Boardman library may be warmer than usual

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

The Boardman public library will remain open despite reduced air-conditioning due to the failure of a condensing unit, said Carlton Sears, library director.

Sears said replacing the condensing system, which has been in service since the branch’s 1992 opening, will cost about $53,000 and take about 21/2 weeks.

Air conditioning there will be adequate, except when the outside temperature is in the upper 80s and 90s, Sears said Wednesday. Cooling fans will be used, if necessary, he added.

During a meeting at the Newport branch, trustees of the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County authorized their building and sites committee to award construction contracts for the new $1.7 million Jackson-Milton library branch.

Bids for that project will be opened at noon Tuesday at the main library on Wick Avenue, and library officials hope to conduct a ceremonial ground breaking in late July for the Jackson-Milton library, which will be built on school-donated land near the intersection of Mahoning Avenue and Duck Creek Road.

For the general fund, trustees approved a revised 2012 budget of $17.7 million and a preliminary 2013 budget of $18.2 million. The general fund is the 16-branch library system’s main operating fund.