NEWS RELEASE

DEFIANCE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2012

 

 

The Board of Defiance County Commissioners met in regular session at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, December 27, 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., 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.

 

The Commissioners recently received the Job Cost Accounting Report from Defiance County Engineer Warren Schlatter for the small culverts replaced in 2012. The following County culverts were replaced at a total cost of $86,213.56: Whetstone Road, Downing Road, Mud Creek Road, The Bend Road, Coressel Road, Power Dam Road, Trinity Road, Banner School Road, four on Scott Road, three on Elliott Road and four on Krouse Road. The following Township culverts were replaced at a total cost of $115,003.59: Carpenter Road, Lockwood Road, Bostater Road, Weichman Road, Overly Road, Brandt Road, Vollmer Road, Egler Road, Indian Bridge Lane, two on Moon Road, and Flickinger Road.

 

The Commissioners met with the VFW Board in executive session per Ohio Revised Code Section 121.222 (G) (2) to consider the purchase of property for public purposes. There were no decisions made in executive session.

 

Tim Houck and June Crosser, Defiance County Landfill, and Ed Merriman, Mannik & Smith Group, met with the Commissioners to discuss the BAT Phase 3 Construction project. This project is scheduled to be bid out in January of 2013, with construction completed in the fall of 2013.

 

Tim also provided the monthly update for November, 2012. There was $274,174.00 received in sales from 31,937 cubic yards and 9,899.28 tons, compared to $240,781.12 in sales from 24,990 cubic yards and 8,398.69 tons in November 2011.

 

 

 

Release Approved:  ____________________________________________________  

                                                Thomas L. Kime, Defiance County Commissioner