Youngstown approved $1.23M in contracts to relocate its health department

By David Skolnick | January 27, 2017 at 12:00a.m.

YOUNGSTOWN

The city’s board of control approved $1.23 million worth of contracts for a project to move the city health department to the city hall annex.

The annex at the corner of Front and Market streets is under construction to be the new home of the municipal court – a project slated to be finished in September.

The board of control approved five contracts Thursday to use about 8,000 square feet at the annex to house the health department. The work at the new health-department location will be finished between September and early 2018, said Charles Shasho, the city’s deputy director of public works.

The city is paying $173,000 annually to Mahoning County for about 12,000 square feet of space at Oakhill Renaissance Place on Oak Hill Avenue, its home for about a dozen years.

The annex location for the health department is smaller, but large enough to accommodate the department, Mayor John A. McNally said.

Also, the city will save money not paying rent to the county for health-department rental space and will have the department in a city-owned building downtown, he said.

The health-department proposals were opened Dec. 16 with the lowest submissions approved by the board.

The contracts are:

$487,500 to Murphy Contracting Co. of Youngstown as the general contractor. The city’s estimate for the work was $680,000.

$386,910 to D&G Mechanical Inc. of West Middlesex, Pa., for heating, ventilation and air conditioning. The city estimate was $546,000.

$239,211 to Tri-Area Electric Co. of Youngstown for electrical work. The estimate was $365,000.

$80,821 to Antenucci Inc. of Warren for the plumbing contract. The estimate was $82,000.

$33,282 to Fire Foe Co. of Girard for fire protection. The estimate was $49,000.

All of the contractors already are working on the municipal court phase of the project, Shasho said.

RL Hill Management of Solon had submitted a $1,116,932 combined proposal for the entire job. But that offer was rejected because the company failed to include the HVAC work, Shasho said.