DEFIANCE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

News Release

Thursday, July 11, 2002

OPENING:

The regular meeting of the Board of Defiance County Commissioners was called to order at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, July 11, 2002, in the Hicksville Village Council Room, Hicksville, Ohio by Chairman Otto L. Nicely.

PRESENT: ABSENT:

Otto L. Nicely, Commissioner

Darrell W. Miller, Commissioner – on vacation

Thomas L. Kime, Commissioner

Becky Wagner, Administrator

Alison Grimes, Clerk

D. Joan Brown, Deputy Clerk (did not attend Hicksville session

A. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

The minutes for the July 8, 2002 meeting were reviewed and unanimously approved as read.

Motion - Tom Second – Otto

Ø JOURNAL #130, RESOLUTION #02-07-369

B. RESOLUTIONS

The following Resolutions were submitted for consideration and approved:

Amended Official Certificate #7 - $87,172.52

Motion – Tom Second - Otto

Ø JOURNAL #130, RESOLUTION # 02-07-370

Award Bid – Steel/Aluminum Bridge Materials – County Engineer

Motion – Otto Second - Tom

Ø JOURNAL #130, RESOLUTION # 02-07-371

Request Use of Permissive Tax Funds – City of Defiance - $16,932.44

Motion – Tom Second - Otto

Ø JOURNAL #130, RESOLUTION # 02-07-372

Authorize Submission of D.A.R.E. Program Grant Application and Implementation of Program

Motion – Otto Second - Tom

Ø JOURNAL #130, RESOLUTION # 02-07-373

Fuel Price Change #46 - decrease

Motion – Tom Second - Otto

Ø JOURNAL #130, RESOLUTION # 02-07-374

No Purchase Order Request - Various

Motion – Otto Second - Tom

Ø JOURNAL #130, RESOLUTION # 02-07-375

No Purchase Order Request – Senior Services

Motion – Tom Second - Otto

Ø JOURNAL #130, RESOLUTION # 02-07-376

C. OPEN ISSUES/DISCUSSION

D. APPOINTMENTS

8:30 a.m. General Session – First the Commissioners viewed the work being completed on the parking lot at the Fairgrounds. It has been enlarged and crushed asphalt has been installed as drives. Additional stone and signs will be put at the fairgrounds and guardrail will be erected prior to the beginning of the County Fair. Then, the morning portion of the meeting was held in Hicksville. Commissioners and staff left for the return trip to Defiance at approximately 9:30 a.m.

10:00 a.m. Becky Wagner, County Administrator, presented her weekly update at this time. Quotes were received for carpeting in the Commissioner’s Conference Room:

Flooring Outlet $2,421.54

Haver $2,855.21

Morris $3,446.85.

The project will be given to Flooring Outlet and the carpet is scheduled to be installed July 26^th.

As recommended by CORSA, the County’s risk sharing authority, Mark Hopper, Public Safety Services Coordinator, is going to begin motor vehicle registration checks on employees who drive county vehicles.

The steering committee will be reviewing the applications submitted for the position of Family and Children First Coordinator. The review is scheduled for Friday, July 12. About a dozen applications were received.

11:00 a.m. Jim Harris, Soil and Water Conservation District, introduced Ed Crawford, Project Specialist, from the state Soil and Water Department, to the Board. He will be the liaison between the State and the local Soil and Water District. The group discussed various programs available through the Soil and Water office and Mr. Harris reviewed several county ditch projects. Mr. Crawford congratulated the Commissioners on the good working relationship the Commissioners have with the Soil and Water District and their Board.

1:30 p.m. Otto Gerdeman and Ken Maag, Poggemeyer Design Group, and Doug Rath and Greg Reinhart of the County’s Wastewater Operations office, met with the Commissioners for a projects update.

Evansport Wastewater Treatment Plant: A bid date for this project will be set for sometime during the end of September or early October. Block Grant funding should be available for use mid-September, but other funding avenues are yet to be explored.

Evergreen Wastewater Treatment Plant: Poggemeyer will request an extension for the PTI (Permit To Install) from the OEPA.

Defiance/Paulding Auglaize River Sewer Project: The project is basically on hold until Paulding County Commissioners decide what they want to do.

Brunersburg Sewer Project: A closing date has been scheduled with Rural Development for August 26^th. A meeting will be held prior to closing with the Township Trustees, Brunersburg Water and Sewer Department and the Commissioners to see if there are any complaints and to tie up any loose ends.

Express Sewer: Contract extension has expired with the contractor due to the hold-up of acquiring a final easement. Once the legalities of acquiring the easement is accomplished, a re-bid date will be set.

State Route 66 North Waterline Relocation: The relocation of 400 linear feet of existing waterline on State Route 66 due to required work on a culvert by ODOT (Ohio Department of Transportation). Poggemeyer submitted a proposal for services to accomplish this for a not-to-exceed cost of $2,500.00. Commissioners will review this proposal before a decision is made.

Christi Meadows I & I: A progress report was given. The manhole work has been completed. There has not been a significant amount of rain to visually test how well the system is removing storm water from the area.

2:45 p.m. Susan Jackson, County Job and Family Services interim director, met with the Commissioners with an update. Negotiations will begin soon on their union contract. To become familiar with the workings of the Job and Family Services office, Ms. Jackson has begun reviewing payroll, income and expense fund lines, and various grants and programs.

At 2:49 p.m., Commissioners entered EXECUTIVE SESSION to discuss Personnel (ORC 121.22).

Motion – Tom Second – Otto All eligible voted aye.

EXECUTIVE SESSION ended at 3:29 p.m.

Meeting adjourned at 3:33 p.m.

Approved for News Release: ______________________________

Otto L. Nicely, Commissioner