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Council adopts 2025 appropriation ordinance and approves construction manager agreement for new fire station
Summary
North Canton City Council adopted Ordinance 52-20-25 approving 2025 appropriations and Ordinance 53-20-25 authorizing a construction manager agreement and pre-construction compensation for the new fire station; both were passed under suspension of council rules by voice vote.
North Canton City Council adopted two ordinances during its meeting: Ordinance 52-20-25, authorizing appropriations for city operations for the period Jan. 1–Dec. 31, 2025; and Ordinance 53-20-25, authorizing the mayor to enter a construction-manager agreement for a new fire station and to pay pre-construction compensation. Both measures were approved by voice vote after council suspended its usual three‑reading requirement.
The finance director, Gina (finance director), confirmed there were no substantive changes to the appropriation ordinance from the version discussed the prior week. Council moved to adopt the first reading of Ordinance 52-20-25, suspended the rules, and adopted the ordinance under suspension of the rules. The record shows adoption by voice vote; individual roll-call votes were not specified in the transcript.
Ordinance 53-20-25 authorizes the mayor to enter a construction-manager agreement for the construction of a new fire station and approves payment of the construction manager’s pre-construction compensation. During the reading, council members discussed the pre-construction fee: the fee was read in the meeting as $39,000, and another speaker noted an alternate figure read as “$39.09” in the transcript. The transcript does not contain a clear, unambiguous numeric total for the pre-construction fee; the ordinance as read declared the appropriation an emergency and the council adopted it after suspending rules and approving by voice vote.
Meeting minutes indicate the council intends site preparation to begin through winter and construction to start in May, per a staff pre-construction update on the project schedule. That update came in discussion separate from the ordinance votes; no separate contract award beyond the authorization in Ordinance 53-20-25 was recorded as a final vote in the transcript.
Votes were recorded by voice with the chair asking “All in favor? Aye,” and no individual vote tallies or named roll-call recorded in the transcript excerpts. The meeting transcript does not name movers for the motions; motions were recorded as made and seconded but the transcript does not attribute those motions to specific council members.
