Retirement brings job changes in township

By Mary Smith

There will be a shift in jobs for employees in the township office.

MINERAL RIDGE — Weathersfield Township trustees have hired a new part-time clerk who will move into the police clerk’s position as jobs are moved around pending the retirement of administrative clerk Judy Jendrasiak.

Jendrasiak will be the first to be eligible among eight township employees to take advantage of an early-retirement incentive program approved by trustees in April when she retires July 1.

Trustees hired Marilyn Mioarna of Austintown as an office assistant at $8 an hour, for 32 hours a week, starting Monday. She will receive Public Employee Retirement System benefits and a life insurance policy, but no medical benefits.

Trustees chairman Fred Bobovnyk said Thursday the last time trustees worked out an early retirement was for Millard Ellwick, the township road superintendent who retired in the 1990s under an old program.

Trustees were required by the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System to approve the early-retirement plan in April to give employees a 45- to 60-day window to decide if they wanted to participate.

Bobovnyk said Jendrasiak, who has been with the township for 22 years, can take 65 sick leave days and unused vacation time when she leaves.

The township will pay for another three years of her PERS at a cost of $20,000 to buy her another three years to bring her to 25 years with the system.

Sherri Craver, zoning Inspector, will move into Jendrasiak’s job and Cindy Smith, police clerk, will move into Craver’s job. Smith will be replaced by Mioarna.

Bobovnyk said the employees have been cross-training on other jobs for the past few months.