SandBox Northeast Regional Manager Kenny Sherman visits Bellaire Village Council on Thursday evening to discuss what the company is and its core values, which include safety, integrity, respect and community.

BELLAIRE — The SandBox Co. visited Bellaire Village Council on Thursday evening to discuss what it does and the safety of its trucks on the roads.

Representatives from SandBox talked to council about what the company does and addressed concerns and complaints heard from Bellaire residents. SandBox is a company that handles and transports sand to locations with its sand box trucks.

“You guys see a lot of truck traffic with these great big boxes that run throughout your town,” Regional Safety Manager Richard Sloan said. “And we want to be able to get in front of you all and explain to you what we’re all about.”

Sloan added there seems to be a negative perception of the company among local residents, but the representatives were ready to clear that up.

Sloan and Regional Manager Kenny Sherman emphasized to council and visitors that if they see drivers in the village doing things that are unsafe or dangerous to call them at 740-671-8252, ext. 103. They encouraged people to report the chassis number, which is a number on the trailer, because the company would be able to identify the driver immediately with that information.

The representatives discussed SandBox’s core values at the meeting, including safety, integrity, respect and community.

Meanwhile, Clerk Mary Hagliozou read the ordinances and resolutions for council to consider.

Ordinance 09-2025 is to set the salary of the clerk of council at $4,400 per year, effective June 1.

Ordinance 25-10 is for hiring a water distribution laborer and setting the salary. David Beaver will take on the role at a wage of $14 per hour.

Ordinance 25-11 is one determining that a real and present emergency exists in the village and authorizing the mayor and village administrator to seek quotes and enter into a contract for the repair and/or replacement of the Franklin Street slip.

One resolution, 2025-1119, was to authorize participation in the Ohio Department of Transportation road salt contracts. This will allow the village to purchase road salt at a discounted, bulk rate.

Council members Bill Schmitt, Robert “Bubba” Kapral, Elizabeth Dugmore, Mike Doyle, Jerry Olack and Janet Richardson voted unanimously to approve all of the ordinances and resolutions.

Council also discussed Ordinance 25-12, which addresses rubbish, garbage and outside storage. Due to the language used in the ordinance, Solicitor Paul Stecker will take another look at it after this first reading of it.

Doyle brought up his concerns that he thinks the broadness and lack of details in the ordinance will allow people to weaponize the ordinance.

Stecker told council he does think the village needs the ordinance, because it will allow it to more efficiently address problem areas without having to jump through a bunch of hoops. He will take a look at the language and likely change it.

Richardson chimed in and told council she really thinks the village needs the ordinance because Bellaire deals with a lot of people complaining about residents who have garbage and trash stacked up in their yards and on porches.

The village is dealing with a legal matter right now regarding junk on a property. Stecker told council he had a hearing Thursday about Michael Longwell’s property at 137 Second Ave. He said the condition of the property has gotten worse over the last three weeks compared to what he’s seen in pictures from Police Chief J.J. Watson.

Stecker also told council he spoke with Longwell and wanted him to sign a paper allowing the village to go in and abate the property. Longwell said he was willing to sign the document if the village agrees not to charge him for the work it does, but Stecker told him the village will charge him.

Stecker told Longwell he would bring this issue to council. He said his thought process is that if the village wins the case and Longwell gets fined, he may not pay what he owes in the end. He said he assumes the village would then go to common pleas court, declares it a public nuisance and end up going in and cleaning the property up, which will take a couple months. The village could then put the charge on his tax bill.

“But are we going to recover that?” Stecker then asked, noting it was unlikely.

He added that if Longwell is willing to let the village go in and clean up the property, if it’s not going to get its money back at least it’d be able to address the issue now.

Schmitt, Kapral, Dugmore, Doyle, Olack and Richardson approved a motion to clean up the property.

Finally, Dugmore stressed that U-turns are illegal, and police officers will start ticketing drivers who are caught performing them. Council plans to put signs up in the village to emphasize this point even more.