NEW MIDDLETOWN Village administrator to retire at year's end

Council requested a state study of whether a traffic light is needed at Calla Road and state Route 170.
By MARY GRZEBIENIAK
VINDICATOR CORRESPONDENT
NEW MIDDLETOWN -- Village Administrator Robert Mason is retiring.
Mason, who has held the post for 11 years, will retire at the end of the year. He will work just one more week and then finish out the year using his remaining vacation.
Village council thanked Mason for his work and accepted his resignation with regret. Mayor Robert Carson asked that anyone interested in the position send him a letter with a r & eacute;sum & eacute;.
Other business
In other business at council's meeting Monday, Councilman Dan Santangelo, chairman of the Parks, Buildings and Grounds Committee, brought up three options for expanding the village administration building: The current building could be torn down and a new one with a basement built, or additions could be built onto the west or south sides of the building.
He said that while the expansion is just in the talking stage, he is looking at the $50,000 the village will receive from Mahoning County's sales tax in 2004 as possible seed money for the project.
Carson reported that the village has sent a letter to the Ohio Department of Transportation asking it to study whether a traffic light is needed at Calla Road and state Route 170.
Council also:
UAccepted with thanks the resignation of police officer Dan Coler for personal reasons, then hired Jason Lanzo and Mike Slivanya as part-time police officers on a one-year probationary basis.
URenewed for a year the contract of Thomas Fok and Associates of Youngstown as the village engineer.
UApproved installing a 12-foot-wide garage door on the back of the village garage in order to accommodate the new fire truck. The back doors are 10 feet wide.
UAuthorized paying $770 to Gobel's Auto Body and Towing, New Springfield, for body work to the school resource officer's van. Council thanked Gobel's for the $770 worth of work and materials the company donated toward the repair.
UAgreed to pay $1,282 to G & amp;A Auto Service, North Lima, for repairs to the police van.
UApproved spending up to $2,110 for training for several firefighters.