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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1977-09-29, Page 3•? sou Plan 1 i thr deal ;Cot./ stigat 0011 alktti Don eck 'of :00 IL is soft nes- ata Loan ll -time: mana pderich Airport Committee passed a at Wednesday evening to recommend to uncil that the hiring of a full-time manager at the airport be considered: ower of the airport's maintenance sub e said erso nel isa point needed at the air - P i.time ommittee has a responsibility. We're and iter costing he id s money. We need a anag right, Airport Committee chairman at the committee's number one priority a full-time working manager. tfield of the airport's development sub e passed out a general outline of an anager s duties. These duties include moval, •,grass cutting, maintaining markings, maintaining fuel supply, in touch with the Department of with regards to licences and public trical , work, encouraging visiting register and collecting their fees, ground traffic and making sure all ry vehicles and pedestrians are clear way and making monthly reports on operations of the airport. al, said Atfield, the manager would be ployee. He said the manager would epared to work odd hours and that it be an eight to five, Monday to Fridays- oexpressed his doubt that one person die all the duties. Allen Ball is' acting as part-time airport manager. ee members agreed on the fact that it helpful if applicants for the airport 's position had some aviation d. NOT HAPPY WITH REPORTS xpressed his dissatisfaction with the was receiving about what is required ort. During the sky diving show for e S21id, some airport lights were run truck and broken. These lights cost e and Gower said he did not receive they had been broken so that he could y apply to the insurance company, said•that often when the grass at the cut, lights get broken and he isn't in - hese are the types of things which • reported to him by an airport e said. st take more care to protect what at the airport)," said Gower. business, the Airport ComniTttee tations from major users of the mer Squires, on behalf of Business Air brought several items, of_coricexn_ ommittee. informed the committee that there pots collecting water on the runway ed attention. Water collects in ponds ots to a depth of several „inches, he cularly during mild spells in the er winter and in the spring. To taxi Business Air Servtces' Lear jet through these ponds after landing' would cause serious damage to the brakes of the aircraft and as a result it is often essential to stop the aircraft on the runway to deplane passengers and wait until the brakes cool sufficiently in order to eliminate the possibility; of damage. This procedure in effect closes the runway for a period of time. Squires suggested to the committee that Business Air Services cculd have an engineer look at the situation and that they would be willing to supply a grader to dig channels so the water could run off the low lying areas. However, Gower informed Squires that paving of the refuelling area was underway at the airport and that perhaps an overrun of asphalt could be laid down in the low Tying areas to solve the problem rather than digging ditches. Squires also questioned the desirability of providing permanent tie -downs for aircraft immediately to the west of the car parking lot ,and adjacent to the Business Air Services hangar doors. Aircraft tied down in this area, he said, makes snow clearing in the area almost im- possible, Bill Cruickshank of Wingham Air Services was also present at the Airport Com- mittee meeting concerning the removal of the tie -downs which had formerly been situated conveniently close to their offices. Tie -downs GODERICH SIGNAL STAR, THUIC AV, SEPTEMBER Wtflted committe are put into the ground so that Dopes may be attached from these rings to the plane in order to hold it down at three points as a safety precaution. The Airport Committee decided to wait to see a drawing of the plans for relocating the tie -downs before making any decisions about the tie -down situation. The plans include putting tie -downs parallel to the runway. TIE -DOWNS ESSENTIAL Committee member Don Wheeler said he felt it was essential to have tie -downs along the parking area. "You only have to go back to last winter when the only means out of town was the airport. It would be ideal to be able to have aircraft follow a ploughed route in case of isolation," he said. Wright urged the committee to consider the snow removal plans for the airport this winter, The tie -down situation will he take�ra under ad- visement and discussed in the near fGture. Squires complained to the committee that the fuel system at the airport hasn't worked as well as it should. He said it has been a constant source of concern and irritation for Business Air Ser- vices as to when and if they'll he able