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More inmates from Elkhart County are serving their time in the Kosciusko County Jail.
Kosciusko County Sheriff Aaron Rovenstine told the county commissioners Tuesday a third group of inmates was accepted Tuesday from Elkhart County to help that county with its jail overpopulation problem. Kosciusko County has accepted 35 inmates from Elkhart County since Aug. 19 and is currently housing 16.
Kosciusko County also recently received the first check of $11,500 from Elkhart County for housing the inmates for the first month. The state of Indiana, Rovenstine said, owes the county approximately $57,000 for June, July and August for the Indiana Department of Corrections prisoners the county is housing, but the state has yet to pay. The state also owes the county another estimated $20,000 for September. Rovenstine said Elkhart County is more efficient than the state in paying the county.
In other business, the commissioners:
• Approved a resolution proclaiming Oct. 14 through Nov. 14 as a month to "Plant the Seed - Read," a program that encourages everyone in the county to read the same book. The program will be kicked off Monday at Central Park.
• Approved that all county vehicles should be visibly marked as being county vehicles.
• Approved an ordinance recognizing Wesley and Susanna lanes in Epworth Forest as one-way streets. The streets were already one-way streets but there was no county ordinance recognizing them as such.
• Approved a request for a driveway on CR 200S, west of CR 450W. According to Kosciusko County Highway Superintendent and Engineer Rob Ladson, the drive will have poor visibility but there's no other place for it. By the commissioners approving the driveway, it will relieve the county of some liability.
A driveway also was approved for Keith Alexander near the unimproved intersection of Lake Shore Drive and Killdeer Street in Palestine. The route of the drive and any trees necessary to be taken down must be approved by Ladson.
• Approved for Healthcare Foundation to place a sign on the courthouse lawn Dec. 4-9.
• Heard from Kosciusko County Administrator Ron Robinson that the county is the first in the state to be hooked up to phase II of Emergency 911. He said the county now will be able to track down a cellular phone call within 750 feet.
Kosciusko County Commissioners are Brad Jackson, Avis Gunter and Ron Truex. They meet at 9 a.m. in the county courthouse, Warsaw, every other Tuesday.
