July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
Fort clean-up estimate to FEMA (4/19/05)
Town spent more than $44,000
By By Jennifer Tarter-
FORT RECOVERY — The January ice storm cost this village $44,888.
Fort Recovery village administrator Randy Diller told council members Monday that he recently submitted this total to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
This total includes the village’s clean-up expenses for debris removal, costs to replace a fence and repair a light in Fort Site Park that were damaged by the storm and additional projected clean-up expenses that will be incurred by the village up until Aug. 16.
Diller said the village expects to be reimbursed approximately $33,000 of that total from FEMA.
In related business, council members agreed that village employees will stop picking up debris piles from residences on Friday, April 29 and that no debris will be collected from residents outside the Fort Recovery corporation limits.
Also Monday, Fort Recovery Schools superintendent David Riel spoke on the propose a .50 percent income tax increase to be voted on May 3.
If approved, approximately $300,000 will be raised by this tax increase and used for general operating expenses, including to pay salaries, buy equipment and textbooks. The increase will go into effect in Jan. 1, 2006. The Fort Recovery School Corporation has not asked for a income tax increase since 1990.
In other business, council members approved the hiring of Fort Recovery resident Ryan Thien as utility operator/trainee.
Thien will start Monday, May 2.
Also Monday, council members:
•Approved a final pay request of $29,768.74 for the $80,000 project to replace sanitary sewer lines on Gwendolyn and West Center streets, which was recently completed by Sutter Excavation of Celina, Ohio.
•Heard Diller report that 130 income surveys have been turned in by village residents. A total of 240 are needed to make the survey valid, he added.
Students hired by the village from the Business Enterprise Center at Wright State University-Lake Campus in Celina, Ohio will be conducting a door-to-door income survey again on Saturday, April 23. All information collected by the students will be confidential and sent to the Mercer County Community Development Department for tabulation.
This information will be used by the village to qualify for state and federal grants to fund combined sewer system projects.
Students were previously in the village on April 9.
•Heard Fort Recovery Police Chief Maggie Hartings suggest that the village donate funds to the Grand Lake Drug Task Force of Mercer and Auglaize counties. Fort Recovery police work with the task force on drug investigations.
The task force was recently informed that it will not receive funding from the state in 2006. Funds are used to buy equipment for undercover officers and to make drug buys to get the drugs off of the streets and build cases to convict drug dealers, Hartings said Monday.
“We are currently working with (the task force) on several cases,” Hartings said.
Council members agreed to discuss making a donation at their May 2 meeting.
•Heard Diller announce that village spring clean-up day is Tuesday, May 3.
•Told John Faller, 113 Caldwell St., that his street will be repaired in two to three months and they will look into measures that will reduce the amount of dust on his street, which is currently reduced to gravel.
The recently completed project to replace sanitary sewer lines on Gwendolyn and West Center streets also traveled through part of Caldwell Street.
Council members also talked about closing that section of the street to non-residents to help reduce dust for homeowners there.
•Agreed to donate $500 to the Business Enterprise Center at Wright State University-Lake Campus in Celina, Ohio.
•Agreed to financially help Family Community Career Leaders of America students if they need additional funds to complete a project to place stickers on storm drains to remind local residents not to put waste down storm drains.
Family consumer science teacher Cheryl Perkeybile, who is helping the students, said the group received approximately $600 through two grants. This project is estimated to cost $700 to complete.
•Heard Diller announced that the annual park work day is Saturday, May 7, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
•Approved the second reading of an ordinance to pay Mercer County Board of Commissioners $3,182.50 for ambulance services in 2005.
Council members also approved the second reading of an ordinance allowing the village to enter into a contract with Mercer County Emergency Management Agency. The village will pay the agency $318 for the one-year contract.
The third and final reading of these ordinances will be held at the council’s May 2 meeting.[[In-content Ad]]
Fort Recovery village administrator Randy Diller told council members Monday that he recently submitted this total to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
This total includes the village’s clean-up expenses for debris removal, costs to replace a fence and repair a light in Fort Site Park that were damaged by the storm and additional projected clean-up expenses that will be incurred by the village up until Aug. 16.
Diller said the village expects to be reimbursed approximately $33,000 of that total from FEMA.
In related business, council members agreed that village employees will stop picking up debris piles from residences on Friday, April 29 and that no debris will be collected from residents outside the Fort Recovery corporation limits.
Also Monday, Fort Recovery Schools superintendent David Riel spoke on the propose a .50 percent income tax increase to be voted on May 3.
If approved, approximately $300,000 will be raised by this tax increase and used for general operating expenses, including to pay salaries, buy equipment and textbooks. The increase will go into effect in Jan. 1, 2006. The Fort Recovery School Corporation has not asked for a income tax increase since 1990.
In other business, council members approved the hiring of Fort Recovery resident Ryan Thien as utility operator/trainee.
Thien will start Monday, May 2.
Also Monday, council members:
•Approved a final pay request of $29,768.74 for the $80,000 project to replace sanitary sewer lines on Gwendolyn and West Center streets, which was recently completed by Sutter Excavation of Celina, Ohio.
•Heard Diller report that 130 income surveys have been turned in by village residents. A total of 240 are needed to make the survey valid, he added.
Students hired by the village from the Business Enterprise Center at Wright State University-Lake Campus in Celina, Ohio will be conducting a door-to-door income survey again on Saturday, April 23. All information collected by the students will be confidential and sent to the Mercer County Community Development Department for tabulation.
This information will be used by the village to qualify for state and federal grants to fund combined sewer system projects.
Students were previously in the village on April 9.
•Heard Fort Recovery Police Chief Maggie Hartings suggest that the village donate funds to the Grand Lake Drug Task Force of Mercer and Auglaize counties. Fort Recovery police work with the task force on drug investigations.
The task force was recently informed that it will not receive funding from the state in 2006. Funds are used to buy equipment for undercover officers and to make drug buys to get the drugs off of the streets and build cases to convict drug dealers, Hartings said Monday.
“We are currently working with (the task force) on several cases,” Hartings said.
Council members agreed to discuss making a donation at their May 2 meeting.
•Heard Diller announce that village spring clean-up day is Tuesday, May 3.
•Told John Faller, 113 Caldwell St., that his street will be repaired in two to three months and they will look into measures that will reduce the amount of dust on his street, which is currently reduced to gravel.
The recently completed project to replace sanitary sewer lines on Gwendolyn and West Center streets also traveled through part of Caldwell Street.
Council members also talked about closing that section of the street to non-residents to help reduce dust for homeowners there.
•Agreed to donate $500 to the Business Enterprise Center at Wright State University-Lake Campus in Celina, Ohio.
•Agreed to financially help Family Community Career Leaders of America students if they need additional funds to complete a project to place stickers on storm drains to remind local residents not to put waste down storm drains.
Family consumer science teacher Cheryl Perkeybile, who is helping the students, said the group received approximately $600 through two grants. This project is estimated to cost $700 to complete.
•Heard Diller announced that the annual park work day is Saturday, May 7, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
•Approved the second reading of an ordinance to pay Mercer County Board of Commissioners $3,182.50 for ambulance services in 2005.
Council members also approved the second reading of an ordinance allowing the village to enter into a contract with Mercer County Emergency Management Agency. The village will pay the agency $318 for the one-year contract.
The third and final reading of these ordinances will be held at the council’s May 2 meeting.[[In-content Ad]]
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