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Boardman trustees recognize successes from around the township
BOARDMAN
Township trustees recognized some of the successes achieved this year around the township at a meeting Monday.
Boardman Park Executive Director Daniel Slagle Jr., who has worked at the park since 1972, was recognized by the township for receiving the 2014 Harvey Woods Lifetime Achievement Award from the Ohio Parks and Recreation Association.
“It’s not about any one person. It’s been a team effort to make Boardman Park the jewel of our community,” Slagle said after trustees issued a proclamation honoring him.
Trustees also honored Boardman’s team in the 10- to 11-year-old division of Little League girls fast-pitch softball, which won the state championship this year.
In other business, township fire Chief Mark Pitzer reported to the board that a firetruck involved in an accident Nov. 26 is totaled and will have to be replaced. Pitzer did not yet have a cost estimate.
He also reported that the fire department will be evaluated in January by the Insurance Services Office, which rates municipalities’ fire-protection services on a scale of 1 to 10 for insurance companies. Pitzer, in agreement with trustees, said he would like the township to move from a 5 to a 4 on the rating scale.
The board unanimously voted to appropriate $5,891,902 in temporary appropriations for 2015, pending the approval early next year of a permanent appropriations budget.
Trustees also voted to approve the demolition of a property at 122 Nevada Ave. using funds from the Community Development Block Grant, a federal grant that is divvied up by the Mahoning County commissioners for local projects.