DEFIANCE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24,
2003
NEWS RELEASE
The Board of Defiance County Commissioners
met at 8:30 a.m. in the Conference
Room of the Board of County Commissioners, 500 Court Street, Suite A, Defiance,
Ohio 43512
on Monday, November 24, 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 were Becky
Wagner, Operations Manager/Administrator; and Joan Brown, Deputy Clerk.
8:30 a.m. Brian Campbell, Campbell Painting,
stopped in the update the Board on a repair/painting project at the Humane
Shelter.
8:35 a.m. General
Session – Commissioners approved the minutes from Board meeting November 17,
2003, signed various resolutions, travel requests and vouchers, reviewed the
agenda items, the calendar of events, discussed upcoming meetings and updated
information for the calendar of events.
Lisa Karcher of Maumee Valley Planning asked for a
Commissioner to serve on the Housing Advisory Board. Commissioner Cromwell agreed to serve on the
Board.
The Board held a phone conference with the Paulding
County Commissioners and both Boards agreed to ask Merlin
Butler of Poggemeyer Design Group to negotiate an extension of the options to
purchase real estate for the Auglaize Sewer lagoon.
10:00 a.m. Gaylon Davis,
County Engineer,
presented his weekly update at this time.
Gaylon informed the Board that he will be serving as President of the
County Engineers Association next year and will be making some trips to Columbus
for meetings as well as utilizing teleconferencing rather than traveling for
some meetings. The group also discussed
some pending legislation. The survey of Elliott
Road is underway.
10:30 a.m. Wayne Olsson, Board of Elections, met with
the Board regarding mandated computer updates to meet the HAVA (Help America
Vote Act) requirements. This update will
allow the local system to daily update the system in Columbus. Wayne
presented a quote for software and server from TRIAD GSI in the amount of
$8,450.00 to meet the HAVA requirements.
The Board of Elections received a grant in the amount $6,150.00 for this
update. Wayne
also presented a quote for new computer hardware to replace the current system
which is approximately eight years old.
The Board asked Wayne to get
more information on the quote for the replacement system.
The group also discussed the computerized voting machines,
which the Board of Elections hopes to have in place by the primary election in
March 2004. The equipment is undergoing
security checks. The State is requiring
one machine for each 200 voters. The
group also discussed the need to have 5-10 extra machines as back-ups in case a
machine goes down on election day. Also, two machines are needed at the Board of
Elections for absentee voting. The Board
also asked Wayne to get prices for
storage racks for the voting machines.
1:30 p.m.
Jerry Hayes, Director of Economic
Development, and Russ Herman, Assistant
Prosecuting Attorney, met with the Board to review procedures for enterprise
zone agreements.
2:00 p.m. Marlene Goodwin, County
Auditor; and Barb Lasek and Sharon
Scheuerman, of the County Auditor’s
staff, met with the Board regarding procedures for approval of expenditures for
various county departments.
Today’s meeting adjourned at 2:55
p.m.
Approved for news release: _____________________________
Thomas
L. Kime, Commissioner