Maumee council approves temporary budget, sewer-policy updates, cybersecurity program and contract items
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Summary
At its Dec. 15 meeting the council approved a temporary 2026 general appropriations ordinance (42-2025), amendments to 2025 appropriations (43-2025), an emergency ordinance updating the sanitary sewer overflow program (44-2025), and a cybersecurity program resolution pursuant to Ohio Revised Code 9.64; council also authorized a façade grant loan for $55,867 to Martin Holmes Law Offices and several consent-agenda contracts.
The Maumee City Council on Dec. 15 approved several fiscal and policy measures before the end of the year.
Ordinance 42-2025, a temporary general appropriations measure for the 2026 fiscal year, passed on a roll-call vote recorded as unanimous. That vote enables the city to continue operations under temporary appropriations until the final 2026 budget is adopted.
Council also approved Ordinance 43-2025, an amendment to prior 2025 appropriations, on a roll call with all recorded 'yes' votes.
On a two-motion sequence the council voted to suspend rules, declare an emergency, and adopt Ordinance 44-2025, which updates the Maumee sanitary sewer overflow and remediation policy and program. Council members explained the sewer work responded to an inherited, long-standing infrastructure problem and characterized approval as necessary to proceed with remediation efforts.
The council similarly moved to suspend rules, declare an emergency, and approve Resolution 031-2025 to adopt a cybersecurity program pursuant to Ohio Revised Code section 9.64 and to authorize the mayor to implement that program.
On the consent calendar and new-business items the council authorized several contracts and payments, including a 'then and now' payment to FET for construction services ($88,405.20 anticipated to be reimbursed by an insurer) and an agreement with CCBCC LLC to provide Coca-Cola beverage service at the Maumee Indoor Theater. The council also authorized a façade grant loan for exterior improvements at 133 E. John Street for $55,867 (Martin Holmes Law Offices); that motion passed with a majority and one recorded 'no' vote.
Taken together, the votes put the city on a legal and budgetary footing to continue sewer remediation, finalize temporary spending authority for 2026, and initiate a municipal cybersecurity program before the new year.
