Meeting on Tuesday, Boardman Township’s Board of Trustees---Steve Yacovone, Larry Moliterno and Matt Gambrel---acting on the recommendation of Road Supt. Kim Blasco, unanimously approved a 2026 road resurfacing covering some 9.08 miles of roadway at a cost of $1.491 million.
      Low bidder for the work was R.T. Vernal, of 11299 South Ave., North Lima. Other bids considered were from Lindy Paving , $1.547 million; Shelly & Sands, $1.645 million; and Karvo Companies, $1.816 million.
      Funding for the work comes from nearly $950,000 from sales tax revenue, as well as gas tax and permissive tax monies. No property tax funds are used for the resurfacing program.
      Roadways scheduled for resurfacing include the following:
       •Stratmore Rd., from Midlothian Blvd. south to the dead end;
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     Boardman Township will have three renewal levies on the May 5 ballot, including one issue, a 3.85-mill issues specifically for the Police Department.
      Passage of the levies is critical to the continued daily operation of local government after a 2.5-mill renewal issue was not placed on the ballot om 2025, resulting in the loss of some $1.971 million.
      Speaking last week at a Boardman Civic Association election forum, Atty. Steve Yacovone said that Boardman Township “will have three renewals on the ballot. We have a 7/10-mill general fund levy, a 3-mill general fund levy, and a 3.85 mill police levy.
      “Like all renewals these levy’s are not new money. This is to maintain what we currently provide here in Boardman Township. If these renewals do not pass, roughly one-third of our entire revenue will immediately be eliminated. The impact of this...Read More >>

     A member of the Friends of Boardman Local Schools Committee, Cristina Beggs, addressed the Boardman Civic Association last week on the 5.9-mill current expense renewal levy that will be on the May 5 primary ballot.
      Beggs, a Democrat, of Teakwood Dr., is a teacher in the Columbiana Exempted Village School District, where she has been employed for 13 years. She served as a Title I coordinator for the Boardman Local School for six years prior to her employment in Columbiana.
      Beggs told those in attendance “education is so incredibly important to me” and she chose to live in Boardman because she knew her children (a fourth grade student and an eighth grade student enrolled in Boardman Local Schools) “would receive an excellent education and many, many opportunities” such as Chess Club, Walking Club, cross country, orchestra, lacrosse and ‘cheer.’
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