Board of control considers changes

Other change orders for the facility are expected.
By DAVID SKOLNICK
CITY HALL REPORTER
YOUNGSTOWN -- The city's board of control was to consider todaythurs approving $88,615 worth of change orders to the city-owned Chevrolet Centre.
If these changes are accepted, the board would have approved close to $1 million worth of change orders since late September for the facility.
On today's agenda are 15 proposals from Carmen S. Conglose Jr., the city's deputy director of public works, to alter contracts with vendors at the center.
Conglose took 30 change orders from Roger Kreps Drywall and Plastering and placed it in one piece of legislation to make it less cumbersome.
Kreps' change orders increase the cost of the Boardman company's contract by $56,040. The company installed drywall and metal panels to the building's interior.
The 14 other requests to be considered today are for single changes by center vendors. Of the 14, 12 are for increases, and two are to cut costs.
Other change orders for the Chevrolet Centre will be submitted to the board of control in the future, Conglose said.
The facility opened in late October and is projected to cost $45.38 million.
City officials had hoped to have the final cost by the end of this month. But Conglose said Wednesday that he expects a final cost for the facility to be available in the next 30 days to 60 days.
Other business
Also at today's meeting, the board was to consider providing $300,000 to the Exal Corp. in site development funding. The can-making company based in the Performance Place industrial park off of Poland Avenue is planning a $70 million expansion project.
Though it was not on the board's agenda, the Corrections Corp. of America, the Nashville, Tenn., company that operates a private prison on Hubbard Road, was to seek a development agreement for tax breaks today, said Mayor George M. McKelvey.
The company plans to build an addition with 1,000 prison beds and increase its work force by about 300 employees, McKelvey said.
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