FINANCIAL … Finance Director, Nikki Uribes is pictured presenting Montpelier Village Council with the October Income Tax Report. Also pictured are members, Kevin Motter and Chris Kannel. (PHOTO BY LINDSAY PHILLIPS, STAFF)
By: Lindsay Phillips
Montpelier Village Council held their meeting on November 14 at 6:00 p.m. in the conference room at the Montpelier Police Department.
Mayor Steve Yagelski began the meeting with a call to order followed by Clerk of Council, Jessica Apple, calling the roll of members. All in attendance stood for a moment of silence before reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.
The amended agenda for the meeting was approved, allowing an executive session to take place.
Minutes from the previous meeting on October 24 were accepted by council along with Financial Director Nikki Uribes October financial report.
Mayor Yagelski welcomed the student visitors in attendance and encouraged them to ask questions.
Rules and regulations for the fire department were amended by council, specifically eliminating a safety officer and adding a lieutenant.
Village Manager Jason Rockey shared, “It effects the budget by $20 by making that safety officer alLieutenant rather than safety officer, so it really didn’t have any effects on the budget, just cleans up their rules and regulations and Officer Progression program.”
Rockey went on to add, “The rest of changes were just changes in wording.”
Council moved on to approve the next item on the agenda, accepting 2023 Fire Contract for Superior Township in the amount of $44,775.39.
The following six items of business were approved by Council:
- Resolution 1357 – a resolution to make appropriations for current expenses and other expenditures for the Village of Montpelier, State of Ohio during the fiscal year ending on December 31, 2023.
- Resolution 1358 – a resolution amending Resolution 1313, the village hourly employee compensation or allowances resolution.
- Resolution 1360 – a resolution to amend appropriations for current expenses and other expenditures for Village of Montpelier, State of Ohio during fiscal year ending December 31, 2022.
- Resolution 1361 – a resolution approving a transfer from the general fund for current expenses for the Village of Montpelier in the State of Ohio.
- Ordinance 2264 – authorization for the execution for the 2023-2025 Fixed Volume Energy Supply Schedule with AMP.
Resolution 1359 was approved, allowing a donation of Christmas carolers to Children’s Wonderland.
A few village employees and members of the Eagles requested a new light display in the town gazebo where Christmas carolers have performed for the past fifteen years.
As this display was approved, the old one is being welcomed to Children’s Wonderland in Sylvania.
An ice skating rink display with penguins skating and playing hockey with polar bears has already been approved for the space.
During Finance Director Nikki Uribes Income Tax Report, she shared, “We are up 18.09% percent from where we were at this time in 2021 and 36.68% from 2020.”
Village manager Jason Rockey’s report was next. Rockey shared, “We received a final report from AMP, we participated in a Cyber Security Assessment.”
“We went through the process and our IT Director was on board with it, he answered many of the questions for us and we just got the final report from that.”
“There were several recommendations that were made, and they prioritized them for us.”
Rockey went on to state, “Finally, today we had an all-employee meeting, the King Agency was here to talk about health insurance elections for 2023, there’s a new process for doing that, it’s going online.”
“This should streamline the process going forward to get these selections made. It’s kind of like Final Forms, that data gets stored, and you approve it each year.”
Council moved to an executive session at 6:43 p.m. with no movement taken.
Following the executive session, the meeting was adjourned.
Lindsay can be reached at lindsay@thevillagereporter.com
