Machine gun firing complaint brought before Harlem Twp. Trustees

The fol­low­ing report is culled from approved min­utes of the Wednes­day, Novem­ber 21, Harlem Town­ship Board of Trustees meet­ing sub­mit­ted by Harlem Fis­cal Offi­cer Bobby Fracasso.

Mem­bers of the Harlem Town­ship Board of Trustees met in reg­u­lar ses­sion on Wednes­day, Novem­ber 21, at the Harlem Town­ship Hall and Fire­house with trustees Bob Singer and Dave Jack­son present. Trustee Jerry Paul was absent.

Mem­bers of the pub­lic in cham­bers for the ses­sion were Harlem Roads and Main­te­nance Super­vi­sor Bart Walker, Harlem Divi­sion of Fire Chief Dale Fling, Harlem Zon­ing Inspec­tor David Andrian, Vicki Tieche, Vin­cent Fritsch, Ziad Sha­heen, Louise Guen­ther, Marg and Bill Fred­er­ick, Scott Schmidt and Denise Starkey.

Sha­heen, who lives on Harlem Road, was con­cerned about the pos­si­ble fir­ing of machine guns in the area. He said the activ­ity has been going on for the past three weeks, and included the set­ting off of explo­sives. He said that the neigh­bor­hood was like a war zone, and three lit­tle girls had to leave the town­ship because of noise.

Sha­heen said numer­ous calls were made to the Delaware County Sher­iff, and asked the trustees to look into the mat­ter again because he could not use his prop­erty for the last three weekends.

Trustee Singer said he would call the Delaware County Prosecutor’s office to see if a meet­ing could be held pri­vately so both par­ties could be heard with­out a pub­lic meeting.

Sha­heen said he and his neigh­bors under­stood at a pre­vi­ous board meet­ing that it was agreed that John Ciszek could fire sup­pressed weapons any time, but the other weapons for only one and a half hours.

Sha­heen said 15 neigh­bors, and per­haps more, agree that they want to com­mu­ni­cate with Ciszek before legal action will be taken.

Singer said he would wait to hear from the group of con­cerned res­i­dents before he talks with the prosecutor.

Bart Walker reported that 3,000 pounds of crack sealer was used on town­ship roads.

Chief Fling reported Divi­sion of Fire runs to date as of Novem­ber 21: Fire 207, EMS 269, Total 476.

Fling said the recent fire levy passed with a 65 per­cent voter approval; and that he is work­ing on 2013 Fire Depart­ment appro­pri­a­tions. A draft will be sent to the trustees when it is complete.

Fling also said the town­ship health insur­ance provider has indi­cated that there will prob­a­bly be a 10 to 15 per­cent pre­mium increase at renewal.

David Andrian reported that he has had a request from Ron McCarty, who is inter­ested in pur­chas­ing prop­erty from a Mr. White­head, but only if a recy­cling facil­ity can be located on the property.

The trustees advised Andrian that the request is a zon­ing mat­ter and a zon­ing appli­ca­tion has to be made to the zon­ing commission.

Andrian asked the trustees to pur­chase a server for the Fis­cal Offi­cers com­puter at a cost between $500 and $600. After some dis­cus­sion Jack­son made a motion to approve the pur­chase of a server, not to exceed $600. Motion passed.

The instal­la­tion of sid­ing has been started on the town­ship owned Grange Hall.

Trustees asked Scott Schmidt if was inter­ested in being Ceme­tery Sex­ton for 2013. The trustees are sat­is­fied with Schmidt’s work but wanted to know if he could do the work in a timely man­ner. His answer was yes.

Schmidt was sworn in as Harlem Town­ship Ceme­tery Sex­ton and his bond was signed.

A pro­posal was pre­sented to the trustees for radios for the main­te­nance depart­ment. There was some dis­cus­sion about the radios, but no deci­sion was made.

A deci­sion was made for the trustees to pay Sher­rie Steele for a meet­ing for extra work done for the zon­ing amendment.

Harlem Town­ship Trustees meet in reg­u­lar ses­sion on the third Wednes­day of every month at Harlem Town­ship Hall, 3883 Ohio 605, imme­di­ately south of Cen­ter Vil­lage Road. All Harlem Town­ship trustee, zon­ing, and board of zon­ing appeals ses­sions com­ply with the man­dates of Ohio’s Sun­shine Laws and are open to the public.

Harlem Town­ship can be found on the World Wide Web at < harlemtwp.com >.

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