Meeting Minutes

Mr. Pooch moved, seconded by Mr. Riesterer to approve the minutes from the December 4, 2008 meeting. 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.

Mr. Pooch moved, seconded by Mr. Riesterer to approve and sign the warrants that were presented for payment by Fiscal Officer, Mary Ann Lindsley. Vote: all ayes.

Fiscal Officer, Mary Ann Lindsley submitted new final appropriations for the trustee’s approval. We need to send new appropriations to the auditor due to the fact of receiving updated estimated resources from the auditor. We had asked to be able to spend more money in our gasoline fund, due to receiving more than we originally appropriated. We did not ask to give the Road Dept money from general fund.

Mr. Pooch moved, seconded by Mr. Riesterer to approve the amended final appropriations, as submitted by the Fiscal Officer, and to send them to the county auditor. Vote: all ayes.

Mr. Pooch moved, seconded by Mr. Riesterer to hire Daniel Loroff as a part time snow plow driver, effective December 19, 2008, at a rate of $12/hour. Vote: all ayes.

Chief Keimer gave his report. He said that the time has expired for the appeal on the house in Crystal Rock that had the fire. Tom said he would call to be sure that an appeal had not been filed. The other house’s appeal will expire on December 22, 2008. This house is down but they need to clean it up.

Chief Keimer said that the dispatching will be done by Huron beginning tomorrow.

The Homegardner Road ditch and bridge were discussed. We may want to get together with Ken Fortney to discuss this in early January 2009.

We didn’t make the first round for our Issue II Project.

Our leaf and brush drop off collected 11,580 lbs in the 5 days that we held drop offs.

Once again we will have an area for Christmas tree drop off.

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

The meeting was adjourned at 8:20 p.m.

DEC.19TH ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING

The Margaretta Township Trustees held their 2009 organizational meeting on December 19, 2008 at 1 p.m.

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

Mr. Pooch moved, seconded by Mr. Riesterer to appoint Mr. Bias as Chairman for the Margaretta Township Trustees for 2009. Vote: all ayes.

Mr. Bias moved, seconded by Mr. Riesterer to appoint Mr. Pooch as Vice-Chairman for the Margaretta Township Trustees for 2009. Vote: all ayes.

Mr. Bias moved, seconded by Mr. Pooch to appoint Tim Riesterer as our representative and Joe Bias as the alternate to the Erie County Council of Governments. Vote: all ayes.

Mr. Pooch moved, seconded by Mr. Bias to appoint Dave Foster as our representative and Emmanuel Karniotis of our alternate to the Erie County Regional Planning Board. Vote: all ayes.

Mr. Bias moved, seconded by Mr. Pooch to appoint our cemetery representatives as following: Mr. Riesterer for Castalia, Mr. Bias for Sand Hill and Mr. Pooch for Graves and Venice. Vote: all ayes.

Mr. Pooch moved, seconded by Mr. Bias to appoint Emmanuel Karniotis to the Zoning Board for a 5 year term from 1/1/2009-12/31/2013. Vote: all ayes.

Mr. Bias moved, seconded by Mr. Pooch to appoint Lester Barnum to a 5 year term (1/1/2009-12/31/2013) to the Zoning Appeals Board. Vote: all ayes.

Mr. Pooch moved, seconded by Mr. Bias to appoint Jason Lehrer to the Recreation Board for a 5 year term from 1/1/2009-12/31/2013. Vote: all ayes.

Mr. Bias moved, seconded by Mr. Pooch to set our meetings to the first and third Thursday of each month, with the general meeting starting at 7 p.m. Vote: all ayes.

Mr. Pooch moved, seconded by Mr. Bias to appoint Tim Riesterer and Gary Pooch to the Firefighters Indemnity Board. Vote: all ayes.

Mr. Bias moved, seconded by Mr. Pooch to allow the Fiscal Officer to invest any inactive funds into Star Ohio. Vote: all ayes.

Mr. Pooch moved, seconded by Mr. Bias to allow the Fiscal Officer to ask for advances from the Erie County Auditor as needed. Vote: all ayes.

Mr. Bias moved, seconded by Mr. Pooch to allow the Fiscal Officer to amend the appropriations as needed. Vote: all ayes.

Mr. Pooch moved, seconded by Mr. Bias to have the Fiscal Officer set temporary appropriations for the first quarter of 2009. Vote: all ayes.

Mr. Bias moved, seconded by Mr. Pooch to allow the Fiscal Officer to hire part time additional clerical and/or stenographic assistance as needed at a rate of $12/hour. Vote: all ayes.

Mr. Bias moved, seconded by Mr. Pooch to set our copying costs per page to 15 cents. Vote: all ayes.

Mr. Pooch moved, seconded by Mr. Bias: that any travel or otherwise necessary expenses incurred by the Trustees, Fiscal Officer, or otherwise authorized personnel expressly for Township business outside the Township limits, including members attending the township Association winter and summer conventions are allowed upon surrendering an account for expenses for the Township travel. The amount for mileage will be 48 cents/mile. Vote: all ayes.

Mr. Bias moved, seconded by Mr. Pooch to allow the Trustees and Fiscal Officer to participate in the Township health and medical benefits programs. Vote: all ayes.

Mr. Pooch moved, seconded by Mr. Bias to have the Trustees compensation be paid as a salary equivalent to 200 times the daily rate, to be paid monthly. Vote: all ayes.

Mr. Bias moved, seconded by Mr. Pooch to appoint Keith Kreager to the Northern Ohio Rural Water Board for 2009. Vote: all ayes.

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

The meeting adjourned at 1:25 p.m.