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ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
Road engineer foresees trouble
Jim Britnell, Huron County
engineer, holds out gloomy
prospects where costs are con-
cerned for all road departments
throughout the county. He has
warned all municipalities to
"look for trouble" in many area.
of the program to provide roads
for citizens.
"Your committee is experierlc
ing considerable difficulty in
securing delivery on many item;
which we use daily in our
maintenance and construction
operations," Joe Dietrich,
chairman of the Huron County
Road Committee noted in his
report. "It is becoming increas-
ingly difficult to call tenders
or quotations on many items of
machinery, equipment and sup-
plies since most bidders are
now qualifying their bids and
making thein subject to price
adjustment at the time of del-
ivery which could be from six
to 12 months away."
"While not coming right out
and saying it, some suppliers
are indicating that if you
don't want to buy on our terms,
there are dozens of others who
do and we really don't need
your business so badly that we
need to take a risk, " the report
said.
The County Engineer is in
theprocess of securing more
inforamtion on this problem
from other municipalities and
from the province to see if there
isn't some solution.
"If we cannot find a solution
to this problem it will virtually
destroy the low bid tendering
system for many items we
must purchase, " says Jim Brit-
nell.
To be more specific concern-
ing the kinds of increases the
county is facing, Mr. Britnell
spoke of the road signs used
throughout Huron.
He said there had been a 39
percent increase in the cot of
the raw materials to produce
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the signs in the county's Wrox-
eter office. This increase, Mr.
Britnell advised, is due to the
increase in the cost of plastics
and aluminum which are used
in the production of the reflec-
tive materials of which the
signs are made.
He pointed out there is only
one company the 3M Company
which produces these vital raw
materials.
"Like Bell Telephone, "
Mr. Britnell observed, "you
either use it or do without it."
A stop sign now costs the
county about $25 to make up
and install on a post in the
ground.
"Eight or ten of these are
lost every weekend, " Mr.
Britnell complained. He
charged that motorists deliber-
ately knock thein down and
mutilate them for the sheer
joy of being destructive. He
told council of one stop sign
at Carlow at a dangerous int-
ersection which had been
maliciously knicked over rec-
ently. This particular sign was
set into a heavy base to dis-
courage vandals. The OPP off-
icer who discovered the sign
missing was not able to right it
and three Hien from the county
road department had to be disp-
atched at night to reinstate the
sign for the safety of unsuspect -
ing motorists.
Jack McCutcheon, reeve of
Brussels, suggested that if the
signs were installed on steel
posts, rather than wooden ones,
they might be "more stubborn"
to push over with a car.
Mr. Britnell did tell council
he could probably erect the
signs on construction steel so
that they could not be destroy-
ed, but he added that some
motorist who struck the sign
then by accident would probab-
ly end up dead.
THURSDAY,
The county engineer warned
reeves and deputy -reeves that
contracts this winter for snow-
plowing would probably be sub-
stantially higher than they were
last year. He said that the price
of fuel has gone up along with
the cost of trucks and the wages
of those who operate them.
SEPTEMBER 26, 1974
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