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The city’s board of control agreed to the sixth change order for a major downtown improvement project to sections of Boardman and Walnut streets.

The board voted 2-0 Thursday to the change order that increases the project by $49,646 to a total of $2,932,043 for Parella-Pannunzio Inc., the Youngstown contractor doing the work.

Finance Director Kyle Miasek and Law Director Adam Buente voted in favor of the change order. Mayor Derrick McDowell was absent.

The city’s Board of Control approved Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp.’s grant application Thursday for a federal grant to remediate several environmentally contaminated sites in the city, including a former gas station property on the South Side.