Campbell seeking estimates to replace faulty garage doors

By Jeanne Starmack

The doors stick open and pose a security risk at the city police station.

CAMPBELL — The city is going to get estimates to replace faulty garage doors at the police department even though there are no grants available for the new doors.

Police Chief Gus Sarigianopoulos says the doors stick open, posing a security risk because there is a jail at the police department.

The doors have to be closed to prevent escapes, police have said.

Sarigianopoulos has asked council to look into what became of an effort to get stimulus money that would have been used to replace the doors.

The garage doors were included on a list of windows and doors that need to be replaced at the city building on Tenney Avenue.

That list was given to GPD Group, Engineers, Architects, Planners, with the hopes the firm would write an application for an Ohio Department of Development American Rrecovery & Reinvestment Act Energy Efficiency & Conservation Block Grant.

But GPD Group determined that Campbell’s project would not qualify for the grant based on points that included project readiness, job creation, educational benefits, energy savings and having a local match in money for the work.

The firm sent a letter to Mayor George Krinos dated Jan. 11 indicating those reasons for not applying for the grant.

City administrator Lewis Jackson said, however, that the city will get estimates for garage doors and discuss them at a board of control meeting in two weeks. He said the city might replace a few doors at a time. There are six doors.

Finance Director Sherman Miles said money in the budget is tight, but the city will have to see first how much the doors will cost before deciding if it can afford them.