anyway welcome to the tuesday april 12
bexley city council meeting like to uh
welcome everybody thank you all for your
service to our city
and uh just mentioned tonight we are of
course also thinking of the citizens of
ukraine and the uh the news that we see
coming in and tonight we have some
special guests that are going to
touch on that as well mr mcpeak will you
call the roll for us please
[Music]
fibo
here
klingler here lampke here marcelino here
markham here robinson here and sod here
now rise for the pleasantville pledge of
allegiance please
i pledge allegiance to the flag of the
united states of america and to the
robot for which it stands one nation
under god indivisible with liberty and
justice for all
our first special guest if you will note
that city council members mayor auditor
city attorney all wearing our nice blue
and
gold ukraine
bracelets made for us by our special
guest cole and taylor klingler would you
like to approach the podium and tell us
about your project please
go to evening council my name is cole
and this is my sister taylor tonight we
are here to present our braces stand
called riding bracelets you might ask
what is so good about these bracelets
first with the money we raised from
selling these bracelets we are donating
three hundred dollars to unicef to help
the children of ukraine we believe in
important to healthy ukraine in any way
you can
second the basis of fun and flash
motorway
as you can see we have brought in some
examples to show you you can find us
there's someone here that entrance at
the farmer's market on broadway
we could not have done this without the
help of our friends and all our
customers
thank you for your support
thank you both yes
thank you for your effort
thank you colin taylor and i should say
it's it's good to finally have people up
here we don't have to remind to speak
into the microphone you guys got that
down
all right we have we have some other
special guests here uh some appointments
um
who should introduce mr mayor do you
want to introduce our tim bets botanical
candidate for appointment to recreation
award tax
step to the podium
so
uh
i think some of you know tim i i i i'm
gonna claim some success for for tim
i don't think many people know this
story but i've met tim first before he
was even a vaccine resident thinking
about the job or you just gotten the job
and i did the hard sell for baxley over
at drinking giuseppe's
and it's the literally the only
recruitment effort that's ever actually
succeeded in mine so
thank you for uh thank you for falling
for it and joining us here in bexley
hit that button there
it was not the first or last um
job that has taken over drinking it just
just separates probably so
thank you mayor thank you tim for
joining us so tim had the the bad
fortune of joining us at the jeffrey
woods festival where we were talking
about the possibility of the recreation
board appointment he is the president
and general manager of the columbus crew
and i thought could lend us a unique uh
perspective to a rec board so
and he's walked by at the wrong time he
really did
and you know it's kind of a heady moment
you're making some maple syrup you're
chopping some wood and everything seems
good it seems literally cutting
wood
well i just want to thank thank mayor
for asking me and and ever since we
moved to the community it's been a um
it's been an honor to to be a part of
the community grew up in in westerville
and this is a different
um a different community a special one
and that you've all put together and and
just honored to serve and be a part of
any way i can so you know i think i've
fooled everyone with with the title and
the role that i'm currently in um i
don't know how i can help mike but that
if there are ways in your team uh that i
can be of service i'm i'm happy to do it
thank you thank you thank you for
joining us mr president yes
well i can i can top the mayor on this
one though
we have never met yeah but i would like
to think i have a little bit to do with
your success in life
first of all
my wisdom teeth are wonderful absolutely
not in my mouth thank you to your father
so i hope
i have to pay for your education and i
do believe that
i do believe that saint paul's was a
place where you went to school
and i'm wondering if you might know
walter miller of course yeah
miller so again not only did i help pay
for your education but my father helped
to educate you
so it's a very small
good to see you wow i am blown away by
your resume and
all the resumes of the people that are
candidates tonight like i i wrote
to ms valder today i said um
underachievers
major underachievers so anyway
i think but i had to tell you that silly
connection yeah that's mr yeah um
comfortable person incredible yeah
principal your dad was amazing
thank you thank you
any other questions or or comments for
our claims time
again thank you for for joining our uh
our efforts here and joining us tonight
thank you very much thank you appreciate
it thanks tim
next up we have ali d'angelo candidate
for the appointment to the recreation
board
welcome so ally um eclipses mr bez
pachenko's background
um good push and again
uh with the background as a uh
you're you have a masters in public
administration so he really clips all of
us in the world
um
and have some background i believe in in
recreation over ohio state university
and now work for the ohio department of
education where
can i out the fact that you oversee the
the report cards sure
yes
i apologize for mentioning that but uh
it's too late as the executive director
for the center for performance and
impact which is how we measure the
success of our programs for education in
the state of ohio correct so we're
honored to have you here this evening
and if you want to talk a little bit
more about your background and any
questions council might have sure tim's
kind of a hard act to follow um although
he was our child soccer coach at one
time
um and you helped pay for his education
probably
probably yeah
um
no like uh mayor kessler said i
work at the high department of education
have a long career in public service
um
i started my career in rec sports at
ohio state university and kind of
um
came to be a big rec sports recreation
um geek and have leslie knope
aspirations but i'm not coming for
mike's job
um
so yeah um i'm just uh you know we
we are working parents we have a kid in
all the programs um and attend all the
events and really it's it's been a
really
important part of our lives in bexley
everything that the recreation
department does so i'm delighted to be a
part of it
thank you very much do we have any
questions for
comments
thank you very much thank you very much
thank you
and we also have
michael steele candidate for appointment
as alternate to the architectural review
board mr steele
so mike it's on now oh now you turned it
off
you agree means good michael first uh i
i think you first submitted interest in
the airbnb in 2014
and i think yes i was just reviewing my
email and i think at the time uh
i think it was you know we were focused
on
what what different skills were bringing
to the board and i said you just hold on
tight we'll find it we'll find a time
for you
and fast forward eight years later uh
where i called michael up and i said hey
i feel like you know
you've got a great background for this
board mike has the background in um
design i'm gonna i'm gonna butcher this
so you can clarify you can pick up
pieces
but design and rendering which is a
really unique i think skill you bring to
the table in terms of taking so if you
see ever see those beautiful pictures of
architectural buildings that just bring
them to life michael's behind those
that's the sort of the work that he does
he takes those so the buckeye state bank
that jonathan barnes did okay
so
yeah i was going to make a joke that i'm
not going to make
it was all favorable to your enter um
the uh so i i appreciate you hanging in
there and your interest in the board and
maybe if you want to talk a little bit
more about your background and any
questions council has so i actually went
to school for urban planning after green
planning from the university of
cincinnati i graduated in 2005 and
rascal got offered a job actually doing
visualization so
it was for a firm called urs corporation
another ecom a giant multinational
company
um was hired by an instructor in school
and got a job around school and i was
right when things were kind of going
downhill so i was happy to make the jump
from cincinnati columbus and then
get into that field it wasn't really
where i intended to go visualization you
know korean writers i kind of thought
master planning or development or
something like that but found a niche
for dollars pretty good at it and i've
leveraged that into i'm about to
celebrate 10 years with my own company
it's called 801 creative
um done stuff for lots of developers
architects in town
and all the country and a couple of
national uh multinational places so
like i said
i bothered him yeah that bothered me i
think there was an opening right when i
moved to bexley i lived in south bexley
at the time
and we sat down talked and kind of
picked my brain on my thoughts and
vision
i think at the time it was more geared i
think more so
the zoning commission or something like
that but
as i've progressed to my career i think
i've become
i'm not an architect but i've done a lot
of architecture
so
i think my unique sense and my my my
vision and my my eye for detail will be
useful on the board when when called
upon it so
thanks michael
and i got a quote
any questions or
comments for our cats
thank you very much thank you for
joining us thank you
[Applause]
you guys are welcome to stay as long as
you want you are also more than welcome
to go about your wonderful lives on this
beautiful uh tuesday evening so look how
nice it is out there harm no foul
yeah that is true
don't you want to see matt
see matt
at this time on the agenda we have a
place for public commentary with a
speaker slip mr mcpeek do we have any
speaker slips
no speaker slips all right we will move
on then to the president's report i just
have a couple things i want to touch on
and first is to thank the mayor for the
tour of the dog park that we just took
before
we got down there to take a look at that
dog park which is we'll be starting
construction eminently right
eminently within months yeah that's
eminently really uh beautiful location i
think we were all really impressed i'm
just so excited to see that area uh come
alive and get some activity with those
dogs and the people coming down there we
saw the stalker fields in use tonight
and that area of bexley is really it's a
vibrant part of the city and and it's
exciting and uh i'm just really really
happy to see that i think it speaks well
for uh the state of our community which
by the way
also like to thank you for the state of
the community uh address last week uh
and uh it's great to see everybody there
and it's fantastic to hear from all our
community partners and to see all the
