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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1977-03-03, Page 1' • 1.• , 'tat. ,ar 1, • a • ;:!. •:54 eo increase (4'7.5 peva' eat;in nty Budget for 1977 taxes will ed due to it atirPhisot almost lion dollerso`e: 15. percent in- rovinCial,suhaidiek and a four inmunicipa! payment to the - ' ountY council approved the budget for 1977 when it met at lest Thursday afternoon. budget, Clerk Treasurer Bill kilns, is 7.5 percent above the ck in 1976 but it is actually 14 gher than expendinires last • officials also explained that ssessment in Huron, due to a oth population ' and property ill also help to' pay the bill x increases. Assessment value : ntn•eutions accepted r G. Buchanan atard • e Harbouraires, a male chorus which has existed in oderich area, under the able leadership of the late ge Buchanan, are establishing a charitable trust to provide an annual award at the Goderich District giate Institute. s planned to make the award annually to a worthy ating student enrolled in the music program at the ich District Collegiate Institute, and who has ipated extracurricularly in the music program. tributions will be honoured for Income Tax pur- and anyone wishing to make contributions may t Charles Snell, 190 Cameron Street, 524-7781. • in Abe county has increased nearly four percentinthepastl2 months. Thefiew budget shows an increase In spending byall County departments with nO One diyisIon contrizting -to the in- • creases more than another. Increases in fuel and niateria;l.costs had as much to do with the rise as anything and, for the first time in, ki number of years, ern:. ployee wage and salary iriereases,-held to about six percent because of anti- inflation regulations, are aot being seen as a major.contributor to the increase. The County Roads Department have increased their budget from $2,381,022 in expenditures last year to a projected $2,908,000 in 1977. An increase of 22 percent. An opportionment by-law, to raise the sum $1,507,000 for general, Pia Will be presented at ',Council* session.The sum • represents Huron share of the. road budget. Of:" , sum. the Ministry' of Transpertatienqs Communication • will contribute.spending, although the new figure of $1,570,000.,and the Road PepartMeni,,,q_alk,',,c,- 454,800is nearly 110,000 less than the carried a surplus of $134,000 forward er total allotted last year. •$;• from its 1976 budget. . ' County inspections and environment . • t 0' have been given $144,350 this year as Although traditionallya big spender, tt ;7 compared to $94 000 in 1976. the Road Department budgetis not a' • ' The County Health Department largest. The social services budget herd?' budget hasbe increased from $920,720 that honor. 7)1 last year to $984,212 this year. Operations of Huronview .will take '1. The Recreation and Culture budget, most of that budget though, with which includes operation of the Huron estimated expenditures over the next County Library system and the Museum year of 82,420,398. An increase of abeitt,,. at Goderich, has been increased to 10 percent. Of that sum theDepartrnentl.$449,550 from $429,177 in 1976. of Community and cnr,iral CerViPO4; 4.4 The Planning and Development Ontario will provide $1,1$9';762 however, leaving the county share at $200,438. The 1977 budget will also provide an 18 - "..-reent increase in council members' 'honoraria over last year's actual 130 YEAR -9 ob • budget has been struck at $236,900 for 1977 as compared to $229,800 last year. - County officials say income during 1977 should include 82,666,000 from the municipalities, $3,893A5 from the province and a Local Initiatives Program grant of $15,300 from the Federal Government. Another $1,258,378- should be raised during 1977 through investments, fees and licences. Clerk Treasurer Hanly noted that almost all county agencies and depar- tments came in under budget in 1976 and that Huron's revenue, especially in \the area of investments, brought in more than was expected. "There is no doubt," he observed, "that the county is in a very sound financial position. s5D5041.;00irt:o19c7ouniiit47:xeso7iibjj ,t i will not likely bine -1km money to get problems until thfrtaXes,'are, That fact in itself will mean einsSiderak1S. savings in bank Interest charges: Huron alsokoasts no large Outstanding debts. The largest, a 10 year debenture to expand facilities at Hurotiview,' was paid off in 1976. 1977 represents the third consecutive year that Huron has managed to hold the line on fax increases despite the fact spending has increased from $5,600,718 in 1974 to the 1977 budget total of $8,321,207. 