WELLSVILLE – With a lack of quorum, village council Tuesday only discussed agenda items without taking any action on them.

Due to a lack of quorum with three out of the six council members absent, council members who were present were unable to vote or take action on any agenda items.

Present were Mayor Bob Boley, Fiscal Officer Hoi Wah Yu, and council members Cindy Mick, Aaron Smith and Mike Lombardozzi. Absent were President Keith Thorn and council members Alana Amato and Karen Dash.

Agenda items that required a vote or action will be done at the next regular council meeting scheduled for April 7 , including the approval of minutes from the March 3 regular council meeting and March 10 special council meeting, approval to pay bills, and voting for three pieces of legislation. The two pieces of legislation which were placed on second reading at the March 3 meeting remain on second reading and the third piece of legislation which was to be introduced at the Tuesday meeting remained undiscussed.

Since residents and department heads were present at the meeting, council members had an informal discussion, which allowed department heads to report on what was going on in their departments and members of the public to engage in discussion with council.

Police Lt. Marsha Eisenhart said the officers were doing pretty good, both at the department and those with the Columbiana County Drug Task Force (DTF), with two recent drug busts in the village.

Boley asked if she was looking into another part-time officer for the department since the one they had recently resigned. Eisenhart said they could and they were actually looking at putting some on auxiliary so they could ride in the cruisers with officers.

Fire Chief Barry Podwel noted he mentioned the fire dispatch being switched to the county 911 system at the last meeting and he is still in favor of that, and while he knew how the mayor would answer that he feels there still needs to be something done.

He noted the phone situation is not optimal and the fire department had no phone for four days, which they found out was due to the backup system not being plugged in. He also said they had to call county to let them know phone lines were down and if they were already being dispatched through county they wouldn’t have to worry about that problem.

Lombardozzi asked Podwel what would happen if he called 911 right then and Powel responded the call would go to 911 then be transferred to the fire department and then 911 would leave the call.

Lombardozzi noted that it doesn’t alleviate the problem of a fire fighter not being able to leave the desk to respond.

Podwel also said the phone system at the department has no ability to record emergency calls or caller ID.

Lombardozzi expressed concern over the system lacking recording abilities and caller ID and said that needed to be addressed.

Wah said that Thorn had asked her to check into the possibility of gas of oil leases on the Wellsville Reservoir and was told that as long as no structures were built that would impede the area, there shouldn’t be an issue. Yu and Village Solicitor Chris Weeda are going to look more into that possibility.

Boley said there are two light poles down in the village and another that could fall, so he contacted Protech who gave him an estimate of $8,000 to replace all three poles.

There was discussion about the collapsed building at 447-449 Main St., and Weeda said he was in the process drafting something for that.

There was also discussion on the VFW Hall, which Boley said is owned by the state, and he is trying to contact someone from the VFW at the state level to see what they are going to do with the building.

Wellsville Village Council meets the first and third Tuesday of each month at 6 p.m. in council chambers at Wellsville Village Hall, 1200 Main St. The next regular meeting is scheduled for April 7.

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