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rsmith@tribtoday.com WARREN — City council members voted 6 to 4 Wednesday to allow the city law director to create a new position in the law department that does not have a job description, while eliminating an attorney in the department. The new legislative aide / projects and contracts coordinator will earn approximately $52,000 per year, which is $13,000 less than it would cost to hire a lawyer, according to Law Director Enzo Cantalamessa. Council members Ken MacPherson, D-5th Ward; Cheryl Saffold, D-6th Ward; Ronald White, D-7th Ward; and Helen Rucker, D-at Large, voted against creating...

rsmith@tribtoday.com WARREN — Four new police Ford Explorers that were ordered in January this year from Klaben Ford are patrolling the city streets. Officials are hoping to get more new vehicles sometime in 2021 or 2022. Each of the basic SUV models cost the department $33,000. However, in order to make them fully functional police vehicles, the department spent an additional $17,000 per vehicle to install internet and GPS, cages in the vehicle’s rear seats, and center consoles that hold gun racks. The total cost for the vehicles was $175,495, according to city Auditor Vince Flask. The...

rsmith@tribtoday.com WARREN — City council approved emergency legislation Wednesday to allow the city’s Water Pollution Control Department to get out of a messy situation at its offices. A failure of a pump system behind the administration building during the early morning of Nov. 24 sent hundreds of gallons of polymer-filled sludge into seven rooms of the building, destroying carpet, drywall and office equipment. Cleanup of the offices already has cost the city more than $39,000 and is expected to cost thousands more, according to Law Director Enzo Cantalamessa. The legislation passed by...