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Struthers Council suspends rules and adopts three emergency measures, including a small Memorial Day appropriation
Summary
At its May 27 meeting the Struthers City Council suspended rules and approved an ordinance appropriating funds for a Memorial Day contribution and two resolutions authorizing a CHIP grant partnership and adopting a Title VI program for FTA Section 5310 activities; the transcript lists the measures and records the council voting to pass them as emergency items.
The Struthers City Council on May 27 suspended council rules and approved three items read into the record as emergency measures: an ordinance to appropriate funds for a Memorial Day contribution, a resolution authorizing a partnership to apply for a 2026 Community Housing Impact and Preservation (CHIP) program grant, and a resolution adopting the city's Title VI program for certain Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Section 5310 transit activities.
Clerk read the ordinance described in the transcript as "appropriating the sum not to exceed a $150 from the 2026 general fund budget appropriation ... for the Am Betts Post 44 Memorial Day contribution and declared emergency." A motion to suspend the rules and place the ordinance passed; the clerk recorded 'yes' responses from council members and declared the motion passed. The transcript does not specify who moved or seconded the final passage, and the roll-call mapping to individual member names is not consistently clear in the audio transcript.
The second item was read as a resolution authorizing the City of Struthers to partner with the City of Campbell and Mahoning County to apply for the 2026 CHIP program grant, designating Mahoning County as the grant grantee who would be responsible for filing the application and implementing the grant if awarded. The clerk read that the resolution was declared an emergency; council moved and the motion passed on voice roll call as recorded in the meeting.
The third item was read as a resolution adopting the city's Title VI program for transit-related activities under "FTA section 5310," authorizing submission to the Ohio Department of Transportation, designating a Title VI coordinator and authorizing execution of required certifications and assurances; that resolution was also declared an emergency and approved.
The meeting transcript records the readings and council votes to suspend rules and pass the items but does not consistently capture mover/seconder names or a complete, verifiable roll-call record tied to council member names in every instance. Where the transcript records dollar figures or codes they are sometimes garbled; for example, the appropriation language as read includes numeric strings that are not unambiguous. The council clerk confirmed receipt of communications and moved the legislative items through the suspension-and-pass process at the May 27 meeting.
