School board to mull levy

School board to mull levy
CANFIELD -- The school board is set to consider asking voters for more money to pay for maintenance, repairs and other capital improvements. Superintendent Dante Zambrini said the board most likely will discuss at tonight's school board meeting seeking voter approval to increase a 0.4-mill levy that raises about $140,000 a year. The board has until Aug. 19 to pass the two resolutions needed to put a levy on the Nov. 2 ballot. Zambrini said the board hasn't determined the size of the increase it might seek. He noted that revenue from the capital improvements levy couldn't be used for district operations or teacher or administrator salaries. The board is set to meet at 6 p.m. at the board office next to Canfield Village Middle School.
Council, auditors to meet
CAMPBELL -- City council will meet with state auditors at 6 p.m. Thursday to discuss findings regarding the city's fiscal emergency. A special council meeting will follow at 7 p.m. to address legislation that would enable the city to hire RITA to collect city income taxes.
Regional Income Tax Agency, formed by the Regional Council of Governments, collects taxes for 89 municipalities throughout Ohio and, according to Mayor Jack Dill, might be the quickest and most efficient way to collect taxes owed Campbell. Both meetings will be in council chambers.
St. Rose Church festival
GIRARD -- The seventh annual St. Rose Church Summer Festival will be from Friday through Sunday on the church grounds, 48 E. Main St. The festival will be from 6-11 p.m. Friday and Saturday and from 6-11:30 p.m. Sunday, when drawings for food baskets and cash raffles will take place. The top prize will be $3,000. Bands will be featured each evening from 6:30-10:30 p.m., with Champagne on Friday, the Del Rezek Band on Saturday and Al Hreno on Sunday. An outdoor polka Mass will be at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, with the Del Rezek Band playing for the Mass. The event will feature bingo in an air-conditioned hall nightly from 6-11 p.m. and games, rides and food.
Sentenced for robbery
YOUNGSTOWN -- A Himrod Avenue man was sentenced to six years in prison Tuesday for robbing the Dunkin Donuts store on Market Street in June 2002. Anthony Figueroa, 22, pleaded guilty in May to robbery and a firearm specification in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court. The charge was reduced from aggravated robbery as part of the plea agreement.
Judge R. Scott Krichbaum imposed a three-year sentence for the robbery and a mandatory three-year term for the gun specification. By law, the sentences must be consecutive.
The judge also ordered the sentences served consecutively to a one-year sentence he imposed on Figueroa last year for an unrelated weapons violation.
Police investigate beating
HUBBARD -- Township police are asking for public assistance in solving the beating of a man. Mark Blackburn, 31, of Franklin Avenue, remained in stable condition today in St. Elizabeth Health Center, where he's being treated for facial fractures and internal injuries.
Blackburn and the passenger in the vehicle he was driving, Randy Thorpe, 44, of Youngstown-Hubbard Road, told police they were at state Route 304 and Siefert-Lewis Road on Friday afternoon when a man got out of his car and pistol-whipped Blackburn.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the police, (330) 534-8477.
Jury returns indictment
YOUNGSTOWN -- A federal grand jury in Cleveland returned a one-count indictment Tuesday against William Poole, 43, of Sheridan Road, charging him with possession of an unregistered sawed-off shotgun.
County tax breaks
WARREN -- Trumbull County commissioners are planning to recommend revoking tax breaks to four companies that have not lived up to terms of enterprise zone agreements, require companies to expand operations or add employees in return for tax incentives.
Commissioners are expected to ask the Ohio Department of Development to terminate agreements with Interstate Processor Ltd. of Girard and MCI Corp. in Niles, which are no longer in operation; Android Industries in Vienna, which will close in November; and Henn Decorating of Lordstown, which has canceled a planned expansion.