The Huron Expositor, 1998-05-06, Page 7Police cost estimates hit some hard
BY TRISH WILKINSON
AND DAVE EMSLIE
Clinton News -Record Staff
Another promise of
provincial downloading has
become a reality as estimated
police costs are adding up to
a hard hit in the pocketbook
for some local municipalities.
Historically, townships and
villages have not been
charged for policing. This
will change in 1998,
however, after the Harris
government realigned
services and downloaded
policing costs onto local
municipalities.
Earlier in the year, the OPP
provided municipalities with
estimates anticipating how
much it would Lost each
municipality _ based on
information such as the
amount of police response
required in each area.
The more precise figures
• Provide a breakdown based
on information such as the
direct costs for policing. the
cost of equipment used and
each municipalities share of
administrative support costs.
MCKILLOP TOWNSHIP
McKillop Township is
facing a charge of $100,153
for 1998 policing. up from an
'original estimate of $77,136.
"Ours did increase some,"
said Clerk -Treasurer Marion
McClure.
Information the township
was provided inidcated the
reason for the increase came
after evaluating the number
of calls OPP responded to in
the township.
McClure said they must
hate gone hack and taken a
closer look at the figures to
result in the increase above
the estimate.
TUCKERSMITH
TOWNSHIP
Tuckersmith Township
Reeve Bill C'arnochan sthted
that the $'218.559 estimate
"was pretty close to the
numbers' we wcrc
anticipating."
Carnochan noted that the
township's main concern is
what OPP services will be
'provided to the municipality
for the money they are
paying.
"What arc the level of
services going to be...are they
going to cover special
cven4`1were some of the
questions the reeve said the
township wants to ask the
Townshijs re. ve
on cont. for OP.
McKillop Tbwn+r i r;,�
Tucke,vnith Tow, 1$59
Haat Town$ 163,796
Goderich
Tb . 77573
62 ,933
467,097
Stanley Townshi
Hayfield-
OPP.
He added although the
downloading is inevitably
going to have an effect on the
township's budget, it is his
hope that many of the new
costs will balance with others
taken over by the province.
HULLETT TOWNSHIP
Hullett Township's estimate
also hit fairly close to earlier
guesses, adding up to
$163,796. for the
municipality.
"The number is fairly close
to what the province has said
our costs would he," Clerk -
Treasurer Bev Shaddick
stated.
Reeve Bob Szusz added
that for 1998, the township
really has no choice but to
pay what the OPP sets out.
However, he added _that there
is some talk about the
Wingham police expanding in
1999.
Still, for now the reeve said
that the municipality is
working at keeping its costs
as low as possible to help
offset some of the increases
policing might cause.
"What 'we here in Hullett
are trying to do is -hold the
line on as much as we can,"
Sz.usz said.
GODERICH TOWNSHIP
Among local
municipalities, Goderich
Township will be the hardest
hit, as the municipality is
facing an estimated yearly
.policing cost of $477,575.
This figure came as a
surprise to the township, as
clerk -treasurer Linda
Cranston noted they had
estimated a police costing of
$127;080, based on the $90
per household figure with
which the township had been
provided.
"For the last two years, we
were all told that's what to
use as a figure," she stated.
Cranston noted that even
taking into account the
newest figures from Stats
Canada, showing 1,455
homes in the township for
1998, the estimate would
have only hcen $130,950
using the $90 figure.
However, the estimate
dated April 14 informed the
township they would he
facing the $477,000 total, and
Cranston noted the news is
"quite devastating...quite a
shock."
In fact, the figure was so
much larger than the
township expected that the
clerk -treasurer said they
initially thought there must
have been an error, or a
"glitch" in the calculation,
with figures being entered
improperly into a computer.
Reeve Laurie Cox said the
OPP, in giving the costing,
followed the regulations they
were provided with, but he
added that the regulations are
faulty, in that a small
municipality has to pay for a
facility like the Bluewater
Youth Centre.
The reeve Said originally.
the youth centre was not
supposed to be factored into
the costing, but the provincial
formula stated otherwise.
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He noted that the OPP
sergeant was only interpreting
the regulations.
Reeve Jack Coleman made
note of the fact that the OPP
is currently preparing a
costing for policing of the
whole county, both including
and excluding Wingham,
which still has a municipal
police service.
"I would hope, when we get
the county price, we would
do quite a bit better," he said.
"I'm hoping for that."
When answering to the
comment that policing would
add to taxpayers' bilis in the
township, the reeve noted that
he would take the province It
its word. "They said it v
be revenue neutral. it
revenue neutral."
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