Zurich Citizens News, 1977-01-12, Page 2Page 2
Citizens News, January 12, 1977
Hay council inaugural session
Road repairs top priority in Hay township
Road improvement will be one
of Hay township's council's top
priorities in the coming year
according to Reeve Jack Tinney.
"We are having to spend a good
deal of money on snow removal.
Naturally this will affect our
roads budget so how much we can
do remains to be seen."
One of the first road im-
provement projects planned by
the township will be the resur-
facing of the Goshen from Zurich
2 1/4 miles north to the town line.
Asphalt will be laid to a depth of 1
1/2 inches.
Several committee ap-
pointments were made at
council's inaugural meeting last
Monday. Reeve Jack Tinney will
be council's representative to the
Ausable=Bayfield Conservation
Authority. Reeve Tinney will
also represent Hay township on
the Exeter Area Fire Board.
Lloyd Mousseau will represent
Hay on the Hensall .Area Fire
Board with both Lionel Wilder
and Donald Geiger representing
Hay on the Zurich Area Fire
Board. Claire Deichert will be
council's representative on the
Dashwood Recreation and
Community Centre board.
The township is calling for
tenders for a 1977 model half ton
pick-up truck to be used as a
utility truck by the road
superintendent.
HAY COUNCIL — The first meeting of Hay's elected council was held last Monday. They are, left to right;
back row Lionel Wilder, Donald Geiger, Claire Deichert and Lloyd Mousseau. Seated in front, left is Reeve
Jack Tinney and clerk -treasurer Wayne Horner. Photo by McKinley
Grand Bend
Village to improve assessme
Grand Bend Reeve Robert
Sharen says the village will
make moves to improve upon its
assessment base within the next
year and a half. But whether it
will mean annexation will de-
pend on the Village's ability to
quell mounting opposition from
ratepayer groups in adjacent
Bosanquet and Stephen
Townships.
Sharen says Council will deal
with the boundary adjustment
question later this month. He
maintains the village can no
longer afford to provide
municipal services to a summer
population of 20.000 on an assess-
ment geared to a permanent pop-
ulation of 800.
And he says Council is ada-
mant in its position that some
form of boundary change is need-
ed. There are several ways the
village could approach the issue
but Sharen favours a series of
public meetings with the ex-
tremely vocal ratepayer groups,
especially those in the Oakwood
and Southcott Pines sub-
divisions.
He believes the issue can be
resolved amicably providing
"people in the affected areas
have an open minded approach."
Sharen says the Village will be
very diplomatic in its approach.
"We're not out to deliberately
make enemies. We have a
problem that has to be resolved
and ignoring it won't make it go
away."
Bosanquet Reeve John
McDonald says his municipality
has nothing to gain and about a
rnillion dollars in assessment to
lose. "I can't see a little
municipality like Grand Bend
ever being permitted to ex-
pand."
He says Bosanquet and
Stephen will meet "sometime in
coming weeks" to discuss a co-
operative effort against the
village.
McDonald says "Grand Bend
should worry about solving its
own problems before trying to
take on ours." He listed
ownership of the beach, erosion
and the need tor sewers, just to
name a few.
"We will fight this all the way,
t
even if it means making bad
friends. We've got a million
dollars in assessment adjacent to
the village and we aren't going to
give it away lightly."
He went on to comment that
"Grand Bend has existed the
way it has for 100 years or more
and I don'f think change is
necessary at this time."
Chairmnn
mad imed
Mrs. Marilyn Wearring, Rii, b
London, was acclaimed 1977
Chairman of The Middlesex
County Board of Education this
week. She succeeds James Duffin
of RR 2 Thorndale.
James Scott of RR 1 Centralia
was elected vice-cheirman.
Mrs. Wearring and Mr. Scott
have been members of the Board
since January 1975. Mrs.
Wearring was Vice -Chairman
last year and Mr. Scott served as
Chairman of the Budget Com-
mittee.
Trustees named to Board
committees for 1977 include J. L.
O'Shea (Chairman), Mrs. N. C.
Bice and W. A. Evans to the
Early School Leaving Com-
mittee; Mrs. M, A, Temple
(Chairman), Mrs. M. J.
Wearring, H. A. Baird, S. H.
Bond, J. L. O'Shea and J. M.
Scott (Alternate) to the Com-
mittee on Mutual Concerns that
will meet with representatives of
secondary school teachers; E. A.
Ferguson (Chairman), Mrs. M.
A, Temple, H. A. Baird and T. D.
Blackburn to the Committee to
Arrange tha Official Opening of
Adelaide -W. G. MacDonald
School; J. L. O'Shea (Chairman),
Mrs. J. E. Webb, P. P. Cianfarani
and E. A. Ferguson to the
Committee to Review Certain
Aspects of Policy; J. E. Duffin
(Chairman of Trustee Members),
Mrs. M. J. Wearring, D. H.
Cobban, H. A. McLean, and Ms.
V . M. Albert tAlternate) to the
Committee on Common Concerns
that will meet with represen-
tatives of elementary school
teachers; G. Defoe (Chairman),
Mr3. M. A. Temple, S. H. Bond, J.
M. Scott and J. E. Duffin
(Alternate) to the Committee to
Negotiate Teachers' Salaries.
In other business the Board
approved acceptance of the low
tender of $180,170 from Gilchrist
$180,170 from Gilchrist Building
Systems for renovations to
Strathroy District Collegiate
Institute.
Approval was also given to
application to the Ontario
Education Capital Aid Cor-
poration for a five-year $430,151
debenture to finance the second
phase of the addition and
alterations to Glencoe District
High School.
The concept and general plan
for a county -wide students' public
speaking contest, prepared by
representatives of the various
teachers' federations, was ap-
proved with the final competition
scheduled to take place on March
12.
As usual the township is ten-
dering for gravel. This year they
are asking for tenders on 20,000
cubic yards.
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