Lancaster County Council approves library, road and development funding, amends Redwood agreement and removes library trustee

Lancaster County Council voted on a series of budget and land‑use items during its meeting, approving a budget amendment to account for additional state library aid and capital‑sales‑tax funds for two road projects, adopting several zoning and ordinance changes, confirming appointments to a newly created International Code Board of Appeals and removing a member from the Lancaster County Library Board.

The council unanimously approved the second reading of an amendment to the county budget to recognize state library aid and to appropriate capital sales tax funds for two road projects. County staff told council the county’s per‑capita state library allocation for this year is $264,689.10, which exceeded the budgeted estimate of $247,806; the amendment appropriated the roughly $16,883 difference to support personnel costs for two existing library positions. Staff also said the county had just over $1,800,000 in available capital‑sales‑tax funds and moved that sum toward two approved road projects, Cleveland Street and Ryze Lane.

The council took a separate vote on an amendment to a development agreement affecting a Redwood Indian Land/Barberville property, approving the change…