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Town to advertise for deputy -clerk
The Town of Seaforth will advertise for i
Deputy Clerk to replace Luanne Phair, ...
who finished Friday after five years in the
,town's employ. She takes up the Clerk -
Treasurer's position in the Village of •"
Hensall.
The Deputy Clerk will assist in the •per-
formanee of all statutory duties of the
Clerk-.Treasurer,attend and record
meetings of the council, including the
preparation of minutes, and assist in the
day-to-day operation of, the municipal
office
Completion of or enrolment in the AMC-
• TO MunicipaLAdminstration Course will Councillors
be considered an asset. The job will pay
$18,000 to $25,000 depending on experience.
"An advertisement will appear in The Ex-
positor; The London Free Press and The
Toronto Globe and Mail. The deadline for
applications •is November 27, and' inter-
views will be conducted December 5 by
council's Finance and General Govern-
ment Committee.
CONSIDER COMPENSATION • "
Town Council has . approved a recom-
mendation from • its Finance and General
Government.cominittee that no extra com-
pensation be provided to Tom Lemon this
---years forAtie-extra-work-and•duties-he-has-
assumed .relate.d to Economic
Development.
After review.of Mr. Lemon's annual
report for the term ended August 1987, it
was recommended by. the town ad-
ministrator that some type of eompensa-
tion be given him for the extra work he has
assumed: Committee members felt" Mr.
Lemon's contract should not be
renegotiated and noted no • funds were
budgeted for such an expense in Economic
Development. The matter is being refer-
red to the. Economic' Development portion
of the 1988 budget.
BRIEFS.
SUPPLY TICKETS
Town Council has agreed to. supply each
town employee and each member of coup-
eil with. one ticket to the Business Improve-
ment AssocIation's Christmas Dinner and
Dance.
• The gesture is being made as council's
part in participating in a Christmas party
for and staff. The tickets are
on sale for $12.50 each. •
• JOB EVALUATIONS '
The Town of Seaforth has been advised
that according to legislation, all
municipalities will be required to develop
a pay equity.plan foreach unionized group
and each non -unionized , group in the.
municipality. Municipalities have two
years to complete the plan...•
That plan would have to: identify female
pre -dominated jobs and male pre-
dominated jobs; use, a 'gender -neutral job
evaluation system to compare the female
jobs to male jobs to determine whether..
-_there_is.equity_pf ta1ue;_identify_the wage
gap to be adjusted where there are jobs of
equal value; document the findings, post
the plan and transmit it to the pay equity
commission and make the necessary wage
adjustments:
Town Adminsitrator Jim Crocker` said
he will be attending meetings' on'thePay
Equity Plan, but added he'd like to do the
plan in house, if at all possible. •
"It it proves to• be an insurmountable
thing, then we'll try another look at it;" he
said.
Enquiries of consultants to date set
range of. $1,000 for review of the plan to
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Seaforth
Town Hall
Porch
FRIDAY, NOV. 20
Ribbon Cutting Ceremony - 4:30 p.m.
THANK YOU
To the people listed below, and to everyone involved in any way with the Town Hall Project,
we would like to extend a heartfelt thank you.
General Contractor
JIM HOLLAND CONSTRUC ION
527-0717
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Wood Spindles, Special Woodvrork, Doors
OESCH W'OOi W
Bldg. 101, 3rd Ave., Vanastra
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RKING
482-7657
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JOHN H *MAIN CONSTRUCTION LTD,
98 Main St., Seaforth 527-1253
Carpentry
Slate Roof Installation
DEN CHAPMAN
LARRYSROOFING
Licensed Carpenter 9 527-0228
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Walton (OWNERLARRYPOTOCNIK)
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387-973 8
Building Material
Glass Work
HOFFMEYER'SMILL SEA•I:ORTH LTD.
D D GLASS
112 High St., Seaforth 527-0910
1st Ave., Vanastra
4824869
Paint
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HILDEBRAND PAINT PAPER
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15 Main Si., Seaforth 527-1880
420 Bayfield Rd., Clinton
482-3431
Sod 8 Design Assistance
Designer Architect
Project Supervision
Architect
Jamet` argil __�i
Nick Hill
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St. John, New Brunswick
66 Victoria St, N., Goderit
524-5313
mayor Alf Rase
*Jim Crocker and *toff for their
co-operation and guidance
•Building tnspocfOt Herman Van Matruh
SPECIAL THANKS TO:
•tbw'n of Seaforth Works Diipartment
•Seaforth• PLUG
•Provincial Wrath* of Citizenship
odd C'uiture
*Heritage Can'a'da' and Term Lemon
rSeaforth Heritage Fund
•And- to everyone for their patience
during eonstructian
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$6,000 forfull consulting services.
There was some discussion the AMO
.(Association of Municipal Officers) could
do the plan for around $2,500, but 'that.
figure; was not a solid one, and some coun-
cillors were worried AMO was not, yet pro-
ficient at developing the plans.
