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CUPE strike
won't affect
Huron East
The municipality of
Huron East will not be
affected by an illegal
wildcat strike that
could lead more than
100,000 civic workers
who belong to the
Canadian Union of
Public Employees
(CUPE) off their jobs.
this week.
"There are no CUPE
workers for Huron
East so it won't affect
our municipal
services," says Huron
East Administrator
Jack McLachlan.
Huron East's staff
does not belong to any
union, he said.
CUPE workers at
Seaforth Community
Hospital will not be
affected either since
hospital workers
receive a different
pension, said Huron
Perth Healthcare
Alliance CEO Andrew
Williams
Last week, more
than . 100,000 members
of the Canadian Union
of Public Employees
voted 93 per cent in
favour of a strike to
protest new pension
legislation.
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February 15, 2006
Local farmers meet
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Perth Counties met with OFA
president Ron Bonnett to
discuss farm protests pg.2
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Susan Hundertmark photo
Sweet valentine
Zack Snell, a Kindergarten student at Seaforth Public School, enjoys a Valentine cupcake
during his class's Valentine party Monday where students exchanged Valentine cards, made
crafts and enjoyed some treats.
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budget
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Huron East council heard an
impassioned request for a zero per,
cent budget increase by Grey
-Coun. Mark Beaven during
council's first look at its 2006
budget.
"I still think we can get out of
this with a zero per cent increase.
I'm strongly committed and will
oppose vigorously raising taxes
even two per cent just because we
can get away with it," he said at
the Feb. 7 meeting.
Beaven said council has raised
its budget "a considerable amount
beyond two per cent" during the
past two years and "year three is
the time to make up for those two
increases."
Huron East's budget went up
4.88 per cent in 2005 and 4.95 per
cent in 2004.
Deputy -Clerk Brad Knight took
council through the budget without
adding the extra $452,832 funding
Huron East received from the new
Ontario Municipal Partnership
Fund (OMPF).
"I'm asking you to start where
you were last year recognizing the
additional funding hasn't been
brought into the budget yet," he
said, adding the extra can be
included later.
He said assessment growth is
already bringing the levy up by
three per cent or $75,000 at the
same rates as last year.
"The three per cent increase will
becompletely offset by new
assessment growth," said Knight.
Budget deliberations are starting
out with Huron East having a
reserve level of $2.3 million.
See HURON, Page 3
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