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Hetherington Financial Planning Consultant ATTENTION Credit Union MEMBERS OF Credit Union NORTH HURON CREDIT UNION LIMITED 8 Alfred Street, Wingham 357-2311 Our Special Share Offering will be ready for purchase MONDAY, JULY 13TH, 1998 DON'T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY PAGE 28. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1998. County studies restructuring options Despite protests that single-tier options should be dropped from future considerations, Huron Coun- ty will continue to study the four possible alignments, two of which involve single-tier government. The four proposals revolve around two different ways to reor- ganize the municipal boundaries, and the, differences in costs betweeh single-tier and two-tier government for each proposal. The first proposal would include six local municipalities. In this pro- posal, East Wawanosh, West Wawanosh, Ashfield and Tumberry would be grouped with the Town of Wingham for one municipality. Blyth, Brussels, Morris, Grey and Howick would be another northern municipality while Huliett and McKillop Twps. would be grouped with Clinton and Seaforth. Goderich and Colborne and Goderich Twps. would make up a fourth municipality. Tuckersmith, Stanley and Hay Twps. would join with Hensall and Zurich to form a new municipality. Exeter would join with Stephen and Usborne With waste management options in a continued state of flux Huron County should look to solve its waste management problems with- in the county, consultant Steve Janes told Huron County council- lors at their July 2 meeting. Janes, an engineer with CG&S Janes Associates, said that while there had been a time when export of waste to landfills outside the county was a possibility, that win- dow was in-danger of closing. All the landfills accepting garbage are in some -state of uncertainty, he said. But Huron is in the enviable position of being able to solve its problems through existing landfills, particularly the Morris Twp. and Continued from page 1 sonnel would be split between the county and the province. The pro- posed force is an increase from the 73 currently serving in the four towns and the highway patrols. The cost quoted is for 1998 only, Trachsel said. He admitted that since the OPP police association can take contract demands to arbi- tration, there's no guarantee the salary costs will be stable next year. Robin Dunbar, reeve of Grey Twp., worried that salary costs might escalate because of the demands of officers based in Toronto-area municipalities where living costs are high. "We'll reach the point where we can't afford the number of staff and we'll get less coverage," he said. However, Trachsel said he liked to think the police association would want to stay competitive. As well, he said, as municipal forces got bigger their employees were likely to demand more, suggesting town forces might want to have two-person patrols it they go into rural areas. Reeve Carol Mitchell of Clinton liked the idea of the seamless force. "We can reduce the (number of) Twps. for the far-south municipali- ty. The county will also look at the costs of having a single-tier gov- ernment using the same combina- tion of municipalities as electoral wards, with each ward electing three councillors to county council. The other restructuring option being studied is creating just three municipalities for the whole coun- ty. The north east municipality would include the towns of Wing- ham and Seaforth, the villages of Blyth and Brussels and the town- ships of Hullett, McKillop, East Wawanosh, Morris, Grey, lumber- ry and Howick. The north-west grouping would include the towns of Goderich plus the townships of West Wawanosh, Ashfield, Colborne and Goderich. The southern municipality would include the town of Exeter, the vil- lages of Hensall and Zurich and the townships of Stanley, Tuckersmith, Hay, Stephen and Usborne. Under a single-tier option, each of these groupings would elect six councillors to the county-wide Exeter sites which had been pro- posed as north and south zone land- fills. "I think you should be prepared to maximize the capacity of what you have in the county," Janes said. Janes said the Ministry of Envi- ronment has raised questions about the adequacy of the Morris and Exeter sites but as far as he was aware the ministry still feels both sites are acceptable for long-term use. But Bert Elliott, reeve of Morris, warned that his township has no proposal either to sell its landfill or share it at this time and won't have until a public meeting is held in the township. That meeting is unlikely people needed by moving them around," she said. Martin said one of the efficiency advantages of a "seamless" force covering the whole county is that officers could be shifted to where they are needed most at a given time. However, Trachsel said, the county's contract would protect it in case of a provincial emergency such as the ice storm in eastern Ontario earlier this year. In such an emergency the 12 provincial officers could be assigned elsewhere but the officer paid for under contract could not leave the county unless permission was given by the local police ser- vices board. "What you're getting is a dedi- cated service," Trachsel promised. However, under questioning from Hay Twp. Reeve Jim Love, he admitted that if the province gets too many of its officers tied up on contract work, it could have prob- lems in the future meeting emer- gencies. The proposal calls for the reten- tion of four operations centres in Goderich, Clinton, Wingham and Exeter. There would be municipal police offices in each of the towns plus eight community policing council. The costs of the various options will be studied and presented to an all-councils strategic planning ses- sion on Sept. 29 at 7 p.m. The options were chosen follow- ing meetings in May and June with local councils by the county's strategic planning committee. Bruce Machan, chair of the com- mittee, said the six municipality and three municipality models were the ones mentioned most often by municipal councillors. Although the majority clearly leaned towards a two-tier structure, Machan said, "single tier was mentioned many times". That's why the committee decided it was best to continue to look at both single-tier and two-tier options. But Robin Dunbar, reeve of Grey Twp., questioned how formal the accountivg of support for the two views was and Roy Triebner, reeve of Exeter, said he was "very disap- pointed the committee didn't see fit to try to quantify those numbers". But Doug Grant, reeve of Bay- field, said council had made an ear- to take place in July and may not in August, he said. Brian McBurney, reeve of Turn- berry, complained that there seems no resolution to the landfill issue which has been on the county agen- da for 12 years. "I don't know in my career as an engineer anything that has been as controversial as a landfill," Janes replied. Toronto has been trying to find a landfill solution for 15 years and still has no solution though it is running out of landfill space by 2002. "Everywhere you go there is the problem of waste management." But unlike other places like Elgin County, he said, Huron has its own alternatives. offices (all but one of which cur- rently exist), to be provided by the municipalities. There would also be an administration centre for the county-wide force. Tier decision to look at the costs of both options and that's what the committee is doing. Mason Bailey, reeve of Blyth, reminded council that it had passed a motion in October, 1996 to add a fourth option to all restructuring studies: to leave the current bound- aries intact. The county also sent a resolution to the Rural Ontario Municipal Association convention in January, 1997 calling on the government not to force amalgama- tion on municipalities that don't want it. "I hope we are not going to change the policies of past coun- cils," he said. "If the policy is going to change, then there should be a machinate to change it." But Machan said he didn't think On July 4, a theft was reported from a pickup truck in Brussels. According to OPP the vehicle was left parked overnight at the front parking lot of Maple Villa Apartments on Alexander Street. Stolen from the unlocked vehicle was a Millwright tool box with "Cooper Crane Rentals" sticker on the top. A large number of tools Huron County council's rulings would stand up to provincial law if the province wants to force an amalgamation. After several councillors, includ- ing Ron Murray, reeve of McKil- lop, complained about different aspects of the study Machan, asked "but would you be comfortable if we did nothing?" "Yes," Murray shot back. Rob Morley, reeve of Usborne wondered if municipalities are real- ly willing to make the compromises needed to make amalgamation work? Machan said the study must con- tinue or the possibility will arise that some municipality will call for a provincial restructuring commis- sion. "The minute we pull out of it we will have a commission." were taken including a two-set combo wrenches, 3/8" ratchet set and 1/2" socket set. These tools are labelled in black paint with the name, "T MITCH". Also taken was Kenwood stereo equipment. The theft is valued at $1,500. Anyone with any information is asked to call Huron OPP or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS. Consultant tells council to solve county waste management problem Escalating OPP salaries a concern, says Dunbar Stereo stolen from pickup