Meeting recap: Washington County commissioners
• Date: June 5
• Action: The county’s longest-running lease – 57 years – of property for a public safety communications tower with the Bash family, has been extended for another decade. The county will retroactively pay Mark W. Bash and Sharon B. Ford $4,200 through March 14 and $5,400 for April 1, 2014, through March 31, 2023.
At the request of the planning department, the board approved a $44,500 contract for the first phase of the economic plan and site inventory to Fourth Economy to be paid with Local Share funds of gambling proceeds from The Meadows Casino.
At the request of the county health center, the board agreed Southwestern Pennsylvania Area Agency on Aging will receive reimbursement for adult day care services at a full-day rate of $58.39 and a half-day rate of $29.20 from July 1 through June 30, 2015. No county funds are required.
At the request of the Human Services Department, the commissioners approved an agreement with Community Action Southwest for providing $6,000 worth of emergency shelter services during the past year. Again, no county funds are required. The board learned that Community Action will be receiving $131,297 from the Emergency Shelter Grant program of the federal department of Housing and Urban Development, an increase from the anticipated $125,877.
• Travel: Raffaele Casale, assistant chief assessor, and Jason Theakston, planning commission land-use planner, will attend a geographic information systems seminar sponsored by Esri maps in San Diego, Calif., in July. The recorder of deeds’ record improvement fund will cover the costs, estimated at $3,000.
• Appointments: Washington County Authority, Kenneth McWilliams; Children and Youth Services advisory board, Rebecca Tomasiak, Roger Young, Vivian Osowski, Michelle McIntyre, Joanna Dragan, Susan Stonebraker and Lisa Mascara; Washington County Industrial Development Authority, Steve Johnson; Washington County Transportation Authority, Marvin Batten, Rick Shriver, Don Angelone; Washington County Redevelopment Authority, Jay Dutton.
• Next meeting: 10 a.m. Thursday, June 19, in the public meeting room of the Courthouse Square office building