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Chantry Island is symbol of community
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The federal gov-
ernment has
declared the bird
sanctuary and
lighthouse on it as
surplus. It's been
offered to Bruce
County, but coun-
ty council
declined the offer
in favour of the
municipality.
Saugeen Shores
has already been
negotiating the
deal with the fed-
eral government
for several
months.
Chantry Island
is a symbol of the
community,
Saugeen Shores
Mayor Mike
Smith said, and
the restored light-
house
ig ht-
house and keeper's
house are an
important part of
tourism.
Volunteers have
spent massive
amounts of time
and energy restor-
ing the buildings
andpreserving-the
marine history of
the community,
Smith said. An
endowment from
the Marine
Heritage commit-
tee will take care
of costs "hopeful-
ly in perpetuity"
once Chantry
Island becomes
part of Saugeen
Shores.
"We want the
Island," Smith
said about the
opportunity: to
acquire the prop-
erty and icon
lighthouse.
Brockton Mayor
Charlie Bagnato
raised the issue of
lighthouses in
other Bruce coun-
ty municipalities.
That list includes
the Point Clark
lighthouse in
Huron -Kinloss,
the Kincardine
lighthouse, and
lighthouses at
Tobermory, Cabot
Head, Flower Pot
Island and Cove
Island in the
Nc . thern Bruce
P ainsula.
"We have to
look 40 years
down the road (at
expenses). Maybe
it's too much for a
municipality.
Should it be some-
thing for the coun-
ty?" Bagnato said.
Kincardine
owns its light-
house and spends
"significant"
money on it, said
Mayor Larry
Kraemer. But the
lighthouse • ` is a
point of pride for
the community.
On ` the peninsu-
la, volunteer
groups organized
as Friends of the
individual light-
houses take care
of much of the
maintenance and
operation of light-
houses that have
been abandoned
by the federal
government.
"One thing we
can guarantee is
we ` don't want to
see (the lighthous-
es)
ihthous-es) disappear,,.
said Mayor Milt
McIver.
Bagnato's sug-
gestion. about put-
ting lighthouse
preservation on
the county agenda
got support from
South Bruce
Peninsula's
mayor.
"It's not a -prob-
lem," Gwen
Gilbert : said.
"Bruce County
Tourism promotes
lighthouses and
people travel
throughout the
county to see
them," she said
about spinoff ben-
efits of the attrac-
tions.
Affordable
housing
Bruce county is
eager to get more
builders in on a
housing incentive.
The province . is
kicking in
$120,000 per unit
for capital costs
on eligible afford-
able housing proj-
ects.
There's need
across the county
for reasonably -
priced apartments,
but housing man-
ager Susan Earle
said so far most
applications have
been from the
Kincardine area.
That's in part
because of a semi-
nar held in
Kincardine last
fall to explain the
federal and
provincial afford-
able housing
incentives, said
Kincardine Mayor
Larry Kraemer.
He credits the
municipality's
economic devel-
opment committee
for picking up the
ball and making
housing a priority.
Earle is now
hoping for similar
response from
Brockton, Arran-
Elderslie and
South Bruce.
She's encourag-
ing developers
and non -profits to
get their applica-
tions in to take
advantage of the
program.
Applications go
through the coun-
ty to the province
for approval. The
main criteria is
that projects need r
to be ready to
build within three
months and devel-
opers have to be
prepared to sign a
20 -year agreement
with the county,
Earle said.
The deadline for
application is
March 2011.
The subsidy is
allocated •by the
province and
available on a first
come, first served :
basis.
Energy
conservation
Bruce county
council is still
debating whether
to sign on with a
consulting firm
for a wide -reach-
ing energy . conser-
vation • program
that will target 32
of its buildings.
Amanda Kusick
of Ainsworth con-
sulting engineers
gave council two
options in her
report oil a
$59,000 feasibili-
ty study.
1 1 1
The base project
would cost just
over $529,4504,
yield $85,392
.worth of energy
cost savings a year
and take just over
six years to pay
back. That project
includes a :huge
lighting retrofit
project to install
compact flores-
cents and LED
exit signs,
installing pro-
grammable ther-
mostats in build-
ings and re -setting
some pumps, fans
and motors to save
energy.
The other
option, with a $1.3
million price tag
would add win-
dow
indow and door
caulking, trans-
former upgrades,
and controls on
some electric heat
units. It would
yield $140,081 in
annual energy sav
ings and take just
under 10 years to
pay back.
Calculations for
both options are
based on getting
energy retrofit
grants from the
Natural Resources
Canada and Hydro
One.
Kusick recom-
mends the
'enhanced' option,
but said either one
could be financed
through reserve
funds or through a
loan. Energy sav-
ings will cover the
cost of the loan
and Ainsworth's
$16,000 a year
monitoring fee,
she told council,
insisting that con-
dition is guaran-
teed. Once the
project cost is paid
back, the continu-
ing energy savings
go straight to the
county.
Ainsworth's
guarantee of ener-
gy savings means
there's no finan-
cial risk in the
project, Kusick
said. The compa-
ny will pay for
shortfall and allow
the county to keep
any savings that
are greater than
the study quotes.
The ': retrofit.
would take six to
eight months' to
complete and
could begin this
fall, :!Cusick said.
County council
wants more dis-
cussion and a staff
recommendation
before making
decision.
Clerk treasurer
Bettyanne Cobean
said one advan-
tage of the
Ainsworth pro
pose. is that it
addresses all the
energy conserva-
tion' • [ issues at
once. County staff
don't have time
among their cur=
rent duties to take
on : those retrofits
at such a large
scale, she said.
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