HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2008-10-16, Page 32In a split vote, Morris-Turnberrycouncillors agreed at their Oct. 7
meeting to provide free leaf curbside
pick up in urban areas this
November.
The plan will see Bluewater
Recycling make weekly pickups for
three weeks at a cost of $2,250. The
total cost to the municipality,
included municipal employees’
labour, will be about $5,300.
Homeowners must bag their
leaves in biodegradable paper bags,
available from hardware stores at a
price of about 50 cent each in packs
of five or 10. Public works foreman
Greg Diamond has developed a plan
to compost the leaves at the Morris
landfill site.
But council was split on the
proposal with mayor Dorothy Kelly
having to cast a deciding vote to
proceed.
Councillor Mark Beaven led
objections to the plan, saying the
service, which would only be
available to urban residents, is going
to be paid for from general revenues
(including garbage bag tag fees) that
come from rural and urban residents
alike. He argued for some sort of
user-pay scheme.
“They should have to pay
something to the municipality to payfor the $2,250,” he said, suggestingpeople pay the bag-tag fee.But Nancy Michie, administrator,clerk-treasurer, explained the reason
for raising the issue in the first place
was because there had been calls
from residents who said they’d need
30 bags to have their leaves picked
up and didn’t think they should have
to pay the bag tag fee.As well, it was pointed out,sometimes the leaves that are beingbagged have blown onto the propertyfrom a neighbour who wouldn’t have
to pay anything.
Councillor Bill Thompson and
Paul Gowing sided with Beaven.
“It’s an urban service and it should
be paid by urban residents,” said
Gowing.There was some discussion of thepossibility of using an “area rating”to put an extra charge on urbanresidents, a charge that had just been
removed when the municipality
went to curbside pickup for both
urban and rural residents.
But deputy-mayor Jim Nelemans
warned there wasn’t much time to
examine options. “We either do itnow, or never,” he said of curbsidepickup.Nelemans and councillors LynnHoy and Edna McLellan supported
the proposal for curbside pickup in a
recorded vote while Beavens,
Gowing and Thompson opposed it.
Kelly broke the tie by supporting the
motion to go ahead with the plan.
PAGE 32. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2008.M-T council approves leaf collection
The future is looking a little bleak
for the Knight of Columbus Hall in
Wingham.
At the Oct. 6 meeting of North
Huron council, Susan Doig, who
oversees the catering and rentals of
the facility said said that they were
not going to be able at this point to
make the next quarterly payment.
The Knights have an agreement
with the township, part of which
stipulates a quarterly payment of
$12,500.
Much of the income for the Hall
has come from catering Wescast
functions. “Everyone knows the
situation with Wescast now,” she
said, “and unfortunately my
calculations show that we will be
down $49,000 from last year on
Wescast business alone.”
“I’m not disputing that we owe the
money, but that amount is going to
kill us.”
Councillor Alma Conn asked if
Doig could supply information that
would breakdown the income from
the bar as well as the catering, to
which she responded affirmatively.
Councillor Archie MacGowan
thanked Doig for coming to council
immediately. “We appreciate you
being open and transparent about the
situation you find yourself in.”
Reeve Neil Vincent assured Doig
that once council could take some
time to look at all the financial
information they would try to work
with her on a solution.
Lost
bookings
hurt
K of C
Hall
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