yes
i'll see what happens
okay are we ready
okay
all right
well thanks everybody for for coming
tonight our mighty crowd of nine of us
at least we have a quorum that's good
yeah
what's that we're counting
we need eight and i think we have nine
right
as long as i think we're all voting
that's good
all right cool so uh let's call this
meeting to order and we'll do um
roll call so we'll just uh why don't we
start why don't we just start go around
just
say your name and here so mark mark
official is here
jeff walker here heidi mccabe here sarah
roll here nate green here
ben kessler here troy marcum here
bill harvey
all right thanks everybody
do we have the minutes
yes okay so the minutes are not on paper
but they were circulated they are
attached to the agenda they're actually
four different media minutes and that's
why when we were doing a recently going
back
and trying to find uh some past minutes
and found that there were two
two months that had not been formally
adopted by the cic so that's august 2020
and october 2020. and i can open them on
the screen if you guys would like why
don't we do that and just
they don't have one the agenda doesn't
have them on it that's why i asked that
you're right todd
or if you want we can
circulate them in there well we might as
well if we can look through them
now
i don't know that everybody said trying
to read them sorry
so this is uh
may 10 20 21
which would have been over
no we had a meeting not our last one
that's one where we voted uh to approve
gilbert group as manager
yes that was the action that was taken
yes
and then we adjourned that was the other
action that was taken okay
i'm sorry
yeah but not not not action there were
no
the minutes were approved too that was
other actions
okay
yeah why don't we do them individually
so
uh
mr harvey approve uh motion second
second by mr official uh all those in
favor aye aye aye opposed great
so let's move on to the
which ones you want to do next
stay current okay uh that's not current
oh that's alan creek
okay june was our actually most recent
one and
uh that's one minute brassica came in
person
gilbert group came a person sorry
gilbert came in person we talked about
the soft serve track yes i can read you
want to just read it i'm just uh but
there was no reading because we went
into executive session but there were no
no actions taken during me right
uh okay
any questions comments about the events
all right uh motion approved during
first minutes second
oh i'm sorry motion to adapt mission to
approve that but mr martin second
second by ms gould all those in favor
aye
opposed
great all right so let's look through
the october
6th
okay
this is square cassie property
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ferndale
uh
we went into executive
so
a motion to
yeah
probably actually what was presented on
our uh agenda since it's just a copy
though that's
that's what it was presented
what could have been my typo
transcribing your numbers let's be fair
so i would make a motion to prove the
minute subject to the fixing the typo
changing hearst financial diverse
financial
and uh properly inputting the balance
sheet for friend frienddale account all
right go to the second of the march
every second
all right great so
is it what's the next one august august
4th
and throwback
a year ago remember this
all right can i have a motion to approve
the august 4th
motion to approve
motion to approve mr marker i'm second
by mr walker all those in favor hi all
right thank you all
uh on our agenda we have next the bexley
square line of credit which i think was
something we carried over from our last
meeting
i don't think we have any particular
items to discuss in that we can discuss
that in your finance report
i missed a question but it's still right
at the same time
could you make sure to turn your mic i'm
sorry
um so the outstanding amount is 426 000
18.79
our monthly interest is 995
it matures february 2023 our interest
rate right now is 2.75
all right
to buy art without to buy 420 cassidy
all right
any other questions about that
great
all right so let's get into our uh
property updates uh bexley square so i i
guess
let's just start with the discussion of
since gilbert has taken over
um and heidi and i have had a lot of
back and forth with uh with gilbert
group um
and the rest of the executive committee
sarah's been involved in it and zahi and
andy as well madison as well
they've been doing a great job from a
property management perspective ashley
who's the property manager
is very uh she she when she's very
responsive to both the tenants and to us
um we've been really happy with that i
think that there overall i would say
heidi they're doing a very good job
we did have an issue however with their
accounting
uh we had a uh
a fraud issue an email hacking issue
with an email hacking issue
um and because of that uh first
financial
attack yeah i'm sorry gilbert's crew
no they
somebody hacked into their accounts and
they were trying to get they were trying
to get some of our tenants to pay
directly to these hackers and
that was not good
and they made uh they tried to uh
transfer money out of first financial
and first financial caught it so nothing
was transferred um
but then we
immediately closed the account and
opened a new account and we're doing
some reconciliation because it was so
you know we did it on a very quick basis
so there were some checks that you know
