Boardman trustees put renewal levies on fall ballot

Staff report

BOARDMAN

Township trustees gave final readings to put two renewal levies on the Nov. 5 ballot.

“There are no additional dollars” with the two levies, Trustee Larry Moliterno said at Monday’s meeting.

The 2.2-mill police and fire levy and 3.2-mill general operations levy are both for five years.

The police and fire renewal levy generates slightly more than $2 million a year and was first approved in 2008. The general-operations levy, originally approved in the 1980s, raises about $2.8 million a year.

Also at the meeting, trustees approved an amendment to rezone multiple streets in the Poland Heights area from residential R-2 to residential R-1, which would prevent six-plexes from being built.

The area is all single-family homes. The rezoning would protect “the integrity of the neighborhood,” Zoning Inspector Sarah Gartland told the trustees.

Additionally, fire Chief George Brown told trustees he is now looking into the costs to replace the department’s radio-communication system that was lost to a lightning storm about two weeks ago.

The chief expects the cost to be between $8,000 and $10,000.

The storm took out 911 emergency operations and caused the department to lose its phone service and computers. Electrical service was restored, but the department is still using a loaner radio from Staley Communication Inc. of Boardman.