The Brussels Post, 1975-02-05, Page 3e.
A LOVELY DAY FOR A GAME — Brussels Brownies were out this week taking
advantage of the bright sunny winter days to play soccer.. It might look a little
strange to the people in hot Latin American countries where soccer is their national
game but to our Brownies, snow soccer is better than no soccer at all.
(Photo by Pat Langlois)
LCBO, Apartment construction
to begin next week
George Jutzi will look into
existing village by-laws and.
report on any changes needed to
bring them up to date at the
March meeting.
The Belgrave, Blyth and
Brussels School Fair will receive a
$25 donation from the village,' the
same amount as last year.
Requests from • St. John's
Ambulance headquarters and
from the Goderich and District.
Association for the Mentally
Retarded wre filed, with
councillors commenting that any
donations should go to the local
organizations.
Council agreed to purchase a
full page welcome ad in the
Optimist Atom Hockey
Tournament program at a cost of
$35.
Service clubs will be polled
before council acts on a request to
proclaim .June 24 - July 1 as
Canada week.
Smiles
The young girl smiled sweetly
at the long line as she stepped
into the phone booth. "Don't
worry," she said,
,
"I just want to
hang up on h im."
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Blyth
County road.
budget up 23.8%
Construction on both the
LCBO store on Turnbefry Street
and the new 32 unit Senior
Citizens Apartments is scheduled
to start on February 15, Reeve
Jack McCutcheon told council at
their Monday night meeting.
Both buildings were announced
last winter at a special public
meeting.
Council withheld a decision on
a request from , Frank Carter of
the Lawn Bowling Club to
purchase the front portion of the
CNR station from council for $1 so
that it can be m oved to the
bowling greens at the
fairgrounds.
"1 would like to know what they
arc going to do to the exterior to
make it presentable. It will be on
the highway and close to the
fairgrounds and it should be a
credit to the community,"
Councillor Frank Stretton said.
Councillors voted to h ave a
member of the chlb attend the
next meeting and outline their
plans. The Lawn Bowling Club is
awaiting word on a New Horizons
grant which they hope to use to
finance moving the, building and
council felt news of the grant
might also be available by the
March meeting.
The Bowling Club want -only
the front half of the station
because the Agricultural Society
felt that the whole station would
take up too much room on the
fairgrounds.
Council bought the building
from the CNR for $1 with the
understanding that it would be
used on it's leased 'CN site, as a
Senior Citizens Centre. The
Brussels Senior 'Citizens didn't
want the building and council has
to remove it from the railway site.
Herb Stretton appeared at
council on behalf of some senior
citizens and asked if the town bell
could be rung every morning at 8
a.m, He said a ratepayers group
had asked him to attend council
meetings and report back on
"business we do and don't do in
council."
Mr.. Stretton also asked about
the procedure for obtaining
building, permits and Was told
that Gerald Exel, the new
building inspector, would supply
a permit and get it Signed by
three councillors So that
construction Would not be held up
until the next regular council
meeting.
The Ministry of Transportation
and Communications notified
council that their road allocation
for 1975 will be $6,000 for
construction and $22,800 for
maintenance. The province will
pay half these amounts.
The maintenance figure is away
up from last year's allocation of
$14,000 and some councillors felt
a mistake had been made. It was
unlikely that Brussels would
spend the full amount, they said,
because the village wouldn't be
able to afford their $11,400 share
of maintenance.
Councillor Frank Stretton
reported that he had received a
quotation over the phone from
Monteith and Monteith of about
$1,300 to do all the auditing work
for village and PUC about the
same size as Brussels.
A.M.Harper are the present
Village auditors and their bill for
1974 was over $2,000.
Clerk King said that the
present auditor also keeps the
Village journal because he, the
clerk, has neither the time or the
training to do this.. He said that if
office help was hired he could
perhaps take over this job, once
he was shown how to do it.
