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ByScott Nixon The centre also wanted
TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF an p tion on a 10 -year
n to the deal.
ncil finally put the
matter to rest at its Nov.
16 meeting. In a recorded
vote on a motion by
Coun. Harry Wraith,
council voted 9-1 to
reject the request and
sell the building.
Only Coun. George Marr
voted against the motioh
to sell.
In rejecting the centre's
request, Coun. Leroy
Maguite said council
agreed to the centre's
original request of a five-
year deal and then the
centre changed its mind
and asked for more.
Coun. Glenn Silver
echoed Maguire's con-
cerns of the Ausable
Centre's desire to change
the original request,
explaining that he sup-
ports the Ausable Centre
but doesn't want the
municipality to have to
pay for roof or heating
systems costs.
Wraith argued the mat-
ter has gone on for too
long and the municipality
can help the centre in
other ways. He said he's
not against . the Ausable
Centre, but the centre is
asking for too much.
"I'm going to be the bad
boy and say 'no,'" Wraith
said of . the centre's
LUCAN BIDDULPI--
After several months of
negotiations,• Lucan
Biddulph council finally
said 'no' to the Ausable
Centre's request to lease
the former Village of
Lucan office.
Instead, the municipali-
ty has decided to sell the
building, something it
was going to do before
the Ausable Centre made
the lease request in the
summer. Township
administrator Ron
Reymer has said the
township hopes to sell the
building for $60,000.
The original proposed
deal was for the Ausable
Centre to lease the for-
mer village municipal
office for five years at $1
per year. Then, after
months of stagnation,
Ausable Centre president
Tom McInerney appeared
before council early in
November and requested
a 15 -year lease at $ i per
year, with the municipali-
ty on the hook for repairs
to the building's roof and
heating and cooling sys-
tem for the first eight
years of the deal. In the
final seven years, the
municipality and the
Ausable Centre would
split the costs.
request.
He said the centre still
needs to grow and "fight
on their own a wee bit."
Deputy Reeve Bob
Benner said the centre's
original proposal -- a
five-year lease — was
reasonable, but they let
the opportunity slip
away.
,He also said the cen-
tre's request goes beyond
the kind of support coun-
cil gives to any other
organization in the
municipality.
Marr, in defence of the
centre, argued it has
brought $300,000 into
the community and
should be supported by
council.
Ausable Centre consul-
tant Rosemary Gahlinger-
Beaune told the T -A
Monday the centre is dis-
appointed about council's
decision.
"I think it limits our
growth and therefore the
growth of the town as far
as bringing social ser-
vices ... to the town just
because of our restricted
space (at the current
site)."
Permission from council
to lease the former vil-
lage office, 'Gahlinger-
Beaune said, would have
shown municipal support
for the Ausable Centre.
She said the former
proposed five-year lease,
with the .Ausable Centre
responsible for all roof
and heating repairs, was-
n't feasible for the centre.
"The costs would have
been far too prohibitive,"
she said.
For now, the Ausable
Centre will stay where it
is on Main Street,
although Gahlinger-
Beaune said that location
is too small. The former
village office was attrac-
tive because it would
have provided the centre
with more office space
and confidential areas.
"It'll be crammed quar-
ters, but we'll do the best
we can (in the existing
building)," Gahlinger-
Beaune said.
The case of the old fetter
EXETER — An old let-
ter somehow resurfaced
at Exeter council at last
week's meeting but it
had the same effect as
the new one'.
• Exandarea Meadows
Housing Co-operative
resident Sue Blommaert
brought the oversight to
the attention of the
Times -Advocate.
Last week's story about
concerns from
Exandarea residents on
traffic around their
building located near the
corner of William and
Church streets contained
details from a letter cir-
culated around the coun-
cil chambers at the meet-
ing.
The letter was a copy of
one written in '92 by for-
mer Exandarea co-ordi-
nator Wendy Bright.
The updated letter
Blommaert recently sent
council was somehow
switched for the old one.
Bright left Exandarea
later in '92 and the build-
ing co-ordinator now is
Wayne Tingle.
The Times -Advocate
regrets any confusion
this may have caused.
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