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Times-Advocate, 1982-04-21, Page 1May end up at OMB i t n denied are_ a l Hca to GoIf course slip Food had been consulted and both disagreed with a buffer as large as the one requested by Westco. Davidsonrtsaid both the planning board and Ust,orne council would be recommen- ding to county council that the application not be supported. "If the county does refuse his request, Mr. Westcott hi:s the option of appealing to the On- tario Municipal Board, which could unilaterally satisfy his request. U not, he is free to re- apply to the township once more, he said. Westcort said he expected the matter to go to an OMB hearing. Mary Lou Sander- son, his lawyer, will be at the April 29 meeting of county' council to make a brief presentation, he said. An application by Allan Westcott, owner of the Iron- wood Golf Course, to extend a 2,000 toot restricted agricultural zone around his course has been denied by Usborne Township council on the recommendation of Huron County Planning Board. The planning board's ad- vice was guided by a report from the county planning department which stated, among other things, that such a designation usually applies to areas of urban or recrea- tional useage. The golf course is designated open space in the county official plan. According to county plan- ner Gary Davidson, "it was felt that a redesignation would adversely affect the LOCAL MODELS - Mary Fisher and Dean Frayne of Ex- eter will be appearing as models in the May 5 Cancer Society fashion show at the South Huron Rec Centre. Miss Canada joins fashion show models Carf Cann chairman of special events for the Exeter Branch of the Canadian Cancer Society reports that plans for the fashion show to be held in the South Huron Rec Centre ice arena on May 5 are being coincided to produce another good show this year. Under' the guidance of Mrs. Melva Ecker co- ordinator of the show, at least three meetings have been held, with all branches of the Cancer Society in Huron County being represented. Each branch is responsible for advertising the show in its respective areas. Local schools are being approached to make advertising posters as well as colorful murals to decorate the show. - Tickets are distributed to all centres and as last year, bus loads are being planned to transport 'ticket holders from %Ingham and Goderich. Many business firms have indicated a good support in supplying a large member of excellent prizes for the draw of lucky ticket 'owners. The stage will be raised this year to allow the audience a better view of the show. The number of chairs and seats will be the same as last year. The School of Elegance of London will be providing the professional models in- cluding Karen Baldwin, current reigning Miss Canada. Karen is very busy with her regular activities plus attending many other fashion shows. She works in Toronto at a fashion show right up to 5:00 p.m. on the same day as the Exeter show. So it is necessary for her to be flown directly to London and hence by car to Exeter to arrive on time for the 8:30 p.m. show here. Merry Rags of Grand Bend supplies all clothes for the lady models and promotes the show. They will also have four local models, Eileen Frayne, Mary Fisher, Joy Hogg and Gail Spencer participating in the show as well as one male model, Dave Shepherd from Grand nearby farmers and the ex- pansion of their operations. Since the course operates for only part of the year, the change would affeet the farmers and not greatly help the golf course," he said. Continuing requests and correspondence between Westcott and the township .eventually, led to a public hearing February 4 to hear both sides of the issue. Several farmers whose land would fall under the zone felt their operations would be hampered if the redesignation proceeded. It was pointed out that the Agricultural Code of Practice reqplres. a cer- tificate of'compfa`nce to set up or expand a poultry or livestock farm in a restricted zone. The planning department's report pointed out that five golf courses in Huron are cur- rently designated agriculture or restricted agricultural and do not have buffer zones. This Building is still slow was made in rebuttal to,4111 earlier complaint by Weateott that his was "the only golf cowse in Huron County which does not have the benefit of proper designation and buffer areas." ' The report also defended - the surrounding farmland because of its high quality. Two officials from the Ministry of Agriculture and LOW HOUR Area residents will lase an hour's sleep this weekend. Daylight Saving Time starts officially at 2 a.m. Sunday. Using the old adage "Spring Ahead", move your clocks ahead one hour before retiring Saturday night. A VICTORY