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Times -Advocate, September 22,1993
$20 million should go to Hydro debt. they argue
Klopp agrees with PUCs
over Social Contract
CLINTON - Local PUCs want their share of the
Social Contract to stay within the utility sector. In-
stead of paying down the provincial deficit, they
want it to help lower the Ontario Hydro debt.
Representatives from local PUCs, including Exet-
er and Zurich, met with MPP Paul Klopp Friday to
=voice their support for the Municipal Electric Asso-
ciation's proposal. What they found was an ally.
"He [Klopp] seemed to be on side before we got
going," said Exeter PUC manager Hugh Davis.
Klopp assured those he supported the notion that
any savings from PUC wages through the Social
Contract be kept with Ontario Hydro. At stake is
some $20 million, according to the Municipal Elec-
tric Association. The Social Contract was aimed at
cutting provincial public sector wages and subsi-
dies, but the PUCs argued they operated as a separ-
ate companies, not a government agencies.
"The hydro department operates without any
grants," pointed out Davis. "It's self-sustaining."
The Municipal Electric Association, on behalf of
the utility sector, agreed to include PUCs in the So-
cial Contract, in the hope that the savings could be
applied to Ontario Hydro's huge debt.
"Our sector signed on the basis that this would be
resolved at a later date, otherwise there would have
been no signing," said Davis.
"I think it's a good idea," said MPP Paul Klopp
when contacted Monday.
He said he would press to have those Social Con-
tract funds allocated to Ontario Hydro. Other MPPs
who agree with the MEA proposal will be lobbying
provincial treasurer Floyd Laughren and Minister of
Energy Bud Wildman, said Klopp.
An upcoming caucus retreat may bean ideal time
to bring the subject up with cabinet ministers, he
said.
"They [the PUCs] want it back in the system,
which is more than fair," said Klopp.
Province washes its hands
Town shortchanged
on restitution :for
street light crash
EXETER - Court judgements re-
quiring restitution don't hold any
water, concluded town council
Monday evening.
Council has been trying to get
full restitution for damage clone to
an Exeter street light pole in 1989
.by an unlicensed and uninsured
driver. The driver Geoffrey Bates,
was ordered by court :to •pay the
$2,612.03 for repairs to • the street
light, but after paying $1,734.91,
the Essex Crown Attorney conclud-
ed the sporadically employed .man
had paid enough and considered -the
case closed.
Unimpressed, town council sent a
letter to provincial Attorney Gener-
al Marion Boyd in the summer.
Her reply was :received by council
Monday.
Boyd said she concurred with the
Crown Attorney's decision and said
the "criminal aspect of this case,
being whether there .was a wilful'
Poison gas
monitor fitted
to Exeter
arena ice
machine
EXETER - A repeat of the near -
tragedy last Christmas at the Ste-
phen Township Arena is hoped to
be avoided in Exeter, town council
was told Monday evening.
Last December, several young
hockey players were taken from the
Stephen ice surface on stretchers
after passing put from carbon mon-
oxide fumes. It was later found the
fumes came from a malfunctioning
ice resurfacing machine.
Stephen Township has since rc-
fiued the machine with a device to
monitor its output and warn the op-
erator of any malfunctioning. Nor-
mally, the propane -powered ma-
chines burn their fuel very cleanly
if properly a0justed.
The Olympic ice machine at the
Exeter arena now has a similar de-
vice fitted, costing $1,011.04, but
which will prevent running the ma-
chine with itstngine out of adjust-
ment.
"It's11'ell-spent money," said
councillor Dave Urlin ht Monday's
council meeting, to which all coun-t
cil members agreed. 1
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failure to pay,has been dealt with
by the Crown Attorney".
"I can't lest this go by without a
comment," said councillor Bob
Spears who said he was still "ap-
palled" that the restitution could go
unpaid.
"They walk away from the whole
decision if• someone decides the
guilty party cannot pay," said
Spears, calling the situation an
"amazing precedent," that could be
exploited by all kinds of people
brought before the courts.
"Well, that's probably the end of
that, folks," said mayor Bruce
Shaw, but councillor Dave Urlin
suggested that Boyd's advice be
heeded and the matter pursued with
"civil litigation" through small
claims court.
Shaw said the suggestion might
be considered, taking into account
the costs involved.
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for swim-a-thon at Vanastra pool
VANASTRA - Glen McLachlan
of Vanastra, who is a member of
the DIAMONDS, (a county group
for the physically challenged) suc-
cessfully completed a swim-a-thon
at the Vanastra Recreation Centre
on May 8, 1993 raising $2100 for
Children's Hospital of Southwest-
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