Council Meetings: 1st and 3rd Tuesday of month 7:30 PM unless otherwise noted. Planning Commission and or Board of Zoning Appeal meet 3rd Tuesday when scheduled.
A link is attached to the email address of each Council members name beneath their photo’s, or simply click their name here to email:
Councilman Patrick McCort was appointed to council in April 2023, to complete the unexpired term of the Rick Logue (deceased 12/2022). Councilman McCort is a 46-year resident of Grafton who grew up in North Eaton and moved into the Village in 1977, he currently resides at 1177 Elm St.
Councilman McCort is a 1969 graduate of Midview High School, is currently retired following a 47-year career with the Invacare Corporation. Councilman McCort was elected to represent Grafton WARD 3 on November 7, 2023 and sworn into office on January 2, 2024 before Grafton Village Council, family, friends and supporters.
Councilman McCort’s current term runs through December 31, 2027.
Lynette Kitts is serving in her third term on Village Council being first elected to office in 2015 representing the residents of Ward 4 and reelected to a second 4-year term November 5, 2019, reelected to a third term on November 7, 2023.
Many know Councilperson Kitts simply as “Lynette”, who has faithfully delivered their mail here in Grafton while working for the United States Postal Service for the past 26-years. Lynette championed the funding of the “downtown beautification floral program” in 2017 where she worked personally with a local manufacture to design brackets that would attach to the existing ornamental light polls and worked with a local grower to design the flower arrangements all enjoyed in 2017. Because of her efforts in 2017, the “downtown beautification floral program” continues to this day.
Councilwoman’s Kitts current term runs through December 2027.
All legislative powers of the Municipality, except as limited by this Charter and the Constitution of the State of Ohio, shall be vested in the Council, and in furtherance thereof, but without limitation thereto, it shall:
(a) Originate, introduce and pass ordinances and adopt resolutions;
(b) Fix the salaries of all officers and employees of the Municipality, whether elected or appointed;
(c) Require and fix bond for the faithful discharge of the duties of office by officers and employees, the premium for which bond may be ordered by the Council to be paid by the Municipality;
(d) Formulate and adopt a budget;
(e) Provide for a bi-annual financial audit by the State;
(f) Authorize the issuance of bonds under the laws of the State of Ohio;
(g) Perform such other duties and exercise such other rights not inconsistent with this Charter as now or hereafter granted to the legislative authority of municipalities by the State of Ohio.
Stephanie Barnhart is serving in her first term as Clerk-Treasurer of the Village of Grafton. Stephanie is a life long Grafton resident and the daughter of Jim and Amy Barnhart. Stephanie is following in the foot-steps of her mother and former Clerk Treasurer Amy B.
The Clerk-Treasurer position bears several primary and secondary responsibilities including managing municipal finances, public records, managing employee benefits and budget funding management to mention a few. Stephanie serves along side the Village Administration and is actively involved with the Administrations contract negotiations and plays a vital role establishing project funding and project financing on all public-works projects.
Stephanie’s current term runs through December 31, 2027.
Village of Grafton – Charter
ARTICLE V THE CLERK-TREASURER
Section 2. Duties
The Clerk-Treasurer is the fiscal officer of the Municipality, the Clerk of the Municipality and the Clerk of the Council.
Specifically, his or her duties are to:
(a) Demand and receive from the County Treasurer taxes, levies and assessments made and certified to the County Auditor by the Council and placed on the tax list by such Auditor for collection. He or she shall also demand and receive moneys from persons authorized to collect or required to pay them from judgments, fines, penalties, forfeitures, licenses, court costs and debts due the Municipality;
(b) Disburse the funds of the Municipality on the order of the Council;
(c) Keep an accurate account of all moneys received by him or her, showing the amount thereof, the time received, from whom and on what account received;
(d) Keep an accurate account of all disbursements made by him or her, showing the amount thereof, the time made, to whom and on what account paid;
(e) So arrange his or her books that the amounts received and paid on account of separate funds or specified apportionments shall be exhibited in separate accounts;
(f) Settle and account with the Council at such regular intervals as may be required by the Council. At the first regular meeting of the Council in January in each year, the Clerk-Treasurer shall report to the Council the condition of the finances of the Municipality, the amount received by him or her, the sources of such receipts, the disbursements made by him or her and on what account during the year preceding. Such account shall exhibit the balance of each fund in his or her hands at the end of the year.
(g) Attend all meetings of Council and keep the official record of all proceedings, rules, by-laws, resolutions and ordinances passed or adopted; and
(h) Perform such other duties as are required by any ordinance of the Municipality consistent with his or her office.
