City approves $100,000 payment to officers

YOUNGSTOWN — The city’s board of control agreed today to pay about $100,000 to take two police officers off of the payroll.

The board voted at a special meeting to pay $70,000 in back pay and damages to Patrolman Daniel Tickerhoof, improperly fired by the city in September 2006.

As part of the settlement, Tickerhoof is leaving the Youngstown Police Department. He works for the police department in Canal Fulton, where he’s lived for about three years.

The city fired Tickerhoof because he moved from Youngstown a few months after the state Legislature overturned residency requirement laws in cities such as Youngstown.

Youngstown rehired Tickerhoof, who works for the Canal Fulton department, in July after the Ohio Supreme Court upheld the Legislature’s decision.

The board of control also approved a $24,744.58 severance payment today to former Lt. Thomas Mylott for unused sick and vacation time.

Mylott was among seven ranking police officers in Youngstown to take an early-retirement buyout. The deal is a year’s base salary paid equally over five years.

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