STEUBENVILLE — Emergency legislation that would have finalized the city’s end-of-year revenue tax budget was inadvertently derailed Tuesday after questions were raised about how pay raises for a handful of employees had landed in a revised Table of Organization without council’s input.

Eight items on the meeting agenda were listed as emergency legislation, all of them standard, end-of-year ordinances that the city needs in place to start 2026. Six passed outright and took effect immediately, one was tabled and the other delayed a week so council could reflect on the

Councilman Joel Walker, though, questioned the salary changes he spotted in the proposed TO, saying the document would give a few employees $1 more per hour. One would get $2 more per hour.

“I don’t remember it coming up dur

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