Rock carpet set for outside Fort hall

FORT RECOVERY — Areas outside the village hall are going to get rocked.

Village council members approved a $1,000 quote Monday from RT Rock Carpet to cover the sidewalk and wheelchair ramp at village hall with rock carpet.

Representatives from the Bluffton business, Randy Masterson and Ryan Tobe, provided council members with samples of rock carpet, which is a combination of crushed river rock mined in the United States and held together with an epoxy polymer that hardens to create a porous, nonslip surface. The carpet is installed over concrete and comes in 26 different colors. It costs about $8 a square foot, is salt and chemical resistant and comes with a 10 year warranty.

Village officials plan to pick a color this week.

Also Monday, village administrator Randy Diller reported that construction of a Cingular Wireless cell phone tower north of the village is moving forward.

The tower is planned to be built on the property of Jim Rammel, located at 367 Ashcraft Road.

Another tower is slated to be constructed by Nextel on the south side of the village on property owned by Dan Timmerman, 1020 Sharpsburg Road.

In other business, Diller reported that the final phase of the Gwendolyn Street improveContinued from page 1

ment project, which will reconstruct streets, curbs and sidewalks, is set to start the week of July 11.

According to project specifications, construction must be completed by the end of September.

Also Monday, council members:

•Heard Fort Recovery Police Chief Maggie Hartings report that during the next six weeks police department personnel will be borrowing three different portable breathalyzer machines from two area police departments and a company that sells the machines.

Hartings said that she is considering purchasing a machine for her department. The three borrowed machines range in prices from $130 to $600 each.

•Approved transfers from the income tax fund to cemetery operating fund, $5,000; parks and recreation fund, $25,000; Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services fund, $361.95; Hickory Circle loan, $5,500; sewer revenue fund, $25,000; pool fund, $10,000; and industrial park debt fund, $3,500.

•Approved transfers of $99.87 to the cemetery operating fund from the general fund and $4,500 to the water bond retirement fund from the water revenue fund.

•Set their next meeting for Monday, July 18, at 7:30 p.m. (Ohio time). The Monday, July 4 meeting was canceled due to the holiday.[[In-content Ad]]