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Votes at a glance: Items council passed April 21, 2025
Summary
Tiffin City Council recorded unanimous (6–0) votes on several measures April 21, including approval of the ESID petition and related ordinances, budget amendments, easement and donation acceptances, and other ordinances listed below.
At its April 21 meeting the Tiffin City Council recorded votes on multiple ordinances and resolutions. The council was operating with six members present and took the actions below; all recorded final votes on those items were unanimous among members present.
Summary of passed items (formal votes recorded at the meeting):
- Resolution 25-27: Approve petition to create the Tiffin Energy Special Improvement District (ESID) and related petition documents. - Motion: Move for immediate passage (suspend reading rule) - Mover: Kevin Reisner; Second: Scott Horniman (second recorded) - Vote: Aaron Jones — yes; Kevin Reisner — yes; Scott Snay — yes; Kyle Dougherty — yes; John Hayes — yes; Ben Hartman — yes (6–0) - Outcome: Approved
- Ordinance 20-5-25 (listed as 20 five-twenty 5 in the record): Authorize mayor to grant an easement adjacent to 806 West Market Street. - Motion: Passage - Mover: (record: Councilmember moved; transcript does not supply consistent mover name) - Vote: 6–0 (Jones, Reisner, Snay, Dougherty, Hayes, Hartman) - Outcome: Approved
- Ordinance 25-27 (donation): Accept a post clock donated by the Rotary Club of Tiffin. - Motion: Passage - Vote: 6–0 - Outcome: Approved
- Ordinance 25-28: Amend the 2025 budget to appropriate funds into the law director’s budget and the street department budget. - Motion: Passage - Vote: 6–0 - Outcome: Approved
- Ordinance 25-38: Amend the 2025 budget to appropriate a NOPEC grant into the city administrator’s budget (listed at $7,500 in meeting discussion). - Motion: Suspend reading and immediate passage - Vote: 6–0 - Outcome: Approved
- Ordinance 25-41 (parking/time-limit code amendment; listed as 20 five-forty 1 in the record): Amend codified ordinance section to change the limit for motor-vehicle parking on private or public property and declare emergency. - Motion: Immediate passage (suspend reading rule) - Vote: 6–0 - Outcome: Approved
- Ordinance 25-42: Determine to proceed with ESID public improvements (cooperation with Tiffin Energy Special Improvement District). - Motion: Suspend reading and immediate passage - Vote: 6–0 - Outcome: Approved
- Ordinance 25-43: Levy special assessments for ESID public improvements and approve project agreements. - Motion: Suspend reading and immediate passage - Vote: 6–0 - Outcome: Approved
Items held for future reading or first readings: The council also conducted first readings on a variety of ordinances and resolutions (for example, multiple first readings related to water pollution-control loan fund application, culvert and culvert easements, North Sandusky Street project, DORA boundary extension and other items). Those first readings did not have final votes at the April 21 meeting.
Vote counting and roll call: For each recorded final vote the clerk read roll-call responses; the six members listed in roll-call votes were Aaron Jones, Kevin Reisner, Scott Snay, Kyle Dougherty, John Hayes and Ben Hartman. Several items were passed on the same evening after motions to suspend council’s three-reading rule and to declare emergencies where appropriate.
