YOUNGSTOWN — The city’s board of control approved the $1 purchase of a West Side property from Mill Creek MetroParks and will turn it over to the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp. for future development.

The board voted 3-0 Thursday to obtain the title to 900 Old Furnace Road, the former longtime home of the Mill Creek superintendent. It was last used for that purpose about 20 years ago.

The park has since used the property for storage and office space.

YNDC plans to renovate the property and is looking at the best use for it.

The board of control also approved a $14,500 grant to YO! Crash and a $3,800 grant to Moe’s Lebanese Cuisine in the 20 Federal Place food court from the city’s COVID-19 Microenterprise Grant Program.

The city received federal funds to provide to eligible businesses adversely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The board voted to pay $4,987.50 to James E. Rimmel, who served as the fact-finder in contract negotiations with the firefighters union. The union pays the same amount to Rimmel.

Rimmel had proposed a three-year contract that included 1 percent annual raises as well as 1.25 percent “pandemic lump sum” bonuses in the first two years of the deal. Both sides rejected the proposal in May.

The two sides are negotiating, but if that fails, a deal would be resolved in binding arbitration.