09/24/2025
Girard City Council Minutes:
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2025
REGULAR MINUTES/JOURNAL
PLEDGE
ROLL CALL
PRESIDENT OF COUNCILMR. REYNALD J. PAOLONE PRESENT
FIRST WARD COUNCILMANMR. KEITH SCHUBERT PRESENT
SECOND WARD COUNCILMANMR. MARK STANDOHAR ABSENT
THIRD WARD COUNCILMANMR. JEFF KAY PRESENT
FOURTH WARD COUNCILMANMR. THOMAS GRUMLEY PRESENT COUNCILMAN-AT-LARGEMS. LILY MARTUCCIO PRESENT
COUNCILMAN-AT-LARGEMR. JOHN MOLITERNO ABSENT
COUNCILMAN-AT-LARGEMR. SAM ZIRAFI PRESENT
MOTION GRUMLEY SECOND MARTUCCIO TO EXCUSE COUNCILMEN STANDOHAR AND MOLITERNO FROM THE MEETING OF SEPTEMBER 8, 2025.
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COMMUNICATIONS
ADDITIONS & DELETIONS
52-85 FIRST READING
AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO ENTER INTO A ONE YEAR CONTRACT WITH THE TRUMBULL COUNTY COMMISSIONERS TO PROVIDE LEGAL DEFENSE FOR INDIGENTS FOR CALENDAR YEAR 2025.
MOTION GRUMLEY SECOND SCHUBERT TO ADD ORDINANCE NO. 52-85 TO THE AGENDA OF SEPTEMBER 8, 2025.
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52-86 FIRST READING
AN ORDINANCE CREATING A TEMPORARY MORATORIUM ON BURIAL OF FAMILY MEMBERS ON RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY AND/OR THE CREATION OF A FAMILY CEMETERY WITHIN THE CITY OF GIRARD AND DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
MOTION GRUMLEY SECOND ZIRAFI TO ADD ORDINANCE NO. 52-86 TO THE AGENDA OF SEPTEMBER 8, 2025.
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ACCEPTANCE OF AGENDA
MOTION ZIRAFI SECOND SCHUBERT TO ACCEPT THE AGENDA OF SEPTEMBER 8, 2025 AS AMENDED.
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APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES
MOTION SCHUBERT SECOND ZIRAFI TO APPROVE THE MINUTES OF JULY 28, 2025 AS WRITTEN.
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CITIZENS’ COMMENTS
Chuck Doran, 132 E. Howard Street: I don’t know if anybody has seen it lately, but I was running the end of summer parade we started about 10-12 years ago. It got to be a little bit more work every year. It was hard to get people involved with it. It was hard to get people in and out. It got to be a bit of a problem so this year we decided to end it and start something new that isn’t really new it’s really old. The last one that I was a part of and Tom here was also once a part of was the Girard Homecoming, and I would like to go in that direction as far as making a Homecoming parade and a festival, but it does take a long time to plan. So, we are about a year out. It would be looking at an August date which would put us right in between the IFH and St. Rose and it is more of a traditional festival idea. Much like the ride set that you saw in McDonald. I think it brings a lot back down to the downtown. People coming down, experiencing the downtown, having a place for the kids to go at the end of the year before school starts, and the other plan is to, since I was one of the younger presidents left the idea is to get younger people involved. I would like to involve the school system in being a part of running this whole thing so that we bring younger people in all the time and they have more and more to do with running it and eventually, well right at the start we would have what is our goal, what are we going to do. If we make money where does it go? The Homecoming over 40 years raised over $100,000 and at the end we gave it all away. Now there’s, I think there’s $5,000 in the account somewhere which would not be a part of this at all, but the start of ever having this idea is to come to you guys and say can we do it down here, downtown right up from city hall, right in the parking lot area? We put rides out there. We put entertainment out there. More of the traditional sense, and my idea right now is to run from Wednesday to Saturday night and be done by Sunday. So, we could tie it in with other things going on in the city. You have your farmer’s markets and a lot of other things going on. I think it would be a big thing for the city and the kids, and having them be a part of it and have them having a say-so where the money goes, if they make any money, because it takes a couple of years to start making money, but you have to start somewhere. Honestly, my goal is to be a one and done kind of guy. I want to teach somebody else how to do it and let the younger guys take over because there’s too many of us old guys running things and we are getting to the age where we don’t want to do it anymore. So, I think it’s time for some younger people, you’ve got to get them involved. If you don’t get them involved they’ll never be a part of it. A lot of people like to say they want to be a part of it, but I won’t know that until I get a starting point. So, if you guys give a we’re with you let’s see how it goes, and then I get a chance to have a couple of meetings and we see what kind of turnout we get and if people are invested and they want to do it then I can come to you and say yea I think it’s a possibility, but I can’t even begin there until I get an idea that you guys want to do this because if I don’t have somewhere to put it then the whole think is dead. President of Council Paolone: Chuck, Keith is the buildings and grounds chair. Keith Schubert is the buildings and grounds chairman. Maybe get with him and see and then come back to us. Doran: I think like in the old days too, we would probably do something where community based groups get a special rate. Nonprofits get a special, it’s all kinda that thing. That idea and I kinda have an idea how to set up midways and where to put rides and stuff. And like I said, we’re going to be talking about is pretty much the rides set that you saw in McDonald, which I thought was a very good ride set, very clean, very well organized. Nice rides. They weren’t junk. They weren’t leaking oil all over the place. They were very nice ones and I think that would fit really nice out here. Paolone: We’ll see where it goes. Doran: See where it goes. If I get your thumbs up on it I can start having the meetings and see where it can go. Paolone: Get with Keith first, ok? Thanks.
