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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1986-03-12, Page 1.3. 4. *764'' Via,* ER OPY 1 4F Stophen w#y•ars.hirysgre.ai.at oar f Assistant Rob Funston will get 18.30 1985 were reeve Alan Walper further report after several changes Per hour in 1986 nad $9.13 the follow- $4,383.36, deputy -reeve Ralph Weber were requested. ing year. Each will receive a clothing $3,432.59 and councillor Ruth Miller Referred the 1986 Stephen allowance of $300. $3,649.35: These were for 11 months. Township arena budget until the April The only two servinga full 12 months were new reeve Tom Tomes 85,376.52 and deputy -reeve Ken McCann $4,877.3. New councillor Gary Baker $348, Drew Robertson 1324 and William Weber served one month in 1965. The benefit package for full time employees only includes 100 perceht of OHIP and Mutual Life paid by the township and 50 percent of O.M.E.R.S. In other business, council: Voiced no objector to zoning bylaw changes by McGillivray township and the village of Grand Bend. Accepted a minor variance applica- tion from Philip Walker at part of Lots 144 and 145 in Plan 125 at Oakwood subdivision. Returned the Martene municipal drain plan back to the engineer for a Stephen township council has reached a salary agreement with all employees which will be in effect for the next two years. in most cases the increase for 1966 will be four percent over wage* or salaries for 1985. An additional four percent will be added for the year 1987. Clerk -treasurer Wilmer Dr Wein will receive a salary of 830,500 for this year and this will rise to $31,720 in 1987. Office staff Sharon Romphf's salary for .1986 will be $340.65 per week with an increase to $366.78 the following year and Linda Oliver will get $330.25 per week this year follow- ed by $355.96 in 1987. Wages of part-time office personell will be Eleanor Rader $6.50 per hour and Louise Wein $5.25 an hour. Road superintendnept Eric Fink- beiner's salary will be $6,774 for this year and $28,495. Included in these figures is an annual merit pay of $660. Road men Lloyd Bender, Don Clarke and Peter Wuerth will receive $9.75 per hour this year with an in- crease to $10.39 in 1987. RonPicker- ing's 1966 wages will be $9 per hour and rise to $10 per hour the following rood year. All road department employees will receive an annual clothing allowance of $300. Part-time road employees will receive up to $6.50 per hour. Now that the township is operating the water system in Stephen, Eric Finkbeiner will receive $500 per year as water manager and Peter Wuerth $300 each year as assistant. Foreman Don Clarke will get an extra $500 each year. Stephen Township arena manager Frank Funston's salary this year will be 825,276 followed by $26,625 in 1987. • Drainage inspector Ken Pickering will receive a 8350 monthly retainer tee plus it0 per hour and 30 cents per tilometre travelled. Waste control operator Percy Warden will receive $5.50 per hour. Reeve Tom Tomea will receive $80 for a long meeting and $35 for short under two hours in length. y -reeve Ken :McCann gets 175 135, respectively for the two types Of meetings and councillors Gary r, Drew Robertson and William ekbeerr will receive 870 and 835, reepe ctively. Poch member of council will re eiVe $80 -per day for conventions and special all day seminars. The reeve receives an honourarium of 8200 for signing cheques. Payments to council members for LAMB ON A LEASfr4 — Jared Siebert, Zurich, (centre) took his two- week -old pet lamb Lester for a walk. Admiring their friend's unique pet are Jason and Angelo, Erb. DUKE OF EDINBURGH AWARDS — Three former 1st Kirkton Rangers received Duke of Edinburgh gold stage pins recently at Perth M.P.P. Hugh Edighoffer's office in Stratford. From left: Sonya Fletcher, Karen Atkinson and Laurie Hawkins. The 17 -year-old Kirkton area residents will receive certificates later this year from Prince Philip or another member of the royal family. Clinton joins Exeter 'l'he Town nt Clinton has joined Ex- eter in protesting the recent wage set- tlements approved by county council for the department heads in Iluron. "These increases -certainly seem exorbitant and must be protested." the Clinton letter to other municipalities slates. noting that