OVI Task Force funding being phased out

CANFIELD

This year is the last year of full funding for the OVI (operating a vehicle impaired) Task Force.

The funding is being phased out over a three-year period due to less alcohol-related fatality crashes in Mahoning County. The task force received $224,95.36 for fiscal year 2016 through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Those funds are used for equipment and to pay overtime hours for officers from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30, 2016.

Next year the task force will receive 75 percent of funding and then in the third year, the final year of funding, it will receive 50 percent.

Read more about the program in Friday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.