um
lots of
really special individuals who have
accomplished
some amazing things and um
and and everybody who has been
really concentrating
on being kind
and
being the best them that they can be
and i love that and i think that is what
makes bexley
such a special place
so
um welcome everybody to um our august
our very first august
city council meeting council has been on
break all of july
but um don't think that they haven't
been doing some serious work
um
i have been traveling i'm getting a
daughter um settled and and i'm going to
ask
others to that as well
i am going to encourage
you to wear as they say
encourage you to wear masks in public
spaces when you can't be
um socially distanced
i just
would feel
very unkind as you know i have traveled
that on an airplane if i were to give it
to catch it then give it to one of you
so hopefully you can hear me through my
masks
council will tell you you will have no
trouble so
with that i will ask our kind auditors
to start our meeting officially ms
fiable here mr klingler here is lamke
here mr markham here ms robinson here
assad here mr sharp here if we could all
stand for the pledge
of the united please of america
and to the republic for which it stands
one nation under god
indivisible with liberty and justice for
all
all right
uh we have as i mentioned
some really uh special
special young people um that i am very
um in awe of and um
our first set are the eagle scouts and
the eagle scouts i've heard enough from
me i think
i gave you a bit of a lecture you
haven't been rolling your eyes have you
[Laughter]
i told them they were they were to
respect their moms and dads when their
moms and dads were cheering them on and
bragging about them and there was to be
no rolling of the eyes and just to let
mom and dad do it
but i'm going to turn it over to our
good mayor kessler
to talk to you guys
thank you very much madam president
if our eagle scouts who are in
attendance today could please join me up
here at the lectern if you guys are okay
with that move this up a little bit
how are you guys doing good to see you
so um i wanted to thank first off i
wanted to thank
our president for helping cover the year
your ceremony i think it was last week
about a week or ago it was uh was it
last sunday
um
a week ago sunday something like that
right which she also did last summer and
she did such a great job last summer
that they've started scheduling those
events to make sure i'm out of town so
that lorian could
thank you lori i appreciate it i loved
every minute of it please don't thank me
um who
harrison dupler and colton faye could
not attend this evening but they also
were inducted as eagle scouts and also
we received proclamations you guys have
already received your proclamations but
i want to read them here tonight uh so
the you counsel can hear it as well
um rob we'll start with you because it's
right here on top so
rob uh donahey you may remember if any
of you came to the um flag disposal uh
box opening ceremony uh rob sorry um it
was a month or so ago uh my timelines
are terrible but you know maybe two
months ago at the police department
go take a look at it it uh it's a it's a
way to
uh dispose the flags in a way that
respects our flag rob put together
uh that project um he collaborated with
the police department and us the city uh
to work on a location i know that was an
early uh
challenge as we got through that
helped design the graphics for the
commercial grade box and it's a very
sturdy box
and it was on june 6th actually that you
conducted the first annual flag
retirement ceremony
um with the assistance of the best
community foundation and american legion
post 430
rob is a recent grad of bexley high
school
class of 2021 where he was a varsity
athlete in tennis and cross country
participated in orchestra what do you
play
viola
it's an under appreciated instrument
that's a fantastic instrument
and led the school's chess club rob has
been accepted into the honors program at
the ohio state university where he will
begin his studies in fall
therefore i invite all citizens of
bexley to join me in honoring rob
donahey on the occasion of his achieving
the boy scout eagle rank
it's me okay
all right
uh i will try to speak more into the
microphone thank you mr sharp for the
reminder
it's not really uh conducive to holding
um
tom
achieved his eagle scout rank on january
26th
he provided the residents of wexner
heritage village a new bird watching
area
tom designed and built custom mobile
planter boxes with posts and hooks to
hang flower pots and birdhouses
and while his project faced some
challenges due to due to covet 19
limiting the number of volunteers able
to build the boxes tom adapted holding
two different build days one focused on
completing the planter boxes and a
second day that allowed younger scouts
to earn service hours by building bird
houses
tom is a recent graduate of bexley high
school where he enjoyed vocal ensemble
theater arts and the torch school
newspaper tom is enrolled as a freshman
at mcgill university in montreal where
he plans to study environmental studies
both of you guys are slackers i can see
i invite all citizens of bexie to join
me in honoring tom nakasako on the
occasion of his achieving the boy scout
eagle rank
thank you so much for joining us here
today thank you gentlemen and
congratulations
um do we want is mike here mike would
you mind taking a quick photo
sorry guys
don't breathe
two
three
uh madam president should i move on
please do
we are honored also to have with us uh
madeleine jeffries so maddie if you want
to
come on up and anyone from your family
who wants to join you
feel free
or friends
oh you're going to record it i'll stand
over here
okay
so maddie's story is one i think many of
you have heard
and it's a really special day to have
you here with us today maddie thank you
for thank you for joining i'm going to
read this proclamation which speaks for
itself
whereas madeleine jeffries displayed
heroism and bravery when she acted
quickly and maturely in an emergency
situation at the david h madison
community pool
where on sunday june 6 madeleine and her
twin sister micah were swimming when
madeline recognized a younger swimmer
struggling in the lap pool
and whereas maddie immediately notified
a lifeguard who worked with other pool
staff members to pull the child to
safety
the rescue child has fortunately made a
full recovery thanks in large part to
maddie's efforts and whereas maddie
demonstrated calmness and maturity well
behind her 11 years
and her quick thinking and compassion
for others saved a child's life
bexley is proud and grateful to matty
for embodying the true spirit of good
citizenship
and for her extraordinary act courage
and kindness
therefore i've been kessler mayor of the
city of bexley invite all citizens of
bexley to join me in honoring madeleine
jeffries for being a true bexley hero
and if you guys would like to be part of
it
um
okay
got it
thank you
madeline
madeline they say that everybody
deserves a standing ovation once in
their lifetime
you're 11 getting yours i know you're
gonna have lots more
way to go sweetheart
[Applause]
all right
mason and sydney those are that's a
tough act to follow
all right so this is a busy night for
proclamations which is exciting
mason and sydney are ba bexley high
school track athletes you guys did
fantastically at states and so i have i
have a couple proclamations to read here
for you ready
okay this is going to be your whole life
story here on a project
as a talented runner for the bexley high
school alliance mason lewis exemplifies
the values of hard work and
determination
mason finished his 2021 track season
with a remarkable performance at the
state meet on june 4th and 5th
finishing fifth in the 200 meter dash
third in the 100 meter dash and winning
the 400 meter dash thereby earning the
distinguished title of state champion
and whereas mason's extraordinary
accomplishment makes him the first track
and field state champion for the bexley
lions in 10 years
and whereas his work ethic and
commitment are a source of pride for our
city and an inspiration to all of us
and his exceptional performance during
the 2021 track season is we are sure
only the start of the great
accomplishments that we can expect from
you mason therefore i proudly honor and
celebrate mason lewis for his
outstanding
accomplishments in his commitment to
excellence
well done
sydney is also a talented athlete and a
rising high school junior who represents
our city and bexley high school as an
accomplished varsity athlete on the bexy
lions track and field team
and whereas sydney finished her 2021
high school track and field season with
a series of remarkable firsts including
the distinction of becoming the first
bexley lions girl thrower to place at
state and the first bexley lions discus
competitor to qualify to compete at
state and whereas in addition to these
impressive accomplishments sydney
achieved an outstanding second place
finish in the girls discus competition
at the division one state meet
and whereas sydney's drive and
commitment to hard work served to
inspire our city and young athletes
everywhere and her many successes this
year
will most certainly be followed by more
outstanding accomplishments in the
future therefore i invite all citizens
of bexley to join me in celebrating
sydney for her extraordinary
accomplishments and her commitment to
excellence
good news for you guys we just wrapped
up the summer olympics
so i think the next one is actually only
in three years so you can start really
practicing
20 okay 2028 all right well you heard it
here first guys all right all right
congratulations
[Laughter]
congratulations
[Applause]
[Music]
all i can think is these kids all under
the age of 20 did so much more than i
ever did
at their age pretty impressive
pretty impressive people
that's not happening that was never
happening
all right we are going to move on to
agenda item a number five
which is public comment
um if there is someone
in a
chamber by which there is not or there
is someone online who would like to
speak to council we will welcome we are
no longer webinaring
oh we're not well it's streaming but
it's not it doesn't
so in person questions i'm so sorry
well there's no one here to speak to us
so
we'll move on to the president's report
i sort of gave you all my
little ditty at the beginning because i
wanted to make sure that you understood
that i'm
going to not take off my mask because i
want to make sure that you all stay
healthy um
and uh it's just an interesting time as
you all know
we will be meeting in person i don't
think that um
the state legislature will be changing
that anytime soon would be my guest
guest so i would um again encourage all
of us and all of bexley um when you
cannot social distance
or if you just want to be extra special
careful um mascot so that's what i'm
going to be doing
um
got a lot of events coming up soon i'm
not going to double dip because
uh the mayor um had a lot of it on his
um
on his update which was
ready
for all of us to read which was a
wonderful thing
um with that i'm going to turn it over
to the city attorney because i do don't
you have a few things to share with us
tonight sir
two things quickly
well first of all the third thing i just
realized just so anybody was saying
attention not in this room we will not
be doing executive session after we
adjure it as the yeah
we will be doing it before oh sorry
microphone we will not be doing the
executive session will of course be
before we adjourn after uh the public
comments portion at the um end of the
meeting uh two things real quick one
we'll talk about more detail later but
there's an opioid settlement
in it in the works that will
funnel some money to bexley and other
local jurisdictions there's something
under uh the finance committee we'll
talk about that a little later um the
other thing is that
we have been approved for everything to
be on the ballot for charter
the charter review provisions thankfully
they did not require me to submit a
redline version of all the changes of
gender neutral language
but so that'll be on the ballot on
november 3rd uh november 2nd sorry
november 2nd um and um you know we'll go
from there that i think that's all i had
is there anything else i had i mean i
know i have stuff to talk about an
executive session right i think that's
all okay i can't think i knew there were
two things okay that's it we'll talk
later sounds great thank you thank you
so much
all right then we're gonna go ahead on
to administrative updates and first on
our list today is andy bayshore
and there he is hi andy hi madam
president
it sure looks like you guys are stacking
in the service department based on your
uh
based on how long that uh
update was
we have been extremely busy
with the service department staff and
also the street projects are going
extremely well
busy days right now over there at the
service department
does anybody have
any comments or questions for um mr
bayshore
mr sharp please
i'd
like to thank the city staff that were
involved as well as the contractors for
the street construction work that's been
going on um
if anyone's been down near schneider
park as far as
the side streets that now have sidewalks
and
curbing and there's other areas in the
city as well that have had
work done
um i just had a question regarding the
comment
and this may have been on a prior
um
report and i just overlooked it yeah um
then decades about working on the city
sign inventory to prepare for a large
scale sign replacement program
can you tell
us a little bit about that as far as
what that entails is it
logoing
sign logoing or just
compliance with federal standards or
color changes or whatever
right now we're doing an inventory we're
behind on our you know the standards for
the federal guidelines and i'm trying to
get a number of signs um because i'm
looking at possibly doing
a big project um in 2022
as a capital project i'm just trying to
get an idea of how far behind we are so
i can try to budget for that for next
year
so yeah
so you haven't been actually acquiring
or making new signs yet
no right right now we're just we're
replacing signs on some of the sign
projects and also you know if one gets
damaged but as far as a large scale
right now we're just doing an inventory
to see exactly what we need
thank you anybody have anything else for
mr bayshore
oh monique i'm sorry ms lamke does
andy i've seen so many trucks around
bexley over the past couple days and
weeks and i know that a lot of them are
city service trucks so thank you to you
and your department for
for
doing so many wonderful things in our
