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MINUTES OF THE REGULAR MEETING MASSILLON CITY COUNCIL HELD MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2025 COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Good evening. Welcome to the Massillon City Council meeting for Monday, December 15, 2025. We have in attendance the following City officials: Mayor Jamie Slutz, Asst. Law Director, Edmond Mack and Police Chief, Jason Saintenoy. Under #5 on the agenda is where the public can speak on any topic that appears on tonight’s agenda and under #17 is where the public can speak on any topic that does NOT appear on tonight’s agenda. I’d like to remind you that if you have a cell phone, please set it to mute, vibrate or turn it off. Thank you. COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Roll call, please. 1. ROLL CALL Roll call for the evening found the following Council Members present: Holly Bryan-Huth, Jill Creamer, Sarita Cunningham, Mike Gregg, Julie Harwig Smith, Ed Lewis, Seth Marcum, John Paquelet and Eric Ray Roll call of 9 present 2. INVOCATION COUNCILWOMAN JULIE HARWIG SMITH 3. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE LED BY COUNCILWOMAN HARWIG SMITH COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Thank you, Councilwoman Harwig Smith. 4. READING OF THE JOURNAL COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Madam Clerk, are the minutes of the previous meeting transcribed and open for public viewing? COUNCIL CLERK ROLLAND – Yes, they are. COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Are there any additions or corrections to be made? COUNCIL CLERK ROLLAND – No, there are not. COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – If not, then the minutes stand approved as written. Thank you, Madam Clerk. COUNCIL CLERK ROLLAND – You are welcome. 5. REMARKS OF DELEGATIONS AND CITIZENS TO MATTERS ON THE AGENDA 1 6. NEW AND MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – I’d like to call forward at this time, Mayor Slutz. MAYOR SLUTZ – Thank you, Mr. President. Good evening, Council. I just wanted to take a minute to introduce our new Operations Superintendent at the Street Dept., Josh McClay. Tom Burgasser, the former Operations Superintendent, has moved to the Civil Service Commission, so, we needed to fill the Street Superintendent position. I chose Josh, he’s been at the Street Dept. for thirty years and does a great job and I think he’ll continue to do that great job a be a role model leader for that department. Josh, you want to say a word or two? JOSH MCCLAY – I have an open door policy. I look forward to working with each and every one of you, if need be. So, 401 Walnut or you can get my phone number, either one. That’s all I have. Do you have any questions for me? COUNCIL – Congratulations. JOSH MCCLAY – Thank you. COUNCILWOMAN CUNNINGHAM – I’ve got a question. Are you still going to be filming? JOSH MCCLAY – No. Thank you. 7. INTRODUCTION OF ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Ord. No. 115 – 2025. ORDINANCE NO. 115 – 2025 BY: FINANCE COMMITTEE AN ORDINANCE making certain appropriations from the unappropriated balance of the 1100 General Fund, for the purpose of the Massillon Police Pension, for the year ending December 31, 2025, and declaring an emergency. COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Councilman Lewis. COUNCILMAN LEWIS – Yes. This is an ordinance with the $52,499.13, it’s for disability and pension transfer as discussed last week. Are there any questions or discussion this evening? Seeing none, I make a motion that we suspend the rules requiring three readings, bringing Ord. No. 115 – 2025 forward for a vote. COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Seconded by Councilman Gregg. Roll call for suspension. 9 yes for suspension COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – And for passage. 9 yes for passage 2 COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Thank you, Madam Clerk. Ord. No. 115 – 2025 has passed. Ord. No. 116 – 2025. ORDINANCE NO. 116 – 2025 BY: FINANCE COMMITTEE AN ORDINANCE making certain transfers in the 2025 appropriations from within the 1100 General Funds, for the purpose of paying the Massillon Police Department Pension for the year ending December 31, 2025, and declaring an emergency. COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Councilman Lewis. COUNCILMAN LEWIS – Yes. This is the continuation of the previous ordinance. We’re just moving that money now into transferring in so that it can be properly appropriated into the accounts for our pensions. Are there any questions or discussions? Seeing none, I make a motion that we suspend the rules requiring three readings, bringing Ord. No. 116 – 2025 forward for a vote. COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Seconded by Councilman Marcum. Roll call for suspension. 