Delaware County commissioners approve series of routine resolutions, acknowledge annexation petition and adopt solid-waste plan update

The Delaware County Board of Commissioners approved a series of routine resolutions during its Feb. 10, 2025 meeting, including acknowledgment of an annexation petition for about 84.3 acres into the city of Delaware and adoption of a five-year update to the Delaware Knox Marion Morrow Joint Solid Waste Management District plan.

The board voted unanimously on every resolution presented. The actions included ministerial approvals (electronic minutes, purchase orders and payment registers), administrative corrections to prior bid awards, right-of-way permits, drainage project assessment schedules and bond actions for new subdivisions.

The most notable items: - Resolution 25-99: The board acknowledged receipt of an annexation petition filed by agents for petitioners represented by attorney Michael R. Shade requesting annexation of roughly 84.3 acres in Delaware Township into the city of Delaware. The transcript does not specify next procedural steps or a hearing date.

- Resolution 25-100: The board approved the Delaware Knox Marion Morrow Joint Solid Waste Management District five-year update. Commissioner comment described the district as having spent considerable time on the plan and recommended approval.

Other approvals passed unanimously and with little or no discussion: Resolution 25-96 (approving electronic record of the Feb. 6, 2025 meeting), 25-97 (approving purchase orders and certificates of payment, batch CMAPR0207; memo transfers MTAPR0207), 25-98 (removing a travel expense request), 25-101 (schedule of assessments for a watershed drainage improvement project), 25-102 (extending filing dates for plans and reports on pending drainage improvement projects), 25-104 (rescinding Resolution 25-60 to add an omitted vendor for engineering materials), 25-105 (right-of-way permit summary for four utility permits), 25-106 (establishing a one-year maintenance bond and releasing the construction bond for Cheshire Woods, Section 4, Part A — 34 lots), 25-107 (accepting drainage improvements at Slate Ridge Residential, Sections 1–5, a 27.4-acre site), and 25-108 (purchase of build-out equipment for two dump trucks and a mower boom through state cooperative purchase programs; these purchases were budgeted for 2025).

Each motion was moved and seconded (individual movers/seconders were not specified in the transcript) and received an aye vote from the two commissioners recorded on the vote roll: Mister Benton and Mister Merrill.

Votes at a glance (as recorded in meeting): - 25-96 — Approved; vote: Benton Aye, Merrill Aye. - 25-97 — Approved; vote: Benton Aye, Merrill Aye. - 25-98 — Approved; vote: Benton Aye, Merrill Aye. - 25-99 (annexation petition acknowledgment) — Approved; vote: Benton Aye, Merrill Aye. - 25-100 (solid-waste plan update) — Approved; vote: Benton Aye, Merrill Aye. - 25-101 — Approved; vote: Benton Aye, Merrill Aye. - 25-102 — Approved; vote: Benton Aye, Merrill Aye. - 25-103 (Alpha Group capital repairs; see separate article) — Approved; vote: Benton Aye, Merrill Aye. - 25-104 (correction to vendor list) — Approved; vote: Benton Aye, Merrill Aye. - 25-105 (right-of-way permits) — Approved; vote: Benton Aye, Merrill Aye. - 25-106 (Cheshire Woods bonds) — Approved; vote: Benton Aye, Merrill Aye. - 25-107 (Slate Ridge drainage improvements acceptance) — Approved; vote: Benton Aye, Merrill Aye. - 25-108 (equipment purchases via state contracts) — Approved; vote: Benton Aye, Merrill Aye.

The meeting record shows routine staff presentations from the county engineer’s office and administrative reports from County Administrator Tracy Davies. Engineer Lee Bodnar explained that Resolution 25-104 corrects an omission by adding a vendor for drainage maintenance to the previously approved nonexclusive vendor list. The transcript does not include dollar amounts or detailed schedules tied to the annexation petition or the solid-waste plan; where amounts or dates were not specified in the meeting, this article reports them as not specified.

The board moved through the agenda without public comment recorded at the meeting and with no executive-session items announced.

Looking ahead, the transcript does not set hearing dates or next steps for the annexation petition; any future hearings or administrative actions were not specified in the meeting record.