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"CIC Awards 5 Contracts for Maintenance, Repairs, Cleaning"
"By Dennis LaRue YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- The property committee of Youngstown Central Area Community Improvement Corp. tended to housekeeping matters Tuesday by awarding five small contracts for repairs and maintenance of CIC-administered properties.The committee also learned that the CIC may need to move its offices from the fourth floor of the Voinovich Government Center after all. Then again it may not.Daniel A. Terreri & Sons Inc., North Jackson, was awarded two contracts, one for $8,780 to repair the steps between the upper and lower employee parking lots for the Voinovich Center, the other for $4,875 to repair the subfloor of the first floor of the John R. Davis Building.Discovering the CIC has no recourse against the company that built the concrete steps and railing between the parking lots, the property committee acted instead to have Terreri cut damaged corners from the steps and reset handrails. The committee agreed with the executive director, Jason Whitehead, that the work should have lasted longer.Regardless, prudence dictated inviting bids for the work. Jance Construction Co. of Kent bid $6,780 but the package it proposed was "not as extensive" as needed, Whitehead reported. Brick Well Masonry of Liberty bid $9,875.In working on the Davis Building, Curt Seidler Engineering "gutted everything" inside, removing "rotten flooring" on the first level, Whitehead reported. Rather than complete the CIC's lease-to-purchase program, Seidler will relocate from the Youngstown Business Incubator to a building on Churchill Road, Liberty. While Seidler left the Davis Building "in good shape," the CIC executive director reported, the subflooring must be replaced before it can be shown to prospective tenants or owners.The property committee chose Brownfield Restoration Group, Akron, as the lowest and best bidder to perform Phase I and Phase II work on the Youngstown Technology Center, to be built next to the Business Incubator, at $34,341.50. Brownfield Restoration's work in Campbell and Struthers also recommended it for the work, Reid Dulberger said. Dulberger is executive vice president of the Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber, which administers the CIC. Other bidders were MS Consultants Inc., Youngstown, $45,400; Environmental Consulting Partners Inc., Solon, $41,500; and Emerald Environmental Inc., Kent, $48,200.At $4,125 a month, American Maintenance Services, 18 Phelps St., was awarded a six-month contract to perform the janitorial work on the first, third and fourth floors of the Mahoning County Children Services Building. The invitations to bid were restricted to certified minority enterprises, Whitehead reported.One other firm bid but could not produce more than its application to the state of Ohio seeking CME status. Once the six months are up, American Maintenance will work on a month-to-month extension that likely will end in December, Whitehead reported.For next year, the CIC will rebid all contracts related to maintaining and cleaning the Voinovich and Children Services buildings in an effort to achieve administrative and operating efficiencies. Ohio One Corp., under contract to maintain the Voinovich Center and the Children Services Building, will install a push plate outside the men's restroom on the second floor of the latter. The state Bureau of Workers Compensation will occupy that floor and the push plate will ensure access for the handicapped. Ohio One will paid $4,862 for the work.Ohio Department of Administrative Services, responsible for finding state agencies the office and storage space they need, is discussing whether a state agency needs the 2,180 square feet the CIC occupies on the fourth floor of Voinovich, Dulberger reported. "It's a work in progress," he remarked. The state athletic commission, which moved from Niles to Warrensville Heights, has expressed interest in moving to Youngstown, Dulberger stated.Other agencies inside and outside the Voinovich Building, are studying their needs and whether expanding or moving to that building would meet them.As a matter of information, the CIC, as owners of the buildings in the Masters Tuxedo block, was formally notified the city expects to issue a contract within 90 days to raze those structures. MS Consultants has completed the specifications for demolition, Dulberger said.Third Ward Councilman Richard Atkinson allowed he was overly optimistic in his "hope in the next month to see some daylight" where the structures "in an advanced state of deterioration" stand. City Finance Director David Bozanich said he expects the contract to be awarded in 90 days. "