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i know what happened we were debating
whether or not to have a video which
means
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babysitting
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anything other than babysit them that's
it thank you scream is this for me
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i'll check in
hey it's good to see everybody out here
tonight i'm troy markham i am the new
city council president uh this is my
first year as city council president but
my seventh year serving on city council
i'm happy to inform you that we have
several city council members here with
us tonight
and that this current city council is
the most diverse city council in the
city's history not just in terms of
ethnicity and gender but also in terms
of their background and the experiences
that they bring it's an exciting dynamic
that i'm really really
and
i see you guys out there please stand up
i see city council
[Applause]
uh the most common question i get as a
council member is
what do i like best about being on city
council
and i can tell you easily the answer is
uh
being involved and finding out all the
things that are going on in the city
right being involved with the city
directors the committee
the committees the community groups all
that sort of stuff there's always new
exciting projects there's always new
programs and proposals being developed
um and i get to be
involved in that i didn't hear a lot of
that one on it's really exciting
holidays from that start
what's going to
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i love the state of the community
addresses one of my favorite events
um this city is great this is a
community and community members that we
have part of it and uh tonight
they're all here with us tonight we're
they're going to tell us what's going on
community groups what we can be looking
forward to uh the sort of exciting
things that we can start expecting and i
can't wait to uh hear what everybody's
up to so uh we'll start off right now
and i'm going to welcome preston elliott
chair of the bexley community foundation
the community foundation provides vital
support to many effects as best
endeavors including
this
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um
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um
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but
um the fact of the matter is that we
got a decent attendance in this room and
we got a tendency
we've got people out front with
soccer practice and this was what it was
meant to be to convene all of us
so it's um
it is
it's very fulfilling for us to be able
to give back to our community
and it's very uh to
see
our community foundation was established
in 2010
and
so we're coming up on our 12th year it's
established by a group of
founding members who share their passion
for our view
and
our mission
of the vaccine foundation is
the vision is to create a vibrant
community for all of
work us and care
conventionally now and in the future
we uh
in addition to our general fund
as you can tell we have 16 names
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throughout the city
youth
recreation ancient summer
camp health wellness and intellectual
language
two days
we have awarded over four million rates
it's also one of those
so last year we had a wide variety of
great requests
and through the generosity of our
community
we were
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we have supporting
with that
so
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so
[Applause]
um
there are a variety of ways
is
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it is a thoughtful process
we have a
very thoughtful process on our grants
with their very secure governance
procedures
and you are inspired and you think we
have done a good job
additionally you also get involved
so on
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may 12th
you'll be back
this
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i believe this past year we had the most
diverse
group
of grant submissions that we've ever had
we first started off
as we were getting our name out there
so
we appreciate
followed by
presentation
hi
i'm tracy bong executive director of the
next day area chamber of commerce
i'm excited to share with you our
successes from 2021 and our plans for
2022.
the vexing chamber is a nonprofit
organization founded in 1986. our
mission is to be an advocate and a
resource for local businesses
how do we do that
through educational opportunities
business development information
and access to our group health insurance
plan i'm excited to tell you more about
2022 investors
in 2021 the mexican chamber was grateful
to welcome over 30 new members bringing
our total to over 200 members in the
mexican area
of congress so why should you join the
mexican chamber
we offer exclusive members member
discounts
a discounted group health insurance plan
which goes to savings of up to 15 a year
advertisement and sponsorship
opportunities
networking events
and special member pricing
annual membership in the next chamber is
just 150
and the value of the crisis
in 2021 we kicked off our new
educational programming with the local
leaders speaker series
we were grateful to welcome jason black
ceo of brudog usa
chris olsen co-founder of draft capital
deontay johnson former ohio state
buckeye football player and owner of
soul classics
an upcoming week of april tsunami
professional visual artists and
activists who will be joining us
virtually in april
another new program in 2021 is our
vaccine women lead program in
partnership with mexican schools
this program fosters independence
and empowerment in young women right
here in our community
this initiative is sponsored by the
bexley education foundation in west
vanco
we kicked off this new vexa women lead
program with a luncheon at capitol
university welcoming both our adult and
student leaders
we followed up the first meeting
with the yoga and mindfulness meditation
program at blue sky yoga here by cindy's
wildflower kitchen
we're looking forward to wrapping up
this school year's programming with
another luncheon in may and we're
grateful for our continued partnership
with mexico city schools the next day
education foundation and west vancouver
in 2021 we hosted our number of golf
clubs i
this event was sponsored by mosquito
authority and provides ample opportunity
for networking fun
and the chance to win a 25 000
gold one prize
this prize did go unclaimed in 2021 so
we hope you'll join us for our outing in
2022
and we hope to be able to give someone a
huge chat worth 25 000
the 2021 face the battery was our first
ever outdoor facebook expert and it was
a great success
we welcomed over 30 local restaurant
vendors and invited many local community
members to serve as our star volunteers
2021 also heralded the in-person return
of the holiday hop fan favorites santa
and mrs claus
dreidel man and a costume opinion
welcomed guests to participate in our
scavenger hunt and activities in the
mexican public library parking lot
for 2022 we're excited to continue with
both our educational programs and our
community networking events
on april 27th
our virtual local leaders consultation
with professional visual artist april
tsunami
we're excited to continue our harbor day
breakfast tradition with mayor kessler
who will be serving xle's own pancakes
with pelvic maple syrup
on may 11th we invite you to join us for
a happy hour at ohio state bay and a
tour of their upstairs office space
on may 30th we are looking forward to
the in-person return of the food truck
festival and partnership with jasmine
park
look for local favorites at cousins
maine lobster and johnson's real life
game at this community event
on june 20th our chamber bomb bopping
returns to fundraise trails with the 10
30 shotgun start
registration is open now and
sponsorships are also available
september 22nd is the return of taste
effective we're looking forward to
gathering with the community again for
our fun night celebrating all things
next week
now on december 4th mark your calendars
for the holiday hop where our scavenger
hunt and pride is returned
we're looking forward to welcoming you
then
for any questions or to join the chamber
please reach out to us our emails
disappear and we welcome the opportunity
to connect
thank you so much
all right um i hope you can hear me all
right
it's always a pleasure to come and talk
at the state of the
after my presentation i enjoy it better
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and i think that it's a wonderful time
of
the
partners that we have in this community
as the
the folks that
run those different entities
with the library being physically and
mostly as a center of the community and
then having this type of staff that we
have i think it's just
move forward as we do it so i love the
opportunity to talk about
your library our library and share the
incredible work talent skills and
kindness
that the amazing staff demonstrate every
day
so here's a look at what we've been up
to and some exciting things that we're
working on
so uh we're looking at 2021 and we
weren't quite out of the woods yet in
2021 so we were finding ways to continue
to serve our community um
we
invested some total dollars that we
received into streaming equipment
the beautiful cords you can see down
there at the bottom
and
we
the staff
quickly pivoted and trained
on how to stream programs pretty
flawlessly so you can now pay attention
at home when you're emptying the
dishwasher what's going on with the
library
and we continue delivering
uh books throughout the four three 209
areas if you needed books we could take
it to the library we're going to bring
it to your door we have 343 home
deliveries and you can see some feedback
down here in the corner um that small
little person there was one of the
reasons they couldn't get the library
but it didn't matter because we were
able to get the library to death
we passed out
3834 tests when we had it
we answered double lapping phone calls
about whether we had
uh with that call
uh
so that was a picture we had a few days
right before christmas uh we had a very
busy door count that day
and another really great way the library
was able to help in was with a
partnership city and some really
talented
knowledgeable community members we were
able to try to keep the communities as
formed as possible through the
copenhagen expert we had a number of
those that we hosted and partnered with
and so
that was something we were able to do
and then a fun thing uh dr amy acton got
the john f kennedy profile perch awards
last year when they asked her where she
wanted to be interviewed and have the
picture taken through those whole things
she she gave one answer and that was the
quiet reading room in you know
fibroids library so
that was truly a little honor and she's
really great um
connections so even with what was going
on last year we still found ways to
bring people together
we
had a call from the red cross they
needed blood desperately and so they
said we haven't used auditorium for uh
blood donation center and we weren't you
know open physically we said yes we had
12 blood drives in 2021 that's the most
you have once a month
i filled up in hours every time because
of the incredible community assignments
so we were able to step up and help
people
down here in the corner is julia up
she turned 100
last year and so to honor her that's a
book plate with her name and her
birthday celebrating 100th birthday she
loves cooking so it's a cookbook so now
you can check out the julia hubs
cookbook from the best of the library