the settlements could spur other county and municipality employees to seek the same. -It is feared that the cumulative ef- fect of all these demands might he more than the average taxpayer can or is willing to accept." Clinton ex- plained. "Rut then. of course. the county does not have to face the irate taxpayers: that job is left to the coun- cil and staff of each of the member municipalities." Clinton suggested county council could rescind the increases granted for the second and third years and on- ly guarantee those for 1986 al this time. When the matter came up for discussion at Exeter council's session, Monday, Councillor Ben Iloogenboom asked how the Clinton reeve had voted on the pay increases at county council. "That's a bad question," Deputy - Reeve Lossy Fuller advised, while Reeve 13111 Mickle noted the Clinton reeve's affirmative vote had been noted in press reports. It was then discovered that coun- cil's approval of a motion by Coun- cillor Dorothy Chapman to express displeasure over the pay increases had never been directed to county council. The message had been left in the hands of the executive committee to compose and had never been follow- ed through. Plans were made to correct that oversight. Usborne joins Clinton At their meeting. Tuesday. Usborne Township council decided to add their protest to the high salary increases recently granted to Huron County council to department heads. Council asked that a letter be sent to the county expressing concern over the increases. The action was in response to a let- ter received from Clinton council that denounced the salary increases ap- proved by the county. At Tuesday's session. tenders were opened for a new dual wheel truck and council accepted the low bid of 116,160.28 submitted by Huron Motor Products. it was the lowest of four bids received The fuel tenders were also opened and awarded to Dave Moore Fuels. Usborne Minor Ball Association representatives Keith Strang and Darlene Passmore attended the ses- sion and reviewed with council the 1985 financial report of their group and submitted a request for a grant. Council approved a grant of $750 rr. _n�gy�45 • meeting. Approved purchase of a breathing apparatus maintainer valued at $450 for the Huron Park fire department. Agreed to pay a fire prevention of- ficer the same wages as a fire depart- ment captain: Approved a grant of $50 to the Huron County Farm and Home Safe- ty Association. Renewed membership in the Grand Bend and area Chamber Commerce and named Gary Baker as Stephen's representative. Tentatively hired Milton Dietrich as the new building official replacing Ar- nold McCann who retired. • Filed a letter from the Canadian Federation of Independent Grocers regarding sale of beer and wine in grocery stores. I S V C Huron, North Middlesex & North Lambton Since 1873 ti th Year EXETER. ONTARIO. March 12. 1986 Price Per Copy 60 cents Serving So One Hundred and Fourt County councillors upset over $42,890 deficit Librarian under fire a. and also agreed to provide typing and photocopying services at the township office at no cost to the U.M.B.A. Requests for grants. were also received for the Exeter Figure Skating Club and the Ruron County Farm and Home Safety Association. Those requests will be considered at budget setting time. Council authorized a $1,000 merit -in- crease to Mary Ellen Greb, effective March 10. it will be amortized over the balance of the 1986 payroll period. In other boniness, council: Learned that the 1986 levy from the Ausahle Bayfield Conservation Authority is increased 10 percent. Authorized the attendance of acting clerkdreasurer Sandra Strang at a meeting in Goderich to consider join- ing the county's health insurance plan. Discussed items of concern that they wish to review with the school board representative at an upcoming meeting. Decided to sell the office duplicating machine. The controversy surrounding the Huron County Library rages on as a 1985 deficit of $42,890 is cut off the top of its 1986 book budget. County councillors, particularly last year's chairman of the. library board, Grant Stirling, questioned the actions of chief librarian Bill Par- tridge at the March 6 meeting of coun- ty. The Goderich Township reeve ask- ed how there could be a deficit last