YSU snubs Wick Neighbors' plea for closer ties

YOUNGSTOWN — A Youngstown State University committee doesn’t want Wick Neighbors Inc. to function as its development arm, but it would like to negotiate with the organization to acquire five parcels WNI owns in Smoky

Hollow.

Those were among the recommendations last week during a finance and facilities committee meeting of YSU trustees.

A YSU committee of trustees Harry Meshel and Leonard Schiavone; John Hyden, executive director of facilities, and Atty. Greg Morgione, associate general counsel, met with Wick Neighbors representatives on the future relationship between the two entities.

WNI submitted a proposal to the university to restructure itself “as a community development corporation formally partnered with YSU, serving as the development arm of the university,” material submitted to committee members said.

The organization would restructure its executive committee, allowing YSU the authority to appoint the WNI board chairman or chairwoman and the majority of seats on the executive committee.

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