we're just doing a reconciliation and
we're confirming with gilbert group and
they've you know had all of their
systems scrubbed and replaced um
ashley has spoken to all of the tenants
individually we are trying to get all
tenants to pay direct ach rather than
some are still doing checks and we're
trying to just
simplify that as well so we're
definitely on the
right track but it was definitely a
wrench
in a transition i think the good thing
was that first financial caught it they
alerted us immediately when it happened
they gave us a couple options the the
option that we thought was the best
option to really
alleviate any any future hackings uh was
to just set up a new account so so we've
done some other options there's
other folks may know more about it than
i do it's called positive pay where it's
sort of like a but that's 50 to 75 bucks
a month and it felt like that wasn't
maybe the best option for us so
another option was just to close it
immediately and open you know open up a
yeah and the positive pay too i think it
worked it sounded like heidi when we
talked about it it works a lot better
when you issue checks actually write
checks and 99
of what uh our accountants do and what
gilbert does is through electronic pay
so
um we we at talking about it and then
talking with their executive committee
we decided to
do you know just open a new account so
we have we have done that and um
that's in place now and it's and it's i
mean it's working better heidi i would
say it is and we you know gilbert has
done everything they need to do on their
end perfect balance has been really
helpful and great in helping us to
reconcile everything and get back
where we need to be but
yeah a little a little craziness
a little bump yeah
just a little bit of a bump
hey todd sorry to do this to you guys
you could because elizabeth takes notes
based upon the microphone so um is it
worth the effort to ask gilbert if they
have cyber protection insurance um and
if they don't ask him to get a quote
it may be cost prohibitive but at least
we ask
so that's a great idea we'll we'll
definitely ask him i talked with aaron
gilbert as well uh just to i mean you
know we've been
so since the end of may they've been
managing the property um and i just i i
reached out to him and said hey
you know this is an issue it's it's very
concerning to us
we talked through it and he talked
through all the the
the things that they've done to address
it but todd that's a good idea and we'll
we'll i'll reach back out to him and ask
him
i don't want to get too much in the
weeds but
on this but is there a process with the
achs then
an amount that they're authorized to pay
versus what needs our approval through
the nach transaction or do they
essentially handle all transactions so
um only
we well we've removed their access to
our
online accounts it's just perfect
balance so sue and nate and i are the
only ones that can transfer money
out of
our accounts even for paying pays it has
to be done by one of the three of you
okay
it's the three of us
um
and so now the system is that gilbert
requests direct to perfect balance you
know copying us saying please make this
payment and so her shop is making all of
the payments and so we have had um the
perfect balance has always direct when i
was the treasurer and the society's been
the treasurer they've always they've
always asked us
should we pay this or they'll send we'll
send bills to them to pay
so they can't do anything without our
authorization and
heidi and i both are signers on you know
per the our cic regulations we're both
signers on the accounts uh and then sue
has the ability to schnitz also has the
ability to write checks out of it but
newmark was able to make direct payments
and
initially he gave that same
authorization to gilbert but now it's
all just through
perfect balance and maintenance correct
i think that's smart unfortunately from
personal experience with a company the
ach does
open up
unauthorized transfer potential that
that can unfortunately be easy
can be hidden
yeah so now it sounds like
thank you yeah we and we i mean we've we
never had a problem with it before um
gilbert group never had a problem with
it before either which is interesting
they've never had that happen within
their system
um which i think speaks to your question
todd we can ask them that if they if
they have that insurance
um yeah and just one other i've been
through this with the company actually
three times and
the uh one thing that you need to also
kind of be cognizant of or at least to
alert sue is that if there's a request
for a change of ach instruction
make a telephone call and to confirm
because sometimes hackers are within the
email system yeah and they
had a certified letter go from
ashley to each of our tenants with a
phone call saying this is coming
directly from us and please don't make
any changes in the future unless it's
through this very
specific method so we
we tried to tighten that communication
as well for the when we communicated the
new ach information
right
it's been fun
it's been a lot of fun it's been a great
year and a half two years
coping and everything
all right so that's the i wanted to at
least get that out and just have
everybody understand that what's been
going on um
ben i i don't know who's best to talk
about the mural project
i can i'm trying to remember who has met
about it i don't know i think was it
i don't remember who we
