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Council schedules committee meetings, hears updates on downtown construction and Nebo Park grants
Summary
At a Struthers caucus meeting council members set committee meeting dates, heard that downtown construction has started and that three grant applications for Nebo Park were submitted, and confirmed a planned presentation on Tree City designation.
Struthers City Council members set committee meetings and heard several administrative updates during the caucus.
Council scheduled a finance and legislation committee meeting to review pending legislation and a community development committee meeting for 6 p.m. on March 19. Members discussed committee assignments and clarified that community development — not general improvements — will handle a forthcoming agenda item.
Bob reported that downtown construction work has started on Terrace Street and State Street and described coordination with utility work. He said the project will maintain two lanes through most of construction but that brief lane closures are possible for truck movements and that work near the bridge may require lane reductions while crews replace a gas line and related utilities. He also noted coordination with Aqua Ohio so crews do not work on both sides of State Route 616 simultaneously.
A council member asked about three grants submitted for Nebo Park: two applications noted as “50” and one as “20” in the transcript. Council members said one application was submitted in January and two in February. The transcript does not specify whether those amounts are dollars, thousands, or grant identifiers; the amounts and grant sources are not specified in the record.
Council also noted that Charles Sawtelle will speak to the community development committee about a Tree City designation and recommendations, and that a judge’s presentation (identified in the transcript as Judge Malone) is scheduled for the 26th. No formal votes on these items were recorded in the caucus transcript.
The caucus included several procedural motions (for example, moving to dispense with the reading of minutes and to adjourn) and a motion to convene the finance and legislation meeting. The transcript does not show final outcomes for the grant applications or the Tree City recommendations; those items will be addressed in upcoming committee and council meetings.
