Youngstown awards pact for work on streets, sewers

By David Skolnick

The city is receiving 69 percent of the project’s cost through a grant.

YOUNGSTOWN — A $761,961 project will result in six streets’ being paved, the replacement of three sewers and other improvements.

The city’s board of control awarded the contract for the work Thursday to Shelly & Sands Inc., a Zanesville-based company with a local office in Girard.

Shelly & Sands had the least expensive proposal among the six companies vying for the work.

The project’s cost estimate was $1 million, said Charles Shasho, the city’s deputy director of public works.

The city is receiving 69 percent of the project’s cost from an Ohio Public Works Commission grant.

Most of the city’s portion of the project, $236,208, will come from its wastewater budget and its vehicle license fee fund, Shasho said.

The work is to start at the end of April and take up to 120 days to finish, he said.

Portions of six roads — Vestal, Bears Den and Industrial roads as well as Oak Street extension and South Schenley and East High avenues — will be paved and new guardrails will be installed.

There also will be sewer improvement work done on portions of Dorset Avenue, Vestal Road and Oak Street extension.

The work on Dorset Avenue replaces 900 feet of deteriorated 18-inch sewer pipe with pipes ranging from 30 to 36 inches, Shasho said. Problems with the current pipe has led to sink holes on Dorset and flooding on Industrial Road, Shasho said.

The work on Vestal Road replaces 31 feet of 24-inch pipe with an elliptical [egg-shaped] pipe of 29 inches by 45 inches, he said.

The Oak Street extension aspect of the project is minor drainage work. Shasho said.

A new traffic light will be installed on the corner of Bears Den and Canfield roads as part of this project, Shasho said.