Meeting on Mon., July 27, the Boardman Board of Trustees approved the purchase of a Bobcat compact excavator with accessories, including two teeth buckets, a ditching bucket and tamper/breaker bar for use with storm sewer repair work in the township. Cost of the excavator is $75,892. Road Supt. Kim Blasco said the sale of asphalt grindings from the 2026 road resurfacing program will be used to finance the purchase of the excavator.

     Meeting on Mon., July 27 the Boardman Board of Education approved $501,400 for repairs to the electrical and boiler systems at Center Intermediate School due to water damage from storms that hit throughout Boardman Township on July 5.
      “This situation presents an urgent necessity and a basis for waiving competitive bidding,” resolutions on the matter said in the board’s July agenda, adding repairs are needed in order to provide electrical power and heat to the school before the start of the 2026-27 school year.
      “The project needs to start as soon as possible,” the resolutions said.
      Repairs to boiler units include a water boiler, pumps, control panels and compressors.
      Electrical work was awarded to MG Electric at a cost not to exceed $209,400.
      Prout Boiler was a...Read More >>

     A tentative agreement has been reached in contract negotiations with members of the teachers’ union and the Boardman Local School District, Brandy Barborak, president of the Boardman Education Association (BEA), said on Mon., July 20.
      Barborak said “We have a tentative agreement” and announced a meeting of union teachers was set for Thurs, July 25 to vote on the new contract proposal.
      A three year agreement between the local school board and its teachers’ union expired at the end of June.
      In announcing the tentative agreement, Barborak said “details and information” had to be finalized, and she could “not share any details until the meeting.”
      Last week, Vince Carnevale, a spokesperson for the BEA, said a claim the union had rejected an offer of a 3 per cent pay raise was false and is not on...Read More >>