LISBON — The Columbiana County Park District will welcome new board member Crystal Siembida Boggs when the board meets at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday at the park office on Maple Street.

“She’s been an active proponent of the Greenway trail,” board chairman Eileen Dray-Bardon said Friday.

Siembida Boggs, of Columbiana, was recently appointed to a three-year term and sworn in by county Probate Court Judge Tom Baronzzi, along with board member Dave Hughes, of Salem, who was reappointed to a new three-year term.

Siembida Boggs took the spot vacated by attorney Tim Brookes of East Liverpool, who decided to step away when his term ended Dec. 31. He had been appointed to fill an unexpired term and served two and a half years.

“We enjoyed him when he was here,” Dray-Bardon said.

Other board members besides Dray-Bardon of Rogers and Siembida Boggs and Hughes include vice chair Tom Butch of Salem and Dottie Betz of Wellsville.

Dray-Bardon said Siembida Boggs has organized a lot of races on the Little Beaver Creek Greenway Trail, which stretches from Washingtonville through Leetonia to Lisbon. She also previously expressed an interest in serving on the board.

The park district’s attempt for a levy failed again miserably in November, but they’re continuing to function and working to find funding through other resources to keep up maintenance, especially on the Greenway trail.

The county commissioners recently gave the district $45,000 from the last of the American Rescue Plan Act funds, with $20,000 to purchase a new mower to replace one that was broken down and $25,000 designated for maintenance of the Greenway trail.

“That will be a help,” Dray-Bardon said.

State capital budget money is coming for $157,000 for a project to replace three culverts on the Greenway trail and the district just applied for $1 million in funding from the Ohio Department of Transportation for a resurfacing project for the trail. She expects to hear in February whether the district will receive the ODOT money.

Dray-Bardon said board members also heard about state capital fund money for trail maintenance, so they’re getting estimates for that in preparation for applying for the funds.

“We’re just trying to find every pot of money we can,” she said.

She said the district still needs a levy and they’re scrambling to find ways to maintain what they have. Board members are volunteers and do not get paid for what they do. Employees include a part-time administrative assistant, along with a maintenance person for park properties. Levy or no levy, Dray-Bardon said they feel it’s important to maintain the investment in the trail.

“It does bring people to our county and it benefits the county,” she said.

The board meets the second Tuesday of every month at 3:30 p.m., with the first meeting of the year set for next week.

The county park district operates Scenic Vista Park which covers 250-plus acres in Center Township and includes an 18-hole disc golf course, hiking trails and pavilion, Hellbender Bluff Park covering 800 acres in Madison Township, 12 miles of Little Beaver Creek Greenway Trail stretching from Lisbon to Washingtonville and the historical Ohio Supreme Court meeting site marker on state Route 7 in Fairfield Township.