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Page 6- Lucknuw Sentinel, Wednesday, July 16, 1997
Wllt'mee.t with union
to negotiate
*from page 1
for failing to obtain a
building permit.
The building inspector
issued three permits: one
for an addition to a shed,
one for a house and one
for a new shed.
Collective agreement
The International
Union of Operating
Engineers requested dates,
as to when council would.
negotiate a new collective:
agreement for the road
department employees. -. •
The clerk was given a
date to respond with and
instructed to prepare perti-
nent information'regaratng
wages and benefits for
council.
CNR land
"No trespassing" signs
will be erected at each
entranceway onto the
•. CNR land since the town-.
ship is now the registered
owner for the time being.
The process 'of selling
the land back to the indi-
viduals along the rail line
will be initiated. A meet-
ing will be held with the
original CNR committee,
township solicitor, survey
• and council•:'
Landowner concerns
John Husk attended the
meting to "talk to council
about 'several concerns he
has. a
One is a ,ovate f problem.
that causes ponding all
year round at Lot .5, Cone,
-10, Husk says the road is
blocking 'the natural flow
of water and wants a. c ul-
vert placed under the road
to drain the ponding and
allow the natural flow to
continue. •
A culvert installed
when the road was recon-
structed many years ago is
• not noticeable and not
doing the job. as originally
intended.
The problem was
addressed a number of
years ago and ther'eport
said it was not a township
responsibility. •
Husk will talkto the
neighbor across the road
to gethis comments -on the
culvert. •
If there is no. opposi-
tion, a4 culvert will be
,installed across Conc. 10.
If there ,is opposition,
Husk will have to petition
for• an extension of the
Municipal Drain.
Two other areas of con-
cern for Husk' will be
looked at by the road
'superintendent anad the
drain inspector.
38,2 km of roadway.
transferred to Bruce
by Pat Livingston
Bruce county will be the recipient of
38.2 lcilonaetres of roadway, compliments
of the province effective Jan, 1, 199$. In
April, Highway 6 from Highway 21 to
Hepworth was transferred to, Bruce and
Grey,
The 'downloading. is a
continuation of the
province's 'Who Does
What'. initiative where
municipalities will take "full
responsibility for 'beg trans-
portation services; including highways
that.primarily serve local needs," says Al
Palladini, Ministry of Transportation
minister, in a letter to county council.
This transfer'. will. download responsi •
bility for Highway 86. from Amberley to
the• westerly ed$e of Lucknow, and from
the east village limits to east of
Whitechurch. Because Highway 86 is a
boundary road for Bruce and Huron
counties the distance in kilometres will
be' split between counties with each. get-
ting 14.7 kilometres.
figures taken from MTO show the
average daily.traffic count on Highway
86 from Lucknow to Wingham to be
2,800 in the summer and 2,500+ in the
winter. From Lucknow to Amberley, the
average count is 1,350 in summer and
1,100 in winter.
Portions of Highway 4
(23,5 kilometres) also trans-
fer to Bruce County,. with .6
kilometres on the Bruce and
Huron boundary road going..
X0Huron.
Bruce county will receive a one time
unconditional :ppaytnei , 'f $741,000 after
transfer of the.high%
In Huron CO"' ,Lal'of.'70,5'{kilo-
metres was adder ' county road sys-
tem. Huron'sone tine unconditional pay-
ment is $2,945,000
. In addition to the 1,766 kilometres of
.highway 'transfers presently underway,
another :3,400 kilometres of highways
"which primarily serve local needs" 'will
be transferred to municipalities as of Jan.
res
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Consolidated Statement of Operations
for the year ended December '31,' 1996
Sources of Financing '
• Requisition on Local Municipalities
Grants ?
Govematentof Canada
Province of Ontario •
Other municipalities:
Other. •
Investment income 293,346
Fees and service charges 3,054,235:
*. -tents` 785,507'•
Mist*Ilaneous. 16,000
Fund Balances at the Beginnleg'. '
:of the Year,
Tb heuscd to offset to tatioo ' ' 821,524
26,904,138.
Budget Actual Actual
$.
8,898,210'
•
31,OFT
12,675,799
28,500'
APlllied To
Gerrent Operations
General government,
Protection to persons and
property
Transportation services
Environmental' services
Health services
Social and family services
Recreation and cultural services.
'Planning and development
Capital :
.Gederal government
Protection to persons and
property
Transportation services
Environmental' '
:Health services.•
Social and family services
Recreation and cultural services
Planning and development
8,886,967 ' 8,856,546
.' 514,084 35(1,795 "•
•12,782,459 •'14450,876
186,232,• 980,524.