monique yeah
jess i think or myself okay so yeah i
will
um
essentially the uh our artist who's
interested in the mural project met with
our little subcommittee and we approved
the concept
um which
i don't have a i don't have it with me
and frankly it's just a like a rough
sketch and she's shown other work that
she's done that shows she's capable of
really excellent work um
and uh i think
were asked she she had asked if we would
support the cost of the paint which i
think was under a thousand dollars
is that right yep and so i our
recommendation was to move forward i'm a
little concerned because i think she had
to go back to college so we might have
missed that boat a little bit but uh
yeah maybe on the weekend she can come
back and yeah right
paid for us i think we're just i think
we're good to move forward i don't think
there's any action from the cic no
there's not i mean we all you know i i
uh they asked for for
paint and i and i i authorized that uh
that ability to do it i think we
authorize it up to a thousand dollars
may i suggest as part of the permission
to do a mural project that we get a
release of the copyright so that if the
city of baxley ever wants to use this in
a photograph to promote the city
we have the copyright to that mural that
sits on the on the building
i've lived through this too by the way
that's why you're on here man
so many battle scars
okay
and in some ways this is
preferable because i think this group is
sort of used to building deadlines and
financial
in this way
you never know when that mural is going
to go up it'll surprise you
it'll be a pleasant thing it'll be a
pleasant surprise we'll just see it
going you don't know what it'll look
like you don't know when it'll be there
right but it'll be good but it'll be
there yeah it'll be there
yeah
i know it's not on here and if we're
okay moving on the the root the roof
we do need to talk about the roof so we
got um
and that's something i we should have
had and i didn't do it
uh we got quotes
do you haven't been i have them i don't
know if you have them
i did did they go i emailed back and
asked if they would be willing to do
like an apples to apples
so she did so she did so i got an email
from rachel today
raquel not rachel
ben i'm gonna forward this to you right
now
okay
then uh
you're bennett is actually right i am p
kessler actually doesn't work
not mayor
works too okay i don't know if you got
those or not
so we did get uh three quotes
which
um in the
you know the one of the quotes that had
come back they uh wanted to do a
full tear off of the roof
and so
because of that we went back to the
other two quotes and said re-quote the
re-quote it
um with that
uh and we can
i can forward all these to all of you
but um
sorry i'm opening it up that's all right
so we got we got them from uh cena mark
was one of the
one of the groups
um
let's see son
sent to mark had
was 169 for full tear out division seven
170 for full tariffs
caught him in 210
so
division seven had come and asked for a
full tear off because the
insulation is compromised underneath the
current surface and they said it's not
going to give us a good right
because the other two we've gotten we've
gotten center mark and uh cottermen and
they both suggested we do a partial
tear-off and then when division seven
went through it they said well we need
to do a full we need to do a i think it
was a full tear off
um so that's why we got these so you
know we we can determine based on that
the based on these quotes and i i just
got them today so i haven't had a chance
to really look at all of them thoroughly
really what we want to do i think we
originally had i'm trying to remember
heidi you remember we had talked about i
think it was about 170 that we thought
it might be is that right i'll have to
check what's in the budget i think so i
was even saying even a little more
especially
yeah
so yeah so i think i think in our budget
um you know i wouldn't i mean you're
just seeing these tonight i don't know
that we need to vote on these
necessarily tonight it is something
we're gonna need to do
within this year i would say
uh because it's uh it was a concern of
new marks they brought it up
uh several times
and then as gilbert's come in they they
brought it up as well and i think
bennett's something too that you you all
kind of the city has at least
i would say expressed concern about it
right or you thought it it's something
that's needed well yeah so we had to sit
this was all one building right and uh
when we redid our
piece over here we were having a lot of
leaks and it was not acceptable
and so we ended up doing a um
we redid our roof now i can't even tell
you if we did a full tear off or not i'm
i'm not sure
um anyone does anyone know that off the
top of their heads no
do are we i mean again i don't know
anything about this but are we convinced
a full tear off is the way to
go i mean i would think it gives us the
maximum amount of life
and that's fine i mean i just want to
make sure that that
you know that wasn't what we got back
from the other two first right is that
what you're saying yeah
yeah there's
there were conflicting so centimark said
that they took three to four cores and
that they found dry insulation now
division seven said they found wet
insulation so i don't
who knows
you know yeah
these they're quite close to each other
and so has has the city ever used like
an independent roof consultant i think
