Mahoning building commission awards heating contract

YOUNGSTOWN — The Mahoning County Building Commission awarded a $3,031,660 contract to Prout Boiler, Heating and Welding Inc. of Youngstown to install a new heating system at Oakhill Renaissance Place.

Some $2,608,385 from federal stimulus funds is going toward that project.

Carol McFall, chief deputy county auditor, said, however, the county does not have the money in hand to pay for the remainder of the cost of the Prout contract and for the additional $378,000 cost of purchasing the boilers. “You’re going to have to go borrow it,” she said.

“We will not be able to cut a purchase order unless all that funding’s in place,” James Fortunato, county purchasing director, told the commission today.

John A. McNally IV, chairman of the county commissioners, said the commissioners will meet next week with bond counsel to discuss the county’s borrowing needs, including money to be borrowed for the Oakhill project.

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