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YOUNGSTOWN -- The city's board of control signed a $12,500 agreement to buy the clubhouse of the Afro Dogs Motorcycle Club as part of a major wastewater improvement project.
The three parcels at 530 Gibson Ave. will be used as part of the city's planned $170 million, 80-million-gallon-per-day wet weather facility to improve its wastewater system. The structures in the facility would treat excess combined sewage during heavy rainstorms and then release the water.
The parcels that were owned by the club will be used for the "grit and screening" building -- one of six contracts for the project, said Charles Shasho, the city's deputy director of public works. Those parcels are in the middle of the project's location on the west side of Gibson Street by the Poland Avenue intersection.
City Council on July 15 gave the board of control permission to buy the Afro Dogs property as well as spend up to $250,000 to acquire about 35 parcels and allow the board of control to enter into agreements for temporary access and permanent easements.
The board voted 2-0 Thursday on the Afro Dogs property purchase. The board consists of Mayor Derrick McDowell, Finance Director Kyle Miasek and Law Director Adam Buente. Buente was absent from the meeting.
Shasho said those other acquisitions will be done separately with several items coming to the board as the agreements are reached.
The wet weather facility project includes multiple buildings, pump stations and tunnels.
The wet weather project will start this fall with early preparation work, such as grading work, Shasho said.
The project must be finished by 2030 under a federal consent decree.
Also Thursday, the board increased a contract by $38,695.36 for a riverfront project on the lower West Side.
With the increase, the contract with Marucci & Gaffney Excavating Co. of Youngstown increased to $2,042,725.96.
The additional work was for electrical upgrades, Shasho said.
The project is nearing completion, he said.
The project is from Spring Commons Park to West Avenue, along the Mahoning River.
The work includes new floating docks for canoe and kayak use, parking lot improvements, a concrete walkway from Spring Commons Park -- by the B&O Station Banquet Hall -- to the West Avenue boat launch, new picnic areas and gathering spaces, stone retaining walls, the resurfacing of B&O Station Drive, a small pergola and a new restroom.
Funding for the project comes from a state grant, using federal American Rescue Plan dollars.
The board also agreed to $10,264.85 worth of change orders for bus-related work at Thursday's meeting.
With the increase, Parella-Pannunzio Inc. of Youngstown is getting $234,431.85 for the work.
The largest part of the job is the installation of a bus pull-off on Market Street, near Federal Street, for OH WOW! The Roger & Gloria Jones Children's Center for Science & Technology.
But the increase is connected to the other piece -- installing three bus shelters on Fifth Avenue near Youngstown State University.
The increase is to add handicapped accessibility by the bus shelters, Shasho said.
There will be other change orders for the work, including deductions, Shasho said.
The project is ongoing and should be done soon, he said.
The board voted to pay $10,938 to Landscape by Design Inc. of Hubbard for materials, labor and equipment to clean up and make brick repairs to an outdoor patio on the corner of Champion and Boardman streets.
The location fell into disrepair and with a $2.86 million improvement project to the area recently finished, it "sticks out like a sore thumb," Shasho said.