The Citizen, 1991-10-02, Page 11Blyth council briefs
THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1991. PAGE 11.
Campground streets to get maple trees
A new arrangement with the
Huron County Humane Society
will give stray dogs in Blyth an
opportunity to be adopted instead
of being destroyed if not claimed
by their owners.
Blyth Council at its Sept. 24
meeting agreed to an arrangement
proposed by the local Humane
Society that will see money spent
to get pets adopted instead of
destroyed. The system, already
employed once, will see the village
continue to advertise the lost ani
mal for three days as in the past.
After the three days, however,
instead of paying to have the ani
mal put to sleep, the village will
give the same amount of money to
the Humane Society and it will use
the money to give the dog all its
shots so it can be given to a new
owner. Councillors agreed the new
system, which will cost the village
exactly the same as it would have
to house the dog in a kennel for
three days and then have it
destroyed, is a good step forward.♦**
Unexpected extra costs have
been encountered in the rebuilding
of Morris St. It turns out that the
water main is much shallower than
council had realized and with the
changes in the street's elevation, the
main will have to be insulated or it
could freeze in winter and rupture.
Councillor Dave Lee worried about
the fact the old cast-iron watermain
is being left in place. "I just keep
gritting my teeth that we're putting
a new road over an old main," he
said. Reeve Albert Wasson said he
could agree but the only alternative
would be to take out the old main
and put in a new one and that
would be very expensive.
Council agreed to support a pri
vate members bill from Ontario
Progressive Conservative Party
leader Mike Harris that would give
municipalities the right to put a
question on this Fall's municipal
ballots about balanced budgets. The
Harris question would ask voters:
"Do you support a law to require
the provincial government to bal
ance its budget at least once every
three fiscal years and for a budget
which fails to do so, to require the
government to seek the approval of
the electorate either by Province
wide Referendum or by calling a
General Election."
The motion was supported by
Councillor Steven Sparling, (sec
onded by Councillor Shirley Fyfe)
but Councillor Sparling said if such
a bill was passed it would bring
conflict. In Michigan a conserva
tive Republican governor commit
ted to a balanced budget was
elected and began slashing budgets
and now is being threatened with
impeachment, he said.
The bareness at the fairgrounds
that increased with the cutting of
several trees with landscaping of
the grounds this past summer will
be changed almost instantly by a
plan adopted by council. Using
money from its own tree budget,
plus money from saving from
street-lighting purchased under the
Pride program and money from the
Huron Pioneer Hobby and Thresher
Association, council will have up to
100 larger maple trees moved in to
the park from a nearby farm. Trees
will be planted in the "streets" of
the campground laid out by the
Thresher Association as well as
around the outside of the ball dia
monds.
"I can just visualize what it will
look like when it's done," said
Councillor Dave Lee who is head
ing up the project. "It will look so
nice. It'll look more like a camp
ground with the trees."
**♦
Council agreed to let the congre
gation of Trinity Anglican Church
build a ramp from the church door
to the sidewalk on Dinsley Street.
John Nesbit and Ed Quinn from the
congregation told council they were
asking for permission since the
ramp would have to come out onto
village property, extending higher
than the current sidewalk. Council
lors said that since the sidewalk
really only gets used for church
purposes, they didn't see a problem.
Mr. Nesbit said that if a new side
walk was ever put in it could be
built up to the level of Gypsy lane
and would match up perfectly with
the new ramp.**♦
Councillors decided not to sup
port a resolution from Sombra
Township calling on the province
to become leading co-ordinating
body to facilitate establishment of
an 911 emergency dispatching sys
tem across the entire province.
Reeve Wasson said that it
became evident when a 911 num
ber was looked at for Huron-Perth
earlier that it would be a high cost
system with pitfalls. Clerk-treasurer
Helen Grubb said Fire Chief Paul
Josling didn't feel comfortable with
the dispatching being put in the
hands of people farther away who
weren't as familiar with the local
community as the fire department
volunteers.
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