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Buckeye Lake council adopts emergency storm‑sewer change order and three budget measures; tax-levy resolution approved
Summary
At its Aug. 25 meeting, Buckeye Lake Village Council unanimously adopted an emergency change order for a storm-sewer project and passed two amendments to the permanent appropriations ordinance and a tax-levy resolution; one property-tax resolution moved to second reading.
Buckeye Lake Village Council on Aug. 25 approved a series of emergency financial and capital measures, including a change order for storm‑sewer work and amendments to the village’s permanent appropriations ordinance.
The council voted to adopt Ordinance 2025‑48, approving Change Order No. 4 for the West North Bank storm sewer improvements and declaring an emergency after first suspending the rules. The motion to suspend the rules (mover: Councilor Tom Wolfe; second: Councilor Don Cable) passed 6‑1 with Councilor Sue Wadley recorded as abstaining on the suspension; the subsequent motion to adopt (mover: Councilor Douglas Keener; second: Councilor Tom Wolfe) passed on a 7‑0 roll-call vote.
Councilors then passed Ordinance 2025‑49 and Ordinance 2025‑50, both amending Ordinance 2024‑66 (the permanent appropriations ordinance) and declaring emergencies. Each ordinance was advanced by suspending the rules and then adopted on recorded votes. Suspension motions for both measures were moved by Councilor Tom Wolfe (seconded once by Councilor Kellie Green and once by Councilor Douglas Keener) and passed with a 6‑1‑0 suspension vote (Councilor Wadley abstaining on the suspensions). The adoption motions passed 7‑0 on roll-call votes.
Separately, the council adopted Resolution 2025‑13, which accepts the amounts and rates as determined by the Budget Commission and certifies necessary tax levies to the county auditor; the council passed a suspension of the rules on that resolution (moved by Councilor Deb Julian, seconded by Councilor Kellie Green; suspension passed 5‑2 with Councilors Keener and Wadley recorded as abstaining on the suspension) and then adopted the resolution 7‑0.
Resolution 2025‑14, a separate measure regarding property-tax levies contingent on adoption of a village income tax by electors, was presented and moved to a second reading.
The council’s actions were procedural and focused on enabling immediate funding and contract changes: the ordinances and resolution all carried emergency clauses and passed by recorded votes shown on the meeting minutes. The meeting adjourned at 7:48 p.m.
