LISBON — The annual report for the Christina House domestic violence shelter detailed numbers for 2025, including how many people stayed there and how many received other services and referrals, with 33 adults and 39 children receiving shelter.

Commissioner Roy Paparodis praised the good work done at the Christina House domestic violence shelter after reading off some of the numbers during the commissioners’ meeting Wednesday. The annual report was submitted to commissioners by the Catholic Charities Regional Agency which includes the Christina House and Christina Center.

The report is sent to commissioners as a requirement for any shelter for victims of domestic violence that receives marriage license, divorce, dissolution and annulment fees.

According to the report, the shelter provide domestic violence services in the form of support group, crisis calls and referrals in 2025 to 933 adults and 258 children. Persons served by the shelter bore various relationships to the abusers, with at least 162 spouses, 235 other types of relationships such as girlfriend, ex-girlfriend, landlord, stepdaughter, stepbrother, co-worker or boss, 116 relatives to abuser such as parents, sibling, cousin or child, 138 living as spouse or significant other, 156 unknown, 73 divorced or separated from the abuser, 38 parents of abuser or 15 children of abuser.

The types of referrals made included 587 to legal services, 134 psychological, 53 medical, three financial, four educational and one vocational.

In other business, commissioners gave permission for the use of the courthouse parking lot at the corner of Beaver and Washington street for the village of Lisbon to host the annual electronics collection day on July 18. More information about the event will be released at a later date regarding the times and what can be dropped off. The event will be for all county residents.

Commissioners didn’t request a hearing for a liquor permit request for Shree Ladli Inc./JT Pit Stop, state Route 164, Lisbon in Wayne Township.

Commissioners approved the 2026 Government Services Building lease agreement between the commissioners and the county Department of Job and Family Services, with DJFS agreeing to pay an annual rental rate of $482,123, payable in equal monthly installments of $40,176.

In other matters at a recent meeting: commissioners awarded the contract for the Hunston Road bridge replacement in Unity Township to BOG Construction Inc. for $870,030; adopted a resolution related to the Bowstring Arch Bridge rehab project related to reimbursement of $296,774; agreed to hire outside counsel to represent commissioners in a lawsuit; reappointed Richard Cope to the county Planning Commission for another three years; and reappointed Tina Deal-Hendon, the county Department of Job and Family Services Social Services Administrator, to a new two-year term on the Ohio Children’s Trust Fund Northeast Regional Prevention Council.

The next meeting of county commissioners will be 9 a.m. March 25 in the downtown courthouse in Lisbon.