Cardington Council organizes for new year, appoints committees

By Eve­lyn Long -
Card­ing­ton Vil­lage coun­cil com­bined its annual reor­ga­ni­za­tion meet­ing and reg­u­lar meet­ing when mem­bers met for the first time this year on Jan­u­ary 7. Named pres­i­dent was Randy Fox.
The fol­low­ing com­mit­tees were appointed by Card­ing­ton Mayor Susie Pey­ton. They will serve dur­ing 2013 (the first named is the chair­man):
FINANCE: Vicki Wise, Randy Fox and Sherry Gra­ham
PERSONNEL AND INSURANCE: Gra­ham, Richard Cald­well and Tim Abra­ham
POLICE AND FIRE: Abra­ham, Fox and Wise
UTILITIES: Richard Gar­ner, Wise and Cald­well
BUILDINGS, EQUIPMENT AND STREET: Fox, Gar­ner and Abra­ham
COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT. ZONING AND PARKS: Cald­well, Gar­ner and Gra­ham
Coun­cil also approved the appoint­ment by Mayor Susie Pey­ton of Richard Gar­ner to Glendale-Union Ceme­tery Board for 2013 and the appoint­ment of Richard Cald­well to the Card­ing­ton Plan­ning and Zon­ing Com­mis­sion.
The annual joint meet­ing with the Card­ing­ton Town­ship Trustees and Glendale-Union Ceme­tery Board was held. Mem­bers approved the 2013 Ceme­tery Gen­eral Fund appro­pri­a­tions of $183,513 and $4,172.13 in Trust Funds for 2013.
Trustees with the Card­ing­ton Town­ship are Doug Hea­cock, Don Lee and Loren Radel. Darla Hard­wick is the clerk. Ceme­tery trustees are Scott Carsner, Richard Gar­ner (vil­lage rep­re­sen­ta­tive) and Hea­cock (town­ship rep­re­sen­ta­tive). Dar­lene Wal­lace is clerk.
Absent were coun­cil mem­bers Sherry Gra­ham, who was ill, and Vickie Wise.
At the close of the joint meet­ing, Vil­lage coun­cil resumed its meet­ing. Dur­ing Com­mu­nity Par­tic­i­pa­tion, Heather Deskins, of South Mar­ion Street, inquired about the fine that was paid by Card­ing­ton Yutaka in its set­tle­ment with the vil­lage over the sludge in the waste water treat­ment plant. She was told by Vil­lage Admin­is­tra­tor Danny Wood that the $115,000 reim­bursed the vil­lage for the expenses incurred in the remov­ing and haul­ing of the sludge from the sys­tem. The $400,000 fine will be spent on the debt incurred in the waste water treat­ment plant upgrad­ing, a $3 mil­lion project that is to begin this year. Both of these pay­ments were made on judge’s orders, said Wood, not­ing that the money was deposited in the vil­lage sewer fund and would have no effect on the vil­lage sewer rates. He said that the vil­lage was required to report to the court when the money was spent as ordered.
Mayor Pey­ton told Deskins that coun­cil planned to enter work ses­sion fol­low­ing this evening’s coun­cil meet­ing and the topic was to be the water and sewer rates, which are sched­uled to rise by three per cent on Feb­ru­ary 1. A deci­sion will be announced at the next coun­cil meet­ing, she said.
Also address­ing coun­cil was Don DeV­ille from First Energy, who urged coun­cil and the com­mu­nity to report to him any street light that was not burn­ing and noted that is his high­est pri­or­ity. He also explained the gov­ern­ment aggre­gate pro­gram.
“Please do your home­work when select­ing an elec­tric sup­ply pro­gram– they should be an approved ven­dor with the PUCO,” he said. “Make sure you are select­ing a com­pany to do busi­ness with that is rep­utable.”
Thirty five min­utes into the reg­u­lar meet­ing, coun­cil entered a 15 minute exec­u­tive ses­sion based on ORC121.22(G)(1) and ORC 121.22 (G) (3).
