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Donald W. Roughley is returning to the private sector after three years as Waterloo‘s Chief Administrative Ofâ€" fieer, the city‘s top bureaucrat. Roughley, 49, announced last Friâ€" day he has accepted an offer of a viceâ€" presidential position with a Torontoâ€" bgnd development company beginâ€" ning August 19. "I‘m an advocate of managers in local government moving back and forth between the private and public city council over the last year. He said his major accomplishments for Fort McMurray, Alberta, and has worked as a private consultant. Roughley would not name the firm he is joining, but Mayor Marjorie Carroll said, "I‘ve already invited Don as part of his new job with the development company to come back and have a look at Waterloo. ‘There are a lot of opportunities in the core in particular." Roughley said his resignation was a "career move" and had nothing to do with the confrontational politics of Roughley was hired to oversee the city‘s staff of 325 in April 1985. Prior to that he was the city commissioner Waterloo families looking for acâ€" commodation for a parent may want to consider renting a granny flat. The City of Waterloo is accepting apblimtioi:s for the selfâ€"contained housing unit which has come vacant Roughley leaves Waterloo "The new challenge is a very excitâ€" Soldier Clark was involved in a 10â€"week summer school learning about explosives. He was to participate in a survival training course in the mountains beginning next week. Clark was to begin his third year of officer training at the Royal Canadian Military College in Kingston in September but Mrs. Clark said she had spoken with Jeffrey and said, "he was in good spirits with a very stiff body." Mrs. Clark said he was shaken from the accident but "as far as we know he‘s in hospital in stable condition .‘ And now from the "I can‘t make up my mind" category comes the local Liberal nomination race candidate, or nonâ€" candidate, John Roberts. _ _ Yessiree, folks, straight from Toronto, via Concordia University in Montreal comes John (I‘ll run if you beg me) Come on guys, this is getting a little much. It‘s been over a month now since this newspaper discovered that local Liberals had approached Roberts to ask him to run for the local federal candidacy. Roberts has been begging for time ever since. Or at least that‘s what he‘s saying publicly. Roberts said in midâ€"May that he needed two weeks to think about it, but was not inclined to conducted an opinion poll which suggested he‘d receive strong support from the general Waterloo voting public if he was the local candidate. However, convincing the local Liberals to give him a kick at the cat was another matter. So, local Roberts supporters threw a breakfast last Friday at which Roberts was to announce whether he would run for the local nomination. Ever so diplomatically, Roberts talked about free trade, and Meech, and the importance of research ndnhnlopmnoCnmlh'lndWMho’s future. The man sure sounded like a national political figure. Sure Flat looking for Granny (continued on page 1) as the city‘s first chief administrative officer include "the achievement of a very strong management team on the basis of a team concept." Roughley also believes the corpo rate strategic planning process he £20 + w45 avery cltylsdmhngwnhgmwtb in a ver Though he will move to Newmarket with his wife, Roughley sees Waterloo as "a very stable community and it knows where it‘s going. That can‘t be said for a lot of communities in following the recent death of Minnie Following discussion with the Onâ€" tario Ministry of Housing, which supplied four flats as test projects in Waterloo, the city has decided to seek Mrs. Clark said she did not know if his plans would be affected by the accident. News reports said the accident happened when the cadets were on day three of a four day training routine, learning how to safely handle explosives. The unit had been attempting to blast a fiveâ€"metreâ€"deep crater in the ground when the 27 kilograms of plastic explosives prematurely detonated. The area where the explosion occurred has been cordoned off and the cause of the explosion is not known. Investigations are pending. Don Roughiley Give us a break, John seemed like cabinet material. Certainly handled difficult questions like a winner, an old political pro. But there was nary a peep about whether he‘d seek the local nomination, only talk of running if loca! Liberals wanted him to, and fluff about the need for local party unity. Give us a break, John. What do you expect here, unanimity? An openâ€"arms welcome from the three already declared candidates â€" Stephen Woodworth, Kellyâ€"Leigh Thomas and Ruby Weber. Mpooplewantthatmmiufion,ndtheymhnodoubt think they are qualified, deserve it, and can beat incumbent Walter McLean, who has served this city well since 1979, but has the stigma of being part of Lyin‘ Brian‘s team. Now, it has been suggested, and denied of course, that mmwbulethubawWoodmtb. who is generally acknowledged by people off the record to be Ontarioand that says a lot for its leadership. "And when I say that I‘m looking at the mayor." He hopes to stay involved with the board of directors of the planned Neufeld Art Gallery and the Clay and Coun. Andrew Telegdi is critical of Roughley‘s style of