![]() A leadership change is taking place at Perry Township Park.The township is hoping to cover the cost of paving Shepard Road this year by carrying over road funds from 2022, and supplementing that money with 2023 appropriations and a $375,000 OPWC grant, township Trustee Robert Dawson said in a previous News-Herald story. “So we have postponed that project until this year.” “We did put it out for bid, and the bids came in way over the estimated cost of construction,” Sundy said. Sundy said Perry was hoping to resurface it last year, and even received Ohio Public Works Commission funding for the endeavor. The road services many businesses and horticultural nurseries, and connects with some residential roads. The township is planning to pave Shepard Road this year.Other Perry Township highlights that Sundy mentioned in her speech included: “This is going to be a Lake County Township Association event, where we’re going to relay the same message to all the communities, so that it’s not just Perry Township reaching out to electors, it will be Concord Township as well as Painesville Township,” Sundy said. The Lake County Township Association already has been discussing how Perry, Painesville and Concord townships can work cooperatively to inform all voters about those levies. These communities also would require passage of levies to keep their programs in place for the long term. ![]() Painesville and Concord townships have similar contracts with Lake County for additional patrolling by sheriff’s deputies. However, Perry Township isn’t the only eastern Lake County community facing this financial challenge. “If residents want to continue (round-the-clock sheriff’s office patrolling) that they’ve been provided (in part) by the township, they will have to reach into their pockets,” Sundy said. But to keep that same level of protection in place for 2024 and beyond, Perry Township voters would need to approve a police levy to generate the necessary revenue. ![]() That pact, signed in August of 2021, ensured that at least one sheriff’s deputy would continuously patrol Perry Township.Īmerican Rescue Plan Act funds will allow Perry Township to retain the enhanced sheriff’s patrols through the end of 2023. These two sources of funding provided the basis for a contract between the township and Lake County commissioners. Sundy, during her speech, said that Perry Township used the majority of its American Rescue Plan Act money as a local match to a Lake County COPS grant. Perry Township earmarked most of its American Rescue Plan Act funding to help provide the community with additional patrolling from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office.īut when the township’s share of that federal money runs out at the end of 2023, residents will be asked to help foot the bill if they want to keep the enhanced Sheriff’s Office protection in place.īoth of those points were emphasized by Perry Township Administrator Karen Sundy during the Eastern Lake County Chamber of Commerce’s Community Reps Update program. This is one in a series of articles detailing the speeches that were given. EDITOR’S NOTE: The Eastern Lake County Chamber of Commerce on March 16 hosted government officials from its communities to provide details on major projects for 2023 and cite accomplishments from 2022.
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