and you can see here too we're playing
games we circulated uh 172 games last
year
but if you're looking for an engagement
product let's check out the library
um
community where it's so wonderful that
we can step outside of the building and
be in the community where things are
happening uh we were so proud and
honored to participate in the first
juneteenth event eventually hosted
uh we were
hosting a lot of our own events we had
eight fun fridays in our parking lot so
that's music and food
we're bringing those back next year
we're giving the fans an extra half hour
so there'll be more music this year
we'll stretch that out
we always love to partner with arbor day
team that's a great uh partnership that
we have there there's some guy in the
bucket truck
um
and
then last year a personal thing we got
to welcome the riders that came through
and so we made that time to welcome them
and it was really such a great morning
to do that
conversations we got to host and foster
a number of great conversations
this is just a small representation of
the many that we had we have over 330
people log in here super marlene up
the library book
uh and we've had some just incredible uh
programs
in partnership with the vexit community
foundation and their wellness fund we
were able to uh partner with abby
michael
and do two programs our program
scheduled to stretcher for teens and
tweens and how to decompress with
collage for adults
a way to bring mental health into what's
going on in our community through great
partnerships that we have
um
this is a little more internal
we have a little back and forth at the
office about whether we should talk
about how the library is organized
but we have an incredible staff in the
library if you come into the library you
know everyone is friendly and willing to
help and so
um the flexibility that the staff showed
during cobit
i can't even begin to describe it's an
honor to go and work there every day
they're a great group of people uh and
and copenhagen was a very stressful time
and we at this point i think have come
through a better team and stronger team
because of the things that we have gone
through and part of that was due to
their flexibility to learn and then
change and so
if you've ever come into the library and
i'm sure you've all heard library once a
week and you've ever gone and said hey
i'm looking for help yeah and they've
sent you over to another desk
anybody like oh yeah here you just gotta
go over there
so we realized during code that like we
have an amazing staff that can help you
right there they don't need to send you
over there so we reorganized you'll
notice who's at the top of the order
charts
and i think that's important because
that shows our values right behind the
pages
the staff are on the top we're there to
support um and so now we've empowered
the staff to train the staff to help the
patient right from them to take care of
the needs that they have
and to
find out what they like so we have
people in circulation who are really
good with social
they did a bunch of social media stuff
for us so i'm like let's build a
structure that supports all that so now
we have a more engaged staff that are
doing things that they're passionate
about as well as the job that we need
them to do so it's been really great and
uh maybe you're thinking that they were
right that i shouldn't include this but
this is like a really good positive
thing that you did last year so i wanted
to throw that so that's the commitment
to service that we have we have a great
service and i think this is going to
help us bring into accession service
oh by the numbers this is like
everybody's favorite slide right
so
i'm going to go
we have
and remember we had limited capacity we
were letting people in for computers and
print stuff off
for
until about may
then we opened the doors up in june and
we still had 66 000 people in person
coming to the library
we had over 28 000 uh wi-fi and computer
sessions
we checked out 261 000 items
and we did personalized picks they've
been able to personalize pixels
all right so you call or you go online
and fill out a form and go here's three
books i really like
and you're you're hooked up with a
librarian who's gonna recommend books
that you that we think you like come to
the library
it's like amazon it's a human person
so instead of blind reviews you can go
and say
that was a great book give me some more
of that
we had a hundred people last year do it
we have 430
so we saw all the huge growth and that
we still had over 361 meeting room
reservations we had 6 340 attendees for
almost 300 youth programs we had just a
shy five and a half thousand for 130 of
all programs and nearly 40 book
librarians who know the book librarians
thank you see our youngest person in the
room knows
you're doing a lot better than these
adults are so book librarians if you
need some one-on-one help with a tablet
or anything else like checking out a
book you can check out a librarian for
like 30 minutes to an hour we'll help
you work on that problem uh one on one
so if you ever have anything you need we
are there to help you out
upcoming
we've got uh oceans of possibility
that's our summer community reef program
that'll be kicking off uh in the first
of june and may first of june
and then we have some really great
programs where we've got another really
great harvard day program
lined up that you should check out
uh part two standing up to censorship on
tuesday we had a uh a panel discussion
about censorships going on around the
country
i was on that too so maybe it was a
little disappointing i don't know um and
so we had some great conversation that's
part two um
actually hope perez's book was banned in
texas so we're gonna see what it's like
to actually have your
fan and then uh margaret atwood so we
have this really great consortium that
we're a part of that i'm sure many of
you know and so we've pulled money
together to bring in big name offers we
did it first of all it's needs
and then we pulled our money for partner
apples so this is going to be hopefully
a yearly program where we're getting
bigger named authors that we couldn't
get individually collectively we could
bring them in
so if you want to know about that you
know call me okay
uh all right looking ahead okay we got
some good stuff here i hope you guys are
excited what's going on they told me i
had 35 minutes right
okay they'll be store 35 minutes
um
so we have a creation station already
we're updating our creation station so
we're moving it into a larger space uh
there's going to be a green screen
there'll be a keyboard and we'll have a
printer can we do a cricket yeah okay
yeah there you go you're waiting tonight
you're with a cricket that cuts out
paper and you can design stuff with it
so we're going to update our creation
station uh there'll be a photo box in
there uh there'll be a microphone
there's a camera we have an imac
computer so you're going to be able to
create all things
station
the new thing is the vexilar memory lab
so this is going to be
anything you have at home you're going
to be able to come in whether it's
slides negative ehs tapes eight
millimeter film super eight films
cassettes that's right people are
digitizing the sets now
think about that uh and photos and
you're going to be able to digitize that
so we'll have all the equipment you need
to take your eight millimeter film and
make it a digital film and that'll all
be available in the beginning of june so
that'll be coming soon
um
we're working on auditorium refresh
so if you've been in there lately that
you got a little hand clap that carpet
is
the best looking carpet the carpet guy's
ever seen that was put in like 92.
he said he didn't think he could give us
that quality again but we're going to
look at painting
we're going to look at falling carpet uh
we're going to put in a new sound system
we're going to put some new lights so
hopefully we can bring back the
community and good auditorium from a
fresh new updated auditorium um and then
uh last year coming up this is a big one
the strategic plan for the library our
strategic plan ended in 2020
small things were happening in the world
at that point and we've changed a lot in
the last few years so we need to reach
out and talk to the community what do
you want in your library how can we
better serve the community and what can
we do to get everybody together because
it's your library and it's your future
diagram is made up and
um so we'll work on a strategic plan so
we can build the next five years
together
okay
fun times questions for the audience
how many questions reference questions
did we answer in 2041 more than two
more than two next month
come on take a guess
president council 100
we get and so those are real reference
questions
and if you've been in the library
recently you know that we took out uh
when you print off your receipt
um
you get this little message down the
bottom
here's a book that you check down 100
years of extra history it's coming up
somebody's birthday got a due date right
there
and uh
and then enjoy you just saved 27.99 by
using dpl over the last year you've
saved against your total things you can
save by going to the library so
average item is 20
so we looked at the unique items that
circulated last year
and this is how much the community and
surrounding areas saved
almost a million dollars by
all right so
those are some very interesting numbers
i want to thank you guys for
listening this love being your library
we love the support that we got from all
of you and with that
i'm excited to introduce two more
wonderful community partners
first up is a video from our friends at
home school for girls which will be
followed by a presentation from david
from st charles
[Applause]
hello
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begun in 2016 the pillars of the plan
included the implementation of a more
robust professional member program
faculty the facilitation of an audit to
determine shorter and long-term needs
for our campus families and the
implementation of security
recommendations to keep our students
faculty and staff safe
the plan also focused heavily on
academics including the creation of a
global studies program a leadership
center and the strengthening of core
foundational building blocks including
reading writing numeracy and problem
solving
at csg we believe diversity activity
including hawaii
department
are also core to an excellent education
csu was formulated in 1898 to provide a
world-class education to young women
preparing them for entry into our
nation's best colleges and universities
at a time when most of those
institutions did not admit women as the
years have passed we haven't lost sight
of our progressive roots constantly
updating our programming and curriculum
at the start of the 2014-2021 school
year csg enlisted the help of rhema a
local community engagement firm to
develop an anti-racism action plan to be
executed by our anti-racism task force
the action plan focuses on improvement
in hiring curriculum evaluation
programs and traditions
an incident reporting tool
the code of conduct creation
tools for accountability and
communications
this work was vital to create a more
equitable environment reflective of the
world students will enter following
their time at csg
this is an exciting time for us and i am
proud of this special we're taking to
collectively build a more inclusive
community and foster a culture of hawaii
equally important to our ongoing de-iv
work is our constant pursuit of academic
excellence in addition to completing the
initiatives in our strategic plan we've
also launched a fully integrated
computer science curriculum for all
students aged 30 through grade 12.
