MILFORD - Kosciusko Development Inc. Board of Directors held its quarterly meeting Wednesday afternoon at the Milford Community Center.
Sandi Seanor, from the Michiana Area Council of Governments, gave a presentation to the board as to what her organization does.Seanor said, among other things, MACOG helps classify roads for cities and towns to help get grant funding. MACOG also helps write and go over grants as well.
Kosciusko County pays the group $26,000 a year or 35 cents per resident.
Joy McCarthy-Sessing, president of the Chamber of Commerce, informed the board the chamber sent a letter to Sen. Max Baucus in opposition to proposed legislation that would tax medical device makers $4 billion a year as an industry.
The KDI board approved to draft a similar letter and talked about individuals writing letters to not only Baucus but their own elected officials.
McCarthy-Sessing told Milford Utilities Superintendent Dallas Winchester that interest has been shown in the building formerly occupied by Lippert Components.
She also informed the board that North Webster decided to not give funding to KDI for 2010.
Bob Sanders, county councilman, told the board the council voted at its Sept. 10 meeting to cut funding to not-for-profits, like KDI, 10 percent of its 2009 budget.
Sanders said the fact that less funding is coming from the state and the increase in unemployment has lowered the county's revenue wasn't mentioned enough during the media's coverage of the council's recent budget woes.
Jack Moore, Embarq, told the board he would be resigning because of a change in position at his company. He then introduced Mike Brill, vice president of operations for Indiana, Michigan and Illinois at Embarq. Brill will take Moore's place on the KDI board.
Chris Pieri, NIPSCO, also announced that because of a job change within the company, he would no longer be serving on the KDI board.
