At the Dec. 1 meeting, North Ridgeville City Council adopted Ordinance 2025-161, an amendment to the city's 2025 appropriations ordinance, and added an emergency clause so the Department of Finance could cover immediate year-end obligations. Director of Finance described the ordinance as including compensatory-time payouts for staff, property-tax payments to the North Ridgeville library, and street-opening deposit refunds.

Council moved to dispense second and third readings for 2025-161, then voted to adopt the ordinance with an emergency clause so the finance department would have resources to make those payments before year-end. On the roll call, council recorded affirmative votes from Swank, Abens, Winkle, Awig, De Vries and Jacobs; the chair announced the motion carried and 2025-161 was adopted.

The finance director said a memorandum detailing each item was previously provided to council. No amendments to the ordinance were recorded in the meeting transcript. The ordinance was adopted with the emergency clause and took effect immediately for the purposes described in the meeting.