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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1977-12-01, Page 21he felt Huron County wasn't such a bad place to live when there was no planning at all, Stanley Deputy-reeve Paul Steckle said planning is "going on behind the scenes" by people of all walks of life interested in their own personal affairs. He said that in a municipality like Stanley Township which has lakefront land, there are more non- residents than residents involved in this kind of planning. When citizens go about planning in such a haphazard way, Steckle said the local councils find themselves with some real problems on their hands, Steckle said he had not always been happy with the county planning department, but commended the planners for the assistance they had provided to the townships in most instances. Reeve Ed Oddleifson, Bayfield, echoed those sentiments saying the Huron County Planning department had helped to protect Bayfield from becoming "something we didn't want", Deputy-reeve Eldrid Simmons of Exeter said that to hire another planner was "the cheapest route". He suggested SS board extends family life program The Huron-Perth County Roman Catholic Separate School' Board will extend teaching the Family Life program to the primary grades in the 19 elementary separate schools in Huron and Perth counties, The program which will be taught in kindergarten and grades 1, 2 and 3, was given approval by the board at a meeting in Dublin Monday night. Ron Gladding of Stratford, Family Life Co-ordinator for the board, presented the essence of the program to the trustees, copies of which will be presented to the parents of all the students who will be taking the course. He said the family life committee and the priests had approved the program which he has prepared. With the board's approval of the program, the next step for Mr. Gladding will be to arrange for meetings with the teachers, who will be teaching the program, to give them in- structions in how to teach the course, and for meetings with the "their-children the„.program " their -children will be receiving...4 He informed the board he is hopeful the program will start in January or February. The family life program was started three years ago for Grades 7 and 8 students in the separate schools. Mr. Gladding said his committee and he have started to look at a program for the junior area. "That will be our next thrust," he said. In other business the board approved a leave-of-absence for Betty Bedard, a teacher at St, Boniface School, Zurich from March 3 to March 11, so that she may attend the Oldtimers' Hockey tournament in Denmark with her husband. A strongly worded letter will be sent to John Sweeney, MPP (Kitchener:Wilmot) Liberal critic for colleges and univer- sities, drawing attention to the oversight of not having a representative from any Catholic organization involved in education, on a panel he has named to speak at an open forum to discuss, question and explore alternative solutions to the problems that must be faced in education today, at Hotel Toronto on Saturday, December 10. The day-long forum will be sponsored by the Liberal Party. Ronald Marcy, Stratford, chairman of the property com- mittee, reported that the 1977 budget for his committee amounted to $43,000 and this had been used up in painting, maintenance, repair work, paving, doors, shelving, gravelling driveways and parking lots , , except for $5,826.63 still to be spent. A resume of , the evaluation sheets handed in following the Focus on Faith seminar on November 20 at St. Patrick's School, Dublin, indicated that it had been a most successful program. It was on the trustee level. Sister Elaine Demi of the„ Ontario Separate School Trustees' association which initiated the program, and the board have both offered to assist with the Focus on Faith program as it is hoped will be carried on at the school level by the teachers and principals and the parents for the students.' Donald Crowley, RR 2, Gad- shill, was named trustee representative for Education Week Committee which will be held next April 16 to 23. There will be one board meeting in December — on the 12th, and if a second is necessary, it will be held on December 19. The meeting adjourned at about 11:15 p.m. when the trustees continued their corn- mittee'of-the-whole meeting which was held from 8 p,m, to 9 p.m. prior to the start of the regular meeting. 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Box 1192) EXETER, •ONTARIO (519) 235-2957 • • A PRIZE WINNER — One of the prize winners in Saturday's Santa Claus parade was the Alpha Pi Sorority float sponsored by jeweller Earl Campbell. From the left are Kenley Campbell, Jessica Armstrong, Cheryl DeBoer and Tim Campbell. T-A photo SANTA HAS HELP — When Santa Claus visited Exeter Saturday he brought his wife along to help. Above, Mark Stackhouse and Dean and Shane Pfaff enjoy the company of the couple from the north. T-A photo GUARD YOUR FAMILY'S HEALTH AND BUDGET eatures GUARDIAN DRUGS WIN A RAGGEDY ANDY PRICES EFFECTIVE UNTIL DEC. 10 ENTRY FORMS AT ALL GUARDIAN STORES! EACH STORE WILL G/VE AWAY ONE 3-FOOT DOLL/ NO PURCHASE NECESSARY! ALLAN'S CANDY CANES PLANTERS PEANUTS 12 oz, Jar DRY ROASTED 13 oz, Tin COCKTAIL by Smiles n" Chuckles 14 oz. Box SOAP ON A ROPE 1 09 FACIAL -1 TISSUES 2-ply 200's AIM GEL TOOTHPASTE with fluoride 100 ML ASSORTED SCENTS OIL OF OLAY 100 ML BLACK MAGIC CHOCOLATES 1 pound box B E A N D RT ERNIE DOLLS GUARDIAN COLOR FILM 110 or 126.1 +Ito. SERVE H IGHT Tb MT ClUANTITiES Imes Serving South Huron, North Middlesex ,;ILaswegAdlagr $t North kanibton Since 1873 One Hundred and Fifth Year Page 21 Price Per Copy 25 Cents Plan costs out of control No question on property Increases imminent in County budget Hay township's application for stream improvement work on certain sections of Black Creek is still up in the air following a hearing in Toronto on Tuesday by the Mining and Lands Com- mission, The hearing which was chaired by Grant H. Ferguson, Q.C., made no decision on the appeal. According to M. S. Smith, Director of the Legal Services