Local project is top vote-getter for funding from regional group

YOUNGSTOWN — A Mahoning County project to create a land-bank program was the top vote-getter among 10 projects vying for a piece of $330,000 from an organization that promotes regional collaboration in Northeast Ohio.

That project will receive $61,420 from the Fund for Our Economic Future, which consists of more than 100 foundations, organizations and philanthropists from 16 counties in Northeast Ohio. The announcement was made today.

A Trumbull County geographical-information system proposal finished in fourth, just one spot away from being funded.

Finishing in second was a Stark County 911 dispatch center consolidation. In third was a solar panel project in Cleveland and some of its surrounding suburbs.

The organization also awarded funding to a group of smaller communities to map water and sewer lines in parts of five counties, including Columbiana. The project will receive $70,000 from the fund.

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