New vote resolves logjam approval error

By Michael Williamson, Richwood Gazette

The Mill Creek logjam project is still moving forward but not before an error was corrected in the clean-out’s approval process.

Two resolutions presented at the Sept. 18 Union County Commissioners meeting cleared up an issue with voting and reaffirmed the board’s desire to get the project going.

Commissioners had to rescind the previous vote on Sept. 11 due to Commissioner Dave Burke, who has property in the impacted project area, voting to approve it. An Ohio Revised Code section states that impacted commissioners can’t do that.

“How we got here is that after the action that the board took last Wednesday, (we) discovered that u…

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