Mar 4, 2021
Members of Steubenville City Council made a wise decision when they approved a two-year contract extension for City Manager James Mavromatis.
Mavromatis, who has been on the job for five years, has brought a no-nonsense style of management to the post, and his leadership has helped the city navigate several difficult issues.
As he told members of the Steubenville Rotary Club last month, those challenges included having to deal with lawsuits and consent decrees from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, a bomb scare at the former Macy’s department store in the Fort Steuben Mall and an outage that led to most of the downtown being left without water for several days.
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Members of Steubenville City Council will face an easy decision when they meet Tuesday.
They’ll be asked to consider emergency legislation that will allow Fire Chief Carlo Capaldi to hire three additional firefighters to help staff the city’s ambulance service.
It’s a request they should say yes to.
Added personnel will help the city put a second ambulance into operation while reducing some of the strain the department has been under since launching its EMT service in October.
The need is certainly there. Capaldi told councilmembers at last Tuesday’s meeting the city has been averaging between nine and 10 ambulance calls a day. That has led to revenue of $46,000 a number that is likely to grow as those payments can lag as much as six months behind. Original projections had anticipated bringing $715,000 in EMS revenue into city coffers, money that would cover the cost six people to staff ambulances.