hi everyone
happy august uh 24th this is uh the
fourth um
tuesday in august which means it's
council tuesday and we have yeah
we we've got um some special guests with
us and we're thrilled that they are here
because bailey is here from aep it's
nice to see him in something other than
a square
so well welcome welcome welcome
um and then we have our uh special
guests the bardwells here are here so we
are so glad that you are here with us um
so let's all remember we are here for
the good of bexley i'm so glad that
you're all here healthy and safe and if
we could please let's let's stand for
the pledge we'll do a roll call first oh
yeah let's do that
that would be great ms fiable here mr
klingler here ms lamke here mr markham
i'm here bill ms robinson here
here mr sharp here
now let's do the pleasure
of the united states
and to the republic for which it
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and stands for all
all right
special guest i'm going to turn that
over to you mr kessler
mayor sir
said that i need to embarrass him this
evening for his wife now he said yes
she's a customer
or take photos or whatever but then she
keeps her distance so
mr bardwell has actually already
received a proclamation but he received
it
uh
verbally
at the beginning of an architectural
review board meeting that had
plenty of applicants waiting so we kind
of moved through a little bit more
quickly so i'm grateful to have you here
at council so that you can get it now
formally presented in all of its
uh wordy glory so i'm going to read this
proclamation goodness
um and and the proclamation says it all
but i want to preface it just by saying
that
uh peter bardwell uh is a bexley
institution
uh who has shepherded us through uh
transition and architectural review
board and has been such a guiding force
throughout that entire process has
consistently advocated for process
improvement and for making our process
better for
residents and applicants and board
members alike so
i've really appreciated your time and
service but now i'm going to say the
same thing again in the proclamation
so as whereas peter bardwell has
generously devoted his time wisdom and
leadership for more than 25 years to the
preservation and improvement of bexley's
architectural character and heritage
and where he contributed integral
guidance and effort in the establishment
of the architectural review board
an organization that has transformed the
efficiency and clarity of the city's
architectural review process and has
grown the community's appreciation and
awareness of bexley's architectural
character
and whereas peter has continually worked
to optimize the architectural review
process
fostering the concept of a streamlined
consent agenda and consolidated voting
and ensuring compliance with
ever-changing legal and procedural
requirements
and whereas peter has long served as an
exemplary
exemplary model of good citizenship i
believe you were scout master for troop
166
for example
not only investing his time and talent
for the city he loves but also
fulfilling the purpose of his work with
conscientious attention to detail
thoughtful communication and
demonstrable respect for his fellow
board members and citizens
and whereas peter leaves behind a proud
legacy of an architectural review
process
that is more organized understandable
and efficient and has enriched the lives
of countless bexy residents who benefit
each day from the culture that he has
worked tirelessly to preserve and create
therefore
july 8th 2021 was
peter burnham day and we're celebrating
it again today so thank you peter for
all of your service thank you very much
i i could not present a former scout
master with a proclamation without also
providing you with oh this is
i was wondering how i was going to make
this relevant to my grandchildren so
maybe
so maple syrup does that and
and i'll simply conclude by saying that
i i noticed that that two weeks ago
you had eight recipients
all of whom i saw recognized uh uh
on zoom that all of whom are under age
20.
so
i am obviously a very very
late achiever in all this but thank you
very much
thank you
thank you peter
and fyi while the mayor was doing his
proclamation i uh
i sent two really great picks to your
email okay
so i love starting our meetings off with
with special guests the best ever
all right we
are going to
um
move on to ordinances or resolutions
with visiting percent presenters before
we can have our visiting presenter
um i am going to ask
um
councilman sharp
if he could take action on the tabled
ordinances
um so that we can have
our uh
it's uh table earnings 24.
yeah
and if i think can they do he can can he
do it together
madam president please if i may i would
like to
take ordinance
2421
and ordinance 12
21
off the table for the purpose of
discussion and the presentation this
evening thank you councilman sharp do i
have a second okay
thank you mr clandler can we do a voice
vote
all those in favor please signify by
saying aye
aye all those close same sign
all right um
mayor may i turn it over to you sure
um so is councils aware we've updated
you that uh there have been some changes
in the marketplace our um
our board of control has has met with
aap several times has reviewed
pricing uh for the proposed aggregation
program
um and
we sort of had some new information
right as we're headed into our july
break so we've asked chris bailey from
ap to come and update council in general
with what's happening in the market
um what we might see if we chose to move
forward and i think we'll engender then
some conversation here so chris thank
you for coming tonight and for
presenting
president fibel
mayor kessler members of council
first of all thank you for having me
my name is chris bailey i'm the director
of community partnerships
for aep energy and i manage their
municipal or government aggregation
programs
in illinois and ohio
i wanted to provide tonight i wanted to
provide you an update on our renewable
aggregation
product and share with you uh some
recent market developments that has
impacted it
before i do that
let me recap
quickly what our renewable aggregation
product is if that's okay
it's called
ire
and it stands for
integrated renewable energy
and how it works
is ap energy enters into long-term
power purchase agreements with
developers to build
new wind and solar projects in ohio
for your city for your aggregation these
are not your normal solar wind these are
utility scale
thousand acres wind is mostly up in the
north of ohio
and solar predominantly in the south
so we've accumulated this project
portfolio of renewable energy in ohio
and we've created this fixed
non-escalating renewable generation
price
that price remains constant for the
entire
ire term which i'll get into in a little
bit
so again that re that renewable
generation price remains constant
the other non-energy what we call
non-energy components
which includes
not to get technical here you know
capacity
taxes ancillaries
line losses
are are set or passed through each
delivery year which they're set prior to
the delivery year which which in the
power industry a delivery year is not a
calendar year it starts actually from
june 1st and goes through may 31st every
year
so when you add up the the renewable
energy component and the non-energy
components it creates a total
aggregation or community price
that essentially will change every year
during the term of the ire
and it will only change because of the
non-energy components
the benefits of ira are numerous um
just to name a few what we call it's
very dark green it's a lot more
renewable than say just rex
it's safe
it's simple it's turnkey it doesn't
require any capital investments from the
city
and we've created the
mechanisms within the structure to be
competitive
with the utilities price
that resetting mechanism every year
so what has happened this year
well in short there's been
a lot of volatility in the energy market
specifically the renewable energy market
and more specifically in ohio
the three main things there are other
things but we've seen a substantial
increase in demand for renewables
and
what we what we see from our end
is uh this demand has increased say rec
prices uh 300
since march just wrecks
our ire product has been fulfilled
uh it's it's up to six tera
i mean the demand for it is amazing
the other things we're seeing in the
market in the renewable market is uh the
renewable supply chain
has been what i call shaken up uh the
all the components that go into making
these uh renewable you know wind towers
and solar panels
that whole line of supply has increased
from steel from labor to
solar cells
not to mention you know the the labor
shortages and the carryover tariffs from
a federal level that's all impacted the
price of renewables
specifically over the last year
specifically this summer
the other thing unique to our state
lucky us
is uh the legislative changes in ohio so
recently this summer
ohio pass sp52 which is essentially
very unique uh and it kind of picks on
renewables and it it takes this kind of
state
uh
process down to a local level so
essentially it gives more control at the
local level for development of
utility-scale
wind and solar projects in ohio
and there's various things that happen
to that but basically uh
it's controlled now
at the county level they can create
exclusionary
zones which there are no utility scale
renewables in these zones in these
unincorporated areas
uh on the on the board of the sitting
board which approves these power
projects are local representation as
well and that's that so all this has to
go through this new process which is
going to impact renewables in our state
unfortunately
not in a good way
so what does this all mean um in terms
of the impact on the cost of ire and in
just in renewables in general
let's go to the next slide
okay so so on this slide
i tried to illustrate as simply as i
could the differences in um the price of
uh our renewable program
uh earlier this spring
uh when we submitted it as part of our
of the rfp and and today
so if you look at the top half uh
versus the bottom half it's broken into
two parts one is what i call prior to
the ire
that's essentially a a traditional
aggregation program like any other
aggregation program
that's meant to fill the the gap before
the uh assets the renewable assets
actually come online
so this period this prior period or
bridge period to the ire in march we
quoted a price of 5.3 cents today at six
point one cents that's a big jump
the main driver to this is is the wreck
pricing uh this both scenarios the 5.3
and the 6.1 includes
what we call green e it's a standard
term for these national wind wrecks
they're out of texas oklahoma it's just
it's just a standard shelf wreck
that's where that price jump is
increased so much
there are other options for the city
which i've discussed with the mayor uh
they're a lot cheaper than that that
might fulfill what you guys want it
really depends on what the city wants
for this kind of prior ire period
so there's there's all kinds of
different uh solutions for use that are
not as expensive as that
so
going down to the bottom part which is
the main event why we're all here is
this long-term renewable ire product
so in march we quoted uh 4.239 cents per
kwh
uh today it's 4.623 cents
not a bit as big a jump but it has uh
jumped a little bit
uh some other changes to this price or
the ire is that this the start of it was
the summer of 2023 when these renewable
assets would come online in the summer
2023 it's now actually january 2024
that's when these uh the the the
projects will come on
uh come on live
uh for your city
uh the term is a little bit different um
not by much uh in march we quote a
11-year term uh our standard ira term
today is 12 years
uh it hasn't changed in terms of the
product itself the ire price is for
energy only the renewable generation
part
and the other notable uh
thing i want to mention is the back in
march there was a capacity credit
which if you remember it was you know
city of bexley's aggregation is about 11
megawatts about a third of that
through these assets these renewable
