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Neighborhood Assistance details lead-hazard grant, home-repair progress and rising animal/jail contract costs
Summary
Director Eupren Lash outlined neighborhood services' priorities: closing a $1.8M grant, administering a $7.75M lead-hazard grant, completing 308 home repairs to date, and negotiating higher-cost animal-control and jail-bed contracts as part of a broader cost-rightsizing effort.
Neighborhood Assistance officials presented the department's 2026 priorities and laid out several substantial grant-funded programs alongside negotiated intergovernmental contracts that will change the city's service costs.
Director Eupren Lash told council the department is working to close a $1.8 million Less Safe Ohio grant by August 2026 and is administering a $7.75 million lead-hazard reduction demonstration grant that runs through 2029. Lash said the city has completed 308 homes under the Akran home-repair program so far, representing about…
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