Lacey Township Committee members voted Jan. 9 to approve a string of routine ordinances, resolutions and appointments, including salary ordinances for special law-enforcement officers and crossing guards, a contract with the Lacey Township Crossing Guard Association, a cash-management plan for 2025 and multiple administrative financial cleanups.

The measures were moved and seconded during the committee’s public meeting and carried by voice votes with some members recorded as abstaining on individual items. Actions approved included extensions for a storage pod at a private residence, permission to post signs for a local nonprofit flea market, appointment of a recycling coordinator and authorization for seasonal public-works hires.

Why it matters: The package includes the municipality’s routine financial housekeeping (cash-management plan, cancellation of stale checks and payment of township bills) and personnel or operational items (crossing-guard contract, recycling coordinator, seasonal hires) that keep municipal services functioning.

The committee approved two ordinances that set pay rates: Ordinance 2025-01, setting salaries for special law-enforcement officers, and Ordinance 2025-02, setting salaries for crossing guards. The committee also adopted Resolution 2025-56 to authorize execution of a contract with the Lacey Township Crossing Guard Association and Resolution 2025-58 adopting a cash-management plan for 2025.

Other financial housekeeping items the committee approved included Resolution 2025-59, authorizing the cancellation of old outstanding checks from the municipal court bail account totaling $1,140, and Resolution 2025-60, canceling outstanding checks from the municipal court regular account totaling $100. The committee authorized refunds of certain municipal facility deposit monies (Resolution 2025-63) and approved the payment of township bills (Resolution 2025-64).

Operational approvals included the appointment of Matthew Copack as recycling coordinator (Resolution 2025-61) and authorization to employ seasonal Department of Public Works laborers (Resolution 2025-62). The committee also approved routine minutes and accepted monthly departmental receipts reported by the municipal clerk, municipal court and community development department.

Votes at a glance:
- Permission to post signage for FishHawks annual flea market (event March 1): moved, seconded, roll-call recorded as affirmative by committee members present; outcome: approved.
- Storage pod extension, 2413 Good Luck Road (additional 60 days): moved, seconded; outcome: approved.
- Ordinance 2025-01 (special law-enforcement officers salaries): moved, seconded; outcome: adopted.
- Ordinance 2025-02 (crossing-guard salaries): moved, seconded; outcome: adopted.
- Resolution 2025-56 (crossing guard contract with Lacey Township Crossing Guard Association): moved, seconded; outcome: approved.
- Resolution 2025-57 (authorize tax assessor to file assessor’s appeals): moved, seconded; outcome: approved.
- Resolution 2025-58 (2025 cash-management plan): moved, seconded; outcome: approved.
- Resolution 2025-59 (cancel outstanding municipal court bail checks, $1,140): moved, seconded; outcome: approved.
- Resolution 2025-60 (cancel outstanding municipal court regular checks, $100): moved, seconded; outcome: approved.
- Resolution 2025-61 (appoint Matthew Copack, recycling coordinator): moved, seconded; outcome: approved.
- Resolution 2025-62 (authorize employment of seasonal DPW laborers): moved, seconded; outcome: approved (one recorded abstention noted).
- Resolution 2025-63 (refund deposit monies for municipal facility use): moved, seconded; outcome: approved.
- Resolution 2025-64 (authorize payment of township bills): moved, seconded; outcome: approved.
- Auxiliary membership in Linoka Harbor Fire Company for Colleen Caccolio: moved, seconded; outcome: approved.

Several motions to approve meeting minutes from December and January were approved with individual abstentions recorded where members were not present at the referenced meetings. The committee also approved convening an executive session on personnel, contract and pending litigation and real estate matters later in the meeting.

The committee’s roll-call and verbal tallies appeared on the record for each item; where a member’s vote was noted as abstain the record includes that abstention. No ordinance or resolution in this package failed on the floor.

Ending: The committee closed the public portion and moved into executive session by unanimous voice votes to discuss personnel, contractual and legal matters.