Galena recognizes Eagle Scout; hires Cherubini for Maintenance

At the Vil­lage of Galena’s Mon­day, Novem­ber 26, Coun­cil meet­ing, Mayor Thomas Hop­per rec­og­nized Nicholas Rease for achiev­ing Eagle Scout sta­tus. Rease gath­ered mate­ri­als donated by local busi­nesses and, with help from Boy Scout Troop 387 scouts, lead­ers and vol­un­teers, built six dog houses and two cat con­dos for the Humane Soci­ety of Delaware County.

Coun­cil voted to hire Joshua Cheru­bini as its new main­te­nance employee to replace Jeff Stokes who recently retired. Cheru­bini has a Bach­e­lor of Sci­ence degree in envi­ron­ment and nat­ural resources from Ohio State Uni­ver­sity. He has heat­ing, ven­ti­la­tion, air con­di­tion­ing and refrig­er­a­tion cer­ti­fi­ca­tion from the United States Air Force. He has worked as a lead main­te­nance tech­ni­cian for Duke Realty; a wildlife tech­ni­cian for the U.S. Depart­ment of Agri­cul­ture For­est Ser­vice; a forester for the Ohio Depart­ment of Nat­ural Resources; and, a facil­i­ties oper­a­tion man­ager for the Grange Insur­ance Audubon Cen­ter. Cheru­bini, his wife, and baby live in Galena’s Wal­nut Creek sub­di­vi­sion. He will start work Decem­ber 10.

Coun­cil passed a res­o­lu­tion autho­riz­ing the repair and main­te­nance of street lights on the new Sun­bury Road Bridge. The Delaware County Engi­neer will begin replace­ment of the bridge in April 2013 and expects the project to be com­plete in Novem­ber. One lane of west­bound traf­fic will be main­tained dur­ing con­struc­tion. The bridge will be widened and will include a sep­a­rate bike lane.

In her report to Coun­cil, Interim Vil­lage Admin­is­tra­tor Jeanna Bur­rell noted the Vil­lage moved its offices to 109 Har­ri­son Street on Novem­ber 16. There is a lot of unbox­ing and orga­niz­ing still to do but the offices are up and running.

Open houses are being held each Sat­ur­day, from 1 to 2 p.m., to show the Vil­lage Munic­i­pal Build­ing at 9 West Colum­bus Street. Infor­ma­tion is avail­able on the Village’s web site and at < www.9WestColumbusSt.com >. Sealed bids will be opened on Decem­ber 3.

Bur­rell said that the vil­lage truck is ready for win­ter with the snow plow and salt spreader installed. Del-Co Water and Colum­bia Gas have fin­ished most of their line relo­ca­tion work in prepa­ra­tion for the Wal­nut Street Phase 3 recon­struc­tion. A new grant-funded pump house was com­pleted to store the equip­ment for the Ruffner Park ball field irri­ga­tion system.

Fis­cal Offi­cer Marty Mazzie dis­cussed a poten­tial of $20,000 in fund­ing reduc­tions for 2013 from the income tax loss of school admin­is­tra­tors mov­ing their offices out of the Vil­lage; reduc­tions in local gov­ern­ment funds, and decreases in auto­mo­bile license taxes. She also reported that the Regional Income Tax Agency will meet sub­poe­naed res­i­dents to dis­cuss income tax delin­quen­cies from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Feb­ru­ary 11 at the Vil­lage Hall.

Coun­cil passed a res­o­lu­tion exer­cis­ing a fifth year option with Big-O Refuse for exclu­sive munic­i­pal res­i­den­tial waste and curb­side recy­cling pickup. Prices would increase to $54.30/quarter for house­holds or $51.30/quarter for senior citizens.

Coun­cil opted not to adopt a res­o­lu­tion estab­lish­ing a tobacco-free parks and recre­ation policy.

Coun­cil held first read­ings on per­son­nel res­o­lu­tions for 2013. They include hir­ing Bur­rell as the Vil­lage Admin­is­tra­tor; Sally Hop­per as Zon­ing and Plan­ning Clerk; Marty Mazzie as Fis­cal Offi­cer; Michelle Dearth as Assis­tant Fis­cal Offi­cer; Dave LaValle as Zon­ing Inspec­tor, Flood Plain Admin­is­tra­tor and Prop­erty Main­te­nance Offi­cial; and, Ken Mol­nar as Vil­lage Solic­i­tor. Coun­cil passed a res­o­lu­tion to con­tract with the Delaware City Pros­e­cu­tor for pros­e­cu­to­r­ial ser­vices dur­ing 2013.

The Vil­lage plans to renew a con­tract with Pack­age Plant Pro­fes­sion­als to run its waste­water sys­tem. Coun­cil also held a first read­ing on an annual 3 per­cent sewer fee increase.

A first read­ing was held on an admin­is­tra­tive three-year exten­sion of the Miller Farm devel­op­ment plan.

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