SitemapIt's Thursday, April 15, 2021, and thanks for the feedback after my Tuesday column about how the city might spend its $88.6 million in federal stimulus funds.
I've received emails, texts, Facebook comments proving that most people are thoughtful — and know more than I do.
Facebook folks say "Borts field needs a redo ... pave the damn streets in downtown ... open up the parks ... "
Not everyone shared my view. Eric Broviak said in an email: "So instead of grand concepts like an enterprise zone (think Chill Can Plant) the city really could use some better roads and cleaned up areas."
Rick Ostheimer wrote on Facebook: "I have emailed the Mayor and my Councilperson suggesting the city use the windfall to fund the remaining sewer and wastewater treatment projects already agreed to in its consent agreement with the OH EPA. That would result in turning over the benefits to residents in the form of lower sewer bills than currently anticipated."
Always a Youngstown thought leader, Ian Beniston, executive director of the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation, wrote: "I think significant funding needs to be spent on housing: blight elimination, home repair for low income homeowners, a housing construction and renovation fund to provide gap funding to developers to incite more and much needed housing development and vacant renovation, down payment assistance and additional code enforcement and rental registration inspectors."
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