1. 2022 Annual Report
  2. City Council

2022 City Council Annual Report

The City of Montgomery operates under a council-manager form of government with seven elected City Council members working with a city manager, clerk of council, and law director, all appointed by City Council.  All City Council members are elected at large by a popular vote of residents for staggered terms of four years.  Once seated, City Council members choose the Mayor who serves for a two-year term.

City Council is responsible for establishing policies and enacting legislation necessary for municipal operations.  By charter, the city manager serves as the City's chief executive, administrative, and law enforcement officer.

City Council operates with six standing committees:

  • Financial Planning
  • Government Affairs
  • Law and Safety
  • Parks and Recreation
  • Planning, Zoning, and Landmarks
  • Public Works

Initiatives are undertaken each year to maintain communications between City Council and each board or commission, including:

  • Annual updates to City Council on the activities and work of the respective board/commission for the previous year.
  • Annual Board and Commission member orientation and training is conducted at the respective meetings.

As part of City Council’s responsibilities for establishing policies and enacting legislation, it oversaw operations and administration of a budget of $46,317,297 and adopted 12 ordinances and 40 resolutions in 2022.

2022 Council Action

Ordinances

  • An Ordinance Establishing An Excise Lodging Tax (6-yea, 1-abstain)
  • An Ordinance Amending The Land Usage Code To Enact New Regulations For The Sign Code And The Old Montgomery Gateway District (6-yea, 1-abstain)
  • An Ordinance Providing for The Issuance of Not to Exceed $7,500,000 of Notes by The City of Montgomery, Ohio, For the Purpose of Making Public Infrastructure Improvements Within the City and Declaring an Emergency (6-yea, 1-abstain)
  • An Ordinance Establishing The Schedule Of Municipal Compensation For Employees (6 yea, 1-absent)
  • An Ordinance To Amend Appropriations For Current Expenses And Other Expenditures Of The City Of Montgomery, State Of Ohio, During The Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2022 (6-yea, 1-abstain)
  • An Ordinance Renaming Cares Act Relief Payroll Fund 222 To The Pandemic Relief Fund 222, Transferring General Fund Unappropriated Surplus To The Pandemic Relief Fund 222 And The Downtown Improvement Fund 480 To Comply With American Rescue Plan Act Compliance (6-yea, 1-abstain)
  • An Ordinance Correcting Ordinance No. 9, 2018 – An Ordinance Amending The Land Usage Code To Enact New Regulations For The Old Montgomery Gateway District (7-yea, 0-nay)
  • An Ordinance Accepting Dedicated Streets Within The City (passed 7-0)
  • An Ordinance Terminating Assessments For The Reserve Of Montgomery And Declaring An Emergency (passed 7-0)
  • An Ordinance to Make Appropriations for Current Expenses and Other Expenditures of the City of Montgomery, State of Ohio During the Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2023 (passed 6, 1-abstain)
  • An Ordinance for The Allocation of Earnings Tax Revenues and Amending Section 44.14 of The Montgomery Code of Ordinances (passed 6, 1-abstain)
  • An Ordinance To Amend Appropriations For Current Expenses And Other Expenditures Of The City Of Montgomery, State Of Ohio, During The Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2022 (passed 6, 1-abstain)