fantastic projects that we we have
coming up it really it really gets you
excited i think to be a part of the city
and certainly to be a part of the city
council i think
since we're talking about schneider park
i wanted to mention i know part of that
say the community address teased you
guys with a little
uh a new event called the smoke and fire
festival
that is the brainchild of uh alex
silverman uh he is pto president uh over
at montrose and he uh came up to me and
ben this summer at a block party and he
had this brainstorm for this competitive
cooking competition that he wanted to
put on and he found a receptive audience
in mr ben kessler
alex really
part of his dream was really also to
make this event at schneider park and to
again be bringing some activity into
that part of the city and so
we met with him again recently
is bringing on board picamp pennies and
steven sun as partners to that
it will be an exciting competitive
cooking event that will be uh a joint
venture with jaztime the park both back
to the owned businesses i might point
out
that's important to note yeah both seven
sun and peak town pennies effectively
owned businesses um
and we will
probably be looking for a visit from
alex he'll come here to talk to us and
at some point we will probably be asking
you to
uh look at an ordinance to okay maybe
sales of alcohol for that event as well
so
keep your eyes open for that
the
last item on my report is especially
tailored to
council member klingler
because i would like to report tonight
that
landmark heritage trees are alive and
well here in bexley yes
and your service chair and i lorianne
fibel along with sheila straub will be
uh we are pouring over the nominations
for those landmark trees and we will be
we'll be awarding some landmark tree
designations here as part of arbor day
did you nominate any
can you give us the information on how
we may nominate please yes as a matter
of fact i will be sending each of you
the link to that and i encourage you to
pass that along to people and also to
post uh nominations for trees in your
neighborhood
it is in the blast as always yes and you
can find it on the city uh
website part of arbor day celebration i
just have to mention that uh last night
uh mayor kessler and i also hosted a
talk with uh tree scientist uh meg loman
and uh we had a lot of fun learning
about uh her canopy tree projects all
around the world
and uh since we are
focused on trees here i think uh mayor
kessler also maybe you know
looked for some input as to how we might
uh expand some of those scientific uh
exploration projects here in the city as
well yeah we're actually gonna have to
hold off in the dog park because we're
now building a canopy walkway giant
canopy walkway there instead
that was the
kid just kidding
anyway that's the end of my report and
next we had the city attorney's report
so i have no report other than to say
that the city attorney expects to be
a judge at this cook-off
end of report
we'll pass that information on
and we're looking for cooking we'll be
looking for cooking teams i guess we
should mention too so if people are out
there thinking i think i'm part of team
kessler absolutely
um
next is the auditor's report and i have
taken a sneak peek at that and i am
excited to see this this the unveiling
of the new auditors relax wow
i mean
this is my shining moment um this is
glorious um
but yeah i mean i as i understood um
there haven't always been auditor
reports in the past so um this is our
maiden voyage
and uh the intent really is to just
create something that you can refer to
should you wish to um that will
provide you just a high level overview
of financials and then perhaps more
importantly start digging into a little
bit and give you more visibility to some
of the other funds that we just haven't
had visibility to
um so with that being said today um i
just have a couple things to walk
through one being is a letter to the
auditor so i'm going to say this name
incorrectly unless someone wishes to say
it on my behalf but is it mercelario
thank you
um we have a notice um from liquor
control um where they're requesting um
whether or not or they're asking if we
wish to have or a hearing for a
potential liquor license so my
understanding i mean if anyone wishes
for me to submit the request or to have
a hearing let me know if not i will
simply say that we do not wish to have a
hearing
that is just for a new liquor license so
um let me know um but i will be sending
this out tomorrow okay
um and then
you know what i'll do um is again just
provide quick references just of our
moody's ratings and financials if anyone
in the community asks you where that
stuff is um you can find it in the lower
left hand corner here
um on the right side is our general fund
um so beecher will continue to give
updates on the general fund but this is
just my intent to capture um this in
writing um so that we can reference it
in in future time should we wish to the
next slide is really what i'd like to
just talk a little bit about today um
and
again in the spirit of creating
increased visibility to these other
funds that exist
um i've picked the state highway fund
and the state make the street
maintenance and repair funds um at a
high level uh both of these funds are
funded by gasoline taxes um and motor
motor vehicle license fees
and you know we collect those funds and
we use those can't i don't i can't quite
see it here
um
in the
um
state highway fund we collect these
taxes and then we pay um we use these
funds to pay over time for snowplow and
salt um as well as several general
expenses um so in this fund we have an
uh annual budget of just under a hundred
thousand dollars and we have about 113
000 of cash sitting in in this
sequestered account
so it's a well-funded account and um
it's here to serve um you know with
those specific purposes and then we have
the street maintenance and repair fund
this is a slightly larger fund with an
annual budget um right around i guess it
looks to be about um
we'll call it 700 000. um it has a cash
balance of 389 so again it's well-funded
um but this is used to pay for the six
employees that provide general street
maintenance for the the community
um so you know again the purpose is not
to go into incredible in minutia these
these two accounts um and other ones
that we'll talk about but just again
create visibility to the other funds and
and how monies are being used to provide
services in the community
does anyone have questions
okay
love the visuals fantastic yeah these
look great
um from the auditor's report we go on to
mayor kessler's administrative updates
going to take us through those tonight
mr bayshore is with us
hi mayor hi city council
hey andy
good to see you
um i have my report attached and i do
not have anything
to add to that tonight
andy uh we had a great walk down the
path uh which is under construction for
schneider it's looking really good and
it was glad to see that it survived some
of the
some of the water high water levels uh
things are things are looking great so
just pass that on please to
the crew that's been working on that
that's shaping up real nice uh down
there i mean we still got some work to
do but it's gonna it's gonna turn out
pretty good
and uh council will know we do have a
border control meeting after this uh
where we will be reviewing the street
project for this summer
um the bids came in for that and also
the
uh food waste uh recycling contract
any questions for andy
andy thanks so much
thank you
order control if that works okay
all right you want me to text you on
that
sure do you know okay
all right thanks daddy
um
captain uh chief goff is uh on vacation
this week so his his written update is
attached any questions um pertaining to
that
okay
that's a fantastic question that i also
wanted when i read that um and i don't
know if our city attorney knows that but
it's the first time i've seen that
reference
so i believe and i'm not a criminal
lawyer so monique or sam can jump in
maybe if they but i believe a true bill
is as opposed to somebody being indicted
through grand jury and i don't know the
differences and then
of why you
understood the truth
i don't know uh because it's there in
conjunction with grand jury
um
i believe that it's just that they
received an indictment through the grand
jury that's what it looks like
sam says that's right i think that's
correct yes
sounds
sounds good to me
um
and
mike price is here with us
thank you mayor um just a couple quick
highlights uh the next the summer
activity brochure should be delivered
this week so hopefully
you all will begin to see that in your
mail we'll have hard copies we have some
here we'll have them at city hall as
well
um so we're excited this is our first uh
printed brochure since the pandemic hit
so we're excited to be
uh taking a step back towards that
um and then i also wanted to highlight
the bexley bloomers organization which
is back for our second year which will
start up
in
early may we have a welcoming breakfast
uh in april
but the bexley bloomers or volunteer
organization that
focused their efforts mainly at jeffrey
park but also
commonwealth in other areas within the
city and it's a group of volunteers
every thursday during the summer spring
summer from 9 to 12
they spend time helping to improve the
gardens and the areas within the
jeffrey park so
um if anyone has any interest has any
free time on thursday mornings they
would love to have more volunteers so if
you can help spread the word mary mcmunn
heads up that group and is the point of
contact if anyone's interested in
volunteering some time
end of report
thank you any questions for mr price
beside
mike when is the welcome breakfast
april what i didn't have that date it is
april
28th
let me verify one second
april 28th um
reach out to mary um
to get added to an rsvp and then we're
doing we're making some omelettes
jeffrey so
no pancakes we're we're stepping up our
games
thank you mike mr mr hale is with us i
don't think there's a
report from from beecher but
nonetheless
that is correct sir i have no report
we'll have the march numbers at the next
um
at the next meeting uh
one brief
little thing in advance um income tax
still is good we're a little behind
budget but significantly ahead of next
year or excuse me last year
um
and
um but again i'll have the complete
report for you
uh next meeting and that's all i got
thank you beecher
any questions for beecher
all right
thanks speech um
yep
all right uh some some quick items for
my update actually
somebody just jogged my memory by saying
welcome breakfast which i understand was
to the gardeners but it reminded me that
we should get back on doing welcome
events for new residents so if anyone
wants to help me plan one
i think it's about time for that
uh litter pickup we're doing one on
saturday at noon
uh elizabeth is a task master and uh if
any council member would like to be
featured as a guest of that i will say
i'm going to be at the egg dash at noon
as well but that's over by 1205.
