Bellefontaine council adopts employee leave donation ordinance, approves contracts and appropriations

The Bellefontaine City Council on March [date not specified in transcript] adopted an ordinance amending the city’s employee leave donation program and approved a series of resolutions and ordinances, including contracts for prescription assistance and utility aggregation services and the city’s 2024 permanent appropriations.

Council adopted the employee leave donation ordinance on third reading after a motion to adopt was moved and seconded and carried by the council. The change allows city employees to donate sick leave to fellow employees; the text of the ordinance was discussed as an adoption item and passed during the meeting.

The council also moved forward a group of ordinances on second reading. These include ordinance 24-16, authorizing the service safety director to enter a contract with Prescription Bliss LLC to provide prescription assistance services for certain city employees; ordinance 24-18, the 2024 permanent appropriations for current expenses and other expenditures for the fiscal year ending Dec. 31, 2024; and ordinance 24-19, authorizing a contract with Priority Power Management LLC for electric and natural gas aggregation services. Motions to pass those ordinances on second reading were made and carried by recorded affirmative responses from council members.

In addition, the council approved a set of zoning-code fixes on second reading (ordinances 24-20, 24-21 and 24-22) to address consistency in permitted uses across B-1, B-2 and B-3 business districts.

Votes at a glance
- Employee leave donation ordinance (adoption, third reading): Motion adopted (voice/roll call; individual votes recorded as affirmative by council members present).
- Prescription Bliss LLC contract (24-16, second reading): Motion to pass on second reading carried.
- 2024 permanent appropriations (24-18, second reading): Motion to pass on second reading carried.
- Priority Power Management LLC contract (24-19, second reading): Motion to pass on second reading carried.
- Zoning code amendments (24-20, 24-21, 24-22, second reading): Motions to pass on second reading carried.

The meeting record shows motions and affirmative responses from the council for each action. The transcript records the council members answering “Yes” as each motion was called, but it does not attach a full, line-by-line recorded roll-call vote with names to every ordinance in the text. Where a formal vote tally is needed for legal or archival purposes, the clerk’s minute book should be consulted for the certified roll call.

What’s next: The ordinances passed on second reading will await any subsequent procedural steps required by council rules (final adoption or additional readings where applicable). The employee leave donation ordinance was adopted and will take effect according to its emergency or effective-date language in the ordinance record.