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Home My WebLink AboutTimes-Advocate, 1986-11-05, Page 15SPOOKS AT GERRARD'S — Moonlight Madness shoppers dropping in to Gerrard's department store Thursday were confronted by these characters. From the left are Carol Borden, Brenda Coates, Pauline McCann, Jean Crawford and Nancy Quinn. T -A photo Middlesex looks at elections Want sensible changes Lucan Reeve Norm Steeper presented a position paper on a pro- vincial committee interim report on municipal election reform at Wednes- day's meeting of Middlesex county council. Warden Karl Nevin said, "Voters should have the right -to cast ballots in any municipality in which they own property in during local elections." Nevin reeve of Ekfrid Township, told the county finance and legislative committee that he owns a cottage in another township and should be able to express his concerns there through a ballot. "We have lots of people in the area who own property in Glencoe, Mosa (Township) and Ekfrid. Why shouldn't they be able to vote in all three?" Nevin argued that a farmer may live in a town but have major farm- ing operations in a township, saying "He'd have more interest in having a say there than in town." Steeper said the intent of one recommendation is to block an other- wise eligible person from voting in more than one municipality, in- cluding his traditional home. "They seemto regard plural voting as a sin." The report recommends that a per- son will not be considered a resident, and thereby eligible to vote, "unless he has no quarters in any other municipality to which he might at will remove. In addition, a voter must live in a municipality for the six months leading up to polling day. That punishes a citizen with a winter retreat down south, Steeper said. 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The committee also opposed the proposal to raise the number of signatures candidates must get to seek office from the current 10. In municipalities under 20,000 a head -of - council candidate would need 50 nominators and other candidates 25. Steeper said Reeve Mary Shamley of Wardsville, (population about 450) jokes that she'd have to import peo- ple into town to get enough signatures. Nevin said the intent seems to be to cut the number of candidates, par- ticularly frivolous ones. "It should be up to the individual if they want to run." Steeper added that it would "deny voters the right to choose a frivolous person if they wish." The committee didn't have a pro- blem with the proposal to move municipal elections ahead to the third Tuesday in October from the second Monday in November - if the December 1 date of installation of al new council was shifted correspondingly. That would shorten the "lame duck" sitting of the outgoing council But the Middlesex committee couldn't agree with a suggestion to, award tax credits to campaign con- tributors. The sore point is that credits would be deducted from pro- vincial transfer payments to the municipality. Nevin said it would just encourage more people to contribute to cam- paigns "and the municipality would pay,for it." The committee brief did support recommendations that would require a successful candidate to maintain his electoral qualifications during his term of office. It suggested, however, that they be strengthened to require a council member to remain a resi- dent of the municipality. The bottom line of the committee's brief was summed up by Steeper, who said the election process should be looked at regularly "but they should make the changes sensible." A ramdom sampling of 10 percent of the taxpaying public in Huron County is being asked to take Bart in a survey being conducted by the com- munications and public relations committee of the Huron County Boakd of Education (HCBE) . The survey is being presented to a wide sampling of the population, in- cluding parents of children in the school system, as well as non -parent taxpayers. As well, all employees in the HCBE are being asked to take part in the survey. The survey is being conducted to help the communications committee determine a number of effective strategies for building better public understanding and support for the school system. Ideas collected will be compared to the inventory of com- munications activities already being undertaken by the school systems. Both employees and parents in selected school communities are be- ing given the opportunity to offer sug- gestions about how the HCBE might improve its image with the families served by the school system. Several Communications Commit- tee members reported at their Oc- tober meeting that the school system is already well respected by many people in the county. Bill Black prin- cipal at Blyth Public School, reported, "I've found that 99 percent of the peo- ple I've talked to said that com- munications were great." In explaining the goal of the Com- munications Committee, Mary Anne Dempsey, trustee for Goderich, told committee members that this year the HCBE trustees outlined one of their goals as improving public rela- tions within the system and in the community as a whole. She noted, "There was a feeling out there that they (trustees) didn't have enough information." She said that the ministry of educa- tion has advised school boards to re- examine their communication policies, and she noted, "If we have an excellent program, that's great news." Central Huron Secondary School teacher Rob Parr agreed, but noted that while he had received positive comments, he also had heard sugges- tions that it was a waste of taxpayers' money to form a communications committee when this need was already being well met. Sally Rathwell, Clinton- Tuckersmith Township trustee said that while communication efforts were positively rated, they should not be abandoned by the board. She noted, "The parents need to know what their kids are doing. 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