Votes at a glance: Key actions taken by Parma City Council on Feb. 18

Parma City Council on Feb. 18 conducted a large agenda and took votes on multiple measures. Below are the key actions adopted and referred during the meeting.

What passed (selected items) - Ordinance 214-24 (adopted, as amended): Authorizes municipal excess liability insurance through a package of carriers (Vantage Risk Specialty, Munich, Travelers, Tokyo Marine and Lloyd’s) for an indicated amount of $667,080; council adopted on third reading. - Ordinance 215-24 (adopted, as amended): Authorizes a special multiperil property policy (FM-affiliated/Hanover via Jackson Daikin) for $205,312; adopted on third reading. - Ordinance 9-25 (adopted): Amends city code sections on cost of confinement and jail reimbursement; passed on third reading (one recorded No vote). - Ordinance 10-25 (adopted): Authorizes acceptance of NOPEC 2025 Energized Community Grant funds; adopted on third reading. - Ordinance 29-25 (adopted under suspension): Ratifies a collective-bargaining agreement between the city and Parma Service Workers Local 1 for 04/01/2023–03/31/2026. - Ordinance 34-25 (adopted under suspension): Ratifies a collective-bargaining agreement between the city and Laborers Local 860 (supervisory unit) for 11/01/2023–10/31/2026. - Resolution 26-25 (adopted under suspension): Approves the auditor’s post-certification of requisitions (vendor payments detailed in Exhibit A). - Ordinance 32-25 (adopted under suspension): Amend 2025 temporary appropriations (includes appropriation for hazard-mitigation/home acquisition program for flood-prone properties and a board-of-control purchase earlier in the day). - Resolution 33-25 (adopted under suspension): Requests nuisance abatement for 6601 Brownfield Drive (see separate article). - Ordinance 27-25 (adopted under suspension): Mutual release and rescission of a CDBG loan to Mamacitas Inc., resolving an outstanding loan balance after negotiated settlement.

What was referred or held - Ordinance 2-25 (mobile food service operations): Referred back to Public Safety Committee for revisions on appeals, private-property approvals and fees. - Ordinance 11-25 and 12-25 and 13-25: Referred back to Governmental Operations or Public Safety committees for further review (housekeeping code updates and state-law conformity). - Ordinance 14-25, 15-25, 16-25 and others: Referred back to Finance Committee for review and amendments where noted.

Votes and procedure notes - Several measures were considered under suspension of the rules to expedite adoption; roll-call votes were recorded for adopted items. - Where a specific No vote was recorded in the transcript, it was for Ordinance 9-25 (one No vote recorded on roll call). For many adopted items, the roll calls indicated unanimous or near-unanimous support with one member absent or excused.

This summary captures council actions that were finalized or sent back for additional committee work on Feb. 18; individual articles provide detail on substantive items such as insurance, nuisance abatement, the Mamacitas loan release and the mobile food ordinance.