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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1979-11-29, Page 21Municipality must prepare statement BY JOANNE BUCHANAN The Housing Action Committee (HAC) learned at a meeting last Thursday that a municipal housing Statement will now 'be a prerequisite for municipalities applying to the Ontario Housing Corporation (OHC) for financial aid for assisted housing, such as the rent - geared -to -income senior citizens' apartment building being built on Waterloo Street in Goderich. Dave Cowan of the market surveys division 'Of OHC' 'told the com- mittee that it was not a matter of "if" the town has ,to have a municipal housing statement but "when". He told the committee that a municipal housing staterdent was ,..now required by the Ministry of Housing for all assisted housing programs before any funds could be received. Assisted housing in- cludes rent -geared -to - income housing for senior citizens and families. A municipal housing statement would include an assisted housing survey based on results from ministry questionnaires sent out to. specifid people ' in _the community. These questionnaires are designed to show whether the need for assisted housing exists in the community and also can help the community establish a general housing policy, said Cowan. They take into account ; •the economic ---base-of-the municipality, housing that already Ben Graham and Goderich Reeve, Eileen Palmer cut the ribbon to officially open the new Graham Electric and John Deere dealership on Suncoast Drive, Saturday. Deputy -reeve Bob Alien and councillor John Doherty were also on. hand for the opening ceremonies. (photo by Dave Sykes) Joe Morrissey buys land strip for $4,000 from local airport At a meeting on November 21, the Goderich Airport Committee passed a" motion to recommend to town council that the sum of $4,000 paid by Joe Morrissey for the pur- intersection in front of the town owned hangar and connected into the existing storm sewer. This sewer had also been flushed by the Works Department, he said. , Scruton pointed ' out SURVEY Jack W. Langmuir, through correspondence, presented the Goderich Airport Committee with a survey comparing sources of revenue at the counsel and that it advise the Land Division Committee of .this decisfon. FUEL STORAGE chnse of a 61featright--of- that the cateh basin is Goderich Municipal - Airpor-t eo-ordinator - way. from the Town of located in an area that Airport with that of other Scruton gave a regarding fuel storage at the airport with a quotation from Rathwell and Rathwell Petroleum Equipment Contractors. For the supply and installation of one 5,000 gallon protected SteL tank with .necessary - cathodic protection per marked up djawing, • -Itathwell-goand • 4i. athwel quoted $8,643. Further information and quotations on fuel storage will be be presented to the corn-, mittee when received. ' The committee then adjourned until December 12. reserve account to be and rainfall from the sources included landing used by the Goderich parking lot and the fees, tie -down rentals, Municipal Airport for service road. in front of hangar rentals, and land capital projects. the hangar 'and the leasing. Mr. Morrissey pur- weather office. chased the 67 by 1,200 foot He reported that im- SEVERANCE right-of-way located on provements- had been • the westerly side of -the made to the pumphouse Correspondence was airport from the town for with the •addition of a read from the Huron the purpose of residential work bench providing a County Land Division development in that area good work area for Committee .1 dated ---,.._an.d_raor.e..specilicalLy for.. .malutenance and storage -Igo-vg•rniao,r 19- regarding road allowance. for tools, etc. And he said application for consent to The Airport Committee that the steel framed • sever land, namely • passed the motion windows in the lounge Ha mlink regarding the $4,000 for a had all be caulked to stop. Registered Plan 11, reserve account after draughts. Colborne Township. reviewing by-law number The Airport Committee The committee passed 84, 1979, a by-law to then adopted the co - authorize the execution of ordinator's report for the an agreement with Joe month of October. Morrissey for the sale of a 67 foot right-of-way. MANAGER'S By-law number 83, 1979 - MEETING was also reviewed by the' committee. This is a by- law ' to authorize the execution of an agreement with Doug Hunter for the purchase . of Lots 9 and 10, Plan 12 , on the east side of Lake Huron in the Township of Colborne for expansion purposes at the airport; CO-ORDINATOR'S REPORT Airport co-ordinatorEd Scruton reported to the committee that there had been less flying activity at the airport throughout October due to . poor weather most of the month. He went on to say that the grass around the airport had all been cut for the last time and that all the runway lights were marked and operating. He reported that all the snow removal equipment had arrived and the roads and parking lot had been graded. He said that a new catch basin had been • installed at the road W. J. Denomme FLOWER SHOP Phone J524.'8132 DAY OR NIGHT a motion that . this correspondence be tabled until it could obtain legal There 'was a general discussion by the com- mittee on Ken Hunter's . report from the Airport Managers Association meeting held on November 15 in Toronto and also on the— organization of Association meeting agendas grid the lack of communication between the co-ordinators and smaller municipalities. The committee then passed a motion to determine the time of the nett Airport Managers Association meeting and to submit an agenda covering pertinent points that the Goderich Airport Committee would like to have discussed at that meeting. projections, the official plan, and community services available. "It gives some idea whether the municipality is prepared to handle -GUARRNTEED INVESTMENT -1-"CERTIFfeATES----' 3 % % BRUCE ERSKINE 86 North 524-9555 CANIEOaft ir St4ling future growth with regards to housing," explained Cowan. Hc said that if the municipality d:d not want to use the ministry's questionnaire!: and direct technical assistance, it had the option of hiring a consultant with the aid of fundingfrom the ministry. Either way, he said, the assisted housing survey would be the responsibility of the municipality. The advantage to hiring a consultant, he said, would be that the consultant would take a little less time and would do both the statement and the survey. The ministry would only do the statement , leaving the municipality responsible for, the survey. He, also said a consultant probably would not charge more than the grant being offered to the municipality by the ministry for consultants' fees. He said there could be some overlapping bet- ween the statement and other documentls in the possession of • the municipality and that not all municipalities may feel they need the statement. But sooner or later, if applying for financial aid for .an assisted housing program, it would be required. HAC chairman Don Wheeler • •asked if the statement could be done on a tri-municipalitybais since Colborne and Goderich Townships were represented on the committee as well as the town and .were also in- volved .with the senior r7r7 ' 1 -:- GODER ICH SIGNAL,STAR, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1979—PAGE 3A Anstett Jewellers LIMITED citizens' apartments in Goderich. Cowan said that one statement for each municipality was preferred but since the survey was the municipality's respon- sibility, there would be nothing wrong with pooling it. 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