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Seaforth authorizes gas AUTHORIZE AGREEMENT Seaforth Town Council gave first and se- cond readings to a .by-law last week authorizing a franchise agreement bet- ween itself and Union Gas Limited. The agreement must now be approved by the Ontario Energy Board before it can be given third reading and finally passed by council. The present agreement was passed in 1958 and recently expired. The new agree- ment will expire in July 1999. Basically it grants Union Gas the right to supply gas in the municipality and to use local road allowances in that distribution. However this new agreement also requires the Town of Seaforth pay 35 per cent of labor, equip- ment and material costs for relocations of Union Gas Utilities required for municipal works. This cost sharing will apply only to gas lines installed after January 1, 1981. ATTEND CONFERENCE Seaforth Town Clerk Jim Crocker and +eputy-Olerk Michelle Huard have been given authorization to attend the Municipal Finance Conference in London September 28 to 30. SEWER EASEMENT Seaforth Town Council approved in prin- cipal the payment of '$2, a t1 to the Huron - Perth Roman Catholic Separate School Board for a sanitary sewer easement. The easement will permit the installa- tion of a sewer service for residences on the south side of Goderich Street East. EQUITY PLAN Town Clerk Jima Crocker has been given authorization to proceed with the Associa- tion of Municipal Offices' (AMO) Pay Equity Plan Program, since the AMO has offered to discount by 10 per cent its rate for doing the Pay Equity Program for Seaforth. It plans to do it through the Coun- ty of Huron. It is estimated the total cost of the pro- gram, with discount, would be $2,160 if the Police Force is included, or $1,980 if the Police Force is not included. NO REBATE Based on the fact political contributions have not played a major role in Seaforth municipal elections, the Town will not pass a Property Tax/Rebate Program by-law. Legislation allows municipalities to establish a tax credit/rebate program which in turn lets individnals, corporations or trade unions who made contributions tb candidates registered under Part III of Bill 106 during the campaign period of an election, receive a tax credit of: a) 75 per cent of $100 or less; b) $75 plus 50 per cent of any amount oer $100; or, c) the lesser of i) $225 plus 331/2 of the amount by which the total amount .contributed all candidates exceeds $400, and ii) $350. COST ESTIMATE The Town of Seaforth will ask B.M. Ross and Associates for a cost estimate of an engineering study on the third floor of the Town Hall, and a 'ballpark' estimate of tbd costs to bring the facility up to minimum standards. That action came following a recent re- quest from the Seaforth Harmony Kings for use of the third floor for practices. The Town's Finance and General Government committee noted there was no heat, hydro or plumbing facilties on the third floor and voiced some concern about safety. SIGN AGREEMENT Seaforth Mayor Alf Ross and Clerk Jim Crocker will sign an acknowledgement of the encroachment onto the municipal road, allowance by the steps of a property at 30 Ord Street. The property *as recently pur- chased by Mark and Cheryl Steffler. The acknowledgement will also note that continuance of the encroachment is and will be permitted and those premises will not be disturbed. The front steps of the BRIEFS agreement house encroach on the munciipal road allowance by .8 metres or 2.6 feet. AMENDED AGREEMENT The Town of Seaforth will request the Steering Committee for the Huron County Police Communications System to forward an amended communications system agreement for approval in principal by each party. The town discovered recently it should not have passed the by-law in. May authorizing the Communication System Agreement, until all parties had stated their acceptance of the amended agreement. After the amended agreement has been circulated Seaforth recommends each par- ty be asked to advise the steering commit- tee of their acceptance, and, subject to full acceptance, authorizing by-laws be passed and executed. UNSIIGNED COMPLAINT Although Seaforth's Protection to Per- sons and Property Committee was sym- pathic to concerns voiced about the hearse being driven around town with excessive radio volume, it reported its hands were tied. The committee noted the vehicle's owner has already been charged once with unreasonable noise, but said no other laws are being broken. The committee added that neither it nor the police have any con- trol over actions that are only - in poor taste. ADDITIONAL COST Town Council agreed to pay the $534.70 total for the purchase and installation of an alarm system in the Seaforth Police Sta- tion. Radio Shack presented a bill in the amount of 495.10, plus tax of $39.60, which pushed the final amount over the original $500 figure originally allocated for this job. CHIEF'S CONFERENCE Seaforth's Chief of Police Hal Claus at- tended the Chiefs' Conference in Burl- ington in June and noted one of the major concerns of the smaller communities was the possibility of OPP takeovers. He said the Solicitor General set some concerns aside by promising she was prepared to set up a committee, consisting of two Chiefs of Police and a member of the Ontario Police Commission, to ar- bitrate the final disposition of all the members of those forces - including Chiefs of Police, eliminated due to takeovers. MONTHLY OCCURRENCES For the month of June 97 occurrences were recorded in the Town of Seaforth. Among them were; the issuance of seven parking tickets, investigation of six ac- cidents, serving of one summons and eight subpoenas and execution of four warrants. ANOTHER SPILL The Town of Seaforth will hold a meeting with the manager of the Seaforth Creamery to discuss the excess oil buildup in the wet well and at the lagoons. AMEND PROGRAM The town will amend its 1988 sidewalk program. The sidewalk for the east side of Church