Tornado delays meeting
Brookville Star
2019-06-12
CLAY TOWNSHIP - The Memorial Day tornado played a role in delaying the June 3 Clay Township Trustees meeting.
At the scheduled 5 p.m. start time for the meeting Dave Vore was the only trustee in attendance. Trustee President Steve Woolf was delayed by a traffic accident (in which no one was hurt).
Trustee Vice President Jeff Requarth, also the Director of Support Personnel for the Brookville Schools, was simply too busy to notice the time and showed up late with apologies.
“I’m juggling about 40 contractors,” he explained at one point.
Later in the meeting, Requarth thanked the township street department for loaning the school barricades to keep traffic away from the school.
“Brookville didn’t have enough.”
Randy Robinson, representing the street department in Chris Maleski’s absence, asked when they could have the barricades back, saying the township didn’t need them but “I don’t want to lose them.”
The two agreed on terms of their use.
While damage in the township was not as severe as in the rest of the area, Woolf said the EF-0 tornado in Phillipsburg knocked down several tombstones and tees in the Luther Cemetery in Phillipsburg and took out about 500 trees being grown by Brown's Nursery.
Trustee Vore said the township police and the road department “worked excellently” with other departments and said he was thankful the trustees had worked with Brookville and Clayton a few years ago to locate warning sirens where the coverage would be the greatest.
“Some people have said the sirens were their first warning,” said Vore. “I believe the sirens and the apps are the reason we didn’t have fatalities.”
The trustees agreed to the hiring of Seth Paul as a part-time police officer, the promoting of Steve Hodge and Cody Whitmore to full-time police officers, and the promotion of Haywood McDaniel to operations sergeant. They also promoted Ben Markham from part-time officer to full-time as well as performing the duties of zoning officer.
The township will also upgrade three computers at a cost of $3,155. The next regular meeting of the trustees will be at 5 p.m. on June 17 at the township building, 8207 Arlington Road.
At the scheduled 5 p.m. start time for the meeting Dave Vore was the only trustee in attendance. Trustee President Steve Woolf was delayed by a traffic accident (in which no one was hurt).
Trustee Vice President Jeff Requarth, also the Director of Support Personnel for the Brookville Schools, was simply too busy to notice the time and showed up late with apologies.
“I’m juggling about 40 contractors,” he explained at one point.
Later in the meeting, Requarth thanked the township street department for loaning the school barricades to keep traffic away from the school.
“Brookville didn’t have enough.”
Randy Robinson, representing the street department in Chris Maleski’s absence, asked when they could have the barricades back, saying the township didn’t need them but “I don’t want to lose them.”
The two agreed on terms of their use.
While damage in the township was not as severe as in the rest of the area, Woolf said the EF-0 tornado in Phillipsburg knocked down several tombstones and tees in the Luther Cemetery in Phillipsburg and took out about 500 trees being grown by Brown's Nursery.
Trustee Vore said the township police and the road department “worked excellently” with other departments and said he was thankful the trustees had worked with Brookville and Clayton a few years ago to locate warning sirens where the coverage would be the greatest.
“Some people have said the sirens were their first warning,” said Vore. “I believe the sirens and the apps are the reason we didn’t have fatalities.”
The trustees agreed to the hiring of Seth Paul as a part-time police officer, the promoting of Steve Hodge and Cody Whitmore to full-time police officers, and the promotion of Haywood McDaniel to operations sergeant. They also promoted Ben Markham from part-time officer to full-time as well as performing the duties of zoning officer.
The township will also upgrade three computers at a cost of $3,155. The next regular meeting of the trustees will be at 5 p.m. on June 17 at the township building, 8207 Arlington Road.