HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1979-04-04, Page 3Times-Advocate, April 4, 1979
Much of Monday night’s
session of Exeter council
was spent in making
changes in the official plan,
with most of the recommen
dations from the planning
board being accepted.
One of the exceptions was
an appeal from Jerry
Most items in new plan are settled SB
Mathers to have his Main St.
property zoned as commer
cial (Cl-1) similar to the
other businesses in the area
between Victoria St. and the
bridge.
Lawyer Chris Little
appeared with Mathers to
argue against the planning
board recommendation that
the property be zoned as
residential.
"We thought it was to his
advantage to put it in the
residential zone,” planning
board member Don
Cameron advised his fellow
council members, but
FIREMEN CALLED TO KIRKTON FARM — Exeter firefighters were called to the home of
Darrell Couchie two and a half miles north of Kirkton early Monday morning. Embers from a
demolished barn on the Couchie property were stirred up by high winds. Firefighters along
with heavy rains extinguished the small blaie. T-A photo
7o wn staff get increases
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he said in reference to his
plan for a delay, "They’ve
waited this long now.”
Councillor Don Cameron
said the only thing under
consideration was the in
crease in wages “and if the
PUC budget
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works department.
The waterworks capital
budget calls for expenditures
of about $58,000, of which
$3,000 is for unforeseen
expenditures and $4,800 will
be set aside for painting of
the new elevated water tank
in 1984. That paint job is
expected to cost $24,000. The
PUC have $10,000 invested
now for emergency
situations.
The main project to be
undertaken will be the in
stallation of a water main
extension on Thames Road
W. between the CNR tracks
and Carling St. That will
take about $31,260.
The estimated cost for 30
new water servies in town
was set at $15,000.
The operating budget for
the waterworks department
shows net expense of $236,220
and income of $254,738 for a
surplus of $18,518.
In 1978, the quantity of
water pumped was
897,500,823 cubic metres. The
revenue of 28.19 cents was
2.66 cents over expenditures
per cubic metre.
town is going to go broke on
the dollars involved in those
increases, we’re in trouble”.
"It’s ludicrous to pay out
wages and not provide
money for people to do
anything,” Campbell
replied.
While Mrs. Williamson
said she agreed with
Campbell’s arguments, she
was the only one in support.
"I don’t think we can put
the men . . . and women off
much longer,” Councillor
Lossy Fuller said.
"The wages should have
been settled a month and a
half ago,”’Simmons added
and council opposed the
delaying motion of Campbell
and Williamson and then ap
proved the bylaw.
After the meeting, Mayor
Derry Boyle said most of the
wage increases are around
nine percent, but said some
were slightly higher.
The new wage scale ap
proved Monday night which
is retroactive to January 1,
is as follows: H. & M. Wolfe
Cleaning Service, $110 per
week; school crossing guard
Elaine Baynham, $4.25 per
hour; landfill site attendant
Duncan Pennycook, $4.50
per hour and $100 per annum
car allowance; Police Chief
Ted Day, $21,364; Works
superintendent Glenn Kells,
$17,700; building inspector,
zoning administrator Doug
Triebner, $11,000; clerk
treasurer Liz Bell, $18,000;
deputy-clerk Brian Parsons,
$14,200; secretary Laurie
Dykstra, $8,900; clerk-typist
Donna Glanville, $7,300; rec
centre employees Alvin
Willert, $13,540 plus $480 car
allowance per annum; Jim
Guenther, $11, 872;
secretary Janet Wedlake,
$4.25 per hour;
caretaker/cashier Mary
Cox, $3.20 per hour; part-
time supervisory staff, $2.50
per hour; part-time regular
staff, $2.15 per hour; Mayor
Derry Boyle, $2,000; balance
of council members, $1,600.
The works department
staff will receive hourly
rates ranging from' $5.30 to
$6.40, with the majority at
$5.65. The men receive over
time at the rate of time and
a half after 40 hours and
standby is at a rate of $5.00
per day.
The Exeter & Area Fire
Board have set their
salaries with Chief Gary
Middleton receiving $1,200
per annum plus $600 car
allowance and $9.00 per fire
run; deputy-chief, $800; two
platoon chiefs at $650; two
captains at $500;
firemen, $350 per annum and
$9.00 per hour for fires and
$3.00 per hour for practice
time.
Stand-by time for firemen
during the summer
weekends will be paid at a
rate of $20 for long weekends
and $10 for ordinary
weekends.
Board members receive
$5 per meeting and mileage,
while the secretary
treasurer receives $1,000.
suggested that was possibly
a decision that should be left
up to Mathers.
The latter said he would
like the Cl-1 zoning and
Councillor Lossy Fuller
suggested that this had been
approved along with the
other commercial owners in
the area, but that Mathers
name had be inadvertently
left off the list when it was
approved by council.
Council approved the Cl-1
zoning although it was
suggested by former mayor
Bruce Shaw, who is still a
member of the plan board,
that they "may have a devil
of a time” defending the
type of planning evident in
the commercial status for
all the properties zoned in
that manner between Vic
toria St. and the bridge.
Ministry official Stu
Humphreys, who appeared
before council, agreed with
that contention and said he
was glad he was on record
as having opposed the com
mercial zoning in that area.
