Published September 30, 2009 12:56 am - Ashtabula County commissioners passed a resolution Tuesday supporting the efforts of the Ashtabula Maritime and Surface Transportation Museum to expand and upgrade the Walnut Boulevard museum.
County commissioners support Ashtabula museum expansion
By CARL E. FEATHER - Staff Writer - cfeather@starbeacon.com Star Beacon
JEFFERSON — Ashtabula County commissioners passed a resolution Tuesday supporting the efforts of the Ashtabula Maritime and Surface Transportation Museum to expand and upgrade the Walnut Boulevard museum.
Commissioners met last week in a work session with representatives of the nonprofit museum. Director Robert Frisbie and assistant director Glenn Beagle laid out the museum’s ambitious plan to build a new museum for its exhibits and roll back the existing building — a former lighthouse-keeper’s home — to its 1950s appearance.
The new museum would have three levels for displays, storage, restoration work and an expanded library and gift shop. Its most distinctive feature would be a freighter’s bow emerging from the Walnut Boulevard cliff toward the proposed North Shore Trail, which would take a detour through the bow.
Cost of the project has been pegged at $4 million, which the volunteers hope to raise through grants and donations.
The resolution states that the group has 110 members and six full-time volunteers, a volunteer professional model builder and several part-time volunteers.
Frisbie told commissioners during last week’s work session that the new museum would be a home to artifacts from the community’s maritime and railroading history, as well as a place where people can interact with local history through working models.
“We want to change this idea of going to a museum and saying ‘don’t touch,’” Frisbie told commissioners. “We want you to touch and will give you some things to touch.”
In other actions, commissioners:
n Approved a real-estate purchase agreement with Sawyer Logging for 38.566 acres of county-owned property on Green Road, Kingsville Township. Commissioner Joseph Moroski said the triangle of property remained from a previous sale of county-owned land on the road several years ago. Sawyer Logging had the high bid of $76,200;
n Approved the purchase of a service contract between Ashtabula County Community Action Agency and the Ashtabula County Department of Job and Family Services (DJFS) for home-delivered meals. The one-year contract is for $353,055;
n Approved a service contract between DJFS and Ashtabula County Common Pleas Court, Juvenile Division, for legal services in conjunction with the child-support enforcement program. The contract is not to exceed $57,926.87; and
n Approved placing a 1998 Chevrolet Astro utility van with 174,404 miles on the county’s Web site for public sale. The vehicle, from the Department of Environmental Services, has a bidding reserve of $500.
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