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Council approves emergency measures to adopt three union contracts after months of negotiations
Summary
The council approved emergency passage to place three-year contracts with the Cortland Police Control officers, Cortland firefighters (IAFF local as recorded) and the Ohio Civil Service Employees Association on an expedited track to comply with state requirements.
The Cortland City Council on May 19 moved to pass emergency measures for three separate three-year collective-bargaining agreements: with the city’s police control officers (Ordinance O-32-25), with Cortland firefighters (Ordinance O-33-25) and with the Ohio Civil Service Employees Association (Ordinance O-34-25). Each ordinance was introduced as an emergency by the mayor to meet statutory timelines after extended negotiations.
The mayor said the agreements had been delayed for months in negotiation and that passing them in emergency form was appropriate to meet State Employment Relations Board constraints. The mayor also recognized members of the negotiating team, including Finance Director Patty Gibson and Vice President of Council Don Moore as finance committee chair, and thanked union representatives for their cooperation.
Councilors who spoke observed the long negotiating process; no substantive amendments to the contracts were discussed in the public meeting record. The mayor and staff said the emergency declarations were requested solely to comply with state rules and to place the contracts into effect without further delay.
Votes on the emergency motions were called during the meeting; council roll calls recorded multiple "yes" votes on the emergency motions during the session. Final ratification procedures and the full contract texts were not read into the record during the meeting transcript.