assets we could bid into the capacity
markets and monetize that and provide
that back as a credit to the city in
terms of a lower price uh so so the
price of capacity
that that third
of a price a benefit went back to the
city where we don't have that capacity
credit today and the reason we don't
have that capacity credit today is not
because we don't want to include that
capacity credit it's just because
developers it's a seller's market
they either over value the capacity
or they don't include it as part of
their bids
when we go out to
select bids for development so they just
overvalue it or they don't include it so
we just decided not to include it as
part of our ire product
so those are the material differences
between march and august
so the next slide what i wanted to do is
is hopefully try to provide a
in
a holistic view or forward view of what
the ire
price
will be
versus what will be what will the
utilities price
will be in the future so and how do they
how do the two relate or unrelate and
how do you forecast it
so
you can see my bullet points up above
the first bullet point is really
important to remember you know
predicting the total ire price in the
future because this ire doesn't start
for a couple years is very difficult to
do uh with present precision
in the re there are two reasons why it's
very hard to predict the total price of
the ire
is because one component in the
non-energy components that's capacity
capacity is the price we all pay for
reliability of our grid pgm
to keep the lights on when it's the
hottest hours of the summer which we're
coming up to
uh that price is usually set
no more than three years out we're even
behind now so we don't know what the
the cost is very
very far out
and on top of that
and more importantly is the price of
capacity can vary
significantly from year to year
where the other components don't
that's the main driver why it's hard to
understand what the total price of the
community aggregation program with ire
is because of that moving piece called
capacity
the second part of this is the ptc
similar but for different reasons the
ptc is extremely hard to predict in the
future one because no one knows what the
future price of the utilities price to
compare will be beyond a year out
it and then when you do know what it is
when you get to it it changes every
other month because of different uh you
know reconciliations
and then the third thing i'll add a
third thing and and the mayor's putting
up this graph and and you know if you
look at the historical ptc's uh
i hate to tell you this but this line
has no bearing on what the future will
be
it's just it's unrelated
they're mutually exclusive no one knows
what the future will be but we do know
what the past is but they don't they're
not
there's no causality from what we're
looking at
to the future
if you go back to the last slide
so
if you look at
if you look at the total
ire aggregation program um if you look
at the range for capacity
i think it's reasonable to to believe in
the future the price would be in the mid
fives
to
uh mid five five you know caught five
and a half cents
to uh 6.9 cents that would be kind of a
range for the ptc
or for the ire total aggregation price
in terms of what the future ptc will be
again i don't know what that will be i'm
not even going to stand up here and try
to predict what it will be because i
just don't know
but if you look and this is my final
comment if you look at what this ire
with aggregation is it is literally a
premium product it is
getting into something that uh
like ire for more than just the price
because it's a premium product because
it's gonna meet your you know
sustainability goals
your
all your different goals coming down the
road we're all facing
this product i can't think of a of a
product that's going to reduce your
carbon footprint as a city as a
community more than an aggregation
backed by renewables
and that's all i have thank you for your
time
thank you chris for uh for coming and i
i just wanted um to remind council that
or as we as we talked through this i
think when we first started talking
about this i think you came to talk to
council a year ago maybe maybe more than
that
and it was looking like
the ire pricing was
not just competitive with but would
be better than our ptc or price to
compare and that's changed over time and
so by the time we even went to bid
we already knew that that was not going
to be the case
um and so that's been shifting a little
bit on us and i think we really felt
while council had passed an ordinance
that allowed the board of control to
make the decision we felt pretty
strongly that it made sense to come back
to council because the equation was not
what it was when we first started
talking about this
to allow you guys to talk through the
pros and cons of
you know basically today's price to
compare it's 529
and the future of a renewable plan is
somewhere in the range of five and a
half to high sixes
um and so it's a decision um we're
by going into aggregation you lock into
a price or at least lock into that range
uh so the market could go way up and we
could seem like geniuses
or the market could stay right where it
is and people would still feel like
they're paying a little premium
residents can always opt out but
nonetheless
it's a long-term
investment in a long-term decision
um and it's something that i i know
we've talked about in the past i would
never encourage aggregation just for
pricing
the reason that we came into this was to
talk about how we could really
move forward our carbon footprint uh
with this program so
that's all i had to editorialize after
that thank you christopher
thank you thank you uh council do you
have comments uh mr sharp
i have a series of questions um if if
you don't mind
um
one is just so people can listen and and
understand the acronyms the ire would be
comparable to the generation price
that's on the back of the
invoice
uh of aep bills
usually in uh yes yes it would be the
confined
this price is only about 40 percent of
our utility bill
the total utility bill right because the
rest is transmission and contribution
distribution which is still and customer
charges which are still separately
itemized
okay so um
the premium is
the point of making the premium is on a
smaller share of your total
bill it's not like your total bill is
going to be
x percent higher
that's correct um
the other
question uh does aep have the ross
county field solar field is that one of
your contracted ones that was just
approved for 2 000 acres
i don't know i'd have to look that up it
changes all the time week to week okay
we have the emerson creek wound facility
up in
um northern ohio near the lake erie it's
about kind of two or two 200 to 300
megawatts it's a big wind farm
we have the
atlanta farms which is in pickaway
county just south of us it's another two
to three hundred acres to me these are
thousand acre developments down in
pickaway county
just south of 23. those are the wind
projects you're talking that's the solar
one the atlanta farm sorry about that
they're predominantly made up of of
solar uh just because it's easier but we
do have wind developments as well okay
so becca's about two square miles as a
comparison of square miles 640 acres
so it's about
the one
solar farm down in ross county is 2 000
tuna a time and a half the size of
bexley so our residents can
can visualize i think they did say it
would power 50 000
homes but
i'm not
quite that's not a hundred percent of
the time right
it can power on my variable resources uh
the way it would work uh with the city
of bexley's aggregation is we would um
we would offset or we would supply a
hundred percent of the
uh consumed kilowatt hours so 100 of it
would be renewable energy from these
assets in ohio but it would be balanced
balanced on an annual basis not on an
hourly basis
because of the same reason you said
sometimes the wind's not blowing
sometimes the sun's not shining
so so there are certain hours where it
doesn't equal out with what your
aggregation would use
okay and then so um
in the
in the um
carbon footprint reduction calculation
do they take into account um in that
calculation
the the
what type of
land is used for these fields
traditionally farmland uh grassland uh
waste industrial wasteland um is there a
carbon component of
of lost natural vegetation um
that's offset is that included in the
calculation
i i did not include that but yeah to
your point i believe most of its uh
you know private you know maybe former
farmland
um
i know there's different variations of
solar you know i think it's um
you know where they're co-existing
renewables but i'm not an expert in in
that area but i could i could definitely
find out what that kind of um
um lost
you know what what what what are we
losing in terms of land because that i
know that's a sensitive subject as well
yeah um and then
if i made two two more short little
questions i know the cell phone
companies have been aggressive in
um
utilizing um
land um as an interchange um
you you see sometimes they apparently
have leased land from the state in the
middle of interchanges and they're the
city of colom
the columbus region has large
interchanges
and i tried to call the
ohio department of transportation and
left a message but i didn't get a
response as to
whether
the state has any
uh leasing programs for those
interchanges where it would cut your
distribution costs and other things
rather than having
so much
farm land taken when there's hundreds of
acres around the the city that
um
even struck
frequently they're on nice slopes that
has a good angle um to the sun and
whatnot and far enough away from um
vehicles that might go off the road
so anyways i i i'd encourage aep to
consider red in one country they
converted the roads to solar panels so
literally the road is
a bunch of solar panels which is amazing
this is the future i mean i mean this is
where development's happening and
technology and i guess and i guess i
lied i have i still have two more um
the and the um
where does aep source
or or aep's vendors source the um solar
panels and and whatnot um because i know
china is the the main supplier of solar
and um
there's little
again a lot of raw materials no
for sure because they're developers and
they have their own uh supply chains
specifically each developer could could
be it could be different for each
developer
um but so i don't know the answer that
but i know i know ohio has first solar
which is up in toledo it's a big you
know solar
panel producer i believe again it's i'm
not gonna sit here and say i'm an expert
in that but yeah i think most of the
stuff is coming overseas which is which
has been impacted through the shipping
container cost increases and the supply
chain stuff was what you know i think
it's everything you know from bicycles
to
solar yeah i yeah i understand that um
but i i did know whether ap had a
had as part of its mission to have more
of the production um
done in the united states and
yeah and i i
i this this would be you know most of
these uh these developments are are
created through these development
companies and then we finance it or we
we we arranged that
so aep isn't the one in the field
developing in the construction crews so
we enter these ppas with these private
companies to develop this stuff out we
provide the capital the credit
everything like that and we finance it
through a levelized cost of energy
through the community aggregation
program okay
and i talked so much i forgot my third
thing so i'll pass i'll pass this did we
get you richard i hope so
does anybody else have any questions um
concerning
um aggregation at the moment it looks
like um
mr markham does and i see that ms
robinson does as well mr marco i'm gonna
ask richard's question in a very
different way mr bailey because i enjoy
hearing the sales pitch
you can describe this as a premium
product
can you tell us a little bit about how
these projects are chosen
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uh what the advantages are that you're
selling here and
also i'm curious and i have a follow-up
question so hold on here that's fine and
