County officials request additional hours

by Angie Asam, Staff Writer

The Presque Isle County board of commissioners met Friday morning and had three different county offices request employees be allowed to work additional hours for a period of time.

County treasurer Beth Heinzel appeared before the board giving her treasurers report and requested the board consider allowing her employees to work a 40-hour work week in place of a 35-hour work week for the next 90 days as they are working on converting old tax rolls to the computer.

The work is time consuming and in order to complete it in a timely fashion Heinzel thought she should request the extra time to get the work done. The board passed a motion allowing her employees to work a the additional hours requested for the requested time period.

Register of deeds Kathy Idalski requested her employees be allowed to work one additional hour per week for the next 90 days as her office has 20 years of deeds that need to be connected with photos and documentation. The board approved her request as well.

Prosecuting attorney Rick Steiger received a phone call from the state of Michigan last week instructing him that codes need to be changed for certain cases and the work needs to be done by February 9 or the cases will be lost and unable to be used. His office also needs to close old files in the next few weeks so his request to the board was that his three employees each be allowed 8 hours of overtime from now until February 15 in order to get the codes changed and files closed. The board approved a total of 24 hours overtime for the employees of the prosecuting attorney?s office to be done between now and February 15.

IN OTHER COUNTY BOARD NEWS:

? The board presented long-time commissioner Allan Bruder and long serving county treasurer Pat Cornett with plaques thanking them for their service. They also have plaques to present to ex-commissioner Stephen Lang and long-time sheriff Terry Flewelling who were unable to be at the meeting.

? County treasurer Henizel requested borrowing up to $2.3 million against the anticipated delinquent 2008 real property taxes. The board approved the request, she can?t borrow more than that amount but it is likely that the county will need to borrow less to get the job done. When the money comes in the borrowed sum would be paid back.

? Rick DeMarr resigned as assistant medical examiner for the county and will be replaced by Brian Shabot.

? The county clerks office will b

e receiving a new computer as one crashed. The total cost of the computer is $579. The funding to pay for the computer will come from the data processing fund.

? The 2008 cigarette tax money will be distributed to the health department and the sunrise center. The money comes from the state and the division of the funds is set by the state.

? Model Printing of Alpena will do a county directory for Presque Isle County at no cost to the county.

? Probate Judge Don McLennan has a very old computer that will now be replaced with a new one coming from funding through the data processing fund.

? Drain commissioner Charles Lyon appeared before the board to discuss the storm water drainage rules and the commissioners still felt some language in the proposal needed to be clarified before it could be accepted and adopted. The issue will now be before the planning commission, as the language saying ?all developments? needs to be looked at. The commission is concerned that any ambiguous language in the document could come back to haunt them.

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