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  Costello Leads Boardman Trustees  
  January 16, 2014 Edition  
     Tom Costello will serve as chairman of the Boardman Township Board of Trustees for 2014, while Brad Calhoun will serve as vice-chairman.
      Costello and Calhoun ran unopposed in the November general elections.
      Fiscal Officer William Leicht served as chairman of the board’s first meeting held at the Government Center on Monday night, until Costello was elected chairman.
      Trustee and fiscal officer compensation for 2014 was approved as set forth in the Ohio Revised Code, at $28,176 for the fiscal officer, and $20,568 for the trustees.
      They oversee an annual budget of more than $17 million, and a workforce of some 152 employees.
      Costello also serves on the executive committee of the Coalition of Large Ohio Urban Townships (CLOUT), and was also appointed on Monday night to serve as the township’s representative to the Mahoning County Emergency Management Agency 9-1-1 Planning Committee. Trustee Larry Moliterno will serve as an alternate on that board.
      Costello was ‘re-elected’ as a trustee on Nov. 3, 2009, as was Vice-Chairman Calhoun. Costello had previously served as a Boardman Township Trustee from Dec., 1999 through 2005.
      A proposal to pay the Mahoning County Prosecutor $75,000 in fees was tabled for a second time as the board indicated it still has “an outstanding issue” with the prosecutor’s office.
      The issue is believed to concern the findings of an investigation conducted by the Boardman Police Department and Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation into some shift-trading practices by three employees at the Boardman Fire Department upwards of eight years ago under Fire Chief James Dorman.
      The prosecutor’s office has not acted upon the findings of that investigation for more than 18 months.
      Police Chief Jack Nichols announced the department has re-established a Juvenile Diversion Program that was abandoned in eight years ago when Trustees cut the program claiming financial shortfalls.
      The program serves as an intervention program for juveniles, in many instances before they reach the court system.
      “We will be able to reach out to a lot of kids and maybe prevent them from getting into real trouble,” Moliterno said.
      Chief Nicholas also said his department will “expand into different areas, once it gets underway.”
      Heading the diversion program is
      In other matters, Trustees authorized their administrator, Jason Loree, to submit applications for Ohio Public Works Administration funds.
      Loree said the applications would seek funding for the township’s paving program.
      Trustees declared 203 Meadowbrook Ave., a nuisance and ordered the demolition of a residential structure on the site.
      Fire Chief George Brown announced the retirement of fire-fighter Tim Drummond, effective Feb. 4.
      In response to recent cold weather that included below-zero temperatures, Trustees heard from Chief Brown, who helped to spearhead efforts to establish a ‘warming center’ at the Government Center.
      Chief Brown said the local Red Cross donated 20 beds and blankets that were set-up in the Marie P. DeBartolo Meeting Room, and expressed concern there could have been a need to use the beds since 1200 people in the Tippecanoe Rd. area were reported without power on Jan. 7.
      “We were ready to do whatever was needed,” Brown said.
      The fire chief said his department received 18 calls for water line breaks during the cold temperatures, noting “Akron Children’s Hospital was the worst one.”
      Administrator Loree said a water line in the government center’s meeting room burst in three places, and there was also a water line break in the road department building.
      Following their public session, trustees adjourned into a closed meeting for purposes of collective bargaining with police and road department unions, appointments to the zoning commission and zoning board of appeals, and administration employment.
     
 
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