A projected $290,000 Airpark Master Plan Study for the Bluffton Airport will become a reality, according to Jamie Mehaffie, village administrator.
He will update Bluffton council on Monday about the project, which includes a 90 percent grant from the Federal Aviation Administration.
The village still awaits official notification from the Ohio Department of Transportation, which may provide an additional 5 percent toward the grant. That application went to the Ohio Office of Aviation. Its total is $14,500.
Jamie Mehaffie, village administrator, will inform Bluffton council of the fall leaf plan at Monday’s council meeting. The entire Monday agenda is in an attachment at the bottom of this story.
Weather always dictates when the village launches its fall leaf pick-up. Mehaffie, said that it’s likely to begin the last week of October.
“As grass mowing slows down, leaf pick up increases,” he said, anticipating that it will continue through November.
After the leaf pick-up concludes, village employees will turn their focus on cleaning out catch basins.
Several winter supplemental coaching contracts are on Monday’s Bluffton school board agenda.
Thirteen contracts to be acted upon involve boys’ basketball, freshman boys’ basketball, middle school boys’ basketball, girls’ basketball and wrestling. The list is in the board agenda, an attachment at the bottom of this story.
Bluffton council is looking as far ahead as 2019 in its street program. Action on all or part of the multi-year recommendations will be considered on Monday evening.
The streets on the schedule and their projected costs are part of the attachment at the bottom of this story.
Bluffton Paving Co., cost estimates for 2016 total $383,294. Five additional projects were later added to the original 2016 street program at an estimated cost of $93,669.
Work on the Augsburger Road pathway project will begin on Sept. 21. Jamie Mehaffie, village administrator, will update Bluffton council on the project on Monday.
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When completed, the pathway will exend from Bentley Road (north side of Augsburger), to Maple Crest. A completion date is Oct. 31.
Mehaffie said that initially, construction will be limited to the areas of the project that are outside of the Bluffton University Nature Preserve.
An assortment of contracts and staff adjustments will be addressed at Monday’s Bluffton school board meeting.
Certified teacher advancements to be considered (each one master to master plus 15) are for Todd Boblitt, Janelle Bogart, Kimberly Fritsch and Stephen Lemley.
Kaye Phillips will be offered a classified contract as an educational aide. The board will also act on the resignation of David Glick as an educational aide.
Other staff action is listed in the board agenda, an attachment at the bottom of this story.