city
as of now given the multitude of
projects that are listed and the
expected completion dates
are you expecting that all of that will
be done
on time or possibly even early or are
you anticipating some delays
actually monique i'm
pretty much anticipating everything's
going to be right on time
that's my goal
that way we can try to prepare and i
hate to even say it but least season
so um i'm trying to get everything
wrapped up so we'll be ready to go for
that
okay and my second and last question was
i see that you've done 75 inspections so
far we had some heavy rains over the
past couple weeks and
and whatnot
how many more inspections are you
anticipating being able to complete say
in the next month or two
right now um we sent a um
we sent a uh email out to the residents
that have not
scheduled an inspection
we still have quite a few residents that
have not
hopefully um
it looks like right around about right
now we still have 80 residents that need
to schedule an inspection
so
hopefully
they will get that schedule before you
know the end of the year um but i can't
i can't you know i don't know if the
residents are gonna you know continue
with it or not the ones we have
you know the 75 that i i stated those
people i've had inspections are on a
list with the contractors to have
inspections that's all we have right now
on the books
thanks sandy
[Music]
mr markham
andy i know you and your team are used
to fixing bexley and repairing bexley
but i also want to acknowledge that you
change bexley and you add to bexley and
specifically extend thanks from south
bexley to adding the sidewalks along
charles
yeah great and they make a huge huge
difference in the
pedestrian traffic and also the car
traffic there
as well as diverting the the water
systems
thanks for continuing to do that as you
guys work on the street and it makes a
huge difference and i hear people
praising that whenever they see the new
section come in
thank you that project turned out pretty
good we still have a little bit of spot
work to do but uh it turned out well
i think mr sharp has another question
for you it's not it's not a question i
was remiss in
thinking specifically the crew that you
mentioned in your report for the
schneider park um pathways that were
repaved they they're looking nice i know
you have some finish work to do along
the edging and and whatnot but there's
not those railroad tie
gravel combination steps going down
they're nice ada uh looking um ramps and
um
pass the whole whole way through
the
old portion if you
will um of schneider park that runs
behind the apartment complexes
thanks andy we're cheering you all
on thank you
we are grateful for all you do and i
don't think that our city employees have
been thanked for all the joy that bexley
was able to have on the fourth of july
people don't really realize what happens
behind the scenes and i don't think i
would if i weren't involved in
the parade and the planning etc for a
lot of the fun that happens that day and
from setting up signs so people
in the parade are ready and
setting up things on the feet on the on
the on capitol's lawn the uh
the rec department not only did they
were they there at
six o'clock with
and i was there so i know they were
for the race but then
they were in charge of
uh ushering everyone in and making sure
they were
um
coming in and and safe so you know they
were gone from their families in the
morning they were gone from their
families in the evening and then the
police officers
were amazing as well so
our it take it took a whole team for all
of us to have a lot of fun andy thank
you for being part of that team mike
thanks for being part of that team and
um chief thank you so much for being
part of that team
thanks andy
see ya i guess i'm waving the wrong way
all right who's next on our agenda my
computer's not popping up right
the chief chief reinhardt
sir
yes ma'am
i have nothing beyond my written report
nice to see you sir happy august thank
you do you have any questions for the
chief
please miss sod yes i just wanted to
publicly just again thank chief
reinhardt and the bexley police
department for keeping our first ever
route through bexley for platonia so
safe and
you know on saturday i rode through a
lot of municipalities and i just want to
say to you chief you guys shined
it was really nice to be riding through
bexley and not having to worry about the
cars and just enjoying the crowds of
people that were cheering on
the writers and
all coming together as a community so
you guys all made that happen so thanks
so much
thank you i appreciate your comments
very much and as i said earlier i have
passed those on and it's very much
appreciated thank you
mr markham has a question
i had someone in the community asked me
about narcan this week and i reminded me
that i hadn't thought about it for a
while are we still seeing a need for
officers to utilize narcan
periodically i i don't have a list of
the the the times and dates but uh but
they still use it everybody carries it
and they still use it periodically
anyone else have any questions for the
chief
right
mr sharp chief has there been an uptick
in
vehicles having catalytic converters
stolen in our area i know the jcc
has had an issue and a business on main
street
has had an issue that hasn't been
reported yet to the police department
but
i i believe we've had a couple
but
just one or two is an uptick but looking
at what's happening in the entire
central ohio area with that
we've actually been very fortunate
knock on wood
but it has it has seen a significant
increase around central ohio
which just amazes me i thought we had uh
eliminated that problem but apparently
not but anyway in bexley it's not it's
not near as significant as it has been
in some surrounding communities
any other questions for the chief
all right seeing none we are going to
move on to michael price who's here at
president
thank you chief so much
thank you
all right thank you madam president it's
nice to be here with you all hope
everyone's doing well
well some of it yeah
just a couple quick highlights uh from
the report the schneider park ribbon
cutting ceremony is finally going to be
this friday
the 13th weather permitting uh at six
o'clock so i invite all of council to
attend if you can it is also tied into
the
august main event so we will have a six
to six thirty roughly a ribbon cutting
ceremony uh to recognize all the
tremendous work that's been done with
the playground the shelter the athletic
field the community gardens uh we again
we appreciate all council support to
help make that happen
um and then followed uh following that
ribbon cutting ceremony we'll have a lot
of activities uh music uh shazbots and
the movie trolls world tour will be
going on so we're excited to open up the
park in this way officially open up the
parking this way i think we're supposed
to dress up as our favorite trolls dress
up as your favorite trolls yes so you
know
yes and i want to thank uh richard sharp
uh in the beat uh who is providing
shuttling
so thank you we really appreciate it
uh
residents are encouraged uh if they
can't ride their bike over
to drive and park at trinity lutheran
seminary thank you to capitol university
for their support there and the beat
will be providing shuttling
from trinity over to the park
um any questions on that
and then the following weekend is splish
flash and dash it's back
after a year off we'll be on saturday
august 21st we're already above 230
participants so we're on pace to be back
to around 300 which is what we've had
the last handful of years so we're
excited about that um i want to continue
to ask uh and first of all thank laurie
anne who takes on the role of
coordinating our volunteers this event
does not happen without uh
many many many volunteers and so we
appreciate all the volunteers we are
still looking for more volunteers if
anyone is interested
go to becks.org forward ssd and there's
a link there to a signup genius
but thank you lorianne thank you to the
committee that works hard on that and we
are excited
to have the splish flash and dash back
again this year so with that i'll take
any questions that council may have on
the report
ms lanky
mike i had two quick questions for you
um the first is
you gave a great update regarding
the pool and swim safe given that this
is the first year that we use swim safe
do you have any plans to maybe send out
a survey to parents or to employees and
and see what kind of feedback you got
about their management abilities yeah we
do we will do again we'll do an
end-of-year uh survey to gather
information about a host of things but
that would be one of the areas that will
will be a part of that survey
great and then my second question was
jeffrey mansion
it looks like the the list of things to
be completed is getting smaller and
smaller
yes um
how much longer
we actually had a scheduled sort of uh
punch out today with some things still
that will stay open but that got
rescheduled next week so
i mean we are
uh
generally we are pretty operational in
the space um there are some some some
things that are back order in terms of
supplies
uh the maid the main doors at the
carriage court and the main door to the
new ramp are three of the bigger items
which uh i i heard today we're looking
at the end of this month that they'll be
uh at least shipped in
um
so
you know i think there'll still be a
handful of items for the next couple
months that we'll still be working
through but but by and large is very
operational at this point
thank you
mike if you could
highlight
one while we're in this section if you
can talk a little bit about the
challenges of rescheduling cancelled or
delayed events because i think it's
something yeah so uh obviously we're
keeping a close eye on you know covert
as everyone is and and the
delta variant has um
cause some renters to take a pause on
their plans um and we have seen some
cancellations
uh
or a better
it's really a reschedule um
we haven't seen any technical
cancellations they've all been
rescheduled they're looking to push
events back in some instances
the difficulty it's caused uh is that we
have the alcohol framework which limits
our alcohol events to two
uh a month and when we go to a
rescheduling while there are
dates and times available there aren't
as many of the alcohol permits that are
available so somebody books an event
they've done everything they need to
they have an alcohol permit they're one
of the two during that month for example
we have one this month that's been is in
the process of being rescheduled
finding a rescheduled date has become
challenging because the dates they might
be looking for might be open but they're
we've hit our max of two alcohol events
on that in that month
um so one of the things i would like to
bring forward and it's not prepared now
but would like to be looking to do at
the next council meeting this potential
amendment to the alcohol framework even
if it's a temporary amendment that
allows for
some flexibility as we're dealing with
covert that would allow us to maybe
overbook in a given month but not
backfill a reschedule so if you think
about it in a 12-month period we're
still talking about the same number of
events but we are not
backfilling it
but it allows us to make sure that they
have an opportunity to hold the event
that they want to hold
but doesn't necessarily have a large
impact on the community the neighborhood
in the park so
that would be an area that we want to
have
uh some conversation with the with
council
now the framework has language that
specifically says any any
amendment needs to be noticed to the
neighbors 30 days in advance before any
changes so that's a process we'll be
looking at doing sooner than later
and then maybe hopefully at a parallel
time have the first read second read
process go um understanding that there
wouldn't be any passage of any changes
until that 30 days was up
yes richard
sorry i'm president
um have there
been
can you tell us about the events that
have um used the new space
that have had alcohol um what have been
the reports or have we not had any we
have had events um three or four maybe
to date uh with alcohol we've had no
issues um
uh so far it has run extremely smoothly
the one area and i should have brought
this up as well that will probably be a
part of this discussion we have had
some issues with uh being able to get
coverage with police officers and
there's something there was talk with
the rec rec board at our meeting last
wednesday um
the policy as you may remember requires
two police officers if we have over 128
people for an alcohol event
um
one if we have less than 128. we've had
instances where uh we're having trouble
getting coverage uh backstage pd is just
for a variety of reasons may not be able
to get it covered they go to the county
the county's policy is they will only
send a minimum of two officers so we
have had events that have had less than
128 people that have required two
officers uh based on the framework uh
because it's gone to the county and
therefore it's costing them upwards of
100 an hour per police officer for what
might be
um a shower that they're just going to
have a toast with champagne
and have 40 people there so um we're
having some issues also dealing with uh
flexibility within the framework to deal
with some some of those sort of uh
situations
but you're saying the county is
requiring two officers if they send if
they're gonna send officers they're
sending a minimum so that doesn't really
have any that's not really caused by our
framework if they we only if we only
need them no their their policy isn't
caused by our framework but the impact
of of the framework means uh
if we can't cover it from a bexley
police department standpoint we passed
that cost along and so if somebody is
having an event that has
50 people and it's a wedding shower and
they're going to have a toast
they're going to have to spend 100 an
hour if it's coming from the county
because they're going to send two
officers and not one as you know so
that's a
become a cost issue we've had some um
events actually decide not to go forward
not to book with us because of those
costs
uh and that's something i think we need
to keep an eye on and have that only for
evening events because i know
in the past year i know certain
organizations have used county officers
for preschools
and i've only seen one at a time
at those
yeah i don't know if their policy is
based on the type of event it is evening
whether it's an alcohol event versus a
non-alcohol event i i can't speak that
specifically at this point i just know
that in order for them to send someone
