like this
oh the thing where it says
bullets
check test one two one two
testimony
she's got the shirt on and everything
um
yes
Danny Hurley in the house yes I'm sorry
I'm not supposed to mention are you are
you keeping a low profile tonight
all right
I won't say anything
all right we're waiting on a little
technical glitch here right
and then the mayor took off oh there he
is
are we all good
can I bang the gavel
right all right
hey welcome back everybody the Tuesday
August 15 uh Bexley city council meeting
we're back
uh a lot some of us are back that's a
it's a little light uh tonight but uh
we're gonna make the most of it and we
have a lot of fun people in the audience
tonight too which is great as well uh we
are missing uh Jen Robinson and Monique
lampke is out at town and Jen called me
and she sounded terrible she's really oh
like I am no doctor but I think it's
probably scurvy or something like that
so uh we're going to do
and we're missing Matt McPeak too so uh
I think you're doing roll call I can do
that all right all right so uh Miss sod
here Mr Marcelino his Bible
Mr Markham here Mr Klingler here and
then you could just do a motion to
excuse the other channel motion to
excuse our uh Missing uh
comrades I don't want to say comrades
but yeah all right how about lamke and
Miss Robinson yes all in favor say aye
aye olives uh post same sign
I'm a little rusty please rise it's uh
Pledge of Allegiance
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the
Republic which stands
under God indivisible with liberty and
justice for all thank you
all right we have some special guests
here tonight uh first up uh much as I
love serving the city of Bexley I have a
higher calling at Ohio State
um and every now and then uh some of my
students uh it's exciting to see them do
some fantastic things and I open the
dispatch a few weeks ago to see two
students from two different periods of
my life uh both uniting to do something
pretty exciting in the state of Ohio and
also here in Bexley right it impacts us
so if you don't mind come up to the
Podium introduce yourselves and tell us
about your project and uh your what's
going on
my name is Anusha Singh and I'm a second
year medical student at the Ohio State
University and my pronouns are she her
hi I'm Ella Roxy I use she her pronouns
and I'm gonna be a senior at the Ohio
State University uh this coming year I'm
studying political science and
criminology
yeah so about six years ago I started an
organization at the Ohio State
University called period and her whole
mission was fighting the issue of an
issue called period poverty and that's
basically when people lack access to
menstrual products and and a group of
you know an especially affected group of
people are students
um and you know studies show a national
study even reported
um it was done by period non-profit and
other organizations that reported that
nearly one in four students in this
class when they don't have access to
period products and I think that really
compelled us to do something about this
issue especially since you know students
are directly affected by this and
um and we really want to advocate for
this issue but obviously like I had more
of a you know Science Background I was
in Mr markham's class
and everything but at the same time we
felt really compelled to Advocate and do
something about this issue after
learning about it our whole lives we've
been aware about the stigma around
menstruation but I didn't realize that
it resulted in policies like the pink
tax
um where there was a tax on menstrual
products taxing them as luxury items so
that was our first issue that we took on
our student group we connected with
lawmakers
um from both sides of the aisle and we
talked about how this tax should not
exist
um you know what you know why uh
menstrual products are essential items
and you know all the facts about you
know all of the ways that can affect
um people in our community and Ohioans
so that was the first issue we took on
and for several years we advocated for
this we got lots of students involved we
rallied
um we held the first ever National
period day which just
um you know basically a day where we
mobilized people to make noise about
this issue and just four days after this
our policy this bill passed for
repealing tampon talks and then
um just a few years later this was the
next issue we took on which was for
advocating for free period products in
schools and so you know even though our
conversations about menstruation started
in the state house and you know 2018
2019
um it's really not happened overnight it
a lot of conversations a lot of senators
and Ella was one of like the key
um people that I partnered with she's
another she's a leader at period OSU now
um they'll let I'll let I'll talk more
about that
um so I'm Ella and I'm the vice
president and advocacy chair of period
at OSU right now so kind of following on
the stand on the shoulders of giants
like Anusha right so period OSU has been
involved in advocacy for a few years now
like she mentioned repealing the tampon
packs
um I was still in high school when that
happened it was in 2019 and I just
remember thinking what there was what on
What still and so it was kind of some of
those no-brainer moments
um so I when I took on the role of
advocacy chair at period um I did so
because as I like to say I am a
reluctant political Enthusiast
um as we all know our political system
and many of the people who operate
inside of it are deeply flawed uh but
for people like me and if I had to guess
people like all of you as well all roads
lead back to politics right so I've
spent the last year and a half working
in state politics and a squad as the
State House might be right now seen some
incredible work get done by some really
remarkable Advocates so I decided that I
care about menstrual equity and it's
time that I follow in the footsteps of
Visionaries like Anusha
um and use my knowledge of State
politics to fight for this really
critical goal in the menstrual movement
which is increasing access for young
menstruators in schools so back in
November
started working on a policy document
compiling resources that I thought would
be helpful for legislators staff members
allies stakeholders from the very
beginning I knew that I needed it to be
a bipartisan effort and I wanted to make
sure that it wasn't just an unfunded
mandate that was going to be burdening
school districts so with those goals in
mind I connected with people who are
already engaged in this sort of work and
formed a coalition with Advocates from
across the state which was really really
cool
um we were really delighted early on to
have the support of minority leader
Nikki Antonio and Senator Stephanie
coonsie and from there I sent email
after email and follow-up email after
follow-up email and finally got a bunch
of meetings with some really key
legislators uh we really received
nothing but positive feedback which goes
to show that even in a political
environment like today's there's so much
left for us to agree on one of those
things is that our young girls shouldn't
be missing school just because they
don't have access to a bad uh after six
long months I woke up in the morning of
July 4th to the news that Governor
dewine had signed the 2024-2025 state
operating budget included within was a
man date that all schools serve in
grades 6 through 12 must provide free
period products the state allocated
okay
and the state allocated five million
dollars towards that goal it sounded
like you said five million dollars did
you say that okay I'm just checking
um and it is our hope that schools will
use that money to put dispensers
directly in bathrooms
um so that girls have access to the
products they need in the most efficient
way
um so that's what we're really really
excited about next we plan on continuing
our advocacy efforts to that
incarcerated women are guaranteed by law
to have access to these products while
they're in prison
um and additionally we want to make sure
that unhoused administrators have access
to the period products that they need
thank you very very much for your time
it's an honor to be here and we're more
than happy to answer any questions you
may have
any questions for that yes Ms sod well
well done ladies this is awesome and
your advocacy on finding
um exactly a surprise that you would
think would have already been taken care
of was not and so thank you so much for
all your hard work and what you're
currently doing there's more work to be
done as you both know
um there are I would love to grab coffee
with both of you at some point and maybe
Mr Markham here can set up the
introduction yeah I can probably hook
you up um there's definitely been some
schools with I have three children I'm
in a lot of schools and I've noticed um
that there's some opportunity and I
would love to share and then let you
guys run with that one thing to kind of
consider I love what governor dewine did
but we need to think about young ladies
in the fourth and fifth grade
as well so there's more work to do but
it's amazing and thank you so much for
coming and sharing all of this with us
tonight thank you thank
you thanks so glad you brought that up
because that was something that we
talked about with lawmakers too I think
a lot of them were you know in
conversations with lawmakers some
imagine why why not just high schools
but we were like well middle schools and
maybe even elementary schools because
research is showing that young girls are
getting their menstrual cycles even
earlier and earlier and I think it's
even more confusing for them to get it
to not have access so thanks for
mentioning that point it's also a racial
justice issue because black and brown
girls are more likely to get their
periods earlier it's evidence showing
that it's much more common for them to
have periods as early as fourth grade so
that is certainly somewhere that we're
hoping to go
is really incredible and impressive and
I think I love your optimism and I
totally agree with you and I think I
will plug local government because I
think that's where the real Fun's at but
uh it is amazing what you can accomplish
with resilience and just
keeping it keeping at it so good good
job
thank you thank you Beau so much thanks
again
ah all right next we have
Avery oh really we have a scholarship
award Lee Nathan's
you got some money to hand out here
thank you guys
bring a big check
come on can't you see it how those gold
coins our Treasurer
um forgot about the meeting but
um it will be in Avery's hands tomorrow
you know where you know where Lee lives
right his address
uh on behalf of all of the Bexley
citizens Police Academy alumni we're
delighted to present
um a check for 500 so that you can
continue your
um
that's one of the primary reasons that
we're existing is to help support our
Bexley police officers and every and
their families and everything that they
do and um you know I I remember you as a
little kid coming to all the activities
with
overly uh years ago and we're proud that
you graduated and look forward to
continued successes with you thank you
thank you appreciate it
thank you
Avery I hate to pile on but I just I
gotta reiterate what Lee just said I
think I just said it to you a second ago
but I I have this memory whether or not
it's accurate of you playing Minecraft
in my office or somewhere really close
to it many many years ago and being like
what is this Minecraft thing which thank
you you prepared me for my own kids
getting into it so it was very helpful
but I think what the point is that like
our our family of employees really is a
family and so it's been an honor and a
privilege watching you as you grow and
really excited to see you uh head off
into your college Endeavors and wish you
the best of luck congratulations uh
maybe we could do like a pseudo thing
where you just give them all the cash
you have in your wallet right now like
as a down payment
thanks
congratulations and thank you guys for
all the good work you do
I got it
um we also uh really appreciate all the
attention and the work that she does for
the city day after day in um whatever
her role has been and um we appreciate
um that
um she's raised a wonderful young man
like you thank you thank you
if I could just
um have another couple of minutes of
course to
um give you all briefing on one of our
special projects from the citizens
Police Academy alumni association
um with the guidance from mayor Kessler
and chief Lewis
um our project of heartsafe Bexley is
going to launch at 3 P.M on Sunday
October 1st we're going to be doing
um CPR compression only CPR and AED
training for all Bexley elected
officials that Sunday afternoon
we expect to have the city involved
with a lot of communications materials
banners on Main Street banners to launch
the program and uh for the months of
October November and the first half of
December we're going to do two CPR AED
trainings sessions per week at sites
around the community
at the senior center the Bexley Library
the police station police headquarters
and any other sites uh religious
institutions Bexley United Methodist
churches agreed to hold the site if you
have any suggestions we'd love to hear
about them we're going to schedule them
at convenient times morning afternoons
evenings weekends so that we can get as
many people trained as as possible the
idea is to improve citizen participation
and to save lives from Sudden cardiac
arrest in Bexley so stay tuned feel free
to contact me should you have any
further questions but we'll look forward
to working with you we'll look forward
to working with the South Bexley
citizens Association Community
Association and any other groups that
want to be trained in CPR and AED use
that's Sunday October 1st 3 P.M here
yeah right what I mean thank you for all
your work on this it's like really
exciting project like really literally
saving lives and literally will save
lives absolutely and thank you for your
continued support and thank you mayor
Kessler and chief Lewis and of course
lieutenant
all right
I think we can move on to ordinances
with special guests all right is this
the first what first first reading okay
first reading of resolution 5-23
confirming the mayor's appointments to
the Architectural Review Board the board
of zoning appeals and planning the
Recreation and Parks Board and the
environmental sustainability advisory
committee introduced by Ms Robinson but
I guess Mr Markham maybe you because
she's got the scurvy she's got a scurvy
yeah so uh yeah I think we have uh Tyler
Stanley here we're going to uh hear from
yes
thank you Mr President uh Tyler has uh
stepped forward and asked to be
considered for our Recreation and Parks
Board
um technically just our Recreation board
but maybe someday will be called
Recreation Park Sports uh and so I first
off I want to thank you for your
willingness to serve I mean our boards
and commissions are fueled by
super confident and capable of a
residents like yourself if you could
just kind of introduce yourself to
council talk a little bit about your
background and
um see if they have any questions
that'll be awesome yeah sure and uh
thank you for the confidence in in this
opportunity to hopefully represent the
community and and when it comes to Parks
and Rec
um yeah so my name is Tyler Stanley I'm
was born and raised in Bexley graduated
from Bexley High School in 2007 uh lived
away for for several years almost 12
years some of that time included uh time
in the Air Force so I lived all over the
country for for a little while
um my wife Audrey and I had our first
kid my daughter Moni in 2019 and decided
this is where we wanted to raise our
kids so we moved back from from Denver
at that point so we've lived here since
2019. we now have since had two other
kids here in Bexley so my daughter Moni
is is four and a half my son Peter will
be three in a couple weeks and my other
son Lucas just turned nine months today
so we have a lot of little people
running around the house
[Laughter]
through bedtime whatever you guys need
um yeah so I I was talking with both
mayor Kessler and Mike Price uh earlier
about you know I think I have some
unique experience when it comes to Parks
and Rec board I've been a participant uh
