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Bellefontaine council adopts employee retention incentive, supplemental appropriations and several routine measures
Summary
Council approved a resolution to adopt an employee retention incentive funded with ARPA, passed a $38,500 supplemental appropriations ordinance on third reading, accepted a donated parcel and authorized an ODNR H2O grant application for $49,458; all motions recorded unanimous affirmative votes.
The Bellefontaine City Council approved several measures in a single meeting that the finance chair and committee chairs described as routine but consequential to city operations.
Missus Baker, finance committee chair, presented a resolution to adopt an employee retention incentive policy funded through ARPA dollars to extend the same compensation previously given to first responders to nonemergency city employees. "This is to give a compensation through ARPA funds for all of the non emergency, employees of the city matching the same thing that went to the first responders earlier," Baker said before moving the resolution; the motion carried with affirmative votes recorded by all present councilmembers.
On the legislative docket the council also voted to accept a donated parcel from Todd Johnson (an ordinance directed to the service safety director to accept the real estate gift and to declare an emergency) and to authorize the superintendent of the Bellefountain Joint Recreation District to apply for an ODNR H2O Ohio grant of $49,458 for a wetland restoration project at Mohera. The council recorded unanimous votes in support of those measures during first readings and motions.
Separately, an ordinance making supplemental appropriations and amending the permanent appropriations to cover fire-department repairs, police investigations and vehicle maintenance in the total amount of $38,500 was presented on third reading. Missus Baker moved to adopt and the council voted to approve the ordinance as an emergency measure.
Votes at a glance: - Resolution adopting an employee retention incentive (ARPA funds): moved by Missus Baker; second not specified in the resolution motion; vote recorded: Missus James, Mister Reeser, Mister Springs, Mister Ehler, Missus Baker, Mister Davis, Missus Fitzpatrick — all "Yes." Outcome: adopted. - Ordinance accepting donated real estate from Todd Johnson and declaring emergency (first reading/pass on first reading recorded): motion to adopt and to pass on first reading carried; vote: unanimous. Outcome: passed on first reading. - Resolution authorizing application for ODNR H2O Ohio grant R24-50 ($49,458) for Mohera Nature Preserve Wetland Restoration: moved by Mister Dibbs; second by Missus James; unanimous vote to adopt. - Ordinance making supplemental appropriations and amending permanent appropriations ($38,500): moved by Missus Baker; seconded by Mister Springs; unanimous vote to adopt on third reading.
The meeting record does not include roll-call abstentions or recorded dissent for these items; each motion as reported in the transcript received unanimous affirmative responses from the council members present. The council did not provide detailed spending line items for every appropriation during the meeting beyond the general categories noted in the ordinance language.
