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so let me
ladies and gentlemen uh good evening
welcome to the tuesday august 23rd
meeting of excellent city council as
always your thoughts are with the people
of ukraine
as always my thoughts with people in
ukraine
and i thank you for your service to our
city uh mr mcpeak would you roll call us
here
yes sir
miss lampke
mr marcelino sorry
miss five
here mr klingler here
and uh
maybe a motion to uh
excuse uh monique lampke's uh absence
second all in favor aye aye aye opposed
him sign
please rise to join me for the pledge of
allegiance
i pledge allegiance to the flag
the united states of america
which stands one nation under god
indivisible with liberty and justice for
all all right i think we have special
guests here with the presentation ms
elizabeth ellman please uh approach the
diet said state your name and your
address and your
capacity
i'm elizabeth element of 260 north
columbia avenue with exceptional
capacity
[Laughter]
um as you know feet on the street is
happening here in bexley in october so i
wanted to share with you the finalized
program that we've been working on for
the past few months and explain what is
going on
all of this information will be
on the feed on the street website which
is at www.bexley.org
fox
that's feet on the street
so as you know feed on the street is an
educational program that comprises cart
auditing so recycling toter auditing in
the next few weeks residents will
receive two mailers at their homes one
of which will likely describe the
program and the other one will be
a mailer
showing what is and is not accepted in
our curbside recycling program
in that time we will also be having all
of our material that gets sent to the
rumpke murph materials recovery facility
sorted and we will get some information
about our stream
then beginning on october 3rd we will
have auditors out looking at
toters early in the morning before
rumpke comes
if there are unaccepted items in the
toter
the first week they will get a warning
with a oops tag that is left on the
toter but the contents will still be
removed and the subsequent weeks they
will receive i'm sorry the first time
they will receive a warning tag
and subsequently they will receive an
oops tag um that will indicate why their
toter is not being serviced that week
but it can be serviced the next week so
long as the contents that our
contamination have been removed and the
program will end
before the end of october so it'll just
be four weeks in october
post the program we will have a
post-weight
waste sort and we'll be able to see how
our stream has been cleaned up over the
past month
thank you
this is a website so all the information
is on here and it is live now it
explains a lot of what i just blamed
explained it has examples of our tags
uh has a frequently asked questions
section
and some helpful videos and other
information as well as a lovely quote
from lorianne
and my contact information for anyone
who would like to share their thoughts
thank you do we have any questions or
comments for elizabeth
[Laughter]
now mark if that was short enough for
you um we can do some
some practice auditing
i think there's time for that okay you
want to pull it up where is it well it
was attached
but i think it was unattached
is it um emailed to me
i have a question
yeah because i was gonna actually call
you text you about it so i had this gift
bag
had these little sparkly things on it is
that still recyclable
no bags are recyclable in our curbside
program oh
good i'm glad i threw it away then
yes what about paper bags paper bags are
good well that's what i was saying oh
sorry
had all this funky stuff on the outside
no that's what i thought glitter is
litter so
yeah
oh that's sad
yes
go ahead and turn your microphone on
please
yes mr markham thank you
so the 3rd 10th 17th and 24th are monday
recycling days and those are going to be
recycling audit days in bexley yes
all right so all right yeah are they
really going to be up that early uh we
will be up that early there we go it's
really early at my house yes about uh
if somebody really does not want to
participate they just gotta wait until
yeah okay they can
keep their toyota to themselves
all right
so i have a few pictures of toaders
um
we can practice
if anyone wants to take a
gander at this one
[Music]
correct so this toter has four clam
shells which are the berry containers in
it that we can see right now we don't
know what's underneath
and those are not accepted now granted
those are not going to damage the
recycling process at the monkey murph
but we are educating residents on what
is and is not acceptable so for these
types of things we will allow up to
three
but if we see more than three
it's trash it's contamination
if you want to scroll down i've
highlighted
there it is
right there
we could we might have time for another
yeah matt i have a question
if you scroll back up the bottle the
glass bottle are you are you supposed to
recycle all bottles with lids on them
regardless
take off the lid if you can okay um it
will be crushed in the truck but if you
can take it off though like milk milk
cartons too no milk you live on and the
informational cartons take
yeah generally if it's the same um type
of material the lid and the container
then it can stay on okay
though
that's fine but your like plastic bottle
caps if they're taking off will not get
recycled they're too small and they'll
fall down the machine i'm going to
remind council members one more time
please turn your microphones on we are
broadcasting to another audience here
orange juice leave it on the big blue
lid we leave those on because we buy a
lot of those yeah okay okay
also the materials that you'll get it
says like
it says when to leave the things on i'm
going to take things off so you'll have
all this information ahead of time all
right here's another toter this picture
is a little bit difficult because it was
taken in portrait mode i think
which makes the bottom a little bit yeah
yeah okay
this one is lori ann's and it is clean
and you'll notice at the very top she
has broken down her cardboard boxes
which is much appreciated
what do they do with the tape though
yeah the tape they can take a little bit
of contamination of tape but also
sometimes through the process that will
fall off
and end up in the truck so if you can
take it off great but we're not going to
reject the parts because of tape no it's
good to know led battery at the bottom
it's hard to tell it's kind of buzzy but
yeah that's why they use portrait mode
the photographer
okay then this the next one is is good
we'll do one more and then we'll see if
we wanted another one
yeah i found this on my way in yesterday
uh popping
wrap absolutely cannot go in and that's
true
correct the pill bottle the filled
bottle cannot the clam shells cannot
there's a black takeout container
that cannot
oh
and i didn't even circle it but there's
more contaminated stuff in there too
yeah
you have to rinse out your milk thing
you know that's a beef i would
you say try they're trying so we don't
have to do any more i know that you're
punched for time and we might have some
other things to do later but
tissues can be composted but
are not accepted for
nah recycling really
really no
but i have been recycling pizza boxes
now thank you lorraine
thank you
a lot of pizza boxes take off the tops
plastic bubbles i just recycled that
wait i just
big box right over here
yeah
and one more quick question about
auditing yes so when you go to audit the
recycle
yes trash cans yes um
will you open you're not going to dump
those right no it's open and it's a look
okay that's it
keep an eye out for a
commercial in the next few weeks i mean
maybe
depends on your schedule it's on the
schedule
yeah so if anyone's interested we can
pay you a small nominal fee
for joining in okay um take a look at
the website
keep an eye out for the mailers
and be in touch with any questions and
if you keep your meeting short laurie
anne has some fun things for you into
the meeting
thank you unless there are any other
questions thank you
mr mcpeak we are at the point where we
have public comments with speaker slips
do we have any speaker slips we have a
speaker slip please announce erica
you're up now please approach um please
approach and um state your name and
address please thank you
is the microphone on
there you go thank you
i'm here to talk about the project at
216 uh south columbia avenue
it's on the agenda i think it's number
14.
on can we
can we move her compliment to the
the first rating of that then since she
has a speaker slip
you mean
yeah
is it okay right here okay sorry about
that go ahead okay no problem um so
there's currently a carriage house on
that property the variance was approved
in 1997 specifically for a nanny
um it was subject to there being no
expansion of the existing accessory
house beside beyond what was approved by
b zap on december 11 1997.
