Burger called the meeting to order at 5:00 p.m. at the Jackson Township Hall with all Trustees, Clerk, Lyon, and Fitzgerald present.
Burger moved and Pizzino seconded a motion to go into Executive Session for Management Personnel (Appointment/Employment/Compensation).
Upon return from Executive Session at 5:30 p.m., Burger opened the Work Session.
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Craig Snee of 5692 Waywood, North Canton,
presented a proposal from Earth N Wood for yard waste disposal. A
meeting is to be set up with the Stark County Waste District, Earth N Wood,
and township representatives to try to work out an agreement.
At 6:00 p.m., Burger called the General Session to order with all department heads present except John Phillippi, who was on vacation. Burger requested that all cell phones and pagers be turned off at this time.
The Pledge of Allegiance was recited.
Public Speaks – None
Administration Department
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Meeks moved and Pizzino seconded a motion
to authorize the hiring of John Shell as a seasonal park maintenance worker
(fourth year), through the temporary service, at a rate of $8.00 per hour,
effective May 10, 2005, per the attached recommendation of the Park Operations
Director.
Meeks moved and Pizzino seconded a motion to authorize the hiring of Charles Pressler III as a seasonal park maintenance worker (second year), through the temporary service, at a rate of $7.00 per hour, effective May 10, 2005, per the attached recommendation of the Park Operations Director.
Meeks moved and Pizzino seconded a motion to authorize the hiring of Joseph Pfeiffer as a seasonal park maintenance worker, through the temporary service, at the rate of $6.50 per hour, effective May 10, 2005, per the recommendation of the Park Operations Director.
Meeks moved and Pizzino seconded a motion to authorize the hiring of Chad Papaleo as a seasonal park maintenance worker, through the temporary service, at the rate of $6.50 per hour, effective May 10, 2005, per the recommendation of the Park Operations Director.
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Meeks moved and Burger seconded a motion
to hire Ryan Kumpf as a seasonal park programming assistant (fourth year),
through the temporary service, at the rate of $8.00 per hour, effective
May 10, 2005, per the recommendation of the Park Program Director.
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Burger moved and Meeks seconded a motion
to hire Gina Tamburro as a seasonal tennis instructor (fourth year), through
the temporary service, at the rate of $8.00 per hour, effective June 1,
2005, per the recommendation of the Park Program Director.
Burger moved and Meeks seconded a motion to hire Christopher Jones as a seasonal tennis instructor (fourth year), through the temporary service, at the rate of $8.00 per hour, effective June 1, 2005, per the recommendation of the Park Program Director.
Burger moved and Meeks seconded a motion to hire Nadja Sergev as a seasonal tennis instructor (third year), through the temporary service, at the rate of $7.50 per hour, effective June 1, 2005, per the recommendation of the Park Program Director.
Burger moved and Meeks seconded a motion to hire Matthew Anderson as a seasonal tennis instructor (second year), through the temporary service, at the rate of $7.00 per hour, effective June 1, 2005, per the recommendation of the Park Program Director.
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Burger moved and Pizzino seconded a motion
to approve a wage increase to $9.50 per hour for park maintenance worker,
Tim Matako, employed through the temporary service, effective May 9, 2005,
per the attached recommendation of the Park Operations Director.
Pizzino moved and Meeks seconded a motion to table any action on the motion for a wage increase.
Attorney Michael Thompson discussed the changes made and additional changes needed in the water line agreement with North Canton.
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Pizzino moved and Burger seconded a motion
to table further discussion on the water line agreement with North Canton
until next meeting.
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Pizzino moved and Burger seconded a motion
to adopt the attached amended Travel Policy.
Fire Department
Pizzino moved and Burger seconded a motion
to authorize Captain Hogue to travel to Mt. Pleasant, PA to examine an
education trailer for the safe kids group.
Highway Department
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Pizzino moved and Burger seconded a motion
to adopt and authorize the placement of the Board’s signatures upon the
attached First Supplement to the Fulton Road Widening Funding Agreement.
RESOLUTION 05-27, ATTACHED
Burger moved and Pizzino seconded a motion
to authorize the attached Advertisement for Bids for Resurfacing Project
2005-A in accordance with the Specifications on file.
RESOLUTION 05-028, ATTACHED
Burger moved and Pizzino seconded a motion
to authorize the attached Advertisement for Bids for the Paint Striping
of Roadways Project in accordance with the Specifications on file.
Police Department
Neftzer: Thank you, Mr. Burger.
