Weathersfield trustees name fiscal officer

By Mary Smith

Fred Bobovnyk resigned as a trustee to seek the fiscal officer post.

MINERAL RIDGE — Weathersfield Township trustees Wednesday named former Trustee Fred Bobovnyk as fiscal officer.

Trustees also accepted the formal resignations of former fiscal officer David Rouan, who will leave the post Monday; and Bobovnyk, who resigned as a trustee effective Jan. 20 to seek the fiscal officer post.

The fiscal officer’s post was filled until March 31, 2010, but the newly appointed fiscal officer will have to seek election in November. By law, new fiscal officers in a township take office April 1.

Trustees also agreed to advertise for applicants to the open trustee position in local newspapers for four days, from today to Sunday, and accept r sum s until 4 p.m. Wednesday.

Applicants for trustee must be 18 years of age, a township resident and eligible to vote.

To date, trustees have received three written applications for the post, all from former trustees: Marvin McBride, James Price and James Pirko, who is also township grants coordinator.

The board has 30 days to name a replacement. The part-time post, which pays $12,346 a year, is an appointment, and does not have to be advertised by trustees, chairman James Stoddard said.

Bobovnyk had been a trustee for 12 years and was in the last year of his four-year term.

Rouan resigned the $21,216-a-year part-time job because he has been appointed director of administration and government offices under Trumbull County’s new engineer, David DeChristofaro.

Rouan was originally appointed township clerk, or fiscal officer, in April 1990 and was elected to his first four-year term in November 1992. He has been township fiscal officer for 19 years.

Rouan previously served as township zoning inspector and was assistant to clerk James Pirko before trustees appointed him to the post when Pirko retired in 1990.

There were five applicants for the fiscal officer’s position, two of whom were disqualified because they were not township residents. One applicant, Pirko, withdrew to seek the trustee appointment, and the other two applicants were Bobovnyk and Richard Harkins, a former member of the township zoning commission.