Youngstown council to vote on new water meters, police contract report

YOUNGSTOWN

City council will consider a proposal Wednesday to move ahead with a $14 million project to replace all its water meters starting in late 2015.

The ordinance would authorize the board of control to enter into a contract for the project.

There won’t be a water-rate increase for this project as the city raised the rate by 8.75 percent annually the past five years, he said.

The work would start slow in 2015 and rev up in 2016 through 2020, Johnson said.

The meters aren’t accurate, Johnson said

When the new meters are installed, there will be no need to retain water-meter readers, who travel to the meters, as that work will be done from the water department office, he said.

Also today, council will consider a recommendation from the administration to accept a nonbinding fact-finder report on a three-year contract with the Youngstown Ranking Police Officers union.

Read more about the matters in Wednesday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.