COUNCIL NOTES

Seacliff plaza

Plan approved

A property owner who waited several years for the municipality to rebuild Seacliff Dr. West is now moving on a project.

Last week Leamington council approved a site plan for a commercial development at the southwest corner of Erie and Seacliff streets.

Council was told the project is a commercial plaza that will be built in two phases and eventual contain four units.

The building on the site was torn down about five years ago and over the years used primarily as a tire auto service.

Award fuel tender

To Windsor firm

A company new to the municipality will begin supplying its gasoline and diesel fuels for the next three years.

The company is Sterling Marina Fuels of Windsor and it submitted the best tender of two to provide the fuel at the marina and public works garage.

Sterling’s tender price is a savings of about $4,000 a year over the other tender.

A third company also submitted a tender but failed to offer any ethanol added gasoline, which the town demands.

Operations manager Cam McKay said all companies will soon be offering gas with ethanol added.

And the town won’t have to purchase as much fuel as it has it past years. The former police services also filled up its cruisers at the public works garage but McKay said the OPP use regular stations. The town switched to OPP last month.

Park project

Close to end

It isn’t close to the costs of the other phases but it brings the rebuilding of Seacliff Park almost to completion.

Council approved a tender of $54,800 to Piroli Construction to  replace the picnic shelter roof and renovate the service building.

The project will see just over $3 million spent on the Seacliff project.

Council was told that two other tasks remain, and one will be sought in this year’s budget. It is the installation of a sidewalk and some paving on Forest Ave.; and the rebuilding of the beach level washroom that was damaged in the June 6 tornado.

That will be paid by insurance and the town has about $150,000 left for the paving project.

MacDonald on

County library bd.

Leamington councillor Hilda Macdonald has been appointed as a board member of the Essex County Library System.

MacDonald told council there were some concerns because a family member works in the library system but she said a conflict of interest would arise only when employee issues were discussed which is not often.

Entire road

Open at last

The last section of Leamington’s east side arterial road was opened on Jan. 10.

The road has been in the planning for about three decades beginning in 1986 when the route was first identified to reduce truck traffic through the urban area.

The road now connects Talbot East with Seacliff Dr. East. The first phase, between Talbot and Oak opened last fall. The second phase is between Oak and Seacliff.

Total cost is about $12 million. The town’s major effort was to spend about $4 million to buy the land