New Concord: Officials discuss re-opening village hall
Niki Wolfe
Correspondent for the Daily Jeffersonian
NEW CONCORD New Concord village officials, along with Dr. Jack Butterfield, medical director of the Zanesville-Muskingum County Health Department, discussed re-opening village hall at a recent council meeting. No date for the reopening has been set. It still makes sense to continue doing everything you have been doing, Butterfield said regarding the closure of village hall to the public. Now is not the time to say everything is better and stop wearing masks and social distancing.
It was at the recommendation of Butterfield and the health department that village hall closed to the public in December when the COVID-19 cases were at an all-time high in Muskingum County. He said village government can continue without being open to the public.
Kearns selected to lead New Concord Village Council
Staff Report
NEW CONCORD In its first meeting of the new year, New Concord Village elected councilmember Kristi (KJ) Kearns as president of council.
Council voted between Kearns and longtime council president Robert Dickson at Monday s meeting. Kearns, however, received four votes to Dickson s two.
The role of president of council will be to act in place of the mayor at council meetings when the mayor is absent. I ll certainly work hard and do my best (for the village), Kearns said.
She began her tenure on council in 2019 when she was appointed to fill the vacated seat left by Bil Kerrigan.
New Concord Council approves water, sewer rate increases in 2021
Staff Report
NEW CONCORD New Concord Village Council on Monday voted to increase water rates by 7% and sewer rates by 3%, effective Jan. 1, 2021.
Water rates will be rounded up to the nearest 5 cent increment.
In-town water rates will be $10.90 per 1,000 gallons while out-of-town water rates will be $21.70 per 1,000 gallons. The the minimum bill for in-town and out-of-town customers will be $43.60 during 2021.
In-town sewer rates will be $9.20 per 1,000 gallons and out-of-town sewer rates will be $18.24 for 1,000 gallons.
The increases come from an ordinance previously approved by council in 2009 and 2019.
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