WARREN — Trumbull County commissioners authorized the decommissioning and scrapping of 31 vehicles to Metalico Youngstown due to being unfit because of their level of disrepair and damage.

“These have been sitting around,” Commissioner Rick Hernandez said during the commissioners’ weekly meeting Wednesday.

The vehicles range from a 1997 Ford F-250 truck to two 2010 Chevrolet Impalas and two 2010 Ford Crown Victorias. They are parked on Panther Avenue, behind Warren G. Harding High School.

“We are very excited to get this done,” Commissioner Denny Malloy said. “We’ve been trying to get this done for more than a year.”

After the vehicles are removed, the commissioners will look at paving the area and repurpose the area for another use.

“This was an embarrassing eyesore,” Malloy said after the meeting.

Trumbull County Assistant Prosecutor Bill Danso said the vehicles have no value.

Also Wednesday, commissioners unanimously voted to approve the county’s 2025 general fund budget.

“This has been a long hard process for this board,” Commissioner Tony Bernard said. “It has been difficult, but we have to deal with funds that were presented to us. We did a pretty good job with what we had to work with.”

Commissioner Denny Malloy added a motion to move $349,756 from the county’s rainy day fund into the general fund, so the budget will balance at the end of the year.

“We will use this to provide a little bit more money to the judges,” Malloy said. “They contacted us and said they needed the funds.”

Commissioners also adopted a resolution proclaiming April 2025 as Child Abuse Prevention Month in Trumbull County, in conjunction with National Child Abuse Prevention Month. Trumbull County Children Services will host its annual Pinwheels for Prevention at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday by planting 1,302 pinwheels at Warren G. Harding High School.

Each pinwheel represents one report of child abuse or neglect in Trumbull County in 2024.