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Finance committee advances 32 ordinances to full council; approves contract renewals and staffing requests
Summary
Committee moved ordinances 1–32 to the full council for consideration, recommended sending Ordinance 121 to third reading, reviewed a police settlement and several staffing and contract renewals (housing coordinator contract renewal, code-enforcement and zoning officer positions), and discussed scheduling a public utilities committee meeting.
The Youngstown City Finance Committee on May 20 took several procedural and administrative steps and recommended multiple items for the full council.
Motion and next steps: Committee chair Mike Ray moved that ordinances 1 through 32 be sent to the full council for consideration and passage; a second was recorded and the committee discussed procedural points about second and third readings. The chair also moved that Ordinance 121 be sent to the council floor for third-reading consideration.
Staff and contract items: The committee reviewed a contract renewal for a housing coordinator in CPED funded previously (ARP) and several blanket purchase orders for outside legal counsel (a proposed total of $325,000 across items 8–11) intended to reduce outside-counsel costs as staff bring more work in-house. Committee members praised the housing coordinator'9s work and supported the renewal.
Settlement and personnel: Staff reported a settlement tied to a police pursuit: $40,000 for bodily injury and $7,500 for property damage; insurance counsel handled the negotiation and medical records were provided. The committee also reviewed requests to add or shift zoning and code enforcement positions to improve field inspections and noted plans for conflict-resolution/CIT-style training for staff.
Administrative items: The committee discussed annual software/licensing splits for municipal court systems (Quartz), discretionary transfers, vehicle replacements (five water department vehicles budgeted at roughly $270,000) and several capital repairs (roof replacements, generator-building repairs). One agenda item was pulled and committee members agreed to schedule a public utilities committee meeting before the next council meeting.
Outcome: The committee moved multiple ordinances and administrative items to the full council for consideration; no final recorded roll-call votes on ordinances were taken in committee during this meeting.
