Commissioners approve upcoming gas line work

By Randa Wag­ner -
Road work will begin soon in Card­ing­ton and Canaan Twps. to allow Sala­manca Energy to install gas line pipes to per­form stream extrac­tion on exist­ing ver­ti­cal oil wells.
At Monday’s reg­u­lar meet­ing, com­mis­sion­ers approved an appli­ca­tion for road cross­ing from Ram­say Bar­rett, Sala­manca Energy, LLC to bore and install plas­tic pipe inside steel pipe four feet below the bot­tom of the road ditches at the fol­low­ing loca­tions:
– County Road 27 in Card­ing­ton and Canaan Town­ships;
– County Roads 28 and 29 in Card­ing­ton Town­ship 25 ft to CR28/CR139;
– County Road 130 in Canaan Town­ship 40 ft north of “T” inter­sec­tion CR130/TR133;
– County Road 130 in Canaan Town­ship 48 ft north of inter­sec­tion CR27/CR130
Steam is being uti­lized to extract the remain­ing oil from wells, rather than frack­ing, Com­mis­sioner Dick Miller noted.
Sala­manca Energy agreed traf­fic will be main­tained at all times, unless per­mis­sion is granted by the engineer’s depart­ment to close the road. All mail­boxes, signs, yards, dri­ve­ways, drainage struc­tures, fences, ditches, side­walks, or other per­ti­nent prop­erty dam­aged or removed dur­ing ini­tial con­struc­tion or future main­te­nance will be replaced or repaired as good as or bet­ter than what is exist­ing.
All prop­erty own­ers within the con­struc­tion area and the engineer’s office will be noti­fied at least (10) work­ing days before work begins.
The fol­low­ing pay-ins were made to the Mor­row County Audi­tor: Ket­ter­man res­i­dents for sewer main­te­nance and oper­a­tions: $90.38; Ketterman-City of Galion $422.36; Johnsville res­i­dents for sewer debt reserve $41.70; Johnsville sewer main­te­nance and oper­a­tions $476.40; Johnsville sewer debt retire­ment $279.90; Card­ing­ton and Wash­ing­ton Town­ships for EMA ser­vices $3,158.79; Secures for inmate phone com­mis­sion $1,421.39; Secures for gen­eral phone por­tion of inmate phone com­mis­sion $250.83; Johnsville res­i­dents for sewer debt reserve; $12.00; Johnsville sewer main­te­nance and oper­a­tions $136.00; Johnsville sewer debt retire­ment $80.00; Chester Town­ship for EMA ser­vices $1,416.45.
Employ­ment mat­ters
Deana Gear was approved as Planning/Zoning Sec­re­tary in a unclas­si­fied part-time posi­tion as of Decem­ber 30, 2012 under Patri­cia Davies, Direc­tor of Oper­a­tions.
Other busi­ness
Mor­row County was awarded $500,000 to admin­is­ter pro­grams as out­lined in the Com­mu­nity Hous­ing Improve­ment Pro­gram (CHIP) FY2010 in which the State of Ohio, Depart­ment of Devel­op­ment, pro­vided finan­cial assis­tance to local gov­ern­ments for the pur­pose of address­ing local needs. Mor­row County has expended all funds for the CHIP FY2010 grant and the grant is now com­plete. Chair­man Tom Whis­ton was granted author­ity to sign Grant BC-10-1CB-1 and B-C-10-1CB-2 final per­for­mance reports.
The com­mis­sion­ers received grant fund­ing from CEBCO to admin­is­ter a County Well­ness Pro­gram, so they con­tracted for Well­ness Pro­gram Ser­vices through the Mor­row County Com­mu­nity Cen­ter for a term of twelve months from Jan­u­ary 1, 2013 through Decem­ber 31, 2013. The Mor­row County Com­mu­nity Cen­ter will pro­vide 25% dis­counts to County employ­ees and fam­ily mem­bers, pay­ing the Mor­row County Com­mu­nity Cen­ter the sum of $1,800.00 from the Well­ness Pro­gram Grant.

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