Edison Council welcomes new police officers, mayor’s court attorney and street department worker

By Alberta Sto­jkovic
Edi­son Vil­lage Attor­ney, Denise Mar­tin inducted two new police offi­cers at the begin­ning of the Feb­ru­ary 27th meet­ing of the vil­lage coun­cil. Offi­cers Mike Kindell and Wayne Lanum were the two offi­cers who took the oath of office and will now be serv­ing the Edi­son Police Dept. Edi­son Police Offi­cer, Frank Ramos assisted with the induc­tion in the absence of Chief John Edwards who was attend­ing a con­fer­ence.
Attor­ney Jon Jensen will be serv­ing the vil­lage as Mayor’s Court Attor­ney in the future. Jen­son will replace Jenifer Mur­phy Bur­naugh who resigned as Mayor’s Court Attor­ney. The coun­cil voted to approve Jensen at the Feb. 13, coun­cil meet­ing.
Street Com­mis­sioner Jerry Reeder reported that Rod Clinger began work­ing on Feb. 14 for the street depart­ment. Clinger is work­ing in the posi­tion for­merly held by Bob Fis­sell who passed away unex­pect­edly in Jan­u­ary.
Reeder said to coun­cil that Bob Fissell’s pass­ing meant a big loss to the entire com­mu­nity. He said that Bob did a great deal to help Edi­son, not only on the street depart­ment, but also help­ing with good pub­lic rela­tions. Floyd Wogan added that Bob was one per­son who “really made a dif­fer­ence.”
Clerk Trea­surer, Roseanne Denty men­tioned to coun­cil that an afghan was sent to Shirley Fis­sell at the funeral home in mem­ory of Bob.
Can­di­date for Mor­row County Com­mis­sioner, Richard “Dick” Miller spoke to the coun­cil and assem­bled guests at the Feb. 27th meet­ing. Miller spoke dur­ing the time allowed for cit­i­zens’ com­mu­ni­ca­tions. He noted that Edi­son and vil­lages the size of Edi­son are less finan­cial bur­den on the county because they care for many of the ser­vices that would oth­er­wise be a respon­si­bil­ity for county gov­ern­ment.
Ordi­nance 2012-02 was passed by coun­cil after the final read­ing mod­i­fy­ing the monthly sewer rates for the Vil­lage of Edi­son.
Reeder said bids for repairs and relin­ing project of sew­ers will go out for bids in March since it was passed by coun­cil.
Reeder reported that the street depart­ment has been work­ing on the park area. Coun­cil Mem­ber, Kelsey Lewis responded that the park area is really start­ing to look good.
At the Feb. 13 Vil­lage Coun­cil meet­ing Reeder had a Pur­chase Order for $500 for cold patch and stone approved for pot­hole repair. Reeder said that the vil­lage saved a lot of money not using salt or need­ing snow plow­ing much this year. Even the pot holes aren’t as bad this year. New weight limit signs are posted on State Route 95 in both direc­tions not­ing the weight limit on Bound­ary St. for trucks. The new weight limit sign is also posted on Co. Rd. 9 north of the vil­lage. The signs were posted at the request of the County Pros­e­cu­tor.
Mayor Sandy Ack­er­man reported that she will go with Chief John Edwards to medi­a­tion con­cern­ing the mis­cel­la­neous items con­fis­cated by Edi­son Police dur­ing crimes. Chief Edwards and Roger Myer were attend­ing a law enforce­ment con­fer­ence in Atlanta, Geor­gia. There will be no cost for the vil­lage because they received a grant to attend.
Coun­cil moved to pay bills for Feb­ru­ary of $9,129.27 as pre­sented by Clerk-treasurer, Roseanne Denty. She will look into a con­fer­ence for clerk-treasurers con­cern­ing may­ors court to see if it will be worth­while for her to attend.
Vil­lage Attor­ney Denise Mar­tin encour­aged coun­cil mem­bers to attend the Opi­ate Task Force meet­ing at High­land. She sug­gested it would be good to have a sim­i­lar con­fer­ence at Edi­son.
Kelsey Lewis said that she will be attend­ing the con­fer­ence at High­land.
There was gen­eral dis­cus­sion that peo­ple need to be aware of their neigh­bors and look out for their neigh­bors. Ruth Davis said she would like to start a neigh­bor­hood watch.
Edi­son Vil­lage Coun­cil meet­ings are held the sec­ond and fourth Mon­day of the month at 7 p.m. in the Vil­lage Munic­i­pal Bldg. at 103 N. Bound­ary St. They are open to the public.

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