Street between James and Centre Street will be deleted from the program, and the block of sidewalk on Huron Street between Jarvis and High Street inserted in its place. That decision was made on the recom- mendation of council's Transportation and Environment committee. Public Works Superintendent John Forrest noted the Huron Street sidewalk could be done along with the road reconstruction work already underway on that street, to completely finish off that street. QUf3TES ACCEPTED Public Works Superintendent John For- rest has been given authorization to pro- ceed with construction of the Public Works shed using the following quotations: Festival City Concrete Floors (cement floor and floor drain) - $14,000; Flanagan Carpentry (framing building and install- ing all exterior coverings)- $11,375; Casey Van Bakel (supply and install complete electrical system)- $7,20$.89; McGrath Plumbing and Heating (supply and install complete plumbing and heating system) - $11,300 and Hoffineyer's Mill (building materials for a pole structure building) - $55,140.28. ADOPT PROCEDURE Seaforth Town Council has agreed to a method of procedure set down by the Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority by which the Townships of McKillop and Hullett and the Town of Seaforth itself, will appoint a joint representative to the authority. The procedure includes the appointment every December, by each municipality, of two members to sit on the ABCA Representative Committee for the follow- ing year; a meeting of that committee prior to January 15 to chose a represen- tative to the ABCA for that fiscal year; and the entering into of an agreement and the passing of bylaws at February council meetings, to officially appoint the representative to the Authority. The representative will recognize the in- terests of all three councils he/she represents. JUNE PAY Members of Seaforth Town Council received a total of $1,835 for attendance at meetings in the month off June. Councillor Garry Osborn received $345 for attendance at one council meeting and six committee meetings. Mayor Alf Ross received $245 for one council meeting and three committee meetings. Reeve Bill Bennett and Councillors Peg Campbell, Bob Dinsmore andi, Harry Hak, each received $210 for one council meeting and three committee meetings. Councillor Carolanne Doig received $165 for one coun- cil and two committee meetings. Coun- cillor Bill McLaughlin and Deputy -Reeve Hazel Hildebrand each received $120 for one council meeting and one committee meeting. ENDORSE RESOLUTION Seaforth Town Council has endorsed a resolution tabled in the legislature two years ago. It came from the Advisory Committee on Municipal Elections to the Minister of Municipal Affairs and states that no changes in the method of election or in the composition of municipal councils or school boards be permiteed after January 15 of an election year. Despite that resolution, the legislature has proceeded to make a number of altera- tions to the enumeration process, the make-up of school boards and municipal councils, boundary changes, creating new levels of local government, and set elec- tion expenses. It has been noted that the cumulateive effect of several changes oc- curring during an election year could con- fuse and make an orderly transition awkward. The resolution, it was felt, would require the government to organize its legislative agenda better and to give proper notice so other levels of government could imple- ment such changes in an efficient and orderly manner. "There's a lot of pressure in an election years as it is," said Seaforth Clerk Jim Crocker. "And to have changes in the Act in the last three or four months before the elec- tion is not very practical. I recommend we support it (the resolution)." County seat may move to Huronview BY BILL HENRY Overcrowding at the Huron County Court House in Goderich could be forcing the county seat to Clinton's Huronview site. County council will decide whether to authorize its executive committee to study the feasibility of moving the county offices to Huronview. The discussion comes at the same time as another committee is recommending a new seniors care facility be built on the 110 -acre property in Clinton. It also comes just days after a public in- spections panel criticized overcrowding in the court house building, calling for a third party consulting firm to plan for its renovation and reorganization. That report, read in open court in Goderich recently, was prepared by a six - member public inspections panel. Similar panels are appointed twice each year to comment on some of the 160 provincial in- stitutions in the country. "We're aware of the (overcrowding) problems, and we have some problems of our own," said Bill Hanly, clerk ad- ministrator for Huron County. Mr. Hanley said both the county offices and the court and office space leased in the building to the Attorney General's ministry have been at premium for some time. There has long been discussion at the county level of reorganizing the office space and moving the county seat to Clinton. But the executive committee recommen- dation reached two weeks ago, and the decision by county council, will mark the first formal consideration of the proposal by the entire council. Alsb two weeks ago, the Huron County Health Board agreed it would like to move out of Goderich and into Clinton. That recommendation, and the accompanying renovation costs, will be considered later this month by the county's agriculture and property committee. At previous health board meetings, of- ficials have said without added space, ex- panded health programs would be impossible. Mr. Hanley said the several reports all tie in. The 100 -page document recently, prepared by Seniors Care Facility Com- mittee recommends newer, more modern seniors housing. That would leave some or all of the existing Huronview facility available for renovation as county ad- ministration offices. 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