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the tribune stouffville ont thursday december 4 1947 ontario county council in uproar over 45000 overexpenditure in road dept arising out of a discussion of an overexpenditure of between 15000 and 0000 in the accounts of the road committee warden thomas h harding of reach township threatened to resign at the session of the ontario county council at whitby thursday morning war den harding said he would not make a hasty decision and for that reason would inform council of his intentions later warden harding pointed out that the reports of the roads com mittee submitted to the district engineer had not been submitted to him for his signature actually it was stated the reports to the dis trict engineer are prepared by county engineer d j kean and are signed by him vears budget 210000 the county road committee this year had a budget of 210000 at present there is approximately six thousand dollars remaining of this amount a new road hvhi- tainer and a fourwheel drive truck costing approximately so000 still have to be paid for in this years budget provision was made for the erection of a garage to house road equipment at a central point in the county and the purchase of the two pieces of road equipment mentioned above members of council are prepar ing a bylaw to provide for a supplementary amount of 325000 for county road purposes during this session ewart mars- don district engineer of the de partment of highways voiced some criticism of the ontario county road board for allowing such an expenditure claims warning given warden harding claims that he had warned both the county engi neer and the commute every time it met against an overexpenditure he said he would not sit as warden of the county and take such criti cism when he had fought against it during the session with warden harding absent from the room council passed a strong vote of confidence in its warden and the road committee and absolved them of all blame in connection with the conditions brought to its attention regarding the road accounts later in the sesion on the wiurn of the warden the question of the overexpenditure was raised by the warden this time with a view to determining how many of the county council members knew the exact amount of money paid to county employees under the juris diction of the road committee in addition the warden told the council that he contacted the dis trict engineer by phone and had been aswed that the reports from the county engineer only reached his office in may august and oct- jober and that they were signed only by the engineer there is supposed to be a month ly breakdown report sent to the dis trict engineer said the warden warden harding told council in the matter of salary paid to the j county employees under the juris- i diction of the road committee no payment was supposed to be made without first getting a voucher signed by the engineer and road committee chairman there is no subsidy paid unless a voucher is signed he said d b aanis of pickering town ship chairman of the county road committee said that he thought any salary set by council bylaw had to be paid regardless the warden reiterated that such payments were not subsidized un less a voucher is signed mr annis asked a question of the warden do you mean to say that no subsidy has been paid on these payments during the past year i will answer that with another question said mr harding how were the vouchers made out with out your signature this entire situation has gone on long enough said the warden for pitys sake why dont you do something about it while you have the chance allxight session retains engineer on friday council sat long into the night on the situation regarding the road accounts and at one o clock voted to retain engineer d j kean whose dismissal was under consideration because of his bud get having been exceeded by the sum of s 15000 mrs catharine grenon of wind- raised as roman catholic sor ont may raise her son wayne as a protestant her husband 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