Meeting Minutes

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

Mr. Pooch moved, seconded by Mr. Riesterer to approve the minutes, submitted by Fiscal Officer Mary Ann Lindsley, from the April 16, 2009 meeting and also from the work session held on April 30, 2009. Vote: all ayes.

Mr. Riesterer moved, seconded by Mr. Pooch to approve and sign the warrants #8607-8654, that were presented by the Fiscal Officer for payment. Vote: all ayes.

Mr. Pooch moved, seconded by Mr. Riesterer to accept the financial reports that were submitted by Fiscal Officer, Mary Ann Lindsley. Vote: all ayes.

Several residents from Maple Hills were in attendance to see what was going on with the WODO Development that may be going in by them.

Mr. Riesterer explained that we had sent a letter opposing the development, he included in the letter that the development doesn’t meet our zoning. He also mentioned that he had met with the County Commissioners and that they were also going to write a letter. We do have some alternate sites that may work better for this development.

Jane Ann Williams from the Thomas Neill Women’s Relief Corp was at the meeting to see if we might help with the printing of their programs for the Memorial Day Parade.

Mr. Riesterer moved, seconded by Mr. Pooch to print the programs for the Memorial Day Parade at no cost to the Women’s Relief Corp. Vote: all ayes.

Mr. John Hensley was at the meeting to asked why Hula Construction tore up his property. Chief Keimer explained that a notice had been sent on this property and that they had appealed and were given time to clean up the property. After this time expired we did the clean up.

The trustees agreed to send Mr. Hensley a copy of what was done by, and what we paid, Hula Construction. The Hensley’s said we should send copies to 313 Crystal Rock Rd.

The trustees said they could reimburse the township for the costs to Hula Construction by September 1, 2009 or that we would put it on the taxes.

Mr. Tom Johnson gave his report. The new zoning book was mentioned. The zoning board plans to hold a public hearing on the book in June. Mr. Riesterer said that the book has to be approved by legal before we can pass it. He will go to the zoning meeting on Monday to explain that legal has to approve the book before we can have a hearing.

Mr. Johnson went over some tall grass issue. Notices will be sent.

Tom also mentioned that Matt Ring is trying to clean up Crystal Rock.

Tom also mentioned a Tiki Bar for non profit, is going in off Wahl Rd. We have nothing to do with this.

Mr. Jim Neill gave his report. Mentioned that the Road Levy was defeated. After some discussion it was decided that we would probably try to pass a renewal levy in November.

Jim said that ODNR has awarded the Castalia State Fish Hatchery Project to Mark Haynes of Norwalk. The work is expected to begin in July.

Jim said that according to Karen Capizzi and Tom Sabol from ODOT they hope to return to SR 101 and jet out the storm sewers. They said that they won’t clean any more ditches there. Mr. Riesterer will try to contact someone about this.

Jim gave an update on the Homegardner Rd. drainage project. AT&T said that the phone lines along Homegardner Rd. will have to be relocated before the ditch can be cleaned. They will schedule the work in the next couple of months. The trustees told Jim to get a truck load price on the concrete culverts and pipes for this project.

Mr. Riesterer moved, seconded by Mr. Pooch to ask for 200 ton of salt on the county salt bid for 2010. Vote: all ayes.

It was mentioned that the recycling bids had gone out for another year, but that the county could still drop some of the areas. The county has not made a final decision on stopping the recycling pickups.

Chief Keimer gave his report. He said they had an EMS run to the Christian School on Maple Ave. He wanted to know if he should charge them since the person is a non-resident. The trustees said we should not charge since we don’t charge the local public high school students.

Chief Keimer also mentioned that he had someone outside our radius that wants to become a paid on call firefighter. We do not want to change our radius at this time, due to response time.

Tom gave a brief talk on some meetings regarding pandemic illnesses and he went over what we would need to do as responders.

Kevin Dwight gave an update on the technology project. He said the server is all set up.

Mr. Pooch moved, seconded by Mr. Riesterer to give Kevin Dwight the approval to spend up to $3500 for Phase I (server operation/backup). This could be through several vendors. Vote: all ayes.

Mr. Riesterer said that Columbia Gas had agreed not to charge us for damage done.

Chief Keimer mentioned that representative Murray wants to hold a town hall meeting here on May 18, 2009. He told them it would be ok, since he didn’t see anything else scheduled for that night.

Fiscal Officer, Mary Ann Lindsley mentioned that some invoices are not being turned in a timely manner and she has to track down who is charging them in order to pay.

We are still in the process of getting insurance forms completed in order to quote our health insurance.

Mr. Pooch moved, seconded by Mr. Riesterer to adjourn. Vote: all ayes

The meeting adjourned at 9 p.m.