NEWS
RELEASE
DEFIANCE
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
THURSDAY, JULY 12, 2012
The Board of Defiance County Commissioners met in regular session at 8:30
a.m. on Thursday, July 12, 2012 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
Commissioner James E. Harris, Jr., Laura Howell, Administrator, Stephanie Metz,
Clerk, and Lanie Miller,
Deputy Clerk.
The Commissioners met in General Session and
approved and signed various resolutions, contracts and documents. The Commissioners also reviewed the calendar
of events and discussed upcoming meetings.
Laura Howell,
Administrator, met with the Commissioners to provide her weekly update. Laura provided the following department and
project updates:
Defiance County Department of Job
and Family Services provided assistance to Paulding County Department of Job
and Family Services during the time period last week that Paulding was without
power. Approximately five Paulding county individuals made contact with DCDJFS
for assistance with applications or for spend down purposes. Paulding posted signage to contact DCDJFS.
The same offer was made from DCDJFS to Putnam County although no individuals
from Putnam came to Defiance.
Defiance
County Child Support agency reported that payments were accepted from
neighboring counties that were affected by the power outages. The Defiance CSEA also has received enhancements to the web-portal for
payment information. Payment information now can be accessed by CSEA Case Managers to they can better assist clients with
understanding information about an individual’s case. Clients then can re-set
their own password.
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residents have hooked up to the Auglaize River Sewer System.
Ron Cereghin,
Defiance County Maintenance Supervisor, met with the Commissioners to review
the report on the exterior facilities maintenance.
Marlene Goodwin,
Defiance County Auditor, met with the Commissioners for a 6 month budget
review.
The Commissioners
received notice that the OSU Extension and the Ohio Agricultural Research and
Development Center (OARDC) are sponsoring a free
program titled “Corn Silage and Forages: 2012 Drought Management and Economics”
from 10:00 am – 12:00 pm on August 10, 2012 at the OSU Extension Defiance
County 06879 Evansport Road. Featured topics include: Harvest Management for
Drought Corn and Forages, Feeding Drought Stressed Forages to Livestock:
Health/Nutrition, Pricing Drought Stress Corn for Corn Silage. The featured
speakers are Dr. Bill Weiss, Ohio State University, OARDC,
Department of Animal Science, Professor & Extension Specialist and Dianne
Shoemaker, Ohio State University Extension, Field Specialist, Dairy Production
Economics.
Release Approved: ____________________________________________________
Thomas
L. Kime, Defiance County Commissioner