Steve Kristan, 72 Morningview Circle, Canfield: I am here representing Lumos, but before I talk about that what I would like to do is think back about the last couple days that you had this week and how you used your phone or the internet. Did you buy airline tickets? If you did you probably bought them online. Did you rent a car? Probably online. Did you make a doctor’s appointment? Probably online. Did you look at test results from a medical bloodwork that you had done? Probably online. You can go on and on and on. So, I’m going to challenge you right now. What I ask you to do is is this week as you go through the week, every time you pick up that phone or that computer, that laptop and you go to do something on it pause and say what about the people that don’t have access to the internet. What about those people that, maybe they’re seniors and don’t know how to use it, maybe their single mothers that really can’t afford it. Those are things that I want to talk about for a moment today. We are Lumos Fiber. We have, we supply fiber in ten states right now. We are a joint venture with T Mobile to do T-Fiber. I have been working with Mark and Mark to bring it here to the City of Girard. I think it is important to understand what we are trying to do. The perspective is it’s just not a utility anymore from the sense that it does a lot more than that. On the other hand, it is a utility in the sense that if you don’t have it you’re left behind. When you look at what’s going on and the way the economy is moving to an online economy, a gig economy, whether you are talking about, actually I was trying to think in preparation for this, I was trying to think of something I could do without the internet and there are very few things. Even coming here. I was in a meeting in Akron. I looked at my navigation system. Think about that. So, what we do is we come in, it’s been now a couple weeks, we come in we get permitting from the City. We have been working with the city. The city has been very good to work with. I know there’s been some talk about maybe making Girard the most connected city in Trumbull County. Think about it. Some studies that were done, I spent about 40 years in the industry with IBM and AT&T and the last four years I was with Eastgate Regional Council of Government and I signed on with Lumos now back in August of last year and this area has a very big weakness for fiber accessibility. The State of Ohio is about in the bottom third in the US in terms of fiber availability and I think back of the times I didn’t have access to internet, maybe the internet went down, maybe my power went out, all the stuff that I didn’t have access to comes to light, and what we are going to do, we are coming into the City of Girard, we’re building fiber into the home. It’s all underground and we are then partnering with TMobile TFiber it’s a joint venture so TFiber will be selling the service under the TFiber logo, and if you look what they’re doing right now, they’re very competitive. Pricewise they are competitive from a price standpoint. They have a price guarantee that they won’t raise their rates for 5 years. How many times have you heard somebody do that? Think about it this way. Think about that gas station. If that Shell station was the only station their prices would be a little higher, but as soon as you get that second gas station what happens? Prices come down. Third gas station prices come down. Same thing with internet. I tell people when we come into town it will lead to more competitive pricing and services will go up. That’s really all I wanted. Both Marks, the mayor and service director can get a hold of me. If you guys want I will give you my number if you want to call me, 330/423-3422. I would love to talk more about it. I know we have taken a tour. If you want to see what it looks like, how we actually do that construction in the ground. It’s kind of neat. You do the boring, and we come in, it's a little disruptive, but we strive to make the area better than what it was when we started. Paolone: Steve, Sam is our utility chairman so maybe get in touch with him at some point. Paolone: Thank you for your time. Councilwoman Martuccio: I have a question. When you said this area has a weakness for fiber accessibility. Do you mean Girard or this NE Ohio or when you said this area? Kristan: I would say actually that applies to the state level. The state, as you look at the state statistics we are in the bottom third. If you look at NE Ohio we are in the low end too, and that is why Lumos Fiber, who has been building fiber since 2008 in North Carolina, South Carolina and Viriginia, their first state outside of three was Ohio, coming here to the valley and now that was a year ago and now we are in ten states, but generally Ohio doesn’t have the competition and the competition that we have is mostly coax or dsl and there is a night and day difference between fiber in terms of speed. Think about it, when we were talking five years ago cloud competing was just beginning, Teams and Zoom were just beginning. Now adays you can’t really do what you need to do with the old fashioned technology and that has to do with speed coming down. You also need the speed coming up to be fast and that is what fiber is.