to get fuel. He said the airport could -probably double its fuel sales to Business Air Services if the system was improved. owns are cement blocks with rings that Squires also made other brief suggestions to Committee surprised • from page 1 vised that they should handle it since some of the pointing out that he couldn't write it offthe , commission would have to decide that. decorations went on poles carrying hydro lines and that the,PUC employees should be the ones Elsa Haydon said she figured the PUC would to work on those poles. absorb the costs as its contribution to the Allen said he had just assumed that the PUC celebration. She said the bill was unexpected would be doing the work for the town and not adding that she considered it "outrageous". She billing for it. He said in hindsight one could say said she was the decorating committee chair- that the matter should have been checked but man and knew nothing of the bil'I until it was added that to his knowledge no one told the delivered by the PUC. She said she could hardly committee of the charge. He said he was pleased believe it -and had to recheck to make sure she •with the work the PUC had done but that the bill had heard right. wasn't too pleasant. Evert Middel, PUC hydro , said the Haydon said she planned to arrange a meeting PUC had worked fairly steady on foremanthe decorations between the PUC and the decorating committee from May 24 to July 27. He said the men had put adding that there was "no way the bill was going up decorations, done some electrical work to to be paid'`. She said if she had been aware that service the lighted welcome sign across Huron the committee was being charged for the work Road and the beer tent at the beach, had raised she would have made an extra effort to keep hydro cables to permit the Champion grader to track of what was being done.. She added that it enter the Jubilee Three parade and he driven probably would have been cheapen to go out of• through town', had.. done some work for the town and arrange for someone to install the Wintario draw and had installed poles to hang decorations. She said even if the PUC took five - welcome banners and signs nn the main en- davc the. work she couldn t see how it could trances to town and on The Square. He said most amount to $9,000,_ of the work was dL. one_ast.La.i.gh.t-ti-inn-lout- tide • d. "1 could possibly understand a bill for $900 but that there was some overtime work needed. He not $9,000," she said. said that some of the time was spent taking the Bob Allen said he was surprised by the bill and ., decorations back down after the celebrations hoped that the committee and PUC, could sit down and come to some reasonable decision. He said the town could have had its own crews do much of the decoration work but the PUC ad - were over. The committee members said They hadn't had a meeting to discuss the matter and planned no action until they could meet. City merrimiikers here 's sister city, Bay higan, will be d by about 25 the Octoberfest n the Goderich Arena Saturday ding to Leslie E. editor -columnist ay City Times who has the Bay City table will be set Bay _City group. stimates that at residents have erich during its nnial Jubilee 3 eluding Iarge during the July 1- 10 weekends. year of our sister ons has been were pleased by nou pf Goderich s and citizens for ick's Day parade and there have. been other occasions when we have hosted Goderich people,. especially our American Legion post entertaining Canadian Legionnaires. It has, been a two-way street, and we look forward to many more exciting exchanges in the years to come," says Arndt, who heads up the Bay City sister city committee, known as Bay City People -to - People International, Arrangements already have been made for Miss Dominion of Canada to head up the 1978 Bay City St. Patrick's Day parade, in recognizing the new sister city relationship with God erich. Town Of Goderich PUBLIC MEETING Thursday, September 29 7:30 P.M. Assessment Office -Gloucester Terrace PURPOSE: To inlform and obtain the views of the community on the COMAY PLANNING ACT REVIEW REPORT. The Comay Report proposes sweeping changes in the process of planning in Ontario and comments and par- ticipation by all those interested is strongly encouraged. The results of the public response will be incorporated into a brief to the Minister of Housing. I • Copies of the Comay Report available at the Town Hall. FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL 524-6520 Study Committee the committee for improvement of airport could get into the airport in case of emergency. facilities. He said snow clearing at the entrance He suggested an improvement in customer to the airport was important so that a fire truck Turn to ,page 24 • Suggest choice. • from page t determine if the market value has increased to operate," argued