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Council passes tax-advance resolution, tables lodging-tax ordinance and approves website vendor
Summary
Council passed Resolution 2024-R-33 requesting advance tax payments under ORC 321.34, postponed Resolution 2024-R-32 (website RFP) indefinitely, tabled Ordinance 2024-O-19 (lodging tax), and approved a contract with vendor Revised for the city website.
Mentor on the Lake’s council took several formal votes during the meeting, approving an advance-tax payment resolution, pausing a separate website-RFP resolution and moving forward with a vendor recommendation for the city website.
The council passed Resolution 2024-R-33 — a request that the Lake County Auditor make advance tax payments under Ohio Revised Code 321.34 — after voting to suspend the rules and then adopting the resolution on roll-call (all recorded Aye). Council members did not record any Nay votes in the transcript.
On the website procurement, council read Resolution 2024-R-32 (second reading), but the presiding officer said the committee had decided to move forward with vendor Revised, and a motion to postpone R-32 indefinitely (effectively killing that resolution) was made by Miss Wong and seconded by Mister Bittner; the roll-call vote recorded Aye from all present and the postponement carried.
Council also considered Ordinance 2024-O-19 (a proposed lodging tax chapter). Because the short-term-rental policy remains unsettled, council agreed to table O-19; the motion to table (Miss Wong, second Missus Moore) passed by roll call with all present voting Aye.
Separately, the Committee of the Whole had earlier recommended the vendor Revised after reviewing website proposals. At full council the administration asked to reallocate previously appropriated funds (about $40,000 originally assigned for an RFP) to contract with Revised and to use remaining funds for additional software; council voted to approve proceeding with Revised by roll call (Aye votes recorded). The presiding officer noted that, "Since we are moving forward with Revised, this legislation is no longer needed," and council placed items accordingly.
Other formal actions at the meeting included approval of the previous meeting’s minutes (motion by Mister Lunder, second by Missus Moore) with Miss Wong recorded as abstaining, and a motion to enter executive session on a personnel matter, which passed by roll call. The meeting concluded after appointment of a personnel committee and a final roll-call vote to adjourn.
