The Fostoria City Council adopted multiple emergency ordinances and a resolution in a single meeting, approving a fund carryover policy (Resolution No. 2025-81), an ambulance-services contract with the Seneca County Joint Ambulance District (Ordinance No. 2025-82), and a set of appropriations and budget amendments that were fast-tracked by waiving the three-reading rule.

Why it matters: The measures include budget and service contracts that affect city fiscal management and emergency medical services. The council used emergency declarations and suspensions of the three-reading rule to expedite adoption, making the changes effective more quickly than under regular procedure.

What the council approved
- Resolution No. 2025-81: A resolution establishing a fund carryover balance policy and declaring an emergency to exist. The motion to adopt was moved by Cassidy, seconded by Baker, and carried on roll call (affirmative votes recorded from all members present).

- Ordinance No. 2025-82: An ordinance authorizing the Director of Public Service and Safety to negotiate and enter into a contract with the Seneca County Joint Ambulance District, Jackson Township, Seneca County, Ohio, for provision of emergency medical services; the ordinance passed on roll call.

- Ordinance No. 2025-83: The council adopted a revised FY2026 permanent appropriations ordinance (the Nov. 26 replacement version was substituted) after a motion to suspend the three-reading rule. Council discussion referenced a recently circulated revision that incorporated a planned multi-year equipment lease.

- Ordinance No. 2025-84 and Ordinance No. 2025-85: Additional emergency ordinances and appropriations adjustments were adopted later in the meeting after waiving the three-reading requirement; the measures were recorded by ordinance numbers in the 2025-84 and 2025-85 ranges.

Voting and procedure: For each adoption the clerk conducted a roll-call vote; recorded responses in the transcript indicate unanimous affirmative votes from the members present for the adopted items. Several measures were adopted as emergency ordinances or by suspending the three-reading rule, a procedural step used to accelerate enactment.

What was not decided: Several items received first readings only, including establishment of a Safe Routes to School fund, a TIF/TID fund reference (transcript: fund 432), a cybersecurity program ordinance, and an ordinance amending sewer-rate provisions; those items will return for further consideration.

Next steps: Items adopted as emergency ordinances take effect according to the emergency language in each ordinance; first-reading items will be scheduled for subsequent readings and votes per normal procedure.