Fairborn council corrects Finance Director pay grade and adopts ordinance

Council adopted Ordinance No. 13-16 on May 16 to correct an error in the city's pay grade allocation. City Manager Deborah McDonnell told the council that "the Finance Director pay grade was listed incorrectly on the pay grade allocation list Council approved a month ago" and asked the council to approve the correction at this meeting. The mayor opened and closed a public hearing and the council waived the usual three-reading requirement before voting to adopt the ordinance.

The ordinance passed unanimously. Mike Mayer, the City Solicitor, read the ordinance title aloud during the meeting and the vote tally recorded six yeas and no nays. The action was presented as a technical correction rather than a policy change; McDonnell framed it as an administrative fix to align the pay grade with what council had intended when it approved the pay grade list the previous month.