these are pretty
pretty big out you know to someone who
doesn't have a vested interest in the
bid to
kind of not no we've we've just gone in
with our only experience the flat roofs
that's not true we've had experience
that jeffrey has flat roofs in part and
sit at our old city hall but not to my
knowledge no
have you
um
only secondarily i i know there's
some particularly i know it's a big
thing on industrial is to basically
contract with with roof consultants who
you know put out the 10-year plan and
kind of give some advice on what scope
needs to be done and that sort of thing
um
i don't have any recommendations it's a
very i'm
well outside by our very expertise i
would say that what we could do um
what would probably be helpful and i
don't know why i just thought of this
uh ashley from
um gilbert couldn't be here tonight her
this is crazy i got this when her father
passed away
like i think yesterday or the baby
before it probably would be helpful for
us to have her come next time which
she's willing to do she's willing to do
that and talk to us about these and what
she thinks i think to your point jeff
that would at least give us an idea
because they manage so many properties
you probably have an understanding of
which one of these makes sense which
doesn't make sense yeah so i think um if
it's all okay with you why don't we have
why don't we do that have her come to
our september meeting
and talk through
it that's good
maybe maybe in the meantime if jeff if
you find a contact i mean i i know of
someone a best league real estate person
who uses them on an industrial okay
so let me ask about a third party with
expertise but would make some sense too
yeah
okay let's do that
give us that jeff and then we'll uh
we'll talk we'll have ashley come to the
next man yeah good all right cool
um
just a couple other things you see them
up there pilates studio held their grand
opening on august the 5th
they uh i didn't come to it i don't know
if any of you came to it
they had a food truck did you you
weren't here you were sad
i know the food truck was actually right
out in front of city hall so it was good
i assume it was a good event for them
it went well but
they're doing well i think that the i
mean
i don't know what the former ownership
was like but the new ownership has
really
seemed to breathe a lot of life into it
and is really trying to get a lot of
people in there so i think from us
and as them being our tenant i think
it's a good thing
um and then the trash enclosure
ben do you want to talk about that
you've had to deal with that uh most
recently yeah so
the pictures you can't quite see it but
right over the wall
on this side of the wall is the trinity
apartments trash enclosure and um
we were approached the city was
approached actually capital was
approached and then the city was
approached because capital sort of said
well it's not just our trash enclosure
uh was it was a we were approached by a
resident who lives at the alexander
condominiums and overlooks the parking
lot um complaining about the condition
of the enclosure and fair enough i mean
there's some broken slats and the paint
has peeled and
it's it's kind of an eyesore and
they've they aptly pointed out that the
recycling we'd added a recycling
dumpster and it was outside of the
enclosure and brassica had added a
grease
dumpster sort of thing also outside of
the enclosure
so we worked with capital we moved the
dump we consolidated the dumpsters into
the actual enclosure there were a lot of
apartment there's a lot of apartment
dumping that had happened that hadn't
been cleaned up that got cleaned up
capital got a price quote to
re replace the wood and paint the
underlying steel
and fix the hardware because i guess the
gates have not been latching
and um
they
it's it's somewhere in the realm of i
think it's twelve thousand dollars
including concrete work seven thousand
dollars not including concrete work
so the the approach that we have come up
with is that the city and the cic will
take half of that
we can do the concrete work in-house
and then so we would owe capital like a
thousand dollars
additional um as a potential solution
now i do want you guys to have a heads
up
the resident who is concerned about the
enclosure really wishes that it was not
there at all
and feels that the use of the enclosure
by bexley square and
increases the amount of times the doors
are opened and maybe left opened
the amount of times the doors are opened
and left open and wanted us to either
move the enclosure somewhere else on the
site wanted capital to
wanted it to be rebuilt masonry
enclosure
brick or stone and cedar
and also wanted the cisc or the city to
get off the site entirely and build our
own enclosure so those are all options
that were brought up it's very possible
that we hear from them or others we we
subsequently had like a little bit of a
letter writing campaign coming from the
alexander so i've i have
responded to those residents let them
know what's going on
um i've been visiting it several times a
week just to see how it's looking
trying to clean it up and of course in
the middle of all of this rumpke is also
having some service issues so you know
there was a day or there's like a week
when the recycling was overflowing and
it was just like so it's just been
exacerbated
we have installed
fake security cameras on it for the time
being to detract private dumping which
