NEWS
RELEASE
DEFIANCE COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS
MONDAY,
MAY 12, 2008
The Board of Defiance County Commissioners met in regular session
at 8:30 a.m. on Monday, May
12, 2008 in the Conference Room in the Commissioners Office at 500 Court
Street, Suite A, Defiance, Ohio 43512. Chairman Thomas L. Kime called the meeting to
order. Also
present were Commissioners James E. Harris, Jr. and Otto L. Nicely, Laura Howell, County Administrator,
Cara Brown, Clerk, and Joanne Goerlitz, Deputy Clerk.
The Commissioners met in General Session and approved and
signed various resolutions, contracts and documents, approved several travel
requests, reviewed the agenda items and the calendar of events and discussed
upcoming meetings.
Jeff Ankney,
Defiance Soil & Water Administrator, met with the Commissioners to provide
an update. Jeff advised that Congressman Bob Latta will be at the Soil &
Water office on Friday, May 23, 2008 to tour several conservation sites that
the office has worked on. Jeff informed the Board that there are currently four
(4) ditches that the Soil & Water office will be working this year: Cowell,
Kinner, Stover, and North Gordon.
The shelter house
at the Penney Nature Center
has been completely built. Weather permitting, the sidewalks and a handicapped
parking pad will be poured this week. Once the ground has time to dry out a
bit, stone will brought in for the parking lot.
Jeff reminded the
Commissioners of the 2nd public hearing on the Black Ditch that is
scheduled for Monday, May 19, 2008 at 7:30 pm in the Fairview Elementary School
cafeteria. Also, bids for the Hoschak Tile project are scheduled to be opened
on Monday, May 19, 2008 at 1:15 pm.
Warren
Schlatter, Defiance County Engineer, met with the
Commissioners to provide an update and to open bids for the Flory Road Bridge replacement. Five bids were received
for this project: Fort Defiance Construction & Supply, Inc, Defiance, OH -
$296,470.00; Miller Bros. Const., Inc., Archbold,
OH - $296,994.60; R.G. Zachrich Construction,
Inc., Defiance, OH
- $269,645.10; Stable Construction Company, LLC, Painesville, OH
- $259,952.00; and Vernon Nagel, Inc., Napoleon, OH - $267,124.09. The
engineer’s estimate is $270,446.20. The Commissioners took the bids under
advisement and upon the recommendation of the engineer, said bid will be
awarded at a later date.
Warren advised that Beerbower Rd.,
between Rosedale and Ridenour Roads, is still
closed. He anticipates the closure will last another week or two. Also, Mansfield Road will
be closed intermittently as crews prepare for culvert replacements.
Jack Graf, Job
& Family Services Director, met with the Commissioners in Executive Session
to discuss employee performance evaluations.
The Board attended
the Four County Solid Waste District Board of Directors meeting at Paulding County
Commissioners office. Following this meeting, a Joint Board of Commissioners of
Defiance and Paulding
Counties held a meeting
on Beetree Run Ditch.
Release Approved: ____________________________________________________
Thomas
L. Kime, Defiance County Commissioner