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New budget analyst, payroll director join county
YOUNGSTOWN
Two new key employees have joined the Mahoning County Auditor’s Office, Auditor Ralph T. Meacham told the county commissioners as he introduced them Thursday.
Elizabeth Petrie joined the office three weeks ago as the new budget and tax analyst, replacing Anthony Magnetta, who resigned April 17. Petrie will earn $48,000 a year.
Magnetta, who had been with the county since May 1999, earned $63,766 annually when he left.
Petrie previously worked for BP locally and in Chicago and for Talisman Energy in Pittsburgh.
Patrick Flanagan has been the county payroll director for three days, replacing Thomas Lyden, who resigned, effective July 10, to become a payroll systems analyst at the Cleveland Clinic.
Lyden, who joined the county in August 2005, earned $56,430 annually when he left.
Flanagan, who will earn $63,000 a year here, previously worked in accounting and payroll director functions at RG Steel in Warren and, most recently, was payroll manager at the Summit County Board of Developmental Disabilities.
County Engineer Patrick Ginnetti announced that this year’s county road paving program is now underway, with the heavily traveled Indianola Road in Boardman having been milled and a tar layer having been applied in preparation for repaving it with asphalt.
“Be patient on the roads that we’re working on. It’s going to be a slight inconvenience while we’re paving them,” he advised motorists.
“When the roads are done, they’ll be much smoother,” he said.
Lowellville Mayor James Iudiciani announced that the Ohio Public Works Commission provided $669,000 toward repair of the village’s $853,000 in estimated flood damage from heavy rains earlier this summer.
The village is struggling to come up with about $167,000 in matching funds, he said.
Iudiciani thanked the commissioners for their efforts to secure funds to help the village.
He said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was in the village Thursday to study the flooding problem in the McGill and Walnut street areas and its remedies.
CSX is studying drainage issues along its inactive railroad line that used to serve the Carbon-Limestone landfill area in Poland Township, he said.
“Along the inactive rail line, there are culverts that aren’t functioning, and they’re impounding water,” Ginnetti observed.
“If those impoundments let go, they might be taking a house out,” he warned.