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Sgt. Kelly McGilton walks a rescue dog Wednesday afternoon at the Humane Society of the Ohio Valley. Dog tags can be purchased at the shelter. (Photo by Michele Newbanks)
Dog owners will have extra time to get their dog tags this year.
Washington County Auditor Matthew Livengood said House Bill 404 “extended the deadline for pretty much every license, to include dog tags.”
The deadline to purchase dog tags is now July 1.
Livengood said a tag has to be purchased within 30 days of getting a dog or within 30 days after a dog turns 3 months old.
Ohio Revised Code 955.01 states that if an application is not filed and registration fee paid, the auditor shall assess a penalty in an amount equal to the registration fee for one year on the dog’s owner.
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The Washington County Board of Commissioners voted to purchase monitors for 19 lift stations in the county.
Commission President Kevin Ritter said the monitors are part of a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system.
“It’s a high-tech diagnostic tool that enables us to diagnose problems more cost effectively,” he said.
The SCADA will monitor the water flow through the sewer system’s 10 sites to make sure there are no issues.
Ritter added the $66,500 cost of the upgrade will not be taken out of the sewer fund, but from the capital improvements fund.
“This is not going to cost sewer customers directly,” he explained.
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The Washington County Board of Commissioners met Tuesday morning in special session to finish some 2020 business.
The only agenda items were five appropriations and six fund transfers.
Commission Clerk Ben Cowdery said the special meeting was held to “bump the timing forward to get these paid.” He said most of the fund transfers were from the Washington County Sheriff’s Office.
“Five of which are the sheriff’s new health insurance payment that they somehow figured out they needed paid on (Dec.) 31,” Cowdery told the commission.
In late November, the sheriff’s office signed a new contract to switch from the county’s CEBCO insurance to insurance provided by the Teamsters union. At the same meeting, the sheriff’s office moved from the Fraternal Order of Police to the Teamsters union.