Greene County Supervisors to Meet Tomorrow
The Greene County Board of Supervisors will meet tomorrow.
The Board will consider for approval the first reading to change an ordinance to allow the County and each city in the County to bid and purchase parcels at the annual tax sale that are delinquent on taxes for abandoned property and are assessed as residential or commercial multi-family housing that can be rehabilitated or used as a vacant lot.
The Board will also consider another first reading authorizing the Greene County Treasurer to separately offer and sell at the tax sale, delinquent taxes on parcels that are abandoned property and are assessed as residential or commercial multi-family housing property that are or will likely become a public nuisance.
Plus, there will be department head and committee reports.
The meeting will be at 8:30am in the boardroom of the courthouse in Jefferson.
Grant Ceremony for the Greene County Community Foundation is Tomorrow Night
The Greene County Community Foundation is hosting its grant awards ceremony Monday.
President Tim Heisterkamp says they are funding 19 projects this year and are giving away a little over $118,000 in grants. He talks about the range of projects that they gave grants to this year.
“There are some great projects out there. All the way from small projects where we’re funding at about $1,000 to a couple of large projects where we are funding $30,000. There’s just a lot of good things going on and I’m really excited about these organizations getting the funds and moving forward with what they want to do.”
The ceremony is usually later in April, but Heisterkamp says they wanted to push it up so that organizations could start their projects faster.
“You know, it’s always frustrating to give that (grant) money away back in February and then we sit on it for up to six weeks before we hand it out. And so, we just wanted to get the checks out to the recipients a little bit faster and that’s why we moved it up.”
This will be the last year that the Community Foundation will give away gaming proceeds from other counties that have casinos, with Wild Rose Jefferson due to open later this summer.
The ceremony starts at 7pm inside the First Presbyterian Church in Jefferson. The event is open to the public.