they're asking to expand that carriage
house
um the glimpsers who currently own the
house they used it as outlined in the
ordinance for a nanny and for guest
quarters for invited guests and family
members
the new owners plan to have a permanent
family member reside there which goes
against the intent of what the original
variance was in its current size let
alone an expanded size
so i don't know if this is the right
form to say that i don't think it's
right for it to be approved but i don't
think it should be able to be expanded
thank you for your comment thank you so
much mr mcpeak any more speaker slips or
no more speaker slips all right thank
you very much uh we're gonna get to the
president's report and first i would i
know i've done a little rearranging up
here but uh i would love to have interim
chief goff uh join us on the diets if he
would
because we have room here
we got a spot for him
i just feel more comfortable with you up
here
[Laughter]
just uh one brief thing i know that
i would have a resident that would be a
little upset with me if i didn't remind
everybody the first ever smoke and fire
smoke plus fire
uh
cooking competition will be happening
here on sunday
and i understand we have the city's best
they've been weeded out we've got the
best competing uh it's gonna be a high
stakes competition
it is three o'clock
three o'clock
officially three two
seven or eight but the incentive so the
incentive is
uh
the
people who arrive early will get
tickets to sample all of the
competition's cooking and they will also
have the ability to cast their vote in
the competition so there is a limited
number of those tickets are available
they are free
so you do get to chow down on the city's
best cooks
competitive
products
um in addition to that we will have
pecan pennies so we'll have seven son
serving a beer there
so it'll be it'll be a great time it
will go
later into the evening but
get there early if you want to get the
stuff
and the competition is from three to
five and the event runs
and we should re-emphasize it will be at
schneider park down at the schneider
park so go there if you want to see it
could i ask really quickly where parking
will be available for this event yes i'm
so glad that you asked that um so
parking will not be available in the
park itself we're asking people to park
on sheridan
or you could park on main street and
walk down our path right there at the
trail head right across from the gateway
um but there will be plenty of parking
and shared and sheridan has when you
parse it out a lot of parking so we can
we can advertise to park in the large
lot across from rusty bucket and then
walk fish or park or sheridan bike or
walk or golf cart or golf cart in park
and sheridan yep
and the reason for that is that there's
not enough parking on the in the parking
lot and we're using the parking lot and
the bexley village parking lot is you
know we don't want to we want to be kind
neighbors to the apartment complex there
okay
all right city attorney report
okay just a couple quick things um first
of all you folks um i'll realize that we
received a decision on the appeal
regarding 23 east livingston avenue the
court ruled in favor of the appellant
which if that ruling stands will
prevent that project from going forward
um
and
i know that there's discussion about
what tcb plans to do
the city also is a party to that and
there's been discussion about what the
city is going to do as well but i just
wanted to
reiterate that
to everybody now that we're in a public
meeting
the other thing is of course that we
have this hearing tomorrow night on the
variance for 81 north drexel
again keeping in mind that
that your role and will remind i'll
remind you multiple times as well mr
klingler i assume
that your role is to determine whether
or not bzap made the correct decision or
not
uh with respect to the facts in that
case as applied to the seven criteria in
our ordinances there are some other
arguments that were raised by um the
appellant in in their brief and those
are not for you to be considering and
again we can talk about that more detail
tomorrow um i thought i had one more
thing and i totally forgot what i had if
i did
that is all
well we will be here
mr mcpeak auditorius report
um i'll keep it brief um beecher will
provide an update on financials for july
we've got some good news to share so um
try and you know maintain your composure
as he goes through the numbers
um i also wanted to share that over the
past week or so um beecher and i did
have some calls with red tree who's our
investment firm that helps manage our
money i'm just given the interest rate
environment wanted to have that
conversation and just you know better
understand what their strategy is um so
in short i'm comfortable with their
strategy um and uh you know they are
looking to invest monies more in you
know one to three years out not trying
to go too far out but you know certainly
in this interest rate environment i will
stay close to them and make sure that um
you know it seems consistent with what
we would expect um and then
the only other item i wanted to just
call out we've talked about doing an hr
assessment um of
our internal processes and procedures
and have shared some information with
the mayor
so
you know want to make sure that we
continue to talk about that and align on
timing and ensure that we
are um you know responding and reacting
to some of the comments made in the
auditor's reports appropriately um so
just want to help ensure that we keep
this front and center and uh you guys
stay apprised of of the progress uh but
that is
the end of the auditor report well we
will look forward to that good news and
i have tonight placed uh ms robinson
next to you to protect you in case any
overzealous
you know advanced
very fortunate storm towards you when
they hear those changes all the great
stuff
uh and we'll move to the administrative
report here with the mayor
thank you uh finance department update
uh mr hale i believe is with us on the
line
there he is
hello there
um thank you mayor um
yeah like matt said uh to
in a sentence the general fund is uh is
very healthy
um
primarily due to income tax um we're
almost a million dollars above budget
uh i would say part of that reason is
the mayor and i were really conservative
um coming out of cobit and what we
projected
turning out to be better than
even before even better than last year
um
pro and i think part of it is probably
that we're capturing some of that money
from people working at home um as bexley
would be the type of city that would
benefit from that but any event the
revenues of um above budget by about a
million dollars
and then
current year expenditures were better
than budget or under budget by 600 000
which typically we are i wonder i meant
to look back at last year and forgot to
but i think it's usually more like three
or four hundred thousand so we're doing
well by this time of the year i should
say so we're doing well in that category
and then prior year expenditures or
expenditures from prior year
encumbrances
um
you know we're better by 500 000. we may
not end up needing the rest of those the
mayor he he may know something i don't
but um
so anyway we haven't spent all of the
money we carried forward bottom line is
that you know we're about two million
dollars better than we had projected so
uh that's very good news
um and hopefully it'll will it's
will stay on the course um
so as you read the report you'll see
there's some variances i picked out some
of the larger ones and put them on my um
my notes my message notes um hopefully
those are the
ones that you'll um want information
about but if you if you need if you find
any other variances as you look over the
report that you'd like me to investigate
feel free to give me a call and i'll
look into them and see what caused the
variance and with that end of report
thank you beecher any questions for
beecher
you're off the hook buddy
yes sir thank you for joining us
all right you're welcome i'll see you
tomorrow
police department update interim chief
golf
yeah it's a rather short report but i
have nothing to add to the current
report
we have some transitions going on
currently at the department and
i wanted to add more but we have some
decisions to be made first for adam so
but they'll definitely be on the next
report so
mr marcelino sorry
a quick question i saw that there is an
increase in terms of motor vehicle theft
from last year i've seen a lot of news
about keys and hyundais is that directly
related or is it separate
and that's
directly related in fact when i'm
sitting over here before i walked up
here we just recovered one white hall
recovered or stolen from snap fitness
with four juvenile apps again so
i think that's the second one from snap
alone but
um it's not just you know it says kia
and hyundai those are the
you know that
the ones mostly being stolen but
they're
they're all getting stolen i mean every
make and model for opportunity reasons
are getting stolen so um we just need
more pressure from the judges and the
prosecutors to to help out with this i
mean that cops can only do so much so
so yeah
for what it's oh i'm sorry
okay
um
maybe i missed it but i know miss fiable
had mentioned maybe that we should put
something in the bexley blast at our
last meeting just so our residents are
aware that this is happening um did we
get something out and i missed it
okay so we still need to do that
okay
yeah so i support
i didn't see it i mean that doesn't mean
that it wasn't there but i don't i did
read the blast but i don't remember
saying it so i'll just i'll write sam a
note really quick um while we're talking
right now and and remind him that that
would be a great thing that would be
great do you mind copying me on it as
well because i would love to support you
in that effort yep okay
mr official do you have it yeah i was
just gonna say that i was i just
happened to be with a law enforcement
client today in southwest ohio this
issue came up we were just um and
they're seeing it all over and again
it's all 12 to 15 year olds so same
thing and the same issue with
issues with
judges perhaps
right and i just think that by us
putting it out there it helps residents
um know if you know another line of
communication so they know what's
happening in our community because i
know to date i've had close resonance
and proximity and friends that this is
happening too and they were surprised
and had no idea this was going on so
um maybe just some ways to be
a deterrent um with sending that message
out so i look forward to getting that
communication out
uh
personal note i would like to
