County Delays Decision On Buying Voting Machines
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
County commissioners pushed back a decision to buy computerized voting machines by at least two weeks during their meeting Tuesday, after clerk Sharon Christner appeared before the board.
Christner presented lease-purchase information for the "iVotronic Voting System," available through Election Systems & Software. She outlined a couple of plans, costing from $1.7 million to $1.8 million, to receive 229 units this summer.
In each scenario, the touch-sensitive voting panels come with hardware, software and various degrees of technical support. The federal government will withhold certain funds if the system isn't installed by the next federal election.
Christner said she wanted to get the system up and running so the public could be trained to use it.
Commissioner Ron Truex asked what happened to the idea of ordering enough units for Warsaw's civic election.
Christner said her calls to the company were returned just this week.
That didn't sit well with the board, who asked that an Election Systems & Software representative appear at the next commissioners meeting, Feb. 11.
Kosciusko County Highway Superintendent Rob Ladson recommended driveways be repositioned on two properties: one on Magee Road between CRs 400S and 450S and the other on CR 200S, west of 450W on the south side. The proposed driveway relocations will increase visibility for drivers pulling out of the properties.
Ladson said the annual bridge inspection report was complete, suggesting the bridge to Hiner's Island on Webster Lake be replaced. He also said extensive repairs should be done to the bridge west of the Big Lots store on Lake Street.
The commissioners approved an amended contract with Seneca for additional asphalt - 1,000 tons, at the price negotiated last year - as requested by Ladson.
He said he will schedule road improvements to use the extra material and Seneca has agreed to provide storage units so there will be less delay in getting the asphalt to a particular job site.
In other business the board:
• Denied a request by Thomas and Sandra Tough to rezone agricultural land to residential. Kosciusko County Area Plan Commission director Dan Richard said the plan commission found against the petition because the ground is unsuitable for building.
• Approved an ordinace to reduce setback requirements to five feet on lots abutting unimproved streets and alleys, pedestrian easements and unimproved "stub" right-of-ways, which terminate at a water's edge and do not pose a threat to public health or safety.
The revision was recommended by the plan commission.
• Approved an ordinance outlining the precinct districts in Warsaw, which were recently approved by the state.
County commissioners are Ron Truex, Brad Jackson and Avis Gunter. They meet at 9 a.m. every other Tuesday in the county courthouse, Warsaw. [[In-content Ad]]
County commissioners pushed back a decision to buy computerized voting machines by at least two weeks during their meeting Tuesday, after clerk Sharon Christner appeared before the board.
Christner presented lease-purchase information for the "iVotronic Voting System," available through Election Systems & Software. She outlined a couple of plans, costing from $1.7 million to $1.8 million, to receive 229 units this summer.
In each scenario, the touch-sensitive voting panels come with hardware, software and various degrees of technical support. The federal government will withhold certain funds if the system isn't installed by the next federal election.
Christner said she wanted to get the system up and running so the public could be trained to use it.
Commissioner Ron Truex asked what happened to the idea of ordering enough units for Warsaw's civic election.
Christner said her calls to the company were returned just this week.
That didn't sit well with the board, who asked that an Election Systems & Software representative appear at the next commissioners meeting, Feb. 11.
Kosciusko County Highway Superintendent Rob Ladson recommended driveways be repositioned on two properties: one on Magee Road between CRs 400S and 450S and the other on CR 200S, west of 450W on the south side. The proposed driveway relocations will increase visibility for drivers pulling out of the properties.
Ladson said the annual bridge inspection report was complete, suggesting the bridge to Hiner's Island on Webster Lake be replaced. He also said extensive repairs should be done to the bridge west of the Big Lots store on Lake Street.
The commissioners approved an amended contract with Seneca for additional asphalt - 1,000 tons, at the price negotiated last year - as requested by Ladson.
He said he will schedule road improvements to use the extra material and Seneca has agreed to provide storage units so there will be less delay in getting the asphalt to a particular job site.
In other business the board:
• Denied a request by Thomas and Sandra Tough to rezone agricultural land to residential. Kosciusko County Area Plan Commission director Dan Richard said the plan commission found against the petition because the ground is unsuitable for building.
• Approved an ordinace to reduce setback requirements to five feet on lots abutting unimproved streets and alleys, pedestrian easements and unimproved "stub" right-of-ways, which terminate at a water's edge and do not pose a threat to public health or safety.
The revision was recommended by the plan commission.
• Approved an ordinance outlining the precinct districts in Warsaw, which were recently approved by the state.
County commissioners are Ron Truex, Brad Jackson and Avis Gunter. They meet at 9 a.m. every other Tuesday in the county courthouse, Warsaw. [[In-content Ad]]