Councillor Stretton
recommended changing to
Monteith and Monteith for the
1975 audit, but Councillor Hank
Ten Pas, a fellow member of the
finance committee, said "why
change so quickly if we haven't
got any facts?"
Councillors Stretton and Ten
Pas will report back to the
meeting in March with firm prices
from various auditors.
Also at the. March meeting,
council will hear a report from
Councillor Harold Bridge who is
investigating what type of fire
siren the village should buy.
A representative from the
Ministry of the Environment will
be asked to" come to council and
discuss frontage and other
charge's for the proposed sewers
in the village. Council will write to
rtvironment Minister William
Newman requesting the meeting.
Reeve McCutclieon said the 1974
council asked for a similar
Meeting last May but nothing
happened,
COUriCillorS Stretton and
Huron County Council
approved a 1975 roads budget of
$2, 536,000 .a 23.8 per cent over
the 1974 budget. In 1974 the
grand total budget .was
$2,129,000 while actual
expenditures amounted to only.
$2„053,850 which was within
99.7 of the budget..
The increase representing
almost 3.8 mills is the first
increase in the• road levy since
1968 and represents an increase
in local funds of less than 6 per
cent a year. Roads committee
chairman Ralph McNichol stated
that the budget was reasonable
since hot mix paving which
accounts for a large portion of the
budget increased almost 50 per
cent last year. In May of last year
the paving mixture doubled in
price from $30 per ton to -$60.
However this year the Ministry
of - Transportation and
Communicaion allocation of
$1.480,000 is 22.9 per cent more
than the $1,204,000 allotted in
1974. The cost to the County of
the new budget is only 16.4 per
cent more than in 1974 but since
the County no longer has the
reserve fund to draw on because.
it was included in the '74 budget,
local funds will now require an
increase of 38.3 per cent. The
committee did not budget to use
the reserve fund of $138,000
recommending that it be retained
at its present level for future
emergency use. The committee
also cited the back-log of deficient
roads in need of repair as a major
reason for the substantial
increase.
John Tinney,, chairman of the
Huronview committee presented
the 1975 budget which totals
$2,013,000. The County share of
this budget 1111101111ES i0 $171,700
which is 8.5 per cent of the total
which compares to the 1974 cost
of $77,494.71 or 5 per cent.
Some of the major items in the
budget included $25,000 • to
replace dishwashing equipment,
$4,000 for a washer-lallndry
extractor and day rate increases
of $13.24 for residential care and
$23.57 for extended care effective
April I, 1975. The' rates will
increase from the present $9.71
for residential care and the
extended care, which is a floating
figure will rise from its rate of
$17,01.
Also negotiations have been
completed with both. the Service
Employees Union local 210 and
the International Union or
Operating Engineers local 772
and the new contract provides for
a $1.00 per hour increase
effetive January 1, 1975 and an
additional 50 cents per • hou'r
effective July 1, 1975, Mr. Tinney
reiterated that the settlement was
required to bring the employee in
line with wage settlements
approved for hospital, employees-
last year:
Robin Lawrie presented two
budgets for the executive
committee the first of which
totalled $78,800 and included
items such as County Council
sessions, certain committee
meetings and other related
matters such as public relations
and. conventions.
The second budget totalled
$150,700 and included the cost of
operating the Clerk-Treasurer's
department. legal and audit fees
and insurance pertaining to
liability.
The development committee
budget submitted by Warren
Zinn called for the budgeting of
$19,200 to cover the work of the
county weed inspector, $6,900 for
reforestation expenditures and
$40,300 for county development
expenditures such as salaries and
public relations.
The budget of the Land
Division committee called for the
allocation of $46,250 for the
coming year to cover salaries and
other related expenditures of the
planning division.
The Social Services Committe
budget submitted by' chairman.
Ervin Sillery called for an
estimated $461,300. Total
expenditures for 1974 amounted
to $396,887 as compared to the
estimate of $453,250. The County
share of the 1974 expenditures
was $15,265 considerably less
than the expected expenditure.
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THE BRUSSELS POST, FEBRUARY 5, 1975