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Legal Notice
Legal Notice
(2024-11-09)
LEGAL NOTICE OF HEARING ON APPRAISALS
IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, HARDIN COUNTY, OHIO.
IN THE MATTER OF THE UPPER SCIOTO DRAINAGE AND
CONSERVANCY DISTRICT
CASE NO. 14598
To All Persons and Public Corporations Interested:
Public Notice is Hereby Given:
That heretofore on the 17th day of February 1917, the Court of Common Pleas of Hardin County, Ohio, duly entered a decree erecting and creating the Upper Scioto Drainage and Conservancy District and appointing a Board of Directors therefor.
That thereafter this Court duly appointed David J. Schwemer, Phyllip Jennings and Renee Dunahue, as the Board of Appraisers for said District. That said Board of Appraisers on the 7th day of November, 2024, filed its Appraisals of Benefits and Damages and of land to be taken as follows: Being all lands, including Villages and Cities, in Roundhead Township, Marion Township, McDonald Township, Lynn Township, Cessna Township, Buck Township, Pleasant Township, Dudley Township, Taylor Creek Township, and Hale Township and otherwise in Hardin County, Ohio, which lie within the Scioto River Watershed, its tributaries or within the Main or Cottonwood District of the lands benefited by the works of the Upper Scioto Drainage and Conservancy Board.
The said appraisal of benefits and damages and of land to be taken is now on file in the office of the clerk of this court. An assessment may be levied upon your property based on such appraisal.
(3) All public corporations and all persons, owners of, or interested in, the property described in said Report, whether as benefited property or as property taken and damaged, desiring to contest the appraisals as made and returned by the Board of Appraisers, must file their written objections in said court on or before the 9th day of December, 2024 and a hearing on said appraisal will be held on the 23rd day of December, 2024 at 10:00 AM in the Common Pleas Court, 3rd Floor, Hardin County, Ohio Courthouse in the City of Kenton, Ohio, at which time an opportunity will be afforded all objectors to be heard upon their objections. No objections may be filed after December 9, 2024.
STEFANI C. EPLING, CLERK, COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF HARDIN COUNTY, OHIO.
Gary L. Oates, Jan D. Layman and Brice Beaman, Board of Directors of the Upper Scioto Drainage and Conservancy District
Determination
Determination
(Updated 2024-11-26)
The board has decided that the assessment necessary to collect on the main river for the foreseeable future will be $214,000 per year. The minimum charge for each parcel is $6. With around 9,550 tax parcels, it immediately takes care of ~$57,300. The remaining burden of ~$156,700 is divided up across the watershed percentage-wise and added to the $6 minimum charge. To determine its share of the remaining burden, the measure of each parcel in the watershed is segmented along predetermined lines of remoteness to the river, and sub-basins with determined river entry points (giving us the percent of river use). See maps included below. The factors of these two values are then multiplied against the segment acreage and the average per acre value of the property (based on the Auditor’s property values) and compared to the value of the whole watershed likewise calculated.
Using the geographic data determined in the previous assessment, with SQL-based GIS new assessment determinations can now be calculated in less than 30 seconds. It used to be this process took six months and four additional staff to determine.
The new assessments have been submitted and approval is anticipated.
The Cottonwood is similarly determined, but at this time we believe only requires around $15,000 per year.
Maps
Maps
Note: At the time of this report, property data for the assessment year had not been updated, so the most recent available data was used.
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