WARREN TOWNSHIP - The township is in line for as many as 12 home demolitions next year.

At their meeting this week, the trustees passed a resolution authorizing the Trumbull County Planning Commission to undertake the demolition of 12 buildings in Leavittsburg and Warren Township. The planning commission is administering money through 2008 Community Development Block Grant Neighborhood Stabilization Funds to carry out demolitions throughout the county. The commission asked communities to submit addresses of dilapidated homes.

"We picked a few from each area (in the township) and submitted those," Trustee Kay Anderson said Friday.

Julie Green, speaking on behalf of the planning commission, expected that the demolitions could move forward in January, after a required notification period has passed and bids opened. She could not say exactly how much the demolitions will cost because they have not gone out for bid, and there may be fees for permits.

Countywide, Green said there are 45 houses in the first round of demolitions with another 50 identified. The planning commission will place a notification identifying all of the addresses in the newspaper soon, but communities included in the first round are Bristol, Hubbard Township, Johnston, Howland, Brookfield and Warren Township.

The commission asked zoning inspectors to submit lists of homes and received hundreds of addresses.

"The budget called for 100 demolitions, but that's just an estimate. We won't know how many there will be until we complete the bid opening," Green said.

In other business, trustees passed a resolution calling for full pensions and benefits for Delphi hourly and salaried retirees. About 1,500 area salary retirees from Delphi Packard could lose between 30 to 70 percent of their pension after the auto parts maker turned over the plan to the federal insurer Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. in July. The loss of this money could have a devastating effect on the local economy, according to a study from professors at Youngstown State University.

"We deem the situation, as it now stands, to be unfair, unethical and unreasonable," the resolution states.

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