACW to finalize K2
wind power project deal