to our events for an alcohol event
required to yes and then and then
so again the the county the city you
might be referring to the city of
columbus like the
because uh the city of columbus police
officers they don't require two but the
city of columbus police officers can't
come here to in our jurisdiction
franklin county sheriff's deputies can
which is where they're requiring two
although it might be an hours thing too
we're literally in the middle of this
process right now for this weekend um so
um it's my understanding that because
it's a
full-service
uh bar
that and no bpd officer could cover it
that it then goes to the next level and
that requirement is because it's an
alcohol event it's two officers
yeah yeah so i'd but my question to you
mike is is there a dis any kind of
distinguishing to your point
like if you're having a full bar i
understand like the need for two
officers but is there any language that
says you know we're just doing a
champagne toast that would alleviate
some of that the need for for that many
officers and that cost there is not i
mean that would be you know some of the
feedback as we've gone through this
process that we might want to think
about addressing is giving a little more
flexibility based on the type of event
the number not just the number of people
but the type of event it's going to be
sure okay
because
madam president if i may we would still
have this problem under our old alcohol
framework correct because
because we would have had one
required regardless
yes we potentially would have the same
issue under the old alcohol framework
i think that this seems like a
conversation that we should have in
depth later um
mr markham did you want to continue it
go ahead if you have a question but i
just i i just feel like it's going on
and on and on and i don't think we're
ready for all the answers et cetera i
can i can wait
are you sure
are you positive
okay
anybody else
because i know we're going to have this
conversation in depth
and uh and i think mike will have uh be
better prepared for it at a later date
so
anybody else have anything else to talk
to mike about
thank you again your your whole
department for all the extra work they
did for the fourth bike
um
council i i am going to request
uh that we uh be flexible
um there is someone in the lobby who
would like to speak to us who missed um
public comment um and rather than and
we're not going to make a habit of this
but rather than she wait especially this
time
when things are a little chaotic and
the president of council wasn't even
sure we weren't doing things on
line
so there may be citizens who didn't know
that um we are going to welcome
her in to speak to us because we'd love
to hear i guess i should have asked does
anybody a pose
is it that's a little too late come on
in
no please don't apologize please share
that's all right the rules are that you
need to state your name and your address
and try to keep it under five minutes if
you could please and thank you should be
under five hi my name is jody weston i
live at 399 south columbia avenue
so and thank you for for taking the time
to fit me in um
i'm here to ask the council to take a
look at the procedures for the neighbors
when dealing with bzap and arb meetings
during the past three years the
neighbors at the end of south columbia
have dealt with a less than stellar
experience during these past three years
we've attended our fair share of these
up and arb meetings
uh during these meetings i do not feel
that we have been treated the same way
as other neighbors during the one
meeting after a two-hour session i
decided to stay on to listen to the rest
of the bzep meeting
with the south livingston project the
north cassidy project and the saint
charles parking lot project there were
plenty of neighbors that attended this
meeting that adjusted to all three of
those projects
during these objections
the head committee chairman encouraged
all of them to reach out to the
neighbors and to work with them in an
effort to make things better not one
time during any of the meetings that we
had with bzap was it said to the owners
of 424 south columbia to work with their
neighbors
is there a reason for this
also during a bezep meeting i brought up
my concern with the light noise for 424
south colombia i was pretty much blown
off uh during the arb meeting the next
month the person who blew me off was
concerned with light noise for another
project which baffled me to no end
i also asked that you take a look at how
the committees favor the neighbors that
live directly beside the residents in
question we were told that since all the
neighbors that were directly beside 424
south colombia that the board was going
to vote in their favor since they agreed
with the project disregarding the
concerns of all the other neighbors if
the other neighbors concerns do not
matter as much then why ask the other
neighbors what their opinions are on a
project
this goes back to my previous comments
do homeowners only have to ask those
directly around them to get on board so
that the project will be passed
this process has pit neighbors against
neighbors there are neighbors on our
block that have been friends for over 30
years and now have a strained
relationship is this what the process is
supposed to do
also you are allowing the neighbors that
may not be around much longer to make
decisions for the rest of the community
also what is the penalty for perjuring
yourself during a meeting if we are
going to allow people to perjure
themselves then why have them swear in
before they talk
the neighbors had never had anyone to
turn to for help during the past three
years at a city council meeting the
mayor advised the council to be careful
on what they talked to the neighbors
about in this case in case this issue
came in front of them
we even had a neighbor hire a lawyer to
help with this issue i do not feel that
a neighbor should ever have to use their
own money to hire a lawyer so who do we
turn to who do we go to for help who do
we turn to as a voice when we only
receive three to five minutes to talk at
these meetings i realize that the
neighbors could have brought this issue
in front of city council but we not did
not feel it was our responsibility to
pay 250 to bring an issue in front of
council that was the city's
responsibility to fix
so again i'm asking you to look at the
process so that all the neighbors have
someone to turn to for help should the
situation arise again thank you for your
time i appreciate it thank you
thank you council for being flexible to
make sure that we could
hear from our citizens
um i am going to ask the mayor to move
on with his update please
oh i skipped bill bill i'd like you to
move on with your update please
i have no comments i didn't think so
doesn't he have questions for
bill
mr mayor
thank you madam president um attach the
agenda is my update
a couple things i would like to
highlight first off welcome back after
council recess
it's good to see you all
hope everybody enjoyed a little bit of a
lull
i know i did
um
as
you mentioned madame president we have
quite a few events coming up
but before we talk about that we have
kind of been remiss and not first saying
to each other happy bexly day today is
bexley day founded
august 10th 1908.
yay
[Applause]
there is actually some
well there's i was about to say there is
cake
provided by the community foundation i'm
not making this up in our uh in our
office area so please help yourself
i'll be happy to walk it in
um
there you go uh
we have our our we talked about the
ribbon cutting which is the main event
slash ribbon cutting at schneider park
this friday
um and then
uh we have our troll did we mention that
end of august jazz in the park and then
talking about this a little in the next
page but our labor day block party
uh which let me let me get to that in a
second on september 5th
um so
lorian talked about uh covid19 and
changing guidelines i just want to
highlight for
you all and our residents
what we all what we're all hearing and
what we all have seen to be true based
upon
incidents here in bexley as well which
is
the delta variant is far more contagious
than previous variants that have been
active
while
people who are vaccinated are protected
against generally protected against the
most harsh side effects
they are still able to get covet 19 from
the delta variant and transmit it
um kids are more symptomatic
under the covid or delta variant
um and uh all both kids and adults uh
are are transmitting the the virus at a
rate of
um
double if not more some earlier variants
um so
to that end and based upon cdc
guidelines
uh both franklin county and uh the city
of bexley are are recommending that
people wear masks in public spaces
um signage is optional for businesses
i've seen them around and some of our
businesses here in town as is uh the
guideline to wear masks so
while that's optional it's encouraged
and i encourage you guys to more than
anything spread the message about uh the
the extent to which vaccination does
protect people but it's not a panacea
there are did i use that word correctly
there are um
residents that i know of who have been
hospitalized under the delta variant one
of whom at least
uh was vaccinated so it's not a joke and
uh
i know we're all fatigued i am certainly
fatigued
i certainly don't want any more coveted
19 task force meetings don't want to
have to pivot none of us do but i think
we still have to stay responsible and
aware so i wanted to make sure that that
message was
discussed tonight um
lorian touched on this uh
it is remarkable the amount of work that
went into preparing for the fourth of
july
you mentioned all the departments that
did that work uh
every department not only the day of but
leading up to it and afterwards
from the service department putting up
thousands and thousands and thousands of
feet of snow snow barriers or orange
orange fencing
to wreck in all the logistic
preparations and the police department
and all of their logistic preparations
uh we are extremely thankful it also
took more volunteers than ever before
and it took a lot of ingenuity but uh we
pulled off an event that
uh was uh largely a very safe event
and one that i think we can all be very
very proud of so
thank you to all of you as well for your
help in it
our labor day block party is another
event that we're excited about coming up
on september 5th
it will be on main main street it's
going to be a combination of the labor
day block party
the bexley brew fest and the main event
under one
big open roof so
main street will be closed between
college avenue and pleasant ridge
it'll be an open sort of
it'll be a true block party so that's no
longer a misnomer
there will still be an egg drop there
will still be uh music in the meadow uh
but there will also be some really
fantastic bands
and lots of activities and
our movie which is
cars rs3 of course and a car show so if
you have an awesome car to show for your
car bring it uh and actually we'll put
some stuff out here pretty soon about
signing up for that
it's going to be able to it's a big
block
going to be awesome did you say where
did you say on main street between
college and pleasant ridge pleasant
ridge yep and what hours will that be
closed the closure will be i think
roughly noon until
sunset
because around sunset we're going to
open back up the street and just the
main event will occur on the lawn it was
going gonna go a little bit farther
but somebody happens to be getting
married
just exactly when we were gonna
well that's that's still the road's
closed at that point but yeah yeah
we are yeah we are being
coordinated um
the uh
we've been i've been keeping you guys
updated about youth interaction policy
working group that's there's some
updates there livingston avenue plan
continues
um and one thing i wanted to highlight
as well first off daniel rose right
there was our intern for the summer so
i'm sure daniel's listening thank you
for your help
[Applause]
oh he probably wrote something
incorrectly yeah yeah yeah um
oh energy we entered no this is just a
new it's more more morphine language
um but i did want to highlight the
interchange contract which actually
would best be shown with photos
if you've taken a look at
the livingston ramps uh both on and off
the
main street exit off of uh
of 70 to get on onto main street the big
what we call the egg that big
round area
any of our any of our uh areas you'll
see you'll notice some pretty dramatic
changes so we've entered into a contract
with a management company that does
similar work in some other cities here
locally in central ohio
to provide support uh to
ensuring beautiful entry points to the
city
um
as just an ongoing beautification effort
um
in addition to that you'll notice some
flowers here on the livingston avenue
bridge that staff
put in place
a month or two ago are looking really
nice and maturing and coming next you'll
see some concrete pads off of the
sidewalk on livingston where we'll have
some flower planters along livingston uh
richard talked about the schneider park
trail so this is
a section of old trail that has been
rehabbed and there will continue to be
some additional work being put into
kind of making this all uh
look natural and and beautiful
and then also uh the new trail that is
extending
um from the schneider park parking lot
at the athletic fields i mean there was
a gravel trail there but this has now
been paved and ties into schneider so
schneider's starting to really feel that
sense of connection that we've been
trying all along to achieve is really
getting bolstered through that project
so
it's great to see that happening
it was great to welcome pelotonia to
bexley we put out some signage and the
community welcome was great i challenge
all of us to be even more boisterous and
welcoming next year um if you ever want
to see a community to emulate
join the pelotonia and then ride through
granville and you'll get a feel for what
we're shooting for so we're going to up
our game next year
it was good
you were bringing it back
i was really proud awesome
oh okay
so this the narrative next year has to
be to granville like hey you guys got it
you've got some competition
um that's a photo of susan quintenz and
i we worked on helping a resident uh put
some mulch around their tree they were
having some issues with tree roots it's
an example of grassroots uh
grassroots
assistance that came out of tree
commission complaint so that was a fun
saturday activity
no no no no that's the right amount
there's a photo from our pelotonia route
so that is my update and i'm happy to
