POLAND — Residents have been given the OK to set off consumer-grade fireworks in the village just in time for the summer months — but with a few caveats.

In a unanimous vote this week, council voted to waive the normally required three readings of an ordinance and declared an emergency. Council then approved a motion addressing the provisions of amended substitute House Bill 172. The bill, without any amendments, turns over any existing fireworks regulations in municipalities, but it gives municipalities the right to opt out of the bill or retain the regulations and prohibitions.

The village opted to allow fireworks but within a certain frame on each authorized day, which means no earlier than noon and no later than 12:30 a.m. on New Year’s Day, and no earlier than noon and no later than midnight on the other days — which include New Year’s Eve, Cinco de Mayo, Juneteenth, Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends and July 3, 4, 5 as well as the three-day weekends before and after July 4. Fireworks also would be permitted on private property for the Chinese New Year and Diwali.

In other business, council:

• Swore in Annie Reese as a full-time patrol officer for the village. Reese will be serving as the school resource officer at the K-6 school building;

• Approved the purchases of a hot asphalt roller from Nationwide Industrial not to exceed $570; the repair of two police radios from B&C Communications not to exceed $1,398; a catch basin from East Jordan Ironworks not to exceed $735; a catch basin from Masonry Materials Plus not to exceed $762 and a contract with Tailored IT Solutions for the management of the forest board website not to exceed $3,745.

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