The Goderich Signal Star, 1976-05-13, Page 9The majority of Goderieh
Town Council' members seem
• ,to be in favor of fewer •
members on ..Huron County
_Council, but further
discussion on the subject will
take place next week when it
is hoped. Reeve Stan Profit
will return .•. to the council.
Deputy -reeve Bill Clifford
led off the discussion on the
county proposal to reduce
representation at ;:county
council from 45 to 29'.
"I•- know I • won't be too
popular for saying so, but .I
believe that some of'. our
hb have far more
necessary,' Deputy reeve both at. the ocounty
Clifford.told council., levels.
He predicted that if Section "Town council isbad
27(a) of the Municipal Act enough„' Peters exclaimed.
was enacted in Huron County; "I hear ,that (county) is
u Council; reducing the number: w Councillor Elsa Haydon
of reeves, an "easier working
said that she had always been°
group” least evolve. concerned about -a county.
"At.it appears it will,"
the deputy -reeve added. councillor's "conflict of
"And -it should save dollars." allegiance She said that
Clifford told council that •coainty .councillors take two
his. opinion, fewer members oaths - one.'at the local level
at the county level would cut and one at the county level. -
• down on expenses for food • `There must, be area's
and conventions. where what- is good for the
'The county just loves town is, not necessarily good
conventions," Clifford in- for the'county," stated Mrs,.
terjected. Haydon.• "Or vice -versa.
.There is one "uncertain What does , a councillor . do
factor" as far as Deputy, then? How.does that conn- •'
reeve Clifford is'concer-ned. cillor vote?"'„
' "Will there be more work "I .don't think they've gone
for ,the members of council. far enough," said Councillor.'•
Bob=Allen,-Ile_.. urged county
' who. will. be -'there ora `ewe—
now creating enough work for -'council to look deeper and
the number of; people: on . charged ''town councillors
asked - when the time conies. to be
vyas' tamed own by county • "I'rn=just sorry it didn't get,
council in a'- 'closed session". • around to restructuring,'
Couna4llor• Jim Peters :Councillor •Harrison said. He.
asked if it was absolutely too, urged town -council to
necessary' for a county logk 'at, ways in which local
councillor to .;also ' be -a council could streamline its
member • of .- the local operation.- ' • '
municipal counell. Peters. "They haven't attacked the
pointed •fiat that school board problem totally,'' ' stated
members: do not sit at • the ,;Counciller• •Da"vve Gower:
ideal council table.' : "They havent looked at the
to c •
"This is a little radical, crux'of the pro"blem."
perhaps, but if there is no Gower,, a former member
reason for it, why couldn't we
have a reeve Wild Is free to
devote his full time to the,
county, said Councillor
Peters.
neighbors av He said he had sympathy
.:representation ,than is really ° for those personslocal ando rved
of .county council when be was
deputy -reeve of Goderich,
said "the county had: been
"playing expand" with the
idea of restructuring for a
•
long time. He said he felt they;„,
were trying to' "opt out" of
the responsibility to. actually
'amalgamate Municipalities
and to makereal changes•
"But maybe.this is the first
step," said G .ower, who said
be w.aa In 'favor of Section
• 7(a) being enacted.
• Councillor- Frank Walkom
',was . undecided about the
;tn,atter:�
a "I'd liketo see a revamping
in a.eertain way," Councillor
Walkom said, "but I'd like
More tithe to think it over."
Counctllor Walkom noted .
';that with 'the reeve absent, it
was difficu•it for him to getal•l:
x•the information he'd:like.• :,
• "I'd like to hear what Stan
has to say," 'Said Walkom.
Mayor b]eb Shewfelt, also a
former county,eouncihor and
:for a long .time a strong ad-
vocate of res'tr.ucturin'g, said
he had tried to promote,the
idea of restructuring,,when.he
was on. county Council, .
He said he had - followed
-Closely the restructuring of.
