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Willard City Council unanimously adopts salt-bid participation, street-improvement bidding and renames event fund; ordinance sets city manager wages
Summary
At its April 20 meeting the Willard City Council unanimously adopted three resolutions — including participation in the ODOT winter road salt bid and advertising bids for Southeast Collector street improvements — renamed Fund 817, and passed an emergency ordinance establishing the city manager's wages.
The Willard City Council on April 20 unanimously adopted a slate of measures, including participation in the Ohio Department of Transportation's annual winter road salt bid, authorization to advertise for bids on the Southeast Collector Street Improvements (Issue 1), renaming Fund 817, and an emergency ordinance establishing wages for the city manager.
Council introduced Resolution No. 2647-26 to authorize the city manager to participate in ODOT's annual winter road salt bid and, after a motion to suspend the rules, voted to adopt it on first reading. The council then adopted Resolution No. 2648-26 directing the city manager to advertise for bids for the Southeast Collector Street Improvements (Issue 1).
Council also approved Resolution No. 2649-26 to rename Fund 817 from the "Centennial/Sesquicentennial Fund" to the "Community Engagement and Events Fund." Each resolution was moved by Councilmember Olson, seconded by Councilmember Danhoff, and passed in unanimous roll-call votes by Babcock, Danhoff, Daniel, McKenzie, Olson, Sattig and Vanichek.
Finally, Council considered Ordinance No. 6028-26, described in the meeting as establishing wages for the city manager and cited as an emergency. The Council voted to waive the seven-day layover and adopted the ordinance in the same meeting by the same unanimous vote. The ordinance text and effective date were presented by title; no additional wage figures or effective date beyond the emergency adoption were recorded in the minutes.
Actions recorded in the minutes show consistent unanimous support. The minutes do not specify the legal threshold beyond a simple roll-call adoption or provide the ordinance's enacted wage figures or a separate effective date beyond the emergency declaration.
Next steps: the measures take procedural effect per the recorded adoptions; the ordinance's published text and effective date should be checked in the city's codified records or the clerk's office for precise implementation details.
