Ordinance to vacate dead-end of street

WARREN -- An ordinance to vacate part of a city street at a city school construction site was introduced at Wednesday's city council meeting.
Under the ordinance, the city would vacate and turn over to the school board the dead-end portion of Beck Street Southeast, west of Willard Avenue Southeast.
The school board plans to build the new Francis Willard School on the site, where it recently demolished the vacant former Willard School. Council will conduct a public hearing on vacating the street at 7:30 p.m. April 26.
The new Willard School will be one of four new kindergarten through eighth-grade buildings the district will construct in its $153 million school building project.
Also included in the project is a new Warren G. Harding High School next to the current high school. The five new buildings will replace 13 buildings by mid-2009.
In other business, Mayor Michael O'Brien told council the city is awaiting letters of interest from qualified architects for a combined total of $2.5 million worth of renovations to be done over the next year at Packard Music Hall and the National Packard Museum.