County Drainage Board will meet Monday afternoon
The Wells County Drainage Board will meet at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 17, in Room 105, the multi-purpose room on the lower level of the Wells Carnegie Government Annex, 223 W. Washington St.
Topics on the agenda include:
• Increase spending without board approval
• Project updates
• Miscellaneous Drainage matters
County Commissioners will meet Monday afternoon
The Wells County Commissioners will meet at 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 17 in Room 105, the multi-purpose room on the lower level of the Wells Carnegie Government Annex, 223 W. Washington St.
Topics on the agenda include:
• Appointments
•Monthly reports
Solid Waste District board to meet Monday afternoon
The board of the Wells County Solid Waste District will meet at 4 p.m. Monday, Oct. 17, in Room 105, the multi-purpose room on the lower level of the Wells Carnegie Government Annex, 223 W. Washington St.
Topics on the agenda include:
• Supervisor report
• Salaries and Board pay
• Meeting dates and times
County Election Board will meet Tuesday afternoon
The Wells County Election Board will meet at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 18, in the clerk’s office in the Wells County Courthouse, 102 W. Market St.
Topics on the agenda include:
• Review of public test held on Sept. 29
• Certification of Ballot Agreement (CEB-40)
•2023 meeting schedule
Bluffton Board of Works to meet Tuesday afternoon
The Bluffton Board of Public Works and Safety will meet at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 18, in the meeting room on the first floor of City Hall, 128 E. Market St.
Topics on the agenda include:
• Review of city standards
•Utility water discussion
• City Hall hours
•Renewables Net Metering
Southern Wells School Board to meet Tuesday
Members of the Southern Wells Community Schools Board of Trustees will meet at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.
The board will:
• Recognize the success of the girls golf team.
• Consider adopting the 2023 school corporation budget, Capital Projects Fund plan and School Bus Replacement Plan.
• Consider a resolution to reduce an appropriation within the 2022 budget.
• Review 15 separate fundraising requests for approval.
• Accept more than $8,000 in donations.
• Accept a $45,000 grant from the Indiana Department of Homeland Security.
• Approve an addendum to the superintendent contract through 2025.
• Approve several sports coaching positions.
• Accept several personnel resignations.
• Adopt a new school board member orientation policy.
• Review and approve on first reading a policy regarding materiality threshold.
• Review a request from the Anthony Wayne Boy Scouts of America to use the facility for a recruitment meeting Oct. 25.
• Review a request by Youth for Christ to have a banquet at the facilitiers Dec. 1.
• Review and approve three field trip requests.
• Review and approve of staff conference requests.
The meeting will be followed by a meet and greet with the new superintendent and an executive session for school board member training with an outside consultant about the performance of the role of the members as public officials.
Bluffton Common Council will meet Tuesday evening
The Bluffton Common Council will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 18, in the Council Chambers on the second floor of City Hall, 128 E. Market St.
Topics on the agenda include:
• Police, fire and city salaries
• Pokabache Trail Coalition
•Amending junk ordinance 1529
• Parlor Bluff Maintenance bond
• Fire agreement