Some 18 items were ap
proved, but council decided
to pass on to the planning
board a letter from Ray
mond, McLean & Gray
which contained another 19
objections on behalf of their
client, Len Veri.
The letter wasn’t received
by council until just prior to
their Monday night session.
Veri, who was present,
asked if he could attend the
planning board meeting
when his objections were be
ing discussed. He advised
that some of the items were
not of particular interest to
his holdings, but general
comments on the plan itself.
He was advised that the
meeting would be on April
11.
In his discussion with
council, Shaw said there
appeared to be a con
siderable amount of ap
prehension in the communi
ty over the new official plan
and zoning bylaw and
suggested that council
should take steps to make
people aware of the fact that
the committee of adjust
ment can approve variances
in cases where residents
find it difficult to follow
some of the setbacks and
other dictates of the
documents.
He said if people were
aware of the powers of the
committee of adjustment, it
would probably eliminate
some of the protests being
handled by council over the
new documents.
Humphreys agreed that
the committee was a
fabulous resource, if it was
utilized.
However, Mayor Derry
Boyle said that regardless of
what council approved,
parts of the new documents
would be found to have ob
solete sections the day after
approval, while there would
be other sections that would
need to be added.
He noted that planning
was an on-going process.
Increase in prices
termed 'atrocious7
all
Only one crash
for area drivers
Only one accident was
investigated by the Exeter
OPP this week, it occurring
on Sunday.
The collision involved
vehicles driven by Mabel
Selves, R.R. 1, Hensail, and
Stanley Love, Exeter.
The accident occurred on
Highway 4 north of Exeter
and damage was listed at
$700 by Constable Jack
Straughan.
The increases in the cost of
materials required by the
Exeter PUC "are just
atrocious” manager Hugh
Davis reported at Friday’s
regular meeting.
He told the Commissioners
that an item in one recent
statement had prompted him
to think it was a typing error,
but on checking, found that
was not the case.
It was for a transformer
ordered for the new 24-unit
apartment planned by Len
Veri on Carling St. The cost
of the item was $4,048 and
Davis said that an identical
unit ordered only 10 months
earlier for the other apart
ment building in the same
block had been $3,018.
Davis said he didn’t know
what justification there
could be for the increase of
about 33 percent in less than
one year.
‘ Chairman Chan
Livingstone opined that
some manufacturers were
fearing that wage and price
controls may be coming
back and were trying to get
their increases before that
happened.
Later in themeeting, Davis
produced a small box con
taining a few small vials of
chemicals and some test
tubes and shocked the
Commissioners with the
news that the items
represented an expenditure
of $475.
Looking at the small box,
Murray Greene exclaimed
"and it’s not even full”.
"Better put it in the safe,”
Livingstone advised, while
Mayor Derry Boyle added
that "even Robin Hood was
better on the people”.
Davis said there was only
one supplier for the chlorine
test supplies,and there
wasn’t much they could do
about the situation.
While some of the in
creased costs are already
being experienced by the
PUC, Davis hinted that more
may be coming.
He said one supplier of
hydrants and valves had
stopped issuing prices on
their items, indicating they
were going up so quickly.
There was a six percent
increase in pipe in January
and the manager told the
Commissioners that the
recent wage settlement
between the London PUC
and its employees could
result in a "new ball game”
when the local Commission
started wage negotiations
with their outside staff.
"I don’t know where this
thing is going,” Davis said in
concluding his remarks on
price increases, adding that
copper prices are expected
to "go wild” in the near
future. Scrap copper is
already selling for 94 cents
per pound, triple that of only
a few years ago.
"We may have to put
guards on our lines,”
Livingstone commented.
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To the hundreds of people who visited us
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CONGRATULATIONS
To Mrs. Wm. Veitch, R.R. 4, Parkhill who was the winner of a
beautiful oil painting in our lucky draw.
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Police Chief Ted Day ad
vised council this week that
the new Huron police dis
patch system should be
operative in Exeter by the
end of this week.
Technicians from Cana
dian General Electric were
in Exeter yesterday install
ing some of the equipment
which will hook Exeter up to
the central dispatch in
Goderich. The other three
county towns are also in
volved in the system.
Later in Monday’s regular
council session, a bylaw to
authorize an agreement for
the maintenance and opera
tion of the police com
munication system was ap
proved.
The total operating cost
for the balance of the nine
months in this year has been
estimated at $53,483.46. Ex
eter will pay 18.8 percent
based on its population. That
amounts to $837.91 per
month.
Exeter’s share of the
capital cost of the system is
expected to be about $6,000.
In his report for March
Chief Day provided council
with the following statistics:
six accidents with damage
of $1,790, 11 charges and 15
warnings under the Highway
Traffic Act, two charged
with impaired driving, 11
charges under the Liquor
Control Act, four parking
tickets issued, three animal
complaints and one charge
laid, three thefts of over $200
with total loot of $1,094, 12
thefts of under $200 with the
value of stolen property be
ing $262, three charges of
theft laid, eight wilful
damage incidents in
vestigated with property
loss of $818, three break ana
enters, two stolen cars
reported and recovered, one
investigation under the Nar
cotic Control Act,
The Chief reported that
Constable Jim Barnes
recently completed a two-
week refresher course at the
Aylmer Police college and
the officers recorded 67
hours of overtime, eight of
which were spent in court
time.
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