The Goderich Signal-Star, 2009-06-10, Page 5County clerk
Osman Hundertmark'
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A motion to accept the quotation of
$26,862.84 from J.L. McCutcheon Motors
Ltd. for a new car for the Huron County clerk
was passed without comment at Huron Coun-
ty council last Wednesday.
The motion was one of several passed as
the committee of the whole - day one report
was adopted.
The new car will be a 2009 Chevrolet Im-
pala LTZ.
RECOGNIZING THE OPP
Huron County Warden Ken Oke would like
to see the county provide a small plaque to the
Huron OPP in celebration of the Ontario Pro-
vincial Police's 100th anniversary this year.
Oke told county council he had attended an
OPP awards ceremony at Oakwood recently.
"They provide security for the area and we
should give them a small recognition of their
service," he said.
GATEWAY 'TAKING OFF'
A recent meeting between the Gateway Ru-
ral Health Research Institute in Seaforth and
the University of Waterloo was pronounced
"a tremendous success" by Hiuon County
Warden Ken Oke, who attended the day -long
event in Seaforth recently.
Oke told councillors at the county's June
3 meeting that a meeting was held to entice
universities, like the University of Waterloo
and McMaster University, to partner with the
research institute.
"To our surprise, they came with the idea
to get Gateway to accept them. It looks like
Gateway js going to take off in a big way,"
he said. -
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to ride in style with new Chevrolet Impala
with the truck -eating bridge," he told county lend support with letters to the Heritage Min -
council at its June 3 meeting. ister. The local television stations get the local
Black's Bridge sustained close to $1 mil- information out. They're asking that regu-
hon in damages during a recent blaze which lations be changed to allow royalties to be
is being investigated for arson. charged to satellite and cable and that would
Dykstra asked that the roads department be allow a number of local stations to exist," said
instructed to get in touch with the railway and Vincent.
ask for some cooperation in repairing it. He said a petition is also circulating to sup-
, TELEVISION RALLY/ port local TV stations.
After attending a recent rally to support The broadcasters' cause came to the fore -
local television stations, Coun, Neil Vincent front of the region's attention this winter when
(North Huron) asked Huron County council A -Channel announced it would be shutting
to send a letter of support. down its Windsor operation and Wingham
"I'd like it if each and every one of us could station.
WARDEN RACE BEGINS
Coun. Dorothy Kelly (Morris-Turnberry)
put her name forward to run for next year's
Huron County warden at county council's
June 3 meeting.
'TRUCK -EATING BRIDGE' REPAIR
Coun. Bert Dykstra (Central Huron) is hop-
ing a recent fire at a railway bridge in Clinton
could begin discussions with the Goderich
Exeter Railway to repair the "truck -eating
bridge" on County Road 13.
"I'm not sure what the county proposes to
do but maybe this is a good opportunity for
the roads department to express its concerns
Property bylaw to exclude argicultural land
Denny Scott
signal -star staff
An impromptu cheer rang
out as Ashfield-Colborne-
Wawanosh Council decided
to modify their hotly -debated
Property Standards By -Law to
exclude agricultural lands.
The by-law was voted on dur-
ing their June 2 meeting. Coun.
Marilyn Miltenburg gave the
only dissenting vote. With ag-
riculture • lands successfully ex-
empted from the by-law, it will
return to council in one week for
another reading.
It was standing room only as
council opened the floor to the
citizens who turned out en masse
to voice their opinions about the
newly -proposed rules that could
cause potential problems for
those in the agriculture sector.
Citizens, many of them farm-
ers, were concerned about how
their land and rights could be
trampled on by this by-law. Oth-
ers were concerned about the
Powers of Entry afforded to by-
law officers and the definitions
of yard and refuse.
The by-law contains some `re-
strictive language,' Reeve Ben
Van Diepenbeek said, including
allowing "Officers, upon pro-
ducing proper identification, the
right to enter upon any property
at any reasonable time without
a warrant for the purpose of in-
specting the property."
Under scrutiny was the defi-
nition of yard, which, accord-
ing to the by-law, includes any-
thing not under a building. That
could mean hard -to -use property
like ravines, or bushes, would
be held to the same rules as the
front yard of a resident in one of
ACW's villages.
Reeve Van Diepenbeek ex-
plained that the standards by-law
is complaint -driven two -fold. It
was created in response to re-
quests by the community, and,
if implemented, those same
citizens will need to make com-
plaints against properties to have
the by-law Enforcement officer
examine potential breeches.
"We've been getting requests
to beef up the by-law as it wasn't
working the way it was sup-
posed to," he explained. "This
by-law is complaint -driven. It is
not that we're driving around the
township looking for problems
or a mess."
Council also discussed bring-
ing a new by-law forward that
was more focused on agriculture
land.
Residents also suggested elim-
inating frivolous reports, and
. making the Ontario Farmer's
Association part of the decision-
making body.
By -Law enforcement Officer
Lorna VanderPloeg was disap-
pointed with the decision of
council, saying that if they went
ahead with the proposed split,
she would not be the one to en-
force it.
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DOUBLE NO TAX
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