The Ottawa County Board of Elections was scheduled to hold a requested recount Dec. 3 of the results of the Genoa Village Council race and the Put-in-Bay Township tax levy for the port authority.

Elizabeth Slotnick, a member of Genoa council for more than 18 years who was among the incumbents to lose a council seat in the November election, had requested the recount of the race, according Jo Ann Friar, a director of the elections board.

Not one incumbent received as much as nine percent of the vote in the 10-person race for four open seats.

Slotnick said she filed the request as a means to check the accuracy of the voting machines, which have had problems in recent elections. She said she didn’t expect the outcome of the election to change and had no concerns about how poll workers handled their responsibilities.

She used her campaign money to pay for the recount.

 
Open door at B-C-S
Two administrators of the Benton-Carroll-Salem School District have scheduled “open door” sessions for the public.

Superintendent Diane Kershaw and Treasurer Anne Arnold will be available for discussing school issues from 4-6 p.m. on Jan. 11, Feb. 22, March 8, April 12, and May 10 of next year.

The B-C-S school board will hold its next regular meeting Dec. 15 at 6 p.m.

Septic systems limited
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has reached an agreement with Ottawa County to place limits on new home sewage treatment systems on South Bass Island.

The order will limit the Ottawa County Health Department’s ability to issue permits for individual sewage treatment systems. There are exceptions if certain conditions are met.

More than 1,400 people reported gastro-intestinal illness to the health department in the summer of 2004.

According to the Ohio EPA, an investigation determined the likely source was drinking water wells contaminated by sewage leaching from septic systems.

Because of the new restrictions, many properties on the island will not be able to be developed unless they have sewers, the EPA said.

To date, public water lines have been installed to serve many homes and businesses on the island and all but three public water systems on the island have tied into the village water system.

The three are hauling water from the village.

A report in 2005 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the illness outbreak also recommended that all housing units and commercial establishments on the island be served by a public sewage system.

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