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Youngstown to manage 20 Federal Place
The Vindicator ( Youngstown)
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The food court in 20 Federal Place downtown has seen an increase in tenants and business in recent years. Youngstown will take over management of the offi ce building Dec. 1.
YOUNGSTOWN
The city’s board of control voted to terminate the city’s contract with Louis Devicchio and Associates as manager of the city-owned 20 Federal Place Building as a cost-cutting measure.
The board, consisting of Mayor Charles P. Sammarone, Law Director Anthony Farris, and Finance Director David Bozanich unanimously approved giving Devicchio and Associates a 90-day notification of the city’s intent to terminate its contract as of Dec. 1.
The move will save the city about $75,000 a year, which is Devicchio’s portion of some $400,000 in contracts the managing firm subcontracted out for services such as maintenance, security and cleaning in the building, Bozanich said.
He said the city’s buildings and grounds department will take over Devicchio’s responsibilities as manager of 20 Federal Place Building. Bozanich said Devicchio and Associates improved the occupancy rate from 20 percent to 80 percent during its tenure as manager.
In other action, the board approved:
The lease of 14.6 acres at Ohio Works Industrial Park to V&M Star to store construction materials and pipe inventory for a one-time fee of $100. The lease starts this month and expires Aug. 1, 2012, with a one-year mutual-option extension.
Severance packages for several employees, including $12,566.94 for Jason Whitehead, the former chief of staff/secretary to the mayor, who lost his position Aug. 5, four days after his former boss, Jay Williams, resigned as mayor to take a job in the President Barack Obama administration.
The purchase of the property of the former Jitso’s Place, 2023 McGuffey Road, for $4,500. The East Side bar was declared a nuisance by a Mahoning County Common Pleas Court magistrate and permanently closed in June 2010. The city will demolish the building.