9 yes for suspension COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – And for passage. 9 yes for passage COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Thank you, Madam Clerk. Ord. No. 116 – 2025 has passed. Ord. No. 117 – 2025. ORDINANCE NO. 117 – 2025 BY: FINANCE COMMITTEE AN ORDINANCE making certain appropriations from the unappropriated balance of the 1209 Police Pension Fund, for the year ending December 31, 2025, and declaring an emergency. COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Councilman Lewis. COUNCILMAN LEWIS – Yes. This is the final step to make sure that we get our police pensions covered. Are there any questions or discussion this evening? Seeing none, I make a motion that we suspend the rules requiring three readings, bringing Ord. No. 117 – 2025 forward for a vote. COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Seconded by Councilman Gregg. Roll call for suspension. 9 yes for suspension COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – And for passage. 9 yes for passage COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Thank you, Madam Clerk. Ord. No. 117 – 2025 has passed. Ord. No. 118 - 2025 3 ORDINANCE NO. 118 - 2025 BY: FINANCE COMMITTEE AN ORDINANCE making certain transfers in the 2025 appropriations from within the 1100 General Fund, for the purpose of paying the Massillon Fire Department Pension, for the year ending December 31, 2025, and declaring an emergency. COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Councilman Lewis. COUNCILMAN LEWIS – Yes. Now we’re doing similar to what we just did, but this will be for fire pension. Are there any questions or discussion this evening? Seeing none, I make a motion that we suspend the rules requiring three readings, bringing Ord. No. 118 – 2025 for a vote. COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Seconded by Councilman Marcum. Roll call for suspension. 9 yes for suspension COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – And for passage. 9 yes for passage COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Thank you, Madam Clerk. Ord. No. 118 – 2025 has passed. Ord. No. 119 – 2025. ORDINANCE NO. 119 – 2025 BY: FINANCE COMMITTEE AN ORDINANCE making certain appropriations from the unappropriated balance of the 1210 Fire Pension Fund, for the year ending December 31, 2025, and declaring an emergency. COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Councilman Lewis. COUNCILMAN LEWIS – And the final step for the fire pension, this would be the $58,281.84. Are there any questions or discussion? Seeing none, I make a motion that we suspend the rules requiring three readings, bringing Ord. No. 119 – 2025 forward for a vote. COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Seconded by Councilman Gregg. Roll call for suspension. 9 yes for suspension COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – And for passage. 9 yes for passage COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Thank you, Madam Clerk. Ord. No. 119 – 2025 has passed. Ord. No. 120 – 2025. 4 ORDINANCE NO. 120 – 2025 BY: FINANCE COMMITTEE AN ORDINANCE reducing the appropriations in the 3110 Massillon Museum Fund and the 1445 Consumer’s National Bank TIF Fund, for the year ending December 31, 2025, and declaring an emergency. COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Councilman Lewis. COUNCILMAN LEWIS – Yes. As discussed last week, this is just zeroing out accounts at the end of the year. Are there any questions or discussion this evening? Seeing none, I make a motion that we suspend the rules requiring three readings, bringing Ord. No. 120 – 2025 forward for a vote. COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Seconded by Councilman Marcum. Roll call for suspension. 9 yes for suspension COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – And for passage. 9 yes for passage COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Thank you, Madam Clerk. Ord. No. 120 – 2025 has passed. Ord. No. 121 – 2025. ORDINANCE NO. 121 – 2025 BY: FINANCE COMMITTEE AN ORDINANCE reducing the appropriations in the 2202 Insurance Fund, for the year ending December 31, 2025, and declaring an emergency. COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Councilman Lewis. COUNCILMAN LEWIS – Yes. This is more reductions zeroing out our accounts just like we had in the previous ordinance. Are there any questions or discussion this evening? Seeing none, I make a motion that we suspend the rules requiring three readings, bringing Ord. No. 121 – 2025 forward for a vote. COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Seconded by Councilman Gregg. Roll call for suspension. 9 yes for suspension COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – And for passage. 9 yes for passage COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Thank you, Madam Clerk. Ord. No. 121 – 2025 has passed. Ord. No. 122 – 2025. 