administration. "Council is not always kept inâ€" formed. Council should be very open so that not only council members know what is going on, but the public it serves. That was not one of Mr. Roughley‘s strongest points. "I think he‘l} do very well in private enterprise where there‘s a certain lack of vigor for public accountability. He‘ll get to go to a real boardroom." Coun. John Shortreed saw Roughâ€" ley‘s biggest achievement as "helping us get organized for a much bigger staff. We tripled our training budget. He really pushed down a lot of responsibility to our staff." The city now sets up about 40 internal task forces yearly, said Shorâ€" Roughley‘s management style has meant "less surprises" for councillors to deal with, he added. The city will advertise the chief administrators job Canadaâ€"wide, Carâ€" roll said. out a new occupant for the oneâ€"bedâ€" room flat. Gregâ€"Romanick, director of developâ€" ment planning for the city, said the two levels of government agreed the "granny flat", a term coined in Ausâ€" tralia, should be relocated within the city. As a threeâ€"year pilot project, the government will be considering the fate of the granny flat project later this fall. Ideally, explained Romanick, the city would like to find an applicant by midâ€"August. He hopes the paperwork, including the necessary rezoning, to relocate the unit from the Norman‘s could be completed within six months. If an applicant is not found within the two months the ministry will remove the flat and store it. The unit is approximately 600 square feet. Rent was $320 per month excluding utilities. The ministry pays the cost of installing the unit and restoring the landscape when it is removed. For more information call Romaâ€" nick at 747â€"8754 City Seen lan Kirkby Chronicle Staff Is he or isn‘t he running for the nomination as the federal Liberal candidate for Waterloo riding? "I‘m prepared to accept the nomination here if the Liberal party wants me," John Roberts said last Friday at a supporterâ€"held breakfast. s "I‘m not interested in coming here to fight anyone." Roberts was approached last month by a group of local Liberals who were seeking a candidate of national stature to seek the nomination to unseat Progressive Conservative incumbent Walter McLean, who has represented the riding since 1979. At Friday‘s breakfast, Roberts painted himself as a candidate who would be a "national politician" if a Liberal government is formed after the next federal election, due before Sept. 1989. He said if he ran and was elected, he would take to Ottawa such local issues as the importance of increased university spending and increased emphasis on John Roberts tries on a pair of lederhosen given him by Jonas Bingeman at a breaktast Friday. tan Kirkby photo research and development. Roberts also attacked the Meech Lake Accord and the Reaganâ€"Mulroney free trade agreement during a breakfast talk to about 60 supporters. A poll of 305 local riding citizens measuring his support was released last week by Roberts. It claimed if an election were held on the day of the polling, 47 per cent of respondents would vote Liberal, 31 per cent would vote for the Progressive Conservatives and 10 per cent would cast their ballots for the New Democratic Party. â€"Incumbent Member of Parliament Walter McLean said he‘s seen the poll results and "I don‘t lose any sleep over them. I just get busy with our workers to make sure we don‘t lose the campaign." â€" â€" â€" _ The Powers Poll also suggesbe;i only 38 per cent of respondents knew the identity of their incumbent MP. "On any sample, that‘s a pretty good number given the movement in and out of our area and the growth of our area," said "I‘ve never expected easy campaigning. 1 expect to work hard at it. I‘m gearing up to work hard for it. I don‘t expect any gifts." The poll claims to be accurate to within six per cent, 19 times out of 20. There are three declared candidates for the nomination to date â€" local lawyer Stephen Woodworth, veterinarian Dr. Kellyâ€"Leigh Thomas and accountant and Elmira resident Ruby Weber. The nomination meeting is currently scheduled for July 12. Is he running? the local bigâ€"bucks frontâ€"runner, has some beliefs that may seem, well, illiberal. For instance, he is strongly proâ€"life or antiâ€"choice (depending on your point of view) on the issue of a woman‘s right to an abortion. What Roberts supporters do acknowledge is that they view their candidate of choice is a national level figure, a former Trudeau government heavyâ€"weight, a party intellectual, and the ideal candidate for an academic city such as Waterloo. In short, a winner. They neglect to mention his 1984 electoral defeat to Tory Barbara McDougall, or his recent failure in seeking the nomination for another Torontoâ€"area seat. Doesn‘t seem like a winner of late, does he? And that is probably why he is so reluctant to plunge headâ€"long into a fullâ€"scale battle for the nomination in Waterloo riding. In politics, it‘s ususally three strikes and you‘re out. people begin to ask if this is not only desirable, but inevitable (don‘t laugh, that‘s the essence of Mulroney‘s marketing campaign to sell Canadian‘s a free trade deal with Uncle Sam). But, guys it‘s getting tedious. There‘s an old saying that sople should, "#$* or get off the pot." Give us a break.