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The Citizen, 1988-03-09, Page 24PAGE 24. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1988 One of the national figure skating champion Kevin Wheeler’s first duties after he returned on the weekend from skating at the closing ceremonies of the Calgary Olympics was to accept a cheque for $225.59 from Barb Brown, a member of The Citizen’s board of directors. Made out to the Kerry Leitch Figure Skating School in Preston, the money which was the surplus donated by local well-wishers to send a “Good Luck’ ’ telegram to Mr. Wheeler and his skating pairs partner Michelle Menzies in Calgary, will go towards the young athletes’ training and ice time. The Citizen co-ordinated the fund-raising. Brussels unhappy over Morris' default Reform approval deferred Continued from page 1 having local municipal activities taken over by the county saying it would hold back forward, progres­ sive municipalities from providing the kind of services people in their communities needed. He said he didn’tfeel the matter should be voted on at the time, pointing out that the Association of Municipali­ ties of Ontario is still debating the recommendations and a commit­ tee of the Legislature has been set up to study the report. “Don’t tie the council to a position at this point,’’ he pleaded. “Let the process (of study) proceed.’’ If the vote did proceed he would have to vote against the measure because “I will not directly or individually jeopardize the posi­ tion of the council and citizens I represent.’’ The item that seemed to most upset Reeve Mickle was recom­ mendation 13 of the report which said that counties should be provided with the “permissive authority to assume any local municipal function the county does not currently perform, or discon­ tinue providing a discretionary service they do perform where there is a two-thirds vote of county council representing a majority of local municipalities’ ’ and that if the county takes over a service, all municipalities must help pay for it. In answering the criticism Bill Tanly, Huron County Administra­ tor said the report is what the Huron council has been asking for, a reform program for the county system without moving it closer to regional government. Exeter deputy-reeve Lossy Ful­ ler also attacked the haste to approve the recommendations saying the legislative committee was set up to listen to people about the proposals. “We’re rushing things to make recommenda­ tions.’’ But Hullett Reeve Tom Cunn­ ingham said that the committee is going out to listen to people like the Huron council and “we have to have a position on it (the report) for the committee’’. Reeve Cunningham who sits, along with Reeve Mickle, on an AMO committee studying the report, said the report was moving closer to regional government and he hoped that some things would­ n’t change such as changing municipal boundaries or changing the title of the county ‘ ‘warden’ ’ to “chairman” as regions have. He said his concern was that if the county didn’tmakechanges the province will make the changes for it as they did with regional government. But Reeve Mickle warned that in acting in haste councillors would be acting against the best interests of their individual municipalities. “The day will come when you will be regionalized by process,” he warned the councillors. It may not come in his time on council, Reeve Mickle said, but it would come. Other reeves spoke in favour of accepting the recommendations without delay. Turnberry Reeve Brian McBurney said the recom­ mendations were like those in a report made last year. He didn’t feel more debate was necessary. Marie Hicknell, reeve of McKillop said she could see no problem with supporting recommendations 2 through 36 and having heads of all councils (including mayors of towns) represented at county level. But Tom Tomes, Reeve of Stephen said he didn’t think the council should jump into this as quickly as this and moved to have the item tabled. The motion, however, was defeated. Mr. Hanly argued that there was not going to be any major transfer of power from the municipalities to the county because a two-thirds majority is required and enough councillors aren’t going to agree with perhaps the exception of waste management. But Reeve Mickle said he thought Mr. Hanly was naive in his wishes and that down the road the rules would change. Gerry Prout, reeve of Usborne called for point-by-point study of the recommendations but Warden Bob Bell warned