starting as a very young child in many
programs I then went on to be an
employee uh for many years at Jeffrey
summer camp and through some you know
coaching and roughing and different uh
organisms or sporting events and then
now I'm a parent my daughter my son had
been signed up for for many programs
here the last couple years so I feel
like I've gotten to kind of see it from
many viewpoints and I'm excited that uh
that I might have an opportunity to kind
of serve that organization the Parks and
Rec Department it's been a big part of
my life and something that I feel is
really key to kind of the identity of
Bexley and providing that Community
feeling uh and and ultimately just that
fun aspect of what it is to live in
Bexley so
um I I don't know that much about the
board and what's going to go into you
know making the sausage if you will of
the policies and the programming but I'm
excited to learn and I'm excited to kind
of bring my energy and experience on
those different viewpoints uh to
hopefully driving it to continue to be
what I think is an amazing department so
thank you for agreeing to join us
questions comments yes Mr Marcelino
Tyler I've known you for a while and I
am just so excited to see your name and
your your willingness to step up to this
position uh you know it's it's rare
sometimes for uh an older person to look
up to a younger person right but I you
know since I I met you when you were a
freshman I think that makes me a junior
or something at that time I've always
you know really appreciated your
maturity intelligence and just frankly
uh your friendliness and uh you know
your family I just think the world of as
well you've always been a great big
brother of Spencer and uh and uh
obviously Chase is great as well he's
all right uh but no but I just thank you
so much for your willingness to step up
I know you have a lot on your plate with
the family currently but uh certainly I
know that bexley's going to benefit from
it so thank you so much yeah thank you I
appreciate the kind words thanks a lot
Sam
as I said before tonight the meeting I'm
excited to work with you and I love what
your background brings to the current
record so I'm excited to have you in
those meetings and I know you're going
to bring a lot of insight and maybe some
ideas for additional programming so
thank you for your service yeah I
appreciate it
thank you very much thanks
are you here for public comments Natalie
do we have a speaker slips for public
comments in that case we'll get to the
president's report I'd like to welcome
everybody back feels like uh that was a
nice break maybe maybe we could use one
more week I don't know but it was
probably probably sufficient as it is I
just want to mention uh a couple things
that happened in the last week I think
that are pretty pertinent right now
especially and uh Mr Klingler land use
strategy uh group uh has met a couple
times uh one of the members of that
group which I think we all value is
Larry Hellman gave a super interesting
uh talk on Bexley day at the Bexley
library with the history of the
different Bexley neighborhoods
fascinating it is captured on YouTube if
you did not get a chance to see it you
definitely should uh peppered with a lot
of current photographs of houses uh in
different neighborhoods also some
historical photographs as well it was
really just really really well done
phenomenal
it gave me uh an entry point
to uh bring up one of my favorite
subjects again which was at one point
someone asked Larry about preserving
trees in Bexley and uh you know in the
audience I kind of went oh
and I think you know what I was thinking
uh I know lorian knows what I was
thinking and Larry said yes we have a uh
you know a landmark tree program here
and I'm very uh excited that that of
course Larry's very uh familiar with it
and he also articulated one of the
things that I think for me is kind of
one of these guiding principles in uh
being a part of government here which is
you know the the respect that we have
for individual rights here in the City
versus our role in government and trying
to promote you know the welfare of the
community and where we are with that
um with trees of course is we don't
really want to be able to you know force
people you know to not cut down trees or
to cut down trees if it is their right
but also we have a general welfare
interest in preserving the beautiful
fantastic mature tree landscape that we
have and I've been really really super
happy and excited to see even though it
came with probably my biggest I don't
know I want to call it defeat but one of
my one of my tough moments here in in
city council when my uh when my
ordinance resolution uh was pulled back
off but
to come back at it with the program that
we did to have the support of the tree
commission and all of city council and
the mayor and I think the community with
something that I think promotes that
spirit and also protects the individual
rights as well but provides an incentive
for people to recognize and keep those
landmarks dare we say heritage trees and
uh so I was excited to have Larry
mention that as well as part of his and
of course uh as we look at that land use
strategy and as we look at the history
of Bexley that long history that we have
and then the future of Bexley it does
include that those trees that that thing
that makes us somewhat beautiful and
distinct from a lot of other communities
and neighborhoods oh look at this oh
oh yeah
well done Lee well done
and that's all I have for president's
report we'll go to City attorney
I have no report this evening all right
and then we do not have an auditor so I
don't believe we have an Auditor's
report
well
can you prove we still have an otter
so I think we're on to administrator
let's get to the administrative update
then and I can grab my chair
um thank you Mr President and so kicking
off our administrative update
is our Recreation
from Parks director Mr Michael price
thank you mayor I'll just quickly couple
quick highlights uh we had our first
annual team night at the Bexley pool on
Friday August 4th um again that's a part
of our continued effort to connect with
this demographic in our community
um and uh was a very very big success we
thought we'd we were shooting for 100
kids we ended up about 180 kids and uh
they all behaved themselves extremely
well at the pool after hours and had a
lot of fun and it was really it was nice
to see the kids all um gather together
they were very inclusive of each other
they supported each other there was a
lot of uh togetherness I think which is
always great for that age group and um
seemed to generally just really enjoy
their time with each other as they're
getting ready to go back to school so
that was a big success thank you to uh
Josh Hester and our department for
organizing that and all the staff that
worked on it
um there are some pool numbers that have
started to come in we will do a full
pool report uh at the end of the year
but just to give uh the council an
update on sort of uh the impact of the
membership uh uh change from going to
from family memberships down to a 50 uh
dollar per person membership
um as you'll see in there we we saw an
uptick in memberships as we expected to
we were we sort of estimated around 20
increase we saw just about just under 17
increase so it was in the ballpark of
what we thought we might see
um uh we'll go through kind of the
financials and what that means from a
financial standpoint as we we finish up
the year but uh the other thing I'll
highlight on that is
um we talked about going into the summer
we've sort of seen that throughout the
summer that we had a much stronger uh
Staffing level which has been very
helpful for the success of the pool and
the management of the pool
um as is always the case August becomes
a little more difficult as kids go back
to school and start up their fall Sports
of their High School sports
um but as of uh you know going into
August we hadn't had to close a body of
water due to lack of Staffing which was
obviously really good for us uh relative
to where we've been the last couple
years
um uh we are continuing to see you know
what we'll see sort of week by week how
August goes but still feel better about
where we are at this point in time from
a staffing level so thank you to all the
the guards uh the the community members
um that have stepped up and enjoined
that that Workforce to provide this
outlet for our community
um a little bit of update on summer camp
um
um as well and I will highlight summer
camp finished up past week
um as part of that we had our talent
show on Thursday and I want to
specifically point out
um the uh Ryan Smiles uh Solomon uh
scholarship fund uh which was a a
generous gift by the Solomon family in
honor of their son Ryan Solomon who
passed away uh in 2021
um who was a former camper actually when
I was a counselor there
um but as part of that program uh we
awarded uh Tommy Webster which is one of
our staff members with a 2500
scholarship uh through that fund as well
as uh we will still walk you through the
numbers but we're gonna max out fifteen
thousand dollars in um Family
scholarships for Camp participants uh
through the Ryan Solomon fund as well uh
which over three years that that's been
in places has donated over thirty nine
thousand dollars to support families in
need so a big thank you again to the
Solomon family for this generous gift to
our community
um and then last but not least we have
this this Saturday is a Splish Splash
and Dash
um again I want to thank uh lorianne
feibel for chairing our volunteer
organization which uh really without the
volunteers and we require I think 78
volunteers to make that event work uh we
we could not do this event without them
they're essential to keeping our kids
safe on the streets uh in the in the
woods
um and uh you know knock on wood we have
we have a really good track record with
safety but that is because of the
volunteers that we have we we truly
couldn't do without them so thank you
lorian for all your your leadership on
that thank you to all the volunteers
that will be there special thank you to
the cross country team and the boys
soccer team and Paramount Who come out
in uh with big numbers for our our event
and um obviously we are still looking
for volunteers I know some council
members are volunteering as well I
appreciate all the support and uh
hopefully you if you can't come out
volunteer to come out and cheer on some
kids it's really a fun Community event
so we appreciate all the support without
happy to answer any questions
no just a couple anecdotes I had from
the pool
um I did talk to probably three or four
families at least I've loved the the new
pool structure and I know we want to
make it affordable more affordable for
everyone but a couple of the families
that you know they belong to JCC and
they hadn't got Bexley pool memberships
in the past and they found it they could
do both because they have friends at
both locations and their kids both want
to go so they you know and it they loved
it
um and then also I work with a woman who
um her granddaughter was a lifeguard at
um the Bexley pool and she lives in
Reynoldsburg and now she wants to move
to Bexley she loved it so much and she
loved working she loved being a
lifeguard especially pool so
it's good anecdotes it's uh I think that
your your first point was really good
point in terms of what we were seeing
different in terms of our membership I
think we also anecdotally speaking
because I don't have any data on this at
this point but we see a lot more middle
schoolers in general because as the
family gets a little older it's like
well wait do we really want to buy a
full membership for the family we're not
going to go as much our kids are sort of
off doing their thing we seem to see
more middle schoolers where it's like
it's 50 I can come and go as I please as
a middle schooler and so that it's been
that's been really good for us as well
thank you Jess yes just to speak to that
um it's 12 when they can go by their
self 11. so parents love that right and
it was a lot of kids biking over to the
pool which is what you want to see and I
hear all the time people when they visit
Bexley they're always surprised on how
many kids actually are still out there
biking
um I'm really proud of that and um yeah
I agree I agree it was a very like
Equitable place for a lot of these teens
to go to and they felt like they
belonged and they could have their
independence and go by themselves and
everything Matt said
um resonates with me as well as people
having multiple memberships because of
that individual fifty dollars so all
great things
anything else for Mike
I I'm gonna pile on and obviously
I'm very excited about seeing the
numbers increase the way they did I
think that's exactly what we hope to see
I am thrilled
um
I know one of the concerns that was
raised potentially was that that
increased enrollment would or membership
I guess would would result in maybe
chaos at the pool or overcrowded have we
seen that or what's that look like
sorry we have not seen that uh we have
not gotten reports of that we haven't
got negative feedback on that we will do
a survey where people maybe are more
comfortable with sharing any of those
concerns and we'll gather that
information but anecdotally speaking we
haven't had an issue with that um and
also this year we we sort of went back
to our normal Camp hours there as well
so that also added more people and it
seemed to work out pretty well it's
great and and I will say I would be
remiss if I didn't thank you mayor but
this was sort of your brainchild and so
I appreciate the support on this and it
has been it has been successful so thank
you we'll bring it down more next year
right
[Laughter]
um see what the budget looks like mayor
Kessler um one thing I wanted to say is
Mike you can speak to this but didn't we
find an uptick in the usage of the
basketball courts
we did and I think it's because we're
seeing I think we're seeing more of that
age group frankly that's part of the
reason but yeah but I think that was
like the Hope was that we would make
this more accessible to more corners of
our community and really drive more
participation and that's the whole point
of the community pool is to see the
community so good work Mike thank you to
your new team
um next up we have Mr Bayshore service
department update Andy joins us from the
internet
at an undisclosed location off-site
hey Andy how are you doing good evening
how are you
okay I was worried that might happen
we have an audio issue an income Natalie
that's why you were having that
experience
I wonder if I hit the wrong button
try again Andy
how about now
I accidentally hit a button over here
I think I might have messed it up
yeah
oh man now I'm just pushing more buttons
not really beautiful Okay so
good good thing we've had experience
with technical issues here Andy I'm
going to call you on my cell phone
call Andy Bayshore
do we need to start the meeting over
again no it's not working call or
incoming uh
incoming and so Andy make sure to
disconnect from your audio on Zoom when
I call you in Beecher get prepared for
the same
exercise
Andy how's it going
good there we go look at that
so Andy you ready for your update yes
sir
um the only thing I might want to add to
my report uh just a little more detail
on a couple of projects going on
um let me guess we'll be off to college
Thursday
um Tampa moves in on Saturday so there
will not be any hiccups with that
um once they get done with college that
crew will also go to Pleasant Ridge to
join the second crew
and we're hoping they can knock Pleasant
Ridge out
um a little sooner than we hope they are
behind schedule so we're kind of pushing
them to get it done so we can get
Pleasant Ridge hopefully paved this fall
um then I just wanted to test on Drexel
we did hit this thing last week across a
couple days and we did lose the day
yesterday
I'm still estimating I'm hoping around
the second to third week of September we
should be done with all the concrete
work
um
I know that project is uh
stinged ongoing
um but they are working and we are
pushing them um to try to get it done as
soon as possible
