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A 1'
1076
gathering of council and
of Hen county Reeve Jaelc Tinney ay urge
p!i Ont P n .. � ,. a Township, a m - guests.
of
ember of the
until, are of red clog study Anson 'McKinley concurred
sit ere to 29 its local committee goVs thought it with the warden. He said that
Mn'nb hl #teill Conte t a was n flcu t that the in his opinion, the noon recess
t they lite rt noted that a. heavier with dinner eaten together
sioP until l n at
Elest, A rep, pof the local workload might prevent
erntnent study committee =tubers from becoming
+ irectlY involved with. the
tabled until the Mai
sslon but council probably administration of the various
Vion'tfbe ready to vote on the departments .as at present,
matter until the following and that more meetings could
meeting at the end of June. mean that certain members
It was agreed at the April might notfoelected terested orn
session, Thursday,April 29, running
to send a letter to all because Qf# being
unable not
municipal councils in Huron take time
asking for opinions con- attend meetings.
cerning the feasibility of He added that as the study
adopting Section 27 (a) of The committee toured some of the
Municipal Act whichprovides county councils inthe
for a reeve for up to 2,000 province, they saw nothing
electors; a reeve and a better than the system used in
deputy -reeve over 2,500 Huron, although he admitted
electors; the reeve with a that some ideas from other
second vote over 5,000 counties could be utilized in
electors; and the with a Huron
A l t h o u g h advantage.
thedeputy reeveWarden arden
second vote over 7,500 McCutcheon urged council
electors. not to think in terms • of
What's more, Jim Mair of "getting rid of the deputy -
Morris Township, hopes that reeves', much discussion
there will be time 'for the centred around just that.
eople to ex- Anson McKinley, a former
Huron trounLy
press their opinion on the warden of Hurobro that pointed personnel.
matter - either by delegations forth the suggestionelected
to councils or by speaking perhaps deputy -reeves should ,—County
directly to elected officials in still sit on council, but not on representatives o make keep
' their municipalities. committees.
In the report of the corn- "I like 45 members on decisions," Reeve Ginn said.
mittee chaired by Warden council," Reeve McKinley Reeve Ginn acknowledged crowd
Jack McCutcheon, it was said. "We get a lot of input that a annum saving as $25430,000
54 lot antique good
show and ended the
per
am
noted that in 1975, the that way."money in anybody's pocket", presented by Group one,
population in Huron was He went on to say, however,
54,671. Based on that figure, that committee work should but he wondered if additional Tuckersmith unit on Friday,
'council has at the present be consolidated. He said he savings couldn't be realized. April 30. are
time a members of council for was disturbed that the a -- Hamalgamated. if perhaps couldttees pioneer following The cos umepri a win -
27(a)
each 1,437 people. If Section ministrator and the wardenbe
2?(a) was adopted, there had to sit in on every • corn- was conceivable then that ners : ladies' authentic, Mrs.
sai
it instead of two
artment Lorne
would be one member of mittee meeting. He
d as heads and their salaries one authentic, Wilson:John Broadfoot
council for each 1,885 people. - was during his term
Presently, there are 56 warden that secretaries took department head would be and Wallace Jackson ; ladies'
old wedding dress, Donna
votes in council, an average down committee minutes sufficient.
of one vote for each 976 'instead of either the clerk or "If we ees �dalgamate depose Buroadfoot:
John %c men's Cornish:
the de clerk. commit
people, or 2.15 votes - per pts`to look after
municipality, or 1.24 votes McKinley saw theodcritics
P ty- tmt t cs sery ces.at s hat's where tate Brenda comic, Joyce and
Broadfoot ; largest
per member. Under the reeves as a body of
to
system Proposed, there would whose duty it would be to real savings said
will come in
Walters: family
in
_costume
costumed child
b
p question every committee the county,"
be 30 votes in council, an qWalters:
average of one vote for each about their d COdiai decision ve Leach do earlierin ladies' dress. Grace
1,822 people, or 1.15 votes per mendations. He said
municipality, or
1.03 votes under the present system, the session. to have both the Thomson ; and the Hest couple
with every member of council development officer and the in authentic dress were Mr.
per Mamber.
"Many believe in the a member of some haoda countyubisplmeetingsdirector
about The judges were Mrs. Jean
principle of one person, one mittee, each memberpand
vote," Warden McCutcheon "vested interest to see that secondarypns He
sof thexis
CWala .TSeaf oCh tnd Bob and
said in his report. "Under our every committee report goes as a "duplication"
•
,c
present representation there through county council with penses. Instead o f two
at Ginn
presented with rslil0thw re
The
are 11 members with two as little hassle as possible". meeting,
votes each. At the present He argued that if the deputy- dered if development oo and niversary souvenir nd Marjorie Broadfoot- mugs by
time if Section 27(a) were reeves didn't sit on any planning
adopted, there would be only committees, they would be in amalgamated under one + + +
one member of council with an ideal position to question department
a r d e n head.
McCutcheon . washe sa r� ed eon Subnt of a py sa
m
two votes." and prod.