4.111•1111OMMOINION11.1111111111111111111111MININION% ALwagnmS A THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1977 SINGLE COPY 25c 4% eering committee for health until report by end of June Huron Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Frank Mills, told County Council at last :• Thursday's meeting he ex- 'pected the steering com- mittee studying the Creation of a Huron -Perth district health council to hand its • report to the Ministry of Health by the end of June. Two final 'public meetings have been set for March 30 at •Kirkton and. Listowel, Dr. ills saidflititrifter those the ride- and ,.inairnation gathered by the committee be given final study and compiled into a report for the health ininistry. That ' report will be designed , to reflect the feelings of residents and groups in the counties of Huron and Perth on the health council concept. Health councils are now in operation in 15 areas across Ontario and are meant to administer as well as advise the Ministry of Health on policy. Dr. Mills told the meeting I • r I • 1 RG !don of Service. Douglas Beesley, General Manager tario Housing Corporation presented plaques to the members of the Goderich Housing Authority in tion of their service to the housing needs of the town. ipients included Harold Shore, Wilf Denomme and Howard Aitken. Harold Knisley (right) is the chairman of the oewly formed Huron County Housing Authority. The Goderich Housing Authority was disbanded in May 1976 and the Huron County Housing Authority began operations In September 1976. (staff photo) oard looks at two store applications ich may get two more ood convenience 1977 if proposals the Goderich Area g Board ever get on to nstruction stage. g board heard Is from Pinto Stores a 2,000 square foot ,., ciieur the Lieutenant- . 'has adviied that be in Goderich on afternoon, August 7, I a plaque to Thomas lines, who succeeded It as Superhitkindetit nada Company. „ as a sot -in-law of Strachan and a in-law of James who ran against unlop in the election d a hrother-in- JOhn Straehani',;.Vlo 10,!Judge here an en the Court House, eccIti the fire of 1954, Nliew, store at Bayfield Road and Bennett Street, and from Peter and Frank Strickland who wish to have their property at Maple Street and Huron Road rezoned to permit a Becker's store to. open at thealte. The Hayfield Road proposal was before the board for the third time Tuesday night and finally got the beard's ap- proval in principle. County planner Roman Dzus outlined the Pinto application pointing out that although the property the firm wishes to build on is large enough to meet their needs special Circumstances re -strict the firm from building the store they feel • they need. Mr. Dzus said the Pinto store would fit on the property purchased for the project on the south-west corner of Bayfield Road and Bennett Street if the town • didn't want a 17 foot strip of land off gie two street sidat He said the town wanted th land to widen both streets bordering the property and that the firm had agreed to • dediedte the land to the municipality if • it were allowed to build -its store on the limited land remaining. Dzus said the 'sit, Knolit Grandmas by Anne Saint- tiah Church'. ,. has Seim; the social director for ' an "Adopt a the residents. - ar! prograth, as part Each girl Makes a habit of mission , , to visit her Manor and were ping, mqiI letters oreck fut Cd -to their„ FoSter, ibrarY • books for -their restrictions the firm wouldn't meet working with the reduced lot were not serious but had to be considered by planning board. He said there were three main areas where the project couldn't agree with the official plan restrictions and concerned a 15 foot rear yard, five feet short of the required space, a shortage of three parking spaces taken out of the parking area to permit maneuverability in the store's parking lot and a five foot sideyard on the pr perty rather than the requi ed 10 foot yard. Mr. Dzus said the concerns were not major ones of his but had to be mentioned to the board. He added that it was the planning department's recommendation- that the board take the necessary steps to rezone the property highway commercial and take the Pinto proposal to the public stage to see if any objections to the project will be made. The matter will be brought up at a special meeting to be called in conjunction with planning 'board's April session. Frank and Peter Strickland that attendance at public gatherings called to discuss the new concept has not been large. He also noted that the committee now has about 75 briefs in hand. Opinion, he Said, seems to be split bet- • ween those who favor the idea and those 'who say they are satisfied with the present system of health care ad- ministration. Dr. Mills