Mayor· 2024-01 - 2027-12 (month-level start: January 2024 per Athens Independent Nov 8, 2023 election results (Patterson re-elected); four-year mayoral term; month-level end: December 2027)
Steve Patterson
Athens
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Voice
- Meetings spoken in
- 19
- Total speaking time
- 5:32:16
- Avg per meeting
- 17:29
- Segments
- 3022
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Top issues during term (7)(Environment)
Portable Flood Barriers and Stormwater Work
Repeated flood damage to a community landmark; cost of catch basins and pipe repair unknown.
2027 Sewer Rates Adopted (Ordinance 81-26)
About $260,000 in added revenue; roughly $1.60–$2 per month more for typical households.
Briarwood median planting
Vore Ridge landfill gas monitoring
$15,000 from the garbage fund.
Proposed Piketon gas plant air quality concerns
E&S Commission vacancies
Mansfield Cemetery conservation project
Funded by the city's share of the One Ohio opioid settlement over 20 years.
Decisions during term (2)
Recorded while Patterson was in office — not necessarily decisions they moved, spoke to, or voted on.