year when the librarian had been told in October not to order any more books. In his defense, Partridge said that as of October 24, 1985 all book sup- pliers were told the Huron County library would accept no more books. Also, in an effort to reduce costs in general, the chief librarian also cut back on the number of photocopies made, no records were bought and no 'new,ectuiprnent was :purchased: However, the librarian did accept $42,000 worth of books sent froth Library Services Centre in Kitcheiler. The majority of the books purchased by the library are from this Kitchener firm. It was noted that Partridge ac- cepted the books, but was not invoic- ed until January of this year. But ac- cording to the library's accounting firm of Vodden and Bender, custody of the books is as good as owing on them. Library board chairman Tom Cun- ningham, speaking for last year's chairman, said the board didn't know how many books were on back order last October. He said the current board also doesn't know how many books are on order. "That's what we're trying to clear up," he said. }Juliet Reeve Cunningham said some kind of system is being worked out whereby the board will know every month how many books are on order. Bayfield Reeve Dave Johnson suggested that perhaps the chief librarian shouldn't be ordering books. "Maybe it should be someone else who has better control over county taxpayers' dollars," said Johnson. Goderich Deputy Reeve John Doherty was the only county coun- cillor to speak in defense of the chief librarian. "The only wrong this man (librarian) did, was to accept books," said the deputy reeve. He said the Town of Goderich has accepted purchases and been invoic- ed for the followingyear and that has been acceptable to the town's auditing firm. - "I guess it depends on who you get to do the auditing," said Doherty. Cunningham agreed one mistake was to accept the books, but another has been the over ordering of books. Since 1983, the library board budget has been overspent, specifically in the area of book purchases. Also, for the past years, county council has sent back the board's original budgets to make cuts. Past chairman Stirling said the board was not kept informed of book purchases. - "The question is we warned the librarian in October to not take any more books. He didn't inforrh the board he was taking $42,000 worth of books," said Stirling. County council learned the 1985 library budget was actually $51,000 over spent. The other $9,000 came from county dollars Last year the library had a total budget of $796,519 and that, $598,217 was to have come from the county. Actually the county paid $607,497. For 1986, the library has a budget of $816,784. The county is to pay 8622,146 and the province is to pay $182,638. The rest is to be picked up in fines and othe miscellaneous fees. The largest expenditure is salaries which OP $382,804. The next largest expense is books, records, magazines and processing of these. This jortion of the budget totals $214,235. The purchase of books alone is budgeted at $178,227 of which 4$42,000 (the carry over from 1985) has cia already been spent. . All budgets are subject to final ap- The county's share of the budget proval from county council on March represents a four per cent increase. 27. SORORITY BUYS BAND INSTRUMENTS — The XI Gamma Nu Sorority has donated instruments vdfued at $6,400 to the South Huron District High School band. Back, left, Sorority representatives Barb Passmore and Ann Baynham, band director Jean Waring and musicians Trudi Bornath, Tina Bergmann, Kathy Hen- drick, David Josephson, Liz Mol and Angie Cottrell. Front, Laura Draisey, Rob Russel, Chris Freeth and Kathy Hodgins. Instruments purchased were tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, trombone, trumpet and french horn. T -A photo. Blizzard brings woes to district's motorists Seven of the week's 12 collisions in- vestigated by the Exeter OPP occur- red on Friday morning as whiteout conditions prevailed throughout the area. Highways 4 and 83 were closed by the policepat 8:50 a.m. and stayed closed until 5:00 p.m. The first pileup occurred on the Kirkton Road at 6:45 a.m., when a vehicle driven by Douglas Miners, RR 3 Exeter, became stuck in a snowdrift. Due to the poor visibilty, a vehicle