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Home My WebLink AboutThe Citizen, 1993-01-13, Page 20Record keeper Ruth Ann Bakker of RR 3, Auburn knows how to keep the record straight! She won the Hallrice Dairy 4-H Calf club trophy for Top Record Book Saturday night at Snell's Restaurant in Westfield. Doug Howatt presented the Howatt Bros. trophy. McKillop approves fire budget County Council briefs 1993 goal no increase Huron County's department heads have been instructed to bring in budgets that will have a zero per cent increase on the mill rate, according to an Executive Commit- tee recommendation approved by full council on January 7. If departments bring in a budget increase that will mean more than a zero increase they must bring in suitable explanations. *** Although there is no immediate crisis, cutbacks in spending on roads are already increasing the amount of money that would be needed to bring the county roads up to standard. The update on the 1992 Needs Study of the Road Department showed it would cost $47,680,000 to meet all the needs of the roads system in the county, up from $44,666,000. Denis Merrall, county engineer, said this is the first increase in the needs study amount in several years and can be partially attributed to spending cuts. "It won't be an emergency in 1993 but we need to keep an eye on it. We could be in a position where we need a substantial infusion of capi- tal to get roads up to standard and frankly the capital may not be there." *** Huron County may decide on a successor to departed clerk-admin- istrator Nigel Bellchamber after a January 30 meeting at which seven candidates will be interviewed. At Thursday's January council session, Treasurer Bill Alcock took on the extra duties of reading reports, a job usually done by the administra- tor. Meanwhile, department heads who were asked not to take sched- uled holidays because of the absence of an administrator will be allowed to accumulate half the hol- iday period into 1993, taking the other half of their vacation allot- ment in extra pay. Normally staff aren't allowed to carry over vaca- tion from one year to the next but county officials didn't want the staff to take time off while there was no administrator, or to take the time off as soon as the administra- tor was named, leaving him or her to cope alone. * * * Demand for welfare in Huron County took a huge 9.11 per cent increase in the month of November after being relatively stable for the rest of 1992. During November there were 52 new cases, adding 104 beneficiaries to the caseload in the county. *** The Community Futures program to stimulate economic activity is getting underway with a board being appointed from local citizens. The Community Futures Program will replace the Community Com- mittee project which saw four com- munity committees set up in the north, central, south and west parts of the county. Community Futures, funded by the Federal government will provide money for the start up of new businesses. Meanwhile, Paul Nichol of Brus- sels and Kelly Metzger of the Plan- ning and Development Department, have been transferred to the Com- munity Futures Program and will operate from the Huron County Small Business Resource Centre in Clinton. The office offers advice on how to start up a new business. PAGE 20. THE CITIZEN WEDNESDAY JANUARY 13 1993. McKillop Township council at its meeting of Jan. 5 authorized Reeve Marie Hicknell and Clerk Marion McClure to sign and submit the petition showing the expenditures on public highways and bridges for 1992 at $466,795.01 to the Min- istry of Transportation. The road superintendent's vouch- er in the amount of $9,056.45 was approved for payment. Landowner Carl Bolton ex- pressed concern to council about the bank erosion on Lot 14, Conc.8. Engineer William Dietrich indicat- ed that the problem would be reviewed during excavation. A by-law providing for a drainage works in McKillop and for borrowing on the municipality's credit in the sum of $111,000 for the completion of the Barron Municipal Drain was given first and second reading. Council endorsed a resolution from Caledon concerning the esca- lating burden on property taxes as a result of down loading and fiscal irresponsibility on behalf of school boards and the province. Council approved the 1993 bud- Wroxeter man chairs Gay-Lea John Stafford, RR 1, Wroxeter was re-elected chairman of the board of directors of Gay Lea Foods Co-operative Limited at a board meeting following the annual meeting held on Dec. 10 at the Holiday Inn, Guelph. Mr. Stafford operates a farm with his family in the area between Wroxeter and Belmore and has served on the Gay Lea Board since 1977. Also re-elected to the executive were John Hill, RR 4, Owen Sound, first vice chairman and Don Ahrens, RR 2, Elmwood, second vice chairman. Ross Campbell, RR 2, Tavistock was elected a director at the Zone 1 annual meeting held in Brussels on Dec. 7, replacing Edwin Miller, Exeter, who decided not to seek re- election. Mr. Miller had served five terms as a director. Ray Robertson, Markdale was re-elected director at the Zone 2 annual meeting held in Owen Sound and at the annual meeting, Tom McGee, Flesherton, was re-elected a director. The Co-operative's pre-tax earnings increased substantially over the previous year and sales increased by 11.5 per cent to $175,000,000. The Co-operative will pay a common share and patronage dividend to its milk and cream producers returning over $620,000 in dividends to member shareholders. get expenditures for the Blyth and District Fire Area Board for the fol- lowing amounts: $56,350, general and $14,200, capital. 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