PROCLAIMATION … (Front) Commissioner Lew Hilkert, Williams County Health Department Peg Buda. (Back) Commissioner Bartley Westfall, Commissioner Terry Rummel, and Williams County Sheriff Thomas Kochert commemorate the start Click It-or-Ticket program. (PHOTO BY ANNA WOZNIAK / THE VILLAGE REPORTER)
By: Anna Wozniak
The Williams County Commissioners held their regular session at 9 a.m. on Monday, May 22.
During their regular session, Commissioners Hilkert, Westfall, and Rummel passed two resolutions -transfer requests and a Juvenile Court Department of Youth Services request, approved the bills as presented, and approved the minutes of the Thursday, May 18, 2023 session before entering a quick recess.
Soon seated from the Williams County Health Department was Peg Buda, and from the Williams County Police Department was Sheriff Thomas Kochert.
The two were in attendance to witness a proclamation soon made by Commissioner Hilkert, that honors May 20 – June 4, 2023, as the mobilization period of the county’s new roll-out of the “Click-It-or-Ticket” program.
This program helps bring awareness to the 14,955 lives that were saved by wearing a seatbelt in a collision in 2022, and hopes to help the number of lives saved increase proportionately by wearing seatbelts by bringing attention to this often overlooked matter.
Anna can be reached at anna@thevillagereporter.com