why don't you tell uh Council what we
found in one of our medians on Drexel as
we uh as we did some excavation
actually we found him in two and escrow
to hold up and uh snag we hit we
actually found uh into the meetings Old
Trolley tracks
um and the names of college practice we
had the bust up
the first one I think was seven inches
of concrete and that's
the second medium was around nine inches
of concrete we had to uh so we could get
you know some clean dirt and get that
out of there so when we planted trees
you know we'll be ready to go nine
inches of concrete so they were like
giving concrete away Back Then basically
any questions for Andy Jess
yes Andy thanks for um all the work
you've done and helping with all the
communication with all these projects
and um Drexel being one of those
um do you mind copying that there was a
letter that went out today to all the
residents of uh Drexel
correct yeah yeah it's actually on my
update the letter I will let that be yep
yeah
never mind we're good cool
um just to touch on that real quick
um we have you know that right now we
have a Blog closed and we'll have
another block closed next week
um the residents right in that block uh
get a door hanger the week before
and we're also
um updating the service page
um website with updates on
um all the street projects and the
Columbia Gas project also
great any other questions for Andy
all right thanks Andy appreciate it
thanks for dealing with our technical
eccentricities
can I tell you how relieved I am that
the answer to your question what they
found was trolley tracks yeah
so's the chief right yeah
man didn't mean to create drama there
sorry about that
uh we are so excited to take a look at
the budget with beecher's bottom line
four things Tuesday
uh Beecher
you there
can you hear me
are you muted on your cell phone now
Beecher
could be
I did he he was on here you were are you
still on Mike's cell phone Beach
talking to the cell phone
hold on
no he's still trying to zoom connect the
zoom audio is not working so Mike called
you on his cell phone just use your cell
phone talk through that
I don't think you can hear us
thank you
hmm
let's let me try
Andy says he can hear future
well that's because
just to let you guys I accidentally hit
a button back here and
what's a button we never hit so I don't
know I'm not gonna just keep hitting
buttons
I tried to unhid it that didn't work so
the internet can hear Beacher but we
can't so Beecher if you can hear us call
my cell phone and we'll talk through my
cell phone
there he goes
so hello
I'm going to start with beecher's bottom
line as he calls in uh no I don't want
to take the I don't want to take the
fire out of uh this presentation
excellent me I don't know what's going
on here
there please leave your message
I'm struggling I'm struggling
so as you guys can see oh there he is
okay that's because we were both calling
each other so we've got beecher's bottom
line on here you want to walk us through
it yeah they're quickly just run through
it real quick
um
bottom line is it's a good broken record
we continue to do better
um each month in Revenue mostly driven
by income tax
um also we've got is the rising interest
rates we've had good
um investment income this year
significantly higher than projected
um so overall we're about nine hundred
thousand dollars better in Revenue
again all four major categories of
uh general fund spending being Public
public health and safety Public Service
you know government Recreation they're
all better than forecast
um as a result we're both we're having
better than projected ending now but
it's better by 352 000 but of course
that includes the one million dollar 1.9
million dollar loan we were able to give
to the tests on for those projects and
so overall things continue to look good
great uh any questions for Beecher
yep is that is that incremental
um
progress on the expected
revenue or is it like did we have a
great month and then it's steady over
the last four incremental where we've
got to so far at year today we're about
nine hundred thousand dollars better
than budget and of course
that also includes being under budget
and grants just due to timing of 591 000
or else it would be even better than
that and the Lion's Share of the grants
variants um just to talk through that we
have state capital fund money and that
and we also have the Bexley Community
Foundation
um near the parks money uh you're the
parks is actually going to probably come
in over several years probably a
three-year
income and then state capital Grant uh
until we bid out and begin the Bridge
Project that's not coming in so that's
uh that's that discrepancy but remember
grants grants have has an income line on
them and then an exact opposite expense
so we also are much lower in expenses
because we're not uh spending over those
over the bridge at least
the the Bureau of the parks BCF one is a
little bit different because we have
that commitment so there has been some
expenditure but it's a reimbursement
based grant so it'll it'll lag that
a feature any anything else sorry any
other questions for Beecher
all right feature thank you for uh
joining us thank you mayor good evening
thanks bye
sorry about that
[Music]
um
then I believe our next update is the
chief if I'm not mistaken
Chief Lewis
happy August
nothing to to add there's um one of the
the Dynamics we wanted to just capture
so what's been happening this summer but
more importantly I met my one year
anniversary and I thought that it would
be
thought that it would be helpful to
recap some of the accomplishments that
we've made over the past years we've
also included that in this report
yes sir
probably on the record there are a
number of them that um pretty
significant accomplishments to be quite
honest with you we're very proud of what
we've done in the past year a lot of
progress in a lot of areas with really
the key stakeholders you know this
started out as a three-year strategic
plan we've met a lot of those objectives
and I've already tasked and challenged
the department to think about what we're
going to do next year and accomplish
from that wish list wants and needs of
what we need to do and then challenging
their supervisors and themselves to just
continue to get better and improve so
very excited for what we've accomplished
in the direction that we're going
Chief I want to
I want to thank you and tell you how
much I appreciate your service to our
community and and looking back over this
first year uh what a gift it's been to
have you with us well thank you
um it kind of was personified for me in
many ways at the National Night Out
event that you hosted in last time
Council met was in June we did not have
it on the books that we would be doing
National Night Out in fact I think it
was a scant two or three weeks ahead of
time the chief called me and he's like
what do you think about stuff like yes
let's do this and we uh we mobilize but
you mobilize your department Lieutenant
overly many others in your department
with the help of our celebrations and
events team and the rec department that
really came through uh really put on in
the start of the citizens police
citizens Police Academy alumni uh put on
a fantastic Community event and just
watching
not just the collaboration but the show
of support from the community from real
cross-section of community
it was it personified the success of
this program and so I want to thank you
for that and I said to somebody as we're
walking through I said
I think I I don't remember exactly what
I said but it was something along the
lines of uh you know this is this is
this is why we brought Chief Lewis to
Bexley this thing this shows up so bad
thank you for agreeing to come and or
continue to work with us so any any jazz
um I want to speak to that as well and I
will say that night at National Night
Out everything that we talk about when
we talk about being Equitable and
inclusive it was felt and so leaving
that event that night it felt really
special and it felt like everything that
you had talked about all the processes
we went through and hiring you and it
just felt really good made me really
proud to be a part of this whole you
know thing and um
council member Klingler and I we got our
work cut out for us that night because
we were working the bounce out
Equity so I want to call out Matt we
were a good uh tag team then we we did
have to shut those down because it was
getting to be why weren't you guys in
the dunk tank I don't understand have
they it served and we were yeah
definitely of service that night but um
thank you so much it was such a special
night a lot of um uh citizens that have
asked if we if is this new have we done
this before and I said no it's new and
they're excited to be a part of it next
year and these were people walking the
sidewalks who would just walk by the
event as I'm heading home on my golf
cart to ask what was that and I mean the
helicopter did uh just a little bit
um but it was it was just a really
special night so you've done a lot of
that this year as far as reaching out
and doing community events and um and it
goes a long way but that inclusivity and
the um just that being Equitable felt
all about that night so thank you thank
you thank you
I love your presence everywhere I love
that you
are the face of the department and that
there is a face for the department and
you know and and you
make yourself real with the family that
you bring with you and that makes you
feel that much more like you're a part
of a community that cares about you know
people so and I especially loved you
wearing your crown to bloom with the
bloomers
thank you
yes same one last thing just to touch on
what lorian is saying and I agree
wholeheartedly that everything's been
said so far but not only the face of
this department but you're bringing
faces of other departments and that also
is incredibly important for our
community and uh and our children Etc
um and so I really appreciate you
collaborating with the local departments
as well to help them become a part of
our community as well thank you thank
you
yeah
I think when we set out uh set out on
the hiring process the one thing we kept
talking about was the culture we wanted
a um a culture refresh and um I I saw it
I see it every day but I saw it today I
was driving down riding my street got to
Cassidy the Schmidt kids and the hunt
kids were on the corner selling lemonade
and there's officer Chapman Chapman uh
drinking lemonade
I had to razzm uh to I said you guys
have a permit just uh lemonade on the
street but it's little things like that
um we see them everywhere and uh it's
thanks to you so thank you thank you
yeah it's great well Chief we're all
going to say something about uh
International night out because it was
just such an amazing thing and you know
when we were looking for a new police
chief I know one of the things that one
of the things we were really looking for
that that you brought to the table is
community policing and I just think this
event was such a fantastic you know
beyond probably what we would hope to
come you know out of that uh out of that
first year and and to see the enthusiasm
of the people that came out and it
helped to have really nice weather
helped to have a helicopter but you know
what really helped was to have uh police
officers that just they were just so
fully into it you know and and they were
just out there uh
wanting to meet the community community
wanting to meet them to interact you
know and have that Fellowship my
favorite moment is to see
um Sergeant Fleming with his custom-made
police uniform for the dunk tank that he
was in and uh just so much fun and and
really I mean I think we cannot
congratulate you enough on that event
because it really was just an amazing
evening here in our community thank you
yes
I would be remiss if I
um first very humbled by all the
feedback so thank you to what an amazing
Community
um I have been blessed to be able to
serve and and call myself chief
of police for the city of Bexley and the
residents I wear that truly as a badge
of honor to collaborate with each and
every one of you around this room has
been Another Blessing Mike will tell you
he and I
um three weeks before had this idea and
he said hey let's beta test this space
and see if it works what do you think
and when I tell you we put this together
in a very short order and I called the
mayor and I said can we do it and he
said let's do it and it really was
leveraging
relationships it was leveraging
communication and just getting out and
and the way the community responded it
was so
um
very humbling and to see
um boys girls all ages African-American
kids within an adjacent Community
engaging parents
people walking up and saying hey I just
wanted to come over and meet you what's
going on this is fantastic
to me that was not by Design but it
captured what this past year has been
about and so I think that it did
something that none of us probably ever
would have imagined obviously we will
continue to build on the success of that
but there's been a lot of other things
and so I thank you each one of you have
showed up at all the events that we've
done from retiree cookouts to holiday
events and I would be remiss if I didn't
acknowledge your support for showing up
as well so thank you
thank you chief
all right
now for the moment you have all been
waiting for uh my updates which I will
keep quick believe it or not much to
your surprise
um
so I wanted to add I had to piggyback a
little bit off of Troy's uh Larry
Hellman Bexley Day presentation comment
because I enjoyed the past couple well
week and a half I guess in the state of
Maine uh which is gorgeous it was very
nice I drove back over two days to get
here yesterday evening got back into
town so I'm a little loopy today a
little tired but the thing that happens
when you drive back into Bexley it
happens every time you come back from a
vacation
and it's that like feeling we're like oh
I'm home like and it's like there's
something calming about the the trees
and the and the architecture and the
Community Center and Main Street and and
my kids even said I've got a a brew
who's entering sixth grade and his buddy
chance who was a summer camp with him
and they both commented on it and my my
kiddo Sal comment
that feeling uh we're home
um and that is
um it's intentional like it doesn't
happen by accident and it happens
through uh the the hard work of so so so
so so many people
um and so
thank you for all of your hard work
um that's one of the things that when we
have this break in the summer we get to
kind of take a little bit of a moment to
reflect on some of that and um I am
honored and privileged to be serving
alongside you guys I really appreciate
all of your Insight collaboration and
sometimes disagreement and we hone each
other and that I think is a uh the
essence of this body and this group of
people and the passion that we have for
the community it was also really
rewarding to even though I wasn't here
for it that's another evidence of strong
communities a lot of fomo going on right
so the talent show at summer camp uh
Bexley Day celebration about 10 years
ago
um looking at the calendar in the summer
I was like August 10th 1908 August 10th
1998 celebrating August 10th uh and so
Bexley day was born and I think start
off with a birthday cake at a farmer's
market
um back in the day but watching the
community brace it and kind of put their
own spin on it is part of what's so
joyful about this work is to see things
evolve and develop and it's now it's a
thing and if you've if you've read the
Bexley buzz you might even say people
have said I've never heard of this day
what is it and uh don't worry uh the the
day that was taken off yesterday for
Bexley day by city staff uh is a net
neutral holiday we have not added more
uh holidays in case that uh anyone had
any questions about that
um I want to thank our staff who worked
really really really hard 4th of July I
know it was a while ago right but we
haven't had a meeting since then
um it was
just such a privilege to watch this
machine humming as our service employees
came in our Police Department employees
came in wreck and they worked uh from
Sunrise past Sunset into the next