thank you for stepping up to lead our
police department over the last eight
months and also for yes thank you
run it like a well-oiled machine and
joined us here at city council meetings
i enjoyed having you here very much that
really thank you for your service to our
city
very appreciated
thank you very much i appreciate that
troy took my thunder but what i was
about to say
to uh our interim chief but um
you know when we first asked uh yeah
good job troy
when we first asked
our deputy chief to fill in his interim
chief
um it was late december i think and uh
the timeline was unknown but i'm sure
more expeditious in your mind than it
ended up being certainly more in my mind
than ended being so
you uh wore two hats at the same time
for the past eight months
and um i i i think that in addition to
doing that you guided us through a time
where we uh you know there wasn't a
whole lot of drama in that process um
and you kept the ship running uh ryan
right and running true and that service
to our community is incredibly
appreciated and does not go unnoticed so
thank you so much uh interim chief goff
for your service and i know that you
will continue to join us here at council
uh you know as as a as you as in your
capacity as you have in the past so
thank you so much um
you're not off the hook you've got
another uh week and two days i believe
um and i do have something up my sleeve
for you later so
don't don't relax yet
thank you sir
i just wanna i just wanna say you know
i've had the opportunity to
um meet with chief lewis and a few times
we met a couple hours this morning and
he's a really good guy and uh you know
it's my job to make sure that he's very
successful and that's
what i'm intending to do and the police
men and women around him will do the
same thing
um
he's very knowledgeable and i appreciate
your vetting process of of hiring him
he's
very knowledgeable and i think it's
going to be beneficial for the city so
all right moving on to the recreation
parks update with easter price
report any questions
i do want to just thank uh mike in the
direct department and and lori ann as
volunteer coordinators splash and dashes
such a fantastic community event uh went
off again without a hitch the logistics
are daunting uh the smiles are plentiful
and it was fantastic event so thank you
to
uh to you uh lori ann but to the rec
department and all their hard work and
all the volunteers that came out um mike
highlighted some community events that
i'll be highlighting as well
and of course let's not forget there is
pause in the pool on september 6th 5 30
to 6 30 for our furry friends and
lorianne he's looking at me because i
hate that
has her hand raised
but
mr president may i yep um i just wanna
yes i do get over 70 plus volunteers and
it is not an easy task to do thank you
assad um for helping out but i and mayor
kessler helped out as well but i really
want to give a huge big thank you to
paramount church because we could not do
it without them and i sent a lovely
thank you to them and to rush wit for
that
also our adorable cross-country kids
came out in force
25 at least cross-country kids so i they
do it every year for us and they're they
and they are such rule followers they're
so amazing so i will be dropping their
um service hour notes off to the
secretary at the high school this week
so
anyway thank you big thank yous out to
them thank you
all right any questions that you that i
might be able to answer or pass along to
mr price
all right
mr bayshore
good evening mayor and city council uh
attached is my written report and i do
not have anything to add to it but more
than happy to answer any questions
anyone might have
andy i heard from jerry yesterday that
drexel is about to be opened back up
for some normal traffic is that correct
that is correct um
bryden has been reopened and the project
is starting to transition from some of
the pipe work to more concrete repairs
and some surface repairs
we're probably going to be in that mode
on the project probably till october
around october we'll start with more of
the catch basin installs and the inlets
and probably work on that through the
winter
um
one second jess the uh the
we mentioned i think before the college
avenue crosswalk enhancements i believe
we have signed the contract on that is
that correct
yeah that is correct um i have signs two
sets of the rapid flashing uh beacon
signs on order and um there's a few
ramps that's going to be installed and
also some crosstalks are going to be
repainted
so that that's all coming here in the
near future probably next couple months
and that's the heavy student section
between essentially the trinity campus
and then the uh
southernmost uh crosswalk at college
avenue hall ship shaft hall kind of area
correct um maybe we're also going to do
i've there's a couple of select
locations on sheridan um that were some
dangerous crossings we're also going to
do some work on sheridan also
all right
and jess has a question yeah just a
quick question andy for our friends uh
residents that live on drexel with um
the project you know that's going on
they've been very patient and kind
with kids back in school i've noticed
just because i'm on drexel a lot
that
we seem to be putting at night the
vehicles back to the same spots um the
work vehicles for the next day
i'm wondering if there's anything we can
do to disperse those a little more
meaning that it looks like on some of
our residents driveways it's causing
pretty big blind spots for children as
they're heading out to school or biking
and so i'm just wondering if there's one
vehicle out in front can one be at the
next residence house so there's just
some space so you can see
the residents as they're coming out of
their
homes
um
do we have any leeway and dispersing
those at different locations
you know
i believe so um i have a meeting with
the the engineer uh this week
some of that equipment is gonna
disappear with this work um that we're
kind of transitioning into along with
some of the cones um
it says it's gonna get cleaned up for
here a little bit from all the pipe work
we've been doing so some of that
equipment will be we'll be leaving
drexel but but that's uh i'll address
that with the engineer and our
contractor
later this week
sounds great i didn't know if things
could go down by saint albans i just i
think after you're saying that and
having this conversation we might be
able to do just a little bit better with
the overnight where we put those since
we do have a lot of a little bit more
leeway on a big street like drexel so
it's
preventing some of the blind spots would
be helpful again thank you to the
residents for being so patient and kind
but i think it's something we could just
do a little bit better with while
they're going through
road construction
absolutely thanks andy
sam
thank you uh andy a quick question here
i came to my attention that there is
some asphalt work being done in south
bexley i think between astor and mound
this past there's either weekend or week
um
a is this a large-scale process
and project that's going to take place
in alleyways in south bexley and b if so
what kind of notification are we getting
to those residents thank you
sam is not a large-scale project at all
we had a few alleys um that we were
doing some patchwork in um basically for
drainage um
i believe the contractor give them at
least a three-day notice um that's
usually what we require um i i i got
your email on that on that one issue sam
and i'll get back to you on that but um
it is not a large scale project uh just
more or less
me and the engineer picked a few alleys
that had some pretty serious drainage
problems and we were just trying to get
that fixed up
i i appreciate it thank you i used to
live uh right in front of that alley i
guess and i remember it was kind of like
a swimming pool at certain times so i'm
sure they're appreciative i just want to
make sure everybody can get in and out
of there so thank you
a couple questions overall i know we had
a really big rainfall last saturday
we've had a few recent ones in the last
month
how have the calls been for flooding
or or wet basements
overall have you seen an uptick in
requests
in the last month matt we have not um
knock on wood
you know some of our lining projects are
you know i think we're starting to see
some of that and
the super crew uh eric's crew they have
been pretty much non-stop cameron and
finding some problems that that you know
have helped um
but in the last month we we have not had
any uh major situations at all
that's great and then the electric mower
that the city took ownership of is that
a zero turn it is a zero turn beautiful
okay
there's that's there's photos of that
coming up i do want to see it okay i
heard it's kind of bouncy
cole will want to take a look at that
yeah we'll we'll let him give it a go to
go any other questions for andy
thank you very much mr bakeshare i
appreciate it sir thank you
good evening
you too
um
i see a mike price on the call so mike
we uh we are so
expeditious this evening that we breezed
past a report
and said very nice things about you but
uh in case you wanted to add anything
can you hear me okay
yep
yeah i don't have anything to add sorry
i was having some technical difficulties
getting on
that's all right did you hear did you
hear uh
our stunning coverage of your report
i did not
okay it was really thorough
all right great but mike kudos to you
and your team we were thanking the
volunteers and uh singing your praises
uh for the splish splash and dash
so thank you thank you i do want to
thank uh all council for their support i
want to thank laurie ann for for
heading up our volunteers and obviously
see our amazing volunteers we couldn't
do without all of your guys help so
thank you
thanks mike
all right have a good evening man
thanks you too
see you
all right
um couple things i'd like to highlight
uh
there's a rapid five river cleanup um
happening between nelson park and
jeffrey park this saturday between 10
a.m and 1 p.m um i will be out with a
kayak
and some waiters using the kayak as a
litter barge so if anyone wants to join
for some adventurous trash picking it
doesn't get any better than this so i
would an amy acton who's leading rapid
five will be there as well so
please join i think it's a sign up based
uh
cleanup and um
there is information at
i believe rapid5.org i might have the
website wrong
um we're gearing up for the jazz in the
park like we've talked about smoke and
fire festival but also the labor day
block party and brew fest which is
happening the weekend after that so
please leave room after you eat your
smoke smoked goods next sunday for the
uh labor day block party