Oxford' County and. was
•
•
convinced the system. waS.
much improved there. He
added that provincial grants
are better in Oxford since the
restructuring. ;
The mayor said he was
disappointed- that 'Huron
Count ' .Council ``chose,• to
Y
have a closed session" when
restruc.tur,inV was being
discussed. ,-
t, --
"There was n official vote,
no democratic vote,"
ma or commented. • "'I;"1
was a step backwards.'.,•
"So I would support S.e:ctlon
27(a) as step No. 1," the
mayor said,
e discussion on'the
Further
subject will be, heard • a,t
1Vionday evenings Council
sess ion, .May 17 at 7 : 30 p. m.
council?" k d the deputy
reeve: r' ,awn „critical' of their local
Clifford said he has• heard council system as well
cbunty councillors, extol the Councillor Leroy Harrison, _
virtues of "the • system" did some'quicle-mathematics" _ .
saying "it has been a good and said that at present,
system for aloe of years ane
- - while Goderich.:-pays 15 per' , will continue. to serve the
:cent of the budget, the town;
;
county well. , has only eight per cent of the
"I think we should at least votes
"`Under Section 27.(a) that
slalomed Deputy-. •
reeve Clifford who"also''tolc_would-h er2a�se-te-10-perce:•nt
council he had been in favor of the votes," •Ciitncillor
of restructuring when it was Harrison went i. "That's a
proposed last year, but which "-little fairer.",
MaKay.Nall rateso,
set by town council
A :'schedule of rental rates
for. MacKay Hall was' ap-
proved by Goderich ..Town
Council Monday.:evening as
suggested . by the Goderich
.t Recreation' and Community
Centre Board.
The charges are'designed
to maximize the income of the
building, particularly for
special uses aver and, above
re gala • •• meet'in_ ,
added �n the hasic charge to the basic charge for
special events requiring
additional set-up and clean-
up, and will apply generally
to the upper hall only.
•, For events such as dances, -
recepti'ons, anniversary
parties and dinners, the
charge will be based on the
number • in attendance -0-50
people, $15; 51-125, $20; and
.--60, $35. ..
Local groups using •the
be cairsi
one
unser
Mayor Deb Shewfelt brokeinitiate the project before responsibility and "hoping -
a ` tie vote.Monday .evening applications• can be made for the other money comes
_and swun_ town _council's the'money: through."
support behind a project to "`Is-there-any-assuranee-the------•Doug-Currie,.. a _spokesian__....._
initiate a project to: buy new town will receive . the gran- •for tkie ball players, said they ••
lights for the ball diamond)n is?" asked Councillor Frank were hoping to have the lights, • •
Agricultural Park. Walkom:.'` installed - in time for this'
The town will finance the . "1 guess there are no season's play, He said there
project ='estimated' at bet= guarantees, admitted were eight to .tenweeks.
ween $15,000 :and ,$2i0,000 - up Dymond. "I can only say the delivery time on the' lights
to cording to the meta*.
. tion ref Qf $5;000 ac town is in. a good position to -once 'they had been ordered,
�eiwve—e• :e>-- nd serggestcdthe•-Px'zits: FlicTect t,a .
t•li--�•�------
the report said. -
The as c.
small basement for up to 35
persons - will be $5' in the
morning, $8 in the afternoon
and $10 in the evening; the-
large
he
large basement for • up to 50
persons, $7, $10 and $12; the
hall, up to 100 - persons,
maximum, $10,$12 and $15;
the ' hall for up to. 200
maximum, $20,122 and $25.
Additional `charges,' will, be
b ildi re ularly for their
meetings and small functions •
will be charged as in the past.-
- according to what they can
afford and the' fact that they
use the building regularly.
These local groups --will
negotiate with the Ret Board.
fora charge.. •.
