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• Village Council | Utility Round-Up program to be opt-out

  By Reilly DixonDecember 11, 2023

  

  Yellow Springs residents may soon be automatically enrolled in the Village’s Utility Round-Up program — wherein municipal utility customers round up their monthly bill to the nearest dollar, with the additional amount going to help those struggling to pay their bills.

• Concerns over bar noise grow louder

  By Reilly DixonDecember 4, 2023

  

  At the most recent Village Council meeting on Monday, Nov. 20, members of the Dayton-Walnut Streets Neighborhood Action Group — knowingly and facetiously abbreviated to NAG — called for greater oversight from the Village of the downtown noise.

• Village Council discusses low-income housing on CBE land

  By Reilly DixonNovember 30, 2023

  

  The perennial conversation of what to do with the 35 acres of land on the western edge of Yellow Springs — known as the Center for Business and Education, or CBE — resurfaced at the most recent Village Council meeting on Monday, Nov. 20.

• Village Council | Surplus expected for 2024 Village budget

  By Reilly DixonNovember 17, 2023

  

  As noted in Monday’s regular Village Council meeting, the budgeted expenses for next year total $17,852,817 — an amount that includes expenses from the general, special revenue, capital project and enterprise funds.

• Village Council to amend municipal tax code

  By Reilly DixonNovember 9, 2023

  

  At the Monday, Oct. 16, Village Council meeting, the group held a first reading of an ordinance that would revise several municipal income tax provisions — revisions that the Village is required to adopt per Ohio House Bill 33.

• Village Council reviews the local power portfolio

  By Reilly DixonOctober 24, 2023

  

  Where does the Village of Yellow Springs get its energy? How much of it is renewable? And how many renewable energy credits does the Village get from the kinds of energy it uses and produces?

• Village Council | ‘Forever chemicals’ in municipal water

  By Reilly DixonOctober 16, 2023

  

  Out of 30 samples the Village water department took this April, only one registered above the detection limit at 9.2 parts per trillion — a level significantly below the current health advisory limit, but above the proposed maximum level of contamination.

• Brian Housh removed as Village Council president

  By Reilly DixonOctober 11, 2023

  

  At the most recent Village Council meeting, Monday, Oct. 2, Council members voted to remove Brian Housh from his position as Council president.

• Village Council considers electrical grid improvements

  By Reilly DixonSeptember 25, 2023

  

  “The Village is currently in ‘good shape’ in how it distributes power to its residents and businesses, but if Yellow Springs is to continue growing, the grid will need to be improved.”

• Village Council reexamines priorities under new administration

  By Reilly DixonSeptember 9, 2023

  

  At their Tuesday, Sept. 5, regular meeting, Village Council reviewed a list of ongoing projects and discussed which of those projects should be paused temporarily or stopped altogether — as well as which may continue and which can be initiated.