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Ross County commissioners approve routine financial items and recommend extensions to several CRA abatements
Summary
In a routine session the Ross County commissioners approved weekly bills, several asset disposals and a small appropriation, reviewed paving bids, accepted a sheriff's subgrant of $47,700, and recommended extensions for a set of CRA tax-abatement agreements during a joint committee session with municipal partners.
Ross County commissioners opened their regular session and handled routine fiscal and administrative business, including approval of weekly bills, asset disposals, and an $8,000 appropriation to cover postage for tax-certificate costs.
Commissioners voted by voice to accept the minutes, approve the bills presented for the week — which included large items such as engineering invoices, a new vehicle purchase and a $364,564 payment tied to the State Route 104 sewer project — and to approve asset-disposal requests for obsolete equipment from several departments.
The board recorded acceptance of a sheriff’s office subgrant for valley camera funding totaling $47,700 and acknowledged a construction change order on a county project that staff said carried no expense to the county.
Staff read three competitive bids for county paving work: G&J (about $1,566,246.54), Kelly Company (about $1,883,418.90) and Shelly & Sands (about $1,558,835.39). The bids were recorded in the meeting record; the transcript does not show a formal award or final acceptance for those bids in the excerpt provided.
Separately, the Senate Review Committee (city portion) recommended extending several community reinvestment area (CRA) abatement agreements — including agreements for buildings at 50 West Paint Street and 47 South Paint — and discussed a property for which the Department of Taxation had granted a full tax exemption. The county portion of the committee later recommended extensions for several county CRA agreements (Ripple Machine Works, Kenworth and Near River Road development agreements) and discussed the need to revisit inactive abatements if no activity occurs after additional time.
The meeting concluded after the scheduled items; multiple motions were moved, seconded and passed by voice vote as recorded in the transcript.
Actions recorded during the meeting included approval of minutes and bills, passage of an $8,000 appropriation for tax-certification postage, acceptance of a $47,700 sheriff’s subgrant, and recommendations to extend named CRA agreements. The transcript did not show roll-call vote tallies for each item; approvals were taken by voice vote.
