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Marietta City Council continued the momentum of an active fight against blight and lack of property maintenance in the city through the adoption of a fine schedule for violations of the property maintenance code Thursday.
The legislators heard in Ordinance 220 the amended fines following a lapse in applicable fines for more than one year.
They unanimously suspended the second and third readings and provided full support for the adoption.
“Almost a year and a half since it expired, and in that year and a half the code enforcement (official) has not had the ability to levy fines on any property maintenance violations,” said Councilman Bill Gossett, representative of the third ward. “There were no teeth in it for a year and a half … I didn’t find out it was expired until June of 2020. As soon as I found out, I started working on getting something done about it.”
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In a series of Marietta City Council committees Thursday, legislators reviewed an administrator’s resignation, proposed permanent improvement projects and city responses to complaint-driven practices within zoning and blight.
Safety-Service Director Steve Wetz announced that Assistant Safety-Service Director/Human Resources Director Jeff Skinner has tendered his resignation to the mayor effective April 30.
In the Employee Relations Committee, the resignation prompted discussion concerning residency, education and experience requirements of the role.
Upon review of statutory city requirements with the state of Ohio, and signatory needs for city contracts and other administrative functions, council is expected to see legislation brought forward for consideration next week.
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Planning was at the center of three discussions amidst three hours of Marietta City Council committees Thursday. Pedestrian Safety Planning
Streets Committee Chairwoman Susan Boyer focused her questions on grant administration of the Ohio Department of Health’s Creating Healthy Communities’ programmatic funding Thursday following the citizen-driven outline of pedestrian safety needs along the Franklin Street Corridor in the lower west side (Harmar).
“We were recently contacted as a neighborhood, from the county health department’s Creating Healthy Communities Coalition as part of their 2021 work plan for improving pedestrian infrastructure,” prefaced Councilman Geoff Schenkel, D, Fourth Ward (the ward in which Harmar and the lower west side sit).
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An entrepreneurial endeavor at the Marietta Harbor and the closure of a community building on Harmar Hill were up for committee discussion in Marietta City Council on Monday.
Harbor dock space
Matthew Livengood, representing himself as a private entity rather than as county auditor, offered a preliminary pitch to host a pontoon-rental business off of the city docks beneath the Historic Harmar Bridge.
Livengood offered for consideration a proposed use of some of the city harbor’s counter space in its concession stand and asked for storage space alongside dock space for the boats.
City Law Director Paul Bertram guided additional discussion needed to include a formal bidding process for lease space at the harbor and explained the timeframe plausible for a Memorial Day weekend opening if Livengood were the successful bidder.