318,965.
3,185,983
880;879
275.,587
388,962
3,135,1131
774.141;
1,7.40'
807,879 •1,269,300
27,839,035 .' 30,407,997
1,351,987 1,451,208 1,257,635
210,122 214,611 '' ; 235,634'
61,193,000 6,015,893 i 8,087,724,
557,752 ' 369,034 '386,987
2,193 218 2,105,946 2,224,630 ..
11,488460. 11.647,009 11,953,342..,,
1,765,694 '2,160,726 ' 1456,293
1,02I,530 1,27.7.130 ' _947,997
24,781;963 25,241 566 26,7.49,342'
Net, Appropriations to (from) Reserves
and Reserve Funds
Fund Balances at the End of the Year
To be used to offset taxation
143,000
1.000
277,000
2,000:
• ,74,000
117,000
'93,000
142,38.2. , 663,206
896.
276,8:11 500,482
1,478 6,652
73,611. 1;686,421
.117,223 ' 135,291,
• '93,301 39,1711.
25,000 24,866 ;40,570,
132,000 430,638 3,091.792
'•1,390,175
1,195,709, (241,016)
•
807,819
• 6'71.,122'
•%26,904,138 27,839,035 30,401,997,
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AUDITORif S REPORT
To the Members at council, Inhabitants.andRatepayers -
of the Corporation of the County of Huron • .
We have audited the consolidated balance sheet of the Corporation of the. County 01Huron as at December 31, 1996 and the
consolidated statement of operations for thearear then ended. These, statements are the responsibility oLthe county's
management, Our responsibility Is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit. '
We conducted our audit in accordance with 9enerally accepted auditing standards. Those standards require fiat We plan and
perlorni "an audit to obtain reasonable assurance whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit
Includes examining, on a test basis evidence supporting the amounts;and disclosures in the financial statements, M audit
also includes assessing the accounting principles'used and significant estimates made by, management, as well as eialuating
overall' financial statementpreseatation. .. .
In our opinion, those consolidated financial statementspresent fairly the financial position of the Corporation of the County of
Huron es at December 31, 1996 and the results of its operation for ttie year then ended in accordance with thea accounting'
principles disclosed in note 1 to the financial statements.
Goderich, Ontario "-
•May 30, 1997 t1 At�r� ,1.44#rclt
' it ,Chartered Accountants.
Consolidated Balance Sheet
as at December,31,1996
infi
l)nreslricted
Cash on hand and in bank,
Due'to general funds from reserve funds
Accounts receivable
Re$tr ided
Cash on/hand and in bank
Investments
,Other current assets.
Less: Due from reserve funds to,
'general funds ' ''
Liabilities and Fluid Balances
Liabilities
Accounts payable•and accrued liabilities
Fund balances at the end of the year,
To beused to offset tattation
Reserves.' ;'
Reserve Funds
Reserve and Reserve Fund Operations
Revenue •
Transfersand expenditures
Year-end position of reserves .and reserve. funds
NOTES ..:
1, These Financial Highlights reflect the, operations, assetsand liabilities of the County of
Huron including the fullowing:`1=luron County Planning and Development Committct:,
Huron County Library Board, Committee of Management of Huronview ankh the Huron
County Board of, Health.. ` '
'2. The Home Care Ptogtatit, Placement Co-ordination Services; and the Hurons Addiction and
Referral Program administered by the Huron County Board of Health and funded entirely
by the Province of Ontario are not consolidated. • .
3. Copies of the audited financial report from which these highlights. were extracted Indy be
examined at the office of the Clerk -Administrator, County of Huron .Court House, The
Square, Goderich, Ontario. '
Murray Keys
Warden
3,300,022.: . 2,060,928
1,050,874 • 1,850,616. .; '.
586.753 2,404,502
4,937,649 6,316,046'
• 2,621,237 "�
2,038,994
1.4.-
' 4,660,245
'(I,050,874)'
3,609,371.
1,322,875 i. '
2,756,239
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4,079,149
(I 850 ¢16)
2,228,533
•8,547 020 '' 8,544,579
2,368,237 3,424,748
611,.122 807,879.
1,898,290 2,083,1410
360071 • ' 2x228,533
8,547,020 • 8;544,574;
•
2,499,617
1,303,907
5,507,662.
•
2;399,841
' 1,640,857 .•
4,311,952
Ken Nix, CrM.A,
Treasurer
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