YOUNGSTOWN — For the second time in less than a month, the city’s board of control approved a six-figure reduction to the cost of a project to Mahoning Avenue, the main corridor on the West Side.

The board of control — the mayor, law director and finance director — voted 3-0 Thursday to reduce the contract given to Shelly & Sands Inc., with an office in Youngstown, by $469,584.

The reduction was for various items that weren’t needed in the original scope of the project, said Charles Shasho, the city’s deputy director of public works. That included driveway approaches, manhole grading and certain sidewalks, he said.

“We got a good product in the end,” Shasho said.

The board of control reduced the contract Oct. 23 by $687,795, largely because there was money built into the project for pavement repair work, and none was needed, Shasho said.

The change order Thursday is the final one for this project that finished months ago, Shasho said.

Shelly & Sands was originally hired for the work with a low bid of $4,020,491. With the reductions, the final cost is $2,863,112.

The city received a $2.6 million federal grant through the state for the project with $350,000 of the city’s American Rescue Plan funds set aside for it. The final cost is less than the funding sources. The city also planned to use money from its auto license fee budget to pay any additional costs for the project.

The work on Mahoning Avenue went from Meridian Road to the Interstate 680 interchange and included road resurfacing, drainage improvements, new curbs, sidewalk work, medians and larger street signs.

The board of control also voted 3-0 to increase the costs for three projects that improve city parks. City council set aside $10.5 million in ARP funds for the work to the parks.

The largest increase is $88,450 to Marucci & Gaffney Excavating Co. of Youngstown, which is handling improvement work to Borts Field, Wick Park and the Richard W. and Eugenia C. Atkinson Recreation Center and Park.

The main increases are for improving the Borts parking lot and its bathrooms, and pavement repairs and tree removal at Wick, Shasho said.

It brings the total cost of the project to $1,457,000.

Also, the board approved paying $83,095 more to Declan Construction Inc. of Brookfield, which is doing work at nine city park locations.

The largest increases are at the Henry Stambaugh Golf Course for a storage building and additional costs for a golf simulator, Shasho said.

The change orders bring Declan’s contract cost to $4,049,750.

Shasho said an additional $40,000 change order for Declan for security cameras at each of the nine parks will be considered Dec. 4 by the board of control.

The third ARP-funded park change order is for $5,649 to Murphy Contracting Co. of Youngstown, which is doing work to West End Park and Pemberton Park.

The increase is for changes to batting cages at Pemberton, Shasho said.

With the additional work, the contract increased to $1,361,354.