we've also had complaints about
and we are going to install
cameras as well which will actually also
where the city is putting cameras on the
parking lot as well because there have
been some issues in the parking lot just
you know you have fake cameras
well for now we have fake cameras and
then later we have real cameras
i shouldn't say in a public meeting with
their camera make sure that's in the
minute for all of you criminals watching
this live stream
you won't know which one's real
why don't we go check it out i think
that's a great idea todd
yeah you should go moon that can't moon
up moon that over there
let's go do we have to go
do we i don't think we have to adjourn
or anything do we no all right the movie
moves outside and our guests can will
come with us
okay right
all right we're gonna go
yes
garrison
that's great at least you don't have to
do it
yes
todd was ready to go he's like let's do
this let's watch cassidy so mark walk
back to ferndale we're gonna work on a
uh shared use agreement in order to
do that it's fine
except for the we put up the cameras
oh yeah whatever improvements we make
you know those are cammable
you know okay right yeah yeah we
shouldn't pay it out of our funds right
did you hear that
that we'll go ahead
the the work that we do should be
campable
that should go through cam and
okay
and speaking of campbell we should
double check do you remember how ashley
was talking about and trash speaking of
campbell and trash remember she was
talking about how our trash costs were
really high and then we explained that
it was shared among all three different
facilities
um
right we just
yeah we should probably make sure that
there might be some cam refunds due to
our tenants i would imagine
potentially i don't know
sorry we'll have to look into it i think
you're right that's the wrong direction
but you know
giving money back i know
that's okay that's not bad well the city
owes well i mean if the city would pay
us
yeah we we owe some stuff too yeah i
mean that would probably help although i
actually this is a whole set i could go
off on a rabbit
trail whatever it is uh on some some of
the stuff that they've been charging
trying to charge the city for cams a
little
irrelevant to the city hall property but
do we go through those should we yeah i
think we should talk about it
the question is do you want to fight
with todd friedman over what is cannibal
or not yeah let's let's walk out to the
other parking lot and look over the
spreadsheet together
that's yeah
we'll schedule a time i think this is
the only place
oh man
it means able to be camped right
but you've yeah i've never heard
campbell either that's
yeah
you broke down yep
i think mark actually broke it
that'll i mean that's probably a camp
charge back to the cic that's what i'm
sure that's what'll happen
okay
um well let's move on to our cassidy
properties update
uh our 420 north cassidy uh the former
art with anna we are
the is the city actually storing
anything there yet ben i'm not sure you
have the keys mike price has i think has
the keys to the property yeah i'm not
sure whether uh there's anything stored
in there yet
uh so there was going to be some
temporary storage until labor day of the
senior citizens trash and treasure sale
items i believe
i think you're right based on the emails
that we got yep and then um
so that's happening
and then i think there was some
discussion
that you and i had about so yeah so i am
uh i forgot about this uh
the guy from oakland nursery yep
lives in bexley and he's requested to
use the um
his request to use the lot over
christmas to sell trees
so i'm talking with him
i think i'm talking with him friday
actually something like that yeah
i mean i i we should charge him for it
um
well you know what heidi
can you just heidi can you just send
that to me or maybe you talk to him
instead of me no heidi if you could and
then if you could help me figure out
what we should charge them yeah what
market what market rent is could you do
could you do a fine and replace and just
replace christmas tree with dumpster
and then uh
send it over my way as well thank you
yes varying
yeah heidi if you could send that to me
and then we and then heidi if you i mean
for whatever really we should charge if
you have ideas that'd be great i can
look i don't remember
yeah hopefully
they'll try to lowball us because we're
the city
well in addition to that there
in addition to that there's been some
interest from
um i've been sorry i should say i've
been speaking to mike price in our rec
department because we are at least
another year out from this funding round
about um
would it make sense for us to use the
space temporarily for cities rec
function and specifically we're talking
about a uh
trying out a senior senior space for
senior senior residents who want a space
to gather and meet um one of the things
we've been talking about for years is
finding a space like that so it'd be an
opportunity for them to
test it out see how well it works see
how much it was used i think the space
is in pretty good shape it needs a
little bit of cleanup
but um i mean i think we talked about it
a little bit i think at our executive
committee meeting i mean i i think it's
a great idea i think we should explore
it
um i think the one question just really
is what it would take to kind of get the
space
usable
right so we can we can figure that out
okay and um but i think that's i mean i
