Genoa Twp. residents reminded to complete planning survey online

By LENNY C. LEPOLA

News Assis­tant Man­ag­ing Editor

Dur­ing last Thurs­day evening’s Genoa Town­ship Board of Trustees meet­ing, the trustees reminded every­one that the Genoa Town­ship Devel­op­ment & Zon­ing Office, as part of a com­pre­hen­sive plan­ning process, is admin­is­ter­ing a com­mu­nity survey.

Town­ship res­i­dents are encour­aged to com­plete the sur­vey online at < genoatwp.com >, or request a print copy of the sur­vey by call­ing the admin­is­tra­tion office at 614–895-1126 ext 0. The sur­vey will be avail­able through April; results will be pub­licly pre­sented as a part of the Com­pre­hen­sive Plan.


Genoa main­te­nance and roads super­vi­sor Bob Math­ews gave trustees an update on the township’s side­walk repair plans.

Math­ews said the town­ship has been bro­ken up into four quad­rants for side­walk inspec­tion pur­poses, with quads one, three and four already inspected.

Fol­low­ing com­ple­tion of the inspec­tions town­ship res­i­dents will have the option of repair­ing side­walks that do not meet code, or allow the town­ship to have the side­walks repaired and the cost added to their tax assess­ment. Because of the larger num­ber of side­walks on the township’s repair list, the cost to indi­vid­ual res­i­dents would be lower than if each res­i­dent were to hire a contractor.

Math­ews said repairs to Zone 1 would be com­pleted in 2014; Zone 2 in 2015; and Zones 3 and 4 in 2016. Math­ews also noted that 178 town­ship inter­sec­tions require ADA side­walk panels.

“It will cost about $80,000 to do Zone 1, and we would pick up the cost of the ADA pan­els,” Math­ews said.

The trustees approved the pur­chase of two new pickup trucks.

“These are on the replace­ment sched­ule, one is 11 years old, one is 12 years old,” Math­ews said. “A 2014 Chevro­let Sil­ver­ado 2500 for Build­ings and Grounds will cost $21,413, and a 2014 Chevro­let Sil­ver­ado for the Main­te­nance Depart­ment is $19,600. Both are state bid items, both are from White-Allen Chevrolet.”

In other busi­ness, the trustees encour­aged fam­i­lies to attend the annual Easter Egg Hunt on March 23 at West­er­ville Cen­tral High School. Over 15,000 candy-filled Easter eggs will be spread on the foot­ball field for chil­dren to col­lect. Activ­i­ties begin at 10 a.m., the egg hunt begins at 11.

The trustees encour­aged town­ship res­i­dents to attend a gar­den­ing clinic at 7 p.m. on Sat­ur­day, March 27, in the Genoa Town­ship Hall. The clinic is offered free of charge by the Delaware County OSU Exten­sion Office.

Trustee Barb Lewis said that the trustees have expressed sup­port of the neigh­bor­hood school alter­na­tives to the West­er­ville City School Dis­trict as they con­sider re-districting their local ele­men­tary schools.

Genoa Town­ship is cur­rently seek­ing vol­un­teer board mem­bers and com­mu­nity ambas­sadors. Res­i­dents inter­ested in serv­ing on an advi­sory board or vol­un­teer­ing for var­i­ous parks programs/projects should con­tact Assis­tant Admin­is­tra­tor Joe Clase at 614–568-2031 or email < jclase@genoatwp.com >

The Genoa Town­ship Com­mu­nity Gar­dens will open April 4 at 5:30 p.m. Whether an avid gar­dener or want­ing to start a new hobby, town­ship res­i­dents can rent a small gar­den plot in the Genoa Town­ship Com­mu­nity Gar­dens for the price of din­ner. The com­mu­nity gar­den joins together inter­ested gar­den­ers where every­one works together to pro­duce many meals of vegetables.

Those inter­ested in rent­ing a plot should con­tact Parks Man­ager Ron Keil at 614–568-2029 or email < rkeil@genoatwp.com >. The gar­dens are funded entirely through dona­tions from gar­den­ers and other spon­sors. Con­tri­bu­tions are welcomed.

State Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Mar­garet Ann Ruhl will hold office hours in the Genoa Town­ship Admin­is­tra­tion Office from 2 to 4 p.m., Mon­day, March 11. Res­i­dents are encour­aged to stop by intro­duce them­selves, get to know their rep­re­sen­ta­tive in the Ohio House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives and dis­cuss any issues that they would like to see sup­ported in the State House.

The Trustees approved a rec­om­men­da­tion from Main­te­nance Direc­tor Bob Math­ews to bid resur­fac­ing of 3.071 miles of road­way resur­fac­ing, includ­ing por­tions of Medal­lion Drive East, Plumb Road, Bunch Flower Court, But­ton Bush Lane, Mist Flower Lane, Wild Pine Court, Peb­ble Beach Place, Vic­to­ria Court, Hon­ors Court and Cali Glen Court. The project’s esti­mated cost is $366,200.

The next reg­u­larly sched­uled meet­ing of the Genoa Town­ship Board of Trustees is 7 p.m., Thurs­day, March 21, in the Genoa Town­ship Hall, 5111 South Old 3C High­way, West­er­ville. An updated list of meet­ings is avail­able on the Township’s web­site at < genoatwp.com >.

The Genoa Town­ship Admin­is­tra­tive Offices, located at the Genoa Town­ship Hall, are reg­u­larly open to the pub­lic Mon­day through Fri­day from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Posted by Gary Henery on Mar 13 2013. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.