Public Meetings

A much-needed study of Bluffton’s busy State Route 103 corridor between Interstate 75 and County Line Road is in motion.

Monday evening Bluffton council is prepared to approve preliminary legislation to authorize the study.

The Transportation Coordinating Committee (TCC) of the Lima-Allen County Regional Planning Commission has approved $50,000 for the study. No Bluffton funds will be used unless the study exceeds $50,000. At that point, the village contributes to the project.

Bluffton school board will consider several contracts, assignments and advancements at its Sept. 14 board meeting.

On the agenda includes certificate advancement for three teachers:
• Rebecca Boblitt
• Jaime Combs
• Kyle Cutnaw

Supplemental contracts will be offered to 12 persons involving winter sport coaching positions. The sports include:
• Girls’ varsity basketball
• Boy’s varsity basketball
• Boys’ freshman basketball
• Middle school volleyball
• Varsity wrestling
• Middle school wrestling

The Shannon Cemetery Commission, meeting Sept. 3, agreed to use a survey devised by one of its members to get a pulse of the community's views on the cemetery's future.

Harriet Moyer of the commission created the survey that was approved by the commission.

"This is an outreach attempt to look at other segments of the community," she said about the survey.

The survey is an attachment at the bottom of this story.

Bluffton council will act on legislation that provides a stated proceedure to close an alley in the village.

The first of three readings of the ordinance is on Tuesday's council agenda. If enacted one of the parts of the process includes an alley vacation checklist. Here is the checklist under consideration: 

By Greg Denecker 
Bluffton school superintendent

We hope you have had a great summer and have been able to spend some time with family and friends.

LIST OF PERMANENT IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS 
AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS STORY - 

Apollo Career Center board of education will meet at 7 p.m., Monday, Aug. 31. Bluffton's representative on the board is Brad Fruchey.

The agenda is an attachment at the bottom of this story.

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