PARADE - The Lucan-Biddulph fire truck paraded the new OHA Junior "D" champion Lucan Irish through the streets of the village early Thursday morning after their 4-3 win over Langton. T -A photo The month of March failed to generate any im- provement in the number of - building projects started . in Exeter. Building official Brian Johnston reported this week that only 115,500 worth of construction was approved. This included three per- mits for residential renovations and additions valued at 510,500, two commercial permits for 53,500 and one institutional for 51,500. The permit total continues to lag behind last year's record low.. Bend. Jim Swan of CFPL TV will M.C. the show. Cann said that a lapse of two years from the last show in 1980 showed an increase of costs all the way down the line, thus the necessity of increasing the price of the ticket to $7.00. He said comparable shows in the cities were asking $10 to 512. Those attending the Exeter show would see one of the best fashion shows available at a bargain price and also allow them to support the work of local branches of the Canadian Cancer Society. Next week's paper will provide a full list of the fashion show program. Drop plan to collect Exeter won't proceed in an attempt to collect the tests of last year's rezoning ap- plication from Laidlaw Transport. The town expended over $6,000 in costs related to the planned mewl* L,aWtttw,to. a site on Highway 83 at the eastern outskirts. Council had authorized their solicitor to proceed with attempts to collect the costs from the firm, but reversed that decision this week when the solicitor asked for a decision on whether he should proceed with a writ in view of the firm's stand that they would not pay the costs involved. Finance chairman Bill Mickle questioned whether the town had much of a legal leg to stand on, adding that he was torn two ways on the subject. Councillor Tom Hum- phreys said the town was trying to attract industry and it was not advantageous from that standpoint to be going into a suit against one that was located here now, His motion to halt collection attempts was approved unanimously. Members appeared to be of the opinion that in the future, the town should have agreements with anyone before incurring any costs on such mallets. A TASTE OF VICTORY - lucan Irish managers Bob Taylor and Jim Freeman get a sip from the OHA Junior "D" championship trophy won by their club Wednesday night in Langton. T -A photo Planning board gets one new member A meeting of the Exeter planning board called for last Wednesday had to be cancelled due to a lack of a quorum. • , Only member Robert Spears was in attendance for the session, along with secretary -treasurer Brian Johnston and bounty planner Gary Davidson . Absent were Stu Homuth, Dorothy Chapman, Alvin Epp, Ron Cottrell and Dwayne Tii�ney. Business on the agenda will be dealt with at the next regular meeting on May 20., The board at present has two vacancies. Monday night, council ap- proved the appointment of Bruce Eccles to the planning board after he volunteered his services. Mayor Shaw in- dicated he was still seeking another member to fill the final vacancy. .Serving South Huron, North Middlesex ex", One Hundred and Ninth Year & North Lambton Since 1873 EXETER, ONTARIO, APRIL 21, 1982 Price Per Copy 50 cents For municipal purposes only Following two four-hour marathon meetihigs in the last week, Exeter council finally settled on this year's mill rate,, resulting in an, increase of slightly aver five percent for municipal. purposes. . "1 would like to point out, what We have done tons ht on- ly affects part of the to. lax dollars collected in Exeter,"u employee salary struc- commented finance conimit- tura qnd also issued $state tee chairman Bill Mickleln(urea a : to , neighbouring Monday's final budget prepared statement tablegetdat : mimieipalities that the latter. were: not contributing their deliberation. ' To maintafh A fair share to local recreation reasonable taxation requires; and culture facilities and.pro- all areas to meet tlte: challenge," he added jag grams and some negotiations noting that the levies for° seeded in (has matter. x County, schools not tabulated r mill rate up 5.Z3% While the commercial rate goesto 123.79 from last year's 119.54 tnflls for municipal purposes. n establishing the rates 'during the two lengthy meetings, council became bogged down in one pro- ceder/II _hassle, delayed a decision regarding a . com- plete professional study of This year �` , .r pendrtures county and the tw6 school boards have increased significantly more than the municipal tax portion in re- cent years. The county rate is up about 10. percent this year and the a big portion of the budget at levies for the