Ashland County Board of Commissioners: the Veterans Dog Donations Project Fund and the Veterans Year

The Ashland County Board of Commissioners (Michael Welch president, Denny Bittle vice president, James justice commissioner; 9:00 a.m. each Thursday and the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays, second floor of the County Office Building, clerk Nikki Hiller) carried the window's veteran items: the August 20, 2026 agenda's transfer of $700.00 from the Dog Shelter to Fund #105, the Veterans Dog Donations Project Fund, "for current training expenses", the routine warrant certifications paying "for ... veterans" among the funds (January 8, 2026 and through the year), and the holiday schedule's Veterans' Day row; the Supreme Court of Ohio's live list gives the county no specialized docket.

Also called: Board of Commissioners, Michael Welch, Denny Bittle, James Justice, Nikki Hiller, Sherri Maneese, Veterans Dog Donations Project Fund, Fund #105, Dog Shelter, veterans, warrants, Veterans’ Day, Ashland, Ashland, Loudonville, Sullivan, Jeromesville, Perrysville, Bailey Lakes, Savannah, Polk, Mifflin, Hayesville.

For: Veteran or service member.

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Ashland County, OHCounty

The board. The Ashland County Commissioners - Michael Welch, President; Denny Bittle, Vice President; James Justice, Commissioner; office staff Nikki Hiller, Clerk (419.282.4263, [email protected]) and Sherri Maneese, Deputy Clerk (419.282.4220) - meet "at 9AM each Thursday and on the 2nd & 4th Tuesdays in the Board's conference room on the 2nd floor of the County Office Building", 110 Cottage Street, Ashland, with the meetings streamed on the Ashland, OH County Government Facebook page. Each meeting's "BUSINESS FOR [date]" agenda PDF posts on the county's calendar; the window's 26 sets (November 25, 2025 through November 5, 2026) were downloaded and read whole. The window's veteran items. August 20, 2026: "Concur with the following appropriations: ... Dog Shelter- $700.00 to Fund #105, Veterans Dog Donations Project Fund, #2010 contract service -for current training expenses" - the county's own fund for the dog-shelter veterans project, paid for training. January 8, 2026, and like sets through the year: "Authorize Then & Now Certifications and payment of warrants for job & family services, capital projects, dog shelter, commissioners, buildings & grounds, park district, health department, engineer, Dale-Roy School, law library, sheriff, solid waste, veterans, auditor, juvenile/probation court, law director" - the routine veteran-fund warrants. October 8, 2026: the approved holiday schedule lists "Veterans' Day". No proclamation, no veterans-office hiring and no other veteran item appears in the window's sets, and no benefit was adopted, narrowed or repealed. The courts. The Supreme Court of Ohio's live certified-docket list (read 2026-11-02) gives Ashland County no specialized docket of any kind - no veterans treatment court and no drug or mental-health docket either; the Common Pleas Court's own site (ashlandcommonpleas.com) names none.

Thresholds

Thresholds for Ashland County Board of Commissioners: the Veterans Dog Donations Project Fund and the Veterans Year
Gate	Rule
No eligibility - a board record	The record documents the commissioners’ fund transfer and the veterans-day calendar; it grants no individual entitlement.

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Last updated 2026-11-02.

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