July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
County fund is focus (01/10/06)
Jay County Commissioners
By By MARY ANN LEWIS-
A significant balance in the county infrastructure fund has Jay County Commissioners and a member of the county council looking at possible uses for the money.
Jack Houck, president of the Jay County Council, met with commissioners Milo Miller Jr., Gary Theurer and Faron Parr Monday afternoon and discussed how to best use the more than $650,000 that is currently in the fund.
The money is generated through an agreement with Waste Management, which pays the county 10 percent of gross gate revenue collected on trash dumped in the Jay County Landfill.
The revenue generated is approximately $400,000 annually.
Miller suggested putting five percent of the money into a fund that future commissioners could use when — or if — the present landfill closes at the end of its 20-year expectancy. Miller said 14 years remain on the current host agreement with Waste Management.
“That way they’d have something to work with,” Miller suggested, saying that he believed a transfer station would be needed in the event the landfill is no longer operating.
Houck asked about using the money for loans for small businesses that are looking to come to Jay County.
“We’re not a bank,” Miller told Houck.
The county can grant money but cannot loan money, he explained, “and if we grant it, we don’t get it back.”
The largest percentage of the money, $150,000 annually is used for road work, Miller said. That amount was even higher in 2005, as the commissioners used the fund to pay for an experimental county-funded dust control program on more than 100 miles of stone roads.
Commissioners’ attorney Brad Burkett said commissioners could pass a resolution establishing another fund and specifying how the money would be used.
“Of course, future commissioners could rescind the resolution, and do whatever they want,” Burkett explained about action commissioners would take now.
Additionally Monday, Miller learned that as president of the commissioners, he is a member of the Planning Oversight Commission of the District 6 Homeland Security.
“You were automatically appointed to the commission,” Jeff Nick, District 6 representative for Homeland Security, told Miller during the meeting. The commission is a part of the District Planning Oversight Committee.
Nick said region six includes Howard, Tipton, Grant, Madison, Blackford, Delaware, Henry, Rush, Jay, Randolph, Wayne, Fayette, and Union counties.
Miller will now appoint two other local residents involved in emergency services to serve with him, and three appointments will be made from each of the other counties.
Additionally Monday, Farm Bureau of Jay County representative Ron Zimmerman asked commissioners about placing farm safety signs on county-owned sign poles, and was instructed to contact Jay County Highway superintendent Ken Wellman.
Zimmerman said Farm Bureau would buy 10 or 20 of the signs, but would like to use county sign poles.[[In-content Ad]]
Jack Houck, president of the Jay County Council, met with commissioners Milo Miller Jr., Gary Theurer and Faron Parr Monday afternoon and discussed how to best use the more than $650,000 that is currently in the fund.
The money is generated through an agreement with Waste Management, which pays the county 10 percent of gross gate revenue collected on trash dumped in the Jay County Landfill.
The revenue generated is approximately $400,000 annually.
Miller suggested putting five percent of the money into a fund that future commissioners could use when — or if — the present landfill closes at the end of its 20-year expectancy. Miller said 14 years remain on the current host agreement with Waste Management.
“That way they’d have something to work with,” Miller suggested, saying that he believed a transfer station would be needed in the event the landfill is no longer operating.
Houck asked about using the money for loans for small businesses that are looking to come to Jay County.
“We’re not a bank,” Miller told Houck.
The county can grant money but cannot loan money, he explained, “and if we grant it, we don’t get it back.”
The largest percentage of the money, $150,000 annually is used for road work, Miller said. That amount was even higher in 2005, as the commissioners used the fund to pay for an experimental county-funded dust control program on more than 100 miles of stone roads.
Commissioners’ attorney Brad Burkett said commissioners could pass a resolution establishing another fund and specifying how the money would be used.
“Of course, future commissioners could rescind the resolution, and do whatever they want,” Burkett explained about action commissioners would take now.
Additionally Monday, Miller learned that as president of the commissioners, he is a member of the Planning Oversight Commission of the District 6 Homeland Security.
“You were automatically appointed to the commission,” Jeff Nick, District 6 representative for Homeland Security, told Miller during the meeting. The commission is a part of the District Planning Oversight Committee.
Nick said region six includes Howard, Tipton, Grant, Madison, Blackford, Delaware, Henry, Rush, Jay, Randolph, Wayne, Fayette, and Union counties.
Miller will now appoint two other local residents involved in emergency services to serve with him, and three appointments will be made from each of the other counties.
Additionally Monday, Farm Bureau of Jay County representative Ron Zimmerman asked commissioners about placing farm safety signs on county-owned sign poles, and was instructed to contact Jay County Highway superintendent Ken Wellman.
Zimmerman said Farm Bureau would buy 10 or 20 of the signs, but would like to use county sign poles.[[In-content Ad]]
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