It is with great sadness that we announce our City Manager, Dow W Saunders, passed away Monday, April 22, 2024. Dow loved the City of Gallipolis and strived to continue to bring the City forward. Dow served many years on the City Commission and most recently as City Manager, of which he took great pleasure. Dow was an asset to our Community, the City, and all that loved him. He will be greatly missed. Please join with us in condolences to his family.

May 07, 2024                                                          GALLIPOLIS CITY COMMISSION MEETING    The next meeting of the Gallipolis City Commission will be a Regular Meeting at 5:00pm on Tuesday, May 07, 2024 at the Gallipolis Municipal Building, 333 Third Ave, Gallipolis, Ohio. The meeting room may be accessed through the side entrance door by 2 ½ Alley. In addition, the meeting will also be accessible via Zoom Meeting.
A link to the Zoom Meeting will be available on the City Website.

Rumpke Trash Schedule
Rumpke observes the following holidays:
* Memorial Day
* Independence Day
* Labor Day
* Thanksgiving Day
* Christmas Day
* New Years Day

If your service day is on or after one of these holidays, collection will be DELAYED one day that week.

If the holiday occurs during a weekend: service WILL NOT be impacted.

April, 2024  Message

Last month’s column we addressed street paving and this month I’d like to continue to expand upon this topic.    As I mentioned last month, the City’s paving project was ranked high enough for the project to be forwarded for small government competition among the state’s districts where it will be ranked against both public water/sewer and paving projects.    This is the reality of both competing for and being awarded paving grants.

Let us take a closer look at the actual budget considerations for maintenance and streets within the city budget.  Approximately $263,000 is allocated from gasoline tax receipts along with both motor and extra motor registration fees.   This income is distributed from the General Fund and is used to fund the yearly maintenance and repair of streets.  The City discontinued additional transfers from the General Fund to M&R due to insufficient General Fund balances and lack of available dollars.

If the City’s paving grant application is approved, this will the first project to be funded since 2020. Ideally, it would be our goal to be able to plan and prioritize future paving projects.    Moving forward, we would estimate the City’s match to be 40-50% of project costs. 

So why doesn’t the city go to bond for paving projects? The City issued $350,000 in street paving notes of which we will be paying until 2028.   For years, the City was successful in securing grant awards through Community Development funding but this program no longer funds paving projects. 

We appreciate you taking the time to read and comment on the monthly columns.   We have visited police and street paving along with a general review of grants and projects.  In the upcoming months we will continue to address services provided by the City’s to you.