ALL THAT’S LEFT — The Mingo Junction Village Council heard a brief discussion on Tuesday regarding the feasibility of moving the Mingo Stadium’s gate pillars. -- Christopher Dacanay

MINGO JUNCTION — The feasibility of moving the Mingo Stadium’s gate pillars was briefly considered during Tuesday’s regular meeting of the Mingo Junction Village Council.

Councilwoman Jodilynn Fitzgerald said that Doug Schaefer, vice president and chief financial officer of FeX Group, contacted former Councilman Mike Herrick about the possibility of moving the pillars which are on the company’s South Commercial Street property. Bearing the words “Mingo Stadium,” the brick pillars are all that’s left of the stadium.

That prompted Fitzgerald to ask if those pillars could possibly be relocated.

“I don’t know how you could put them back together,” responded Village Administrator Darrin Corrigan said. “I don’t want to be that guy who goes and takes that down, and someone comes back and says, ‘That’s historical, you took that down, now you’re not going to put them back up?’ That’s my only worry.”

Corrigan added that he’d “love” to take the posts down and put them up at the Mingo Ballfields or Indian Creek Middle School stadium.

Councilwoman Jodilynn Fitzgerald agreed that those spots would be “perfect.”

I think you’d have to get somebody who does that for a living to come in and get a quote,” Corrigan said. “That brick’s old. Trying to get them to go back in where you want them — that would be something I would not want to touch myself. I would want to see if there’s a company out there that’s willing to do that.”

“I don’t want to see them torn down, and that is just too big of a piece of history,” Fitzgerald said.

Corrigan said he believes FeX Group would like the pillars moved to make the property more accessible for the company’s trucks.

In other business:

• Council scheduled a year-end transfer meeting for 6 p.m. on Dec. 30. Council will not have another regular meeting in December but will resume its normal meeting schedule in January, reconvening at 7 p.m. on Jan. 14.

• Councilwoman Pat Cramblett announced that the Mingo Junction Senior Center will host a Christmas party from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, featuring a gift drawing. Donations for gifts are being accepted.

• Corrigan said that the village water department had been neglecting to clear its tanks of lime as was they were supposed to, leaving material deposited for 10 years. Rather than contract the job out, he said, a former employee showed new employees how to carry out the process so they can do it going forward in-house.

• Ruckman said that the village is awaiting bid responses from two firefighter equipment suppliers, with a third — the village’s previous supplier — having already turned in its bid. She said the village is hoping to get the best price for protective equipment, known as “turnout gear.” Equipment will be paid for using a $139,328.57 grant awarded to the village through Gatchell Grant Resources LLC, which Fire Chief Brandon Montgomery hired for a fee to write the grant.

• Fitzgerald said that two village parcels — one on Raynes Street and the other at the corner of Montgomery Lane and Wilson Avenue — would be excellent spaces for a dog park, something she’s received requests from residents about. Corrigan said he believes the first parcel was set aside to house an additional water tank, if the village ever needed it.

• Corrigan said Aracoma Park’s large shelter house and its restrooms has been winterized and shut down following Monday’s light up night, which he said went “very well” and was well attended. Councilman Mark Baker thanked all village employees who made the event possible.

• Corrigan reported that the mount issues have been fixed on the village pool’s second diving board, which is not installed and ready for use in the summer. He also reported that he’s lowered the amount of salt the village ordered for the winter, given last year’s overestimation that left an abundance of salt.

• Ruckman said she spoke with a village employee who brought his child on the city building’s roof while he was hanging lights, telling him not to do so again. Baker brought up the incident and said Ruckman should reiterate that children are not allowed on the roof.

• Councilman Jack Brettell asked what can be done about soliciting signs posted on telephone poles in the village. Corrigan said his employees can take those ones down but not ones posted in the grass on right-of-ways.

• Brettell said newly purchased, white snowflake lights in the downtown look good — sentiment echoed by Mingo Junction Senior Center Director Fred Pernick. Ruckman said the lights have drawn many compliments.

• To a question from Councilwoman Patti Mannarino, Corrigan said that a planned main line installation by Columbia Gas will not come at a cost to customers.