NEWS RELEASE

DEFIANCE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2007

The Board of Defiance County Commissioners met in regular session at 8:30 a.m. on Monday, December 31, 2007 in the Conference Room in the Commissioners Office at 500 Court Street, Suite A, Defiance, Ohio 43512. Chairman Otto L. Nicely called the meeting to order. Also present were Commissioners Thomas L. Kime and James E. Harris, Jr., Laura Howell, County Administrator, and Cara Brown, Clerk.

Warren Schlatter, Defiance County Engineer, provided his update to the Commissioners. Warren advised that due to the new U.S. 24 project, Adams Ridge Road is now a dead-end and Defiance-Paulding County Line Road will become a dead-end. Effective in early February 2008, the intersections of Adams Ridge and Jewell Roads and the Defiance-Paulding County Line and Whetstone Roads will be 4-way stops. Beginning in February, 2009, the stop signs on Jewell Road and Whetstone Road will be removed.

Warren also submitted his bridge inspection report to the Commissioners.

The Commissioners met with Edwin Gehring of Toledo to discuss Mr. Gehring’s being the Apiary Inspector for Defiance County. Mr. Gehring was hired as Defiance County’s Apiary Inspector, effective January 1, 2008. The Apiary season runs from approximately April 1 – October 30, 2008.

The Joint Board of Supervisors of Defiance and Williams Counties are having a meeting on Lick Creek on January 3, 2008 at 1:30 p.m. at Williams County Commissioners Office. The Commissioners will attend the meeting.

Release Approved: ____________________________________________________

Otto L. Nicely, Defiance County Commissioner