Votes at a glance: committee approvals include tank‑barn demolition funding, benefits contract renewal, postage appropriation and appointments

At its Oct. 6 committee meetings, Baberton City Council committee members called several items to the full council or approved requests to be placed on next week’s agenda. Committee votes recorded at the meeting included the following actions.

• Tank barn demolition appropriation — Finance & Personnel: Mayor William Judge requested legislation to appropriate $17,000 from the street operating fund to pay to remove a former tank barn at the city service garage on Brady Avenue. Committee members moved and seconded the request; the committee recorded the motion in favor and called the item to full council with emergency and one‑reading requests. Staff said $16,350 was the board of control request form low bid figure.

• Summit County Health Connection contract renewal — Finance & Personnel: Human Resources/Public Safety Director Jamie Iceman requested legislation to renew the city’s participation in the Summit County health consortium for employee medical and prescription coverage. The committee called the renewal for council consideration with emergency wording; the contract term ends Dec. 31.

• Clerk of courts postage appropriation — Finance & Personnel: A request from the clerk of the municipal court, Katie Reid, asked to appropriate $15,000 from the general fund to the clerk of courts postage fund. The committee called the item to council with emergency wording and one reading requested.

• Appointment to Civil Service Commission — Finance & Personnel: The committee called the mayor’s appointment of Lori D. Huffman to a six‑year term on the Civil Service Commission, Jan. 1, 2026–Dec. 31, 2031, to the council agenda; the committee noted Huffman’s nearly 20 years’ prior service on the commission.

• Zetron dispatch equipment and lease purchase — Public Welfare & Safety: The committee recorded a request to enter into a lease‑purchase agreement with NCL Government Capital on behalf of the Southwest Summit Council of Governments (Swisscog) and to contract with Zetron to purchase Zetron Max dispatch equipment for $116,223.55. The item was called to the council agenda; funding is planned via lease purchase.

• ADA coordinator role amendment — Public Welfare & Safety: Committee recorded a request from the law director to amend ordinance 35‑19‑92 to change the city’s ADA coordinator role to the Human Resources Department; the committee called the item to council for consideration.

All items above were placed on the next council agenda for formal readings or votes; committee records show voice votes in favor when prompted (“Aye”).