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District News
Feasability study p1.nned
on separate committee
Huron County's planning and develop-
ment director, Gary Davidson, has been
asked to prepare a report on the feasibility
of a separate economic development depart-
ment for the county.
On the recommendation of its manage-
ment committee, Huron County Council
agreed -at its regular September session to
ask Mr. Davidson to prepare the report. The
action stems from a meeting earlier this
summer between county council's manage-
ment committee and a committee of mayors
of the five towns in the county.
The mayors, in the brief presented at that
meeting, suggested the county would be bet-
ter served if a separate economic develop-
ment department were established.
Mr. Davidson's report will first 'be
presented to the management committee to
consider prior to making a recommendation
to county council.
Exeter Reeve Bill Mickle asked for coun-
cil's assurance that the full report would be
made available to all members of council
before they are asked to take any action on a
management committee recommendation.
Tuckersmith Township Reeve Bob Bell, ac-•
ting as chairman of the management com-
mittee, said the report would likely go to the
management committee, but each member
of council would receive minutes of the,
meeting at which it will be discussed.
Mr. Mickle argues successfully, that the
minutes of that meeting would merely pre-
sent a synopsis of the report, but. the docu-
ment is of such importance that the entire
report should be reviewed by each member
of council_
Councilalso approved another manage-
ment committee recommendation that
Warden Brian McBurney and Mr. Davidson
arrange a meeting with Exeter Town Coun-
cil to discuss the possibility of the town's
withdrawal from the county's planning and
development function. This possibility was
also addressed at the meeting between the
mayors group and the Man'agement
committee.
Exeter has threatened to withdraw from
that county function as a result of a running
dispute between the town and Hay Township
over the township's attempt to zone a strip
of property to accommodate an agri-
industrial mall. The dispute has gone all the
way to the OMB with county planners sup-
porting the township's position.
In another matter relating to the manage-
ment committee's meeting with the mayors,
Bayfield Reeve Dave Johnston expressed
his displeasure resulting from some press
accounts which stated the mayors wanted
more equal urban -rural distribution on
county council.
He suggested the mayors were using inac-
curate figures in suggesting the rural vote
on council far outweighed that of urban
reeves.
"I have always been of the opinion that I
am an urban reeve," he said. "So, by my
calculation, the mayors either can't add or
subtract."
Taking into account the votes of the
villages reeves -in addition to those of the
reeves of the five towns, the urban represen-
tation by vote is close to two per cent of the
rural representation, Mr. Johnston said.
"It's not as distorted as the mayors have
presented it."
Board reports to be adopted
In future reports of the Huron County
Library Board and the Huron County Board
of Health will be adopted by county council
rather than merely being received as
information.
At the regular September session of
Huron County Council, members of council
gave approval to a management committee
recommendation which called for the
action.
In its report, presented by acting chair-
man Tuckersmith Township Reeve Bob
Bell,. the committee.pointed_out_thatcouncil
refers various matters to each of the boards
on occasion for their recommendation to
council. In addition, provincial government
funds for certain programs, such as the new
One -Stop Access and the Huron .County Ad-
diction Assessment and Referral programs,
are to be administered by the county
through the board of health. Inthis case, the
board of health acts as a committee and will
be making recommendations to council on
the expenditure of those funds.
For this reason; the committee stated in
its report, if council feels that a board deci-
sion should be reconsidered, it can now
simply refer the matter back to the board.
Township gets planning grant
Municipal Affairs Minister Bernard
Grandmaitre today announced the $1,385
final payment of a $9,230 community plann-
ing grantior the County of Huron on behalf
of the Township of East Wawanosh.
Grandmaitre said the grant was used by
the municipality to prepare a zoning by-law
for the Township of East Wawanosh.
Community planning grants are designed
to encourage municipalities to review and
update their planning programs, zoning by-
laws and other planning documents.
The grants may also be used for special
studies on local issues such as lakeshore
development or commercial development
along highways, and for energy -conserving
planning measures.
Nominations for award sought
Nominations are now being received for
the Norm Alexander Conservation Award.
The award recognizes local landowners for
their work in conserving our soil and water
resources. This is accomplished through
conservation farming techniques which
focus on conservation tillage, a good crop
rotation, as well as implementing struc-
tural control measures where necessary.
The nominations should be submitted to
Brent Kennedy at the Clinton OMAF Office
by no later than Friday, Sept. 25, 1987. The
nominees will, at that time, be surveyed by
the Joint Program team as to what they
are actually doing on their farm.
Final judging will be done by the
previous three years' winners.
There will be a Tourist Committee
meeting in the town council chambers on
Wednesday, September 9 at 12 noon.
Goderich Town Council will meet on Mon-
day, September 14 at 7:30 p.m. in the council
chambers.
On Wednesday, September 16' at 11 a.m.,
there will be a Utilities Co-ordinating Com-
mittee meeting in the council chambers.
The BIA will meet on Thursday,
September 17 at 11:30 a.m. at a place to be
announced later.
The Huron County Social Services Com-
mittee will meet at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday,
September 10 in the Warden's Office, Court
House, Goderich.
CIVIC CORNER
The Huron County Planning and Develop-
ment Committee will meet at 1:30 p.m. on
Thursday, September 10 in the council
chambers, Court House, Goderich.
The Huron County Road Committee will
meet at 9 a.m. on Friday, September 11 in
the council chambers, Court House,
Goderich.
The Huron County Museum Committee
will meet at 9 a.m. Tuesday, September 15
in the council chambers, Court House,
Goderich.
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