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Hicksville council advances readings on employee holidays, benefits and utility-rate ordinances and approves routine business
Summary
Council amended the agenda to relabel a sewer ordinance as a resolution, approved minutes and payment of bills, heard several ordinance readings including proposed water, refuse and sewer rate changes, and received routine department reports and community notices including Halloween hours and a pending Verizon contract.
The Hicksville Village Council on Oct. 21 approved routine business, amended its agenda and heard multiple ordinance readings that would affect employee benefits and utility rates.
Council members voted unanimously to amend the agenda to change Ordinance 2024-22 to Resolution 2024-22 after a motion by Ron Beverly and a second from Rob Bailey. The council then approved minutes from the Oct. 7 meeting (motion by Eric Bassett, second by Rob Bailey) and a list of bills to be paid (motion by Eric Bassett, second by Charlie Martin), with all motions passing on recorded unanimous votes.
Solicitor Rachel Hammersmith read the captions for several items: second reading of Ordinance 2024-17 (adding employee holidays) and Ordinance 2024-18 (allowing compensation for certain accumulated vacation credits); first readings of Ordinance 2024-20 (proposed water-rate changes), Ordinance 2024-21 (proposed refuse-rate changes) and Ordinance 2024-22 (proposed sewer-rate changes); and a second reading of Resolution 2024-22 to amend the village Investment Policy. The transcript does not record final votes on the utility-rate ordinances.
Department reports and community notices included a police report about discs from a new disc-golf course encroaching on private property, a fire report that engine 504 is back in service and that turnout-gear fittings and a SIG grant application are pending, and a fiscal report presenting the fund-status and cash-summary reports. Mayor Michael Barth announced Halloween trick-or-treat hours for Oct. 26 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. and said a contract with Verizon has been finalized and is awaiting signatures.
Late in the meeting, Ron Beverly moved and Eric Bassett seconded that council go into executive session at 7:00 p.m. to discuss employee discipline; Egly, Bassett, Beverly, Martin and Miller voted yes and Rob Bailey voted no. The clerk was asked to leave for the executive session, and the transcript does not record the time-in-session, time of return, or adjournment.
