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Hilliard, Verizon planning to share a tower
New trash deal moves all pickups to Tuesday
Contract includes 10-cent bill increase for most homes
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By KEVIN CORVO THISWEEKNEWS.COM Beginning July 1, Hilliard residents will experience changes in their trash and recycling services, including a new pickup day and a 10-centper-month bill increase for most households. Hilliard City Council on April 14 approved a five-year contract with Local Waste Services, which submitted a base bid of $8,304,557. Rumpke, the current provider, will collect through June 30, when its one-year contract extension expires. Local Waste Services was the city’s provider through June 30, 2009, when Hilliard opted to switch to Rumpke. When the new contract kicks in July 1, Local Waste Services will pick up solid waste, recyclable materials and yard waste throughout the city each Tuesday. Rumpke picked up three days a week, Tuesday through Thursday, and no city official at the April 14 meeting could recall a time when Hilliard had single-day service.
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Station Park will be rebid By KEVIN CORVO THISWEEKNEWS.COM Construction of Hilliard’s Station Park has been postponed until at least next year. Hilliard City Council , at the request of the administration, on April 14 withdrew legislation authorizing a contract for the construction of the park. Service Director Butch Seidle said the city rejected both bids received for the project and will restart the process of advertising, receiving and opening bids.
A hair-raising good time Kiersten Cullinan’s hair reacts to static electricity during the third annual Family Science Extravaganza on Tuesday evening, April 8, at J.W. Reason Elementary School in Hilliard. CHRIS PARKER/THISWEEKNEWS
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Hilliard will get a new digital-communications tower but likely not in the location city officials initially planned. The Hilliard Planning and Zoning Commission on April 10 approved the construction of a tower between Heritage Middle School and Darby High School, near the northeast corner of Scioto Darby and Leppert roads. The tower will serve Verizon Wireless customers and provide digital radio service to the Hilliard Division of Police and Norwich Township Fire Department. The shared-use tower will be built in lieu of a tower the city had planned inside Roger A. Reynolds Municipal Park. “We are pleased with the partnership ... the key is there will now be only one tower instead of two,” police Chief Doug Francis told commission members. The city, the Hilliard City Schools and Verizon have not yet signed a final agreement but it is expected soon, Francis said. Jeff Franklin, director of business for the Hilliard City Schools, and Mike Hennon, a subcontracting agent for Verizon Wireless, also were at the meeting. Verizon will lease the tower site from the school district, Franklin said, although the amount Verizon will pay the district was not finalized April 10.
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