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Evendale council adopts 2026 tax budget and a string of emergency ordinances
Summary
Council approved the 2026 tax budget and adopted multiple ordinances as emergencies (equipment disposal, insurance contract, seasonal hires, street improvements, subdivision for TLC property, and a consent for Boy Scouts property), with roll-call votes recorded for each.
The Evendale Village Council moved quickly through a package of ordinances and votes at its meeting, first conducting a public hearing on the 2026 tax budget and then adopting the budget ordinance as an emergency.
Presiding official read Ordinance "25 days 37" (described in the meeting as the ordinance approving the 2026 tax budget) and the council voted to suspend readings and to adopt the ordinance as an emergency after motions and roll-call votes. The presiding official stated, "I now declare ordinance 25 days 37, adopted as an emergency." (procedural declaration recorded during the meeting.)
Council also considered and adopted, typically by suspension of readings and emergency clauses, a series of ordinances on the consent calendar and later in the agenda, including: an ordinance authorizing disposal or donation of obsolete rope rescue equipment (25 days 38), an insurance agreement with Ohio Plan Risk Management Inc (25 days 39), authority to hire two seasonal service-department employees (25 days 40), authorization for the 2025 street improvement contract (25 days 41), and a subdivision/consolidation for the TLC property (25 days 42) that will host a dog food company. Each ordinance was adopted as an emergency following motions and roll-call votes recorded in favor by the members present.
Council also moved an amendment to a consent-and-acknowledgment ordinance related to village-owned Boy Scouts property to correct a bank name (motion to change a reference from US Bank to PNC Bank). Andy Zahn, chief executive officer of the Dan Beard Council, Boy Scouts of America, addressed council in support of the Boy Scouts' continued presence in the village. The related ordinance was adopted as an emergency.
All listed ordinance adoptions were processed by motions to suspend second and third readings, motions to suspend emergency clauses where noted, and final adoption votes. The meeting record shows affirmative roll-call responses from council members for the items presented; specific absences or recusals were noted where applicable (one council member recused herself on the seasonal hires ordinance). The meeting did not record any failed measures for the ordinances listed.
The meeting closed with a motion to adjourn.
