The Taft Elementary School Safe Routes to School (SRTS) Travel Plan continues to pay dividends with the recent completion of a project to install pedestrian scale lighting on the streets adjacent to the school.
On February 15, 2024, the Mahoning County Commissioners approved an agreement between YNDC and the Mahoning County Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control Department to provide $800,000 in Lead Safe Ohio funding to YNDC.