take any questions
questions for the mayor
mrs lampke
ben it's not so much a question but
speaking of awesome on june 30th we had
the bexley rainbow crosswalk painting
and for for those of you who saw
pictures uh on social media or came by
i have to tell you that it was an
amazing event and i just wanted to thank
the bexley pride group as well as the
mayor as well as the city service
department and our amazing community for
putting that together
it was above and beyond i think anything
that we had expected so thank you for
doing that thank you monique for helping
put it together and you'll notice it's
faded quite a bit since this photo was
taken it was
there was
we were having not the best weather in
june for paints and crosswalks so this
was painted in some prime conditions
i might do a little touch-up uh to
brighten that up when it's dryer
is robinson yeah this was i was going to
say for my report but just in case
nobody hangs on to the end of the
meeting i did want to mention that
the bexley citizens police academy
alumni association is sponsoring a fill
the cruiser back to school supply drive
and that's monday the 16th from 10 to 1
at montrose elementary
and i think there's a link on our city
website which says
all the supplies that they are accepting
so
if you can pick up a couple extra packs
of pencils or whatever while you're out
doing your supply
shopping i know the the police
department and our residents would
really really appreciate that so mark
your calendar
thank you jen what was the date on that
again
monday
next monday it's this sunday
from when to win uh 10 to 1. 10 a.m to 1
at montrose all right
thank you
all right
mr harvey ben
we relaxed some of our zoning standards
during the pandemic to let people put
more signage up are you gonna
change that because it's starting to get
sloppy in some places i noticed yeah so
this the relaxation was allowing for
expedited approval on patio space and
then relaxing signage specifically it
should not necessarily require approval
i'll take a look at that
all right unless anyone objects we're
going to go on to um item number nine on
the consent agenda i mean on the agenda
which is the consent agenda mr
the attorney please all right there's
two things on the consent agenda the
minutes from the 6 22 21 city council
meeting and minutes from the 7 7 21
special city council meeting
is there any comments on the consent
agenda
nope is there a motion on the consent
agenda motion to adopt the consent
agenda thank you mr markham is there a
second second thank you mr klingler mr
harvey miss fibel yes mr klingler yes
yes
yes mr markham yes mr sharp
yes ms robinson yes
all right
uh yes i'm sorry
it's implied
all right there's nothing on our um
agenda for item number 10 so we'll move
on to third readings please all right
third reading ordinance 26-21 to amend
section 262.02 e to allow for the
payment of sick leave to part-time
employees upon termination from service
with the city introduced by mr markham
all right that's where i got to stretch
my memory six weeks ago
uh pale sick leave part-time employees
is for our um
teachers i believe right
correct well would apply to annie but
that was the impetus of it right
are there any uh questions or comments
on this
piece of legislation
i would
it also it also cleans up a section of
our code where
for all employees
there's
it makes sure that sick leave can only
be paid out while earned with the city
of bexley
just wanted to highlight that too
which can be a substantial expense that
we're avoiding by changing that or
making it clear
mr mr markham do you have a motion on
this one
motion to adopt ordinance 26-21
the word revised was from me that's the
way i sent it when i saved it on my
system so it's not amended i was
confused at first too but
mr klingler do you have a second do you
have that section
the section that you just talked about
wasn't that added
okay okay all right
a second thank you any questions on this
ladies and gentlemen
mr harvey um
yes
yes sister
yes
all right
moving on the third reading of ordinance
27-21 to appropriate 281 500 from the
capital fund and 240 000
from the refuse fund for the purpose of
mid of funding mid 2021 capital projects
mr markham all right i know a lot of
times you guys fall asleep when i
introduce some of these but wake up for
this one there's a lot on it
if you recall we had two readings before
we left we've got
some capital appropriations including
the field renovations including you're
going to try and make my room remember
all this or you're going to put it up
we have the speed
uh
vehicle we have the sign for the police
department a street cleaner street
sweeper and there's also an addition
with um
some sewer
remediation oh but you know what
did you get fancy just
present away
at your request
so
um i didn't suggest you get this fancy
but
just there were some questions about
everything that we're covering in this
meteor capital budget there is a
spreadsheet attached to your
uh your agenda which is updated
looks like that
so that's just a slight update from last
meeting and
the update is actually
we we added retention font landscape and
we
had previously reduced building signage
so we ended up actually with a lower
capital fund
uh request than we had had initially
it's reduced
we'd reduced on the second reading
between first reading and second reading
the signage right 30 000 to 10 000.
so but i want to talk about what those
items are exactly so the street sweeper
um and andy is still on with us so if he
feels like popping in at any time he can
do that obviously
um
but the uh and for some reason it says
my screen sharing is paused i'm not sure
what it is uh street sweeper is uh
coming up on 20 years in fact next year
it would celebrate its 20th birthday
um currently out of commit
it has a it has one of its multiple
engines is out
um and it does seem like quite a susian
machine over the time that
i've spent with it as mayor
from a distance it constantly breaks
down
uh and has been uh i think the bane of
andy's existence for quite a while
so there's
there are
there are many times in fact when i say
to andy hey can we please street sweep
xyz and annie says
nope
it's out so then it gets fixed and then
eventually like two months later we get
to street sweep so
this is i am told a more reliable design
that we're going after um and uh even if
the other one had been the most reliable
ever it's you know it's at the point in
its life that it's uh no longer
that useful to us andy anything you want
to add to that
um not i mean you pretty much covered it
mayor i mean we've um we've got
our use out of it and then some um
it's just become a maintenance nightmare
since it's got a lot of age on it
can we ask questions during the
presentation
please i'm fine with it
andy i note that there is a note i note
that there's a there's a note on there
about new sweeper design considering the
susian
uh design and the
many many years between these models is
there i mean
have they changed it
actually the the sweeper we have
currently
when the city purchased it it is the
vacuum type sweeper and it was one of
the
the first out at the time
um i don't say we were the guinea pigs
but we were kind of the guinea pigs
the sweeper that is pictured is more of
the mechanical type and a lot more
reliable um
it
the
the new vacuum stuff uh the backing
design scrapers still have a lot of the
same issues that our old one does so i'm
wanting to kind of go back to the
mechanical type to where it'd be more
reliable
okay
all right
we're going to move up mr klingler
are we looking into an electric powered
like a battery-powered street sweeper
new york just recently went to that
don't even get me started i would i
would
andy you told me there were no such
things as battery-powered street
sweepers um
monitor that space i can't imagine that
there's anything with the
type of
long like these are this would run all
day long that could actually happen with
battery but
we'll look at that
and and and
because believe me if it was an option
as andy knows
we would do it so
thank you for that reference sorry andy
it's more homework
um
this is a slightly smaller item but
there's electrical service to go to the
storage garage that we have at stanwood
and del mar that was not part of our
initial scope but uh it's proven to be
quite dark in that building and so um
having lighting and uh and a door opener
would be desirable so
that is in the budget
i think that's a 16 000 line item
um this is a one that was added to the
spreadsheet of the last meeting but was
not in the actual
initial ordinance so this this shows up
in the amendment
which is to provide additional funding
for sewer lining
shouldn't even say realigning it should
say lining
um that's my bad so uh
what this i think you guys have been
told what sewer lining achieves this
will allow us to do additional lining in
2021 we're trying to have a more
aggressive fast track on the the
projects
and yes this does relate to
flooding mitigation
to the extent that it
helps
secure
in-flow and infiltration into the
sanitary lines
uh andy anything you want to add to that
um
basically when we bid out the
2021 contract we bid just
what we knew we had the budget for
and if we can get um if this is approved
this would allow us to do all three
alternates on the bid which would be
right around 300 extra feet of lining
that we could
accomplish
both stormy and sanitary
mr harvey uh andy
how does this tie into the
that we're going to talk about that
at the border control i thought that was
a lining project is this in addition to
that
this would cover the alternates yeah
okay so this needs to be approved before
that
okay
all right
in order to approve the i think we can
still approve the base right you can't
but uh this would i assume
we're ready
whenever yeah yeah
okay
any other questions about sewer
all right
okay
uh retention pond landscape so if you've
ever toured the north community gardens
you see that there's a
police department retention pond it
provides drainage from the parking lot
and facility of the police department
that was actually
found to have not been installed
correctly and so it was repaired about a
year ago
uh which now fills with more water i
don't know if you guys have i'm sure
you're always looking at this pond so
you've noticed it but it used to be dry
all the time now it is not dry all the
time
and part of that project
so it expanded and it's you know there's
a lot of gravel and in general um is
pretty unsightly
um
there is a plan as part of the whole
change there was a plan to landscape it
with plants that helped
uh suck up and retain moisture and also
you know not to have this unsightly sort
of gravel interface community gardeners
have been asking us about this kind of
frequently where we are with it we just
don't have funding for it and so this
would be in our
this is in our budget as
well richard
um
so
most
of the water retention
areas that i've seen around um unless
are
constructed as formal
ponds or lakes
drain within
24 hours
um is
this is not draining in within 24 hours
right
i mean it's supposed to be
right spaced out to to relieve
sewer
water backups so is is there something
wrong with the draining drain
pit
that
needs to be done i i'd be concerned
about the landscaping
needing constant
um maintenance and
you know and the water
being there
for skida mosquito issues and whatnot
so it does a slow release after it hits
a certain level but i think there is a
there's more of a base level than there
used to be andy i don't know if you have
the technical
description of that
andy um
basically when that was constructed like
the mayor said it was not um installed
right there was an orifice tube at the
catch basin um that was not basically
wasn't functioning properly the way we
have it now and we repaired
the orifice tube in the catch basin
it looks like it holds warm water
it actually does but it allows a slower
release into our storm system so it
keeps without holding more water and
working correctly
it helps keep from flooding our storm
system
it's more of a gradual release where if
we didn't have it you know it would just
our storm system could surcharge um so
it actually
i understand that but i mean
does it
ever drain
there's always the waste design there's
always going to be some water in it the
level will fluctuate though
all right
so if we had an official
retention
has someone who's
um knowledgeable in the
retention building
have
they've reviewed it and
yes we're confident that
it meets federal guidelines for water
retention
yes emh is our engineer on it
they were active in
the design and
repair it was not prepared it was not
installed correctly
um they've also provided us with
andy was it emht who helped with the
landscape plan
yes they uh they helped us when we redid
it this past winter and they also helped
us with the type of plant selection and
the repairs
okay um
police building signage this has been a
request to police department for a
couple years
it has
and i i don't have the the tip of my
memory i believe we had actually
budgeted for this and we put it on hold
but i'm not positive
um but they uh would like some
identification identification signage
over their main entrance but they feel
that that is a little confusing to
people who don't know exactly where to
enter the building
and would like to change it from saying
facility to department where it
currently does have scientists at the
corner of cassingham and del mar
um and this is uh approximately ten
thousand dollar uh signage package
so that is in your budget
this is a photo from australia so don't
think that this represents what we're
looking at but it's just you know it's
what happens when you google
google image search exactly
um
uh but the concept behind a mobile speed
enforcement vehicle that will get more
into depth
as into the details if this moves
forward
uh would be to provide a speed
enforcement option for residential
neighborhoods
as i've said before it's a true
challenge to
police around speed in our in our
lightly traveled neighborhoods
even those that do experience higher
than normal speed
issues
they still happen kind of far between so
it's hard for us to be at the right
place at the right time
i think this would be a really really
helpful tool for us that we would plan
on deploying
as i said to secondary residential
streets only not to our primary
corridors
just so that there's obviously it would
be a resident base that understands the
program is made aware of it
it would be accompanied with pretty
plentiful signage
the the hope would be that you don't
have to write any tickets at all that it
