Cardington seeks village police chief

By Eve­lyn Long -

Card­ing­ton Vil­lage coun­cil agreed to adver­tise for a vil­lage police chief when they met in reg­u­lar ses­sion on August 20. The adver­tise­ment will run two weeks.

Robert Hus­ton is cur­rently the Act­ing Police Chief for Cardington.

Offi­cer James Wal­lace said the vil­lage has issued 350 warn­ings and 143 cita­tions since Jan­u­ary 1, 2012. The depart­ment has han­dled 1,747 calls for ser­vice as of August 20, 2012. This is 246 calls more than those han­dled for the entire year of 2011.

In other busi­ness, Mayor Susie Pey­ton said they had con­ducted three inter­views for the posi­tion of vil­lage fis­cal offi­cer. Three more were sched­uled to be inter­viewed on a date suit­able for all with coun­cil inter­view­ing the final two selected for the posi­tion before nam­ing the appli­cant to fill the post.

Coun­cil accepted the updated all haz­ard mit­i­ga­tion plan. The plan involves the vil­lage con­tract­ing with the Mor­row County Com­mis­sion­ers to obtain and receive the ser­vices of the Mor­row County Emer­gency Man­age­ment Agency.

Vil­lage Admin­is­tra­tor Danny Wood reported pave­ment had been patched in the vil­lage and con­struc­tion con­tin­ues on County Road 168. The water depart­ment took sam­ples for lead and cop­per, an EPA require­ment every three years.

The out­side lights of the street depart­ment build­ing have been repaired and land­scap­ing has been done around the same build­ing. Catch basins have been cleaned.

Fis­cal Offi­cer John Gersper said there have been prob­lems with the com­puter and server but it has all been updated and there should not be any more problems.

Mayor Pey­ton hon­ored the four mem­bers of the Friends of Card­ing­ton for the “fan­tas­tic” job they did in orga­niz­ing and pro­duc­ing the recent Her­itage Day.

She awarded cer­tifi­cates to Jim Row­land, Dejah Row­land, Andrea Hazen and Jackie Ivers, each of whom thanked the mayor.

Address­ing coun­cil was Debra Utt, man­ager of the Rose­wood Apart­ments, who was present at the request of the man­ager, Mr. Worster. She said there are 24 units in the apart­ments with 20 of them hav­ing one bed­room. There are no wash­ers and no dish– wash­ers and over 80 per­cent are occu­pied by one per­son and they are each pay­ing $100 per unit for the water bill. On behalf of the man­ager she was express­ing con­cern about the high water bills. “We feel the water bills are unrea­son­ably high and we think it is impor­tant to main­tain some afford­abil­ity for our res­i­dents. We feel afforda– ble hous­ing in Card­ing­ton is impor­tant. Mayor Pey­ton assured her the prob­lem is being worked on. She also noted she had talked to Mr. Worster and sent him papers related to the water sit­u­a­tion. The mayor also said Coun­cil­man Richard Gar­ner, the Fis­cal Offi­cer and the Vil­lage Man­ager are work­ing on the prob­lem by study­ing the finances.

Coun­cil­man Richard Caldwell’s absence was excused.

The 40 minute reg­u­lar ses­sion adjourned and coun­cil entered exec­u­tive ses­sion based on ORC 121.22 (G) (!) And ORC 121.22 (G) (3). There was no fur­ther action fol­low­ing the 40 minute exec­u­tive session.

The next reg­u­lar coun­cil meet­ing will be held Tues­day, Sep­tem­ber 4, at 7 pm.

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