Canfield Township Trustees provide updates on infrastructure work

Staff report

CANFIELD

Canfield Township trustees said they have freed up about $30,000 for 2016 because the road-salt money allotted was almost double the salt’s actual cost.

Brian Governor, trustee chairman, said the trustees budgeted about $70,000 for 1,000 tons of road salt at between $65 and $70 per ton. The actual cost from Cargill, an agricultural company based in Wayzata, Minn., was $39.24 per ton, costing about $40,000.

Governor said trustees are deciding where to reappropriate the remaining $30,000 – either the resurfacing program or the catch basin program.

The catch basin program will be out to bid Monday through Aug. 29 for a price not to exceed $26,000.

Governor said this is the first year the trustees have budgeted for repairing and replacing the catch basins.

“We have more than 1,000 catch basins in Canfield Township, and a lot of them are in older developments,” he said. “We repair them when they need repaired, but unfortunately many of them need replaced.”

Trustees selected eight of the worst catch basins for repair this year, and Governor said he hopes to continue doing so for the next few years.

Township Administrator Keith Rogers said one basin each will be repaired on Maplevale Drive, Joyce Ann Drive, Catawba Drive and Pebble Beach Court and two basins on Fairway Drive and St. Andrews Drive.