Nashville wastewater system plans move forward
During its weekly meeting on Monday, Dec. 23, the Holmes County Board of Commissioners plowed through a series of year-end paperwork.
The commissioners finished up a host of transfers, transactions and supplementals that balanced the budget for the final days of 2024 as they prepared to move into a new year.
Resolution 12-23-24-1 approved the notice of award for the Village of Nashville wastewater system improvements, awarding the water treatment plant contract to Simonson Construction Services Inc. in the amount of $157,702.52.
The project was funded in part by Community Block Development Grant funds.
According to Holmes County Planning Commissioner Arnie Oliver, the provided funds will be put toward the well that will be a portion of the $1 million project.
“It will all mesh together,” Oliver said. “This one will function more as a filtration unit that also will hold the water there.”
Commissioner Chairman Dave Hall said the resolution has already been given its approval on moving forward with the project by the Village of Nashville Council.
Resolution 12-23-24-3 was accepted, approving an agreement for provision of guaranteed bed detention services between Erie County and Holmes County.
The agreement is between the two counties’ probate and juvenile court systems and the respective commissioners, allowing Holmes County to pay $100 per day for provision of juvenile detention services of both male and female juveniles between the age of 11 and 20.
The contract will include all necessary hygiene articles, appropriate meals according to the Ohio Department of Youth Services, educational facilities to be used by youth as time and schedule permits, art and living skills education, age-appropriate recreational facilities, 24-hour supervision, and mental health services.
The contract will run Jan. 1 through Dec. 31, 2025.
The agreement has been ongoing for many years. According to Hall, at one time the county had a partnership should Holmes County need additional facilities to secure juveniles through its court system.
“We used to be in a multicounty juvenile system that was costing the county between $250,000 and $300,000,” Hall said. “Instead of remaining in that system, we chose to pull back and work with Dan Jackson (director of Holmes County Job & Family Services) and the courts for an alternative place, and it has saved the county quite a bit of money.”
Resolution 12-23-24-4 conveyed contracting authority to approve all out-of-county and out-of-state travel for county employees of Holmes County JFS to the JFS director 2025.
In order to carry out his responsibilities, Jackson requested contracting authority on behalf of the JFS to delegate that power to himself.
The agreement includes approval authority of all out-of-state travel for employees of child support, public assistance, workforce development and children services for training, investigations, home studies, and association meetings.
Resolution 12-23-24-5 allows JFS to obtain certificates from the Holmes County auditor against each line item of JFS’s funds for the calendar year.
“This is all required by the State of Ohio Revised Code, and we do it every year to give the director the ability to move forward,” Hall said.