Curbside recycling to start Nov. 13 in Montville
Peace Works gets five-year lease to run coffee chop at Austin Badger Park
Montville Township Trustees (from left) Jeff Brandon, Sally Albrecht and Ron Bischof discuss a contract that will provide curbside recycling to all township residents. Photo by GLENN WOJCIAK
MONTVILLE – A new curbside recycling program for township residents will launch Nov. 13 according to a contract township trustees have signed with Kimble Recycling and Disposal.
Trustees selected Kimble from among four bidders on a new contract to provide exclusive rights for trash disposal services and a curbside recycling program for all residents of Montville Township.
Details of the contract, including the Nov. 13 start date, were approved by trustees at their Aug. 8 meeting.
The contract allows residents to select one of three levels of service. All levels include receipt of a 64-gallon cart purchased by the township in which to place paper, plastic, metal and glass for recycling. Kimble will empty the recycling carts each week along with another cart or plastic bags supplied by Kimble for other household trash.
Cost of the monthly service will range from about $15 to $17 per month depending on the level of service selected by the property owner.
Beth Biggins-Ramer, the solid waste coordinator for Medina County, helped township trustees receive a $250,000 grant from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency to launch the curbside recycling program and prepare bid specifications for the contract won by Kimble. She now says she will help organize a public relations campaign to inform township residents of the new contract and the options they have for service levels.
A significant part of that campaign will be literature prepared by Kimble to inform residents of their options under the new trash disposal service and the type of material which should be placed in the recycling carts.
Park concession
Montville trustees also signed a five-year lease agreement with Peace Works to operate a coffee shop and rent sports equipment at Austin Badger Park.
Peace Works is an affiliate of Intervention for Peace which operates Spokes Café in Medina. The business is located at the head of the Champion Creek trail just south of the Medina Library. It is operated by people with developmental disabilities.
David Clardy, head of the nonprofit Intervention for Peace, said he hopes to operate a similar facility at Montville’s Austin Badger Park. It will be located near a mountain biking trail in the park and the parking lot on River Styx Road.
Clardy originally proposed opening the coffee shop in an existing garage on the site, but township officials said the building was prone to flood damage and decided to replace it with a pole building on an elevated foundation. Township trustees donated $37,000 for the building materials and labor needed to assemble the building shell.
Clardy told township trustees his organization would use donations and volunteer labor to convert the building into a business that sold coffee and snacks and also rented bicycles and other sports gear.
“This is a neat project,” Township Trustee Sally Albrecht said when Clardy described his proposal earlier this year. “It’s a great example of collaboration between different organizations to produce a valuable asset for the community.”
Police cameras
Township trustees authorized police chief Terry Grice to purchase body-worn cameras for the nine patrolmen who serve on his 15-member police force. Most of the $8,200 cost of the cameras will be paid for with a $7,400 grant from the State of Ohio.
Trustees selected Kimble from among four bidders on a new contract to provide exclusive rights for trash disposal services and a curbside recycling program for all residents of Montville Township.
Details of the contract, including the Nov. 13 start date, were approved by trustees at their Aug. 8 meeting.
The contract allows residents to select one of three levels of service. All levels include receipt of a 64-gallon cart purchased by the township in which to place paper, plastic, metal and glass for recycling. Kimble will empty the recycling carts each week along with another cart or plastic bags supplied by Kimble for other household trash.
Cost of the monthly service will range from about $15 to $17 per month depending on the level of service selected by the property owner.
Beth Biggins-Ramer, the solid waste coordinator for Medina County, helped township trustees receive a $250,000 grant from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency to launch the curbside recycling program and prepare bid specifications for the contract won by Kimble. She now says she will help organize a public relations campaign to inform township residents of the new contract and the options they have for service levels.
A significant part of that campaign will be literature prepared by Kimble to inform residents of their options under the new trash disposal service and the type of material which should be placed in the recycling carts.
Park concession
Montville trustees also signed a five-year lease agreement with Peace Works to operate a coffee shop and rent sports equipment at Austin Badger Park.
Peace Works is an affiliate of Intervention for Peace which operates Spokes Café in Medina. The business is located at the head of the Champion Creek trail just south of the Medina Library. It is operated by people with developmental disabilities.
David Clardy, head of the nonprofit Intervention for Peace, said he hopes to operate a similar facility at Montville’s Austin Badger Park. It will be located near a mountain biking trail in the park and the parking lot on River Styx Road.
Clardy originally proposed opening the coffee shop in an existing garage on the site, but township officials said the building was prone to flood damage and decided to replace it with a pole building on an elevated foundation. Township trustees donated $37,000 for the building materials and labor needed to assemble the building shell.
Clardy told township trustees his organization would use donations and volunteer labor to convert the building into a business that sold coffee and snacks and also rented bicycles and other sports gear.
“This is a neat project,” Township Trustee Sally Albrecht said when Clardy described his proposal earlier this year. “It’s a great example of collaboration between different organizations to produce a valuable asset for the community.”
Police cameras
Township trustees authorized police chief Terry Grice to purchase body-worn cameras for the nine patrolmen who serve on his 15-member police force. Most of the $8,200 cost of the cameras will be paid for with a $7,400 grant from the State of Ohio.