Times Advocate, 1993-06-09, Page 12Page 12 Times -Advocate, June 9,1993
Grand Bend
council backs oW
pilau to license
Isses
. By Fred Groves
T -A staff
GRAND BEND - The business
people of this village have put their
foot down hard.
Monday night, nearly 50 of them
told Grand Bend Council they were
totally against a new business li-
cense which could cost some of
them several thousand dollars a
year.
A new bylaw, number 4060 was
supposed to be given a third and fi-
nal reading on Monday but council
decided to get more input from the
local business people.
"It's to get money that can be used
to promote Grand Bend," said coun-
cillor Cam Ivey of the new license.
Council received tetters from
Green Haven Trailer Park, Wonder
Grove Trailer Court and Towusite
RV Park of which, under the new h-
. -cense would have to .pay S20 per
'month per lot.
For-Townsite, that would add up
to .an .additional $4,560 -per year
while'Wonder Grove would have'to
pay $7,680 based on its number of
lots.
In comparison, a fuel :dealer
would only have to pay $5 per year.
Council .admitted there was some
points which -had to be addressed in-
cluding the fact that, under the by-
law, businesses would have to pro-
vide for garbage containers and be
responsible for the disposal of -gar-
bage.
"Should we or should we not
have a business license, that's the
meat of things," said Grand Bend
Mayor Tom Lawson.
Lloyd Guillet and Wayne Forbes
represented the large group which
had several people from a pair of lo-
cal organizations, the Grand. Bend
Business Association and the Grand
Bend Tax Coalition.
They seemed pleased they had
come in mass to council before .the
bylaw was passed.
"The lawyers say this give council
a tot of power," said Guillet.
One section of the new bylaw
states that council has the sight to
close any business which does not
conform to the regulations of the li-
cense.
Erwin Schouroff said there are al-
ready too many boards.and.gronps
who regulate what businesses can
and cannot do.
"Everyone holds out their hand.
Where does it stop, that's what 1
want to know," asked Schottroff.
While council has agreed to work
with the business people in regards
to the license bylaw, Lawson admit-
ted there might have been better
communication when the bylaw was
originallydrafted.
"We have errored as council.
Now where do we go from here?,"
asked Lawson.
Forbes said that the Tax Coalition
and the Business Association have
been in meeting for over a year and
that council should have come to
them with the bylaw.
Also, it was revealed, that perhaps
council should have approached the
Chamber of Commerce as well.
The bylaw also make provision
for council to clamp down on cer-
tain businesses which they feel is
causing a problem.
In the bylaw one of the responsi-
bilities of the licensee would not
cause or permit any nuisance to
arise in, on or in connection with
the object, amusement, vehicle,
place or premises for which the li-
cense was issued.
"We don't want to be overly regu-
lated but we don't want one person
to spoil it for the rest," said Law-
son.
When asked what business he
was referring to, Lawson said the
Fountainblue Motel to where the fire
department was summoned to dur-
ing the Victoria Day weekend.
"On the Monday, of the holiday
weekend we had a small bit of arson
in one room. We assumed we are
going to have problems with the
structure we did have. We had over-
crowding, we had garbage, we had
what we believed to be health prob-
lems and fire marsball problems,"
said Lawson of_ hediotel.
He said if.there .had been a tragedy
.there it would have been a reflection
to the whole community.
Tuesday morning Lawson told the
Times -Advocate that seieral agen-
cies were investigating the motel in
an organized effort.
"We expect something will hap-
pen very quickly," said Lawson.
Among the agencies are, the OPP,
Fire Marshall, Lambton Board of
Health, Building Inspector, Plumb-
ing inspector and the villages own
municipal bylaw structure.
rand Bend %'t►tl•t`
holds c('T: (Ira l
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Huron Board may
drop future
Excellence in
Education banquets
CLINTON - The Huron County
Board of Education has decided to
further discuss a decision to opt out
of the Excellence in Public Educa-
tion banquet for 1994.
Trustees were concerned that if
the board was not involved, the
awards may be abandoned along
with the banquet.
"We don't have to have a banquet
to recognize winners, said Clifford
trustee Della Baumgarten.
It costs the board more than $2
000 to be a financial partner in the
banquet along with the Ontario
Secondary School Teacher's Feder-
ation said Bob Allen, director of
education.
Education
director
retires
CLINTON- Monday afternoon
marked the final regular meeting of
the Huron County Board of Educa-
tion es well as Director of Educa-
tion Bob Allen.
He expressed he appreciation to
the 1972 school board which ap-
proached him to take on the role as
a supervisory officer for the board,
as we as the 1983 board which
gave him the opportunity to be-
come director of education.
"It has been an honour to be di-
rector for the past decade," he said
noting that the director is only as
competent as the people he works
with.
Government constraints in fund-
ing, he said, make the expense dif-
ficult to absorb.
The board decided to notify the.
OSSTF and explain the situation
before making a final recommenda
tion.
No tax
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increase in
Usborne
Township
EXETER - Usbomc Township
ratepayers may be seeing a Iiule in-
crease on their property tax bills
this year, but not because of any in-
creased municipal taxes.
Township council approved at
their June 1 meeting a budget that
allows for a zero -percent increase
in taxes.
The actual township expenditures
are to be $341,653, up only margi-
nally
argi-
nally from 1992's $341,131.
With no major capital expendi-
tures on the books slated for 1993,
aside from some road reconstruc-
tion, council were able to hold the
line on rising costs elsewhere in the
budget.
As clerk Sandra Strang describes
it, no stone was left unturned lo 1
find savings. Council even elimi-
nated their second meeting in June
to help trim costs.
"We nickeled and dimed every-
thing," said Strang. "It's a bare-
oones budget as far as I'm con
cerned..'
Siad Oke (left) presents the keys or a new eo etro
vertible to Bob and Bonnie Becker of Exeter at the conclusion
of the Rotary Club car draw Saturday evening. The winner of
the third prize Ford Escort was Patten Beattie of Watford, and
the first prize Plymouth Voyager went to Jim DeBoer of Luck -
now.
With nearly 1,000 tickets sold on Saturday evening's : oar
draw, the Huron Park recreation centre was kept full with.peo-
ple dancing to the sounds of the Festival By the Bay 'prCheS-
tra and waiting to see if their tickets were eliminated from the
draw. The $100 tickets not only included the dinner and
dance, but the chance to win 30 prizes, including three new
cars.
Emeka Njoku (rj , assisted by Grand Bend mayor Tom Lam '
-son, draws 50 numbers out of the- barrel at Saturday eve-
ning's Rotary Club car draw held in Huron Park. Njoku, execu-
tive director of the Thames Valley Children's Centre, comes
from :the town in Nigeria where the Rotaiy Club is supporting
the construction of a water distribution system with the pro-
ceeds from the Graw. Other projects supported include the
VON and the Lambton Heritage Museum.
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This Friday and Saturday, we -are having a fund raising
barbecue in front of the store with all proceeds going to Minor
Baseball in Exeter.
And Coaches, ask your players to come as well. If your team
has the most players in uniform at the barbecue this
weekend, we'll throw a pizza party for you after one . of your
games!!
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