By Patrick Cooley
BROOKFIELD — Brookfield Township Trustees will be turning to the residents of the township in the spring for ideas.
Trustees will be meeting with residents in each township voting precinct and getting their ideas on what their concerns are, and what ideas they have to make the township a better place to live. With the information they gather, they will come up with a neighborhood master plan.
Trustee Gary Lees said the board got the idea from Springfield Township, just outside of Cincinnati.
“They have a lot of great ideas,” he said. “I’ve had contact with them over the Internet and they’ve been very helpful.”
Part of the idea, Lees said, is to get the community more involved with township government.
“It’s been very successful there,” he said.
Lees gave a few examples of what could come out of the meetings.
“The industrial plants in Masury, some of those plants are in horrible condition,” he said. “That brings our property values down, and naturally we want to keep those values up. If the people in Masury say they want to maintain those properties, us trustees would be looking at that a lot more closely, and pursuing that a lot more aggressively.”
He also said that police and fire protection are also issues that residents might bring up.
