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Bellefontaine council approves multiple first-reading ordinances and adopts tax-department expense account
Summary
At its July meeting the Bellefontaine City Council passed several ordinances on first reading — including a $30,000 downtown grant — and adopted a corrected resolution establishing a tax-department expense account. Most votes were unanimous.
Bellefontaine City Council members voted through a slate of first-reading ordinances and adopted a corrected resolution for the tax department at their July meeting.
The most prominent item was an ordinance authorizing the Service Safety Director to enter a repair-and-grant agreement with Sky High Investments LLC for 114 North Detroit Street, transferring the property by deed and declaring an emergency. Finance Committee Chair Mister Springs moved to pass that item on first reading; the motion was seconded by Mister Reeser and received 'Yes' votes from Reeser, Springs, Aylor, Baker, Davis and McCracken.
Council also introduced and moved forward a supplemental-appropriations package for the tax department that includes a $10,000 expense account (reader conversion) and $20,000 for tax-software capital equipment. During floor action Councilors amended Resolution 25-45's title from a 'new revenue account' to 'a new expense account' and then adopted the resolution. Mister Franks moved the title amendment and Mister Reeser seconded; the amended resolution passed with roll-call 'Yes' votes.
Other finance items advanced on first reading: an amendment to Ordinance 24-32 to authorize a promissory note from Fund 410 (capital improvements) to Fund 610 (wastewater) that changes repayment to five years with a 3.43% interest rate, and the filing of an annexation ordinance for roughly 46.376 acres owned by LaVan Investments, LLC. An ordinance vacating an east–west public alley between Lot 2207 and Lot 2208 was also moved on first reading.
On second reading the council passed an ordinance granting power of attorney to Priority Power Management LLC for natural-gas aggregation services; that motion passed on a recorded vote.
What happens next: Most of the items were advanced on first reading and will return for further readings and final action in future meetings. The amendment to the tax-department resolution was immediately adopted.
