Ironton council adopts several emergency ordinances, professional-service contracts and bond authorizations
November 16, 2024 | Ironton City Council, Ironton, Lawrence County, Ohio
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The Ironton City Council approved a slate of ordinances and motions that will fund capital purchases, authorize professional services and adjust the city’s meeting calendar.
Among the actions the council adopted by suspending the rules and taking immediate second and third readings were ordinance 24-44, which moves the Dec. 26, 2024 meeting to Dec. 23 at 6 p.m., and ordinance 24-45, which authorizes the mayor to enter a professional services agreement with Arcadis Engineering Services for sanitary sewer and lift-station design and bidding for the Ellison/Cliff Street area.
The council also approved ordinance 24-46, authorizing Arcadis for street, storm sewer, water line and sidewalk improvements; ordinance 24-48, adopting a temporary fiscal year 2025 budget; and ordinance 24-49, amending the FY2024 permanent operating budget. Several of those ordinances were declared emergency measures and advanced on the same night after a favorable recommendation from the finance committee.
On capital purchases, the council adopted ordinance 24-52 to issue bonds (transcript shows the figure as "not to exceed $1,430,000" in one reading and "$1,450,000" in another) to acquire a fire truck and a garbage truck. During discussion council members asked whether refurbishment could be included in the bond scope; finance indicated there was a cushion in the estimate.
The council also adopted ordinance 24-43 to contract with West End Electric Company Inc. for an emergency generator project at the wastewater treatment plant and adopted other routine emergency ordinances after roll-call votes. Two proposed items (24-50 and 24-51) were struck from the agenda following motions and roll-call votes.
Separately, the council approved the appointment of Dennis Staples to the Ironton Metropolitan body and received and filed the September 2024 financials. Chair announced the next meeting would be Monday, Nov. 25 at 6 p.m., and that the second December meeting will be held Dec. 23 instead of Dec. 26.
What’s next: Most adopted ordinances were declared emergencies and are effective per the city’s ordinance language; council members requested standard follow-ups from finance and the relevant departments to implement contracts and bond purchases.
Among the actions the council adopted by suspending the rules and taking immediate second and third readings were ordinance 24-44, which moves the Dec. 26, 2024 meeting to Dec. 23 at 6 p.m., and ordinance 24-45, which authorizes the mayor to enter a professional services agreement with Arcadis Engineering Services for sanitary sewer and lift-station design and bidding for the Ellison/Cliff Street area.
The council also approved ordinance 24-46, authorizing Arcadis for street, storm sewer, water line and sidewalk improvements; ordinance 24-48, adopting a temporary fiscal year 2025 budget; and ordinance 24-49, amending the FY2024 permanent operating budget. Several of those ordinances were declared emergency measures and advanced on the same night after a favorable recommendation from the finance committee.
On capital purchases, the council adopted ordinance 24-52 to issue bonds (transcript shows the figure as "not to exceed $1,430,000" in one reading and "$1,450,000" in another) to acquire a fire truck and a garbage truck. During discussion council members asked whether refurbishment could be included in the bond scope; finance indicated there was a cushion in the estimate.
The council also adopted ordinance 24-43 to contract with West End Electric Company Inc. for an emergency generator project at the wastewater treatment plant and adopted other routine emergency ordinances after roll-call votes. Two proposed items (24-50 and 24-51) were struck from the agenda following motions and roll-call votes.
Separately, the council approved the appointment of Dennis Staples to the Ironton Metropolitan body and received and filed the September 2024 financials. Chair announced the next meeting would be Monday, Nov. 25 at 6 p.m., and that the second December meeting will be held Dec. 23 instead of Dec. 26.
What’s next: Most adopted ordinances were declared emergencies and are effective per the city’s ordinance language; council members requested standard follow-ups from finance and the relevant departments to implement contracts and bond purchases.
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