Commissioners OK contract for house repair

Lorain County commissioners approved a contract for repair on a Sheffield Township house.

Your Construction, of Brunswick, will receive $7,238 for working on the residence in the 5100 block of Rolling Avenue as part of the Ohio Development Services Agency Community Housing Impact and Preservation program.

The approval passed without comment by the board. Fishing contest Jennifer Kennedy, interim director of Visit Lorain County, also gave the commissioners a presentation on the upcoming Lorain County Bounty Fish contest running from Oct. 19 to Dec. 2.

The event seduces anglers to net the heaviest walleye in Lorain County waters with a $1,000 prize.

It is part of the Walleye Fall Brawl, which is a fish derby that draws nearly 10,000 anglers to the waters of Lake Erie and tributaries.

The weigh-in will take place at Erie Outfitters, 5404 Lake Road in Sheffield Lake, and anglers are required to submit the coordinates of where they were fishing as well as a photo that identifies the location.

Kennedy said the last time she checked, 5,000 participants signed up to take part in the brawl, which is not limited to the waters of Lorain County.

The grand prize is a Warrior V21-21 DC.

“The idea was to, not only brand ourselves as a fishing destination, but also to, kind of, cast our net because the fishermen don’t really know where the Lorain County borders are,” Kennedy said. “We wanted to encourage them to stay in Lorain County, launch their boats from Lorain County and fish in Lorain County. This is just an incentive.”

In other news, commissioners voted to enter into a sanitary sewer service agreement with Cuyahoga County for the proposed Autumn Grove Subdivision in Columbia Township.

The agreement would allow the new 39-lot subdivision on the south side of Sprague Road to connect to Olmsted Township sewers on the north side of the street.

The commissioners are finalizing approval of the development.

Lorain County Administrator James Cordes said the road is split down the middle with Cuyahoga County being the northern half of the road and Lorain to the south.

Lorain County currently doesn’t have a sewer on its side of the road.

“We were able to arrange for this, what I want to call, pocket development to go in on the south side of Sprague by bringing the sewer from the north side of Cuyahoga County,” Cordes said. “It’s not the preferred method that we want to have a sewer down there, but it’s a beginning.

“One of the parts of the agreement is that if we ever do get a sewer down Sprague Road, (the development) will have to disconnect from the sewer that we brought up and across Cuyahoga County and go onto any main trunking that we may build there.”

Without this agreement, the development would be unable to attain the density it was seeking and would require the expense of putting in a dry sewer, he said.

In a late addition to the commissioners’ agenda, Cordes presented a resolution from the floor that awards a contract for an expansion of the Sheffield Lake Community Center, 4575 Lake Road.

Wellington Builders received the contract for the work which will be paid for with federal Community Development Block Grant funds with Sheffield Lake picking up the remainder.

The Morning Journal previously reported the planned 9,500-square-foot addition was estimated to cost $315,000.

Don Romancak, community development director for the county, said crews will completed the work by this time next year.