PERRYSBURG — Perrysburg City Council has hired a new municipal prosecutor.

At its April 2 meeting, council hired Khaled Elwardany. His most recent position was as assistant prosecutor in the Criminal Division of the Lucas County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, where he served for eight years. He obtained his law degree from the University of Toledo College of Law.

He replaces Chynna Fiferm who had been the chief prosecutor for the Perrysburg Municipal Court since 2018.

The city will apply for the SAFER grant for $2,602.750. This grant, if awarded, would fund the salary and benefits for six firefighters for a period of three years. After such time, the city would expect to support these positions through the general fund.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency offers the SAFER (Staffing For Adequate Fire And Emergency Response) Grant program to fire departments to enhance their ability to protect the public and minimize the risks from fires and related risks

Also approved was the purchase 10 additional Flock Safety Falcon Cameras which would be installed throughout the city. A number of these license-plate-reading cameras are already in use around the city and this purchase will allow for uniformity in software and enforcement. The cost for the purchase of 10 cameras is $30,000 with an additional $6,500 for their installation.

Council also:

• Approved an agreement with Jones & Henry, LTD for sanitary pump station assessments, for $100,000. The Department of Public Utilities is seeking to perform an assessment of the city’s sanitary pump stations. • • Approved was a resolution allowing the department of public utilities to purchase a Vermeer SC5528VP cutting system for tree stump removal for $76,542 from Vermeer All Roads of Perrysburg. Another resolution allowed the public utilities to purchase for $65,453.21 a Toro Dingo TX 1300 from Century Equipment, to be used during tree removals, clearing storm damage, landscaping, seeding, mulching, snow removal and excavation work.

• Awarding of a contract to American Roadway Logistics for the 2024 Pavement Marking Project. The department of public service plan to paint all the street edge lines, lane lines, center lines, channelizing lines, traverse lines, school symbol markings, lane arrows, dotted lines, R&R, stop bars, crosswalks, bike crossing, and bullnose lines throughout the Perrysburg. The project will cost $132,123.20.

• Awarded a $200,000 contract to M&M Foamworks, LLC for sidewalk lifting and repair for the 2024 Sidewalk Program. This project consists of repairing city sidewalks by lifting or grinding any city sidewalk section identified as needing repair, or by fully replacing sections that are beyond the repair specifications.

• Added an ordinance to provide safety glasses and allow a one time $200 reimbursement for OSHA compliant safety shoes or boots.

• Gave a first reading to a six-month moratorium to limit or prohibit the cultivation, processing and/or dispensing of adult-use cannabis in the city, to allow time to study whether to limit or prohibit the cultivation, processing and/or dispensing of adult use cannabis or, alternatively, to develop and implement regulations regarding the possible location and operation of cannabis related businesses within the city, including cannabis cultivators, processors and adult use dispensaries.

• Approved a first reading of an ordinance to develop the new position of utilities supervisor and update the pay bands to account for a 4% increase of the minimum and maximum salaries of the bands for executive staff, senior administrative staff and administrative staff.

• The council then went into executive session and when they returned to regular session, announced they approved by emergency an ordinance allowing the city to enter into an agreement with the Perrysburg Municipal Employees Association.