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PUBLIC NOTICES Rough start in Ripley Phone: (800) 404-3157 • Fax: (937) 444-2652 E-mail: legals@browncountypress.com PROBATE COURT OF BROWN COUNTY, OHIO DANNY R. BUBP, JUDGE IN RE: CHANGE OF NAME OF Colton Benjamin Carroll to Colton Benjamin Lunsford. CASE NO. 20199061 NOTICE OF HEARING ON CHANGE OF NAME The applicant has filed an Application for Change of Name in the Probate Court of Brown County, Ohio, requesting the change of name of Colton Benjamin Carroll to Colton Benjamin Lunsford. The hearing on the application will be held on the 25th day of February, 2020, at 1:00 o’clock P.M. in the Probate Court of Brown County, located at 510 E. State Street, Suite 1, Georgetown, OH 45121. Colton Carroll 2813 White Oak Valley Rd. Hamersville, OH 45130 BCP 1-19-20 ---------------------------------------COURT OF COMMON PLEAS BROWN COUNTY, OHIO Case No.: CVE 20190635 Judge: Scott Gusweiler LEGAL NOTICE IN SUIT FOR FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE QUICKEN LOANS INC. Plaintiff, -vsTHOMAS O. ABERNETHY, II., et al. Defendants. Thomas O. Abernethy, II., and Jane Doe, name unknown, spouse of Thomas O. Abernethy, II, whose last known address is 1663 Kress Road Mount Orab, OH 45154, and The Unknown Heirs, Devisees, Legatees, Executors, Administrators, Spouses and Assigns and the Unknown Guardians of Minor and/or incompetent Heirs of Thomas O. Abernethy II., all of whose residences are unknown and cannot by reasonable diligence be ascertained will take notice that on the 30th day of August, 2019, Quicken Loans Inc. filed its Complaint in the Common Pleas Court of Brown County, Ohio, in Case No. CVE 20190635, on the docket of the Court, and the object and demand for relief of which pleading is to foreclose the lien of plaintiff’s mortgage recorded upon the following described real estate to wit: Property Address: 1663 Kress Road, Mount Orab, OH 45154 and being more particularly described in plaintiff’s mortgage recorded in Mortgage Book 460, page 1380, of this County Recorder’s Office. All of the above named defendants are required to answer within twenty-eight (28) days after last publication, which shall be published once a week for three consecutive weeks, or they might be denied a hearing in this case. Melissa J. Whalen (0068316) Kerri N. Bruckner (0074024) David E. Johnson (0070668) Richard Mark Rothfuss II (0087592) Ashley E. Rothfuss (0083605) Emily A. Hubbard (0096032) Trial Counsel LERNER, SAMPSON & ROTHFUSS Attorneys for Plaintiff P.O. Box 5480 Cincinnati, OH 45201-5480 (513) 241-3100 attyemail@lsrlaw.com BCP 1-19-20, 1-26-20, 2-2-20 ---------------------------------------LEGAL NOTICE The Annual Financial Report is complete and available at the office of the Franklin Township Fiscal Officer Tracy Berry. Tracy Berry Franklin Township Fiscal Officer BCP 1-19-20 ----------------------------------------
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IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS JUVENILE DIVISION BROWN COUNTY, OHIO Case No. 2020-3009 2020-3010 NOTICE OF PUBLICATION IN THE MATTER OF: DANIELLE KILBY DARRELL KILBY Alleged Abuse / Neglected / Dependent Child TO: Darrell Kilby, whose address is 20 Oakview Street, Milford, Ohio 45150, who has been named as the Father of Danielle Kilby DOB: 07/18/2011, Darrell Kilby DOB: 07/01/2010. Take notice that a Complaint has been filed in the above named Court under Section R.C. 2151.03 and 2151.04. The Brown County Department of Job and Family Services has requested Temporary Custody of the minor children Danielle & Darrell Kilby. You are hereby summoned to appear before said Court, 510 East State Street, at Georgetown, Ohio, on the 19th day of March, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. at which time a hearing will be had on the Complaint, and if you fail or neglect to obey the summons or to appear at the time stated you may be subject to the loss of valuable rights or to sanction by the Court. You are further notified of your legal rights and privileges and the legal rights and privileges of the children in this hearing as follows: You and your children have the right to be represented by a lawyer but if you are without means or financially unable to employ one, the Court will provide a lawyer for you. You may waive the right to be represented by a lawyer. You are further notified that the Court may grant temporary custody of Danielle & Darrell Kilby to others, as requested in the complaint, and in the event that the Court should determine that such is necessary, you may be divested of rights with respect to custody of said children . Danny R. Bubp, JUDGE BCP 1-19-20 ---------------------------------------The following matters are the subject of this public notice by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. The complete public notice, including any additional instructions for submitting comments, requesting information, a public hearing, or filing an appeal may be obtained at: http://www.epa.ohio.gov/actions.aspx or Hearing Clerk, Ohio EPA, 50 W. Town St. P.O. Box 1049, Columbus, Ohio 43216. Ph: 614-644-3037 email: HClerk@epa.ohio.gov Annual Health District Survey Brown County Health Department 826 Mt Orab Pike, Georgetown, OH 45121 ID #: HD0800 Date of Action: 01/03/2020 On October 24, 2019, the director of Ohio EPA determined that Brown County Health Department is in substantial compliance and hereby places Brown County Health Department on Ohio EPA's approved list of health districts authorized to administer and enforce the solid and infectious waste and construction and demolition debris laws and rules in accordance with Ohio Revised Code Chapters 3734., 3714. and applicable Ohio Administrative Code rules. The survey was completed on October 24, 2019. This action is subject to all rules, regulations, and specified conditions. Draft NPDES Permit Renewal - Subject to Revision US Shoe Site aka former US Shoe Facility 1009 S Second St, Ripley, OH Facility Description: Wastewater-Miscellaneous Receiving Water: Ohio River ID #: 1IN00293*CD Date of Action: 01/15/2020 BCP 1-19-20 ----------------------------------------
