ST. CLAIR TOWNSHIP — St. Clair Township Board of Trustees Monday approved a resolution at the request of Police Chief Brian McKenzie to allow the police department to sell the department’s old firearms since they are no longer needed due to the officers receiving new ones.

The chief requested that 14 Glock 22s with light guns be sold to a firearms dealer with a federal firearms license with the registrations being transferred from the department, and the firearms sold for $350 a piece.

The chief updated the trustees on the department’s stats from June 20 to Oct. 25. The department had 1,095 incident reports, 69 traffic accidents, 151 citations, 57 arrests, and three OVIs.

Booking charges ranged from aggravated menacing, burglary, disorderly conduct, domestic violence, driving under suspension, driving while under the influence, drug paraphernalia, failure to comply, fleeing and eluding, obstructing official business, possessing drug abuse instruments, public indecency, petty theft, using weapons while intoxicated, violating a protection order and warrant arrests.

McKenzie noted that the stats did not print the private property crashes the department responded to, but that officers respond to those pretty much daily.

McKenzie also said that the department’s Fill-a-Cruiser event would take place at Giant Eagle on Nov. 6 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., and that he is working with Second Harvest Food Bank trying to collaborate and involve other locations into helping with food drives as well.

Lt. Randy Schneider, Calcutta Volunteer Fire Department, asked the trustees to sign off on a grant application for MARCS radios which is due in four days. The trustees did not feel they could sign without having had the chance to look it over and discuss it. McKenzie suggested that he and Schneider work together on grants for radios for both departments, which would give both departments a better chance at obtaining grants for radios and keep everyone on the same frequency. Schneider was in favor of meeting to discuss radio grants and believes that would be the more beneficial route to go.

Schneider said the Calcutta Fire Department Halloween Parade would take place Oct. 25 beginning at 1 p.m.

Capt. Derrick Smith, Glenmoor Volunteer Fire Department, said that the department’s new engine, engine 33, would be on the road soon. Firefighters are currently undergoing training for the operation of the new engine.

Smith said GVFD has responded to 183 for the year so far, and he would have more numbers at a later date.

Smith also noted that there is a statewide burn ban in effect until Nov. 30 between the hours of 6 a.m. and 6p.m. and even after 6 p.m. there are restrictions which include fires being more than 1,000 feet from a neighbor’s inhabited building; no burning when air pollution alert, warning or emergency is in effect; fire/smoke cannot obscure visibility on roadways railways, or airfields, waste generated off the premises is prohibited from being burned and no burning in a village, city limits or restricted areas.

During the public portion of the meeting, a resident expressed her concerns regarding a tier three registered sex offender in the neighborhood and her fears for her child and other neighborhood children with him living there. She noted the children are afraid to go outside and play, and she wants him to be removed from the neighborhood. She said she would start a petition to get him removed.

The trustees told her they do not have the power to change the laws or force him to move. Those laws are made at the state level.

She noted the police have not been of any help, and McKenzie said there is nothing law enforcement can do at this time and that she needs to speak with the state’s representatives and that he would get her a list of who she could contact.

Another resident sought permission to add a separate driveway to his son’s Bell School Road residence because there is one driveway for two houses and the residents of the other house own the driveway, and his son doesn’t want to keep putting money and upkeep into a driveway his does not own. The trustees will look at the property with Road Department Supervisor Scott Barrett before deciding due to concerns over safety issues for the location of the driveway.

Trick-or-Treat for St. Clair Township is Oct. 31 from 5:30 to 7 p.m.

The St. Clair Township Board of Trustees meets every other Monday at 4 p.m. at the township government building. The next regular meeting is scheduled for Nov. 3.