ANGOLA â Jen Sharkey, former Steuben County Highway engineer now working with the Indiana Local Technical Assistance Program at Purdue University as lead research engineer, will be the featured speaker Saturday at the Republican Breakfast at The Heritage Club, 1905 Wohlert St., Angola.
The breakfast starts at 8 a.m.
Sharkey spent seven years as the highway engineer in Steuben County, leading planning and construction operations for the highway department.
She now is the first fully remote employee for Indiana LTAP, which allowed her to stay in Steuben County. She serves as a resource for local street and highway departments. She provides technical, financial, managerial and operational expertise to local transportation agencies across Indiana and is a resource for legislators at the federal, state and local levels.
During a special session, commissioners approved hiring Candidate A from their narrowed list of potential hires.
The name of the individual was not revealed because he or she has not formally accepted the position of engineer, which came available in February after former Engineer Jen Sharkey resigned to take a position with the Local Technical Assistance Program out of Purdue University. We had a nice response to our posting. We had a number of qualified candidates, said Wil Howard, president of the commissioners.
Commissioners have been interviewing candidates privately for the past couple weeks in executive session, which is allowed under Indiana law. Final action must take place in an open session, which was the purpose of the Monday afternoon meeting.
ANGOLA â The Angola Historic Preservation Commission has decided to write to the Indiana Department of Transportation requesting it be given time to photograph and document a Pleasant Township farmstead before it is bulldozed to make room for a traffic circle.
The Commission on Tuesday voted to respond to a letter it received from the state agency about a property at 1025 N. C.R. 200W that is slated for potential demolition as part of an upcoming intersection improvement project.
The letter, which was in response to a request for a review of the site to determine if it had historic potential, claimed the 9-acre property, which contains a house and three outbuildings, does not appear to meet the criteria for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places and is therefore not worth preserving.
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