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Council approves bank-account consolidation, joins opioid settlement, adopts fee-schedule amendment and accepts safety grant
Summary
At its April 14 meeting, the Green City Council adopted several measures: closing low-use PNC accounts and moving funds to higher-yield options, opting into an opioid settlement remnant distribution, adopting an amended planning fee schedule (keeping temporary-use fees at $50), and accepting a small safety grant for dump-truck vibrators.
The Green City Council on April 14, 2026, voted to close certain low-use depository accounts at PNC Bank, opt into a remnant distribution from a national opioid settlement, adopt amended planning fee schedules, and accept a small safety grant for municipal dump-truck equipment.
The bank-account change: Councilmember Humphrey explained the administration's recommendation to close PNC accounts because of low use and low yields; he said the city can instead place funds in a STAR Ohio investment pool offering higher short-term returns. "The yields that the city can get on STAR deposits are 3.79% versus the interest rate that we were receiving at PNC of 1.36%," Humphrey said. Council moved to bypass committee deliberations and the three-reading rule, then adopted 2026-R18 to close the accounts; the clerk recorded the vote as 7–0.
Opioid settlement opt-in: Public Safety Chair Davidis reported on 2026-R15, seeking to continue the city's participation in the opioid class-action settlement process and to accept a small remnant share. Davidis said the city's expected share — about 0.08% of the remnant pool — would be "somewhere just shy of $10,000." The council unanimously moved to bypass readings and adopted the resolution to accept the remnant settlement distribution.
Planning fee-schedule amendment: Planning Chair Noble presented 2026-06a, which consolidates planning, zoning and right-of-way fee schedules into a single updated schedule with an amended Exhibit A. Council debated a proposed increase in the temporary-uses permit (tents and construction dumpsters) from $50 to $100 and voted to retain the $50 fee by amendment. The ordinance was adopted as amended.
Safety grant and contract items from Transportation committee: Transportation Chair Maker reported 2026-R10, an Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation safety-intervention grant totaling $2,475 to buy and install two dump-truck vibrators; the city committed a $825 match. Maker and the committee moved to bypass readings and council adopted the grant acceptance. The council also discussed two contract items: 2026-R11 (pavement-marking contract to Aeromark Company LLC, low bid $210,606.73) and 2026-R12 (2026 resurfacing project; low bid by Barber Kist Construction Co., discussed amounts totaling about $1,035,057.75). Time was requested on R11 and R12 for further review; those items were not adopted at the meeting.
Why it matters: the banking change is an administrative consolidation intended to lower fees and improve yields; the opioid settlement funds, while modest, provide a dedicated revenue source for drug-prevention and treatment activities; the fee-schedule change affects permitting costs for temporary uses; and the safety grant funds a small targeted equipment purchase linked to worker safety.
Next steps: items requiring further review (pavement markings and resurfacing contracts) were carried over for additional committee information; staff will coordinate implementation of adopted actions.