this holistic approach was designed to
give students of all divisions the
opportunity to design build and code
across academic disciplines
for example our arts and sciences
department have created a partnership to
offer upper school classes such as the
intersection of design engineer
computer science students are also
exploring the psychological components
of computer science to better understand
their own strengths and opportunities
for growth
we've also focused on cross-divisional
collaboration our opera school robotics
team tell our preschoolers the
fundamental elements of coding through
the use of a code of pillar and robot
coding robotics artificial intelligence
augmented reality
computer assistant design and many other
components of computer science are woven
into every facet of our society whether
our students become artists thespians
attorneys doctors or engineers they will
be well prepared with the skills needed
to pursue those interests
while we define ourselves by our ongoing
dedication to academic excellence and
social emotional growth csg also has a
long legacy of tradition and community
this year we welcomed our community back
to campus for in-person theater
productions concerts and sporting events
for the first time in two years csg's
upper school band partnered with saint
charles for their traditional combined
concert
our upper school concert fire
embracements celebrating valentine's day
by offering the evening of cabaret visa
for the csg community we've been so
thrilled to welcome our families back
onto campus to see their daughters in
action
as some of you have some of me though
this is my final year at csg as i will
join the marlboro school in los angeles
at their next head of school on july 1st
although our family is excited for this
new adventure we're also quite sad to be
living in central ohio and specifically
bexley we have felt so embraced by this
whole community that it's very difficult
to imagine leaving
i learned so much about what it is to be
a true leader at csg i witnessed the
strengths of
mayor kessler superintendent johnson
principal
as they have led through complexity in
extraordinary ways i am honored to call
each one of them a friend and a
colleague
in early january csg alumna and board
chair liza kessler shared the
appointment of canadian seals as csg's
incoming head of school
mrs steele's leadership will take csg to
exciting new places she will join the
csg community on july 1st please keep an
eye on our website and our social media
for opportunities to connect with music
skills and the csd community
columbus school girls and our students
future are right and it has been my
honor to guide such an amazing
institution and to be a member of the
mexican community for the past eight
years
i'd like to give special thanks to the
city of bexley the bexley area chamber
of commerce the bexley police department
and all who have supported csg over the
years and will continue to do so as we
enter an exciting new chapter
thank you so much
welcome my name
the advancement is
at state parks i have the pleasure of
having two sons there currently and i
have two more um two worst kids i just
got into eighth grader as well as
assignments in sixth grade so
i have been in the community actually i
live in eastwood so i've been
entertaining for a little while
um i work closely with principal jim
lower and as the advancement team people
wonder what we do we handle the
marketing communications
we can build development and also
positions we have the pleasure of being
part of the mexican
and we value
our
commitment and our tradition that we've
been here
saint charles
has been an asset to the community and
we believe that we share the same values
that actually does we are blessed to
have amazing facilities on our campus
and we love the ability to share those
facilities with creation
in the fall we hosted a juneteenth
celebration
and we in march we just celebrated
actually
that's the education association
handled their events at our location as
well
our saint charles students we started to
create a learning community
by using a classic core curriculum
with a strong catholic identity a number
of student quality facilities
there's some great things happening
between us
some of them included our senior class
of 2022
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and we one of our students in bexley
resident spencer our news reads he won
the second actually two state titles and
the state's meet
and he represented team usa and the
world cup
some programs that we offer our students
at st charles we host quarterly mental
health
speakers series on issues that affect
our men
we are collaborating with other columbus
catholic high schools and hosting a
college monday night for jayla's as well
as the college success summit the
college assessment is actually a full
third year and it discusses issues that
college students face when they go out
to college
on campus we're excited to probably see
me moving under the new parking lots
but we uh we're excited because next
week on the court
um the frankie murphy communication
center um everything's starting our
interns underplayed will be closed and
that that parking lot that that driver
fits into will actually be where the
accommodation center is if you're
familiar with our campuses
um this space will speak more than 1200
people and we're excited because we'll
be able to share it with our community
we've recognized that
students learning characteristics and
the fan of which people receive and
process information has changed
as we move forward into the next hundred
years at st charles we're adapting to
that ever-changing
landscape
we're working on a capital campaign
project right now and the capital
campaign project will give us um
flexible learning spaces
a new librarian and collaborative
learning response
as you can see here your familiar
credibility may point out a couple
things to you um
the building with the cross on it on the
left is due to the new provocation
center
um to the right the far right is our
walter comments we've been to an event
and then middle is the new learning
resource center
we have some um upcoming events in hrl
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the first is on the pit on tuesday that
we are hosting a black history and
cultural series with these speakers this
is open to all
on the 21st we have um our event our
evening event is um one of the
fundraisers that we do to support our st
charles and now
and at that event we've had peter lynch
in the past we've had dick partell we've
had tim tebow and this year we're
excited at creating a fanfic
was um he's a national speaker and he
was actually born about
he's going to share the story about
overcoming obstacles and what he's gone
through his life and how he's adapted
and
his this message
you could be is even though he's had he
hasn't so it's going to be an incredible
message and what's great is that they
can come earlier today and share that
story with our students
um on may 6th we um we host cardinal
madness events and therefore children's
boys actually
in grades fifth through week and then
you come on campus see some of the
different activities you can get
involved um on the basics we are having
one for parents and students and we have
a whole bunch of things on campus that
day we have lacrosse games voting and a
baseball game at the same time so
everyone welcome to joining us
we have graduation on may 27th which is
exciting and scary and a mess for me and
i'm a senior this year so that's on may
27th and then on june 6th
we um
we have our summer program start and our
summer programs um include summer camps
they could be the robotic campus sports
games they could be on the robotic tank
the programming camp the 2d and 3d
models and what we've done this year is
coupled with something new with it so
those are in the morning and we've
coupled them it's called camp cardinals
for two weeks in jail it's the ability
for business to stay all day and they
can discover different things from
freedom and creative arts to the high
quality h2o everything water
to things that go boom and
that is
so if you want information about that
you can go to our website
summer programs but we appreciate being
part of the mexican community we look
forward to 2023 to celebrate our third
anniversary and the school's founding
and being part of the
pleasure to introduce board president
victoria powers from excessive schools
um
that exist between the leaders of the
city and all the organizations within
our state
so at this time a year ago we were
working very hard on the mexican school
board to try to figure out who our next
superintendent would be
we had great applicants
and i
was so excited that we were able to hire
and retain the greatest
alcohol documentation client
dr pines brought so much to back slate
he cares deeply about our students
our staff
our families and community
he is a great relationship builder
a generous listener and a collaborative
leader who encourages all of us to be a
champion
to work with dr fein to help support his
vision for our district
under his leadership we have a very
exciting future in the bexley city
schools to look forward
thank you victoria i don't usually uh
you can see on the street i've got two
amazing daughters my wife meredith
maddie's on the right
rarely do they hear things said like
that about you
so i'll make sure they watch that but we
are so thankful to be in this community
as you see on the screen one of the
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very exciting to become members of
vaccine and we are so thankful for the
opportunity to have uh it's been an
exciting ten months a couple thank you
before we start
the board of education victoria powers
our president is just such an important
advocate for our students we've got dr
jonathan baker also with us this evening
uh we've got marisha mitchell who could
not join us tonight we have dr
marguerite j who cannot
and so we're a newborn in the last since
november and i'm just so thankful that
they have entrusted me with uh the work
that we do we have an incredible team
i'm so thankful for our board of
education
and they're everywhere i love that
they're able to to join us on events
like this and in other parts of
our community i also want to thank our
bexley education foundation what an
important partner for us
uh i saw bravo was mentioned earlier
this evening
pam glasgow could not be with us tonight
but doug sagger who cannot be with us
throughout the time as well
but they do so much for our students
they offer such an important aspect that
is so unique to vexel not all school
districts have this type of opportunity
we're really thankful for the work they
do bravo was a home run it was a hit we
just had this past weekend
at st charles which we appreciate that
partnership as well they do the teacher
of the year for us we just recently
earlier in the winter we had our
distinguished alumni where we celebrate
amazing folks that have come through and
continue to provide for our community
many grants
but most importantly probably that i
hear
almost daily is the work
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and when you have absences due to the
