HUBBARD TOWNSHIP — One of the township’s more accident-prone areas could be a bit safer soon, thanks to a resolution passed at Monday’s trustees meeting.

Trustees approved a resolution asking the Trumbull County Engineer’s Office to install a lighted stop sign at the intersection of Bell Wick and Wick Campbell Road — a high traffic area, according to Trustee William Colletta.

“They have a lot of people that do not stop as they go around the curve; one way is not a stop from the south,” Colletta said. “The north is a stop area, which has caused a lot of issues.”

Colletta said, Trustee Jason Tedrow has reached out to the county in the past about the matter, but they haven’t made any headway, which prompted the resolution.

ANOTHER DANGEROUS

INTERSECTION

Acting police Chief Michael Orr asked trustees to consider another road he deemed “way more horrible” for signage — Ohio Avenue coming out of Hermitage, Pa., north of Chestnut Ridge.

“We just had another bad crash up there the other day; the homeowner’s excited and wants that taken care of,” Orr said. “The homeowner’s in Ohio, and he’s requesting some guard rails, some reflective signs or something to let people know that that’s the end of the road.”

Orr agreed with the homeowner, noting they respond to multiple crashes on that road every year. He clarified that the homeowner’s property is in Ohio, but the preexisting stop sign is in Hermitage.

“He wants a guardrail; they’re breaching his property,” Orr said.

Trustees moved forward with the Bell Wick Road resolution, with Colletta suggesting that he’ll ask the county engineer to look at a guardrail in the Ohio Avenue area.

NOTARIES

A “big problem” with finding certified people to notarize the police department’s charges led to trustees approving Orr and Shirley Joseph, the department’s administrative assistant, to get certified as notary publics. The cost is yet to be determined.

Orr explained to Fiscal Officer Jennifer Evans, who was confused as to why they needed two people certified, that he couldn’t notarize his own charges and Joseph only works 8 a.m. to noon.

“You have to get them charges (to the court) earlier in the morning; say if we arrest someone over the weekend, I come in Monday morning and they want the report and the charges over at the court,” Orr said. “When I come in, I’ll notarize those charges and get them over to the court in time for the hearings; I can’t notarize my own so that would justify her being a notary to notarize my charges.”

Orr said it was really difficult for the department to get charges notarized, explaining it used to be where officers would sign their names and their detective would take it over to the court, where they would do it. However, the court stopped doing that.

They also didn’t allow the detective to sign his name to the charges anymore, which cumulatively tied their hands, Orr said.