NEWS
RELEASE
DEFIANCE COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 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 November 10, 2005. The meeting was called to order by Chairman
Otto L. Nicely. Also present were
Commissioners Thomas L. Kime and
Richard L. Cromwell; Becky Wagner,
Administrator, Lyla Gurwell Clerk, and Joanne Goerlitz, Deputy Clerk.
8:30
A.M. General Session Clerk, Lyla Gurwell presented various resolutions, contracts
and documents for approval of the Commissioners. Commissioners also approved several travel
requests, reviewed the agenda items and the calendar of events, discussed
upcoming meetings and updated information for the calendar of events.
The Commissioners
signed the contracts for the R & L
Enterprise Industrial
Park to begin construction on the infrastructure portion of
the project in the cities
Industrial Park.
The Commissioners
approved the hiring of two new employees.
Craig Newberry was hired as a part-time meal route driver to replace an
employee that left the Defiance
County Senior
Center and Stacie Hummel
was hired full-time to work for the Maintenance Department to replace an
employee who will retire in December.
9:30
A.M. Defiance County Administrator Becky Wagner updated the Commissioners that Fort Defiance
will be installing the de-chlorination system at Evergreen Office Complex on Evansport Road this
within the week.
Northwest
Ohio Education
Services will be relocating on December 13th.
Becky also reported
that Jean Ziegler, Clerk of Courts will meet with the Commissioners about
updating their computers and server system in the near future.
Becky contacted
Dennis Miller of Maumee Valley Planning to find out if all of the paperwork for
the Nature Works Grants have been processed.
Dennis indicated that he will contact ODNR to find out if they need any
additional information.
10:30 A.M. Defiance
County Treasurer Karen Tubbs met with the Commissioners to discuss naming of
the Bank Depository for Public Funds for Defiance County. Karen recommended to the Board of
Commissioners to designate by resolution Sky Bank as the public depositor of
the active checking account and active moneys for Defiance County
for the contract period of November
15, 2005 thru November
14, 2009. Karen used two
main criteria to determine who the main depositor would be. The criteria was the compensating balance
required to cover the cost of the fees charged to the account and the interest
rate earned on all overnight money including the sweep account and the savings
account. Karen along with the
Commissioners would like to thank all of the financial institutions in Defiance County for their proposals. Every proposal was very competitive and Karen
analyzed all of them very carefully.
The following Banks
are listed as secondary depository banks for Defiance County: Sky Bank, Key Bank, Hicksville
Building & Loan, First Federal Bank, Fifth Third Bank, Hicksville Bank,
Farmers and Merchants Bank, and The State Bank & Trust Company.
11:00 A.M. Wastewater
Operations Manager Greg Reinhart along with Ken Maag of Poggemeyer Design Group
and Tim Smith, representative for the Rolling Hills
Community Trailer
Park met with the Commissioners in reference to a
new flow meter installation. The
Commissioners instructed Mr. Smith that because of the installation, he will
need to have the installing company certify and have notarized that the meter
was calibrated and installed correctly and that there are no performance
problems.
Mr. Smith also asked
if he could be added to the list of inspections along with the county to have
the unit inspected once per year. The
Commissioners asked that Greg Reinhart check into what it would take to
accomplish this and report back to them if it would be acceptable
1:30 A.M. Defiance County Auditor
Marlene J. Goodwin came in along with Richard Kahle with the Home Builders
Association, Dick Hoffman with Appraisal Research, Jerry Hayes with Economic
Development and State Representatives Steve Buehrer and Jim Hoops, were in to
discuss a proposal to State Legislature to help developers of subdivisions in
small communities. They discussed ways
to keep the values of subdivisions at undeveloped values for three years or
until a set number of lots are sold.
Mr. Kahle indicated
that the small communities do not have the same advantage as larger communities
and he would also like to see legislation passed not just in communities, but
state wide.
2:00
P.M. Defiance
County Senior Services Director came in to have the Commissioners sign Grants
for 3-B which consists of all operating expenses excluding nutrition. Tina indicated that she looked at all of the
fund lines and took out the information and referral as well as the Alzheimer’s
fund line and added money into the transportation budget line.
Tina told the
Commissioners that there are restrictions on the delivery of meals. She indicated that the Senior
Center will deliver 82,300 meals this
year which accounts for 17% of the population of Defiance County. Out of approximately 39,500 persons, 6,731
people qualify for delivered meals.
Tina reported
potential grant money would amount to $3.30 with the remainder of the balance
being levy monies. Tina said her staff
utilized a new computer program that is capable of breaking down what grants
were paying for particular services. Based
on those figures, she and her staff were able to complete the paperwork for the
grants they are applying for.
The demographic
element breakdown amounts to the following:
Age 75 or older – total number served is 770 and the percent of total
persons 60 years or older is 60%. Total
number of minority served is 7, below poverty level served is 209, those
persons living alone is 517, rural persons served is 1,284 and disable served
is 264. These figures were based on
specific geographic locations, such as townships, villages and neighborhoods in
which the senior Center targets older persons with the greatest social and
economic needs, specific groups to be served and how the need was identified.
Approved for news
release: _____________________________
Otto L. Nicely, Commissioner