When coun­cil recon­vened in reg­u­lar ses­sion, Vil­lage Solic­i­tor Jim Dietz explained that Coun­cil mem­ber Vickie Wise had sub­mit­ted her retire­ment papers to the OPERS effec­tive Decem­ber 31, 2012 which also required her to resign her coun­cil seat. There­fore, that seat is vacant. Coun­cil then appointed Wise to the vacant posi­tion.
Mayor Pey­ton gave the oath of office to Rosie Denty as the mayor’s court clerk.
Approved was an ordi­nance pro­vid­ing notice of meet­ings of the coun­cil through­out the year and nam­ing the com­mit­tees. Coun­cil will meet on the first and third Mon­days of the month at 7 pm through­out the year with the excep­tion of Tues­day, Jan­u­ary 22 and Tues­day, Sep­tem­ber 3.
Also approved was an ordi­nance estab­lish­ing the rules for pro­vid­ing notice of meet­ings of the vil­lage coun­cil and its com­mit­tees.
A res­o­lu­tion set­ting forth pro­ce­dures with respect to the con­duct of coun­cil was also approved.
A res­o­lu­tion estab­lish­ing the num­ber of deputy mar­shals to be autho­rized with the Card­ing­ton Police Depart­ment for the cal­en­dar year was approved. The res­o­lu­tion states that the vil­lage shall employ one full time offi­cer to serve as vil­lage marshal/police chief and four (2) addi­tional full time Deputy Marshals/patrolmen. It also pro­vides for four addi­tional part time posi­tions for help within the depart­ment.
Also approved was a res­o­lu­tion estab­lish­ing the num­ber of fire­fight­ers to be employed and/or autho­rized to serve as mem­bers of the Card­ing­ton fire depart­ment for the cal­en­dar year. The vil­lage shall employ a fire chief and an assis­tant fire chief on a part time basis and shall autho­rize not more than 35 vol­un­teer fire fight­ing per­son­nel to be paid for fire fight­ing duties as autho­rized by the annual vil­lage salary ordi­nance and the Card­ing­ton Vol­un­teer Fire Depart­ment reg­u­la­tions.
Police Offi­cer Jason Kiefer reported the police depart­ment had taken 1,161 calls for ser­vice in 2012. That is down by 340 calls of ser­vice from 2011 when the depart­ment took 1501 calls. Kiefer said this was prob­a­bly due to the fact that the depart­ment did not pro­vide cover for the vil­lage 24/7.
He noted that on Jan­u­ary 4 Ben­der Com­mu­ni­ca­tions repaired the portable radios which were nar­row banded and all but one did not work prop­erly.
He con­cluded his reported by thank­ing Offi­cers Cal­li­coat, Sto­ica, and Nor­ris for step­ping up the past week and help­ing with the cov­er­age of the vil­lage, which is now cov­ered 24/7 due to these offi­cers. Keifer is the fourth offi­cer to cover the vil­lage 24/7.
Vil­lage Admin­is­tra­tor Danny Wood reported that six trees with “bad” spots on them had been removed. Snow and ice removal was done for sev­eral days.
Fol­low­ing the third read­ing an ordi­nance approv­ing the edi­tion and inclu­sion of cer­tain ordi­nances as parts of the var­i­ous com­po­nent codes of the cod­i­fied ordi­nances of the vil­lage was approved.
Coun­cil approved the pay­ment of bills total­ing $76,825.98.
Mayor Pey­ton told coun­cil that the vil­lage engi­neer, Scott Hines, would be mak­ing a monthly report to coun­cil.
The mayor gave her state of the vil­lage report. Coun­cil adjourned at 8:35 pm and entered into a pub­lic work ses­sion. She noted the pub­lic is invited to sit in on these ses­sions.
The next coun­cil meet­ing will be held Tues­day, Jan­u­ary 22, at 7 pm.

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