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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1975-04-24, Page 4C3, Titunday, April! 24, a9 Board of Education budget creates increase of 5m95 mills Thu Huron County Board of *t On approved a budget at a my night toles 415,7$3,772. The new budget is an increase of WPM or 17I per cent over the previous yam' evendltures. The buds., presented to the boaird by budget committee chairman Marion Tann, repre- J sents a mill rate increase of 5.95, %bringing the total mill rate to 47.08. In her presentation to board members Mrs. Zinn stated that the budget is a realistic appraisal of the board's needs for the year 1975. The budget total is comprised Pia. religious summer school Plans for a summer school on religion to be held from July 21-25 at Sacred Heart School in Wing - ham were announced by Father Nolan of Sacred Heart Parish in Wingham in a letter to the Huron - Perth Roman Catholic Se to School board at their meeting in Seaforth last week. Father Nolan said the week's school could involve Catholic children who are net attending Catholic schools now, as well as those who are and non-Catholic students, with the approval of their ministers. The school would focus on Christian living and would at- tempt to show residents that a Catholic education is available, and valuable. Most of the stu- dents attending would be from the Blyth area, the priest said. Father Nolan asked the board for approval of the project, in- cluding transportation to the summer school and use of the school facilities. The "board's personnel and transportation committees will look into making arrangements for buses and with the school's custodian and report to the next board meeting. of $"0 ,a14,3I in elementary ooi expenditures and $7,969,416 in secondszy school expenditures. Provincial grants totalling $11,529,314 makeup ?MI6 per cent of the total, while alnntetlialitY and township assessment of $3,554,7$1 will make up 32 per cent of the total. The remaining 4.43 per cent or $889,697 will be made up from tuitions of .non - county resident students and miscellaneous revenues. the elementary panel of the budget $4,787,164 of the expendi- tures is paid for labor and bene- fits and office supplies. Capital building expenditures tran- sportation, bus purchases, debenture costs and other non- operating costs will total $1,399,446. The remainder of the elementary school expenditures is comprised of books and sup- plies, custodial maintenance costs and special transportation expenses. In secondary school expendi- tures a total of $5,036,136 has been budgeted for salary and benefits and ` office supplies.- Extraor- dinary expenditures which in- clude capital building projects, transportation, debenture costs and non-operating expenses total $1,061,663. The remainder of the secondary school expenditures is comprised of library books and supplies, cafeteria and custodial maintenance, contractual main- tenance and special transporta- tion expenses. The budget committee also made additional provisions of $22,000 in the budget for the insti- tution of a preventative mainten- ance program. The program would call for the hiring of three skilled tradesmen to service school equipment in an effort to extend the life expectancy of both buildings and equipment. The assessment breakdown for the five municipalities and 21 townships in the county is as follows: Clinton, $157,510; Exeter, $217,115; Goderich, SPRING SUIT SALE 10% OFF Plains and checks in double knits, and wool blends Lightweight for summer! READMAN CLEANERS AND MEN'S WEAR Wingham 357-1242 $530,066; Seaforth, $07,5i2; and Wingham, $187,763; Bayfield, $50,933; Blyth, $32,634; uss , $40.631; , $.1,613Q ; Zurich, SO,015. The assessment breakdown for the 1$ townships is Ashfield, =157,666; Colborne, $107,006; Goderieh, $153,206; Grey, $129,282; Hay, $193,219; Howick, $167,650; Hullett, $116,594; McKillop, $106,145; Morris, $97,069,; Stanley, $146,873; Stephen, $246,405; Tuckersmith, $171,597; Turnberry, $77,977; Us - borne, $122,968; East Wawanosh, $79,445 and West Wawanosh $66,255. The total county contribution to the $15 million -plus education budget is $3,554,761 or 22.5 per cent of the total cost. Present awards BLUEVALE — Sunday School Awards for perfect attendance were given out at the Presby- terian Church on Sunday as follows: First year certificates, Daryl Baswick, Ruth Ann Boonstra, Gayle Campbell, Rhonda English. Second year seal, Waneeta Boonstra, Brian Campbell. Third year seal, Kevin Walker, Jimmy Fng ish, Dean Golley, Sandra Moffatt. Fourth year seal, Susan Elston, Bruce McInnes, Joanne Shaw, Sandra Thompson. Fifth year seal, Dianne Camp- bell, Annetta Dorsch, Anita Dorsch, John Dorsch, Shiela Dorsch, Shirley Dorsch, Bryan Shaw. Sixth year, Heather McInnes. Seventh year; Correy McInnes, Jacqueli a Robertson, David Shaw, Murray Snell, Donna