REPORTS OF OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS OF THE CITY
MAYORMARK ZUPPO PRESENT
Mayor Zuppo: Exciting times fiber optics I think. First, I wasn’t here last meeting, so I want to say welcome to Pete. Pete has been really accessible to us and very helpful. I mean we call Pete for a legal opinion, and we get it almost immediately. So, thank you Pete. You’ve been great. I want to thank John Norman. Today was actually his last day but he didn’t come in. It’s his birthday. It’s him and Bobby’s birthday today too. I think he has been avoiding us doing, we tried to plan something for him, we tried to get him here at a meeting, after 41 years he wanted to go out the same way he came in, without a peep. We are honoring his wishes, but we all know John did a great job for us for 41 years, not just as a police chief but as a police officer. He is a community minded person and we are all proud of him. I am going to talk about, basically, economic development, things that are going on right now. You probably saw the press release regarding Kids Dental brand taking, bought the Rite Aid building. I’ve known it for about thirteen months now and it has finally come to fruition. The press release indicated that they will be starting to do the work. I mean they’re really receptive. They are very receptive. I called them, there were weeds, I took a picture, I texted it to them, and they had the grass and the weeds cut the next day. They have been very receptive. They needed someone to, we have tried to help them as much as we can. The gas company, and they’re out of Arizona, so to get someone here in a pinch, the gas company required someone to be there and Chief Petruzzi was willing to go over there and to meet them and to help get gas set up. So, their plan is to be in operation by the beginning of the 4th quarter of ‘26. I mean the great thing about these guys, I just love the CEO, Dr. Roberts, he’s all about, they’ve got 40 of these already. His father was a dentist also. The big plan is to serve underserved kids, and I know that Mr. President I know that you talked to a dentist in the area, I talked to another dentist in the area and they all agree that it’s very much needed. Pediatric dentistry is very much needed. Medicaid. They’ve done their homework with the state about Medicaid reimbursement, etc. So, we look forward to welcoming them. Cure Leaf is just about to open up. They are waiting on I think the state came in and did their final inspection. It went well. So they are just waiting to get their certificate so they can open up. Anybody who wants to go there, if you want a tour of the place just let me know and I’ll connect you to the folks and they are happy to show you around. Very secure building. I had a business, potential business, come in and looked at the old Saia Trucking on Friday afternoon, evening almost. There’s some great potential there. We looked at the Saia Trucking Company and we looked at the old Union Distributing property which has just begun the cleanup process. The program that we’ve got with that gentleman on cleanup is working so far. I had some gentlemen come in from Vegas today and we toured some properties. The old Kay Lanes property that we’ve done virtual meetings with Mr. Mastnerick over the last couple months who owns that property and John is really receptive to the program and there is potential of the donation of the property from Mr. Mastnerick he likes the plan so much he may donate the property to the city so the city can have control of this situation, but that is all still in the works. They walked away today really, really happy with what they saw. The next Farmers’ Market September 18th. The reception we have gotten from all of the vendors that have come in, they love the way we treat them because nobody else in any of the other Farmers’ Markets offers them help. So we have recreational department young guys down there helping them set up the tables and helping them break down tables and they can’t believe how well they are treated and so it is growing. 32 vendors at last one. We have to almost turn vendors away now. Finally, I will be starting the podcast up again in October, talked to Chris today and so we just have to find a date to get it going. Pending your questions that concludes my report.
