Ada council approved the hiring a new patrol officer and a construction-maintenance employee on Nov. 5, in addition to several other actions.
Among council action includes the following:
• Hired Victoria Sturgill as a full-time police officer effective Jan. 2, 2020. Her hiring is a result of a vacancy on the department with the resignation of Sgt. Purdy. Sturgill will serve a one-year probation period at $17.70 per hour. She recently graduated from Rhodes State College with an associate’s degree in law enforcement. She is also a graduate of the Ohio Peace Officer Training Academy.
The Ada municipal building renovation project is falling behind completion schedule due to delays in installing the new elevator.
Ada council members received that news from Police Chief James Harnishfeger during his report at the Sept. 3 council meeting. Harnishfeger told council that the elevator is the only holdup in the project.
The “substantial” completion date is Sept. 27, but the delay from the elevator is expected to take the project into November, according to minutes from the meeting.
Councilman Don Fleming asked for a clarification on the completion date. Jamie Hall, village administrator, said that it is 180 days from the contract signing.
The follow report includes some action from the school’s August board meeting and is not officially approved board minutes.
Ada school administrators will receive a 3% salary increase, as a result of action by the Ada school board on Aug. 15. The administrators are listed at the bottom of this story. Also, attached, at the bottom of the story is the entire Staff Notes.
This action follows the board’s approval of three-year agreements with the Ada Education Association and the Ada Classified Association. Those agreements resulted in 3% salary increase approved in May for certified staff and in June for non-certified staff.
Two pieces of legislation are on the agenda for the Tuesday, Aug. 6, Ada council meeting. The meeting takes place in the Ada railroad depot at 6:30 p.m.
Council will act on a resolution to assign a refuse agreement from Wright Refuse, Inc., to Rumple Waste and Recycling. The resolution will be considered as an emergency.
Also on the agenda is the first reading of an ordinance authorizing the mayor to assess street lights in the village for 2020.
At mid-year, Ada’s village income tax receipts are up 4.52 percent over the same period last year, according to Jeff Oestreich.
See the chart below.
Oestreich presented the report during a July Ada council meeting earlier this month. The total collected during the first six months of 2019 reached $609,301 compared to $582,952 in 2018, for an increase of $36,339.
The safety income tax is up $13,169 and pool income tax reserves is up $3,950.
