GREEN: City Council is seeking more than $9.4 million in grants to resurface five roads and widen Massillon Road to five lanes.During a meeting Tuesday night, council gave Mayor Dick Norton approval to apply for Federal Surface Transportation Program funds through the Akron Metropolitan Area Transportation Study.Councilman-at-Large Bruce Manwaring said the six road projects will cost is almost $11.8 million, with grants covering 80 percent and the city providing the other 20 percent — if all the projects are approved.The $9.5 million Massillon Road project, from Interstate 77 to East Turkeyfoot Lake Road, would include two through lanes in each direction plus a two-way left-turn lane between key intersections.The five resurfacing projects are:• South Main Street from Mount Pleasant Road to just south of West Caston Road, $654,715.• South Arlington Road from Mount Pleasant to East Nimisila Road, $506,611.• Greensburg Road from Etter Drive east to the city’s eastern boundary, $496,363.• Greensburg Road from Shriver Road west to South Arlington, $390,370.• Mayfair Road from Mount Pleasant north to the railroad crossing, $200,780.Council also awarded contracts totaling $155,967.21 for road striping.Oglesby Construction of Norwalk received $86,543.68 for long-line striping, while Dura Mark Inc. of Aurora received $69,423.53 for auxiliary markings.Bird Houk, an architecture, engineering, planning, urban design and economics group from suburban Columbus, received a $269,500 contract to study and provide transportation engineering and planning for the Massillon Road central corridor from state Route 619 to Wise Road and to assist in updating Green’s long-range plan for land use.