Lima City Council held their final regular meeting of the year Monday Evening in Council Chambers. On Monday Night, councilors voted to pass the COVID-19 bonus pay ordinance, which would allow the city auditor to pay eligible city employees who worked during the pandemic in 2020 a bonus of $1,000. It passed by a 6-to-1 vote. Also at Lima City Council, Mayor Sharetta Smith announced her general fund expenditure budget for the 2023 calendar year.
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Lima City Council held their second to last regular meeting of the year earlier Monday evening in Council Chambers. On Monday, councilors placed Ordinance 240-22 on second reading, which would authorize the city auditor to pay eligible city employees who worked during the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020 a one-time discretionary bonus of $1,000.
Lima City Council members and Mayor Sharetta Smith participated in a "Council of the Whole" meeting Monday evening. At the November 7th meeting, Lima City Council elected to table the legislation that proposed to give out a one-time bonus pay of $1,000 to city employees who worked during the COVID-19 Pandemic and who meet proposed criteria. At Monday's meeting, councilors and the mayor held a discussion on the exact logistics with the legislation and to answer some questions that Lima City Councilors had.
Lima's City Council President says he will not be running for another term in 2023. John Nixon sent an email to media, announcing his decision not to run for the seat again. Nixon started on city council as the 1st ward councilor in 1990, and then became 2nd ward councilor in 1996. Nixon was appointed president of the council in 2007, when Matt Huffman moved to Columbus to be 4th District State Representative. Over his nearly 32 years in office, Nixon says he has served with over 40 different council members, three council clerks, two different mayors, and two different law directors, saying that all of them had the same goal to make Lima better. Besides council president, lima city council seats on the ballot next year are wards 2, 4, and 6.
Lima City Council will be deciding Monday night if smoking and vaping will be banned from city parks.
Councilors will be hearing from Mayor Sharetta Smith at the February 28th Lima City Council meeting. She will be laying out her framework for …
Carla Thompson was unable to receive enough certified signatures when she filed her petition to run again for the 3rd Ward seat, but neither did anyone else. This means that council had to vote to decide who will sit in the seat. Monday night, councilors voted 6 to 1 with one abstention to appoint Carla Thompson back to the seat.