Published: May 02, 2008 11:57 am            

Clark County Commissioners vote to change cell phone plan

Recent cell phone bills in the Clark County Commissioners office have been exceeding the allocated minutes, and running up the bill.

The current plan allows each person — Commissioners Ralph Guthrie, Ed Meyer and Mike Moore, and animal-control officer Mike Ettel — 450 minutes a month each.

However, Moore, Meyer and Ettel have exceeded their minutes recently.

Commissioner Mike Moore said in Thursday’s meeting that he used about 2,500 minutes, Meyer used about 500, Guthrie used about 250 and Ettel used about 2,500. The commissioners voted unanimously to allow Moore to be a point of contact on the plan with Verizon, so the plan could be changed and would allow them more minutes.

Moore said Verizon representatives were going to take off the overage fees from the most recent bill to the county.

“I’m glad we caught it and this month’s bill will be reduced,” Moore said. “I don’t think anybody ever looked into this — they’ve been paying this exorbitant amount of money.

“I guess I should have looked into this, but the secretary told me I had unlimited minutes.”

The new plan will cost $81 a month per phone, or $324, and provide 8,900 minutes total.

In other business

• The Clark County Commissioners approved the sale of a building located on the grounds of Clark Memorial Hospital to the Clark County Health Department to house the family health clinic. The clinic expanded services last September and has since outgrown the building it occupies.

“The health clinic is busting out of the seams of where they’re at now,” said Rachele Cummins, with the hospital.

The health department will purchase the building with funding from state grants and will put offices into the space vacated by the clinic.

• The commissioners approved a grant agreement from the Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs to study the sewers in Underwood near Henryville. The Henryville Sewer Corp. put up the match for the $30,000 state grant.

        

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