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Trumbull County commissioners approve contracts, permits and administrative items in routine agenda
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Summary
At their meeting, the Board of Commissioners approved a range of routine and capital items including an annexation petition filing, a $8.74 million sewer contract, a $126,959 security fencing contract, ODOT transit certifications for FY2026, opioid fund use for a jail body scanner upgrade, and a small PFAS settlement distribution to the county.
The Board of Commissioners of Trumbull County approved a slate of routine and contract items during the meeting, finalizing contracts, authorizations and permit actions across county departments.
Key actions approved by unanimous vote included:
- Filing of an annexation petition: The board entered on its journal a petition for annexation filed 07/17/2025 seeking to annex four parcels (parcel numbers given in the record) of Gearmar Properties, Inc. comprising 122.632 acres in Weathersfield Township that are contiguous to the City of Niles. The board adopted the resolution to record the filing.
- Pendleton Gilmer sanitary sewer contract: The board awarded the Pendleton Gilmer Sanitary Sewer Improvements (County Project 6S-22) to Woodford Excavating LLC for $8,743,789. The record states the contract will be funded by the Ohio Public Works Commission, the Community Development Block Grant Program, a U.S. EPA OSG grant, and the Ohio EPA Water Pollution Grant Loan Fund and is intended to extend the sanitary collection system in Warren Township.
- Court of Appeals security fencing: The board accepted the lowest responsive bid from Integra Excavating LLC for new security fencing at the Court of Appeals of Ohio, Eleventh Appellate District, located at 111 High Street in Warren, in the amount of $126,959 and authorized the board president to execute required documents.
- ODOT transit certifications: The board authorized the president of the commissioners to execute the Ohio Department of Transportation Office of Transit Standard Certification and Assurance for the period 07/01/2025 through 06/30/2026, a prerequisite for the county's ODOT FY2026 grant agreement.
- PFAS class-action settlement distribution: The board authorized execution of the county's initial distribution sheet in the Aqueous Film-Forming Foams (AFFF) Products Liability Litigation (MDL 2873); Trumbull County's initial distribution amount was listed as $3,534.91.
- Opioid funds for jail body scanner: The board amended a previous agenda item to designate state/county opioid settlement funds (fund number 079) in the amount of $92,000 to upgrade the SOTA body scanner used at the Trumbull County Jail.
- Security access control amendment: The board amended a prior award to Sage Integration Holding LLC for building security access control (originally not to exceed $205,616.78) to add emergency management agency doors at an additional cost of $8,619.57.
Other actions approved included several routine fiscal motions (approving bills, transfers, increases and decreases in appropriations, and acceptance of "then and now" purchase orders in compliance with ORC 5705.41), approval of right-of-way and hauling permits requested by utilities and carriers, authorization to close Phillips Rice Road (County Highway 197) in Mecca Township for culvert replacement from July 21 to Aug. 1, 2025, approval of electrical hookup work for three towers by Spielman Electric LLC for $9,812, and concurrence with the county engineer on multiple permitting matters.
All recorded motions on the published agenda items were approved by voice or roll-call vote with commissioners voting in the affirmative as recorded in the meeting minutes.
