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St. Bernard council adopts ordinance moving $600,000 into bond and employee health accounts
Summary
The village council adopted Ordinance No. 32-2024 to transfer $600,000 from the general fund—$200,000 to the general bond cash account and $400,000 to the employee health cash account—and approved multiple departmental appropriations; the measure passed 6–0 after suspension of further readings.
St. Bernard’s village council adopted Ordinance No. 32-2024 on a 6–0 roll-call vote, authorizing the auditor to transfer $600,000 from the general fund and approving a set of additional appropriations for city departments.
The ordinance directs $200,000 to the village’s general bond cash account and $400,000 to the employee health cash account. Auditor Miss Brickway presented the ordinance and a list of supplemental appropriations for specific line items and departments prior to the vote.
Council first placed the ordinance on the table, the clerk read the ordinance’s first reading, and a motion to suspend the second and third readings was moved and seconded; the suspension passed on a recorded vote with six ayes. A subsequent motion to adopt Ordinance No. 32-2024 passed by the same 6–0 tally.
The auditor’s presentation listed multiple additional appropriations, including line-item amounts for services, supplies, city hall maintenance, fire department pension, recreation, Medicare, unemployment and retirement contributions; the transcript lists specific dollar figures for each account. The ordinance was declared an emergency as part of the adoption process.
No public comments were raised against the ordinance during the meeting. The clerk recorded the roll-call votes as: Mr Morton — yes; Mr Stel — yes; Mr Edwards — yes; Miss Held — yes; Mr Schmeer — yes; and Mr Estep — yes. The ordinance takes effect as adopted per the council’s declaration of emergency and administrative process.
The council also voted to change its November meeting date to Thursday, Nov. 21; the clerk was instructed to post the schedule update on the village website.
What’s next: implementation tasks and budget adjustments described by the auditor will be handled by the auditor’s office and impacted departments per the ordinance language; the transcript does not specify exact spending timelines or which projects the appropriations will fund beyond the listed line items.
