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Some Youngstown city council members say people want to know why American Rescue Plan dollars are not being spent to improve their wards.

When it meets next week, City Council will consider a tax abatement to support a company’s proposed $2 million investment and a $100,000 allocation to boost efforts to redevelop the former Foster Theater.

City council on Wednesday will consider legislation to spend $318,328 in American Rescue Plan funds, grant a tax abatement to a manufacturing business and pay $81,940 for security cameras and additional lighting at city hall.

The city of Youngstown is reclaiming possession of the former Bottom Dollar Food store where One Health Ohio had planned to open a $4 million clinic.

Youngstown’s Board of Control voted Thursday to repurchase a former Southside grocery store that was supposed to be occupied by a health clinic.