I never thought my resignation would make front page, but after years of misquotes and embellishing his articles, I must address the errors in Dave Wargo's article.

Dave Wargo has been covering our township meetings for some time. Dave's a great guy and we often chat before and after the meetings. There have been past misquotes and exaggerations, to which I have never responded, but our meetings are really not exciting so I can understand if he needs to spice them up to sell papers, but here comes the truth.My resignation was not a surprise to the supervisors. The supervisors have known for some time I would be resigning because of a military mobilization, I just didn't let it slip which meeting I would make the announcement. I had even recommended a few names of interested parties to the chairman to fill my vacancy. Knowing that the chairman presents a plaque to outgoing supervisors, I asked not to have one made for me, but realizing they would likely do something, I wanted to catch them off guard. Just prior to adjourning the meeting I neatly stacked my papers and stood up to make my announcement. I had the papers in my hand when I stood and said, "I resign. I'm leaving with the military. No speech, I'm done." I parted my hands and let the papers fall on the table, and I left before anyone had a chance to glorify me for my service to the township.Once I made the announcement, according to PSATS, I am no longer a supervisor and I could not even have voted to adjourn the meeting, so I left.I have no idea how Dave Wargo, who was only six feet away, misconstrued my actions and my words. I never said I joined the military and I never said I quit. There was no yelling. Dave often embellishes supervisors disagreeing as near fist arguments. When our normal voices change to emphasize a point and support our cause, Dave considers that yelling. Dave, get a hearing aid buddy. I will admit though, that it was an act worthy of an Oscar, and a departure sure to be worthy of gossip. I just hope they never bought that plaque.On a more serious note, I am glad my time is done. I have been involved in the township for more than ten years with two previous interruptions due to military service in Iraq and Afghanistan. I enjoyed serving with George and Pat who were dedicated to serving the residents and improving the township, and more important to me is we all agreed on maintaining the rural character of Mahoning Township.Since 2010 the dynamics of the board have changed. Unfortunately the current board has some members who serve themselves instead of the residents. The same have been named in four EEOC complaints due to their actions, costing the township thousands of dollars in legal fees and likely will reach into the tens of thousands to settle. Much more if they become lawsuits. I attempted to mitigate between parties and warned these supervisors of the consequences of their actions if they continue what they were doing. They didn't listen, the complaints were filed, and some members of the board began taking out frustrations on the two board members who were not named in the EEOC complaintsA pole barn which I expected to be built two years ago for $60-80 thousand to store equipment has now increased to nearly $300,000 and building plans change monthly. I have not supported this change in building type or its cost. I have supported the cheaper pole barn and a new Township building similar to the new buildings at the Orioles Club, which both can be built for under $500,000 compared to over one million which was proposed before I became supervisor.In Dave's article he mentioned the interviewing of part time officers, he left out many details. He probably fell asleep. The background check of both applicants on file had red flags that I would not consider them for an interview. The other two supervisors obviously didn't read their mail and were looking at the background checks after I mentioned they were completed. However the other two supervisors at the meeting still wanted to do the interviews. The chairman stated he wanted to interview more candidates than we are going to hire. We need to hire two to three part time officers depending on how many hours whoever we hire is available to work. With only two applicants on hand, neither of which I would call for an interview, I made the motion to advertise for more applicants. The motion failed for lack of a second, and where now the chairman contradicted himself for not allowing interviewing more candidates than we need to hire.After comments on the police committee were finished. The chairman went around the room for official's comments and skipped over me confusing my police committee comments as official's comments. So I asked to speak and that is when I resigned. So long Dave. I'll miss the chats but not the misquotes and embellishing.Very respectfully,Travis Steigerwalt