Richard Mullock came to the regular Worth County Commission meeting Tuesday and requested closure of an abandoned road, County Road #54 East, which cuts east from Route B between Sheridan and Oxford. Mullock stated that the road had not been used in years, but had never been formally closed by the county.
To formally abandon a road, 12 residents residing in the township (Greene) must sign a petition requesting the closure of the road. The location must be a described location, the petition must be completed 20 days before the start of the next County Term (July 1st), and the petition will then be read at the start of the next term. If any resident objects, then that will end the closure process. This was the process that was used to close a stretch of Old 169 north of Grant City recently.
Emergency Management Director Pat Kobbe reported that all emergency sirens have worked for the last two months. A lightning strike knocked out her computer. The county has discussed the logistics of using the school as an emergency management shelter. The school requires sufficient advance notice to secure school property. The county would act as a shelter in the event of a major earthquake in the east part of the state, near the New Madrid Fault.
Kobbe reported that the Obama Administration is looking at doing a whole new communication system for emergency purposes, including the use of communication drones. It would allow emergency planners to have priority access. Kobbe also reported that 13 people showed up to the Red Cross shelter training, while nobody showed up to Harrison and Livingston County's. During the training, they learned that the MRE's are three years out of date and that the batteries for the generator are old.
Commissioners discussed progress on roads targeted by brush letters that were sent out recently. They will write thank you letters to landowners who have cleaned out brush and tree stumps as required by the voter-passed brush ordinance. Commissioners will look at other roads to assess compliance. Second letters will be sent to landowners who did not respond to the first letter and who did not request an extension.
The General Revenue Fund is running $26,000 ahead of last year while the Road & Bridge Fund is running $22,000 ahead of last year. All tax and patron rock has been delivered this year; the county is running ahead of schedule since it had not been done at this point last year. The Road & Bridge Crew is working on a bridge on Road #156, Plum Trail, near Denver.
Cleanup of old, unneeded county records is continuing. Becky Carlson was in the Courthouse Tuesday to throw out another truckload of records that the county had marked for destruction. County Clerk Roberta Owens said that some of it had been marked for destruction as early as 20 years ago, but that the work had never gotten done.
The commission voted to allow Owens to spend $540 to replace the lights in the lobby. She said that the current lights were too dim, causing problems for lawyers trying to read documents before court hearings.
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