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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1979-11-21, Page 4tl 14--Lrcknow Sentinel, Wednesday, November 21, 1979 West Wawanosh has beaver problem The November session of West Wawanosh Township Council took place on Tues- day afternoon, November 6, 1979, at the Municipal Office in the Public Works Garage. Reeve Foran presided. The minutes of the Octob- er meeting were read and adopted on motion of Coun- cillors Aitchison and Hickey. Conservation Officer Roy Belanger spoke to Council in regard to the beaver problem in West Wawanosh, and advised .on the best method of control which is trapping. He advised that nothing • stops a land owner from trapping beavers on his own property (or shooting), and that a trapper could do it with land owner's permission. Building permits were authorized on a motion by Councillors Hickey and Dur- nin for K. McNee (house addition); A Delbergue (gar- age); A. Dickson (granary); and W. Craig (workshop ad- dition). The road accounts were ordered to be paid on motion by Councillors Aitchison and Durnin. The following motions were carried during busi- ness. Motion - Councillors Hick- ey and Durnin: "That last month's motion authorizing the Reeve and Clerk to apply for the Interim Subsidy on road expenditures be rescin- ded, and that the Reeve and Clerkare hereby authorized to apply for the Interim, Sub- sidy on road expenditures this month, covering expen- ditures made to the end of October 1979." Motion - Councillors Hick- ey and Aitchison: "That the Township of West Wawa - nosh hereby concursdwith the resolution of the Township of Woolwich to request the Province of Ontario to re- scind the equalization factors published in June and to implement a program of property tax reform which takes into account the prob- lem of the • assessment of agricultural lands andtheir relative values.", Resolutions from Valley East, West .Car- leton and Dunnville were tabled. One resolution was too late to be acted upon, the other two were questions irrelevant to this municipal- ity. Two by-laws were passed..Tha. By-law #16, 1979 was given third reading and finally Ashfield revises assessment At the November meeting of Ashfield Township Coun- cil, the following resolution was passed: "That the clerk notify the Minister of Rev- enue to revise the. Assess- ment Rollfor the Township of Ashfield under section 86. of the Assessment Act for taxation in the year 1980. Howard Harris of the Assessment Office, Goder- ich, attended, and outlined the effect this would have in Ashfield. Revised ,assess - fent based on 1975 market value will not change the Township's taxation revenue butwill distribute taxes more fairly among owners within individual property classes which are Residential, Farm- land and Commercial. Some properties will decrease and others will increase.. According to the figures presented, 470 residential. units are overassessed and 781 are underassessed. For farmland there are 351 over . and 351 under and Commer- cial 22 are over and 18 under. New assessment notices will be mailed in January 1980, after which the Assess- ment Office will hold open house to give the people an opportunity to find out why their tax bill is changed. An application for sever- ance on part of lot 7, concession 14, Western Div- ision, was not approved and the application on part of lot 3, Lake Range, was approv- ed. No appeals were received on the Courtney Drain, part of lot 45, Lake Range and the Bylaw was given third read- ing and passed to proceed with the work. Roast accounts of $36;990.86 and general ac - counts of $36,546.82 were approved for paymnt. Building permits were ap- proved for Paul Hogan, house, and James Hayes, hog barn. There will be a ratepayers meeting on Thursday, Nov- ember 29, 1979 at 8 p.m: in the Brookside Public School to discuss the Secondary Plan. passed on a motion by Coun- cillors Hickey and Durnin. This by-law authorizes the imposition of special rates on various properties in the Township to cover tile drain loans. By-law ,#17, 1979 was given third reading and fin- ally passed on a motion by Councillors Aitchison and Hickey.. This by-law is an amending by-law to by -law -1'#17', 1977, The Smyth Muni- cipal Drain Eltension and I rprovement By-law, due to the fact that the actual costs exceeded the estimates. A motion , by Councillors Hickey and Aitchison: "That the Clerk -Treasurer is here- by authorized to apply for an Interim Grant and make an interim billing on the Reid Kinloss council makes donation to Brownies Reeve. Barry Johnston and all councillors were present for the November 5 regular meeting of Kinloss Council. The assessment on lot one of plan 101 was reduced from $7,200 to $1,900 because the house was improperly asses- sed. The business assess- ment on concession one, part of lot 11 is to deleted as business is no longer con- ducted on the property. Two representatives of the First Holyrood . Brownie pack attended council to ask for a donation after which a dona- tion of $100 was made. By-law number 18 was passed which authorizes the club to borrow up to $200,000 from the. Bank of Montreal Building permits, were ap- proved for Peter Edisbury for a pig barn on lot 4, conces- sion 3; Claude Dore for a house addition on lot 26, concession 8; Charles Mur- ray foran addition to a pig barn on lot 3, concession 10; George McBride to demolish a barn on lot 2, concession 5 and. to Allen McArthur, part block A SDR for a picnic pavilion and swinuning pool and ' also to demolish a building.: The building permit appli- cation of Leo Murray for a trailer on lot 5, concession 6, was not approved as the building does not conform to zoning by-law number 16. General accounts for $33,934.27 and highway ac- counts for $23,503.05 were ordered paid. On October 22 a meeting was held to pass by-law number 16-1979 to levy the cost of construction of the McMillan Municipal Drain Improvement 1978 and ly- law number. 17-1979 was 'passed to authorize the lic- encing of dogs in the town- ship and to set the rates to be levied. Instructions were given to the clerk to write off $938.50 on drainage books for the Emerson Drain Extension 1967: This amount was to, have been recovered from Barry . Beach Construction. but was never collected due to bankruptcy. A letter is to be written to ' the Ministry of Transpor- tation and Communications concerning funding ,for a development road on side - road ' 35, north from White- church.. . By p pp ,;ecic i Appointment" "Christmas Bash" Lucknow Community Centre Friday, November 30th Tickets $6.00 a couple Tickets available by .phoning Rick Passmore, 528-3206 By Special Appointment" From Country to Folk Rock Specializing in Grafftti Rock'nRoll AndlIvis Presley Dancing 9 -1 All Proceeds For Crippled Children By Special Appointment is appearing at the Manor Hotel in Wingham this weekend Drain, of 90% of costs incurred to date," was car- ried. A resolution from the Re- gional Municipality of Wat- erloo that the Minister of Natural Resources be re- 1 1 I ••.41LORRAINE GARY •• THE "NO sHIRT" GANG, CARL BALLANTINE RAY EIOLRER` KEYS LUKE iv., T ' 9 Y•. . endB Til. IVES as"MAX" M 111 all 1111 ADULT lNtttidiHM,NT all 1111RecomMended OA IiA,,d, Nip. NEXT Tuesday 1/0.a.15' ,�', ., quested to dfflay the second reading of the Bill to revise the Pits and Quarries Act, was endorsed by West Wawanosh Township Coun- cil on a motion by Councillors Hickey and Durnin. wrncIIAM, mato ►NOME 357.1630 EOE MOVIE IIIMME Anow SEM■111r■11r1111I®Wkik WEDNESDAY TO SATURDAY, NOV. 21-24 —Paint un w,4."rives. COO p.m. • — FTI.•Srt. 7,00•9,00 p.te; 1,11.1 THE STORY OF TWO JUVENILE DELINQUENTS, GEORGE BROOKE W ® W W BURNS SHIELDS �I l ATTRACTION Sunday • Monday uesd ay November 25.26.27 " tt 4 1140 • SMarthe• 8:00 p.fn. D�Oyf .y0./VI�TO''� - •OwI,t.NCf*Anummumumumaii aim es r X'. 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