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Brookfield Residents to be repaid for error
By Ed Runyan
WARREN
An error made by the Trumbull County Sanitary Engineer’s office will result in a lump-sum repayment of $1,175 to Edward Petsko and his wife of Grove Street in Brookfield Township.
The Petskos are among 10 property owners who paid a lump sum a year ago as their share of a sewer project known as Brookfield Center Phase 2 at the south end of the Township Square and on Grove Street.
Nineteen other property owners had the cost assessed to their taxes, and they had not begun to pay that assessment yet, so their reimbursement will be taken off of their assessment, officials said Tuesday.
Trumbull County commissioners are expected to approve the change in the charges at their meeting today.
Petsko, reached by telephone Tuesday, said he wasn’t aware of the mistake or the reimbursement he will receive.
“That’s good. I could use the money,” he said. “Some people would get all upset, but I’m not really like that.”
Gary Newbrough, project planning director for the sanitary engineer’s office, said he discovered a mistake in the cost calculation while reviewing Brookfield Center Phase 3 recently. Phase 3 is now complete.
Newbrough said the interest charges on the $420,240 Phase 2 and the interest on Phase 3 were all assessed to the people in Phase 2.
That resulted in an overcharge of $37,554, Newbrough said. It resulted in an overcharge of $2,361 to Kala Realty of North Main Street in Hubbard, which owned three properties that received sewers.
Brookfield United Methodist Church was overcharged $1,553 for two properties.
The assessments for the church and real-estate company will be reduced the erroneous amount, Newbrough said.