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Mahoning County commissioners approve routine bids, grants, travel and contracts; summary of votes
Summary
Mahoning County commissioners approved routine bids, travel, vendor agreements, sponsorships and contracts on March 6, including recycling bid advertisements, travel for public-safety staff, vendor advertising agreements, and a three-year siren maintenance contract.
The Mahoning County Board of Commissioners approved a series of routine administrative actions on March 6, including advertisements for bids, travel authorizations, vendor agreements, change orders, and multiple resolutions.
Votes at a glance (all items listed below were approved by roll call unless otherwise noted):
- Advertisement for bids: single-stream and institutional paper recycling (serving over 100 locations) — approved (roll call: Commissioner DeFavio: Yes; Commissioner Mediroghetti: Yes; Commissioner Trafficante: Yes).
- Travel: Data department request to attend the Motorola Summit 2025 in Grapevine, Texas, May 12–15, estimated $6,888 (general fund) — approved.
- Travel: Solid-waste staff to attend Waste Expo in Las Vegas (largest North American solid-waste conference) — approved.
- Agreements: Great Lakes Publishing advertising services, $50,000 (general fund); Henley Graphic Communications distribution of travel guides, $3,660 (non-general); Quest Digital LLC digital advertising, $20,000 (non-general) — all approved.
- Jobs and Family Services: Grant agreement listed as “my cat for home services program” $700,000 (non-general fund) — approved (description in transcript: "my cat"; further program details not specified in the meeting record).
- Lodging agreements to relocate clients during work: Youngstown 62 LLC (Fairfield Inn) $75,000 (non-general) and Youngstown 78 LLC (Residence Inn) $75,000 (non-general) — approved.
- Sanitary engineering agreements: SCT Incorporated emergency manhole repairs estimated $10,000 (non-general); utility contracting emergency store replacement on Michigan Avenue estimated $10,000 (non-general); Minicam Incorporated TV inspection truck repairs estimated $4,500 (non-general) — approved.
- Change order: NJD Excavating, change order no. 1 to extend composting storage structure contract date to June 1, 2025; transcript indicates no change in amount but references $67,849 (general fund) — approved.
- Resolutions and sponsorships: $7,500 sponsorship grant for the American Junior Golf Association All-Star Tournament at Mill Creek Golf Course (June tournament); $6,000 sponsorship for the Youngstown Class G World Series at Steens Park and Struthers — approved.
- Appointments: Mahoning County Transportation Improvement District board of trustees appointed (two-year terms): Anthony Traficani (Mahoning County commissioner), county engineer, Ralph Meacham (Mahoning County auditor), James Kinnick (executive director, Eastgate Council of Governments), and Joseph Muccio (Sanitary Engineering Department) — approved.
- Agreement with the city of Campbell: Murray Avenue improvement project, $200,000 (resolution 2408036) — approved.
- Jobs and Family Services resolution: application to Direction Home of Eastern Ohio for Adult Protective Services, $165,000 — approved.
- EMA: three-year contract for maintenance and service of the county’s 52-siren network — approved.
Most items received only brief presentation by department staff; commissioners conducted roll-call votes and approved the items as presented. For several motions the mover and seconder were not named in the transcript; roll-call yes votes were recorded individually.
