JAC Management Group will continue running day-to-day operations of the Covelli Centre.

JAC Management Group will continue running day-to-day operations of the Covelli Centre.

YOUNGSTOWN — The board of control finalized a five-year contract extension today to keep JAC Management Group running the day-to-day operations of the city-owned Covelli Centre.

JAC will decide Friday on another season for the Youngstown Phantoms junior hockey team to play its home games at the center. The company will also negotiate with Covelli Enterprises on the center’s naming rights, which expired last month, and SMG, the center’s national booking consultant, on a contract extension, but at a reduced cost.

JAC’s new contract begins Jan. 1, 2014.

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