The Goderich Signal-Star, 1979-02-01, Page 63
PAGE 6—GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1 , 1979
Spend $25,000 now -save millions later
BY JEFF SEDDON
Huron County council
learned Friday that it
could spend $25,000 and
save the county houing
industry millions of
dollars in interest.
Months of waiting for
approval for housing
projects in the county can
be avoided and huge
interest payments on
money, raised _ by
developers to finance
those projects can be
saved according to a
report given council by
the county planning
board.
The project basically
turns approval power for
housing projects in Huron
County over to county
council. Any projects now
planned for the county
have to go to the ministry
of housing for final ap-
proval and under the
suggested system final
approval, if no objections
to the d_ evelo-pment are
lodged, would rest with
council.
The bulk of the savings
would be realized • by
avoiding the provincial
approval. Many plans
clear the red tape of
planning locally only to
sit ' on the desk of the
minister of housing for
months. .Developers are
not permitted to start
building until final ap-
proval is given by the
province and end up.
waiting an undetermined
amount of time.
County planner Gary
Davidson said the ap-
proval by council could
result in "enormous
savings". He said it could
chop six months off the
waiting period that is a
thorn in the sides of
developers. He said the
savings may be passed on
to consumers meaning
slightly cheaper housing
but pointed out that any
decision to pass those
savings on would be
made by developers.
The planner said the
project came b.efore
council because if council
decided it wanted to go
ahead with it the county
planning department
would have to clear up all
its outstanding work by
Searls ...
• from page 3
cards are played by the
night crew".
Councillor James
Magee agreed with Allen
claiming "there was not a
dollar to be saved" and
that the split shift Would
be "hard on equipment".
Councillor Stan Profit
supported the split shift
idea claiming some snow
removal could only be
done at night. He said the
crews simply could not
move some snow during
their , present working
hours because of -parked
cars. Profit said he had
come to his...barber shop.
on The Square on more
than oneoccasion over
town streets that were
-41ike' "skating rinks".
Profit said he never could
understand why the town
did' the core area first
when it -plowed streets
pointing out .that if a
-person doesn't live near
The Square how are they
-supposed to get uptown if
their streets, aren't
plowed. •
Councillor Elsa Haydon
reminded council that the
discussion was about a
group of town employees
not some machinery. She
pointed out that there
appeared to be a "certain
disregard" for the em-
ployees.When suggestions
were made to have this
man work this day and
that manwork that day.
Haydon said it was that
type of treatment that
made employees join
unions.
"Treat people as
people," she urged
council.
Searls' motion was
defeated but the coun-
cillor may not be through
with his idea. He did not
say he planned totake the
matter back to council
but indicated that many
of the points raised
against his motion were
questionable. He said he
is still convinced the town
could save money by
going to a split shift and
would get better snow
removal to boot.
He questioned Allen's
statement that a split .
shift had been tried
before in Goderich. He
said he had checked
around and had been told
that there had been no
attempt at a split shift in
at least the past eight
years. He added that if
the town was not
prepared to at least try
the split shift how. could
anyone say it wouldn't
work. He said he felt
efforts should be made to
prove beyond a doubt that
the split shift won't save
money.
Searls said the town
pays overtime to have the
crews move the snow and
that overtime has to' be
paid because it takes the
men twice as long to
remove... it - because. of
traffic. He added that
comments were • made
suggesting the crews
would have nothing to do
at night if there was no
snow.
"What the hell do the
men do in the daytime,
when there's Ino snow?"
'- • .+ck,Pd.
He said he could think
of lots of things to occupy
the night crew if there
was no snow.. to move. He
Suggested painting park
benches and outdoor
equipment in preparation
for spring and cleaning
up the fire trucks. He said
he was in the fire hall
recently and noticed the
trucks were filthy.
"The town's got a lot of
dollars tied up in that fire
equipment," -lie said.
The councillor also
can't agree with the
suggestion that there
would be no way to keep
tip the -practice of putting
one man on each piece„ of
equipment. He said that
practice was foolhardy
pointing out that the men
should be able to handle
,any piece of equipment
the town owns.
"How would°it be if the
police wanted a car for
every cop?" he asked.
"Do we buy ten cruisers?
If a guy on the work crew
goes 'oh holidays do we
put his equipment in
mothballs? The men
should be trained on all
the equipment." •
Searls said the only
way the work crew can
keep ahead of the snow
removal is to have a
reliable system worked
out. He said there is no
way road superintendant
Stan Meriam can drive
around town jotting down
notes on particularly bad
areas to have the men
come by later to fix them
up. He said there should
be, a system worked out
so the snow is
automatically cleaned up
and no bad areas ailowed
to develop.
"The road superin-
tendant and the com-
missioner of works
should work out a
schedule that the men
can folio* during the day
and at night," said
Searls. "If they can't do
that what are we paying
them for?" he asked.
He added that he felt
the suggestion that the
night crew would not
work without supervision
was nonsense. He said
factories that have night
shifts do .not keep
supervisory "staff on top
of employees all ` night.
Searls said he didn't think
the town crews needed
somebody to "stand over
them 'to make sure they
worked".
Searls said the town
had passed a bylaw
requiring people to keep
their cars off the streets
at night to permit streets
to be cleaned of snow. He
said the bylaw keeps the
streets free of parked
vehicles., all night but
there '`are no plows
operating. He said he felt
his suggestion for the
split shift complements
the no parking bylaw.
He also didn't feel a
split shift would send the
crews into a union adding
that he was `elected by
the people of Goderich
not the employees". ,
"If' I can save tax-
payers money that's what
I'm there fort" he said. ,
January 1. He said a
junior planner would
have to be hired by the
county by the fall of 1979
to permit someone in the
department to take over
responsibilities created
by the approval takeover.
In a report to council
the planning board said
the total cost of the
change would be about
$25,000. The initial setup
of the system will cost
about $1,500 and the
salary of the junior
planner to be hired is
about $16,000. The
remainder of the money
will be used to set up the
administration process to
be followed locally.
The ministry of housing
is eager enough to give
local governments ap-
proval of developments to
give those governments,
grants to set up systems
to allow those approvals
to be given.' Ministry
officials 'indicated that
grants are available from
the province for such a
move locally.
In its report planning
board said'' the grants
have only been suggested
and no firm corri-
mitments or amounts
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have been given by the
ministry, The board said
the transition could be
budgeted for over two
years suggesting that
$10,000 in.1979 would be
enough to get the project
off the ground with -.th'
remaining costs to be
budgeted for in 1980..
The board suggested
that .the system be
shelved for 1979 but that
an investigation be
continued as to subsidies
which may be available
should the Bounty assume
responsibility in 1980:-
Davidson said the
financial realization of
such a move would not be
known until the county
could determine how
much the development
industry "spends
waiting".
"What's one percent a
month on a million
dollars?" he asked. -
The savings would only
be realized on projects
that are free from ob-
jections. Normal appeal
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the last 34 projects that
came through the
planning .department
were turned down by the
minister of housing and
that both of those were
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