So two Youngstown City Councilmen sit on the board of MYCAP, and "coincidentally" are also the Chair and Co-Chair of the City's CDA committee, a department which contracted with MYCAP up until the state investigation. Seems like a gross violation of ethics to me.
The state investigation "laid the blame for the sanction directly at the feet of MYCAP’s board of directors and its executive director" and is mandating that these board members "complete training that covers governance, ethics and the essential elements of federal- program administration."
And yet these two bother-in-laws are allowed to oversee a city department which deals primarily with federal funds???
If the state investigation says that these two individuals along with the rest of the board have not effectively ensured that "public funding is not put at risk of waste, fraud and abuse" at MYCAP, why should the voters of Youngstown expect their behavior to be any different regarding their council positions??
As was already stated in the Vindicator article titled “City makes constructive use of deconstruction program,” published on June 24, 2009, two houses were deconstructed as part of a pilot study to determine the feasibility of deconstruction in Youngstown. U.S. Green Building Materials was paid to completely DECONSTRUCT the homes in question. In doing so, an estimated $10,000 worth of building materials representing over 75%, or 165 tons, of the two structures was diverted from the landfill. Deconstruction of the houses also created 40 times the amount of labor hours (aka: new jobs) that would have been needed using traditional demolition methods. The June 24 article also states that “If selling salvaged material proves to be profitable for contractors, the city would pay the companies less money for future projects.”
It is interesting to note that, like the majority of houses on the city’s demolition list, many of the surface valuables of these two houses had already been stripped from them by vandals. Therefore, it is entirely false to suggest that the City of Youngstown has adopted the practice of paying companies to “strip” homes.
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State faults leadership at MYCAP, issues edict
So two Youngstown City Councilmen sit on the board of MYCAP, and "coincidentally" are also the Chair and Co-Chair of the City's CDA committee, a department which contracted with MYCAP up until the state investigation. Seems like a gross violation of ethics to me.
The state investigation "laid the blame for the sanction directly at the feet of MYCAP’s board of directors and its executive director" and is mandating that these board members "complete training that covers governance, ethics and the essential elements of federal- program administration."
And yet these two bother-in-laws are allowed to oversee a city department which deals primarily with federal funds???
If the state investigation says that these two individuals along with the rest of the board have not effectively ensured that "public funding is not put at risk of waste, fraud and abuse" at MYCAP, why should the voters of Youngstown expect their behavior to be any different regarding their council positions??
April 14, 2010 at 9:13 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Why pay to strip homes in Y’town?
http://www.vindy.com/news/2009/jul/26...
July 27, 2009 at 2:20 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Why pay to strip homes in Y’town?
As was already stated in the Vindicator article titled “City makes constructive use of deconstruction program,” published on June 24, 2009, two houses were deconstructed as part of a pilot study to determine the feasibility of deconstruction in Youngstown. U.S. Green Building Materials was paid to completely DECONSTRUCT the homes in question. In doing so, an estimated $10,000 worth of building materials representing over 75%, or 165 tons, of the two structures was diverted from the landfill. Deconstruction of the houses also created 40 times the amount of labor hours (aka: new jobs) that would have been needed using traditional demolition methods. The June 24 article also states that “If selling salvaged material proves to be profitable for contractors, the city would pay the companies less money for future projects.”
It is interesting to note that, like the majority of houses on the city’s demolition list, many of the surface valuables of these two houses had already been stripped from them by vandals. Therefore, it is entirely false to suggest that the City of Youngstown has adopted the practice of paying companies to “strip” homes.
July 27, 2009 at 2:15 p.m. permalink suggest removal