Youngstown council ends final chapter with former Covelli Centre vendor

YOUNGSTOWN — City council fulfilled the last financial obligation necessary to dissolve its contract with the former food-and-beverage vendor at the city-owned Covelli Centre.

At its meeting today, council approved paying Centerplate $58,928 to cover the remaining inventory of food and beverage left at the center.

Centerplate was the center’s food-and-beverage vendor from October 2005 to this year. Now, JAC Management, the center’s day-to-day management company, has the food-and-beverage contract and under a new agreement, the city receives 29 percent of food-and-beverage profit instead of the 23 percent.

Since the new agreement took effect four weeks ago, the food-and-beverage vendor has grossed about $120,000, said Mayor Charles Sammarone.

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