Branch, Ministry of Natural Resources, Ferguson will make a recommendation to the Minister with the Minister having the final Say. Smith said that under the Act, the Ministry must notify the municipality of its. intent to deny the decision. Hay township made application to the Ministry of Natural Resources on the 25th of July this year under the Lakes and Rivers Improvement Act of 1973 to do channel and stream alignment improvements on the section of Black Creek that ran through lots 19 and 20 in concessions 4 and 5 of the township. A notice of refusal was for- warded to the township office on August 31 of this year. Under the Act a municipality can appeal the decision providing that written notice is received by the Ministry within fifteen days. The township appealed, with the hearing date Set for, Tuesday. Natural Resources based its original decision on three ,primary reasons: 'That the proposed water course alteration Would remove cover, destroy spawning beds and deteriorate water quality harmful to the fish populations native to and dependent upon the Black Creek; flooding problems present on Lots 19 and 20 of Concessions 4 and 5 are a result of the soil type and presence of nuisance beaver;, dredging and removal of all vegetation above the river bank will result in erosion and silting.' Budgets for 1978 began to trickle into the Huron County Council agenda Friday and councillors were quick to notice that increases in near'y all budgets are imminent. Of course, all budgets presented now are approved subject to final revisions at budget time in early 1978. The budget for the Huron County Planning Board drew the most comment and county council turned down a request for another senior planning technician. While council did grant an approximate six percent increase to the existing planning staff — a planning director, two planners and a planning technician — it turned the budget back to committee for revisions. The planning budget called for expenditures totalling $162,000, up nearly $28:000 over last year's budget of $134,200. But Chairman Bill Clifford of Goderich said the county tax- payers' portion of the budget will be increased by $42,400, mostly because the Community Study Grants will be delayed until 1979 because of an Ontario govern- ment policy to hold back grant money until final Ministry ap- proval is granted for completed planning procedures in the municipalities. "There is a delay of six months to a year on certain funds," said Chairman Clifford. Six percent Goderich Township Reeve Gerry Ginn noted the direct cost to Huron County residents in 1978 was up 36 percent. He asked how council intended to keep the total county increase in 1978 to ,six percent if one committee was allowed this kind of an increase. Reeve Bill Elson Morris said planning board costs were get- ting "completely out of control" and felt ways should be found to reduce the cost of planning rather than asking the people to pay more toward the process, Frank Cook, deputy-reeve of Clinton predicted the planning process, unless controlled or altered, would "cost our tax- payers in Huron County'a lot of money", Reeve Clifford explained that the total workload in the planning office is increasing. Planning director Gary Davidson con- firmed this, saying the depart- ment is only about half-way through the preparation of the secondary plans requested by the various municipalities, All but two municipalities have requested secondary plans, Davidson said, and the towns are now asking that their secondary plans be updated. Clifford added that the plan- ning department has used the services of a parttime draftsman for two years now, and that if another senior planning technician was hired the junior planning technician could handle those duties. Looking at it this way, Clifford reasoned, the new staff member" would cost the county, only about $9,000 per annum. Clifford also noted that the conversion to the metric system in the planning department has to be done and is making additional work for the staff. Think The Goderich reeve urged council to "think it over carefully" saying that if added staff was turned down, less planning would be completed in 1978 and municipalities . must be prepared to wait for their secondary plans. Harold Robinson, Reeve of Howick, said the secondary plans "are no great shakes" and said that if local councils hired their own planning consultants, they would find it much more ex- pensive. He suggested that if the county turned down the planning board's recommendation, it would show councillors were "not looking far enough ahead on this", "Local authority also involves local responsibility," said Gary Davidson. • Many areas The planning board showed increases for office and drafting supplies, postage, telephone, travel allowances, memberships and publications, legal fees and equipment. The property budget was ap- proved without question. Court house maintenance is up just under $4,000 from $83,450 to $87,400. Registry office main- tenance goes from $7,425 to $9,840 and the assessment building maintenance is up close to $10,000 from $25,200 to $34,720. The museum budget shows an increase for county taxpayers of $6,625 from $43,475 to $50,100. Salaries are up $3,400 to $53,400; employee benefits are up $2,275 to $8,200; utilities are up $450 to $1,650; and the telephone is up $100 to $450. The budget for Huronview is up $164,628 over this year and represents just about $8,000 more for Huron County taxpayers to raise. The Huron apportionment of Huronview costs is $208,354 in 1978 of a total budget of $2,585,026. Nearly all costs across the board are up at Huronview according to the report, The social services budget is up to $412,100 from $378,400. The County of Huron will pay $114,250 in 1978, nearly $6,000 more than the 1977 budget figure of $108,430, The budget showed that general assistance is up $26,000 to $294,900 and administration costs are up $7,200. The county -' development, bedget is up $4,600 to $49,800 with the increases showing up in salaries for the office and the committee,ernployee benefits and zerox and printing.