Bath Trustees Take their Meeting on the Road

Bath Township trustees held their meeting this week at Revere High School so government students could see their local leaders in action.

The trustees have a meeting at the school every year to help teach the students about local government, explaining the duties of Bath leaders and townships' role in Ohio.

After regular business is conducted, the trustees open the meeting to questions from the students to the police and fire chief and other department heads.

Among them:

• What's the difference between a robbery and a burglary?

• How do you get a horse out of a pool (referring to a recent rescue by the Bath Fire Department when a horse fell through a pool cover)? "Believe it or not, it's not the first time it happened in Bath," Fire Chief Walt Hower replied. He said firefighters also had to get a horse out of a pool about 23 years ago. In the most recent case, about eight men actually lifted the horse and slid it out.

• What do you do if the township's budget is not going to balance?

• What are the requirements to run for township trustee?

• If you live in Bath but have an Akron zip code, with Akron police and fire departments respond to a 911 call? (The answer is no -- emergency calls aren't routed by zip codes).

• What can police do about dangerous intersections?

• Can you give details about the rape case recently reported in Bath? Police Chief Mike McNeely said he didn't have information about a recent report, but said one of the department's top priorities is curtailing violence aganst women.