Hanly. "If your municipality there," said Hanly. is now working on a $200,000 budget, it isn't Hanly said he'd always believed that everyone suddenly going to need 10 times that much. The should be his own assessor. The price a person elected people will still be responsible, and responsible to the same people." Ile predicted the system as envisioned by the Blair Commission would be fairer, Hanly said that if,cottage owners, for instance, should be paying a larger share in a municipality like Goderich Township, they would be paying a larger share if their assessments were tied to the market value of the properties, In an urban municipality, two homes each valued at $40,000 would be paying the same amount of property tax and he suggested that some homeowners would pay more while some would pay less than under the present system. A similar result would occur in business and commercial buildings. "You would be raising the same amount of money," Hanly insisted, "but it is a rcdistrih`ution of shares on what would appear to be, I think, a fairer system." Hanly also pointed out that how much a businessman makes per annum on his property has nothing to do with the value of the property: He said an individual's earnings are another matter "and that's straightened out in income tax". put on his real estate would be the price he would he prepared to pay gees on as well as sell his property for when thetiriit--came to sell it. Reeve Bill Clifford of Goderich said he'd talked to assessors abou � this point and was convinced that the market value would be determined on a scale which would be the mean - not the high, not the low. Frank Cook, reeve of Clinton, said equalized assessment was now obsolete although it had cost the county thousands and thousands of dollars to change over from the previous system of municipal assessors, "How much is this new system going to cost us?" asked Cook. "How many new assessors are ` we going to have to hire to solve this problem?" Hanly said there was every indication the Huron -Perth Regional Assessment Office would he able to make the changes without any ad- ditional staff. "And they have less, staff now than they had two years ago," said Hanly. Seaforth Reeve John Flannery said the whole system was just to permit "under the table borrowing for the provincial government'. Bayfield Reeve Ed Oddleifson said he was MORE IDEAS c' ncerned about where the money would come "I don't see anything wrong with the system f! 9m. • we've got now," said Reeve Bob Lyons of West ''If it is not coming from the farmer, where Wawanosh. "I don't mind paying half the taxes cities it come from?" asked the Ba field on my farm, When I can't pay half then I'll quit r, presentative. Y farming." Harold Robinson of Howick felt there should be "McKillop is 90 per cent agricultural," said more figures for comparison purposes, Reeve Allan Campbell of McKillop. "If 90 per Sinton P. Hallahan of East Wawanosh said, "1 cent of all the taxes are paid by government, think we should take a pretty close look at what difference would it make how high the someone picking up the tab for us." assessment goes? Why not pave all the roads?" A computer printout showing current assessed Gerry Ginn, a member of the executive values and market values for each municipality committee, said Campbell was forgetting that in Huron has been received from the Ministry of farmers will he paying all the taxes on their Treasury, Economics and Intergoverninental homes and the land surrounding them. The 90 Affairs. It was stressed this information was per cent would apply to only barns, sheds and "very preliminary and not`complete" and that farmland. Ile estimated thj, when things were accurate comparisons could not he made. •all evened out, there would e very little change However, based on several assumptions, a for the average farmer in actual dollars and schedule of comparison was prepared by the cents paid out for taxes. clerk -treasurer's office, "What is market value?" asked Ervin Sillery "It would appear from this comparison that as of 7 uckersmith, general rule, village and town apportionrnenfs "toll -1-Lamy- said -7010e it was true that some for county purposes will be down while township property was worth more to some buyers than to apportionments will he apt,' the executive others, the inflated prices paid for real estate in committee reported. • the future would affect the estimated market In the figures supplied with the report, all value for taxation purposes. villages and towns showed a decrease in their "If yois pay an inflated price for a piece of apportionment for county purposes while only property, the assessors are likely to hack into one township - Tuckersmith - registered a that neighborhood and restudy all the homes to reduced percentage. 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