think it makes sense then it's being
used i think also if we're doing that we
should probably apply for an exemption
in the interim we should apply for an
exemption in the interim anyway because
the cic's a
non-profit i shouldn't have taxes on it
so why don't i uh i'll i'll do that
feature good if you want to be true to
you
pitch hit on that
we've got it
got a track record that at times is
successful
i made a piece
i'll talk you want to talk about it
i can't tell your point that bill
because i don't have my glasses on
okay
okay that'd be great
yeah
okay good
uh great
i feel like i'm bringing up a bunch in
the weed details tonight i apologize
just thinking about that we we as the
cic don't need oh with the back to the
christmas tree live
if we're making something available
for rent
public transaction do we have to
announce that and allow i mean i'm
thinking there are no we can do there
are no public bed requirements for the
city okay thank you mark shaking has
said he's he's
exactly but
not unrelated i mean if the csc's desire
was would deceive like a short-term pain
tenant in there for the next year or two
in lieu of like what we just talked
about then i think this this would be a
good time to talk about that before we
go
too far the field
well i mean i mean i think it's
worthwhile we could market it we could
find tenants we could go out there we
could do that or find a tenant i don't
think we'd have tenants
um i don't know what i i haven't
i haven't actually given it much thought
i don't know what what you all think
about doing that rather than the city
doing it and real you know we get no
we'd get no rent from that
a negative with us doing it and with a
private tenant is that you create
potentially you create a
sentimental connection to a property
that's about to get redeveloped so one
of the things we find as we talk about
redeveloping sites for like about
highest and best use
you know we really struggle with
especially successful local businesses
that we want to support and sometimes
that's not feasible in this space
because of their baseline rent and that
would undoubtedly be true of anyone
going into a space like that no no you
know no fixing it up right low rent
would not probably be able to transition
into new space on site
so that that that would be a concern i
have yeah i mean i think if we could i
agree but i think if we could make if we
could at least kind of pay the bills on
the site which they aren't great
especially if we get a tax exemption on
it um i think that's desirable
uh but
we're not gonna make a bunch of
improvements to it either
you know we're not going to go in and
we're not going to have somebody put
make a bunch of ti to it that we could
eventually yeah for a year
i don't know on the flip side i feel
like if the city
is um you know the rec center and
it it there may not be another
opportunity to help kind of support
seniors at with this kind of
community-based area and it's a nice
short time frame for them to test it to
see that if it is utilized and if it is
something that they can support so that
if it's successful they can figure out
how to make it work moving forward and
without this testing kind of beta center
they may not know how to make it work in
the future um
i don't know
i think it's a good community benefit
too yeah you know for us as the cic to
go back
use it
just for clarification my comment i i
support the city's use of that facility
my my comment was actually towards the
um
towards the the tree lot just because we
of course have other for-profit and
non-profit garden type
fundraisers here for-profit companies
and non-profit and if we enter into a
transaction without announcing that i
just was making sure we didn't have a
request
because we don't we don't have that
requirement i mean i i mean i guess we
could if there are other entities that
wanted to try to use it we could put
that out there i don't that's a good
that's a good point jeff that i hadn't
really thought i think a lot of times
it's
um i don't know if it's a hard and fast
requirement but you know we feel better
about it if it's fair market value and
maybe
to mark's point if it's not a big dollar
to go through a whole competitive
bidding when it's
you know a temporary thing but i think
we definitely would want to kind of
confirm that it's at fair market value
and that we're not
giving a private company like a deal a
special deal
i agree
okay
well i'll talk with with mark on friday
and then we'll i'll bring that back to
our next man
i was thinking that too yeah right there
for the week and a half before halloween
it's the scare fest
the haunted
haunted retail
the bexley ghost tour in
cassidy
uh i
so moving on to the ferndale properties
i don't have any update there
i think we need to we have discussions
there but i don't think there's any
uh
there's no they're being maintained
right now they're you know they're being
mowed
the schneider park
technical ribbon cutting grand opening
happened last weekend it was great we
had a little main event there which was
awesome
um mark and i have a meeting slated for
later this week to talk about where we
are standing with franklin county public
health which is understandable we've
been very
distracted
and what actions we as a city can take
more proactively so i think we're
we're very interested in moving forward
with that and i think
globally there's the governor in the
