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County Council reports from jam 19, 20
disturbance had to be placed in
Outside treatment centres,"
explained Heath.
Heath said the local CAS was
experiencing some difficulty in
finding foster homes for
adolescent boyS. He said it is
anticipated that basic foster
home payments will have to be
raised to "a more equitable
level" — $2.25 per day for
children up to 12 years and
$2.75 per day for those 13 years
and over, in two installments by
July, 1971.
BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER
A frank and thoughtful report
was presented to Huron. County
Council Tuesday by Bruce P.
Heath, Local Director of the
Huron County Children's. Aid
Society.
Heath's topic was the
Urwick-Currie Study of the
Managerial Effectiveness of
Children's Aid Societies in
Ontario.
"Hopefully, 1971 will see hie
beginning of a cleaner definition
of the scope of services, the
establishment of performance
standards, the improvement of
communication between the
Department of Family and
Social Services and Children°s
Aid Societies and the
co-ordination of matters
common to all societies,"
reported Heath.
"Hopefully, however,"
continued Heath, "the recent
'creation of the Minister's
Advisory Board on Child Welfare
will not represent a token
interim move to be followed by
direct provincial control, What
might be at stake here is the
whole field of Child Welfare in
Ontario, in a costly centralized
government bureaucracy — with
a cure worse than the original
illness."
Heath referred to a verse in
Exodus which reads: "And they
judged the people at all seasons:
the hard cases they brought unto
Moses, but every small matter
they judged themselves."
"It is my submission that by
taking the hard cases, the
complex cases, the ones for
whom the local community can
not provide a solution out of
Huron County for assistance,"
said Heath, "it need not follow
that Moses must necessarily
reside in Toronto, and that he
must now control the decision
making on all cases."
Heath outlined some of the
problems facing the local
society, explaining that the 1970
budget had called for $133,000
to be spent on direct costs of
services for children in care. Of
the 208 children in care during
the year, seven children
accounted for approximately
$50,000 of child care costs.
"These were seven of our
children, who by reason of the
degree of their emotional
the meaning of the Child Welfare
Act."
Heath indicated It was
difficult at times to distinguish
between child welfare and
prevention assistance problems
and general welfare assistance
problems.
"One might suggest that there
is ample reason to consider
dovetailing General Welfare
Assistance with Children's Aid
Societies, or possibly considering
a joint administration of same,"
concluded Heath.
Statistics presented by Heath
showed that the largest number
' of children taken into careby
the CAS are 13 years old and
over. They also showed that
them was one less unmarried
mother assisted by CAS in
Huron in 1970 than in 1969. At
the same time, more unwed
mothers appear to be keeping
their own babies,
"We shall have to take a much
closer look at those children we
are admitting to care from their
own homes and for whom
Adoption planning is not
imminent," said Heath. "Since
1966 we have seen an increase of
over one hundred percent in
admissions to care, to 1970,
Despite our obligation to act,
and remove many children from
their homes, I am hard pressed
to feel that all admissions are
necessary and particularly within
There are 90 active foster
homes in Huron, the report
showed.
Cummings. optomistic about Base
( from Ottawa that the property was not for
sale.
Since that time, Cummings reported, the
Department of National Defence has given a
letter of intent to Crown Assets Disposal
Corporation, that the base will be turned
over to them for dispersal on September 1,
1971.
"Many, many meetings have been held
and many, many hours spent in trying to
convince organizations that they should
establish an enterprise at Canadian Forces
Base, Clinton," Cummings said.
Cummings said the Huron delegation
which went to Ottawa earlier this month was
assured the base would be maintained until
another use can be made of the facilities.
The Minister of National Defence, Hon.
Donald S. Macdonald, had stated, said
Cummings, that he would, look into and
escalate if possible, the federal government
decision on the future use of the base by
federal government departments.
At least one party was interested in
obtaining the whole base for development as
an industrial complex, Cummings told
council, but the committee had been advised
"At this moment I am very optimistic
that we will eventually have an even bigger
facility at Canadian Forces Base, Clinton,
than we have had in the past," R. S.
Cummings, Huron County Development
Committee co-ordinator told Huron County
councillors Wednesday in Goderich.
"During the immediate future it is our
intention to continue with our contacts in
the federal and provincial governments, to
ensure/that before the close out of the base
in September a new occupant is found,"
stated Cummings.
The storm left picture-postcard scenes in all corners of town. This house on Albert Street showed
one example of the magic wrought by the storm.
in road costs No rise predicted
at this time and it will just take a little
longer to get all the work we would like to
do done."
Britnell outlined the financial summary
for the 1970 program showing that total
road construction cost $314,512.39; bridges
and culverts, $269,040.90; road
maintenance, $521,134.48; bridges and
.eulverts maintenance, $6,084.53.
The total presented for subsidy was
$1,481,537.89. Items not for subsidy
totalled $53,438.85. Surplus of county
funds for 1970 amounted to $16,523.77.
the mill rate would not rise this year in
Huron.
"Despite rising costs,most residents of the
county will be required to contribute the
same or less to our 1971 budget than they
did to our 1970 budget, because of fiscal
restraints both voluntary and imposed by
Department of Highways of Ontario policy,"
said Britnell.
"The hold the line type of budget of
course means that we can't rebuild all the
deficient roads as soon as you and we would
like to," continued Britnell. "We feel,
however, that it is wise to hold the tax rate
Although the Huron County Road
committee was unable to have its 1971
budget and program ready /for the January
session of Huron County Council, Jim
Britnell, Huron County engineer, predicted
Union contract
at Huron view
Huron County Council Wednesday
ratified the union contract which covers the
majority of employees at Huronview.
About 90 persons working at the county
home for the aged will receive an average
increase of 18,5 percent over two years,
from January 1, 1971 to December 31,
1972.
Council learned that the increase was not
as large as it would appear. Salaries had to be
adjusted to take into consideration the
government's new minimum wage act as well
as regular wage increases.
Clerk John Berry said the contract effects
a widely diversified group of employees and
he could not elaborate• on the salaries paid to
groups of individuals working in certain
capacities at Huronview.
The clearer weather on Friday gave residents a chance to dig out and rush to food stores to stock
up in case another storm moved in. The result was one of the busiest clays on main street in some
time.
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