METRO DIGEST || Air base support

Published: Thu, March 19, 2015 @ 12:02 a.m.

Air base support

YOUNGSTOWN

The Western Reserve Port Authority has approved a $25,000-per-year contribution for three years to the effort by the Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber to hire someone to avoid closure or reductions at the Youngstown Air Reserve Station in Vienna.

John Boccieri, a former congressman, squadron commander at the base and a port authority board member, abstained from voting on the measure.

He received an opinion from the Ohio Ethics Commission last month indicating he should fully withdraw from consideration of matters before the authority that will affect [the Air Force Reserves] interests.

Rose Ann DeLeon dies

YOUNGSTOWN

Rose Ann Jersan DeLeon, former executive director of the Western Reserve Port Authority, died over the weekend.

DeLeon, 60, of the Cleveland area, was hired to operate the port authoritys new economic-development office in 2009 and stayed in that position until early 2014 when she left because of illness.

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METRO DIGEST || Air base support