The rates to ` the senior '
citizens will remain un-
changed, it was agreed.,
live bloods, eve. ` fe
Red- Cross ..Donor
ilc `is scheduled `for
ids: Auditorium
dnesday, May .19
-:`,.:....:I°. 58. ,p.m. and
.om 630.to 30 p.m. A
•baby sitting, service will
1/4"404ed in the af-
texnpah by the Dinette
Club of pioderlch.
olun ers worlds ag in :
oder tc t on behalf of
the • Rett Cross: once
again stress the urgency
of. ,a successful clinic.
ors
previous <don are
requested •to makke'time
• for the blood: clime next
week; ;new donors"are
urged to attend.
A s sial plea!'Is gtlit#j
1
out to persons in : the
•
caitrgxl unit
surrounding ,Godeldelt to
give the gift of lifts fit;
the upcoming blood
clinic. •
The,' Godericlh. .din ..!
sntenCiub is once again
co-ordinatiing the effort,
• in Goderich and area.
•
Ross Bryant, right, has been named by the Ministry of Social Services as administrator of
the new Bluewater: Centre for -Mentally Disabled Adults: Mr. --Bryant, former ad-
ministrator of Goderich Psychiatric Hospital, shares some of the administrative.duties
with William -F Gregg who,has been nameddirector of training for the entre. Mr: Gregg,
who will assume Mr. Bryant's job' in the event of his absence, left a st in Toronto with
the Council for, Emotionally Disturbed�Children and Youth to fake. up duties at the
Bluewater Centre. (staff -photo)
Communication eases problem
Problems of restraint
facing Ontario' 'milk_
producers this year have
been caused by a:surplus of
milk powder in Canada that
the . provincial and federal
governments, the Ontario
Milk Marketing Board and
even Mother Nature have had
a hand in cleating.
The restraint, basically a 15
percent cutback in quotas for.
prpd.ucers in the. province,
has been deemed necessary
by government -nd the
OMMB tq' attempt to bring
the national milk product
supply •and ' demand figures
' back into line.
The country now has a
substantial surplus of skim,.
milk powder as'a result of an•
'effort began three years ago
• by Ottawa to, make Canada as -
nearly self sufficient as'
possible, The effort led to the
surplus that now . forced the
federal government to cut
back on production-: and this
is ;being done by a reducti9fi
of provincial quotas,
Ottawa cannot be totally
blamed for the surplus.
however: When • they an •
nounced the program • to in-
crease
dairy production 'the.
prov-incial 'government took
steps : to encourage Ontario
producers= -to ----increase their
efficiency. The phasing in of
the Industrial - Milk
Production , Incentive'
Programe (IMPIP) by
Queen's . Park was' a
•provincial effort to encourage
farmers here , to . meet the
Ottawa demands. Tire OMMB
jumped oir, the 'bandwagon
and 'began increasing farm
. quotas and until May 1 were
issuing free quotas to any, new
or established producers.
The combination of the'
• three resulted. • in
producers expanding •their
herds . and .operations and
attracted other farmers to
Begin dairy farming. The
federal government's Farm
Credit Corporation and the
provincial government's
IMPIP loans made the ex-
. pension of the industry very
attractive for producers and
Controversial bylaw, fails ,to
A bylaw to deem registered
plans not to be'registered
(deeming bylaw) did. not
make it through a third and
final -reading at 'the Goderich
Town Council table Monday
evening..'
The bylaw, not'' on the •
agenda handed out to council
'members, was introduced at
the last minute by. town -ad- -
ministrator Harold Walls. It
had been recommended by
the .Goderich and Area
Planning Board at its last
meeting- in the ,.interest of
"good tanning" according to
Councillor Dave Gower, also
chairman of the planning„
board..
Section 29 of the Planning'
Act authorizes a municipality
to designate any plan
subdivision or part of it, if it
has been registered for eight
years or more, as not being a
plan of 'subdivision for -sub-
division control purposes.
According to the bylaw
presented Monday •evening„ it
was, "deemed ., eXpedietit ate in
order to control .adequ y
the developrnentof land in the
Municipality."
Registered Plan No. 21 is
the area ha question. This
property is north of Bennett
Street, just east of Bayfield
Rbad. has a plan of
The property.
subdivision on to Duveted 1006.
