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THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2001. PAGE 7.
HE hears feedback on legal battle fund
The threat of school closures again
reared its ugly head at the Dec. 4
meeting of Huron East council.
Councillors wrestled with the reac-
tion.to their decision to fund a legal
battle if it proves necessary to keep
Huron East - schools open.
Councillors felt there was consider-
able misunderstanding of their posi-
tion in the community.
Ben Van Diepenbeek, reeve of
Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh Twp.
was acclaimed as warden of the
county at a swearing in ceremony
on Dec. 4.
Van Diepenbeek has been
involved in municipal politics for 10
years. He's served as reeve of the
former Ashfield Township for three
years, and is the current reeve of
Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh.
Van Diepenbeek has been a
county councillor for four
years.
He said some of the issues in the
Councillor Larry McGrath stated,
"We didn't hand over $20,000 to
some person. We agreed to spend up
to $20,000 to fund a legal fight if we
had a need and a case." Mayor Lin
Steffler and Councillor Joe Seili
agreed, with Seili saying, "If there
are no grounds to tight a battle then
there will be no court case."
Councillors Sharon McClure and
coming year he will be dealing with
as warden include water quality and
the environment.
The county will also be working
on nutrient management, revising
the tree conservation bylaw and
dealing with the downloading of
childcare to the county.
Alvin McLellan said that their con-
versations with ratepayers indicated
that some people did not realize
council was supporting all the Huron
East schools not just Seaforth
District High School.
The level of public support for
council's actions came under scruti-
ny by the councillors themselves,
when they had to deal with an
anonymous letter concerning their
actions.
The letter itself received Little con-
sideration. Sterner stated, "It is my
feeling that if you feel concerned
enough about the issues to write a
letter you should sign your name to
it. I don't even want to have them
(anonymous ietters) come to coun-
cil."
MacLellan was slightly less hard-
line saying that he agreed they
shouldn't be dealt with if they con-
tained accusations, but that if they
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contained opinions he was not as
concerned.
The councillors themselves could
come to no clear consensus about
what the ratepayers thought of their
stand. The responses,which were
reported, ranged from two or three
negative comments, to MacLellan's
"about 50 - 50", to Sterner's "II
phone calls and one email that were
all positive."
After a lengthy discussion a pro-
posal by MacLellan to try to gauge
public support was adopted. If it
looks like a court fight might be nec-
essary council will ask ratepayers if
they believe that public funds should
be used in this manner, to support
public schools.
The question would be included in
the newspapers or mailed as a tlyer
to try to reach as many people as
possible.
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