Each month, except April, has a designated time, usually around a holiday, when additional traffic law enforcement will take place, said Police Chief David Brown. Strouse tells us they’d like to begin any merger by January.KEY ACTION: Heard that the Police Department received a traffic safety grant focusing on drunk and drugged drivers.ĭISCUSSION: The $14,000 grant from the Ohio Department of Public Safety will pay police officers for overtime wages and retirement and Medicare contributions from April through September. We wanted to look at the possibility of merging the two Police Departments, and that’s what got our regionalization started.” Strouse adding: “Most people are just, you know, their concerns are: will there be consistent coverage? You know, are the Police Officers gonna be compensated well, and are Communities gonna be safe? And that’s what this regionalization seeks to do.” They respond just about to most everything together already. Strouse saying: “We have a lot of duplication of services related to the Police Department and our Police Departments are already going out on a lot of calls together. But on top of that, Strouse gives a number of reasons for why such a merger is in the public’s best interest.
A Town Hall happened last night in Lawrence Township - where a Commission’s seeking public feedback on the proposed merger.Ĭlearfield Borough Mayor Mason Strouse tells us both Departments have had issues with hiring and maintaining staff, a major instigator for this proposal. Clearfield and Lawrence Township are looking into merging their Police Departments.
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