Woodlawn council adopts budget, salary and transport-fee measures; creates unclaimed‑money fund
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Summary
The Village of Woodlawn council adopted multiple ordinances and resolutions, including a year‑end appropriations amendment, an unclaimed‑money fund, changes to salary and step schedules for police and fire, and a revised transport fee schedule; the council also adopted the 2026 tax budget and consented to ODOT resurfacing projects.
The Village of Woodlawn council on a June meeting night adopted a series of ordinances and resolutions covering budget adjustments, personnel pay schedules and transport fees, and adopted the village's 2026 tax budget.
Council approved Ordinance 12‑20‑25, an amendment to appropriations for the fiscal year ending Dec. 31, 2025, and Ordinance 13‑20‑25, which establishes an Unclaimed Money Fund for the village. The council also passed Ordinance 14‑20‑25, which affirms salaries and compensation for certain village positions, and declared an emergency as part of that action.
A contested item in the meeting involved Ordinance 15‑20‑25, which amends the police and fire step ordinance and was presented as an emergency item. Council members raised a pay‑step inconsistency in the part‑time paramedic table; Municipal Manager Tim Ingle read a set of corrections later in the meeting and the council voted to accept those corrections before passing the ordinance. Ingle told the council the corrected part‑time paramedic column should read $26 (first corrected step) with subsequent step values adjusted to $26.78, $27.58 and $28.41, and he instructed striking language that would separately increase a police‑detective rate that had already been incorporated elsewhere in the salary ordinance.
Ordinance 16‑20‑25, amending the fee schedule for scheduled medical and nonmedical transport services effective July 1, also passed after the council suspended the rules and declared an emergency.
On resolutions, council members adopted Resolution 18‑20‑25, approving and adopting the 2026 tax budget for submission to the auditor (the packet referenced an auditor submission deadline of July 20). The council also passed Resolution 19‑20‑25 consenting to an Ohio Department of Transportation resurfacing project on State Route 4 and State Route 747 and authorizing the municipal manager to execute any necessary agreements. Resolution 20‑20‑25, authorizing a sponsorship agreement with Pike 2 Bar and Grill for two summer concert dates, passed after brief debate over whether the resolution's title should explicitly indicate it covered two dates. The council also approved a first‑amendment temporary license agreement with Easley Blessed Foundation for a special event.
All the above measures were acted on by motions, suspension of rules where requested, roll‑call votes and, where noted, emergency declarations. Most roll calls recorded unanimous or near‑unanimous "Aye" responses among members present; specific roll‑call entries are recorded in the meeting minutes.
What happens next: ordinances declared emergency take effect immediately as provided by the council action; the manager's office will finalize corrected ordinance language and publish the updated salary tables in the ordinance packet.
