The Huron Expositor, 1995-11-08, Page 7Process of
dealing with ,
waste changed
Condnped from page 1
at. I see Inuit in it but I think
we have to be cautious as a
council and look at the alterna-
tives and make sure theme is a
long-term, commits eat from
them if we go that direction,"
said Weber.
Coun. Bill Mickle of Exeter
said the county should be open-
minded in whatever decision it
makes.
"Times have changed. The
whole process of dealing with
waste has changed, legislation
will change and I think that we
have to be prepared to respond
to it in a positive way," said
Mickle.
WELL GOES DRY
In news related to the pro-
posed Ashfield landfill, Richard
Payne, a neighbour of the A3
candidate site, spoke to the
county's planning and devel-
opment committee in October
to say that his water well had
gone dry. He believes the
problem is related to the test
drilling that was conducted at
the site.
The county's hydrogeological
consultants are investigating the
issue.
Local
Road department will be in 'crisis mode' in '96
BY DAVID SCOTT
Expositor Editor
The Huron County Road
Department is going to be in a
"crisis made next Year,
according to County Engineer
Dennis Merrall.
The state of the county truck
fleet and changing road grants
from the province were
revealed in the Agriculture and
Public Works committee report
and from questions raised by
Coun. Bob Hallam of West
Wawanosh.
"You're • foliowing direction
of a motion that came from
council of keeping to a zero
budget. But I think council
overlooked the fact that roads
are going to get hit a lot harder
than hell because you're going
to be losing your •20 per cent
(funding from the province),"
said Hallam.
He directed a question to the
County Engineer on what
effects these cuts will have.
"Since 1991, the provincial
grants for Huron County roads
High occupancy for second st
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any.
Phoenix.second stage housing "1 suppose the most impor-
this year, 31 were from Huron tant work we do is having a
and "the other three came here body (staff member) at the
because they had family ties in door (of apartment complex -
the area," said Timmins. es). There just aren't any
Occupancy rate resources at other agencies to
Timmins told The Lakeshore cover this," said Timmins.
Advance that using fiscal year In addition, services like
to date figures for 1995 (April counselling for victims and
to October) Phoenix House in accompanying them to court to
Goderich ranged from 100 per testify are not available in the
cent to 70 per cent occupancy, area, unless a person can
for an average of 80 per cent afford it.
during that period. In Exeter,
occupancy ranged from a high
of 100 per cent to a low of 83
per cent, for an average of 92.8
per cent. In Clinton, occupancy
ranged from a low of 33 per
cent to a high of 50 per cent,
averaging 36. Across the coun-
ty, the average occupancy rate
• was 72.7 per cent.
In Goderich and Exeter,
Timmins said the units could
be full virtually all the time
and normallyonly empty long
enough to prepare for the next
family to use them.
"There is no adult coun-
selling service in Huron,
except through Psychiatric
Services and people have to
have a psychiatric referral (and
a clinical problem, as well as
emotional distress) in order to
use them," Timmins explained.
Pietrek said the board of
directors hopes to continue
operating Phoenix in some
form (they will still have
$300,000) in Ministry of
Housing funding to run the
buildings.
"We need to look at what's_
No Alternatives left and consider whether we
As far as alternative services can continue to operate as sec -
to those provided by Phoenix, and stage housing. If we turn
Timmins says there just aren't in the keys, if we close it
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said Merrell. The county was
also hit • with more than a
$100,000 target for the Social
Contract.
"Right. now we're operating
at level somewhere around
51.4 -million of revenues below
where we were in 1991. Since.
then we've been in a survival
mode in the road department."
Merrall said the department
had been running at a zero per
cent budget level "long before
county council discovered zero
per cent for the rest of their
operations."
He said the county pick-up
trucks slated for replacement
all have in excess of 200,000
kilometres (km) in mileage.
,The tandem dump trucks are
up in the range of 500,000 km.
"I will admit we have made
ourselves vulnerable to the next
stage of cuts. In one way,
we're putting ourselves at the
mercy of the (county) council.
We've tried to show leadership
and fiscal responsibility for the
last two years. We let our
age housing
down, our feeling is that in the
political climate of this gov-
ernment, well never be able to
open it back up again," she
said.
,She said the board is lobby-
ing government ministries for
funding and looking at alterna-
tive ways of raising money for
programs. However, she said
"if we find we can't meet ser-
vice standards," the facility
may have to be closed alto-
gether.
"We're going to give it a real-
ly good fight," she said.
Lynda Brunsma, a past presi-
dent and founding member of
the Phoenix board, said she
fears the cuts will wipe out all
the progress made by organiza-
tions such as Phoenix since it's
establishment 15 years ago.
"I feel like we're going right
back to 1980," she said.
Brunsma was also critical of
the timing of the Dec. 31 end
to the program funding.
"Traditionally, right after
Christmas is the' molt tt`at» r(at-
ic time of year for many fami-
lies. All the bills come in
January and that is usually a
time of great need (for ser-
vices)."
e ulq pmertt run down. We've
ied to provide maximum
service on the road.
"We are going to be in a
crisis mode next year based on
what I've heard this week,"
said Merrall.
The County Engineer said
he's been stretching everything
out • equipment and road work.
In addition, by the end of the
year the department will be
down five employees through
retirelnent and attrition.
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