Morrow County commissioners approve routine payments, solid-waste plan update and juvenile court agreements

Morrow County commissioners on Jan. 8, 2025, approved routine payments, a resolution updating the Delaware–Knox–Marion–Morrow Joint Solid Waste Management District plan and several juvenile-court service agreements during a short public meeting.

The approvals clear county payments to multiple vendors and authorize county officials to participate in the regional solid-waste plan update. The board also approved a purchase-of-services agreement for the county Court of Common Pleas and a supplemental memorandum of understanding related to juvenile courts. County staff provided brief updates on airport work and a facilities walkthrough and announced a change to the monthly meeting schedule.

The board approved a consent set of bills described in the meeting as “bills numbered 1 through 114,” including payments recorded from Chesterfield, Catterman and Pimelco and an invoice payment noted as an AMA invoice in Chester Township. The meeting record also references payments from Ohio Health described as for a lease enforcement reserve and a 2025 hospital lease; specific dollar amounts were not specified in the transcript. Commissioners Mason, Abraham and Siegfried recorded votes of “yes” on the consent items as part of the roll call.

The board took a separate roll-call vote to adopt a resolution described in the meeting as approving the Delaware–Knox–Marion–Morrow Joint Solid Waste Management District solid-waste management plan update and authorizing the chairman to sign. The resolution was moved and seconded and passed by the commissioners present; the transcript does not specify a statutory citation or fiscal impact in the record.

Commissioners also approved a purchase-of-service agreement between the Morrow County Court of Common Pleas and Cornell Abraxas Group LLC. The transcript indicates the motion was moved and seconded and passed; contract terms, duration and dollar amounts were not specified in the meeting record.

A motion described as a “triple supplemental memorandum of understanding” between a juvenile court (identified in the transcript as “juvenile court of Richmond County, Ohio”) and another juvenile court was also presented and approved. The transcript does not provide further detail on the parties’ full names, the MOU’s scope or any financial terms.

County staff provided nonvoting updates. Becker, described in the meeting as a county staff member, said the county has received contracts from a contractor for the airport fuel barn and that everyone had signed off on those contracts; timing and contract amounts were not specified. Becker also said engineers will conduct a first walkthrough the next day for a “general innovation” project to assess needed mechanical upgrades. Carroll, identified in the meeting as a county staff member, said the board’s regular monthly meeting will be moved to the following evening due to scheduling conflicts and said he will solicit another bid for unspecified event services.

Procedural motions to recess and to adjourn were made, seconded and approved during the session. The transcript does not record any dissenting votes or motions that failed during the items discussed publicly.

Votes at a glance: the transcript records commissioners Mason, Abraham and Siegfried voting “yes” on the consent agenda (bills 1–114), the solid-waste plan resolution, the purchase-of-service agreement with Cornell Abraxas Group LLC and the triple supplemental juvenile-court MOU. Where the transcript did not name a mover, second or dollar amounts, the meeting record lists those details as not specified.