[Blogger Foreword: The greatest part of the April 5 trustees meeting was the discussion between Grants and Funding Committee chairperson Terrie Nielsen and the trustees about the status of the elevator and bell tower projects. That was lengthy and will be its own post. The topic of this post is shorter, and as I understand it, various things are already floating around about it.
[Here is what happened in the April 5 trustees meeting regarding the clothing giveaway.]
Jason: [This is about] Matt Roosa (MSFD Chief) regardiong the fire recall system. [I am/we are] trying to get everyone on the same page.
He went yesterday and I got a message from him to call. He wanted to meet at the school. There seems to be another reason. I went today with Vic.
We have some serious issues with the clothing giveaway space. For one thing, they are utilizing the east room, and clothes are stacked 4 feet high along the walls. We are not even renting that room to them--they are just using it.
Matt Roosa said that is an extreme fire load for the building. They must abandon that room and we have to notify Nancy Tafel that they have to abandon that room. It is a situation that there is so much stuff in the room that there is only one way to get out and the escape stairs are not built yet.
They are utilizing the two adjoining rooms and then things started to spill out. Carts were put in the hall but that is not acceptable.
Vic: Later today I talked with Matt Roosa about exit lights and smoke detectors. [By the way, if you need smoke detectors, go to the Fire Department.]
Jason: I don't think the two rooms they have now are too overly loaded, but I don't want this to be that they can't use the room. . . .
Vic: The one door was just installed because of the elevator. I will remove that. I would like to use the credit card for stamps and some other supplies. (Betsy Wolfe needs some of these things for working on the zoning.)
John Festa: We don't want to get on the wrong side of the Fire Department.
Vic: He is doing his job.
John Festa: If he had been doing official work, it would have been different.
[Blogger: My understanding of that comment is that if Matt's visit to the school had been an official inspection, we would have a serious issue on our hands. As it is, he was there for something else, saw this problem, and advised us about it.]
The meeting moved on to other things at this point.
About This Blog
The purpose of this blog is to give an accurate account of what is said during Public Comment at Mantua Township Trustees meetings.
Trustees' decisions are in the official minutes, available on request from the Mantua Township Fiscal Officer, Jodi Thompson, at 330-274-8443. The Township charges 10 cents per page. FAX, 330-274-8447. E-mail, fiscalofficer@mantuatownshipohio.gov. The minutes are also posted on the website after they have been approved. That means that there is usually a two-week lag between a given meeting and the minutes being available to read on the website.
Since meetings are the first and third Thursdays of the month, there is a three-week wait during months with five Thursdays.
Other items of interest or the writer's opinions will be included from time to time, clearly identified.
This is not a forum or chat room, but a source of information, so it is closed to outside input.
During the time I have been doing the blog, the posts have expanded to become very detailed accounts of the meetings. Doing that is time consuming, to say the least, and I am going to try to return to the public comment focus, with background and perspective (and the occasional pointed editorial comment). Such additions are usually enclosed in brackets. However, since some extended accounts of the meetings reveal significant things--and character--better than I could by commenting, there will probably still be a fair amount of semi-transcript. (Sigh.)
My thanks to the readers who have found the blog, and to the ones who from time to time tell me that they value it. You have encouraged me when the tedious work of keyboarding has made me wonder why I am doing this. Then you have reminded me, and I am grateful.
Trustees' decisions are in the official minutes, available on request from the Mantua Township Fiscal Officer, Jodi Thompson, at 330-274-8443. The Township charges 10 cents per page. FAX, 330-274-8447. E-mail, fiscalofficer@mantuatownshipohio.gov. The minutes are also posted on the website after they have been approved. That means that there is usually a two-week lag between a given meeting and the minutes being available to read on the website.
Since meetings are the first and third Thursdays of the month, there is a three-week wait during months with five Thursdays.
Other items of interest or the writer's opinions will be included from time to time, clearly identified.
This is not a forum or chat room, but a source of information, so it is closed to outside input.
During the time I have been doing the blog, the posts have expanded to become very detailed accounts of the meetings. Doing that is time consuming, to say the least, and I am going to try to return to the public comment focus, with background and perspective (and the occasional pointed editorial comment). Such additions are usually enclosed in brackets. However, since some extended accounts of the meetings reveal significant things--and character--better than I could by commenting, there will probably still be a fair amount of semi-transcript. (Sigh.)
My thanks to the readers who have found the blog, and to the ones who from time to time tell me that they value it. You have encouraged me when the tedious work of keyboarding has made me wonder why I am doing this. Then you have reminded me, and I am grateful.
Principles
Two ideas guide and support me:
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
______Attributed to Edmund Burke
GOOD PREVAILS.
Those ideas are also the reason I have been doing the blog since late February 2011.
I have discovered that a transcript is almost impossible to do and that verbatim accounts are usually not absolutely necessary. When in doubt, I check against a recording.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
______Attributed to Edmund Burke
GOOD PREVAILS.
Those ideas are also the reason I have been doing the blog since late February 2011.
I have discovered that a transcript is almost impossible to do and that verbatim accounts are usually not absolutely necessary. When in doubt, I check against a recording.