The most interesting aspect This view was shared by iapmmended council for its Brucefieid.
of the proposal as far as the Reeve John Jewitt of Hullett. open @ local government study foonal discussion rtmed the baptism ho Dianne
ens per -
majority of council members He suggested that deputy-€
was concerned, was the reeves should serve an ap- committee's repos was ae Elizabeth Ross. daughter of
suggestion that between prenticeship , on council, and reminded
525,000 and 530,000 could be then when they became election year and since all
saved in one year if the reeves they could step right members would be seeking
number of representatives on into committee positions with re-election or retiring from
council was decreased. experience and know-how. office in the fall, it was easier
The report noted that based Bill Morley. deputy -reeve to be objective about the
on the present rates being of Usborne Township, raised future structure of govern -
paid to council for a full day a round of applause from eat in Huron.
session, the present cost is ether deputy -reeves when he Simon Hallahan, reeve of
52,402.18 per session. Or an told terested incil he sery ng onsn't in- East county the feeling of the,gro p ed up
average of $53.38 per member "I think we have the best
per session. council if deputy -reeves
Using this average cost per couldn't participate in system of any in the
member, for 29 members the committee work. Dominion of Canada." said
cost per session would be "If we don't have the Reeve Hallahan. "I hope we
$1,548.02 or a saving of challenge of the committee can keep the decision making
5854.16 per session. For ten you might as well forget it," at the grass roots."
regular sessions per year. Marley said. "I won't come
that would be about $8.504 up here and fill the chair and
saved if per diem rates etc. eat your meals as a •critic. It
remained as they are at just won't work."
present. Reeve Elgin Thompson of
For committee `meetings, Tuckersmith agreed. He said
the cost is 53,001.70 for the he wouldn't like council to
nine.. standing committees to
meet once each month. That's discrim inate against the.
an average of. $333.52 per deputy -reeves.
committee. Reeve Thompson went on to
4t has been proposed that say that if council wanted to
instead of nine committees, save money, it could dispense
six committees would be with the $5 per plate
sufficient under • the new smorgasbord served on
system if adopted. For county council days to council
discussion purposes, it was members and their guests.
suggested that health and He said nobody needed such a
social services be heavy meal at lunch time,
amalgamated into one and suggested that the "old
committee, library and way" when councillors went
property into one committee, their own way and bought
nd planning and develop- their own lunches at the noon
trent into one committee. break was best.
At an average cost of "A group of us used to go to
$333.52 per committee, the one of the restaurants and sit
total cost for six committees around the table and have a
to meet once monthly would good discussion," said Reeve
be $2,001.12 - a saving of $1,000 Thompson. "Just as good a
per month. Another $10,000 discussion as we have today
could be saved overin a large
month period if costs group in one place
remained the same and if Warden Jack McCutcheon
committees met only once disagreed with Reeve
monthly. Thompson. He insisted that
It is expected that another bydearlgcouncil together. a
of information was
$5,000 could be saved in meals great
and convention expenses for passed around and much
ublic relations work was
the smaller council. p
to total, that's 523,500 in accomplished. He said that in
actual savings per annum - a the smaller groups, coun-
bare minimum. cillors didn't get the ex -
`"Concern has been ex- change of ideas and didn't get
pressed that with fewer to know the various depar-
committees the workload tment heads as well.
may become such that more Warden McCutcheon added
meetings would be necessary that he could support a
or alternately more authority suggestion to incorporate the
and responsibility turned cost of the noon meals into the
to non.elected staff," per diem paid to councillors,
was the best thing that had.
happened in years.
There was. some discussion
on whether or not savings
would actually be realized by,
cutting back on the number of
county representatives.
Reeve Bill Elston said that
smaller groups tended to look
for higher pay. He said the 16 -
member Board of Education
costs almost as much as the
45 county council members,
and pointed out as well that a
councillor in the Hamilton -
Wentworth Region was paid
$6,500 per annum.
"Where's the saving?"
asked Elston.
Reeve Gerry Ginn of
Goderich Township said that
even when he was a deputy -
reeve, he believed there were
too many members on county
council. But he was con-
cerned that if the number of
elected representatives was
fewer, more decision making
would fall to hired or ap-
Four girls were presented with Provincial Honors at the 441 Achievement Day for the
Clinton area held at Central Huron Secondary School last Saturday. Val Werner of
Bayfield and Audrey De Putter of RR 2, Bayfield, left, chat with Sylvia Nebb of Zurich and
Mary Brand of RR 3, Clinton. Each completed 12 projects. (News -Record photo)
By Mrs. H. F. Berry
rdeo Mceatcheors said in but said he would not be in the
rat favor of dispensing with
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Ross;
Aimee Elizabeth Talbot;
Catherine Ann Dalrymple;
Larry Robert Dalrymple;
and Gavin Michael Snell, son
of Mr. and Mrs._Robert Snell.
Personals
Mr. Larry Sillery of
Goderich spent Mother's Day
with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. E. Siliery.
Mr. and Mrs. R. Snell,
Goderich, along with Mr. and
Mrs. V, Hargreaves, Mrs.
$ert Pepper, Newstead, and
family, spent Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. W m • Pepper.
We are sorry to report that
Lori Labeau has been a
patient in Stratford hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Burdge,
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