5 ORDINANCE NO. 122 – 2025 BY: FINANCE COMMITTEE AN ORDINANCE authorizing the Auditor to pay various 2025 bills that have been received and that will be received by the Auditor’s Office between January 1, 2026 and March 31, 2026, out of the 2026 appropriations within the various departments of the City of Massillon, Ohio, and declaring an emergency. COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Councilman Lewis. COUNCILMAN LEWIS – Yes. This is standard every year. It just allows the Auditor to be able to pay any bills that we may incur here at the end of the year, but have not received our invoices or bills for submission yet. Are there any questions or discussion this evening? Seeing none, I make a motion that we suspend the rules requiring three readings, bringing Ord. No. 122 – 2025 forward for a vote. COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Seconded by Councilman Marcum. Roll call for suspension. 9 yes for suspension COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – And for passage. 9 yes for passage COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Thank you, Madam Clerk. Ord. No. 122 – 2025 has passed. Ord. No. 123 – 2025. ORDINANCE NO. 123 – 2025 BY: FINANCE COMMITTEE AN ORDINANCE authorizing the Auditor, Mayor and the President of the Health Department Board of the City of Massillon, Ohio, to enter into a one (1) year contract with REA Business Advisors to compile the basic financial statements for the City of Massillon and the City of Massillon Health Department for the financial year ending December 31, 2025, and declaring an emergency. COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Councilman Lewis. COUNCILMAN LEWIS – Yes. This is, as we discussed at length last week, this is the financial statement that we have to provide. We used to have the State would do it for us, but the State is no longer able to do that for us. So, we had to go to a third party and this is the organization that they were able to find that had the qualifications and gave us the best rate. Are there any questions or discussion this evening? Seeing none, I make a motion that we suspend the rules requiring three readings, bringing Ord. No. 123 – 2025 forward for a vote. COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Seconded by Councilman Marcum. Roll call for suspension. 9 yes for suspension COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – And for passage. 6  9 yes for passage COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Thank you, Madam Clerk. Ord. No. 123 – 2025 has passed. Ord. No. 124 – 2025. ORDINANCE NO. 124 – 2025 BY: FINANCE COMMITTEE AN ORDINANCE reducing the appropriations in the 3105 State Patrol Transfer Fund, for the year ending December 31, 2025, and declaring an emergency. COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Councilman Lewis. COUNCILMAN LEWIS – Yes. This is another reduction to zero out the account for the end of the year. Are there any questions or discussion this evening? Seeing none, I make a motion that we suspend the rules requiring three readings, bringing Ord. No. 124 – 2025 forward for a vote. COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Seconded by Councilman . Roll call for suspension. 9 yes for suspension COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – And for passage. 9 yes for passage COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Thank you, Madam Clerk. Ord. No. 124 – 2025 has passed. 8. UNFINISHED BUSINESS 9. PETITIONS AND GENERAL COMMINCATIONS Request for the Transfer of a Liquor License from Bailey’s West End Inc., located at 209 – 17th St. S.W., Massillon, Ohio 44647 to Convenient Store LLC, Bailey’s West End, located at 209 – 17th St. S.W., Massillon, Ohio 44647. Permit Classes are C1 and C2 and is located in Ward 5. COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Councilwoman Harwig Smith, did you received a copy of this? COUNCILWOMAN HARWIG SMITH – Yes I have. COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Thank you. 10. BILLS, ACCOUNTS AND CLAIMS American Legal Publishing - $ 465.00 - Annual Web Hosting Fee US Bank Equip. Finance - $ 127.00 - December Invoice for copier submitted to the Auditor’s Office for payment December 5, 2025 7  COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Councilman Lewis. COUNCILMAN LEWIS – Yes. I make a motion to pay the bills. COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Seconded by Councilman Gregg. Roll call. 9 yes to pay the bills COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Thank you, Madam Clerk. The Clerk will pay the bills and charge them to their proper accounts. 11. REPORTS FROM CITY OFFICIALS Auditor’s Report - November 2025 COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Councilman Lewis. COUNCILMAN LEWIS – I make a motion to accept the Auditor’s Report. COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Seconded by Councilman Marcum. Roll call. 9 yes to accept the Auditor’s Report. COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Thank you, Madam Clerk. 12. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Our next Work Session will be Monday, December 29, 2025, at 6:30 p.m. Council is off the week of December 22nd and the Council Clerk will be using vacation time that week as well. COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Councilman Gregg. COUNCILMAN GREGG – Thank you. I just want to make mention that we will do our Swearing-In Ceremony on Monday the 29th right before our Work Session. I’ve already spoken to Judge Fichter. He and perhaps Judge Elum can be here on that date. COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – I appreciate your bringing that up. Thank you. Councilman Paquelet. COUNCILMAN PAQUELET – For the Streets and Roadways, tomorrow evening the 16th at 5:00 p.m., there’s a public meeting regarding the ODOT and the proposed changes to Lake and Rt. 21 and Lake and 1st St. So, it’s at the Rec. Center at 5:00 p.m. tomorrow. Thanks. COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – You’re welcome. Councilwoman Cunningham. COUNCILWOMAN CUNNINGHAM – Yes. It’s from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – The public hearing, you’re talking about? COUNCILWOMAN CUNNINGHAM – Correct. In case people want to know when it’s over. 8  COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Anyone else? 13. RESOLUTIONS AND REQUESTS OF COUNCIL MEMBERS 14. CALL OF THE CALENDAR 15. THIRD READING ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS 16. SECOND READING ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Ord. No. 98 – 2025. Reconsidered December 1, 2025 ORDINANCE NO. 98 – 2025 BY: HEALTH, WELFARE & BLDG. REGS. COMMITTEE AN ORDINANCE enacting CHAPTER 542 “PROHIBTED CAMPTING” under PART FIVE – GENERAL OFFENCES CODE of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Massillon, Ohio. COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Councilwoman Cunningham. COUNCILWOMAN CUNNINGHAM – Yes. I’m going to refer to Mr. Lewis. COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Councilman Lewis. COUNCILMAN LEWIS – Yes. Thank you. We’ve been discussing again for a couple of weeks now about making an amendment. The amendment language we were deciding on was talking about providing an opportunity for a warning to be provided. Before we went into that language, I just wanted to open it up to see if there’s any other discussion, Mr. President. COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Councilman Ray. COUNCILMAN RAY – Thank you, Mr. President. I believe before or during the talks of us discussing the amendment, I would like to really hear from law enforcement. So, I was just wondering if we could call up Chief Saintenoy. Maybe he can give us some understanding of what his opinions may be. COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Chief Saintenoy. CHIEF SAINTNOY – Good evening, Council. Councilman Ray, I appreciate you giving me the opportunity to come up here and address Council as a whole. To save the time of everybody and the holiday season in the spirit; there’s a lot of things that I’d like to say, but I think really what it comes down to is the pertinent facts of this ordinance and how it affects the Police Dept. With that being said, I’ve heard for several weeks now, discussions from Council back and forth about the camping ban/camping ordinance. I want to give you my personal opinion real quick aside from the facts; I think the amount of discussion that has occurred is a testament to the fact that everybody on this Council cares about this population in our community. There’s been extensive discussion back and forth, it’s been spirited. We’ve allowed people to come in and, obviously, address Council and all of you have had follow-up questions and diligently listened to everything that they had to say and I think that’s important. With that being said, one of the people in this community that I know intimately to be a champion for the homeless population or those that have nowhere else to go that find 9 themselves in precarious situations from time-to-time is Judge Elum and he addressed Council last week and he spoke passionately also about this problem and how he cares for the people in the community that find themselves in these situations. But one thing that he also said in front of Council is that he supports this ordinance. He thought it was a good ordinance and it was appropriate when used appropriately. Currently the way that the Massillon Police Dept. deals with the homeless population, I think is first and foremost, we always utilize discretion and we also try to emphasize some compassion for these folks that are having their worse day or their worse month or their worse year. We had a lot of folks in here from Canton they came over and spoke about the problems that