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Boardman trustees finalize selling old fire station
By Bruce Walton
BOARDMAN
Boardman trustees have approved a plan to create a new township fire station at the site of the old high-school football stadium behind Center Middle School.
The old fire station on U.S. Route 224 will be replaced by commercial businesses. The buyer “will have a new image for that corner of Boardman – that’s the exciting part about it,” said Bill Kutlick, owner of Kutlick Realty, which facilitated the purchase of the old property.
Trustees approved selling the two acres where the fire station now sits on Route 224 for $1.2 million to Aspen Hill Partners LLC. The company is a commercial realty company that specializes in redevelopment projects. The money from the purchase of the property will go toward the estimated $3.5 million cost for the new building, said township Administrator Jason Loree.
The township acquired the stadium property in a land swap with the Boardman school district that was announced April 27. In giving the township the stadium site, the school district will get a four-acre property off Tod Avenue that now houses a township cold-storage facility.
The township will start surveying the stadium property in a couple of weeks, Loree said.
In other business, trustees also hired Richard Sharpe as a road department laborer with a salary of $30,405 a year.
Trustees also will advertise for bids for the upcoming 2016 joint road-resurfacing program with Austintown and Canfield townships. Bids are to be opened on June 27.
They also approved the purchase of ammunition for state-required police firearms training, not to exceed $17,339; and buying new radios for a total cost not to exceed $16,620.
The trustees also established an official partnership between the school district and the township for school resource officers. The parties have a three-year-agreement to provide two more resource officers to the district in 2015, at a cost of $9,000 from the school district annually.