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Home My WebLink AboutTimes Advocate, 1994-11-23, Page 3Times -Advocate, November 23, 1994 Page 3 Long county careers ending Exeter's Lossy Fuller is among those not returning to the regional council By Fred Groves T -A staff EXETER - After 12 years, Lossy Fuller is not going to he going to Huron County Council in Gode- rich. During the past year, county council passed a resolution which would eliminate the size of council, reducing it from 32 down to 26 members. All municipalities, in- cluding Exeter will now have only one representative - their reeves. • That means Fuller, who ran for mayor, won't be returning. Neither will the deputy -reeves from Gode- rich, Hay, Stanley and Stephen Townships and the Town of code - rich. "It's a different level of govern- ment. I've enjoyed meeting people throughout the county," said Fuller. It's no secret that throughout the years. especially the last five, Exet- er and Huron County have not seen eye -to -eye. Exeter views itself as a "pioneer" on some county issues, while others accuse the town of stirring thigs up. As far as county government goes, Exeter has got a couple of heavyweights in the outspoken Bill Mickle and the energetic and in- formative Fuller. Half of that com- bination is going to be broken up. "We (Exeter and Huron) don't see eye -to -eye on many things. It was Exeter that fought hard not to have one voter per municipality," said Fuller. "About 1990 we had a little dis- pute with planning over Hay Town- ship. Now we're having another problem with planning," said Fuller referring to the county's decision to revoke Exeter's right to perform some of their own planning duties. Over the years, Huron County has taken it upon itself to hire high- ly skilled professional people to be their department heads. A lot of times the committees, through their department heads, make the de- cisions which leave council with little to do on most matters. Changes: "It's not the same as it was. I believe we are rubber stamp- ing the committee reports. People don't ask the questions," said Full- er. She, and perhaps a dozen others in the chambers are vocal and let their voice and the opinion of their individual municipalities be heard. However, there are others who have been there for more years than Fuller who seem uninterested. A year ago, in a cost-cutting measure, Huron County decided to start the sessions an hour early. eliminate the free lunch and get business over and done with, it seems, as quickly as possible. "There is something about the so- cial aspect, even if you buy your own lunch you can talk about your own problems." Huron, with its population of about 60,000 is one of the largest counties in the province. Although Fuller believes the size of the county shouldn't be decreased, she feels the future does hold a lot of changes for the individual mu- nicipalities. "Within the next six years there will be changes. There will be boundary changes, 26 municipal- ities is too many." At October's session, Fuller took her grand -daughter Jennifer Cronyn to council and she was the page for the day. "I've taken six kids up there from this area, I think it's important, I tell them I want them to go back to school and give a little report." Fuller recently lost the rac for mayor in Exeter to Ben oo- genbbom which means, f now, her political career is don On Thursday, she and 11 other Protection from 'big box' stores considered by Exeter planning EXETER - The words of an ex- pert at the recent BIA business sem- inar has the town planning advisory committee thinking. Emrik Suiches told local business- es they needed support from their planning authorities, specifically the town's official plan, if they want to protect themselves from "big box" retailers. The new format, or "big box", re- tailing has been accused of causing the extinction of small town busi- ness cores by replacing them with one large "mega store", often out- side town limits. The planning advisory committee took those words to heart at their last meeting, and are looking at ways to prevent the establishment of such stores in the area. "Are we talking inside the town or outside the town," asked reeve Bill Mickle at Monday's council meet- ing. Town administrator Rick Hundey said both are really two concerns. Firstly, he said the county should "have an interest" in the potential ef- fects of big box retailers, and should be able to regulate retail operations outside its town's borders. As for dealing with "big box" stores inside town boundaries, Hun- dey said regulations on store size arc a possibility council might be able to consider. 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Also saying goodbye to the com- fortable surroundings of the Gode- rich Court House are Tom Tomes, Stephen Township; Bee Cooke, Clinton; Lionel Wilder, Hay Town- ship; David Lee, Blyth; Bob Fisher, Zurich; Dave Gower, Goderich Township; Marie Hicknell, McKil- lop Township; Doug Fraser, Moms Township; Ernie Snell, East Waw- anosh; John Doherty, Goderich and Howard Armstrong, Stanley Town- ship. At the October session of county council, outgoing warden Allan Gibson said, "some won't be here because they've chosen not to run." The county is downsizing from 32 to 26 members - one per mu- nicipality. That means there are no deputy -reeves on council. • "Huron County was wise to face this issue before someone made it (decision to downsize) for us," said Gibson. Tomes is now the deputy -reeve in Stephen, Fisher did not run in Zu- rich; Wilder was defeated by Mur- ray Keys and Armstrong decided not to run. "It's a choice I made personally," said Armstrong of not running. 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