July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
Upgrade funding sought (3/8/05)
Pumps at highway garage will be replaced
By By Mike Snyder-
A major upgrade of the pumps for vehicle fuel at the Jay County Highway Department garage will cost a little more than $12,000.
Jay County Commissioners gave permission Monday for county highway superintendent Ken Wellman to move forward with the upgrade, which will be done by W.G. Gentry Co. of Lafayette.
Commissioners Milo Miller Jr., Gary Theurer and Faron Parr agreed to request an additional appropriation from the county’s infrastructure fund to pay for the work.
Money in the infrastructure fund is generated from a host fee paid to Jay County for trash deposited in the Jay County Landfill. That amount is currently 10 percent of the gross per-ton rate at the landfill.
Also Monday, the commissioners decided not to seek repayment of money spent on paramedic training for an emergency medical technician employed by Jay Emergency Medical Service.
The EMT, Paulette Wagner, took the training but did not pass a test required to be certified as a paramedic after several attempts.
The EMTs who took the paramedic training signed an agreement pledging to work for Jay County for at least three years after becoming a paramedic. The county paid for the training.
But the commissioners, after discussing the matter with JEMS director Teresa Foster-Geesaman, agreed that the contract did not include language about a failure to pass the paramedic test.
In other business Monday afternoon, the commissioners agreed to allow a fee for a grant written by Jay County community developer Wayne Bailey to be rolled into an account that could be used as a matching share in a future project.
Bailey, who wrote an application for a feasibility/planning grant for the Weiler Building project for the John Jay Center for Learning, included a grant writing fee of $3,000 in the application. The county served as the lead applicant for the planning grant, although the city of Portland will be the applicant for the construction grant.
The $3,000 will be placed into an account that can be used by Portland as all or a portion of a matching share for future grants.[[In-content Ad]]
Jay County Commissioners gave permission Monday for county highway superintendent Ken Wellman to move forward with the upgrade, which will be done by W.G. Gentry Co. of Lafayette.
Commissioners Milo Miller Jr., Gary Theurer and Faron Parr agreed to request an additional appropriation from the county’s infrastructure fund to pay for the work.
Money in the infrastructure fund is generated from a host fee paid to Jay County for trash deposited in the Jay County Landfill. That amount is currently 10 percent of the gross per-ton rate at the landfill.
Also Monday, the commissioners decided not to seek repayment of money spent on paramedic training for an emergency medical technician employed by Jay Emergency Medical Service.
The EMT, Paulette Wagner, took the training but did not pass a test required to be certified as a paramedic after several attempts.
The EMTs who took the paramedic training signed an agreement pledging to work for Jay County for at least three years after becoming a paramedic. The county paid for the training.
But the commissioners, after discussing the matter with JEMS director Teresa Foster-Geesaman, agreed that the contract did not include language about a failure to pass the paramedic test.
In other business Monday afternoon, the commissioners agreed to allow a fee for a grant written by Jay County community developer Wayne Bailey to be rolled into an account that could be used as a matching share in a future project.
Bailey, who wrote an application for a feasibility/planning grant for the Weiler Building project for the John Jay Center for Learning, included a grant writing fee of $3,000 in the application. The county served as the lead applicant for the planning grant, although the city of Portland will be the applicant for the construction grant.
The $3,000 will be placed into an account that can be used by Portland as all or a portion of a matching share for future grants.[[In-content Ad]]
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