Huron Expositor, 2009-10-28, Page 28Page 28 The Huron Expositor • October 28, 2009 •
News
County makes changes to sick time policy
Gvr*rd Crecce
The County of Huron has reworked
its sick time policy in an effort to
curb the nearly $600,000 spent on
' employees not at work last year.
Director of human resources for
the county, Darcy Michaud, said
the county decided to take a look at
their policy after the City of London
clamped down on • their own exces-
sive sick time in 2007.
"When they had their big rigama-
roll about sick time, it brought it to
light," Michaud said.
One look into the county's sick -
time pay revealed some startling
figures, he said.
More troubling,
he added, ' were
that those fig-
ures were not the
whole cost.
"We estimated
ours in 2008 was
$591,691.87," he
said. "All that is
is lost wages in
sick time paid
out."
However, that
figure does not
include long-
term disability,
backfill (getting
the ' work done
after the fact);
overtime or extra
work from other
employees pick-
ing up the slack.
An • estimate
from the Work-
place Safety and
NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING
• CONCERNING A PROPOSED ZONING BY-LAW AMENDMENT
AFFECTING THE MUNICIPALITY OF HURON EAST
TAKE NOTICE that Council of the Corporation of the Municipality of Huron East will hold a public meeting on
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 7:00 pm in the Huron East Council Chambers to consider a proposed zoning
by-law amendment under Section 34 of the Planning Act.
BE ADVISED that the Clerk/Council of the Corporation•of the Municipality of Huron East considered this
application to be complete on October 22, 2009.
ANY PERSON may attend the public meeting and/or make written or verbal representation either in support of,
or in opposition to, the proposed zoning by-law amendment.
ONLY individuals, corporations and public bodies may appeal a by-law to the Ontario Municipal Board. A notice
of appeal may not be filed by an unincorporated association or group. However, .a notice of appeal may be filed
in the name of an individual who is a member of the association or the group on its behalf
NO PERSON or public body shall be added as a party to the hearing of an appeal unless, before the by-law
passed, the person or public body made oralsubmissions at a public meeting or written submissions to the council
or, in the opinion of the Ontario Municipal Board, there are reasonable grounds to add the person or public body
as a party.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION relating to the proposed zoning by-law amendment can be viewed during
regular office hours at: Huron East Municipal Office, or at:
www.huroneast.com
Seaforth Public Library OR Brussels Public Library
DATED AT THE MUNICIPALITY OF HURON EAST this 28th day of October, 2009.
J.R. McLachlan; Clerk, Municipality of Huron East
72 Main Street South, PO Box 610 Seaforth, Ontario NOK 1 WO
Phone: 519-527-0160 1-888-868-7513 (toll free) Fax: 519-527-2561
PURPOSE AND EFFECT
The proposed Zoning By-law Amendment represents a housekeeping amendment for -Huron East's comprehensive Zoning By-
law (By-law 52-2006). The text & map changes affect lands in Huron East. Some of these changes are as a result of the recent
Official Plan Amendment #5 for Huron East; other changes are of a housekeeping nature and a few changes are site specific.
The proposed text changes include:
• Definition & General Provision changes
• Minimum Distance Separation (MDS) to comply with 4ovincial Policy
• Setbacks.from an active waste disposal site for residential uses
• 2 new zone sections to protect existing agriculture & natural environment areas containing extractive resources
• Residential Low Density (RI) zone title separation provisions •
• Wellhead Protection Areas provisions
• Outdoor furnace provisions
• Residential Medium Density (R2) interior side yard depth for semi & duplex dwellings
• Special R2-10 Zone for existing funeral homes
• Floodway & Flood Fringe zone clarifications
• Adding permitted uses to: Agricultural Zones (AGI, AG2, AG3); Village Commercial (C1) zone; Fringe Core Area
Commercial-Seaforth (C2); Highway Commercial (C3 & C3-1) zone; Core Commercial (C4); Vanastra Commercial
(C5); Fringe Highway Commercial - Seaforth/Brussels (C6)
Adding permitted uses to Huronview (Homes for the Aged), Community Facility—Special Zone .(CF -4)
• Adding Sinkhole Zone (SH) and Sinkhole Capture Area provisions
• Several zoning corrections
The proposed map changes include: Maps showing the location of the lands subject to this proposed Zoning By-law
Amendment are available at the Huron East Municipal Office or Website (SEE Additional Information Section above).
• Changes resulting from Huron County Aggregate Resource Strategy affecting Agriculture & Natural Environment
zones (Tuckersmith, Grey, McKillop)
• Sinkhole Zone & Sinkhole Capture Areas (Tuckersmith, Grey) '
• Identification of Municipal wells and 2 year time of travel area (Tuckersmith, McKillop, Brussels, Seaforth)
• Various mapping changes and corrections in: Grey Ward and Cranbrook, Henfryn; McKillop Ward; Tuckersmith
Ward and Vanastra, Egmondville; Brussels Ward; Seaforth Ward.
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Insurance Board of Ontario pegs the
actual cost of sick time much .higher.
For every dollar spent on someone
being sick, Michaud said, there is an
additional 20-30 cents being spent
on back fill.
"This is two per cent (of the total
levy) a year that we're paying year
over year in sick time," he said.
"Council has made it clear that fig-
ure is too high."
As a result, the county has laid out
a new process for monitoring sick
time, as well as keeping employees
accountable for it.
"There is criteria," Michaud said.
"If you want to stay working, you get
onto the sick plan."
The county has reworked their
benefits to better reflect the hard
economic times, Michaud said, while
still providing excellent service to
employees.
"The public sector has to bring in
their benefit package to what is in
line with the times," he said. "We
need to be accountable to the rate-
payer."
The new plan will affect between
160-170 employees this year, moving
to 670 employees within two years.
Dan Schwab, photo
Branden Chambers, 5, of Harpurhey, gets a lesson in
driving a firetruck from firefighter Mark Melady dur-
ing an open house for the Seaforth Fire Hall on Oct.
10.
Visitors were given a tour of the station and provided
with fire safety tips.
The event was held for the nation-wide Fire Preven-
tion Week, which ran from Oct. 4-10.