virus or other illness or other needs
having that is an incredible asset and
we're so thankful for our best education
foundation
we want to thank our librarian
how do you prepare for this it says have
a bunch of slides
just pull into no pictures
don't have any fun things like he did
but we think manhattan defenseman
realized a great asset and i appreciate
your willingness to partner with our
schools our city partners ben kessler
our mayor
and city council i am really thankful
for for the time that we've had uh
you've
been reached out immediately as soon as
i came on board and has welcomed us as a
family
and i appreciate the collaboration that
we have uh on routine basis you've done
a
our faculty and staff from our uh the
entire team
they are magicians and i am so blessed
to work in a district with
heroes that we have and as they've done
many years before me
i stand on the shoulders of those who
come before me but i am as sports physic
as it gets to work with the people that
i work with because they do incredible
work especially through the
circumstances that we've had so we're
really thankful and that also goes to
our students and families they've been
patient they've been understanding
they've been flexible uh and we
appreciate that it hasn't been exactly
as we have anticipated we had to pivot
at times but people were uh gracious and
understanding and we are thankful
we also want to thank our token 19 watch
team our nurses
more heroes that we talked about they
helped get us through to make sure that
we're providing a safe opportunity for
our students in person and we're proud
to say that we're able to do that in
some really difficult challenging
scenarios and obviously the community
more i call the triangle of success
there's nothing better and not all
communities are are like vexing where
you have incredible students that come
ready to soak up learning like sponges
they love being there they're joyful
they're skipping you have
staff members who are incredible and
caring and compassionate
and then you combine that with your
families and your community and it's an
incredible triangle success we're really
thankful to be a part of it
so now to the exciting stuff that ben
had been told to prepare
the last three years have not been
acceptable so the strategic plan has
been a challenge but i'm really
impressed with the work that we've told
you over those three years and the
growth that's come from our students
and the success we have a commitment
plan that we put into place this year we
will continue into next year we're going
to get into the process we'll start
hearing some things from our schools
here soon about our next uh
department on the strategic plan
uh we will look at within that strategic
plan we have
uh and we'll also be looking at possibly
facilities and other things that will
come as part of our strategic plan that
we will look at uh here in the near
future so it's a very exciting 12 months
ahead the commitment plan is what drives
our day-to-day work there's really three
basic foundations that we look at
looking at your belonging
your wellness and your academics i'm
just going to touch for the next 45
minutes
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live
for the next few minutes
so starting with belonging you think
this is a an essential aspect for our
students
uh equity is about extensive quality and
representation
and another reason that drew me to
infection and i'm telling you this
bexley is known
uh it's it's a real attraction the work
has been done
and
the board of education
i'm lucky to have a board of education
that has the same values the community
uh the community values uh this is
language that is taken from our
part of our equity policy
and uh i'm thankful that the board
understands the importance of belonging
equity and connections so a few
highlights that we have we talked a
little bit about our equity policy so
just recently
i think in the ga or november board
member board meeting november december
we passed
an equity policy in the works for many
years this is not work that i brought
with us this is work that's been
happening in this community because it's
important
work that needs to be done
through that equity policy we talk about
an equity plan that's going to be
implemented by the superintendent along
with our staff and our community
where we have measurable objectives as
people identify how
uh
as well as what it is that we're doing
to ensure that
students are taking care of their needs
and our staff
we work really hard each month we
go through professional development this
is something that was again before i
arrived
the
during covenant things were on fault in
many areas and eventually the equity
conversations didn't stop so that was
the one thing if you could say what was
consistent through that
time frame
the district was committed to that and
continued working through uh the
importance of that so we go through
professional development and make sure
that our staff members set aside uh
staff meeting time each month to make
sure that our staff is gearing up for it
we create resources we have incredible
people we've got uh
our leader of diversity equity and
conclusion marcellus braxton has been a
great addition to us uh
he's created some incredible resources
and one thing in particular is a
venue for people to
uh
to give support so we've identified
averages where students have access to a
trusted development where staff members
have access to trusted health we've
recently
created uh superintendent advice review
so here soon i'm going to be meeting
with our staff members and students
we're trying to find out people ask all
the time what are your staff and what do
your students need and we guess about
what that is
we also
have had the ability to put student-led
initiatives in place which has been
happening for many years but we're
focusing in to make sure that when
students bring ideas to us we want to
support them and want to get guidance
sometimes we want to take over we want
to make sure that they do it right and
they get it done the way we would do it
we want them to take initiatives and
they've done some incredible work just
to name a few uh
some students have done some incredible
work around uh our cultural history
month programming each month they'll
bring ideas we support them and they
take us where we should lead senior
takeover just recently all juniors were
taking the act
seniors designed experiential learning
opportunities and students were able to
sign up and it was an incredible
afternoon for our students we look at
survey data
we look at panorama oes data and we
identify how students are determining or
identifying themselves with a sense of
belonging and this is hard data
things are hard right now students are
struggling staff members are struggling
we are struggling
so that data is really important for us
to identify one of our students how are
they feeling because if you don't have a
sense of belonging you're not going to
be successful in the areas that we want
as a community member as a student
so that's really important data that we
take a look at
frequently to make sure that our
students live with an alternately number
one goal for us is to make sure that
every child has a connected adult
they can identify with the group
so if a student cannot identify a
trusted adult then we want to take
action and
support that student
so that's part of our survey data as
well
excuse me
our second
avenue is wellness
this is critical kind of gets into the
conversation i was just talking about we
want to make sure that each student and
staff member in particular feels good
uh
at school but also within the community
so a few highlights the one that i'm
probably most proud of is we kept
students in school
and there were moments when we didn't
know that was going to be possible we
were watching other districts that were
really struggling
to no fault of anyone
but we had some really high absence
rates we had really high absences with
some of our staff members at times
and we're really proud of the work of
our staff to
to do whatever it took to make sure that
we were able to keep students in school
because that's why we think we know that
they're going to have more success being
in our abilities
we also have our school counselors so
heading into this year we had a fourth
counselor at high school which we
thought was really important we wanted
to by doing that as
we lowered the ratio of students to
counselors we wanted to make sure that
our councils were connecting with our
students
on a way that they have to trust
themselves that they can turn to uh when
they're in need nationwide children's
hospital this is new for me i am really
thankful that we have the ability to
work at nch they do some incredible work
and it is a resource
and an asset to this district that
i'm really thankful for because they do
a lot of work and there's never enough
we've got a couple other things if
you've ever heard of post one host one
is a new
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service that we
have just recently started it's us
training our students to support peers
in crisis
research will tell you that the students
are going to notify a peer another
classmate before they notify them
so we're training our students to take
supportive action to support a classmate
or a friend in need
and it's really important work it's hard
work
but we're really appreciative of the
opportunities that we've been able to do
through the grants from our amazing
partnerships with other folks throughout
right
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we try to bring in many community
connections most recently we have dr
beth weinstock i'm sure many of you know
uh dr weinstock's tragic story
uh where her son passed almost a year
ago
she spoke with our
parents
i think maybe less than a month ago and
we're now working to get her in
just to speak to our students
juniors and seniors with fentanyl and
personal reading and that's our powerful
story and when we're thankful for that
relationship
and then uh the last the bottom piece we
are working really hard to make sure
that our staff is still committed as
well we feel that we address the
well-being of our or the wellness of our
staff but that's the important aspect is
if they're cared for then they're going
to take care of our children
so we want to make sure that they're
feeling the connections
so we've done some things to make sure
that uh
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the last bullet that i'll talk about is
our academics and uh this is obviously a
really important aspect of the effects
of school but it is not
all that we are those other pieces
there's a reason we put academics last
it doesn't mean that it's not a priority
we take great pride in the success that
we have in mexico
and we expect uh our students to grow we
expect our staffers to close the gaps
and we have great success we also want
to make sure that we are addressing the
interests of our students we want to
make sure that our students are our
staff members have the training
necessary to support them so a couple of
quick highlights like i said we were
