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Votes at a glance: Tallmadge council approves appointments and routine 2025 housekeeping measures
Summary
At its Jan. 9 meeting the Tallmadge City Council approved multiple appointments to city boards and a set of routine ordinances and resolutions authorizing contracts and administrative housekeeping; one ordinance passed with an abstention noted for a council member’s business relationship.
The Tallmadge City Council on Jan. 9 recorded multiple formal votes adopting minutes, accepting financial reports, confirming appointments to boards and committees, and passing routine ordinances and two resolutions. Below are the actions the council took, with vote outcomes as recorded on the meeting transcript.
Votes and key details
- Adoption of meeting minutes (Dec. 12, 2024): Motion to approve carried 6–0.
- Acceptance of financial reports (for period ending Dec. 31, 2024): Motion to accept carried 6–0.
Appointments and committee confirmations (all carried 6–0 unless noted)
- Mark Salerno — appointed to Civil Service Commission (appointed 6–0). - Donald Pavlik — reappointed chairperson, Richardson Trust Fund (reappointed 6–0). - Mary Gutman — chairperson from council, Firefighters’ Dependents Fund (reappointed 6–0). - Donald Pavlik — reappointed secretary from council, Firefighters’ Dependents Fund (reappointed 6–0). - Sandy Ray and Brian White — appointed as board members to Firefighters’ Dependents Fund (appointed 6–0). - Chip Billows — appointed as at‑large member (appointed 6–0). - Jessica Epstein — appointed to Veterans Committee (appointed 6–0). - Lee Giddon — appointed to Veterans Committee (appointed 6–0). - Jonathan Bolas — confirmed to remain on the Community Reinvestment Area Housing Council (confirmed 6–0).
Ordinances and resolutions passed (housekeeping/administrative measures)
- Ordinance 2025‑8 (authorize purchase of computer equipment, software licenses via state purchasing program): Passed 6–0. (Sponsor: Mayor Kilway.)
- Resolution 2025‑1 (authorize Portage County Auditor to advance payment of local taxes for 2024 payable in 2025): Passed 6–0. (Sponsor: Director of Finance.)
- Resolution 2025‑2 (authorize Summit County Fiscal Officer to advance payment of local taxes for 2024 payable in 2025): Passed 6–0. (Sponsor: Director of Finance.)
- Ordinance 2025‑1 (advertise for bids/contract for pavement maintenance): Passed 6–0. (Sponsor: Director of Public Service.)
- Ordinance 2025‑2 (advertise for bids/contract for pavement marking): Passed 6–0.
- Ordinance 2025‑3 (advertise/solicit bids for concrete projects on public property): Passed 6–0.
- Ordinance 2025‑4 (contract with GPD Group for general engineering and consulting services): Passed with one abstention; recorded as 5 yes, 0 no, 1 abstain (Councilmember Pavlik abstained, citing a business relationship).
- Ordinance 2025‑5 (contract with Burgess & Niple Inc. for water system development/general engineering/planning consulting): Passed 6–0.
- Ordinance 2025‑6 (contract with Environmental Design Group Inc. for general engineering and consulting services): Passed 6–0.
- Ordinance 2025‑7 (authorize participation in cooperative purchasing program): Passed 6–0.
Procedural notes: Several union contract ordinances (authorizing agreements with firefighters and police unions) remained at third reading and were not voted on during the Jan. 9 meeting. The planning and zoning overlay ordinances were at second reading and scheduled for public hearings on Jan. 23, 2025.
The clerk’s roll‑call results and the transcript provide the vote tallies recorded above; if a specific recorded tally was ambiguous in the spoken record, this summary follows the final roll‑call results read into the meeting minutes.
