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Project at V&M forges aheadSFlb
Ky. company hired to build water tank
YOUNGSTOWN
The board of control hired a Louisville, Ky., company for $2.16 million to build a 500,000-gallon water tank for V&M Star with the company reimbursing the city for the project’s cost.
The board selected Caldwell Tanks, the lowest of two proposals for the project, at its Thursday meeting.
Caldwell has until Dec. 31 to finish the project, but city Finance Director David Bozanich, a board of control member, said the company is expected to be done with the work by the end of September.
V&M’s $650 million expansion is scheduled to be finished by the end of this year.
The tank will provide water to V&M’s mill off Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and to its new facility, Bozanich said.
Some smaller businesses near V&M also would receive water from this tank, he said.
The board also agreed to exempt V&M from paying $146,497 in building, sewer, water and zoning-permit fees for the new mill.
In other action, the board extended the contract of the administrator of the rental-property registration and inspection program on a month-to-month basis.
Maureen O’Neil’s contract with the city expired Monday. The contract is retroactive to that day.
She’ll be paid $2,225 a month, the amount she was paid in her original 18-month contract, from money the city receives from the federal government’s Community Development Block Grant.
The board voted to extend her contract for up to 11 months. But Mayor Jay Williams, board chairman, said this temporary measure should be in place for only two to three months.
The city administration is looking at how the registration and inspection program can coordinate efforts with code enforcement and neighborhood-services programs, Williams said.
The program is likely to remain affiliated with the city’s community development agency, and it’s a “distinct possibility” that O’Neil’s salary would come from federal money given to the city, Williams said.