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Representative /emit/ Carter BOX 255 BLYTH, ONTARIO NOM 1H0 12 — THE BRUSSELS POST, APRIL 4, 1979 Bluevale ratepayers at council BY DEBBIE RANNEY About 12 ratepayers from Bluevale attend: ed a meeting of Morris Township council Tuesday night to see what council would do about the paving of a road in Bluevale. At their last regular meeting, council had received a petition from some people living on the road requesting that it be paved 100 feet south of the entrance to Bluevale because dust from the road was getting into their houses in the summer. At Tuesday night's meeting, Reeve Bill Elston told the ratepayers it had cost Huron County to get the road from. Carlow to Benmiller paved $11.10 a ton for the trucking, gravelling and hauling. Then the ashphalt emulsion was on a separate tender at a cost of .,$19,000 a mile. It had to be hauled from Holmesville to Benmiller and the total cost was about $55,000 to do that piece of road. Reeve Elston said he had driven along the road in Bluevale and figured the area they wanted paved was about ('/10's of a kilometre or around 2000 feet and council figured it would cost around $20,000 to pave. One of the ratepayers told the reeve that they now figured the road would have to be paved about 70 rods further up to the railroad track. Ross 'Smith, who got the petition for the paving started asked about the preparation of the road for paving. Reeve Elston then said, "If we're ever going to put a ditch in, that ditch has to go in before the road is fixed." He was referring to the Bluevale Municipal Drain which had been previously turned down by ratepayers. Mr. Smith then asked if there had been any real obstacles to putting the ditch on the side of the hill. Reeve Elston said engineer Andy McBride had said the cost to do that was going to be outrageous. PETITION This started a discussion on the drain, previously turned down because there had not been enough names on the petition. Some people wanted the drain to go through because of problems with flooded basements while others had refused because they thought the cost was too high. Mr. Smith said he was not really affected by the situation (flooded basement) but that he would like to see something worked out for the benefit of other people. Reeve Elston said he had tried his best to get the drain work done. One man suggested that if a tile was put across the road between his and another man's place that he could probably tolerate it. It was then suggested overflow pipes could be put across the road but councillor Ross Procter pointed out later in the meeting that that would just be a stopgap. PRETTY HARD Mr. Smith said that some people had got hit pretty hard with the cost of the engineer's survey and suggested the town- ship could assume part of the cost but council member Ross Procter then wanted to know where you stopped and started if you did something like that. Councillor Procter then asked the reeve if there was such a recourse as bringing the drain up for discussion and was told there was. Reeve Elston told the ratepayers that all they needed was the majority of ratepayers or one name put back on the original petition in order for the drain to go through. He also told them they could have their costs on the drain debentured if they wanted to and said if they wanted to talk about the drain they could get a meeting set up with McBride again. One woman pointed out that the engineer had asked the night that the petition for the drain was turned down, if anybody was willing to have the plan go back to the drawing board but nobody would go along with it. Councillor Procter then made a motion that a meeting be called to have the interested people and Mr. McBride discuss the drain once more so that all the pro and con people could be there. It was decided to * * ** * * Will moving to a "better" climate cure arthritis? The answer acdording to The Arthritis Society is no. The patient may feel a bit better, but usually the course of the disease is not affected. * * * * * * set the meeting, up for some time in April. Although shelved for the time being 'it was figured out that if the road in Bluevale was paved to the railroad track it would probably cost between $30,000 and $35,000. Also at the meeting, Reeve Elston told council members that the Wingham hospital would like a letter from council showing support for the hospital. Reeve Elston suggested that they could say something about the ambulances the taxpayers paid for which the government later took over but for which the hospital board was never re- imbursed and also that the ratepayers had paid for a new wing for the hospital in the 1950's. Councillor Clare Van Camp also reported to council on a meeting of the Wingham Fire Board. He told council members that firemen had been receiving $7 an hour and were asking for $8. and that fire chief Dave Crothers had been getting $1000 a year but was asking that his position be made full-time for a salary of $8,000 a year. He said representatives were 'supposed to see what their council felt about this and that expenses for the year were to be divided among the five municipalities the Wingham fire department serves. Council seemed unsure what to do as Morris is also served by the Blyth and Brussels fire departments. Councillors wondered if they did it for one if they might not have to do it for all the fire chiefs, although they agreed that firefighters were doing a good job. Tom Miller and Bob Taylor of McMaster Insurance in Wingham were at the meeting to give council a quotation on the insurance they could offer and to make some recom- mendations. They went over such things as councillors' accident, non-owned automobile, auto- mobile, bond and burglary, municipal liability and fire insurance. Mr. Miller told council that all municipal- ities should have to pay an approximate increase of 10 per cent on their insurance policies this year. He recommended that council put insur- ance on their pressure vessel in the road men's workshop and that since they had such a low loss record that they should consider deductibles.on such things as their dump truck and fire insurance. Mr. Miller said they represent 26 compan- ies and have contact with 50 others. At the meeting, a by-law was passed for a road supplementary for repairing the Mar- tin's bridge for $178,000.