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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1971-01-07, Page 8PAGE EIGHT' REPORT Congratulations are in order for the motorists of the Exeter area. The Christmas -New Year's Holiday was fatality -free. In the period from December 20,1970 to January 2, 1971, Exeter OPP personnel investigated 12 motor vehicle collisions. Five persons were injured. None serious ly. Good driving habits and probabl) a good bit of luck combined to keep tragedy away from our area. It sure would be a tremendous achievement if we could say at the end of 1971 that NOT ONE PER- SON was killed on our area roads. Durin 1970, four highway mis- haps took the lives of six persons. All were under the age of twenty- five. A tragic loss when one cons- Y 0 iders the potential contribution to h IN LIGHTER VEIN society and the heartache for rel- P h budget A county Crown Attorney dis- atives. cussed "wills" with the members Hopefully we will be in a pos- effort ition to indicate shortly the 1970 g of the Women's Institute. He told figures. The loss in property dam- the story of a farmer who fell age alone will no doubt be stag- under his tractor and was critically Bering, y injured. He scratched his will on While we have been dealing in Damage of $2, 000. resulted the side of the tractor with. a nail, part with the past we do have when a car driven by Elizabeth The farmer died and the will was another problem in the present. Ann Merrier, 24, of Zurich, left accepted. That is snow vehicles, g Highway 21 and struck a tree li- lt 2 It seems to be a daily subject d miles north of St. Joseph, on "People don't plan to fail; they at the Exeter Detachment office December 22, 1970. Constable just fail to plan." with upset citizens wanting to Bill Glassford investigated. know what they can do in relation d The remaining mishaps were "A women's home should be to snow machines using their 1' of a minor nature and did riot the centre of her world, riot the property as a playgroung to roar cause injury. circumference." in+� For Action' Huron (ounty Council Discuss 'Guidlines s al or county councillors on a ward basis. (Council recommended that this clause be referred back to the AC- RO Study Committee for clarific- ation.) TERM OF OFFICE 1. The term of office for all local municipalities, counties, regions and school boards be two years. -Council concurred. 2, A uniform election day be held across the province and all elections be held in the same year. -Council concurred. HEAD OF COUNTY OR REGION 1. The head of the county or regional council be elected by secret ballot by the county or regional council and from among its own members. - Council did not concur, 2, The chairman hold office for a two-year term and be elig- ible for re -election. -Council concurred. FISCAL REFORM 1. Fiscal reform proceed sim- ultaneously with the restructuring of local government in Ontario. - Council concurred, 2. Provincial grants be made available to municipalities under- taking re -organization of services. Council concurred. 3. Financial incentives be prov- ided by the province for municip- alities to amalgamate, -Council did not concur. 4. The province share in the cost of hiring consultants by the municipalities to conduct local studies, - Council concurred, prov- ided any grants are made retroact- ive to include counties already undertaking a planning program, 5. A study committee be named by ACRO to prepare a brief on fiscal reform for presentation to the 1971 Annual meeting. -Council. recommended this matter be dis- cussed at the mid-term meeting of the Association, around with no regard for the rights of others. Reports of fences being damag- ' ed; purposely cut to allow entry; buzzing close to houst ; roaring up and down residential streets at all hours - ad infinitum. Once again we ask those who enjoy winter on a snow machine to think before acting. The numb - d of people killed and injured in snow vehicle mishaps is reach- ing alarming figures. You only have to read the news- paper al�d tune into a news report to find out. Disregard of the regulations covering the operation of these machines coukd have rather dist- asteful results 'tor some. We solicit our earnest co-oper- ation. Enjoy the beauty oft e outdoors, but at it same time respect your neighbour's property. Let's join in alt allout a ort to make 1971 a Safe Year for All. ACCIDENTS A rather quiet Christmas was experienced by mei'ihbers of Exeter Detachment. No major crime oc- currences were reported over Christmas. On the highways, Christmas Da) and Boxing Day were accident - free, however seven collisions, resulting in five injuries and dam- age of $11, 250 were investigated, A two car collision onChrist- mas Eve morning at County Roads ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS 4 and 2 resulted in three persons receiving injuries and $5400. property damage. Vehicles driven by Glenn Miller, 19, of