SHADYSIDE — From police cars to property maintenance and sales, Shadyside Village Council touched on numerous topics Monday evening.

The meeting kicked off with council member Melanie Haswell questioning the minutes of the most recent council meeting. At the July 8 meeting, OR&W Fire District Chief R.C. Fellows addressed council about what he believed was a discrepancy between the district and village council about mineral rights. The fire district’s station was purchased from the village, but the village held on to the property’s oil and gas rights. Fellows believed that the mineral rights were to go to the OR&W Fire District in the original agreement, which turned out to be proven false.

“It says the subject was tabled until the original agreement is presented to the council. That had to do with the oil and gas release. I thought we passed that we were keeping all of the gas and oil money,” Haswell said.

“Yeah I thought that issue was resolved,” Village Solicitor Thomas Ryncarz agreed.

The council members all agreed that the issue was resolved and voted unanimously to make an amendment to the meeting’s minutes.

Council then considered approving a motion to place a handicap sign in front of the house of Marian Samsa. Council member Melanie Haswell proceeded to make a motion to grant the sign for Samsa with council member Mike Meintel seconding the motion. The motion was approved by all council members.

Council then passed two ordinances. Ordinance 1870 authorizes Police Chief Don Collette to sell a 2013 Dodge Charger police cruiser. Council member Robert “Bushwacker” Gorrell made a motion to approve the motion, which council member Lisa Duvall seconded, but Shadyside Village Solicitor Thomas Ryncarz interjected.

“So this doesn’t just happen automatically in the ordinances. It has to be advertised for not less than two but not more than four consecutive times, so whoever is in charge of doing that, it needs to be done so it can be facilitated,” he advised before council approved the motion.

Mayor Robert Newhart then brought forward ordinance 1871, which accepts a bid from Cast and Baker Corp. on the Shadyside Central Avenue Road Project phase one and declaring an emergency. After suspending the rules that require three public readings of proposed legislation, Gorrell made a motion to accept the bid with Duvall seconding and all council members voting in favor.

Ryncarz then said that he saw paperwork regarding the notice of intent to award the bid from Cast and Baker Corp. and asked if Newhart had to sign the paperwork tonight.

“I can sign it in the morning,” Newhart replied.

“OK, the mayor will sign off on it, that way we can let them know and that way it can get moving,” Ryncarz said.

Colette then approached council to say that the Shadyside Police Department recently placed a security camera at the former site of the Shadyside pool.

“I strongly suggest we do something with that and get that building down. It’s just a mess and an eyesore, too,” he said.

“Donnie brought up a good point there. With the swimming pool and the old water department, what are we going to do with these properties? Are we going to put them up for sale?”

Street Commissioner Mike DiFabrizo, who was filling in for Village Administrator Erica Tamburin, asked.

“The swimming pool would revert back to the school. As for the old water office, they’ve been storing records and record retention there. And, Mike, am I correct that there are two active wells there?” Newhart asked.

Meintel confirmed that the building has two old but active wells. Newhart responded that because of the wells, he was not sure if the village would be able to sell the building.

“Can I just make a comment?” Ryncarz spoke up. “For future reference, if the village were to ever decide to sell any of its properties there is a statue that’s on point. You have to put it up for bids, so it’s not like a private person can come to the village and say, ‘Hey, I want to buy your property.’

“I remember years ago, actually with the pool property, that somebody approached you and said, ‘Hey I want to buy it,’ and I said, ‘No, you can’t do that, you have to put it up for bids.'”

Meintel then made a motion for council to go into a closed-door session on a personnel issue. No action was taken on the matter when council returned to regular session.