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Coun. McLeod resigns in Tuckersmith
Spittal takes over
BY GREGOR CAMPBELL
Expositor Staff
Coun. Rob McLeod of
Vanastra is moving and has
resigned from Tuckersmith
Council, effective at the end
of this month.
He is going to he replaced
by Paul Spittal who finished
out of the running, six votes
behind him in last
November's municipal elec-
tions.
Spittal, 49, lives on the
Bayfield Road just west of
Egmondvillc. He is a teacher.
He is- a warden of St.
Thomas Church in Seaforth.
Among other accomplish-
ments, he is a past president
of the SeafortR' Lions Club
and a former vice-president
of Community Living
Central Huron.
Four candidates sought
coun
three cilror s scats in thc
recent elections. incumbent
McLeod. 32. a five-year vet-
eran of township's council
finishtid third with 436 votes.
Spittal, a- new candidate,
came in at 430.
Council confirmed him as
replacement last night.
Coun. Spittal and his wife
Joan have two children,
Coun. McLeod is a route
business manager for
Hostess, Frito Lay, and has
been transferred. to .Grande
Prairie, Alta.,. where he is
soon moving with his wife
and three children.
Zone dumps delayed - again
By Blake Patterson
Signal -Star Staff
Waste management in
Huron County seems to he in
the same category as fine
wine. Both require a lot of
time and a lot of money.
Last Thursday, Huron
County Council decided to
further delay the implementa-
tion of a waste management
plan which has taken 10 years
to develop and cost tax payers
$1.8 million.
The planning and develop-
Atent committee had hoped
the council would start the 60 -
day clock ticking toward
approval of a new waste man-
agement plan for the county.
Thc council, however, told
Waste Management Co-ordi-
nator Craig Metzger, they will
approve nothing before its
time. Thcy voted to delay a
decision on thc draft plan until
their meeting March 26. ,
"There arc a lot of concerns
to address," said Reeve Bert
Elliott of Morris Township,
one of two municipalities
selected to host a zone landfill
for the county if the new plan
is approved.
The proposed waste man-
agement plan is for two wastc
management zones in the
county, a north zone and a
south zone.
Each municipality would
still be responsible for collec-
tion, recycling and their exist-
ing landfills, but once their
landfill has reached capacity,
their waste would he directed
to one of the zone landfills by
the county.
The zone landfills would he
in Exctcr and Morris
Township. Thc Exctcr landfill
has a planned capacity which
could last for another 72
years. Thc Morris Township
landfill is expected to last
another 357 years. Life spans
aside, however, both Exeter
and Morris Township feel
there is undue haste being
taken in the matter. Before
any 60 -day notice of final
approval for the plan is given,
they want to first ensure they
will he rightly compensated
for accepting thc rcst 01 thc
county's garbage for 'decades
to come.
Letters of discontent
In a recent letter addressed
to Clerk -Administrator Lynn
Murray. the Exeter town coun-
cil said the draft waste man-
agement plan should not he
officially introduced until t' th
Exctcr and Morris have
agreed to he. zone landfill sites
for the rest of the county.
Exctcr said the introduction
of the plan before that time
would he "clearly premature
in that it lends the document
unwarranted credibility."
Exeter also said that if the
plan is introduced earlier, it
could "jeopardize" the process
of further negotiations.
'In a similar tetter, Morris
Township said the host munic-
ipalities have not had enough
input into the plan.
'Metzger spent the first 45
minutes of thc council session
Jan. 8 explaining the I0 -year
history of the county's search
for a landfill site, explaining
to the new members of coun-
cil why the new waste man-
agement plan is needed.
Astronomical cast
Reeve John Doherty of
Godcrich wanted to know
how much the I0 -year waste
management process .had
already cost thc taxpayers of
Huron County.
Doherty served on council
I0 years ago when the waste
Management process began,
and he could hardly believe
the issue had not been
resolved yet.
"The cost has to he astro-
nomical," said Doherty.
Metzger said the province
helped fund 50 per cent of the
project up until two years ago,
but in total, the search for a
landfill, the consultants and
thc studies have cost about
$1.8 million, $I -million of
which has been paid by Huron
County taxpayers.
