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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1989-03-15, Page 18PAGE 18. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1989. W. Wawanosh approves tanker The purchase of a new tanker truck for the Lucknow and District Fire Department has been approv­ ed by West Wawanosh Township Council at its March 7 meeting. The municipality will contribute $12,000 towards the purchase. Auburn trustees Jim Schneider, Allan Craig, George Collins and Harry Arthur attended the meeting to request projects for this year that they would like to see completed. These include more sidewalks and the catch basins cleaned out. Council agreed to exempt Bill Robinson’s tanker from the load restriction by-law while hauling maple syrup. A letter will be drafted to him that he may produce should the need arise. Mr. Robin­ son runs a large maple syrup operation at St. Augustine. A motion was carried that the general accounts totalling $119,644.40 be paid. Jim Finleon’s application to count dogs and sell tags at $2.00 per dog was accepted by the council. An annual grant of $100 will be paid to the Lucknow Agricultural Society this summer. An annual allowance of $150 will be paid to the Wingham and District Hospital representative, Marian Zinn, and to the Alexandra Marine and General Hospital re­ presentative, Klaus Seeger. It was decided that the road superintendent should purchase 10 restricted load signs from Arc Industries in Walkerton. Another motion was carried authorizing him to advertise for tenders for crush­ ing and hauling approximately 26,000 cubic yards of gravel to all roads south of concession nine. A 1978 Ford Truck and plow will be readied for sale and advertised in the Truck Trader. Price will be listed at $10,000.00. A motion was carried that a total of $26,540.17 for road accounts be paid. Building permits have been is­ sued to Lloyd Morrison for a shed and to George Brophy for the construction of a garage. Huron County Department of Planning and Development Plan­ ner, Cynthia Fisher discussed with Council the procedures involved in preparing a zoning by-law for Dungannon. The first step will be to establish a committee and a timetable. Council agreed to pro­ ceed and authorized the Clerk to advertise in the Lucknow Sentinel and the Goderich Signal-Star for any Dungannon residents who would be willing to serve on the committee. Lions to collect old eye glasses for underdeveloped countries The Blyth Lions Club held their spring Ladies Night on Thursday, March 9. Forty-eight Lions, ladies and guests were in attendance. The Blyth Lions are sponsoring Kim Medd and Christina Roulston in the Lions Effective Speaking Programme. Both students presen­ ted their prepared speeches. Steve Hildebrand from Seaforth was the evening’s guest speaker and enter­ tained by making several flower displays. The Blyth Lions are collecting used eye glasses. These glasses are sent to an optometrist who checks and repairs them before sending them to underdeveloped countries around the world. Eye glasses may be given to any Lions member or dropped oft at the Blyth Super­ market. The Blyth Lions 18th annual Little Lion Novice Hockey Tourna­ ment will be held Saturday, March 25 and Sunday, March 26 at the Blyth arena. Eight teams will take part in the tournament. The Blyth and Londesboro Lions Vegas Night will be held at the Blyth and District Community Cen­ tre on Saturday, April 1. Tickets are $5 each which includes admis­ sion to the event and participation in the Elimination Draw. The winner of the Lions Saturday night hockey draw for March 11 was Steve Howson. Despite quibbles, budget passes Continued from page 1 I think that in future local munici­ palities won’t be able to afford to have waste management and will want the county to take over.” He said that the five-year plan takes the county up to the point of buying sites for waste manage­ ment. Whether council ever gets to that point is up to council to decide, he said. Deputy Reeve Fuller said that everybody realizes that waste man­ agement is important but way back when the county decided to go ahead with construction of a new museum council agreed that the Huronview project would be next. ‘‘We have to stop, have to set our priorities” she said, urging the waste management reserve not be set up. She pointed out that the effect on taxpayers in some town­ ships would be even heavier be­ cause of the move last year to market value assessment for coun­ ty tax purposes. While taxpayers in those townships were shielded by the full effect of the increases last year by provincial transition grants, the burden would be hea­ vier this year as the grants dimin­ ished. Robert Fisher, Reeve of Zurich also argued for priorities and warned that the effect of pay equity legislation may cause more new costs for the county. But Grant Stirling, Reeve of Goderich argued for the necessity of the waste management reserve saying his township had the largest landfill site in the county and he thus had the largest number of people down his back because of waste manage­ ment problems. The urban munici­ palities don’t have dumps in their backyards so it’s easy for them to say the reserve fund isn’t impor­ tant. Other reeves had worries in other areas. Bruce Machan, Reeve of Wingham worried that costs of running Huronview are almost as high as they were before one wing was closed last year, taking away 55 beds. Mr. Hanly explained that the costs of staffing that wing weren’t large and that if the residential care wing could have been kept filled, it would have cut the county’s share of support for Huronview by about $100,000. The county’s share of expenses for the $5,912,000 budget of Huronview this year will be $460,024. Tom Cunningham, Reeve of Hullett worried about the increase in the library budget, pointing out to council that library expenditures are picked up 75 per cent by the county taxpayers and only 25 per cent from the province. The coun­ ty’s share of the budget will be $754,929 this year, an increase of 11.8 per cent from last year’s budget. Over the past 10 years the library budget has been one of the fastest growing areas in the budget and the province hasn’t picked up its share, Reeve Cunningham said. Reeve Fisher worried about the increase in operating expenses for the Huron Pioneer Museum an increase of 27 per cent from last year. Part of this is due to the fact that when the construction on the museum is completed in Septem­ ber, project director Claus Breede’s salary will be absorbed into the museum operating budget instead of the capital budget. Next year when the entire year’s salary is included in the operating budget the increase will be higher, he said. Despite the criticism the budget passed by a 27-7 margin with two councillors absent. Sunshine Sale The wingham Sales Arena EVERYTHING UNDER ONE ROOF’ NEW & USED GUNS u OPEN MON.-SAT. 9-6 FRI. 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