Commissioner addresses CC Republican Women

By Sarah Einselen

Inquirer Reporter

The Craw­ford County Repub­li­can Women gath­ered at the Pel­i­can House in Bucyrus to hear from from county com­mis­sioner Jenny Ver­mil­lion at the club’s monthly meet­ing Mon­day, Jan. 9. Ver­mil­lion used an infor­mal question-and-answer for­mat to bring club mem­bers on county busi­ness and prepa­ra­tions for the future.

Her first year as com­mis­sioner went by fast, she said. “It’s exactly what I thought it would be.”

“Pretty much everything’s quiet now after we’ve passed the bud­get,” Ver­mil­lion told the group of about 30 gath­ered for lunch. The county is prepar­ing to pur­chase a larger facil­ity for recy­cling, she said, but it will be about two years before it will be up and running.

Ver­mil­lion said the com­mis­sion­ers had offered to give the Keller Hall com­plex to the city of Galion at no cost, but hadn’t heard back from the city. “Part of the deal would be ‘no, you can­not profit off of it,’” she said, so the city couldn’t turn around and sell the build­ing if it accepts the offer.

As for Fairview Manor, “right now we’ve got it win­ter­ized,” she said. “The deal with Avita fell through. We are talk­ing with MRDD (the Depart­ment of Men­tal Retar­da­tion and Devel­op­men­tal Dis­abil­i­ties) about them tak­ing it. Right now it’s still up in the air.”

In the future, the board of com­mis­sion­ers is going to face cuts in local gov­ern­ment funds received from the state, as other munic­i­pal and county offices are doing. “With the cuts that are com­ing in 2013,” she said, “being fis­cally respon­si­ble is going to be our top pri­or­ity” in 2012.

The club will meet next at noon on Mon­day, Feb. 13, at the Pel­i­can House.

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