PEMBERVILLE — During a 28-minute Pemberville Village Council meeting, members voted to suspend the rules requiring three readings and passed an ordinance authorizing the execution of an agreement with American Municipal Power, Inc.
The agreement with AMP allows the village to participate in the NPP Power Pool.
“We wanted to get this ordinance passed so we could get moving (on the power pool) by the end of the year,” Mayor Carol Bailey explained. “We want to put it into play as son as we can.”
Both the vote to suspend the rules and the vote to pass the ordinance received unanimous approval at the Nov. 21 meeting.
Another ordinance received its second reading during the meeting, one that makes temporary appropriations to several village financial funds and accounts.
Most of the temporary appropriations are less than $10,000, but one line item, for expenses for the police department, totaled $242,000. Approximately $175,000 of that is for wages and benefits for personnel, and the remaining $67,000 is for contractual services and supplies.
Another major appropriation is for nearly $717,000 for the field operations account.
Other major temporary appropriations in the ordinance include:
• A transfer out of $415,000 from the village’s income tax fund;
•· $373,000 for the permanent improvement fund;
• A transfer out of $106,400 from the Other Financial Services Fund; and
• $153,000 for the Debt Services Fund.
The ordinance for the temporary appropriations totals just over $4 million.
Bailey said the amounts are subject to change.
“This just gets us through the first few months of the new year,” she said.
Council members agreed to the villager’s participation again this year in the Battle of the Badges, a toy drive sponsored by Wood County Job and Family Services.
“This will be the fourth year we have taken part in this project,” Bailey noted.
An update was given for Christmas in the Village, which took place the previous weekend.The Festival of Trees portion of the event took place in the Opera House, and a bake sale took place in council chambers. A parade was conducted Sunday night, followed by the lighting of a Christmas tree. The event included participation by the Pemberville Historical Society.
It was announced that the final leaf pickup in the village will take place on Dec. 6, and the Pemberville Tree Commission will soon end its tree planting activities for the year.
The village’s Records and Retention Committee is continuing its efforts to review village records, it was announced.
A preconstruction meeting will soon be conducted for the water tower construction project. Village officials have scheduled site preparation work, and are hoping to begin work in the spring.
Work on the new water tower is expected to be completed by the fall of 2024, with the new facilities to begin operation in the spring of 2025.
A letter from Roberta Reiter, who is spearheading the mural project at Countyline Co-op grain silos, was read. The letter, described by Bailey as a thank-you correspondence, informed village officials she has raised about $18,000 for the project. Work on the mural is anticipated to begin in the spring.
The next Pemberville Village Council meeting is slated for 7 p.m. on Dec. 5.
