County Commissioners Keep Non-profit Budgets at 2012 Levels
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Daniel Riordan-driordan@timesuniononline.com
A county burn ban put into place last week will continue until at least Friday.
Kosciusko County Commissioner President Bob Conley said at this morning’s commissioner’s meeting that the ban will be reviewed Friday by the county’s emergency management.
Conley said that since the burn ban was put in place there have been 21 calls to dispatch in regards to it. Conley mentioned that none were critical.
“It’s more of an educational thing,” said Conley of the ban causing awareness in the community.
“In the meantime, pray for rain,” said Conley.
Despite requests by some not-for-profits to increase 2013 budgets, the county commissioners decided to keep all not-for-profit budgets at 2012 levels.
Commissioner Brad Jackson said the county’s wage committee met last week and the consensus was to hold not-for-profit budgets.
The commissioners approved the motion 3-0.
Bids will be opened July 31 at 9:15 a.m. as the county highway department looks to purchase a new backhoe.
County Highway Superintendent Scott Tilden told the commissioners the money to buy a new backhoe was made available by the county council last week.
The council approved several transfers for the highway department.
Troy Turley of KCV Cycling and Tim Dombrosky, assistant city planner for Warsaw, appeared before the commissioners this morning.
They discussed potential bike routes and how Ride-Walk-Warsaw-Winona Lake is seeking grant money.
If approved for grant money, some of it will go to putting bike-friendly signs throughout the county.
The highway department has met with the group several times to pare down the amount of signs that would go up.
The highway department will put up the signs if the grant goes through.
A vacation of a public way for David and Vickie Metzger, who own three lots in Mort’s addition on Barbee Lake, was tabled.
Steve Snyder, who is representing the Metzgers, asked the vacation be tabled over language in advertisements that said the public way would be relocated.
Snyder said his clients had no intention to relocate it.
Snyder said he would be willing to advertise the vacation once again.
It was approved during the county’s area plan commission’s June meeting with the caveat of a relocation.
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