Mahoning commissioners to pay old Oakhill debts

YOUNGSTOWN — Mahoning County Commissioners voted today to pay about $700,000 in back real estate taxes and penalties for Oakhill Renaissance Place in 10 installments over the next five years.

The taxes are for the period when the Southside Community Development Corp. owned Oakhill before the county bought the former hospital in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in 2006. SCDC filed for Chapter 7 liquidation bankruptcy that year.

Oakhill is the former Forum Health Southside Medical Center, which now houses the county’s Department of Job and Family Services, Veteran’s Service Commission and coroner’s office, the city health department and the Mahoning-Youngstown Community Action Partnership.

The commissioners also approved a concessionary labor agreement ratified Tuesday by the sheriff’s department’s gold unit, which consists of captains, lieutenants and sergeants belonging to Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 141.

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