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Votes at a glance: Findlay City Council passes budget and project ordinances, adopts resolutions
Summary
At its Jan. 7 regular meeting the Findlay City Council adopted multiple routine resolutions and ordinances including initial appropriations and capital project authorizations; several items were suspended for immediate adoption.
Findlay City Council on Jan. 7 approved a slate of routine resolutions and ordinances to allow city business to continue and to authorize early-year projects.
Highlights: - Resolution 001-2025 (sale of personal property): Adopted on first reading as an emergency measure to authorize Internet auction sale of city property. (Mover: Councilmember Russell; second: Councilmember Greeno.)
- Resolution 003-2025 (expenditures exceeding purchase orders): Adopted to approve vouchers that exceeded the statutory purchase-order limit under Ohio Revised Code 5705.41(D). (Mover: Councilmember Greeno; second: Councilmember Baumann.)
- Ordinance 2024-143 (regulations on house camps and public sleeping): Adopted on third reading. (Mover: Councilmember Russell; second: Councilmember Hellman.)
- Ordinance 2025-1 (initial appropriations and transfers for 2025): Council suspended rules and adopted the ordinance to permit spending for city operations at the start of the fiscal year. Discussion noted standard auditor wording related to subsidies and County Road 236 accounting. (Mover: Councilmember Russell.)
- Ordinance 2025-2 (sewer fund appropriations): Rules were suspended and the ordinance was adopted to provide appropriations for the sewer department. (Mover: Councilmember Greeno; second: Councilmember Baumann.)
- Ordinance 2025-3 (authorize bids and contracts for capital projects): Rules were suspended and the ordinance was adopted to allow advertising and contracting for sewer lining, paving and other capital work. (Mover: Councilmember Palmer; second: Councilmember Wornacki.)
- Ordinance 2025-4 (amend Chapter 149.02; Airport Advisory Board): Introduced as a replacement ordinance; the first reading was held and no final vote was recorded at this meeting.
Several items were adopted by roll-call vote after suspension of council rules to permit second and third readings at the same meeting. Council members asked clarifying questions about language required by the state auditor's office for appropriations and noted an annual process to review permit and fee schedules.
Listing of formal actions and recorded votes is below.