an entire special meeting would be needed for that. Robert Fisher, reeve of Zurich wondered how many municipal councils had had a chance to study the report but was told that municipal councils weren’t involv­ ed because it was a county matter. Laurie Cox, deputy reeve of Goderich township asked that the vote on the matter be deferred until the next meeting and the motion was carried. Brussels council Monday night voted to contact Grey township to see if the two municipalities should do anything about the failure of Morris township to pay the $4,000 for recreation as had promised to pay in 1987 under the Brussels, Morris and Grey recreation agree­ ment. Morris had reduced its payment from $4,000 to $3,000 in 1987 after a major equipment breakdown at the Blyth and District Community Centre meant Morris and other municipalities supporting that fa­ cility had to come up with a bigger amount for recreation than plann­ ed. But Reeve Gordon Workman McKillop Reeve angry as county accepts tax reform Continued from page 1 involved making it more compli­ cated. Section 70 is a simpler system using straight market value assessment and applying a mill rate. In another recorded vote of 27-5 councillors voted to accept Section 70. Voting against acceptance were Deputy Reeve Laurie Cox of Goderich township, and reeves Tom Cunningham, Hullett; Marie Hicknell, McKillop; Gerry Prout, Usborne and Grant Stirling, God­ erich township. For a matter that had caused a considerable debate at the J anuary Snell’s Grocery Limited 523-9332Burnt WE DELIVER GOLD SEAL RED SOCKEYE SALMON 7 /2 oz. Believe In Quality I LEWIS CRUSHED 80% OR 100% QoWHOLE WHEAT BREAD 675 g. oH LEWIS DATE FILLED COOKIES 400 G.MAXWELL HOUSE OR NESCAFE INSTANT COFFEE 227 g. 5.49 LEWIS CARROT . _ MUFFINS 6’s ’-19 MELITTA EXTRA FINE OR FINE PREMIUM COFFEE 369 G. 3.39 KELLOGG'S 425 G. OR 525 G. FROOT LOOPS OR FROSTED FLAKES 2.29 OLD MILL 1 MINUTE, LARGE, OR nn QUICK OATS 1.35 KG- .99 WELCH’S Q PRUNE NECTAR ao oz. zi.49GEM LONG GRAIN RICE 900 G. 7? PRICE .89 WELCH’S CONCORD -iOO GRAPE JUICE 1 l. 1.99 BEATRICE QUALITY PRODUCTS SOUR CREAM sooml 1.59 1/2 & 1/2 CREAM ml0 1.19 SQUIRREL EXTRA CRUNCHY PEANUT BUTTER 1 kg. 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DISHWASHER DETERGENT 4.59 FROZEN RED MONTMORENCY 10% SUGAR „PIE CHERRIES 22 lb 13.29 SUNLIGHT POWDERED LAUNDRY DETERGENT 61 3.99 told council Monday night that he had been talking with other reeves in the county about the situation and they agreed that an agreement is an agreement and when it’s down on paper you don’t ^reak the agreement. Councillor Ruth Sauve agreed saying all three councils had signed the agreement and they should live up to the agreement. Referring to the fact Morris township had recently supported a surplus of $22,671 for 1987, Councillor Sauve said she couldn’t understand the township having a surplus when it hadn’t paid all its obligations. council meeting when it was first introduced and again at local council levels, the final resolution was done quietly with little debate. Afterthe vote Marie Hicknell of McKillop was the one voice of protest saying “We are elected to come up (to county council) by population but that’s certainly not how we pay.” The county’s decision is contin­ gent on the province bringing in a system of grants to help those who will face tax increases by phasing in the changes over a period of years. Although in other areas of Reeve Workman asked Council­ lor Betty Graber, council’s repre­ sentative on the BMG recreation committee, if she had brought up the matter at the recreation committee and Councillor Graber said she had broached the subject but had backed off because “I seem to be the only one up there that’sconcernedabout it.’’ She suggested that since the agree­ ment was between the councils, perhaps the problem should be tackled between the councils. She wondered if Brussels should be meeting with Grey township to see if the two other councils wanted to pursue the matter. the province this has applied only for residential taxpayers, the council has asxed that the same kind of assistance be considered for farm, commercial and indus­ trial taxpayers. The approval means the new tax rolls being processed will use the reformed assessment. Taxpayers will be able to understand their assessments more easily since the only assessment on the statement will be the 1984 market value assessment. The new system also means that there will be a new, drastically lower mill rate in all communities.