Commissioners OK abatement

STAFF REPORT

WARREN — Trumbull County commissioners have approved a 75 percent tax abatement on real property that will allow J.A. McMahon Inc. of Niles to construct a $1.6 million to $1.8 million addition.

The 10-year abatement will permit McMahon to construct an 8,000 square-foot, 15-ton crane building that will house a variety of new fabricating equipment, said Walter Good, interim executive director of the of the Regional Chamber, after the Thursday approval.

The Grant Street facility has 23 employees and the addition will create six full-time jobs. The company specializes in fabricating structural steel used in commercial structures, industrial facilities and bridges.

“Through our business retention and expansion program, the Regional Chamber is pleased to have worked with McMahon in helping it secure this abatement,” Good said.

The project is expected to begin in July and be completed by the end of the year.

In other business, commissioners gave their approval to the Trumbull County Sanitary Engineer’s Office to advertise for bids to provide about 3,400 water customers with an automatic meter-reading system. The system will be used in the Champion and Bazetta and Howland Mosquito Creek water systems.

Rex Fee, executive director of the sanitary engineer’s office, has said the existing meters are old and more accurate readings will be obtained with the new meters.