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The Margaretta Township Trustees met in regular session on September 20,
2007. Present were Mr. Bias, Mr. Riesterer and Mr. Pooch.
Mr. Riesterer moved, seconded by Mr. Bias to approve the minutes from the
September 6, 2007 meeting, as presented by the Fiscal Officer. Vote: all
ayes.
Mr. Riesterer moved, seconded by Mr. Bias to accept the financial reports
that were presented by the Fiscal Officer. Vote: all ayes.
Mr. Bias moved, seconded by Mr. Riesterer to approve and sign warrants
6951-6984, that were presented for payment by the Fiscal Officer. Vote: all
ayes.
Mr. Kevin Bache of Lima Sandusky Road was at the meeting to discuss the
property at 4702 Lima Sandusky Rd. and the mess on the property. He said
there is an old compressor setting, building supplies, and a shed is down
and lying on the ground. The trustees told Mr. Bache that they will talk to
Tom Johnson about this property again.
Mr. Bache submitted a list of public records he would like to see. Mr.
Riesterer went over the list with him to be sure what he wants. Mr. Bache
did say that he could look over our minutes on line.
Both Jim Neill and Tom Johnson said they didn’t think there was
anything on the property that could be issued a citation for. Mr. Johnson
said that John Zimmerman also went out to look the property over and agreed
that there was nothing to warrant a citation.
Dave Bodi asked about the property at 6118 Parker Rd. It seems there is
quite a mess there (furniture, garbage etc laying around outside.) The
trustees said this is being taken care of and that the Health Department and
Chief Keimer had been contacted about this property. A letter was sent about
the problems there.
Mr. Riesterer moved, seconded by Mr. Bias to pass Resolution 2007-16
giving our support to the county regional dispatch study. Roll Call Vote:
Mr. Bias- yes, Mr. Riesterer – yes and Mr. Pooch- yes.
Mr. Riesterer moved, seconded by Mr. Bias to pass Resolution 2007-17,
requesting the County Auditor to not certify the .7 mil Fire Levy for tax
year 2007-2008. Roll Call Vote: Mr. Bias-yes, Mr. Riesterer- yes, and Mr.
Pooch-yes.
Tom Johnson gave his zoning report. He said that the owners of 305
Bellevue (the house that had the fire) plan on rebuilding.
He called the owners of Edgewater Trailer Park about the trailers that
are a mess. The owner said they plan on getting rid of several trailers and
bringing in better ones.
Tom mentioned that Prax Air should be breaking ground (in Industrial
Park) soon.
Chief Keimer gave his Fire Report. He said that Mashell James was let go
as a part time dispatcher and also a paid on call firefighter, also Zach
Bodi was removed as a paid on call firefighter. They did not pass the
probation period.
Chief Keimer sent a letter to 301 Crystal Rock Rd for clean up of the
property. Mr. Zimmerman is to look at this property also.
Tom gave the trustees a list of items that the Fire Fighters Assoc. had
donated to the township.
Chief Keimer mentioned that his got a note that the SCBA’s for the FEMA
Grant were under estimated and that we may be able to get an adjustment on
our grant.
Tom also mentioned that we need more part time dispatchers.
There was a discussion on our radios and also on surplus equipment.
Mr. Bias moved, seconded by Mr. Riesterer to declare the surplus
equipment list, provided by Chief Keimer, as unusable and remove them from
our inventory due to being unrepairable and for a total value of $10/or
under, and ask the FireFighters Assoc to get rid of them. Vote: all ayes.
Mr. Riesterer moved, seconded by Mr. Bias to pass Resolution 2007-18,
accepting the items donated by the Fire Fighters Assoc. and to place the
items on our inventory and insurance. Roll Call Vote: Mr. Bias-yes, Mr.
Riesterer-yes and Mr. Pooch-yes.
Jim Neill gave his Road and Cemetery report- Jim had a road maintenance
list for next year. He mentioned possibly not putting in for the Issue II
project for Homegardner Rd. in order to catch up on the road maintenance. He
would like to submit the overlay total of $80,000 for the Issue II for next
year. After a discussion with the trustees it was decided to go along with
Jim’s suggestion.
Jim and Chief are going to BWC Training on September 26, 2007.
Mr. Bias moved, seconded by Mr. Pooch to contract with All Pest Insect
Control for a cost not to exceed $250 to take care of our bug problems.
Vote: 2 ayes Mr. Riesterer abstained.
Mr. Riesterer moved, seconded by Mr. Bias to grant the vacation requests
for Keith Killingsworth for 11/11/2007, Dan Minor for 10/9, 10/11, and
10/13/2007 and for Marsha Morrow on 10/2/2007 for 4 hours. Vote: all ayes.
Mr. Riesterer moved, seconded by Mr. Bias to hire Eric Lyons, as a paid
on call fire fighter at a rate of $9.50/hr and on probation for 6 months or
until his training is completed.
Mr. Bias moved, seconded by Mr. Riesterer to pursue pricing for 4 narrow
band UHF radios. Vote: all ayes.
Keith Kreager from Crystal Rock and our Rural Water Representative was at
the meeting. He mentioned that Rural Water is going to be going to
electronic meter reading. He said that the tap fees are going from $2000 -
$2225 on March 1, 2008 and they will be going to $2500 in March of 2009.
Mr. Kreager mentioned a house on Lynwood that is half torn down. Chief
Keimer told him we were working on it.
Mr. Riesterer moved, seconded by Mr. Bias to go into executive session
with the Trustees, Fiscal Officer and Chief Keimer 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 to our regular
meeting. Roll Call Vote: Mr. Bias-yes, Mr. Riesterer- yes and Mr. Pooch-
yes.
Fiscal Officer, Mary Ann Lindsley, mentioned that we have not done any
adjustments to Russ Zura’s sick time. He had given a list of times he
missed due to his knee. The trustees had originally said to add the time
back in, but now have decided to put the issue on hold.
Mary Ann also mentioned that we should be updating our employee handbook.
We do have the Firefighters union contract in order now, which does address
several of the issues that the Auditor had at our last audit.
Mr. Riesterer moved, seconded by Mr. Bias to advertise for part time
dispatchers. Vote: all ayes.
We will be hosting the Township Assoc. Christmas Dinner Meeting on
December 13, 2007 at the American Legion.
Mr. Bias moved, seconded by Mr. Riesterer to adjourn. Vote: all ayes.
The meeting adjourned at 10:45 p.m.
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