R, R.1, Dashwood and Joseph Yelle, 65, of Parkhill, collided shortly before noon. Constable Bill Glassford investigated. At 8.25 p.m. Christmas Eve, a five car pileup occurred on Goshen St., Zurich when a veh- icle operated by Richard Thiel, 22, of Zurich skidded on the snow covered road and banged into four parked cars causing $2100. damage. Owners of the parked vehicles, were identifies as, Anthony Ducharme, 19, R.R.1, Dashwood, David Bedard, 24, London, Leo Bedard, 23, of Hen- sall, and Michael Bedard, 22 of London. Constable Ed Wilcox investigated. Robert Morrissey, of Crediton sustained minor injuries early December 24 when he was thrown from his snow machine into the path of asnow vehicle operated by Ed Watson, of Exeter. The mishap occurred at the Mount Carmel Road and the 10th Con- cession of Stephen Township, Morrisseywas treated for bruises at St, Joseph's Hospital, London. Constable Bill Glassford investig- ated, Provincial Constable Bob Whiteford was called to the scene of a single car roll-over on Count Road No. 31, just south of Hillsgreen on December 23, at 5,10 p.m. Danny Johnston 18, of Bayfield, driver of the car and his passenger, James Barry, 21, of R. R.1, Zurich, were ex- amined at the South Huron Hosp- ital for sore backs and necks after their vehicle left the slip- pery road and overturned. Dam- age was estimated at $1, 000. THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1971 Huron Board of Education To Meet Library Board Regarding Fees A three-member committee of Huron County Board of Educ- ation will arrange to meet with the Huron County Library Com- mittee to discuss Huron County Council's recent proposal to charge $1 per student in the coun- ty for the use of Huron County Library books in Huron County Schools. Mrs. Marilyn Kunder, Mrs. Marion Zinn and John Taylor were appointed to discover the county's thinking behind the proposal and to bring back a recommendation to the school board regarding it. The board learned Monday evening that the majority of school librarians are not "favour- ably disposed" to the proposal which will cost $8, 779 and re- sult in no gain in capital invent- ory for the schools. "It is simply a matter of rent- ing versus purchasing, " said James Coulter, superintendent of education, when questioned bythe board. Coulter said that ifthe u get for 1971 was similar to last year's budget, $7 per student would be allotted for buying books. He said the teachers preferred to buy $7 worth of books rather than $6 worth and using the re- maining $1 to rent books which would not remain in the school libraries. In recent years, added Coult- er, the Huron County library books have been available with- out charge to the schools. He stated that it was his understand- ing that the county librarian, Miss Ethel Dewar, found that with the majority of children's books going to the schools there was a rather poor selection left for the public libraries. Mr. Coulter felt the county librarian hoped to offset this problem by charging a fee of $1 per school student under the jurisdiction of the Huron County Board of Ed- ucation in order to build up an adequate library of good child- ren's books which would fill the needs in the county. (continued from page 1) ent, local representatives be en- couraged to implement reform through adoption of a sound plan- ning program; involvement in the development of their area'; consolidation of municipalities. - Council concurred. 4. The second tier of govern- ment for rural Ontario be the ex- isting county rejuvenated by per- missive legislation to extend its services; fiscal reforms; internal boundary changes; equitable rep- resentation. - Council concurred. TWO- TIER SYSTEM 1. The basic system of local government in Ontario (excluding the districts) be a two-tier one with the county or region as the second tier and the city, borough, town, township and village as the first tier. - Council concurred. 2. Provision be made for ex- ceptions to the basic system so that where a case can be made for the formation of a one -tier system or for a city to remain as a separ- ated unity, that legislation be provided to allow for these excep- tions, - Council concurred. 3. Police village be abolished and for administrative purposed they become a part of the munic- ipality in which they are located, -Council concurred. ASSETS AND LIABILITIES 1. The rights and claims arising through the amalgamation of municipalities or the inclusion of cities and separated towns with counties in regional government be determined by negotiation. - Council concurred. 2. Where such negotations fail, that the distribution of assets and liabilities be determined by a board of arbitration, -Council con- curred. on- curred. ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL 1. Present qualified municipal personnel who might be displaced by the re -structuring of local government be offered employ- ment under the new government for a limited period of time. - concurred. Council concurred with the addit- 2. Some areas require a minim - ion of the words 'not to exceed um dislocation of boundaries, on year.' both for the counties and their 2. They receive no lesser sal- member municipalities, while the ary or other benefits. - Council re -organization of boundaries in would delete this recommendation' other areas is most vital. - Counc- and replace it with the following; it concurred. Employees be retained on staff 3. Local government re-struct- depending on job opportunity and wring involves an honest and thor- qualifications. ough appraisal of existing bound - 3. Where normal attrition, prov• aries by local representatives and ision of additional services or re- where they are no longer relevant alignment of responsibilities does by altered in accordance with the not handle surplus staff, a pre- finding of such studies. - Council mature retirement policy be cons- concurred. idered. - Council concurred. 4. The ultimate goal be the UNIQUE SITUATIONS retention of community identity 1. We concur with the policy of and historic significance while introducing special legislation for achieving a unit of government each specific area in which region scaled to meet current and future al government has been establish- needs, - Council concurred. ed, - Council concurred. FUNCTIONS NAMES 1. The functions of county and 1. Where major re -organization regional government be those of local government occurs the which are best performed on an name of the second tier be region area basis and will vary from and where it does not, the name county to county and region to of county be retained. The names region. -Council concurred. of member municipalities be city, 2, The functions of the county town, township, village and bor- or region encompass all the pow- ough. - Council concurred. ers of the present county and may 2. In the formation of a new include many of the responsibil- region, the names have some hist- ities presently assigned to the oric or geographic significance to local municipalities.- Council the area and not be a combination recommended this clause be del - of the names of existing municip- eted, alities. - Council concurred. 3. No function be transferred 3. The name of the head of all to the county or region that can local municipalities be mayor be performed better at the local and where requred, deputy -mayor. level. -Council concurred. -Council concurred, 4. The lower tier of govern - 4. The names of addiiinal meet not be deprived of functions representatives to county or reg- to make its role meaningless. - ional council be county and reg- Council concurred, ional councillors, -Council con- 5. All legislation relating to curred, the re -allocation of responsibilit- 5. The name of the head of the les be permissive to allow each county and regional council be county to determine its own pat - chairman. -Council concurred. tern of local government by maj- BOUNDARIES ority vote of county council. - 1. Consolidation of municipalit- Council concurred, les deserves study and implement- 6. Wherever possible, the resp- ation apart from the introduction onsibilities now carried by spec - of regional government. -Council ial purpose bodies be assumed by councils through committees thereof. - Council concurred, 7. The provision of some serv- ices, such as sewage disposal and water, could be by the Ont- ario Water Resources Commission with the municipality purchasing the services it requires. -Council concurred. REPRESENTATION 1, Assessed population be the basis for representation to county and regional councils in Ontario. 2. No uniform formula for rep- resentation be adopted across the province, but reach county have its own scale of representation established by the Minister of Municipal Affairs in consultation with the county. 3. The current policy be contin- ued of establishing the scale of representation under legislation forming a new region. 4, The ultimate goal be for representation by population, but where this cannot be achieved without one municipality having a majority of voting power on the county or regional council that legislation provide for some comp- romise arrangement to be made. (Huron County Council ferred these recommendations back to the Special Stttdy Committee of ACRO requesting clarification ors the meaning of 'assessed populat- ion, ° and further that the Special Study Committee be requested to make specific recommendations. INDIRECT ELECTION 1. Representatives to county or regional council be the heads of the member municipalities and those additional members required to meet the representation needs of each municipality. 2. County and regional counc- illors run at large in their local municipality and hold office on the local council as well as the county or regional council, 3. Permissive legislation be introduced which would enable a. municipality to elect its region-