Council repeals and replaces prior appropriations amendment, enacts Ordinance 51-26 as an emergency

The Nelsonville City Council removed Ordinance 51-26 from the table, moved to amend it, and ultimately adopted the ordinance as amended, repealing and replacing Ordinance 46-26 to clarify corrections to the 2026 appropriations ordinance.

Clerk Carey Caldwell read the ordinance into the record, which states that Ordinance 51-26 replaces the earlier Ordinance 46-26 and incorporates an attached Exhibit A. The ordinance declares itself an emergency under the Nelsonville City Charter and cites state statute authority for enactment on first reading.

Council members voted on acceptance of an amendment and then on adoption of the ordinance as amended; the clerk recorded affirmative roll-call responses. The ordinance language references appropriation corrections and a separate previously passed ordinance related to equipment purchase and services (body cameras and tasers) that had shared numbering at the time the earlier ordinances were passed, prompting the repeal and replacement to resolve numbering and text issues.

A council member stated the motion to adopt the ordinance as amended; the motion was seconded and carried by roll-call vote. The transcript records no formal dissent on the final adoption.