The Bayfield Post, 1981-10-22, Page 2Page 2
BAYFIELD Council
Bayfield Council got back to business Monday
night after a break for vacations. Perhaps
that is why the meeting appeared to this ob-
server as heavy, long and tedious. Council
seemed to be trying too hard.
It should be illegal for council meetings to
last longer than 2 hours.- Village business
would have to be streamlined' and resident
.interest would be greatly increased.
Both Huron County School Boards want their
school taxes ^.t the end of March and early
April. Council thought this might necessi-
tate the billing for taxes 4 times a vear
instead of two.
Council's application for a Yinta.rio Grant to
renovate the Community Centre will be decided
upon in November by Provincial Officials.
Council asked for 38, 200. Pat Graham saidhe
expects the O.K. for .2,700. How he arrived
at the latter -figure was not pursued or
questioned.
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A number of nuts and bolts items were discussed
from Mr. R. Simons water and drainage problems
to requests for sentencing a numberof trees to
the axe. Items were given proper referrals.
The meeting suddenly came alive when representa-
tives of the ball players who organized Mclson's,
Good Time Weekend Softball Tournament addressed
Council. Mr. Bill Talbot, head of the Village
Recreation Committee was also on hand.
In a letter of intent the ballplayers organized
the tournament to raise funds to bu'y and install
baseball floodlights for the Village ball diamond.
What appeared to be a rather simple, straight-
forward attempt to improve sports'facilities
in the Village got tangled up in all kinds of
Council red tape and personality conflicts.
The ballplayers were told that they didn't go
about things properly. They should have gotten
approval for the tournament and its r..urpose from
Council through its Recreation Committee. The
ballplayers responded by saying that they did
approach the Village Recreation Committee
headed by Mr. Talbot with their letter of
intent and received the approval of v1r. Talbot
to go ahead.
Reeve Fellows and Mr. Johnston then proceeded
to say that although Mr.Talbot was the offi-
cial head of Council's official committee, his
actions and decisions were his own and Council
would take no responsibility for them whatso-
ever.
The result was Mr. Talbot was left without
".legs" and departed the Council Meeting
"on stumps".
Mr. Talbot's resignation is probably forth-
coming.
Reeve Fellows seemed to sum up this most
revealing part of the meeting and the
debate by saying that although the ball-
players tournament organizers were an
outlaw group, • playing on Horticultural
Society property, for an unauthorized purpose,
if they would only turn over the money made
during the Tournament to the Village treasury
all would be fine.
To say this was a conflict between the ball-
players and Council is not completely accu-
rate. It was a conflict between the ball-
players and two members of Council., Council-
man Johnston and Reeve Fellows. The other
three said nothing.
The :eeti.ng continued with various reports
long after the hour only Council members are
up.
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dace on November 14th
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The Bride's father will
perform the marriage