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Struthers City Council adopts front-yard garden ordinance and fast-tracks a package of staffing and salary ordinances
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Summary
At its April 22 meeting the Struthers City Council passed a third-reading ordinance to permit and regulate front-yard gardens and used expedited procedures to approve a bundle of retroactive personnel and salary ordinances affecting multiple departments.
The Struthers City Council on April 22 adopted an ordinance to permit and regulate front-yard gardens and, in the same meeting, suspended council rules to pass a package of ordinances that set positions and salaries retroactive to Jan. 1, 2026.
Clerk Megan read the third reading of the front-yard gardens ordinance, described in the record as creating section 1397.17 of the codified ordinances of the City of Struthers. After the reading the Chair asked for a motion to pass; council members answered in the affirmative and the ordinance moved forward on third reading.
The council also considered Ordinance No. 2, described as establishing section 125.01 to set a policy for direct deposit of public funds, and a set of ordinances (Nos. 3–15 and Nos. 16–21 in the agenda) that the clerk read by heading. Those measures establish or revise positions, compensation and employment provisions for elected officials and multiple department heads and part-time staff, and several items in the packet were presented with emergency language and listed as retroactive to 01/01/2026.
At the chair's request the council voted to suspend the rules and place Ordinances 3–15 and later Ordinances 16–21 on passage in the same session; the clerk recorded the readings and council members registered affirmative responses on the record. The measures include new or reclassified positions such as part-time park laborers, part-time drivers for the elderly van and part-time police officers, with wages and repeals of prior ordinance provisions noted in the readings.
The agenda package as read did not include substantive debate in the transcript on policy details, budgetary impact, or implementation timelines beyond the ordinance headings and the repeated statement that several items are declared emergencies and retroactive to Jan. 1, 2026. The clerk and chair handled the procedural motioning and roll calls during the session.
What happens next: the ordinances that were passed as emergency measures take effect according to the language the council recorded at adoption; the transcript does not include full text of each ordinance, specific salary figures for every position, or separate roll-call tallies for each item.
