Youngstown council to consider more demolitions
Staff report
YOUNGSTOWN
City council today will consider legislation that would move forward the city’s plans to more aggressively pursue demolition of structures this year.
Council is slated to vote on an ordinance authorizing the board of control to advertise for bids and enter into a contract for “asbestos abatement, demolition, site clearance, backfill, grading and seeding of various structures” in the city.
The estimated price tag of the 2017 demolition program is $3.5 million, according to the proposed ordinance. That work will be funded through the city’s environmental sanitation fund.
In other business, council is slated to vote on legislation authorizing the board of control to advertise for bids and enter into a contract for asbestos abatement, demolition, waste disposal and soil remediation at the former City Asphalt facility on Gibson Street. The estimated cost of that project is $500,000.
Also up for consideration is an ordinance related to the city’s plan to build an outdoor amphitheater. City council could authorize the board of control to contract with MKSK, a Columbus-based landscape architecture firm, for its design and construction management services.
The estimated cost of those services, according to the proposed ordinance, is $800,000.
Also, council will consider an ordinance authorizing the board of control to enter into a development agreement with Fireline Inc., an industrial ceramics manufacturing company. That agreement would give the company up to $350,000 in grant funding for expansion of its facility at 300 Andrews Ave.
Council also will consider an ordinance that would allow the city to transfer the deeds to two vacant lots on Oak Street to Fireline for “economic development purposes.”
The company is planning to invest approximately $5.7 million in the project, which will add 25,000 square feet of space to its existing facility.
Council will meet at 5:30 p.m. in its chambers on the sixth floor of city hall.