Two commissioners not consulted on closing Mahoning County offices
YOUNGSTOWN — Two of the three Mahoning County commissioners said they should have been consulted about the decision to close county facilities today.
“I just take offense to the fact that I found out the courthouse was closed through a group of employees that called me,” Commissioner Carol Rimedio-Righetti said this afternoon.
“The commissioners should have been called,” said Righetti, who took office a month ago. “With cell phones the way they are today, they could plug us in for a conference call.”
Had she been consulted, Righetti said her preference would have been a two-hour delay to give road crews time to salt the roads after the early morning ice storm.
Commissioner John A. McNally IV said county Administrator George J. Tablack and Clark Jones, county emergency management directdor, made the decision to close county facilities after they learned Youngstown State University would be closed.
McNally said Tablack and Jones did not consult with him concerning the closing decision.
“I think that, as chairman of the board, I should have been consulted,” McNally said.
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