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 the highways through Ripley. This will cause additional expense and additional workload to the street department, he said. “There are a lot more things to discuss, but I think you get the picture. There is much to be done, with little revenue to do it with. The town needs, and the council should consider a full-time administrator to fulfill the duties as set for in Ohio Revised Code. The citizens of Ripley want more, and deserve more than a 15-houra-week administrator. We, the people sitting here that live in this town and love Ripley, must step up, be heard, and live our dedication to this town.” After his address, the resignation letter of former Administrator Travis Dotson and Solicitor Tom Mayes was submitted to the council for acceptance. David Poole, councilman, made a motion to accept. Alvin Wallace, also a councilman, swiftly interjected and addressed the mayor. “First of all, when you ran, you said that you could work with everybody or anybody that was in this town, but it was clear that weren’t going to work with Travis, at all,” said Wallace. Kratzer said he would not say that at all. “Well I would, because I had the discussion with him. With my solicitor, and my city manager on separate occasions on separate days, and each of them corroborate the same story to me,” said Wallace. Kratzer said that he did not fire Dotson; Dotson resigned. “I know he did. But there was a great deal of pressure upon him by you for him to do so. And I want to know why. I mean I’ve looked at his manage credentials, and they’re impeccable, and I’ve looked at his past record, and it’s, again, impeccable. Now you can say, well, he was a part-time and we need a full-time, but the fact is we just went through the finances and I reviewed through our finances tonight and we’re losing in every department. We can’t afford a full-time city manager, we can’t. As much as we’d all like to have one, I’d love to have one, but we ain’t got the money, and this man was working without benefits. Just a straight cash contract,” said Wallace. Wallace asked why Kratzer felt he couldn’t work with Dotson. Kratzer said he was very willing to work with Dotson, and met with Dotson prior to him taking the administrative position in the very same meeting room. “The only thing we discussed, well two things, really — one was that when he wasn’t here, that I would use his office, that way I’d have an office where I could meet people in private rather than out in the open, and he agreed that was fine. Turned around, he also said that because of the fact that he was interested in working strictly, well not strictly, but working primarily on the finances and the budget, that he would like for me, because I was going to be here most of the time, to work with the employees in the street department, sewer department, electric department, and I said I was fine with that because I have a pretty good relationship with all of these employees,” said Kratzer.
Kratzer said that after that, he had only spoken to him once or twice. “I came in on Thursday to go to work, and he wasn’t here, so I went into the office, I sat down, and I made a few phone calls… when I got ready to leave I closed up my briefcase, locked it, and put it over in the corner. The next day when I came in, he was sitting in there and I went in to have a discussion with him about things going on in the village, and he immediately told me that I was never to use his office again and never did he want me in disturbing anything that was on his desk. I said, ‘well that’s not what we talked about,’ and he said ‘well that’s the way I want it.’ He said if you want an office here, you go back there and use the chief of police office, which was kind of silly to say, but he said it,” said Kratzer. Wallace said that that was not what Dotson said happened. “He went on to say that I was to have no contact with any of the employees unless I went through him and his approval. Now he’s only working 15 hours a week. The only contact he had with most of the employees was by telephone, and I was going to be here and I thought that that’s what he wanted was for me to work with them. And I said, you know, I’m going to go talk to Tom Mayes cause this is something we’ve got to discuss and straighten out. I said where’s my briefcase? He said ‘I set it out of here, it’s out there in the other office.’ I said fine, I’m out of here. That’s when I went to talk with Tom, and we had a meeting, and yes, I told him he had no respect for the office of mayor, he has no respect for the mayor, and yes I did not want to work with him,” said Kratzer. “That is not what I was told. That may be how you vision it in your head. I have two different people on two different days corroborating the exact same story, and none of them was telling yours, I’m just saying. None of them are telling your story,” said Wallace. “All I’m saying to you mayor, is that we’re in dire straits financially. You only need to look at the records to see that. It’s going to take a great deal of time and effort and hard decisions,” said Wallace. Kratzer wished to move the meeting forward, and called for a second to the motion. Council was silent. “The resignation letters have been submitted. Now you can either approve them or don’t approve them, it don’t make any difference. They have submitted their resignation and they’re not coming back. So if you don’t want to approve them, that’s fine with me, but we’re going to move on. We’re going to Tom Mayes resignation, is there a motion on the floor for that?” said Kratzer. Once again, Poole made a motion to accept. There was no second. Tiffany Regenstein, councilwoman, spoke up. She said Kratzer said he met with Mayes, and she wanted to know what happened. “It just, you know, it — Tom, being Tom, he just wanted to smooth things over, and business as usual, and uh, I just felt like we needed to move on and
