BST&G Open House slated for October 7

By LENNY C. LEPOLA

News Assis­tant Man­ag­ing Editor

Dur­ing last Wednesday’s Sun­bury Vil­lage Coun­cil meet­ing, coun­cil mem­ber Tom Zalewski, who serves as the vil­lage rep­re­sen­ta­tive on the BST&G Fire Dis­trict Fire Board, said BST&G would hold a Com­mu­nity Open House at the fire sta­tion from 4 to 7 p.m. on Sun­day, Octo­ber 7, to kick off National Fire Pre­ven­tion Week.

Zalewski said this year’s National Fire Pre­ven­tion Week theme is Have Two Ways Out.

The BST&G Open House will high­light the Have Two Ways Out theme with demon­stra­tions about the need to know how to get out of a build­ing in case of a fire, and why it is impor­tant to know two ways out, in addi­tion to other edu­ca­tional topics.

Zalewski also said area res­i­dents inter­ested in tak­ing a CPR class will be able to sign up at the open house, and CPR class infor­ma­tion will also be posted on the fire district’s web­site at < bstgfiredistrict.org >.

Dur­ing the open house fire dis­trict crews will present their own ver­sions of Fire­house Chili that will be judged by res­i­dents attend­ing the event.

Dur­ing his report to coun­cil, vil­lage admin­is­tra­tor Dave Mar­tin said sub­sur­face water leaks on South Ver­non Street turned out to be more severe than orig­i­nally thought.

“Vil­lage main­te­nance super­vi­sor Rob Gor­ley and his street crew dug down and found an 8-inch pipe lead­ing to a 12-inch pipe lead­ing to a 16-inch pipe tying into a 24-inch pipe that were all old brit­tle clay pipe, and all dam­aged,” Mar­tin said. “They were able to install a con­nec­tor on the bro­ken piece of tile and replace other dam­aged pieces to get storm water flow­ing through the pipe.”

Mar­tin said the hole has been back­filled and will be allowed to set­tle before replac­ing the five sec­tions of side­walk removed to make the repair.

“It was quite a mess,” Mar­tin said. “But it’s all taken care of.”

In other busi­ness, coun­cil mem­bers approved Res­o­lu­tion 2012-12, allow­ing Mar­tin to pro­ceed with Ohio Pub­lic Works Com­mis­sion grant appli­ca­tion paper­work for 2013 street improvements.

Coun­cil mem­bers also approved Res­o­lu­tion 2012–13, trans­fer­ring money from the Ceme­tery Bequest Fund to the Gen­eral Fund.

Vil­lage Fis­cal Offi­cer Kathy Belcher noted that the Ceme­tery Bequest Fund has been on the vil­lage books for decades, but its ori­gin and pur­pose is unknown.

“If any­one knows any­thing about this fund, please con­tact the vil­lage admin­is­tra­tion office,” Belcher said.

Coun­cil mem­bers also approved a $5,983 pur­chase order for road salt from Delaware County.

It was noted that Domin­ion Homes has started Sun­bury Mead­ows Sec­tion 3B that will cre­ate 30 new res­i­den­tial build­ing lots in the subdivision.

Dur­ing the Sep­tem­ber Finance Com­mit­tee meet­ing held imme­di­ately pre­ced­ing the coun­cil meet­ing, Sun­bury Mayor Tommy Hat­field said coun­cil mem­bers needed to gen­er­ate momen­tum on the Town hall roof repair project.

“We need to have the engi­neer look at it and assess it, and get some num­bers,” Hat­field said. “That’s some­thing I’d like to get done out of the lot­tery fund; and I’d like to get some­thing going quickly. We have some pretty sub­stan­tial leaks.”

Asked if Sun­bury Town Hall could be roofed before win­ter, Hat­field said he wasn’t cer­tain if that was a real­is­tic expectation.

“As expen­sive as it’s going to be,” he said, “we want to get some­body in the attic to get an under­stand­ing of the structure.”

Hat­field also said he would like to get the old vil­lage water plant on Sedg­wick Avenue demol­ished and that area cleaned up.

The next Sun­bury Vil­lage Coun­cil meet­ing will be held on Wednes­day, Octo­ber 3.

Sunbury’s web­site is located at < sunburyvillage.com >.

Sun­bury Vil­lage Coun­cil meets the first and third Wednes­day of every month at 7:30 p.m., third floor coun­cil cham­bers, Sun­bury Town Hall. Coun­cil com­mit­tees meet one hour before reg­u­larly sched­uled coun­cil ses­sions. All vil­lage coun­cil and coun­cil com­mit­tee meet­ings are open to the public.

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