Gersper appointed interim fiscal officer for Village of Cardington

By Eve­lyn Long -

Act­ing on Mayor Susie Peyton’s sub­mis­sion, Card­ing­ton Vil­lage Coun­cil approved the appoint­ment of John Paul Gersper as interim fis­cal offi­cer of the vil­lage, effec­tive July 19, 2012.

The appoint­ment fol­lows the res­ig­na­tion of Deb DiLeo, effec­tive July 18. Gersper was hired at an hourly rate of $30, not to exceed 40 hours per week.

In addi­tion, coun­cil approved hir­ing Gersper July 9 — July 18, 2012 to assist the cur­rent Fis­cal Offi­cer and receive addi­tional train­ing from her while she is still employed by the vil­lage, to allow a seam­less tran­si­tion on July 19, 2012. He will be paid at the same rate.

The action was made dur­ing a spe­cial meet­ing of vil­lage coun­cil on Mon­day, July 9, 2012. The vote was unan­i­mous. Coun­cil­man Richard Cald­well was absent.

Gersper is a grad­u­ate of the Uni­ver­sity of Akron where he earned a mas­ters degree in Pub­lic Admin­is­tra­tion and his law degree. He earned his asso­ciate and bach­e­lors degree from The Ohio State Uni­ver­sity in Soci­ol­ogy, grad­u­at­ing cum laude. He was on the Dean’s list at every level.

His wife, Beth, also earned her Mas­ters and PhD in pub­lic admin­is­tra­tion from the Uni­ver­sity of Akron and her asso­ciate degree and two bach­e­lors from OSU in lin­guis­tics and psy­chol­ogy. The cou­ple has six chil­dren rang­ing in ages from three to 22.

At the July 2 reg­u­lar meet­ing, coun­cil approved the rec­om­men­da­tion and con­fir­ma­tion by Mayor Pey­ton of Jacob Mul­lett and Joshua Var­ble to the posi­tions of aux­il­iary police officers.

Mayor Pey­ton gave each of them the oath of office.

Act­ing Police Chief Robert Hus­ton gave his report in which he noted that since Jan­u­ary 1, 2012 the depart­ment has issued 300 warn­ings and 114 citations.

He also said that Offi­cer Jason Kiefer com­pleted a class in inves­tiga­tive Resources at O. P.O. T. A.

He said the Explorer had assisted APC Hus­ton and Lt. Wal­lace at the range on June 19, 2012 and the police depart­ment had assisted with the Her­itage Day Parade.

He noted the Card­ing­ton Police Department/ Explor­ers Dunk Tank was once again a great suc­cess with the event gen­er­at­ing a profit of $371.30 for the unit.

Sev­eral police depart­ment mem­bers had attended Greg Perry’s Patrol Rifle Class June 30-July 1.

Hus­ton said he has applied for and received a grant from Acadisonline.com for Free online police train­ing and explained that there are mul­ti­ple classes in all areas of law enforce­ment and the cer­tifi­cates are O. P.O.T.A. Approved through L.E.T.N

And most classes are from Cal­i­bre Press, who is a rep­utable train­ing com­pany that spon­sors many classes which have been attended by the local depart­ment offi­cers in Columbus.

Giv­ing his report was Act­ing Vil­lage Admin­is­tra­tor Danny Wood who said the shoot­ing range was mowed, an eight-inch water leak was fixed on Bound­ary Street and the dehu­mid­i­fier was repaired at the water plant. The restrooms were cleaned and the leak­ing faucet was replaced in the ladies’ bath­room in the park. He also noted this was the first time the rest rooms had not been van­dal­ized dur­ing a festival.

Brush has been chipped and Tim Edgell and Cheyenne Math­eney had taken the weed spray­ing test. A water leak on a ten-inch water main had been repaired at Park and Sec­ond Streets and there was a boil alert.

Fis­cal Offi­cer DiLeo, who was absent from this meet­ing, had dis­trib­uted a notice from RITA (Regional Income Tax Agency) show­ing the allo­ca­tion of 2011 costs for income tax col­lec­tions had been com­puted. The Card­ing­ton per­cent­age of cost of col­lec­tions in 2011 was 3.03% which means that for every $100 of taxes col­lected for Card­ing­ton, only 3.03 went to the admin­is­tra­tive cost of col­lec­tions, reg­is­tra­tion, audit­ing, com­pli­ance, record reten­tion, etc., leav­ing the bal­ance for the village’s fire, police, street repairs, recre­ational expenses and other com­mu­nity expenditures.

Total col­lec­tions were $447,346; cost was $13,568 or 3.03 per cent.

Mayor Pey­ton com­pli­mented the fes­ti­val com­mit­tee for orga­niz­ing and car­ry­ing out an “awe­some fes­ti­val” on June 23.

She also said she had been informed by Relay for Life orga­niz­ers that the town would be dec­o­rated, Mon­day, July 9, with pur­ple rib­bons from cor­po­ra­tion line to cor­pora– tion line in prepa­ra­tion for the Relay for Life event on July 27–28.

Coun­cil adjourned its 25 minute meet­ing to enter exec­u­tive ses­sion based on ORC 121.22 (G)(1). AT the close of the ses­sion, coun­cil re con­vened with no fur­ther action taken.

Coun­cil will meet next on July 16 at 7 pm.

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