so
uh
elizabeth's
gonna get it launched
uh i will join with the city truck uh a
little bit later but um
and and to that point the egg dash is on
saturday at noon
and do not be late and if anyone you
know is coming
it took me like two years of learning
this as a young father to realize
the abject disappointment that i
subjected my children to is not worth it
another fun thing coming up um
is on arbor day the 29th we are doing we
we've been doing breakfasts here with
the chamber of commerce
traditionally where we kind of give the
chamber a city update sort of the
material from our city to the community
rehashed
this year we're gonna have a full-on
maple syrup pancake breakfast with our
own maple syrup first time ever so put
that in the history books
we get a lot of questions about the
community yard sale free cycle day
that's may 14th
i have an extensive chief of police
search update on the second page
today
it is my understanding and i haven't
checked this that the the position
actually is now advertised
uh fully on the ralph anderson website
they're going to start advertising that
yep it is on their site
um along with this brochure which is
attached to my update
um and thanks for those of you who thank
you for looking at all of you for taking
a look at that give me some feedback um
so there's
you can see right there that we're
looking at a uh
late june when we're mid to late june
when we're getting into the actual
interviews i propose i have proposed an
interview committee that is outlined
here
it includes
members of our civil service commission
chair of our civilian review board and
some council members
i feel it's important to have some
council members on it i hope that
if any of you feel like you were wronged
by not being on that list i have some
logic to it um and i think all of you
would be great on it um i did i wanted
to make sure that we had a
kind of a good robust perspective from
council um
and
i welcome feedback on this because i
have not finalized this
list at all what i will guarantee you is
that your input is going to be
incredibly important throughout
obviously you have to confirm this
individual
whether or not you're on an interview
committee i care a lot about what you
see and
and as you look at the different
candidates um and certainly we'll have
access to that process of course also
envision that we have a town hall or
similar public forum
in late june with our finalist
candidates similar to what the school
district did with the chief
not the chief the chief superintendent
superintendent of schools
um
our i have a couple updates about bike
friendly baxley we're making some good
progress on the boulevards internally
and also we are bringing on board an
intern this summer who will be working
on that as well
as some other connectivity projects
marcus dumel
uh was vetted and uh recommended by
morpsy
um it's a pride it's a internship that's
partially funded by the eastern future
vision fellows and we're really excited
to be part of that partnership
and then i have some pictures i want to
highlight that rebecca ness
was recognized by the bexy women's club
for their award for community service
um attended a great event at st charles
for as part of their black history
event
and finally we got our bike fix-it
stations up at montrose and casting ham
coming soon to maryland
and uh
you can't quite tell but maybe you can
there's all sorts of different
in there
so that's a community foundation funded
equipment it's part of our bike fix-it
program
where we take bikes that are donated and
fix them up for families and kids in
need and you can see um
all that equipment which was funded from
the community foundation from the
trailer to the
to the mechanics stations um and
volunteers who have been working for the
past nine months uh and it's this is our
first off site where we went to a
playground we're gonna be doing more of
that so it's been a really fun program
and anyone who wants to
participate whether as a donor or a
volunteer
certainly welcome and grateful for that
and there's a picture of your council
president looking very erudite
thank you
and that ends my report i'm happy to
take any questions
mayor kessler where is the location at
cassingham of the bike repair
so the cast in ham one is between the
middle and high school and the biggest
kind of bike
rack area which initially i'd envisioned
it would be the playground but actually
the more i thought about it like if you
think about where the kids are with
their bikes it makes a lot of sense so
that's where the schools wanted us to
place it and i i
i approve
it's a good location
um so you can check it out there and
then maryland's honestly i don't know
where it's do you know where it's gonna
be in maryland i haven't
staff service staff and the school
district worked out about where they
felt was the best location um there will
be one near the pool as well
um and it'll
we're thinking it's gonna be off the
sidewalk so it's more accessible to the
bike path users there will be signage
near the bike path directing people to
it if they need it
um and then schneider park will get one
schneider park one is an additional one
that darn has requested um
when we first at we asked for four
thinking it would you know kind of cover
every area and then
it makes sense to have
mayor i had the chance to attend the
state of the community address and for
for everyone who was not able to attend
i think it was uh recorded and is
probably available on our city youtube
websites we're working on it okay it'll
it'll be there um the audio we had some
issues so we but we have multiple
sources so we're trying to
get it all together so there's some
production work going on right now
well i was i was so excited to hear not
only about the things that we
currently have in the works but
what's coming you know a few years out
i think it's safe to say that bexley's
best days are still ahead and to commend
you for putting that together and
getting us all so excited about what the
next couple years for bexley thank you
thank you all for your support of the
event i think it means a lot it's it's
been great to see every year how it
truly becomes more and more of a state
of the community and it's it's the
community is really owning it so it's
been fun thank you
thanks guys
all right thank you very much
next item we uh we bring in our city
attorney mr official all right we can do
things on two items on the consent
agenda the meeting minutes of 322 2222
and ordinance 7-21 to amend 682.22
disposal of animal fecal material
required to eliminate the requirement to
carry equipment that was introduced by
mr marco you're going to miss reading
that title
any uh
comments or questions on the consent
agenda
and i get a oh i'm sorry any comments
from the audience
all right
can i get a motion on the consent agenda
please
motion to approve
by mr klingler and standing by
i'm sorry i thought i entered the second
bite
i jumped out there too sven
uh mr mcp
fiber
marcelino yes robinson
yes
yes markham yes klingler yes inside yes
motion passes
all right on to third readings then we
have a third reading of resolution 1-22
confirming the mayor's appointments of
members to the architectural review
board the citizens review board the
recreation board and the board of zoning
appeals and planning introduced by ms
robinson
yes we thank you uh mayor kessler for
organizing the uh the um
uh nominees to be here tonight i it was
it's really great to see and we are so
lucky i mean we say this all the time
but we're so lucky to have such talented
people who are willing to be of service
in our community i mean seriously um
really really impressive now um so we
are confirming my understanding is that
this has been amended and we have taken
um one of the nominees out will she she
will be attending the next meeting um so
we've taken her
this and added her to a first reading so
you'll see that later um so um my first
uh motion would be to approve the
proposed amended resolution uh 121.
second
you mean 122. oh yes 122. thank you
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second what one other further note if i
may real quick
mr coleman who was a
appointee professor to the
citizen review board
um
works in the
in the federal court and i'm i'm
blanking on which federal court he works
in but um
he he had an opinion that he has a
conflict of interest if there's any item
that comes before them with a law
enforcement issue
um so felt like he needed to maybe not
not be appointed to that after all so
unfortunately i was really excited about
him as an appointee so
i am still on on the uh i'm gonna go
back to the drawing board with the folks
who have put their name in and um
uh continue to
uh analyze our
potential point teacher we have a motion
to approve by ms robinson and a second
by mr klingler do we have any questions
or comments from city council members
yes
we also open this up to our audience for
questions or comments without a speaker
slip
and again this is the motion to approve
the amendment oh i'm sorry i wasn't
aware of that
it is we are now amending it okay i've
got you mr mcpeek call the roll please
thanks back to you mr mr markham
oh no give us the give us the roll call
i'm doing that now mr martin oh you're
up first i'm first
yeah the pressure is on
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yes
um robinson yes marcelino yes lampke yes
swingler yes bible yes and
yes motion to our man passes mrs
robinson
so then my next motion will be that we
approve proposed amended resolution 122.