sunrise uh tirelessly to make that event
happen and it's just such a joy to see
that and and what was really cool about
it is
the the sense to which our our employees
really do care like they really own that
that job that they do uh thanks chief
for putting together a grill tent for
our employees at the Fourth of July
evening that was awesome
um and uh so that was a a privilege to
see and we have of course have had so
many community events this summer
um which leads me to reminding people
the smoke and fire Festival is coming up
on August 26th at Schneider park that is
a Bexley celebration events uh event and
then a scant week later we will be
having the Labor Day block party and
Brewfest on Main Street so there's a lot
going on here pretty soon so relax a
little longer because we've got some
volunteer hours to kick in from Splish
Splash and Dash uh and forward I'm
always looking for cookout crew
assistance uh and point of sale people
as well for Labor Day so please let me
know if you're able to help out with
that another thing that happened since
we um
last we're in council chambers is our
aggregation program went live letters
hit residence doors
or mailboxes I guess uh and we've
answered a lot of questions about it
we have had two public workshops where
we are surprisingly well attended and I
really enjoyed that
um and we posted that to our YouTube uh
Channel and
um those two who who are still in
um did not for those who didn't opt out
uh the rates go into effect in September
you probably won't succeed until you
know a bill that hits your mailbox in
October
um but uh AAP rate you know is at 11.2
cents per kilowatt hour we're at 6.8
something so we can you know and that
Trend doesn't look like it's going to
change anytime soon that's the least of
the end of September so we're saving you
know residents a lot of money through a
lot of hard work and it didn't happen by
accident and you guys were so well
educated by the time it happened that we
were ready to act quickly and decisively
at a time when it made a lot of sense
and I think we're going to continue to
see that payback dividends to our
community so kudos to you guys for your
work through that
um there's another piece of that that I
think we didn't even we were so focused
on rates and opt out on opt-ins and
communication that we uh it didn't get
highlighted very heavily but there's
about I think a nineteen thousand
dollars per year that comes back to the
community Through aggregation that can
be used on energy efficient projects so
we'll be hoping it's a it's a it's
almost like a um like a gift card it's
like a use it or lose it thing you know
that they offer through dynergy so we'll
be um looking at you know additional car
charging stations for the public solar
that sort of thing other renewable
projects that would be able to be funded
through that that piece of aggregation
which is great
um
I think I said I was gonna be quick and
I just lied through my teeth uh two more
things
three more two more things uh three more
things uh we had a great Splash Pad
grand opening uh the pond is nearing
completion end of August probably for
Commonwealth Park Pond the landscape
piece of that contract has started
um
I think that's right that's what I heard
today right uh the Follies bid has been
awarded so that'll be starting pretty
soon you're going to see a lot of
changes it was good that we did National
Night Out on the early August because
Commonwealth uh
Commonwealth Columbia is about to get
torn up as the utility work starts that
is uh the predicate to the Future work
there in the plaza so you'll start to
see some some action there we're going
to bid on the final piece of Schneider
Park Trail improvements and you might
say how are their final piece to
Schneider Park Trail improvements but it
has always been a piece of this year the
parks project that we would bring back
that staircase that used to be at Astor
will provide better access to dog park
and some of the benches and plantings
grills public amenities to that trail
space
um so that should be starting here later
this fall
and then the library pocket park design
continues there is some narrative here
about the Drexel traffic common
construction update
one thing that I want you hopefully that
you guys can understand is that um
Drexel's Paving piece is funded through
ODOT
we cannot control their timeline they're
going to be Paving Drexel in the spring
we would love it if the third paper
tracks from the fall they are not going
to be Paving directs on the fall pending
any sort of Miracle of phone calls that
we may try to make
um so that's going to include the piece
of Broad Street that was many years ago
supposed to be paid by andraxel
but the the median bump out work will be
done
in September and we'll be planting trees
this fall so you'll get it cool we'll
have a really strong sense of what that
looks like and then
finally we do have back to school
happening on Thursday
one of the things that you will notice
is
oh look at that isn't that oh I don't
have a photo here oh shoot okay
um at the intersections of
casting ham and Dale we have new signage
that talks about not unloading
passengers at the stop sign
and in general
um I've just seen an increase in that
and also parents just unloading kids in
the middle of the street like you know
in the in the travel Lane so we're going
to be providing a strong emphasis on
Communications around that also just
around generally safe student behavior
when it comes to crossing streets and
following the laws pertaining to cycling
and helmets and all that so we'll be
sending a communication out to the
community tomorrow this is a draft of it
I couldn't remember is it 16 and under
that's the helmet law I think is what I
wrote it or is it under 16. I think it's
under 16. okay I'm gonna make sure to
get that right
um
so with that rambling update I would be
happy to answer any questions that you
may have
just out of curiosity and what kind of
surface can we expect then over the
winter or whatever on Drexel then what
does that mean so the the area where the
concrete is being installed they come
back through and you've seen it on areas
that have already happened and they'll
they'll do a patch of concrete so the
road surface will be fully functional
it's just not going to be that smooth
okay
um the final coat of asphalt that comes
in the spring that's a melon overlay and
you know as as tiresome as this project
is undoubtedly been to Residents who the
Wonder axle a million overlay is like a
day or two projects you know come
through quickly overlay so that part
will be fast and uh and much easier on
the residents and then after that goes
into place we do our final
punch list which will include the thermo
like the really durable paint on the
street for the crosswalks
um it'll include one more pedestrian
activated Beacon at Powell
um
and maybe some additional signage so
some some spinal pieces will come in at
that point thank you
yes sir two things do you have an update
on the RFP for the skate park
yes
we did yeah we have a well actually I
said over to Mark today
um some contract language from uh hunger
skate park as the uh selected design
team for that so we have a contract that
we'll have to work through hopefully
sign shortly and start the design design
effort for that awesome and then getting
back to Drexel all of the utility work
under Drexel has been completed right
yes I noticed that sanitary storm water
so we won't have to go back in and
correct yeah this is you know the
directional piece even though it's going
in the spring we have all the work done
before Drexel has been uniquely
challenged with a lot of work happening
on it
um
this is very strange yeah just on
somebody has taken over my laptop so I'm
going to close that for a second
that's weird
um
uh
uh it's gone
I know
um maybe it's just a glitch I hope uh so
it's just it's uh so the the fact that
all of that underground utility work has
occurred already is a really good thing
that just means we're not going to be in
in Drexel for a long time coming uh all
new water lines uh Big Sewer upgrades
it's been a it's a it's a big project
it's been a long project because it's a
big project right
yeah
any other questions
yes sorry
um do you want to give the update on the
letter that
so a letter a letter I mean we've been
communicating with residents throughout
it's been a little bit since we've sent
a letter uh the the text that was on the
screen is um sort of a generic version
of letter but we sent out a letter
um this morning to Residents the text of
that letter is on the agenda it's
attached to the uh administrative update
yep and thank you Jess for encouraging
that and helping to uh think through
communication with us appreciate it
I don't think anyone's taken over a
laptop just in case you weren't worried
about that but just in case I'm gonna
restart
sorry any other questions
all right
thank you Mr President all right thank
you Mr Mayor to you Mr Fisher
all right we have on the consent agenda
the minute meeting minutes from June 27
2023.
thank you any comments or questions from
city council or from the audience on the
uh consent agenda
if not I will move to adopt the consent
agenda may I get a second second second
by Mr Klingler
um
um Ms Bible
yes Mr Markham yes Mr Marcelino yes Miss
zad yes Mr Klingler yes
we have no third readings this evening
we will head on to a lengthy title of a
second reading second reading of
ordinance 19-23 declaring the
improvements to the former Trinity
Seminary apartment site to be a public
purpose declaring such improvements to
be exempt from Real Property taxation
requiring the owner's thereof to make
service payments in lieu of taxes
designating the public infrastructure
improvements to be made that will
directly benefit the real property
establishing a public Improvement tax
increment equivalent fund for the
deposit of service payments authorizing
a revenue sharing agreement with the
Bexley City School District and
authorizing a tax increment financing
and Redevelopment agreement with the
developer of the site introduced by Mr
Klingler look at you welcome back
thanks Mark for reading that
yes
so just to refresh everyone this
um in regards to the site directly to
the west of us the what is it two and a
half acre three acre three Acre Site to
the west of us um
it's a tiff agreement
um for the property but
as I understand we don't have a lot of
information uh from the Bexley City
School District and what they're going
to do and
um
the developer has not gone past ARB and
B's app yet so
um
it is my plan to table it this evening
after second reading so we can get all
the details hammered out and then come
back bring it off the table put the
details into it and then we can have a
third reading
in the future do we have any timetable
on
on what when we expect some input from
the school board or so I believe the
school board has a September 13th
meeting when they'll be discussing this
okay I think it's the 13th
um and then bzap just for your
information the August 24th is their
initial preliminary review of the site
plan well say that again I'm sorry
August 24th
um August 24th yep and there's
you know they have not even I think
solidified a draft site plan yet so I
think uh you know I would expect it to
continue past September through the
zoning process I would imagine
um
but we will continue to communicate that
out to you and the the uh antenna the
Tiff is uh parking structure is that
right is that what I remember yeah it's
the it's the public Improvement that
they are hoping to help fund with Tiff
is a public parking structure that would
allow parking not just for the project
but uh access from adjacent properties
as well Mr Klingler do you anticipate
then uh if we put this
um on the table then we may be ready to
revisit it after that September 13th
meeting or is that just where we'll get
an idea of what we typically uh
in past I don't think we've approved
these without
um
these apps approval
and arb's approval
that time frame could take longer that's
we're looking at long term so we're
really looking at maybe putting this on
the table for a while then until we
think so yeah okay and then but but
having said that I think we'll probably
want to take it off the table just
discuss it afterwards sure sure
um and once there's a solid
kind of more solidified site plan slash
unit count
square footage we can
send out the tax impact analysis we
talked about so my request to you then
is if we do end up putting this on the
table tonight to just sort of be
cognizant of like developments that are
they are coming your way and then taking
it off the table regularly to update us
on that if that sounds
I'll keep it on my radar and provide
updates and then I think any any other
questions or comments
for uh Mr Klingler about this
comments or questions from the audience
too this is a second reading there's no
speaker slip required
if not then uh I think you have emotion
and it sounds like
I'll make a motion to table ordinance
19-23
motion to motion to table my by Mr
Klingler seconded by Ms Saad
um
give us I guess give us a little call
okay Mr Martin yes Mr Klingler yes uh
yes Mr Marcelino yes it is Bible yes
thank you
good job
I also didn't turn my mic you still have
a lot of work in first reading yeah now
we got first readings that's what it
should look like afterwards after a long
break so we have a first reading of
ordinance 23-23 to appropriate ten
thousand dollars from the water fund and
ten thousand dollars from the sewer fund
to pay overtime for the remaining of
2023 introduced by Ms lamke I think Ms
Bible is up I think we've got sod
oh sorry I didn't know that she just
wanted me to grow up yeah Matt's getting
me a water right now for all of these um
so it basically is exactly what it says
but I'm going to let the mayor speak to
why um we need to appropriate so this is
a I I am told this is the story I'm told
uh that
we had we had overtime budgeted in
Waterfront and Sewer fund in our in our
written budget
but it was not in the budget ordinance
so we don't currently have a budget for
overtime
um that issue was raised
as we were accruing overtime from uh
water breaks and and Sewer work
um so we just need to put back into the
adopted budget what was in the budget as
presented and just to but that doesn't
make any sense the budget book is not
actually what you guys approved you've
proven ordinance that has all those line
items and somehow it didn't carry
through apparently to that ordinance and
I will let Matt mcpeek and Beecher Hill
either confirm or deny that at a future
meeting I do not need to suspend our job
tonight
Jess can I put you in charge of making
sure that uh mCP gets that request from
us you got it thank you any other
comments or questions
all right all right sorry we do have one
here oh will that cover be expect I
obviously will it cover and so there's a
chance it'll be less than ten thousand
dollars so we just yeah there's a chance
that it would be less than ten thousand
okay thanks
okay we now have first reading of
ordinance 24-23 to appropriate 15 906
dollars for the law enforcement trust
fund fund 18 and to appropriate 21 425
from the DUI enforcement and education
fund fun fund 24 introduced by Ms lamkey
but mizad
yes so
um looking to appropriate the 15 906
from the law enforcement trust fund and
appropriate another 21 425 from the DUI
Enforcement Education
um and I will let the mayor
um give us a deeper dive here so this is
um last in June you all approved an
ordinance that allowed These funds to
expend money that had been gathered
through law enforcement activities
um Ohio rise code very strictly defines
what can be spent out of law enforcement
trust funds and the DUI enforcement and
education fund uh related to training
and other kind of narrow
activities
I am going to leave it as generic as
that uh because
frankly I do not know the exact
activities that we're using those for
but I can get that answer for you
um and from the chief and let you know
what they are
any other comments or questions
all right we will look for that
additional information at the second
reading
okay now we have a first reading of
ordinance 25-23 to appropriate 35 000 to
