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Amber* dike. The townsiip has offered Some rouniCipahilee, inele4ing
the office, computers and other equip- Township, have repeatedly
meat for county planning staff use, free that planning sues being
of charge* for two yore. the county are u much ,as four year
The arrangement raised questions from behind ,schedule.
Saugeeen. Reeve Harry Thede, who said
the growing number of planning satellite NEW ARCHIVES IN WORKS
offices ;gives the .impreedon the county is . A substantial private donation means after
handingplanning control.hack to,. the the Bruce County Museum in Southamp- opened
s debate
titbit opened at the museum January 13.
coma,/ RESTRUCIVRING
&We CMOS' council got another taste
last Tue.day, Jan. 111, of the kind of
debate that county restnicturing will
Jack Riley, planning chairnman, said
the reality is "'just the opposite". with
Annabel moving to join county. services,
after yore of operating on its own.
"It's 'a beautiful office. We'll .need the
space .frau time to time," Riley said,ad-
ding there's no intention to make the
Annabel office a pmtone for the
planning department, It's expected. the
Port or Wigton: offices will serve
the of planning work from the.
Amabel area. . . .
While most ceuractd members agreed.
Amabel should join the county system
Brad Davis of Tober`mory said the. coun-
ty should hire enough staff to handle the
entire backlog of planning •commitilnents
in the .minty, not: just the extra work
from Amabel.
"It's time to look at the whole county
and its needs," Davis said. "We shouldn't
go all outto' help Amabel when other
municipalities have been waiting."
is a step cloesc to havirhg a new ar-
chives t
Bruce Krug of Cheeky donated IMAGO
to a' new archives building for the
museum. Existing archiveu are over-
crowded and part of the reason the
museum is now' doing a feasibility study
for future expansion.
Ross Fowler of Southampton, museum
chairman, toil county councillors at their
January 16 meeting thatis due in
March. I eap
Details of menden met and
design will be worked out after that date.
"1 can't see expansion for two or three
years," Fowler said, adding the county.
will put money in a reserve fund for the
project in the meantime.
The $50,000 Krug donation and $15,000
a year of county money will go into that
fund. It's the aecond major doaatdo.: ,,-sem
the Krug family to the museum • in as
many years. In . May 1988 Howard and
Bruce Krug donated a .large collection of
historic, locally -made furniture. That ex -
turning county government and the cowh-
ty eomrnittee's update on the .process,
delivered to, the rrndnsister the previous
week.
The province is palling for county cot -
col with maximum of 20 members
municipalities with about
4, , population. Bruce council now has
31 members each representing a
township, village or town with poptiliw
ranging from a few hurAred to, more
than 6,000.
VMage reeves, led by Lorne Fitzsim-
mons of Tiverton, are opposed to : what
they see as loos of identity if restructur-
ing includes amalgamation. •
Others, like Reeve Ron. Andrews of
Bruce Town hip say the province's
message of "rcucture or it willbe
done for you" is like putting, a gun to
council's head.
Council members alto wanted to know
what would happen if it turned down any
recommendations made by the restruc,
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Milt McIver, chairman, of Ldndsa�y
owansbip mid the public and council will
have input on the reatructising scenarios
his committee developii They could
dude changes to lea
forveservices like waste management.
McIver said the province has made it
clear that change will come to the
centErrold county system of government.
"Something will be done," he said.
"It's better to look at it ourselves rather
• than have someone do it for you."
Pressed on, the issue of whether coun-
cil members could vote down the com-
mittee's report, . Mover said, "If you
want to shelve it, go ahead." But he
rid council that Bruce volunteered
to look at restructuring before the pro-
vince made it a policy.
The rise committee's final
report is expected in Wm. ber, after it
has gone throughtion research,
and apapprovals b. y the minister and local
councils. It will need a two thirds vote of
county council to be passed,
`CAPITAL FORECAST APPROVED
A month after it was first presented, a
$5.2 million, five-year capital forecast for
Bruce County easily passed a vote by
council, on January Ifit
The; vote on the vital forecast was
deferred in December so municipal coun-
cils could look it over. It was reintroduc
ed at council's Meeting in Walkerton last
week and easily passed the vote, though
there are still concerns that the big tab,
for building projects will eventually mean
cuts in operating, budgets.
•A reserve fund' to upgrade county
homes for the aged gets the lion's share
of the forecast of 83,4 million over five •
years; . followed by $750,000 for a new •
county office in Wiarton and $870,000 over
four years for •a new library
headquarters. ,
In all, the county's capital -budget will
go up 20 per cent with the five-year
.forecast, but Milt Mclver, chairman, said
that will only .Mean' a 2.0 pet cent in-
crease on
n-crease-on the levy from last year's coun-
t' rate. ,
OVERTIME ISSUE RESOLVED
A long-standing overtime problem for.
senior Bruce County planningstaff has.
finally been resolved.
The finance and personnel committee
has been to find a way to
repay Don Scott, planningdirector', 302
days of overtime he's accwnulated in •
three''y•
Chairman Ross Herron said the over-
-time piled up because of staff shortages
and higher workloads. Scott now hats un-
til June 30, 1992 to use up the time or
write it off. That's a year longer than a
proposal rejected by council last month.`
Herron said the offer is as fair as
possible.
"We believe that we have exhausted all •
-
pos,sible avenues to solve this situation,"
he said.
Herron said with a new tourism coot
dinator on staff to assist Scott in his •
rasponsibilitles, Scott should be able to
use up some of his overtime and still do
his job effectively.
The deputy planner has until June 30,
1991 to usep 592 hours of . overtime.
Herron Said a new policy limits over-
time accumulation to a total of 10 days,
and said senior staff have to realize some
overtime is "part of the job."
NO BIG TRUCKS ALLOWED
Extra -long tractor trailers are not
welcome on Bruce County roads and
highways. •
Bruce County has endorsed a resolution
from Cambridge opposing legislation that
would allow the extra long trucks on On- •
tario roads. Safety and road wear .con-•
ceras are among those noted by op-
ponents
of the bigger vehicles.
FOREIGN AID NIXED
Bruce County council turned down a
suggestion at its meeting in Walkerton on
January 16 from the Township of South
Crosby that it donate $1,000 to OXFAM.
Canada for fa><nine relief 'in Ethiopia.
Council said foreign aid is "a federal
responsibility" and not an appropriate ex-
pense
xpense for county tat dollars.
Later in the day, county taxes paid the
tab for over $200 worth of lunches for
council 'members. -