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Martins Ferry council approves EMS staffing agreement and sets water-operator salary
Summary
Council suspended rules and passed two ordinances: an agreement to provide full-time EMS employees and an ordinance setting the water department operator salary; both were approved following roll-call votes recorded in the meeting.
Martins Ferry City Council voted to advance two personnel-related ordinances during the meeting after suspending the usual 72-hour notice requirement.
Council introduced an ordinance to enter into an agreement with full-time emergency medical services employees for the city and moved to suspend the 72-hour rule so the ordinance could be considered immediately. The suspension motion passed on a roll-call vote recorded by the clerk. Council then approved the ordinance to enter into the EMS agreement (the transcript records the reading and passage but does not include the ordinance number or full text of the agreement in the public record).
Later in the meeting council also read and passed an ordinance setting the salary for the position of operator of record in the city's water department. That ordinance likewise was considered under a suspension of rules and approved by roll-call vote.
The transcript records roll-call “Yes” responses from multiple council members on both suspensions and final votes; the record does not include detailed salary figures, the effective dates of the ordinances, or complete ordinance text. The clerk read each ordinance aloud and council confirmed passage at the meeting.
