Nov 12, 2021 3 min read

DONORA – A meeting during which the Donora Planning Commission was expected to make a decision on the request to allow Kenric Manor to house international students from local colleges has been postponed.

The meeting – scheduled for Friday – was to be the third on a proposal from Future iService LLC, which is based in New York, concerning the former personal care home.

It was postponed to allow Mathein Jiang,…..of Future iService, to attend a meeting in person.

A Nov. 9 meeting was recessed until Friday to allow time to consider the proposal.

Future iService purchased the facility from a subsidiary of Mon Valley Hospital at a private auction in August.

The planning commission serves as a recommendation agency to council. Council would have to give final approval to the request to use the property for student housing. 

Future iService has applied for a conditional use to use the former personal care home as housing for international students attending local colleges. 

The building has been vacant since 2018, when it was shut down due to various health code violations.

In August 2018, the personal care home, known as Miller’s Corner Cottage at the time, was evacuated after it appeared the owner had abandoned the business. Only 13 residents remained at the home at the time, down from 66 just six months earlier. Also, employees of the facility at that time had reported that their paychecks had bounced.

This was a month after the home was notified by the State Department of Human Services that it needed to correct 55 violations that had been noted in an inspection earlier that year.

Pappasergi said earlier last week that Future iService planned to invest $140,000 in the property in two $70,000 installments. The first installment would go toward getting the property ready for 10 students to be able to live there. If that was successful, the additional $70,000 would go toward reading the building for 30-35 students.

We have to do it tonight we

re going to cqarry wiuth a meeting tonight 

It’s still going on.

It’s the deadline and the paperwpork that we have we’re going to go ahead and do it so we can submit it to council.

Council has 30 days to act on it.

They may act sooner. Their deadline is 30 days we want to get it done.

So they can move forward with their requirements on due dates.

We anted to have the third meeting to afford residents to issue any of their concerns to my understanding they haven’;t sent any letters wanted to gove them time to have their own research.