HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1991-12-23, Page 6PAGE 6. THE CITIZEN, MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1991.
Blyth Council Briefs
Businesses may help spread the word
A committee will be set up to
design a promotional piece for the
village that can be stuffed into
mailings by village businesses, vil
lage councillors decided at their
Dec. 17 meeting.
Councillor John Elliott said he
took a look at the amount of mail
that goes out of his office and he
began to realize that when all the
businesses in the community are
counted, there is a lot of mail going
to a lot of households. A small
mailing piece telling of the attrac
tions of the village could be slipped
into these envelopes and promote
the village with little additional
cost, he said.
Councillor Steven Sparling liked
the idea, suggesting there probably
wasn't a lot of overlap in the mail
ings of area businesses. He said the
village should blow its own hom.
"There's no reason that we don't tell
somebody what we do well," he
said.
Reeve Dave Lee said the problem
Separate School Board
adopts restraint policy
It was noted at the December 9
meeting of the Huron-Perth Roman
Catholic Separate School Board
that a letter be sent to the Ministry
of Education slating that the board's
senior administration and its
trustees have adopted and imple
mented compensation restraint.
From January 6 to March 31,
Gary Birmingham, Principal of St.
James School, Seaforth, will be
working from the board offices on
special projects.
Mary P. Smith will serve as act
ing principal until Mr. Birming
ham’s return.
Maureen Sabin will be acting
vice- principal at St. Mary's School
in Goderich until Ms Smith returns.♦♦♦
Darlene Hoggart has been
appointed as a teacher assistant at
S. Joseph's School, Clinton begin
ning November, 1991.♦ ♦♦
John Devereaux will be the tem
porary custodian at St. James
School.♦»»
Anna Collings has been hired for
was that someone had to agree to
do it. Councillor Elliott suggested
Clerk-Treasurer Helen Grubb could
work with Jane Gardner, publicity
director of the Blylh Festival, and
former councillor Bev Elliott to
design the publicity piece.
♦♦♦
Including the December tax
installment, only eight per cent of
taxes in the village are outstanding.
"This is excellent", Mrs. Grubb told
council. She said that the Public
Utilities Commission is also in
excellent condition compared to
other utilities she had spoken with
that have customers who have fall
en behind on their payments.
♦♦♦
Councillor Elliott reported on his
first meeting as a member of the
Blyth and District Community
Centre Board and expressed amaze
ment at how much it costs for elec
tricity to heat the auditorium at the
centre. "It costs more to heat the
auditorium than to make ice," he
the part-time secretarial position at
St. Aloysius School, effective Jan
uary 6, 1992.
The board passed a resolution
empowering the Personnel Com
mittee (Non-teaching) to appoint a
custodian to fill a vacancy, which
exists in one of the Stratford
schools. Interviews were held on
December 10 and will be ratified at
the January meeting of the board.♦♦♦
A resolution was passed stating
that the section on the easterly limit
of the proposed new St. Michael
Secondary School, which consists
of three classrooms, an art room
and communications lab on the
ground floor and six classrooms on
the second floor, be declared
instructional space available to be
shared with the Perth County Board
of Education.«**
The board accepted the tender of
$217,593.50 by McCann Construc
tion for the placement of engi
neered granular fill necessary for
the construction at St. Michael Sec
ondary School.
said. He pointed out that two
municipal buildings with heat
pump systems, the arena auditori
um and Memorial Hall, are both
expensive to heat.
Councillor Robbie Lawrie, who
was reeve when the construction of
the arena was undertaken in 1975,
said the building was not well insu
lated. The building was put up
quickly after the old arena was con
demned and insulation at that time
wasn't a major worry, he said.
The building has been insulated
and had new windows put in in
recent years but it is still far from
energy efficient.
***
Blyth Fire Department volunteers
will get a 2.5 per cent raise in the
coming year under a budget
approved by the Blyth and District
Fire Area Board, Councillor
Steven Sparling reported.
The levies to the supporting
municipalities will remain the
same, Councillor Sparling said, but
the fire call charge would increase
to $360 in the area and $420 out
side the area.
Councillor Elliott said he felt the
fire call charge was amazingly low
given that it was $110 when he was
with the fire area board 25 years
ago. "They were a tremendously
dedicated group of guys who
worked hard and worked together,"
he said. They were concerned with
getting better equipment rather than
more money for themselves.
Reeve Lee said the situation
remains the same. "I'll defy anyone
to go anywhere in Ontario and find
the quality of equipment we've got
in a village of this size," he said.
Among the major improvements
this year will be the purchase of
five bunker suits at a cost of $1000
each. The provincial government
has ordered that all firemen must
have the suits.
Councillor Elliott worried about
the amount of extra cost and
responsibility that is being put on
volunteer departments by the gov
ernment. The bureaucrats "keep
dumping down on the volunteers
and the people in the ivory towers
who keep making the rules aren't
taking any less," he said.
Newly elected Reeve Dave Lee
made his first report from county
council and noted he had been
given a three year appointment to
the waste management committee
at a time when the big decisions
and big controversy over the choos
ing of a county landfill site arc
bound to escalate. "I'm not sure
who I insulted (to get the appoint
ment)" he joked.
With the two heavy snowfalls in
December the complaints about
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snowmobilers have begun again.
Mrs. Grubb reported that com
plaints had been made about snow
mobiles going through the
Horticulture park on Dinsley St.,
the site of the pioneer cemetery. A
letter is to be sent to the Blyth
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asking the club to talk to members.
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