Senator Joe Schiavoni (D-Canfield) extended congratulations to the two Mahoning Valley Recipients of the EfficientGovNow Award. The EfficientGovNow program aims to accelerate government collaboration and efficiency by providing as much as $300,000 in funding to as many as three collaborative government projects from throughout Northeast Ohio.
The Mahoning Valley collaboration projects to receive grants from the Fund for Our Economic Future are listed below:
$57,541 will be awarded to Rollin’ on the River: Mahoning Valley River Corridor Redevelopment Project. Nine communities in Mahoning and Trumbull counties are collaborating with Youngstown State University to implement a website to market sites in those locations for economic development. The communities are Youngstown, Warren, Niles, Girard, Struthers, Campbell, Newton Falls, McDonald and Lowellville.
$120,000 will be awarded to Mahoning-Youngstown Regional Information System (MYRIS). With this funding, the Mahoning County auditor’s office, Youngstown, Boardman, Austintown and the city of Canfield will share broadband technology for law enforcement, disaster recovery and general-information technology services.
“I’m extremely impressed with the amount of support the Valley has shown for these two projects and want to thank those who took the initiative to vote,” said Senator Schiavoni.
A total of 13,483 qualified votes were cast by residents of Northeast Ohio in July to determine the three EfficientGovNow collaboration projects that would receive funding.
“I know that many individuals and groups worked diligently to secure votes from residents across the Mahoning Valley and it’s great to see their collaborative efforts paid off,” said Senator Schiavoni. “Both projects will be an asset to the continuing development of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley.”