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Canton City Council quickly adopts multiple emergency ordinances, including funding for assault-notification platform
Summary
Council suspended rules to advance and adopt ordinances 26–29 and later adopted ordinances 36, 37 and 38; key votes included acceptance of an OCJS grant for an assault-notification platform and approval of water-main extensions and a community reinvestment agreement.
Canton City Council on the evening’s agenda suspended procedural rules to take up and adopt several measures in one meeting, approving funding and emergency declarations across public safety, infrastructure and economic-development items.
The council adopted Ordinance 26 to accept grant funding from the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services to establish an assault-notification ‘‘community connection’’ platform and to contract with VersaTerm for implementation. The motion to adopt passed on roll call with 12 yeas, the clerk announced. The clerk’s earlier summary said the grant amount was $85,536; a department representative…
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