in itself kind of creates a safer
environment
but it is a new concept it is legal
in ohio to do this there was a period of
time where that was in question
that has been resolved at least for the
time being
um
the actual equipment
is provided by a vendor this would be
just the vehicle itself so
um and any sort of custom signage that
we would have attached to it
um the additional council actions
required there would have to be an
ordinance that allows us to to perform
this sort of speed
enforcement um
and
in in conjunction with that we would
have a little bit more of a detailed
plan uh that we would
roll out with it but i didn't want to
go there if we weren't able to actually
buy equipment so
it's a part of a two-step process are we
thinking this vehicle might be electric
um
actually there's yes uh so one there's
the
contractor that we're talking to is
based out of europe where this is a
pretty common application
they have not done this before but they
think it can be done
their their current what they do right
now is they they drop a series of lead
acid batteries into like a trunk to
power this equipment and it lasts for
like 24 to 48 hours
and then it has to get taken in and
recharged
obviously a used
chevy bolt or nissan leaf has a much
higher capacity battery it could go
theoretically for weeks
so that's a really interesting
application as you could imagine so yes
that is uh that is part of the concept
to look like if you want to
see for example our
our new code enforcement vehicle you
probably can't see through the other
cars but you can see a white chevy bolt
there that was a used
vehicle it's you know less than twenty
thousand dollars and uh been working
really well uh for code enforcement so
i'm anticipating that this be a used
vehicle and i think that that dollar
amount in the budget is at the high end
so i think we'll probably be in the
teens
mr harvey has a question
if this is a total flop it could be used
for a different city purpose or sold
obviously
so your intention with this is to put
the money aside and later come back to
council and discuss whether it makes
sense to do this or not yes okay yep mr
markham and so also the fines that come
from this don't they do not come to the
city though they go to the vendor is
that correct no they would come to the
city they do come to the city house i'm
sorry
how is the vendor paid for their
equipment it takes a the vendor takes a
percentage of
of the fee essentially okay and then you
say this is legal in ohio but we need
additional council action so we do need
to amend our
code we need a local mechanism for it
um what other municipalities in ohio are
using this currently
there are a handful and i'll get you
that info i don't i don't have no one
locally well columbus has used them
columbus has had some look
uh but uh
i don't know about currently because
that columbus was doing this before
there's some state legislation that
stopped them for a time so i'm not sure
if they're still doing it why why would
they have wanted to stop them
so it actually was really they were
targeting the red light cameras i don't
know if you'll remember that but there
was a lot of angst about red light
cameras and the feeling that they were
overly i don't really want to speak on
behalf of our state legislature but
i think the talking points were that
they were overly intrusive
and um you know not respecting people's
privacy
and i don't know other arguments
keep going
so
um
that so they just they
banned photo enforcement uh which
included speed enforcement
um
that was
successfully challenged um and so the
local news feds do have the right to do
that
um there was a period of time where it
was thought they would require you would
require an officer to be also physically
present observing that is not the case
with this system the officer does review
the footage and verify that the vehicle
and the radar they all match up the
the
the ai behind it is properly providing a
citation
it would not be a criminal charge it
would be a um
a civil fine
so there's a couple different process
different differences it would also go
through the county not through mayor's
court
but that's all stuff that we would kind
of detail so there are additional
regulations all of which i think are
super acceptable and makes sense
i don't think anyone wants to abuse fit
or create a new
cash flow i think we want to create a
really meaningful speed deterrent
i i think that was the main um
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reason the legislature went after the
red light was because it was considered
were there weren't there weren't
criminal penalties it was it was a fine
uh civil fine but um because it was
considered like a speed trap or you know
a trap for uh unwary um people
so and um
money generator force for cities so
anyway um
and the rationale be
behind
approving
the vehicle purchase now before the
additional
um
legislation to actually
effect the
purpose of the vehicle
um when we're so
relatively close to next year
um
yeah great really great point and it's
really up to you guys how you want to do
this but the reason i put it in the this
capital appropriation was the concept
that we do have a draft ordinance
were
you know probably we're behind both in
this mid-year capital budget and
bringing that in front of you guys but
it's something we've been talking about
for a while so i just
it's been on my list so it's part of the
list
it puts us in a position where council
can take action and there's not a
financial piece to it to worry about any
future additional financial piece
um so i guess i wanted to separate
those two things but i'm
i understand if that's you know of
concern i'd certainly i
as we've done in the past you know
and bill harvey's here to hear this
and help enforce it i'm not i wouldn't
intend to go forward and purchase
anything until there's an ordinance
that's passed and the program's been
approved
are you going to continue oh yeah sorry
and then finally commonwealth west field
and equipment related to maintenance of
our athletic fields
this was previously approved by council
since it was approved by council we've
actually
value engineered the project a little
bit the cost has come down
this would be for commonwealth west only
i think the dollar figure is 143 000 ish
for commonwealth west
and then
it says fields plural there's only one
field on commonwealth west it sounds
fancier when you say commonwealth west
fields i guess
field maintenance equipment is some
specific
turf maintenance equipment that we don't
currently have that will help us
rejuvenate all of our fields and better
maintain all of our fields throughout
their lifespan
somebody asked what would happen if we
added east
the cost for east is 190 000.
uh these are 190 000. so this
commonwealth east is not in this
proposal
you could certainly add it if you'd like
or again that that could be something
that we look at for our 2022 budget well
i think the other question was that we
all said was
would it be
less expensive if we did both fields at
the same time
right and i don't know if you found any
information out about that
we didn't get anything definitive about
that this is a this is the con this is a
designer's cost estimate um
the
project
is of such a size that and the types of
contractors that would bid on it are you
know they're not the largest contractors
and looking at the different components
of it
um and you probably can tell i'm clearly
guessing as i'm talking to you but i i
having seen what's part of this in other
projects i wouldn't think we would have
a dramatic cost savings because it's
unit costs associated with this
um certainly
uh there's some negatives to doing to
both at the same time um because you
take both fields offline and if you
if you remember the if you remember the
growing period that we had with
schneider for example yeah
uh there's it's gonna be it's gonna be
out of commission for a while so i would
prefer that we stagger but um that's a
good point i was just trying to i just
know that we had raised that question mr
markham has a question then i think
maybe miss robinson does so if this i
probably more for mike but you probably
know this too than the field maintenance
equipment 53 000 uh is that uh equipment
also going to be used for the east
fields will there need to be any more
equipment added when the east fields
come online yeah no so no this equipment
actually would be used in all of our
fields okay um so this not just this
does not just serve commonwealth west it
serves all of our fields okay
yeah it's a special type of mower that's
better equipped for athletic fields
specifically
it's a um
aeration machine what's
no
aeration machine and some other
equipment associated with with the
maintenance and we did give that
presentation when you guys approved it
before but i don't have that at my
fingertips i apologize
is robinson
well my first question is uh is the
equipment
susan because i think it really should
be we don't do that anymore yeah no um
so just to be clear and i think you made
it clear but just so i'm clear in my
head while the west field is being done
the east field will still be usable
correct got it thank you
ms lamke
mayor if the estimate for the east field
is higher
does that mean that it's in worse shape
and if so shouldn't it go first
it's a it's a field area equation
so there's um there's just more field
surface on the east side
because for example it's you know 45 000
square feet of
uh sand-based sod as opposed to 19 000
square feet on the west so it's
substantially larger
the east field is right it is westfield
is in worst shape as well westfield has
been
we've been told is uh
has some uh some real issues and which
actually go to athletic safety in fact
just because the way it's
i remember when we appropriated it um
a while back uh president fibel and i
actually met with mike price and we
walked to the fields and my recollection
was that west was in significantly worse
shape than the east but since you had
that figure i thought i would just make
sure my understanding and recollect was
right
yes thank you
mr marcum
um mrs lamke brings up a good point um
with usage too and um which fields get
used more i'm one can we look at doing
east before west i believe we get more
traffic and more scheduled maybe i'm
wrong
um sports activities on
the east fields
um is that something we do
the reason west was targeted first was
just because of the condition was
considerably worse than east
in terms of the surface uh
it's really it has been and bad for a
long time and in particular in
particular because of the way the trees
are around it requires additional
needs additional help that this would
provide
um
i
you know i think we can revisit that
conversation and
maybe mike could talk about that at the
next council meeting
certainly if that is the direction we
wanted to go we wouldn't go wrong by
starting with the appropriation for west
and then we could pivot with a little
bit of additional to make it east but
okay that was the thought but
we'll talk about it some more
the this plan also incorporates some of
the design features this project
incorporates some of the design features
of the commonwealth master plan as well
though right because it is going to is
it going to reorient the field is it
going to bring in any of those other
elements that were on that plan
um it doesn't reorient the field but it
does it will incorporate some some of
the design
aspects uh the design aspects
are fairly minor but they talk about a
little bit of landscaping um to
differentiate between the fields and the
passive park space
in general increased maintenance and
improved conditions on the field is part
of the commonwealth am i just
remembering that wrong that it did we
talk about reorienting this field we did
that would require the removal of some
pretty mature trees okay so i think the
idea is to not replace those trees when
they naturally attract and then to have
it ready for future generations of
council members to fund
and and that's and that's one of the
reasons why the space is bigger on the
east side it's because it is east-west
and there's more
area
away from the fields that's that is open
for sloping and drainage and that's
right and the legend has it that
activist residents in the past went out
and planted trees
strategically so that we would have this
exact befuddlement as we discussed uh
the other thing i don't believe it
no that would never happen mr sharp than
miss lamb king but this this amount
that's being proposed really doesn't
um
it doesn't really bring in
many of the
um features of the of the
of the master plan
aside from the field itself correct yeah
it's really the field there's going to
be other
there would be other grant proposals and
whatnot that would go for the actual
park
area surrounding the field correct for
instance that's showing the yeah the
pathways and those are not part of this
right so this we are actively
working on a proposal to bring for grant
funding on this section
and then another thing you're going to
hear about tonight is our next opwc
grant application which involves
colombia so there are lots of pieces of
commonwealth park plan that are
under study and underway
this is a piece that's you know tied to
athlete safety
um
and performance of the field this this
particular field performs very poorly
because of the shading and the drainage
and so grass doesn't grow and it grow
you know divots get created and then
pretty soon they're craters and so this
would
scrape off the field and basically start
over with a fresh new base
and all the stuff that you know more
about than i do
and some irrigation
no tree removal
very careful root pruning as we go
around those trees to
repair the field
we have been removing dead trees on
commonwealth uh quite a few of them on
the west side so you'll probably have
noticed that but that does not pertain
to this project you know in all
seriousness since you did bring this up
this really changes these fields
dramatically because they are not at
this point actually athletic fields
they're just grass that people play on
and so we will be changing uh the
subsurface for compaction and things
like that that will really make these
useful for uh for athletic events
they're mostly dirt
i think ms lamke was waiting to talk
nope
you weren't
oh i thought you had your hand in the
air okay
but she did want to mention that it was
dirt right yeah i thought so see
i was right anybody else have jeff moore
or is that it that's that's it i think
you're sick of hearing me talk i'm sure
mayor did you skip the permanent speed
sign twenty thousand expenses yeah i'm
