Huron Expositor, 2007-02-28, Page 11The Huron Expositor • February 28, 2007 Poge 11
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Huron East council feeling weight of proposed
Susan Hundertmark
Huron County council's plans to
download its boundary bridges to
the lower tier municipalities has
Huron East council feeling weighed
down.
"The boundary bridges are being
dumped on us but are they going to
lower the levy to us? No," said
Mayor Joe Seili.
From a list of 26 boundary bridges
with estimated repair costs of
$1.045 million, 12 of the bridges
with estimated repair costs of
$474,000 are in Huron East.
"The rural communities are the
only ones that will get hit hard if
they download the bridges," said
Deputy -Mayor Bernie MacLellan.
"This is nothing but a windfall for
the Town of Goderich. It doesn't
affect them one iota. It's good for the
county budget and the Town of
Building to be torn down to
prepare for Brussels library
Huron East council accepted a
quotation of $4,500 from Total
Demolition Inc. to demolish the con-
crete shop behind the Brussels
library at its Feb. 20 meeting.
The building is being torn down
to give Huron East three lots on
which to situate a
library building.
Council was told two
years ago by the
Huron County Library
Board that it must
renovate the current
Dale Carnegie library
to bring it to board
standards.
Currently 1,275 sq.
ft., the library must be
enlarged to at least
2,200 sq. ft. and be
made wheelchair
accessible.
Council also decided
to engage the services
of a professional engi-
neer to provide a cost
estimate for a pro-
posed addition to the
existing library or a
completely new 2,500
square foot structure.
"If a new building
were cheaper, would
this library be coming
down, because I know
there was a lot of con-
troversy over that,"
asked Seaforth Coun.
Joe Steffler.
"That was a major
issue and I don't think
that would ever hap-
pen," said Deputy -
Mayor Bernie
MacLellan.
Clerk -Administrator
Jack McLachlan said
he didn't yet know
what the costs would
be of various alterna-
tives.
"It will still be a public decision,"
he said.
A public meeting will be sched-
uled once the engineer's report is
complete.
By Susan Hundertmark
Goderich," he said.
"It's win-win for Goderich because
there are no boundary bridges in
Goderich," agreed Seaforth Coun.
Joe Steffler.
MacLellan argued that because
bridges are in rural areas, provin-
cial funding to the county should
reflect that.
"We've got to maintain the road
system in front of farm property
and bridges are part of that pic-
ture," he said.
Deputy -Clerk Brad Knight point-
ed out that provincial funding is not
tied to bridges currently.
Seili said he'd be happy to take
over bridges that had been brought
up to standard but was nervous
that some of them were built as far
back as 1949.
"They're proposing to download
the bridges along with the estimat-
ed cost to replace them and we've
been fighting that for four years,"
he said.
Steffler agreed that the actual
bridges
costs to fix the bridges could easily
end up being much higher than the
estimates.
"Get them brought up to date
first," he said.
Boundary bridges in Huron East
include six in Grey, four of which
are on the border of Grey and Elma
Township and five in Tuckersmith,
three of which are on the border of
Tuckersmith and Hibbert Township.
One bridge is on the border of
McKillop and Hullett.
The most expensive estimate of
the 12 is the Beam Bridge on
Hensall Road .5 km west of
Chiselhurst Road, estimated to cost
$250,000 for a complete rehabilita-
tion.
The rest range from $5,000 to
$32,000.
Huron East has over 100 bridges
within its borders, many of which
are scheduled for repairs.
"I've got enough of my own
bridges to fix," said Seili.
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