Cardington Council amends water, sewer ordinances

By Eve­lyn Long -

Card­ing­ton Vil­lage coun­cil com­pleted a brief agenda in 35 min­utes when they met Feb­ru­ary 4.

Two ordi­nances related to the water and sewer charges (exten­sions of those ordi­nances approved at the Jan, 22 meet­ing) were approved: an ordi­nance cre­at­ing a 50% sewer base rate for inac­tive sewer accounts and a con­nec­tion fee for vacant lots with respect to vil­lage sewer ser­vice; and a sim­i­lar ordi­nance for water base rates, also related to inac­tive water accounts.

Also approved was an ordi­nance amend­ing and clar­i­fy­ing the ordi­nance approved at the Jan­u­ary 22 meet­ing, which sus­pends for 2013 the water base rate and water user charge auto­matic annual adjust­ment — return­ing the water base rate and the water user charge to March, 2012 lev­els with­out the three per cent auto­matic increase.

The vote was unan­i­mous on both pieces of leg­is­la­tion. Coun­cil­man Richard Cald­well was absent.

Approved was a total of $77,084.80 in bills.

Coun­cil accepted the res­ig­na­tions of Patrick Shee­han from the posi­tion of part time police offi­cer for the vil­lage and that of Jacob Doug Mul­let from the posi­tion of Aux­il­iary police offi­cer for the vil­lage. Police Chief John Hin­ton said Mul­let has accepted a posi­tion with the Mor­row County Sheriff’s office and Shee­han has accepted a posi­tion wih the Edi­ton police department.

Chief Hin­ton said the depart­ment has taken 105 calls for ser­vice, up from 48 calls at this time last year. The 2010 cruiser was repaired and the cost, $949.77, is approx­i­mately $50 less than quoted. He also said the Patriot Bar was bro­ken into on Jan­u­ary 24, 2013 and $775 was taken. He and Lt. James Wal­lace are han­dling the investigation.

He noted that Lt. Wal­lace and he have been mak­ing strides in the evi­dence room. All evi­dence has been inven­to­ried and they are in the process of look­ing up the cases through mayor’s court, munic­i­pal court and Com­mon Pleas court.

“Once the cases have been located through the court sys­tems, the evi­dence con­sid­ered con­tra­band will be dis­posed of per the Ohio Revised Code,” Hin­ton said.

Fire Chief Gary Good­man said the depart­ment had made 12 runs thus far this year. He also noted there will be an open house recep­tion hon­or­ing retir­ing Fire Chief Jim Ullom on Feb­ru­ary 23 at the First United Methodist Church.

Vil­lage Admin­is­tra­tor Danny Wood said the vil­lage staff’s activ­i­ties since Jan­u­ary 22, 2013 included the rebuild­ing and replac­ing of 18 water soft­ener valves and he reported there are 11 street lights out in the vil­lage. He noted that Ohio Edi­son had been in town and repaired all but one.

Coun­cil adjourned to exec­u­tive ses­sion based on ORC 121.22(G)(1) and ORC 121.22 (G)(3).

Coun­cil will meet next on Feb­ru­ary 18 at 7 pm.

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