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Youngstown council belatedly approves 3 contracts

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

YOUNGSTOWN

City council unanimously passed three contracts Wednesday under which work was continuing even though they had expired at the end of December.

One of those contracts, an extension not to exceed $60,000 for the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp., had been taken off the April 1 agenda because council members Annie Gillam, D-1st, and Janet Tarpley, D-6th, had questions.

The two also questioned and criticized the YNDC at a council finance committee meeting April 8.

At the finance committee meeting before Wednesday’s meeting, Gillam said she received a clarification from T. Sharon Woodberry, the city’s director of community planning and economic development, that work done by YNDC so far this year will be paid for in the $60,000.

She also told The Vindicator she’s satisfied with additions to the contract regarding Oak Street, McGuffey Road and Oak Hill since last week’s finance meeting.

Read more about the agreement in Thursday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.