POLAND TOWNSHIP Trustees get bids for roads

The township has been unable to resolve a problem with a pager bill.
By SHERRI L. SHAULIS
VINDICATOR STAFF WRITER
POLAND -- Township trustees have received six bids for a road resurfacing project.
Clerk Catherine Stacy said road superintendent Edwin Beach will review them and send the lowest and best bid to the Mahoning County Prosecutor's Office for review before presenting a recommendation to trustees.
The bids are:
U Northern Ohio Paving Co., Twinsburg; $124,578.
U Gennaro Pavers Inc., Warren; $103,817.
U Cleveland Asphalt Inc., Bessemer, Pa.; $107,183.
U Butch & amp; McCree Paving Inc., Hillsville, Pa.; $111,337.
U McCourt Construction Co., Akron; $123,092.
U C.Z. Construction and Development Co., Poland; $118,891.
Grant application
Trustees authorized the police department to apply for the annual Selective Traffic Enforcement Program grant for $27,626.
This marks the third year the department will participate in the grant program, which is designed to pay overtime for officers to work on traffic-related issues such as seat-belt and child-restraint enforcement and DUI checkpoints.
Trustees agreed to research other companies to provide new pagers for the road department.
Stacy said the company holding the contract, Arch Pagers of Cincinnati, turned off the pagers in May, claiming the township owed $84.
"Every time I call, they send a copy of a monthly bill they say we didn't pay, and I send them a copy of the canceled check showing we did," she said.
"They claim it's a different month we owe every time I call, so I refuse to pay it," Stacy said.
The clerk said the township has two accounts with the company, one for the road department and the other for the police department, whose pagers are still operating.
Mix-up appears likely
Arch says there is a deficit on the road department's bill, but there has been a credit on the police department's account the entire time of the dispute.
"I am waiting to see how long it will take them to figure out the mistake," she said.
While trustees will find a new company for pagers for the road department, Stacy said she is unsure if council will change companies for the police department as well.