MINUTES OF A SPECIAL MEETING
MASSILLON CITY COUNCIL
HELD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 2008

COUNCIL PRESIDENT GAMBER I call this special meeting of Massillon City Council to order Wednesday, January 2, 2008.

1. ROLL CALL

Roll call for the evening found the following Council Members present: Kathy Catazaro-Perry, Dave Hersher, Chuck Maier, Ron Mang, Paul Manson, Dave McCune, Donnie Peters, Larry Slagle and Tony Townsend.

Thus giving a roll call vote of 9 present.

COUNCIL PRESIDENT GAMBER As president I’d like to welcome our new members to council we’re certainly looking forward to working with you and I’m sure everyone else on council is also.

2. INTRODUCTION OF ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS

ORDINANCE NO. 1 2008 BY: FINANCE COMMITTEE

Appropriating money for current expenses and other expenses of the City of Massillon, Ohio, for the fiscal period ending December 31, 2008, and declaring an emergency.

COUNCILWOMAN CATAZARO- PERRY Tonight we’re going to approve the 2008 budget and we had a budget meeting I believe it was December 19th and we reviewed this extensively. I think we spent about an hour here mulling it over and talking about the shortfalls that we’re going to see this year. We have projected from the auditor’s office and from the budget that I received from the Mayor a 0% growth for 2008 which is on the conservative side. I think that was the right thing to do. We’re looking at a shortfall of about $1,580,000.00 and hopefully we’re going to have the good news that we had this year and make that up in different ways throughout the year. But we’re going to go ahead and propose a 95/5 split as we had last year and project a 0% growth and pass our budget this evening. If you have questions I’d be happy to try to answer those the new auditor is here this evening so we can look to her also, Mrs. Ferrero, for answers to our questions. But this is one of those years as we have had in the past that it’s going to tight and we’re going to have to work very hard and work very diligently to make sure that we see some black at the end of the year in ’08. So its nothing new for city council to have to have this type of challenge but it is going to be a challenge and we are going to have to work together to make sure that we’re successful.

COUNCIL PRESIDENT GAMBER Are there any questions on the budget as presented?

COUNCILWOMAN CATAZARO-PERRY moved for suspension of the rules and passage, seconded by Councilman Peters.

The rules were suspended by a roll call vote of 9 yes.

ORDINANCE NO. 1 – 2008 WAS PASSED BY A ROLL CALL VOTE OF 9 YES.

COUNCIL PRESIDENT GAMBER Before I ask for introduction of Resolution No. 1 this does have to do with the election and placement of a Council Clerk for the next two year period. This is a state office mandated by the state it’s a very important position in addition to being here at the meetings her day to day work is very vital as far as getting everything properly certified into the right places. We will open the floor up for nominations each nomination needs to have a second, if there’s more than one nomination we will have a secret ballot after the election we will then move to Resolution No. 1 after which our law director will swear in the Clerk. At this point I’ll open the floor for nominations for Council Clerk.

COUNCILMAN MANG I so would like to see appointment of Mary Beth Bailey as Council Clerk, seconded by Councilman McCune.

COUNCIL PRESIDENT GAMBER She has been nominated and properly seconded. Are there any other nominations? If you’ll look at your resolution you’ll see that she is classified as a 12S classified position. There being no more nominations from the floor I move that nominations be closed and I will call for a roll call vote for Mary Beth Bailey as Council Clerk.

Roll call vote of 7 yes, 2 no for nomination of Mary Beth Bailey for the Council Clerk. Catazaro-Perry and Maier voted no.

RESOLUTION NO. 1 2008 BY: COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE

Appointing Mary Beth Bailey as Clerk of Massillon City Council and establishing salary for said job.

COUNCILMAN MANG Mary Beth, it’s a great privilege for me to be part of the procedure of having you elected Clerk of this council. Your history is fantastic, you’ve done a fantastic job for us and I’m very pleased to be able sit here this evening and highly recommend you. Members of council, I highly recommend that we endorse Resolution No. 1 the appointment of Mary Beth Bailey as Clerk of Council.

COUNCILMAN MANG moved for suspension of the rules and passage, seconded by Councilman Manson.

The rules were suspended by a roll call vote of 7 yes, 2 no. Catazaro-Perry and Maier voted no.

RESOLUTION NO. 1 – 2008 WAS PASSED BY A ROLL CALL VOTE OF 7 YES, 2 NO. CATAZARO-PERRY AND MAIER VOTED NO.

3. APPOINTMENT OF THE PRESIDENT PRO TEM AND COUNCIL COMMITTEES

COUNCIL PRESIDENT GAMBER Two other items for this evening are the President Pro Tem and council committees. We’ll follow the same procedure for President Pro Tem I will take nominations from the floor looking for a second if there is more than one we will move to secret ballot. The floor is now open for nominations. Mrs. Catazaro-Perry?

COUNCILWOMAN CATAZARO-PERRY – I’d like to nominate Ron Mang for President Pro Tem, seconded by Councilman Peters.

COUNCIL PRESIDENT GAMBER Are there any other nominations? There are no more in that case the nominations will be closed. Madame Clerk, will you call a roll for Ron Mang as President Pro Tem.

Roll call vote of 9 yes for Councilman Mang to be President Pro Tem.

COUNCIL PRESIDENT GAMBER Last item of business is the committee assignments. Does everyone have a sheet that says “2008 City Council Committee Assignments”? I do have one last minute correction if you’ll look the Health and Welfare Committee and the Rules and Courts Mr. Slagle has determined with the help our law director that it is probably inappropriate as an attorney and someone who deals with our municipal court to be chairman of or even on that committee. So he and Kathy Catazaro-Perry will be switching positions Health, Welfare and Building Regulations will be Larry Slagle, Rules, Courts and Civil Service will be Kathy Catazaro-Perry. This is the list that the president is obligated to submit for your approval at this time. Need a motion to accept this list and a seconded.

COUNCILMAN MANG moved to accept the committee assignments as presented, seconded by Councilman McCune.

Roll call vote of 9 yes for the acceptance of the committee assignments.

4. ADJOURNMENT

COUNCIL PRESIDENT GAMBER At this point I will declare this meeting adjourned and I will leave it up to Councilman Mang as to when he wants to convene the committee of the whole.