Control board OKs grants

YOUNGSTOWN — The city’s board of control approved grants for exterior improvements to Ursuline High School and a property owned by the Community Corrections Association on Market Street.

The board agreed Thursday to give $20,000 to the high school on Wick Avenue. The total cost of Ursuline’s exterior improvements is $85,000. The school is adding fencing around its building as well as landscaping, new signs and decorative columns.

CCA plans to landscape 2007 Market St., where the agency recently demolished a building. The project’s total cost is $21,010, with the city giving a $8,404 grant to CCA.

The board — made up of the mayor, finance director and law director — also gave approval to two other grants contingent on the projects’ receiving approval from the city’s design review committee.

That committee considers requests for exterior changes to structures in the city’s downtown area and those elsewhere in Youngstown eligible for city economic development grants.

The Gold Exchange at 2802 Market St. is seeking a city grant of $16,793 for exterior work. The project including new fencing and painting the building will cost $41,982.

Also receiving tentative approval is a $2,968 grant to the University Pizzeria & Italian Eatery at 133 Lincoln Ave. The business plans to spend $7,422 to build a patio at the front entrance of the building including a fence, a planter box and awning.