- July 26, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
LISBON — The owner of a local livestock auction took his complaint about food service fee increases to the Columbiana County Health Department.
Barry Pidgeon, the owner of the Damascus Livestock Auction, has approached the Columbiana County Commissioners with his concerns last week, which include the rates for his lunch counter at his business rising from $434 in 2020 to $535 in 2021 and then having the rate increased to $660 when he did not pay it in a timely manner.
Pidgeon continues to believe the rate increase is wrong, especially when the county health department employees received additional money during the pandemic and the health department received Covid-19 grants.
Members of the board of health explained again to Pidgeon that the rate increases and decreases come from a formula the state of Ohio Department of Health gives them each year.
“I feel sorry for anyone in the food service industry,” said Board President Shawn Apple. “We were…
