County roundup: City of Ravenna plans new safety building, plus news from Ravenna Township, Streetsboro and Aurora

The City of Ravenna is looking into constructing new safety buildings for fire and police and possibly City Hall. The buildings would be built on a five-acre area that used to be where the old Ravenna High School stood.

“Our present facilities, especially for police and fire, are quite aged,” Mayor Frank Seman said. “With the additional equipment that the firemen have to have and policemen also, it’s a space problem and is becoming a safety problem. The new buildings would be bigger than the present ones. A rendering has been done by the city engineer and an architect, but we’re now going into the phase where we’re looking to see what the whole thing would cost. We’re also checking into the cost of building a new facility with a gymnasium for the recreation department, possibly built next to the other new buildings, for public use.”