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Hubbard Mayor Ben Kyle passes out smoke detectors to Hubbard City and Hubbard Township residents in a drive-thru distribution of the fire-safety devices Saturday at the Hubbard City Building. ,,, Staff photo / Allie Vugrincic HUBBARD Four hundred city and township homes each have two new smoke detectors, thanks to a drive-thru distribution Saturday at the Hubbard City Building. “Since the beginning of the year, so many house fires have occurred around the Valley,” said Hubbard Mayor Ben Kyle, who joined other Hubbard city and township officials in passing out the smoke detectors. “I wanted to have a way to save lives.” ....
WHAT: City council meeting Monday PRESENT: Bill Williams, Bonnie Viele, Robin Zambrini, Michael Toda, Jerome Crowe, Michael Kerr, Ryan Hallapy and Mayor Ben Kyle ABSENT: Michael Mogg Council: • Heard from Kyle the $425,000 Grandview Avenue project that will be covered by an Ohio Public Works Commission loan program in 2020 will be put out for bid this spring. He said the project will be a combined culvert replacement / paving project to improve a culvert on the street that is failing; • Gave final reading to increase the pay of the mayor’s secretary, whose wage will increase to $35,400 in 2021, $35,900 in 2022, and $36,500 in 2023; • Gave second reading to adjusting the pay of the clerk of council to $7,500 per year and also $12.50 per hour for any work over 30 hours per month effective in 2021; ....
HUBBARD City council on Tuesday approved pay increases for elected officials to begin in 2022. Hubbard Mayor Ben Kyle said there has been discussion on making changes to the elected and nonelected positions slowly, noting this past year the community faced the coronavirus pandemic that caused economic hardships with job losses. “This was a systematic approach to slowly adjust the salaries of these positions while having as least an impact on the budget as possible,” Kyle said. Effective in 2022, city council members will see a $150-per-month increase, bringing their pay to $6,600 per year, and council president to $6,900 per year. Other elected positions that will see an increase are the auditor by $500 per year to $50,000 in 2022, $50,500 in 2023, $51,000 in 2024 and $51,500 in 2025. The treasurer will see an increase of $100 per year to $10,000 in 2022, $10,100 in 2023, $10,200 in 2024 and $10,300 in 2025. ....