"I. don't think they (AMO) are experts
yet, and I'd hate to be their guineau pig,
then have to turn around and do it all over
again if they didn't get it right," said Coun-
cillor Bob Dinsmore.
"I believe it should be left to a profes-
sional to do," said Deputy -Reeve Hazel
Hildebrand.
A decision as to exactly how council will
tackle this legislated requiremenbwill be
reached at a later date. ••
• CLARIFY TITLE
Town Clerk Jim Crocker will meet with
a representative of the Seaforth
Lawnbowling Club to pursue the matter of
obtaining a court order to clarify title to
the club house property.
That after a sub search of the Lawn
Bowling Club indicated the deed may not
have been transferred to the ;Town of
Seaforth in 1891 as the current assessment
roll indicates. The bowling club brought
_the matter_ .to Sheattenti mnf the_ciert.
ADDRESS CONCERNS
The Town of Seaforthhas adopted a
recommendation from its Town Clerk that
the Huron County Planning Department
address each of a number of concerns rais-
ed by Exeter and Goderich and report on
them toall local muncipalities. It was sug-
gested Gary Davidson, Huron County's.
Director of Planning be invited to attend
•the December meeting of council •to pro-
vide further information on the matter of -
delegation of authority:
Jim Crocker said he„had attended a plan-
ning workshop in Goderich put on by the
Huron County Planning Department,
where members of the planning depart-
ment spoke on the benefits of delegation of
approval authority to the County of Huron.
I would agree there are advantages to
delegation, however, I would question if -
those advantages are enough to outweigh
some of the potential disadvantages iden-
tified in the concerns expressed by the.
Towns of Exeter and Goderich,” he
commented.
"In my 11' years as clerk, the Town of
Seaforth has enjoyed an excellent relation-
ship with the Huron' County " Planning
Department, and also in that time we have
experienced no problems with the current
approval process."'
Mr. Crocker did however, note he was
concerned about the "very real possibility
that some decisions^ maybe made for
political reasons and not based on planning ••
principles."
He said he believes enough concerns
have been raised by other municipalities
that the request by the County of Huron
should be delayed until further informa-
tion is provided by the County to the local
municipalities,
EXTENDED DRIVE •
The town's Transpprtation and,Environ-
ment committee is consulting with the
Ministry of Transportation and Com-
munications (MTC), about accepting
dedication of a sub -standard road to'the
new health centre and using the muhicipa1
reconstruction program to gradually bring
the road to full standards.
There was concern there would be, no
main
road.tenance subsidies if the Town ac-
cepted the dedication of a sub -standard
The executive committee of the hospital
board advised the town's Transportation
and Environment Committee the tender to
construct the new health centre had been
awarded to Smith Construction which also
included the northerly extension of Centen-
nial Drive approximately 200 feet. The ex-
ecutive committee requested the town con-
sider accepting the dedication of the road-
way prior to construction and asked them
to construct the roadway themselves. It .
was noted the town's five year projection
for capital road projeets•is for reconstruc-
tion of deteriorated roads leaving the
municipality with no funds for other road
work. The tender specifications were for •
an 18 inch gravel roadbed which did not in-
clude curbs, sidewalks, paving or
drainage, but the town noted no MTC Sub-
sidies were available for the construction
of new roads which would snake a
municipal project twice as costly. The
town was also unsure of maintenance Sub-
sidies if it accepted dedication of a Sub-
standard road.
FIX STREET
The Town of Seaforth is prepared to
share with the Township of Tuckersmith
any maintenance costs for repairs to
George Street South in Eginondviile.
That street was used as a detour route
during the installation of the stortn.drain
in Egmondville. With the increased traffic,
including heavy truck traffic, the road sur- •
• face has deteriorated. A county engineer
has been asked to examine the toad sur-
face and give his opinion on the road
condition.
UNUSED HOLIDAYS
The town has agreed to pay John Forrest
and Doug Anatett for one week of unused
holidays each, with the understanding that
in'the future all holidays must be taken by
employees. To accomodate all holidays it
was suggested Public Works employees
schedule their holidays to start earlier in
the year.
POOR ATTENDANCE
The next recreation conference will not
be held until 1990, a result of poor atten-
dance at this year's event: Only 16 people,
including five from the recreation eonutlit-
tee itself, attended the event
Although members if the town's Recrea- .
tion.Committee said they felt the idea of a
conference was good, there wasn't enough
interest to justify it as an annual t entt0re.'
M a• result the cotntnittee decided to host
its next conference in three years, then re=
evaluate the situation and decide whether
or not to tontinne With the conferane'es,
and how frequently.
OUTDOOR RINK
The Seaforth Recreation Eornmfttee has
approved in principle the idea ofan out=
door skating rink in Victoria Park, but is
having trouble tent/hieing Members of
town council of its feasibility, • ,
Members were concerned about the
sloping grade of the park and the possible
pooling of water on the rink. They were
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