that’s basically how it ended …Tom decided he didn’t want to be part of this group anymore,” said Krazter. “I don’t think that’s accurate, but we all have our own opinion… the four years I’ve been on here, he’s been on here for over five, he was very dedicated to the Village of Ripley,” said Regenstein. Kratzer said Mayes was also running for county office, and would be out of the country for a year. “Which he had covered. I’ve spoken to Tom, he loved this town, and he was more than willing to stay,” said Wallace. Kratzer said Mayes submitted his resignation, regardless, and that if there was no second, the meeting was moving on. “I don’t have a second, but I will thank Tom Mayes and Travis Dotson for their work and for the Village of Ripley,” said Regenstein. Brooke Butcher, the fiscal officer, then discussed the financial reports and budget. The council accepted Robert’s Rules of Order for conducting their meetings, and ordinances were placed for consideration. Wallace reminded council that without a solicitor signing off, ordinances passed do not become law. The council also adopted the Ohio Basic Code. Contention then arose again over the issue of signing checks. With resignation of Dotson, Kratzer wanted Dotson’s name removed from checks and replaced with his. Ripley always has two signers on checks as a security measure. Wallace said until the city gets a new manager, this would be temporary. “Well even at that, there’s no reason not to leave me on there, in case he’s not around or on vacation or something like that,” said Kratzer. Kratzer asked for a motion, Poole, like before, is the first to approve it. A second was not offered. “If we don’t pass it, we can’t pay any bills,” said Kratzer. Poole makes a motion to remove Dotson from the checks, and also to add Kratzer to the check signing. This time, it garnered a second. Police Chief Josh Miller then submitted his budget, council approved Officer Owen Hunter to a full-time position, and Officer Zach Smith a part-time position. Regenstein brought up the troubling issue of overgrown shrubbery at the gazebo in the cemetery. She explained that the gazebo, as result of the shrubbery, was being used for drug use. There had been a few complaints. Wallace wanted to plan events for the town and increase foot traffic and visitor expenditure. Wallace wants something cohesive by March. Nowana Bingaman, councilwoman, expressed her concerns for the buildings on Main Street. Conflicts arose again when the conversation turned toward administration and the vacant position of solicitor. Bingaman said council should direct Brooke to advertise for village administrator and solicitor, and it would have to be part-time. “The administrator would be a part time, because we don’t have the budget for a fulltime administrator yet,” said Bingaman. “A village administrator has one heck of a lot of du-
ties set forth by law. This is why I keep saying we need more than a part time administrator. I know the funding is a problem, but we need to work toward fulfilling the position that can abide by the law,” said Kratzer. “I will add to that, if — and I’m not trying to start an argument here, Mr. Dotson, when we hired him, he told us to give him a year and he’d have this budget turned around, and we could have paid somebody full time. The budget is not there. The money is not there,” said Bingaman. “The rumor was out that you were going to fire Travis. There was a lot of people that said you were not willing to work with Travis, that that was the first thing you were going to do. So, then the next rumor is, is that anybody on council that did not want or did not use your vision, who did not do what you thought was the best way to go, was the next that you were going to put pressure on to make them resign. So now, the first part of it has come true,” said Bingaman. “You went to Charles, and you told me yourself, you went to Charles, and Charles told you, you didn’t have the votes to fire him. Charles agreed with you. So you told Charles that you would ask him to resign, which Mr. Dotson agreed to. That was his choice, I’ll admit to that, but I’m not here to argue with you,” said Bingaman. “My point is that this village is in trouble, and everyone in here knows it, it’s not a big secret, our budget is not good. Tom started cutting the budget back, trying to cut spending back a long time ago. Mr. Dotson was in the position to fix the budget. We sat in here and we had heated discussions on whether we needed a full-time or a part-time administrator, and Mr. Dotson was the one that we came up with, because he was the one that had the financial backing and the financial business head about him, and he could have turned the budget around. He could have fixed that, so you come in here in 10 days, and we lose a solicitor and an administrator,” said Bingaman. “The solicitor is the one that, after the election in November, came to us and I said ‘what do we do? I’ve heard these rumors.’ His words to me were ‘give the man a chance.’ I’m not the only one sitting in this council chamber right now that he told that to. So, my hope for the future, come Jan. 1, was good. Jan. 10, it diminished,” said Bingaman. Kratzer said his hope for the future of the town has never diminished. “I feel like if we work together, we can turn it around and we will make it proud again, and all I’m asking is what we’ve always had. Maybe we can point fingers both ways, maybe we can go on and on, but we’ve got to work day one, today, together as a team, and make this town work,” said Kratzer. “I’ll tell you this. My goal has always been, my interest has always been what’s best for this community and this village. It will never change,” said Bingaman.