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Pataskala council adopts supplemental spending ordinance and authorizes start of finance director talks
Summary
The Pataskala City Council adopted Ordinance 2025-4491 to make supplemental appropriations for current expenses and voted to authorize the mayor to begin negotiations with a preferred finance director candidate; council also held first readings on two land-use and cannabis-related ordinances.
The Pataskala City Council voted to adopt Ordinance 2025-4491, a supplemental appropriation for current expenses, and approved a separate motion directing the mayor to begin negotiations with the council’s preferred candidate for finance director during its meeting.
The ordinance adoption occurred after a motion to adopt was moved by Councilmember Epperson and seconded by Councilmember Galek; the measure passed on a roll-call vote. Separately, a motion to authorize the mayor to begin negotiations with the preferred finance director candidate was made, seconded by Councilmember Galick and approved by roll call.
Both actions followed the council’s approval of the consent agenda earlier in the meeting. Councilmember Epperson moved to approve the consent agenda; that motion was seconded and passed by roll call.
The council also introduced two ordinances for first reading. Ordinance 2025-4490 would rezone a 0.62-acre parcel at 0 Oak Meadow Drive from General Business to multifamily residential (RM). Ordinance 2025-4492 was presented as a first reading to amend section 4 of Ordinance 2024-4478 and addresses the city’s moratorium on permitting cultivation, processing and retail dispensing of adult-use cannabis; the staff reading described the measure as related to the existing moratorium.
No final votes were taken on the first-reading ordinances; both were introduced and referred for future consideration. The meeting record shows no additional conditions attached to the mayor’s negotiation authorization or the supplemental appropriation beyond the motions recorded.
