Council Meeting

SCHEDULED COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES OF Tuesday January 6, 2025 Meeting was called to order by Mayor Patrick M. Cadle at 7:00pm. Meeting held at Newcomerstown Municipal Building COUNCIL ATTENDANCE: Susan Little: Present Jan McCune: Present David Shepherd: Present Allen Collins: Present Michael Wise: Present Jay Lambes: Present DEPARTMENT ATTENDANCE: Street/Parks John Resh: Absent Cemetery Scott Powell: Absent Water: Jared McFarland: Absent Fiscal Officer: Lisa Spillman: Present Police: Chief Lawson: Present Solicitor: Mark Perlaky: Present Fire: Jeff Parks: Absent COUNCIL MINUTES December 16, 2024: Jan made a motion to approve the minutes with corrections from the December 16, 2024 and Susan seconded the motion. Jay Abstained. ROLL CALL: Susan Little: Y Jan McCune: Y David Shepherd: Y Allen Collins: Y Michael Wise: Y Jay Lambes: Abstained MOTION PASSED THE VILLAGE’S FINANCIAL REPORT PY1 General fund: $23588.15 Cemetery fund: $2038.30 Police fund: $16521.68 Street fund: $6910.98 Water fund: $21825.96 Sewer: $29331.36 Sewer R & I $5093.00 Street Levy $902.23 MVL $452.08 STATE $998.89  Total All Funds: $112829.07 PAY ORDINANCE #1: Motion by Allen and seconded by Jay to approve Pay Ordinance #1 in the amount of $112,829.07 ROLL CALL: Susan Little: Y Jan McCune: Y David Shepherd: Y Allen Collins: Y Michael Wise: Y Jay Lambes: Y MOTION PASSED COMMITTEE REPORTS BUILDINGS & GROUNDS- CHAIRPERSON DAVID SHEPHERD: Van Way is still working on proposed public safety building. Reminder that procedural meeting tomorrow with the BZA is at 6:30. The appeals meeting is set for January 13th at 7pm. SEWER & PUBLIC WORKS & COMMUNITY EVENTS- CHAIRPERSON JAN MCCUNE: Nothing to report FINANCE & LONG-TERM PLANNING- CHAIRPERSON Allen Collins: Nothing to report STREETS, SIDEWALKS & RECREATION- CHAIRPERSON JAY LAMBES: Absent PUBLIC SAFETY & PUBLIC RELATIONS CHAIRPERSON MICHAEL WISE: Nothing to report LEGISLATION & PERSONNEL- CHAIRPERSON SUSAN LITTLE: Nothing to report DEPARMENT REPORTS: STREET/PARK: Absent CEMETERY: Absent POLICE DEPARTMENT- CHIEF LAWSON: Dec Report: Total Incidents -220 Reports-22 Arrests-7 Citations-43 Motion to hire Michael White as a part time police officer made by Susan and seconded by Allen ROLL CALL: Susan Little: Y Jan McCune: Y David Shepherd: Y Allen Collins: Y Michael Wise: Y Jay Lambes: Y MOTION PASSED Motion to hire Andrew Campbell as a part time police officer made by Jan and seconded by Michael ROLL CALL: Susan Little: Y Jan McCune: Y  David Shepherd: Y Allen Collins: Y Michael Wise: Y Jay Lambes: Y MOTION PASSED FISCAL OFFICER- LISA SPILLMAN: Nothing to report WATER/WASTE-WATER – JARED MCFARLAND FIRE-CHIEF PARKS: Report: 13 runs. A total of 241 calls since January 1st of this year and were able to handle all of the calls without turning them over. FEMA grant was sent in-Jeff is hoping to send in more grant applications for training and SCBA bottles. Motion to hire Glenn Tidd and Aiden Tidd as Volunteer Firemen pending training certification Jan motioned to approve and Allen seconded it. ROLL CALL: Susan Little: Y Jan McCune: Y David Shepherd: Y Allen Collins: Y Michael Wise: Y Jay Lambes: Y MOTION PASSED EMERGENCY SERVICES: TRI COUNTY- N/A MAYOR: Department heads will be having a training session for emergency disaster preparedness. We will start a plan and determine who is responsible for what tasks and the second in command should the department head not be able to perform their job. NEW BUSINESS: 01-25 Resolution of the Tusc. County Newcomerstown village of Ohio supporting the ohio commission for the US Semiquincentennial (America 250-OH). Allen moved to motion approval and David seconded it. ROLL CALL: Susan Little: Y Jan McCune: Y David Shepherd: Y Allen Collins: Y Michael Wise: Y Jay Lambes: Y MOTION PASSED 02-25 resolution to transfer funds from General Funds to fund the Police and Fire department. Police-$620,000 Fire -$100,000. Allen approved the move and Jan seconded the motion. ROLL CALL: Susan Little: Y Jan McCune: Y David Shepherd: Y Allen Collins: Y Michael Wise: Y Jay Lambes: Y MOTION PASSED Right of Way Agreement-Eric Sandine helps us with this. This agreement is the same as last year for $3,000. Motion to approve made by Michael and seconded by Susan. ROLL CALL: Susan Little: Y Jan McCune: Y David Shepherd: Y Allen Collins: Y Michael Wise: Y Jay Lambes: Y MOTION PASSED Appoint Jim Friel as a Zoning Board of Appeals member, reupping his term. The new term will end 12-29. David made a motion to approve and Allen seconded. ROLL CALL: Susan Little: Y Jan McCune: Y David Shepherd: Y Allen Collins: Y Michael Wise: Y Jay Lambes: Y MOTION PASSED Discussion regarding 3 way stop at River and Main Street. After discussion we decided to add signs to Main St Ext and River St Ext. The signs will state: (language TBD) Discuss contract with Sheriff’s Department (Jail contract) -No action has been taken at this time 2025 Committee Assignments. Motion to accept committees to be the same as last year (see attached Document) made by Allen and seconded by Jan ROLL CALL: Susan Little: Y Jan McCune: Y David Shepherd: Y Allen Collins: Y Michael Wise: Y Jay Lambes: Y MOTION PASSED Motion to appoint Susan as Council Pro Tempore made by Allen and seconded by Michael, Susan abstained. ROLL CALL: Susan Little: Abstained Jan McCune: Y David Shepherd: Y Allen Collins: Y Michael Wise: Y Jay Lambes: Y MOTION PASSED OLD BUSINESS: Update on the promotional video SCHEDULE COMMITTEE MEETINGS: OTHER BUSINESS: Program to spay and neuter stray cats is something to think about. Do we want to consider helping this problem with funding options? 7:13 pm Motion to move into executive session to discuss discipline of personnel made by David and seconded by Allen 7:28 pm Enter back into regular session made by Michael and seconded by Allen-no action taken from executive session. AUDIENCE: PRESS: N/A ADJOURN: at 8:01 PM, Susan MADE A MOTION AND Allen SECONDED TO ADJOURN UNTIL THE NEXT REGULAR SCHEDULED MEETING ON Monday January 20, 2025. ____________________________________ ____________________________________ Lisa Spillman, Fiscal Officer Mayor, Patrick M. Cadle