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Greenville City Council approves supplemental appropriation and adopts cybersecurity policy
Summary
The council unanimously adopted a supplemental appropriation ordinance to reimburse city water and wastewater capital projects and passed an emergency-resolution adopting a citywide cyber security policy that requires council approval for ransomware payments and narrows public-records access to some cyber-related records.
Greenville City Council unanimously adopted two measures at its meeting: a supplemental appropriation ordinance intended to reimburse the city for water and wastewater capital expenses, and a resolution adopting a cyber security policy with an emergency clause.
Council moved to suspend the rules and approved the supplemental ordinance by voice vote after a brief explanation from the law director and council members that the listed funds are reimbursements to the city and will be returned when related loans are approved. The ordinance text presented at the meeting cited appropriations tied to the Water Tower East/Industrial Park project and wastewater solids-handling improvements; the transcript’s numeric figures were garbled and should be confirmed from the official ordinance text in the clerk’s file.
Council also voted to adopt a cyber security policy that the Law Director described as required by OC section 9.64. Law Director Mr. Reman said one explicit addition requires that "any ransomware payments that are made on behalf of the city of Greenville can only happen after the vote of council at a public meeting," and that the policy clarifies that certain cybersecurity-related records "do not qualify as public records" under the cited section.
Both measures passed on recorded roll-call votes with all members voting in favor. The council discussed that the appropriation ordinance covers city-financed work that will be reimbursed by loan proceeds once loan approvals are final; the cyber security policy was adopted with an emergency clause so it takes effect immediately.
Next steps: the clerk’s office will publish the ordinance and resolution in full in the meeting packet; the loan approvals and any related reimbursements will proceed through the city’s debt process when lenders finalize loan documents.
