Members of Meade County Fiscal Court met Tuesday night with a few audience members eager to provide their opinions on the proposed abandoned property and nuisance ordinances.
The issue was discussed half way through the meeting as Judge Executive Gerry Lynn asked for the pleasure of the magistrates to move forward in relation to the second reading. Several magistrates voiced to table the issue until more public comment could be collected by Fiscal Court. During the meeting members of the public had an opportunity to comment. Judge Executive Lynn offered the suggestion to table the matter until after the holidays and conduct a work session of Fiscal Court to allow the public to come and provide input and determine and see where the issue lands at that point.
In other business, the court heard a presentation from Clarence Merk of Laconia, Indiana, who is seeking $1,000 of funding to pay a grant writer to craft grant paper work to map and research the wreck of the Alice Dean in the Ohio River. Merk said that very little was known about the vessel that was seized and burned to the bow by the Confederate soldiers during the Civil War. The location of the boat is along the Meade County shoreline between Brandenburg and Wold Creek. After about a 20 minute conversation, Wayne Smith, Owner of Waste Transport Service, asked to donate the requested money to county to pay for the payment of the grant writing. Fiscal Court members accepted the generous gift and approved the request.
County leaders approved a transfer of contract agreement from Waste Transport Services to Waste Services a trash hauling division of Santek Enviromental, who currently operates the Pearl Hollow Landfill in Hardin County. Smith thanked the county leaders for their business and said he was selling his company of sixteen and half years was due to health and mindset. Smith assured county leaders and residents that the transition will be smooth and no changes in services will be noticed during as a result of the transition. Meade County is in the third year of the first renewal of the agreement with Waste Transport Services.
Magistrates approved the County Clerk audit and voted to allow County Road Supervisor Jeff Padgett to put together specifications for a oil truck.
The next scheduled meeting of Meade County Fiscal Court will be on Tuesday, January 12 at 7 pm. You can watch the entire meeting of Meade County Fiscal Court in our “On Demand” section.
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