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  Trustees Approve $75,000 For County Prosecutor’s Service As Law Director  
  February 13, 2014 Edition  
     Meeting on Monday night, Boardman Trustees agreed to pay some $75,00 in legal fees to the Mahoning County Prosecutor’s Office.
      The fees provide funds for the prosecutor’s office to serve as the township’s law director for 2014.
      The measure to pay the fees had been on the trustees’ agenda on three occasions. It was not acted upon the first two times the legal fees were on the agenda, because trustees indicated they had issues they had taken-up with the prosecutor’s office that had not been acted upon, including the results of an investigation into the Boardman Fire Department that indicated public monies had been misused.
      In approving the legal fees on Monday night, Trustees indicated a resolution of the issues stemming from the fire department may finally be acted upon by the prosecutor’s office.
      The issue has lingered, without action, for more than a year, following an investigation by the Boardman Police Department and Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation. At one point, several sources have claimed, the prosecutor’s office balked at moving forward on the matter, suggesting the only reason Trustees were interested in the misused funds was as a payback for firemen raising their middle finger at a float that contained Boardman Township officials, as it passed by the main fire station during a Memorial Day parade.
      No public comment was made on Monday night on the potential legal issues at the fire department, said to involve one retired firemen, and two currently on duty.
      Trustees held ceremonies on Monday night, recognizing the promotion of Brian Barber to the post of assistant chief in the fire department; and Rob John as captain in the fire department.
      Barber has served at the fire department since June, 1996; while John began his career in Feb., 1999.
      Also recognized was Assistant Chief Tim Drummond, who has retired. Drummond served the Boardman Fire Department for 29 years. His first day on the job included a call to a fireworks factory on Western Reserve Rd. in North Lima, where nine people died as the results of an explosion.
      Drummond made brief remarks, thanking taxpayers for “stepping up to the plate” in their support of local government; and also thank the leadership of the township.
      “They really watch their dollars,” Drummond said.
      Road Superintendent Larry Wilson said salt supplies for winter snow removal were increased last week, when the township acquired 125 tons of salt from the Ohio Department of Transportation.
      Township Fiscal Officer William Leicht noted budget hearings for the police, fire, road and zoning departments are now underway.
 
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