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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1988-12-07, Page 21County Briefs THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1988. PAGE 21. Waste Management public meetings begin in Jan. Meetings to get the public’s input into the report of the Huron County Waste Management Steering Com­ mittee willbeginin the new year, Huron County Council was told Wednesday at the final session of the old Huron County Council. In answer to a question from Goderich Township Reeve Grant Stirling, Gary Davidson, County Planning Director said that phase 1 of the Waste Management Study is a little behind schedule, mostly be­ cause the committee didn’t want to hold public meetings too close to Christmas. He said the report will be circulated to all municipalities in the county then will go to a public participation phase and the phase one report will hopefully be before county council in April. The council must then vote whether to go ahead with the second phase of the study. Gore and Storrie Limited, the consultants for the study, have been given an extension until April 15 from Dec. 15. Meanwhile Grey Township Reeve Leona Armstrong, Bruce Machan, Reeve of Wingham and Dennis Merrall, county engineer have been appointed to represent Huron Coun­ ty on a Regional Recycling Board along with representatives from Perth County, the City of Stratford and the Town of St. Marys. The board will investigate the feasibility of a group processing and marketing facility. ***** County Council approved an increase in councillors committee and session pay from $82 to $90 for a full day and from $55 to $60 for a half day (less than three hours). The Warden will receive $5200 honarari- um per year based on $200 every two weeks and the cost of funding hospitality suites at approved con­ ventionswill now be picked up by the county, not the warden. The old rate was $5,018. The travel allowance and mileage will be $80 per month plus 22 cents per kilometre or 25 cents per kilometer if no car allowance is paid. The conference expense allowance was raised from $30 per day to $35 per day. After a 35-minute closed-door session, council approved hiring of Personnel Management Associates to conduct an external salary survey at a cost of $4,000. The closed door session came after Bill Mickle, Reeve of Exeter, questioned the recommendation of the executive committee that the study be done when at the last meeting, a recommendation from the executive committee had been that there be no study, even an internal study that wouldn’t have cost the county a fee. “Why change andspendsomuchmoney? Ihave questions as to why we’re looking outside the county,’’ he said. Warden Bob Bell immediately suggested that council would want to consider those questions in commit­ tee of the whole (where public and press are excluded). When the meeting wasopenedtothe public again the matter was passed with no debate. * $ $ $ $ Some eyes were opened with the report of the Social Services Com­ mittee that included a graph show­ ing the expenditures for assistance to Ontario residents in Ontario for the 1985-86 period. The amount spent on welfare was only 3.9 per cent of all expenses for things such as Canada Pension Plan, Work­ men’s Worker’s Compensation and Unemployment Insurance. Warden Bob Bell said when the information was passed around at the committee meeting it was “startling’’ for committee members. ***** Net receipts for the county’s used equipment auction in Auburn Nov. 5 were $33,631.26. The county didn’t sella 1980grader in the sale because the bid was only $17,500 and the grader was worth more than that to the county for a spare. ***** The Road Committee authorized advertising for tenders for 1989 equipment purchases totalling more than half a million dollars. Also approved by the committee and council was the purchase of $35,000 worth of computer equipment and programs for the county engineering office. ***** The three non-elected appoint­ ments to the Huron County Library Board have all reached the end of their terms and are ineligible for reappointment. Thanks was voted by the Library Board at its November 16 meeting to Martina Schneiker, Janis Bisback and Robert Ritter for their service. ***** A lack of speech therapy for students north of Huron County Road 25 is a temporary problem, Dr. Maarten Bokhout, Medical Officer of Health assured county council. He was replying to a question from Brian McBurney, Reeve of Turn­ berry who noted that Finola MacGin- ty had been hired as speech therapist south of County Road 25 and wondered “when did we start carving up the county by highways. ’ ’ Dr. Bokhout noted it was hard to Continued on page 24 Business & Professional' Directory 7‘tM? 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