DEFIANCE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

MONDAY, APRIL 7, 2003

NEWS RELEASE

The Board of Defiance County Commissioners met at 8:30 a.m. in the Conference Room of the Board of Defiance County Commissioners, 500 Court Street, Suite A, Defiance, Ohio 43512 on Monday, April 7, 2003. The meeting was called to order by Thomas Kime, Chairman. Present were Commissioners Thomas L. Kime, Otto L. Nicely and Richard L. Cromwell. Also present was Alison Grimes, Clerk. and Joan Brown, Deputy Clerk.

8:30 a.m. Russ Herman, Chief Assistant County Prosecuting Attorney, met with the Board to review various documents pending his review/opinion. One or two documents are pending his approval; these should be completed and returned to the Board in the next few days.

9:00 a.m. General Session – Commissioners approved and signed various resolutions and documents, approved several travel requests and two hunting permission requests, reviewed the agenda items and the calendar of events, discussed upcoming meetings and updated information for the calendar of events.

Warren Schlatter, Engineer’s office, came in for a brief time to review the KeyBank parking lot plan.

10:00 a.m. Gaylon Davis, County Engineer, scheduled to meet with the Board with his weekly update, cancelled due to lack of discussion items.

11:00 a.m. Tim Leisure, Ohio Water Development Authority, called to cancel his meeting with the Commissioners due to weather conditions, as he would be traveling from Columbus. The meeting will be rescheduled.

1:30 p.m. Tina Hiler and Joe Coressel, Senior Services Center, met with the Board for a budget/financial review. Joe reviewed the various grants and allocation amounts the Senior Services Center receives. There is an overall reduction of $49,000 in FY 2003 grants compared to FY 2002. Joe’s figures showed that the Senior Services Center is well within its budget.

Joe also noted that the new Hot Shot/Home Delivery vehicle should be delivered this week.

2:00 p.m. Karen Tubbs, Treasurer, and Tim Houck, Landfill Manager, met with the Board for the first quarter, 2003, Investment Advisory meeting. Karen reviewed the amounts as follows: $39,414,142 is invested in the general portfolio, $1,123,793 in the Landfill Closure account and $2,557,675 in the landfill Post-Closure account. Currently, all investments are in order and the Board approved the investments as presented.

Today’s meeting adjourned at 2:35 p.m.

Approved for news release: _____________________________

Thomas L. Kime, Commissioner