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Tuckersmith phone system plans $150,000 modernization
The Tuckersmith
municipal telephone system
will spend $150,000 over the
next three years expanding
its service to Bayfield and
continuing its modernization
program.
At the system’s 69th an
nual meeting in Brucefield.
Wednesday, subscribers
voted to approve the
program which will be
financed through debentures
issued by Tuckersmith
Township, the initiating
township of the system.
Tuckersmith council ap
proved the debentures at a
meeting in February.
The system has about 1,-
800 customers in
Tuckersmith and Stanley
Townships who have 2,400
telephones.
Ed Oddleifson, reeve of
Bayfield, was named chair
man for the meeting. Bob
Smith, auditor with the
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Malcolm and H a g e y,
chartered accountants,
presented the auditor’s
report for 1977. He said
revenue from various
sources such as subscribers,
renters, advertising
amounted to $224,220 in 1977
compared to $193,416 in 1976.
Mr. Smith said operating
expenses were $140,140 for
the year, up from $105,262
the previous year. Included
in this was the cost of a new
truck. Administrative ex
penses amounted to $64,900,
up from $59,577 the previous
year.
Included in the expenses
were commissioners’ yearly
salaries of $3,000 (each of
the five commissioners
receives $600): debenture
interest of $21,710: officer
wages $10,379; rent and of
fice expenses $12,253
(including office rental in
Mel Graham’s residence of
$3,000, telephone $1,400, con
vention expenses $2,800,
printing and postage $2,500
and miscellaneous $2,553):
secretarv-treasurer’s salary
$9,142.
The system ended the year
with a surplus of $19,180
down from the 1976 surplus
Of $28,577.
Smith said the prices for
materials and wages have
increased. “Improvements
have cost you substantial
dollars,’’ he concluded.
Secretary-treasurer and
manager of the system, Mel
Graham, Mr. Smith and the
commissioners fielded
questions from the
audience.
Barry Linden of
Brucefield. one of the
questioners, asked if it
would be more economical
to have the telephone office
which is in the manager’s
home now, in the telephone
service building which the
system owns in Brucefield.
He asked the commissioners
to do a study on this.
The need for additional
service to the Bayfield area
has arisen because of an in
creasing number of cot
tages, and increasing use of
cottages in winter, the com
missioners stated, to explain
why the system plans to
spend about $78,000 adding
280 lines in the Bayfield
area, where there are now
666 subscribers and renters.
Another $59,100 will be spent
to install additional equip
ment and cable in Bayfield
and area.
To install cable in
Egmondville and Hensail
areas and to bury cable un
derground in areas all over
the system, will cost
another $17,900.
The system now has 170
miles of buried cable and 5^
miles of aerial cable.
The $150,000 program will
be spread over a three-year
period commencing this
year and ending in 1980.
The system expects to
raise $12,000 this year
through a 10 per cent rate in
crease effective April 1, Mr.
Graham reported. He said
studies indicate that to
retire the debenture in twen
ty years with increased
revenue from upgraded ser
vice, it is possible that ap
proval of an additional small
rate increase in two or three
years will be necessary to
cover added debenture
costs.
With the increase in rates
on April 1 the cost range in
the Clinton-Hensall area will
be $5.85 for a private line
(plus line mileage) to $4 for
a multi-party line for
residential purposes: and in
Seaforth-Bayfield area a
private line will cost $5.50
and a multi-party line $4.
Prices for business phones
will range from $11.70 for a
private line and $6.20 for a
multi-party line in the
Clinton-Hensall area: and
from $10.35 for a private line
to $5.80 for a multi-party
line in the Seaforth-Bayfield
area.
Mr. Graham reported the
installation levy for a
residential line is $20.00 and
for a business line is $30.00.
An extension line costs
another $1.25.
J. Perce Johnston,
Bayfield, and W.D. Wilson,
Brucefield, were re-elected
to another three-year term
on the commission and
Johnston re-elected chair
man. Other commission
members, who were not up
for re-election this year, are
Vern Alderdice, "Kippen,
Lloyd Ferguson, RR 1, Hen
sail and Elmer Hayter, Var
na.
The five commissioners
all spoke briefly outlining
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the program carried out in
1977 when 74,500 feet of
cable was buried replacing
the aerial cable. It was-
noted that the 14,000 feet of
underground cable laid in
Egmondville and Harpurhey
was installed in co-operation
with the T.V. Cable Com
pany laying cable in the
area. A contract was made
to place both the T.V. and
Telephone cables in one
trench with each company
sharing half the cost.
It was noted that it will be
difficult to remove all at
tachments from Hydro poles
in built-up areas such as
Brucefield and Bayfield in
order to put the cable un
derground.
Commissioner Alderdice
reported on a special saving
made when about 200 old
telephones on hand, that
were defective, had been
sent to a company in Toron
to where they ■ were re
conditioned at one-third the
cost of a new phone.
Stanley Township Reeve
Tom Consitt and Deputy
reeve Paul Steckle, were in
vited to speak. Mr. Consitt
brought greetings from his
township and complimented
the commissioners on their
work in the system. He said,
“I agree with the debenture.
If you don’t spend money to
day it doesn’t take too long
to get behind.”
Mr. Steckle congratulated
the commission on its
progressive outlook for the
future and said, “It is good
when people can come to a
forum like the meeting here
tonight, ask questions and
have them answered.”
Deputy-reeve Robert Bell
of Tuckersmith Township
brought greetings from his
township and Tuckersmith
Councillor Frank Falconer
noted the honour brought to
the Telephone System
resulting from the recent
election of Mel Graham, the
local secretary-treasurer
and manager, to the position
of president of the Ontario
Telephone Association.
Other speakers were
former Huron warden Anson
McKinley: former com
missioner Bill Rowcliffe
and one of the system’s
renters, Barry Linden, who
had asked many questions
for himself and for a sub
scriber who was unable to
attend. Mr. Linden said to
the subscribers, “While you
are paying your money, you
are getting your money’s
worth." ______'
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