By Carol McIntire
Editor
May 5, 2008

The air should be a little cooler in the County Recorder’s office this summer.

Carroll County Commissioners accepted a quote from Randalson Red Shed Heating and Air Conditioning of Amsterdam to install one two-ton and one two and one-half ton air conditioning units in windows in the second floor office of Recorder Pat Oyer.

Commissioner Bob Herron said three price quotes were obtained for the project and Randalson was the lowest with a price of $4,900.

"The office sits right over the boilers and we can’t turn the boilers off," Herron noted. That office has needed this for a long time."

In an unrelated matter, commissioners signed an application for the Help Me Grow grant  (part 3) to be submitted to the Ohio Department of Health.

Health Commissioner Melanie Campbell, who prepared the application,  noted the Health Department is the provider agency for the grant, which helps provided services for speech, hearing, mobility in children from birth to age three. Last year’s grant totaled $31,512.

Campbell noted the Carroll County Family and Children First administers the grant and the Health Department has submitted the successful proposal to administer the grant for several years. They have submitted a grant for the upcoming year as well. 

In other business commissioners:
-APPOINTED Victoria Peoples, commissioner clerk, as alternate to the Natural Gas Committee effective May 1, 2008.

-HEARD a report from Commissioner Tom Wheaton on meetings he recently had with officials from Rosebud Coal, American Electric Power and First Communications.

-WERE invited by Campbell to attend the May 10 Summer Safety Kickoff at Malvern High School. The event is sponsored by Carroll County Safe Kids Chapter and the county health department.

-AGREED to write a letter of support for Habitat for Humanity for 20 years of service.

-LEARNED from Tom Cottis, Emergency Management Agency (EMA) director, the county’s HAZMAT team has been awarded $19,440 as part of a Regional 5 grant. The money will be used to purchase equipment to allow that team to become Type 3 certified.

-APPROVED the Certificate of Need (CON) application for the new nursing home to be built adjacent to the Carroll Golden Age Retreat following an executive session to discuss contract negotiations.

-RECEIVED an update on activities of the Carroll County Convention and Visitors Bureau by Director Amy Rutledge.  The bureau is hosting a business after hours this Thursday in honor of National Tourism Month, which is May. 
Rutledge reported on the recent daffodil tour which returned to the county after an absence of several years. She said the tour’s partners estimated between 900 and 1,000 took the tour in April.

She also reported on two familiarization tours conducted by the bureau which was focused on educating locals people that could be involved with tourists what is available in the county for them to visit. She said the tour also attracted two Ohio Tourism Division employees, two Tuscarawas County CVB personnel, two Coshocton County CVB personnel, two Harrison County Visitor Center representatives and a writer for Country Living Magazine. She said she expects to see articles appear in the future in publications as a result of the tour.

She asked everyone in the county involved in planning activities to contact the CVB with dates and times for events so she can help advertise the event in both state and local publications. We can put them on the state website as well as the CVB site, she noted.
Dates and times for events should be called into the CVB office at 330-627-0103. Information should be submitted as sooon as dates are finalized.

-ACCEPTED the quote of Llewelyn’s Business Machines for the purchase of new desks for the clerks section of the office at a price of $2,542.62. Commissioner Wheaton noted two filing cabinets will be purchased to complete the project. New carpet was installed in the office over the weekend.

-RECEIVED the weekly dog pound report showing 36 impouned, 34 tagged and one redeemed.

-RECEIVED the monthly Golden Age Retreat report showing 16 male and 26 female residents.

-MET in executive session to discuss pending litigation with no action.