also how many of your customers are
concerned with that price comparison
versus uh
the
um renewable sustainable portion of this
i'm just curious well i'll try to answer
the first part if i forget the second
part let me know but
so the first part uh is we have a group
that does that handles all the renewable
renewable development um and how they
how they go about their businesses they
they basically bid it out so that so
they'll send out an rfp
similar to what you guys did with your
aggregation
and they'll collect these bids from
different developers
with these projects and and
we uh collect them we assess them we
look at the contracts
we look at the cods we look at the price
points we look at the terms
and all that goes into a selection
process where we in a prioritization and
then there's other aspects of this too
which includes this citing board process
the queue numbers with pgm the grid
there's a whole sequence of things that
has to go through in terms of where it's
at in the in the price
and then with sb 52 there's a whole
nother layer on top of that
at the local level now with new projects
because the ones that were in the queue
or have been i guess
filed a application with the sighting
board
have been grandfathered but anything new
will have to go through this local
process as well so there's whole there's
a whole bunch of new laws involved in
this as well the value of ire
is
you just you don't have to do this i
mean it's just you know and it's a lot
less expensive than putting solar panels
in every house in the community uh so
you quickly gain an advantage by
offsetting your carbon footprint at a
decent price at a competitive price uh
as opposed to you know financing a
thirty thousand dollar solar panel
install over over the course of uh
thirty years with an eleven year
break-even point so so it creates a
great way for the city a community to
make an impact on the environment fairly
quickly
uh and you guys you know bexley is a
leader in the in the in the central ohio
your ma your mayor's like the leader in
this space
and so you're transitioning this this
community you're leading
and and uh this is a perfect type of
product for that
yeah let's repeat that that bexley is
probably leading the state and most of
the nation and these sorts of things
since you are acting as our agent in
this and you're doing sort of the things
that we would
like to do
is there any um
is there any emphasis or value placed on
location like uh
being more local or or farther away or
does that not enter into it it really
depends on what your definition is it's
almost like rex it's you know we just
try to design these products
to what you want as a community so they
are there's some flexibility with them
but
so we can source renewables uh in the
state outside the state
uh just like we can source racks at
different places
it does impact the price uh but that you
know that that would be uh a goal is to
you know understand
what you want uh up to this point local
uh we define it as kind of ohio based
uh but that that definition can change
uh from community community from company
to company uh it can you know various
things it could be state-based it could
be
grid-based you know there's a lot of
different ways to define it
so uh i like the sound of all that
market
uh as a very powerful driver
of human decision
is there a minimum percentage
buy-in that we are required to guarantee
to the uh to the project
well um that's a great question um
there's a couple ways to skin the cat i
mean you typically you just it's 100
right
um
it you and you do you take a a position
uh it's not like we uh
you we contract out for a price and we
don't have the ire uh projects to back
it up so those two things are
together
uh in unisons so if if if you guys use
11 megawatts we're gonna go get 11
megawatts of renewable energy in ohio i
mean it's going to be a combination of
solar wind
one of the questions you guys came up
with in your rfp process is you know
what what if this concept or what if the
price goes down you know can i can i get
out of this price and lock into a lower
price
our our in our i guess a resolution or
possible solution would be to that would
be up do a portion of this up front and
then layer it in that would be an option
possibly to look at
typically
it's it's essentially it's it's fully
hedged through renewables but again
there's flexibility there as well
thank you
miss robinson
well troy got my question about location
but um i do have a request is it
possible for us to have this
presentation could you send that to
lorient certainly
thank you and thank you for being here
yes it's really helpful thank you for
your time does anybody else have any
questions
decide please
yeah um
in conversation it it um made me think
about i liked how you talked about the
individual cost to each homeowner versus
the city
taking this on and maybe offsetting some
of those costs i don't believe right now
that you can do solar panels um on slate
roofs correct
yeah
you guys would know the codes better
than i do locally you can but yeah you
can okay you don't i don't have slate oh
sorry yeah you have solar so i do not
have sleep you you i love sleep it
requires i love sleep too
i'm just thinking about that we talked
about offsetting the cost each
individual homeowner
and like our house who has slate and i
was very jealous of our neighbors just
getting that nice install of solar
panels but they don't have slate there's
a lot of homes affected in bexley with
slate so more expensive right it's just
you you have to create mounting points
for the rooftop solar
and
we don't have any architectural
prohibition against it and it is
physically able to be done but it's just
a more expensive and so just another
thing you brought up that
something to think about
yes
did you have a question
no go ahead
um just a quick question what's the
price
the process by which a customer could
opt out if they decide
um even if it's offered that they
personally don't want this
uh there's multiple ways to opt out they
can
when they get the letter
they can
call up or send something in to not get
into it at the initial so they can
essentially opt out i could not get into
it so we'll send everybody a
communication
uh when they get that they can call in
or send this form in and say i don't
want it even if they do get in it they
can always call and get out of it
there's no penalty to get out of it and
likewise there's there's no
whoever wants to get into it who's
eligible can get into it at any time so
it's it's very flexible program
and i assume there'd be no disruption in
service whether they
opt out or not okay thank you
anybody else have any questions
richard you have another question
i i remembered my question
please
please and then we'll allow the mayor to
speak um one um
the question related on a comment you
said about future technology or someone
made that comment um
what
i know it i used to be involved with
green energy ohio and i used to attend
their meetings surprise
um
but um
and i personally like soldier and i'm
looking into it um in our family
farm potentially as well but um it's
not industrial
or it's not utility grade size
of property that we have so
anyway so that's that's another
conversation of discussion
but um in in the future
well city i was getting to the city of
westerville a number of years ago when i
was uh attended the
the green energy ohio
they were
their electric
division was um looking into hydro cells
hydrogen cells technology and i know
there's some um
special
asset
funds on wall street that are are
looking into some of those technolo
you know future technologies um so
how would bexley be
created or protected if something even
more um green came about like you know
hydrogen and water is about as green as
you can get um
if that technology takes off
well
if you look at the ire term of 12 years
i i mean let's not kid ourselves i mean
the technology is going to improve over
the course of over a decade you know
what i mean so there's going to be
developments that improve over this this
period of time
so i it to answer your question how does
that
work through is aap going to be looking
into some of those technologies as well
so this ire portfolio is a constant um
ever changing ever maturing uh
like i mentioned it's every week
the changes are so often
i don't even the updates are so frequent
with these uh developments that it's
hard to keep up
uh but in terms of
taking a position with your renewable
price
you would have to take a position you
know you wouldn't be it's hard to say
hey listen i i want this sign me up but
i want to be able to get out of it in in
five years because i think there's going
to be a better price and let's let's not
forget the prices don't always go down i
mean we've seen that this summer where
prices have gone up
so
i don't know if it's always going to be
that way but but i agree with you
there's going to be better technologies
down the road we all know that
but those
technologies we don't get there if we
don't invest in today in the stuff
okay and then
what happens during emergency i mean we
heard of rolling blackouts in california
due to various things they've taken
natural gas which is a cleaner form of
energy and has contributed to the us's
decline in
carbon footprint over other countries
but that's quickly generating
energy for when there's long periods of
no sun and and what that is
what what's our protection you know so
we're not like texas or california no
and we're lucky to be in a grid that has
a capacity market that that we all pay
into for a reliability uh so
uh you know it's not to say that you
might have a uh power goes out of your
house but in terms of
uh
um
blackouts or brownouts we just don't see
that in pjm uh not to say that it
couldn't happen but we you know they're
they they take a reliability with uh
very seriously and it wouldn't that
being on the ire product would not
impact your reliability at all you would
be you would have the same reliability
standards
as your community next to you
that's not on ire
i'm gonna let um the mayor speak really
quick and then um mr marcum i know has
one more question as well so i have one
question for you in a comment chris the
capacity charge here is the biggest
swing right do you know off the top of
your head what the current capacity
would be or
am i putting you on the spot and you
so in that range of five to one point
nine cents if we were pricing this out
today do you know what our capacity
would be
it
for this delivery year uh capacity uh is
very expensive okay so it's you know
call it you know i'm not getting all the
technical jargon so it would be very it
would be on the higher end of the range
okay so it would be
uh
closer to the seven cents
as opposed to the lower yeah it would be
cl it wouldn't be on the lower end but
it changes in june it's going to flip to
the lowest
okay yeah so so literally in a span of
uh one year there's a perfect situation
what i mentioned earlier is you're going
to go from extremely high to extremely
low is that going to impact the price to
compare
oh it impacts everything okay so the
price to compare will also drop from
that
as would
so we would be at the low end of this at
550 or something correct so i just i
you
richard raised a great point where you
pointed out that generation was a
component of your oral bill and there's
transmission and all sorts of other
stuff that's baked into it so i just as
you were talking it's really helpful to
have these numbers i pulled up my
um and by the way i'm a kind of an air
conditioning junkie so i pulled up a uh
guilty pleasure pulled up my uh recent
bill so this is kind of you know like
the heat of high of summer
um
i found actually that i'm locked into a
plan right now that's above the price to
compare so that was good to actually
notice as we're looking at this so i'm
i'm currently paying 580 per kilowatt
hour and i'm probably not unusual there
are lots of households and backs that
have signed up to some sort of plan and
not even thought about it since then and
and their their pricing is upside down
so if in june we went to 59 of next year
in my particular situation i probably
