Bloomville council adopts emergency ordinance to correct debt-service and OWDA appropriations

Bloomville Mayor David O. Auble Jr. presided over a Feb. 18 council meeting where the Village Council voted unanimously to adopt Ordinance 2026-2 as an emergency measure to correct municipal appropriations.

Fiscal Officer Natasha Hatfield told the council a shift in how capital improvements were being collected from debt-service funds left necessary debt-service appropriations and OWDA loan funds unallocated. Hatfield said the ordinance will correct a $66,000 debt-service shortfall and appropriate about $291,000 in OWDA Sludge Project funds so the village can meet its payment and loan obligations.

Council moved in three steps that carried unanimously: to declare the ordinance an emergency, to suspend the rules, and then to adopt the ordinance. The three motions were recorded as passing on 6-0 votes. The emergency designation was discussed and approved at the meeting, allowing the appropriation corrections to take effect immediately under the village procedures.

The action follows routine year-end and budget adjustments described by the fiscal officer. Ordinance 2026-3 (parking fines) and Resolution 2026-1 (park improvements) were only presented for first readings at the same meeting and will return for future action.

The council did not record individual roll-call votes; the meeting minutes list the motions as carrying by unanimous 6-0 votes. The village will proceed with the corrective bookkeeping and loan appropriations described by Hatfield; any required implementing steps will be handled through the fiscal office and future council reports.