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At a special re-organizational meeting March 5, the Ottawa County Board of Elections welcomed recently appointed members, Republican Harold R. Clagg and Democrat Dan Laity, who were sworn in at a special ceremony.
Board members are appointed by their political party for four-year terms. The terms of board members Democrat Linda Apling and Republican Terry Lowe will expire in 2012.
In addition, the board elected JoAnn Friar as director, Carol Ann Hill as deputy director and Apling as chairman of the board of elections.
Regular monthly board meetings were set for the third Friday of each month at 1:30 p.m. at the board office, 844 W. SR 163, Suite 101, Oak Harbor.
Tax distribution
Wood County Auditor Michael Sibbersen has announced the distribution of real estate and public utility taxes, and special assessments for the first half of 2010.
A total of $78.52 million was collected and distributed, including $3.2 million for special assessments.
In addition, $8.22 million is to be reimbursed from the state income tax funds: $5.6 million from a 10 percent rollback, $932,329 from a 2.5 percent homestead-rollback, and $1.6 million in homestead exemption monies. They represent tax reductions for qualifying properties.
Wood County currently maintains 73,889 individual land parcels of record and distributes the taxes to 18 school districts, 19 townships, and 26 cities and villages.
The county has more than 100,000 individual special assessments, which are distributed to regional, county, municipal and township governments. Examples include ditch construction and maintenance, sewer and water systems, street lighting, street cleaning, and tree maintenance programs.
Switching to blogging
An e-mail newsletter from Eastwood school superintendent Brent Welker to district residents may be coming to a close.
Welker has informed readers he is considering switching to a blog format.
“We are experimenting with a blog that will be updated on a weekly basis and will catalogue all updates and keep them in one location,“ he writes in last week’s newsletter. “This will make it easier for people to refer back to them if they have questions. It will also then be accessible to people outside of the e-mail list through a main page. We will see how it goes. If it does not work out we will reconsider this. I also need to make sure that charts and graphs we post through these notes will appear in an appealing format. When I update the blog, I will send out an e-mail notifying everyone and include a link. We are still a couple of weeks away from this however.”
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