CLERMONT COUNTY TOWNSHIP ASSOCIATION

OCTOBER 23, 2003

The meeting was held at the Clermont County Sheriff's Office and began at 6:30 p.m.  The Pledge of Allegiance and a prayer was said. 

The Sheriff greeted everyone and introduced Deputy Marc Sorbello who has been assigned special duty to locate "meth labs".  The group was informed that "meth labs" did not exist in the county five years ago, but the Sheriff's Office has now seized eighty in the county and four outside the county.  Some counties do not address this situation; therefore we have no record of how many exist in other areas.  "Meth labs" often take place in households with children.  Those children have to be removed and taken into a care system upon discovery.  The drug is always made for their own purpose and drug needs, but sometimes can be sold as well.  Persons using the drug become violent and have mental disturbances.  Township Trustees were informed of the dangers that their maintenance workers may have upon finding tanks, jars, cans, foil, Sudafed containers etc. during their work day.  These items are used for the making of this drug and contain chemicals that could explode causing a person to be burned or to die.  The Sheriff will try to get a brochure for distribution to better inform persons.  The phone number 625-2806 was given if anyone suspects they have found or detected evidence.  Evidence can be fingerprinted.

Roll call of officers showed Ed Humphrey, President, Virgil Pollard, Vice-President, Minton Christman, Treasurer and Sandy Graham, Delegate present.  Joyce Richardson, Secretary, was absent.

Roll call of Townships Trustees showed the following:

Batavia Township - 0 present                                            Pierce Township - 1 active

Franklin Township - 1 active                                              Stonelick Township - 1 active

Goshen Township - 2 active/1 associate or honorary   Tate Township - 2 active

Jackson Township - 1 active                                              Union Township - 0 present

Miami Township - 1 active/1 associate or honorary      Washington Township - 1 active/1 associate or honorary

Monroe Township - 1 active                                              Wayne Township - 1 active                                               

Ohio Township - 2 active                                                   Williamsburg - 2 active/1 associate or honorary

The Treasurer's report was give which showed an account balance of $14,847.13.

Skeets Humphries made a motion to accept the Secretary's report and Curt Hartman made a second motion.  All were in favor for acceptance.

Ed Humphrey encouraged everyone to send someone to the OTA Winter Conference which will be held January 28-31, 2004 in Columbus, Ohio.  Individual townships can pass a motion to send representatives in which all expenses will be paid by the township.  

Ed briefly reviewed other committee news and handed out info on those.  Members from various other committees stated they had no reports and had not had any current meetings.

The Nominating Committee will choose persons to be nominated for 2004 after the November election has taken place.  They will report at the November Township Association meeting on those persons they have selected and a vote will be held during the meeting.  Persons taking office will be sworn in at the December Township Association meeting.

Beth Nevel gave a brief review of the Clermont County Terrorism Advisory Team.

Ohio Township will hold a dedication service on October 26, 2003 from 1-4 p.m. for their new firehouse.

The next meeting will be held at Goshen Township at 6:30 p.m.

The meeting concluded at 8:30 p.m.

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