VIENNA 2 leases to bring money to airport

The port authority will pay $5,000 because of a breach of contract.
By STEPHEN SIFF
VINDICATOR TRUMBULL STAFF
VIENNA -- The Western Reserve Port Authority board approved two leases for property at the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport that will bring in $70,000 a year.
Both deals have been in development for months, and neither has been finalized.
The port authority plans to lease a 18,000-square-foot hangar to Ready Air, which recently opened office space in the airport terminal.
The company, which deals in time-sharing of corporate jets, hopes to offer a variety of services at the airport, including aircraft maintenance, fuel sales and flight training. The lease would cost $61,000 a year.
However, the hangar will not be available for Ready Air until the current tenant, National Marine, moves to a building it is renovating elsewhere on the airport.
The board also voted to lease to Howland developer Brian Ross one acre on airport property off Ridge Road for the construction of a hangar and offices.
The hangar will be at least 10,000 square feet, said Steve Bowser, airport director of aviation. The deal hasn't been finalized because it depends on a land swap with a neighboring property.
Ross would lease the land for $7,000 a year.
Tatalovich to get $5,000
In other business Wednesday, the board will accept the judgment of a magistrate to pay $5,000 to Mahoning Valley Sanitary District Treasurer Alan Tatalovich, who was offered a job at the port authority in 1999.
Tatalovich sued the board, alleging breach of contract when the job offer was rescinded before he could start his first day of work as the port authority's chief financial officer.
The port authority board decided to have the Mahoning County auditor handle its books instead, at no cost.
Tatalovich was to have been paid $51,000 a year by the port authority, more than he had been making at MVSD, said port authority attorney Dan Keating.
He now makes $57,000 a year as treasurer of MVSD.
Last week, Trumbull County Court of Common Pleas Magistrate Anthony Cornicelli ruled that Tatalovich is entitled to $5,000 damages.
The action of the port authority board Wednesday clears the way for Judge John Stuard to issue a judgment entry confirming the settlement.
Tatalovich did not immediately return a call for comment.