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Gettysburg council adopts emergency resolutions to renew 1-mill fire and EMS levy, approves midyear 2025 tax budget
Summary
The Village of Gettysburg council on July 11 adopted three emergency resolutions related to a 1.0 mill renewal levy for fire and emergency medical services and approved a midyear tax budget for 2025; a special meeting to finalize levy submission was set for July 23, 2024.
Gettysburg — The Village of Gettysburg Council on July 11 unanimously moved to adopt a set of emergency resolutions aimed at renewing a 1.0 mill tax levy to support the fire department and emergency medical services and approved the village’s midyear tax budget for 2025.
Council first approved Resolution No. 2024-9 (repealing Resolution 2024-5 and declaring necessity for a 1.0 mill renewal levy) after a motion by Council member Susan Parkman and a second from Council member Dan May. Council then voted to suspend the rules and give second and third readings by title only before adopting the measure as an emergency. The resolution cites Ohio Revised Code sections referenced in the text, including 5705.19(I), 5705.03(B)(1), 5705.19(A), 121.22 and 5705.25.
Council followed the same procedural steps to repeal Resolution No. 2024-8 via Resolution No. 2024-10, and to approve Resolution No. 2024-11, a separate resolution of necessity for the 1.0 mill renewal levy. In each case the transcript records motions as “passed and carried”; the meeting minutes in the transcript do not include a roll-call vote tally or individual yes/no votes.
Mayor Jon Michael Shives presided over the meeting. Council president Valinda Hammons and several council members participated in motions to suspend the rules and adopt the measures as emergencies. The council recorded no formal vote counts in the transcript excerpt provided; the transcript shows only that motions were moved, seconded and carried.
In other business, Council member Susan Parkman moved to adopt the village’s midyear tax budget for 2025; Valinda Hammons seconded and the motion passed. Council also scheduled a special meeting for Tuesday, July 23, 2024, at 7 p.m. to approve or disapprove a resolution to proceed with submission of the 1.0 mill renewal levy.
The council’s recorded actions at the July 11 meeting were procedural and time-sensitive: by suspending the rules and adopting measures as emergencies, the council shortened the usual ordinance/resolution process to allow immediate effect. The transcript does not state the intended effective dates for the levy or whether the village will place the renewal on a specific ballot; those next steps are to be addressed at the scheduled July 23 meeting.
Actions recorded in the transcript: Resolution Nos. 2024-9, 2024-10 and 2024-11 were approved and adopted as emergencies; the midyear tax budget for 2025 was adopted; a special meeting for July 23, 2024 was scheduled to act on levy submission.
