WARREN — Approximately $5 million of the estimated $10.3 million remaining of American Rescue Plan Act funds was promised to 43 organizations during Tuesday afternoon’s Trumbull County commissioners workshop.

Commissioners Mauro Cantalamessa, Niki Frenchko and Denny Malloy worked through the approximately 80 requests the commissioners had remaining in its portal to identify “the low-hanging fruit” of requests that they definitely could approve.

They also identified requests they were not able to agree should receive a share of the money but wanted to look at again at a later date when they had more information or a smaller ask from the requests. There were approximately $19 million in requests against $10.3 million available.

Malloy asked County Auditor Martha Yoder to reach out to village of Green and Lordstown to see if they want to submit an application for some of the ARP money. Yoder said she will reach out to Mecca, West Farmington, Gustavus, as well as to the leader of the USS Oklahoma nonprofit to obtain information for the commissioners to review.

Two of the commissioners, Malloy and Cantalamessa, during Wednesday’s discussion, changed their maybe votes to yeses for Western Reserve Port Authority’s request for money for upgrades of the Youngstown Warren Regional Airport sanitary sewer lines.

The original request was for $585,000. On Tuesday, the commissioners said because other funds were available from state and federal governments, they likely would not support that request.

However, Port Authority representatives contacted Malloy overnight, suggesting they could do the sewer project for $350,000. Because of the importance of the Airport to the area’s growth, the commissioners agreed to support the revised request.

A request by the Greater Youngstown Urban League for $750,000 to assist in the building of Community Resource Centers to allow services to low-income and underserved population was voted down by all three commissioners.

Cantalamessa and Malloy are supporting Bishop David Heron’s $228,030 effort to expand vaccination and health clinic services with the Trumbull County Health Department and other agencies to support lower income residents.

Frenchko questioned whether the majority of people being served by the health clinic will be Warren city residents, rather than those living outside its boundaries. Heron noted that his church, Monument of Faith, is in Warren Township, not the city.

He also emphasized that the health clinic is a separate nonprofit organization from the church. It has been working closely with the Trumbull County Combined Health District in an effort to improve health outcomes of underserved people living on the southwest side of the city.