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engthy debate ends nty agrees to cut sze am relicved she said Council has made wise deci Cou By RICHARD TIIUIS Of The Examiner After almost three months of deliberations Simcoe oun ty council voted Tuesday to amend an act governing its size and to reduce its membership to 39 from 54 In recorded vote of 48 to 18 council endorsed its planning committees recommendation to amend the ounty of Sim coe Act and raise the number of voters local municipalities must have in order to keep two representat es on council The amendment will take the form of private members bill introduced during the fall sitting of the provinc1al legislature to become effective immediately after the municipal election scheduled for November 1080 Under the new proposal local municipality will require an electorate of 7500 to become entitled to deputy reeve as well as reeve on council The act currently allows two representatives to municipalities with an electorate of more than 2500 The amendment however will give the reeve an addi tional vote when his municipal electorate is larger than 2500 but deputy reeve will only receive second vote when that number is over 15000 Although the cuts mean the loss of deputy reeve for 15 of the countys 33 municipalities the majority of councillors favored the recommendation which they claim will make council less cumbersome and possibly less expensive to run ouncillor Marjorie Dyer chairman of the planning com mittee said afterwards the recommendation was the fairest to all municipalities large and small which had been con sidered by the committee Council board plan meeting on human relations course My TERRY FIELD if The Examiner Representatives of Simcoc ounty council will meet Simcoe ounty Board of Educa tioii trustees lune 28 to discuss the human relations program being proposed for countywide implciniiitation ounty board members from Adjala and Mara townships have asked the county and municipal councils throughout the county to recommend the school board cancel the pro gram They tthc county asked us it we would talk about it so we set up meeting said Dr Robert Thomas the boards superintendent of curriculum ounty council has yet to act on the request from its Adjala representative and other municipal councils saying they have no jurisdiction in matters pertaining to education and have not commented on the pro grain iillia council listened to Teacher placement slower While the process of placing teachers considered surplus has been slower this year than in years past the Sichc oun ty Board of Education is having little trouble says liv Harris the boards superintendent of educational services We are feeling the effects of declining enrolment this year more than last year in the secondary panel Harris said today The problem is not so acute at the elementary level where the board iiuist hire some 10 teachers to fill vacancies or newly created positions Some 20 secondary school teachers were declared surplus at the end of the tlll rent school year That means in terms of studentrteaclier ratios they are not needed by the school in the upcoming year arguments for and against it but did not take any action Monday though the contingent Assistant Commander tario Provincial Police inspects the Barrie Aux iliary provincial police Tuesday evening at the Barrie Armoury against asde council to con demn the program Simcoes board has Lidstone of the On The inspection is an annual developed the program on its own using ministry of education guidelines sion Counc Dyer said council had previously baulked at accepting the recommendation last month because it had not been included in the agendas early enough Acceptance of the recommendation this time however did not come without opposition and criticism from some of the smaller municipalities which will IOSe deputy reeve and are unlikely to regain him in the near future because the size of their electorate is well below 7500 find mySclf opposed to this recommendation said Donald Moyer deputy reeve of Nottawa saga Township The reduction will make council more dictatorial and less democratic If there is to be an elimination of some deputy reeves then we should reduce membership to reeves only Counc Meyer said Several representatives fromthe smaller municipalities agreed with this system of single member on council in sisting it would solve the countys problem of having to repeat the cuts in the future when the number of voters and therefore councillors increase again Reeves only would be fair it would set the number for all time said Lloyd Pridham reeve of Sumiidale Township OBJECTE TO VOTES JohnFennell reeve of the Township of West Gwillimbury also objected to the larger municipalities being granted ad ditional votes One member one vote we can represent the County of Simcoe on this basis he said Additional votes for these municipalities would allow them to snow the smaller ones under Reeve Fennell said Douglas Jackson reeve of the village of Victoria Harbor however defenced the additional votes and representation for the larger municipalities He suggested they might withdraw from the county unless granted fair representation by population It is guite unjust to ask municipality with 16000 voters to consi he said er the same voting power as one with only 1600 Democracy is not the most efficient form of government but we have to balance effiCiency with reasonable represen tation event and drew about 60 persons this year The auxiliary force is volunteer group that helps with crowd control and other duties Examiner photo Medonte appealing loss By NANCY llilERO The Examiner Medonte Township will apr peal recent Ontario Municipal Board ltMBi decision granting the village of oldwatcr more than 800 acres of the townships town country Auction raises $2000 This years city police aiiciioii raised more than $2000 said lnsp Ralph Berry hiesday Each year police