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Staff writer STEUBENVILLE — Now that city coffers are rebounding from the pandemic, council signaled Tuesday it’s ready to tweak the Table of Organization to make room for an animal control officer. Finance Director Dave Lewis told council the city’s financial health is much improved from a year ago, so adjusting the TO to add an animal control officer to the police department roster is doable. “The money is there, if that’s what you want to do,” he said. “Right now, we’re showing a $942,000 general fund surplus.” Third Ward Councilman Eric Timmons had been lobbying for the change, telling council the time to act is before someone is seriously hurt.
Staff writer STEUBENVILLE — City Council introduced legislation Tuesday aimed at beefing up the fines for parking commercial trucks in residential areas. The proposed legislation grew out of a 90-minute safety committee meeting, which preceded council’s weekly meeting. Also discussed in the committee setting were the need for a dedicated animal control officer, revisiting archaic taxi cab regulations and how best to mark handicapped parking places. The amendment, as proposed, would bump the fine for a first offense up to a mandatory $150. For a second offense, the mandatory fine would be $250, and for a third offense, $500. Council also asked law director Costa Mastros to include language holding offenders accountable for towing and boot costs.
lharris@heraldstaronline.com STEUBENVILLE — Urban Projects Director Chris Petrossi told City Council Tuesday the nationally known retailer eyeing the old Grant School site before the pandemic is back in the picture. Petrossi said the company, which has never been identified, “put (its) search on hold for the pandemic but they’re back, actively looking at the community again.” In October 2019 — before the pandemic — council agreed to rezone the property to central business district (B-1), paving the way for that unidentified retail developer to come forward with plans for the 0.94-acre site. Petrossi said a 1-acre site is the developer’s sweet spot.
STEUBENVILLE — City Council appears to be moving toward a compromise with its public forum guidelines. Two weeks ago, citing a lack of support, council indefinitely tabled the final reading of a proposal by 1st Ward Councilwoman Asantewa Anyabwile to repeal the existing public forum rules, which require anyone wishing to address council during the public comment period to sign up by 4 p.m. the Friday prior to a meeting. Anyabwile’s proposal had called for creating new rules, but none had been drafted prior to the measure being brought to council floor. Anyabwile convened a meeting of council as a whole Tuesday to discuss the rules and whether it’s time to change them prior to their regular council meeting.
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Staff writer STEUBENVILLE — Franciscan University of Steubenville is considering changing its campus access, contingent on acquiring a 10-foot strip of land next to Super 8 as well as another small parcel on Franklin Avenue near Capri Sausage Shop and convincing the city to vacate Franciscan Way West. During Tuesday’s planning committee meeting, the university’s Joe McGurn briefed council on the concepts which he said are being talked about in university circles though no decisions to move forward have been made. “It’s possible within the next couple of weeks, the board meets in April, that we’ll get authorization from our board to make Super 8 a residence hall,” McGurn said. “If that happens, we’ll be looking at starting renovations there this summer to make it an upper class residence hall.”
rgallabrese@heraldstaronline.com HONORED â Steubenville Mayor Jerry Barilla, left, congratulates former Mayor Domenick Mucci Jr. during Tuesdayâs City Council meeting. Council presented Mucci with a resolution recognizing his service to the city. -- Ross Gallabrese STEUBENVILLE — Members of City Council never had the opportunity to thank former Mayor Domenick Mucci Jr. for his service to the community when he stepped down from the post three years ago. They made up for that during Tuesday’s meeting, offering a resolution recognizing him for the 36 years he spent in city government and his other work in the community. “It has taken us three years to do this,” said 5th Ward Councilman Willie Paul while making the presentation.
Staff writer STEUBENVILLE – Water Superintendent Jim Jenkins told City Council Tuesday water production is headed in the right direction. “Hopefully, we’ll be lifting the conservation order tomorrow and it will be business as usual,” Jenkins said. “This wasn’t a crisis, but it was close: People still had water, we just asked residents to use it wisely. The ones that conserved, it made a difference.” Jenkins had issued the conservation notice Friday after determining the plant’s super-pulsators weren’t performing correctly and the plant was struggling to produce enough water to properly supply the city’s needs.” “When I left work Thursday, we were struggling, but still managing to produce enough water,” he said. “But when I came in Friday morning, (tanks and wells) were low, we were on the verge of a crisis, on the verge of losing water production in most of the city.”