COMMENTS:
SAFETY/SERVICE DIRECTORMARK RAGOZINE PRESENT
Mr. Ragozine: Most folks will have seen a new replacement infrastructure fee on their water bills this past month. Not a decision that we took lightly. We have pretty much been talking about it since I took this position in early February. Tried to do everything we could to find alternatives to avoid that, but the data had increasingly pointed that our expenses were far outpacing our revenues. The cost of purchasing water has gone up across the board. We had a very large number of waterline breaks this past winter and into the spring and even a few this summer, and in general, the cost of infrastructure replacement has gone up by leaps and bounds. Again, very difficult decision. Not one that I or the mayor or anybody wanted to make, but one that will secure our water fund to enable us to line item those funds directly to infrastructure replacement. So, as we go forward we have major projects that are necessary to maintain our system and to continue to make it more efficient and operate at the level that we are used to that fee was an unfortunate necessity. We will continue to reevaluate that fund as we go along. Hopeful that it will help to stabilize our water fund and where we are at going forward, but, again, we looked at the data and looked the funds the last 6 months and the trends were pointing to an area we didn’t want to go so we had to make a decision and hopeful that this corrects that. So, moving into broadband. Thank you to Steve for coming in and talking a little bit about Lumos. Lumos is currently on the south end of town. They are working their way up through the fourth ward. I think a few more crews have arrived in town recently so there are about three different streets, I believe Davis, Dearborn and some crews on South State Street as well today, so, Lumos is starting to ramp up their activity in the city coming from the south end. As you know Omni still kind of working their way across town. One of the hot button issues over the past couple of weeks is the roadway holes that have been created as part of that construction. What they do temporarily is they cold patch and then we directed them the past couple weeks and all along that hot patch is the permanent solution. So, we are confident that they are going to address that here in the coming weeks. There are about 100 holes they have to address right now and then they’ll come back as they create these holes and just patch them all at once. It’s more cost effective for them to purchase a lot of asphalt all at once rather than just go and patch the holes with hot patch as they go along. It’s just not economical. We are confident they will make those repairs correctly. Much of the other work they have done, their restoration work, has been more than satisfactory, so, we are impressed really with the professionalism of both providers, and as Mr. Kristan said, just to have 3 options for every resident is really going to benefit the City of Girard and possibly make us the most connected city in Trumbull County, right Steve? Moving along, the Park Avenue street improvement project really only took about a week. That project went very smoothly. I just drove the road before I came in tonight. They need to come back in about a week or two. They are going to adjust the manholes and level some things out. But, we did experiment a little bit Tom with wedge curbing around the catch basins. Looks pretty good. We’ll see how that preforms over time, but the project seemed to go very smoothly. We were satisfied with the work the contractor did there. Mosier Road, the waterline replacement project, that is set to begin towards the end of month. That will be about a 3-4 week project. Again, as we talked about the water system, that is going to be a significant boost to the efficiency of pumping water to that end of town. It is a waterline that is badly in need of replacement. So, this project is well timed and should be really a big benefit to the efficiency and helping us push water further across town and save some money in terms of purchasing costs. Then lastly, the Wellman Theater. The preliminary design for what the theater would look like is finished. We are anticipating a final design by the first quarter of 2026 at the latest. We did participate in a Wellman Theater committee meeting. I believe that council was impressed with what they saw. Had an opportunity to kind of ask the contractor a number of questions and I think we are comfortable with where that is heading. We do have some aggressive timelines we are trying to hit. We recognize that theater being the piece that really could turn the downtown around. So, hopeful to see some good things from that project and excited for what it can become. That concludes my report pending your questions.
COMMENTS:
Councilman Schubert: Just a comment. I know you guys have done a very nice job of staying on the fiber optics, but those holes are paramount that they get fixed before the weather breaks because we have spent a ton of money on those roads and do not want to see that go into bad weather. Mayor: Part of the contract is if they don’t fix them there is a serious fine they are going to pay. They will fix them. Schubert: The verbage scared me a little bit of may may. They have to. Ragozine: I probably misspoke. They have to come back and hot patch. For whatever reason, they have had a project manager or two leave the job and a new one come in so I think there was a miscommunications, but we’ve actually recommended different contractors for them to pursue for hot patching and Tommy Watts has helped us with that. So, we’re confident. If it is not done within the next week or two, we are staying on it. It is going to be done before cold weather comes. I would guarantee that. Grumley: Just one question. Now with 2 groups in town one on one end, one on the other, when they actually start in the other section are they going to be redoing holes again in the same yards and everything else or are there going to be two sets of holes? Ragozine: Unfortunately. Again, it will be restored again. The next company will come and restore it. We have also talked to both construction managers from the respective fiber optic companies and they know they have to communicate. They know they are kind of heading towards each other, so they are both aware of that and they are going to do their best to make sure they are not on obviously the same streets and neighborhoods at the same time, but yes it is going to require some additional utilities marking. The ground is certainly getting crowded. That is why we firmly believe that we are probably, we are going to hit the maximum we’ll have two fiber companies we currently have a cable provider in the ground this market we should be good to go from that standpoint.