auction items that have been turned into police hadquartcrs The lost or stolen goods are held at least 90 days If they are not claimed by their owners they are sold at the annual sale There were 134 items offered this year and all but few were sold said Iiisp Berry The sale raised 821110 10 this year Police Will man boat Barrie police will supply the manpower if the Greater Barrie thamber of Commerce fumishes the boat for water front patrols during Kempcnfcst this year The chamber asked the Barrie Board of Police ominis sioiiers to provide police patrols lll Kcmpcnfclt Bay during the three days of the summer cm tity police do not have boat and to rent one would cost $20 an hotir said Chief Snider Mayor Ross Archer luesday board member suggested the chamber be asked to provide boat and city police could use it for patrol during the cnt The board accepted that rccommcndat ion Math contest under way mathematics contest among loiir Barrie area elcincn tary schools was staged today at Easivitw School Secondary The winning school ill receive trophy Steele St St Monicas Shanty Ray and Maple Grove are entered the first of what organiers hopc ill be an annual tIil The contest is being sponsored by llii countys mth teachers and organized by Eastviews mathematics head Arvon Kyer Barrie man graduates Gary Whittle of Barrie will be among the 730 graduates of Niagara ollege who will take part in convocation exer cises June 13 Whittle took program in ambulance and emergency Cit It The number of raduaies is the highest lll the colic cs year history Farmers harvest too late Many farmers harvest hay too late to obtain the max imum feed value says dairy cattle specialist with the in tairo Ministry of agricutlure and iood The Hay crop is probably the most iiiiimrtaut teed product on dairy farm says lack Rodcnburg and when harvested at the right stage of grow tli it can prov ate major iiotioii of the energy and protein required by dairy cattle land said Reeve Ingram Amos today About 40 Medonte Township ratepayers attended council meeting Tuesday when the decision to appeal was made They demanded we appeal the decision said the Reeve The 0MB decision handed down in 19page report receivr ed by Reeve Amos luesday is effective laii 1980 but not if some Medonte residents have their way The decision will be appealed to cabinet and new lawyer hired to replace Bud lrivett of Orillia said Reeve Amos The new lawyer from Toronto has not been named We werent expecting them Coldwateri to take that nuich land said the reeve They took lot of good farm land We just didnt expect that oldwatcr originally propos ed annexing 1635 acres of land from neighboring Medonte and lay Townships for industrial commercial and residential growth toldwater received about one half of what they proposed They did not however receive any land owned by Tay lownship iit proposed to annex 200 acres from Tay Reeve Amos wasnt surprised by the decision not to take land from lay What Tay had wasnt too enticing he said We realized it was Medonte they were after Reeve harlcs Rawsoii of lay Township said township residents are pleased with the decision We didnt lose anything except costs he said He estimates the township spent 317000 on the annexation dispute 1n the beginning thought it was possible Tay would lose some land he said but once the hearing progressed we felt there wouldnt bc any land taken from lay Rece Raw son was shocked however at the amount of Medonte land granted to ol dwater was surprised so much was given on the Medonte side he said For Reeve Earl Brandon of toldwatcr it was different story There were no stir prises it was close to what we expected he said feel good real good It the deci SIOIT assures toldwater place iii the future We can expend both industrially and commer cially Medonte Township Council will meet Thursday to discuss the roads to take said Reeve Amos Council accepts museum tender The Simcoe County museum and archives committee has ac cepted tender of $156000 for construction of the new ar chives building council was told Tuesday Howard Campbell reeve of 0m Township and chairman of the committee said the bid was Pen pal program initiated Grade students at Mon signor lair separate elemen tary school are taking part in pen pal program initiated by the provincial government in conjunction with Year of the hild celebrations The children taught by Maureen Vickcry have been ex changing letters with children lll irade at Iairfield Public School Hamilton Theyre so excited they get these letters says Vickery Some of them have never received letter of their own before She says the children have sent photos to each other and described for their pen pals the characteristics or Hamilton or Barrie The children were given an opportunity to lean about their peers and the different way they live ickcry says It also provided me with an opportunity to teach them about letter writing Though the school year will end in the next few weeks ickery says the students may continue writ ing throughout the summer The high Grade classes throughout intario participated in the pro gram when entliiisiasm is really made by Alstead Construction Ltd ofStayner The bid was one of 11 made by area contractors and although the committee had earlier considered lower bid it was rejected because of the performance record of the com pany who made it Irving Boigon of Boigon and Armstrong Toronto architects for the building told council his firm had asked each builder to include in their bids list of projects they had completed in the last five years Boigon said this was normal procedure by an architect to ac quire general background on the contractor and enable him to check references Alstead Construction had been chosen over the lower bid ding contractor because recommendations for the latter were very bad Boigon said Council approved the com mittees choice but several councillors expressed concern to the