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Council seeks economic development proposals
By Scott Hilgondorff
Expositor Editor
Huron East council will
seek proposals from
prospective economic
development officers and
begin forming an economic
development committee after
holding a final discussion
Oct. 9 about whether or not
an officer is needed at all.
"No one else in Huron
County has one. What does
this person do for us?"
questioned McKillop Coun.
Sharon McClure.
She was sharing a view
that had been discussed
around the council table in
the spring before council
approved spending $25,000
on economic development.
That approval came
following a request from the
Business and Expansion
Committee (BR+E) to invest
in economic development.
Council is still considering a
suggested $100,000 budget
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But if council were to raise
$100,000 next year, Brussels
Coun. Joe Seili pointed out it
would cost $27 per
household more in taxation.
"Do we cut something or
put it on the taxes to keep the
services?" asked Seili.
He said there are residents
on fixed incomes that can't
support tax hikes.
"I won't vote down
economic development but I
will vote down raising $27
out of the tax payer," he said.
"There's also the cash
.cropper who has not seen a
very good year," said
McClure, adding in relation
to hiring an economic
development officer,
"They're not in favor of it."
"On the same token, you
are going to let taxes go up
because you are losing
business," said Seaforth
Coun. Bill Teall.
Seaforth currently has
three empty stores following
the recent closure . of
Weurth's Shoes and while
Smith Packaging, a local
industry is expanding, one
has moved out and council is
working with Sun North to
help keep it in town.
Teall suggested giving an
economic development
officer and committee two
years to see what they could
do to benefit Huron East.
"I don't think there is
anyone around this table that
does not believe in economic
development," said Deputy
Mayor Bernie McLellan
during the discussion about
what an officer should do.
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Council had invited
members of the'(BR+E) to
its last meeting, Oct. 2 to
help it decide what to do
with the $25,000 it had put in
its budget for economic
development. Council was
also considering approving
as much as $100,000 for an
economic development
officer next year.
The money was put there
after the BR+E appealed to
council to create a position to
help promote the community,
keep businesses in Huron
East, help others expand and
attract new ones. Those
concepts were among the
needs determined through a
pilot project from the
Ministry of Agriculture that
formed the BR+E to study
business in the Seaforth area
about three years ago.
However, the money has
sat there since it was
approved in June with no
movement toward hiring an
economic development
officer or working on any
development projects.
The BR+E pitched the idea
earlier this month of forming
an economic development
committee to help guide an
economic development
officer through programs and
projects the community
needed. Those needs would
be communicated to the
officer through the
committee which would
consist of members of.
council, business groups inL
Huron East and
representatives from the
agricultural sector.
But council got stalled on
the issue of just what the
officer would do and how the
money would properly be
spent.
Selena Anderson,
representing the BR+E,
suggested council advertise
for proposals from people
interested in being Huron
East's economic development
officer but said it would take
having proposals and a
committee in place to
determine what the
community wanted for
economic development
before a clear idea of what
the costs• would be, could be
determined.
She had made that
suggestion at the Oct. 2
council meeting as well.
But when council began to
discuss it again last week
councillors got sidetracked
again with the issue of
whether or not an economic
development officer was
necessary and again, just
what would that person do.
Gwen Devereaux, BR+E
chair, was at the meeting last
week, with Anderson, and
pointed out that of the seven
pilot projects across Ontario
that 'formed BR+E
committees, she said three
were equal in size and
likeness to Huron East and
all three had since hired
economic development
officers.
"You need a drive to
promote and market this
place," said Devereaux when
Mayor Lin Steffler asked her
to help explain why it was
important to hire an
economic development
officer.
She made an impassioned
speech about the importance
and pointed to St. Marys, a
town about 70 km east of
Seaforth that has not raised
taxes in nine years because
of its successful economic
development programs. She
has been working with that
community through doctor
recruitment work she does
professionally, outside of the
BR+E.
"Now that I drive around
Ontario, I see the difference
in communities that have
economic development," she
said.
"We wouldn't be squeezing
the seniors for $27 if we had
done this years ago," she
said.
She pointed to the fact a
retirement community is
being built in Tuckersmith
and the Seaforth Community
Hospital is preparing to
develop an expansion
focused on senior health
care.
She said the community is
changing and there is room
for entreprenureship but
nothing being done to
encourage growth in Huron
East.
"We have to keep
squeezing the taxpayer
because perhaps we're not
working from the other end,"
she said, adding if they stay
"status quo" theywill have to
squeeze even harder.'
According to Devereaux
and Anderson, part of the
economic development
officer's role would be to
apply for grants and funding
to help pay for further
projects in the five
communities making up
Huron East.
Steffler said if economic
development works, the
taxpayer won't be paying $27
but a lesser amount as the tax
base increases.
If grants can be found and,
depending on what kind of
proposals are made for the
position, Steffler said they
might not need to budget
$100,000.
Steffler, whose husband is
a former chair of the BR+E
committee, has been a strong
supporter - of economic
development . and has
watched as council has
discussed the issue in circles,
again after already approving
funding for this year.
"I think we do need to
discuss what figure we are
going to commit to," said
McLellan who supports
having an economic
development officer but
wanted clarification of what
the person would do
specifically for the money.
But that was the idea
behind Anderson
recommending they advertise
for proposals from potential
economic development
officers.
The proposals could be
required to outline specific
projects, plans and cost
estimates. Anderson also
said the economic
development committee
should be formed to help
decide what goals the
community has for economic
development first. Then
council and the officer could
have a clearer idea of what
would be done, leading to a
clearer idea of the costs.
Council held a special
meeting after the committee
meeting where it passed a
motion to form an economic
development committee to
set up the criteria it wants
met when it will advertise for
proposals from prospective
economic development
officers.
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