end up saving money but let's pretend
that's not the case let's pretend i'm at
price to compare
um price to compare 529 right now
and in my current utilization i would
have i would have a premium of six
dollars for the month to go to 559 for
example
um so there would be an impact
um but that's at sort of the peak of use
and i think that
to me
and this is i'm getting editorial this
isn't a question for you anymore to me
uh to be able to purchase true additive
ohio
energy which you cannot just go out and
buy anywhere else you can go buy wrecks
but you don't do you don't have the
option to buy this privately
unless you put solar on your rooftop
which is awesome
um i would it would be worth it to me
and i think that's probably true of a
lot of our households and so i think
that this is going to be a difficult
decision for us to make as we move
forward and think about it
um but i'm greatly comforted by the fact
that there's opt-out provisions in this
we asked for opt-out at any time as
opposed to any given time
so i think that provides residents with
security if we really get upside down on
pricing and they feel that that's no
longer a priority that they can do that
but to me it's worth it and so um i
don't know if that's true of all of our
residents but they can opt out
and i'm not sure if that's sure if
that's true of all of council and it's
your decision to make but i do want to
encourage us to take this seriously
there are so many uncertainties in the
market you talked about supply chain
restrictions in china and
let's talk about land i mean richard
mentioned the amount of land that's
going into some of these
um
a quick little uh aside
to counter your point a little bit there
are 14.9 million acres of farmland in
ohio
in order to power all of ohio homes
and businesses it would take 231 000
acres
according to again this is maybe not
true but according to
yellow light which is a clean energy
company that calculated this so that's
1.5 of our tillable land
a lot of these installations are going
into areas that maybe aren't as tillable
and there are all sorts of other types
of categories of land that could be
taken up so for example the the growth
and development acreage in the past 20
years is way way way more of a of a take
on farmland than
what solar would be
and if he added rooftop solar to that
mix that would even lower that number so
while it's an impact i think let's not
overstate what that impact might be um
so i'd encourage council to take this
seriously and i think maybe hopefully
the next
meeting after absorbing some of this
information maybe take some action um
and but i know troy had some more
thoughts and and i agree that that
that's a good idea i would really like
the board of control to meet and have a
conversation about this again
um
before we
um really
and maybe bring that back to council
council did i send you my three and a
half page cheat sheet i did okay
all right
um i have one more point sorry madam
president if i can i'm sorry you all
just get really techy with your
cca der
all the different ires it goes on and on
and on so um i did send you guys that so
review that again before our next
meeting um border control will meet and
talk about it um mr kessler has one more
one more comment and then mr markham my
last comment and i think chris alluded
to this this this dollar figure this
cost that's higher still
is for rec for the next three years
that's an option that's something that
the border control talked about not
either changing or not even using
because it would be confusing and
potentially cause additional kind of
chaos around the program so that is
something i think we need to talk about
and delve into as well but with with
further information okay
mr markham yeah i have uh no real
thoughts i just have a quick question
uh except i do have one thought uh which
is uh by the way
uh thank you uh mayor kessler and
president firewall for bringing this out
of the board of control in front of city
council
and uh also thank you mr bailey for
coming to answer our questions for this
my question is just something you
probably have already said but i just
want for my own clarification how
frequently
is the ira calculated is it every year
is it annually
for the non-energy components it would
be um every year every year once a year
for a period of from june to may okay
thank you
and
um a follow-up to mayor's
comment you said you were
considering the one two to three year
period not being rex is that what you're
saying
so the wrecks that were specified in our
bid
were specified by our council that just
pulled sort of a national standard there
are local wrecks that can be purchased
at a better price than this so that's
one option the other option is simply
competitive conventional energy during
that bridge period prior to going into
local renewable
so that's something we've talked about
awesome um mr klinger
could you could you just touch upon how
senate bill 52 effects
would affect this long term
it would not affect this short term um
the s p 52 is meant to
impact uh new development coming into
the state
so this
uh
if if you look at uh projects
if you do the deal today it would be
projects that we have contracted for
that are being built that being
grandfathered
in terms of future development in ohio
uh yes it would impact it absolutely
without a doubt because
uh and that goes back to the question of
kind of where do you want your
renewables from
if it's really hard to develop
renewables in our own state then it has
to either you don't do it or it has to
go somewhere else
uh and and honestly i've heard not
really good stories uh from uh from
developers that this it's very expensive
to get these developments off the ground
and it takes a long time and there's a
lot of risk and and it's money that
these investors are putting up and
um
now you add this local control
um or
you know that's what puts another layer
of risk to development of renewables in
the state of ohio for sure
and i think people are getting
developers are figuring the stuff out
right now they're they're they're
learning what the new rules are
and so i don't think anybody knows how
it will actually impact renewables they
don't know for sure
because it's so new was signed in i
think june uh so
so i think uh the attorneys are busy
right now trying to understand this
and then then it will get rolled out
mr bailey you were really really
generous with your time council i am
going to encourage you if you have any
other questions if you could get me
those questions um by the uh 8th of
september
i will collect them and what questions
perhaps the mayor can't answer or we
could shoot to
you perhaps i would um suggest that any
citizens with us right now or any
citizens who are listening right now
you are welcome to come and ask those
questions at the end of our meeting
um during public comment and then um
we can
we can add those on
so
thank you thank you chris
nice to meet you thank you so much
um
richard do you have action on these two
tabled ordinances
um i would just double check if there
was any questions from remained or like
internal questions from counsel um about
this issue before i make a motion and if
not i'd make a motion
to table
24 21 and 12 21.
second
okay we have a first from mr um
sharp sorry then a second from mr
klingler all those in favor of voice
vote please notify by saying aye aye
that was the post same sign all right
all right so we are um
moving on to
uh
public comments there is anyone um
here that wants to give public comments
um
now would be the time to do it
not for public comment
there
all right so we will move on then to um
president's report um i just um
want to say a special thank you um to
the uh rec department for their fabulous
um
splash and dash
i will also
um give big cheers out to um
our uh council members who were there
helping along the way thank you so much
um for participating
in that jen even brought her birthday
boy
to help us out
with that so um all the council members
have helped out at some point with
splush splash and dash some of them took
a year off this year but i will be after
you next year
so but i am so grateful so thank you so
much to all of you um for helping me
help uh the rec department and our very
young athletes um i also want to um
tell everybody please come out um um
bexley celebration events has a fabulous
um free jazz concert um in havenwood
this weekend on sunday so please come to
that
so hard the the
bexley celebration events team
all of them work so hard at making these
events
really fun we do all the fundraising we
do all the planning and we have a hoot
doing it but the best way for the
community to pay us back is to show up
and it is it is such a great
congratulations we love what you're
doing when they show up so so come
and start i know that um mike price put
some information on his um
on his um report and i'm sure the mayor
has um some stuff too but
we have not closed main street down and
two well over 20 years and we're going
to for labor day and we're gonna have
so
much fun as a community so um be paying
attention everyone that's listening
please do please come in and join us and
and please
thank
uh the bexley celebrations and event
team by simply
showing up so
um that's all that i have um i'm i'm i'm
gonna wish
all of our students a very happy
school year um
this would have been my dad's 82nd
birthday and he was an elementary school
principal so i have to i would be remiss
and not giving a shout out to all our
kids who are starting school uh last
weekend this week ms robinson just a
quick question to follow up to your
splish splash dash announcement do we
have um any announcement of winners by
age category i think that it is posted
okay perhaps um mike price will share
because i don't have it memorized um but
he can share with us perhaps the um
website
where that is posted so you can't see
that thank you so well everyone was a
winner for showing up it is nice too
yeah
to see the kids who actually did play
well what i'm really excited to find out
is which elementary school won the most
participants so because
their new their new piece of technology
did not uh ask that question so
so anyway
all right moving along to um our um city
attorney's report do you have anything
for us mr fishel just letting everyone
know that this fall we will be
negotiating the afscme contract for
service employees and the fop contract
for dispatchers and animal control
officers so we'll be talking to you
about that at some point
all right that is all thank you for
always keeping us in the loop when it
comes to that we appreciate it
administrative reports mr bayshore is
taking a breath before the leaves start
to fall
yes i'm not looking forward to that
madam president um but it is coming um
but as far as as far as tonight i do not
have anything else to add to my written
report
anybody have any questions for mr big
sure assad does
all right mr b since led lights are at
the hit in the assad household i was
wondering if you could help me um
understand where we put the 25 and
central bexley so i can go take a look
at those
sure um
i know the cat i can i can email you a
list but i know most of central bexley
um
we started right around um
cassidy and worked
we've been east and those alleys right
right through
okay well that helps
mr klingler
behind my house
is it keeping you up at night
thank you andy
[Laughter]
all right thank you mr bakeshore
um
chief reinhardt
uh chief is out this week oh and so uh
his written report is presented
and provided to you so take a look at
that and uh if you have any questions i
could certainly pass them along and try
to get them answered but one thing i do
want to recognize is
our um
ever active
uh police citizen police academy alumni
uh did a school supply drive leading up
to school officer chappie delivered
several bags of various supplies despite
i think when they held out it was a
rainy day it was a really rainy day they
they they thank you
for continuing to be involved
um and and active um and then the chief
has some really good insights in general
about statistics and so worth checking
