Buckeye Water District held two Special Board of Trustees
meetings this week. The first meeting
was held at the Administration Offices Tuesday to pass a resolution certifying
that the district will be in compliance with minority business participation stipulations
required by the Ohio Public Works Commission.
The district is in the process of applying for an OPWC grant to extend
water service along Duke Road in the Calcutta area. If awarded the grant will be part of the
funding to extend that water service to a mobile home park and to any other
customers along that St. Clair Township road.
Water district officials stated that the affirmative plan action is
always part of any project they undertake.
The special meeting was called to correct an unintended omission in the
original application to OPWC.
The second Special BOTs meeting was held Friday morning in
the Conference Room at the Water Treatment Plant. The purpose of the meeting was the on-going
litigation with the City of East Liverpool and went into a 53 minute Executive
Session. The on-going litigation
pertains to the amount to be paid to East Liverpool to satisfy the court
ordered settlement in the breach-of-contract lawsuit. The money was awarded as a result of the
Courts finding Buckeye Water District in the wrong terminating the purchase of
water from East Liverpool. The Court
finding has stood up under several appeals.
The water district has agreed to pay the settlement but the lawyers for
that City keep asking for larger amounts in the name of interest they allege
was earned on the amount of the original award.
At this morning’s meeting a motion was passed by the Board
to proceed and add the $1.5 million being loaned to the district by the
Columbiana County Commissioners. The Commissioners offered the loan to help
settle the lawsuit. District Legal
Advisor Fred Emmerling explained the motion is authorizing the District to sign
any legal documents necessary to use the County’s money in the settlement. The total settlement being offered to the
City of East Liverpool is $5.935 million.
Emmerling remarked a motion has been filed in CC Common Pleas Court
asking that the settlement be enforced by the Court. A hearing has been scheduled for Monday, December
10 to take the latest motion into consideration.
ole nib
9 comments:
I went to Guilford Lake over the weekend. Buckeye water has expanded out Rt. 172 well past the county jai complex. I'm tired of paying for them.
What are you talking about?
nib
What I am talking about is that they are charging Wellsville residents exhorbitant rates to pay for their vast expansion. There are miles and miles of Buckeye lines serving less new customers than what are in the 'ville water system. Take for example,the lines going to the career center. Maybe 100 customers from West Point to the Lisbon village limits. Big price tag, paid for by us.
BWD customers have not seen a rate increase for some time. Maybe you should take a look at their schedule of loan payments.
nib
What do loan payments have to do with the water users paying for their expansion? Because we pay for the loan in essence.
Might want to check your facts before barking about this. The 172 project is an expansion from Salem water plant, not a BWD project.
ooooohhhhhhh...
nib
I was under the assumption that the light green/ dark green fire hidrants viewed by the sheltered workshop were the BWD colors. That still doesn't change the fact that they got too big for their britches and charge ridiculous rates.
bwd has not increased rates in years and has installed a number of new lines. people need to get their facts straight before opening their keyboards *mouths*
Post a Comment