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Votes at a glance: Medina Council passes package of ordinances and resolutions on Jan. 27, 2025
Summary
At its Jan. 27 meeting, Medina City Council adopted a collection of ordinances and a resolution covering personnel pay, grants, bridge projects with ODOT, airport equipment, CDBG application steps, and a programmatic historic-preservation agreement; most measures passed unanimously.
Medina City Council adopted a package of ordinances and one resolution during its Jan. 27, 2025 meeting, approving a range of administrative, infrastructure and grant-related measures. Most votes were unanimous; Ordinance 3225 (a HUD/Section 106 programmatic agreement) passed 6-0 with one recorded nay.
Major items approved included: a pay/salary update for the civil service secretary position (Ordinance 1825); a $40,000 stipend for Main Street Medina (Ordinance 1925); a three-year amendment to the Medina Hospital/Cleveland Clinic wellness services agreement to provide $20,000 annually to the Medina Community Recreation Center (Ordinance 2025); a revision to the city's crosswalk/right-of-way language adopted with an emergency clause to shorten prosecution language (Ordinance 2125); acceptance of ODOT Local Public Agency agreements for the Prospect Street Bridge and South Huntington Street bridge replacement projects (Ordinances 2225 and 2325) supported by state funding (about $1.8 million and $1.7 million awards, respectively); additional federal/state funding partnership approvals for the State Road Reconstruction Project (Ordinance 2425 and accompanying Resolution 2525); authorization to accept an FAA-funded grant and execute a task order for airport snow removal equipment and procurement bid documents (Ordinance 2625); authorization to solicit consultants and issue RFQs/RFPs in support of the FY-25 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) application and fair-housing services (Ordinances 2725 and 2825, both with emergency clauses); and multiple administrative certifications to authorize payment of municipal obligations from 2024 (Ordinances 2925, 3025, 3125).
Ordinance 3225, added to the agenda during the meeting, authorizes the mayor to enter a five-year programmatic agreement with the Ohio Historic Preservation Office and the Medina County Historical Society to apply the Section 106 process when federal funds such as CDBG are used on city projects. That ordinance passed 6-0 with Councilmember Rose the lone recorded no vote.
All roll calls and formal outcomes are summarized below.