Canton has and while we share a lot of similarities with Canton, for instance being a statutory city, we’re different communities. I’m quite proud of Massillon being its own community. I think we have a lot of good things to offer this County, generally speaking that are unique to what we deal with here and one of those things is we try to treat members of this community, whether they have an address or not, with respect, with dignity. We will continue to do that as a Police Dept., regardless of if this ordinance would pass or not. The passage of the ordinance as it was written originally or whether it’s amended is up to Council. It’s your job to legislate the details of that and we will take enforcement action, whichever road that ordinance leads us down. But I will say that the ordinance should serve every member of the community, not just a certain segment of the population. The ordinance gives police officers a tool to use when needed. It doesn’t mean that we have to use it. I think I’ve shared this with you before from up here at this podium, the community dictates the type of law enforcement agency that they will have. You can be an agency of enforcement of the law or you can be peacekeepers. I tend to think that our community prefers, first and foremost, the Police Dept. to be a peacekeeper and then enforce the law where needed and as appropriate. That’s the same way we’re going to continue to handle the homeless population of those folks that find themselves with nowhere to go. Because we run into people all the time at the department that are not homeless, per se, or without home, but they don’t have anywhere else to go at that point and time and they need help. We’re going to continue to provide resources. We’re going to continue to send them towards advocacy groups where they can get help that they need. But the ordinance itself should not be just for the advocacy and trying to direct them where they should go. The ordinance is a law on the books that law enforcement can use as a tool when needed and when appropriate to protect all members of the community. I reached out to the Director of Economic Development, Mr. Herncane, and I asked him about how many properties which would include private parcels throughout the City that are zoned residential that the City owns at any given time and his round about estimate currently as of a few weeks ago was around fifty. If we owned those properties throughout the community in different neighborhoods and they are public property and we have an issue with people that have set up a camp there in the middle of a neighborhood where people take their dogs for a walk after dark; walk with their children and they have an issue, there’s not a whole lot we can do without proper ordinances on the books to take some type of an enforcement action. And our first action, almost 99% of the time, is not to seek to put handcuffs on somebody or arrest them. And by the way, this ordinance as it was originally written before any amendments didn’t even give us the authority to do that. The worse we could do would be to charge them with a non-arrestable offense which would be a fine and in the event if they didn’t pay that fine they then may find themselves in a situation where they would be forced into the court. A lot of times, the courts are able to corral people into a certain direction to get the help that they maybe didn’t realize that they needed or that they don’t want, but it is another avenue for them to try to balance the needs of the whole community, not just one segment. So, with that being said, I just hope that the body as a whole understands that I respect your passion. I think everyone’s heart is in the right place, I really do, but you are legislating an ordinance that allows the officers to have an extra tool to do the job dealing with folks that maybe need help, maybe don’t want help, but also balance 10 that with the members of the community, the business owners, people who live in neighborhoods; their needs are important too and their wishes are important equally. I’d be willing to answer any questions the best that I can. COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Councilwoman Cunningham. COUNCILWOMAN CUNNINGHAM – It’s not a question, it’s a comment. Thank you very much for the kind words for Council. CHIEF SAINTENOY – Of course. COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Councilman Ray. COUNCILMAN RAY – Thank you, Chief. I thought that it was important for your opinion to be brought forth today because sometimes we can get in the weeds a little bit. We all do have hearts and we care about people, in general and sometimes I personally think of the underdog a lot. But, it’s really important to see what view you have about it and I appreciate you speaking today. Thank you. CHIEF SAINTENOY – Thank you. COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Councilwoman Cunningham. COUNCILMAN LEWIS – If there’s no other discussion then in accordance to the conversations that we’ve had I would make a motion that we amend Ord. No. 98 – 2025. We’d be amending Section 542.99 by adding a new (a), the current (a) through (e), I believe would then just bump down. The new (a) would say “Upon first engagement with a law enforcement officer or official, a warning may be granted as well as referral to support services”. COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Seconded by Councilman Ray. Roll call for the amendment. 