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Amherst council receives auditor, treasurer reports; announces upcoming bids and meeting schedule
Summary
Amherst officials on March 10 presented routine financial reports, reminded residents of the April 15 tax-filing deadline, and listed upcoming committee meetings and agenda items including a solicitation for UV system upgrade bids and a proposed ordinance to stream city meetings online.
Amherst officials on March 10 presented routine financial reports and listed items the council will consider at upcoming committee meetings.
Auditor Phillips told the council that February reports have been distributed and staff is compiling information needed for the upcoming audit. "The February reports have been distributed, and our auditor staff is diligently working on compiling all the information that's needed for the upcoming audit," Phillips said.
Treasurer Ramsey reminded residents that April 15 is the city's tax filing deadline and said Ohio law requires mandatory income tax filing; the treasurer also reported investment earnings. Ramsey said the city earned interest on its invested funds last year on roughly $20 million in investments and gave the interest figure in the meeting record as about $637,000. "That is based upon the return that we are getting on the roughly 20 million dollars that we have invested," Ramsey said.
Councilmembers scheduled committee meetings for mid‑March: Finance chair Councilmember Dimbinsky called a finance committee meeting for March 17 at 7:15 p.m. and members set other committee start times and dates during the meeting. Councilmember Gaminski scheduled an ordinance committee meeting for March 17 at 7:05 p.m.
Under agenda requests, the clerk read two ordinances to be placed on future agendas: (1) an ordinance to solicit bids for water pollution control center UV system upgrades (agenda item 25-12; details not specified) and (2) an ordinance to stream city meetings on the city's website and make agendas and minutes available online (agenda item 25-13; details not specified). Council did not take formal action on those ordinances at the March 10 meeting.
There was no extended discussion or public comment recorded on these items, and the council later accepted the administration reports by voice vote.
The meeting record does not include detailed budget allocations for the UV project, vendor names for streaming or UV upgrades, or a timeline for implementation; those details were not specified in the transcript.
