The Citizen, 1996-04-03, Page 2PAGE 2. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1996
Brussels council wont
pay for road extension
Generational interaction
Senior students from Grey Central Public School have been given the opportunity to interact
with the seniors at Huronlea in Brussels.The pupils regularly visit the facility to play games,
sing songs, chat with residents and learn from a generation they may not have contact with.
Hilda Hutchings, right, seems to be enjoying the questions posed by Rose Kuepfer, as the
student learns a little about Hutchings past.
Brussels looks at ways to save park
Brussels village council, Monday
night, told a property owner he'll
have to pay for the cost of extend-
ing a street so he can build a house
on, his lot.
Others who wanted to build on
%undeveloped roads in the past have
had to pay the costs, Councillor
Greg Wilson explained to Jim
Knight, who had asked council to
extend Maple St. 60 feet so that he
could build a house.
Knight reluctantly agreed. "The
only argument I'd have is that there
was about $81 a year tax went to
the town (for several years) and
there hasn't been any benefit to the
property. I'm sure (in that time) the
town has received enough money
to do the work."
"I know if we built that street and
paid for it wed be opening a can of
worms," said Reeve Gordon Work-
man.
Council agreed to issue a build-
ing permit to Knight, subject to his
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signing a development agreement
promising to pay for the upgrading
of the street. The estimated cost is
under $1,500. The village will
build the street to meet municipal
standards and bill the owner for the
work.
The reason
behind the
sound of sirens
Anyone hearing the siren in
Brussels recently might have been
wondering why they hadn't heard
reports of any fires in the village.
Fire Chief Murray McArter said
that with the alarm system having
been changed recently to a central
dispatch in Seaforth, there will be a
test of the system every Saturday
morning at 11:30 a.m.
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Melville
TIME, TALENT
AND TREASURE
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Presbyterian Church • Brussels
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Brussels village council will
explore ways of cutting costs in
maintaining the Brussels dam con-
servation area now that Maitland
Valley Conservation Arca (MVCA)
faces a financial crisis.
Paul Weitendorf, MVCA acting
general manager, and Bruce
McCall, Brussels representative,
discussed the plight of the authority
with councillors Monday night.
Before the provincial government's
economic statement in November,
he said, about half MVCA's income
had come from government grants,
a quarter from municipal levies and
a quarter from user fees for things
like camping. Now the provincial
half has been cut by 40 per cent and
it will be wiped out by next year.
Whatever services MVCA still
provides after next year will have
be paid for through either munici-
pal funding or user fees, Wciten-
dorf explained. "Assuming
municipalities won't have any more
money to give, additional money
will have to come from fees. I think
it's fair to say there won't be any
services that don't have fees
attached."
To meet the financial challenge
MVCA has slashed its staff from
WANTED
Anyone 12 and over
interested in umpiring
for Brussels Minor
Ball or in getting their
umpire's card contact:
John at 887-9865
or come to
registration from
7 - 9 p.m., April 4 or 11
at B. M. & G.
Community Centre
22 to 12, with four people on tem- Brussels conservation area arc
porary layoff. It means fewer peo- spread among all member munici-
ple for maintenance in parks like palities. When cutbacks come, he
the Brussels dam area. Future fund- said, those other municipalities,
ing for the park is also a potential which don't benefit from the Brus-
problem. Currently, Weitendorf sels park, may question using their
noted, the costs of maintaining the Continued on page 19
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