New director recommended for Trumbull planning commission

WARREN — The Trumbull County Planning Commission has recommended the hiring of William F. Miller, regional planning manager of a Cincinnati-based planning agency, to replace retiring planning director Alan Knapp.

Miller has been planning manager of the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Goverments since January 1985.

Trumbull County Commissioner Dan Polivka, chairman of the planning commission’s personnel committee, said Miller is willing to take a pay cut to work for the same salary as Knapp makes now — $76,646 per year. Knapp will retire Dec. 31 after working for the planning commission since 1981.

The only issue holding up Miller’s hiring is a question of where Miller will live, Polivka said. Miller mentioned that he inherited his parents’ home in Burton, near Trumbull County, but the county has had an informal policy of requiring employees to live in the county, Polivka said.

If the residency issue can be worked out, Miller will begin work on Dec. 1, Polivka said.