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Mahoning OKs road closing
YOUNGSTOWN
Mahoning County commissioners approved the closing of Western Reserve Road between Raccoon and Detwiler roads between now and Nov. 20 for reconstruction and widening.
Western Reserve residents will have access to their homes, but that section of the road will be closed to through traffic during this time.
There is no access from Raccoon Road to Western Reserve because that intersection is being rebuilt, said Richard A. Marsico, county engineer.
There is access, however, from Detwiler Road to Western Reserve, said Marilyn Kenner, chief deputy county engineer.
Western Reserve is open to traffic between Detwiler and Tippecanoe roads, Marsico said.
The detour around the construction is via Tippecanoe and Leffingwell roads and state Route 46, Marsico said.
In a yearlong, $4 million project, Western Reserve is being widened between Tippecanoe and state Route 46 by workers from A.P. O’Horo Co. of Liberty.
Eighty percent of the money for the project is coming from federal highway funds and the rest from local funds.
In other action, the commissioners voted Thursday to advertise for bids for a computerized county-jail inmate-management system that will give deputy sheriffs, municipal, county and common-pleas court judges, and other court personnel up-to-date information on inmates to enable better management of the jail and the court dockets.
“We have a lot of frequent fliers. They do travel among a lot of the courts. So, it’s hard to keep track of who’s in Struthers and Campbell and know what their bond is,” and the new system will facilitate tracking of defendants, said Colleen Ingram, county court administrator.
The county received a $300,000 U.S. Department of Justice grant for this project in 2009.
The commissioners also heard David Turner, Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority commissioner, report that the authority board hopes to appoint a successor to Clifford Scott as its executive director by the end of March 2012.
A search committee has been appointed to find a replacement for Scott, who left in July to become chief executive officer of the Omaha Housing Authority in Nebraska. Carmelita Douglas is YMHA’s interim executive director.