9 yes to amend Ord. No. 98 – 2025 with a new Section (a) COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Councilwoman Cunningham. COUNCILWOMAN CUNNINGHAM – Thank you, President Slater. This will now bring us back to first reading and at this point, I would like to make a motion that we waive the rules requiring three readings and bring Ord. No. 98 – 2025 forward for a vote. 9 yes for suspension COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – And for passage. 9 yes for passage COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Thank you, Madam Clerk. Ord. No. 98 – 2025 has passed. Ord. No. 112 – 2025. 11  ORDINANCE NO. 112 – 2025 BY: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE AN ORDINANCE authorizing the Director of Public Service and Safety of the City of Massillon, Ohio, to transfer Parcel #680625, a 0.14-acre parcel, located at 227 – 3rd St. S.E., Massillon, Ohio, currently owned by the City of Massillon to the Community Improvement Corporation of Massillon (CIC), for the purpose of economic development, and declaring an emergency. COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Councilwoman Creamer. COUNCILWOMAN CREAMER – Thank you, Mr. President. So we have discussed this ordinance regarding the transfer of this parcel, the city owned parcel to the CIC and then the CIC will sell this parcel to Make-A-Way, Inc. for one dollar ($1.00). We’ve had conversations regarding this request because we had a similar situation where we added additional verbage and to be fair and consistent, we wanted that same type of verbage to be added to this ordinance also. So, we each received a copy of the verbage and this, we’d like to amend it, but I’d like to read the verbage added to Ord. No. 112 – 2025 under Section 2, “The instrument transferring the property from the City to the CIC shall contain a restrictive covenant restricting the use of said property for non-profit uses. Said restrictive covenant shall contain a reversionary interest held by the City of Massillon in the event property is used for any purpose other than a non-profit purpose. The City reversionary interest and this restrictive covenant may be bought out for the parcel’s value as assessed by the Stark County Auditor for the 2023 ($301,300).” So we discussed this and I’d like to amend it to include this, but prior to bringing it forward, are there any questions from any Council members regarding this additional language? Seeing none, I’d like to amend Ord. No. 112 – 2025 to include the verbage that I stated, I’d like to bring it forward for a vote. COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Seconded by Councilman Marcum. Roll call for the amendment. 9 yes to amend Ord. No. 112 - 2025 COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Councilwoman Creamer. COUNCILWOMAN CREAMER – Thank you, Mr. President. With that, I would like to waive the rules requiring three readings and bring Ord. No. 112 – 2025 forward for a vote. COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Seconded by Councilman Gregg. Roll call for suspension. 9 yes for suspension COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – And for passage. 9 yes for passage COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Thank you, Madam Clerk. Ord. No. 112 – 2025 has passed. 17. REMARKS OF DELEGATIONS AND CITIZENS TO MATTERS NOT ON THE AGENDA DIANA PACHIS & JOHANNA STRAIGHT – Representatives of Walnut Hills Association. We’re here to present a plaque to Jill Creamer for her time and service to the 4th Ward and 12  expectally to our association, Walnut Hills. Her time and dedication was phenomenal and over the top. Her volunteering with us, her donations; have been helped us get through our years that she’s been with us and over the twenty years we’ve been struggling to get things done. This is for you, Jill. We appreciate you and we’re going to miss you. 18. ADJOURNMENT COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Anyone else? Councilwoman Harwig Smith. COUNCILWOMAN HARWIG SMITH – I’d like to make a motion that we adjourn. COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Seconded by Councilman Gregg. Roll call. 9 yes to adjourn COUNCIL PRESIDENT SLATER – Meeting adjourned. ______________________________ ______________________________ DIANE ROLLAND, COUNCIL CLERK MIKE SLATER, PRESIDENT 13