GOSHEN TOWNSHIP — The board of trustees accepted the resignation of former road foreman Matt Springer in its meeting Tuesday.

Springer’s position was changed from road foreman to road department worker following a discussion in executive session in the board’s February meeting. At that time Springer was succeeded by Road Foreman Adam Corll, and Trustee Shawn Mesler said that the switch had been made at the request of Springer and Corll.

The township will be accepting applications to fill the vacancy he is leaving behind through 3 p.m. April 15, and the board of trustees will hold a special meeting at 9 a.m. April 17 to select a candidate.

Trustees also discussed submitting a new Ohio Public Works Commission project for the year. Mesler said that if the township is interested in doing so that it needs to submit up to three roads for traffic counts, which do not commit the township to doing a project, nor do the traffic counts carry any cost to the township. The trustees ultimately voted to submit Diagonal Road between Duck Creek and Middletown roads, Duck Creek Road between state Route 165 and Pine Lake Road, and South Smith Goshen Road between Garfield Road and U.S. Route 62 for the traffic counts.

Other matters included a request from Heritage Cooperative for the township to vacate alleys on Garfield where it has purchased several properties. Mesler said that trustees needed to decide whether they would oppose vacating the alleys, and if not, the Mahoning County Prosecutor’s Office would set up a meeting with the county commissioners office and affected departments and “begin the lengthy process.” Mesler also said that the alleys were all grass lots which he felt the township was unlikely to ever develop or pave, and that if they choose not to oppose vacating the alleys that it would not be “a done deal” as the prosecutor’s office has its own reservations that would need to be satisfied prior to granting permission. The trustees ultimately agreed that they did not oppose vacating the alleys so long as the required surveying is completed at Heritage’s expense and not the township’s.

Trustees also voted unanimously to place the township’s annual salt order through the Ohio Department of Transportation for 175 tons at Corll’s recommendation.

The board of trustees will meet next at 9 a.m. April 17 for a special meeting to hire a new road department worker and will meet for its next regular meeting at 6 p.m. May 13.