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post Jan 9 2007, 10:02 AM
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County Council fills posts

By Laurie Wink, The News-Dispatch

Cooley appointed president; Yagelski elected vice president.


LaPORTE - Jerry Cooley, re-elected LaPorte County Council president Monday, said the council is pleased with the quantity of responses from citizens willing to serve on government boards.

Making appointments to those entities was the main order of business at the reorganization meeting of the council, which welcomed new members Earl Cunningham and Rich Mrozinski. A moment of silence was observed in honor of former County Commissioner Marlow Harmon, who died Jan. 3.

The council appointed attorney Donald Baugher to serve as its counsel. Jennifer Evans was nominated, but failed to receive a majority vote. Former counsel Krista Smith-MacClennan submitted a letter asking to be re-appointed to the position, but failed to receive a nomination. She is director of juvenile services under new Circuit Court Judge Tom Alevizos, who previously mentioned concerns about her working in both capacities.

In addition of the election of Cooley, Mark Yagelski was voted council vice president.

Other appointments included Lois Sosinski, Alcohol Beverage Commission; Melissa Mishke, Board of Zoning Appeals; Sylvia Smith, LaPorte Public Library; and Joe Ramion, Michigan City Public Library.

Reappointed were Brian Root, LaPorte County Parks and Recreation Board; and Dave Scarborough and Sherry Ritter-Banic, Property Tax Assessment Board of Appeals.

Cooley will continue to serve as council liaison to the Solid Waste District of LaPorte County and Northern Indiana Planning Commission. Yagelski again will serve as the Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District.

Other appointments and liaison positions were tabled until the Jan. 16 meeting.

Also Monday, Yagelski announced a 5 p.m. Jan. 16 public-information meeting of the LaPorte County Commission regarding bridges to be constructed on county roads 200 East and 300 East in Rolling Prairie.

Yagelski helped spearhead the project, working with former Congressman Chris Chocola to secure $500,000 in federal funding to upgrade the two sections of rural roads and bridges.

“These single-lane roads were built in the 1900s, and the bridges are too low for ambulances or firefighting equipment to pass through,” Yagelski said.

Completion of the project, expected in April 2008, will require 4- to 5-foot drainage easements be taken from private property along a two-square mile area. Area residents are invited to attend the Jan. 16 meeting to discuss the project.



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