school boards $567,000. have not yet been settled. At their first budget session These, of course, will be com- . last Tuesday, council had puted at a later date to com- moved to chop about $20,000 plete the local tax picture. from their original estimates. The mill rate for residential but that was put back in at the purposes has been increased final debate this Monday from 99.99 to 105.22 mills, When the reconstruction of will total about 51,650.000 with most areas showing an in- crease. A surplus of $79,387 from last year will help cushion some of that increase. Wages and benefits take up EXETER BUDGET HIGHLIGHTS Waterloo and Marlborough streets came in about 520,000 over estimate. The result was that the mill rate ended up at the 5.23 per- cent increase rather than the twopercent that had been en- visioned at the earlier session. The expenditures for the various departments this year areas follows (with last year's actual expenditure in brackets): Council 529,500 (525,855), general administration 5128,000 (598,884), fire depart- ment 5152,466 (588,2'71) , building and zoning inspec- tion 534,700 (529,420), police 5263,680 ($236,913) conserva- tion authority 58,860 (57,278), animal control 51,000 ($651), roadways $54,700 ($49,004), winter control 535,500 ($21,406), parking 52,900 (51,633), street lighting. *45,000 (533,116), sanitary sewers 1168,100 (5158,999), EXETER BUDGET HIGHLIGHTS, storm drains $75,600 (572,210). Garbage collection 536,300 ($34,077), garbage disposal 527,050 ($19,423), public works adtninist4ration $106,600 ($84,203), cemetery 519,000 (516,000), social and family services $1,500 ($911), recrea- tion 578,000 (568,000), parks and downtown parkettes 518,900 (528,392), library $8,300 (56,694), other cultural - grants $1,000 ($600), planning and committee of adjustment Want more townsh; Exeter Mayor Bruce Shaw led an attack against the con- tributions the neighboring townships are making towards local programs and facilities shared by their residents and succeeded this week in having council use the South Huron rec centre board of management's budget as a "tool" to arrive at a reasonable solution to joint funding of those programs and facilities. • While agreeing this week Rocky debate on roads Street paving ended up as one of the hottest issues in this year's budget for Exeter council as the matter hit a procedural snag and resulted in some harsh words from Mayor Bruce Shaw for his cohorts. However, by the end of Monday's regular council session, the matter had been resolved to everyone's satisfaction, although it had taken a circuitous route. The budget had called for a 560,000 expenditure on resurfacing of six streets: Victoria from Carling to the Co -Op, Edward from San- ders to Huron, Simcoe from Edward to Main, John from Andrew to Edward, James from Andrew to Edward and Albert from John to Sanders. At last Tuesday's first budget deliberation, finance committee chairman Bill Mickle had argued that the paving should be reduced, but Mayor Shaw said that the total was not near what'. should be -done this year. "It's not where it should be done either," countered Councillor Gaylan Josepheson. Mickle said he didn't think that John, James and Albert were priorities in com- parison to somestreetswhere traffic is heavier. . • A vote called through a EXETER BUDGET HIGHLIGHTS Not the antidote Exeter Deputy -Reeve Alvin Epp is sick. Exeter Deputy -Reeve Alvin Epp, by implication, thinks the local tax rate should increase more in keeping with the 12- 14 percent inflation rate rather than the 2-5 percent considered by council this year. Those two facts are not necessarily associated, although there May be some who consider them to be. Epp, who is confined to home through illness, this week wrote a letter to his cohorts on council suggesting that a mill in- crease of two percent could result in cutting services "which in future years will necessitate either a large increase in our budget or a lowering of our standards." in his letter, tabled Monday, Epp said he could see the need for setting aside dollars to develop the in- dustrial tax base and to improve services such as drainage. sidewalks, etc. Further, he questioned cutting the recreation budget, noting there is a concerned board who spend a lot of energy planning and working for the community in recreation and they should be listened to as they see the needs for improving, con- serving energy and making the necessary changes to sve dollars for the tax- payers. • Epp, a member of the South Huron rec board, said the double entrance would conserve heat; the electrical panel would save *1,000 per year and the heaters in the arena should be changed as recommended by the board to conserve heat and im- prove the warmth