budget had a
new round of clean ohio funds
um substantial uh i think 250 million
dollars
that was more than that well there was
350 million total but it's
it's not all brownfield there's 100
million for site development and then
250 for brownfield so there is some
brownfield funding for the first time in
years which is exciting it's also going
to be very competitive i'm sure but um
the indications are that it's not tied
to jobs like it has been in the past or
at least it was for a little bit so it's
within the so it's within the ohio
department of development's community
development division and because of that
it will look more like the old clean
ohio funds if you all remember that so
there was there were a lot of projects
that were done that are now also um
the wagon burner project uh
homeco site um yeah what's it called the
harrison weinstein west harrison west
received the three and a half million
dollar clean ohio
grant
and today obviously that's a mix you
know it's well it's more it's more
residential than anything but these
funds these new funds can be used for
things like that
it doesn't have to be job creation
components so i i agree ben i think
that's a great opportunity for us
to do more out of out of foreign
so yeah
we're chasing that yep
okay
heidi do you have a finance report um
yeah i have a couple things so i updated
you guys
i updated you guys on the line of credit
um we have our four accounts
we have um in bexley square 225 421
in our ferndale mayfield account we have
248 589
in our um
just our basic general checking we have
22 000 and in the cassidy account we
have 4334.
um nate and i had a call today the state
is doing their audit
of the cic
or a component unit of the city so they
want to try to get us wrapped up um
this month which they felt was a little
optimistic but then um so they can you
know finish up with the city so we're
trying to get them everything that they
need and they're working with perfect
balance as well and we use um
julian and groov to help on the audit
side as well so we're
trying to work through that process as
quickly as we can
i think that's it
it is fun times
i have a new business item i just like
to talk about um and and i'm i'm not
even sure that i want to like
legitimize some of the comments that
i've heard but there have been some
comments made on social media relative
to specifically the
livingston avenue development and the
csu's involvement
specifically targeting city council
members cic members and myself as having
some sort of a financial interest in the
outcome of the development and i want to
make it very clear
the cic is a agent a development agent
in the city of bexley
funds for the cic are discreet they're
kept
in a separate account it's overseen by
our treasurer and our executive board
if there's ever a surplus profit at the
end of the road for the cic it is to be
returned to the city of bexley
it's governed by ohio ethics law
disclosures are required of our members
we have our own additional additive
ethics requirements within our cic
and
no member to my knowledge and certainly
not myself has in any way or has any
potential or any possible way to profit
from any of the developments that we're
talking about um
and quite to the contrary um the board
members um i mean i get paid to be the
mayor which i appreciate but you guys
are here as volunteer labor
and your your work is often thankless
and it's greatly appreciated that you
give substantial professional expertise
to this uh free and we appreciate that
so i just want to make it very clear
that there is absolutely no financial
connection there is no conflict of
interest there is no
no one on the csc is in any way shape or
form profiting from uh the projects that
have been proposed
or projects in the past so
um just wanted to make that clear the
only only thing that the cic does is
further the development goals of the
city and any profit that comes from the
cic goes back to the city ultimately in
the meantime it can be used to further
additional development projects entirely
for
the betterment of the city in
conjunction with the city's development
uh program so i just wanted to make sure
that that was crystal clear and if any
residents have any questions about that
it's really easy to kind of lay all that
out
in depth and talk about you know what
the agreements look like where money
comes in where it goes out where it
stays and i'd be more than happy to
facilitate in this conversation they can
contact i mean they can contact me as
well as the chair of the csc to ask any
questions
uh or pose any of those kind of
concerns that they might have they can
always they can always contact me for
for any of those kind of things
and i just want to add one more thing to
that if anything happens in the future
where a different property is involved
uh we are all required by law to
disclose that and recuse ourselves so
ben's absolutely correct in what he said
today but if tomorrow is another
property uh the same issue will recur if
it would affect me or anybody else by
law we have to recuse ourselves so and
disclose it everybody and we're getting
you know we get a practicological exam
every couple of years by the state of
ohio auditing board so i mean this is a
very well audited very well tested
theory it's not just us saying trust us
with our all sorts of controls in place
to make sure that the public trust is
maintained
