Interim court clerk appointed by Cardington Council

By Eve­lyn Long

Card­ing­ton Vil­lage Coun­cil Rosanne Denty was named by Card­ing­ton Vil­lage coun­cil as the village’s interim mayor’s court clerk when the entity met in reg­u­lar ses­sion on Octo­ber 15.

She was given the oath of office by Mayor Susie Pey­ton. Her tenure became effec­tive in October.

Giv­ing reports were Act­ing Police Chief Bob Hus­ton and vil­lage admin­is­tra­tor Danny Wood.

Hus­ton said his depart­ment had issued 404 warn­ings and 177 cita­tions since Jan­u­ary 1 2012.

He also said -

- two esti­mates had been received for the repair of the 2010 cruiser

- he had met with the super­vi­sors at Card­ing­ton Yutaka on Octo­ber 9, 2012 with mem­bers of the Mor­row County Sheriff’s Office and the Mor­row County EMA to dis­cuss the recent bomb threats at CYT.

The depart­ment was involved in a pur­suit in the early morn­ing hours of Octo­ber 8, 2012, that began in Cardig­ton with an attempted traf­fic stop for a speed­ing vio­la­tion by Offi­cer Mark Cal­i­coat. The dri­ver was finally appre­hended an with the help of the Mount Gilead Police Depart­ment, the Mor­row County Sheriff’s Office and the Ohio State High­way Patrol where it was dis­cov­ered that the vehi­cle had been stolen in Mar­ion, Ohio.

He reported that he had com­pleted a course through the Depart­ment of Home­land Secu­rity on Under­stand­ing & Plan­ning for School Bomb Incidents .

On Octo­ber 11, 2012 the depart­ment made an arrest on the Card­ing­ton Yutaka bomb threat case. Hus­ton and Offi­cer Mark Cal­i­coat were able to gain a full con­fes­sion from the sus­pect in the case. He is presently incar­cer­ated at the Mor­row County jail on a $50,000 bond for induc­ing panic and van­dal­ism, both felony four charges.

He added that at this time, the Card­ing­ton Police Depart­ment had worked two weeks and into a third week on spe­cial duty at the CYT plant and they have been extended through the month of October.

Wood said the street depart­ment had begun leaf removal. He noted that Kokos­ing had fin­ished the County Road 168 project and the Kenny Lane project is in progress where the con­crete work is being done on the curbs and side­walks and it is ready for paving.

Guest speaker was David Rut­ter, Water­shed Coor­di­na­tor with the Mid-Ohio Regional Plan­ning Com­mis­sion, who described the Bal­ance Growth Plan­ning in the Whet­stone Creek Water­shed. He explained that Bal­anced Growth is a vol­un­tary, incen­tive based strat­egy to pro­tect and restore Ohio’s water­sheds to assure long term eco­nomic com­pet­i­tive­ness, eco­log­i­cal health and qual­ity of life. He explained that the devel­op­ment was directed by com­mu­ni­ties and stake­hold­ers in the Whet­stone Creek water-shed. “Bal­anced growth Plan­ning is a vol­un­tary and incen­tive based process that brings peo­ple together from across juris­dic­tional bound­aries to cre­ate a broader vision for the water­shed,” he said.

The final bal­anced Growth Plan shows Pri­or­ity Con­ser­va­tion Areas, Pri­or­ity Devel­op­ment areas, and Pri­or­ity Agri­cul­tural Areas that have been des­ig­nated by the Whet­stone Creek Water­shed Plan­ning Part­ner­ship. The plan also includes an imple­men­ta­tion tool box with infor­ma­tion about selected tools that can assist com­mu­ni­ties with imple­ment­ing the plan. The final plan does not cre­ate any require­ments or reg­u­la­tions for part­ner­ship com­mu­ni­ties bu does include recommendations.

He added that after receiv­ing local sup­port MORPC will seek state endorse­ment for the plan, which will unlock state incen­tives for implementation.

The plan is funded through fed­eral trans­porta­tion dollars.

Coun­cil said they would dis­cuss the plan before mak­ing a deci­sion on giv­ing its support.

Coun­cil approved emer­gency leg­is­la­tion which autho­rized the vil­lage man­ager, John Gersper, to accept the appoint­ment as a vil­lage rep­re­sen­ta­tive to the Mor­row County Regional Plan­ning commission.

Address­ing coun­cil was Nicole Hiett of Mor­gan Street who said the house next door to her res­i­dence had been vacant for some time and the lawn both in front of the house and behind had not been mowed. Her hus­band had been mow­ing the back lawn of that res­i­dence and she said they could not afford to do that any­more. She asked that the vil­lage look into the mat­ter. The mayor responded that it would be taken care of.

At the con­clu­sion of the 60 minute reg­u­lar ses­sion, coun­cil entered exec­u­tive ses­sion based onORC121.22 (G)(1) Fol­low­ing the 80 minute ses­sion, coun­cil recon­vened in reg­u­lar ses­sion but no fur­ther action was taken.

The next coun­cil meet­ing will be held Novem­ber 5 at 7 pm.

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