AGENDA

THE ALLIANCE CITY COUNCIL, JANUARY 16, 2007

Call to Order: Invocation, Pledge of Allegiance: Phillips.

Roll Call:

Minutes: Minutes of the December 28, 2006 Special meeting of City Council and the January 2, 2007

                 Regular meeting of City Council  

Communications:

1.         Minutes of the Water and Sewer Advisory Board Meeting of 1-2-07

2.         Letter from City Engineer Curtis Bungard RE: 2006 Bridge Inspection Report

3.         Memo from City Engineer Curtis Bungard RE: Agenda for 1-17-07 Planning Commission Meeting

4.         Ohio Municipal League Legislative Bulletin No. 1

5.         Minutes of the 12-20-06 Treasury Investment Board

6.         Memo form Planning & Development Director Marion RE: 2007 CDBG Proposals

7.         Notice of Public Hearing on Resolution 03-07

8.         Letter from Ohio EPA RE: Public Notice 07-01-002

9.         Letter from Keep Ohio Beautiful RE: recognition of Keep Alliance Beautiful

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Administrative Reports:          

Mayor Middleton, Safety Service Director Blaser, Law Director Zumbar, Auditor Zumbar

Standing Committee Reports:

Safety & Judiciary- Andreani; Finance- Okey; Community Development- Phillips; Planning, Zoning, & Housing-Price; Utilities- Rhome; Streets & Alleys- Ryan; Properties and Lands- Thompson

Public Speaks:

Public Hearings: Resolution 03-07 @ 7:30 P.M.

Third Readings: 

Ordinance 157-06: Introduced by Okey and Ryan: An Ordinance ratifying a contract between the City of Alliance Local 2233 Alliance Street Department Employees and the Ohio Council 8 American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees Union, AFL-CIO; and declaring an emergency.

Ordinance 158-06: Introduced by Okey and Rhome: An Ordinance ratifying a contract between the City of Alliance Local 2233-A Alliance Water Treatment Plant Employees and the Ohio Council 8 American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees Union, AFL-CIO; and declaring an emergency.

Second Readings: 

Resolution 03-07: Introduced by Council as a Whole: A Resolution declaring the necessity of an election on the question of approving the passage of one quarter  percent (.25%) increase to the existing City of Alliance Income Tax.

Ordinance 04-07: Introduced by Council as a Whole: An Ordinance amending Chapter 181 of the Alliance Codified Ordinance after passage of a ballot issue increasing the Municipal Income Tax from one and three quarter percent (1.75%) to two percent (2%); and declaring an emergency.

New Business:

Ordinance 05-07:  Introduced by Okey: An Ordinance making appropriations and transfers of funds in the 2007 Temporary appropriations to provide for necessary expenses and adjustments; and declaring an emergency.

Ordinance 06-07:  Introduced by Okey and Phillips: An Ordinance accepting the recommendations of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Luther Jr. Viaduct improvement advisory commission, and authorizing and directing the director of public safety and service of the City of Alliance to enter into a contract with William Hahn to provide certain engineering services to the City of Alliance in relation to the MLK Viaduct, and declaring an emergency.

Old Business:

Ordinance 125-05: introduced by Schwarz: an Ordinance creating new Chapter 117-Fees of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Alliance and amending sections of the codified Ordinances for the purpose of giving the Director of Public Safety and Service the authority to review, update and establish permit, plan review, and inspection fees for Engineering, Planning and Zoning and to make them compatible to other local communities with the approval of Council, approving new fees; and declaring an emergency.

Ordinance 130-05: introduced by Schwarz: an ordinance to adopt a new City of Alliance Planning and Zoning Code and sub-Division/ Development Regulations to completely replace the existing Planning and Zoning Code, Map and Sub-Division Regulations in the Codified Ordinances of the City of Alliance, Counties of Stark and Mahoning and State of Ohio.

Ordinance 103-06: introduced by Okey, Price and Ryan: an Ordinance to amend Chapter 771 of the Codified Ordinances of Alliance Ohio; to create the Department of Safe Housing in the City of Alliance; to establish the safe housing fund; to allocate a portion of safe housing revenue to the director of law for purposes of enforcement; and to establish initial funding for the Department of Safe Housing.

Ordinance 142-06: Introduced by Price: An Ordinance vacating a 15 foot North South alley West of Penn Avenue, South of West State Street for a distance of 120 feet, and a 15 foot East West Alley South of West State Street, West of Penn Avenue for a distance of 120 feet in the City of Alliance, County of Stark and State of Ohio.

Ordinance 143-06: Introduced by Price: An Ordinance accepting and approving the replat of lots 31 and 32 and parts of two vacated 15 foot alleys South of West State Street and West of Penn Avenue in the City of Alliance, County of Stark and State of Ohio.

Miscellaneous Business

Adjournment