Council approves bridge engineering amendment, road salt contract, wastewater equipment purchase and splash pad application; adopts social equity plan on first 

The Oberlin City Council on April 21 passed a package of ordinances addressing a bridge replacement, road salt purchasing, wastewater equipment and a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) application for a splash pad, and it approved the city’s social equity plan on first reading.

All votes recorded in the meeting were unanimous.

South Pleasant Street bridge — ordinance 25-21 The council approved an amendment to a professional-engineering-services agreement with Schaefer Johnston, Lick and Waters and Associates Inc. to provide additional design work for the South Pleasant Street bridge replacement and authorized an additional payment not to exceed $6,220. City staff explained the project had been delayed by a 1973 Land and Water Conservation Fund commitment that designated part of the park as dedicated parkland; the city proposed a small land swap and sewer relocation to resolve the conflict. City staff said right-of-way acquisition has begun and the plan is to be ready to bid the project in approximately one year. Quote: Jeff Baumann, city staff, summarized the issue during the reading: "You can't build that bridge like that in that location because you committed that property as parkland in 1973." (reading and explanation recorded during the meeting.) Action: Ordinance 25-21 (amend engineering agreement for South Pleasant Street bridge). Motion to waive three readings and move to first and final reading carried by roll call; ordinance…