The Citizen, 2012-09-13, Page 31THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2012. PAGE 31.Huron County staff on leave are let go, clerk resigns
Council supports idea of 15 county councillors
A press release issued by the
County of Huron Tuesday morning
stated that Chief Administrative
Officer Larry Adams, Director of
Finance and Deputy Chief
Administrative Officer David Carey
and Director of Human Resources
Darcy Michaud are no longer
employed by Huron County.This news came after the auditor’sreport, prepared by James Hoare ofHoare Dalton Litigation and
Valuation Services of London, was
presented to councillors at a closed
session on Monday.
Late last week Huron County
Clerk Barb Wilson also abruptly
resigned from her position as Huron
County clerk on Sept. 5, after the
regular meeting of Huron CountyCouncil.According to Huron CountyWarden Bernie MacLellan, Wilson
requested a meeting with him and
Acting Chief Administrative Officer
Heather Adams which took place
that afternoon. Wilson cited personal
reasons for tendering her
resignation.
MacLellan said that having a clerk
is a legal requirement and theprocess of hiring someone to fill theposition was scheduled to begin onMonday, Sept. 10 after council met
and received the auditor’s report.
In an interview with The Citizen
shortly after Wilson’s resignation,
MacLellan said he couldn’t say
much, just that he was “surprised” at
the turn of events.
Wilson is the fourth member of
Huron County’s senior managementteam to vacate her position since theend of May. On May 29 Adams and Carey
were placed on non-disciplinary
administrative leave after a special
meeting of Huron County Council
on the evening of May 29 and on
Aug. 9 Michaud was also placed
on non-disciplinary administrative
leave.
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which he felt his system would do.
“Don’t reduce numbers thinking
it’s going to reduce costs,” Barnim
told councillors, “because it’s not.”
Barnim’s stance was supported by
Cindy Moyer, Huron East resident
and president of the Huron-Perth
Landowners Association, who said
she doesn’t feel she has a voice at
her council table.
“We don’t have an effect on what
you do here,” Moyer said. “I want
representation at all levels of
government.”
She called Barnim’s suggestion “a
stroke of brilliance” and said she
would support it.
Moyer said she currently felt her
rights were being infringed upon and
under Barnim’s suggestion, that
would change.
“I see a level of government that is
duplicating services that could be
dealt with at a local level,” she said.
Shawn Drennan, Ashfield-
Colborne-Wawanosh (ACW)
resident and outspoken wind turbine
opponent, said that he was unsure of
the process council had taken to get
to its current point and said that
shouldn’t be something that sneaks
up on him. He said he should know
what council is doing and why it’s
doing what it does.
“I know nothing of how we got to
this point,” Drennan said.
“Everything was dealt with in
camera.
“I’m totally in favour of taking a
closer look at Councillor Barnim’s
suggestion,” Drennan said. “I have
no say here and I have no say at the
ACW level either.”
Central Huron resident and wind
turbine opponent Dave Hemingway
also spoke in favour of Barnim’s
suggestion, saying that truth and
transparency is something that is
needed at various levels of
government.
Hemingway questioned
councillors not declaring a conflict
of interest on the Huron County
official plan when it clearly dealt
with wind turbines. He said six
councillors who had previously
declared conflicts of interest due to
wind turbines voted on the official
plan without declaring a conflict.
He said that if council was to be
reduced to nine members as the
report on governance, prepared by
consultant George Cuff suggested,
44 per cent of the councillors would
have to declare a conflict on wind
turbine issues.
Hemingway was then warned by
MacLellan about making his
presentation about wind turbines.
MacLellan said council was there to
discuss the composition of Huron
County Council, not wind turbines.
COUNCILLORS’
COMMENTS
Central Huron Mayor Jim Ginn
commented first, saying that while
the Cuff report suggested nine
members, he felt the workload
would be too large and anyone with
a full-time job or a business of their
own would be deterred from running
for public office.
“There have been times I’ve had to
be away from my business,” Ginn
said. “That’s fine, I made that
decision.
“If we go down to nine members,
that means more meetings for the
nine remaining. I’m concerned that
we will have turned this into a job
that a person with full-time
employment won’t want to do,” he
said, “and I don’t want to do that.”
Huron East Deputy-Mayor Joe
Steffler said he supported a
composition of nine members,
despite knowing that he would be
voting himself out of a job.
He also took issue with members
of the public who said they felt they
didn’t have a say at the council table.
He said they did have a say every
four years.
“Every four years you have a
chance for a report card. Get out
there and vote us out,” Steffler said.
“If we’re not doing a good job, tell
us at election time and vote us out.”
Goderich’s John Grace said he
couldn’t see council going down to
nine members, citing the events and
conferences that councillors have to
attend.
“If we want councillors to
represent the county outside of
Huron County, we need 15 bodies
here,” he said.
Bluewater’s Tyler Hessel, the
councillor who would lose his seat if
the bylaw is approved, said that
Bluewater deserves a third seat
because the municipality “pays a fair
chunk of taxes” and is the only
municipality in Huron County that
has been growing consistently over
the last decade.
Hessel said that a large amount of
money was spent determining the
original bylaw to be valid, and after
that council has turned around and
changed it, which didn’t make sense
to him.
Bluewater Mayor Bill Dowson
agreed, saying that the bylaw has
worked for 12 years and there was
no reason to change it now.
Central Huron Deputy-Mayor
Dave Jewitt said he would support
the move to 15 councillors, but that
there should perhaps be further
changes in the next 10-20 years
down the road.
ACW Reeve Ben Van Diepenbeek
said that he supported the move to
15 and said that if council had
followed the rules in the first place,
they would have never ended up in
this position.
Goderich’s Deb Shewfelt said that
Barnim’s theory came out of a study
that had been done over 15 years
ago. He said at the time he first heard
of the study, he was convinced as
well. He said those in Wellington
County were also convinced and
they implemented a similar system
to the one Barnim suggested.
However, they have since changed
back, he said, because it didn’t work.
“They found out two elections ago
that it doesn’t work,” Shewfelt said.
First and second reading of the
bylaw was approved by a vote of 12-
4 with Grace, Steffler, Jewitt,
Shewfelt, Ginn, MacLellan, Van
Diepenbeek, Jim Dietrich, Paul
Gowing, Grant Robertson, Art
Versteeg and Neil Rintoul voting in
support of the motion and Hessel,
Dowson, Neil Vincent and Paul
Klopp voting against it.
Third and final reading, which
would make the bylaw official, will
be considered at a future meeting.
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