Village of Minster - Municipal Services

Administrative Offices

The Village Administrative Office is staffed by friendly employees. To serve your needs, a full-time Village Administrator is available to handle the day to day operation of the community. The Administrator is supported by a full-time Administrative Assistant. In addition to serve your needs, a full-time Utilities Clerk is available to answer any question with regard to Village operated utilities. Also, a part-time Deputy clerk is on hand to answer any financial or human resource questions.

Village Administrator, Donald W. Harrod

Administrative Assistant, Kari Egbert

Utilities Clerk, Shelly Kemper

Deputy Clerk, Kyle Gusching

Minster Village Administration PO Box 1 5 West Fourth Street Minster, Ohio 45865	Administrator - (419) 628-3497 Administrator Fax - (419) 628-1037 General Email
Utilities	(419) 628-2850
General	(419) 628-2595

Police Department

Well-trained professionals provide full-time protection. The department's up-to-date vehicles are in radio contact with all county law enforcement agencies as well as the Minster-Jackson Township Fire Department and the Minster Area Life Squad. Becuase the crime rate in Minster is so low, much of the department's work is dedicated to crime prevention. From time to time you will find officers in school classrooms educating students on such topics as bicycle safety, drug awareness and other safety topics.

Police Chief, Randy Houseworth

Police Officer, Brian Drexler

Sergeant, Kirby Cummins

Police Officer, Christopher Fetters

Police Officer, Floyd Gregg

Police Officer, Eric Morris

Police Officer, Adam Krouskop

Police Officer, Adam Bergman

Police Officer, Eric Brown

Police Officer, Todd Keller

Office Assistant, Rachel Ranly

Minster Police Department PO Box 25 126 W. Fourth Street Minster, Ohio 45865-0025	Non-Emergency - (419) 628-2378 Fax - (419) 628-4430 General Email
EMERGENCY	911
Auglaize Co. Dispatch	(419) 628-2377

Fire Department

The Minster-Jackson Township Fire Department is manned by approximately 30 well-trained, well-equipped and dedicated volunteers. Because of their protective efforts, businesses will receive the benefit of a Class Four Fire Insurance Rating, one of the lowest ratings possible with a volunteer fire department, and residents may rest well knowing this is an extensively trained group of individuals. Dale Dues, Chief, ensures that the Minster-Jackson Township Fire Department is well prepared when an emergency arises.

Minster Fire Department 61 S. Jefferson St. PO Box 24 Minster, OH 45865	Non-Emergency - (419) 628-4093 Fax - (419) 628-4194
EMERGENCY	911

Rescue Squad

People help one another in Minster and this is evidenced by the Minster Area Life Squad. Kendra Sommer, President of the Minster Area Life Squad, leads a very dedicated group of participants. Like the fire department, all members are well trained, well equipped, and dedicated volunteers. Both the fire department and the life squad have mutual-aid agreements with neighboring community fire and rescue departments.

Minster Area Life Squad 61 S. Jefferson St. PO Box 60 Minster, OH 45865	Non-Emergency - (419) 628-2001 Fax - (419) 628-3350
EMERGENCY	911
To download a Membership Application:	click here.
To download additional information on becoming a new member:	click here.

Street Department

The street department provides the repair and maintenance of all village streets and alleys along with maintenance of the village owned grounds, equipment and vehicles. It also provides other services, including street sweeping, leaf collection, snow plowing, and brush chipping.

Superintendent, Carl Wuebker

Dan Smith

Ed Yaney

Jim Kemper

Minster Street Department 285 N. Ohio St. PO Box 1 Minster, OH 45865	(419) 628-3404 Ext. 109 Fax - (419) 628-4095
To report a non-emergency problem/request:	click here.

Water Department

Minster is supplied with excellent water from five underground wells and is stored in two modern, above ground water towers; one holding 250,000 gallons, the other 750,000 gallons. The Village water treatment and distribution system has over 1,400,000 gallons per day capacity. Present usage ranges from 1.2 million gallons per day. The current water treatment plant is designed for 2.25 million gallons per day.

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Download a copy of our Water Quaility Reports:

2010 Water Quality Report

Minster Water Treatment Department 29 S. Hanover St. PO Box 1 Minster, OH 45865	(419) 628-2850 Ext. 104 Fax - (419) 628-1037
To report a non-emergency problem/request:	click here.

Wastewater Treatment

The Minster Wastewater Treatment Facility is a modern, sewage treatment plant with a design capacity of 1,050,000 gallons per day, which is expandable. Planning is currently underway for a major expansion to this treament facility.

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Superintendent, Daniel P. Haehn

Tom Sherman

Tom Mertz

Gary Meyer

Cliff Houseworth

Minster Wastewater Treatment Department 155 W. First St. PO Box 1 Minster, OH 45865	(419) 628-2663 Fax - (419) 628-2663
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Electric Department

The Village of Minster owns its own electrical distribution system consisting of three 69,000 KV substations. The Village purchases electrical power through AMP Partners and D.P.&L., then in turn sells to its customers at a competitive retail rate. Through long-term contracts and base load investments the municipal electric system is able to provide some of the lowest electric rates in the state!