Gower,
According
that plan is not a suitable, one
for future development • in
Goderich. Gower said the
matter had been thoroughly
studied, and he felt that from
a planning point of view, the
existing plan of subdivision
• should be wii ed out.
"You are telling these
people their lots are wor-
thless," said Councillor Leroy,
Harrison who wanted the
bylaw tabled .for further
study.
Gower disagreed. 'He said
the lot owners in the area
would still own their property
and that if the existing. plan
was removed, a new plan
could be put on it and the land
would become more valuable,
Ther :. , . 'e_.-m-0ne}t,t_n_my kinowledge,.''is. already been,, delayed long
:..._. .
confusion among councillors otavailableand the town is in enough. .
Councillor Elsa Haydon.
advised. council there was. a
"psychological aspect" ::to
this matter. She said the ball.
players are now keen to help
raise money for the project,
and that if' .council should
:hesitate, the impetus couldebe
lost, •
Mrs. Haydon suggested.
that firm• estimates. for the
project be sought.
"We must have. the details
to apply for the grants;" she
reasoned.
"The first stepis to approve
project and go for e
said Councillor ' •
• Allen: ` e wi . ose. i .
'f we have to procrastinate
• o0 long." ••
Councillors Haydon, en
and Gower vote in favor o
as to whether or not Goderich position to apply for it•
ratepayers could end up "I am satisfied with the.
paying a much larger,portion. ' motion," - Councillor Dave
The .proposal included money . Gower told council.- He
raised through grants and acknowledged that'the ball
fund-raising. players in the' municipality
Recreation Mike. Dymond were already beginning to ,
advised council:that the town arrange fund -raising -projects.
is in a position for grants - 25tohelpfinance the venture.:
per cent ,of the cost of the "It puts the anus on the
project through a Community ballplayers," said Gower.
Centres grant and 33 L-3 of the.' Deputy -reeve Bill Clifford
remainder from- Wintario. - 'disagreed. He said the town
The town, . however must• was- actually accepting'the
s -net -ms
the result was the surplus of •
milk powder that not only
made the •country self suf-
ficient but over efficient.
Disposing of the surplus
powder is• no small feat ac-
cording to the federal anti
inflation board who recently.
commented on the surplus
when investigating a 'price
hike: for manufactured dairy
products. The. board; looked`
into price increases of .five'
cents per pound. for butter,
four cents for skim milk
powder and six to seven cents
for cheeses. They noted that
the increases came at a time
when Canada is burdened
with heavy stocks of surplus,
dairy..pr-oduCts, 'chiefly„ skim
milk powder and that while
these stocks were building.up
no drep in price was realized
by consumers.
The price continuation and
eventual increase was, at
tributed to a sharp rise in the.
costs of storing- and even-.
tually disposing of the surplus
skim milk p�;wder:'The costs
e federal
are carried by th f ce al
• the P th
• estimates,
Bob W 'ill time
• i
' t 1 g
H yd All
f ..
the•
; proje r 'Deputy -reeve ••
.
government and ''dairy . far-
mers who in turn pass their' -
on to .taxpayers and' con-
sumers.
~
The decision to raise the
price of sk-ii•n milk powder is
not the. best method of cur-
bing the, _surplus . problem
according to the AIB. They
said that an increase in the.
price of butter would': have
been a simple method • of!,
avoiding the price•^of'Skirn.
milk powder which would
have in, turn avoided in-
creases in other dairy
'Products.
Skim milk powder ` is. a
unique . nutritional product
that according to MB reports
is • virtually the., cheapest
source of high quality anirnal
protein available' to con-
sumers. The price increase
they claim will work against
the worthwhile goal of- in,
Creasing • domestic ' -con-
sumption of skim. milk
powder ' whichTtherefer f.,
eliminates the high costs o
disposing of it.