able to return to a little bit of a
normalcy
much more so than we had in the past
back to business we were able to close
the gap and benches did some great
things even last year when you had a
couple different versions of learning
really good data came out of last year
so your staff members you as a community
our students did some really good things
in a crazy and uh difficult time to find
successes and we're trying to build upon
that this year and obviously moving
forward
uh we did have high absences i'm really
proud of the work that our our
counselors and our teams did
that one-to-one initiative that we
talked about for the vaccine education
foundation when you have a community
or you have a family member that causes
a quarantine to be able to stay in
learning in the learning cycle is really
important
and we're really thankful for that piece
the other piece there experiential
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his interest in finding internships and
networking possibilities career
opportunities for our students
because it's such an incredible encrypt
a critical aspect of who we are
outside of some of the traditional
learning models that we
are typically used to summer school is
something that was created i'm sure
summer school has been here a long time
but last year it was reimagined and uh
the attempt
was to bring
the joy from a year ago where there was
a lot because of the chaos of
the different aspects of learning uh but
also to make sure that we're enriching
our students and also intervening where
necessary so we have an incredible
robust summer school and when
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in a week and a half two weeks time
because our staff
and we're working with
otterbein university as well our staff
has created some really exciting days
where students want to be there it's a
way to extend the learning from the
school year and we're really
appreciative of the work that's been put
back by our leadership team and our
staff
uh i will just mention a couple more
things
let's talk about culture this is another
opportunity where steve shapiro
has done some really important work
around the pressures that come with
living in the amazing community
we talk about as a community what can we
do to ease some of the anxiety and the
pressures that we're putting on our
students so he's had a couple of uh
series where he's
brought that conversation to students to
staff members community members and then
a real talk about the conversation on
what can we do to make sure that all
students feel successful regardless of
their next uh point of their next path
and how do we talk as a community to
make sure that we're not adding to some
of those pressures
and difficulties that some of our
students may be facing in the last 10
years we're always assessing where we're
at so we're looking at our special
education
they're actually meeting as we speak
i've got a large group of folks that are
looking at our
special education
procedures and policies so we appreciate
the feedback from our families our
communities and our parents
so that's the three big buckets that
we're looking into like i told the key
that we're really excited about the next
year is
this is why we do it i believe this is
the greatest job in the world i've been
blessed to be able to be in this
district and to do this stuff to watch
our students
on that stage or in the pool or doing
great things giving to others it is the
greatest gift in the world and every day
when we walk into the hallways it's the
best part of the job my office is
in the high school so i get to walk
through that school and see this magic
happening and i'm so thankful to watch
it and i'm thankful to be part of this
community i appreciate the opportunity
for us to share a little bit about what
the school is even though
told me just two moments
but having said that we have one more
bit of information i want to make sure
you get to i have a gentleman
i had the pleasure of knowing how smith
in my previous life in a different
district uh and one of the important
reasons why i wouldn't come to music
because i mean he was in charge of
finances
adam smith is not your typical treasure
most nights
some treasures are just about the
numbers
and i appreciate that he is about this
but he's about a lot more than that
always starts with students they fight
for students and when we have
conversations not the typical treasure
sits in the conversations that we're
having advocating the students fighting
for genes and asking those really
challenging questions and making
sure so i'm really thankful to be
in the room with kyle smith and he can
talk to us about a little bit of a
financial
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i
you know anything about my presentations
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um
we have been lucky to receive some um
financial assistance from the federal
government
to address
needs and responses
for our students and staff
uh we've
as of march 1st we spent out 25 percent
they did 25
so almost two years well we got an
additional 25 of our old allocations
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when um expire
we've used or deployed them in areas of
health and safety
technology mental health e-learning
um continuity of operations
uh doctor financing our high school
guidance counselors
for that for our social emotional
students in the high school
um we're using it for summer school
um
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um both last summer and this summer
and maybe next time
um
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the next is the school district income
tax um we're one of
200 districts
600 that has
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of more than a million dollars
um
for various reasons but it's taken us
about four years to recover in that
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two years ago
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um
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um finally the best financial advisory
council uh is made up of community
members board members or treasurer
um and we meet about two to three times
a year kind of helps
provide
tremendous support to maine and board of
education
on the finances maybe gives a new
perspective that i may not be hearing
because i'm in high school with with dr
fine students and teachers
um but some may recall when the 2019
operating levy cycle this
um
we thought we might be back in 2022 for
additional operating funds
my investors like already
had about two three i'm sorry three four
maybe a five percent
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um
but as of today it appears that that
funnel
may be able to stretch
um
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but
if you pay attention to the news we're
not on youtube
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and with that i have a
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and then
i'm dave kaufman president of capitol
university and i tell you it's an honor
to be part of the leadership team with a
special institution and part of the
mexican community
however makes commitment to our mission
which is to transform lives and we do
that through academic challenge personal
growth and social engagement and when i
look back over the last year a couple
things we did is we introduced them
through project indigo free ipads join
the undergrad students and the intention
there is providing equal access to
technology and information for everyone
who also introduces the mainstreet
scholarship such that anyone meeting our
standards accepted in the university
gets at least a 20 000 scholarship
especially they can pursue their dreams
on our campus
we're also um into continuous
improvement on the campus and doing what
we can to complement the city um a
couple of things there we recently
purchased to actually vet the breakfast
and our
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and as we look forward um we're excited
to once again host the fourth of july
celebration
and more promoting um all the activities
and events we have on campus making sure
residents know that they're welcome to
participate we look at it as our way to
make a lasting contribution into the
investigation
one of my favorite things about being a
capital student is the way in which
we're able to bring the faculty
community in through the gate through
various events that we have throughout
the year including athletic events our
mlk learning and our christmas festival
although the endemic saw a little bit of
a dive in participation we are so so
incredibly happy that bexley has
collaborated with us in revitalizing our
campus community through our symbiotic
relationship
capital feels like home because that's
really has helped to make it feel that
way i know that thanksgiving makes
campbell a better place and i'd like to
make the capital an intensely better
place to go capital university is proud
to be part of the bexley community
my sheriff was aware of this but the
university actually moved to this
location
50 years before bexley became a city
so together over all those years we've
created an inclusive community foreign
so our roots together are deep
our traditions together are rich
and our future together is bright as we
continue to partner and shine for all
central ohio to see
thank you we appreciate your support
good
still with evening
all right you guys are doing great first
stop
i'm not going to make a joke about how
long i'm going to take this surprise
so uh i will tell you we have one or
get some four
use the restroom chill out in an hour or
two
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i want to welcome you all here to
historic project mansion every single
one of you
it's great to see you you are all
special guests i do want to
call a couple people
we have our city attorney mark fisher
here
our service director
our sustainability programs coordinator
elizabeth ellman
our city engineer dave code
and i'm i'm probably forgetting some
quotes mike price our record
we're gonna do that
um and
a special special guest darling special
guests
about
15 years ago bob lovers sketched this
place
right in this little spot where my
crisis living that used to be where
charcoal and protein tanks were
it's amazing
as it looks
and i think it's such a valuable tool
and this is you know
some wonderful
but we're going to put this out on the
internet and our community will see all
the great things
and that's what it's about
really that's what
every single one of us presenting here
tonight
yes it's exciting to go to work every
day
so that's why we're doing this as a
state of community this community this
is the heart of everything that you do
it's the way we've
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and i either
to recognize our covenant heroes there
are so many
but our rec department stands tall when
i think about
what we did as a community through
pandemic uh there was not a day in our i
don't think
our service department never shut its
doors
the city hall kept its lights on and our
police department kept on operating 24
7.
and does it not feel so good to start
your return
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well about 10 years ago we had seven
community events
each year and they were great and they
are great
um
this is what's happening this year
so we continue to add to our roster of
community events and this year i'll
highlight four new community events that
are coming to actually
on june 4th
will be a community celebration of live
music on people's front porches uh this
is a tin bit production so if any of you
guys know what that means it's going to
be a pretty fun relaxed environment
you need to enjoy
the bexley smoke and fire festival will
be happening in august
it will be part of the enhanced pumped
up jazz in the park which will be
happening um and you will see local
grill masters for one to negro masters
october 40 crown
mexican smoking fire festival things
later august we'll have all the dates up
soon
pizza and ice cream festival brainchild
of monique lampe i heavily support this
concept
details to come
and
the halloween mall are you ready to hear
first
it's gonna be your mansion
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but you've heard a lot this evening
already about mental health
and about
the importance of mental health in the
modern era and i want to bring this up
in context
because coca-19 presented a lot of
challenges to our community
and there were some ways that we really
rocked it and there's some other ways
that maybe we could derive it quite as
well as we do
we're in forever time we're coming out
of that pandemic we're dealing with
national unrest
we're seeing evidence of community
eroding in so many facets of our modern
life and now more than ever
our youth are facing increasing pressure
and anxiety and form
contrary to depression assistance with
the social media and the digital age
emerge it's not just our ease
it's our adults as well
i feel it
i've seen it in the ways that we
interact online
i've seen it in the ways that sometimes
we interact with public meetings but
i've also seen some really bright spots
i've seen some successful
the city of vaccine has retooled the way
that we deal with social media
late last year we announced that we
would not anymore create content that
was not available off of social media
platforms
we're still moving towards that goal but
anything that we produce is available on
vacation.org it's available on blast
it's available on our newsletter
you're not going to find it just on
facebook or just on instagram
we're still getting the tech to totally
achieve that vision but by and large in
terms of poor content that is true and
we're going to continue to explore ways
with partners in our community that we
can
talk through how we engage healthcare
and how we deal with the pressures and
the anxiety and i want to thank dr fine
and mr heckman for their partnership as
we continue to talk through that
so speaking of community
i want to talk about what i like to call
the record
north cassidy
uh we committed a couple years ago i
think i've stated the community to a
a robust study of senior center space
and
this opportunity presented itself what a
better study than to try out a space
uh one day mike price and i walked
through this building it's a building
the community improvement corporation
owns is the transitional time in this
building
and we did some number crunching we
realized we could throw down some tart
sauce and throw up some paint and write
a really impressive grain application
foundation
and
three months later or something
it's been vibrant and thriving uh it's
been a fantastic experience so far i
said at the ribbon cutting i know full
well that by everybody in this temporary
space we are committed to the permanent
space so continue to keep an eye on how
that evolves i want to thank the
community foundation for helping fund
this uh christian schweitzer our senior
programs coordinator for our hardware
guy mike and your old rec department and
the mexican csc for allowing us to use
the space
so another commitment that we've made to
our community has been a long-term
horror slaughter or a commitment
interaction
finished
we began to join livingston avenue
planning process for the city of
columbus in 2021.
it was a long time spent many years
talking homes about it
the need is urgent we have safety issues
on livingston avenue
livingston avenue is a corridor that's
right for improvement i've been i think
i've been beating this drum
is a
wonderful neighborhood
south effect city it's a wonderful
neighborhood and somehow we have living
snap
an anomaly in the midst of
the gems of those two communities
our vision is to see a living spanish
that reflects the communities it
surrounds us where
it goes between
uh and that is a
more increasingly pedestrian friendly uh
thriving community center we've had tons
of input dynamic multiple workshops very
creative and inventive ways to get that
input and i can tell you today it's
already resulted in meaningful concepts
that are on our doorstep the plan has
yet to go to mexico city council that
has yet to be finally improved by the
steering conviction that's been
happening at once i'll tell you some of
the stuff we've seen here
we're going to see short-term
residential recommendations that include
taking looking tonight from a four-way
street to a two-way street with a center
tournament if you've ever tried to turn
left on a livingston you understand the
importance of that and this isn't pie in
the sky this is city of columbus and fun
which is the capital level for this year
the sidewalk on the north side of
louisiana is the city of columbus the
state department has also in the short
term
um tacitly committed to providing
vaccine the right of way north of the
curve and that would mean a lot to us
that will give us the ability to improve
our sidewalks
to improve our tree lines
and to start to really invest in
infrastructure being meaningful
partnering on lakes management
long term we're looking at medians in
the center of the street in that turn
lane in areas where they're not being
used further calming traffic we're
looking at wider tree lines we're
looking at wider multi-use sidewalks
and there's a lot to happen before that
we are working right now with the city
of columbus to apply for medical funds
for this project
the application is due in july of this
year
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but it is a project
that i guess what i want to say is
columbus is very clearly serious and
it's been so heartening to see that
evolve
and there are some amazing long-term
aspirations from the commercial corridor
there are a lot of land use
problems that need to be solved before
we can see this sort of a vision online
but the plan lays out a template to see
how that happens
so the lewis family commitment is a
piece of our commitment to heavily
invest in under-invested areas of our
community
this trend takes many
humble more
sidewalks where we haven't had sidewalks
before about four years ago we started
the project to take every streak that we
touched where we could put a sidewall
and add sidewalks so you've seen
sidewalks pop up on clifton avenue
infrastructure in every single street
every single neighborhood i know that
there are many sidewalks little villain
i want you to be patient because we're
going to hit those streets as as they're
part of our program
we have more pressing and more difficult
problems also to deal
with equitable infrastructure
the formula mayfield area
has been a project in the city of ica
for many years now
we've purchased property there we've
built out the newest
green space and the city's first time
we've developed new right based in the
city in decades at schneider park on the
north side of this area the dots on this
map represent
soil tests that have been performed with
learning fields
every single one of those dots with the
exception of one of them it's kind of
light
every other diet
shows soil contamination there's an
excess of what the epa says is healthy
for people to live here
whether it's
lead and there's arsenic there's mercury
places
we know we have to help fix this problem
we have knocked on the doors of the
property owners and asked them to help
us so far no one has stepped up to play
we are going to be taking a more role
this year thanks to importance to pass
the facts classroom providing the city
of excellent enforcement authority on
our environmental ordinances
part of
elevating the housing stock invested is
providing options for people from all
backgrounds
and so we've been working with a
community development company called the
community books
whose specialty is in mixed income
housing
they proposed a development on
livingston avenue and one on one
uh proposed for the site which is
currently our tribal senior center
community builders is going through a
second round of attempting to find
new spaces
there's been a lot of community
conversation about this there's been a
lot of fear and concern what does it
mean to add mixing time housing i'll
tell you
today more than ever
it is vital that we provide housing
options for people across all spectrums
and maintenance as you anyone tried to
buy a house in baxter recently yeah
not that easy
we have to do a better job of providing
high school
providing housing across the
spectrum now i'll tell you something
we're pretty good at it today if you
want to live in a property sometimes
orlando
unlike any other residential site in
ohio
it's one of our terrible suburbs is that
you can buy you can rent an apartment on
top of a landfill
we want to elevate
mixed income
now basic income housing or low income
housing tax credit housing is not
sectioning houses it's not what we think
of the section in housing
it's workplace house
people have to be underrated they have
jobs
they have jobs across the spectrum maybe
they work at the grocery store
maybe they're a teacher
that's because their teacher is pretty
well maybe they're still teachers
uh it is not the housing that we think
of sometimes when we think of it before
this is a project i'm passionate about i
know many council members and our csu
are asking about
and our end solution might not look like
this
they might not get financing
that's okay
we'll keep working on it
eventually freedom will provide us
additional opportunities for providing
quality residential
contexts to our community and further
stitching together our community so we
will continue to work
part of community is community safety it
is one of the most important if not the
most important function that we in the
city
shepherd
i'm actually about to thank you and
everything safe
i'm passionate about keeping the best
mexican communities welcoming to all and
i'm passionate about fostering equitable
fair
and just safety culture
every year i review our stats and i'll
tell you it's been interesting there's
been a lot of conversation about safety
in our country in our region
and we've seen stats all over the place
i'm proud to say that our bexley stats
when it comes to crime
are fairly low we've continued to
enforce the launch
we believe in continuing to invest in
safety needs investigating crimes and
supporting victims
because at the root
at the end of a crime
is a victim
but we also acknowledge that equity
needs to be at the center of everything
we do
what does that look like in brexit
bexley has such a wealth
of community
and it has such a diversity of science
we are a
fairly
non-diverse community although we are
actually the most diverse over in
central iowa
surrounded by the most diverse
communities in central ohio
so what does that mean for us
it means that we have more navigation
than any other community i believe
to police and to lead with equity and
justice in everything that we do
we don't have
the luxury of just talking about this
this is something that we have to do so
what have we been doing
we've been investing in community
policing
we have new community programming that
we've never had before
just recently we hosted a vhs career day
it was an excellent opportunity to
connect with students
our vaccine police department with the
help of the alumni association
has gone from school supply drives to
pet supply apps
our drug take back days has become a
staple in our community
thanksgiving food drive at its second
year last year
and our community program will continue
to expand
we've also been looking more centrally
at some of our own policies and
practices
so youth interaction is one of the most
incredibly important things that our
police do interact with our youth
preserving safety and excellence but
also interact with our youth in a way
that's equitable
fair and just our desire is to create an
exemplary youth interaction policy best
in class it's not common believe it or
not to have an ease interaction policy
we don't have them today most police
departments do not have
what are we looking for in your action
we're looking at taking some of our best
practices as we do today but also
looking beyond seeing what are some
other things that we could be doing
practices like
diversion
restorative justice the ways that we
communicate interacting with all of our
kids across inspiring wages and cultural
backgrounds
our police department actually does a
lot of this quite well
whenever i had gone through a randomized
study of some of our juvenile
interactions it's amazing to read these
stories of officers working with kids
who've been
accused of a crime to help problem solve
as opposed to putting them through the
court system
this is the sort of stuff that's in our
dna in many ways and we want to put this
into
policy it and keep this expectation
consistent and while communicating
we're working on that right now we're
about six to nine months into this
process we're putting the flesh on a
skeleton that we increase part of that
policy
this uh this headline caught my eye
last year
finland home of the hundred and three
thousand dollar speeds so don't speed
again
especially don't speak at finland if
you're a millionaire
because the finland police department
has a direct tie to their virtual irs
and instead of a ticket based on any
static dollar amount is based on the
hours of wages
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i'm not rolling out 103 000.
but council did pass recently an
income-based violence in their
importance
what we will have in a matter of months
is when somebody gets a ticket they will
also get to receive a piece of
literature that says
this is your household income
this is what your tickets will be you
have the ability to go below the
standard ticket if you have a lower
income status
now that wasn't the most popular idea
with everyone and there are some
concerns about what does it mean that
some people pay less than numbers
the reality is some people make a lot
less of numbers we do not today in
america have a society
a
judicial function in which the penalty
the same dollar is but it impacts people
drastically differently
so as we look to solve problems with
agricultural policing this idea for the
idea came to life is the first of its
kind in ohio
and one of many other supporters
we also are launching this year project
taylor
last year we launched a fight like bike
lanes of our cruisers are outfitting
fight flights that they can provide to
anyone who doesn't have a white light
and might otherwise have violations of
importance to safety and communities
project taillight
allows
police to or actually will have police
providing literature to anyone who has
if they're within a certain income
strata they'll have access to free
services
now today
ninety percent of all of our equipment
violation stops resulting in a warning
equipment violations are our safety
issue but most commonly resolved
the reality is however we have so many
residents in central ohio that are
scraping by trying to just afford to get
to work
we don't have an adequate transportation
system to get them there and less is get
and so this is an incredibly important
piece of us trying to do our part to
help as people
to help people thrive in our near east
side community
also a piece of this is our mayor's
function
now about
three or four years ago i was on a road
trip i was listening to a podcast
podcast was talking about the cleveland
judiciaries
i sat there and my heart sank because
stories
and we've done some good work in
language story but i realized i kind of
let it coast
let mayor's court be whatever what it is
in most places not really thought how
could we invent
so i came home
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i met with our city attorney
i met with some other outside counsel i
met with some folks in our community
we've been still helping me provide new
resources alternatives
and some new ideas and we started to
retool our marriage
in 2019 we have the public defender as a
right to any defendant who couldn't
afford legal counsel now we are
supporting your cases that's really
unusual you might think why would you
need an attorney for something as simple
as
traffic
or maybe driving without a license
well
there's a cycle of data
that compounds itself through our
traditional system it's especially
no one else has provided public
defenders but this is actually where
public defenders in many ways would be
incredibly impactful
so we started staffing our public
development
we then added it to a fine free court
system
which is if anybody wants to opt for
community service
they'll be paid a living wage paid a
living wage in terms of community
service hours you'll be able to earn or
pay back any financial fees
this is a way to help
working parents underemployed or
unemployed individuals to be able to
crawl out of the debt that our judicial
system can create
in the past year and a half we've also
had a driving under suspension license
restatement program we've helped
defendants reinstate over 60 driver's
licenses and the way we do it is when
somebody's pulled over for driving and
driving without hops as part of the
charges
we stop we don't prosecute it we say
we're going to pause this we're going to
give you the resources to get your
instruments back we're going to work
with patients we're going to help people
overcome these barriers and we're going
to get you back your license and today
we've done over 60 defendants uh it's a
groundbreaking program i'm so proud of
what our court's done
i want to especially thank our font
steward for the force actually i don't
know
our course that our staff is fantastic
our chief of police search process
update has been uh
incredibly robust so far we've been
doing a ton of complete engagement our
timelines at the bottom you see there
are dates business dates keep changing
we are very close to formally
advertising position we've done a ton of
community outreach what we've heard so
far was our community wants a great
community
they want a chief who's a problem solver
they want a chief who's focused on
safety there's a lot of concern as i
said before about sage they want to
chief who's out about invisible
they would achieve who believes in
actionable policing not just
pain and breach of the record police
are too his or her poor
they want a chief who is strategic
competent and hands-on
we're really hard to find action
our interview processes will start
probably late april or may
we will whittle down to violence
candidates
i commit to you as a community we will
have access to our final standards we'll
put them in the hot seat just like you
put in jason find the hot seat
how was that good just like that
uh and i am confident and excited to see
where we land with our future chief
police
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anyone's basement's flooded like mine
did uh you'll you'll realize that those
peaks are pretty significant
we also look at the third high speed
which is happening here in february
we're seeing more hydro geological
activity or more rain i guess you could
say in central ohio but we've really
seen recently there is a change that's
happening recently
and what's been going on
and so we started to fast track
investments in our sewer
for one thing we're offering a
presidential sewer remediation program
instead of flooding
we provide a system inspection for your
costs we provide up to two thousand
dollars in a grant and we will provide
up to fifteen thousand dollars on one
to help residents fix issues with
flooding in their basement now why are
we doing that not just because we're
really nice people we're doing it
because when you're faced with floods
and there's water going into your system
it's not just from us it's going into
the sanitary sea where it's impacting
everything so we want to help everybody
fix the problems on their property
but that's not enough we have to also be
working on our municipal supercell we've
been doing sewer lines if you see the
trucks out on the street with like smoke
coming out of them or steam looking like
that's the sewer line
so we've seen that and probably been
stuck behind some of them on track i
apologize uh we've been doing work in
our doing work on chelsea drexel granny
on standby parkview and we will continue
to align high priority areas also as
part of our drexel program we're
providing new areas of new types of
drainage to help
fix some of the flooding you guys are
going to be very sad to know that the
palm of the fairy
will have to go away
this summer you can see some of the
streets we're working on
um
that map is going to be online next week
so you can do that
we're also working on brick streets this
summer we're working on roosevelt friday
new vaccine portion of
dawson i'm really excited to tell you
about drexel
drexel avenue is going to be transformed
in the next year
so our goal is to take drugs from 35 to
25 miles per hour i'm very sorry for
this
if you can see this area is we're going
to narrow the streets actually all the
intersections basically a language
site when we provide more sheltered
pedestrian classes tracks a little bit
of dangerous areas of investment
crossings
it's one of the most problematic
crossing areas for kids walking to
school from the left side of the city
and so we're trying to provide a much
safer
interface
where you see that kind of bright green
that would be grass essentially probably
the mediums of the landscape
but we're going to see just more grass
more tree line area and shelter parking
it's going to make pedestrians more
visible intersections it's going to be
drivers in the feedback to better see at
intersections
and it will naturally slow down traffic
once the traffic slows down
our good friends in the state of ohio
will hopefully allow us to bring down
the speed limit
so let's talk about the plan
this is contemplative 20 years ago
so this is a confession
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says
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either way
environmental initiatives have become
such an important uh piece of what we
have
and it's not just it's you it's our
community we've been tackling these
classes
we're the first community to have a
curbside food waste programming in ohio
we're
we have solar and many of our buildings
and we're looking at new ways to bring
renewable energy to our community
all that takes a lot of time
and most of it is falling on my
shoulders and so because of that a lot
of it's been done sort of
peacefully
this year we welcome close development
that's our program sustainable sorry
sustainability
elizabeth has a tall task of
forwarding back to these great
initiatives by leaps and bounds
i want to give an update on some of what
she and we are going to be working on
we've been working on aggregation in
order to bring renewable energy to every
obstacle to mexico
if anyone has seen the gas prices
recently or understood the energy
markets they might know that now it's
not every time
paused until the energy markets
this year we'll be focusing on universal
recycling what's that that means every
apartment resident has access to
recycling every commercial business has
recycled outside not just access to it
has been a champion of this but we're
really excited to see this happen we've
been drafting this for years we've been
waiting a little bit through code and
we're excited to talk about it this year
