Saturday, August 29, 2015
YOUNGSTOWN
The Mahoning County commissioners approved issuing bond notes for more than $5.3 million worth of projects, most of them water supply or sanitary-sewer related.
The total approved Thursday is for $2,440,000 for improving the Boardman and Craig Beach waste-treatment plants; $390,000 for water supply-line installations and related improvements and $575,000 for sanitary-sewer installations and improvements, both in Milton Township; $425,000 for sanitary-sewer installation in Pineview Drive in Austintown; $370,000 to buy a storm-sewer cleaning truck for the county engineer’s office; $700,000 to resurface North Turner Road and Norquest Boulevard in Austintown; and $445,000 to acquire and install a new telephone system and servers for the county’s Department of Job and Family Services and a county data-processing backup system.
The Milton Township waterline and sanitary-sewer installations are re-financings of current debt. The other five items are new projects.
“You have plenty of room in your debt limits for this debt,” Atty. Pamela Hanover of Cleveland, the commissioners’ bond counsel, told the panel.
In other business, commissioners approved an $8,000 agreement with Liberty Tire Recycling of Minerva to provide a container and hauling services for tires found on county roads.
Additionally, they approved a $10,720 agreement with Herbert, Roland and Grubic Inc. of Hermitage, Pa., for a preliminary engineering study for a Lanterman Road sanitary-sewer extension that would serve 21 Austintown homes.
They also awarded a $69,457 Garfield Road bridge rehabilitation contract to Craig Susany Inc. of North Lima.
The commissioners’ next meeting is set for 9 a.m. Thursday in the Ohio State University Extension Office, 490 S. Broad St., Canfield, across state Route 46 from the Canfield Fair, which they will formally open immediately after the meeting.