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Board of zoning and appeal minutes from 12-14-09

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 22, 2010 - 4:22pm

BOARD OF ZONING AND APPEALS MINUTES
Date: December 14, 2009

(These minutes were published in the Jan. 22, 2010 Bluffton council packet)
Time: 7:00 p.m.

Location: 218 S. Main Street
BZA: Bill Gable, Gordon Diller, and John Harbison
Administration: Nancy Benroth
Petitioner: Sean & JoLynn Burrell, and Meg Burrell

The legal notice was published in the Bluffton News on December 3, 2009.

Letters were sent to all the property owners within 200 feet of all property lines.

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Bluffton's 2010 appropriations by the numbers

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 22, 2010 - 7:41am

Bluffton's council recently approved its 2010 appropriations. A breakdown of where spending will occur this year follows:

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Village dodges financial bullet in 2009

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 11, 2010 - 5:14pm

As bad as 2009 was, the Village of Bluffton's budget dodged the financial bullet in the year just past.

According to Nancy Kindle, village fiscal officer, Bluffton's cash balances decreased by $295,008 in 2009. The streetscape program was completed at a cost of $230,244 and $600,000 of the town hall debt was retired. Those figures were revealed at the Jan. 11 council meeting - the first meeting of 2010.

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2010 village general fund "only" $2.1 million

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 30, 2009 - 5:14am

Gone are those large village projects:

  • the $1 million Main Street waterline
  • the Main Street streetscape project
  • the $2.5 million town hall renovation
  • the multi-million water tower projects
  • the Ottawa waterline project

It appears 2010 is a "breather" year for the Village of Blfufton budget. Bluffton council okayed its 2010 budget on Dec. 28. The general fund total is $2,138,316. That's lower than the 2009 general fund budget of $2,331,215.

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Variance granted at 218 S. Main St.

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 16, 2009 - 2:52pm

The Bluffton board of zoning and appeals granted a rear yard variance in a hearing held Dec. 14.

The variance of eight feet was requested by petitioners Sean and JoLynn Burrell and Meg Burrell for a property at 218 S. Main St.

The purpose of hearing was to consider the variance for an addition to the house at the address. A garage and second story will be added to the back of the house into the rear yard.

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Village ready to grind brush

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 15, 2009 - 7:33am

As the season changes, village employees switch their work from fall to winter.

At the Dec. 14 Bluffton council meeting Jamie Mehaffie, village administrator, told council members that leaf pickup is completed. "We have received quotes for the grinding of the brush dump," he said. "The low quote was $9,125 and the high, $13,625. My plan is to have this completed as soon as possible so that that material will be ready for spring."

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