CANFIELD — City Council on Wednesday contracted with MS Consultants Inc. for $38,984 for services related to the 2023 road resurfacing program. The ordinance was questioned by one city resident.

“What is MS Consultants doing under this agreement?” resident Frank Micchia asked.

Police Chief and acting City Manager Chuck Colucci replied that the scope of services includes design and bidding, construction administration and inspections.

“We don’t have anyone in house that can do that,” Colucci said.

This year’s paving program includes Millbrook, Greenmont and Sleepy Hollow, he said. Depending on the cost, alternates include the Fair Park and Greasel Park driveway and parking areas.

A second agreement was approved for MS Consultants Inc. to handle engineering services for a storm sewer project this year, for up to $15,000. MS would provide design drawings and specifications for stormsewer improvements between Moreland and Bradford drives and along South Briarcliff and Cardinal drives.

The project would upsize roughly 440 linear feet of storm sewer to 24-inch pipes.

Micchia asked if consideration was given toward increased flow downstream. Colucci said it was taken into consideration, and that the city may need to secure property for a retention pond.

On a different matter, council unanimously approved paying $600 to have Tim Foor, a gravestone restoration specialist, conduct a gravestone restoration class in Canfield to train people on how to properly clean old gravestones.

Foor will be in the county May 20 and 21 and will clean some headstones in one of Canfield’s cemetery to demonstrate the process.

In other business:

l Council approved the declaration of a 2011 Ford F-350 pickup truck and a 2018 Quality trailer as surplus. Colucci said the truck and trailer are no longer needed. He said the truck will be sold, possibly by auction, and the trailer will be traded in.

l Approval was given to enter an agreement with the Ohio Department of Transportation’s road salt purchasing program for the 2023-24 season. The agreement will be to purchase 1,000 tons, of which 90 percent must be purchased.

Colucci said last year, the city purchased 1,500 tons and didn’t use much.