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jpatterson@mariettatimes.com 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 ...

jpatterson@mariettatimes.com 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 Commu...

jpatterson@mariettatimes.com 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 spa...