Ullom to retire as Cardington Fire Chief after 49 years of service

By Eve­lyn Long -

Long time Card­ing­ton Vil­lage Fire Chief Jim Ullom announced his inten­tion to retire at the Decem­ber 3 Card­ing­ton Vil­lage Coun­cil meeting.

In his let­ter of retire­ment, Ullom said he had been a mem­ber of the depart­ment since 1963 and fire chief since 1976. His retire­ment is effec­tive Jan­u­ary 31, 2013.

Coun­cil also adopted an exten­sion of the agree­ment with Fort Mor­row Con­sol­i­dated Fire Dis­trict for 2013 in which the vil­lage will be paid $4,000.

This agree­ment has been for­warded to the Fort Mor­row Dis­trict. The dis­trict has agreed to pay the vil­lage $3900 for each of the fol­low­ing years: 2009,2010, 2011, and 2012 for fire protection.

Coun­cil voted to repeal two ordi­nances related to the base rates of water and sewer as they apply to vacant units or tem­porar­ily unoc­cu­pied units in the vil­lage. It is noted that this applies to only those prop­er­ties cur­rently vacant due to death of the owner or relo­ca­tion of the owner from the prop­erty for med­ical rea­sons or oth­er­wise out of state for per­sonal reasons.

Danny Wood was re-appointed as the vil­lage admin­is­tra­tor, effec­tive Jan­u­ary 1, 2013 through Decem­ber 31, 2017.

Act­ing Police Chief Bob Hus­ton said that Jeff Ris­ner, part time offi­cer, has resigned and will be an aux­il­iary officer.

He also said there had been two more bomb threats at Card­ing­ton Yutaka but a sus­pect has been appre­hended. He said the depart­ment had been asked for 24 hours of spe­cial duty at the plant through December.

A first read­ing was given an ordi­nance approv­ing the edi­tion and inclu­sion of cer­tain ordi­nances as part of the var­i­ous com­po­nent codes of the cod­i­fied ordi­nances of the village.

Vil­lage Admin­is­tra­tor Wood said the street depart­ment had removed leaves, com­pleted crack seal­ing; made a first attempt to repair a water leak on New Street put up the Christ­mas dec­o­ra­tions and the vil­lage has received 50 tons of salt.

Coun­cil also adopted a res­o­lu­tion sup­port­ing the Whet­stone Creek Water­shed Bal­ance Growth Plan.

Bills total­ing $5021.21 were approved for payment.

Coun­cil entered exec­u­tive ses­sion at 7:09, seven min­utes into the reg­u­lar meet­ing for the pur­pose of 121.22 (G) (1). The ses­sion adjourned at 7:59 pm. Reg­u­lar ses­sion ended at 8:30 pm. After which coun­cil con­vened for a work session.

The next coun­cil meet­ing will be Decem­ber 17 at 7 pm.

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