Council gets paving update from Mayor Orr

Kevin Sutton, The Daily Jeffersonian
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Cambridge Mayor Tom Orr updated city council on the progress of the ongoing citywide paving projects during Tuesday night's council meeting.

"I'm not going to give a blow-by-blow event because most people have lived it," Orr offered. "They hit Main Street Monday, and it looks pretty nice out there from what I can tell. Some areas where people are waiting on, one of those being Highland Avenue, and my understanding is that is coming soon. I can't give you exact date, because every time I try that it bites me in the butt.

"Anyways, we are getting there with the project," Orr continued. "Woodlawn is open now, we just got a lot going on out there."

Orr also announced that trick or treat will be held from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 31 and the fall cleanup day will take place from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, Oct. 22.

Council then passed numerous appropriate requests headlined by City Utility Director Lou Thornton request to appropriate $220,000 from the Unappropriated Sewer Fund. Of those funds $20,000 would go to sewer supplies, $20,000 to sewer miscellaneous service, $50,000 to sewer vehicle maintenance, $10,000 to sewer miscellaneous, $60,000 to sewer capital improvement and $60,000 to sewer equipment.

In other business, council approved:

  • Fire Department Chief Jeff Deeks request to appropriate $47, 619.05 Fire Fighter Grant Equipment.

  • A request from Police Chief Mark DeLancey to appropriate $20,000 to police equipment, which is a reimbursement for the school resource officers. A second request to appropriate $616 to police CPT training fund, which is another reimbursement from when cruisers were used during the paving on Wheeling Avenue.

  • A request from Code Enforcement Director Kim Conrath to appropriate $1,217.49 to fire deposit for 93 Gomber Ave. fire scene.

  • A request from Clerk of Council Sharon Gasser to transfer $500 from council legal advertising to travel and school. This is to pay for Council President Cowgill to attend the Ohio Municipal League annual conference.

  • A pair of requests from City Engineer Nick Cunningham. The first to authorization to submit an application to the Ohio Public Works Commission and second is a request to sign documents for Municipal Bridge inspection.

Council's finance committee will meet on Monday at 4:30 p.m.

KStutton@daily-jeff.com

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