Commission to replace director

STAFF REPORT

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 Governments 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 that 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 Dec. 1, Polivka said.

In Cinncinati, Miller oversees a division with a budget of $1.5 million that provides community planning services to an eight-county, three-state region.

Miller has bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

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