LAW DIRECTORMAURUS MALVASI PRESENT
Attorney Malvasi: I have nothing.
COMMENTS:
AUDITORJULIE COGGINS PRESENT
Ms. Coggins: No report.
COMMENTS:
TREASURER:HENRY SFORZA PRESENT
Mr. Sforza: RITA is a little behind this month because of the holiday so I haven’t gotten any of their reports so I have no report. As soon as I receive their information, hopefully at the end of this week, I’ll email my report. I won’t be here at the next council meeting, but if you have any questions just email me or call me.
COMMENTS:
FIRE CHIEFJAMES PETRUZZI PRESENT
Chief Petruzzi: Calls to date 1,619. Month of August we had 30 mutual aid runs. The only other thing I have is mark your calendars October 4th from 1-4 pm for the fire department open house. Come see what we do, see what we have and come see everyone that works there.
COMMENTS:
Grumley: What was that date? Paolone: October 4th 1-4? Chief: Yes.
POLICE CHIEFJOHN NORMAN ABSENT
COMMITTEE REPORTS
FINANCES-MOLITERNO-GRUMLEY-ZIRAFI
Councilman Grumley: No report other than we’ll have our caucus at 6:30 for the next meeting.
COMMENTS:
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT-KAY-MARTUCCIO-MOLITERNO
Councilman Kay: No report.
COMMENTS:
BUILDING & GROUNDS-SCHUBERT-STANDOHAR-KAY
Councilman Schubert: I just want to give a follow-up. I did meet with Vernon Mitchell at Hartzell Park, walked through it, discussed some of his concerns. Nothing really there. The park is in nice condition. There are two swings there. If there is a need to add more I told him we’d look into it, but I think two is sufficient for this time being. I do want to comment on Park Avenue. It looks great going into Tod Park. The parks look really well. Disc golf is becoming very popular for those who can’t golf. So, all of my friends have been talking about it and say it is one of the nicest ones in the area. That concludes my report. Start showing up on Sundays. Paolone: I also went down. That park is in nice shape. They do a nice job. Mayor: Trust me I know. I go down there once a week. Paolone: They could probably use a couple more swings…. Mayor: The only time they need them is when they did their the block party and we help them out with the block party. We set up the cones. We take care of them.
COMMENTS:
HEALTH & SAFETY-GRUMLEY-MOLITERNO-MARTUCCIO
Councilman Grumley: We are going to participate in the World Day Clean Up on September 20th. We are going to be meeting at Stambaugh Park at 8:30. This is a united effort by the City of Youngstown and Girard along with Vallourec. So, this is something that Vallourec and the City of Youngstown have done in the past, and we want to be a part of it. Like I said Stambaugh Park is the meeting point at 8:30. I am going to provide a flier and a QR code. I will get it to you tomorrow Mark if you could put it on the Girard website for people to be able to scan and then there’ll be tshirts given away, but you have to preregister for the t-shirts. Lunch will provided. I think they will have some coffee and donuts in the morning. So, they are expecting somewhere between 150-200 people. We are going to be canvasing the Parkwood area, the Brier Hill area, and 422. So, looking forward to that. Other than that, I just want to wish Chief Norman the best. His 42 years of service speaks for itself. Great guy and we will have some big shoes to fill for sure. That’s all I have.
COMMENTS:
STREETS SIDEWALKS & EMPLOYEE WELFARE-STANDOHAR-KAY-GRUMLEY
Councilman Kay: No report. Nice to see that Park got Avenue done. Looks good. I drove down there today as well.
COMMENTS:
UTILITIES-ZIRAFI-SCHUBERT-STANDOHAR
Councilman Zirafi: No report.