and one thing i just want to reiterate
and expand upon is every year we we go
through the conflict of interest policy
and we reaffirm our
are free of conflicts uh every year um
we we sign a paper and submit it to the
chairman so that's another belt and
suspender that we that's a great point
todd
we do that and it's i think that's i
think also to your point ben this is a
volunteer board we uh
you know all put our time into being a
part of this
uh none of us profits individually from
any of the things that we do
um and suffer in your heart well
obviously that's daily
and that really comes back just the
rewards the reward of your glowing
volunteership yeah but i think i i think
those are great points but i appreciate
you bringing it up thank you great
all right any other new business or old
business yes ma'am
oh sure
i you didn't have a
what are you doing to this program well
we don't have a public comment section
on here we don't have a public comment
section but go ahead okay thank you um
just curious as to do any of you know
what's happening with the property at
cassidy
and not cassidy gould and maine chelsea
and maine
yeah the the gas station any updates on
that property mr mayor yeah i reached
out to the property owner recently he
it's owned by a family trust um
the action that's being taken right now
on the property is a result of extensive
long-term mayor's court action against
the property owner for not
for complacency essentially not
following our code
we have had him in court multiple times
trying to get an outcome that was
involves the cleanup of the site because
it continues to be we believe
contaminated
the property owner is not interested in
selling
there are liens on the property owed to
the city for environmental impact fees
so
i know the cic has expressed interest in
the development of that site and
continues to care about it and monitor
it but it's a
currently a question of an owner
who is
uh more than happy with the status quo
and is begrudgingly following our code
so we're working we're working on we
have tried and from the csv's
perspective we have spoken with the the
owner several times we made an offer on
the site
uh and they didn't take the offer so we
continue to monitor that and see if we
can get control of that site because uh
it is something you know it's obviously
the uh
the uh you know well it's a gateway to
the city and it's it's unfortunate the
way it looks
uh it's a 2 000 a month impact fee
there
those are the liens that are on this
side yeah
but last i actually
was going to check to update myself on
that before our meeting tonight but the
auditor's site wasn't working quite
right so
last on you
not that one that one's working that
one's working
do we have any other public comments
okay i'm gonna i would like uh a motion
from our uh from a board member uh to
adjourn into executive session
do i need to read it or do the person
making the motion read it
you have it in here too no i've got it
right here
but is that
right yeah uh so i'd like a i'd like a
motion from the board to adjourn to
executive session pursuant to
section
223.03
b
to consider the purchase of property for
public purposes or for the sale of
property competitive bidding
if premature disclosure of information
would be given an unfair competitive or
bargaining advantage to public interest
yeah that's that's uh so if i could have
a motion to
so move by mr harvey do i have a second
seconded by mr friedman and i think i've
got to do a roll call for that so
mr freeman
troy marcum yes ben kessler yes nate
green yes sarah gold yes heidi mccabe
yes jeff walker yes
mark official yes
now the microphone should be off yeah
oh
all right can i get a motion to move out
of executive session
so move by mr official a second by todd
all those in favor aye
opposed okay
um
do i have motion to adjourn
let's move on a second second by mr
kessler all in favor aye aye aye
all right thanks everybody oh our next
meeting is scheduled for it would it
will be september 7th
because that is the first tuesday of the
month
um
okay
do we want to move it to the
next
tuesday or do you have a council meeting
then
do we
yeah it
is a big deal to some of
yes
monday night is rosh hashanah monday's
rush is on the eve no is it yeah
monday night
yeah
okay nevermind
september well i mean you know the next
then our next meeting would be october
5th well the 20th
well because then we run into the we're
running into our next meeting of the our
next fight it's also
the first night
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i'm not going to be here october 5th but
we can still meet
we could do that there's uh
21st
no there's a council public hearing
do we want to try for the 22nd
i think we could i mean
doesn't the bylaws
i mean we weren't doing bi-monthly yeah
unless we had something
well we said that like
thanks todd
thanks doc you can always at that time
yeah that's fine
what are we doing
you're going to tell us in early
september whether we need to meet or not
but then in october you got to figure
out he's you're not around
i'm gone
why don't we do that
what's why don't we do the 22nd and not
meet in october
right does it sound good
so moved
exactly
all right bexley csc meeting i'm putting
it on the 22nd at
six o'clock
if you build it okay
what are you talking about you come here
for your birthday bourbon right you know
this is just part of your birthday party
appreciate you guys
see bill
here