Weathersfield trustees appoint Rouan to festival committee

February 12, 2014 at 12:00a.m.

MINERAL RIDGE

Weathersfield Township trustees Tuesday appointed administrator David Rouan to represent the township on the new Weathersfield Township Flag Day Festival Committee, which plans a festival in June.

A committee of 15 to 20 members began meeting in December to try to bring back a township festival. Plans are for a Flag Day Festival from June 12 through 15 at the Mineral Ridge Middle School property on state Route 46, Rouan, said.

In other business, the township learned this week it had been awarded a $35,000 grant from the Ohio Department of Transportation. The grant will pay for stop, speed limit and cautionary traffic signs. The township began its own traffic-sign replacement program in 2013 at a cost of $5,000.

Trustees also approved a resolution supporting the renewal on the May 6 ballot of the sale of bonds by the state to fund the State Capital Improvement Program. Since 1988, there have been over 600 SCIP-funded water, sewer, highway and bridge projects in Mahoning and Trumbull counties.

The township also plans to seek additional funds through the Attorney General’s Moving Ohio Forward Program, with plans to demolish two more condemned structures, Rouan said.

The township’s annual spring cleanup has been set for May 5 to 9.