The increase in butter
•,1.
and Councillors
prices was agreeable to the Clifford
board due to the 'fact that WaIkorii and Leroy Harrison.
butter is non-essential and.voted against it. Reeve Stan
can easily be replaced by Profit . was absent for the
cheaper substitutes such as •entire meeting, and Conn-
margarine. cillor Jim Peters had not yet
The milk marketing board .arrived,
is not so quick to dismiss the
value of dairy products to
consumers.. Ken McKinnon,
vice chairman ,of the Ontario
board; says' there i, no
replacement for • whole: 1iry,
products and feels"
consumers have the ri- t'to
make ' a reasonable choice
and to know what the contents
of each product are. He said
that some non-dairy products
are a "con job" that are
facimiles of the real thing
with their contents
unrevealed. He added that if
most. consumers knew what
actually went • into those,
products • they would never
eat them.
Mr. McKinnon• said he
knows full well that the quota
•• cutback will mean some
hardship for dairy producers
(continued on page 18)
Kinsmen:
elect
officers
The Goderich Kinsmen
Club had elections Monday
evening . for. the 1976-77
executive. -
Officers are: . past
President Bob- McDougall;
President George Niles; first -
"Mee -president, Ray Bush;
second vice-president, Gerry
Paolin; secretary, Jim
Morris; treasurer, John
-Schneiker; registrar, Barney
Purser; directors, Dan
McHardie, Glen Machan and
Al Exb, •
pass council's weird. shuffling_
"That land cannot be,
serviced adequately as the
pian now exists," said•Gower,
',We are trying to prevent
piecemeal development from
going on at the munidipality's.--
expense. "
Councillor Elsa Haydon,
also a member of planning
board, told council the
planning board had not beep
unanimous • inits decision to .
ask that the deeming bylaw,
-"'"he passed. She said • the
deeming bylaw isthe one
bylaw over which land
owners have absolut'ely no
recourse once it is passed.
Mrs, Haydon said the town
is short of developnrient land,
and felt this ' 'property,
'probably ' should be
developed. But she said it is
the ."element of secrecy"
about the deeming bylaw -that
"disgusts" her.
It is like fighting with
soni'eone .whos'e hands are
tied` behind their racks," •
councillor Haydon insisted.
Deputy -reeve Bill Clifford
said that while deeming
„bylaws are new to Goderich,
they are widely used across
the province by "alot of very
wise planners."
"The lots are always *gob
more when developed in 'the
proper- fashion," Clifford
stated. • •
"We would just be cleaning
tip aplari "that is in'opposition
•
to our present planning," said
Councillor Bob Allen, •
"But it is being forced upon ,-
the people," said Mrs. -
Haydon.o
"I am convinced the
arguments for the bylaw are
sound," said Councillor Jim
Peters. "I will support the
bylaw."
"I Would like toknow more
about how this will effect the
people •'who own the
property," said Councillor
Harrison. He asked again
that the matter be tabled one
week. -
Councillor Gower said that
if the bylaw wasn't
pass
immediately, it would not be
introduced again because it•
•
would be 'Useless as an in-
strument of planning. He
warned of trouble in the of-
fing if the bylaw was turned
back, but did not elaborate. .
"There could.. be pressure
put on at any time for ser-
vices," warned Gower. ' -
During the discussion,
Mayor Deb Shewfeltdeclared
an interest in the property
and turned, the chair • Over to
Deputy -reeve Cliffotd, Mayor
•Shewfelt did not participate
in the discussion,
On the first reading of the
bylaw,it was supported by
Councillors Gower, Allen,
Peters and. Frank Walkom,
Councillors Harrison and
Haydon opposed it. At that
point, Councillor Walkotn left
for the evening. Reeve Stan
Profit was absent. • •
On -the second reading,
Councillors Gower; Allen and
Reters voted in favor of the
bylaw with, Councillors
Harrison. and iiaydon ob-
jecting.
On the third. reading,
Councillor Haydon called for'
a recorded vote.,That showed
that Councillors Gower, Allen
and Peters were: in favor of
the bylaw, with Councillors
Haydon „and Harrison and
Deputy -reeve Bill . Clifford
against it.
"The motion is lost," an-
nounced Chairman Clifford. •
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