motion to approve by mr robinson second
seconded by mr klingler and annie
comments on the motions to approve from
or questions from city council
and again opportunities in the audience
if you wish
all right mr mcpeak
robinson
yes liam key yes bible yes marcelino yes
assad yes markham yes klingler yes
ocean passes
all right moving on second readings we
have a second reading of the ordinance
is that okay
yeah
second rating of ordinance 8-22 to
approve the collective bargaining
agreements between the fraternal order
police ohio labor council inc and the
city of bexley introduced by ms lamke
mr official would you just give us a
brief reminder of this ordinance please
sure so this is the second reading uh
the
um for the new three-year collective
bargaining agreement that's effective
for the dispatchers and the animal
control officer from january 1st 2022 to
december 31st 2024 with a four percent
increase in each year of the collective
bargaining agreement and some other
minor exchanges that have been shared
with you and i believe are attached as
well
so the union has approved this already
so as soon as you guys you this body
approves it and again it doesn't have to
be suspended and adopted it's fine if it
needs two more weeks then it will go
into effect officially and
the finance director will have to
compute some back wages thank you so
much of any questions from council
is this a consent agenda material or not
is any anyone opposed to putting this on
the consent agenda yep okay sounds good
we can put that on the consent agenda
for next meeting
one word
all right up to the down to the first
readings the first reading goes
resolution 2-22 mark you skipped one
yeah we've still got another second
reading oh i'm sorry i apologize thank
you i'm sorry second reading of
ordinance 9-22 to establish the
part-time position of finance and
personnel coordinator and to establish
the pay range at 24.84 cents per hour to
35.87
per hour introduced by ms lamke
thank you mayor would you um just
briefly describe this one as a reminder
what this new position would entail
please so this is a this is a previously
existing position it was filled by a
former sergeant
uh robert martin
uh who has has fully retired from it
it's a part-time position no this is
you're getting the pit this is the one
in your eyes oh my gosh i'm sorry
thank you everything you said cut and
paste to a future discussion thank you i
was so laser focused
um so this is uh
do you want to start off with what this
is mr otter and i'll kind of pitch it on
it
yeah so you know at this point in time
the finance department is a lean
operating group and the purpose of
adding this role is really to improve
controls and increase segregation of
duties amongst that finance team so um
this will be a budget neutral uh
part-time position uh that we hope to
post to the market or the community soon
and find some some folks to help us with
this these activities in addition um to
the finance activities we will help um
with certain hr related activities
primarily around enrollment and and
other duties as as needed to support
our great team
um so any questions
mr marcelino
will there be any breakdown or
comparison in regards to potentially
moving this to full-time i just put a
lot of thought into it was introduced
and it just seems like a
potential liability from city not to
have somebody full-time handling these
matters
yeah so what um
the the purpose of this position
is laser focused on controls in the
finance area um we have talked about um
the concept of a full-time hr person
um we chose to separate that discussion
from this position because i think
that's a bigger broader
more complicated discussion particularly
because it wouldn't be budget neutral um
so i do think that that conversation you
know does need to continue um but the
decision was to again stay laser focused
on on this position from a control
standpoint
okay so i guess just to clarify because
i believe the first time i was
introduced there was discussion of an hr
function to this position this will not
have anything to do with hr yeah i'm
sorry there will be certain hr
activities but it would primarily be
i'll say administrative
around the annual enrollment and helping
support
those activities but it's not intended
to be
i think what you're saying and that is
it
a true hr professional that comes in
with that you know life experience thank
you for clarifying yeah
any other questions from council
one one additional comment i want to
offer is that i think that this new
position has the
ability to create some uniformity across
some departments in certain areas which
i think
would be a welcome addition
would anyone if there are no further
questions would everyone be all right
with putting this on the consent agenda
i
actually would not okay no problem we'll
keep it on as a third reading
all right let's move on we are into
first readings all right first reading
of resolution 2
2-2
i thought it was my phone at first it's
on it
first reading of resolution 2-22 to
participate in the ohio department of
transportation annual roadside bid in
accordance with ohio providers code
section
5513.01 b and hereby agrees to all of
the following terms and conditions in
its participation of the odot road salt
contract introduced by ms lamke thank
you mr official uh mayor do you want to
just give us a brief overview of this
resolution of what it would allow um
to be done
this allows us to participate in the
odot road salt bid
it's something we pass every year uh
odot bids road salt for communities
throughout ohio by participating in it
we are given access to pre-favorable
rates for assault
it's required
i believe it might need a suspension
adoption i heard is it this meeting or
next
i was my understanding it was this
meeting but i don't know for sure i
think that is correct okay
um so the the this happens almost every
year odot sends us the language they
don't anticipate that we require third
readings or even maybe seconds uh or
care so uh it's a it's it's a fairly
rote ordinance that just gives us the
ability to enter into that uh that
contracted
price any questions on the resolution
action ms lam key yes i move to suspend
the three reading requirement for
resolution 2-22
second that
any comments or questions if not
mr mcphee
miss fibel yes mr robinson yes mr
klingler miss lampke yes
yes
mr markham yes and mr marcellino yes
passes
mrs lamke
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i motion to adopt resolution 2-22 second
then
any comments or questions
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mr mcp
oh
audience oh
it's the first suspended adopter we do
that i guess right yeah all right i'm
learning
we open this to comments or questions
from the audience
thank you mr mcpeak
miss lamke yes robinson
mr klingler yes ms
mr
marcelino yes this side yes and mr
martin yes
all right so that uh motion a resolution
passes um moving on to ordinance 10-22
to establish the
rate for the police administrative
assistant at 32.72
cents per hour effective march 21st 2022
introduced by ms lamke all right and now
mr mayor you can talk about the police
administrative assistant position so the
uh the rate as as approved by council
was 30 and 60 cents an hour
sergeant martin has retired from this
part-time position
um
the most likely candidate is currently a
part-time dispatcher
who is being paid 32.7
to an hour
that's a so it's a fairly negligible
increase but it allows
the dispatchers to make the same amount
doing this duty as they do as a
dispatcher the police administration
feels that it's you know it makes sense
to compensate at this level this person
is kind of higher level doing um
evidence room management um
more sort of hands-on administrative
type support for the department on a
part-time basis
uh it is budget neutral because it's
been vacant for just a little bit so it
will not hit this year's budget um it
would have a marginal impact on next
year's budget
great thank you and natalie thank you
for attaching the position description
in my request today and they'll also do
all the hr stuff so we'll have all that
covered
that's not true that was a joke sorry
that was not true are there any
questions from council regarding this
ordinance
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move us on
okay we have a first reading of
ordinance
12-22 to appropriate 111 000 dollars
god what is my problem today sorry slow
down and take a breath apologize
how about a first reading of ordinance
11-22
to provide for designated off-leash
areas within schneider park introduced
by mr marcelino you're just trying to
get same to the concert i can tell i do
appreciate that you're you're a rocket
man um as we know
look at the guy i appreciate it
that's it all right
uh as you all saw we have a wonderful
dog park coming thank you to all who
have made that possible um you know we
are building this uh dog park for our
dogs we want to give them some areas to
be free um roam the trails and enjoy
nature a bit uh and so this ordinance
would allow for specific areas to
include a leashless area where dogs can
be off of the leash whereas throughout
the rest of the city they're required to
be on the leash it's important to note
that there will be um areas where dogs
are required to be on the leash and
there will be an entrance for the dogs
to enter on leash without interacting
with the dogs necessarily off the leash
outside of there but it just provides a
bit of freedom for the owners that want
to let their dogs run the trail a bit
more anything to happen there
um
no only to say this the language that
talks about reasonable control is is
stolen directly from the city of
columbus so it's kind of a similar
language that they've used within wolf
park and others
um and as long as you're somewhere on
the yellow brooker road you'll be you'll
be good
off off-leash
questions or comments from city council
[Laughter]
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all right if not i guess
we are moving on
all right
what about crocodiles off leash
all right sam's never going to get out
we're going on now to ordinance at 12 22
to appropriate 111 000 to the pool
management account
14-550-51190 to cover the additional
costs associated with an increase in pay
rates for staff an increase in chemical
costs and to take on the costs
associated with running the pool
concession stand and to add a swimming
pool fund concession stand revenue in
the amount of 75 000
introduced by ms lamke
thank you so much for those of you who
had a chance to look at mike price's
report he kind of gave a preview to this
but since he's here in person
mike would you just kind of run us
through
the need for this ordinance sure um a
couple days after our last council
meeting in which i talked with council
about
pay rates for seasonal staff
specifically at the time
preschool and camp
we had a meeting with swim safe
management and their experience the same
thing we experienced with camp
uh which is uh our current going rates
for uh seasonal staff is not sufficient
to entice applications
and so they came back to us with a very
similar number of well same number of 12
hours but they'd like to move starting
pay
um and that equates to a 32 700 change
uh increase in the contracted rate with
swimsafe um they gave us a breakdown of
how those numbers came about and
everything sort of checked out from our
end
um
they also indicated that they're seeing
a 46.6
increase in chemical costs um which was
a 3 800
roughly 3800 increase
uh to the contracted rate so they've
asked for an increase uh from an
operational standpoint of again roughly
about 36 thousand dollars
um
we also at the same uh around the same
time we heard that our pool concessioner
got under contract for 2022
is no longer able to provide that
service
um
we are obviously timing's not great for
that we're working as quickly as we can
to
make sure we have an operational pool
concessions and we did reach out to swim
safe as a um just to see if it would be
an option for them to provide that
service
and they provide us pricing for that
they do they have done that in other
facilities it is not their primary sort
of
um
you know their primary role but they
have done that or are capable of doing
that so they provide us pricing for that
uh the operational cost of about 35 000
for the staffing
um we're estimating about 40 000 uh
dollar cost to purchase food
um and then all the revenue under this
concept would come back to the city so
that's why you see a 75 000 offset and
new revenue um which is sort of uh
