Struthers council introduces three emergency ordinances including new grass‑cut fees and ambulance purchase

Struthers City Council discussed three emergency pieces of legislation during its financial legislation meeting, including a resolution to set fees for city-ordered grass cutting, an updated ambulance purchase agreement, and an ordinance establishing the assistant superintendent for the wastewater plant.

The three items were introduced as emergency measures and described by council leadership as minor revisions to language previously reviewed. The first was a resolution from the law director to “establish the fees to be assessed to the owner of real estate when the city requires to cut grass under 521.15 of the city’s codified ordinance,” which the council placed on the agenda as an emergency measure. The second was an ordinance authorizing the mayor to execute a purchase agreement with the Cardinal Joint Fire District for a 2017 Ford Type 1 ambulance; council members said the original draft incorrectly listed the City of Canfield as the paying party and was being corrected so the joint fire district would be the contracting party. The third was an ordinance from the mayor establishing the position, salary and employment provisions for an assistant superintendent, wastewater plant department head (a nonclassified, mayoral appointment) and making the appointment retroactive to May 1, 2025; council members noted the current draft restored a 90‑day pay provision that had been omitted from an earlier draft.

Councilors moved to “bring up” the legislation during the meeting and seconded those motions; however, the transcript does not record formal roll‑call votes or final outcomes for the items during this session. No further amendments or formal recorded votes appear in the available transcript.

The items were framed by council as technical or corrective changes rather than new policy directions; the ambulance purchase change corrects the contracting party, and the ordinance for the wastewater assistant superintendent restores a previously discussed compensation condition. The grass‑cutting resolution references the city codified ordinance section cited above as the authority for levying fees against property owners when the city performs grass cutting.

Council did not record a final vote in the provided transcript; next steps—scheduling a formal vote or publishing finalized ordinances—were not captured in the excerpt.