it will be bigger than ever
and it will also be on main street like
it was last summer uh so main street
will be closed again for that
um so this that's there we uh we
said a sad goodbye to our uh easton
future visions fellow intern
uh who's marcus uh who was provided
through morpsy and there's marcus on his
last day there at the city hall patio
but he worked on a trail town study as
you know
and
uh came 95
to completing a trail town report so we
have the skeleton of the report that i
think will wrap up
in order to work further towards
designating bexley as a trail town
official trail town with the uh all of
the
uh infrastructure in place for that
we are planning on a swearing-in
ceremony we believe at 11 30 a.m on
september 1st for chief lewis so go
ahead and put that in your calendars um
final location to be determined
most likely the department but i think
you need to understand capacity and
crowd says
there's a oh matt left
i'll go back to the zero turn mower
i had a great tour of the kitchen of
life uh over next to the kalel on main
street
they've already started to welcome
students over the summer
i know that they had an opening earlier
this month i believe lorien was present
for that and they were effusive and and
their thanks for that so thank you for
covering that for us
and um i think they talked about having
a bexley open house coming up um to talk
a little bit more about the program it's
a really neat program the logistics that
they've set up there are great they've
had a lot of support from local area
superintendents
in it and for those who aren't familiar
with the concept it's
connecting with teenagers
through the idea of cooking and planning
meals and financial management and kind
of touching on socialization and and
community through the idea of cooking
classes and those classes are being done
with students who are in school so it's
like during the school day and it's a
program that's partnership partnering
with local public school districts
including bexley
um
today i had a chance to try out our zero
turn electric mower
uh
and it was fantastic so
matt um beautiful thing that'll be at
our that will be at our eevee car show
which is part of the labor day block
party
um but also i'd be glad to facilitate uh
anyone who reaches out a hands-on
demonstration uh to help evangelize that
concept is the electric sweet street
sweeper going to be at that question
yeah no stop it nope stop it despite the
financials that beecher just reported
we're not ready for that yet
um alley of the future i've talked about
it a little bit uh we're kicking off our
first workshop on september 7th it is a
community competition
we are hoping that the winning alley is
part of our streets project next year
it will require more than three days
advanced notice sam for the sorts of
changes that i think we're thinking for
these alleys
we're talking about infrastructure
improvements storm water management
lighting
public art
community spaces and policies all around
what that winning alley might look like
so september 7th we're kicking it off at
the library i believe it's six o'clock
why is there a cat in a soviet space
suit so it's like
it's an alley cat and it's futuristic do
you like that heuristic that it's a
soviet state it's in a 60s 60s area
retro futuristic
you know what
don't spoil this for me because i am i
have been like
very excited about very excited about
this campaign
um
and then uh i haven't visited livingston
today but this is a photo from yesterday
uh
and you can start to see
that this is a median right here a turn
lane sorry not a median i should say
turn line or median turn lane uh this
will be hashed out eventually with no
and and the travel will be one in each
direction and i got to you get to
experience at least you were able to
experience it two days ago what that
might feel like in front of christ the
king area where it was one lane each way
and it really had a great common effect
on traffic so it'll be exciting to see
that
um continue hopefully effectively a lot
more crosswalks being provided um so
kudos to columbus for mobilizing and
doing what they said they would do
really excited about that and happy to
take any questions
mr klingler thanks i just had a question
about our speed car
yes
any update on the speed car we need an
ordinance um mark and i have discussed
that a little bit about
crafting that ordinance so that's
something that's on our on our list okay
i've had some comments from
residents about roosevelt
from
fair to
speeding down rose up we also have a
project and going in at roosevelt mid
block between powell and and um
i guess it's not in the air i'm
necessarily talking about powell and
broad which is actually talking about
roosevelt
okay
interesting speed some speed there we
need an ordinance to utilize the speed
cars that got that right yeah we need an
ordinance it's a
fairly detailed ordinance yeah and we
have
several different models we've started
drafting
um
i know that mark is working on that so
mr marcelino and for those of us who uh
may not be all in the know in regards to
this can we get a brief description as
to what is yeah sorry that will work
sorry so i apologize
we uh council budgeted in last year's
budget and we've held on to it funding
for a a speed car that would essentially
be a law enforcement vehicle with an
automated speed camera system
and
we would have a policy as we proposed it
that the speed camera be focused on
secondary residential streets where
there's been a speed issue identified
such as section of roosevelt or i know
clifton is one that we've been hearing a
lot recently or pleasant ridge francis
dawson i can think of several that kind
of pop up perennially north gold uh
we're talking about you uh so uh the
idea is you know we could put cruisers
out there but when we actually look at
those stats there's it's a fairly low
volume of speeders so it's it's rare
that you would actually catch somebody
in the act of doing that especially when
they potentially see the cruiser um and
so
hopefully that will serve as a deterrent
and it would be coupled with a very
robust signage it's not going to be
subtle people are not going to be able
to say i was it was a gotcha like new
rome sort of moment
there's been a lot of questions about
the the way that the ohio revised code
reads about this there have been some
court cases that have been settled as
we've been talking about this
so the situation has continued to evolve
there's going to be a there's going to
be a piece of this where money that gets
brought in by speed cameras
is offset by a loss in local government
fund revenue from the state of ohio
because they want to make sure that
we're not using it as a revenue source
so ironically the state gets to keep the
money um but it's not you know for us
it's not something that we're talking
about as a financial uh boon at all but
it's more of an enforcement issue i'm
you know i get a lot of those same phone
calls we do the speed studies we put out
the signs we have a whole program but at
the end of the day residents are
frustrated that actual driver behavior
isn't long-term changing and so it's a
tool that hopefully we can utilize
it's a complicated ordinance and uh
hopefully that's something we could get
working on for this next quarter
yeah i mean i think it's
80
drafted like you said some of it might
not might need to be tweaked and we
slowed it down back when the question
was how much local government funding
would we lose and you know it's just an
offset at this point so it's not like we
would lose any revenue and
but we gotta jump through a bunch of
hoops to be able to enforce it
and i probably should ask mike price
about this but any um any update on
commonwealth park the new field mm-hmm
it's all orange fences i didn't know the
progress of that
so um
the uh
the
east field
we just we just awarded a bid for the
east field project the west field is
wrapping up
you can see the infrastructure that's in
place
we are uh under construction drawing
phase for the folly that will go around
the
infrastructure there on the west side of
the park and then the restroom on the
east side of the park we're working on
pricing for that so the pieces that have
been funded are are being worked on and
coming along
um the
median and the stitching that parked
together on both sides peace is a is a
part of that as part of our opwc project
coming up on columbia
so let's slate it for 2023 2024
and as you know we're working with the
bexley community foundation on funding
for the arboretum walk in the air rating
features the pond
and um
pergola and some of the other
improvements that are part of the plan
but the fields
uh are
underway and both projects are now
awarded and obviously the one on the the
west is
nearing completion
any other questions
thank you very much
turn it over to mrfizil all right
consent agenda we have the meeting
minutes from august 9 2022
any questions or comments on the consent
agenda
um i'll make a motion to adopt
second
any uh comments or questions from uh
city council
comments or questions from the audience
mr
mcpeak
mr markham yes
sod
yes bible yes marcelino yes lamke
robinson yes and klingler yes
contender jenna passes all right no
third reading so we're skipping the
second readings a second reading of
resolution 6-22 adopting the 2022
recommendations of the bexley tax
incentive review council regarding tax
abated properties in the city of bexley
that was uh introduced by ms lamke all
right here's our resolution with those
turk recommendations uh do you want to
pop it open again for us and just i know
that just
mentioned the properties that are
involved i know they're
so the tax incentive review council
reviews uh tax incentives that have been
provided to properties in bexley for com
compliance with the agreements
those
active
agreements are bexley gateway plaza
which is the commercial portion of
bexley gateway as well as the alexander
condominium units
there are two units at one dawson
remaining and then the units at gramercy
uh the residential units only at
gramercy um they were all found to be in
compliance um the only one that actually
has a formal agreement is the commercial
portion
of bexley gateway that rolls out
next tax year so
it will be
uh soon coming back uh in full uh to the
city from a revenue capacity also we
will no longer owe the school district
uh tax share so that'll be good to have
that wrapped up
and then the other the other remaining
ones are residential abatements that are
uh per our cra ordinance
any questions or comments on the
resolution that took
any objections to placing this on the
consent agenda for next meeting
all right
