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Bids opened for work on Boardman roads
BOARDMAN
Township trustees opened bids Monday for a series of culvert replacements on West Parkside Drive, Melrose Avenue and Applecrest Drive.
Four companies submitted bids that ranged from $169,200 to $190,115. Trustees authorized the township’s engineer, Gary Diorio, and road superintendent, Larry Wilson, to review the bids and make a recommendation to the trustees.
The culvert replacement is the first of two storm- water projects. The other project is the widening of the Boardman Lake detention basin and installation of the Aylesboro Avenue storm sewer, Wilson said.
Last year, the township received approval from the Ohio Department of Development for a 3 percent interest loan of about $250,000 to undertake two storm-water projects. The culvert project received a $173,535 grant from the Ohio Public Works Commission, and the storm-water project received $222,000 from the same agency.
“Within a month, we should be going out to bid for the Boardman Lake project,” Wilson said.
In other business, Fiscal Officer William Leicht swore in Nick Antonucci, 23, of Boardman as a police officer. In September, trustees authorized a conditional offer of employment for Antonucci, pending his completion of the Ohio Peace Officer Training Academy. His starting annual salary is $33,000.
The trustees also approved a motion to continue having the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Boardman. The parade committee asked the township’s permission to have the 34th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade at 1 p.m. March 11.
The two-hour parade will begin on Market Street at McClurg Road and proceed north on Market Street to Southwoods Avenue. The parade theme is “Cead Mile Failte,” which translate from Gaelic to “A Hundred Thousand Welcomes,” and the grand marshal is John Sheridan.