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THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1996 PAGE 7.
Bailey says, 'Don't waste money'
hi a recorded vote, Huron County
councillors refused, Thursday, to
go into a closed session to discuss
anonymous letters circulated by
one or more persons unhappy with-
the administration of the county.
The issue of the widely-circulat-
ed, often vicious newsletters about
some senior county staff and politi-
cians called "Huron County's Fast
Facts" was raised by Bill Mickle,
reeve of Exeter, after it was
revealed the Administration,
Finance and Personnel Committee
had gone into closed session to dis-
cuss a legal matter. After some
questioning as to the nature of the
legal matter, Mickle was told it was
to discuss the "Facts" sheets.
Mickle said some of the charges
in the newsletters were indicative
of problems within the county
administration. "I don't normally
place credence on documents that
are unsigned," he said. However,
council couldn't afford to leave the
letters unanswered, he said. "I
strongly believe a response should
be made. Not to do so is to leave a
cloud (over the county administra-
tion). The public should know that
the charges have been thoroughly
investigated."
Bob Hallam, reeve of West
Wawanosh, said he had read the
charges and did his own investiga-
tion to assure himself that they
were groundless. Other councillors
could do the same, he said. "It's
easy to accuse people and then run
away and hide behind someone's
back", he said of the authors of the
documents.
Saying that too often nothing was
done about such issues, Bill Van-
stone, reeve of Colborne Twp.,
made a motion to go into closed
session with only Clerk-Treasurer
Lynn Murray and council present,
to discuss the letters and the con-
duct of council. When Hallam
objected to council going into
closed session to discuss its own
conduct, Vanstone clarified the
motion saying it was a personnel
matter to discuss with Murray.
When Murray finally read the
motion and council voted on it,
however, it read only that council
go into committee of the whole to
discuss the letters. That drew the
opposition of councillors who
wanted to give no comfort to
anonymous complainants. Warden
Bill Clifford, reeve of Goderich,
said 'his position had always been
that he would not discuss the issue
unless someone came forward who
was willing to tie their name to the
complaints.
"I have a problem with dis-
cussing the letters," said Bruce
Machan, reeve of Wingham. "I'm
not sure we should discuss it until
we get signed letters."
But Tom Cunningham, reeve of
Hullett, felt council should investi-
gate the charges made in the letters
to see if there was any basis in fact.
"I personally don't like a vendetta
against anybody," he said, but
somebody had obviously felt
strongly enough to go to a lot of
effort and expense to compose and
print the newsletters and distribute
them widely to county employees,
politicians and the media.,
Mason Bailey, reeve of Blyth,
said it was important to discuss the
issues because, from his talks with
politicians beyond Huron's borders,
people were questioning what was
going on and "casting aspersions on
Huron".
When the recorded vote was
called, however, councillors voted
32-29 not to go into closed session
to discuss the issue. (In a recorded
vote the voting is weighted accord-
ing to population with large munic-
oipalities having extra votes.)
Wingham
church hosts
outdoor
concert
St. Andrew's Presbyterian
Church Youth Group, Wingham, is
hosting a special concert, featuring
the music of High Power, at
Cruickshank Park on Saturday, July
20.
High Power is an up and coming
Christian band from the Kincardine
area. They are presently touring the
U.S.
The concert, which begins at 7
p.m. will, in the event of rain, be
moved to F.E. Madill Secondary
School.
Cruickshank Park is located in
downtown Wingham, just off
Josephine St.
Huron County shouldn't be
spending money studying the
capacity of municipal landfill sites
when some of the municipalities
arc not in favour of the county
using these sites, Blyth Reeve
Mason Bailey told county council
July 4.
"The Blyth-Hullett Landfill Site
Committee talked and we are not in
favour of Huron County taking
over the management of this site,"
Bailey told Craig Metzger, waste
management mastcrplan co-ordina-
tor.
"Our council is quite adamant
that it is not in the best interest of
our ratepayers. Why waste money
with studies before you have an
agreement with municipalities to
operate the sites?"
. Metzger said it is important to
know the capacity in the various
Three reeves from the southern
part of Huron County will chal-
lenge for the position of warden for
1997.
At the July 4 meeting of council,
Patricia Down, reeve of Usborne,
Murray Keys, reeve of Hay and
Bill Weber, reeve of Stephen, all
announced their candidacy for the
warden's chair, to be elected by
council members in December. All
of the municipalities involved have
taken part in amalgamation talks
landfill sites in the county to be
able to study how much capacity is
available in the county and how
much waste would have to be
exported.
There are three options for the
county in regard to management of
municipal sites: the county can
operate the sites without owning
them; the county can assume own-
ership of the sites or, most intrigu-
ing, the county can adopt a
program used in Bruce County
where the municipalities continue
to operate the sites but the county
works as a broker between munici-
palities with capacity and those
with waste.
None of the three options is
appealing to Blyth and Hullett, Bai-
ley said, suggesting a fourth option
that allows municipalities to contin-
ue to operate as they do now. "I
think we have a lot of talking and a
for a new, large municipality in the
southern part of the county but Hay
Twp. has since dropped out.
lot of looking to do before we turn
operation of our dump over to peo-
ple who know less than the people
who are doing it now. We don't
think there is anybody on staff of
the county that is more qualified
and can do it more efficiently than
it is being done now."
Municipalities
want same thing
says Blyth reeve
Despite a lack of support from
county municipalities for a resolu-
tion five northern municipalities,
everyone is generally on the same
wave-length on amalgamation,
Blyth Reeve Mason Bailey told
Huron County county county, July
4.
"I apologize if (the resolution)
was worded wrong," Bailey told
councillors. He said the negative
response from other municipalities
had confused him but by looking at
their objections to the resolution
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