Resolutions

  • A Resolution Authorizing The City Manager To Contract With National Inspection Corporation For Professional Services To Serve As Building Official And To Provide Plan Review And Field Inspection Authority And Services For The City’s Building Department For The Calendar Year 2022 (6-Yea, 1-Abstain)
  • A Resolution Authorizing The City Manager To Enter Into A Contract With CT Consultants, Inc. For Professional Services Related To General Engineering And Architectural Services For Calendar Year 2022 (7-Yea, 0-Nay)
  • A Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to Enter into a Contract with Elex Inc. for the Montgomery Heritage District Traffic Signal Project (7-yea, 0-Nay)
  • A Resolution Authorizing The City Manager To Enter Into A Contract With Human Nature, Inc. For Professional Design And Engineering Services Related To The Ronald Reagan Cross County Highway/Montgomery Road Interchange Landscaping Project (6-Yea, 1-Abstain)
  • A Resolution Authorizing The City Manager To Enter Into A Lease For City Copier Equipment And Authorize Related Services (7-yea, 0-Nay)
  • A Resolution Authorizing The City Manager To Enter Into A Contract With Murphy Tractor & Equipment Co. for the Purchase of a John Deere 410L Backhoe Loader (7-yea, 0-Nay)
  • A Resolution Authorizing The City Manager To Enter Into A Contract With J. K. Meurer for the 2022 Street Resurfacing Program (7-yea, 0-Nay)
  • A Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to enter into a Sculptor Commission Agreement with Tom Tsuchiya Sculptor LTD. (7-yea, 0-Nay)
  • A Resolution Establishing Compensation for The City Manager (7-yea, 0-nay)
  • A Resolution Approving Participation in Region 2 Governance Structure Under the OneOhio Memorandum of Understanding (7-yea, 0-nay)
  • A Resolution Recognizing The Month of May 2022 As National Historic Preservation Month in The City Of Montgomery (7-yea, 0-nay)
  • A Resolution Authorizing An Application For Grant Funding To The Ohio Department of Natural Resources/Natureworks (7-yea, 0-nay)
  • A Resolution Ratifying A Pool Management And Maintenance Agreement With Swimsafe Pool Management, Inc. And Approving An Amendment To Such Agreement For The 2022 Season (7-yea, 0-nay)
  • A Resolution Authorizing An Agreement With Enterprise Fleet Management Through Sourcewell To Lease Motor Vehicles To Support City Services (7-yea, 0-nay)
  • A Resolution Authorizing The City Manager To Contract With Frost Brown Todd, LLC To Provide Special Counsel Services ( 6-yea, 1-absent)
  • A Resolution Accepting A Bid And Authorizing The City Manager To Enter Into A Contract With Barrett Paving Materials, Inc. To Complete The Pfeiffer Road And Deerfield Road Intersection Improvement Project, Ham - CR284 - 1.33, PID # 107130 ( 6-yea, 1-absent)
  • A Resolution Authorizing The City Manager To Enter Into A Contract With Prime CMS, Inc. For Professional Services Related To Construction, Engineering And Inspection Services For The Pfeiffer Road And Deerfield Road Intersection Improvement Project ( 6-yea, 1-absent)
  • A Resolution Authorizing The City Manager To Negotiate And Execute An Agreement With Traditions VC Developer, LLC To Accommodate Short-Term Coverage For Minimum Service Payments In The Vintage Club-North Project (5-yea, 1-nay, 1-absent)
  • A Resolution Adopting a Tax Budget for 2023 (passed 6 yea-1-absent)
  • A Resolution Authorizing Internet Auction of Surplus Personal Property Through Govdeals.com (passed 6 yea-1-absent)
  • A Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to enter into a Labor Agreement with the Fraternal Order of Police Ohio Labor Council, Inc. for Wage and Benefits from July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2025 (passed 6 yea-1-absent)
  • A Resolution Amending Resolution Nos. 9, 2020; 39, 2020 and 43, 2021 To Approve A Final Modification To The Construction Agreement With Brandicorp, LLC For Stage I Montgomery Quarter Project Improvements (passed 5 yea, 1-abstain, 1-absent)
  • A Resolution Delegating Authority To Make Declarations Of Official Intent And Allocations With Respect To Reimbursements Of Temporary Advances During Fiscal Years 2023 And 2024 Made For Capital Improvements To Be Made From Subsequent Borrowings For The Montgomery Quarter Redevelopment Project (Formerly Known As The Gateway Redevelopment Project) (passed 5 yea, 1-abstain, 1-absent)
  • A Resolution Authorizing The City Manager of The City of Montgomery, Ohio To Prepare And Submit An Application To Participate In The Transit Infrastructure Fund Program(s) And To Execute Contracts As Required (passed 6 yea-1-absent)
  • A Resolution Authorizing The City Manager To Enter Into An Agreement With The Sycamore Community School District Board Of Education To Assign Two School Resource Officers (passed 6 yea-1-absent)
  • A Resolution authorizing the City Manager to enter into Contract with Morton Salt Inc. pursuant to a joint purchasing bid with Hamilton County for 2022 – 2023 Deicing Rock Salt. (passed 7-0)
  • A Resolution Establishing City Contributions To Employee Health Savings Accounts And Health Reimbursement Accounts (passed 7-0)
  • A Resolution Establishing A Special Fund To Receive And Manage Local Government Settlement Proceeds From The OneOhio Opioid Settlements (passed 7-0)
  • A Resolution to Adopt the Recommendation of the Montgomery Tax Incentive Review Council with Respect to The Compliance of All Tax Increment Financing Districts Within the City of Montgomery (passed 6-yea, 1-absent)
  • A Resolution Accepting the Amounts and Rates as Determined by The Budget Commission and Authorizing the Necessary Tax Levies and Certifying Them to The County Auditor (passed 7-0)
  • A Resolution Authorizing An Agreement With The Ohio Department Of Transportation For Bridge Inspection Services (passed 7-0)
  • A Resolution Approving The Use Of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Funds For Reporting And Compliance To The Us Treasury Department For Fiscal Year 2022 (passed 7-0)
  • A Resolution Accepting the Transfer of Real Property from the Montgomery Community Improvement Corporation and Designating such property as a Municipal Park and Recreation Area (passed 6-yea, 1-abstain)
  • A Resolution Authorizing A Contract With Patented Acquisition Corporation D/B/A Think Patented For Design And Production Services (passed 7-0)
  • A Resolution Authorizing The City Manager To Execute A Capital Improvement Community Park, Recreation/Conservation Project Pass-Through Grant Agreement With The Ohio Department Of Natural Resources (passed 6-yea, 1-abstain)
  • A Resolution Adopting a Five-Year Capital Improvement Program for The City of Montgomery (passed 6-yea, 1-abstain)
  • A Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to Enter into A Contract with Humana Health Plan of Ohio to Provide Medical and Dental Coverage for Full-Time Employees (passed 7-0)
  • A Resolution Establishing City Contributions for Health Care Benefits (passed 7-0)
  • A Resolution Ratifying A Pool Management And Maintenance Agreement With Swimsafe Pool Management, Inc. And Approving An Amendment To Such Agreement For The 2023 Season (passed 7-0)
  • A Resolution Authorizing The City Manager To Extend The Contract With Rumpke Of Ohio, Inc. For Waste Collection Services For The Year 2023 (passed 7-0)
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