Lakemore council approves multiple public-safety hires, lease with Blue Technologies, SRO MOU and 2025 appropriation amendment

The Village of Lakemore council approved a group of personnel resolutions, a commercial lease, intergovernmental and service agreements, and an amendment to the 2025 appropriations during a regularly scheduled meeting.

The council moved quickly through the items with motions to dispense with additional readings and roll-call votes recorded as "yes" by attending council members. The actions include hiring decisions for the police and fire departments, acceptance of a lease from Blue Technologies, a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Springfield Local Schools covering school resource officer (SRO) services, a service agreement for an attendance coordinator for the Springfield Local Schools for the 2025–26 school year, and an ordinance increasing 2025 appropriations tied to several grant funds.

Why it matters: the hires increase the village’s public-safety staffing; the SRO MOU and attendance-coordinator agreement formalize how police services will be provided in local schools; the appropriation ordinance moves grant and donation dollars through the village budget.

Votes at a glance - Resolution 7485-2025 — Approve hire of Brandon Lennick as a full-time patrol officer (pay $23.00/hr; health insurance after 60 days). Outcome: approved (roll call: yes). Authority cited in resolution: Section 121.22, Ohio Revised Code (open meetings compliance). Provenance: transcript lines where the resolution is read (resolution listing) and the later motion and roll call when council adopted the resolution.

- Resolution 7486-2025 — Approve hire of Brandon Charles as a full-time firefighter (pay $20.00/hr; health insurance after 60 days). Outcome: approved (roll call: yes). Provenance: resolution text read aloud; motion to adopt and roll call recorded.

- Resolution 7487-2025 — Approve hire of Adriano Shone as a part-time firefighter (one-year probation). Outcome: approved (roll call: yes). Provenance: resolution text read; motion to adopt and roll call.

- Resolution 7488-2025 — Approve hire of Jeff Verdin (listed in the resolution text; later references in the meeting used similar spellings) as a part-time firefighter (one-year probation). Outcome: approved (roll call: yes). Provenance: resolution text read; motion to adopt and roll call.

- Resolution 7489-2025 — Approve hire of Caden Clark as a part-time firefighter (one-year probation). Outcome: approved (roll call: yes). Provenance: resolution text read; motion to adopt and roll call.

- Resolution 7490-2025 — Accept lease agreement from Blue Technologies (lease attached to resolution text). Outcome: approved (roll call: yes). Provenance: resolution text reading that accepts the lease and the subsequent motion and roll call adopting it.

- Resolution 7491-2025 — Authorize Village of Lakemore to enter into an MOU with Springfield Local School District Board of Education for school resource officer (SRO) services, effective 07/01/2025 through 06/30/2026, as required by Section 3313.951, Ohio Revised Code. Outcome: approved (roll call: yes). Provenance: resolution text read (MOU description and statutory reference) and later adoption vote.

- Resolution 7492-2025 — Approve Village Police Department to enter into a service agreement with Springfield Local Schools to provide an attendance coordinator for the 2025–26 school year (176 days). Outcome: approved (roll call: yes). Provenance: resolution text read and adoption vote recorded.

- Ordinance 19-01-2025 — Amend Ordinance 18-74-2024 to increase 2025 appropriations and adjust revenues: general fund increase $13,088 (police bulletproof vest program and FEMA AFG grant), Lakemore Fire EMS grant fund (2052) increases tied to AFG grant expenses, BGA grant fund (2054) $6,990 for BJA grant expenses, Police K-9 fund $2,282 and related revenue increases (k9 donations $200). The ordinance also approves an advance from the general fund to the Fire EMS grant fund. Outcome: approved (roll call: yes). Provenance: ordinance text read; motion to adopt and roll call.

Meeting procedure and voting: Council made motions to dispense with multiple readings for many items before taking roll-call votes. The meeting transcript records roll-call responses as affirmative for the motions above; no votes against, abstentions or recusals were recorded in the transcript excerpts for these items.

What the resolutions say (selected details drawn verbatim from resolutions read into the record): - Hiring resolutions: name of hire, full- or part-time status, stated hourly rate, health-insurance eligibility after 60 days (for full-time hires), and one-year probation for part-time firefighters. - Lease acceptance (7490): the lease is described as attached to the resolution and "made part of as fully rewritten herein." No financial terms or lease duration were read aloud in the excerpted transcript; those specifics are recorded in the attached lease (not included verbatim in the meeting transcript). - SRO MOU (7491): effective 07/01/2025–06/30/2026; references SRO services and cites Section 3313.951 of the Ohio Revised Code as the statutory authority requiring terms and conditions between the parties. - Attendance coordinator agreement (7492): effective for the 2025–26 school year (176 days); text instructs that a copy of the agreement is attached and made part of the record. - Appropriation ordinance (19-01-2025): lists multiple line-item increases, related revenue increases, and an advance from the general fund to the Fire EMS grant fund; declares the ordinance an emergency measure to take immediate effect.

Limits and clarifications - The meeting transcript records each resolution and ordinance title and the council’s motion and roll-call approvals. The meeting excerpt does not include full contractual terms for the Blue Technologies lease or the attached MOU and service agreement; the council resolution text states those documents are attached and made part of the record. Where the transcript did not recite a numeric detail (for example, lease duration or financial terms inside the attached lease), the article notes that those specifics are contained in the attached documents rather than asserting values not read aloud.

Next steps and implementation - Several resolutions were declared emergency measures in the resolution text and were read to take effect immediately or on a specific date; those effective dates are recorded in the resolution language read into the record (for example: Resolution 7485 lists an effective date in the text; where a specific effective date was read, it is recorded above). Departments (police, fire, and administration) will execute hiring paperwork and finalize associated contracts and benefits according to the resolutions.