you know we're hoping a flat expense if
you will um to the pool fund uh now i
say that to say we are also currently
um reaching out to other potential food
vendors
um but you know this is somewhat an
issue of timing and we want to make sure
we have at least an option set up
so we can pull the trigger if and when
we're ready to do that um
and i fully expect if we decide to go a
different route i.e a different food
vendor uh which would probably be set up
similar to what previous food vendors
are in which we don't have any costs
associated we just get a percent of
gross and they use the space that we can
we would come back and say eliminate
these costs out of the budget back out
so it wouldn't be
available money for that contract um
that's the general that's the general
gist of it um
but again the main piece of it which is
operation of the pool they're they're
saying the same thing that we're seeing
which is that we can't get staff at the
rates we've had in the past
and thank you mike and it's my
understanding that you want us to
suspend and adopt this tonight so
hopefully everyone had a chance to look
at it
what questions this council have
miss sod
mike um as
we discussed at our park and rec meeting
and so did a lot of the board members
poolside grow i know we hate to not have
them back because they were successful i
think uh you quoted like 120 in receipts
1000 um which was higher than we'd ever
had a vendor do and the community was
very responsive to the healthy options
at the poolside grill that was very
successful
and so i know that you are working you
and katie very hard to try and
secure a vendor that may
be able to line up with what we were
providing um a similar menu to the pulse
side grille i do also understand that
they're not back because they weren't
able to staff
and so it is important for us to be
considering another option
with our current uh pool
uh swim safe vendor but i do hope that
we
just try our hardest to secure a healthy
um
you know uh
poolside vendor like we had with
poolside grill just because i know that
the community was very excited about
that option and we had waited for it for
a while so yeah and i will say um you
know fingers crossed we've actually
over the last couple days had some
interest from some various vendors that
were
that may be a good option um but there's
still a little bit of work to be done on
that
any more questions for
like ms robinson
um can you speak to
whether you feel and what success you've
had with the the other issues of hiring
that can you speak to whether twelve
dollars an hour you feel is going to be
the right number um or if if at some
point there there might be something
that would be higher than that
that's a great question so first thing
is swim safe um uh separate from our
discussion about uh camp staff actually
came to us with a 12 number from their
research as well so their research
matched what we've been seeing
uh and they they looked at different
pools uh they also did research on what
businesses within bexley are paying sort
of a seasonal startup position so
um they did their own separate research
that happens to match pretty much what
we we had down i will say with camp
since we've increased our um our camp
hourly rate to 12
we uh doubled our applicants in the
first week so
we have had it has
been fruitful
uh we probably have a hand at last i
understood we had a handful of positions
still to to get applications and on but
it has been much stronger than it was
originally so we feel pretty good that
that's a number that will work but we'll
have to continue to assess
as we go through this
any more questions
action ms lamke yes i move to suspend
the three reading requirement for
ordinance 12-22 i will second that any
comments from city council
and any comments from the audience mr
mcpeak pleased
minnesota
yes mr klingler yes ms robinson yes mr
markham yes miss viable yes
yes and mr marcelino yes
passes mrs lamke
i motion to adopt ordinance 12-22 i will
second that any comments or questions
from city council
is fiber mike i just um i want to
um
applaud
how
resilient your department always is
how amazingly agile
you guys always are you're always
i mean
i know your department really got hit
hard
during covid and you all had to really
really be flexible and really think out
of the box and i just
i i our our our community is so blessed
by you and the culture that you have
created in your department so hooray you
so thank you thank you and thank you
council for all the support we really do
appreciate it
further comments
once again to the audience
mr mcpeak
miss lampke yes miss sod yes mrs
yes mr marcelino yes the assad i'm sorry
miss robinson yes miss marcum yes and mr
klingler yes motion passes
all right try to do this correctly i
believe we are on to ordinance 13-12
to amend
1226.18
appeals to the board of zoning and
planning in order to specify the
applicant as the appellant in certain
institute instances introduced by mr
klingler
thanks mr official um
mayor do you want us to speak to this
one
yes
so this this um
the genesis of this ordinance came from
the bees app chair who suggested that we
look at tweaking 12
26.18
appeals to board of zones and planning
after
a neighbor
of someone who had their fence installed
recently to code conforming to the code
uh wanted to appeal
the permit that had been issued for that
fence uh being constructed
and
the chair bees app and other members uh
kind of construed the language on in
2012 26.18
uh to suggest that that neighbor had the
ability to appeal the permit decision to
allow the fence
um i will note without putting words so
i'll put words in the mouth of the city
attorney who can then clarify further uh
it's the opinion of our cities attorney
and our zoning attorney that the
in this particular case the the
complainant did not have uh standing to
do so
relative to our code and i don't think
it's going to happen i don't think the
hearing is going to go forward but that
has yet to be determined by the be zap
a cure for that that was suggested by
chair b hall
was that we clarify that only applicants
have the ability to appeal decisions of
the zoning officer or the air b
now that is to be clear that's a little
different than it's been in the past so
i want to differentiate when there's a
zoning officer decision
that's a decision that staff has full
authority to approve that covers things
like roofing shingles windows
um
fences yeah driveways that sort of thing
that conform to code so if the fence is
within the right height in the right
location staff can sign off on it
and it's not really been a question that
somebody has the ability to appeal a
decision that somebody can do something
per code um so that that makes sense
arb's a little different arb
reviews things that are allowed
by code in terms of by form so
maybe an addition
that is within all the setbacks and
therefore you are legally allowed to put
up
subject to arab review
in the past we have heard aarb appeals
um
the difference between an air b and b
zap case is generally speaking air b
again their zoning right is fully vested
somebody can all day long build the
thing that the air b is
although the arb is doing is making an
aesthetic determination that's different
than a variance the b z would hear where
somebody's asking for an exception from
the law right
so
the way that this ordinance has been
crafted after discussion with be all
mr fishel ms cunningham mr klingler
is that it it specifies that any so any
decisions of the zoning officer or air b
uh be able to be appealed by an
applicant only with the exception of
arb decisions that pertain to demolition
so that's that's kind of the area of arb
that air b
primarily is looking at additions
changes that are within the code
demolition has it as you guys know
a different level of sensitivity some
additional considerations but it is
still an air b determination
so the way this is written
um
an applicant with standing would have
the ability to pull an arb decision
relative to demolition which is
historically how it's been as well
um
so that is
well not just an applicant but also a
property owner with standing right so so
if i can just jump in there so so with
the passage of assuming this ordinance
is passed an applicant would still have
the right to appeal a decision from the
zoning officer
an applicant would also stop the right
to appeal a decision from arb
but a neighbor who otherwise might have
had standing if it was a bizap decision
would not have the right to appeal any
zoning officer decision which in my
opinion they don't currently and but it
would also eliminate the air the
neighbor's ability to appeal the arb
decision on aesthetic things
still preserving the neighbor's ability
to appeal a decision approving a
demolition i get that right okay i just
want to make sure because it gets a
little bit confusing
questions
i think i'm a little confused but it's
just a first reading so i will read it
um but mr official
if you if you simplify it
what rights of appeals that currently
exist would this be taken away
in my view it would be taking the only
thing it would be taking away is a and a
neighbor with standing so within the
certain
foot feet radius that they would
otherwise have standing with bees at a
neighbor who was standing
could no longer appeal aesthetic
decisions made by the aarb that's what
they would lose so if the arb says that
that off-white color is okay a neighbor
could no longer appeal and say i don't
want off-white i want bright orange or
whatever
although arb doesn't regulate color but
yeah no okay that was a bad example but
you understand but i think what i'm
saying thank you for that clarification
speaking of neighbors who prefer bright
orange is round
not on my house not on my house
how many times have have
we encountered a circumstance where
somebody is potentially
trying to appeal a decision based on
aesthetics has that happened before
it's i i can't think of one that purely
fits within this chain
one that pops to mind is there was an
appeal
of a decision about the aesthetics of
the what is what was the bexley premier
restaurant
oh okay it wasn't a variance they they
did appeal the design review but the
wrinkle with that was because it's a
commercial property design review also
goes to bezap
so it was appealed to council so they
they would still have had the right to
do that so that doesn't even that
wouldn't have changed the outcome with
this
um
we've had demolition appeals those
uh i don't know i
many of them have been at the applicant
who have appealed that decision so
um i would have to go back and do a full
honor accounting of any but i can't none
of them come to my eye that would have
been impacted by this yes so so make no
mistake this
this ordinance was generated by the
defense situation that the mayor just
shared um and while i believe and
catherine cunningham believes that
our ordinance is clear enough that that
that there is no up right to appeal that
type of decision
i think bzdap has requested to clarify
and that's when it led to some more
review of
what really makes sense and what's fair
to homeowners the b zap recommendation
was just say applicant only but then we
thought through what does that mean
in the demolition case and
you know i think we continue to talk
through this like if there are other
cases you think of where you're like
well what would have happened in this
instance
um
but i mean i do think you know
we have a duty as leaders this is me
editorializing a little bit um to
uphold property rights and to say you
know there are certain things that
you know you buy property you have an
expectation that you can do
within the bounds of the law certain
things to your property and not get um
wound up in legal proceedings that can
at times seem frivolous and i do think
that
i have observed
many relationships between neighbors
where things have devolved to that point
and i don't think that that's fair to
the person whose property rights exist
so i think matt and i've talked about
that just about the desire to preserve
reasonably preserved property rights
obviously if something rises to the
level of b-zap because it's a variance
conditional use special permit any of
these things
you know that
that opens the field again because it's
a totally different concept but
i think that's the genesis the thought
the thought behind kind of a honoring
the the the
request of from the be zap chair and
then be thinking throughout how to
handle that
sure
any more questions
all right okay we are on to ordinance
14-22 to amend section
