YOUNGSTOWN – City council on Wednesday will consider authorizing the board of control to sign a design and planning contract to repave three main streets on Youngstown’s West Side.

The professional services agreement would be for up to $50,000 with $27,000 reimbursed from the Ohio Public Works Commission.

The hired firm would provide planning, design and construction engineering services for a 2026 project to improve portions of Marshall Street, Salt Springs Road and North Belle Vista Avenue, said Charles Shasho, the city’s deputy director of public works.

The design work would start in August, but the project won’t begin until summer 2026, Shasho said.

The project is estimated to cost about $1.55 million, with the state covering 80% of the expense and the city providing the remaining 20%.

The work includes paving, and installing handicapped-accessible ramps and signage, Shasho said.

The work would be to:

• Marshall Street from Glenwood to Oak Hill avenues.

• North Belle Vista Avenue from Mahoning Avenue to Salt Springs Road.

• Salt Springs Road from the Interstate 680 ramp to Steel Street.

Council will also consider legislation Wednesday to enter into an agreement with the Ohio Department of Transportation to accept a $300,000 Safe Routes to School program grant to make improvements near Volney Rogers Elementary School, a K-5 school at 310 S. Schenley Road and Youngstown Preschool, the former Kirkmere Elementary School at 2851 Kirk Road.

The project, to be done this year near both schools, includes installing barrier-free curb ramps that are compliant with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act, the removal and replacement of concrete sidewalks, pavement markings and the installation of school traffic control signs.

The city has received close to $1 million in state Safe Routes to School funds for projects near various schools in Youngstown since the program began in 2015.

City council is being asked Wednesday to approve a $100,827 payment to A.P. O’Horo Co. of Liberty for emergency repairs made to a 24-inch water main on West Newport Drive in Mill Creek Park.

The break occurred Dec. 21 on the concrete mainline with city water department workers unable to perform the required repair work, according to an ordinance sponsored by Mayor Jamael Tito Brown.

A.P. O’Horo was called in to make the emergency repairs with the formal bidding process waived.