Meeting Minutes

Present were Mr. Bias, Mr. Riesterer and Mr. Pooch.

Mr. Riesterer moved, seconded by Mr. Bias to approve the minutes as presented by the fiscal officer from the January 4^{th meeting. Vote: all ayes.}

^{Mr. Bias moved, seconded by Mr. Riesterer to accept the financial reports presented by the fiscal officer. Vote: all ayes.}

^{Mr. Riesterer moved, seconded by Mr. Bias to approve and sign warrants 6361-6374 that were presented for payment. Vote: all ayes.}

^{Mr. Dave Bodi was at the meeting. He mentioned that his name does not appear on our web site as a member of the zoning appeals board. The trustees will let Tom Keimer know and ask that his name be put on. Mr. Bodi also mentioned that he plans to run for Margaretta Township Trustees in November.}

^{Mr. Bodi gave a suggestion for a name for the new section of our cemetery.}

^{Fire Department Report. There seems to be a question on the firemen’s sick pay from 2000-2003. The firemen feel that they did not receive the correct sick time accumulation.}

^{Fiscal Officer, Mary Ann Lindsley said that an adjustment had been made in 2003 and then the sick time accumulated at 7.7 hrs. per pay for the balance of 2003. The trustees made a change in 2004 to 7 hrs. per pay. Mr. Riesterer said he would meet with the firefighters who are questioning this and see if the problem can be resolved.}

^{The trustees presented a list of the comp times for the full time firemen: All comp time on the books needs to be use in 2007. We will no longer have comp time.}

^{Comp time available is as follows:}

^{W. Dean Gasser 30.38/hours
Thomas Johnson 37.4/hours
Daniel Minor 78.77/hours
Daniel Strayer 96.11/hours
Russell Zura 33.19/hours}

^{Mr. Riesterer moved, seconded by Mr. Bias to approve the vacation request from Tom Johnson for March 1, 3 & 5, 2007. Vote: all ayes.}

^{Mr. Riesterer moved, seconded by Mr. Bias to approve the vacation request from Kim Knerr for January 26, 2007. Vote: all ayes.}

^{Jim Neill gave his Road/Cemetery Report. He had completed his inventory for the county.}

^{Our road mileage is now at 37 miles.}

^{Jim discussed the drainage on Parker Road and also he mentioned that the storm sewers on Crystal Rock Road are getting worse.}

^{Jim mentioned that the power show was next Friday.}

^{Mr. Riesterer moved, seconded by Mr. Bias to approve the request to purchase material to replace a catch basin plus add one more and for 340 ft of pipe, in order to improve the storm sewer drainage on Crystal Rock Rd. Vote: all ayes.}

^{Mr. Bias moved, seconded by Mr. Riesterer to order the parts to repair our road mower at a total cost of $850. ($450 from LaCal Equipment and $400 from Streaker Tractor) Vote: all ayes.}

^{Mr. Bias moved, seconded by Mr. Riesterer to go into executive session with the trustees, fiscal officer and road supervisor to discuss personnel. Roll Call Vote: Mr. Bias – yes, Mr. Riesterer – yes and Mr. Pooch – yes.}

^{Mr. Bias moved, seconded by Mr. Riesterer to return into regular session. Roll call vote: Mr. Bias – yes, Mr. Riesterer – yes, and Mr. Pooch- yes.}

^{Mr. Bias moved, seconded by Mr. Riesterer to give the Road Department the following raises: Matt Studer and Tom Jones from $14.10/hour to $14.50/hour. This raise will be effective 1/6/2007. Vote: all ayes.}

^{Mr. Riesterer moved, seconded by Mr. Bias to give Jim Neill a raise from a salary of $47,500 to $49,000/yr effective 1/6/2007. Vote: all ayes.}

^{Tom Johnson had information on the Fire Department’s cell phone service. They want to go to Nextel.}

^{Mr. Riesterer moved, seconded by Mr. Bias to approve the contract with Nextel with 4 phones and the option to add one phone for dispatch. The estimated cost of $150/month. Vote: all ayes.}

^{Zoning- Tom Johnson asked about our zoning fees. The trustees said to table this because they said that Frank Knerr was getting information what fees other zoning departments are charging.}

^{There was also some discussion on the sign that North Coast Cancer is putting up.}

^{Outside boilers were mentioned.}

^{Mr. Bias moved, seconded by Mr. Riesterer to give the following raises, effective 1/6/2006 to Firefighters: W.Dean Gasser, Thomas Johnson, Dan Minor, Dan Strayer and Russ Zura: they will from 13.45/hr (1506.40 every two weeks) to 13.58/hr ( 1520.96 every two weeks) Keith Killingsworth will go from 12.09/hr (1355.08 every two weeks) to 12.22/hr (1368.91 every two weeks). Vote: all ayes.}

^{Mr. Bias moved, seconded by Mr. Riesterer to raise Chief Tom Keimer’s salary from $54625/year to 56263/year. Vote: all ayes.}

^{A raise for Frank Knerr was tabled at this time due his being off work on a worker’s comp claim.}

^{Mr. Riesterer moved, seconded by Mr. Bias to give the following raises to the dispatchers: Full time dispatchers will go from 12/hr to 12.30/hr, part time dispatchers will go from 11/hr to 11.30/hr., dispatchers on probation will receive 50 cents less. This is to be effective 1/6/2007. Vote: all ayes.}

^{Our levies were discussed. We have a 1.25 fire levy up this year. The trustees discussed replacing the 1.25 mil with a 2 mil new. The trustees will look into putting a 2 mil new Fire levy on the ballot to replace the 1.25 mil we presently have.}

^{Keith Kreager from Crystal Rock is still not satisfied with the arrows that Jim put at the bottom of the hill. Mr. Bias asked if anyone had ever gone into the field at the curve. Mr. Kreager said they had not.}

^{Mr. Riesterer moved, seconded by Mr. Bias to pay Erie Regional Planning the participation fee for 2007 of $2797.20. Vote: all ayes.}

^{The Chamber of commerce is doing maps and we should contact them if we are interested in advertising on the maps.}

^{Fiscal officer, Mary Ann Lindsley mentioned that we have just learned that we have someone in a school district that has a school income tax. We need to take this money out of their pay and begin sending reports to the state.}

^{Mary Ann also mentioned that the trustees and fiscal officer will begin receiving their new wages this month, based on our estimated resources.}

^{Our next meeting will be held on February 8, 2007 instead of February 1, 2007.}

^{The Erie County Township Association meeting is also scheduled for February 8, 2007}

^{Mr. Riesterer moved, seconded by Mr. Bias to adjourn. Vote: all ayes}

^{The meeting adjourned at 10:30 p.m.}