Residency issue is resolved for Trumbull Co. planning director

STAFF REPORT

WARREN — Trumbull County’s new planning director, William F. Miller, will begin work Dec. 8 and will have an assistant director.

The planning commission board approved Miller’s hiring last month, contingent upon County Commissioner Dan Polivka’s working out an agreement regarding where Miller will live.

Miller, regional planning manager of the Cincinnati-based Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council Governments, owns a home in the Geauga County community of Burton and plans to live there, Polivka said.

The county has had an informal policy of requiring department heads to live in the county, but Miller will be allowed to live outside of the county, Polivka said.

Meanwhile, Trish Nuskievicz, environmental coordinator and floodplain administrator for the planning commission, has been appointed assistant planning director at a new annual salary of $61,333.

Miller, who will replace Alan Knapp, who is retiring at the end of the year, will earn the same annual salary Knapp makes — $76,646.

The planning commission staff conducts planning for housing, recreation and foreclosure issues, sanitary sewer and waterline construction, and economic development issues dealing with businesses, and applies for and administers grant programs.