Youngstown council to consider three expired contracts Wednesday

YOUNGSTOWN — City council will consider Wednesday authorizing the board of control to renew three expired professional-service contracts, all retroactive to Jan. 1.

“We recognize there is an issue with keeping track of some contracts,” said Anthony Donofrio, the city’s deputy law director. “We have a process in place that will allow us to do better keeping track of them.”

Contracts of at least a year are being identified by the law department, primarily after the deals are approved by the board of control, and put into a computer database, said Mark D’Apolito, an assistant law director and law department’s monitor coordinator.

The system will provide alerts when contracts are getting close to their expiration dates, some 30 days and others in 90 days, depending on what they are, he said.

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