Fillmore town cleanup to coincide with Bethel Day of Service

Friday, April 4, 2014

FILLMORE -- Normally set to coincide with Tox-Away Day, the Fillmore town cleanup day will come earlier this year.

The Fillmore Town Council voted Thursday to set town cleanup for Sunday, April 13, the same day as the Bethel Baptist Church Day of Service in the town.

With teams of church members set to perform service projects on that Palm Sunday morning and afternoon, council members decided to rent dumpsters that day for the use of Bethel volunteers and all residents.

Cleanup will be one of a number of projects on the agenda of the Bethel volunteers, who will be asking citizens if there are any cleanup or other projects with which they can assist.

Other projects will include work at the town park (another Bethel project) on Westwood Road in front of the town water tower, cleaning and improvement work at town hall and the placement of signs at the park, town hall and town limits.

Two large dumpsters will be obtained, one for general garbage and another for metal to scrap.

While the May 10 date of Tox-Away Day was discussed, council members decided instead to rent the dumpsters on the day Bethel parishioners will already be performing extensive work in the town.

Asked what people should do when they come across items for Tox-Away Day, Councilman Curt Leonard suggested that citizens set the items aside until May 10 and then make a trip to Greencastle.

The Day of Service also came up during a discussion of town utilities. Council members and some citizens are concerned about two storm sewer inlets well below street level following the recent work on Main Street.

Council president will be looking into a pair of domed inlet covers that, if procured in time, can be installed by some of the volunteers.

Also in attendance at the meeting were Lisa Mock and Carolyn Shotwell of the Putnam County Animal Control Advisory Board.

Animal Control Board members are in the process going to town meetings around the county to request financial support for the establishment of an animal control officer and the re-establishment of the county humane shelter.

Fillmore has $500 set aside in its budget annually for animal control, but have had nowhere to give the money in recent years since the closure of the shelter.

Recent county action should change that fact.

"I would ask that, if possible, this be set aside as an annual contribution from the town," Mock requested.

Council members were happy to oblige, even volunteering to take it a step further, voting to contribute $533 -- one dollar for each citizen of the town.

In other business:

* The council voted unanimously to get night sights for the four pistols recently purchased by the Fillmore Police Department.

"Do we have the money to get their night sights?" Leonard asked. "Because I don't want them out there uncovered."

At $100 each, the sights will cost the town a total of $400.

* Jones signed a resolution of commitment to the project to build a new Fillmore Fire Station.

The council has supported the project throughout the grant process, actually serving as the sponsor agency for the grant request.

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