Dealing with ABCA
One -window approach
will have to pay a $50
per hour fee.
Seaforth Public Works
Superintendent John Forrest
asked if ABCA will continue
to provide this town with
flood warnings and other ser-
vices.
Prout said anything initiat-
ed by the municipality is pro-
vided as part of the general
levy, as are flood warnings,
which will continue.
He added the new fee struc-
ture is the same for Huron,
Perth, Middlesex and
Lambton Counties.
TME HURON EXiOSITOR, Janisary 21, 111S-3
Seaforth is drained by two
watersheds, to the north-west
by the Maitland and the rest
by the Ausable-Bayfield, and
to reduce the overlap, paper-
work and complications that
arise from dealing with the
respective conservation
authorities this town has
decided to deal mainly with
ABCA from now on.
This new "one -window"
approach is an initiative of
the authorities themselves,
seeking such efficiencies
because of the drastic reduc-
tion in Ontario government
grants recently.
Tom Prout, general manag-
er of thc Ausable Bayfield
Conservation Authority says
its grants worked out to about
$1.5 -million a few years ago
but have fallen to a projected
$95,00{) for 1998.
• User fees, most involving
dramatic increases, arc how
the local conservation author-
ity is trying to make up the
difference. Prout reviewed
ABCA's new schedule at
Seaforth Council's meeting.
on Jan. 6. The 1998 fees
range from $50 for a minor
variance to $500 for a full
site plan review.
PRE-SCREENING
Council decided to pre-
screen ARCA applications in
an effort to reduce unneces-
sary costs for applicants, and
take the new one -window
approach.
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manager added that he is in areas
regular contact with the
Maitland Valley authority,
and it will be kept informed
and have the same input into
.any issues that would former-
ly have fallen under its regu-
lar jurisdiction. through a
reporting mechanism that is
being developed. The two
authorities also share maps
and data bases'
Prout said Scaforth's annual
levy will remain the same as
last year.
ABCA reviews and process
more than 600 applications
per year.
Thc ncw fee schedule
became effective Jan. 1.
Aspects of it arc quite a
departure. for instance those
accompanying a wedding
party to a conservation area
for photographs will have to
pay $1 per person under the
new schedule. and photogra-
phers will have to purchase a
yearly pass. Commercial
photographers wishing to
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`Horrendous'
$6.2 -million
The Avon -Maitland District
School Board has wound up
with a $6.2 -million deficit.
' To have to deal with that
type of a shortfall within
eight months is a pretty hor-
rendous situation, education
director Paul Carroll was
quoted as saying.
The recently amalgamated
board of Perth and Huron
Counties held its first work-
ing meeting last Tuesday in
Stratford.
It is to hold a special meet-
ing at it's Stratford office
Jan. 22 al 7 p.m. to deal with
the cash crisis.
Carroll said the shortfall
stems from decisions the
Perth County hoard made in
its 1997 budget.
The Perth hoard used a $1.7
million surplus left over from
the 1996 budget and applied
it to the 1997 operating bud-
get. The hoard also used
about $2 million in the
reserve funds for ncw com-
puter technology and train-
ing.
Board chairperson and area
trustee Ahhy Armstrong, said
the Thursday's specila meet-
ing is to try and bring every-
one together in finance, to
put together a package to let
the hoard know were they arc
and work from there.
The estimated annual bud-
get of the new hoard is about
$130 million.
Carroll said the use of sur-
plus funds and reserves is not
a recognized formula used by
the education ministry to cal-
culate thc 'stub -year' grant to
match the amount of money
the former county school
boards received from January
to August 1997.
Carroll said thc district
hoard was also penalized
because (he Perth hoard spent
more than the 62 per cent of
its annual budget allocated by
the province from January to
August 1997.
Thc provincial government
calculated the 'stub year'
grants to basically match otic
amount of money the former
county school hoards
received from January to
August 1997, which is calcu-
lated to be about 62 per cent
of the annual bud4et.
Thc 'stub -year' was intro-
duced as a transition period
until a new education funding
formula takes effect in
September.
CORRECTION
Contrary to the official OPP
report, and according to a
parent of one of the four local
youths involved, a collision
on Dec 31 that caused exten-
sive damage to two vehicles
and minor injuries in
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