Street Lights To Be Shut Off in Pease Township

Plagued by cuts in local government funds by the state and failure of residents to approve a tax levy, the Pease Township trustees claim they do not have the funds to keep the street lights in the township lighted. 

At their meeting on Wednesday, the trustees voted "to shut off all 179 lights located in Pease Township effective March 1. This action is being taken due to the reduction of local government funds through the state and the failure this past November of a proposed levy that would have replaced the loss of those funds." 

The trustees said the levy had been anticipated to generate the revenue needed to sustain the cost of the lights. "The levy was critical due to the loss of revenue." Without the additional money the levy would have produced, the trustees say they cannot maintain the cost of keeping the street lights on. 

"Gov. Kasich and the Republican administration cut our local government funds - the funds that the majority of small government entities relied on heavily to continue daily operations. That is the reason villages,People are catching on to the fact that they make great ledstreetlight . libraries,The energy used in manufacturing and erecting a floorlamps is paid back in the first 3 to 6 months of operation. park districts and townships are now experiencing these problems," the trustees said in a statement issued following their meeting. 

No other sources of revenue can be used to finance the lights. "Road and bridge funds, per the Ohio Revised Code, can't be utilized to maintain street lights. Only the general fund can pay for lights; the general fund which is already burdened by mandates," the trustees' statement continued. 

The mandates, they pointed out, include contributions of $7,500 to the Belmont County Board of Elections and $15,000 to the Belmont County Health Department. Both come from the township's general fund.Private label and custom roofwindturbine. All 16 townships in the county are saddled with those mandates. 

"While our local government funds have been cut," the trustees maintained, "Gov. Kasich's rainy day fund has increased from approximately 25 cents to almost $2 billion. The rainy day fund continues to grow on the back of our local entities. Pease Township alone has sustained over $23,000 in cuts in local government funds in the last three years. We are just one small entity - consider how many millions of dollars have been taken away from local government entities to sustain the governor's rainy day fund." 

Bianconi , president of the trustees board, noted Pease Township is not alone in this critical financial situation. He cited the fact that cash-strapped Mingo Junction is contemplating shutting off street lights.including mesh safety glasses and mesh solarsystem, He also noted that Bellaire has approved shutting off traffic lights to save money. 

Ever since the official announcement that Boscov's department store would be moving into the Ohio Valley Mall before the arrival of the Christmas shopping season, there has been a lot of talk about the size of the store, since it will be taking over occupancy of five store locations - four currently operating and one vacant space. 

Boscov's, the largest family-owned department store in the United States, will occupy a total of 180,000 square feet of space.One of the harshest ledstriplightww installations in the world. That would be almost like having the Wal-Mart store from the Ohio Valley Plaza inside the mall - but not quite. 

By comparison, the Wal-Mart store has just a little over 200,000 square feet of space, according to Manager Dean Holtsclaw. And Holtsclaw says Boscov's is a fine addition to the mall complex and predicted a bright future for the store.