YOUNGSTOWN - Members of Youngstown City Council are being asked to approve more than half a million to settle two lawsuits against the city.

The settlement details are included in two items on the agenda of the council’s regularly scheduled meeting on Wednesday.

The first item, sponsored by Mayor Tito Brown, would pay $440,000 to settle a civil lawsuit filed in September by Youngstown Campus Associates, which owns The Enclave student housing near YSU.

The amount is the remaining balance of an agreement made in 2017 to grant Youngstown Campus Associates $500,000 for installation and improvements of plumbing and other water infrastructure at the Enclave.

The money, which would come from the city’s Business Development Fund, would settle the suit without any admission of wrongdoing and end further expenditure of time and expense defending the claims, according to the legislation.

The second settlement calls for paying $80,000 to the owners of the property that was the former site of Anthony’s by the River Restaurant.

Owners, Two Bridges LLC, sued the city in federal court after they claimed the city failed to notify them before demolishing the building on Oak Hill Avenue in 2020.

City officials say they made numerous attempts to reach the building’s owners after determining that the structure was unsafe.