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Council advances multiple ordinances on first reading, approves contracts and property transactions
Summary
The Lima City Council passed several ordinances on first reading, including budget amendments, grant applications, contracts for police IT and equipment maintenance, authorizations to sell city property (caption corrections made from 'donate' to 'sale'), and a collective bargaining agreement; most motions passed with unanimous or near-unanimous roll-call votes.
Lima City Council advanced a package of ordinances on first reading covering budget amendments, HUD consolidated-plan updates, historic-structure designation, authorizations to sell city-owned parcels, contracts with vendors for police services and equipment maintenance, and a collective bargaining agreement with IAFF Local 334. Many items passed on first reading with unanimous or near-unanimous roll-call votes.
Councilors moved to correct ordinance captions that mistakenly said 'donate' when the intent was to authorize sale; the council struck and substituted the caption language and authorized the law director to prepare clean copies before adoption. Individual roll-call results were read into the record for each ordinance as they passed on first reading; for example, Ordinance 149-26 passed on first reading 8–0 and several subsequent ordinances recorded similar 8–0 tallies or 7–1 outcomes where noted. Council also authorized the mayor to apply for Ohio Public Works Commission grants and accepted grant-authority motions for other programs. No final adoptions (second readings) occurred during this meeting; these measures advanced to the next stage.
