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YOUNGSTOWN City council will consider legislation Wednesday to retain its planning consultant for another year at a rate of up to $75,000.
Based on discussion at Monday’s council finance committee meeting, the contract is expected to be approved Wednesday.
The professional services contract is with Hunter Morrison, who has served as the city’s planning consultant since August 2019.
The contract calls for Morrison to be paid $75 per hour, up to $75,000 for the year, retroactive to Jan. 1.
While the city is already two months into this contract, it is acting quicker than it did last year when the administration didn’t ask council to approve Morrison’s 2020 contract until its May 22 meeting.
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The Western Reserve Transit Authority has come up with a way to celebrate “Ohio Loves Transit Day.” The agency is asking riders “Who do you love?” and giving them a way to answer that question in a big way with a “Valley Valentine.”
Ohio Loves Transit Day, a campaign of the Ohio Public Transit Association, is held every year on Valentine’s Day to highlight the importance of public transportation to Ohio residents. To celebrate this year, WRTA is inviting its riders to send a giant Valentine to a spouse, significant other, children or grandchildren.
The first 14 people who submit a form on WRTA’s website indicating to whom they want to send their love will have a Valentine with their names created and shown on the video display above Federal Station in downtown Youngstown. Pictures of the winning valentines will be taken and shared on WRTA’s website and on social media.
Trumbull County Transit Board members last week publicly railed against Trumbull County commissioners, questioning a “lack of direction” and purpose for the board to which commissioners appointed them.
Three members of the board have now resigned including chairman Duane Hennen, who delivered his resignation last week, stating, “There is nothing for us to do.”
One board seat has remained open for quite some time. Hennen’s resignation and the previous week’s resignation of member Marlene Rhodes has brought the vacancies to three.
Rhodes stated in her resignation letter she saw “no further use for the Trumbull Transit Board” since accomplishing the goal of paying off the board’s debt to its former contractor, Community Bus Services. The board owed millions to the bus company for contracts in 2018 and 2019, but paid off the last of the debt in December.
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WARREN The Western Reserve Transit Authority today is expected to consider a recommendation to fund a transportation program in Trumbull County administered through the county commissioners and transit administrator.
WRTA put out a request for proposals for services to continue the program county commissioners now run. The proposal would take $54,000 in matching dollars from a local source, and would use $54,000 in federal funding through the Federal Transportation Administration, Trumbull County transit administrator Mike Salamone said. The grant is for general public transit.
A WRTA subcommittee reviewed the proposal and is recommending the full WRTA board accept it. If WRTA does so, Trumbull County commissioners next week are expected to approve the project. The project is being processed jointly between WRTA and the county because WRTA took over the administration of the federal program that typically provided the funds in the past. Salamone said the WRTA