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A proposal of the Agriculture,
Planning and Development Com-
mittee of county council would
appoint a steering committee to
handle the difficult topic of fees for
severance consents in some of the
county's municipalities.
The proposal, which still must be
approved by the Executive Com-
mittee, would seek a solution to the
hot topic of asking municipalities
which have been granted the power
to give their own severance con-
sents to pick up some of the costs
of the County Planning and Devel-
opment Department.
In April the seven municipalities
with such functions, had protested
vehemently against the county's
decision to assess a $750 fee for
each severance application. While
the municipalities process the
applications (for fees as low as
$250)' the applications must be
commented on by the county
Hullett
approves
grants
Hullett Council decided not to
alter any asessments on the
Longhurst Drainage Works at their
May 18 meeting.
Five appeals from township resi-
dents regarding assessment on the
Longhurst Drainage Works and
Extensions were reviewed during a
special Court of Revision chaired
by Reeve Tom Cunningham and
including Councillors Don Schultz
and Tony Middegaal.
Councl also decided not to alter
any assessments on the Marshall
Drainage Works. Again, a Court of
Revision was held with Deputy
Reeve Ron Gross as chair. Only
one taxpayer had asked for a
reassessment.
Following the Court of Revision,
council gave authorization to
Auburn trustees to set a recycling
depot in the village under the direc-
tion of West Wawanosh at no cost
to that portion of Hullett outside
the limits of the village.
As well, council approved grants
for 1993. They are: $500 to Clinton
hospital, $500 to Town and Coun-
tyr Homemakers, $1,000 to Vanas-
tra Recreation Centre, $100 to
Blyth Festival Theatre, $100 to
Blyth Minor Sports, $100 to
Seaforth Agricultural Society, $100
to Huron Plowmen's Association,
$800 to the Huron County Federa-
tion of Agriculture and $50 to the
Huron County Farm Safety Associ-
ation.
department. Gary Davidson, Plan-
ning and Development director,
argued that overhead costs of the
department's consent-granting
function should be shared by the
municipalities. Developers from the
other 19 municipalities that let the
county handle their land sever-
ances, pay $1000 for each applica-
tion.
When Mayor Bruce Shaw of
Exeter suggested the seven munici-
palities might refuse to pay the
additional $750 fee, the possibility
of the county rescinding the per-
mission to grant severances was
mentioned. Under the new proposal
from the department, the munici-
palities would retain their consent
function and a steering committee
with two representatives from those
municipalities, two other county
councillors and the Warden would
be set up.
***
Permission to travel to two out-
of-province conferences for Plan-
ning and Development Department
staff was refused when council
voted against both requests. One of
the conferences was in Fredericton.
N.B. and the other in Victoria, B.C.
The latter could also have been
attended by members of council as
their chosen conference of the year.
Hullett Reeve Tom Cunningham
pointed out that other committees
also attend out of provinces and he
hoped council would be consistent
in dealing with those requests.
***
Councillors continue to be con-
cerned that a decision on a District
Health Council (DHC) for Huron
has been made before the steering
committee looking into the possi-
bility of forming one even reports
its findings. Robert Fisher, reeve of
Zurich, says when he attended a
public meeting in Exeter the pre-
sentation by committee chairman
Paul Carroll made it sound as if
there was no real option for Huron
to turn down the idea. Marie Hick-
nell, chairman of the Board of
Health said she had been assured
Huron did have that option.
"To me it feels like a done deal,"
Reeve Fisher said.
* * *
Tenders for road construction are
coming in higher than budgeted,
said Denis Merrall, county engi-
neer. It's not that the prices are too
high, Mr. Merrall said, but that he
had under estimated how low they
would be.
Meanwhile the tender for grass
cutting along county highways
from the Auburn patrol was accept-
ed at $58,850 up from $42,800 last
year. Mr. Merrall said the bid last
year of $42,800 was obviously
unrealistically low. The current
prices is about the same as the cost
of the county doing the work itself.
"It's worth while giving the tender-
ing process another year but I sus-
pect there is really no cost saving,"
he said.
***
Among the zoning by-law
changes approved was one in West
Wawanosh which will allow for the
building of an Amish Parochial
school on part of lot 75, concession
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THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1993. PAGE 9.
County Council briefs
DHC issue still concerns councillors