sorry i didn't
you guys are well aware of what those
are so i didn't put a picture up uh yes
the we already have them throughout
different portions of the city
uh the one the one small change uh to
this equipment
uh you see thank you feature i think mr
markham maybe brought that up
uh it was me and richard i believe uh so
it's very this is what's up it's called
a polite permanent speed sign
but um those streets are
are the current
uh candidates for the permanent speed
signs based upon surveys of speeding and
resident feedback so
they're very similar to what you've seen
out there with the solar like on college
avenue and some others cassidy with the
solar
array above they just have a little
extra message so
what's the logic between a sign versus
the vehicle why wouldn't you put a
vehicle there where they're speeding so
the vehicle moves around the science
stays in these instances and people pay
attention to them three weeks after
they're up um
yeah i mean our data shows that they do
but
it does but not everybody 25 of people
don't pay attention to them at least and
i'm sure you would you're part of the 25
sounds like yeah
and i think it's it's contextual too i
mean i think we've seen on livingston
those were installed they don't seem to
have made much of a difference but on
other streets they really have seemed to
have a lasting impact but
i hear your skepticism i must be a real
rule follower
i see a flashing guy slow down
all right does anybody else have any
more comments or questions it looks like
mr sharp might
no i was going to say on broad street i
think
from when i saw
some of the speeds
when they were first installed
they were a lot higher i mean there's
still people that are speeding but i
think it brings the average down i i
watch drivers respond to it on broad
street i mean that's the place you could
see it pretty clearly i definitely do
uh
yes i was noticing just driving recently
on a fairly lengthy road trip where i
had my thoughts to myself plus my kids
i was noticing how like in the work
zones when there was one of these signs
compared to any when there wasn't did
seem like i saw drivers respond much
more because the sign said fine stubble
in the work zone
all right moving on
mr marco how are you feeling about
making a motion on this uh piece of
legislation i think we need to bring up
the amended version right we we need to
amend this
yep so the amended version
adds a hundred thousand from the sewer
fund that's for the relining it lowers
the appropriation the old ordinance at
297 500 from the capital fund and so you
can see that's involved
okay let's not introduce it as seen on
the screen you will
if you are patient
that's good
we're always proud of you okay so
the problem with the mask is i can't
wear my glasses at the same time so this
is where i relax really
did i get it
so technically that should be so madam
president i'm going to propose
to go ahead and amend this
and then uh
it's a pretty big meaty piece of
legislation and maybe open up the
discussion to see if people are
comfortable
or they want since we are coming back
does that sound
so there's a motion on the table to
amend is there a second second
that was ms robinson seconding
um
comments or questions on the amending
was that yes yes mr sharp
yeah i am
it relates to the mending and that i'm
trying to decide if there's something
else i
would want to
motion to amend but so um
if i may ask this question of the mayor
um
do we have portable speed signs like the
ones you use do we still have a supply
of those are we using those
we use them they're all deployed right
now um one of them went offline
i think we've replaced it though uh so
we we utilize them they have limited
battery life
um
they have a purpose um and i would like
to continue to utilize them
the locations we're talking about are
areas where we're keeping and have to
come back with them we have staff
resources tied up and recharging those
batteries and bringing them back so
permanent ones seem indicated
anybody else have any questions on the
amending
mr harvey
mr sharp
yes mr klingler yes ms fiable yes it's
robinson yes assad yes mr markham yes mr
ms lamke yes
just real quick if you go down on the
amended version it's lorianne you don't
have lorienne's last name just to make
sure that
before
it's printed she's actually she's
lower now yeah she's just like sharing
exactly yeah and there's two sections
oh and there's two section threes as
richard just pointed out
thank you
yeah you guys are just really
um
mr mark i'm going to turn it back to you
sir
i'm just going to open it up right now
real quickly for any discussion
or concerns before i
make a motion
um i don't know how everyone else feels
but i wouldn't mind tabling this just
for until our next meeting so maybe we
could get some information
or
a presentation from mike price on that
on
the east field just so that we have that
additional information mayor is there
any urgencies to fight would need to be
passed tonight as opposed to maybe just
waiting until the next meeting
um
two more
not i wouldn't call it an urgency i
would say it's an impact that you need
to be aware of we don't have a street
sweeper right now so we're currently
contracting
for our most desperate needs of a street
sweeper
but the uh it just further delays
ordering the street sweeper so
i as i said before
certainly we can revisit east versus
west
uh at the next council meeting and it
wouldn't preclude this from being passed
tonight but i also understand council
and your timing whatever you're
comfortable
mr klingler
if there is an electric
street sweeper
maybe uh
it's a little more money
it'll double the price i'm sure
yeah i mean i don't mean to i i would
believe me i have like i am constantly
looking for electric alternatives the
amount of energy necessary for street
sweeping i can't even
fathom how that could
perform
we've studied putting our lawnmower
fleet to electric which is like a little
bit more mass market right now and right
it's at least double the cost plus half
the performance from terms of work hours
but nonetheless
we're totally going to look into that
and as soon as it works
i'm ready
um
and that an option that
is
more environmentally sensitive i think
the the streets sweeper
is diesel
uh that is there could be propane
sweepers that would
that's a large percentage decrease in
emissions
and as a as a cost example the airport
for the new parking garage
they they've acquired um
big purple
buses
and they were originally going to have
six electric ones um but
they went with three
um
traditional buses and and three
electrical ones the traditional or 300
000 versus over a million for the
electric ones
all right mr harvey
just a comment and as so everybody
understands it
it would be helpful i think for
everybody to understand what's going to
be spent right away and what is going to
be put on hold
for example the truck you know the
parking thing will put on hold
just so you guys know what's going to
happen
um and how that money's going to be
spent
so is that is that a question for mr
mayor
what's going to be spent right away
sounds like much of it's going to be
spent right away but you guys ought to
understand all that so you're not
surprised when you come back and say gee
i don't know we're going to spend that
now so i'm understanding that uh
we we could have another conversation
about
what's being spent on the parks
and we could pivot if we wanted to
to make it uh the east as opposed to the
west however my concern with that would
be
that we need playing space
for our athletes and west is not a space
right now
that they can safely play on
and if we could get east fixed
then they'll be i mean if we could get
west fixed
they all can play on west
and then we can fix east
because right now if if we do east first
it's no better than doing them both at
the same time am i
correct in saying that
yep
so so so that's something we could pivot
on but i'm still a little
concerned we
i'm concerned that mike will not be
thrilled about th that the rec
department will not be thrilled about
that for a programming
standpoint
yeah and i i i think for sure we'd have
to have his input on this this is what
he so just to be frank this is what he's
asking for right here it's it's not a
council driven project this is what mike
is asking for so yeah for us to turn
that around on him i think would for
sure require uh more discussion
i
my concern with this right at this point
is just it's it's a lot of money there's
been a lot of movement on it and we just
got back from
a break so if if i'm getting an
indication that there's some questions
that still need to be asked that people
would still rather spend some time with
this i think that that's reasonable so
if
anybody is
giving me the signal i would be more
than willing to table this
so why don't why don't who is
are we are we ready to
to to do this or not i i think two weeks
goes by quick
i and it is a lot of money i would
also support tabling it okay
and absolutely we need to hear from mike
price when it comes to
the fields and
uh park and rec for sure i see a lot of
head shaking so mr markham would you
like to make a motion listen to mr
harvey first
ben in the sewer re-lining which is an
issue we can still approve that
if the money comes through we can add
those extra items if not we don't do it
is that correct yep so that won't be a
problem for us
okay so
and and it sounds like as i look at this
just so we're clear except for the speed
vehicle it would be your intent
just depending on what happens with
parks capital
it'll be your intent to pretty much go
up forward with all those other items
right now as soon as it's approved
correct yeah i mean okay that makes
sense it's not immediate it's like the
fields in the pond for example don't
that doesn't even go that doesn't happen
until after you know no but i mean
you're not gonna you don't need
additional console action
right it'll be the speed vehicle okay i
am hearing
i'm here and seeing a lot of head
shaking
but i think that we need to make sure
that mr
mayor knows what his marching orders are
as far as what information do we want
you want mike price and you want to talk
glass versus east and you want to look
at electric street sweepers which we're
already on
okay is there
the new york one is the same one same
maker is the one that we've proposed
it's one of their 450 street sweepers
mr sharp
and i would love it if it works i would
be the first one in ohio i would i would
like to see the uh retention pond plan
for anything else we just want to make
sure that our ducks are all in a row
and if that is information that you
happen to get
you know by friday or by next wednesday
or by next whatever so that we could
take a peek out of it so that we all
feel much more comfortable about doing
this this was such a great conversation
guys and and
really great um talking about how our
our communities um
budget since that is our number one
well
one of our
really important jobs as council
all right um
do you have action then mr markham yeah
and i just agree i will just agree with
that thank you very much for the
discussion and spending that time i
would encourage people to
if they think of any questions
not hesitate to submit them offline in
in the meantime so that we are
getting information and ready to go
having said that uh i make a motion to
table ordinance
27-21 at this time
all second bob thank you mossad thank
you mr markham there's no discussion on
tabling i will just take a voice vote
all those in favor please signify by
saying aye aye aye that was a posting
sign
thank you second readings please all
right second reading of ordinance 28-21
to amend section 262.02 c3 to provide
for juneteenth as a holiday for
employees introduced by ms robinson
hello all it's been a while since we've
talked about jnt
but a lot has happened since uh last i
was with you and we discussed i know
all of you are aware that on the 16th of
june the president made it official that
he was going to be signing a law to make
juneteenth a federal holiday which he
did on june the 18th
of this year i know i think that may be
the fastest piece of legislation that i
have ever seen acted on uh
hearing how many people had that day off
but we certainly want to keep ourselves
in alignment with
what's happening across our country and
so this piece of
legislation and ordinance form is now
being presented
it does not take any other holiday off
of the table it adds
juneteenth as an additional holiday for
all of our workers so
any questions or thoughts or concerns we
can certainly discuss
any comments on this piece
all right thank you jen sure next one
please
um
okay ordinance 29 21 to amend
618.15 dogs on city park and
recreational property to regulate the
admittance of service animals and
and to regulate the assert
to regulate the admittance of service
animals and city parks introduced by mr
markham sorry there's a grammar thing
there but it might just be in my head
did it not sound right when you're ready
i apologize it's fine
yeah
no changes to this again pretty simply
uh bringing us in line with uh
that compliance that there is no need to
uh display any special tag for a service
animal
questions or comments on this channel
if not
i think we could put this on the consent
agenda i think natalie could probably do
that
all right everyone okay with that
all right ordinance 30 21 please all
right second reading of ordinance 30-21
to create the position of chief
executive assistant introduced by mr
marca
it looks like there's a revision is
there a revision have we done anything
uh no that was the
job description in terms of the revision
of the job description sorry
any questions about this piece
consent agenda i i keep hearing that the
word consent agenda
anybody what are we going to do in
january we'll have to have a recording
of bill harvey saying the gentleman
i like it sadness all right um
anybody opposed to that going on the
consent agenda
okay ordinance 31 21. okay nope you got
it okay okay uh second reading of
ordinance 31-21 to create section 262.02
c14a4
vacation accrual for new employees into
men's section 262.02 c14d credit for
prior service to provide for credit for
prior service to employees mr markham
any questions on this or comments from
bill harvey
didn't we talk about this
so why is it up here again
no the other one was sick leave this is
vacation yeah
okay for new employees so this is like
almost the exact opposite of the other
thing
[Laughter]
yeah
well i'm not going to start arguing with
bill now
consent agenda sounds good to me as well
okay anybody opposed to consent agenda
for ordinance 3121.