natalie please
okay and then we are on to the second
reading of ordinance
29-22 to approve ten thousand dollars
from the water fund and ten thousand
dollars from the sewer fund to pay
overtime for the remainder of 2022. i
assume mr markham this is yours as well
now well yep monique is not here so we
will
pop this open again a little bit is
there can can you refresh us on this one
i know
yep um so we have fallen short in both
water fund and sewer fund over time
um for two different reasons the water
fund
we've had just an additional unexpected
increase in overtime for
two primary reasons one is just an
increase in breaks over the years year
past the other one is that the drexel
project has involved support from the
city personnel
after hours
more so than i think we'd expected
the sewer fund um was
driven by the flooding that you were
referring to mr klingler before i do
want to say that the past month while
we've had some big rains they're nothing
compared to what we had had just from
like inches per hour earlier in the
season
as we said in the last meeting i think
there was one storm in the past couple
months that was the was the
most torrential ever recorded in
columbus area history so
it did result in a lot of after-hours
work even though
much of the flooding that we saw was
due to
surface and foundation flooding our
crews are out there double checking
everything where there are city backups
working to alleviate anything from those
city backups um
and
i i will editorialize a little bit and
just say that as you know and you guys
have been really supportive of this we
were really accelerated in our sewer
infrastructure investments
which actually plays into our next
ordinance but um this is the overtime
associated with those unexpected
flooding conditions
questions comments on this one
move on please okay under first readings
first reading of ordinance 31-22 to
establish a special fund designated
designated the stanbury avenue and
chelsea avenue improvements fund to
record all revenue and expenses
associated with the stanberry and
chelsea improvement project to
appropriate 5 million 178 342 from this
fund to pay for the cost of the project
to authorize transfers from the water
sewer and road and alley funds of one
hundred thirty three thousand three
hundred thirty dollars sixty thousand
seven hundred forty two dollars and
sixty six thousand twenty four dollars
respectively to the stanbury and chelsea
project fund uh that's introduced by ms
lamke and this is sort of our uh
standard financial uh
action that we take when we're getting
ready to start one of these projects a
combination of grant and
uh interest free loan and if you want to
just touch on those numbers for us
yes so the um the project
first off there's that match that you
see the 264 thousand dollars which is
the city match for a little bit over 5
million project
it's
a combination of water sewer and street
water line replacement
sewer capacity and infrastructure
improvement
project as well as street resurfacing
those streets were chosen because
stanbury and chelsea both
have just had a higher instance of water
main breaks
than some of the other streets in the
city
they also have surfaces that are nearing
the end of their life so it's an ideal
time for us to work on those water lines
at least 25 of this is a grant
often at the end of the project it ends
up being more in the realm of 30 to 50
percent uh with the remainder being a
zero interest alone um when i say what
it ends up being 30 to 50 that's because
we are often under budget and so we are
capturing that grant portion and we're
ending up below
the budgeted amount
i can't speak to that in the current
inflationary environment but i know that
that has been our experience in the past
so it's important work and what we in
city government call a good deal too for
us really it is a good deal um it's been
approved so this is uh formal uh setting
up the fund in order to receive the
funds from the state
questions or comments on
this one
all right move us forward all right
we now have a first reading of ordinance
33-22 to authorize supplemental
appropriations for calendar year 2022
from ms lamke
this one you will definitely have to
take us through
thank you mr president so
uh
we typically start to have some cleanup
ordinances for appropriations this time
of year this year has been a little
rougher than most for a variety of
reasons fuel costs have been much higher
than expected
even as we've seen gasoline prices start
to soften diesel has remained at an
all-time high
we're expecting that we're going to need
70 000 in additional fuel
to get us through the end of the year
we had not budgeted an increase in fuel
this year
a refuse contract has a couple things
going on
it has a fuel excess charge as well so
that has fed an increase in our rumpke
rates
that increase probably works out to
around 110 000 and i'm going to have a
more detailed presentation at our next
meeting
the remaining 110 000 is because i want
to move us to
a
budget where we're paying the entire
year's contract in the year that we're
budgeting right now we're doing
carryover um not carryover sorry like we
paid december's bill with 2022
money if that makes sense so this gets
us jump starts the appropriation so we
get to pay december's bill with 2022
money for this year
we paid last year's last december's bill
i did not say it as well we paid
december 2021's bill with 2022 funds i
want to jump start us so that we're
paying december 22 spill with 2022 funds
so that when we're budgeting we're
budgeting by the calendar year which is
our contract works
so this gets us to that point as well
building department professionals
have
have two years of excessive expenses due
to permitting
increases and i talk about that in the
recitals
but we've had a 26 percent increase in
permit fees in 2021
36 percent year prior
more than 135 000 over those periods in
increased revenue this 110 000 catches
us up because we have expenses
associated with those permits
um it's you know a little bit more in
revenue that isn't expenses but it's not
uh it's not an inexpensive proposition
to go through all the permit
permitting
analyses professional services and all
that so
this will get us through the end of the
year we will also have an increase in
next year's budget just due to that you
know it's continuing so the construction
is continuing which means that the
expenses will also
continue is there an adjustment increase
in
uh fees that we charge that goes along
with that so our permit rates have not
been increased for most projects where
they
they're
the rates are variable for more
complicated projects where we bill back
services so those those get adjusted but
our are flat kind of fees like for
pulling an electric permit or whatever
have not been adjusted for many years
um that is an analysis uh that we need
to do
and plan to do that as part of our next
year's budget process okay
excellent any comments or questions on
this
all right
all right first reading of ordinance
34-22
to amend the use of areas of 12 216
south columbia avenue
you've moved back that's why i apologize
and my microphone's off all right first
reading of ordinance 32-22 to certify
special assessments for the repair of
sidewalks
and or other required work where the
work was not done by the owner after
being ordered by the city in accordance
with bexley code section
1490.15 b4a or bexley code section
1492.04b1
and it was necessary to do the work and
assess the owner introduced by ms lamke
this is our
annual do we've annual assessment right
of the sidewalks and you can see that's
uh the detailed list here of how those
assessments break out
i will note that uh section two this is
the second year we're doing this where
we're breaking up larger larger
assessments over a three year period for
sidewalks
and then section three covers code
enforcement violations where the
work had to be performed by a contractor
through our code enforcement office and
was not
paid was not reimbursed for that expense
so we end up assessing have you had
feedback on that uh breaking up those
those payments
i haven't yeah i was curious
actually that's kind of the feedback
though right like
yeah the fact that we're not getting the
phone calls right suggestion that that's
been effective and helpful
nope
no news is good news sometimes yeah they
say any comments or questions on this on
the assessments and this will probably
most likely be amended for our third
reading because we're going to look at
who might have paid since we first
introduced okay there's a little
evolution there as as that
goes on
mr official i'm sorry did did i look for
questions or comments
mr official
now we are first reading of ordinance
34-22
to amend the use variants at 216 south
columbia avenue to allow for expansion
of the existing carriage house
introduced by mr klingler
someone besides me gets to talk for a
change
thanks mr official you can pull it up
yep um
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so in 1997 the
that council uh approved a use variance
at 216 south columbia in order to use um
the accessory structure behind
the main home
as a dwelling unit
this variant or this ordinance
would allow the
the new owner to expand that dwelling
unit
which was um
did do we confirmed the square footage
we didn't okay yep i realize it's the
dwelling and it's not the overall square
footage of the correct right yeah it's
just when i reread it after i sent you
that email i thought oh
okay
do you want me to yeah i would pull that
up yeah that'd be nice okay
um
so this is a proposal brought to us by
the applicant um
for 216 south columbia there are several
things going on with this property but
the question in front of council tonight
is confined to
the expansion of the use variance
and i'm going to zoom in on what is
called the carriage house on this
property
then i'm going to take you right back to
the ordinance and then i'm going to take
you right back to this exhibit so the
ordinance details uh this but
essentially there are currently 574
square feet of occupiable space above
the carriage house which council granted
a variance to in 1997
have a
have a use subject to several conditions
to be occupied by family members or
staff essentially
or rent free tenants
of that space
the applicant is asking for an expansion
of the use variants for 255 additional
square feet that would bring the total
area to 829 square feet
so the addition is is this dark gray
portion of this exhibit
this
this square right here is and we're
going to have a presentation by the
architect next meeting but this this
portion right here is an open story so
