Mahoning County traffic engineer receives reprimand


June 19, 2015 at 7:31p.m.

Donham Cease and Desist Letter

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Letter to Mayor Rob Donham in regards to computer use violation.

YOUNGSTOWN

Someone has blown the whistle on Mahoning County’s traffic engineer, alleging he improperly used a county-owned computer.

The county’s traffic engineer, Robert W. Donham II, has received a written reprimand from his boss for doing work on the computer for the village of Windham, where Donham is mayor, and for using that computer for personal business.

Besides Windham-related materials, Donham’s county computer contained fantasy football-related emails from September 2013 and a May 2014 letter rescinding his application to be Bedford city manager.

Donham, who does not punch a time clock at the engineer’s office, said he used his county computer for noncounty purposes, typically to check his email, during his breaks from work and not on county work time.

“I’m not going to tolerate that kind of activity on a county computer, whether it was accepted in the past or not,” said Donham’s boss, county Engineer Patrick Ginnetti, who added that a tipster alerted him to the matter.

Ginnetti said Donham told him he wasn’t aware that he wasn’t allowed to use a county-owned computer for noncounty purposes.

Donham told a Vindicator reporter the same thing and said Ginnetti’s predecessor, Richard Marsico, tolerated “incidental” use of county computers during work breaks. Marsico left office in January 2013 and died earlier this month.

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