HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1988-06-08, Page 7Brussels council briefs
THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1988. PAGE 7.
Council to explore recycling program
Brussels council will confer with
surrounding municipalities and
explore the possibility of imple
menting a recycling program
perhaps as early as its July council
meeting.
Councillor Malcolm Jacobs not
ed that recycling programs are
catching on fast across the pro
vince and he felt Brussels should
“get something rolling before next
month”. He pointed out that
recycling will greatly extend the
life of landfill sites by reducing the
amount of waste that needs to be
buried.
Councillor Betty Graber felt that
Brussels should contact Morris
andGrey to make sure thatthey
were co-ordinating whatever mar-
ketthe other communities were
using for recycled materials. Coun
cillor Jacobs felt, however, that the
village’s current garbage collector
should be given first chance to
market recycled materials if he was
interested.
No definite action was taken
pending more information being
gathered.*****
Three Brussels firemen will be
trained in the use of extrication
equipment at a two-day course in
Goderich July 14 and 15.
The firemen will get the training
for the use of new extrication
equipment that the Brussels de
partment will be getting as part of
a plan to equip Huron county fire
departments involved in the mutu
al aid plan. Brussels and the four
other municipalities that don’t
have minor extrication equipment
will get it while two emergency
vans fitted with major extrication
equipment for dealing with large
truck accidents will be stationed in
the north and south of the county.*****
Sheila Richards, past president
of the Blyth Festival, made a
presentation updating councillors
on the activities of the Festival in
the past year. Council unanimous
ly approved a donation of $125 to
become a patron of the Festival.
Council took no action on the
complaints of William Little who
wasunhappy with the quality of
work done when his house was
connected to the sewer system late
last fall. “Ifldidajob like that I’d
be ashamed of myself’’, Mr. Little
said, feeling council should goback
and fill in a depression left when
the soil settled.
Councillors pointed out, how
ever, that such work would be
charged to Mr. Little as other
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homeowners in the village install
ed their own sewer connections.
“Wedidajobwehadtodo,’’ Reeve
Workman said. “We’re not trying
to win a popularity contest.”
*****
Council will continue to explore
the purchase of a computer and
related municipal tax and utilities
programs which would mean more
work would be done in the village
office instead of being farmed out.
Clerk-treasurer Hugh Hanly
said the total cost of the computer
and the expensive software would
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amount would be reduced to under
$10,000. The equipment would
save about $5800 a year in billing of
taxes and Public Utilities bills that
are now done by computer firms in
London.
“The thing I like about it,” said
Reeve Workman, “is that rather
than paying someone in London it
would make sense to me that we
pay the money in town,” even if it
meant hiring someone part-time to
help run the computer. Mr. Hanly
saidthathethoughtthe present
staff could do the work without
hiring more help.
The computer and programs
discussed are provided by a
Goderich firm which also supplies
several other municipalities.
*****
Council will explore further an
inquiry from residents of Graham
Survey just south of the village in
Grey township to be supplied with
municipal water. Reeve Workman
said he had been approached by a
contractor to see if the village
would be interested in supplying
the water which would allow
development of building lots.
Councillor Neil McDonald warn
ed the cost would not be cheap with
the installation of water mains and
fire hydrants. Mr. Hanly pointed
outthatthe only way the village
could get involved would be if the
contractors put in the water works
to the specifications the village
uses for its own system. Still
council agreed to look at the
possibility.
Several councillors made it plain
that in the long term, they saw the
best solution to be annexation into
the village.
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