it's a clear two-story
uh door and stairway up to the second
floor
and there's a little bit of additional
living area here
being provided
as proposed
the conditions that exist on the current
variants
one more hold on one more comment here
the architecture has been approved by
the architectural review board without
variance so the the architecture is
conforming
size wise to our code
um so this is not an area variance this
is not a size variance
this is only the use variance question
the building could be built with the
expanded footprint but without
additional living area without any
additional permits in an additional
approval process if i could if i could
chime in where am i and you and you may
get confused because i was confused uh
by the overall so we're just talking
about the actual rooms
right that is the dwelling unit not the
overall square footage of what you see
in gray correct because there's this is
that that's where i was confused there's
one to clarify first floor kind of l
shape right here that is more garage
space in the first floor right it's not
part of the use variance right so the
use variance is only the second floor
space where we see
one two room maybe three rooms and the
architect will talk about that at the
next meeting
the conditions that applied to the
that do apply to the existing use
variants
are that
and this has been drafted as an
amendment to that that variance by the
way so you can kind of see the existing
one here there's no reduction um to any
off-street parking that's presently
available
the occupants of the
accessory use or accessory house shall
be required to use a portion of the
existing off-street parking in the
property
that it can't be rented to non-family
members
or essentially non-staff members
or to somebody who occupies it free of
rent so it could be occupied by a
non-staff non-family but free of rent
and that if it's damaged by
a fire explosion flood riot or act of
god
the use can be continued unless it's 90
or more damaged in which it needs a
special permit for city council
so
the uh the request is to keep those
conditions the same but to allow for the
additional
255 square feet
at the rear of the structure
the applicant will be here to present
this i wanted you guys to have a heads
up and a chance to read it um
mark i would love to speak a little bit
about
the difference between this and
there is also a lot split request at
bsap and just in terms of the council's
scope and this and how how to best
proceed forward with the hearing right
so
pursuant to and i just had the ordinance
pulled up so let me get back to it here
pursuant to city ordinance 1226.11
d it is city council it's i mean it says
radio only city council should have the
power to grant use variances from the
provision of the zoning code so our
zoning code city cup prior city council
chose to give that directly to city
council to make the determination of on
there are
if you want to look at what at some
point at 12 26.11 d there are seven
criteria that you're supposed to that
you must consider when determining
whether or not you should grant this
i'm not going to read them all to you
right now um they're similar to some of
this criteria you're but not identical
to the criteria that you're going to be
looking at tomorrow night but
but then the code gives the board of
zoning appeals the right or the
power to address other things such as
the lot split and other matters that i
believe are associated with that
proposed lots
split
and this determination for you to make
should be made irrespective of what
might or might not happen with the lot
split
there's also i know from talking to the
applicant's representative there's a
there's at least one mitigating factor
that's seeking them to ask for this
that's causing them to ask for this
additional square footage and they will
present that but i'm going to allow them
to present that at the in their
presentation
same if it's your appointments if you
prefer to
have first year um so i know that there
was uh
some new legislation an ordinance in
regards to accessory structures
about a year ago we'll just call it a
year ago um and so just so i understand
and so other people can
the building as proposed and as a as
proposed will fit within those standards
that were set forth by council the
question is just simply whether the use
can form or whether we will make an
exception for the use alone correct
correct so this will not require
any kind of modification to the existing
ordinance that was passed a year ago
this is within those terms correct
correct so the the form of the structure
is conforming
uh it is allowed there's no variance
it's not b zaps not considering that
arby's already considered it um from a
design review it is conforming with net
footprint
sorry so will this
as we look at this
um it's going to be its own standalone
structure with its own address uh that
will then and maybe i'm getting too deep
in this and we'll get into it more but
what about things like taxes if we're
thinking about this if this is going to
be changed to a different to its own
separate house essentially uh do we need
to consider factors such as those or
so it's it's it's our it's a
pre-existing structure
with the pre-existing
um dwelling unit above the garage at the
structure
so there's not going to be a change to
that it's it's a accessory structure to
the primary residence still and we'll
continue to be that
um
right and if i can't even if even if
city council
denies or rejects the ordinance the the
destruct the current structure will
remain the way it is they are asking for
an addition to be able to allowed to add
an additional 250
575 55 i was close 255 square feet to
the
whatever the square footage is now
so as it currently stands
a
family friend who somebody's staying
with them can come reside there it's not
an issue and it's current usage correct
and
they're asking now though to make it a
permanent structure so i guess my
question is that now will this get its
own address and will there be tags
that's right or am i just missing the
mark on this so it's already permanent
structure
they're asking to expand that second
floor use
into more space on an addition to the
building
it still is part of the
216 south columbia address
it's a it's a carriage house to that
house
okay i'll i'll consider since the first
reason i'll consider and readdress and
i appreciate things yeah and again
and i'm i'm this is a value neutral
statement i'm just hoping to clarify it
in case this was a question
the addition can occur
right now they can go ahead and build it
it just can't currently be occupied any
further with any additional square
footage of living space so it could be
it could be storage above and storage
below it can't be additional that 255
square feet would need to be a storage
use not a
residential use
under the current variance
that so if i could just talk this out
with everyone here and so i clear in my
mind currently there's a we'll just call
it a carriage house three three car
garage some sort of structure that's
there that if we say no to this they
could move in
somebody could live there or stay there
per the current variance so we're just
tasked with saying
the
to ex
we're allowing the new owner to expand
the current structure by
the current garage i'll just call it a
garage
carriage house by by 255
square feet that's it and then make that
livable so they could put a room in
there
so that would be like a bedroom above
where it says
787.117 and they could have like a
closet space or something i think that's
what they would put in there i will let
them tell you what they'll put there but
i'm just saying that for that's right
i'm trying to think it out in my mind to
make it clear it's more than so even if
we said no somebody could
they have the variance to be a dwelling
unit currently if you said no they could
add on to it have that new space as
storage additional storage and someone
can still live above the garage so it's
in the current space
not in the new space so the question at
hand is not can they build on more to
the garage or can someone live above the
garage the question is can somebody
occupy 255 additional square feet than
they currently could okay
got it let me thank you kind of ask them
the dumb question i thought i did like
this is even this is even dumber i i'm
gonna
i'm gonna lower the level of
lower the level of disciples what what
what would differentiate something that
would be storage space versus living
space like what
what would you look for there that would
be different possibly legally
so we have it in our code uh it would be
a place to sleep
a place to cook and a place to
use the restroom
it does not so for example you can have
a second floor space above your garage
with a window an electrical
and air conditioning
it gets fuzzy i mean like when does it
so we haven't gotten that far in the
weeds about it troy but like could they
do all this and
have a game room outside of there that's
not part of that unit but they can play
foosball
yeah i'm not gonna open on that but
that's a great question to ask yeah you
should have seen my living space in
college i mean that's yeah they're
yeah goodness son i
i was just concurring with bringing up
the fuzzy with air conditioning all the
things except for the three things that
we right you had stated right
yes ms robinson
i may bring the level down even further
i know we are not considering the lot
split but is what we are deciding on
does that play a part in whether that
lot will eventually be split or
should i not even be thinking in that
way
i don't think you should be thinking in
that way at all
okay
the question in this situation simply it
simply it's not simple is whether or not
the criteria
is that that the that the
property owners who are coming to you to
ask for this
use variance
use yeah use variance
whether or not the criteria supports
that additional 255 square feet of
living space
and whether it's whether or not that
impacts a lot split or vice versa really
is not before you with this okay great
thank you
one more
yes mr klingler one more and i apologize
i hadn't had a chance to look at the arb
meeting minutes this this when they
expanded the south here it looks like it
won't be seen from the street it's all
that's an existing house right there in
gray right is that correct okay
i just
um
i tried to google earth it but then
there's a lot of trees we have a lot of
trees there's a lot of trees hard to see
and it's not it's not i think it's a win
it is a winter image because somebody
asked me this yesterday i saw that uh
the taken yesterday
creepy what you're seeing in the
distance is a pool house and and that's
