Holmes County Commissioners to Address Roads, Housing, and Awareness Proclamation Monday

The Holmes County Board of Commissioners accepted a bid award Monday for county road paving financed by the county's dedicated 0.25% sales tax fund, pushing the project into procurement and scheduling that will bring construction activity onto county roads and affect farm equipment movement, school bus routes, and seasonal tourism traffic across the region.

Commissioners Joe Miller, Rob Ault, and Raymond Eyler conducted the meeting at 2 Court Street in Millersburg beginning at 10 a.m. Along with the road paving resolution, the board passed a second resolution authorizing a contract with the Ohio Regional Development Corporation to administer the county's PY2026 Community Housing Impact and Preservation program application and to submit that application to the state on Holmes County's behalf.

The CHIP program targets owner-occupied home rehabilitation and structural safety repairs in rural communities, directing state dollars toward households that qualify by income in Holmes County's townships and villages. By designating ORDC as the administering agency, the county gains administrative capacity to meet state grant requirements without increasing local appropriations. Residents whose homes need repairs and who believe they may qualify can contact the commissioners' office at 2 Court Street in Millersburg to ask when program intake opens after the application is submitted.

On the road paving side, the bid acceptance sets in motion contracting and construction scheduling steps. The specific roads included, the contractor awarded the work, the contract dollar amount, and the project timeline will be recorded in the official meeting minutes from Monday's session, which the commissioners post to their website. Residents living along county roads between Millersburg, the county's rural townships, and the heavily traveled corridors that carry Amish farm equipment and tourist traffic each spring and summer should monitor those minutes and watch for construction notices once the contract is executed.

The board also signed a proclamation declaring April 2026 as Sexual Assault Awareness Month in Holmes County, a step that typically coordinates local human services, law enforcement, and victim-advocacy groups around awareness programming and resource outreach.

The next regular business meeting is Monday, April 13, at 10 a.m. at 2 Court Street. Anyone seeking details on the paving project's specific roads, bid amounts, construction start dates, or CHIP eligibility timelines should plan to attend or call the commissioners' office ahead of that session.