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10—THE BRUSSELS DECEMBER 7 1977
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County
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council clears bu dget i ncreases
Budgets for 1978 began to
trickle into the Huron. County
Council agenda. Friday and
councillors were quick to notice
that increases in nearly 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 $134,000.
But Chairman Bill Clifford of
Goderich said the county
taxpayers' 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
government policy to hold back
grant money until final Ministry
approval 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.
Up Six Per Cent
Goderich Township Reeve
Gerry Ginn noted the direct cost
of Huron County residents in 1978
was up 36 per cent. He asked how
council intended to keep the total
county increase in 1978 to .six per
cent if one committee was allowed
this kind of an increase.
Reeve Bill Elson Morris said
planning board costs were getting
"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
taxpayers in H uron County a lot
of money".
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Reeve Clifford explained that
the total workload in the planning
office is increasing. Planning
director Gary Davidson confirmed
this, saying the department 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, Mr. Davidson
said, and the towns are now
asking that their secondary plans
be updated..
Mr. Clifford added that the
planning department has used
the services of a parttime
draftsman for two years n ow, and
that if another senior planning
technician was hired, the junior
planning technician could handle
those duties. Looking at it this
way, Mr. Clifford reasoned, the
new staff member would cost the
county only about $9,000 per
annum.
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 plahs
"are no great shakes" and said
he 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 lakfront
land, there are more Ji on-resi-
dents than residents involved in
this kind of planning. When
citizens go about p lanning in
such a haphazard way, Mr
Steckle said, the local councils
find themselves with some real
problems on their hands.
Mr. Steckle said he had n of
always been happy with' the
county planning department, but
commended the planners for the
assistance they had provided to
the townships in most instances:
Deputy-reeve Eldrid Simmons
of Exeter said that to hire another
planner was "the cheapest
route". He suggested that if local
councils hired their own planning
consultants, ,,they would find it
much moie expensive. He
suggested `that if the county
turned down the planning board's
recommendation, it would show
cotincillOrs were "not looking far
enough ahead on this."
"Local authority also invovles
local responsiblity ," said Gary
Davidson.
The planning board showed
increases for office and drafting
supplies, postage, telephone,
travel allowances, memberships
and pu blications, legal fees and
equipment.
The property budget was
approved without .question.
Court house maintenance is up
just under $4,000 from $83,450 to
$87,400. R .gistry office
maintenance 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 $53000;
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
$164,628 over this yera a
represents just about $8,000 nil
for Huron County taxpayers
raise. The Huron apportionmi of Huronview costs is $208,351
1978 of a total budget
$2,585,026.
The social services budget isl
to $412,100 from $378,400.
county of Huron wilt pay $114,2
in 1978, nearly $6,000 more th'
the 1977 budget figu
of $108,430. The budget show
that general assistance is
$26,000 to $294,900 and admit'
tration costs are up $7,200.
The county developme
budget is up $4,600 to $49,8
with the increases showing up
salaries for the office and t
committee, employee benef
and terox and printing.
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