on that's the lot to the north right
okay so that's why i was confused but if
you guys that's not the existing this is
you can start to see the existing
carriage house back there okay
it would be built to the south to the
south so um
i would encourage you to drive by it and
see it for yourself because as you know
there's some limits to this amazing
technology that we're looking at
um
the
thing i would add in full transparency
it is true that
my understanding of this is that the lot
split should not be considered by
council obviously arb's decision was
conditional upon bezap's approval of a
lot split because arb was not just
deciding on this arb was also deciding
on a proposed
new structure to the north so i want to
be clear that arb i made a statement
that air b had approved the design
they had to prove design it's
conditional upon the lot split being
granted right but again your the
council's decision is not to say oh we
don't want to screw up a lot split or
anything like that your decision is
based on the the criteria in
1226.11 d
on
the additional 255
feet of square feet of living space only
period
anymore
you just want to say yeah good thank you
for
helping us through that
well
uh you're welcome making a more clear
picture it's been
a of
i know we've had neighbors interested in
this and you know we we're doing our
best to try to learn as much as we can
about the different intricate legal
issues and to try to
at least see the process so that there's
you know good a fair hearing for the
applicant but be warned i think we're
gonna start asking some questions with
the second reading i would imagine yeah
all right and i the applicant will be
here to answer this guy so it should be
a very interesting uh
should be an interesting time
all right move us move us along um i
think we're on to tables
table ordnance is i'm not sure that
there's any action on table ordinances
any action on table ordinances no no
action no no forever hold your peace or
at least till the end of this meeting
all right
uh we reached uh
this is where not having my glasses is
going to be a problem
item 16 the executive session to
consider the purchase of property both
real i'm supposed to read this writer do
you think
both real and personal tangible or
intangible or to consider the sale of
property either real or personal by
competitive bid if disclosure the
information would give a competitive
advantage to the other side by division
g2 of section 121.22
of the revised code and conferences with
the public bodies attorney concerning
pending or eminent court action by
division g3 of section
121.22 of the revised code court action
is pending if a suit has been commenced
court action is eminent if it is on the
point of happening or impending
that's easy that was amazing
that's the emotion yeah don't make me
say it again so i need a second second
second mr mcpeek you need to give us a
roll call for that one all right
maybe this side
yes
klingler yes that's robinson yes
yes
all right air conditioning though
it is freezing in here
please don't forget your mic
oh do you mind yeah go ahead and close
that for us thank you don
back online
motion to uh move out of executive
session
second second
all uh in favor say aye aye aye all
opposed same sign
all right uh are we back online sorry
nope good all right uh this time i vote
uh move to amend the agenda and
introduce
ordinance
third
thirty
thirty twenty two thirty dash twenty two
second
uh is this all in favor of
a roll call i mean all of them okay all
in favor
aye aye aye
and if we have that can we bring that up
for our first reading okay
so we have a first reading
we have a first reading of ordinance
30-22 an ordinance to approve the
purchase of oh sorry sorry seriously
uh the purchase of the prop for the per
to approve the purchase of property
located at 2838 to 2840 del mar drive
bexley ohio to appropriate 105 000 from
the capital fund for expenses associated
with the purchase of that property and
to declare an emergency all right uh go
ahead and
show us some of this stuff here looks
like we've got a property to consider
purchasing for the city
thank you yes uh mr president and andy
bayshore is still on the line here with
us so andy if you could join us as well
thank you
oh there he is i'm gonna pull up um
this site in uh the map
so that you guys can see what we're
referring to
um
but just to take you down
a slight historical detour
um when we
when we redeveloped schneider park with
athletic fields one of the things that
we did was we took off line about an
acre and a half of land that we used to
use for storage of
leaf boxes and
gravel and such and we also used to rent
space at fifth avenue in cassidy
um
and over the over the years we've
acquired additional property on delamar
drive to try to offset that but the
service department still is short on
site storage
andy has been keeping an eye on a
property next to
our uh
service
garage here at 2844.
so you can see 2844
is a is a pool barn it has a lean-to
next to it and you can see some really
attractive
site storage happening here
it's a pretty tight site but it's the
site that accommodates
our waste material from the
street sweeper between um taking it to
the dump
and some gravel and soil and some of
that other stuff
we continue to be tight on site
this double next to us
at 28 40 20 38 has been vacant how long
for andy
mayor i'm not 100 sure but i think it's
been at least four to five years
um because
the code enforcement
officer told me
it's been vacant for a while
and it's been used um this is a site
this is a street view before our pole
barn was built there um so it's been
used by the owner for
kind of as a storage unit and
approached them last year to inquire
about purchasing the property andy i
want to give you kudos for staying on
top of it we were approached by a
realtor a couple weeks ago to see if we
would have interest in purchasing it
uh the realtor representing the seller
representing the current owner that andy
had been speaking with
we took a look at their asking price and
some comps
and have agreed upon
a purchase price of ninety thousand
dollars
um it's a 2400 square foot double it's
ostensibly in very poor condition on the
interior
and our intent would be to demolish
the structure and use it for site
storage
it's of note it's one of three remaining
residential
units on del mar
as del mar continues to transition uh to
uh the service use uh along that
corridor so
um andy do you want to talk anymore
about the need for the site and um
it's kind of interesting the street view
kind of tells the story uh of some site
storage that was used uh now we no
longer have some of that space because
we built that building to help
accommodate jeffrey
uh
mansion um
storage space that was taken offline as
part of that project so you want to talk
a little bit about the need
sure mayor uh i mean you could cover a
lot of it uh but uh city council um
i mean if you're ever up by the garage i
mean if you can just look behind the
garage and are in our lot right there i
mean we are
we are
beyond capacity i mean we're all the
time moving the stuff around we just
don't have enough room um for some of
our seasonal equipment
and this would help you know
one with just making it more efficient
you know as far as getting a piece of
equipment in and out we wouldn't have to
move to three trucks or another piece of
equipment
or having to you know rent additional
space um and plus it plus it's right
there you know right down from the
garage and right next to our you know
dump site
um i mean it'd be a great property to
have and you know we would uh
pave it put fence up and make it look
just like our our storage site now the
dump site and
i think it'd be really good investment
and the city could really use it
um so the site does go back to the
tracks just like the site that we have
here so it's essentially um it's same
size as the one that was gifted to us
before that was gifted to us as
uh after jp morgan chase foreclosed on
it we did own some right-of-way here
that sustained would terminate us right
away
um and i've worked with the adjacent
property owner to continue to give them
access
uh to their property uh so it kind of
rounded out that site uh nicely um our
intent would be to
again it's a i don't have a better
street view photo here but we have since
this aerial was taken
put the fencing and the columns out
front um and landscaped it so our intent
would be to continue that look so it
would aesthetically improve even though
we're talking about site storage it's
shielded it's not gonna be visible from
the street
um but uh i i you know i
i feel like it's a win-win the 90 000
purchase price
is
land value and it's an asset that down
the road the city would ever need to
sell i feel very confident we could sell
for at least what we're purchasing it
for
and the other point
to mention is that
the costs
we would not incur any cost for
demolition
that's my understanding i spoke with the
franklin county land bank today they've
helped us with demolition in the past
uh the grant that they had to do that
has expired but they still have funding
that they um have indicated they would
apply towards this so it's our hope that
that would be covered
um the additional 15 000 is just a an
estimate to cover closing costs
environmental survey appraisal
uh inspection
um
and other incidentals associated with
purchase
we do have um some money set aside in
our capital budget uh currently for
a potential lean-to that didn't fit on
the site that we wanted to put it in
so maybe that's something that we you
know reauthorize next year in the budget
um
and i expect this to go a full three
readings our our contract is contingent
upon council approval
um so you have time to think about it
plenty of time to think about you bring
that ordinance to the front again so we
can read it because
since obviously we're seeing it for the
first time
uh
so 105 000 is total and that's 90 000
for the property 15 000 for um
associated inspection closing costs
is that right
correct okay
and i'm just noticing now mark there's a
little bit of a discrepancy between the
title and section one um
it ordinances to approve the purchase
contract as opposed to authority to
enter into there is a it's probably not
a big deal because it's we're entered
into a contract contingent upon council
approval so we're probably talking about
six to one half of it doesn't the other
but just one
we might need a small tweak to that
any uh questions or comments on
this uh
ordinance
as stated
we'll do a second reading of this next
time
yes yes i just wanna you know where he
says a service chair uh a big um applaud
to um
