City of Dover to spend $1.1 million to pave streets and alleys in 2024

Jon Baker, The Times-Reporter
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Students from Dover elementary schools lead the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance at Monday's Dover City Council meeting.
Students from Dover elementary schools lead the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance at Monday's Dover City Council meeting.

DOVER ‒ At Monday's council meeting, members approved a $72 million budget for the city for 2024 and honored former Dover officials. Here are the highlights:

  • The 2024 budget includes $1.1 million for street and alley paving, one of the largest amounts every earmarked for paving. Dover will also be spending $24,000 for bulletproof vests for the police department; $780,000 to upgrade traffic signals at Slingluff Avenue and Walnut Street near Maple Grove Cemetery and Walnut Street and WestThird Street and will put $170,000 into a sinking fund to build a new mausoleum at Dover Burial Park.

  • Council passed resolutions honoring former council members Greg Bair, Sandy Moss and Robert Mueller, as well as former Law Director Doug O'Meara and Safety/Human Resources Director Gerry Mroczkowski. Bair and Moss both attended the session and received a standing ovation from those present.

  • Mayor Shane Gunnoe reported the city received two applications for the housing demolition program funded through the Ohio Department of Development. The locations are 39 S. Johnson Ave. and the former Midway Lumber building next to the Tuscarawas County Fairgrounds on South Tuscarawas Avenue. These applications will be forwarded to the county and the Ohio Department of Development for further review.

  • Council authorized the distribution of $3,500 in bed tax dollars to Caleb Fell Group for a mural on the outside of its building at 116 W. Third St.

  • Council also authorized the mayor to provide free passes to the city swimming pool this summer for children participating in the TUFF Bags program, sponsored by the United Way of Tuscarawas County and the local Tuscarawas United ‒ Feeding Our Future (TUFF) program.

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