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Seaforth council
Steffler takes exception
to clerk's comments
The • Chair of Seaforth's
Police Acrvtoe Baird (PSB),
Lin Steiner, hos taken excep-
tion to recent comments in
council by Clerk/Administrator
Jim Crocker drat regardless of
recent provincial cutbacks
taxes in town might have to go
up about five percent in 1996
just to cover the increased
costs of OPP policing.
Deputy -Reeve William Teall,
council's representative on the
local police board, said the
PSB is "an organiiation that
has policy and direction". He
then handed -out a budget
breakdown and statement from
Steffler at last Tuesday night's
council meeting, in which she
presented facts and figures
indicating the costs of policing
arc anticipated to actually go
down slightly next year in
Scaforth, in the PSB's
proposed but yet unapproved
budget.
Chair Stefflcr said she
"would appreciate an
explanation" why an increase
in taxes is being laid on the
doorstep of the police board
and OPP when next year's
projected PSB budget is $9,250
less than this year's, $357,188
for 1996 compared to this
year's figure of $366,438.
In general discussion at coun-
cil's Dec. 4 sitting, Crocker
said "one thing we cannot
control is the $70,((X) increase
in policing costs, zinc! when that
is coupled with the anticipated
$30,000 grant reduction from
the province he thinks that it
may be unrealistic• 10 expect a
zero per cent increase in 1996",
according to the minutes of
that council meeting.
Among other comments in
Chair Stefllcr's statement last
Tuesday night:
• "It is expected we will
come in approximately $40,000
under budget for 1995 - a
definite advantage to thc finan-
cial picture for tlx: town in
1995.
• "1 have determined today
through the contract policing
office that our 1996 contract
has been set at $387,803.
Added to this is a reserve fund
of $12,000 to cover the radio
communications severance
package, which may or may
not be required in 1996.
• "The responsibility for the
provision of the new police
facility restS with the Town,
not the Police Services Board
or the OPP. We were informed
labour costs for the new
facility were subsidized by
jobsOntario. The remaining
costs of the renovations should
have no influence on the 1996
budget, since the work was
done, and presumably ex-
pensed, in 1995."
Chair Stefflcr further noted
the benefits of going OPP for
this community: increased
police coverage; inandatory
foot patrols; a new, more
readily accessible and visible
Main Street office; two new
cruisers; more RIDE and liquor
checks; and, more consistent
enforcement of parking by-
laws.
Animal officer granted power to
shoot .22 rifle in Seaforth
Recently -hired animal control
officer Robert Trick has been
granted the power to discharge
a .22 long rifle in Seaforth, in
specific circumstances under
strict control, by virtue of an
agreement by the town, police
service board and provincial
police that is consistent with
federal germ regult ons.
Tl rifle roar be used to
destroy a dog or other animal
that in the opinion of that
officer "is injured, diseased or
dangerous to public safety to
the point that it should be
destroyed immediately."
Before firing, unless
dispatched by the Ontario
Provincial Police, the animal
control officer must advise the
OPP he will be doing so, un-
less the procedure is not prac-
tical in the situation; in which
case, immediately alter dischar-
ging the firearm.
The officer must also report
the circumstance and details to
-the. town .administrator within
one week.
Recent incidents with rabid
skunks to the west of town
near Scaforth's public and pre-
schools made the guidelines
and policy more pressing, in
the context of Canada's stricter
new firearms law.
Food bank to be running soon
Continued from page 1
Rev. Bruce Cook of
Northside United Church spoke
for the local Christians when
they made their formal request
to the municipality earlier this
month.
He said the Scaforth food
bank, might be open two or
two -and -a -half days a week
and they would like to have the
service going by the end of
January or early February.
in the new year on the long-
term uses of Seaforth's 101 -
year -old Town Hall, which is
insured for a replacement value
of about $1.3 -million, so com-
mitted most of thc vacated
municipal police premises near
the back of the building for
only a year.
The town will continue to use
former police chief Ilal Claus'
office when it needs it, and if
the food bank requires a
telephone the charity will be
responsible for it.
•
Huron rabies program in U.S.
Ontario's Ministry of Natural
resources has been awarded a
two-year contract to drop 2.5 -
million baits over more than
100,000 square kilometres of
Texas to help the fight against
coyote and fox rabies in Texas.
Much of the program and
technique were developed and
refined here in Huron County.
The fox rabies . control
project, started in 1989, is
expected to eliminate the strain
of thc disease by the year
2001. Last fall the ministry
dropped 1.8 -million fox rabies
vaccine baits in southern On-
tario, and also provided
aircraft, baiting machines and
staff for similar, smaller -scale,
bait -dropping projects in areas
of New York State and
Quebec.
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