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Votes at a glance: Mount Vernon council adopts ordinances on cybersecurity, salaries, fire department role and multiple resolutions
Summary
At its Oct. 9 session Mount Vernon council adopted an amended cybersecurity ordinance, salary ordinances for council and treasurer, an amendment adding an assistant fire marshal/community risk reduction inspector position, and multiple routine resolutions including appropriations and contracts.
At its regular meeting on Oct. 9, Mount Vernon City Council approved a package of ordinances and resolutions on a largely consent-style docket and adopted several items by roll-call votes after committee review.
Key outcomes: - Ordinance 2025-28 (Cybersecurity policy): Amended Exhibit A replacing the previous policy and adopted as amended. Motion to amend and adopt carried unanimously in recorded roll calls. - Ordinance 2025-29 (Council salaries): Adopted; roll call recorded unanimous Yes votes except one No recorded for Miss Keener on a separate salary item later in the meeting. (The record shows general approval for the council salary ordinance.) - Ordinance 2025-31 (City Treasurer salary): Suspended rules and adopted on third reading by roll call. - Ordinance 2025-32 (Bargaining-unit amendment, Fire Department): Suspended rules and adopted; it creates a community risk reduction inspector/assistant fire marshal position to be slotted into the IAFF collective‑bargaining unit.
Resolutions and other adopted items (non-exhaustive): - Resolution 2025-94: Authorizing application to Ohio Public Works Commission for West End Sanitary Renovation Project Phase 1 — adopted. - Resolution 2025-97: Confirming Shade Tree and Beautification Commission appointment — adopted after suspension of rules. - Resolution 2025-98: Extending contract between Mount Vernon City Health District and Knox Public Health — adopted. - Resolution 2025-101: Authorizing disposal of police department vehicles — adopted. - Resolution 2025-102 and 2025-103: Supplemental appropriations and transfers to cover payroll, PERS consolidation and other year‑end items — adopted. - Resolution 2025-104, 2025-105 and 2025-106 (added that evening): Various payment authorizations, appropriations for development foundation and CivicPlus/Eqivant upgrades, and first reading set for a qualifications-based contract for the wastewater phosphorus/solids improvements project (resolution 2025-106 received first reading and committee referral).
Several items were adopted under suspension of the three-reading rules as permitted for certain routine matters or emergencies. Council recorded roll-call votes on multiple items; where recorded the vote lists showed unanimous Yes votes on those items with the exception noted above for a separate salary ordinance vote.
Ending: Many items on the legislative agenda were routine appropriations, contract authorizations or personnel matters; council scheduled follow-up committee review for larger projects, including a committee meeting on the wastewater treatment plant construction manager at risk contract.