out and pete ricky yeah shared a lot of
great um info
as you said on statistics so that was
that was really great um michael price
i know he's there i saw him earlier
maybe
can you hear me okay
hi are you out there
i'm out of the fields i'm out of the
fields
um
the only thing the only thing i want to
just point out on the uh
on the report is again i want to echo
what you said and thank uh city council
council members that were there for the
swish flash and dash thank the many
volunteers the recreation and park staff
and thank you uh president fiable for
all your work with organizing the
volunteers it was a wonderful day it was
great to have everyone back together in
person for the split splash and we
appreciate all the help that we received
well we got a report
we had so many compliments from that
event so many compliments 300 kids and
during the covet season i think that was
pretty pretty impressive and his his uh
his committee is pretty amazing getting
that event
done so good job mike anybody have any
questions for mr price
no questions from mr price okay so thank
you michael
all right we'll move on to finance
department update and i know that our
dear auditor has a few things just to
highlight right sir i do um the july
report is attached the june report
obviously is out there someplace if you
want to look at it
they're basically the same thing
our our income tax is higher than
budgeted if you recall we budgeted a
decrease
this is higher obviously because of the
decreased budget but even it's higher
than than it was before the the revenue
keeps coming in our
revenue is significantly above
uh
budget were a couple hundred a couple
million dollars and our general fund
higher than budget
a big
some of that is because of
some of the coveted money that we have
that i think the mayor might want to
talk about um in addition
uh in
august we got another 700 and some
thousand dollars
of a million four that we're going to
get from coveted funds it's not called
covet anymore but it's generally the
same thing that is not reflected in this
so
uh we talked a couple meetings ago about
what do we do with some of that extra
money it's a good time to think about
you know putting some of that aside and
whether we put in a reserve fund or pool
fund or whatever but anyway
things are looking very good and i'll be
happy to take any questions that anybody
has
questions for utter hervey
mr klingler
thanks thanks bill uh just the one that
stands out to me grants year to date
we're down
194 000 is there a specific reason uh
actually the the revenue is down but so
are the expenses if you look at that and
i'm sure that's uh some of that's a
timing some of it might be we just
haven't budgeted that um the the
expenses are down 184 000
uh and where is the grant income okay
and the grant inc income's down 194
thousand dollars so but if you look down
at the next line
you see we're grant 194 000
less spent
we also i mean less income
the grant
uh expenditures are also down 184
thousand dollars okay right there we've
been yeah and
and uh as an added added data point for
that our grants income estimates this
year
tied to the jeffrey project they're a
little bit higher because of some
jeffrey project stuff so we're going to
see
that come in as a reimbursement
anybody else
all right mayor's update
sir
madam one second
uh yes so
um
i will try to be fast but there is a lot
of information to cover here real
quickly now you mentioned jazler
trick-or-treat keep on getting asked
it's thursday the 28th okay
end of
october
and if if anyone is like what
just google uh morpsy trick-or-treat and
they actually have a page
where and this is a legacy of john
brennan our former mayor he
he got more positive to
to basically suggest
a standard date for a trick-or-treat in
the region
so morpsy it's kind of a going joke with
the board where they're like and
randomly we decide trick-or-treat but
they do and so there's a page so you can
if someone doesn't like that you can
always say well it's not us it's morpsy
um
and then we have a community menorah
lighting date usually that
is like takes too long to get so i'm
excited about this this is the first
night of hanukkah which is just fun time
that's happened so i'm pretty excited
about that
um
early this year
drexel
avenue at i've been talking to you guys
about
this but we've we've continued to
progress on drexel avenue and um
concepts for calming that's going to be
part of an opwc street surface project
in the next two years
um so we'll be having another follow-up
public workshop with residents i'll keep
you apprised of that um there's been a
lot of studying going into
road diets for drexel avenue to just
naturally slow uh the speed on that
street which will then lead us to the
point where we can post a lower speed
limit
um really
good news on the dog park front
um i know that this is oft asked about
and oft punted
but there are two two things that really
have been holding up progress the one is
there's been a multi-year sanitary sewer
project along the creek many of you
probably seen some of the trucks kind of
in the area working they really chewed
up our trail in that area their job is
not to restore it i think they have at
least attempted to restore it we're
gonna be making sure they did that we
can now get back in there and do the
work that we need to get access to the
dog park you also know that there's been
easement
um on the kind of waiting for capital to
agree to they've agreed to it in spirit
attorneys have been kind of going back
and forth with some technical language
about indemnification and such things
but i believe that capital has now
agreed to our proposals for that
language and so we've got the green
light
on that um and that's of no fault to
capital it's just been frankly because
of the sanitary work it hasn't been the
biggest pressure point for us so we
i think we're good shape now and dave
kaufman now as permanent capital
university president
i think is in in good shape uh to keep
moving that forward
um i have a timeline here of just
generally where we stand with the
strategic plan update you guys can um
plan on getting a draft in late
september
ish
um
at which point time we'll start
workshopping it i'd like to work with
monique to come up with a date for us to
i don't know if we call it a retreat but
to talk through it kind of in a lower
pressure situation and just brainstorm
we've got a brainstorm session
so we'll talk through that but uh i'm
hoping to to get this in time for
current council
to
have input and for future council to
approve is it was my great idea
um
so i will i will stick to that
uh principle
um the livingston avenue plan is proceed
progressing we had a great little
steering committee meeting last night
which was a follow-up to one that we'd
had a couple weeks ago
um
and in october we'll be having a public
workshop we're finalizing that date
uh where we will have some concrete
ideas
no plan intended for uh how to improve
livingston avenue
um as i talked to you guys before we've
continued to keep an eye on delta and
what it means for our community the
delta variant of covet 19. um
our our numbers have softened in the
past couple weeks which is good
uh
so we're kind of we saw we were headed
towards like our has some pretty high
numbers compared to the past
um but we're we're sloughing back down a
little bit which is good uh we've been
asking people to wear masks at community
events um we haven't seen pretty we have
not seen generally very good adherence
to that
our communication efforts around that
have been
we've asked them to do it it's not like
we're asked we're enforcing it
but we'll be talking next week with our
covet 19 task force about what september
looks like
and
community events labor day block party
coming up we do want to be sensitive to
the fact that we know that there was at
least one instance of spread at our july
4th event so
um presumably the delta variant based
upon
the characteristics of that spread um
and so we want to be cognizant of that
as we're coming up with that but also
understanding that you know
this is ever evolving what the numbers
are doing are changing and we want to be
realistic as well so
any council member that wants to attend
a task force meeting is welcome to do so
um and that will be next thursday two
o'clock i can send you information on
that and they really are interesting
so i will i will say that especially the
very first part of it
sorry bill they really are
i mean
epidemiologists are really amazing
no they all say we've got the fun task
force abigail norris turner is really
she's really fabulous and
um jen can speak to that as well and um
i will also just in addition to what um
the mayor said that we do
like for example at splush flash and
dash at ever at the registration as well
as when the kids were checking in we had
extra um masks for people you know to
encourage them so there's always masks
there are masks at the main event there
will be you know we will have tables of
masks at the labor day and at that jazz
so
yep sorry to interrupt no it's good uh
liberty block party you've heard about
it but there's some more information
about it um
along with a map of the closure so i
think the thing that i want to make sure
you guys know is we have mailed
to the streets that surround this area
the residences and including those on
pleasant ridge and college that are
impacted by this
to make sure that people are aware of um
the closures
and
businesses all along main street and so
we started to receive some you know just
questions about it um
and
also we know that there is a wedding
happening at christ lutheran and we've
we have tailored our event to
accommodate the wedding
i talked to the very nervous uh mother
of the bride and we
we've made everything okay for them or
at least we hope we have
and there's some good fun photos just
over the past couple weeks and a couple
aerial shots as we were preparing
preparing schneider park and then
finally cares act update um
i
thanks to beecher um providing me with
some good detailed analysis
i was able or i guess a spreadsheet i
was able to
i tried to parse everything into
different categories for you guys so you
got a clearer picture
of the cares act fund expenditures
because before we kind of broke it into
three categories basically
so this is more detailed it's not 100
perfect because some of these were like
little bitsy things and i wasn't
positive exactly what category fell into
but this is a a pretty decent
representation of where charizard
expenditure has occurred to date
you can see that there's for closing in
on full usage
we are required to use it up by the end
of december
um of this year
and then
that will of course
roll us into the american rescue plan
funding we did receive as bill mentioned
721 000
that's half of our distribution so we'll
have another half distribution coming in
the coming months
do you know exactly when i don't know
we have an ordinance tonight so we'll
get more into that about how to make
sure that the fund is set up for it and
everything but there are points here as
well just to remind us as to what that
funding can be spent on and if you
really want to delve into that you can
look to the treasury department who has
detailed information for local
governments it's another exciting read
it's a good one and
to to which point actually i also
attached some arp info from the state of
ohio uh
auditor's office i think um
which gives you some more info so that's
my update thank you
questions for premiere
ms lamke and then mr um sharp
mayor can you update us on um
the status of use of city hall uh
regarding cove but obviously we're all
you know we're wearing masks here are
our employees who usually work here are
they
in person are they still remote um what
is what what can the public expect in
terms of coming into city hall
thank you for that question our
employees are in person um
i don't
we have generally are not having any
remote work right now unless there's
some underlying reason for it
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employees are asked to wear masks when
they are co-mingling within their same
