One Mahoning Township resident came forward to thank Mahoning Township supervisors for their work on various projects and to make a suggestion as to how the township might better utilize the newspapers during the public comment in last evening's meeting which also resulted in a status report of the proposed medical township building proposed last year that is waiting because of the developers and not the township.

"I read the newspaper and there's always controversy everywhere. You get criticized very easily but I want to praise you for getting the pole building through," said township resident Larry Hill. "I saw the letters to the editor and they are effective. If you can lay it [current issues] out to the people in there on the opinion page, they will read them." Hill mentioned that while people may not read all of the news quite a few read the letters and opinion pages.Hill stated that he finds in his day to day activities throughout the township that people talk and do not necessarily have all the details or the correct details sometimes. As an example, he cited the recent medical campus proposed last year by Cosolidated Health Systems. "An educated guy told me that you [the supervisors] stopped the medical campus but I later found out it actually never got out of the planning commission," he said. He pointed out that more than one person had wrong information and that maybe if the supervisors could periodically give the township's perspective in a letter to the editor it might help prevent rumors and misinformation.Chairperson John Wieczorek told Hill the supervisors have been working and putting in an effort to erect a pole barn for the road crew. He told the attendees there were cones to the rear of the township building that mark the location supervisors are proposing for the building. Wieczorek said much of the difficulty is due to the increased complexity of the job because it is a government entity scoping the work."If you were a private owner, putting up a pole barn is a simple effort, but when you are a government entity, it is not so easy. When you look at the engineering specs and our need to heat two bays and reinforce the floors and then once the project reaches $25,000, you need to also add prevailing wages it becomes much harder," Wieczorek said.He added the board is also going to explore the possibilities for renovating the existing building once the road crew moves into the pole barn.With regard to the medical campus, Wieczorek explained to those attending the meeting the sequence of events that led to the current status which is the supervisors and planning commission are waiting on developers to resubmit new plans."They came to us months ago with a simple sketch plan but there were so many questions with highways, lighting and other issues," he said. Wieczorek said the presentation lacked the details that would make a finished plan accurate and there were so many questions about the details that the developers retracted the initial plans to revise them. He added that there was no indication when they would return with a new set, but he was optimistic since the company is asking for an extension.His explanation confirmed Hill's understanding of the situation in that the developers are the ones that the plans rest upon and the township has not nor have they ever stood in the way or somehow blocked the plans counter to the rumors persisting in the municipality.Later in the meeting, the supervisors voted 4-0 to grant the extension requested by Consolidated Health Systems for the campus until September 30, 2012.