The Citizen, 1990-12-18, Page 21THE CITIZEN, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1990. PAGE 21.
County council briefs
County announces Sesquicentennial celebration in 1992
Huron County’s Sesquicentenn
ial celebration will begin next
October and continue until the fall
of 1992 County Council was told
December 6.
The celebration will mark 150
years since the passage in 1841 of
legislation establishing county
government in Huron. A committee
has been set up by County Council
to co-ordinate activities across the
county. The committee has a
budget of $15,000 for 1991 and
$5,000 for 1992. The committee
voted to encourage groups across
the county to participate in the
celebration but to provide no
county funding.*****
' The committee studying the
restructuring of Huron County
continues to move slowly toward
recommendations. “It’s beginning
to be very interesting as you begin
to see the pieces come together like
a big jigsaw puzzle,’’ West Wawa-
nosh Reeve Cecil Cranston said in
delivering the report from the
committee.*****
The welfare caseload in Huron
keeps increasing with the worsen
ing economy, John McKinnon,
Social Services Administrator told
council “and I don’t foresee it
changing in the future.’’ He predic
ted in 1991 the welfare budget will
have to go up and an additional
caseworker is going to be needed to
handle the extra work. To the end
of October the department was
$144,424 over budget with the
county’s share being $20,594.
Costs are up 46 per cent over last
year.
County council endorsed a resol
ution from Kent County calling for
cuts in welfare payments. The
resolution points out while the
province has increased welfare
payments in the last year, the real
income of taxpayers has been
eroded. It calls for General Welfare
Assistance to be reduced by $100
per month per family or individual
or by a fixed percentage. It asks the
province not to give any increases
in 1991 and it calls for the province
to look at the differing cost of living
across the county when setting
welfare rates.
The county’s annual construction
equipment auction at Auburn
brought the county road depart
ment $71,378 after expenses. The
county had budgeted $46,000.
The council, after a lengthy
in-camera session, voted to pur
chase land for the widening of
County Road 31 from a holdout
landowner at a cost of $25,000.
After lengthy negotiations the
county had started expropriation
proceedings but a negotiated
settlement was reached.
The county engineer will send a
letter to Huron M.P.P. Paul Klopp
objecting to a new Ministry of
Natural Resources policy that sees
conservation officers no longer
being authorized to pick up road
kill deer. Highway authorities will
now be left with the cost of carcass
disposal.*****
North Huron students dominated
the list of county scholarship
winners from various colleges and
universities.
Jeffrey Sanders, RR 4, Brussels
won the county scholarship at
Ridgetown College. Shannon Rice
of Brussels and Jeremy TenHag,
RR 1, Auburn won two of the three
county scholarships at the Univer-
No info, no money
Council tells agencies
Two groups that have requested
payments from the Village of Blyth
for local residents attending their
facility will be told there will be no
money without more information.
The issue was raised after coun
cil received a request from the
Wingham and Area Seniors Day
Centre asking for $1,625 to pay for
a Blyth resident who attended the
Centre about 50 days last year.
Helen Grubb, village clerk-treasur
er said a request had also been
received from the Wingham Day
Care Centre for a local child who
had been attending. No names
were given and Mrs. Grubb said
such groups refuse to give out the
names of those attending their
institution.
Councillor Steven Sparling didn’t
like the request. “This is a concept
that’s been eating at me since I
came on council, the idea of letting
sity of Guelph.
County bursaries at Guelph go to
Carrie Fortune of Belgrave, Donna
Johnston, RR 2, Bluevale and
Pamela Nolan, Walton out of the
five given out.
Heather Baan, RR 3. Walton and
Lawrence J. Rice, RR 3, Brussels
won the two county bursaries to
Conestoga College. Dan McDou
gall, Blyth won one of two bursar
ies to Wilfrid Laurier University in
Waterloo.
Blyth
somebody else pick up the tab,’’ he
said.
Reeve Albert Wasson said he felt
if there wasn’t a proper explanation
the village shouldn’t pay the re
quest. Councillor Sparling agreed.
“It’s not our money and we need
explanation or why should we
pay?’’ he said. “If there is a need
in the community (for this service)
then we need to know.
Mrs. Grubb said one other
municipality had suggested to the
groups involved that they have the
local users of the service approach
council themselves in a private
meeting. It wasn’t that councils
wanted to embarrass people but
they didn’t want to pay for services
unless they are needed, she said.
On Reeve Wasson’s suggestion a
letter will be sent to the two groups
stating council is declining to give a
donation unless there is a suitable
explanation.
*****
The county adopted a new schol
arship and bursary policy. The
policy calls for a review of scholar
ships with respect to their equity
among the various schools attend
ed by Huron students. It also calls
for a discontinuance of bursaries
because of the funding available
through Ontario student loans and
the difficulty of the county assess
ing the need of the applicants.
*****
The Ministry of Natural Re
sources will take steps to try to
prevent hikers and hunters from
trespassing on private property
while using the “Stevenson Tract’’
on County Road 16 west of Brus
sels. A local landowner has com
plained about the number of people
who wander off one of the trails
onto their property even though
“no trespassing’’ signs are promi
nently posted.
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