1266.14 solar panels in order to provide
for consistent regulation and a
streamlined approval process for solar
solar panel projects introduced by mr
klingler
thanks mr fishel solar panels are
becoming more and more popular which is
a great thing
this
this ordinance just
it does what it says it streamlines
it allows city staff to review and
approve
installation of solar panels whereas now
it goes to the architectural review
board
correct
correct well in certain state yeah
insurgency yeah in certain
circumstances
do you have anything to add i'm sure um
you do
it was
when we were doing an audit of our soul
or ordinance uh soul smart which is a
national organization advocating for
solar panels suggested the changes that
you're seeing
um there they had a there's kind of two
major points that are captured in this
ordinance
one is that
if you create design standards uh that
staff can be trained to
administer them and approve you know
staff currently approves
what i believe are analogous situations
we just discussed windows
roof
surfaces
fences uh solar panels certainly could
fall into that category you arguably
could say that they could especially
because the way that our code is written
it is a right
um and then the other piece was they
they had a lot of comments of the ground
mounted solar piece
we had our ground ground-mounted solar
law currently
requires additional setbacks above and
beyond what you would have for an
accessory structure additional screening
above and beyond what you would have for
an accessory structure and their
commentary was that it should match your
accessory structure requirements
i personally agree with that that's up
to you guys to decide uh it does allow
the uh
you know the staff to review that
subject to design guidelines that are
approved by council
ultimately and then um make it a faster
decision on it and we've had
you know we've had a fair amount of
solar cases that have been pretty
difficult on the applicant um
as they've tried to navigate the air be
processed you know you're dealing with
air b you're dealing with five different
opinions you're dealing with um
some
you know some some decisions that will
ultimately raise the cost of the project
perhaps one could argue unnecessarily
um
and i'm happy to answer your questions
that's fibo
um so
i guess i have two questions when you're
talking about accessory structure so
we're talking about like garages in the
back for example sheds garages okay so
that that's
so the ground solar panels would have to
be as far back as what we have to have
okay
um my other question is is when
when does somebody other than staff have
to
still
when they're on the front
okay yeah front facing okay
so that's the only time that a solar
panel
i'm sorry up on the roof that's not
correct would have to
all all solar panels are serviced
architecture review
um
the front there's some additional
requirements for front facing solar that
it currently requires to have a
feasibility study
which isn't really well defined it isn't
defined at all so it doesn't say what
that means um the intent of that
language was that you would need to have
front-facing solar in order for your
project to
financially pencil out for what you
wanted to do but again there was no
definition so anyone could come in and
say that they needed it for feasibility
this takes it and says
that takes that section away and allows
staff review but before all solar panels
were supposed to come before arb for
collar configuration
how well hidden the infrastructure was
all things again that you know we have
design consultants who have great
experience and
and are able to make those
determinations as well yeah
a plus of ma i mean my impression and i
think the mayor alluded to this is that
it seems like there have been from time
to time unnecessary burdens put on or
hurdles for those seeking to do solar
panels have to jump through and we've
learned from those i know that in the
past some things have been changed and i
think this is just another step in that
process again understanding that they
still have to con
go through a staff review people can't
just do it and then again you know the
the all the requirements of the
ancillary structure apply as well
yeah it's not
as easy
okay i mean it was it was
it was hard
so as i read this this could really
expedite the process and the timing and
help our residents get their solar panel
requests much sooner it should oh man it
will there's no doubt about it without
sacrificing the criteria and the
guidelines for that that is my opinion
okay
uh i i don't i will not be surprised if
we hear from arb members who are not
favorable to this change
um and i will be discussing that with
they have a meeting on thursday so we'll
be talking to them about it and
i believe that bzap has to also review
this uh because it's part of our zoning
code
okay i think we're ready all right so we
are moving on to ordinance 15-22
to amend sections
474.07 safe riding regulations for
bicycles section 474.08 parking locks
parking locks
section 474.12
operation of many bikes scooters etc on
sidewalks park and school grounds and
section 474.13
bicycle license required introduced by
mr marcelino it just wasn't on there i
didn't know it was no thank you very
much yes so this is an existing
ordinance and some modifications to um
sorry these sections of the code excuse
me um
you know i think as a whole it's kind of
cl cleaning it up and uh
eliminating the
the reach of the government so to speak
your moves are an archaic rule requiring
a bicycle license to ride a bike i don't
know how many of you have bicycle
license
well there's one out of the set no don't
say two if you're lying we'll catch you
too we're gonna check directions
okay there's oh that's fine
look i'm i'm riding dirty as they stay i
can tell you that much
so uh so we're gonna i think eliminate
that portion of it and then also the
requirement to lock up your bike when
it's not in use we shouldn't be
requiring that that's your choice if you
want you know to leave your bike
unlocked that's up to you um as well as
some other safety measures but overall
it doesn't change too much which is more
so it cleans it up
anything to add miss may
it's just one of those old ordinances
where the candle burned out long before
the legend ever did if you know what i
mean
yeah
um
i do want to plug this we started off
this started off where we were trying to
change the law
whether or not you guys would have liked
this
to allow because mr uh otter over here
did not like this idea but to allow um
cyclists to treat stop signs as as if
they were yield signs which is and you
know what what happens
in philadelphia they have that law and
they have more freedom
they do
so the state of ohio won't allow us to
do that according to our
killjoy city attorney
uh
yeah
sorry i was at making you follow the law
um
once again that was that statement was a
fallacy that we'll have to have bexley
day at the state house where we all
lobby for changes to that in the
meantime we came across
some pretty hilarious writing laws
there was one that you didn't mention
which is the
control i think
the law requires two hands on the
handlebars at all times
i confess to being first somebody likes
to wave every now and then or to try to
ride without any hands
which again you could do it if you were
doing hand signals
you could with hand signals right or the
starbucks i'm trying to get to work and
i need to drink my coffee move
so
that is part of this as well
okay
questions
comments
cool things go in marcelino's way
tonight
move us on all right now we are on to a
resolution 3-22 confirming the mayor's
appointment of kathleen graveletto to
the board of health ms robinson
i've been sweating trying to come up
with some really clever elton john
reference they're still standing
oh
yeah dude no stop everybody just stop
i've got a lot of elvis songs in my head
right now so if anybody wants to my
hands
yeah anyway um
anyway yeah so this is the um the uh
nominee to our board of health who was
not able to attend tonight's meeting and
so we have bifurcated the um original uh
resolution and she will be visiting us
next week mayor kessler was this
we we will wait and when she comes then
we will um suspend and adopt potentially
that would be great yeah actually
probably isn't necessary because we have
a board of health meeting coming up
between now and then so it's probably
okay to wait and just do it normally but
okay whatever you guys want to do all
right okay so kathleen will be here uh
at our next meeting i look forward to
having a chance to hear how great she is
too
questions comments
all right we have reached
table ordinances
no action on table ordinances i'm
assuming
anybody's going to correct me on that
if not we will get to our committee
reports
finance committee first up tonight
oops
all right i hope you all can feel the
love tonight because i've got some love
to share from the bexley community
foundation uh they have very generously
in conjunction with the city
uh bexley celebration and events mexican
minority parent alliance and bexley
public library
awarded grants to fund the asian
american pacific islander heritage
festival
pride month with bexley pride hispanic
heritage month with bmpa in the fall
and my personal favorite
a brand new festival the ice cream and
pizza festival
so details coming soon these are all
meant to generate all sorts of fun
community activity you'll see all sorts
of tiny dancers benny and the jets and
i hope you all are there hold me
no
well done
safety and health committee so far we
have not let the sun go down
i should give you guys the ticket you
know more than i did
um
you know uh there's not too too much
actually related we will the board of
health meetings coming up and i wrote
that down that's happening next week and
it is happening on tuesday the 19th um
and so we'll have that coming up in a
report after that but uh in between from
the last time we met there was uh a
thought attack on columbus before
academy and while that's not bexley we
each have neighbors friends family
members um that do attend that school
and i just want to thank those that
spoke up and helped to prevent that uh
what could have been a real tragedy um
you know that's even though they're not
within bexley they're certainly i think
a part of our community i think we would
all agree so i just want to thank those
that that prevented that attack and uh
stepped up where necessary to keep our
our beautiful kids and families safe
thank you
so troubling
mr president yeah
just that raises a point and just so you
guys count council are aware of this um
we have spoken with jewish columbus even
prior to this but after this we reached
out again about the option of
you know right now they're they are
paying for uh special duty from police
officers for security and maybe
examining some sort of relationship
where we have a resource officer that's
dedicated um in some way shape or form
um and
we're you know it's a part financial
partnership through that so it's
something where we're kind of
brainstorming a little bit so if you
have any ideas or thoughts on that
please let me know
thank you
zoning committee
nothing to report
recreation in
part yes um wanted to just announce um
bravo the numbers are in and they're
looking around six figures from the
recent
fundraiser or bravo fundraiser which is
great big shout out to that whole team
and to pam glasgow because uh it's been
a
unique year and time a lot of pivots and
pauses and uh they came out on top which
is life exactly so a big shout out to
again the resilience of this community
and how everybody just shows up when
they're asked to so that's going to be
great for a lot of these teachers and
grants and
and all the grants that um will be
written this year that that was so
successful so i'm happy to announce that
i'm also happy to announce tonight that
the bexley lion's eighth grade took on
academy
their baseball team and they uh
hayden my son and the team just won 5-0
and i know mr mark and president markham
is
it's going to be a long baseball season
that you're not sitting next to me this
year as i'm on game changer and you're
watching the games with me you're all
the way over there now
nope that's true right you have to keep
me uh you have to understand it's always
a big deal when the lions beat academy
so uh good job to the eighth grade team
tonight and uh to coach ryan
end of report thank you strategic
i um mentioned on our dog walk earlier
that i had my first um attended my first
actually historical society meeting
