Trumbull engineer presents low-cost demo plan

WARREN — Trumbull County Engineer Randy Smith presented a plan to about a dozen township and village officials today that would enable them to carry out low-cost demolitions to help eliminate blight in their communities.

Demolitions could be carried out following a model demonstrated at 317 Scott St. in Warren two weeks ago, when Smith deployed heavy equipment such as dump trucks, excavator and front loader secured from U.S. military surplus to demolish a vacant home where a woman was found dead on the front porch Sept. 23, presumably from a drug overdose.

Smith said he is proposing that a coordinator from his office be appointed to oversee the demolitions in much the same way that Jack Simon has been coordinator in recent years for road-use and maintenance agreements involving gas and oil drilling.

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