Hebron council elects Randy Wolf as 2026 council president, adopts committee roster and appointments

The Village of Hebron Council held its annual organizational meeting on Jan. 5, 2026, where members completed swearing-in ceremonies, elected a council president and approved committee assignments, meeting dates and several representative appointments.

Randy Wolf was elected council president after a nomination from Council Member Franklin Joseph Juvenelli and a second from Council Member Jerry Carpenter. The council approved the nomination by roll-call vote and Wolf then repeated the oath of office as council president.

The council administered oaths to newly confirmed and re-elected members, and swore in Jared B. Rose as the village solicitor. Other council members who took the oath that evening included Jerry Carpenter, Kristen Hoskinson, Mr. Marietta and Franklin Joseph Juvenelli, completing the full council roster for 2026.

Council approved a slate of representative and committee appointments. The council accepted a recommended nominee (recorded in the proceedings as Mr. Enwin) for the planning and zoning board senior citizen representative after a brief introduction and a short address by the nominee. The council also filled two CRA representative seats (including Randy Wolf and Franklin Joseph Juvenelli) and approved Andrea Chapman as the village representative to the West Licking Joint Fire District board. Jennifer Kohler was reappointed as the village representative to the Board of Tax Review, with her offer to continue noted in the record.

On governance and scheduling, council members voted to set regular council meetings on the first and fourth Mondays of each month and to hold combined committee meetings on the third Monday at 6 p.m. The council moved to draft formal legislation to set the meeting dates and times.

Committee leadership for 2026 was announced and approved: Finance will be chaired by Council Member Jerry Carpenter (with members Andrea Chapman and President Randy Wolf); Economic Development will be chaired by President Wolf (with members Franklin Joseph Juvenelli and Mr. Marietta); Safety (reframed from "police") will be chaired by Andrea Chapman (with Juvenelli and Kristen Hoskinson); Water and Wastewater will be chaired by Mr. Marietta (with Carpenter and Hoskinson); Public Works will be chaired by Juvenelli (with Chapman); and Personnel will be chaired by Kristen Hoskinson (with President Wolf and Mr. Marietta). The council adopted the committee assignments by roll-call vote.

The village administrator, Jung Hun Chen, was appointed to facilitate the combined committees meetings, and council confirmed membership for standing groups including the tax incentive review committee and a shared income tax negotiating team (expected to include tax administrator Kester, economic and community development director Meisner and the mayor).

All motions described above were moved, seconded and approved on roll-call votes as recorded in the meeting minutes. The organizational meeting concluded with a motion to adjourn so the council could proceed to subsequent agenda items.

The meeting record contains repeated short ceremonial passages of oath language; direct quotes in the transcript are largely oath recitations. One candidate introduced to the council said, "It's a great pleasure to be with you this afternoon," while addressing council members during the planning and zoning representative nomination.

What comes next: the council moved to adjourn the organizational session and proceed with its remaining agenda items; no additional policy decisions were recorded in the segments provided.