DEFIANCE
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
News Release
Thursday, January 10, 2002
OPENING:
The regular meeting of the Board of Defiance County Commissioners was called to order at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, January 10, 2002, in the Conference Room of the Board of Defiance County Commissioners, 500 Court Street, Suite A, Defiance, Ohio 43512 by Chairman Otto L. Nicely.
PRESENT: ABSENT:
Otto L. Nicely, Commissioner
Darrell W. Miller, Commissioner
Thomas L. Kime, Commissioner
Becky Wagner, Operations Manager/Administrator
Alison Grimes, Clerk
D. Joan Brown, Deputy Clerk
The minutes of the January 7 meeting were unanimously accepted and approved.
Motion – Tom Second – Otto
Ø JOURNAL #129, RESOLUTION #02-01-012
The following Resolutions were submitted for consideration and approved:
Transfer of Funds #1 – Human Services Mandate
Motion – Tom Second – Darrell
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JOURNAL #129, RESOLUTION
#02-01-013
Transfer of Funds #2 - Commissioners
Motion – Darrell Second – Tom
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JOURNAL #129, RESOLUTION
#02-01-014
Fuel Price Change #2 - increase
Motion – Tom Second – Darrell
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JOURNAL #129, RESOLUTION
#02-01-015
Jean Ziegler, County Clerk of Courts, submitted her December 2001 report. Titles were issued for the following: 122 new cars, 950 used cars, 70 new trucks, 404 used trucks, 28 vans and 22 motorcycles. $6,089.51 was collected and credited to the General Fund.
8:30 a.m. General Session
Commissioners reviewed
and approved the Special Funds budget for 2002. The General Fund Budget was approved on Thursday, December 20,
2001 in the amount of $9,026,139.50 (Nine Million Twenty Six Thousand One
Hundred Thirty Nine Dollars and Fifty Cents) plus Interest in the amount of $2,
613,292.52 (Two Million Six Hundred Thirteen Thousand Two Hundred Ninety Two
Dollars and Fifty Two Cents) for a total of $11,639,432.02 (Eleven Million Six
Hundred Thirty Nine Thousand Four Hundred Thirty Two Dollars and Two
Cents). The FY 2002 total budget for
Defiance County equals $50,888,166.95 (Fifty Million Eight Hundred Eighty Eight
Thousand One Hundred Sixty Six Dollars and Ninety Five Cents).
Approve FY 2002 Special Funds Budget - $39,248,734.93
Motion – Darrell Second – Tom
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JOURNAL #129, RESOLUTION
#02-01-016
Women and Family Services submitted paperwork for a Commissioner’s signature regarding the Office of Criminal Justice Services Subgrant Award. $27,200.00 is funded through the Office of Criminal Justice with a County match of $9,068.00. Total amount of the grant is $36,268.00 and is earmarked for Rape Crisis Counseling.
9:00 a.m. Dave Westrick, Defiance County Sheriff, and Deputies Steve Flory and Dan Crites met with the Commissioners to review information concerning the Deputy’s Contract and obtain their signatures. This contract remains the same as the previous one except a salary increase of 3% instead of the previous 4% was approved. The contract is effective March 1, 2002 through March 1, 2005.
Commissioners also thanked all the deputies and the Sheriff for their dedication and commitment to Defiance County and for presenting such an acceptable contract.
9:30 a.m. Becky Wagner, County Operations Manager/Administrator, presented her weekly report. She conveyed a request from Randy Vogel, Humane Agent, to purchase a digital camera for his office. Mr. Vogel was asked to research and submit prices of several different models he would be interested in.
Ms. Wagner also notified the Commissioners that Campbell Painting, who began work at the Sheriff’s Department a week earlier than scheduled, had to halt temporarily to go to another job. They should be back at the Sheriff’s Department next week.
She also updated the Commissioners on the contract with TDC regarding web-mapping.
10:00 a.m. – Jeff Hostetler and Phil Marinaro, Workforce Development, met for an update on the One-Stop. The group reviewed various Workforce Development issues – activities, expenses, funding, designation of areas, compliance, etc. They reviewed information from the Department of Labor regarding various Technical Skills Training Grants where approximately $20 million will be available for funding projects. The Commissioners from Defiance, Williams and Paulding Counties are the Joint Board members involved in this
program. Mr. Marinaro and Mr. Hostetler will meet with the Williams and Paulding County Commissioners shortly to present this information to them.
1:00 p.m. – A Commissioners study session, planned for this time slot, was cancelled.
ADJOURNMENT:
Meeting adjourned at Noon.
Approved for News Release: ______________________________
Otto L. Nicely, Commissioner