Bluffton council will hear updates on several fall village projects on Monday.
Jamie Mehaffie, village administrator, will provide current information on many of those projects. Here's a summary of his anticipated report:
TRS
The village had a preconstruction meeting for the Trihalomethane Removal System project last Thursday. As long as fabrication moves forward as scheduled, the contractors are scheduled to begin the installation of the TRS the last week in October.
A much-needed study of Bluffton’s busy State Route 103 corridor between Interstate 75 and County Line Road is in motion.
Monday evening Bluffton council is prepared to approve preliminary legislation to authorize the study.
The Transportation Coordinating Committee (TCC) of the Lima-Allen County Regional Planning Commission has approved $50,000 for the study. No Bluffton funds will be used unless the study exceeds $50,000. At that point, the village contributes to the project.
Bluffton school board will consider several contracts, assignments and advancements at its Sept. 14 board meeting.
On the agenda includes certificate advancement for three teachers:
• Rebecca Boblitt
• Jaime Combs
• Kyle Cutnaw
Supplemental contracts will be offered to 12 persons involving winter sport coaching positions. The sports include:
• Girls’ varsity basketball
• Boy’s varsity basketball
• Boys’ freshman basketball
• Middle school volleyball
• Varsity wrestling
• Middle school wrestling
The Shannon Cemetery Commission, meeting Sept. 3, agreed to use a survey devised by one of its members to get a pulse of the community's views on the cemetery's future.
Harriet Moyer of the commission created the survey that was approved by the commission.
"This is an outreach attempt to look at other segments of the community," she said about the survey.
The survey is an attachment at the bottom of this story.
Bluffton council will act on legislation that provides a stated proceedure to close an alley in the village.
The first of three readings of the ordinance is on Tuesday's council agenda. If enacted one of the parts of the process includes an alley vacation checklist. Here is the checklist under consideration:
