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testing testing all right
ladies and gentlemen welcome to the
Tuesday April 11th meeting of the Bexley
city council I thank you all for your
attendance here tonight and I thank all
of you up here for your service to our
city Mr May Peak how's your day been
it's been fabulous it's a beautiful day
out there Troy out there bicycling and
all that no mostly just sitting in the
office working all day but you got a
window
um it it there was a window yeah yeah
did you get to open the window no it was
closed oh it's a good idea though yeah I
should have done that
sometimes that helps go ahead and give
us the roll call okay okay thank you uh
fiebel I'm here wingler here lamp key
here Marcelino yes Markham here Robinson
yes and sod here please rise join me for
the Pledge of Allegiance
I pledge
of the United States of America
Republic for which it stands one nation
under God indivisible with liberty and
justice for all
we have a special guest here
oh well we need the giant check all
right we can we can we can bring you up
here uh when that moment uh arrives
all right
will we recognize the giant check when
it comes in will it be really really big
all right wave the giant check at me and
then there's here we'll do it hey uh how
about public comments any speaker slips
there Mr McPeak no speaker slips all
right president's report I want to read
to you a an email that I got this week
says uh uh Mr Markham yesterday evening
the city of Salon Ohio unanimously
passed resolution
101-102 condemning anti-Semitism during
my counsel and remarks yeah it's a yeah
during my councilman's remarks he noted
that salon now joins the Ohio what is it
stolen sorry Solon now joins the Ohio
cities of Bexley and orange in this
effort I want to express my thanks and
gratitude to you Troy and your city
council your support and suggestions
were instrumental helping to guide my
city council to craft and adopt this
important resolution all the best and Mr
Jeffrey Shaffer so that's exciting to
see the other cities are following our
uh our lead there
yes before you finish your after you
finish your report I would like to
comment on something I'm finished so go
ahead near and dear to your heart yes
uh
we received and I received an email
about a 20 year old
man from Crimea
who do you know this story no but I I'm
prepared is Ukrainian yeah but happens
to have because he lives in Crimea
a Russian passport so you can imagine
where he was soon to be sent the front
lines yeah there is a couple that live
here in Bexley and last week they
celebrated their 44th anniversary of
being in the United States and in Bexley
they moved here with their two-year-old
twins
one now works at the Pentagon the other
twin now works for
um Pixar and it was the design
specialist for all the cars movies so
they've really done well they somehow
stayed in contact with a family through
Facebook and the family member of this
20 year old said can you help
in their 70s they said yes
we can help
and I got connected to her and thought
that I could somehow use some of my
connections and I brought my husband
with me because he's involved with the
Jewish you know community so we sat down
with RPS she ended up at our house for
Passover with the 20 year old who made
it here on the 4th of April and um that
was after about four months of going
from place to place to place
um
but if people have ideas about how to
help this
a kid who was months away from
graduating but we insisted on him people
insisted on him coming
um how to get you know we're looking for
jobs for him opportunities to learn
English I know he you know love if I
said you guys were legit and you wanted
just taking for a hour worth of let's
learn some English kind of thing he
would love that so anyway I knew that
that would be near and dear to your
heart and that it would make you it
would warm your heart you talked about
this forever and ever and ever so
unfortunately it just has been going on
forever but these these over
seven-year-old individuals are literally
saving this kid's life so thank you so
much yeah and it really just puts the
faces onto all these thousands and tens
and thousands and hundreds of thousands
of people who are being pulled into this
brutal uh you know this brutal War this
occupation or whatever and it's it's
heartbreaking and we've and thinking
about them since last February of course
when it happened and so thank you for
that story and we continue to think
about people of Ukraine
I will transition into I think that's a
giant check right there come on up and
tell us about that
Mr Mayor do you have a intro or do they
have an intro only that I've started
taking up running again so that uh next
November I'll be ready for the next
train so thank you thank you as always
for this great Community event that you
guys organize
microphone makes and push that button so
that it's green
okay hey mother always said I don't need
a microphone
but you know and that may be true here
but we are recording and we send this
out to the internet to the entire world
the entire world out there yes please
introduce yourselves
so I'm Carol Zimmerman from Mid-Ohio
food Collective and I'm Miranda Cox from
Saint Albans Episcopal Church on Drexel
Avenue welcome to Ohio city thank you
I'm here to present the giant check that
thanks to the generosity and the support
of the Bexley Community St Albans
through the turkey track ways to support
the Mid-Ohio food Collective well and
the thing that's great about this is you
guys have never raised as much money as
you did this last Thanksgiving morning
so
if your fever is in check wow that
Miranda is now presenting to me
655 yeah however
um every dollar that's donated to
Mid-Ohio food Collective Now buys 4.89
worth of food and groceries and in
addition the thing that Saint Albans
does every year is they donate this
money for our double your donation day
so that 16 000 yada yada times
4.89 times 2 is over 180 that makes you
can't figure that dollars worth of food
and groceries that's great that's
fantastic
and um you guys have been doing this
with us for a number of years now which
is terrific I should get you a total
keep coming keep running contribute yeah
support it thank you so much thank you
for that awesome work and the
contribution yeah
okay get up there
just
um
thank you sir
I think I think we have another special
guest here looks like we do
um it would be uh maybe move him to the
very end of the meeting that's a good
point I may just change that it's going
to be a quick meeting though probably
hour or something like that not too bad
at all uh Mr Rosenthal would you like to
uh approach the
Mr President Mr Rosenthal is one of our
appointees to The Landing strategy
commission
um
asking if he would be willing to come in
and introduce himself
served he's he's he's practiced as an
architect for over 28 years
since 1995 you realize that it's
LinkedIn right here yeah yeah yeah and
uh previous member of the architecture
review board
uh and
um coincidentally designer of the space
that we're in here uh which was in
itself an AIA award-winning project oh
that's true yeah so
um Andrew thank you for your willingness
to serve on the landing strategy
commission he was actually compelled to
do so because he's one of those people
that texts me just random like big no
picture ideas for the community
usually a really inconvenient times
where I'm like okay now I have to
thoughtfully respond or just be like
yeah just kidding anyway
um
so I said what better use for your
talents than to serve in the landing
strategy commission so thank you for you
Oneness and uh if you want to say
anything about your background or
remember you are under arrest
uh grew up graduate from Mexico high
school and went to uh Miami University
got degrees in political science and
history and got a master prison
architecture from Iowa State
uh ARB for I think five or seven years
something like that yeah
Parks something I'm on a park something
yeah visioning committee that's right
doing that you're the parks yeah you're
the parks and uh yeah I think this is
payback for all the texts about I have a
great idea what if we let the alleys
flood and make them skatable in the
winter that was an action just like that
that wasn't it yeah
well we got one vote yeah
any questions for uh Mr Rosenthal
thanks volunteer thank you yeah good to
have you here boy hard hitting I first
met Andrew uh both of us are here both
look like that I don't know what he's
doing thank you sir when I said it would
be five minutes I was told I'll see in
an hour so I'm gonna look like a big
hero when I come walking in the house I
said okay
yeah you got time to go
wow
we call that an alibi if uh yeah
Mr
uh also uh president would like to
recognize former councilman sharp back
here in the uh back there hey Richard
excellent
thank you
City attorney reporter Mr Mark Fishel I
feel like I had something to report but
it slipped my mind so no report tonight
sorry about that did we distract you
with them all right at this time we're
gonna put the gavel back in Mr
klingler's Hand I'm surprised he didn't
have his own gavel by now
it's been up here so many times and I
don't have a report either oh my
goodness I mean just to just
the turkey track got me all messed up
there
are we ready okay
um this is the here public hearing of
ordinance 06-2-3 this is the ordinance
to amend the zoning of certain Parcels
in the city in order to Zone the
property at the southwest corner of
Sheridan Avenue and Main Street here in
further described as mixed use
commercial muc with the mains District
overlay into a men and replace the
official zoning map of the city of
Bexley
uh we've got we had a public hearing at
our last council meeting we've gone
through this several times are there any
questions from any
um
we table it that's right I I will make a
motion to uh remove ordinance 06-23 from
the table so here second second
all in favor
aye all right same sign the post
okay um are there any questions from
Council regarding 06-2-3
seeing none are there any questions from
the audience regarding ordinance 06-2-3
00
now third third reading public hearing
we have one audience member who'd like
to ask a question Richard Sharp 8485
College Avenue
um the question I had was with the um
overlay District as far as the height
limit
um on the south side I think on the
North side there's uh uh ex
higher height limit than what's on the
rest of Main Street is is that higher um
amount going to stay the same consistent
with the north side which I think it
should by the way or even be increased
because that's an area that
um could use higher Heights because of
its location
um in relation to the hill as you're
going up towards College Avenue and if
you read the paper today you see where
Columbus has identified 70 areas around
the city that they're going to be
pushing for high density and and higher
buildings and
um already Bexley in the past 20 years
its influence has decreased
proportionally in the county so um we I
would think we'd want to get as much tax
revenue as possible and increase our
commercial and residential
base where our kids can move back people
who have sub chapter S and partnership
income can come into our city and pay
lots of taxes and not pay them to
Columbus so
um anyways I'm just throwing that out I
don't know whether
um that would be a additional zoning
change to allow an increased height on
the south side but anyway thank you
thank you I think mayor can you speak to
them I can uh thank you Mr Sharp and I'm
going to pull this up because the last
time I tried it before yeah last time I
tried thank you all right right there
last time I tried to do this off the
cuff I think I said something improper
about ground mounted solar so in front
of you 12 54. 125 4.14 uh and actually
this that's a great call out this one
site because of the fact that it's lower
down in the hill at a lower elevation
and than many others is unable to go up
to seven stories with a special permit
uh which is unlike the rest of Main
Street so
um that is part of that Main Street
District overlay
um it says the language is Max come out
of up to five storage seven stories west
of Sheridan Avenue and south of Main
Street within the district
good to know yep thanks uh council
member lamke
um I thought of one other question I
think at the last meeting we had some
general discussions about the parking
lot for Gateway South and we talk about
maybe next steps or foreseeable future
things that we should consider and mayor
I think you were going to follow up on
that yes I and I did speak with staff we
had sent a letter it's been a couple
years uh just reminding the property
owner that that there's a
this might not be the exact correct word
but there's basically a special permit
to use it as a parking lot or a
conditional use that's temporary and
needs to be renewed subject to ongoing
review at visap so we are working on
getting them scheduled uh back for that
review
okay
thank you for the reminder
any other questions regarding ordinance
06-2-3
in regards to that parking lot will
there be a limitation on how long that
exception may be granted by
the board there just I'm thinking just
is it going to be shorter now that the
initial one kind of is lapsing or how do
you want it well my recollection and
again this is coming from memory I don't
have that in front of me it was it was
like a 2005 or sixth decision and it's
going back uh and it was it was a
one-year permit that needed to be
renewed uh on a regular basis
um I wasn't
that was I'm not I'm not throwing any
stones but that was a previous
administration and so when I was doing
some research uh several maybe two or
three years ago I came across that
decision and asked staff I said did we
do this follow-up we had not so we sent
a letter to kind of re-reignite that
conversation I spoke with one of the
property owners about it at the time
I've now spoken with both Property
Owners about it and I think that our
intent is to bring it back to bzap
that'll be up to their discretion as to
you know how long they would allow that
continuing
um
temporary use and again I might not be
using the correct terms here I believe
that it's a a conditional use for a
parking lot and I'm I don't want to
speak on the fly but it was a temporary
conditional use was my understanding
thank you
if you want to clarify anything yeah
exactly that would be great thank you
thanks Dan
any other questions regarding ordinance
06-23 or comments
seeing none I move we didn't amend this
right it's I moved to pass ordinance
06-2-3
second
mayor or auditor could we have a roll
call please
uh Mr Robinson yes Mr Marcelino yes Miss
viable yes Mossad yes Mr Olympia
it's fun all right uh Mr Klingler yes Mr
Markham yes
ordinance 623 passes
thank you
right right
yeah
um
we'll now begin the ordinance
um
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we'll now begin the public hearing for
ordinance 07-2-3 this is an ordinance to
amend the zoning of certain Parcels in
the city in order to Zone all property
located within Schneider Park as open
space OS and to amend and replace the
official zoning map of the city of
Bexley
again
um much like ordinance 06-23 we had a
public hearing at our last council
meeting regarding this this is the
second public hearing
um are there any questions regarding
ordinance 07-2-3
from Council
sorry I'm sorry I should procedure I
make a motion to remove ordinance 07-2-3
from the table
all in favor
hi
any questions regarding ordinance 07-2-3
from the audience
I make a motion to approve ordinance
07-2-3 second
Mr Markham yes Mr Klingler yes Miss
fiebel yes Miss Robinson yes Mr
Marcelino yes Miss sod yes and miss
lamke
ordinance passes
Mr Mayor can you take us through the
administrative updates please
yes uh we will start with
um Mr Bayshore
uh with the service department update
Andy thank you for joining us
and yes
based on what I was hearing I think we
might not have yet solved our audio
issue here so
if you break up I might end up calling
you but we'll see okay
any questions uh for Andy from Andy's
report
anything you want to highlight
um
never mind hold on one second Andy I
gotta get to the bottom of this I'm
gonna call yourself
well we're trying to get a hold of them
I just wanted to commend
um the street Crews at the corner doing
the work at the corner of Bryden and
Drexel the safety cones they've kept
everything neat and tidy it's great and
you need to turn off your speaker and
mute yourself there and then you're good
thank you so we were thank you Mr I'm
not sure if Andy heard that but you were
that was a good accommodation and we
currently have a crew right now working
a water main break at uh Bexley Park in
Remington it's a good gusher they're
doing a great job
uh so thanks thanks for your career to
work on that it's fun to look at because
like the brick and the asphalt coming
together there anyway Andy anything uh
you want to highlight uh maybe the only
thing I'd probably really highlight on
the second page I have
um a lot of this year's uh summer spring
and Summer's upcoming projects listen
um and just so city council and uh some
of the residents might be listed when
those projects are getting ready to
start we will continue to do notices
some
sewer cleaning there before we start our
um our sewer lining and then we'll uh
just draw out this summer we're gonna
um this year with our projects as far as
making sure the residents get proper
notifications before the project starts
thank you and we're going to be doing
some um kind of updated notification
through the blast on our website with
service projects as well we have a lot
going on a lot going on this summer we
also received the bids back today on our
street project I think we had some
favorable bids so we'll be looking at
those with border patrol at our next
meeting
yes sir
has the tree
um
tree spider lift been ordered
spider lift has been ordered okay uh we
actually have it you have it yeah
I think Matt was like on demo skate in
action yeah I would appreciate that all
right next council meeting Andy you're
gonna have to come in person bring the
spider lift with you no problem all
right
okay thanks so much Andy I appreciate
you uh hanging out with us tonight
thanks for joining
thanks
um finance department update Mr Hale
okay
well there we go
my apologies Beecher if you uh
there you go Mr Mayor and all this work
to inform you I have no report
well done any questions for Mr Hale
as I asked you on Monday Beach at our at
our weekly meeting how are the numbers
looking
the numbers continue to look good all
right thank you sir very good all right
go out enjoy the sun Beecher thank you
that's what I'm going to do appreciate
it thank you
um the chief is is driving back from uh
oppada meeting in London
um Ohio
um so asked me to
uh
have have you guys take a look at this
report if you have any questions uh we
can also call them on the phone if need
be as either aspect so
yes Sam I I see the information in
regards to a lateral Personnel yes I
understand that we are further along
with potentially a few others I don't
know how far along but there could be
some increases I just swear we add or do
we have anybody new to discuss or yep we
have um
we have offered a position and it's been
accepted and I believe that that is okay
to be public knowledge
um for an officer who is a lateral
transfer from the Delaware Police
Department
um she's a Bexley resident as well which
is really exciting as a um
a student school district and um so
we're super excited about that and then
um we have another lateral potential
lateral that we interviewed this week
um so
yeah does that answer your question it
does I just yeah I want to confirm
rumors and such because uh it says we're
still evaluating but it was I'd heard
otherwise so I'm excited to hear that
that's really great that we have
somebody from the community interested
in joining our Force yeah we have so you
know as you guys know you you approved
the housing stipend concept housing
license concept and um
we haven't yet formalized that but we do
have it looks like at least two
potential recruits that would be
interested in availing themselves that
and it's been a selling point which is
really great
yep
any other questions
right
Mr price
thank you mayor just um again I want to
thank everyone involved with the egg
hunt that happened this past weekend it
was a great event and I appreciate all
the support from so many as everyone
knows it takes a lot of a lot of
individuals groups organizations to pull
off community events so we appreciate
all the support other than that happy to
answer any questions
foreign
thank you Sam
um how are we looking for the pool
lifeguard staff currently
they have summer
um yeah no it's a great question they
are um very confident with their numbers
I think they're looking to fill four
more positions we have
40 lifeguards that are hired which is
much more than we have normally had
um
um I think they're still trying to get a
couple more uh swim instructors and a
couple more lifeguard positions but they
feel really really confident about where
they're at this point in time we're
seeing the same with our camp program as
well our hiring has been much
better this year than it has been last
couple of years
um so sort of across the board we're
seeing an improvement in seasonal hiring
options opportunities it's been good and
I was just going to note if you don't
mind letting us know Council know as
soon as we do finalize this Gate Park
design and who you've selected
um that's exciting I saw that there were
seven
um people who had senate had gone for
the RFP which I think is great too so we
should get something really great out of
that so it would be great to just share
with Council which I know you'll do yeah
we'll have we have a committee meeting
on Thursday I think this week so we're
hoping out of that committee meeting
forward
I just want to thank you for the egg
hunt that was awesome obviously first
year where I could actually attend with
my child and it was uh great to see
people not only from back to sleep but
from outside the community coming to
actually to enjoy that
um of course you know if I'm I start to
go to these things and I start to think
and you know the the general consensus
we need more eggs right because some
kids walk away at 50 some kids walk away
too I don't think if you put 5 000 more
eggs down there it would make a
difference it would just end up those
kids with 200 and some with four yeah um
so if there's any I have a couple ideas
uh run by it and that's all but I really
appreciate it the scale of that was
astounding to me um to put that all
together so thank you so much and uh
just great work overall I appreciate it
well you can happy talking into time
we're always looking for looking for a
volunteer when I do it I won't just tell
you what to do it's good I appreciate it
I appreciate it we have we are having
discussion about an adult acons wrap
your mind around that
oh
yeah but very hunger game-ish yes
big prizes
no question for you um my price but I
did want to remind you president Markham
that I have a child Transportation issue
and I will be sneaking out of the
meeting right now so thank you so much
sorry I'm sneaking out before your
report but I'll be sure to listen in a
new announce that you're not sneaking
us quietly you're right I'm just gonna
this direction thank you Jen
um I do have a written report
um before you this evening happy to
answer any questions uh
several things I could highlight but I
think the report speaks for itself
I will say that I had a fantastic time
leading an author talk with our
president Mr Markham this past week as
part of our Arbor month series it was a
really really exciting and uh in general
well I have a hard time not highly
success let me real quickly show you
something
first off Governor Taft was hanging out
of the Cherry Blossom Festival and we
were both speaking which was fun
um I want to congratulate Elizabeth
ellman and lorianne feibel both be back
to Women's Club Award winners
uh this past couple weeks
um and uh that's me hanging out with uh
Ben Franklin at the uh Dave Knight but
uh you can see if as a year of the parks
highlight of the week uh there are some
columns almost completed at the Gateway
to Schneider Park on Main Street the
trailhead there and there is your
council president a bunch a bunch of old
dudes just hanging out on stage
and uh half an answer I haven't been
answering questions
yes yes
the quick question
um May 16th you highlighted at 6 30
Bexley City Hall will host the casting
ham Remington com Corridor public
Workshop yes so um working on
the final details to get this up we'll
be sending this letter out to Residents
along the corridor this is that comp
traffic common concept we talked about
it's it's a idea generating getting
feedback on the concepts just hearing
back from people who live along the
routes we specifically are interested in
making sure we're reaching out to
residents on casting him between fair
and Maine where we're talking about
those bike Lanes so
thank you
this is uh coming out of our public open
our open source public workshops for but
I'm not saying this right that we're
doing everything every other week we're
rotating
working group
any other questions oh shoot
all right thank you Mr President thank
you Mr official can take us through the
agenda now all right we have the consent
agenda which has the meeting minutes
from March 28 2023
questions or comments on the consent
agenda from Council first
and now from the audience yes please
excuse because like littered carrying my
granddog dog bags anyways Rich sharp
I-45 College Avenue again
um I this is tangentially relating to
the minutes where the mayor talked about
covering the Trinity site briefing to
put a potential developers I'd just like
to say to counsel I and to the mayor
that I hope
um
the the vision for this property can be
expansive and and shoot for this the
stars and whatever I mean I was thinking
of some hotels that are downtown that
have separate elevators that get the AC
hotel to go up to nice restaurants that
are tourist attractions and this is a
big property over here and if
the developer wanted to donate the roof
for a year of the park park space on a
big place it had could have exterior
access to Residents and they could take
a tax deduction he could have a
preschool in the in the building that
could use that Park so
um I'd encourage people to be excited
and throw ideas out to any potential as
developers and also encourage Council to
be open
because the way the site
sits and egress on onto Parkview through
the Rusty Bucket it's a perfect location
for underground parking most of the good
developments in Columbus and in the
surrounded region have parking
Underground
or
Park index whatever and so and if
council is open to even
offering a underground land lease for
under our parking lot here and even if
you want to redevelop this part because
the mayor originally said when we moved
here that you know it's not SEC
sacrificed for this always to be uh the
city hall so um just brainstorm and have
good ideas so thank you that was a great
points Richard I like how you're
thinking and I I do think that uh that's
a good point we want to be we are
excited we want to uh we want good ideas
we want uh we're looking forward to what
could happen there hopefully it'll be
something fantastic
uh at this point I will unless there are
other comments move to adopt the consent
agenda
second second but Mr Klingler Mr mcpeek
can you call the roll
Mr marcellino
yes Mr Markham yes Miss feibel yes Miss
lamke yes Mr cleanler yes Miss Robinson
yes consent agenda passes thank you Mr
Fishel all right on to a third reading
third reading of ordinance 8-23 to
appropriate
7982 from the unencumbered general fund
to the building department in 6428 from
the Waterfront to the water
administration department for the
purpose of paying back Medicare taxes
for 2022 2020 through 2022 MS lamke
thank you um since it is the third
reading I think we had some minor
proposed amendments mayors that what's
up on the screen
it is yes this looks like the this is
the proposed amended version which
includes an additional appropriation for
the Auditors Department
okay which shows up on section two
great thank you
um are there any questions on the
proposed amendments as shown
comments or questions from Council
comments or questions from the audience
I believe we need a motion to amend I
motion to amend ordinance 8-23 as shown
on the screen second
uh second from Mr Klingler Mr McPeak Mr
Markham yes Mr Marcelino yes Mr Klingler
yes Miss Robinson
yes Miss feibel yes Miss lamke yes ocean
to amend passes ordinances of amended
um any comments or questions on the um
ordinance itself from Council
from the audience
I motion to adopt a mended ordinance
8-20 question to adopt this lamke second
second by Mr Klingler Mr McPeak
Mr marcellino yes Mr Markham yes Miss
lamke yes Assad yes Miss Robinson Mr
Klingler yes Mr feibel yes ordinance
passes thank you Mr Fishel okay on to
his second reading second reading of
ordinance 9-23 to establish the rate of
pay for the police department
Communications technician at 31.86 cents
per hour effective January 1st 2023 Ms
lamke
um thank you as explained in this
ordinance the ready to pay for the
police department communication
technician was inadvertently left off
um so the rate needed to be included
which would bring that position
um to have a four percent increase
bringing the total rate to 31.86
effective
coming January 1st 2023
any questions from Council
it's uh Fievel
does this mean that we just simply
forgot to put that line item in or does
that mean we and does it mean that we
forgot to put it in the line item but we
have been paying the person that much or
do we owe them money
I'm just
curious I know that answer for sure I
don't know that I don't
um I believe that the answer is that it
was in there but there was no adjustment
for cost of living and so they're
it was budgeted for but not in the
in the payroll ordinance in the pay
ordinance
um
and I'm pulling that up right now but I
was under the impression what we
previously talked about it that he has
not been paid at the higher rate so as
of yet so that would be yeah there would
become right he's currently at pulled up
the pay ordinance use it 30.61 in the
play ordinance so 3186 I believe would
be that times a four percent increase
um
it's in our budget but he would he would
get some he would get back pay on it
maybe just double check to make sure
that by Third grading
comments or other comments or questions
from Council
in Mr official all right second reading
ordinance 10-23 to amend chapter 1060.09
in order to expand the ability of
residents to recirculate household items
Miss Bible
um yes last time I talked about the fact
that this was a really a a wonderful way
for the city to be rethinking how we are
taken care of our planet a because there
is no Planet B by
encouraging residents instead of
discouraging residents from putting
things out on their curb that other
individuals might find a treasure out of
their trash and
um renew Reese you know to to
recirculate those items either by using
them in a different manner or or maybe
they would enjoy them
um and I think the mayor was looking
into something about whether or not
we still have to have I mean I know that
it we are we are we are amending our
laws so that individuals do not have to
have
um a a contract with the city to be
allowed to haul these things away
um
but I feel like there was something
about that information you were right I
just I was confirming that we didn't
have any licenses given to trash haulers
private trash haulers and we do not
so super a good character or neither of
great character or whatever the opposite
of that is so we are going to encourage
our residents to
put signs on that which they want you to
go ahead and take if you put something
on the Curve
no please take or it's free or some such
thing so does anybody have any Mr
Marcelino yeah thanks uh in terms I I
understand the idea behind this and it's
obviously you do it on Sunday or
whatever or Saturday and then it's gone
by Monday hopefully but on the options
uh that it doesn't get collected because
it didn't do a uh call ahead to Rumpke
or something that was what type of
protections do we have against the couch
sitting out on somebody's front is it
where's that stand is that covered
within this yeah so Mr President yeah um
it is it is covered under a current code
it specifies I think it's 24 hours in
advance of leaving out and then take it
out by 24 hours after this this is
actually applying only to things that
would have been left before taking
otherwise so
um
it doesn't impact that timeline at all
it would still be in effect
all right thank you
so what I think you're saying Sam is
if there are people listening to this
if you're going to put something big out
please call Rumpke and say I'm putting
something big out on the off chance that
someone takes it then Rumpke just has an
easier job that day sure
right but it probably would be a good
idea to publicize that part of it once
this becomes more right past and
presumably passed and more out there
I kind of think it's something that
we're all doing anyway
until it's just making it listen I mean
you know I I I actually I get this but I
mean I have had a neighbor that put a TV
on the wrong side where they don't
collect the trash to or we specifying
that they need to put it out where the
trash is collected as well that's
covered as well all within just making
sure this will all this is all
dovetailing in with the current
regulations right so it doesn't anyone
modify them it just said that
those items that are lawfully placed in
the right spot at the right time can be
taken if labeled free
totally fine just thinking all all
through and I love it the only thing
that changes yeah
the only thing that could change is that
licensing piece which is again not in
practice
it was all written back when we used to
be the we used to provide the trash
calling service ourselves and had not
been updated to specify for example that
we have contract colors I'm just
thinking when you bring attention to
things like passing yeah so all of a
sudden now there might be a new wave and
feel being like this so I want to make
sure we're protecting the communities
thank you
the questions yes Ms lamke could this go
on the consent agenda
not for me I'd like ratings but take a
look at it
shall I move on yes please okay we are
now on to a second reading of ordinance
11-23 to amend chapter 289 land use
strategy commission and support members
to the land use strategy commission Mr
Klingler
thanks Mr Fishel
um
we've gone over this is the second
reading of this again it is to I'll say
refresh chapter 289
um to bring it up to current uh what our
current strategy is and um to appoint
new members one of which is here tonight
and we have more members coming to
yes we do so I I'm sending out the
invites uh hopefully a lot of people are
next meeting if it's possible at the
table just to get more people in but yep
okay
yeah
maybe she went home
sit down and come up with a timeline
strategize
it may launch it may launch
any other comments or questions on
ordinance
11-23 if not we can move on to the next
one all right second reading of
ordinance 12-23 to amend section 886 of
the Bexley codified ordinances in order
to amend the Bexley community
reinvestment area program Mr Klingler
thanks Mr Fishel
second reading of this
um just like the last ordinance this uh
chat this section 886 existed prior to
this ordinance we are just amending it
to bring it up to a more Modern Standard
a lot of the language in this ordinance
we have taken from Columbus
um
I'll have any any questions on ordinance
12-2-3
do you want me to run through it do you
want me to no that's not what I was
going to ask but I do think we had been
talking about doing an educational
component to this educational piece yeah
yes we do okay that's all right I mean I
just want to I would be glad to do that
okay I could we could start
why don't we start now and then figure
out where the gaps are in education okay
it meant to do a presentation yeah yeah
but I got I in my head mixed up what I
was presenting so I was worked on a
different presentation so
um so uh our community reinvestment area
um currently exists on Main Street sorry
if I'm repeating myself but it's a it's
a 70 program 15-year tax abatement and
the way that works is
um the taxes are evaded above and beyond
the Baseline so if the property is worth
six million dollars right now let's just
use the one next door who knows what
it's worth then any new value to the
site
gets taxed at a reduced at an abated
amount
um
we have that 70 program in place we also
have a 100 program if the average price
of the units is 250 000 or less and if
the units are fifteen hundred dollars
sorry at least an average of 1500 square
feet at least and the point of that was
to try to provide a better abatement if
the housing was
we weren't using the term affordable at
the time but more like
mainstream housing as opposed to just
you know high-end luxury housing that
change was made
half a decade ago probably uh to provide
for that 100 tier
um in Ohio
tax abatements can be provided to
residential property
without the school district involvement
they can be provided to commercial
property
um that does require School District
involvement they need to be part of the
process at least aware of it and if a
commercial property
receives an abatement and the payroll
exceeds a million dollars a year then
the city needs to share income tax with
the school district
we really shied away from any new
commercial tax abatements for a couple
different reasons so I'm not going to
really focus on that I'd focus on this
this residential abatement
um
abatements have existed in Ohio for as a
part of Ohio Revised Code
um
since before 1994 because there are two
there's a program for abatements called
the pre-1994 abatements any abatement in
Baxley has been posted in 1994 so you
don't really need to know that but it's
just has some slightly different
standards and slightly different
regulations
um we have found that uh in the projects
that have received abatements uh where
we have tracked um before and after and
I do have that data and I do need to
send that to you guys because I I get
committed doing that
um we found a profound increase in terms
of income to the city and the school
district from every project that's
received them and the theory behind them
is that they would spur development or
in on proper properties that might be
otherwise difficult to develop and the
reality is
um infill
Redevelopment is expensive and
especially on small sites and so a lot
of cities use very similar tools and
very analogous situations
the theory behind this ordinance would
be that we would we would take that
incentive and instead of just providing
it to every unit that asks for it it
would really just be reserved for units
that
do provide a concession to some
affordability not just limited to only
affordable housing but providing it for
developments that have a mix of at least
a mix of affordability in the projects
um it's it's been a successful program
for four years now that Columbus has had
in the short North and in other
neighborhoods of Columbus the
development Community is pretty
comfortable with it
but it's not like you know it's still
it's still an ask I mean I spoke with
the developer last week that was about
to propose something
next door here who has done this program
in Columbus and still said You know
it's uh the numbers are pretty tough
with this new abatement concept
um I don't necessarily see that as a bad
thing I see that is we're encouraging
them to you know or encourage them to
innovate into the space and work harder
work harder
um and and in exchange there is a
potential incentive so
um
I do owe you guys historic uh projects
and um kind of comparison of of tax
productivity for those which I did for
Gateway
uh the existing Gateway and Alexander
project uh for one dos and
um and I think I've also done it for the
Gramercy Building because there's some
abatement at The Gramercy Building as
well
um any questions about just abatements
were at Large
that was a great tutorial
um I've read a lot of I've read a lot
about it and there is a great article I
think in today's dispatch on the website
or yesterday's was it today I saw it
yeah I read it it was a really
Franklinton and what they're doing over
there really good article oh that was
different oh okay okay well there's a
lot of dispatch is written about a lot
of it recently and it was a headline I
think today so check it out
um
yeah it's it's a good program that they
they're doing over there I know it's
interesting so they did one a few weeks
ago where they had a lot of the new
developments and I was interested to see
that so many of them had a component of
like this Emma yeah I wonder
dinner
okay the one question I did add for the
mayor is have we have you thought about
well I brought it up last
uh council meeting by the mayor's
designee for housing officer
hashed out before we passed the
ordinance beside yourself
uh would it be yourself how yeah how is
it worded right now in this order so I
think it's just the house the mayor or
the mayor's designee shall service serve
as the housing officer which is how it's
been in the past so when we had a
development tractor the development
director was designated as an officer
are you saying it should well are we
going to have a designated Housing
Office yeah within our uh staff
currently if we pass this ordinance
would uh we know who no I I would it's
so the role of the housing officer is a
um
pretty narrow walking through the Turk
and the CRA
reporting uh it's not like a big long
term you kind of activate that role
during the annual reporting cycle and
the reporting of the Turk you know I've
been doing it for 12 years
yeah I just want to make sure I've
attempted at times to see if our finance
director who would be interested in
taking on some of those roles but it's
it's a very Niche kind of
wonkish field and it's fine I mean okay
somebody ever came along on our staff
who had
the economic development background I
had a passion board I would be more than
happy to
let them do housing opposite
responsibilities but like I said it's
just it's a fairly minimal uh obligation
okay I said something that then goes
through the auditor as well too it takes
a look at that so the Auditors involved
in the Turk practice in the Review
Committee
um and housing officer is just kind of
preparing all that documentation okay so
not just our auditor but the Franklin
County auditor right and then the State
of Ohio's Department of development okay
got it so a couple of so there's so
that's probably why it refers to
director in there I know you probably
haven't looked at my yeah suggested
edits because so there's going to be a
couple of
non-substantive what I believe to be
non-substantive amendments next time as
well the mayor still has to look at my
suggestions because there's a reference
in there to director and housing officer
and I think the intention is that's the
same person we just need to call it the
same person throughout probably Columbus
probably use the word director and so
anyway so there'll be a couple of
amendments but nothing significant
thanks man
all right so we're under first readings
I believe
so we have a first reading of ordinance
13-23 to provide for an advance to the
main street streetscape to fund from the
general fund repayable over a 10-year
period commencing in 2024 in order to
provide for Tiff eligible public space
improvements MS lamke
thank you um
as we previously discussed I think at
the last meeting we had asked the mayor
and the auditor to look at our finances
to see if there was a way to support our
upcoming year of the parks
given the Main Street streetscape Tiff
and I think based on conversations with
them they have determined that our
general fund is healthy enough to go
ahead and
fund this Tiff over a 10-year annual
payback period as noted uh
matter of Ben anything you want to add
to that
looks like you've got a presentation for
us
look at this anything you want to add
Matt
no I'm excited to see this these
fabulous bar charts again
be prepared to be excited this is this
is fabulous
um so this is what I was uh dropping the
ball on the uh abatement uh presentation
we were working on explaining this so
This Bar chart shows our
um our general fund reserves and how
they've tracked in the past five years
um
uh sorry my kids are texting me I gotta
close that
um and uh as you can see there's been
Healthy Growth over the years the green
line shows what we would have wanted to
be at over those five years based upon
Moody's
um 25 recommendation for reserve on our
operating budget that's a that 25 number
the number we were first socialized
probably eight or nine years ago and
have have worked at building up the
reserves uh to reach that and now exceed
it
um so you get a feel for where that all
plays out
um the ordinance in front of you is
suggesting that we advance 1.95 million
into the Tiff from the general fund this
dark blue shows you what would be drawn
down and in the general fund uh balance
uh to get to that point
and then uh worked on modeling well what
happens to a general fund if we draw it
so you can see this drawdown is
happening here in 2023 where it dips
um and we assumed Matt and I talked
through this the past four years of
growth in the general fund have averaged
uh about 900 some thousand dollars a
year on average of general fund balance
growth year to year
um worse we used a 500 000 number uh to
be conservative
um and showed what would happen if so we
had kind of average growth in the
general fund we would continue to grow
our reserves and stay within that
healthy amount um while paying back that
Advance back into the general fund from
the Tiff and of course at any time we
could
refinance that Tiff and kick money back
into the general fund if need be
what is uh that is I always write it
throughout the stupid question why does
Moody's increase from year to year is
that just a cost of living type
inflation type increase yeah I'm
assuming that our
overall operating expenditures increased
by three percent a year in this now but
why does the Moody's little green line
thing so it's the 25 is the constant but
the expense oh it's 25 of ours I I'm
sorry yeah that's it I knew it was a
dumb question all right good question
one question since you brought up
Moody's I know they're doing like a mass
review of a bunch of cities Across the
Nation I know Columbus just had their
meeting Moody's a couple weeks ago have
that
to my knowledge they're like getting
stricter on having
that triple A or that you know
stricter to have a good rating I'm not
sure if yeah I'm in our way or not
personally I mean I did reach out as we
were investigating
um different options on how to fund this
and talk to several different bankers
and one of the things that I brought up
was hey if we do X Y and Z and do this
how could that impact our Moody's
ratings and while they are not Moody's
analysts they are Bankers who are
partnering with Moody and making credit
decisions and they ultimately said
um it shouldn't have an impact on the
way Moody's would look at us and I they
none of them brought up
um any changes in the way Moody's is
looking at things
um so you know in short I don't really
answer that question but I also talked
to you know folks that I think would
have called it out if if there were
concerns
yeah
but I can we can I can I can track that
down yeah yeah
we haven't we haven't done that like the
last time we got a we actually had a
rigorous booties analysis it's been
quite some time because we just haven't
issued large-scale debt for a long time
the most the debt we've issued recently
has been um Community Bank based small
stuff and it's just
not that that matters I mean we want to
preserve our footprint but I think the
other thing is again it's just it's
reversible so if if need be we could
always feed back into that balance if we
needed a higher Reserve than the than
where we were at
the time
um two quick questions the first was
um if sometime in the future like you
mentioned if we have a less an average
growth or really bad off year or
something
structurally catastrophic happens we
would have the ability to refinance this
Tiff so that we would be able to
preserve and divert our general fund
funds towards other things if that was
the case correct okay and another point
that Matt and I were talking about that
I forgot to highlight so yes to your
question and also this the chart of
historical growth
built into that is the fact that we're
transferring money out of that into
other funds Capital fund infrastructure
fund so this is assuming we're still
doing those sorts of transfers
um we don't want to stop investing in
capital but that would be one of our
Escape valves that we would have is like
you know if for a year we need to take a
pause on some of those bigger
infrastructure Investments that wouldn't
be reflected into this graph this is
just assuming we're doing things
normally
great and the second question was um I
know we discussed this last week that
infrastructure development fund which
has Parks as part of it
um do you know what we've devoted or
what the balance is of that
infrastructure development I know you
showed me but I want to make sure
Council knew because it was a it was a
solid amount
yeah so it's it's three million dollars
right now in the infrastructure fund and
we have appropriated in the 700
thousands for uh acquisition as part of
a potential acquisition at Fernando
Mayfield okay thank you
any other questions from Council
you guys probably have already mentioned
this maybe you have have you napkin out
of according to this model how much that
would save us over 10 years
yes I did it was
gotta bear with me gotta find it Evan
spreadsheet somewhere do you have that
number inside of your head
and when you say save this
as well so self financing at zero
percent interest versus ten years if we
were gonna
well I yeah that I mean I think it's a
little bit more complicated because then
you're assuming that you're not you you
would earn money on interest rates over
time so I have not done that variance
um as to what we would ultimately what
what that would look like with that gap
between yeah I haven't done that that
comparison okay but I can do that yeah
yeah I mean that would be nice to know I
think that's you know the the
the napkin pieces of it just so you know
if if we were to borrow against it at a
four percent interest rate
arguably would be a little bit higher
than four percent right now
um that's a 240 000 annual Debt Service
so we would end up paying out 2.4
million so it's 500 000 more just over a
ten year period
um now obviously what do we earn on the
money in the general fund is a good
question okay yeah I'm just curious
any other uh
nothing else
um I think
we are moving on to table ordinances
I don't think we have any action on
tabled ordinances I don't see anybody
waving at me and if not we will move on
to no action just let you know we
reached out if I can Mr President yep we
reached out we are reaching out to
businesses to give them an opportunity
to take a look at the ordinance give
some feedback
provisionally trying to schedule an end
of April workshop with them so I'll talk
to you about that anyone who wants to
come this is for the universal recycling
yeah
so that they have it it'll be a midday 2
30 afternoon meeting
um
in the past we've been told that's the
easiest time for businesses in general
so um I'm sorry you said there's a date
already there is a provisional date okay
I just spoke with Elizabeth about today
I'm going to check with
um
just making sure that worked
provisionally I think we're thinking
of
uh the 26th of April at 2 30. Lori and
you on that okay
just have to make sure that that we can
get the letters out in time for that but
I think we can all right sounds good
sounds good
Numero Uno
Senora lamke
for it all right let's go to Mr
Marcelino
nothing in my uh capacity is safety and
health share but I I want to thank all
Council I reached out to each and every
one of you individually to discuss an
idea for office hours and for those of
the city the thousands listening tonight
I would like to tell you that each of
them were ecstatic to do so to make sure
that they were available to hear your
questions see you in person and meet
with you in their official capacity that
being said each week the mayor is going
to have uh uh information in the Bexley
blast about uh Bexley City Council
Office hours where one member of city
council will sit here at city council at
various times throughout the day to try
and accommodate everybody's schedule so
they can meet with anybody that can't
make it to tonight's meeting to ask
their question
um and or just wants to show us
something whether it be a picture of an
issue whatever it may be come one come
all it will start I'm going to start out
this uh Friday April 21st I'm going to
be here from one until three o'clock in
the afternoon see if that works for
anybody uh mayor if you can make sure
that goes out and I will have a sign up
for the next several weeks for the rest
of the council and once you get me that
back we'll make sure the mayor puts it
out every week and we'll see if anybody
comes
I hope you will join us as we are doing
this to make sure that we give more
opportunities to communicate with your
city uh uh leaders but I want to mainly
thank each and every one of you
including Jen who's not here
um for just being so willing to give
this a go because I know it's asking
more time away from your families and
other interests but I know you all
thought it was important as well so Sam
I know we're Limited in the uh legally
to having three members present in the
same place because this art is this
meant to be like like a spot for each
person each time or is this something
where it is you other people could come
in on it was meant to be uh where I
think if you can go up to two we can't
do three is my understanding um and so
if you wanted to sit with somebody else
I'm okay with that if you want to join
if there's two but if you step into
three we run into Sunshine Law uh
restrictions so let's just hold it why
would three be a problem
well again it depends what you consider
that group of people I mean three isn't
a problem if you're discussing amongst
yourself three of you getting together
to discuss a piece of legislation but
when you start having three people
sitting there
I I get a little uncomfortable about
that because whether it's a legal maybe
not a legal issue but you I think you're
representing to whoever's coming in that
this is council's gonna this is Council
we're talking to as opposed to one or
two members okay so I'm not sure that
it's the sunshine law issue but I but I
do it does make me uncomfortable if you
get over it too yeah and I I thought
it's more of a way to meet with Council
bring an issue
um that we can spread around to the rest
of the group and address it at the next
meeting if the person is able to be here
or get them an answer prior to that if
it's a simpler issue but again uh giving
more opportunities to connect with us
because I know not everybody can make it
at six o'clock on a Tuesday fair enough
and then when that that gets out then
maybe you know if there are people that
are interested or people contact you
that are interested uh you know there's
a little bit of flexibility there if if
that will uh help serve anybody else as
well sounds like
uh Mr Klingler
nothing to report other than we have two
YouTube viewers currently two two
thousand two there's there might be a
few Heroes missing there thanks for
those checking is one of them a city of
Bexley has a few zeros missing but they
go before the two unfortunately that's
five
yes I have a couple things that um I
want to share uh for our queen of green
uh Elizabeth ellman
um Happy Food waste prevention week
everyone
um since our pilot program started we
have we're approaching 1.5 million
pounds of material recycled
um we should hit that Mark around the
24th this month or the first of next
there was a special blast that went out
to talk about our Earth and Arbor month
information so there and there's a lot
of great stuff and please always know
that you can look at greenbexley.org for
all of that information
um just just really quick to highlight
and I would love it if all of us could
think about participating in the April
22nd cleanup day
um or trash talk with the mayor or the
Earth and Arbor Day celebration I
actually went on my the Facebook page
for
um green Bexley and went to the 22nd and
I went through my Facebook people
and I individually invited them to come
and I also then took that and shared it
and I know a lot of you have you know a
lot of friends on Facebook so if you
could if you could just click on 10 of
your friends and then personally invite
them that would mean a whole lot to to
Elizabeth
um and I think it would be a really
exciting thing to do
um please know that there's going to be
some food fun food trucks there so if
you're not really into green come for
the Kona Ice Comfort the food trucks
um come for the petting zoo
um so there's all kinds of really great
things a happening
and the exciting thing is it happening
you know and in our in our newest Park
so so
um check that out everyone and yes
so that's all end of report Miss Todd
um
only three council members on the slip
and slide at a time I just
wanted to remind Council that next
Tuesday April 18th from three to five
here in council chambers we will be
receiving training from lashandra Baker
for our um committed diversity Equity
inclusion training
if you the mayor and I will be speaking
with her tomorrow afternoon if anyone
has any topics or anything that they
would like to make sure is addressed
during that training session please
email mayor Kessler or I this evening so
we have that for that 30-minute prep
call
um before next week so I'll see you all
there and
um I want to just let everyone know rack
board meets tomorrow at the senior
center space at 5 30. and go Bexley 8th
grade baseball they beat Academy tonight
um 14-4
end of report thank you for setting up
that Dei training as well just really
appreciate that
um public comments
if not I'll take a motion to adjourn so
moved