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Clerical Assistant--Ferry Operation will be hired to do much of the regular office work connected to the ferry, provided that we still have a ferry to operate. Emestown already has a Records Retention By- law. This dictates how long old municipal records must be kept. Amherst Island and Bath were asked to pass a similar by-law, so that a lot of the old paper-work can be disposed of. Loyalist Township General Transition Board Meeting October 2"". - Chris Kennedy - I V I attended the General Transition Board meeting. in Emestown this month, The new tOWnSl'tljp sleems to be takliplg ' t e new ear. Shape, and Sho'ltl'ld bgolblidaggeiiigto be c0-03i'dinating It appears that the OPP are the best people to provide General Tram] 10" all the special committees that police service for the new township. This would be much are dealing with the details of better than providing our own police force. Each of the three the new township. existing councils have to decide what level of service they The meeting started With :1 require, and then we will have to find out how much it will presentation from the Ontario all COSY. I ' I I . Clean Water Agency. This is a The new City of Kingston is still trying to steal part of Crown Agency, which 1 had Ernestown from the new Loyalist Township. However the never heard of before, but they Minister of Municipal Affairs, Al Leach, has written to say apparenfiy run 80% ofthe water that he does not intend to make any changes, at least until it . treatment plants in Ontario, IS seen how well the new township works out. Reeve Paul including those in Odessa, Gilmore ofErnestown, however, said that Kingston is free to Amherstview and Bath, and the waste their money however they want. waste water treatment facility in Various matters about our transportation problem were Bath, and they want to continue discussed. A resolution to the Premier from the Fact Finding working for the new township. Committee was endorsed. This requested that the Ministry of The Board discussed the Economic Development and the Ministry of Agriculture and future ofthe municipal office in Rural Affairs also be involved in helping find a solution to Bath, This is a completely our ferry problems. A second part ofthe resolution requested modernised building, and is that the Interim Ferry plan be maintained by the utilities approved so that we are not commission in Bath, apparently left stranded on January lst. out of money that would It seems that a bridge to otherwise go to Ontario Hydro. Amherst Island would cost I did not follow the entire between $67 million and $85 nting procedure, but it sounded good to the Board, and mllhom This '5 COHSIdeFahly accoud cided that instead of enlarging the office space in more than the "N531 Property l 33:53: to use the Bath building instead. One entire Liable 0f the Islandr; CopnCi: department of the new township could be housed there. Our 3? _ Fecelve h [I0 6 t 6.33 municipal building on Amherst Island will be used for a ferry 0P|h10n 0" a C a enge 0 16 - ' fer down-Ioadin and are _ f b ll etc..A art-time '3' E7 offices and as a dro Off lace or 1 S waiting forasecond. The meeting closed with a much bigger organisation. Ourmunicipal politics are leaving the horse and buggy days, and joining the 2lst century, in one gigantic step. However, we will still have Stuart M i l l e r a s Supervisor/operator for our roads, with Gary and Ron still at the wheel of 1 our snow-plows. a question period. Listening to this Board meeting brought home to me that we are becomin a small art of a