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A new fire hall in Lucknow is one of three projects Huron-Kinloss,
is submitting for federal-provincial funding under the
Infrastructure Stimulus Fund.
The township held a special meeting April 27 to decide on the
projects under the stimulus fund and the Build Canada program which
had to be sent in by May 1. The federal, provincial and municipal
governments are each putting in one-third of the cost.
Huron-Kinloss is applying jointly with Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh (ACW)
for the fire hall, with ACW submitting the application.
The other two projects under the stimulus fund are:
*Reconstruction of Havelock Street in Lucknow at more than $2
million, including new watermain, storm sewers and new sidewalks
from Campbell Street to the former village boundary south of the
soccer fields;
*$1 million in paving, to include Concession 12 from the Ripley Road
to the township boundary, South Kinloss Avenue from the township
boundary easterly to the pavement limit, a two-kilometre section of
Whitechurch Street north of the hamlet and including the curves at
the South Bruce boundary, and the completion of 15 kilometres of the
4th concession from the township boundary to the Ripley Road.
Under the Build Canada fund, council agreed to apply for the Point
Clark northwest area street reconstruction project, including
Ronald, Blue and Brown Streets. Administrator Mary Rose Walden said
the township can use the Investing in Ontario money it has received
to pay its one-third cost of this project. (next column)
06/05/2009 10:22 PM
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In other township news from April 20 ...
- Finally after five years as deputy chief of the Ripley-Huron
Fire Department, Murray Yungblut has been formally appointed to that
position. The oversight came to staff's attention when the Ontario
Fire Marshall's office was auditing the fire departments in the
township.
- Council has endorsed a resolution from the Town of Lakeshore
calling on the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, the Ontario
Ministry of Natural Resources and the conservation authorities to
review municipal drain projects in a timely fashion and determine if
the ministry's fish-spawning restriction window and federal and
provincial regulations are appropriate. "We need the entire
process to be more flexible," said councillor Anne Eadie.
Councillor Don Murray agreed, saying the drains were never meant to
be a fish habitat.
- The township also endorsed a resolution from South Bruce,
calling on Conservation Ontario to implement and prioritize a major
lobbying effort against the provincial government and its natural
resources ministry, demanding significantly increased funding to the
36 Ontario conservation authorities.
- Council has officially approved its 2009 budget, with a tax rate
bylaw coming to council later.
- The township has approved the hiring of summer staff for the
Ripley-Huron Community Centre: Stacey Courtney, Elizabeth Simpson,
Dayna Simpson, Megan Lowry, Leanne MacDonald, Blaire Courtney,
Melanie Willits, Rachel Bell, Daniel Murray, Alexandria Van Derlie,
and Chad Carruthers.
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