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ohio national guard State board OKs $60K for local center’s project
By Marc Kovac
COLUMBUS
The state controlling board has approved nearly $60,000 for a window- and door-replacement project at the Ohio National Guard’s Youngstown Readiness Center, the former Christy Armory, on Victoria Road in Austintown.
The building was constructed in 1977, and the original doors and windows are “leaking, no longer energy efficient, and replacement would be more cost effective than repair,” according to documents. “The commercial life expectancy of windows and doors is 20 years.”
Jim Santini Builders Inc. from Columbiana County is handling the work.
In other business Monday, the board signed off on more than $65,000 to purchase 1,000 “direct reading dosimeters,” for use by emergency responders to detect radiation in case of an accident or incident in Ohio or near the Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Plant near Shippingport, Pa., not too far over the border from Columbiana County.
The detection devices will be purchased from North Dakota-based Arrow-Tech Inc., “the only remaining manufacturer of the pocket ion chamber direct reading dosimeter in the world,” according to documents.
The panel also released nearly $59,000 for residence hall shower replacements at the Trumbull Correctional Institution in Warren, near Leavittsburg.
The showers in one minimum-security area are more than 15 years old and in need of new tile and grout, according to documents.