the senior program professionals account
zero
one-355-51135 to cover the additional
costs associated with an increase in
programming introduced by Ms lamke but
Ms Zod filling in
so um I believe this has just changed
the way it was funded in the past and
what we had believed that we had needed
now we need a little more but I'm going
to let mayor Kessler and
um Mr Price do a deeper dive so
essentially what happens when your
seniors are having a lot of fun
more funds are used but also more income
comes in as a result so this is a this
ordinance is a success story of our
senior programming
Mr Price thank you yeah do you want me
to add anything or are you good with
that
sounds great to me happy to answer any
questions can you tell us again tell us
what like what uh what more programming
is going on what's the increase so uh
bold transparency which is what we're
all about here
um
um obviously there's an offset which is
great uh as you'll see in the ordinance
um we've spent about through June we
spent about 26 000 of a 30 000
appropriation and had generated about 33
000. so so generally speaking the the
costs are designed or the revenues are
designed offset pretty much dollar for
dollar which it's in the ballpark
um so we'd expect to see that so as we
ask for additional Appropriations we'll
expect to see that offset continue
through the rest of the year uh so our
Revenue will be up
um I will say if we as I did a deeper
dive into this going back historically
on this account in 2022 we moved if you
may remember we moved Senior Services
out of the rec front into general fund
uh in 2022 we had a sixty thousand
dollar line item as we were trying to
roughly sort of guess what our expenses
would be uh in that structure and with
the change to a senior center from the
BAC and so we're going through a lot of
changes
um we estimated 60 000. it turns out
that that's probably more accurately
what it should have been but we didn't
uh when we made that switch over some of
the expenses got pushed against still
Recreation fund items as opposed to
senior funds in 2022 so when we looked
at budging for 2023 we said well we
spent thirty five thousand we had 60 000
appropriated we can cut that back
we cut that back and realized we've
actually been you know we're doing a lot
more stuff and it was just it was uh
posted incorrectly against Rec fun stuff
um so talk with Beecher about that and
that's been cleaned up but as a result
we're now seeing an additional expenses
in the account where it should be
getting paid out of so that's a little
more of the nitty-gritty as to how we
ended up here but it is true seniors are
having a lot of fun
do we see any uh you know since we're
seeing these sort of uh you know
reacting and and dynamic evolving like
do you see any sort of you know Trends
in the kind of programming that's being
popular and sod or any unexpected or I
mean I'm just curious like I know you
pay attention to all that stuff well not
getting older too not so much associated
with costs but I know the
um uh the Friday
um uh cocktail evening is enjoyed but I
keep hearing that
um so if you're looking for something
fun to do on Friday yeah what's that
going to be a guest mixologist of course
you can't I'm sure you know uh Kristen
would know better she'd have better
sense of Trends about uh what we're
seeing in terms of activity I I do know
the senior you know as she reported a
couple meetings back the senior center
has really provided a lot of outlets for
programming we've been doing a great
amount of programming there that we
frankly just didn't even have space to
do uh in the Mansion previously so
um that uh that has really been a
success story a lot more sort of Fitness
stuff that seniors have been able to
engage in has been has been a big
Improvement for services that's great
I'm excited to be here to be supportive
of that sort of growth and everything
yeah any other comments yes
just at the risk of sounding like um
mark masser
because I am the one that's the oldest
one here yeah always
I remember a day when we had to fight to
the nail
to get funding for a program
to continue program director funding
for that position and it almost makes me
cry to with joy to think
where we've come
and and who all is able to enjoy what
has been created from the rec department
I mean it is just such it it just brings
me so much joy so
um
this is my esec group and they might
like for us to read a certain reading
next I don't know if that would be okay
but
we're only two away so they could come
in you guys could come in but we only
have we have two more to do sorry excuse
me
anyway that was my comment
if if I may one other thing if possible
I would ask for potential suspension
adoption consideration at the next
meeting just because we're going to have
bills that we're not going to be able to
pay uh without it it looks like so uh if
Council would uh consider that we'd
really appreciate it
so then we will also need to amend it to
have the emergency language in it
because I don't think it does now
oh you're right yeah yeah you're right
okay let's read 27-23 encouraging idling
on the streets
oh a champagne pay attention all right
first reading of ordinance 27-23 to
amend chapter 4 52.06 unintended
unattended vehicles duty to lock
ignition remove key set break Etc in
order to modernize provisions of this
section and to expand restrictions and
idling for the protection of both the
health of citizens and the environment
and to add section
618.25 animals and unattended Motor
Vehicles in order to protect the Health
and Welfare of animals and unattended
vehicles introduced by Ms fibo
our last meeting I shared with this
um I shared I shared that I was going to
introduce this
um
uh soon uh when we got back when I was
at the last esec meeting and and I had
some some really encouraging words from
all of you and so
um I'm so thrilled you're here uh the
first thing I think I would like to ask
is since I started talking about idling
and I have had a conversation about
idling with Council as well as with esek
how many of you have thought I'm idling
and turn the car off
maybe some of you just don't idle but
I'm hoping that
um this is going to be seen as more of a
an educational rather than a punitive
law
um and I went a little overboard and I
did a quick PowerPoint um I actually my
17 year old helped me with it but um I
just want you to know that every 10
minutes your engine is off you'll
prevent one pound of carbon dioxide from
being released and carbon dioxide is the
primary contributor to
um to warming
um
it's a planet problem
um and idling for more than 10 seconds
uses more fuel and creates more CO2 than
just restarting it turn it off it's not
bad anymore it's not bad for your engine
to to turn your car off and turn it back
on it doesn't
require more fuel to do that
um
30 million tons
of CO2 is created yearly just by people
idling and if we would stop we could re
we would literally take five million
Vehicles off the road
so
um
idling cars spew the yucky stuff just
like moving cars do just as bad and it's
a people problem okay because it causes
all kinds of human illnesses you can see
what they do
and the emissions concentrate closer to
the ground think about that
who is closer to the ground
our babies
and where does this happen a lot of the
time
parents idling closer to schools
and children
and I didn't realize that until I
started reading about this
and it makes sense they breathe faster
than all of us do
so not cool not cool for the kids we
need some education on this and Julius
needs to not use red
um
there are all kinds of misconceptions
people claim letting my car warm up is
good for the engine no
it's not good for the engine okay
um
and the cars warm up faster when they're
moving
um on a cold day it takes too long to
warm up my car unless I let it idle
first yep that's not the case
the faster you get it moving the faster
it warms up
then thank you
um I save more money on gas by idling
versus restarting the car
not true not true
and yeah
um starting and restarting my car will
wear out the engine quicker not anymore
you know our cars have have really
um moved along when it comes to that
um starting
uh okay no idling uh here we go there
are 29 States Ohio is not one of them
but there are 21 there are 29 States and
the District of Columbia currently have
laws to reduce the engine idle time on
motor vehicles within the state
now
it's legal to sit in your car let it
idle it is illegal in the state of Ohio
to leave your car idling and that is
what really made me
start digging deep into this I would
sit
um I would get out of my car at
Starbucks and I would notice that there
was a car idling next to me and I look
and there's nobody in there nothing
is in there people are just leaving
their car idly and
the bottom line is it's unhealthy
it's harmful to the environment it's bad
for your engine
and those people are exposing themselves
to that the possibility of someone
taking their car and I will add that
um
in just January of
um in just January there were over 400
car thefts now we know a lot of them
have to do with a certain kind of car
because those kinds of cars are easy to
turn on and get off but but this is this
is asking for someone to steal your car
and people jump on these simple simple
ways of doing that
um so
real quick
um
if all six of us I guess there's five of
us now tonight I was counting on their
Basics but let's say the six of us
because I don't want to have to do the
math again
um
six of us idled for 10 minutes that
would be nearly four pounds
of CO2
full of it takes one fully mature tree
to absorb about 50 pounds of CO2 a year
so if each of us idled for
10 minutes
10 times
we would be eating up
one tree
in the in our Arboretum
so
there's a lot of trees in our Arboretum
but there's a whole lot of people that
are idling
um so we'd really have to be starting to
really work on those uh the tree
commission would really have to start
working on our heritage trees they'd
really have to start planting a whole
whole lot more of them
so um
this is this is my cry out for us to do
one more thing for our environment just
one more thing
um
I've talked to
um service director
um and Benjamin talked to the chief
the idea is not for this law to be
necessarily punitive though I do believe
that it would be a minor misdemeanor
which would could be up to 150 if it was
something that happened over and over
and over again
My Hope Is that we would arm our police
officers
with
some quick bullet points like I've
presented
for them to hand to people
who are
who are idling it is my hope that we
will have signage
on certain places where we know that
it's especially harmful
for this to be happening
I know that
um in the city of New York alone
if all the idling that they do to be
able to
to combat that with trees
they would have to plant trees
and all of Manhattan
22.7 square miles to combat that you
know it just it's a simple something
that we can just turn it off
this this ordinance was I I did lots of
research about
um you know what do we do about if it's
32 degrees below 32 degrees outside it's
freezing
you know
can people do it for five minutes can
they do it for you know should they be
able to do it for 10 minutes what if
it's over what if it's over 80 whatever
the idea is again not for it to be
punitive for us to start thinking about
it just like it became when I first
learned to drive it was not believe
beyond that old
there was not a lot I have to buckle up
but I couldn't as a parent drive out of
my driveway with that my kids saying mom
buckle up
and so that is what I'm hoping
that that we you know are are one of the
first again in central Ohio we are the
cool kids caring about our environment
and making this this a law so that we
all think about it we think about our
environment and we think about what
we're causing
um it was the mayor's suggestion that we
piggyback on that uh to talk about our
our uh animal friends and taking a good
care of them
um as well and
um there have been a hundred and eleven
dogs that have died in Ohio
uh since the since the beginning of the
year and 2023 isn't even over from being
exposed to heat
um so we really need to start
um making sure that that's something
that we you know count for as well and
those are just the ones that have been
reported there were 459 rescues that
were reported so
I just want to think about our furry
friends and think about the safety of
and health of our children and the
dollars we could save by by just um
idling at home and not in our cars so
I will take any questions any of my
council members have them
comments or questions
yes Miss sod great presentation very
well done I kind of feel passionate
about this I don't know if you can tell
um
uh the City attorney and I chatted
before before the meeting started and
and we'll continue to chat
um there are cars that have to that have
to idle for safety reasons and I need to
make sure that this
um covers those there are police
vehicles that have to idle and there are
certain service vehicles that also have
to idle for safety reasons so um
we need to be able to make sure that
what we have written here covers that I
would comment on that but I think Sam is
go ahead a couple questions so first is
that does this apply to vehicles that
are you know in traffic let's say uh
because our stop lights off and so okay
just making sure that
um because I know there's some that are
automatic some aren't okay right and
they those are wonderful okay yeah and
then um there uh and then secondary uh
the penalties you mentioned the
penalties I don't see the penalties is
there a reference that if you go to if
you go to
if you go to that section and it'll lead
you to of the it's referenced okay
that's a minor misdemeanor and so it
would be the the most it would be would
be 150 yeah they're they're if I may
they're they're provisions on fines
you'll see in the 400 section that it'll
refer to there are some it would be a
minor misdemeanor and then it could
escalate from there if there are two not
any not to any two violations within a
year it could become a fourth degree
misdemeanor okay thank you good
could I clarify a couple things too just
in terms of the of the logic behind you
had mentioned that I think your first
draft which you know you worked on a
like a year ago I know you've been
passionate about this for a while had
really tried to Define all the different
situations where idling might be
appropriate and sort of give benchmarks
to that and I think as we talked through
it that was one of the Hang-Ups like
who's going to really administer this
effectively
um and we talked about like
you know do we want our police wandering
around all the time trying to find
idling cars and and penalize people for
it no I but I do think we want to state
to the community the value of how this
is an important environmental issue we
take it seriously and that we have
section of code related to it to that
point if you read the the operative
language and this this section
essentially exists already talking about
idling unattended and so it's really
just adding this
the sentence that says no no person
shall allow the engine of a motor
vehicle to idle attended unless it is
for a reason related to the health or
welfare of a human being
um that
section
um that section is pretty uh nebulous
and it's at the end of the day we don't
really see this being something that's
going to be
um like a law enforcement stick sort of
uh ordinance it's going to be one that's
more public education gives us the
ability to have signage in our parks in
other public spaces and in other areas
that make sense and gives us the ability
to kind of make that that value
statement does that make sense
yeah oh actually never mind I had a
question and I'll call you both
separately thank you
well
if I may it also but it does go because
the current ordinance allows it if in
your own driveway
so this will change that again not that
anybody's going on that the police are
coming on people's property to do this
but it's a tool for Education right it
would be a change that's a good point it
allows it allows it unattended vehicles
to idle in your own driveway
and I think one of our there's not only