which was an absolute delight we have
such wonderful and knowledgeable members
who of our community who are
active in um in that group and they've
got some really great things planned and
i look forward to being able to kind of
share as um
as plans get a little uh more firm
but um sorry seems to be the the hardest
word but that's all i've got tonight
and service and
environmental in the wind
[Applause]
um
[Music]
can't remember where
i think that was on ben's
update but
which is it
it's not mantras is that maryland maybe
maryland it wasn't maryland
also cleanup day
um
please sign up for the eco challenge
it's not too late to do that i can point
you in that direction
also it's really fun you can just you
can score points as a team
every every day that you have um a
a vegan meal you put down
you know a uh
vegetarian
uh
[Music]
these are all things that she shared so
and
walk week plan on doing a lot of walking
the 20 second
party
okay
oh that's true
somebody somebody logged us in for
today's activity
last on our agenda again public comments
no speaker slip required
it's been great having you here tonight
7 26. i proclaim
tuesday night's all right for
partying get a little action on sam
motion to adjourn
[Applause]
seconded seconded
all approved
yeah
board of control meeting here so three
of us get to stay longer
good evening good evening i'd like to
call the april
12th
2 2022 board of control meeting to order
april 12 2022 board of control meeting
to order
thank you um
a roll call mr markham here mr mcpeek
here and i am of course present now we
have three meeting minutes to review
thank you natalie for preparing those
i will bring them up on the screen
the first is from the oh wow november
19th
this is as we're talking about the uh
renewable survey
and uh we we voted to return that to
council
to discuss
and that was the meeting
of a motion to approve those minutes
does it look good to you because you're
the looks good to me only one that was
here for that oh
that's a good point
that way
i think
should we abstain and it's all
one-vote vote
um
it's a fantastic parliamentary question
official's gone i don't know that
especially because nothing was approved
really truly to this meeting um i i'm
comfortable if you guys need to abstain
or would like to abstain from that i'm
looking at what else we have seems
logical we have however do have an
upcoming one which is more
uh
pertinent okay
um and so if
for example i know mr mcpeak was present
for this one because it says
so uh if you're comfortable on this next
one that would be great as a
is an attendant official at that time
yeah so
i'm not going to even
i will just decline uh proving those
formal minutes because uh
it sounds to me like we're not going to
get a approval on that so
we're going to move on to december 14
2021 border control meeting which uh
meeting we reviewed the south drexel
water main improvements bid
um
and
that was the only action of the board
of a motion to approve those minutes
so move i will second that all in favor
say aye aye abstentions i abstain
and it's pass to
to abstain i don't know how you would
say that this is great it's really
producing new
challenges to my here we go
i remember
here we are in fertile territory tuesday
february 22nd
uh in which we approved some minutes and
we reviewed the commonwealth west field
bid
um
i do note the
minutes do need to be changed i think
it's just a clerical error that it
doesn't it is all in favor and it's
blank so it doesn't show that they
passed but i do know that they passed
both and we also adjourned so we're no
we're not still in that meeting which is
good
uh so
if you guys are comfortable that being
clerically corrected
motion to approve those minutes second
okay all in favor aye aye aye approved
um
and
that brings us to today's business
uh we have two items in front of us and
actually i believe those materials are
with ms butter over there
um
first
is the
2022 street improvements bid
we received bids from a variety of
contractors on this
we received bids from decker strouser
shelly and sands and
midwest landscaping and participated in
an alternate
um
our city engineered
these
they
believed that decker construction being
the lowest bid at the baseline which is
approximately nine percent less than the
engineer's estimate it's very reasonable
and favorable
we do have some experience with decker
construction
both
from the 2019 street improvements as
well as the 2012 south cassidy avenue
improvement project
therefore he recommends decker
for
approval
what is our highlighted
box there
i'm sorry there's one box highlighted on
my copy
oh
i don't know
i can't tell you okay
because in one of them it shows
a unit price that's lower than the
engineer's estimate
um but
but the others is not so i'm not sure
there's the logic of the highlight
i'm sorry
um andy is
with us i'm not sure andy if you
are aware i don't know if andy you see
those sheets
i'm looking at it ben i'm not sure why
why that is highlighted i'm looking at
it right now okay
yeah i'm not sure
um
and
there is a contract to be that we're
going to talk about but this is first
contract a
uh that we're discussing
with
regarding decker
so
any questions on contract a
can i entertain a motion to prove decker
construction as the
contractor for
the street improvements bid contract a
so move
second motion made by mr mcpeak seconded
by mr markham any further comments
all in favor say aye aye aye opposed the
same sign motion carries
uh contract b
and i'm well actually i have this
is
a uh a portion of the contract that is
i'm sorry can i borrow that sheet
i believe this is the brickwork andy is
that correct yep
yes sir it's uh for some of the um brick
pavement repairs some of the spot work
um we've used them in the past on
various projects and they're a pretty
good contractor to work with
midwest landscape
worked both in the 2019 roosevelt worked
on the 2019 roosevelt avenue in maine
street brick pavement repairs and i
know they've worked with us uh with
several others i will note for the
record
they have requested a waiver for the
five percent edge requirement specified
in the bid documents
as they do not have any work that would
be some subcontracted to other
contractors
so this is a
sole contractor
job and this company does not meet the
edge requirements that is i believe also
true of the other two contractors
can you just describe edge requirements
so the edge edge requirements are
we added started putting in our in our
bid documents last year
uh edge stands for equity diversity um
and and i'm gonna come i'm gonna get
this wrong but encouraging diversity
growth and equity program
um
and it uh provides for a certain ratio
of the contract to be awarded to
minority owned
businesses okay
so there are certain
contracts we've had where especially if
it's a sole solo
provider or you know there's a very
limited market in terms of contractors
they haven't been able to meet that
requirement
note the first one we approved under
deckard did not require that uh
exemption
wait you said it did not require not
require the exemption
so they are complying with the city's
edge requirement
columbus has the similar requirement uh
we are the only server that has that
oh and then just to clarify then like
astralis or when it has a 2.7 does not
qualify either is that what you're
saying
i unless trouser or shelly and sands are
planning on subcontracting out the work
then
then they would not i don't i don't know
that for sure
because i don't see that noted
i'm sorry this is noted
um straws or
straws or did not
but
decker and shelley both were able to
decker sorry hacker did as part of the
primary so shelly was able to
through a trucking
firm
but you will note that shelley's bid was
296 000 to midwest 102. right
no i'm just learning
yeah
my apologies for not seeing that earlier
before that column was and thank you
thanks for providing it
how i mean just
like looking at the cost differences
what what just leads to that significant
difference on um
reference number two it's just it's
alarming to me just how it's gigantic
how gigantic that difference is
any or anybody
i mean do we have risks that they've
missed scoped the project i guess is is
the question so that was they just have
a square yard unit price that is
radically divergent um from
midwest landscape midwest landscape is a
smaller firm shelley's pretty large firm
smaller firm that focuses this is this
is right in their wheelhouse
uh andy do you have anything else to add
to that
no uh ben you're spot on i mean midwest
they specialize you know in the
brickwork um
you know shelly can do it but um that's
not their main
you know shelley does everything but
this would be midwester's you know
primary work
that they do okay
okay okay
and again it's in line with what you you
estimated so um and favorable to that so
makes sense
and these are fixed contrary i always
want to ask that question so
they're they're unit price contracts so
for example if we determine
that we will do less than
775 square yards we will pay less than
this amount got it we determined one
more you can actually scale up okay
based on budget availability okay
it's quantity yep yep so
it's
that's served us well over the years it
allows us a little bit of flexibility as
we scope out projects
um
i would make a motion that we approved
the midwest landscape bid in accordance
with the city engineers recommendation
but that we also ask our city engineer
to
have
midwest's landscape
review
the edge goal
response of shelling and sands and see
if they could
incorporate a similar tactic in their
contract
is that clear enough yeah
well just the fact that shelley was able
to use an outside trucking firm okay and
you know request that they just review
that and see if that might be something
else they could do or maybe find another
another route yeah
so that's a motion
a second that the question's made a
second any further discussion
all in favor say aye aye aye opposed
samsung
motion carries thank you
this one has been a long time coming
this is our um oh wow
i want to
of course double check i mentioned this
a council
that there was only two bids
didn't i i did okay so i met that
criteria
okay this is a uh
this is a contract with earth peak
earth peak organics is the
uh
renamed company that used to be
innovative organics so it is essentially
the same vendor okay there are a couple
key differences in this contract
um do you have a copy of
thank you
um
first stop the the old contract
do you have a copy of the old contract
by any chance
okay
give me a moment
uh the old contract is some years old
now um and it allows cancellation by
either party
after an initial period
and so uh this our contractor came to us
and request
did that we
uh renegotiate
in order to reflect increases in labor
costs and fuel
etc
also
the new contract is
using
um
a different method
in fact the expender has been using a
different method other than composting
the vendor is
using an organic
fertilizer process where they take the
food waste and turn it into a great
organic fertilizer which is not the same
as compost um
it's it's a it's a different method it
also it also entails carbon
sequestration it allows us to reach our
goals but it's not the same technical
process andy also went to market to see
if there were other uh vendors that
would uh quote the last
the other vendor that we had quote was a
firm called go zero andy can you talk
about that
yes sir um i i reached out to go zero um
it's a similar operation um the only i
guess downfall
would be other than the cost they were
not set up for like curbside pickup
they wanted to do centralized locations
and have residents drop them off you
know drop their compost off there
and the the price was
pretty much double um
the contract we're looking at
it was double without picking up at the
homes yes sir
wow
and right
[Music]
now um i do have pulled up our previous
contract
and
the way that this contract is structured
is that we pay a fee
per
household that has signed up for the
program
per month which we then bill out to our
residents
the fee in the prior contract
i am pulling up
i do want to say that the
city attorney has had an active role in
this uh process all along was five
dollars and 34 cents per household
per month
with a minimum of 1 000 households
we are at around
we're definitely north of one thousand
we were north of sixteen hundred
i wanna say we're almost to two thousand
but i'm not sure about that is that
is it an upward trend are we adding it
is an upper trend so this would go from
534 to 599.