work areas but if they're in their
independent work areas they're not
needing to wear masks
they're wearing masks when interacting
with the public and we're asking the
public to wear masks in our lobby as
well
did that answer your question yeah so
basically city hall is back open you
don't have to make an appointment you
can come in and just with those
precautions correct yeah we did not we
did not shut it back down with delta
we've kept it open
uh richard has a question that mr
mr markham uh mr uh sharp suggested that
you may go ahead oh i was just gonna say
uh on behalf of the cares that committee
too i just want to say we have talked
about this amongst ourselves but we
definitely should mention to all of you
sometimes you see those large numbers
and you see those graphs and everything
like that and you say great great great
great whatever
i i think we do want to uh talk about a
little bit about the organization darn
and
really just the the the back-breaking
work that they did
in identifying needs for those funds
distributing those funds and just
working in the community with all the
families and all the people who have had
specific needs
and so i do think that they deserve a
special mention here because not only
was the money spent to help people but
organizations like them and the work
that they did i think really uh it's
very admirable i mean i know i was
really when we talked to them they they
really are out there working very hard
to make sure that this money has a real
impact and it really helps people and
and saves lives and saves families so
that's i just want to mention that i'm
so glad you said
troy is so right in that regard i mean
these individuals are not only working
hard but they also have
i mean this is this is very emotional
for them it's very emotional work um so
it takes a toll on them i know it does
and we are very grateful that we have
people like that who are willing to
you know serve others like that so and
frank excuse me and frankly i think it
kept us out of it
they can do it on a more personal basis
and we don't have to get involved with
community members and what
might be a
not fun conversation
they can do it and right and it's great
for us i think oh i i i you know but you
saw it on their faces they got you know
they
it was it it was
you know one of those emotional
stressful things that
we just are grateful we have people like
that in the world so and
along those lines before you to the next
question the the
the committee that's working on this
external appropriations has made sure
that darn is funded through the end of
the year
so i think we're in good shape with that
there there are less you know thankfully
less families that are in need of the
assistance uh than before but they're
continuing to work they've been doing a
great job
and they continue to tell us the
successes of you know the some of the
people that they have helped you know
and and it's clear that these families
are are not taking advantage of this and
the ones that really do need us are
getting it troy i'm so glad that you
mentioned that thank you richard
is is there
thanks um or how how did the um our
partnership with the um
jewish
our senior
coordinator um
services
function that we put in our budget last
year were they involved with similar
type things as darn was with
seniors and so we did outreach to them
and made sure that they knew that we had
assistance available they were also
getting assistance through the city of
columbus in the state of ohio and
franklin county so i think they've been
provide continuing to provide service
through different routes they've never
used any of our cares act money but they
had
we made sure they knew that they had
access to it okay
and elizabeth has taken really good care
of any needs um
with that regard to she's reached out
yeah i know the volunteer network was
was really good the emails that we
received for
sign up
right i'm sorry i met elizabeth ellman
our volunteer coordinator just so you
know who i was speaking about so yes
thank you richard
anybody else have anything more
um this is doesn't relate to this but
since the mayor's the last
administrative person
um i have been thinking recently and i'm
not asking for any change right now
might be consideration for the next
council
but
while
while i understand not necessarily
allowing public discussion after each of
the individual administrators i have um
you know thought a little bit about that
it might be
something that we um that is considered
at the end of all the reports if there
are residents who have um comments
because
as count as council we we do
have um
oversight over the mayor and the city
administration and so
there may be situations where there is
something that a resident has that maybe
is pertinent for us to be aware of
rather than
several months down the line
hearing about it through the buzz or
some other
forum so it's just a thought that
maybe one time that that residents can
come up and ask while the um department
of heads are still online or in person
so anyways council you can take that
under advisement and
and when you um decide your you know
next set of rules with the next
president you can you can um
you can do that i mean i you all
i did not make the rules
uh there was an
independent group i specifically stayed
out of that group
that group made the rules and then we
voted on them so and madame president
i'm just
having i agree a period of time that
we've worked under those rules which i
did support because i think it's good to
try
new things
i just thought it was uh i appreciate to
um
to plant just for future considerations
since i won't be here that much longer
perfect i am just going to follow my
counsel the council rules that the
council
um made up for me to try to follow and
i'm doing my best to do that so thank
you though richard
um if we can move on to
the please
mr
city attorney all right consent agenda
ordinance 29-21 to amend 618.15 jobs on
city park and recreational property
regulations
of service animals and city parks
increased america ordinance 30-21 to
create the position of chief executive
assistance an assistant introduced by mr
markham orton is 31-21 to create section
26 102 c 14 84 vacation growth for new
employees and to amend section 262.00
uh credit required services r for credit
for prior service to employees
introduced by mr mark in the minutes of
the 8-10-21
city council meeting you're welcome wow
yes thank you
since it's so so heavy on that troy
marcum troy do you have a motion on the
consent agenda ocean to pass the consent
agenda thank you is there a second
second thank you mr klingler any
discussion from council on the consent
agenda
any discussion from the uh from those
attending on the consent agenda
mr auditor mrs robinson
yes ms lamke yes mr sharp
yes mr markham yes ms fiable yes mr
klingler yes
yes all right motion passed third
readings please all right third reading
of ordinance 28-21 to amend section
262.02 c3 to provide for juneteenth as a
holiday for employees introduced by ms
robinson
hello wall
[Laughter]
you know it's funny i was looking back
at my notes from last year and it was
almost exactly a year ago that we
started talking about juneteenth so it
seems fitting that we are having our
third reading today um and while um i
hope it's something that we uh pass
without a whole lot of discussion it um
certainly doesn't
um
uh
by
it is a very important um thing that
we're doing here and um in keeping
in line with what's happening federally
um in our in our country we are um
going to be voting today on whether to
make juneteenth a paid holiday in the
city of bexley a lot has happened in
this past year and it doesn't
does not go without notice that we are
here a year later actually doing what we
thought not even the state of ohio would
do so
yay usa
so um yeah any conversation any
questions
that was well said
so robinson do you have action on this i
do i i motion that we
pass ordinance 28 21
is there a second second
thank you miss lamke is there any
conversation further from council
any from the
those in attendance
mr hyde
yes mrs fiable
uh yes ms robinson yes ms zlamke yes mr
sharp
yes mr klingler yes mr markham yes
all right second readings please all
right second reading of resolution 09-21
to authorize the mayor to seek financial
assistance from the ohio public works
commission for funding of various
capital infrastructure improvement
projects associated with the proposed
north columbia avenue and south
remington road comprehensive
improvements project mr markham again
this is a resolution where we are giving
our blessing to the mayor to ask for any
financial assistance
uh from the pwc
to help fund these projects
um
discussion question and then i believe
uh
i believe we need to try and suspend and
adopt this oh do we yeah oh i don't know
that i maybe i will be asking for a
suspend and adopt yeah actually i forgot
what we did that's right yeah we did i
forgot about that the
application for this
unless you guys want to come back for a
special meeting that's right we did say
that thank you so much
he's on the ball tonight thank you
all right is there uh do you wanna make
a motion on the suspension
uh i moved to suspend the three reading
rule at this time for resolution of 9-21
is there a second on the suspension okay
there's a section second from mr
klingler any conversation from council
from those in attendance since we're
spent suspending adopting uh on the
suspension please mr klingler
yes ms lamke yes ms robinson yes mrs yes
mr markham yes mr sharp yes assad yes
passed mr markham i move that we adopt
resolution 0 9-21
second thank you mr klingler
conversation questions from council
from those in attendance
mossad
yes ms robinson yes mr klingler yes mr
sharp
yes islamky yes mr markham yes pass
all right second reading of resolution
10-21 granting area variances with
conditions from the minimum lot
requirements for prop the property
located at 407 north field drive zoned
r3 residential to allow two
non-conforming contiguous lots and
single ownership being used in
combination and considered an undivided
parcel under the bexley city code to be
split to permit the independent lots and
parcels that would not meet
existing r3 minimum lot requirements
sorry i had to pull my mask down because
it's all good it's all good enough
so mr official said it best by that
description um basically
that lot um they're looking at splitting
that into two partials so i'm hoping
that everybody on council had an
opportunity between
the last meeting to today to possibly
drive by and take a look at that north
view is like
pleasant ridge and
as far as those streets go they are gyms
and they are nice sized hidden gems and
bexley nice-sized slots so
um
that kind of describes what this
ordinance is looking to do
and we are having a public um hearing on
that on the uh i have it done on the
21st at six o'clock am i correct on that
yes okay does everybody have that
okay we have a question from ms robinson
um just do we know or or i should say
anybody do we know what's going to be
was potentially going to be put on these
lots um do we is that part of this
process are we just deciding what is
going to the lot being split i i'm going
to let the mayor speak to that so
there's yeah there's a
a proposal for one of the two
that for for the property of the south
replacing kind of where the current home
is
and if this were not granted
they would be able to go ahead and move
forward with that
because
you know i assume they would have the
rest of the lot to use for second one
so if this were granted i think then
they would go forward with a proposal on
the north lot there's not currently to
my understanding
a proposal for the north lot okay that
would just be an individual lot sold
correct or that's my understanding
that's my understanding okay thank you
mm-hmm any other questions about this
one before we move on
is it okay if we move on all right thank
you next one please all right second
reading of ordinance 34-21 to
appropriate twenty seven hundred dollars
from the friends of jeffrey preschool
fund to pay preschool related expenses
in 2021.