Thompson. Eighth year, Murray . Camp- bell, Ken Thompson. Ninth year, Carolyn Campbell, David Golley, Dewayne Golley, Sherry Ann Robertson, Kathy Snell. Tenth year, Bruce Campbell, Marilyn Campbell, Cameron Ross, Eric Ross, Sheila Walker. Twelfth year, Wayne Camp- bell, Mary Ellen Elston. Enrolment for 1974 was 52 with 41 being awarded perfect attend- ance. John McInnes is Sunday School superintendent. Teachers are Mrs. Jack Shaw, Mrs. Stanley Moffatt, Mrs. William Robertson, Mrs. William. Elston, Mrs. Hugh Campbell and Larry Elliott. Secretary -treasurer is Mrs. Jim Thompson. OPEN HOUSE is a great opportunity for students to show their parents just" what they're learning in school. Susan Brown proudly displays her notebook to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Brown, during the Monday opening of "Education Week" at the Wingham Public School. Maitland Estate subdivision snagged by town regulations A subdivider's lot is not an easy one, but instead of improving, it seems to be getting worse all the time. Hans Kuyvenhoven is a Wingham subdivider who seems to be running up against tiaore ob- stacles the longer he tries. Every subdivider and develop- er must prepare a draft plan for presentation to the planning board, and Mr. Kuyvenhoven did just that. After some changes and redesign the plan was approved by the board at a March 31st meeting. A letter from the. Wing - ham Planning Board with the motion "that the Maitland Es- tates subdivision as redesigned be recommended to Wingham Council for approval" was sent to the council along with the plans. And that's where everything stuck. The plan, encompasses the area from the Maitland River to the CNR tracks for north and south Report from Queen's Park Bars in Ontario may soon have to serve milk, coffee and soft drinks as well as alcoholic bever- ages. Proposed changes in the liquor regulations would require all bars, taverns and licenced dubs to offer . their patrons a choice of at least milk, coffee, and soft drinks. Other charges in the regulations will include the introduction of licences for rec- reation clubs and a new Cabaret Licence. TO ONE AND ALL ... OUR THANKS The measure of a great community is found in the calibre of its people ... and we at Canadian' Tire have been reminded that the people of Wingham and its rural area are tops. We will never be able to "find adequate words to express our appreciation to the hundres or more of wonderful friends who gave their total effort and used their own, equipment' to help us out in the flood crisis at the weekend. Although we suffered some stock dam- age, the loss would have been much much worse had it not been for the assis- tance so freely and promptly given. Our heartfelt thanks to everyone of you LLOYD GILROY AND STAFF CANADIAN TIRE STORE The Cabaret Licence would al- low clubs, whose. prime function is live entertainment rather than food, to sell less food than is re- quired at present by law. Another new licence would be the Patio Licence which would licence an outdoor site adjoining existing licenced indoor premises. More important,. applicants for liquor licences in Ontario will be entitled to public hearings and for the first time, to appeal decisions of; the Liquor Licence Board of Ontario to a higher tribunal. Be- sides the New Tribunal, the Government will also establish two permanent advisory com- mittees, one to deal specifically with problems related to special occasion permits and another to deal with "over-all liquor policy". Ontario will spend $261.7 mil- lion on highway construction in the current fiscal year, John Rhodes, Minister of Transporta- tion and Communications told the Legislature last week. The ex- penditure is part of a $436.4 mil- lion program unveiled by Mr. Rhodes. including work on 849 miles of the province's highways. James Breithaupt (L -Kitch- ener). the financial critic for the Liberal party, gave his budget reply this week in the Legisla- ture. Mr. Breithaupt criticized, the treasurer for always over -es- timating revenues and always underestimating expenditures. In the 1975 budget Mr. Breithaupt said that the Davis government in 1974 underestimated its spend- ing requirements for the fourth consecutive year. Last year's predicted spending increase v. as 14.2 per cent. In actual fact this had jumped to 20.3 percent by the year's end The Liberal critic went on to say that the government's per• formance in the area of deficit financing was equally bad "B` March 31st, 1974 the Dai is government had added more than $3 billion to the province's debt. The province's accumulat- ed net debt ,bad more than doub- led in four years from $1 4 billion to $2 9 billion." he continued The province this year has es - tir tirnated it will go into debt by a further Si 6 billion boundaries with extensions from Wilfred and Charles Sts. The plan provides for construction of 98 lots with frontage