PINE GROVE - The Schuylkill County commissioners held their public meeting Wednesday morning at borough hall as they proclaimed Saturday Make-A-Difference Day in Schuylkill County and the week of Oct. 28 through Nov. 3 as Schuylkill County Farm/City Week.
This year marks the 17th annual Make-A-Difference Day event in Schuylkill County as volunteers will participate in various community improvement projects throughout the county Saturday.
Janice Johnston, director of Community Volunteers in Action and event coordinator, said there were 110 projects registered for the weekend event as of Wednesday.
On Nov. 2, the Pottsville Kiwanis will host the annual Farm/City dinner at Trinity Lutheran Church, 300 W. Arch St., Pottsville.
"Our goal with this dinner is to educate people about agriculture in the county and just get the city and farm people together for a great evening," Dwane L. Miller, the director of education for the Pennsylvania State University Schuylkill County Cooperative Extension, said Wednesday.
The dinner begins at 7 p.m. and tickets are still available for $7 each by calling the Pottsville Kiwanis Club at 570-622-6421.
In other news, the commissioners approved an addendum to contract with ACS Enterprise Solutions Inc., that will make the deeds, map and miscellaneous records in the county Recorder of Deeds Office from Jan. 1, 1983, back to Jan. 1, 1977, available online. The estimated price is $160,000, which is already available in the office's records improvement fund and will not use county funds.
The board approved two contracts with Resource Technologies Corporation regarding the county's mineral valuation computer system. Maintenance and updates to the computer is a three-year contract from Jan. 1, 2013, through Dec. 31, 2015, at a rate of $1,833 a month. Maintenance and technical support for the Govern software is a two-year contract from Jan. 1, 2013, through Dec. 31, 2014, at a rate of $5,529.50 a month.
The board also renewed its lease with Tremont borough for the Nutritional and Senior Center. The lease is for 2,158 square feet at the Tremont School, 139 Clay St., Tremont, for five years from Dec. 1, 2012, through Nov. 30, 2017. The monthly rent remains unchanged from the previous agreement at $873.33 per month.
The board awarded a three-year cleaning services contract for the Schuylkill County Communications Center to TKO Cleaning Services, Pottsville. The contract is for $15,000 for 2013, $16,000 for 2014, and $16,000 for 2015, totaling $47,000 for the three-year period.
The commissioners accepted the resignation of Thomas Campion as a member of the Drug and Alcohol Advisory Board that went into effect Oct. 2.
There will be no commissioners' meeting next week. The next meeting will be a work session at 10 a.m. Nov. 8 in the Commissioners' Hoffman Room.
The Schuylkill County Courthouse will be closed Nov. 6 for the General Election.