an environmental concern behind that but
there's also a safety concern around
that
um and not just security but safety
there are legitimate scenarios where
that could pose a safety issue Beyond
just a security issue and now let me
understand in case on this thing so if
you have a driveway currently you can
leave it unattended and let it idle and
this will modify that to
go edit it okay just making sure all
right thanks
so I guess with that in mind first of
all I do want to reaffirm that like that
little thing on my car that I hit
accidentally every now and then that
turns my engine off when I stop that's
that's a good thing that's helping right
at the stop signs okay I'll make sure
that stays stays on then as much as I
can do that but so because you'd mention
like these different scenarios and I
guess for me it is very clearly two
different scenarios to say I really kind
of hate to see these cars like just
idling out there right they they pull in
front of the middle they're waiting for
somebody and they're idling or
especially in the schools and things
like that the cars will just sit there
and idling on the other end of that
Spectrum I would see like someone with
their car and their driveway on a winter
morning that need to or or are letting
it idle to you know warm up defrost
those you know windows or something but
there's no provision in here to
differentiate between that is that what
I'm understanding and is there a reason
why
there shouldn't be
to however I guess who I'm not 100 sure
I'm clear on on your I think your
question but following the question the
way I'm hearing your question is
currently
if you have a driveway you can leave
your car unattended to warm up and
defrost your windshield
by the way if it's on the street you
can't currently okay so there's a
different class there whether it's in
the driveway or not so are we taking
away the right of somebody to have a car
idling in their driveway for the purpose
of for example to frost a new windshield
yeah with this ordinance the answer is
yes okay now do we want to that's a it's
a great question right right I think
that um that's a really good thing for
Council to kind of I think I think the
owner of the car
who has the car on
and it's defrosting the windshield while
they are actively now actively
um taking
scraping I think you could argue that
that is for the safety of the human
being
that's getting I hope there's a welfare
of a human being that might be included
in that that only comes for attendance
but also to your point you are typically
out there scraping your windshield it is
attended right excited would be you run
into the house leave it there for 15
minutes to warm up so that you don't
have to do it which which does typically
happen too though yeah yeah well someone
usually they if you know we do have some
very cold wintry days and they'll turn
on the engine they'll scrape and they'll
go back in and they come back out I'm
just this seems to me like a scenario
that I'm envisioning that I would like I
guess would think maybe should be
considered in here just as a uh unless I
can be told differently that maybe
that's not something that should be nice
again I think that I would argue with
this that
it will make people think
twice about doing something like that I
would argue that our police
are not going to be seeking to give
people
you know
um tickets because you know they're
they're doing that now could I Envision
someone
saying um my neighbor does this for 30
minutes every day every day every day
they do it for 30 minutes they they it's
stand in their house they turn their
engine on because people do have those
and they let it idle
unattended
for 30 minutes every day now that would
be
that might be cause for the police to
say you know this is illegal please stop
doing it
I think they're
there also might be some ways to kind of
combine the first and second sentence to
add the health and
welfare to the first sentence somehow
maybe but but it's good it's good you
know but to think about because that is
not a scenario I necessarily have
um thought about but I have
um
I'm embarrassed to say that I have and
I'm sure there are other people in this
room that have um scraped off just just
enough to be able to see outside
just make sure that they got the kids
there on time
um so so uh and that is a it's a safety
it's a safety concern
um making sure that your your car is
scraped well or whatever so and and you
know maybe people will take the easy way
out and turn the car on and let it do
its thing what one other thing Mr
President
to point out is that this does
um sort of also
provide another incentive I'm not saying
that people with electric cars should
let their cars idle willy-nilly and I
would encourage anyone with electric car
to be purchasing clean energy for that
electric car such as wind energy through
the city's aggregation program
um but uh electric cars don't fall under
this because the motor the engine is not
idling
and there is a difference you know with
a with a car you're burning all that
fossil fuel with an engine and only a
small portion of it is actually going
towards cooling your car or heating your
car the rest of it's just going up in
the atmosphere and destroying the
environment so that is an advantage of
electric cars at its focused just on
that thing that you're doing when you're
trying to warm up or cool down your car
and to that point I'm sorry we are
trying very hard to convert The Fleets
first that idle a lot we're just talking
about that with our canine vehicle so
vehicles that are prone to a lot of
idling we are trying to get those to be
electric vehicles uh at a higher
priority than other vehicles good deal
so two two points the minute this is
passed you have outlawed remote starters
and Bexley on on gas operated Vehicles
because and that's just how I mean again
that's that's what this says again the
second thing relates to that because
you're going to tell people are going to
say Well they're not going to pull them
over there I could have tickets somebody
who uses a remote starter but
this is a question I'm not a legislator
here
we're talking about passing a law and at
the same time saying but we're not
really going to enforce it
and it's a criminal statute I'm not
going to say anything more I hear your
words
um and may I'm sorry may I of course
yeah I mean I I hear your words
um there are I could stand at a
crosswalk
and I could if I were allowed to to get
somebody every time somebody doesn't
stop for someone who goes on the
crosswalk
I you know I would I would be a very
wealthy person
um that being said I think this is the
this is the wave of the future I think
that this is a very smart piece of
legislation I think that perhaps uh
Toronto you're not allowed to Idol a car
in Toronto and indeed they do fine
people 500 if they're doing it I mean we
are not this is not something new and we
could we could enforce it we could ask
our police officers to enforce this
I I would like
I would like our our executive
Branch to say to his uh were
had a you know our head of the
department our chief that this is
is thought to be at least for now more
of a
educational
law and and I know that I I can feel the
feedback from all of you that this is
why do we have a law if we're not going
to enforce it well we have laws where we
give people warnings for things
before we know that they've done
something
again and again
then it becomes different I mean there
are so it's I guess I'm not
I'm not intending for it
to be
ignored I'm intending for it to be more
of a gradual educational piece where at
some point
it will have to be enforced I mean I I
still see people going by with their
telephones but how many of you
have picked up your phone and thought
I even was part of that law you know I
mean I have picked up my phone in the
cards
I can't do that I have literally one
time threw it in the back seat thinking
I cannot do this this is a law that I
passed so I I I don't know I just think
it's I think it's something that we
really need to work on but did you wanna
I wanna address some ability okay peace
and I would
I wasn't saying that we wouldn't enforce
it and I wanted to be clear about that I
was saying that it
it is better so don't let the
um it's been too long since I was
driving for too long don't let perfect
be there any good right so we could come
up with every single scenario where we
become dead simple to enforce and just
be like oh you're definitely breaking
the law right now I'm saying that there
is
some there is going to be some
interpretation required to say whether
or not it is a reason related to the
health or welfare of a human being and
in some instances it will be tough to
enforce especially a hot summer day
waiting in line to pick up your kid from
school waiting on the side of the street
parked legally to pick up your kid from
school where arguably it's uncomfortable
to be hot in that car and it is a health
or welfare
and someone could argue well I could sit
there and get hot or roll down my window
and that'll be a tough one to enforce I
know that we know that it'll be tough to
enforce it in the in the middle of the
winter it will be really simple to
enforce it when a car is sitting
unattended at Starbucks which happens it
will be very simple to enforce it when
somebody is observed sitting for 30
minutes waiting to pick up their kid
idling in the springtime on multiple
occasions I'm not saying that's going to
be like people are going to be caught up
in gotcha moments but I think there will
be some very clear scenarios where it
will be simple to enforce others where
we'll be a little bit more difficult
yeah and I'm not saying it shouldn't be
I'm just saying I heard the message I
keep hearing what kept hearing was well
this is really to change Behavior it's
not to enforce a criminal law and I just
think that if if that is the intent and
I'm not saying it is but if that's the
intent as as your lawyer I'm just saying
you should think about whether you
should be passing a criminal law for
that intention that's all I'm saying I'm
not saying you shouldn't pass
who was it you know what uh Sam has
already spoken once will let him go
after you go that's us
so food for thought this was an amazing
presentation tonight and like you always
do you bring things up that are thought
provoking and
make change
what if
um we continue the campaign of the
education piece that you just presented
tonight first
learn as we go and then and then look at
this just food for thought
just something to consider you don't
have to answer yeah just no I think it's
it's good and we thought and we thought
about that anyway Sam so the intent of
it I love and again I do seriously
appreciate the insight and that you know
I like your statistics so that's all
excellent and my question kind of that I
was and I started up on and I pulled
back to say I'll call you both about it
was exactly what Mark brought up which
is that no it's okay I just didn't
because it's the first reading and so
like you know I'm
I look at this and I think about who's
going to bring this to anybody's
attention maybe a neighbor that doesn't
like their other neighbor I don't know
maybe something like that and I don't
want to weaponize uh any you know this
ordinance and so if there's what I would
like to discuss is potentially if we
could either
be extremely specific with the penalties
and how they are handed out in terms of
how they're listed out and perhaps even
include them here within to State a
certain number of warnings then we get
into the minor misdemeanor because that
comes along with the cost too
um that comes along with potentially I
haven't hire an attorney which some you
know just it makes the bigger issue or
potentially eliminating the penalty
um but also potentially taking budget uh
some of our budget to put towards
education and a sense of signs and areas
where it is more prevalent things of
that nature I guess I'll just throw it
out there now because I'll probably call
you both about it this week and so but
since Mark brought it up I want to bring
it out there that that's where my
concerns are but I do appreciate the uh
the the ultimate goal of ordinance 2723
same as your is your concern the penalty
or the application or the
you know the specific it comes down from
a bit of both and I just think about it
from uh because I think about this
through a lot of things personal
experiences with frankly uh you know
with with how neighbors interact and
unfortunately not everybody is as
friendly to each other as as we live for
them to be and so I just think about a
situation where how can we uh frankly
you know we don't they don't do
something that we like so we're going to
keep an eye out for every single detail
uh that they do wrong and then we're
going to utilize this and when the
police don't enforce it now we're upset
because you're not doing what we've
asked and I just want to be very
specific in the penalty portion of this
I think because
it that's it's just concerning to me
that's about it as just because I see a
lot of as we said it's kind of broad as
it is right for the health and safety
and well-being of individuals you know
I'm thinking about when I do this with
my daughter when like so the car's not
cold when she gets in there
um also because we have to get to school
and I want my windows to be clear Etc as
you brought up
um and so I just want to be make sure we
are thoughtful with that penalty and
that's why I was asking initially about
the where it's referenced so I can do a
little bit more
um but it is the first reading so we
have some time to work through it so
thank you for bringing it
I love
the thought the message I I understand
where it's coming from a couple points
and kind of to Mark's uh comments
I don't see it being enforceable
um but also
I don't know every law in our code and
you know and I look at them often um I
can't imagine the 13 000 residents know
the laws and so then you're putting the
dissemination of the information on the
officer when they happen to randomly go
by somewhere and they
um they give someone a warning I think
it would be
I think I would be more in favor of a of
a big campaign or a big Market a big
marketing push
to to get it all out there first and
then maybe piggyback with a law on it
after we've
we've told everyone in the community
um hey you know this is how we want to
go
um I just think it would it would hit
home better if it would land better with
a broader base because we put this law
on here we pass it I know we have
thousands watching on YouTube
um
but
um
you can see what I'm saying I just don't
think and I know we might put it in the
blast or we might but I think the
campaign push or the marketing for it
first and then we come back with okay
now we're gonna we've told everyone this
is what's gonna happen now we put it in
the code I think that would be a
in my mind that would be a more I would
love to see an informational campaign on
that too because I really was not
trying to be funny when I said I wonder
if that you know does anything like my
you know I hear other cars like oh their
engine started up too it might start up
I'm like you know is it I don't know you
know I assume it is but I have never
I've never really heard you know like
because the cars sometimes stopped for I
don't know four seconds versus you know
or whatever and uh I did have a very you
know smart friend when I was in college
and he would claim some statistic about
how long to start the ignition versus
and I can't remember what that number
was but then my brain always does that
too and I'm like well wait was my car
stopped long enough for it you know
whatever
it I know Sam maybe have hand raised I
just want to speak I I I because we went
back and forth on this with my initial
cynicism with your initial draft but my
belief in not idling and oh can we just
Market it and have his campaign and so
let my cynicism carry forward to that
some more which is to say we do
campaigns all the time
and they have
you know they have a fairly limited
reach no matter how much money we put
into it or how much we try to get
messages in front of people's spaces
without without
um enforcement capacity or some sort of
hook
um on something like this where it