COMMENTS:
Mayor: Mr. Chairman. Paolone: Yes sir. Mayor: I just wanted to point out that we have appointed an interim acting chief. He is Captain Freeman so that you know. They have taken the first phase of the test. We had three people that took the chief’s test and the next phase is coming up here soon, but John Freeman has accepted the role. We went by seniority. I went to Chris first and Chris didn’t want to do it so I went to John and he accepted it. Paolone: Thanks for that. Mayor: I meant to tell you that earlier. Paolone: Appreciate that very much.
ZONING-MARTUCCIO-ZIRAFI-SCHUBERT
Councilwoman Martuccio: No report.
COMMENTS:
THEATER-MARTUCCIO-MOLITERNO-SCHUBERT
Councilwoman Martuccio: In August there were two meetings regarding the Wellman Theater group, the Wellman Theater. On August 7th we met with Millennial Theater Company, Joe Asente and he went over theater requirements with the architects and then on 8/21 there was a Wellman Theater committee meeting with several in attendance and we met with the architects and MS Consultants and went over questions and concerns.
COMMENTS:
Zirafi: I forgot something in my report. Paolone: Ok. Go ahead. Zirafi: I need a caucus at the next meeting at 6:00 for the utilities. Paolone: So you need a half hour? Zirafi: Yes.
ORDINANCES
52-82 SECOND READING
A RESOLUTION OPPOSING HOUSE BILL 335 AND URGING THE OHIO GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO REJECT LEGISLATION THAT ELIMINATES INSIDE MILLAGE AND TRANSFERS LOCAL BUDGETARY AUTHORITY TO COUNTY BUDGET COMMISSIONS AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
52-85 FIRST READING
AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO ENTER INTO A ONE YEAR CONTRACT WITH THE TRUMBULL COUNTY COMMISSIONERS TO PROVIDE LEGAL DEFENSE FOR INDIGENTS FOR CALENDAR YEAR 2025.
52-86 FIRST READING
AN ORDINANCE CREATING A TEMPORARY MORATORIUM ON BURIAL OF FAMILY MEMBERS ON RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY AND/OR THE CREATION OF A FAMILY CEMETERY WITHIN THE CITY OF GIRARD AND DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
NEW LEGISLATION
MOTION SCHUBERT SECOND ZIRAFI TO PREPARE LEGISLATION FOR THE PREPARATION AND SUBMITTAL OF AN OWDA LOAN APPLICATION FOR THE UPPER LAKE DAM PROJECT.
Ragozine: We need some additional funding to do design and engineering that will get us to the construction phase to repair that dam. We are under an EPA/ODNR mandate to keep that dam stable and there are some deficiencies that they are requiring us to make some repairs.
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MOTION ZIRAFI SECOND SCHUBERT TO PREPARE LEGISLATION AUTHORIZING THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SERVICE TO ADVERTISE FOR GENERAL ENGINEERING SERVICES FOR CALENDAR YEARS 2026 AND 2027.
Grumley: What does this pertain to? Ragozine: We just need authorization to advertise for general engineering services for calendar years ‘26 and ‘27. Grumley: Any type of budget number to plug into that? Ragozine: We are just going to advertise. I think it falls along the same lines as the current one we have. I believe that is somewhere along the lines of $130,000-$140,000 per year, but I’ll have those final figures when the legislation is prepared.
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MOTION ZIRAFI SECOND GRUMLEY TO PREPARE LEGISLATION TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF THE NORTHERN PORTION OF THE LEATHERWORKS PROPERTY TO THE WESTERN RESERVE PORT AUTHORITY UTILIZING OUR COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT TO IDENTIFY AN INTERESTED BUYER FOR DEVELOPMENT.
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MOTION ZIRAFI SECOND GRUMLEY TO PREPARE LEGISLATION ACCEPTING THE AMOUNTS AND RATES AS DETERMINED BY THE BUDGET COMMISSION AND AUTHORIZING THE NECESSARY TAX LEVIES AND CERTIFYING THEM TO THE COUNTY AUDITOR.
Coggins: This is done every year. I received it over break, but it does have to be passed by October 1st.
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MOTION PASSES 5-0
Schubert: I do want to wish Chief Norman a happy retirement and thanks for all of his service.
Zirafi: We all echo that. Martuccio: Ditto.
ADJOURNMENT
MOTION KAY SECOND MARTUCCIO TO ADJOURN THE MEETING OF SEPTEMBER 8, 2025.
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REYNALD PAOLONE, PRESIDENT OF COUNCILMONICA URBANIC, COUNCIL CLERK
