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Home My WebLink AboutTimes-Advocate, 1999-03-17, Page 5orjtr-VVTVPgrr'-- • Wednesday, March 17, 1999 � � - Wednesday, -- F,xeter Time oca �v t. Improvement projects in the works for the 'Bend By Kat. Monk TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF GRAND BEND — T Grand Bend and Distri Optimist Club will r ceive the same treatme as other service o ganizations for licensin application fees. The club requeste council waive its Lotter license fees be :e pro ceeds are rete th community for ,uth ac tivities and communit enhancements The club is continuin to work towards re placing the playgroun equipment at the 8 Crescent park and has applied for a raffle lot tery license which should enable it to raise enough funds to begin work on the park once it receives council approval. At council's March 8 meeting, Coun. Shirley Andraza said a prec- edent has been set with the Grand Bend Legion and Rotary Club, which receive a discount from village council on their li- censing fees. - Council directed d a - structures be permitted ministrator Paul Turn- on the beach which con - bull to find out more de- form with the beach . he tails from the Optimists house's design char- ct including a list of pro- acted, e- grams they had in mind. Jason Gibbon has pro- nt posed renting lounge r- On the beach chairs from a structure g The village will request on the beach. The com- tenders for this year's mittee wants its architect d operation of the beach to design the structure Y bathhouse. Although so it conforms with the i - council was satisfied beach house. s e with last year's arrange- Council has decided to ment, Coun. Phil Ma- include the parking area Y guire said it should be adjacent to Bonnie t put to tender because it Doone from the stone a g was only a one-year wall to Government Road o agreement. in the design concept for " d The lease will expire in the beach enhancement. t 1 early September to allow construction to begin this On the street fi - fall on the new bath- Council will apply to e house. the Main Street Ontario t A public meeting will program for a $1,000 t be held Sat., April 24 at grant for the beautifica- s the Grand Bend Public tion of the corner of Mo - School from 10 a.m. to rent Lane and Main St. F noon to receive public in- in Grand Bend. B put on the design con- A condition of re- 0 cept of the new beach ceiving the grant is that re house facility. the village match the b Council has accepted a provincial funding. Coun- hi recommendation from cil had not included this Pa the Community Enhance- funding in this year's er ment Advisory Com- budget but at its March 8 no mittee that only kiosks/ meeting, council passed th a resolution asking th the grant be included the budget. The wall at 12 More Lane also needs to strengthened. The bea tification project usin components that can b moved can be done th year if funding is avai able with the costs of r nforcing the wall con idered in the 200 budget. Council received a le er from Wayne Forbe bout parking violation n River Road an stoop and scoop" viola ions. Forbes claims up t ve vehicles and/o quipment, boats an railers are parked on he street nightly in th ummer. In response to the orbes letter, Grand end bylaw enforcement fficer Keith Crawford ported to council that oats or recreational ve- cles should not be rked on village prop- ty. He added there is t a parking problem in e off-season except for at snow removal purposes. in Coun. Andraza said the village is not in the nz "business of boat stor- be age" and asked that the u- utility trailer, boat and g boat trailer be removed e from village property. is With the dog bylaw vi- 1- olations, Crawford sug- e- gested Forbes "keep a diary of poop events and 0 then agree to testify." At that point, the village t- could lay a charge. s Council directed Turn- s s ball to proceed with the d registration of tax liens y against a Main St. busi- e ness which has been in o tax arrears for three d ✓ years. s d Turnbull reported he M sent a notice to the prop- it e erty owner on Feb. 8 p with a March 8 payment deadline. On March 8, b the owner asked Turn- F bull to extend the dead- K line to March 31, at which time the owner p would pay '96 taxes and je the interest owing to to date on the '97, '98 and cl '99 taxes. re Maguire made the mo- m tion to deny the request with Andraza seconding the motion. Arena funding Council received a let- ter from the North Mid- dlesex Community Cen- tre Board asking for funding to replace the boards at the North Mid- dlesex arena. Grand Bend and area residents use the Parkhill arena for hockey and figure kating. Coun. Andraza said the illage should do what - ver it can to help. Coun. Maguire, though, said he idn't think the village , hould be funding North iddlesex projects when is being asked to sup - ort North Lambton. "Down the road, we'll e asked to contribute to orest etc. " Coun. Brian nights said. While not committing ublic funds to the pro- ct, council agreed to al - w the committee to in- ude Grand Bend sidents in the direct ail canvas. `Original Six' to take draft proposal goes back to councils By Scott Nixon TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF BRUCEFIELD — Coun- .ils for six municipalities ::volved in amalgama- tion talks will soon be deciding whether or not o accept a draft pro- iosal following a full -ouncils meeting last Vednesday in Bruce - field. It only took the group of Hensall, Zurich, Bay- field, Hay, Stanley and Tuckersmith 30 minutes to look through • the re- structuring proposal and discuss any problems. The new municipality, which still has no name, will go into effect Jan ! , 2001, with a riunwi}.; election in h, gel 2000. The council will con- sist of two councillors each from the former municipalities of Hay, Stanley and Tuckersmith and one councillor each from the former mu- nicipalities of Hensall, Zurich and Bayfield. There will also be a mayor, deputy mayor and councillor elected at large, who will also serve on county council. If the draft proposal is accepted by the six mu- nicipalities, a transition hoard will be established to hammer out the major + +++++++++++++++4. Don't be Disappointed Order your Easter Cake Now Annette's Cakery Decor 235-4452 details of amalgamation such as personnel, bud- gets and bylaws. The board will consist of all members of the six councils. • The document pro- poses the dissolution of the Police Village of Dashwood, . an issue of some controversy be- cause the South Huron amalgamatio n group of Exeter, Ste- phen and Usborne also wants Dash- wood, which is split down the middle by Hay and Stephen townships. That matter is to be discussed at a public meeting at the Dashwood Community Centre on March 25 at 7:30 p.m. where Dashwood res- idents will give their opinions on which amal- gamation group they want to join. Because of the Dash- wood meeting, Hay Reeve Jim Love re- quested the next meeting for the group of six be postponed two weeks to give Hay a chance td react to the Dashwood concerns. The group agreed with Love and set a meeting date for April 14 in the Hay Township of- fice in Zurich at 7 p.m. Zu- rich council will host the meeting. Bayfield Reeve Doug Grant, though, ques- tioned delaying the next amalgamation meeting, arguing that whatever Dashwood residents say, has no bearing on the amalgamation of the six municipalities. Love argued that the people have to be heard and said, "I'd just like to see them happy before we proceed." "I'd just I them hap we proce ike to see py before ed." - JIM LOVE, HAY REEVE Also discussed last new Wednesday was a name for the municipality. While names such as North Huron and Blue - water were suggested, it was agreed each of the six councils will discuss the issue at their next council meetings. 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