Weathersfield hires company for Web page

By Mary Smith

Weathersfield Township has rejoined the Niles Trumbull Transit Authority.

MINERAL RIDGE — Weathersfield Township trustees have hired a Boardman company to update the township’s Web page to make it more user friendly.

The township page has existed for seven to eight years and is not very user friendly, Trustee Fred Bobovnyk said. The township will pay Cboss, of Boardman, $3,899 to update the page, also making it possible to refresh the information on the page daily, if desired.

Trustees on Tuesday also approved purchase of a new firetruck, a 750-gallon pumper truck at $414,809 through the state purchasing program. The township will make a $213,000 downpayment and pay off the truck in three years with payments of $66,000 a year. The financing will allow the township to keep extra funds in the fire department account and draw interest on them, the chairman said, although there is enough money in the account to buy the truck in cash.

The township has also rejoined the Niles Trumbull Transit Authority at $4,380 a year. Though trustees said the involvement is not necessarily cost effective, it does provide a needed service to residents who have no other means of transportation. The service is for residents 60 and older or handicapped.

Township Administrator David Pugh announced that cemetery cleanup will begin Monday. Everything on the ground at grave- sites is to be removed, he noted, or it will be removed by township cemetery staff.

Pugh also said road crews will begin shredding branches this Friday and every Friday through the summer. Residents should place broken-up branches at the curb by Friday.

Trustees also noted they received an answer from the Trumbull County sanitary engineer’s office to a letter sent in March asking if Mineral Ridge residents would be getting higher sewer rates to go along with recent water-rate increases. Rex Fee of the engineer’s office wrote back that sewer rates would go up by 19 percent, from $4.20 per 1,000 gallons to $5 per 1,000 gallons.

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources has advised the township that it will be drilling to check for old mines on Oakview and Edwards streets this year.