YOUNGSTOWN — With time running out to spend American Rescue Plan dollars, city council on Wednesday will consider allocating $2.28 million for numerous projects, decreasing a previous land acquisition fund by $1.8 million and setting aside whatever money is left toward the purchase of a new fire truck.

Several of the funding requests to be considered at Wednesday’s meeting come from the $2 million council gave each of its seven members in April 2023 — $14 million in total — to use for projects in their wards.

Councilman Mike Ray, D-4th Ward, is proposing legislation to spend $705,000 of his ward’s allocation.

Of that amount, $400,000 would be for a program to educate property owners about zoning and code violations and provide resources and recommendations for repairs and compliance; $100,000 each for improvements to a lot at the northwest corner of Steel Street and Mahoning Avenue for the police department’s community policing headquarters, and to upgrade and improve building access to the Stephanie Jenkins Resource Center, 2214 Mahoning Ave.; $80,000 for sidewalk improvements in the ward; and $25,000 for additional rehabilitation work at the Roy Street Park-West End Field.

Councilman Jimmy Hughes, D-2nd Ward, is seeking to spend $667,500 for the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp. to manage “various 2nd Ward revitalization projects,” according to the ordinance.

Councilwoman Samantha Turner, D-3rd Ward, is requesting council approve $261,301.

The funding is $125,000 to the Mahoning County Land Bank for a program that educates people about property rights, legal processes and strategies to prevent disputes and other property issues; $86,301 for United Returning Citizens to provide workforce development services; $25,000 each for the Boys and Girls Club of Youngstown to renovate and expand its gymnasium and activity center; and $25,000 for Animal Charities of Ohio for its trap, neuter and release feral cat program in the 3rd and 7th Wards.

There is no more money in the 7th Ward’s ARP fund.

Councilman Julius Oliver, D-1st Ward, is proposing $84,000 in ARP funds go to the Western Reserve Port Authority to focus on property and side development, corridor projects and other community development efforts, according to legislation.

Councilman Pat Kelly, D-5th Ward, is requesting $9,000 go to the Mahoning County Mobile Market voucher program for his ward’s residents.

Councilwoman Anita Davis, D-6th Ward, is seeking to add another $5,000 in ARP money to the community center project at 2525 Market St., a former McDonald’s restaurant. That would bring her allocation for that project to $830,000. She increased it at council’s Dec. 4 meeting from $800,000 to $825,000.

ARP legislation funded by Mayor Jamael Tito Brown includes $500,000 to permit the board of control to enter into professional service agreements for three projects.

One would give $200,000 to the Intentional Development Group to provide start-up costs, planning and expansion for a food co-op at 2649 Glenwood Ave., the long-dormant Bottom Dollar grocery store.

City council on Oct. 2 agreed to spend $1.5 million in ARP money to redevelop the property with the Village of Healing, an infant mortality clinic, as its main tenant.

Another request is $200,000 for YNDC to be the fiscal agent for the Youngstown Restorative and Opportunity Center (YoROC), which is being developed to help younger city residents who are unemployed or underemployed with focuses on health care and the culinary arts.

Council voted Oct. 16 to allow Oliver to use a $400,000 ARP allocation from his ward to create the program. A $30,000 for a study for it was approved earlier this year.

The other professional services agreement is $100,000 with the Ohio Urban Renaissance Center on North Avenue to upgrade its facilities, including compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and work to its restrooms and gymnasium.

Youngstown received $82,775,370 in ARP funds.

With the ARP money required to be allocated by the end of this month under federal law, city council will consider legislation Wednesday to use any remaining dollars towards the purchase of a 100-foot ladder truck for the fire department.

That truck’s cost is $2,191,000 so the city could use any unused ARP amount up to that amount towards the purchase.

City council will consider Wednesday adding $50,000 to its residential roof replacement program, bringing that amount to $3,050,000.

It also will consider legislation to cut a $2 million allocation from last year for land acquisition for community and economic development projects to $200,000 at Wednesday’s meeting.

Federal guidelines mandate ARP funds be allocated by Dec. 31 and spent by the end of 2025.