Trustees authorize bids for repaving

Streets in Mineral Ridge and McKinley Heights have been targeted for repaving.

SPECIAL TO THE VINDICATOR

MINERAL RIDGE — Weathersfield Township trustees authorized the township’s fiscal officer to advertise for bids for the 2009 repaving program.

Trustee chairman James Stoddard said Tuesday that asphalt materials went “sky high” over past years, and despite a hoped-for reduction in those costs, the cost of oil and gasoline has gone up again, which affects the cost of asphalt needed for repaving.

The township has identified streets that need to be repaved in Mineral Ridge and McKinley Heights, and patching is planned on the township side of County Line Road.

The amount of work to be done will depend on how bids come in, Stoddard said.

Trustees hired Jordan Wert as a part-time seasonal employee for the road department at $8 an hour.

Trustees also approved donations of $100 to the VFW in Mineral Ridge and $50 to the American Legion in Girard to help pay for cemetery decorations for Memorial Day.

The township’s attorneys, Daniel Daniluk and Douglas Ross, told trustees in their monthly report that Daniluk has not received a response from the Ohio Civil Rights Commission to an objection he filed March 16 claiming the commission does not have jurisdiction over a complaint filed by former Trustee James Price.

Price filed an action with the commission claiming age discrimination as the reason he was not appointed as a trustee when Stephen Gerberry was selected by the other trustees in February to fill a board vacancy.

Stoddard said the trustees question whether the commission has jurisdiction over the question since the position was filled by appointment.