DEFIANCE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26,
2002
NEWS RELEASE
The Board of Defiance County Commissioners
met in the Conference Room of the Board at 500 Court Street, Defiance,
Ohio at 8:30
a.m. on Thursday,
December 26, 2002. Present on
this date were: Commissioners Otto L. Nicely and Richard L.
Cromwell, Becky Wagner,
Administrator, Alison Grimes, Clerk and Joan Brown,
Deputy Clerk.
8:30 a.m. Commissioners reviewed the agenda for
the day, which was light, and signed a number of resolutions presented by the
Clerk.
9:30 a.m. Becky Wagner,
County Administrator,
presented her update for the Commissioners. Several phones in the Commissioners’ offices
are being replaced as they are not working properly. The County’s telephone maintenance person,
Mike Koenig, submitted a quote for a new voice mail system for the
Commissioners’ offices. Commissioners
asked Becky to review the quote and gave their approval to have the system
installed if it was acceptable.
CPR training is being offered by the City’s Paramedics on
February 5th and 6th and again on February 12th
and 13th. The training will be held at
the Public Safety Services facility. The
training is open to the public; however, Ms. Wagner is hoping to have representatives
from each County department take the training.
The first County Safety Committee meeting is scheduled for
Wednesday, January 22 at 8:00 a.m. It will be held in the Second Floor
Conference Room and representatives from each department will be requested to
attend. The Board of Commissioners
encouraged all departments to participate in the program.
10:30 a.m. The Defiance Clinic annexation
continuation was held at this time.
Present for the meeting was Steve Hubbard, The Law Offices, Agent for
the Petitioner; Chad Peter, Defiance Clinic; Russ Herman, Chief Assistant
Prosecuting Attorney for Defiance County; Otto Meyer, Richland Township
Trustee; and Jerry Hayes, Defiance County Economic Development Director. Otto Meyer informed the Commissioners that
Richland Township Trustees have no objection to this annexation and, as there
was no additional information or other discussion, Commissioners approved the
annexation petition.
1:00 p.m. The Maumee Valley Planning Commission
meeting, scheduled for this time, was cancelled due to lack of agenda items.
Approved for news release: _____________________________
Otto
L. Nicely, Commissioner