Trumbull making a change to save on road salt costs

WARREN

The Trumbull County Engineer’s Office is planning to use a different consortium to buy most of its road salt for next winter: The Community University Education Purchasing Association Program.

Jack Simon, road-use and maintenance coordinator for Trumbull County, said Engineer Randy Smith’s Office will buy 75 percent of its salt through the CUE program and 25 percent through the Ohio Department of Transportation.

Both consortiums involve risk because the engineer’s office doesn’t know yet what the price will be through either one, but the universities, schools, county governments in Portage and Summit counties and other governments that used CUE last year paid only $49 per ton, Simon said.

By comparison, Trumbull County paid $105 per ton for the salt it purchased through ODOT.