requires uncomfortable change of
behavior it is uncomfortable to change
Behavior with this particular topic
where I'm used to letting my car sit
maybe for 10 20 30 minutes uh when I
could just roll down my window and let
us all breathe more clearly that is an
uncomfortable change in Behavior so just
saying please don't do it you know would
those signs are up and down the school
school right now that say please don't
do it and we watch people do it all the
time and so I was gonna I meant to
include this photo in my mayor's update
and I think it's not going to show up
even though I just told it to really
we're really impressionate today
um which is when we added the signage
just recently
um no passenger unloaded near the
intersection well why not well because
the city code says not to that's why not
and you know that because there's a
reference to the code that there's a
potential implication to your action
that small little bit of
verbiage at the very bottom means
something and so I think that when we
pass a law and we shouldn't we should
not do it foolishly or half-heartedly or
not thinking through all of the very
important questions that get raised but
when we passed that law it allows us
then to educate the community by saying
it's important enough that it's written
in our books it's important enough that
we're putting signage out and we're
explaining where it's written in our
books and we're educating around it we
did this
um we've done this successfully in the
past with campaigns where we have a
heavy warning philosophy around it and
we can maybe codify that that's a good
City Attorney question but I just think
that having the force of law really does
elevate this to say this is important
it's you know not just a Communications
campaign this is something that matters
to our environment so I would I would
Advocate that I think having it in the
law makes a ton of sense and then a
communication about it follows uh that
that change of law
Sameer you get your hand up there you
just is that I'm just gonna make a
comment I agree that it's tough to
change and some things are uncomfortable
but I'm thinking back to the campaign in
regards to recycling where I've changed
my behavior and I state that just the
fear of Elizabeth ellman coming by and
telling me that my my wife give me and I
I say it jokingly but seriously I mean
it's it's made me think twice and I
think about even when I'm up here you
know what do I do with this cup I've
asked you what do I do with this stuff
so I don't and so I I understand that
fear but it didn't come with a Criminal
penalty right it came with something
that was uncomfortable so maybe if there
is a medium ground there where you know
where we can get somewhere without the
criminal penalty but find something that
can enforce it just throwing it out
there since we're on the first reading
but like we'll post your photo to the
blast
public humiliation
it impacts people which uh which part of
the
uh animal part is existing and which is
new
you said we were piggybacking on today
and I saw it so this doesn't exist
um it was in looking at this and
thinking about well what about an animal
um and I realized that we did not
actually have a legal implication of
leaving an animal that's not that's not
in Ohio code
that you it would be carried through in
our code if it were typically that
surprises me could be carrying through
an art code did the research around this
Choice several months ago so let me
refresh my memory please do that would
really disturb me if it is not in Ohio
code
yeah I think there's some states that do
have that and some others don't and I
don't yeah I would always amazing people
would leave their animals in a research
style thoroughly enough to do I believe
that it was missing uh Matt first here
I'm sorry I jumped in front of him
actually and and I I agree that teeth
help but Mark's comment struck with me
because I have a remote car starter and
I know a lot of people who have car
starters and come winter when we're all
using our remote car starters and nobody
knows about this law
um
I don't know I'm just more on teeth on
the back end education up front on this
one because I can only imagine what it's
going to be like this fall or this
winter when remote car starters are now
legal
in Bexley I think Matt just incriminated
himself there they are currently on
not in my garage my garage door's open
so you know carbon monoxide over my
driveway
I'm going to move on to this sod here
yes just speaking to technology in these
situations and section 2A here I was
just sharing with council member
Klingler I recently saw a Tesla with a
screen that shared with me as I was
going into UPS
um
that the dog is okay the car is at 72
degrees I'd say explain that talk to the
vehicle the screen in the car says that
the temperature is okay for the dog dude
there's a pet mode oh that's nice you
put it in and it says to anyone who's
about to break the window to Free the
Animal yeah because you can't even hear
it cool in the car because it's using
much less energy than running Jessica's
getting ready to break the line it says
hey it's okay the dog's cool here's the
internal temperature of the car
uh it's all good please don't break into
my car
um I will uh and I I will I now remember
I just went back to some notes okay in
Ohio the law that exists allows somebody
to
without implication Rescue an animal
that has been left unattended but it
does not make it illegal to leave an
animal that's a huge wow
at the risk of if I may prolonging this
discussion I just also In fairness want
to remind folks who are here that when
city council and it might only probably
was only the two of you when city
council passed the handheld device ban
that the firm practice was going to be
warning before ticketing so until people
get used to it just saying I know that's
doesn't mean I don't mean to sound
inconsistent with what I said before but
I mean there's yeah it was discussed and
and chief Reinhardt explicitly you know
made that clear too
so sorry I didn't mean to prolong
we should probably go back to a
communication slash light enforcement
Blitz on that as well because I see a
lot of violations of that
all right uh any further questions or
comments very good discussion everybody
really uh
play nice
and thanks yeah yeah yeah yeah at least
one of you you stay that's yeah old now
love it
all right we're gonna have to Circle
back on one of these uh 26 23. yeah we
have a first reading of ordinance 2623
to establish the position of human
resource coordinator and to establish
the pay range of 27.26 per hour to 41.61
per hour and to appropriate 25 000 to
the salary and wages line item to the of
the mayor's office account and to
declare an emergency Ms lamke and sod
yes so
um this is basically getting us set up
for the HR coordinator position and it
looks like we are needing to get this
through tonight
tell us what's up with this HR position
Mr Mayor I know you've been working on
it
uh well I just woke up
one morning July and thought we should
think about HR here this is a great idea
that you had yeah thanks
um I want to obviously uh provide
many thanks to
counseling or auditor for
encouraging me to study more deeply HR
position I am
uh famously reticent to create
additional overhead in the city as you
know but nonetheless I like to be smart
about the way that we're doing that and
so we went about and we had an audit
performed
the audit indicated that there were we
could benefit from a more centralized HR
function uh recommended uh
that we look at a potential like outside
contractor to help us with that or
potentially a position we started
looking at a consultant to fill that and
determine that uh
it would be uh cost prohibited just
didn't make sense financially to spend
as much as it would take for a
consultant to do what could be done by
an employee I will remind Council that
we knew that we're probably going to be
looking at HR some some way shape or
form and we set aside fifty thousand
dollars in the budget to implement some
form of HR
um
and that's I'm good and carpet for the
horse so after having not found a
consultant that made sense we posted a
position
um we posted as either sort of a robust
part-time or a full-time position
uh we interviewed
after having received dozens of
applications more than dozens of
applications I want to thank Natalie for
helping to narrow down uh to sort of uh
20 20 or so candidates that we initially
interviewed
um and then came down to a candidate
that I am excited to give an offer to I
cannot do that until we have actually
created the position through Council so
the candidate that that came through
um would be a about a 25 hour per week
employee
um
and the cost that's reflected up there
reflects
um
you know
about half of a year worth of employee
under the under this position maybe a
little bit less than that actually
um
so uh I am asking that you spend and
adopt it tonight for a couple reasons a
the financial implication has already
been reflected in the budget uh B we've
talked a lot about it and C we have a
really uh excellent candidate
um and I want to make sure that we're
responsive to that and responsible and
moving forward with that position and
that 25 000 is in addition to the 50 000
event the 50 000 is like a it's not
appropriated it was a placeholder in our
budget that it sort of reflected on the
bottom line so the essentially it's
actually a reduction in our annual
expected expenditures because we won't
be spending 50 we'll be sending 25.
I'm not even gonna look behind me and
call on Sam Marcelino for his comments
and questions uh he doesn't have his
hands
[Laughter]
I just want to uh thank you so much for
your willingness to look into this for
the city itself um I think that one of
the hardest things for
um any uh Jose employer is to consider
HR uh I I say this uh knowing that my
wife is the president of the human
resource Association of Central Ohio uh
nobody likes HR uh in general right but
but once you actually look at what
they're capable of doing you come to see
how important it is
um and in the city of Bexley I certainly
think it will be a benefit the thing I'm
most looking forward to is frankly
giving you more time to develop the
projects within this city that you've
worked so hard on and you know I think
that it'll be an asset to you and many
others through the community to have
these policies and procedures in place
that this HR professional helps you
create over time but um but honestly the
evaluation process
um looking into the different options
making sure that we didn't jump too
quickly I just wanted to thank you for
taking that time to come to this
conclusion because after hearing all the
options from the HR audit and seeing
what we could do I certainly think that
this is just a great fit for what we
need in terms of HR at this point and I
think that the new HR employee will be
lucky to have you to to follow around
and create procedures and policies with
one of the best so just thank you in
general and I look forward to seeing how
we grow as a community based upon this
well thank you Sam I appreciate that I
when I mentioned Council has had an
interest and as you all know Sam you've
been a passionate and vocal member about
that because of your
um understanding of HR and uh you know I
think
as I said to you on the phone the other
day when I called you about this
um you know we all
I I had a preconceived notion of what
does the HR look like and I was like I'm
not sure that we need that but but I've
been educated through it you know when
we all have our blind spots or areas
where we can learn more
another thing that has emerged
from this for me is that I came in
uh thinking you know like I'm I as I
said I'm very protective of ongoing cost
centers in the city and so I like to be
very strategic about that but as I was
more educated about what
not just what I thought HR meant but
what it could be specifically employee
development retention
um uh set you know standardization a lot
of what we're doing I I've become very
enthusiastic about this and excited
about genuinely excited about it so that
by the time we were interviewing our
final round of candidates I was like yes
all right what do you have what do you
guys what have you done like how can you
help us and so I'm I am uh I'm very
excited about the position I think it's
going to be a great value to our our
city residents won't really know it but
it will be a great value and and the
employee uh who we hope to engage employ
in this has a real heart for that a real
authentic uh optimistic energy about how
this can provide value to our residents
and that's really exciting to me so
thank you
Sam you should probably stop writing no
one likes HR on your anniversary cards
yeah say that questions or comments here
uh since we are anticipating a suspended
adopt I will extend questions comments
to the audience on this
if
was that a question or a comment
we didn't hear anything that's a great
idea oh you said it was a great idea
um
clear I think it's a great idea you
should go for it thank you
uh Miss Todd that I believe you've got
uh something here that going on yes I'd
like to make a motion to on ordinance
2623 to suspend and adopt you're going
to suspend the three readings we'll
spend the three reading rule on
ordinance
26-23 motion to suspend the three
reading Hole by Miss sod do we have a
second second second by Mr Marcelino
please call the roll Mr Klingler yes
Miss feibel Mr Marcelino
Mr Marco yes
now your second motion I'm gonna make an
emotion to adopt ordinance 26-23 second
motion to stop by Miss uh seconded by Mr
Marcelino roll call please
okay Mr Markham yes Assad yes Mr
Klingler his Bible this is Mr Marcelino
yes that is a unanimous passage which
was necessary Legally Legally so thank
you very much good job
all right we are on to a first reading
of ordinance 28 23 to amend chapter 14
5601 registration required and to
provide standards of care for the areas
surrounding trees in the tree lawn Ms
Bible
so our wonderful
um tree commission member uh Jim Wilson
is going to join us next week to talk a
little bit more about the history of
this um piece of legislation
um it just you know it's it's too much
idling too much too much mulch too much
noise are gonna is going to be my um
mantra for the next few
um weeks and um too much mulch is the
beginning of what this uh ordinance is
about
um it also adds some other language how
to protect some of our public trees in
the um what many of us Call the Tree
Lawn
um it also will require
landscapers to be one of our
contracted I forget the read the I don't
do you have the
yes the ordinance itself I apologize it
looks like it
it looks like it wasn't the pack it is
now in the packet so okay I didn't
realize that but it makes
um the um a landscaper one of those
um occupations that are registered
um with our
with our city so
um
so we can talk about that more
um next week
um when
um
when Jim Wilson comes to speak with us
but is there anything you wanted to add
about it
there
um
that well I think you covered it all
it's uh it's a fairly narrow field of
person that or contractor that needs to
be registered here we thought carefully
about like
you know are we making every landscape
firm register no or not we're making
firms register that are installing in
the tree lawn and that's
that's not a typical practice for small
landscapers or you know
kids that are working on the on on their
neighbor's property and I believe that
we have a particular interest in making
sure that that tree lawn
um and the health of the trees is
protected and so you may expect to see
an amendment because there's some
disagreement about how to exactly word
what a mulch volcano is in section two
here
uh so uh we don't Define it as a mulch
volcano but this is this is what we're
trying to get at and so uh it'll
probably have a little bit of horse
trading as we try to figure out you know
is you know how do we how do we really
word this problem with it's a problem
problem is that the trees are getting
um choked out by excess mulch which is
unhealthy for them and does not help
ensure the health of our city trees in
long term and it doesn't then allow our
