New Youngstown mayor makes first appointment

YOUNGSTOWN — On his last day as Youngstown mayor, Jay Williams delivered a farewell address thanking people for believing in him and electing him twice as the city’s mayor.

“Youngstown is being recognized as a community leading the slow but steady national economic recovery,” Williams said in today’s address at the city-owned Covelli Centre.

Jay Williams resigned today to be the executive director of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers in the President Barack Obama administration.

He was replaced by Charles Sammarone, who served as council president.

On Sammarone’s first day as Youngstown mayor, he appointed Councilman DeMaine Kitchen to serve as his right-hand man.

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