Youngstown City Council handled these items Wednesday:
Youngstown City Council handled these items Wednesday:
Authorized the board of control to hire a company to assess asbestos and prepare bids to remove the material from the former Washington School.
Authorized the board of control to spend $751,290 on six dump trucks, six snow plows, four tractors, 12 brush mowers and an asphalt-crack-filling machine. The equipment will be bought through the state purchasing contract.
Amended the amount the board of control is allowed to spend by $300,000 -- to $725,000 -- to defend the city in an environmental lawsuit filed by the federal government. Spending totals $425,000.
Declared city land at 418, 422, 516 and 518 Belmont Ave. and 736 Arlington St. to be surplus. Authorized the board of control to sell the land to Covington Heights Neighborhood Improvement Corp. for $3.
Donated to the state four pieces of land on Robinwood Avenue and Dearborn Street for the state Route 711 Connector project.
Sent two items to a second reading: A $15,000 appropriation for First Night Youngstown and an $18,000 appropriation to ACTION for the city's one-third share of a regional study that will be the basis for a planning session this summer. Six votes were needed to approve the items immediately, but the votes on both were 5-1. Rufus Hudson, D-2nd, voted no on both. He declined to comment on reasons.