Jan 25, 2013 2 min read

• Date: Jan. 24

• Action: The board approved a supplemental reimbursement agreement with PennDOT for the Chartiers Creek No. 63 bridge, Canton Township, increasing the maximum reimbursement amount to $1.4 million from a previous $286,662.

At the request of Recorder of Deeds Debbie Bardella, the board increased last year’s agreement with IMR to $21,360 from its previously approved $20,000 because invoices exceeded the anticipated budget. For 2013, the contract with IMR is not to exceed the 2012 figure.

• Appointments: Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission, Mike Silvestri; SPC Public Participation Panel, Nancy Basile, Bill Sember, Tom Casciola, Mary Lynn Spilak, L. Anthony Spossey, Mike Kutsek, Andrew Cooper, Mary Stollar, Philip Fiamara, Ned Williams, Sheila Gombita, Jeffrey Yates, David Good, Lue Ann Pawlick, Robert Griffin, Dan Reitz, Stephen Hall, William McGowen, Deb Keefer, Susan Morgan and Joe Kirk.

• Announcement: County offices will be closed Monday, Feb. 18, because of President’s Day.

• Next meeting: 10 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, in the public meeting room of the Courthouse Square office building.

• Date: Jan. 24

• Discussion: At the annual meeting of the board, it was noted that the county’s indebtedness through bond issues is $51,360,441. Debt service payments in 2012 will be $3.5 million, and the most recent Standard & Poor’s rating of the county for borrowing purposes is A+.

County taxpayers are still paying for construction of the jail, renovations that converted the old jail to a family court center, airport development and land purchases at the Starpointe Industrial Park.

The commissioners, Treasurer Francis King and Controller Michael Namie are members of the sinking fund board.