NEWS RELEASE
DEFIANCE COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS
THURSDAY,
MAY 12, 2005
The Board of Defiance County
Commissioners met in regular session 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 Thursday, May 12, 2005. The meeting was called to order by Chairman Otto
L. Nicely. Also present were Commissioner
Richard L. Cromwell; Becky Wagner,
Administrator; Alison Grimes, Clerk and Joan Brown,
Deputy Clerk.
8:30 a.m. General
Session Commissioners approved and
signed various resolutions, contracts and documents, approved several travel
requests, reviewed the agenda items and the calendar of events, discussed
upcoming meetings and updated information for the calendar of events.
Commissioners reviewed and signed the Solid Waste District
Fee Pay-In report for April which noted the following:
In-District
tonnage 8,128.77
Out-of-District
tonnage 836.03
Out-of-State
tonnage 42.53
Total tonnage 9,007.33
Total amount due to the District for the month of April is
$9,885.89.
At 9:15 a.m.,
Dave Branson and Bonnie Kaemming, on behalf of the Senior Center Auxiliary,
stopped in to talk to the Board about the yearly Senior Services Heart Auction,
which is held in February. Tina Hiler,
Center Director, has chaired the event for the last few years and, with all her
other duties, is finding it difficult to spend an appropriate amount of time on
the project. Mr. Branson is interested
in taking over the Heart Auction chair position and asked the Board for their
approval. Mrs. Hiler is willing to work
with Mr. Branson and Ms. Kaemming to explain what needs to be done. The Board gave their approval.
9:30 a.m. Becky Wagner,
County Administrator, presented the following
for the Board’s review:
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A meeting has been set for Wednesday, May 18 at 8:30 a.m. with Jerry Overmier,
Defiance County-East Project Architect, Beilharz Architects, to tour the county
facility on East Second Street
and be available to answer any questions.
Renovations to the building are estimated to be completed in August.
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Departments moving into Defiance County-East
have been notified of their new addresses so they may begin changing their
stationery.
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She reviewed KeyBank building updates sent by
Marshall Tharpe, KeyBank Facility Manager, for the Board’s review and approval,
which include hardware that provides
audio and visual communication to
the tellers inside via a small closed-circuit television screen.
10:30 a.m. Tim Houck,
scheduled to present his Landfill update at this time, cancelled and
rescheduled for Monday, May 23 at 1:30 p.m.
Approved for news release: _____________________________
Otto L. Nicely,
Commissioner