this uh yeah this is money this is sorry
that's in the fund now being used to uh
pay uh these expenses
price is asking for this
unless uh
mr klingler or mr kessler has heard
otherwise
i do not believe we need to suspend and
adopt this right
mr sharp has a question richard yeah and
at the last meeting i asked um
that's good whether there were any i
think i asked whether there mike would
look into whether there were plans for
spending the additional amount of the
grant in this year as to whether we
should amend it just to
allow them to do that but i can't
remember um
that is so creepy he's still in the
field
yes
no um it's a good question
they they potentially would in the
following
calendar year which would still be the
same school year
uh so we would look at appropriating it
as part of the 2022
budgeting process
okay thank you
where
friedman
thank you michael for just popping in
there to answer that question we really
appreciate it um uh
troy marcum do you
i do
want to put this on the concentration
you read my mind i don't know well good
we love that we just finished each other
everybody opposed that
that's so great thank you all right we
can move on to first readings if it's
okay all right we have first reading of
ordinance 35-21 to enter
agreement with odaf for urban paving
projects an urban urban urban paving
project
along us-40 including resurfacing and
partial pavement repair along with other
associated work in accordance with
preliminary participatory legislation rc
5521.01
mr markham thank you and i learned a few
things because i learned that us-40 here
refers to draxel right am i wrong
drugs away and broad but i didn't
realize that us40 uh snake down there
along drexel um this is the five million
dollar project
uh
20 of that cost would be to us uh this
is our
this is this the sort of the standard
agreement that we do with them right
is that right mister
25.
i have 20 but
40 is also on main street that's right
broad drexel in maine
but i believe that the portion in
question here is the broad street
portion okay and andy is i think still
on here if andy has any clarification on
that um one of the things we were going
to do is get you guys
cost for that okay we do not i do not
have that tonight but we will have it at
a future meeting so first reading so we
can get that so if you remember when we
did the broad street project we talked
about how we were paving up until
a certain point maybe it was westland i
can't remember exactly
and the rest was going to be through
odot
and it was supposed to have been like
almost concurrently but it
it's been years now several years two or
three years and it hasn't happened yet
so this is the that section
great and i think mr sharp had a
question
so
this is different than the traditional
paving that the city of bexley has done
on drexel and broad and state
state routes right
um no so when we
when we do
we oft we have used odot before
when they've they've paved the state
routes there have been some situations
where
our
program
has been ahead of odots and we have paid
for that cost because
for whatever reason we needed to do that
project for example broad had a really
high grant amount from the state opwc it
was a 75 grand project that was
repaving andu in a water line and that
did not use out funds for that section
but it uses state of ohio funds it was
really basically the same amount of
funding
um
i can't remember if main street we used
odot for paving
i think we did waterline work on that
too
i know i know there was opwc funding for
it as well so
this is an instance where
uh this is more this is the pure odot
funding
and i think it's it's so it's not going
to be redoing what we've already
recently redone my understanding is not
my understanding is up to what we've
recently redone
but we will make sure that that's can we
get credit for that
for future use yeah we i mean we did
right it was state of ohio funding
either way oh that yeah but that was you
want to double dip i got you
the state of ohio funding wasn't the
state of ohio funding wasn't for the
paving part
uh is the water line part for the grant
no opw that was a 75 percent grant
for broadcasting
it was a it was a 75 loan because of the
volume of the traffic stuff it's a
higher higher award
let the record reflect that that was mr
sharp with all the shaky stuff that was
not me
anybody else have any comments or
questions about the irwin paving project
if not um mr markham can we move on
let's move on all right we'll look for
more info on that next time
we have a first reading of ordinance
36-21 to establish the american rescue
plan act fund and to appropriate 1
million four hundred forty two thousand
four hundred
forty twenty two dollars and ten cents
from uh the arpa fund all right one of
the
more of the fun stuff of being finance
chairs when we receive 1.4 million
dollars
and uh that's what this is so we will
look forward to uh
creating the fund for that to uh receive
and deposit that money as we receive it
and i believe you said we have received
half of this at this point
uh and then in the coming months we will
put together a
process to decide how to uh spend that
anybody have any questions on this
your permission mr markham we'll move on
let's move on all right first reading of
resolution 11-21 confirming the mayor's
appointment of rachel lang to the civil
service commission ms lamke
yep we have a very smart resident who is
interested in being on our civil service
commission mayor do you want to bring us
up to date
yeah rachel um has most recently served
on the charter review committee and has
expressed interest in
continuing service
i mentioned this to her we had posted
the civil service
uh
very recently so we of course we're
within that kind of window of having
posted
um and she would like to be involved and
she will be coming to our next council
meeting
uh which is september 14th twitter
she'll be at our next councilman
should be under oath for question yes
yeah griller all right
so some people out there some people out
there may forget what the civil service
commission does and would you remind
those people i forgot no just kidding
that's not that's not true they serve a
valuable purpose so the civil service
commission meets quarterly
um and they uh are
charged with
what they do
i don't know quite how to say this they
review uh different um
employee changes with the city of bexley
um but they also would be a border
review if for example an employee has a
complaint and they say that they have
not been treated
fairly uh relative to
our you know personnel policy that sort
of thing uh mark could probably provide
a better explanation than i just
provided that's close enough yeah the
two main things they do is they help
oversee the uh police prelease exams and
then they also would hear appeals from
employees if there's ever suspensions or
determinations or demotions
from non-bargaining unit employees which
i don't i can't even think of an example
of that happening oh there it could i
don't care
oh yeah i don't know if it's ever
happened i don't recall it since i've
been i don't think i've done that but
it's a commission that's uh provided for
by statute uh with the hypervised code
so if you want to read more about it
it's actually contained that sort of
language is contained in the orc
and if you really want to be bored they
are currently going through a process of
reviewing all their rules wait did we
fall off the
track on that one
moving on
are there any further questions about um
misling on the civil service commission
this evening
monique with your permission we'll move
on
we have a tabled ordinance um that i am
going to ask mr markum if he has action
on
yeah at this time i would like to uh
motion to remove ordinance 27-21 from
the table for the discussion
uh there's a first is there a second so
okay i think mrs lamke may have beat you
to that mr klingler um my voice vote all
those in favor please stick the fight by
saying aye
thank you turn it on over to you mr
markham i think uh we have some
attachments and maybe some uh
a small presentation do you have a
presentation or are you going to click
on some things for us
so um
so the attachments
have not changed since the last meeting
but i will tell you that
the uh mr klingler raised an excellent
question regarding
the electrical street sweeper potential
we learned that new york city is a
admiral
admirable city
for uh purchasing the first ever
electric street street sweeper in
america at a
cost
that was probably in the range of six to
seven hundred thousand dollars so
that exceeds our budget
by
quite a bit
not only first but the first only
so far so far but you know we're going
to all learn from them so by the time
the time we learn from them uh you know
it'll maybe be down to competitiveness i
mean it'll be the last one in america
but i appreciate that and
i i had been
actually on the car i think i sent this
to you on the cover of like there's some
municipal something magazine
was that exact street sweeper and i'd
seen it earlier that day
and i tried to find information on it
and and then when you brought that up i
i found that there so that's like it's a
thing people are excited about it so was
it susan it's gonna happen
it's less susan than our current
we are currently
renting a street sweeper so uh we would
really love to get this thing passed i
thought i heard sweeping the streets
yeah it's not it's not ideal so um
and then on the other a lot of rooms on
the other topic i asked mike price to go
to a soccer field somewhere in central
ohio
um so that he could talk to us about
commonwealth oh that's so exciting so
that's why he's on scene right now live
boots on the ground
well yeah he's in a soccer field yeah
i'm now in a car i'm now in a car so uh
it was getting hot out on that field it
was starting to get a little hot
uh the good news is the street sweeper
is air-conditioned on the inside so
mike um at council meeting as we
discussed the commonwealth west versus
east field question she came up
are you uh in a position now to kind of
talk about the logic behind that on your
thoughts
yeah as i understand that the some of
the questions that came up was you know
doing uh commonwealth west first during
commonwealth east
uh and the impact in terms of how many
you know how many people it serves east
generally has more
um it's a larger field it generally
serves more population a large number of
population programming
middle school activities as well
um
from my perspective
you know that's a logical discussion to
have as to whether or not we want to do
one versus the other
um but in terms of which field is in
worse condition west is definitely in
worse condition and needs more immediate
attention than east i think we have a
better chance of
buying another year or so with east than
we do with west so if we're going to
look at doing one versus the other at
this point in time i think it makes
sense to focus on west based on the
uh the quality of this the space at this
point
and mike you you shared with me today
that just just what council
talked about
last meeting
is the fact that
you need the space for programming so
it does not make sense to do them both
at the same time
yeah it would be difficult it would be
difficult on our programming uh to have
them both shut down at the same period
of time um
whether it's possible to do one in the
spring and one in the fall you know
that's that's a possibility i again i do
think
uh we can get away with another year on
east without having done it
um and and because of that and due to
the fact that i i really don't want to
be both fields down
uh and understanding how construction
sometimes takes a little longer than
you expect um
you know i would be hesitant to try to
fit them both in the same calendar
okay
i think that probably answered a lot of
our questions although i think mr sharp
might have one
yeah i just uh concur because we never
know how the weather is going to be and
you we could start out
tearing both of them up right and not
get done with either of them
you're so right you're so right mr sharp
mike are you still there
yes this is troy i'm not going to make
any promises but uh you're out there and
if we vote yes on this will you
immediately be digging and starting that
project
that's that young shovel ready i'm
