by Jac Price
was recommended that a change be
made to allow for expenditures from
the Capital account and eliminate
the criteria of having to maintain a
balance of $27,000,000 of on-hand
dollars. There was also a recommendation that for any dollars to be spent
that there must be a vote of the County
Commissioner and County Council
with eight affirmative votes and at
least two affirmative Commissioner’s
votes. Both of these recommendations
were adopted and the ordinance will be
changed.
There was next a conversation regarding a request from Lippert Industries to extend water and sewer from
LaGrange to their facility located one
and one-half miles north of 200N. This
would entail the Town of LaGrange upgrading their line to the 200N location
and for the county to extend the lines
north to the facility. The LaGrange
County Redevelopment Commission is
planning on doing a study of the cost
to go to the facility and also to extend
on to Howe as phase 2 and on to the
state line as phase 3. After this information is available it will be time to
look at what the different possibilities
are.
We next discussed the amount
that is being paid by the county for
Veterans Burial Allowance. This came
up due to the fact that $19,000 was
appropriated for 2012 and through
the end of September we have spent
$23,000. After the discussion it was
agreed to keep the benefit at $500.
The final item that was addressed
was the engineering study for the
improvement to 200N from 450W
to 675W. There were three different
scenarios offered. After discussion
there were questions that needed
to be addressed by the attorney and
financial person and also there needs
to be a public meeting with those who
live in the area in question, as to what
their input might be. It was decided to
table this to the November 12, 2012
meeting.
As always, we will try to be good stewards of your tax dollars.
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