all right if we may first readings
please
we have a first reading of ord i'm sorry
i went on too far first reading of
resolution 0 9-21 to authorize the mayor
to seek financial assistance from the
ohio public works commission for funding
of various capital infrastructure
improvement projects associated with the
proposal
proposed north columbia avenue and south
remington road comprehensive
improvements project
mr markham if you would like me to keep
speaking
this is uh just empowers the mayor to
seek
that financial assistance for these
projects we designate him
as an agent of the city with the power
to
look for seek this fund
any questions
and
my name adam president this is as with
other projects similar to this we've
done the past we're requesting
funding for new water lines and for road
surfacing
and spot repair to curbs
and concrete
both of these streets
are
indicated based upon their condition
and specifically the condition of their
water lines so they have a high they
have a high water line break history
i think mr fishel had a comment no i'm
trying to laugh oh i'm so sorry he met
us so sorry over there
yes oh i'm sorry matt mr klingler is
there any sort of time sensitive
matter for seeking assistance do we
i don't do we need to i don't move this
along no okay well and this really just
gives the mayor the authority to request
the money
when all that's improving comes back to
you guys if there's a deadline to
request the money that we needed to i
have not been told that there's a
anything
urgent
um and to be clear this you know we we
take our direction from our city
engineer who looks at surfaces and water
line breaks so this is
uh
like i'm their agent but this is coming
from our city engineer in terms of what
makes the most sense for the next
project
right um
it's okay if we move
on okay we have a first reading of
resolution 10-21 granting area variances
with conditions from the minimum lot
requirements for the property located at
407 northview drive zoned r3 residential
to allow two non-conforming contiguous
lots and single ownership being used in
combination and considered an undivided
parcel under bexar city code to be split
to permanent to permit two independent
lots and parcels that would not meet
existing r3 minimum a lot of
requirements ms saad yes okay so um the
way i understand it
is that this
by splitting those lots it would not
meet the existing r3 minimum lot
requirements that we have in place
so this language is being used as a
placeholder
for us to schedule as council a hearing
that is correct
so if if i can i can absolutely so
one thing you will see and i want to
make this very clear to council and very
clear to anyone who's listening the
ordinance was drafted by catherine
cunningham as if city council was
approving this request that is a
placeholder only just to have language
in there it is not an indication of any
decision being made by city council it
could have just as easily been denied as
a placeholder because you must hold a
hearing um because the zoning codes
gives councilman council the authority
to make these kind of grant these kinds
of variances so
this is just a first reading of the
resolution presumably there will be a
second reading and then the third
reading would be if it doesn't it's not
tabled for purposes of scheduling a
hearing the third reading would be
the resolution in similar form to what
you see but with the actual decision
that council makes
my recommendation and more importantly
katherine cunningham's recommendation is
that council consider scheduling the
hearing at this point um the indications
are
what catherine has told me is that we do
not have a a
specific requirement in our code for
advanced notice for hearing for this
type of hearing so 14 days would be
adequate so for example if council
wanted to schedule this hearing for what
would be the third reading which would
be the first meeting in september this
evening you could do that you can also
schedule on a different night not sure
you need to do that but whenever you
schedule it for when then kathy rose
will be responsible for um putting in
you know sending out the proper notices
um the only caveat in terms of
scheduling is i think it's probably one
of those deals where catherine should be
present and i haven't talked to her
about her availability so that's what we
know now as of now so i i with all of
that being said and having some
experiences with us uh adding on to our
council meetings i would just ask um
president fibel
if we can
you know have an idea of what the agenda
will look like that evening and if we
when we're looking at scheduling so that
we're not
keeping residents and everyone here
until
crazy
late hours
and if we think that's going to happen
then maybe we schedule this on a night
that isn't a council meeting night or 5
p.m
or at 5 00 p.m i like that
i do think we need to consider that so
we don't run into some situations that
we've had in the past right my concern
with the 5
pm
is that we had the same issue we did a 5
p.m i can't remember what it was guys
and we did not remember we felt like we
needed to rush it and it was very
uncomfortable and that was hard to do i
believe we were zooming at the time okay
um
so i like the idea but i'm not sure that
we can get it done in an hour mr fishel
yeah i honestly don't know who you know
how much testimony you will have from
residents um and then of course there's
certainly a certain deliberative process
that you will have to engage in as
council
similar to what you've done in other
appeals uh so it probably makes sense to
do it on a night that's not city council
there you go i think so too i mean i'm
looking our first readings
tonight will be our third readings then
i do hear mr um
harvey whispering
a consent agenda on a few of them but
i'm not sure what um our second and
third i don't know
we don't know
so we certainly could schedule something
like
right after that and if it looks like
we're gonna have a really light
we could baby pivot um but i think that
it would be a really good idea
to
schedule a hearing on an off council
night honestly
um we do need to be very careful about
um
the high holy days make sure that we're
not hitting hitting those right
i agree with you on that okay miss
lampke did you have a comment
my question is actually from mr markham
is finance chair
um i'm usually thinking that we start
discussing budget things by early
september so i didn't know if you
anticipated maybe having
a financial retreat or something that we
usually do even before one of our
september meetings if we're thinking
maybe that this
this would be considered in early
september
yeah we haven't talked about putting a
date so are you thinking that we could
do maybe the hearing and then do the
or are you all thinking were you not
thinking i'm thinking a non-council
night because i'm anticipating that we
might get into
budget financial things at that first
meeting in september and i would hate
for
this to not be given
the the due time that it would need
to me it would make much more sense to
make our budget meeting a five o'clock
meeting
and this a non-council night because
certainly we can do our budget meeting
gonna
i mean we can
be long and windy but not that long
annoying i think that i think that would
look that would be great i am popping up
my calendar
everyone
um
it looks like oh
september 21st could work
yeah we're looking at a tuesday night
because the seventh is right uh
so so
young later in the week right
they're both week nights yeah when's the
16th and one's the seventh
what does
what does everyone think about the 21st
of september
budget
before
21 is a non-council night for the
hearing
is that going to interrupt the sac
meeting
on the 20th 21st
i mean we can have that even if there's
a knee set can't we
i think i think it's okay isn't it yeah
um you can skip the esec to be there for
the year it's from six to seven thirty i
don't know what time you'd be doing this
seven it's probably
six and it would be a hearing it's not
the budget thing
i'm not sure i could be here that night
but it wouldn't be the budget thing it
would be just the hearing it would be
the hearing
it would be a big hearing
because i was hearing choice troy say
that maybe we would
meet maybe on the 14th
yeah that's how we could do a five
o'clock
budget
with council to follow at six
i mean the good news is if everybo folks
say for the hearing tentatively
september 21st is fine we can look into
that and make sure catherine's available
and there's no other logistical problems
because we have time to send out
the
the notice we're not crunched for time
on that and we'll just do a second
reading next time and then on the 14th
and then table it
how about the budget on the 28th
are you in town yeah
about the budget on the 28th of of uh
september
council
i i see sh heads shaking
you're good
assad are you good on the 28th
of september
we would just be a little bit earlier
for our council meeting mr markham
yep
mr klingler
miss lamke mr sharp the 28th
uh mr kessler is the 28th
okay
mr fishel we would love you to be there
the 20
yes i know
i know but
okay
all right we don't so don't show the
28th for the budget september 28th for
the budget at five o'clock
um september
21st for the hearing
at six
assuming catherine can make it
natalie would you send out a reminder in
the morning to everybody please just
please and thank you
all right
we will scramble for a different date um
if she cannot make that one
um
natalie can you reach out to um
i miss cutting him and see if she's
available in that one that would be
wonderful thank you so so so much all
right
good show everyone
all right um massage you have anything
further on this
i do not all right and we will move on
to
coordinates 3321 okay so this is
ordinance 3321 to accept the material
terms of the one ohio settlement
pursuant to one ohio the one ohio
memorandum of understanding and
consistent with the terms of july 21
2021 national opioid settlement
agreement and declaring an emergency mr
markham this is an intriguing legal
scenario that i will allow mr fishel to
describe
this ordinance is coming before city
council because there is a pending uh
settlement of involving three of the
major opioid players um a national
settlement and what will happen what
would happen is that under this
settlement ohio would get somewhere in
the neighborhood of 800 million dollars
um i'm going to pull up the resolution
here for the ordinance um and um so but
what the three companies um and i'm
trying to blank and who they are now but
um but anyway uh here i'm sorry it's uh
the distributors are amerisource bergen
cardinal and mckesson so they are
currently defendants in a lawsuit i
believe actually filed in madison county
ohio um a national lawsuit and there and
other lawsuits as well and so they have
tentatively agreed to a settlement
whereby they will pay a ton of money
maybe enough maybe not enough i'm not
here to judge um
to all the states who want to
participate in this settlement um but
what they want is they want assurances
that they are not going to turn around
and make a settlement and then possibly
get sued by parties like the city of
bexley um so they are asking
actually the ohio municipal league and
and the lawyers representing these
companies i mean uh the state of ohio
are asking um that as many
municipalities as possible um basically
sign on to the settlement agreement and
that more municipalities that sign on
the more money ohio would be entitled to
which means the more money bexley would
get the only reason not to sign on to
this in my opinion is to is because
bexley wants to go out and sue uh one of
these companies on its own which we
haven't done from this point
for up to this point why would we want
to do it going forward yeah
bexley the the settlement again with the
800 million dollars would go to ohio and
be distributed based on a formula i'm
happy to bore anybody with but i won't
be blown tonight essentially over the
next maybe 18 years bexley looks like
they'd get anywhere from 90 to 130 000
that has to be used out of that 800
million um to that has to be used to
towards opioid related drug related
issues um to be determined later on so
my recommendation is we approve this um
but we have to do it by emergency
because the the the deadline for
saying the deadline for saying hey i'm
i'm in is this friday we could still be
in even if we don't approve it but
there's again there's no reason not to
approve it in my right
ms robinson and then mr harvey
just for clarification the money that
the city would get we would be able to
use that is that specifically for
rehab issues is it education like how
you know what what are the parameters on
how we can spend that money so a lot of
it is to be determined but hang on let
me see if i can find any details i don't
think it's in this document um
and if you if you don't have that
information now it would be something
well i guess if it's an emergency and
we're voting on it now we probably
should know about it now i'm just
curious you know i just frankly i just
spoke very briefly on a webinar about it
today so i'm going to go ahead
well maybe go into other questions i'm
going to look up the material i use in
my webinar and i'll be able to answer
that better thank you mark did you say
90 to 130
is that over the 18 years or is that an
annual number that's over the 18 years
total and that's a best estimate
but again keep in mind there are others
that are
been settled or will be settled
so bexley very likely will get more over
the over the years but if we pass this
that number will go to 95 to 135 it
won't go to 8 million to it that's
exactly right
again the more the more jurisdictions
who
the more jurisdictions who say we're in
and bestly being just one of them
potentially the more
money uh more more money out of the 800
million will come to ohio thank you
i cannot go for snacks
any other questions sure about this
all right i i'm looking at this up here
still sorry it's all right
adam president yes
may i um have leave to go to a facility