mature healthy trees to be sinks or
carbon monoxide so I'm just saying
I'm just saying we've got to protect our
trees so that they can absorb the
beginning
well if you all want to idle if if
you'll want to just keep idling then we
better protect the trees
so one sentence that kind of stands out
to me is a little awkward
especially kind of given the description
you just gave is the homeowners who
perform work on their own property with
their own hands
as can you tell me like what what does
that mean and is that a little yeah this
is being put the Bold is new this is
being put in our existing registration
required and so there are contractors
required today only these contractors
plumbers General Contractors
electricians sewer tappers or Heating
and Cooling contractors those are the
only contractors that are currently
required to register with the city to
perform work and that's because if if
you think about those are all
contractors engaged in trades that could
impact the health and safety of uh
typically the home environment and so
what it then says later on down there is
if you are doing your own Plumbing
you know obviously you should pull a
permit for most of that plumbing or some
of that plumbing you are allowed to do
that without registering yourself uh as
a contractor
you still have to comply with loss and
regulations but you are able to do that
work without being registered with the
city
there might be Antiquated language but
that's what it's intended that's maybe
problematic yeah what if you don't have
kids I I have Nate I have community
members who do not yeah so I would just
say that maybe is worth consideration as
well yeah
you're you're not granted permission to
speak here Mr Fishel
um and that that would also prohibit
like what you were just saying like have
a neighbor child like work on your yard
right or
is that it would if they were putting
mulch around the city tree they would
need to be registered oh okay
if you are putting mulch around your own
City tree
you would not need to be registered okay
I guess although
uh
you still you still aren't allowed to do
this right you still can't create a
mulch volcano yeah but the reality is so
what what is important about this is
while people do put mulch around the
tree that happens where this is observed
what the infraction is observed is
according to our tree professionals and
I've verified it subjectively so this is
not like very data driven but this is
happening
in the context of the contractor coming
through and just dumping a ton yeah you
know when you and I do it around our
tree we probably don't have bucket loads
of mulch to just dispense yeah we're
just a different sort of ethos around it
yeah so there's a particular practice
that keeps occurring within the
professional landscapers and we've tried
education by the way we've asked them to
come in we've had paint worms and
workshops and letters that have been
sent and it's just not doing it I mean
is that just they've contractors feel
like they're
visually doing something more dramatic
by believing a giant I think
how much yeah that's great you really
got a lot of value I also think that
having you know there's a seasonal
Workforce that doesn't necessarily get
educated year over year yeah
and there's no accountability to be able
to say hey we asked you not to do this
and you did it yeah a licensing yeah is
why we we're trying to add that in it
because that's the level of
accountability
I want Jim Wilson to bring some visuals
with him when he comes oh yeah
I'll mention it
yeah that's Midwest loves their mulch
[Laughter]
times
other facts mulch sequesters carbon
not as effectively as other things
though
it's a form of carbon sequestration
there we go other comments or questions
all right we got one more all right
resolution first reading resolution 4-23
to authorize the mayor to seek financial
assistance from the Ohio Public Works
commission for funding of various
Capital infrastructure Improvement
projects Ms lamke or Ms sod as the case
may be
yes
so I am going to uh let the mayor do a
deeper dive into this one so um as you
guys know we have Ohio Public Works
commission funded projects from time to
time we took a pause last year uh
under the
uh understanding that like we had kind
of entered this annual mode with opwc
and as we looked at our
longer term forecasts realized we could
not afford to just every year have an
opwc project turning so our next
um OPD OBC project that's up based upon
Street surface conditions but more
importantly water line conditions
underlying those Street surface
conditions we look at water break
histories we look at water break
histories that also align with streets
that are needing to be replaced soon and
we look at projects that will score well
with the public works commission based
upon that the city engineer feels that
South cassing him south of Main Street
Montrose and South Remington
would benefit from an opwc project
intends to apply for those funds
now I have not yet answered the question
that I have which is I thought that a
portion of South Remington has already
included in exists in opwc so I thought
it was too I think that is the case and
I think that this is the another portion
of South Remington that wasn't so there
you know there's Central South where I'm
interested in South South Remington for
some reason I was tuned into that too I
don't remember yeah so I will I will
Circle back later okay thank you other
comments questions
otherwise we have to finish with all the
first reading legislation and that's
always sad it is uh before I close my
computer sir well Mark closed his
computer I still will allow comments or
questions
if not we will move to uh committee
reports and first up is Jessica Saad
with Recreation and Parks
yes
um so it was a busy July and I saw we
weren't here in Chambers but we were all
out and about
um we had a very nice Library
presentation by Michael stizziano our
Franklin County auditor it was well
attended I want to thank the Lewis's for
being there to support
um the talk that night it was on the
Franklin County property reappraisals
and um built our former auditor Bill
Harvey was there in attendance it was
great uh Library did as they always do a
great job
um thank you to Paige belotta for all
the time and efforts that she always
does in supporting us and getting those
um Talk tracks up and running for our
community thank you for organizing that
property or appraisal is all the buzz
right now so that is a really great
opportunity it is on YouTube
um so if anyone wants to go back and
re-educate themselves on Michael's
presentation they can access it
yes and also those about you might have
just said this but we were talking land
use strategies sorry the website that
now shows us our preliminary numbers is
out you might have said that already no
what is new this year that I have not
seen in the past and it's very helpful
is it kind of forecasts what does that
do to your taxes oh wow and it
illustrates very clearly he brings that
up in the presentation and right people
really
um were receptive to that so those
numbers are live and you can look at
your home right now and see what the
auditor thinks it's worth and you can
see what it does to taxes
um and I think it's helpful because you
realize oh my gosh my house went up this
much whoa but then you're like oh okay
hold on it's not the end of the world
the property taxes are not changing
radically
um so that that piece of information is
great
I concur
um then I have a picture if we want to
put it up I don't know I would love to
yeah put up a picture so
it's in there it's great
um I had the privilege of writing my
first pelotonia with um Hayden sod my
firstborn when you're 14 you can join
your loved ones out there and
um you received quite the education on
what it means to you know fundraise for
cancer and actually get out there and
um do the work
um he had the opportunity like I have
this is my fifth year writing to meet a
lot of survivors
um people writing for those they've lost
as the mayor knows I rode my first
pelotonia with mayor Kessler
um back in 2018 yeah and um it's just
team Bexley does it very well they um
you know there's 83 writers to date that
are part of Team Bexley there are four
Challengers and one volunteer
um
it's you know just very well done
um we put together a great Community
effort behind the ride and it was really
awesome to share it with Hayden because
I know with just by him writing we're
going to get more youth out there next
year I will say since he's been born
he's a kid you have to keep up with so
when we finish he goes we're riding the
100 next year mom wow so here we go
you deserve that yeah report
you get the kid you deserve you know
um finance committee was Ms lanky I
don't know if there's uh any report yes
there is
Miss lamkey
um asked us all to start thinking about
budget once given budget season is
coming up
end of report
all right thank you Mr Marcelino safety
and health no report thank you uh
strategic committee Jen Robinson she did
not leave any Report with me I don't
know if she'd contacted anybody I'll
look around if not Mr Klingler zoning
and development
um as you mentioned earlier we are in
the process of land use strategy
commission 2.0 and the mayor and I are
going to get together next week to send
out dates for our future meetings
is there a date for the next meeting for
that there's not yeah okay between uh
just checking Council recess vacations
kids going back to school we I know
that's why I wouldn't remember that if
there was one and also we're doing a
couple we're gonna do like lunch and
Learn Type
programs where we have some highlighted
topics for commission members to learn
more about such as Lincoln C bus uh
we're doing capitals cap yep
we have a laundry list of people to
contact SLU yeah real estate
really really great stuff really good
stuff
service and environmental this Bible
night is
um
and
um
uh bcne has had a great season so far
um our committee is has one more jazz in
the park which the mayor mentioned is
smoking fire we've got some great reggae
bands coming for that and I think it's
gonna be really special this year
um our second so I look for it to be
busier and it's going to be at night so
it's going to be more of a fun Saturday
night to to do that yeah it's gonna be
hopefully less hot though ironically
we're hoping because it's later on in
the evening a Labor Day block party is
partner partnering again with Brewfest
that sounds wonderful and um the mayor
is going to be down his favorite person
who
sells the food because
I'm out of town so
um uh also um we have one more main
event and it's the 29th and it's going
to be top gun Maverick and I think it's
going to be really fun because not only
is because it's great is it oh man
giant birthday cake well we're
we're like that but what's really
exciting is Brian Drury helicopter from
the Chamber is planning planning all
kinds of really fun events that week the
week that builds up to that
um Saturday because
Otterbein and capital uh play against
each other and he's trying to create a
Michigan Ohio State thing you know we're
going to have the mayor's cook-off
Westerville mayor Bexley mayor
we we're gonna have some no thanks we
found out right well no we do that no we
found out that the Academy Bexley game
is Friday night Friday night so we might
have to so before everyone gets super
invested what's happening
we have to discuss that tomorrow all
right okay well that was fine I'm
suppressed we'll still be showing at
some point it's gonna be awesome it's
gonna be great top gun Maverick and I
also think that the things that Brian
has planned for that week please pay
attention
um and V City will be supporting him
with some really fun Capital uh otter
Vine things you know everything from I
think um a blood drive to you know a uh
in the know
contest gosh only knows he has lots of
exciting stuff planned so
that's all I got do you 150 oh I
actually have one more thing I talked to
um to president Markham about this there
is a student who approached me
um from Saint Charles last spring and
said he would really really love to be
um
to
be a part of local politics he'd like to
see what it looks like and I encouraged
him to try to see if he could get an
internship with the mayor over the
summer the mayor was inundated with
fabulous fabulous
um with interns but
um
we thought maybe it might be a great
idea if he were one of our interns
council's intern so hopefully you're
going to see
um a nice young man
um when football is not
um competing with his schedule showing
up here and um perhaps we can find some
fun things for him you know to do so
that he could see a little bit of what
it looks like and will it will you be
introducing him to us at some point I
will I I have not yet had an opportunity
to have a sit down with him
um to have conversation with him about
that but all of these wonderful
experiences that these young kids that
we have an opportunity to to to Foster
some knowledge and experience for them
also gives them fabulous things to brag
about on their college
um resumes so and then I would just say
like uh thank you for that for for you
know sort of bringing that opportunity
here and I would just say like you know
uh when you have an intern and a student
or someone that's expressed interest in
that I think it's not necessarily that
you feel like you need to you know find
a bunch of work for the intern or
anything like that but it is someone who
isn't who is interested and if you can
even just provide you know one or two
opportunities or interactions for them I
think it really is something that you
can underestimate that that you can do
for it for someone like that and I think
I would encourage you then to to do at
least some sort of interaction with him
and and
and then
yeah
yep and you all are fantastic Role
Models uh and probably the internal
would be very lucky and served to uh to
get your attention on something thank
you uh public comments no speaker
require sleep most no speaker slip
required thank you for that
since Lewis 663 uclaire
we have so many things going on in this
city so many wonderful things and I am
so thankful for modern technology
because last Thursday we were unable to
attend the ARB which is
heartbreaking for us because we attend
those
um we also were unable to attend Larry
Hellman's
um
uh presentation at the library and thank
goodness for modern technology because
I'll be able to tune into that
but I did hear the buzz about that and
because of that information
we now have in our front yard
a Bexley Century home
oh
what's your if you're if you're home in
Bexley is over 100 years old you can
have one of these blue and white lovely
things crane family and uh and I think
the Bexley Community Foundation has has
foot the bill for these Little Gems so
that's really wonderful and um
we we did go to Pro Music at Franklin
Park Conservatory so that that was a
delightful night with Franklin Park you
know the the Palm house lit up in the
back as the sun goes down that lovely
music little thing across the air that
was great
um and then the other thing I want to
say is Capital University now has a
brand new football field
and it looks terrific and the guys have
been out there kids have all been out
there playing on it and we have stopped
hearing the beep beep beep sound
yes so that's all thank you thank you
Miss Lewis
all right
okay just checking
I believe we have an executive nothing
to see here apparently Mr Klingler did
you have something you were going to say
I was going to make motion to adjourn oh
all right before we turn sorry I would
do can I take a moment to inform you
guys as well you will have a border
patrol meeting later this week that we
need to schedule right related to the
Columbia the Commonwealth Park utility
work okay so
um we'll we'll get that out anyone who
wants to attend is welcome to do so it's
probably me uh man we would love to have
you even though we don't know when it'll
be but we need to do it soon with our
third we call it right now but
there was a motion to adjourn but nobody
seconded it second seconded by Mr
Marcelino all in favor say aye
aye we're adjourned good night everybody
it's good to see you again
thanks
um