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Village may get help with streets

LISBON — Wellsville may be getting some help for its streets, thanks to the local committee created to revive the U.S. Route 30 project.

The Columbiana County Transportation Improvement District (TID) board agreed at last week’s meeting to apply for a $250,000 grant though the Ohio Department of Transportation to help resurface three intersections in Wellsville suffering from heavy truck traffic going to and from village industries.

Wellsville wants to replace the concrete and make other improvements to the following intersections: Clark and Aten avenues, Clark Avenue and 17th Street, and Main and 17th streets. The total project cost is an estimated $409,500, according to Dallis Dawson & Associates, the St. Clair Township engineering firm hired by the village.

The $250,000 ODOT grant is available only to TIDs, and applicants are usually required to provide a $25,000 local match, which in the past has come from county commissioners. “We did not discuss the local match at this time, but commissioners have always assisted in the past,” said TID board member and county Port Authority executive director Penny Traina.

The commissioners have already been asked by the village for $40,950 from the county’s 2019 federal Community Development Block Grant formula program allocation to help with the project. County Development Department director Tad Herold, who also serves on the TID board, said they are going to help Wellsville seek additional funding through the CDBG critical infrastructure grant program.

Although TID was created several years ago to focus on turning Route 30 into a four-lane highway through the county, its purpose is to assist with local road projects, which it has done while also pursuing funding for Route 30. Last year, TID obtained a $250,000 state TID grant to help ODOT add turning lanes and install a new traffic light at the intersection of state Route 45 and South Lincoln Avenue in Perry Township, known as the Salem bypass.

tgiambroni@mojonews/com

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