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Restructuring, MOEE offer waste options
County restructuring and a more
co-operative attitude by the Ministry
of Environment has opened up new
options for waste management, the
county’s consulting engineer told
county council Feb. 3.
“I've never had so much involve
ment and commitment from the min
istry,” said Steve Janes of S. Janes
and Associates.
Under amalgamation, he said,
ownership of all landfills in a new
municipality will be transferred to
the new municipality. Municipalities
can continue to use the existing land
fills until they are full.
Municipalities can then switch to
another landfill within the munici
pality without needing MOE
approval unless the use of the land
fill increases by more than 25 per
cent.
In the case of the Town of
Wingham's desire to use the Exeter
landfill, Janes said the ministry has
agreed that the county could assume
the responsibility for waste manage
ment and contract it back to the
municipalities.
“The county is only facilitating”
the agreement between the two
municipalities, Janes said. “This is
doing what you wanted. This is not
the county taking over landfills.”
“I think the ministry has gone a
long, long way beyond what they
normally have done, to facilitate
your needs,” he said. “To a large
extent we are pioneering what other
counties will do.”
School bds.9 fed. of ag. to lobby government
By Susan Hundertmark
Huron Expositor
Momentum is gathering for a
provincial lobbying effort by the
Avon Maitland District School
Board and other local groups and
governments after one meeting with
Cty. rejects hiring plan
for ambulance service
A proposal to begin the county-run
ambulance service by hiring key
staff was rejected by county council
lors Thursday.
In a recorded vote a motion to hire
an administrative manager from
within the county staff and advertise
outside county staff for two other
positions was defeated 36-23.
the Huron and Perth federations of
agriculture and a planned meeting
Feb. 15 with district municipalities.
The board last week endorsed a
resolution by the Huron and Perth
federations and will circulate it to
school boards across the province.
And, two more rural organizations
The defeat means the report will
be sent back to the administration,
finance and personnel committee for
reconsideration.
The county must have an ambu
lance service in place by Dec. 31 in
order to take over all ambulance
service from the province on Jan. 1,
2001.
will be invited to the Feb. 15 meeting
with Huron and Perth municipalities
concerning school closures.
Trustee Abby Armstrong suggest
ed at last week's board meeting that
the Rural Ontario Municipal
Association (ROMA) and the
Ontario Rural Council be invited to
discuss common areas of concern
with the school board.
“These groups are important
specifically with communities trying
to preserve their schools using a
community argument,” said
Armstrong.
She said that inviting ROMA, an
organization to which all local
municipalities belong, would speed
the process of seeking lobbying sup
port rather than waiting for munici
palities to contact ROMA them
selves.
Armstrong said that while munici
palities and rural organizations will
have to move very quickly if their
lobbying efforts are to make a differ
ence to local schools now facing clo
sure, she’s hoping they’ll strengthen
the argument that the education
funding formula hurts rural commu
nities.
The board met Jan. 17 with the
Huron and Perth federations of agri
culture, which prepared a six-point
lobby document they are distributing
for use by federations of agriculture
across the province.
The document asks the province to
develop a rural funding formula that
takes into account the large geo
graphical area, small population den
sities and the small school sizes of
rural boards.
It asks that accommodation
reviews be based on smaller review
areas with a board district, that
school closures be examined in con
text of the economic impact on the
surrounding community, that a 45-
minute cap be placed on busing and
that special education funding be
increased to cover the non-educa-
tional costs traditionally covered by
the Ministry of Health.
In the letter to the Avon Maitland
board, OFA representative Paul
Naim says county federations across
Ontario will be encouraged to ask
local school boards and school coun
cils to endorse the document and
lobby their MPPs, the education
minister and the premier.
“As you can see, it is our intention
to do everything possible to spread
this message to other groups that will
join in this lobby effort,” the letter
tells trustees.
“A strategic effort that contains a
re-occurring theme from all stake
holders is what we need to make real
changes to the under funding of our
education system,” it says.
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