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STEUBENVILLE Now that city coffers are rebounding from the pandemic, council signaled Tuesday it’s ready to tweak the Table of Organization to make room for an animal control officer.
Finance Director Dave Lewis told council the city’s financial health is much improved from a year ago, so adjusting the TO to add an animal control officer to the police department roster is doable.
“The money is there, if that’s what you want to do,” he said. “Right now, we’re showing a $942,000 general fund surplus.”
Third Ward Councilman Eric Timmons had been lobbying for the change, telling council the time to act is before someone is seriously hurt.
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What we did not know then was just how low it would be.
In fact, Bob Gale, who was navigating his first election after being named as the next executive director of the Jefferson County Board of Elections, had said he was optimistic that as many as 20 percent of the eligible voters would cast ballots in the election.
That projection was off, as only 7.9 percent of the 12,804 registered voters in Steubenville bothered to make their voices heard.
One of the reasons, likely, was a lack of ballot issues and candidates. Everyone in the city who was registered had the chance to vote on the renewals of the city’s 0.7 percent and 0.3 percent income taxes both of which easily passed and those who live in the 4th Ward and who registered as Democrats had the chance to vote on the candidate who would represent the party for that seat on the November ballot.