NEWS RELEASE

DEFIANCE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 2012

The Board of Defiance County Commissioners met in regular session at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, August 23, 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 Commissioners Otto L. Nicely and James E. Harris, Jr., Laura Howell, Administrator, and Stephanie Metz, 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 Board to provide her weekly update with various department and project updates. Laura provided the following updates:

Maintenance: Ron Cereghin reported that Maintenance has been working on the Emergency Management Agency Building siding, sprayed weeds at the Senior Center and Sauers Avenue property fences, installed four new ovens and two new faucets at the Senior Center and set up the County Fair displays for the County Government Building.

Child Support Enforcement Agency: The Defiance County Child Support Agency provided the following report for July, 2012: Collections totaled $565,331; expenditures totaled $51,511.76; caseload of 2,889. Administrative fees for the agency totaled $11,029.90; Cash medical collections: $659.52. Sandy Schappert reported that for the Federal Fiscal year through July, 2012, collections on current support have increased 1.26% and collections on arrears only cases have increased 1.00% from the same time period in the prior fiscal year.

The Commissioners attended the Hicksville Chamber of Commerce Back to School Breakfast at the Hicksville School.

Release Approved: ____________________________________________________

Thomas L. Kime, Defiance County Commissioner