ranging from 55 to 70 feet and a block for town- houses. Construction, if ap- proved, would proceed in two phases, directed east and west. The plan as approved by the board was presented to town council April 14th and was ex- plained at the special meeting,,by Mr. Kuyvenhoven and consultant Eric Hanson. The hang-up in council chambers was what Mr. Hanson' called "the nitty-gritty" of servicing. He explained that Mr. Kuyvenhoven would supply "all the municipal services" to the subdivision if council would agree to bring the services up to the boundary of the subdivision. The planning board had already recommended "that Wilfred Street and Charles Street be con- structed and serviced by the town to engineering standards into the Maitland Estates subdivision." Mr. Hanson said council should agree with this proposal, since Mr. Kuyvcnhoven'scosts for ser- vicing the subdivision were "onerous enough." "There is a need for housing here," Mr. Hanson said, "and it can be done if we all co-operate." But cooperation was far from the case as council pointed out that the plans for servicing of the area were not according to speci-, fications. Storm sewers, paved roads and gutters would have to replace the proposed ditch sys- tem with sewer outlets, and underground electrical distri- bution would have to replace the planned overhead street lighting system. Mr. Hanson argued that the costs of these changes "would be an enormous btarden on the people who are going to come here." The hydro design alone, he said, would add an estin1ated $1,100 to the cost of each lot, while the installation of storm sewers could add $2,000 above that. "We propose rear -lot pole line hydro and lawn service," Mr. Hanson explained. "The street scene is quite attractive. I sug- gest the citizens of Wingham could live with it. We think it is a very reasonable request. We can provide first class servicing." As for the storm sewers, Mr. Hanson added: "The limited storm system I consider to be adequate. It's an opinion, basically. But it operates here in your own town." He cited, once more, the enormous costs of the proposed changes and was sup- ported by Mr. Kuyvenhoven who stated, "We are pricing ourselves out." Town council explained that the storm '"sewer system is a de- mand by the Ministry of Trans- portation • rans-portation' and Communication, while the hydro requirement for underground distribution is a by- law of the Wingham Public Utili- ties Commission. "What the planning board recommends, we respect," Councillor Jack Bate- son said, .'but didn't they say anything about these things?" Mr. Hanson again explained the added costs that would be im- posed by the demands and said the PUC by-law is "an act of irre- sponsibility being perpetuated throughout all of Ontario without regard to the needs of the people." The storm sewer de- mand is another unreasonable charge, he said. The case went no further that evening, and council told Mr. Kuyvenhoven it would refer the situation to the town engineer. A meeting to further discuss the plans was planned for the follow- ing Monday. The 'April 21st meeting opened with an increased cast of partici- pants but little change of script. Mr. Kuyvenhoven was accom- panied by G. Roy Surbray, a con- sulting engineer from Missis- sauga, and council chambers were filled to capacity by council members, town engineer Burns Ross, the members 9f the Wing - ham Planning Board and chair- man Roy Bennett and manager Ken Saxton from the Wingham PUC. Neither party had changed its tune. Mr. Surbray reiterated the fact that Mr. Kuyvenhoven's con- cern was costs, while Mr. Ross, speaking for council, explained the town is determined to do Naga ;WOO time. idr. Sexton expired that the PUC deny IS °°pokey" and Can . not ber avoided. C orsmutted up the situation for council: "We've worked ourselves, into boxes so.many times, we don't in- tend to do it again. I don't think we have any choice." CouncillorBat/ . nodded in i : "It either has to be one hundred per cent policy or not at all." Far from bac 'king down on de- mands, town council informed Mr. Kuyvenhoven of an added cost he would have to meet --an impost charge to be levied by the town Ora all subdividers. Mr. Roes explained that imposts are stand- ard under the Municipal Act which grants council the authori- ty to charge a fee for providing services.The charge could be set per lot or as a total sum and could be payable at the time of building permit issue or at any other time specified by council. The levy of impost charges, Mr. Ross ex- plained, enables council to set up a "sort of trust fund" for future expansion, or improvement of services. ''What may appear to you ex- t •eme,"' lifr.. Rom =. d "jost coil **WW .1 wow den policy from now on." Post climes Aoulde $1,50Q to WOO per lot, Out theY must first be written iuto a by law. 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