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Sign inspecting job seems impossible to Huron COW
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her the proper vantage point, but the
inspector explained that, due to
health and safety regulations, she
wasn’t allowed to climb the ladder.
“She wasn’t allowed to climb the
ladder because the safety inspector
said so,” Pot said. “So the safety
inspector was basically stopping her
from doing her job, and stopping me
from getting my deposit back.”
While a solution may have been
found in the engineer verifying the
presence of the support
reinforcements, Pot still can’t
believe that she couldn’t simply
climb the ladder to see that the
job had been done.
“I just can’t believe the system
works that way,” he said. “I did my
part and got my permits and paid my
deposits and had the solar system
built to specifications, now they
need to do their part.”
Pot stated that he believed there
were too many steps involved in the
system.
“I don’t think we really need that
many people stalling each other,” he
said. “And while they’re stopping
each other from getting their jobs
done, we’re paying the tax dollars
that pay their salaries.”
Pot believes he will get his
deposit returned shortly.
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Ladder safety issue delays building
deposit return to local farmer
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committee’s official formation
though. Representatives were
appointed by Ashfield-Colborne-
Wawanosh, Huron East, Bluewater
and Howick. The Huron County
Health Unit and Huron County
Planning Department will also be
represented.
At the March 16 meeting of Huron
County Council’s Committee of the
Whole, Warden Neil Vincent,
despite not wanting to participate at
the North Huron level, was
appointed to the committee along
with Bill Siemon from Huron East
and Brian Barnim from Central
Huron. Barnim was nominated as
chair of the committee.
Representatives will continue to
be accepted, but after the
committee’s terms of reference were
presented to Huron County Council
at the March 16 meeting of the
Committee of the Whole, the
committee’s first meeting was
scheduled.
The budget was also approved by
the committee in the amount of
$50,000. Half the costs, however,
were made provisional and approved
only if a “considerable” amount of
research is needed, in which case,
head of the Huron County Planning
Department Scott Tousaw said, he
would come back to council in order
to inform them and get
authorization.
The committee was formed to
investigate the effect and action that
may be taken by governments
concerning low frequency noise.
Some suggestions that were made by
Tousaw in his report to council were
submitting comments to the
Ministry of Environment and
lobbying through different
municipal agencies.
Members are: Roger Watt,
councillor from Ashfield-Colborne-
Wawanosh; George Irvin, councillor
from Bluewater; Randy Scott,
councillor from Howick; Paul
Josling, chief building official from
Huron East; Paul Dawson, manager
of Environmental Health from the
Huron County Health Unit and
Sandra Weber, senior planner and
Scott Tousaw, director of the Huron
County Planning Department.
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A near-impossible task involvingthe inspection of area stop signs was
discussed at Huron County
Council’s March 16 meeting of the
Committee of the Whole.
Because of the Ministry of
Transportation’s regulations
surrounding road signs, they have to
be tested throughout the province on
an annual basis. This is a task that
several councillors felt were
unreasonable with the staff the
county currently has.
The issue was initially raised by
Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh
Reeve Ben Van Diepenbeek, who
said that several of his
municipality’s signs were going to
have to be replaced.
Huron County Director of Public
Works Dave Laurie said that Huron
County was under the sameregulations that lower tiers are underand that all road signs have to betested, not just stop signs as VanDiepenbeek initially thought.
Laurie said they have to be tested
for the reflectibility. This regulation
is so serious, in fact, that a machine
called a reflectometer was purchased
by the county last year to do the
testing. The machine cost Huron
County $15,000, which doesn’t
include the cost of spring/summer
employees who would be driving
throughout the county to actually
administer the tests.
Laurie said that companies can be
brought in to do the testing, but they
are often expensive, so it was felt
that the cheaper option would be to
purchase the machine and do their
own testing.
The problem, however, is that
there are thousands of signs on
county roads alone and it often takes
the entire summer just to test them(there are only certain months wherereflectibility can be tested).“I think it’s an unreasonablestandard,” Laurie said. “It’s
unreasonable for municipalities.”
The option to rotate the machine
throughout the lower tiers was raised
by Huron East’s Bill Siemon,
however, Laurie said, Huron County
often doesn’t finish its testing in the
alloted time, let alone having any
extra time to pass the machine on.
Laurie says that the testing can
only occur between April and
November, because proper
reflectivity tests cannot be taken
when there is snow on the ground.
Laurie said that there are
approximately 6,000 such signs
throughout Huron County and if
they were to include municipal signs
(where one lower tier municipality’s
road meets another one of that
municipality’s roads), there would
be thousands more signs to beconsidered.The priorities have been stop signsand warning signs and then, if thereis time, the rest of the signs.
A motion was then made by
Bluewater’s Paul Klopp that a letter
be drafted and sent to the Ministry of
Transportation expressing Huron
County’s displeasure with the
“unreasonable” regulations.
Klopp suggested that the signs be
inspected every seven years (their
life expectancy). As it currently sits,
the testing is required for every year
of the sign’s life, beyond its first
year.
Laurie suggested that the letter be
circulated to neighbouring counties
for their support and that the letter
also be send to the Ontario Good
Roads Association, as it would be
them who would be lobbying the
government on the county’s
behalf.
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Happy 11th
Anniversary
Dad & Mom
(Peter & Suzanne)
Hugs & Kisses
from Cody, Shawna,
Logan, Carly
By Shawn LoughlinThe Citizen