NEWS RELEASE
DEFIANCE
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2010
The Board of Defiance County Commissioners met in regular session at
8:30 a.m. on Thursday, February 25, 2010 in the Conference Room in the
Commissioners Office at 500 Court Street, Suite A, Defiance, Ohio 43512. Chairman James E. Harris, Jr. called the
meeting to order. Also present were
Commissioners Thomas L. Kime and Otto L. Nicely, Laura Howell, Administrator, Stephanie
Metz, Clerk, and Lanie Miller, Deputy Clerk.
The Commissioners met in General Session and approved and signed
various resolutions, contracts and documents.
The Commissioners also reviewed the calendar of events and discussed
upcoming meetings.
Laura Howell,
Administrator, met with the Commissioners to provide her weekly update.
Tim Houck,
Defiance County Environmental Services Director, met with the Commissioners to
provide an update. Tim provided the
following information for the month of January, 2010: Total Sales - $177,391.02; Total Tons – 5,190.99;
Total Cubic Yards – 17,992.
Defiance County Environmental Services is
seeking volunteers for our Great American Cleanup™ activities, which will run
from March 20, 2010 to May 1st, 2010 – and there are several ways in which your
group can participate:
• Call Defiance County Environmental Services (419) 782-5442 and select
a site to clean up, beautify/improve during the designated timeframe
• Join other volunteer groups for the Clean Up Your Park Day
effort being planned for Saturday, March 20th, 2010, 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
The Clean Up Your Park Day event is in its 15th year of community
support. Jody Doyle, Defiance City Parks & Recreation Department and
Defiance County Environmental Services encourage groups and local citizens to
go out (rain, shine, floods or snow) to clean up the area park in their
community. This group effort cleans up Kingsbury, Bronson, Diehl, Latty’s
Grove, Riverside, Pontiac Parks and the Fort Grounds. Call Jody at
(419)-782-6195, Parks Division [Christy] (419)-784-2745, and/or Defiance County
Environmental Services [June, Lynn or Tim] (419)-782-5442.
• Participate in the State Roadway Cleanup, March 26th and 27th.
Adopt a road for a day and pick up the litter. Call 419-782-5442 for more
information.
Defiance County
Environmental & Administrative Services also promotes the Adopt-A-Highway
program. This program allows groups, individuals, families, etc. to “adopt” a
two mile stretch of County roadway. Roads are available for adoption! If
interested or if you want more information, please call 419-782-5442.
Julie Rittenhouse,
Defiance County Public Safety Services Director, met with the Commissioners to
provide a quarterly update. Julie
informed the Board that the FY 2008 State Homeland Security Program Grant in
the amount of $55,289.19 was opened in October of 2009. This was used for Hicksville EMS and Defiance
Fire pagers, which have been delivered, and a siren in Sherwood. FY 2009 SHSP grant is in the amount of
$55,971.52; this will be used in Fall 2010 or Spring 2011. The County received a $2,668.97 refund from
BWC because the County’s claims were less than anticipated.
On February 3,
2010 a Medical Surge Exercise was held simulating the set up of an Alternate
Care Facility at Defiance College. The
EMA also hosted a Crisis management for School-Based Incidents training through
the University of Findlay. Topics
covered were incident planning and preparedness, proactive threat mitigation,
incident response and recovery, threat assessment management, vulnerability
assessments, incident defusing and debriefing, and parent reunification. Participants included Defiance County EMA and
Sheriff’s Office, School representatives from Defiance and Hicksville,
Defiance, Hicksville, Stryker, Van Wert, Edon, Edgerton, Bryan and Kalida
Police Departments, State Highway Patrol, Rochester College, Stryker Fire
Department and Williams County EMA and Sheriff’s Office.
Release Approved: ____________________________________________________
James
E. Harris, Jr., Defiance County Commissioner