The Fairfield City Council will meet tonight at 6 at City Hall. Aldermen are anticipated to award a bid for the new water tower in Fairfield. According to Mayor Mike Dreith, the city has received a bid at a slightly higher cost than was originally anticipated. He says the City has been told the construction could be finished in about a year. With transfers, resignations, and terminations in recent months, the Fairfield Police Department is short-staffed at present. Trainees are in the academy now, but Mayor Dreith says they likely won't be on patrol until late summer or early fall. The City had accepted applications for testing for a new eligibility list this month, but the mayor says no candidates passed the requisite tests to move forward. The Wayne County Health Department and City of Fairfield will partner for an electronic waste recycling event on Wednesday at the Wayne County Recycling Center behind the Fairfield Police Department. The event will run from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p
The Wayne County Retired Teachers' Association will award one $500 scholarship for the 2022-2023 school year. The award is available to a graduate of a Wayne County high school who has declared a major in education and has accumulated at least 80 semester hours toward that degree at an accredited college or university. Applicants must also have at least a 2.8 college GPA on a 4.0 scale and have full intentions to teach upon graduation. Applications are due June 15th to Michael Simpson at 304 Whiteside Lane in Fairfield, or they can be emailed to mandmsimp46@gmail.com. The USDA has announced commodity and specialty crop producers impacted by natural disaster events in 2020 and 2021 will soon begin receiving about $6 billion in emergency relief payments through the Emergency Relief Program. Eligible crops include all crops for which crop insurance or NAP coverage was available, except grazing crops. Qualifying natural disasters include excessive heat, floods, and related conditions.
The Fairfield city-wide yard sale that had been scheduled to be held tomorrow has been pushed back to May 7th due to expected weather. The rain date was set in advance and has been printed on the sale map. In other Wayne County Chamber business, the Yard of the Month promotion will have its first award in May, and the deadline for nominations is May 6th. Wayne County Supervisor of Assessments Jodi Poole has publicized equalized assessed valuations for real property in the county. Equalization factors of 1.0 have been applied to farm and non-farm land and farm and non-farm improvements to bring assessments to the required three-year median levels of 33.33 percent. Farm Land assessments for the 2021 assessment year will increase by 10 percent of the preceding year's median cropped soil productivity index. Anyone who believes their assessed valuation is incorrect or not uniform should contact Poole's office or file a complaint with the Board of Review. The final filing deadline