Tiffin, Ohio — Nice Lakes Group Motion Partnership (GLCAP) offered an replace to the Seneca County Board of Commissioners on Thursday morning, showcasing the constructive influence of their providers.
RuthAnn Home, the President and CEO of GLCAP, expressed gratitude to the commissioners for his or her assist of Might as Group Motion Month. She launched members of her group and emphasised their dedication to serving the county’s residents.
Commissioner Tyler Shuff recommended Home and her group for his or her invaluable contributions to the neighborhood, acknowledging the numerous good they do for many individuals. Home then launched Andrea Hickle and her two sons, two-year-old Phoenix and two-month-old Bexley. Hickle shared that her different son is enrolled within the Head Begin Program in Fostoria.
Head Begin early childhood facilities play an important function in offering care and preschool providers to younger youngsters. This system operates Monday by way of Thursday through the faculty 12 months, providing meals, snacks, hands-on actions, and important providers corresponding to medical, psychological well being, vitamin, and dental care. Hickle expressed her deep appreciation for GLCAP and the help they’ve offered to her household, stating, “I really like, love, love GLCAP.”
In keeping with info offered by GLCAP, in 2022, 161 youngsters in Seneca County participated in Head Begin and Early Head Begin packages, each center-based and home-based. Moreover, the group assisted 1,123 households with power or water utility assist and helped them set up inexpensive cost plans to handle residence utility bills. Furthermore, 308 households obtained support for utility, mortgage, and hire funds as a consequence of monetary hardships brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic within the earlier 12 months.
In different information, the commissioners introduced that bids for EMS Station #1, situated on the east aspect of the county alongside US 224, shall be opened on June twenty ninth at 10:05 a.m. Commissioner Anthony Paradiso defined that the bid opening was rescheduled to permit extra time for finalizing mission particulars. He expressed enthusiasm about getting again on observe, stating that the commissioners hope the development of the constructing might be accomplished by year-end. County Administrator Barb Patterson knowledgeable the board {that a} pre-bid convention is scheduled for June twentieth at 9 a.m. on the website of the brand new constructing, close to 9428 E. US 224.
Through the assembly, the board authorised the holiday of a bit of TR 138. County Engineer Mark Zimmerman beneficial the holiday of a culvert that was beforehand owned by a railroad firm. Zimmerman reported that there have been no objections from native residents, and a viewing was held on Thursday morning at 9:15 a.m.
Throughout new enterprise the board authorised:
- A $1,000 supplemental appropriation to the Hid Handgun Licenses for gear.
- A -$2,656.87 correction to the EPA On-Lot Septic System for a mortgage cost.
- Establishing the Sandusky County Normal Well being District – Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Grant Fund on behalf of the Psychological Well being and Restoration Companies Board of Seneca, Ottawa, Sandusky and Wyandot Counties.
- Setting June twenty ninth at 10:05 a.m. on the commissioners’ workplace to obtain sealed bids for the Seneca County EMS Station #1.
- Setting July thirteenth at 10 a.m. on the commissioners’ workplace to obtain sealed statements of {qualifications} for power conservation and facility enchancment tasks.
- Authorizing an settlement with the Village of New Riegel on behalf of the Seneca County Sheriff’s Workplace.
- Affirming Seneca County’s due diligence to supply for equal housing alternative and affirmatively additional honest housing within the county.
- Approving the tasks and quantities for the Group Growth Block Grant Program Yr 2023 Group Growth Program and submitting the applying and all associated paperwork to the state.
- Establishing the aim and use of the Financial Growth Revolving Mortgage Fund.
- The dedication of leverage funds from the Financial Growth Revolving Mortgage Fund Program for Program Yr 2023 by way of the CDBG Program.
