It will soon be easier to pay Bluffton village utility bills.
The Village of Bluffton will soon offer electronic fund tranfer as a method for utility customers to pay their monthly bills.
Here's how it works: This is an automated bank debiting service going directly from the customer's checking account. For utility customers to receive this service they need to complete an application form (which is available as printer-friendly attachment at the bottom of this story), and attach a "voided" check or deposit slip for the village's records.
Bluffton’s water main project is moving along on schedule. Jamie Mehaffie, village administrator, told Bluffton council members on Sept. 10 that pressure tests are taking place today on the Grove Street line. After the tests are complete a work crew (separate crew from the crew laying pipes) will switch over the new line to residences on the street.
Meanwhile the pipe laying has moved on to Jackson Street. Mehaffie anticipates that Lawn Avenue will take place next.
Are you confused about the electrical aggregation program? You are not alone.
Bluffton’s voters passed the governmental aggregation issue on the March 2012 primary ballot. The village has elected to join the government electrical aggregation program managed by the County Commissioners Association of Ohio and officially named the Allen County Commissioners as the aggregators on behalf of the Village of Bluffton in order to do so.
The Grove, Jackson and Lawn Avenue water main replacement project is underway and, according to Jamie Mehaffie, village administrator, “Progressing well.”
In Monday’s Bluffton council packet Mehaffie writes that “as of a conversation on Friday the contractor was hoping to make it to Main Street by the end of the day. Their plan is to begin the section of South Jackson Street between Grove and Kibler this coming week.”
Deb Kiene, secretary at Bluffton High School for several years, will resign from her position on Sept. 14. Action on naming her replacement will be on the Monday Bluffton school board agenda.
According to the board agenda, which is part of this story, the board will consider offering a contract to Karen Phillips.
Several other decisions will be made on Monday. Those are listed in the agenda.
The following supplemental contracts will be considered:
