MAHONING COUNTY Poland Municipal Forest now official part of village

Paper work hadn't been properly filed when the annexation was approved.
By DENISE DICK
VINDICATOR STAFF WRITER
POLAND -- Poland Municipal Forest is officially in the village.
A large portion of the forest was in Boardman because paper work for its annexation to the village, which was approved years ago, hadn't been properly filed.
That problem has been rectified.
"Poland woods is actually in the village now," said Damian DeGenova, village solicitor, at a village council meeting Tuesday.
The issue of ownership cropped up in the 1990s when confusion surfaced about which police department, the village's or Boardman's, was responsible for patrolling it.
Mahoning County commissioners voted in January 2001 to accept the annexation to the village of the more than 200 acres, but the paperwork annexing the land wasn't properly filed with the county auditor's office.
The issue emerged again in 2004 after the forest board passed a motion to allow dog owners to let their pets roam without a leash in areas of the park west of Butler Trail. That's a part of the park that lies in Boardman.
"Boardman is going to stop taking complaints of wild and loose dogs, and it becomes our problem now," DeGenova said.
Recycling site
Council members also heard from James Petuch, director of the county's Recycling & amp; Reuse Division or Green Team, about a proposed drop-off recycling site in the village.
The site on Clingan Road in the township is the county's second busiest of its 24 sites. About 800,000 pounds per year of recyclables are taken to the Clingan Road site.
A site on Raccoon Road in Austintown is the busiest, he said.
The Poland Community Baseball Association, Sheridan Road, approached the Green Team about such a site there. The Green Team would provide $5,000, which the association could use to install a concrete pad for the recycling bins to sit upon and erect fencing around it.
Residents can drop off plastics, newspaper, magazines, office paper, cardboard, glass and aluminum cans at the sites to be recycled.
Councilman William Dunnavant said he's heard from a resident who lives near the proposed site who doesn't want it there. The Sheridan Road location isn't as remote as many of the other recycling drop-off sites in the county, he said. Council made no decision on the proposal.