of fans. "In conclusion, unless there is some rethinking and reworking of this budget, i would not be in favour of It," the ailing council member concluded. show of hands indicated that Mickle and Morley Hall favored reducing the paving budget to *50,000, while Dorothy Chapman, Gaylan Josephson, Lossy Fuller, Tom Humphreys and Don MacGregor suggested it should be left at 560,000. The issue surfaced again on Monday's final deliberation when the paving tenders were opened along with the tenders for the reconstruction of Waterloo St. and Marlborough St. The reconstruction projects came in about 519,000 over budget and at the urging of Shaw, public works committee chairman MacGregor moved that the tenders for the recon - Please turn to page 3 that the rec board's budget was reasonable, council decided to make some cuts in it as a means Of stating that programs and facilities will be jeopardized unless neighboring municipalities pay a fair share towards them. The discussion regarding the financial assistance from the neighboring municipalities . surfaced at last Tuesday's first budget deliberation when the matter of a grant to the local fair board was. broached by the social services committee. Mayor Shaw presented a motion that Exeter not con- tribute the normal 5300 to the fair board this year in lieu of having already contributed $18,000 for the . new agricultural building erected last year. Shaw said the contribution of Exeter taxpayers had already been significant and added that all the neighboring municipalities had to come to grips with the contributions being made to the fair as well as recreation. "We have to establish once and for all we are a communi- ty. and Exeter doesn't carry the load," he said. noting the message should be relayed so as not to disturb the harmony which exists with area municipalities.. Shaw com- mented that he was getting the impression Exeter was being taken advantage of "or perhaps more accurately. people don't appreciate the 57,000 ($3,971). Main St. revitalization pay- ment 55,500 (55,500), in- dustrial promotion $6,000 (54,390), reserve for sewer ex- pansion $77,000 (5145,000), public works contracts $24,000 (5309,247), property budget $8,000 (510,342). Also included in the budget is $'8,000 for a management study of • local salaries, although it has not yet been approved. ,assistance contribution being made b.' Exeter ratepayers." • The Mayor noted he was disturbed to see some of Ex- eter's neighbors withdrawing some of their support for recreation this year. Councillor Gaylan Josephson said he agreed with much that'Shaw said and regretted the unequal distribution of costs as far as recreation is concerned. but contended the fair should be treated differently. The grant of $300 was subsequently approved for the fair board, but Shaw's opi- nion regarding contributions towards the South Huron rec centre board of management budget gained support as he again called for greater finan- cial contributions from the neighboring municipalities. He said he had no quarrel with the rec board's revenues Please turn to page 3 EXETER BUDGET HIGHLIGHTS Decision delayed Exeter council members have delayed a decision regarding a proposal to develop a new system for administering salaries and benefits for town employees and members of council until (hey•can get clarification of the extent of the work to be undertaken. Personnel Management Associates had presented a 13 -page report outlining their proposal to develop th,. new system with the cost being set at $6.500 plus expenses such as mileage. phone calls, printing and related out-of- pocket charges. However, PMA failed to indicate whether the report would cover the question of �. staff requirements for ef- ficient operation of the town. Members felt some sort of time study was required to make the report complete and three members were delegated to meet with PMA to discuss the matter. Council set aside $8,000 in. this year's. budget for the study. The project would provide job descriptions for 10 staff pasitions.and would provide "a fair and easily understood salary and benefit struc- ture" according to PMA president, Lion J. Sharzer. Councillor Dorothy Chapman said that if the study was to be undertaken. • it should not be done piece- meal or it would be a mess. "Do all or nothing." she said. ect)oing the sentiments of many members in adding that she had mixed feelings about the proposal and the cost involved. CHICKEN CARRYING SKATERS - The Exeter figure skating club precision team participated in a different fund raising project, Saturday. Above, Kathy Whiteford, Laurie McLelland, Monique Aunger and Ronalynn gels carry chickens from one barn to another for Winchelsea poultry farmer Lorry Taylor. T•A photo