The Minster Electric Department is pleased to offer you Energy Depot ®, a new set of online tools and resources to help you better understand and manage your home energy use and costs. Energy Depot ® is your one-stop resource for energy information and it�s available free. To get started with Energy Depot, just click the link here.

We are pleased to announce that Efficiency Smart, our new energy efficiency program is now available to Minster electric consumers. A wide array of efficiency rebate and incentive programs are now available for residential consumers. For commercial and industrial customers, additional programs are available for energy efficiency projects. To learn more about Efficiency Smart, please call 877-889-377 or visit www.efficiencysmart.org.

Looking for information on Minster's green pricing progam? EcoSmart Choice is Minster's green pricing program, which allows customers of participating member electric systems to support renewable energy development. The program is available to both residential and commercial/industrial customers.Visit the EcoSmart Choice website to find more program details and to sign up.

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Superintendent, John Neuman

Randy Stein

Tim Kuenning

Ben Koverman

Scott Gusching

Minster Electric Department
285 N. Ohio St.
PO Box 1
Minster, OH 45865

(419) 628-2850 Ext. 108
Fax - (419) 628-4095

To report a non-emergency problem/request:

click here.

Parks & Recreation Department

This department provides all the normal repair and maintenance of village parks and recreational areas. This department will also be responsible for scheduling of events and recreational opportunities at each park complex.

Paris Street Park

This nearly 10 acre park area is located on the southern edge of the Village near Lake Loramie. This park offers something for all ages. It contains two ball diamonds, playground equipment, volleyball courts, multipurpose courts and a shelter house with restroom facilities. This park is a grassy open area for recreational activities. It too, is lighted.

Plans are also being considered for future recreational offering as this location.

Four Seasons Recreational Complex

This 50 acre park is located on the northern edge of the village. There are a variety of activities available. The park hosts eight lighted ball diamonds, 4 little league, 2 softball, and 2 baseball. Located at the center of each diamond complex are restroom and concession facilities along with functioning press boxes and scoreboards. Batting cages are also available.

Although swimming is prohibited, a 1.8 acre pond is available for fishing. In addition, playground equipment is located near the main entrance parking area and also in the rear of the complex near the back parking area. There are five shelter houses available, one with a center fire pit. Walking trails allow visitors to meander through the park. For winter recreation activities, a high sledding hill is located in the north east corner of the complex and the pond is available for ice skating. The complex boasts plenty well-lit parking areas and vending machines.

If you would like to reserve one of the six shelter houses at the Four Seasons or Paris Street parks for a family, community or business function, reservations are taken beginning March 1st. There is a $25.00 non-refundable deposit due at the time of the reservation.

Parks & Recreation Director, Ryan Geise

Parks & Recreation Worker, Greg Sommer

Minster Parks & Recreation Department 285 N. Ohio St. PO Box 1 Minster, OH 45865	(419) 628-3404 Ext. 107 Fax - (419) 628-4095
Ball Diamond Cancellations	(419) 628-3404 Ext. 207
To view Ball Diamond Schedules	By Week \| By Coach
Active Older Adult Programming (AOA):	click here.
2011 Parks & Recreation Events	click here.
To report a non-emergency problem/request:	click here.

Municipal Pool

The village of Minster provides the surrounding community with heated, outdoor aquatic recreation center on approximately 3.540 acres located at the northern edge of the Village. The 5,351 square feet, Z-shaped swimming pool is separated into a diving section, swimming/laps section and a shallow area for smaller children. The diving area with its low and high diving boards is 12 feet deep at the deepest center of the section. The general swimming area has depths of 3.5 feet to 8 feet. The main swimming pool was lined with a specially forumualted PVC shell to maintain the structural integrity of the pool for many years to come.

In addition to the swimming area, a 900 square foot, square shaped spray area is available to the smaller swimmers. This area is enclosed by a 4-foot high fence for the children's safety.

The entrance/exit to the aquatic center is a 2,604 square foot bathhouse. The building is divided into a men's and women's shower and changing rooms. In addition, a vending area is easily accessible to persons of all ages.

The Minster Municipal Swimming Pool is staffed by certified lifeguards. The pool season begins on Memorial Day and ends close to Labor Day. The pools operating hours are 1:00p.m. to 9:00p.m. Sunday through Friday, and 1:00p.m. to 5:00p.m. on Saturdays.

Minster Municipal Swimming Pool
40 W. Seventh St.
PO Box 1
Minster, OH 45865

(419) 628-2441

2010 POOL CHARGES
	Family Pass Single Pass Daily Daily Child Pass Swimming Lessons Kindercamp	$75.00 $50.00 $3.00 $2.00 $30.00 per Student $40.00 per Student
Private Pool Parties
	0-150 People 150 People Plus Slide Rental	$100 $200 $25