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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1999-08-11, Page 4WiiiiiiisdCrAtiestiV1999w Pa : e 3 Exeter Times -Advocate ' t r, bA-*r • ' i • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1 • • • • Zurich council rectifies arena billing - nustake By Scott Nixon TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF ZURICH -- A recent billing mistake at the vil- lage hall has Zurich council trying to fix things. Councilor and rec- reation board member Shelley Rodgers -Bedard reported the mistake to council at,, its Aug. 5. meeting `~ } At Zurich Public School's recent gradua- tion at the hall, arena manager Kevin Geoffrey charged the school only $50, when in fact the charge for a Friday night event is about $350, Rodgers -Bedard said. The school originally had asked for a Thursday night booking, for which the arena charges $50, but when that was booked Geoffrey gave the school the Friday night booking but only charged at Thursday night's rates. St. Boniface School re- cently held a school so- cial event at the hall and was charged the full Fri- day night cost. Rodgers -Bedard said the recreation board rec- ommended nothing be done about the . mistake because it would be un- fair to ,Marge Zurich Public School the addi- tional money and the board didn't want to -re- bate any money :to . St. Boniface. Reeve Dwayne .LaPorte disagreed with the rec- reation board's rec- ommendation, saying something _ had to be done to fix the situation. Coun. Brad Clausius agreed, saying St. Bon- iface should be re- imbursed and the two schools should be treated equally. "All we're trying to do here is make it fair," La- Porte said. Council decided on a $100 rebate to St. Bon- iface on its next hall ren- tal. `P• ' Rodgers -Bedard said Geoffrey made a bad judgement call and said hopefully it' won't hap- pen again: charges of Towndevelopment g — --- in newbylaw own._ .- a�n. u� . EXETER — The good news for' devel- halls, community centres, swimming opers with Exeter's proposed new devel- pools and other recreational facilities. opment charges is that the charge is That and other changes is reflected. in going down. The bad news is that it's the proposed residential development also getting hiked. charge of $1,000 (down from the cur - That's the skinny- after Steve Burns of rent $1,500) for detached residences Goderich's B.M. Ross & Associates con: and $625 for multi -residences (currently suiting engineers outlined a proposed $1,100-$1,500). Sidewalk charges are new development charges bylaw to the extra. joint town committee of the whole and The committee offset the lowered rest - Hydro ` Electric Commission meeting dential charges by going ahead and Monday night. charging commercial and institutional Exeter's current development charges developments $3.25 per square metre. bylaw expires at the end of this month The committee balked at instituting , the and the town must pass a new one so same development charge for industrial development can continue. development, 'preferring to not charge Municipalities must have a development any' development fees to help attract charges bylaw if they hope to recoup new industries. 'any monies from developers building in In comparison with other nearby their backyard. A study on developing a municipalities, Lucan charges about new bylaw is required by the province's $3,000 per new home, Mitchell over new Development, Charges Act and was . $2,000, Goderich about $1,000 and conducted by B.M. Ross for $14,600. Clinton doesn't have development The cost of the study is allowed to be charges. charged against development expected If approved, -the new development to happen over the next five years. charges bylaw would last five years. Due to changes in the province's new A public meeting on the new bylaw is legislation, municipalities cannot charge planned for Aug. 30 at 7:30 p.m. in.the for 'soft services' such as the replace- town council chambers. The bylaw is ment value and total capacities for fire expected to be passed that evening. Huron taking back Exeter OPP admin By Craig Bradford TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF EXETER — It's a case of back to the future for Exeter OPP. administra- tion. The Huron County OPP will take over the admin- istration of the Exeter OPP sometime this fall, Hurons OPP Staff Sgt. Gary Martin said. Huron OPP had been the administration centre for the Exeter OPP detachment up till about a year and a half ago when the responsibility was shifted to the London OPP. At that time, the Mount 4; Forest OPP handled all communications for Huron, Perth, Bruce, Grey and Wellington counties but had become over- loaded. The London OPP helped lessen Mount Forest's load by taking over responsibility for the Exeter and south Huron area including Hensall, Zurich, part of Grand Bend, Dashwood, St. Joseph and Stephen and Hay townships. Mount Forest will take back the communications centre duties for the Exeter area and the Huron OPP will take back the administra- tion responsibilities. "All that changes is where the dispatch comes from," Martin said of the administration and com- munications centre change over. "There's going to be no discernible impact (on on -the -road police service). It's just a change where paperwork goes." Martin dispelled the rumour the Exeter OPP detachment will be dis- banded after Huron OPP takes over administration for the area. He did con- firm the Huron OPP might close its Goderich admin- istration office and move it to a new location in or near Clinton, a more cen- tralized county location. A new administralion office would be needed since the existing detachment in Clinton is too small to. take on the administra- tion responsibilities. Officers would still report to their four nor- mal detachments includ- ing the ones in Exeter and Clinton. Whether the Goderich administration office will move to Clinton and other possible changes to polic- ing in Huron are depen- dent on the province approving the county- wide policing contract Exeter and other Huron County municipalities have already approved. 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