At its Jan. 13 meeting the Bellbrook City Council adopted Resolution 2025-R-01 authorizing and ratifying intra-fund transfers and advances retroactive to Jan. 1, 2025, and specifically approving a $420,000 general-fund transfer to the police fund to cover an annual subsidy tied to public safety operations.

Council also adopted Resolution 2025-R-02 declaring certain city-owned equipment no longer needed for municipal purposes and authorizing donation of that equipment to a local fire academy. The items listed in the resolution were 11 turnout coats, 13 turnout pants and 31 helmets, and the resolution cites authority under Ohio Revised Code section 721.15 and Bellbrook Code of Ordinances section 230.06.

Both resolutions include a clause affirming that “all formal actions of the city council relating to the adoption of this resolution were adopted in an open meeting” and cite Ohio Revised Code section 121.22 regarding open meetings. Council members voted by roll call on both measures; recorded votes were: Missus Cyphers (Yay), Mister Greenwood (Yes), Mister Harding (Yes), Deputy Mayor Havens (Yes), and Mister Hoke (Yay). The motions carried on the recorded votes.

The council also approved committee recommendations to appoint Stephanie Seungkue to the Old Village Review Board and to reappoint Jeff Owens and Jacqueline Greenwood to the Village Review Board. Each appointment was moved and seconded and passed by voice vote with the recorded “motion carries” noted by the clerk; no recorded no votes were indicated in the transcript.

City staff explained that the $420,000 transfer for R-01 does not change line-item appropriations established in Ordinance 2024-0-14 for the 2025 fiscal year but instead effects the cash movement corresponding to budgeted appropriations for the police subsidy. A council member asked about the amount of transfers in prior years; staff said the precise prior-year total would need to be double-checked.

For R-02 staff said the turnout gear is past its useful life and better suited for training than for front-line service, and that similar donations had been made previously. The resolution authorizes disposal or donation consistent with Bellbrook purchasing procedures and local ordinance.