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Rossford council adopts package of ordinances on code changes, budgets and contracts
Summary
At its Sept. 8 meeting, Rossford City Council adopted multiple ordinances and a levy resolution, approved budget transfers and collective-bargaining contracts and held first readings on several other items.
Rossford City Council on Sept. 8 adopted a package of ordinances and a resolution that updated municipal code language, authorized transfers and settlements, approved equipment purchases and ratified labor and benefit agreements.
The council declared emergency measures and adopted multiple ordinances after first readings or suspending additional readings. Adopted items included code updates for residential property maintenance and swimming-pool fencing, budget amendments and transfers related to seized/forfeiture funds and hotel-motel tax remittances, repayment between capital and general funds, disposal of surplus equipment, the purchase of a utility compactor for the public works department, and collective-bargaining agreements. The council also adopted a resolution certifying levy amounts to the county auditor.
Why it matters: the measures affect city code enforcement, fiscal accounting and service delivery across departments and finalize contracts that affect wages, staffing terms and employee benefits for municipal workers.
Key adopted items (titles condensed; ordinance/resolution numbers as introduced): - Ordinance 2025-63 — Amends Rossford Municipal Code section 11.34.14 (pool fences); declared an emergency and adopted the same evening. - Ordinance 2025-64 — Adds a municipal nuisance provision (Section 13.27.01) restricting storage of items such as snowblowers and lawnmowers on the front of homes; declared an emergency and adopted. - Ordinance 2025-67 — Amendment to the 2025 supplemental budget adding three items related to a Wood County forfeiture settlement, hotel/motel tax remittance and a transfer from the seized fund to the law enforcement trust fund; suspended additional readings and adopted. - Ordinance 2025-68 — Transfer of forfeited funds as part of the case settlement; suspended additional readings and adopted. - Ordinance 2025-69 — Repayment from Fund 303 (permanent improvements) to Fund 101 (general fund) related to a pocket-park advance; suspended additional readings and adopted. - Ordinance 2025-70 — Approves collective-bargaining agreements with United Auto Workers Local 12 (administration staff); suspended additional readings, declared emergency and adopted. - Ordinance 2025-71 — Authorizes the city administrator to enter into employee health-care benefit agreements (approved after the administration reported a negotiated 9.9% premium increase); suspended additional readings, declared emergency and adopted. - Ordinance 2025-73 — Authorizes disposal of surplus property including radios and a nonworking Lucas device; suspended additional readings and adopted. - Ordinance 2025-74 — Authorizes purchase agreement for a public-works utility compactor (budgeted; expense required council approval because it exceeded $50,000); suspended additional readings and adopted. - Resolution 2025-13 — Approves amounts and rates as determined by the budget commission and certifies the necessary tax levies to the county auditor; suspended additional readings and adopted.
Items held at first reading only or scheduled for additional readings: Ordinance 2025-65 (first amendment to a joint economic development agreement with Toledo), Ordinance 2025-66 (proposal to increase full-time fire department staffing from 12 to 16; first reading), Ordinance 2025-72 (general liability and property insurance purchase; first reading), and Resolution 2025-14 (application for a Wood County Park District grant — first reading).
Votes and procedure: Council frequently used a motion to suspend second and third readings and then moved to adopt the ordinance the same evening. For items taken up for adoption, the roll-call votes recorded council members voting in the affirmative during the meeting; the meeting record shows unanimous aye votes on the adopted measures. The council also added two executive-session items to the agenda under Ohio Revised Code for labor and economic development (Ohio Rev. Code 121.22(g)(4) and 121.22(g)(8)).
Council members and staff who spoke during these agenda items included Mayor Lane, Allison (city administrator), Chris (staff), and Kevin (staff). For matters involving public safety staffing, Chief Soroka answered questions (see separate coverage).
