Boardman offers new service: online sales meeting place

BOARDMAN

The township next week will begin offering a new service to residents: a safe location for them to exchange items purchased online.

Signs reading “Internet Purchase Exchange Location” will go up in the township government center parking lot (located at 8299 Market St.) and in the police department lobby (located in the government center), allowing residents to meet there to conduct those types of transactions.

Those locations are under continuous surveillance by the police dispatch center.

Township Administrator Jason Loree said the service is an easy, cost-effective way for the township to expand what it offers to residents, and it removes the potential risk associated with, for example, meeting at a stranger’s house to complete such a transaction. The only cost to the township was the purchase of the signs.

In other township news, the trustees this week hired four patrolmen and gave first reading to a home-rule resolution that would require businesses to obtain permits through the police department for “large-scale outdoor events.”

Read more about the actions in Wednesday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.