did note that those briefs op- • poS ing the health council idea S'em " to Coin e from 'tarter groups. The strongest opposition is coming from doctors in Perth County who say the council will interfere with the doctor- • patient relationship. Morris Township Reeve Bill Elston suggested that representatives from the Ottawa -Carleton region be invited to one of the meetings to "tell us just how bad it is". . Dr. Mills agreed that the system did not work well in approached planning board with a request to have the property at the corner of Huron Road and Maple Street zoned CI to permit the operation of a milk store. The property now houses a ser- vice station no longer open and Frank Strickland told the board that the Becker Milk Company were interested in renovating the building to open a neighbourhood store. Mr: Dzus said the Strickland site plan that accompanied the zoning change request was inac- curate or incomplete and (continued on page 18) Kinsmen disband supervision since the supervision has been disbanded there will be no water in the pool. Representatives' -of the Goderich Minor Hockey Association also requested financial assistance from the recreation board to continue operation during the srieamsaoninder of the hockey Bill Reid of the Goderich Minor Hockey Association asked the board for $1,000 to 'assist the association in The Goderich Kinsmen Club will no longer. offer' playground supervision at their Kinsmen Playground on South Street due to the financial burden. A delegation consisting of George Hiles, Ray Bush and Ray Cook approached the Goderich .Recreation Board for financial assistance in an effort to offer playground superVision in the park during the sumther. Recreation board members agreed that the cost could not be absorbed in the upcoming budget which forced the Kinsmen decision to drop supervision at the playground. The club employs three students during the summer months to supervise the playground. The playground will remain open for youngsters in •the area but • • randmotners cs=pdiuetynfogr thehockey explained that additions expetises were incurred as a rest* of having to operate out grandmas. ' , • . C.G.I.T. leaders Mary -The elderly ladies; have. Wray and • Norma -Jean found much delight in -these ,Farrish feel that this young girls' visits. program will be of great The C.G.1.T..is planning a :benefit to their girIS and will tliOtt1Pr4,Vihie banrk.g." a ' hap- May; 4,titiO,YA hitt§ to the ndopted gran - grandmas will be guests of ,`diriaS at Maitland Manor. honor 4- • * • of town. The matter was to be reiehrred to the budget. e board also received a request from the Goderich aketowfl,=,,Band for 81,000 !,..., •ass r aiite for the coming t.,7:4,The:.tratter was also iirred to the budget • -• , !tee • • . • • • .•& r$ . • . • . , . " 414 ',!':".4,th • „ , L. that region at the outset, but told Mr. Elston it has been functioning more efficiently in recent months. Dr.'Mills also said it would be too difficult to balance the speakers in favor and those opposed to the concept for the councillors. "We have to try to be fair," he stressed. "The 'steering committee is not supposed to sway the people one way or the other." County buys coins The Property Committee of Huron County Council has been authorized by council to purchase a set of the Town of Goderich,eoramernoratve coniaanarking that -corn- - m unity's 150th anniversary celebrations. The nickel, silver and gold coin set is costing the county $286.69 and is to be displayed at the Huron County Museum. _ In other business at last Thursday's 'council meeting, the County agreed to amend its budget to allow for a grant of $16,000 to the Goderich Airport Committee. The grant, requested by the committee, is to aid in the operation of the Goderich Airport. -The same grant was made in 1976. A committee recommendation that $9,332 (phis provincial sales tax) be spent on the purchase of a sorter to improve the efficiency of the County printing room, was also approved. The driver'of this lank truck on Highway 21 Monday morning near Kingsbridge had to drive his truck into a snow bank and jack knife the vehicle to avoid a Collision with a , school bus stopping onthe highway. Gary Randall, of Sarnia Ontario, wok driving the truck to Sarniii from DouglarS Point and was about to pass a school bus driven by Elwin Petrie when he saw the bus flashers cotne,on. To avoid the bus Mr. Randall drove intO the,- ' soave bank at the side of the road anil jack knifed the Ole truk esusing$23,�� damage ittft., • Mr: Randall was treated at Alexandra Marine and General Hospital In Godetith fOr cutt Ind later re!? a sed:Goderich 0P1' said charges are pending. (staff photo) • ihosq \r"