County Commissioners OK New KABS Director
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
By Jordan Fouts-
Commissioners confirmed Vickie Lootens as KABS executive director at the recommendation of Randy Hall, Cardinal Services vice president. Lootens has been employment services coordinator with Cardinal Services for seven years.
Lootens told commissioners upon her appointment that it will be an honor and a privilege to serve the county, and Commissioner Bob Conley thanked her for her service.
Lootens also presented at the meeting a revised KABS budget for 2013 with a higher-than-expected amount of state funding, which the commissioners approved.
Funding from the state totaled $16,000, making the total KABS budget for next year $663,855.
Cardinal Services manages KABS under contract with the county.
Commissioners also presented a $1,000 scholarship to Hollie Irwin, a 2012 Warsaw Community High School graduate and student currently at Manchester University. The scholarship is sponsored by the Association of Indiana Counties and Nationwide Retirement Solutions.
David Bottorff, AIC executive director, noted that Irwin’s application for the statewide award was very impressive. In high school she engaged in peer tutoring and helped special needs classmates, and plans to study social work in college.
He also noted that Irwin’s stepmother, Amy Irwin, is the ordinance administrator in the county area planning department.
“We do the scholarship because we hope the winners come back to the community where they were raised and contribute,” he said.
And commissioners accepted two recommendations from the Area Plan Commission: the vacation of an alley in Sevastopol, Franklin Township, and the denial of a land rezoning request in Tippecanoe Township.
The commercial rezoning request, for land at CR 350N and Ind. 13 where Mark Dillon owns a bait shop, was a technicality because Dillon had not withdrawn the request at the plan commission’s recommendation, said Area Plan Director Dan Richards.[[In-content Ad]]
Commissioners confirmed Vickie Lootens as KABS executive director at the recommendation of Randy Hall, Cardinal Services vice president. Lootens has been employment services coordinator with Cardinal Services for seven years.
Lootens told commissioners upon her appointment that it will be an honor and a privilege to serve the county, and Commissioner Bob Conley thanked her for her service.
Lootens also presented at the meeting a revised KABS budget for 2013 with a higher-than-expected amount of state funding, which the commissioners approved.
Funding from the state totaled $16,000, making the total KABS budget for next year $663,855.
Cardinal Services manages KABS under contract with the county.
Commissioners also presented a $1,000 scholarship to Hollie Irwin, a 2012 Warsaw Community High School graduate and student currently at Manchester University. The scholarship is sponsored by the Association of Indiana Counties and Nationwide Retirement Solutions.
David Bottorff, AIC executive director, noted that Irwin’s application for the statewide award was very impressive. In high school she engaged in peer tutoring and helped special needs classmates, and plans to study social work in college.
He also noted that Irwin’s stepmother, Amy Irwin, is the ordinance administrator in the county area planning department.
“We do the scholarship because we hope the winners come back to the community where they were raised and contribute,” he said.
And commissioners accepted two recommendations from the Area Plan Commission: the vacation of an alley in Sevastopol, Franklin Township, and the denial of a land rezoning request in Tippecanoe Township.
The commercial rezoning request, for land at CR 350N and Ind. 13 where Mark Dillon owns a bait shop, was a technicality because Dillon had not withdrawn the request at the plan commission’s recommendation, said Area Plan Director Dan Richards.[[In-content Ad]]
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