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Donation
At this year's Brussels Optimist Club's spring dinner and
dance, members of the Majestic Women's Institute
presented a donation of $300 to the newly -formed Tanner
Steffler Foundation. Members Leona Armstrong, left, and
Marie McCutcheon, right, presented Foundation founder
and father of the late Tanner Steffler, John Steffler, with the
cheque at the event. (Hannah Dickie photo)
Concern persists with daycare
By Shawn Loughlin
The Citizen
Several Huron East councillors are
growing impatient with the
Tuckersmith Day Nursery in
Vanastra due to mounting debt and
the lack of cost recovery.
Councillor Bob Fisher raised the
issue at council's March 20 meeting
saying that it was something that
needed to be investigated further.
Fisher said he wanted council to
consider its options regarding
turning the daycare into a private or
co-operative enterprise at a future
meeting. He said he felt it had
reached a point where council didn't
need to be in the daycare business
any longer.
Mayor Bernie MacLellan agreed,
saying this has been an issue that has
been before council for years. At one
time, he said, council had pledged to
consider the daycare's options when
its debt surpassed the amount of rent
it pays. That time has come, he said,
and now the daycare has incurred
$80,000 in debt, compared to the
$34,000 it pays in rent.
Councillor David Blaney felt the
issue had been in front of council
and voted down enough that it was
time to drop the issue, especially
with a municipal election this fall.
The exact amount of debt being
incurred by the centre was also a
source of contention among
councillors, with some arguing that,
similar to a community centre which
is regarded as a community service,
the daycare shouldn't be paying rent
to begin with.
Councillor Ray Chartrand said that
the $34,000 paid in rent by the centre
should be subtracted from its debt
level. Then, at just over $40,000 in
debt, it should be compared to area
community centres. With council
ready to pump hundreds of
thousands of dollars into the
centres, which council sees as a
community service, he said he
didn't understand how the daycare
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Chartrand said that council doesn't
"bat an eye" when contributing over
$500,000 in special levies and
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Fisher said he was disappointed in
council, but if the political will
wasn't there to make a change with
the daycare, he would drop the
subject.
"I think it's been dragged around
enough. There doesn't seem to be
the desire to save that amount of
money," he said.
Councillor John Lowe agreed with
Fisher and said council needed to
investigate the daycare further as
well.
MacLellan directed staff to
prepare a report on council's options
regarding the daycare and private
and co-operative management
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