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Austintown trustees approve sinkhole repair contract, ODOT salt participation, loan payoffs and summer hires
Summary
At its April 6 meeting the board approved a $35,500 sinkhole repair contract, participation in ODOT’s road salt program, repayment of a fire truck loan and interfund advances, and several other routine fiscal and personnel items.
AUSTINTOWN, Ohio — The Austintown Township Board of Trustees on April 6 cleared a series of fiscal, road and personnel actions during a single meeting, approving contracts, loan payoffs and staff hires across multiple township departments.
Key votes included approval of an estimate from Z‑Tech Builders & Excavators, Inc. not to exceed $35,500 for the Boulder Creek sinkhole repair project (Resolution #26‑04‑06‑03) and authorization to participate in the Ohio Department of Transportation road salt program for the 2026–2027 winter season (Resolution #26‑04‑06‑02).
Fiscal actions included approval to accept March financial reports and a listing of payments (Resolution #26‑04‑06‑17) that recorded a $57,553 payment to Greenwood Chevrolet for a 2025 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 and $19,516 to Motorola Solutions, Inc. for communications services. The board also authorized repayment of the 2021 fire truck financing loan with a payoff of $250,352.64 before April 17, 2026 (Resolution #26‑04‑06‑18) and approved repayment of advances to the General Fund: $650,000 from Police (2081) and $540,000 from Fire (2111) (Resolution #26‑04‑06‑19).
Trustees approved a Memorandum of Understanding with Mahoning County regarding application of the additional non‑emergency 1/4% sales and use tax for road and infrastructure repairs (Resolution #26‑04‑06‑04). The board also approved personnel and community items: hiring four summer workers for the parks/summer work program (Gregory Faunda, Jackson Potkonicky, Jonathan Ruggles and Dominic Lipinsky), moving the May 4 meeting to the Senior Center due to Board of Elections setup, and providing up to 10 yards of surplus grindings to Austintown Community Baseball (Resolutions #26‑04‑06‑21, #26‑04‑06‑20 and #26‑04‑06‑22).
All motions passed by roll call vote with Trustees Monica Deavers, Robert Santos and Bruce Shepas voting yes.
The meeting recessed to executive session at 6:53 p.m. and reconvened at 10:32 p.m. before adjourning at 10:35 p.m.