architect that the roofing of the building be carefully supervised to avoid the pro blem of leaking which has deveIOped at the countys ad ministration building Boigon said roofing was not an exact science and that ac counted for about onethird of the failures in the building in dustry He added however that the industry was now serviced by special roof inspectors who were constantly on site during roof installation The 4000 square foot building to be located next to the current museum building will cost 3188511 to complete This figure includes the tender price as well as 513400 for architects fees $11411 to finish the building front with stone similar to the current museum archives complex and 87700 for septic system and water supply Reeve Campbell said he hoped the new budding would be finished by November CounCH hires lawyer The city will hire lawyer James McCallum to handle the downtown improvement pro jcct case before the Ontario Municipal Board OMB McCallum is the same lawyer who has handled the controver sial annexation issue He charges about $1000 per day for his services Gerry Tamblyn Barrie city administrator told city council Monday the provincial govern ment thinks the hearing will go two lays He said he expects the hearing will likely go about week Ald Dorian Parker asked Tamblyn if the city was making the wrong decision by hiring the same solicitor who handled the annexation case Tamblyn said the choice was wise because the lawyer is con sidered one of the top ten solicitors available Mayor Ross Archer said the city was happy with the way McCallum has handled the any nexation case Funds for the lawyer which Ald Meg ODonal termed an extraordinary amount of money was passed by city council We need him said Ald Bill Knowles If were going to stick with it we should have the best is gt It appears seven members of city council will continue to seek conflict of interest in quiry against Eldon ireer and the Barrie police commission Five members of Barrie city council Alermen lred Ruemper Dorian Parker Meg Donal Bill Knowles and Alex Arthur met Tuesday to discuss latest developments Eldon ircer commission chairman resigned his only share of ieorgian Protection Services Ltd an alarm ttilll pany owned by his son The company operates about too the examiner Wodnuday Jun 13 1979 15 Proud finisher Brett Waegh l0 Grade student at Maple Grove School in Barrie proud ly displays his third prize ribbon during Playday Tuesday The entire school turned out for play activity from kindergarten up The emphasis was on fun and the day ended when the tribal group Seneca outscored Mowhawk to take the championship Examiner photo by Peter Hsu Archer shaking in boots over promises developer By DENNIS lllllER The Examiner Mayor Ross Archer made election promises on the downtown improvement pro ject and now hes shaking in his boots developer lack Stollar said Tuesday Siollars reaction was to planning board decision not to allow Swiss halet develop ment to proceed along Hayfield Street The mayor recommended Stollars application be refused because it was premature and not in line with the citys at tempt to save the downtown core Stollar said he was suiprised at the mayors reaction nit because he said the mayor told him he supported the project when he visited his office two weeksago But Mayor Archer said he didnt change his mind about the development which would be set up on the citys northern limits never told him would support it said Mayor Archer did say think its proper development but dont think its right at this time Mayor Archer told the board earlier in the evening there were two ways of looking at the development We have to be consistent with our obligation to the central business district said the mayor St Josephs award winners Mrs Jean Lancefield presents Grade student Deanna Dore with the best female athlete award at St Josephs High School Tuesday Winner of the alarms in the Barrie police star tion letter from the solicitor generals office asked members of council if they ishcd to put site the matter Ald Fred Hucmpcr find the consensus at the tltill was that the ownership of singli share was not the basis of the memlxrs request It astonished me that anybody iboiight conflict of interest could LIlillt around single share Aid Rulinpcr said The request also wanle the questions of itigtlIl inonopo Aid Ier Rueiiipcr said the agreed with Mayor Archer he said increased traffic along Bayficld Street was another factor to consider Those who said this develop ment wouldnt attract more traffic are in error he said Its bad enough situation north of Cundles Road as it is Wed be fools to compound thc traffic volume on Baytield Street Ald Rucmper said that he agreed with the proposal in principal But Dave Blenkarn member of the board did iioi see the situation in the same light leadership award was Grade to student Poul Sarossy Absent from the photograph is Grade l0 student Shayne LaPlante who won the Best Male Athlete Award Examiner Photo Commission inquiry still sought ly by the alarm company and previous closed police commis siou meetings answered PREPARING LETTER Ald Ruemper said the itltltltntn are preparing letter which well probably all sign seekiiigan inquiry Ald lord Mills brought the matter up in midApril and took letter to the ministry of in tergoverntmntal affairs The request for an inqu1ry stayed there for smcral weeks beforc being forwarded to the sol icitorrgenerals office Ald Mills said it appeared irccr had considerable finan cial interest in the company and should resign as tlinllnls sion chairman He said he had evidenci that Greer did not claim conflict of interest when matters coneii ll ing the alarm company had come up at commission meetings The alderman said be pro bably wouldnt run for public office again because of criticism from some council members for his action Greer said he surrendered his share of the company on the advicc of his lawyer