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Finance committee advances salary housekeeping, budget amendment, insurance renewal and landscaping measures to council
Summary
The committee unanimously recommended five items to the council, including an ordinance updating council salary calculations, a budget amendment tied to ODOT sidewalk work and a property/casualty insurance renewal; all recommendations carried.
At its June 16 meeting, the North Royalton Finance Committee advanced a set of administrative and budget measures to City Council.
The committee recommended Ordinance 26-76, an update to how council salaries are calculated to reflect four-year terms and base salaries on the preceding four years of non-union employee pay. Vice Chair Mary Gorjanc characterized the change as a housekeeping item to align the ordinance with current term lengths.
The committee also recommended a budget amendment (Ordinance 26-109) that reallocates funds to cover a retainer for the contracted Assistant Law Director (Mansour Gavin), pays preliminary costs tied to an ODOT sidewalk project that the city must front before being reimbursed, and appropriates escrowed developer bond funds related to construction inspections ($54,570 net-zero to the city escrow fund). Community Development Director Tom Jordan noted the figures for design and preliminary environmental work are estimates and subject to change.
Finance Director Jenny Esarey explained the city's property and casualty insurance renewal (Ordinance 26-110) with a renewal premium near industry averages (about a 5.3% increase) and requested a not-to-exceed amount of $382,485 to include cyber and a small true-up.
The committee also recommended Ordinance 26-111 to add The City Green to planned landscaping improvements and requested council approval to include the area in the city's landscape services contract.
All recommendations passed by unanimous committee votes (Yeas: Gary Petrusky, Mary Gorjanc, David Quolke) and will appear on the council agenda for final action.
