YMHA selects Carmelita Douglas as new exec director

YOUNGSTOWN — The five-member board of the Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority didn’t have to look far to get its new executive director.

The board today removed the interim title from Carmelita Douglas and made her director. The vote was unanimous.

Douglas is an 18-year authority employee. The board conducted a national search that yielded about 30 applicants, said David Turner, board chairman.

Douglas will remain interim executive director of the authority while details of her contract, including her salary, are negotiated, Turner said, adding that he hopes she can assume her new title before July 1.

Turner said Douglas was chosen because of her knowledge of the Youngstown metropolitan area and of the workings of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and her “commitment to serving the community.”

The executive director position at YMHA has been vacant since the departure of Clifford Scott, who left last July to become director of the Omaha Housing Authority in Nebraska.

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