Cardington Council establishes village manager, administrator positions

By EVELYN LONG -

After three read­ings that resulted in tie votes among coun­cil mem­bers, the posi­tions of vil­lage man­ager has been cre­ated and a vil­lage admin­is­tra­tor appointed at council’s June 18 meeting.

Danny Wood was appointed as vil­lage admin­is­tra­tor fol­low­ing Mayor Susie Peyton’s “yes” vote to break the tie vote. Vot­ing “yes” on both res­o­lu­tions were Tim Abra­ham, Richard Gar­ner and Sherry Gra­ham. Vot­ing “no” on both mea­sures were Randy Fox, Vickie Wise and Richard Cald­well. The mayor also had to break the tie vote on accept­ing the job descrip­tion of that posi­tion, with the same coun­cil mem­bers vot­ing for and against it.

A unan­i­mous vote approved the reap­point­ment of Deb­o­rah J. Dileo as the vil­lage Fis­cal Offi­cer, with the con­tract to begin in August. The mayor told coun­cil that Lind­say Kelly, who was employed as a tem­po­rary part time assis­tant to the fis­cal offi­cer, had taken a full time job elsewhere.

The third read­ings of two res­o­lu­tions were also approved with the mayor break­ing the tie vote. A res­o­lu­tion appoint­ing Deb­o­rah DiLeo as vil­lage man­ager was approved fol­low­ing the tie vote that was bro­ken with a “yes” vote by the mayor.

The mayor then asked coun­cil for their agree­ment to do as had been done ear­lier when an ad was run and 23 appli­cants had responded and four of them had been inter­viewed. She asked coun­cil once more to give her their approval to inter­view one of the other four. The vote was 3–3 with the mayor vot­ing “yes” to break the tie. Vot­ing “no,”were Wise, Fox and Caldwell.

The mayor com­mented, “It’s very dis­heart­en­ing to bring some­one in and not have the sup­port of council.”

Coun­cil approved the mayor’s rec­om­men­da­tion of Patrick Shee­han to the posi­tion of aux­il­iary police offi­cer and the mayor gave him the oath of office.

Fol­low­ing dis­cus­sion on whether to send the HumVee back, council’s vote was a tie– with the mayor break­ing the tie to send it back. Vot­ing to keep it were coun­cil mem­bers Fox, Wise and Caldwell.

Act­ing Police Chief Robert Hus­ton gave his report which indi­cated that since Jan­u­ary 1, 2012, the depart­ment has issued 275 warn­ings with 105 citations.

He said the police depart­ment range has been mowed and is ready for this year’s oper­a­tion. Sev­eral items and bar­ri­cades were donated and built by Max Emans from Marion.

Offi­cer Jason Kiefer has com­pleted the radar/lidar instruc­tor cer­ti­fi­ca­tion class at O. P.O. T. A. and the police depart­ment inves­ti­gated another break­ing and entering/theft/vandalism, this time at the Math­ews Marathon Sta­tion. A sus­pect is in custody.

He said he had assisted the mayor when NBC4 news had vis­ited the vil­lage on the 31st anniver­sary of the tornado.

Foot patrols have been imple­mented in the vil­lage dur­ing the sum­mer months he said due to the rise in thefts, etc.

Danny Wood, act­ing vil­lage admin­is­tra­tor, said streets are still being painted, cold patch­ing was done for pot holes through­out the vil­lage; flow meters have been re-moved as part of the I & I study; mos­quito spray­ing was done on June 15 for the third time. New spray has been acquired. The shoot­ing range was mowed. He reported that on Trash Day, five 30 yard dump­sters were filled. “It went well,” he said. He also said five con­trac­tors have taken out bid pack­ets for the repair of County Road 168.

Terry Angel, with the Boy Scouts, said the scouts were spiff­ing up the shel­ter house and the skate park for the Her­itage Day Fes­ti­val. He noted the lava­tory in the ladies rest room needs repair. Wood said the vil­lage will take care of that.

Coun­cil approved an ordi­nance adopt­ing a bud­get in ten­ta­tive form for 2013.

A copy will be for­warded to the county audi­tor. Esti­mated Resources for bud­get year begin­ning Jan­u­ary 1, 2013 total $4,355,206.70.

Fis­cal offi­cer DiLeo told coun­cil that an on-site par­tial audit had been com­pleted with no major prob­lems discovered.

Refer­ring to the Her­itage Day fes­ti­val sched­uled for Sat­ur­day, Mayor Pey­ton said,”I’m really impressed with work this group has done in orga­niz­ing it.”

Coun­cil adjourned its 50 minute reg­u­lar meet­ing and entered exec­u­tive ses­sion based on ORC 121.22 (G) (1). No fur­ther action was taken by council.

Coun­cil will meet next on July 2 at 7 pm.

DiLeo resigns as Fis­cal Offi­cer, Vil­lage Manager

Dur­ing a spe­cial meet­ing of the Card­ing­ton Vil­lage Coun­cil on Thurs­day, June 21, the let­ter of res­ig­na­tion of Card­ing­ton Vil­lage Fis­cal Offi­cer and Vil­lage Man­ager was read and accepted from Deb­bie DiLeo.

The res­ig­na­tion is effec­tive July 18, 2012. In her let­ter of res­ig­na­tion, dated June 19, DiLeo, who has served in the posi­tion for two years, said “As you all know, when I first came to Card­ing­ton, this office was not in the best of order. I believe that dur­ing my time here I have helped to imple­ment pro­ce­dures and processes that will con­tinue to be help­ful to you in the future.”

“Work­ing for the vil­lage of Card­ing­ton has been a won­der­ful expe­ri­ence. I could not ask for a bet­ter group of col­leagues and friends. I have grown in many ways since I came here and will always trea­sure the oppor­tu­ni­ties and expe­ri­ences that the vil­lage has pro­vided to me dur­ing the last cou­ple of years.”

DiLeo, who has accepted a posi­tion with the vil­lage of West Jef­fer­son, said “Although I will miss every­one here at Card­ing­ton, I feel that I need to be closer to my fam­ily and friends at this time. If I can be of any assis­tance dur­ing this tran­si­tion, please feel free to call me. I am more than happy to help in any way that I can.”

At the close of the nine minute reg­u­lar ses­sion, coun­cil entered exec­u­tive ses­sion based on ORC 121.22 (G) (1). At the close of exec­u­tive ses­sion 60 min­utes later, coun­cil recon­vened in reg­u­lar ses­sion and autho­rized the mayor and DiLeo to reach out for can­di­dates who have the poten­tial to assist with the posi­tion. These rec­om­men­da­tions are to be brought then to coun­cil for their con­sid­er­a­tion. Coun­cil then adjourned.

A meet­ing of the village’s per­son­nel com­mit­tee will be held Wednes­day, June 27, at 6:30 pm. In coun­cil chambers.

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