At the Sept. 17 Lucas Village Council meeting, Councilman Judd T. Cook turned in his resignation to Mayor Todd Hall. Cook, who is moving out of the village, has been serving on the council since 2011.
When asked what Cook liked best about being on the council, Cook said, “Being involved with the community and trying to help the council make the right decisions for the community.”
In other news, the mayor reported that he was in contact with the Northern Ohio regional director for Dollar General to consider looking at the old J&J Super Value store building, now vacant. The mayor explained to the director how similar Butler and Lucas are (Butler now has a Dollar General), and how both communities sit on state routes. Dollar General has shown interest and has passed the mayor’s information along to the realty company which handles Dollar General properties.
“We’re still in the preliminary planning stages, so let’s keep our fingers crossed,” said Mayor Hall.
Township resident Kathy Hill came later to the meeting to voice her concerns regarding the traffic cameras. She shared that employees at the village gas station and bank told her their businesses were suffering from the speed cameras and losing business as a result. She also expressed her own concern of being paranoid that she might be going a mile or two over the speed limit and could get ticketed.
Hall assured Hill that the speed cameras have a 10 mph threshold in all locations except through the school zone, which is set at a threshold of 5 mph over the limit between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. on school days. He also pointed out that the traffic cameras record car counts and there has been no recorded significant drop in the number of vehicles passing in or out of the village. “We still have the same amount of traffic through Lucas,” he explained.
The council thanked Hill for her comments and for coming to express her views at the council meeting.
In other council business, Fiscal Officer Patricia Constance updated the council on the progress toward new sidewalks on the north side of Main Street. A contractor has bid on the project and they hope to have the 400-foot long by 5-foot wide sidewalks poured soon.
The village storage barn concrete floor was to be poured on Sept. 18 with a total cost of $7,100.
Constance also confirmed that the Street Resurfacing Project would be finished before the October 1 deadline.
