The Springdale City Council on Jan. 2 approved the city’s annual appropriation and estimated receipts ordinance for the fiscal year ending Dec. 31, 2025, and cleared several routine resolutions and appointments.

Ordinance 1-2025, the annual appropriation and estimated receipts ordinance, passed by a 7-0 vote. The ordinance sets the legal level of budgetary control and incorporates exhibits for appropriation and estimated receipts. The ordinance also authorized multiple transfers and advances between funds; the reading listed several transfers and advances included in the ordinance, among them transfers out of the general fund of $375,000, $25,000, $560,000, $1,800,000 and $137,000 and an advance out of the capital improvements fund of $1,702,424. The ordinance takes effect at the earliest date allowed by law.

Council also adopted Resolution R1-2025, requesting advanced payments from the Hamilton County auditor for funds payable to the city, and Resolution R2-2025, authorizing the finance officer/tax commissioner to invest municipal funds not needed for more than 90 days; both passed 7-0. Council adopted Resolution R3-2025, confirming Mayor Hawkins’s appointment of Kimberly Craft to the Springdale Board of Health for a term ending Dec. 31, 2026. Mayor Hawkins described Craft as a "40-year resident" and a retired registered nurse with operating-room and supply-chain experience; the council confirmed the appointment by roll call, 7-0.

Council filled one council-appointed vacancy on the Charter Revision Committee after nominations and a roll-call selection process. Pamela Ramirez was nominated and confirmed to serve on the Charter Revision Committee for a term ending Dec. 31, 2029 by a 7-0 vote after a nomination process that produced two candidates. Council tabled Resolution R5-2025, a nomination for the Springdale Tax Review Board, to the next meeting; that motion carried 7-0.

Several business incentive and job-creation incentive ordinances — Ordinance 2-2025 (a $70,000 business incentive grant agreement with G5 Entertainment LLC), Ordinance 3-2025 (a job-creation/retention agreement with Mitchell’s Salon and Day Spa Inc.) and Ordinance 4-2025 (a job-creation/retention agreement with Salus O’Brien Inc.) — received first readings and will return to council on Jan. 15 for further consideration. Those items were not acted on Jan. 2.

Council also moved into an executive session under Ohio Rev. Code §121.22(G)(4) to prepare for or review negotiations or bargaining sessions with public employees concerning compensation or other terms and conditions of employment; the session produced no immediate public action when council returned.

A full list of roll-call votes taken at the meeting follows in the “Votes at a glance” section below.