JACKSON – Councilman Angelo Stallone announced at the Nov. 9 meeting of the Township Council that Public Safety Director Matthew Kunz expects to have provisional driver stickers available within the next week.
Stallone said the stickers will be able to be placed on a car that is used by a driver who holds a provisional license. There are certain rules and restrictions linked to the provisional license. One restriction limits the number of passengers an inexperienced driver may have in his vehicle at one time.
Inexperienced drivers have been in the news in Jackson this year following a series of motor vehicle accidents that have caused the death and injury of new drivers.
Municipal officials came up with the idea of asking parents to pick up a sticker and to place it on the back of a car that is being operated by an inexperienced driver as a means of identifying someone .
In other business, Stallone said T Mobile is interested in having a cellular communications tower on the west side of Jackson and is interested in leasing a parcel of land.
During the public comment portion of the meeting, resident Sheldon Brandman asked officials if they are negotiating with the United States Postal Service for a new post office.
Stallone said he has been in contact with Vito Setta, the district regional manager.
“I spoke to him when they opened up the Contract Postal Unit [CPU] at the Minit-Stop,” Stallone told Brandman. “They said they were moving forward, looking for property, and realistically it could be another two years.”
The CPU inside the Minit-Stop convenience store at the corner of Chandler and Jackson Mills roads offers postal services. The CPU opened in August.
Jackson now has three post office facilities: the main post office on Bennetts Mills Road near County Line Road; the Cassville satellite post office on West Veterans Highway; and the Minit-Stop CPU.
Brandman told officials he would be against any plan to place a post office in the municipal complex, saying, “I’m against that because you do your business where the bulk of your population is, and I believe that is the northeast quadrant of Jackson. To move it [to the municipal complex] would be a burden on the majority of people.”
Stallone said postal service officials do not have a site yet for a new facility in Jackson. He said he would reach out to the postmaster, Robert Ryan, to discuss the matter.