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Project funding options presented to Tiro
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TIRO — During the Wednesday evening Tiro Council meeting a representative from Poggemeyer Design Group talked to members about the services they offer and how the business can help the village locate money to fund various projects.
 Dana Collins was on hand to represent the architectural engineering firm out of Bowling Green, who explained their business helps communities by doing grant and loan work free of charge with the expectation of their firm getting the contract to do the projects.
She explained there is an Ohio Public Works grant available with a deadline of early October which would help cover the costs of infrastructure issues in the village as well as road, bridges or sewer projects.
“We do all the grant and loan applications for the village for free with the assumption that we get the work if you receive the funds,” Collins said.
Collins said engineers from Poggemeyer would come down and look at prospective projects and give the village an estimate of the cost and with approval, they would start the application process and look for grants and loans which are best suited to the village.
Mayor Ron Brown and Councilman Richard Shatzer noted there are two bridges in the village that need work and said they would get in touch with Collins to schedule a time for someone to come down and inspect the structures.
“I can also keep a running list of any projects you want to do in the future and let you know what money we can get as opportunities come up,” Collins said.
Moving on to old business, Fiscal Officer Lisa Marcum asked Shatzer if he has talked to anyone about paving some of the side streets in town.
Shatzer noted he left several messages with LLP Paving out of Edison and they have not called back. Shatzer said he would try to get in touch with them again to ensure needed work was finished before the season ends.
Council then discussed the insurance quote that came in last month with Shatzer saying he talked with a representative from the company and told her to make adjustments on the coverage of the old fire building.
“I told her to put it down as a storage building so the bill should have come down,” Shatzer said.
Marcum said she just received the adjusted bill but had not opened it yet to see if the price changed.
Councilman Mike Little noted all the new signs and posts are in and now that the paving on Ohio 39 is complete, they can now start installing the signage around the village. This also includes the new flashing stop signs on Main Street at the intersection near the firehouse.
Marcum then held up a certified letter which was sent to the resident who has repeatedly broken the village ordinance concerning how many dogs a person can have on their property.
The letter contained a notice informing the woman she needed to correct the matter and was going to be fined.
Marcum pointed out the certified letter was refused and asked what were the next steps.
“Have we been seeing them?” asked Village Solicitor John Berger about the dogs. “Has anyone observed them. If we cite her, we have to have some kind of proof.”
“She turned them loose out there last week during church and you could hardly hear anything (in church) ,” Little noted, saying the dogs were barking nearly the whole service.
“We need proof,” Berger said again. “Ask around to the neighbors and ask them to take photos and we’ll go from there.”
Shatzer and Brown then gave a brief update on the ‘Small Towns, Big Futures’ seminar they attended on August 24.
Shatzer said there were a lot of good ideas on how to get funding to improve small communities.
“They guy from Cleveland State College, who was the speaker, said if we get rural communities to do more, that will help the economy more than cities will,” Shatzer said.
Although it’s still summer, council turned their thoughts to winter and a snow plowing contract.
Shatzer said he talked to someone who would like to send in a bid.
Marcum said she would put snow plowing on the agenda for the September meeting.
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