Canfield council passes sewer rate hike; awards street paving pact

CANFIELD —  City council passed a sewer rate increase and awarded a contract for road resurfacing this summer. Council had a second reading on the rate increase at its meeting earlier this week. Rates rise 17 percent from $5.40 to $6.32 per 1,000 gallons of water used, said city Manager Charles Tieche. Tieche said the city is passing on the same increase it incurred from the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District. The MVSD sells wholesale treated water to its two member cities, Youngstown and Niles, for resale to those cities’ customers, which number around 330,000 people. The road resurfacing contract was awarded to Diorio Paving, the low bidder at about $200,000, Tieche said. The city received five bids on the work, and the highest was from the Shelly Co. at $215,000. The roads the city will repave this summer are Sleepy Hollow Drive, Coral Way, Jade Circle, Shady Dale Drive, Montridge Drive and Verdant Lane, Tieche said. He said no date has been set yet for the work to begin, but it will take place sometime during the summer and will likely take two to three weeks.