By Charla Wurm-Adams
cwurm@wbcowqel.com
The agenda for Monday evening’s Bucyrus City Council Health and Safety Committee meeting was dedicated to codes and contracts.
The committee discussed the International Property Maintenance Code which sets the parameters and standards for private property. Committee chair Dan Wirebaugh explained what the committee’s goal is pertaining to neglected properties in the city.
“We’re working to update the dilapidating properties, ordinances and things to take care of some of these dilapidated properties and things around town and put a little teeth in our ordinances,” Wirebaugh said.
Wirebaugh used as an example the acquisition of grant money to tear down the old potato chip factory.
The committee also agreed on legislation that will be passed to the full City Council for a one-year contract with LifeStar through the Central Joint Ambulance District. That contract will have a zero subsidy.
Prior to the Health and Safety Committee, the Finance Committee held a meeting of its own. The result of which is that revenue realized from seizures by Bucyrus police will soon have its own fund.
The Finance Committee approved establishing the 272 Law Enforcement Trust Fund and Police Forfeiture Fund. Money placed into that fund will be used to match grants and for law enforcement ventures.
The Finance Committee also approved the appropriations from an insurance settlement to fix or replace equipment damaged by a storm.