-
Login
-
Digital Edition
-
Print Edition
- Most Commented
- Most Commented
- Most Emailed
- Most Emailed
- Popular
- Popular
« News Home
Youngstown to manage 20 Federal Place
Tweet
The Vindicator ( Youngstown)
The food court in 20 Federal Place downtown has seen an increase in tenants and business in recent years. Youngstown will take over management of the offi ce building Dec. 1.
YOUNGSTOWN
The city’s board of control voted to terminate the city’s contract with Louis Devicchio and Associates as manager of the city-owned 20 Federal Place Building as a cost-cutting measure.
The board, consisting of Mayor Charles P. Sammarone, Law Director Anthony Farris, and Finance Director David Bozanich unanimously approved giving Devicchio and Associates a 90-day notification of the city’s intent to terminate its contract as of Dec. 1.
The move will save the city about $75,000 a year, which is Devicchio’s portion of some $400,000 in contracts the managing firm subcontracted out for services such as maintenance, security and cleaning in the building, Bozanich said.
He said the city’s buildings and grounds department will take over Devicchio’s responsibilities as manager of 20 Federal Place Building. Bozanich said Devicchio and Associates improved the occupancy rate from 20 percent to 80 percent during its tenure as manager.
In other action, the board approved:
The lease of 14.6 acres at Ohio Works Industrial Park to V&M Star to store construction materials and pipe inventory for a one-time fee of $100. The lease starts this month and expires Aug. 1, 2012, with a one-year mutual-option extension.
Severance packages for several employees, including $12,566.94 for Jason Whitehead, the former chief of staff/secretary to the mayor, who lost his position Aug. 5, four days after his former boss, Jay Williams, resigned as mayor to take a job in the President Barack Obama administration.
The purchase of the property of the former Jitso’s Place, 2023 McGuffey Road, for $4,500. The East Side bar was declared a nuisance by a Mahoning County Common Pleas Court magistrate and permanently closed in June 2010. The city will demolish the building.
Comments
Maybe the City of Youngstown could use the savings to pay the county at least part of the $247,800 in delinquent property taxes it owes on 20 Federal Place.
Or maybe it could pay some of the $4.7 million in delinquent taxes it owes of the Covelli Centre, or the tens of thousands it owes in delinquent taxes on other downtown properties it uses for commercial purposes,
If the city engages in private enterprise and attempts to reap the profits of owning a private enterprise, it ought to pay its taxes.
How is it possible that the City is avoiding the taxes on these properties when former Treasurer Lisa Antonini made such a big deal of the $500,000 owed in back taxes on the Oak Hill complex?
If the city of Youngstown were given a solid steel ball they would ether steal it, brake it, or have sex with it
give me a "brake"
Why is it that people who don't know the difference between there, their & they're; than & then; and now brake and break have the time to be commenting on the newspaper items?
The way I see it the city took a worthless property in a dying downtown and has made it a vital piece of a thriving downtown with many buildings that are now paying taxes - If they earn some money in the meanwhile to help pay the cost of housing most of the valley's poor people and crime then all the better.
I highly doubt they'll use the money for that purpose.