um the 534 rate was negotiated in
2019
so this is uh
three years on do we get an idea how
how much of that we hit with actual
usage
yeah it's actually pretty high rate
we've we've asked them to audit that
it is information provided by the vendor
uh but
we we were
over like an average of a month
it's gonna take me a second
do you have that in front of you
by any chance andy i do not
okay
uh
so
over over uh like late feb late january
february
1368 one week 1422
another
[Music]
and there are
do you have the number of total
households andy
uh mayor i thought it was right around
1800 but it was climbing but it was
right around 1800 the last time i
checked it
so um what we we do have the ability to
continue to audit that and one thing
that i'm concerned about is making sure
that
uh and we will do this we're gonna start
following up with because it's been
about three years we're gonna follow up
with people and say hey
have you moved are you no longer doing
this
and if they have then we're gonna take
them off the books so we have to start
doing that
i'm sorry we do invoice them for that
though right
we
no it's a free service it's a service
that's captured by the refuse rate
so every resident has access to it got
it but we when we designed the rate we
knew that not every resident would have
failed themselves of it so it was
um it's kind of sort of like a
you know anyone can have access to it
everyone pays for a little bit for it um
okay because it was a way that we were
able to make this program work it's
heartening that we're
really significantly above that 1 000
threshold
i mean
i'll tell you i
i was a supporter of the program and i
love you know this technology i think
now
it's i kind of can't imagine doing
without it it's it's i think it's such a
you know it's like just one of those
things that
every you know society is moving toward
it's hard to not do this now you know
and so i i'm
to me i was afraid we were going to
be looking at a gigantic jump and i was
worried we were seeing
maybe stagnant uh usage i
i would
put on elizabeth ellman's plate to do a
drive you know
at some point i know she's always
pushing it out there but i just think
you know i think
when
people would really appreciate
doing this if they did it
i'm not you know i'm speaking to you i'm
not making a politician's statement i
just my
i just think this is just a great great
program i'm glad to see that the cost is
not you know
skyrocketing yeah
i'm just surprised there's not more
competition in the market that well
but it's a tough business to permit so
in order to process food waste you you
know you have to jump through some
regular regulatory hurdles both with the
epa and
boards of health
um we've you know our vendor has had a
challenge with that um and the vendor
that competes
takes the food waste to either london
ohio or delaware county
um so
there is talk of swaleko helping to run
or at least encourage food waste within
franklin county which i think would be i
mean the market will mature we're early
to market um we're the only community
doing curbside program
it's two different disciplines one is
processing and one is hauling you know
and so we we're lucky to have a vendor
who will do both
and we've looked at what would happen
we understand there's a lot of risk to
us
having like this one vendor that can
currently really do it so we we've
looked at what would happen if we had to
suddenly mobilize and
and work on the hauling aspect and could
we take it elsewhere we've determined we
could we think we could do it if we the
city had to
and and andy probably shaken even
thinking about this but if the city had
to uh we would be able to mobilize or at
least you know we've talked to other
partners for the logistics side so i'm
confident that we have some options and
and to edge the risk there uh but it is
good to have somebody who's operating
this yeah
competitive bid come from mcpeak markham
organics at that point
yeah
it's i mean the numbers make sense when
you really look at like what would it
you know cost to
there are tipping fees for food waste in
other places so it's easy to tell what
that would cost it's easy to know
you can kind of calculate the cost of
the vehicle and the labor and it's it's
doable so
he's not making a killing on it but it's
he's he's uh covering his costs that's
good yep is there any
do you see any benefit in the city does
the city see any benefit from
you know
lack of
food waste going into the
the water systems
you know
people
throw it into the garbage disposals and
stuff does that not really register for
us it just all goes
off somewhere i guess i mean it's
processed it's in everybody's set the
plumbing maybe the plumbing costs in
bexley of right so i mean i don't know
if you guys have dealt with this but
i've had an issue with the pipe being
clogged from from the disposal uh down
in the basement you know
and you know i of course i took out a
wrench and i fixed it but uh it wouldn't
it was not an easy or not gross fix i
don't think from a municipal
infrastructure perspective that food
waste is really dramatically impacting
us i know that when you
you know when you see the flare at the
water treatment facility that's a
portion of that methane is from food
waste
when you see the flares at the landfill
a good chunk of that whether that uh is
from food waste yeah so i would say that
locally we're probably not having that
impact but we are in terms of this
community's uh contribution to obviously
methane production
yeah i'm curious here you go
that was
this uh
just two days ago at our house you can
easily fix that problem by doing more
food waste recycling yeah
and uh
president mark have been holding up a
disgusting image of a clogged
residential pipe for
for our anniversary i got my wife an
industrial
motorized snake
and so oh that's really romantic a lot
of love there tell you what
it got me kind of excited
so she snaked that out and you know it's
interesting i've been really obviously
as i get to become an old man uh try and
keep food out of the i know all this
information that you wish you could pass
on to your younger self right yeah well
i just did you right well i just i just
think you're about to put all this in
the minute yeah sorry
sorry at the rails no hopefully none of
you guys have elton john tickets
i i'm in the nose i'm done i just you
know i i really i just
you know again i i just think
i'm kind of really proud of you for
putting that out there and pushing that
through because i liked it when you know
i was a supporter about like years now
like few years later i think that was
really you know that's really impressive
thing and to see how much gets diverted
there is just
that really makes me happy i mean you
know that we do that well the play is
down the road like you know i'll have
i've started skipping weeks with uh
putting solid waste to the curb and
resist recycling for that matter um and
that is ultimately one of the other
benefits of this which is if you can get
your food waste out of your solid waste
stream
trash is not gross anymore for the most
part um yeah if you have kids with
diapers it's a different story but
overall i think it's not gross
and it puts
us in a position as a city where we can
start to think about more innovative
um
you know solid waste hauling
arrangements where maybe it is
alternating leaks or maybe it's an
option which both saves money obviously
less
logistics and infrastructure involved in
that and uh
good you know therefore better service
to the residents to major diversion
regardless and then you know even just
the amount of coffee grounds that we get
out of there and stuff it's like and it
goes back into a compost so it's like
not only not putting it in the landfill
but then
really as the biologists putting all
that nitrogen back in the you know
organic nitrogen cycle is just
impressive anyway i'm sorry i know i'm
rambling no it's good
i like it that way are we entertaining a
motion to prove uh yeah motion approved
the earth peak organics llc
contract
so moved i'll second it
okay motion has been made and seconded
and if you guys would bear with me for a
short second i want sorry that'll check
that we have
satisfied
the requirements of our ordinance
just
less than three bids
okay
i believe that we've satisfied this we
have to both provide
city council with information about
there being less than three quotes which
has been done
and that the justification for that is
recorded in the minutes which i feel
that we have adequately covered here
uh therefore any further um conversation
or comments on the motion that's before
us
motion's been made in second interview
with the contract all in favor say aye
aye opposed sam stein
motion passes contract is approved do i
have a motion to adjourn so move
second second favor
okay we're adjourned
and now it's actually ended