Well, I’m happy to report that the levy passed last week so I won’t be
expressing the need for those revenues for a few years. But with
the passage of the levy comes some work that Randy and I’ve been doing
in terms of evaluating the budgets, looking at our carryovers for 2005
into 2006 and what we’re starting to do now for the next couple weeks is
just evaluate and prioritize all those programs that were cut and what
the cost would be to start bringing those things back, so we’re in the
process of preparing that now. Hopefully, by the next meeting or
two I should be able to bring that back to the Board and just get a feel
for those items that are a priority that we need to reinstate. Quite
honestly, we don’t have the money yet, we’re not going to get the money
until March of next year and I think a lot of folks are hoping to see a
lot of things happen quickly. It’s just not going to work like that.
After we do this evaluation process and just see what monies are available,
by all means, we’ll start restoring those cut services as quickly as it’s
feasibly possible. But going into 2005, obviously the Board recognized
that it was going to be a tight budget, in fact, we had to borrow from
the general fund to get through. There’s been some adjustments to
the budget with some personnel changes and transitions, some of our hospitalization
costs came in more than what we had budgeted for, so Randy and I are working
through those items now and I think by the next meeting I should have a
better feel for what our costs would be to start bringing back some of
the services. But I would not anticipate a windfall, if you will,
probably until January of next year in terms of trying to bring back and
restore all those cut services. So if there’s any questions about
that I’ll be happy to respond to questions but probably better -
I don’t know if Randy has comments or not.
Gonzalez: No, why don’t you discuss some of the priorities that you are looking at.
Neftzer: Well, you guys know the services that were cut but I think in terms of restoring these services we have to keep in mind that neighborhood patrols is our first priority. I think restoring the Safety Center to its original hours, right now we’re about six weeks behind in our paperwork processing because of the clerical staff being cut back. We need to restore that, I mean, we can’t have paperwork that’s so far behind and so to me those are some of the issues, some of the other things we’re considering is, you know, there were concessions made by the union members. At what point can we restore those or can we restore those. We cut the part-time hours, you know, the best bang for a buck that we get is restoring those part-time hours as soon as we possibly can. But you know there are some union issues and some things we need to work through on that. Some of the specialty programs in the detective bureau, crime preventative things, those kind of things are a low priority this year, you know, they’re not up there with neighborhood patrols and getting the Safety Center open but that’s what we’re evaluating now. And again I should have a list of those items, hopefully, by the next meeting that we can talk about more specifically.
Gonzalez: I talked to Harley Friday. As soon as he gets together the programs and puts numbers to them, then try to analyze what we’re going to need to get through to March of next year. And see what’s available in the general fund to borrow, pay back, all those numbers, we’ll get to you but I can’t get them until he goes through each of the programs.
Neftzer: Yeah, what we’re doing now, gentlemen, is we’re going through our budget line item by line item and we’re looking at those encumbrances and we’re looking at the planned expenditures for the rest of the year to just see if there’s going to be any type of carryover at all and, I think, I don’t know John, if it was you or Steve, but you guys know in the first quarter of 2006 we need about a million dollars to get through. We don’t have any carryover in the Police Department to do that, I think our carryover last year was projected at about $6,000, it came in around $80,000, but that was last year in 2005, so we don’t have that for 2006 so we’ll just have to evaluate to where we are, work with Randy and just see what funds are available for that first quarter of 2006.
Gonzalez: We’ll have to just see where we’re at in comparison, percentage wise, I mean it’s going to be quite a shock cause we’re only 5 months into the year but with all the people and the loss of Major Escola it’s very possible you may be able to do some of the those things, Chief.
Neftzer: Yeah, I think so. Any questions?
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Meeks moved and Pizzino seconded a motion
to accept the resignation of Major Timothy Escola, effective May 8, 2005.
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Meeks moved and Pizzino seconded a motion
to accept the resignation of Tawnya Ware effective May 20, 2005.
Clerk’s Office
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Meeks moved and Pizzino seconded a motion
to pay the bills in the amount of $218,505.20.
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Burger moved and Meeks seconded a motion
to approve the minutes of the April 25, 2005 Board of Trustees meeting.
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Pizzino moved and Burger seconded a motion
to approve the financial reports.
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Burger moved and Pizzino seconded a motion
to approve the appropriation transfer request from account code 101.150.5110,
Regular Salaries, to account code 101.150.5114, Temp. Service, in the amount
of $2,097.60.
Routine Business
Announcements
New Business
Meeks moved and Pizzino seconded a motion
to not object to the transfer of the liquor license from Spinder, Inc.
dba Curve to JAB Mayfair LLC dba Mayfair of 4700 Everhard Rd. N.W.
Public Speaks – Open Forum
No one came forward.
Pizzino moved and Meeks seconded a motion to adjourn.
| _____________________________ | _____________________________ |
| William Burger, President | Randy Gonzalez, Clerk |