Youngstown customers getting new water meters

YOUNGSTOWN

The board of control authorized a $6.69 million contract today to purchase about 52,000 water meters.

The meter replacement project at all city water customers will start later this year and is expected to finish in 2020, said Water Commissioner Harry L. Johnson III.

The last meter-replacement project was in 1988, and the meters are supposed to last about 15 years, Johnson said.

The contract is with Senus, based in Raleigh, N.C.

Also today, the board approved paying its insurance company for legal fees to HCC Public Risk Claim Service, its insurance company. The city has a $50,000 deductible.

The biggest expenses were for legal fees related to two federal cases the city won. One was for $38,956 and another was for $29,341.

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