Alva Review-Courier -

The Woods County commissioners are looking into paying for an additional strip of concrete at their south parking lot exit that would join the concrete strip the city is laying for the annual car show burn out competition on Barnes Street. Steve Foster made the suggestion they could avoid an awkward situation of putting a small strip of asphalt between the city's concrete and the county's parking lot entrance concrete. The commissioners asked Foster to get an estimate of the cost.

Two people from the Jehovah Witnesses, Linda Constantin and Henry Milikow, asked for permission to place a family literature cart on courthouse property on days that family court is held. The pamphlets would cover a range of Biblical family topics for infants through teens through adults. The pair said there would be no cost to anyone who wished to pick up the literature and they promised they would not be aggressive in approaching people in the courthouse for court day.

The commissioners had already checked the idea with the assistant DA and he had no problem with the proposal. The main concern of the commissioners was that the cart usage would not interfere with other long-time public courthouse uses. The Jehovah Witnesses said they understood that and would be quite cooperative.

The commissioners spent some time discussing how long the permission should be given so that the pair would not have to return to commissioner meetings on a weekly basis. They finally decided to renew the permission at the start of the fiscal year in July, and make it for one-year terms.

Commissioner John Smiley tipped off the other commissioners that he is working with private landowners on County Road 370 2.5 miles south of Avard to construct a small pond that could be used by both the landowners and the county.

The changes in the state budget may affect some Woods County road projects. They acknowledged a possible change in ODOT funding of the Lake Creek bridge project utilizing the ETR revolving fund. The estimated cost is $160,000.

The commissioners approved an Alfalfa Electric Cooperative road-crossing permit on the Aline blacktop near county roads 460-470. They also approved a road crossing permit requested by Heath Isenbart to bore under a road at County Road 370.