Genoa Twp. children encouraged to pick up free Child IDs

By LENNY C. LEPOLA

News Assis­tant Man­ag­ing Editor

Dur­ing their Thurs­day, Feb­ru­ary 7, reg­u­lar meet­ing, mem­bers of the Genoa Town­ship Board of Trustees approved that Child IDs would be offered to town­ship res­i­dents free-of-charge from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on the sec­ond Wednes­day of each month in the Genoa Town­ship Admin­is­tra­tion Office. IDs are issued to chil­dren of all ages by the Genoa Town­ship Police Department.

Dur­ing that same ses­sion the trustees approved a renewal of a con­tract with Delaware Soil & Water Con­ser­va­tion Dis­trict (DSWCD).

Milt Link, a Delaware Soil & Water Con­ser­va­tion Dis­trict Drainage Main­te­nance Coor­di­na­tor and Urban Resource Con­ser­va­tion­ist, pre­sented the trustees with an overview of Delaware Soil & Water ser­vices pro­vided to Genoa Town­ship res­i­dents, includ­ing surface-water drainage assis­tance, hold­ing con­ser­va­tion ease­ments, edu­ca­tion about suc­cess­ful preser­va­tion tech­niques and envi­ron­men­tal monitoring.

The trustees voted to renew the annual ser­vice agree­ment, and encour­aged res­i­dents to con­tact Link at 740–368-1921 to engage Delaware Soil & Water services.

Genoa Town­ship Main­te­nance Direc­tor Bob Math­ews rec­om­mended an amend­ment to the Genoa Town­ship Side­walk Con­struc­tion, Repair and Main­te­nance Policy.

Side­walks in the town­ship with a gap, crack, or other devi­a­tion of three-quarters of an inch or more are in vio­la­tion of the side­walk pol­icy. The trustees agreed to remove the reg­u­la­tion of dri­ve­way aprons and increase the time allowed for prop­erty own­ers to make corrections.

The town­ship will be offer­ing edu­ca­tion on the pol­icy in this year and expects to begin enforce­ment in 2014.

A full copy of the Side­walk Pol­icy is avail­able by con­tact­ing Bob Math­ews at 614–568-2080 or by email at < bmathews@genoatwp.com >.

The trustees approved a con­tract with the Ohio Depart­ment of Nat­ural Resources to accept a $25,223 Nature­Works Grant toward the con­struc­tion cost of a pub­lic restroom in Free­man Road Park.

Town­ship res­i­dents are encour­aged to attend the Genoa Town­ship Parks Advi­sory Board Open House at 7 p.m. on Wednes­day, March 13, in Genoa Town­ship Hall to offer input on the design of the facility.

The restroom will be con­structed by Genoa Town­ship main­te­nance per­son­nel later this year.

Every­one from novice gar­den­ers to avid and expe­ri­enced green thumbs are invited to sign up for plots in the Genoa Town­ship Com­mu­nity Gar­dens. Those inter­ested in rent­ing a plot are encour­aged to con­tact Parks Man­ager Ron Keil at 614–568-2029 or < rkeil@genoatwp.com >.

The Genoa Town­ship Com­mu­nity Gar­dens are funded entirely through dona­tions from gar­den­ers and other spon­sors. Con­tri­bu­tions are always welcome.

Genoa res­i­dents are also encour­aged to attend a gar­den­ing clinic at 7 p.m. on Sat­ur­day, March 20, in the Genoa Town­ship Hall. The clinic is offered free of charge by the Delaware County OSU Exten­sion Office.

The next reg­u­larly sched­uled meet­ing of the Genoa Town­ship Board of Trustees is at 7 p.m. tonight (Thurs­day, Feb­ru­ary 21) at the Genoa Town­ship Hall, 5111 South Old 3C High­way, Westerville.

Posted by Gary Henery on Feb 20 2013. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.