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Not a Drop To Drink for Parkman Community By Valerie S. Clause editor@karlovecmedia.com In the “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” by poet Samuel Coleridge, the speaker laments there is “Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.” This expression rings true for several residents of a Parkman Township neighborhood who are appealing to Geauga Public Health for assistance with salt run-off from an Ohio Department of Transportation storage area on Tavern Road. Parkman resident Mike Derifield and Herb Schreiber, of Solon, who owns residential properties in the affected area, presented their concerns and findings at the Geauga County Board of Health meeting April 27. “They have an ODOT facility See Water • Page 9
BOE Approves $70,000 For Engineering Study By Ann Wishart ann@karlovecmedia.com
After some discussion, Cardinal Schools Board of Education voted unanimously May 11 to spend $70,000 to plan a parking lot for the proposed bus garage to the south of the high school. The GPD Group engineering firm of Cleveland recommended the site for the new garage to replace the one behind the intermediate school. Board member Wendy Anderson said she would like more information about the cost of the study and the construction budget of the parking lot and the structure. “I have a problem with spending $70,000 without knowing what the rest of the project is going to cost,” she said. “What would be the point of doing (an engineering study) if the project comes in over what we budgeted?” Board President Linda Small-
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Cardinal Schools Operations Manager Dave Krebs answered questions from board member Kristen Klepper during the May 11 board meeting.
wood said the study must be done before the district advertises for bids for the parking lot. “We can’t get bids for the project until we have it,” she said. “These are federal funds. We have to follow the rules.”
Cardinal Operations Manager Dave Krebs said most buildings, such as the one under discussion, come with plans, but because the project is using federal Elementary and Secondary Emergency Relief See Study • Page 11
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Intermediate School Bids Under Consideration Cardinal Schools Board of Education will decide which of two bids for Cardinal Intermediate School they will accept at a meeting at the end of May or early June, said board President Linda Smallwood. The auction for the school on April 19 was more an opening of bids by two businesses — Briar Hill Independent Living of Middlefield and All Around Children Daycare of Bedford Heights, which has a daycare in Parkman Township at the former elementary school, she said over the phone. Briar Hill presented a sealed bid for $400,000 and All Around Children bid $600,000. Briar Hill asked to reserve the option to increase its bid later, Smallwood said. “The bids were where we had hoped they’d be,” she said. “This building is in a very good area. It’s
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Cardinal Intermediate School in Middlefield Village was auctioned off in April, but the school board will not decide to accept one or reject both bids until the end of May or early June.
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