driven by Charles Ort- manns, RR 3 Exeter, collided with the rear of the Miners vehicle. About 10 minutes later, a vehicle driven by Daniel Gower, RR 1 Cen- tralia, struck the rear end of the Ort- manns vehicle. Total damage to the three vehicles was listed at $5,0000. A similar chain -reaction occurred on Highway 4 around 7:30 p.m. when a vehicle driven by Mark Consitt, Henson, struck a vehicle owned by Ronald Hartman, Hensel!, which was abandoned in a snow bank north of Exeter. Twenty minutes later, a vehicle driven by Richard Broom, Exeter. came along and struck the Consitt vehicle. Shortly after, a vehicle driven by Douglas Ritchi' , Exeter, managed to get stopped at the original accident scene, but his vehicle was struck from behind by one driven by Patrick Downing, London. Total damage to the five vehicles was set at $8,800. The only other collision on Friday occurred Highway 4 north of the Kirkton Road involving vehicles driven by Wilfred Berden, Exeter, and Murray Markle, London. Damage in that one, which also occur- red in a whiteout, was 82,200. There were two collisions on Thurs- - day, both in Iluron Park. The first oc- curred on the Tuckeyi-Bbyerages parking lot and involved vehicles operated by Arne Merrifield, RR 2 Ilderton, and Brian Gaiser, Huron Park. Damage was $2,750. The other occurred on Columbia Drive at St. Lawrence Ave. Drivers involved were Peter Christie, Huron Park, and Philip Ruggeri, London. Damage to their vehicles was estimated at 81,500. On Wednesday, a vehicle driven by Joan Albertson, Grand Bend, skidd- ed on an icy patch of the Crediton Road east of concession 2-3 in Stephen and went across the road into a ditch and struck a telephone pole. Damage was listed at 82,800. The other two crashes were on Saturday, the first occurring on Highway 23 south of Woodham when a vehicle driven by Julius Vanden- bossche, Wallaceburg, went out of control on ice and rolled over. The vehicle came to rest on its roof. sus- taining damage of 85,000. Vanden- bossche was taken to Victoria Hospital in London by a passing JUNIOR FARMERS CANVASS • The South Huron Junior Formers canvassed Usborne township for theejleort and Stroke Foundation and realized $641. Above, Junior FormTars Al Renning and Brian Steele turn over the proceeds to district chairperson Marg Cook.T-A photo. r motorist. Only $25 damage was sustained in the other crash. A vehicle driven by James McLeod, Huron Park, struck a stop sign on Columbia Drive at Huron Road 21 in Huron Park. Town cr iser is casualty too Poor visibility for drivers in Fri- day's blizzard wasn't confined to rural roads. Four vehicles were in- volved in a chain -reaction crash in Exeter. One of those vehicles was a town police cruiser. The collisions occurred on Huron St. West, about 100 metres west of Mary St. near the town limits. Due to poor driving conditions, Jef- fery Lindenfield, Exeter had stopped on Huron St. W. and was struck in the rear by a westbound vehicle driven by Kevin Oke, Dashwood. Constable Jim Barnes attended the collision and while he was in- vestigating, a westbound vehicle driven by Maurice Heist, Centralia, collided with the rear of the cruiser. Total damage to the four vehicles was set at 17,500. Driving conditions on Thursday also contributed to three other town crashes. The first occurred'at the intersec- tion of Sanders and Edward, when a northbound vehicle driven by Kelly Johns, Exeter, sll through the in- tersection into an eastbound vehicle operated by Danny Hennessey also of Exeter. Damage was set at 82,100. The second collision was at the in- tersection of Main St. and Highway 83. Donna Shepton, Exeter, was in the process of making a left hand turn when her vehicle was in collision with a southbound vehicle operated by Neil Wells, London. Damage was 81,500 in that one. In the other Thursday incident, vehicles driven by Grant Hooper and Pat Knight, both of Exeter, collided in the parking area at the rear of 425 Main St. The two vehicles were being driven through the lot and due to other vehicles and the high'snow, slid into each other. Damage was 81,800. On Friday, James Musson, Grand Bend, parked his 1979 Ford at the rear of 349 Main St. and on returning, found it had been struck by a vehicle which left the scene. Damage was $75.