any particularly
it's not in our
it's not in our ordinance such that it
you need permission
lays it out it it simply says um
in a manner or means that would promote
an effective and meaningful use of the
funds and abating the opioid epidemic
throughout ohio as well as to permit
collaboration and explore potential
effectuation earlier resolution of the
opioid litigation against opioid
the i'm sorry the more direct answer and
again there's not a totally direct
answer but there is uh uh there's a
group of
leading public health experts who are
coming up with um projects that could be
used to help abate the effects of the
opioid epidemic
and the pre-approved list appears like
it's going to include a wide range of
intervention treatment education
recovery services so i'm not exactly
sure how bexley as a municipality would
spend that money but there may be
creative ways or to pull money or
whatever but that that's the very broad
list as of now great thank you that
definitely gives a framework it's really
sad that i spoke on that at literally
this morning and could not remember i'm
old
is there are there any further
comments or questions
um at um on this
on this piece because we're gonna have
to
move it along mr markham at this time i
move that we suspend the three reading
rule for ordinance 33-21
i'll second that
mr sharp walked out of the room should
we wait for him
yeah
might as well wait let him vote on it
open the door and let him shout out
all right there was a motion to uh
suspend the three reading requirement
like mr martin was there a second yeah
and there was a second by miss sod
any any conversation about suspension
mr harvey this bible yes ms lamke yes mr
markham yes mr klingler yes ms robinson
yes assad
yes mr sharp yes
okay suspension has approved
mr markham motion to adopt ordinance
33-21 second by mr sherman thank you mr
sharp thank you mr marcum any more
conversation about adoption
mr hernstein
yes markham yes ms zlamke yes assad yes
survival yes mr klingler yes ms robinson
okay mr mayor would you please at some
point print that out so the three of you
can sign it so i can send it to the high
municipal league tomorrow
all right
thank you everyone on that one
um
moving on all right
we now have a first reading of ordinance
34-21 to appropriate twenty seven
hundred dollars from the friends of
jeffrey preschool fund to pay preschool
related expenses in 2021 mr markham
thank you uh this is appropriating money
that
is currently in the forensic jeffrey
preschool fund that money
comes from the ohio department of job
and family services
so we have taken that money
from ododjfs
put it in the preschool fund and now we
are appropriating some of that money
20 wait how much 2700
from that fund to pay for preschool
related expenses
thank you mr markham are there any
questions on this one
um i i had a conversation with mr price
about this one
it really is an in and out um
financially
um i do think that there is potential at
our next meeting that it might need to
be suspended enough
just putting that in everybody's head
i i was going to ask if that was
if we even need to do it tonight
i don't think that's necessary mike said
he's good until the second rating and if
he needs at the second rating he'll come
make that request
okay but thank you
all right any any more questions about
this piece
is
is there um
so certain situations when we have
received funds
gifts and
items like this
we appropriate the full amount of the
gift
rather than a portion of that is that
because
they have only identified 2 700 worth of
items so
before the end my question is are they
going to come back with more and if
we're not really seeing what they're
actually choosing to spend it for
should we not appropriate the full
amount
um i think that i will take that
question back to michael price um i
believe that he's probably the one that
needs it to answer that that's a great
question though
any other questions about this piece
um if you do if you could share those
with mike so in the event that we do
need just to send and adopt it next time
around we do that okay that would be
great
all right um mr markham with your
permission we're going to move on to
tabled ordinances
i think there are there are three tabled
ordinances they're all under mr sherp i
believe
um
and i think there might be one that has
uh uh action on it mr sharp um
i'm not gonna call ordinance 2421 off
the table but um since it's not council
discussion the mayor could give us an
update without counsel discussing it and
taking it off the table
yeah so aep is scheduled for the next
council meeting on the 24th um
they're
the same nothing has changed i double
checked with them recently
the uh the market continues to be
i'm reacting to a couple different
things the increase in energy prices but
more importantly in ohio there have been
um there's been some legislation
proposed
that has destabilized the renewable
market and and caused uh pricing to go
up pretty substantially on that so ap is
going to come talk about that and see
what that looks like and um
we'll discuss at that point
thank you mr sharp any uh doesn't even
actually we can't discuss it this is
anything any action on any of the other
adam president i'd like to make a motion
to bring resolution 0521 off the table
okay there's a first um to remove from
the table um
is there a second
oh second thank you miss sod um voice
but all those in favor please signify by
saying aye hi hi
[Music]
all right mr sure
okay um all of you should have received
from the mayor today a revised uh
updated
a bike plan um
um
provided by katherine
and
if it's my understanding mayor
that just page
six
basically has changed regarding drexel
avenue
correct um
specifically i think
since katherine presented this to you
and this is
largely what she presented one of the
points of conversation was traffic
calming on drexel being proposed
and that as a
would that change the game for
the you know
it wasn't even a recommendation but the
exploration of a bike lane on drexel
avenue
and so this sort of reflects that and
talks about how
how
traffic coming
would
create increased comfort for people
writing and if that were not the case
then uh
we might want to look at protected bike
lanes
um
so this
it's not it's as
as any good operational brand is it's
you know it's a little bit
gray in its language but i think the the
point here is it adds
it adds
information about the fact that traffic
coming on drexel would be an alternative
to
uh protected bike lanes um and the
recommendation would not be to have uh
both
but it does so in a fairly circuitous
way but that's that's the gist of it
it's almost soucian
add that to the lexicon word for the day
uh and um the last paragraph um was
she um took out the sentence temporary
projected bike lanes could be installed
using planners reducing the width of the
regular travel lanes
these
lanes could be placed one
in each direction on each side of the
street
so she took out some
um descriptive version verbiage that
might have been of concern to residents
okay
does anyone have
any comments regarding the pl the plan i
know there were some comments last
meeting um regarding
the drexel avenue segment and concerns
some residents had right
i like the new language i think it we
addressed um some concerns and i i think
this
the language looks great
anybody else have any comments before i
ask richard to take action on this or
ask him if he has action on this
mr sharp
oh madam person i'd like to make a
motion to approve resolution 05 21
adopting the bike plan as
amended in
the
dated
the plan dated august
10th i believe is what it says on the
top of that
thank you
we have our first is there a second
a second
[Laughter]
um
no further discussion ladies and
gentlemen anything
uh mr harvey
mr markham yes ms robinson
yes assad yes mr sharp yes mr klingler
yes mrs lamking yes mrs fiable yes
all right
like clan passes
um i don't think we have any further um
i don't know i lost it
um so
we are i believe
uh we're gonna do public comment
and then oh i'm sorry we have to do for
the day reports judiciary and strategic
committee ms lamke do you have anything
um just two quick things first of all
you might remember that
a while back
green meadows school
came forward and they are making some
great progress at their building on
cassidy
i've reached out to the owners and i'm
going to be taking a tour shortly if
there's any other
up to two other council members that
like to okay i see uh i see two already
i will be in touch um but the facility
is looking great from what i can see so
that's
a great need for working parents in
bexley
and the second is i know that the mayor
is continuing to invite
input from the community on the
strategic plan there was a i think a
google doc sent out
hopefully you're encouraging everyone to
give as much input as possible so that
our strategic plan going forward is a
thriving one and that's all i have
thank you miss lamke uh mr sharp
i don't know whether this should come
under judiciary and strategic or whether
it should come under zenith development
but we had the resident that raised some
issues
regarding
resident and put it
at some of the zoning
procedures regarding
and since it's
regarding perjury and things like that
that's why i didn't know whether it
should be something that should be
discussed in a judiciary and strategic
setting whether there are things that we
do need to
consider to address
or find out if there are actual issues
that that could be a problem for
residents or
a
unequal treatment
i'd be happy to talk to mark official
about it and
see
what if anything needs to uh needs to be
done or where where that goes
along those lines if i'm a madam
president mayor can you remind
i mean
the the speaker tonight was 399 columbia
what was the project i'm drawing a blank
which project that might have been
the big white house 24 south columbia
okay gotcha white house the the tall
really tall house yes
that's on appeal
right i mean that's the one we're just
not on appeal
they approved it
yes sorry
it had a change plan that went before
airbnb's app okay i wasn't aware of that
not that i needed to be aware of that
extensive meetings to oh no i understand
how we got there and i have some
definite thoughts about what we heard
tonight and i can certainly discuss that
with ms lamke that's not a problem i
just couldn't remember which project it
was
well
you say richard asked monique and
monique said i'll get with mark but i
think i was going to say i think jessica
i think you should be involved as well i
agree i only said her because he said
now are you trying to box why are you
trying to box just out of that
conversation because
i can't say all right ladies and
gentlemen moving on
um
all right um i think monique is finished
with her um
report and we can move on to a service
and environmental committee
mr sharp
i have nothing to report tonight thank
you mr sharp finance committee mr
markham nothing for me thank you mr
markham
health committee jen robinson i'll pick
up the slack from my other council
fellow council members don't forget the
um
filler cruiser the the supply
drive on monday and also there is an
event hosted by the bexley minority
parent alliance their annual back to
school picnic
is uh this coming sunday august 15th
from 5 30 to 7 at jeffrey park
shelter house
it's a great event every year the bnpa
does amazing amazing work please visit
the bexleyminorityparents.org
their site to sign up they're asking
people to bring a dish to share
but it's always a good time to to meet
um meet members of that organization and
find out the great work that they're
doing and have planned for the school
year so um that's it for me
thank you so much um so then we will
move on to zoning and development
committee jessica assad chair
yes just wanted to um give another shout
out to
uh pelotonia's team bexley and um it was
on our city page but just wanted to
say congratulations to those writers to
give you a dollar amount they raised
over two hundred thousand
um
to kick cancer's butt and that was just
74 riders and um
and then some other uh donors as well
but that kind of shows you the impact
the small impact
and some challengers yes yes
um so that's that's a big number coming
out of our community and so thank you to
all of those who participated and all of
those who donated
thank you jess and thanks for
writing all right i believe that we are
on to uh mr klingler that recreational
park committee please just just a couple
things reminder that parks and rec
released their brochure and sign ups for
fall sports and activities started
yesterday so be sure to go to their
website and sign up and then also
mayor kessler could we get
the meeting packet on the city's website
updated
there's some ordinances that were not
the the most recent revision as well as
the i noticed the bike plan was a may
25th to 2021 uh date so for anyone who
downloads it um
they got that
we will do that and that's that's all i
have thank you mr klingler um
the next item on the agenda is public
comment there are no individuals with us
um this evening so um
we are going to um go into executive
session um i don't have the verbiage
do you wanna to confer with the city's
attorney
executive session to confer with the
city's attorney concerning imminent or
pending litigation
right um i will make a motion
uh reflecting the words that mr um
official just said to go into executive
session is there a second second all
right this has to be um a um
no that's be wrong
yeah that's what i thought mr mr
klingler
yes ms lamke yes mr sharp
yes markham yes ms assad yes miss fibel
yes ms robinson yes
fast
okay all right give me one moment please
turn your mics off
you ready
i'm i motioned to come out of executive
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um all those in favor please signify by
saying aye aye aye oh there's a post
same sign
um i will motion to adjourn second
than mysteries mr sharp thank you all
there's a favor signify by saying aye
aye
everybody could put their mics away that
would be great