Mahoning auditor: County must do more long-range planning

January 11, 2016 at 9:55p.m.

YOUNGSTOWN — Mahoning County needs to emphasize long-range planning as it enters 2016, county Auditor Ralph Meacham told the county commissioners.

“We need a harder look at our long-range planning” aimed at achieving “a more-formalized and detailed,” vision for the future, Meacham said today during his annual financial state of the county address.

“If we’re going to control the expenses of the county, we have to address that,” he said.

“We have to get a plan for Oakhill” Renaissance Place, the former hospital the county acquired in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in 2007 and uses as a county office complex, Meacham told the commissioners.

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