we're working on a climate action plan
right now
right now we're benchmarking our
greenhouse gas emissions and we're
coming up with a plan for how we as a
community can come up with targets and
achievement
this is our phase two single-use
plastics law that links effect in
january
if you've been to starbucks recently you
realize those drink stoppers went away
sorry about that
yourself and then just drop stars around
our plastic that's our single-use
plastic company
and we're still working on
uh getting that out there this isn't
banned but we actually technically have
these facilities
cycling out small
engines 30 minutes with a leaf blower is
about
well there's lots of different
statistics it's anywhere between 600 and
1100 miles of greenhouse gas emissions
in a car
so one of the most impactful ways that
we as residents can match greenhouse gas
emissions is to get rid of our small gas
engines as they age out so we're going
to be encouraging residents and
informing about electric
capabilities landscape equipment and
small engines our service department is
templating right now what it looks like
to have a fully electric commercial
and we will have a fully electric setup
by the end of the year for at least one
of our light speakers so keep an eye out
for that
last year we put a moratorium on
purchasing any internal production
engine vehicles through the city that
could be alternatively purchasing
electric when we jumped the gun a little
bit and said the service department
these vehicles have been announced
so sorry andy we have at least two ford
f-150 lightnings on delivery this year
and we will be slowly transitioning our
departments
literature control has become a fashion
line if you want to know why come to the
trash top with the mayor eventually
swallow them
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maybe something's more exhilarating but
it is an exhilarating thing to fill up a
pickup truck full of litter in an hour
with your best friends in your community
by the way your best friend
and uh and really clean up
but frankly it's not enough litter it's
everywhere we're seeing it more and more
so we're starting to join with regional
partners and trying to socialize the
idea bringing back says those messages
about order control we've also invested
in the street sweeper and castle through
the newton's edition this year focused
on street sweeping
let her pick up on main street and
helping us superliterate and get it
picked up so
hopefully you'll see an improvement out
in the community we'll be hearing more
about this
let's talk about the parks
so our biggest park
is our tree line our tree lawn
is home to over 14 000 street trees
we declared it in our room in 2012
and just recently through susan
clinton's leadership and understands
recreation we joined an initiative with
husqvarna
we see the hudson green from doctrine
uh where we took all the data and we
studied our tradition and we saw where
are some places where we can do
infiltrate work and how do we compare
our communities we're not mentioned
so if you want to see where seattle
effects are compared
you'll see
seattle has a long ways to go for the
vessel
so we have a benchmark and some
excellent data to continue to preserve
and grow
our most valuable and most expensive
park which is our own
we've had the help of volunteers last
year the western bloomers formed they've
been sprucing up
jeffrey mansion and park spaces
this was a cleanup it looks like a
like
back there as time was right here
at jeffrey park the mexican bloomers
will be doing great work and we're
really excited to see how that
relationship continues to be developed
if anyone's in the final video recently
you'll see
we do a lot of talking about parks
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we've expanded
we've consistently improved
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we have more plans right now than we
have funding to do them
and that's okay
because absent the vision of people
perish right
the parts that we dream of today will be
the parks that our children
and their children's children pick a cat
15 years from now
and i am here to study tonight
so i've been working with some of the
folks from public land parks
an initiative a big push
for our parks and we're calling it the
year of the parks
and we're targeting it to be nice to
your platform
but to be honest with you
there's more
sort of symbolics
let me tell you about some of the
products some of the projects we're
looking at right now some of these are
some of them are still awaiting funding
commonwealth park master plan a couple
years ago
we are starting
in april
next month as of tomorrow
which serves as a connector as opposed
to the dividers we've received a state
grant loan program for the
infrastructure piece of that
and we're still seeking funding for some
of the beautification pieces left but
the early stages of this project will
start later this year
this is uh
kind of hard to tell where we're at here
but the poncho dc is running on to
parking on the west west side of the
park so the first step in our marine
feature is targeted from the air parks
it will see a tree walk
lush landscaping
a pond with a walking bridge and an
interactive area for kids
the gateway features from carmel park
will bring a permanent rescue department
and will serve as a place of identifying
on the south side of the park at
columbia
so that's commonwealth
we've been working on bringing schneider
park up to maine
right here you see a path that is still
being manipulated that will connect to
mainstream background
that piece of the park trail that we
hope to finish this year
there's a plaza
on the front end of main street it's in
another slide sorry about that
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bike bridge on elm creek
between bexley
and hanford village park in the
albuquerque area right around the area
so aster is the old classic initial
control shutter park
the bridge lines up with that kind of at
the bottom of the sliding mode towards
the boardwalk
and would connect across and crucially
you can see that there's the pedestrian
crossing area that was recently
installed on your job and you can see
just south of that there's a curveball
that
village park
hanford village was the historic
african-american villages bisected
through the construction of i-7 there
are lots of plans underway to try to
find ways to reconnect and village the
recipe
this would be a piece of that plan we
currently have an active state of ohio
capital budget requests in the florida
bridge
paperwork home of our jazz in the park
series is due for a refresh
thanks to council that has been funded
the dock part
at uh schneider park
you already started working on it thanks
to the mexican community foundation that
has been funded
and some additional money to visit
that's something we're starting this
spring we hope to finish this year this
is the main street trailhead and it's
going to be part of the schneider park
that was talking about before
and what you see here is actually an
artist rendering what it will look like
future development
so we're designing this trailhead to
accommodate new and robust development
it'll be a part of a new trail of pocket
parks on nations that will include
what dave hoffman referenced in this
capital video the 1908 plaza a huge
gathering space for the community right
across
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oh that's not right
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who
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between the library and toronto right
now there's this beautiful asphalt
partnership that gets used in the future
we hope it's going to be a part to enjoy
join the biology these are our projects
that are currently slated for funding
for our city too so we're almost there
keep it keeping here and i have because
you're the parts next year as we
continue to gather funding for a huge
tremendous community enhancing push on
our parts
and this evening will not be completed
thank you foundation i mentioned their
name many
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just in the past year they've
contributed money towards our awesome
artist bike racks on main street
the love your alley project which came
back last year and will return again
this year reimagined
as a new way of playing your alley and
discouraged local pollinators
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community gardens
the mexican community foundation helps
fund the internet jazz of the park
fourth of july hispanic heritage
festival engineering professional are
two team celebrations
our best pride month celebrations
despite parker improvements and trees
so many trees and more trees to come
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it is the definitive way to find out
what's happening in the community we
will always put the most important
information in the west we're also
sending out our quarterly newsletters
they're larger
and more expensive than they ever have
been
we've increased the font size so they're
more legible for everyone
so keep an eye out for that newsletter
in the mail
and i want to close with this
in so many ways especially
our schools are wrestling
our businesses are strong
our sidewalks and streets are full of
joggers and dog walkers and neighbors
and friends
our clients
every year
just we just keep doing that so
it's very good
but we're not without our challenges and
opportunities
we're investing more than ever before in
renewing our aging infrastructure
we're focused on protecting our
environment and expanding our own space
we're investing in social and emotional
welfare through justice innovations
tweeted programming and more
opportunities for families from all
backgrounds
friends
because of you
and by virtue of the hard work and
passion of the partners here in this
room and throughout our city the state
of our exit community
together
is strong
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