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New Youngstown mayor makes first appointment
TweetYOUNGSTOWN — On his last day as Youngstown mayor, Jay Williams delivered a farewell address thanking people for believing in him and electing him twice as the city’s mayor.
“Youngstown is being recognized as a community leading the slow but steady national economic recovery,” Williams said in today’s address at the city-owned Covelli Centre.
Jay Williams resigned today to be the executive director of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers in the President Barack Obama administration.
He was replaced by Charles Sammarone, who served as council president.
On Sammarone’s first day as Youngstown mayor, he appointed Councilman DeMaine Kitchen to serve as his right-hand man.
For the complete story, read Tuesday’s Vindicator and Vindy.com
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go ahead DeMaine
Mayor,
Your "DeMaine" priority should be to start the extermination process on the inner city. Might I suggest beginning on the southside.
I hope that "auto czar" Williams understands the political fallout of not bringing resolution to the Delphi Salaried retiree issue. If not resolved, Williams WILL be Obama's biggest Ohio liability in the 2012 elections. Don't forget it Jay!
Now that the useless mayor is gone lets start improving this city.
/ Youngstown is being recognized as a community leading the slow but steady national economic recovery /
What?
Someone tell me where any national economic recovery is showing...
Youngstown has turned the bend where and is leading what?
The unemployment numbers are still in double digit territory and that's with hordes of people no longer being counted because of benefit exhaustion. More like 20-30% unemployment in Youngstown proper.
We still have HUNDREDS of homes being abandoned each year. Property values are non existent. Violence against honest citizens continues at alarming pace.
The recent Census numbers surprised even our know-it-all leaders.
We can point to V&M and the unrealized completion of that project and the call center downtown. Whoopie. It's something, but it doesn't give this town any leadership stance.
38th rank for recent job growth, yes. Come back 12 months from now and let me know where Ytown then ranks.
Times aren't good here. Youngstown is in shambles.
Best Williams can do in his speech is say Youngstown is like everywhere else. That's more fiction. It's like tons of other messed up places people continue to flee from. Places that eat up tons of wealth imported from places that aren't so mismanaged and decayed.
Zero comments I've heard from WIlliams about the senseless killing over the weekend and all the other violence.
Public safety is issue number one in minds in every town. That issue is the Mayor's as he is in charge of the PD and the Police Chief.
Let's hope Williams stays in DC. He did a good job of being down there instead of being in Ytown doing things a Mayor should.
Hopefully the interim mayor will not waste taxpayer dollars by hiring on a curve instead of hiring the most qualified applicants. It's way past time to quit playing the 'race card'....
Congratulations DeMaine!! You've certainly made everyone who ever knew you proud =)