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Fostoria council adopts multiple ordinances, suspends reading rules and approves appropriations
Summary
The Fostoria City Council unanimously adopted ordinances on grass‑clipping penalties, tents/makeshift shelters, parklet regulations and departmental smoking policies; it also passed a resolution ratifying prior acts and an appropriations ordinance adding funds to multiple city accounts.
The Fostoria City Council unanimously passed a package of ordinances and resolutions during its meeting, adopting Ordinances 2026‑41 through 2026‑46 and Resolution 2026‑45.
Council amended and adopted an ordinance adding a penalty provision for placing injurious material in city streets, inserting the word "knowingly" into subsection F during debate; that measure was adopted as Ordinance 2026‑41 after a roll‑call vote. The council then adopted Ordinance 2026‑42, a new section (1125.16) addressing tents and makeshift/unpermitted shelters within city limits, and Ordinance 2026‑43, which enacts rules for parklets in the city right‑of‑way and was declared an emergency.
Council also approved an amendment to section 145.06 permitting departments to develop smoking policies; that ordinance was adopted as 2026‑44. The council voted to suspend the three‑reading rule and adopted Resolution 2026‑45, which approves and ratifies prior acts of department heads and authorizes then‑and‑now certificates for certain expenditures.
Finally, the council suspended readings and adopted Ordinance 2026‑46 to amend permanent 2026 appropriations: adding $10,000 to the park and recreation fund, $3,000 to general fund contractual services for online ordinance updates (including a payment to American Legal Publishing recorded in the meeting transcript as approximately $10,293.44), and $160,000 to the urban community forest fund to cover 2026 costs. The Director of Finance told the council those urban forestry costs will be covered by an American Forestry Grant and are reimbursable monthly.
All formal roll‑call votes recorded the following affirmative responses: Layman, Cassidy, Baker, Grin, Mendoza and Gernzy. No dissenting votes were recorded in the transcript. The meeting record shows motions were moved and seconded for each item before adoption; when a three‑reading rule was suspended it was done by unanimous roll call.
The excusal of Council person Podak was approved earlier in the meeting by motion (moved by Mendoza, seconded by Cassidy).
