By Paula Pyzik Scott

The Board of Trustees for Liberty Township held a regular meeting on Monday, December 16. Discussions included the fire department, cemetery and roadside maintenance, and followup on a condemned property.

ACTION ITEMS
The trustees approved minutes from the November meeting and approved a preliminary budget for 2025.

Raises of $13/month for trustees and 1.75% for fiscal officer Patty Griffith were approved.

REPORTS

Ada-Liberty Fire Department
Fire Chief Jay Epley reported on anticipated grants and how they might be used to cover the cost of new radios. MARCS radios will be obsolete in July 2025; the department will be using VHF radios and will be purchasing a combination of portable and mobile (vehicle-based) radios.

Epley shared that one-third of 2024 fire department runs have been mutual aid calls, including six large fires.

Township Cemeteries and Roads
Cemetery Sexton Will Stoup reported on groundskeeping and the acquisition of improved cemetery maps from an area resident. Error corrections were made to 16 McElroy Cemetery plots. Stoup reported that Township trucks are ready for plowing and that all mowing is completed for the year. He said that the mower was old and had serious damage.

OLD BUSINESS
Trustee Brad Hays reported that a State Route 235 resident has requested a property inspection in January 2025 following work to indoor and outdoor hazards found by Hardin County Health Department and resulting in it being condemned and placarded.