to andy because i think i know he's
watched this
and i um
i'm excited that we will be taking care
of our
uh equipment
um
well so and and it is the neighborhood
is is just scattered with all of all of
our stuff and i think that it will make
a lot uh more sense
to have some more storage so that's all
thanks andy
absolutely
good work andy appreciate it no problem
um
we're going to move into our committee
reports
numero uno
councilmember jen robinson
thank you just a second
something about
something the library is doing with our
historical society this thursday the
25th at two o'clock um join
david for a
historical society presentation um this
month is going to cover
um the theme of mexico city schools in
honor of the centennial of besley's
first high school
wanted to take a late lunch that's funny
everywhere i believe there might be a
student link i need to check but um
tuesday i'm sorry thursday at two this
is thursday
20 pm so it should be good he is super
knowledgeable and uh
the history of our city so that's it
thanks so much that's neat numero dos
is fiber all right um
the sustainable september and then we
can see this beautiful
uh supplier that was put together that
is going to be talking about our
activities surrounding sustainable
september please know that each week of
september has a different theme
um each week has a movie that you can go
attend each
week has an activity of some sort
relating to
educating our community about that we
speak so i i applaud elizabeth and the
even though it's on your agenda you will
find this in your
inbox along with um
our zero waste google uh our website
facebook or instagram clicks okay just
so that you have it i am going to
beg you guys to think of
one
event that each of you could
try to
attend
i'm going to ask you to share this with
your friends and share this on whatever
social media you participate in um so
that we can really make this
an educational opportunity
all month long i mean it's really this
is this is this is what this is about i
mean truly my quote is exactly how i
feel about being you know being green
we've got to teach our kids and a lot of
times they know more than we do yes but
let's let's learn from each other
um once you've got that up can i just
say one thing that i think is is really
particularly neat about this is i just
love the food rescue in action and that
is part of taste of bexley because i
think you know
yeah what a neat way to kind of
incorporate that into a really great
event that we like i'm sorry go ahead
things for all ages you're going to have
a farm
there that the animals farm to you it's
coming
um the gentleman who's that of these
he's i call him he's coming so we're
hoping
so there's all kinds of things that
we're doing to educate our community
about sustainable uh
september so i am just begging you to
get on the bandwagon with me and try
that's all we can do is try right
here
yeah i just want you to know that the
bexley cookout crew is going to be
bringing it at the vegan food truck
festival
we will be having a szechuan vegan dish
that will melt your face off
and leave you wanting more
so i'm just throwing that down there
yes you can post that
just so that i have one piece of trivia
for all of you to think about because i
because i do this but next time i'm
hoping we can we'll have a little bit
more time for it
um
if food waste was its own country
what would it rank in a list of
countries based on emissions it causes
and against this fifth
number one
germany
third behind china
and the u.s
there you go
so the bronze medal yeah i mean we get
the silver it's uh it would be oh i
don't know that i don't know
and you know how much you can increase
your uh how much you could sell your
house by if you have solar panels on it
any guesses
no but i'm pretty interested
wow anyway
please please please
please get this on your social media
please share
i love it
turn the key i feel free
yeah
it's not going to be easy when you're
waiting at the rink
mr marcitolino numero trace just briefly
i just want to thank our police
department and they've just been out in
the community doing just about
everything making sure everybody's safe
i know they took extra steps as uh
school returned as well so thank you
very much for uh that work um and uh
yeah everybody stay safe and
healthy mr marcelino may i take the
privilege of adding something to your
report real quickly fine
based on what you just said
so i uh
we've had some questions from parents
and this happens every year with fashion
expression parents
uh specifically north abroad
and students that are returning to
school traveling um across broad street
we've done a lot of work in making
passing him broad intersection
like the cadillac of intersections it
has all the bells and whistles that we
can legally put in place
we can transform one that we couldn't
legally put in place within germany
it's
especially with some of our youngest
crocs in the street this incoming sixth
graders
we have done cross with a cop for two or
three years but we have officers there
to kind of reinforce across lost safety
provide some information with kids
underwear elements don't text and walk
the way across the street to listen to
music
um
we've had parents come to both the
school district in the city that focus a
little bit i think on a school district
passing for a full-time program
personnel will always get that
intersection experience we'll pick up a
drop off
we've worked with the school district to
assess
in general the environment that's going
on there and see is you know assess the
uh
driver behavior in general
one of the requests is that we find a
permanent program
um
it's a big thing to think about i know
it's dollar-wise not uh you know
probably i guess
i have no budget that's not nothing i've
also spoken with grandview mayor where
they have a similar program and it's
who has cautioned against the
ramifications of a long-term plan like
this
in terms of staffing quality control
so
keep your thinking caps on i'm trying to
brainstorm through ways that we can help
ensure this
even more ensure that safety environment
but also do it in a way that's
sustainable and it makes sense
so
more to come i would imagine
all right
the same year uh committee report ran a
little long tonight
that'll be awesome
um mayor kessler thank you so much for
bringing that up tonight i as i have a
sixth grader currently i have been
getting approached by a lot of parents
um from those parents i found out that
we were doing that initiative between dr
fine and the city and um that has been
something that's come up in the past
as jen robinson could concur with me
with residents of those students passing
i used to live in that area so i really
do believe that we need to put what
we're doing right now um in place i love
that we've had that initiative but i
would like to see us move forward and
getting something
on top of what we've already done and i
do recognize all the signage that we
have there and how much it's changed
especially when i'm on a bike or my golf
cart more than in my car
um but i think that there is definitely
more to be done i support that and i
would love to be a part of indie
initiatives and helping um brainstorm
and
help with that project
two new things that did it were added
this that came online right before the
school started
we
ordered about a year ago but because of
supply chain stuff one was flashing
lights that are happening before the
intersection on broad street and the
other is we've had
printed signs to talk about no turn
motions during school pick up drop off
we've added to that a digital sign that
lights up during the
appropriate hours so those are new
controls that are in place
thank you for that we'll keep on
thinking about it and trying to figure
out a good solution
same are you done
that that will finally conclude
all right cuatro clinger just a
preemptive happy birthday to our auditor
matt mcpeak which his birthday is
thursday
it's nice it's thursday
big birthday
nice
happy birthday today and the report
cinco sod to bring up the uh i like that
yeah it just works out that way i
actually have a niece that was her name
is maya and she was born on the 5th of
may sweet that'll pan out for her
someday
um
yes committee report wanted to uh remind
everyone to please become a booster go
to bexleyathletics.com
um bexley boosters support our middle
school and high school athletics
the season for sports has begun go get
your booster card you can flash it at
any athletic event and you get in so
instead of going online and having to
pay for each event individually just
become a booster booster we'd love to
see everyone here
become a booster
bam you want to come to that next
meeting and super mario
end of report
this is the point in our evening where
we encourage comments from the
community in the audience
yes please come approach the approach
the podium and don't forget to tell us
your name and your address please and
make sure that microphone is gone
don lewis 663 you clear
this past saturday myself my wife connie
and larry christopher represented the
south mexican neighborhood association
at capitol and welcoming their incoming
freshmen
it was great always fun
loved on them told their parents that
they're being cared for we'll watch over
them
have however do i have one
disappointment there was not one city
official there i realized there are many
things going on in the city and not
necessarily pointing fingers anybody
specifically but i thought there should
have been one representative from the
city of bexley there
thank you for all you do god bless you
have a great night thank you for uh
inviting our uh welcoming our students
back it's always good to have them back
in the city and you know we'll try and
we'll try and get some of us out there
next time okay
any more comment from the community oh
come on
getting the information out to the
people about car theft and so on and so
forth
um
we are block watch
heads of groups whatever the case might
be and i think it'd be wise the more
people get involved in block watch you
can have we get the report from don
overly
and i think a couple years ago also
there were some commitments by some
people who may or may not get on board
here that they're going to become block
watch people so i don't know if you guys
would want to become block watch people
or not or leaders but
there you go all right thank you thank
you good reminder
any more commentary from the community
if not
i should do it i will
accept a motion to adjourn
new journey
all in favor say aye aye aye all opposed
same sign
in the books
happy birthday macbeth
oh
betty you're gonna talk um
i wasn't gonna go