sitting here with a few shovels and a
few backhoes so i'm ready to go you just
tell me when
again it's the buck reinhardt does this
take immediate or do we have to wait 30
days i don't know if he wants to put a
shovel to the
all ground
thank you michael we appreciate you
sticking around and being with us
tonight to answer those questions
um
you all appreciate it
thanks mike
um miss mr markham i don't know what
kind of action you're ready to take or
if council is ready for that any any
further questions or comments at this
time
we didn't get
the uh retention plan was that sent out
right
andy are you still on
i
am and i'm trying to dog my memory here
the last council meeting council member
sharp asked about the retention pond
and at the police station and the
retention plan and what was you were
wanting a copy of the plan
yeah i just wanted to see what
what it entailed and um
and i apologize i think the the person
who had that was out when you asked for
that and then i
so
so is this going to be contracted right
away for the retention plan
no okay
so
i'm i'm willing to
vote for
um the
the whole capital project without
delaying anything
for that as long as i can have a
document and if there's questions that
need to be administratively raised prior
to
the work being done then i
be more than willing to meet with the
mayor and discuss those i am taking note
of that mr bayshore will you please help
take note of that and mr and natalie
and and mr kessler uh mayor sir um yeah
we'll take note of that i do have the
plan uh which i will forward to you uh
richard
other questions on the
on this piece of legislation prior to
mr klingler i'm just curious about the
um portables the portable speed vehicle
it's already been amended portable speed
vehicle what what's your question on the
portal i'm sorry i didn't you haven't
i think it wasn't gentlemen he's talking
sorry yep the portable speed vehicle or
do you have example location i think you
said secondary streets
would it be parked in front of people's
homes or yeah so example i um
i received a
i frequently receive communications from
residents who are concerned about
speeding on their street
we'll run a speed survey
we will determine to what extent their
street is unusual in terms of is the
speeding excessive compared to other
streets what other underlying conditions
there are
jen uh met with some residents of myself
on cassingham north of the school that
had some concerns about speeding
um you know i can keep on naming streets
but like in that example i said to them
we're looking at this technology
as a solution to help
um lower speed on your street
the visibility of that car the signage
that would accompany it would make
drivers aware of the fact that there was
enforcement happening i think in general
would kind of change the driving culture
a little bit more so the people just
expect that there might be enforcement
going on in the street that they're
they're traveling on
that they just weren't aware of so in
those instances the car would probably
be parked on the street as if it were
any other vehicle
but it would be
the reason it's marked the reason it
looks like it does is because we're
trying to avoid any sort of like a
gotcha interface you know it would have
it would have the look of an enforcement
vehicle there would be signage leading
up to that vehicle on both sides
alerting drivers that there was
enforcement in action
um and so it's it's really more of a
driver awareness and speed change tool
than an enforcement tool if that makes
sense
i think that it would because of the the
way that the law is is created the city
we have to adopt specific language to
enable us to write those tickets within
our jurisdiction so i think we would
have to specifically target southbound
vehicles on gould road
in bexley only
um
and you can do that i just i don't think
we could write the northbound tickets
unless columbus somehow enabled that
which
i don't think that's gonna happen but
but nonetheless you have signage the
drivers who were driving in columbus
would also potentially see because it's
alerting them and they'd see the vehicle
and
it would probably have very similar
effects even though we can't write that
northbound site
would that help on liverpool fee i guess
not a site fee
that's all right uh just you go ahead
and then and then mr
yes
absolutely distinguishes yeah so
it's you know pretty
it's not supe it's a very common now i
ai but it's reading where the vehicle is
going how fast it's going figuring out
the driver's license or the license
plate number and
even even has some technology that has
to do with it'll let you know like
how many types of different types of
vehicles that you have coming and going
sizes and that sort of thing so
that's right
in addition to that i suppose we could
send somebody that send a letter for
example to somebody on the other side
who's going on the columbus side
and just say hey you were noted speeding
and let them ignore it or not ignore it
i would guess but that's just a comment
could you use that on livingston
i mean
not today we would have to in fact not
not without a boundary line adjustment
we couldn't use it on livingston
could you use it on livingston just to
park it there i mean i know you don't
have any authority to do anything but
it's just something to think about i
mean whatever
yeah that that's a question i think the
chief should try to answer all right
yeah all right
there was something you said that i want
to comment on oh yeah so we did actually
ask about warning periods
um and they do it typically do have a
warning period especially because a lot
of their cameras are stationary
but we talked there are
options in terms of warning maybe the
first time violator that sort of thing
and because i think the letter would be
uh also very meaningful
i didn't mean
i know what you're saying i was adding
to that okay okay okay
in addition to that we could also
provide warnings to first time violators
in general
all right any any other questions
on
uh this piece of legislation we just
lost a council member
not not really i mean he left he'll be
back but i was about ready to ask um mr
markham if he has um any um
action on this piece of legislation yeah
do you want me to sort of speak slowly i
do
i really want you to speak slowly ladies
and gentlemen
uh
we're gonna
uh propose that we
gonna make a motion that we adopt
ordinance
um amended ordinance right amended
ordinance 27-21
to be clear the one i think the
attachment to our agenda is not the
amended version that was an overview
well the proposed amended got a little
bit more fixed at the last meeting yes
essentially yeah i proposed a minute it
was a minute
okay so we're all right in or do we okay
so you read the ring so we have a first
do we have a second
okay
that was ms robinson second thank you
um any further conversation from council
on this piece of legislation
any
uh comments from those in attendance
ms robinson yes mr markham yes mr
klingler yes miss fibal assad yes ms
lamke yes mr sharp yes
thank you council for your patience and
your diligence and going through this um
we are blessed with um a capital fund to
do some of these amazing projects um to
make our progressive city continue to
thrive so thank you so much for looking
through it carefully
and um
taking your commitment to our finances
so so um
so strongly um we will move on to um
our committee reports um mr sharp
service environmental committee sir
i don't think i have anything to report
at this time but um i would like um
to reflect
um on the um
increased
number of homicides in the in the region
um
i don't know whether
any if you um
have been personally affected
i've been indirectly affected by a
relative of one of my employees who was
unfortunately killed uh early this
morning
and so um i'd like to
recognize mr william harris um
for his his um life here and um
to extend consult condolences to the
there's family
it's it's it's always
you know hard when you personally know
someone and and to have things um
affect you and um this brings back
memories of
a very dear um
woman who was a speedway worker a few
years ago right down here just outside
of bexley that lost her life
you know stabbing and so um
disproportionately is affecting a lot of
people who
are not residents of bexley but
it impacts the whole whole community and
affects the quality of life and
i
hope that
the
as leaders in the community we work with
national
um
leadership
of both parties to
look at the root causes of of crime not
just try to handle
um
to make political points and not just
try to
take care of things after the fact
there's a lot of things that
have changed this year that have in the
past year that have contributed to the
loss of life um
with national policy so i just hope that
we all um
do what we can
to rationally calmly discuss
solutions that prevent issues rather
than trying to
deal with them after the fact
and some some of the prevention scene
does not seem to be caring
but
sometimes
hard actions require
tough love so thank you
thank you mr sharp
finance committee mr markham
uh yeah we have something here on the
agenda i am going to ask either uh
mr kessler or mr harvey to explain
what we have okay so i don't know that
you guys have seen this much um recently
but richard and lauren maybe remember
this happening more often in the past um
when in november of last year you guys
approved an ordinance that allowed for
us to spend money from a grant that we
received for the meeting on broad median
on broad street if you'll recall that so
we received money from the grant or
received a grant
uh you appropriated that in an ordinance
what did not happen next is that a
purchase order wasn't opened internally
so we had the money to spend but we
didn't open a purchase order
then we got invoices and realized
that we didn't have a purchase order to
pay those invoices from
which is not
which is a a problem when it gets above
a certain dollar amount and something we
really try to avoid because of what we
have to do now which is council needs to
approve
the payment of those invoices
even though you have approved the
payment you've approved the expenditure
through the appropriation
it's an additional kind of check i
suppose that the state auditor asked us
to do
um again used to be really common
we we avoid it like the plague so that
when it happens we're like
um and and i i don't want to make
excuses but there was a previous
purchase order for the design of this of
this meeting and i think that caused
some confusion internally and the belief
that we already had a purchase order
opened so that was uh that was on us
though
the invoices are to midwest landscape
and they provided for
landscape and hardscape that included
some granite
blocking uh
sorry cobblestone blocking it's you know
kind of almost like a rumble strip
around the median
as well as limestone curbing and the
new plantings in there
and
acorn farms which provided additional
some that's smaller piece but additional
um
plantings and then danvert electrical
that installed the
traffic light sorry the street lights
uh and the meeting
itself so
those are the invoices um what happens
now is we ask counsel
to buy a voice vote
simply approved for the payment of the
invoices it's not in a resolution design
ordinance
do you get that right that's correct
okay
all right so this is just a way of
the city being incredibly transparent
with us
and um i appreciate that
and technically if we paid this the
auditors would i assume catch it and
write us up for
paying an invoice if we didn't have
council approval for and that's really
all we're asking for is that you yeah
the purchase order is now open so any i
don't i don't think we have future
invoices but if there were future
invoices
then we would have a purchase order
thank you natalie
does anybody have any further questions
for um the mayor for the auditor on this
um
mr markham would you like to ask for a
voice vote on this
um yeah i'll do i do a
roll call
oh i see
i'll make a motion to approve the
payment of the invoices payable
associated with broad street media
second by mr sure thank you mr sharp um
all those in favor signify by saying aye
aye all right all those opposed single
sign
thank you so much thank you thank you
and madam president if i may i i want to
thank natalie i mentioned you just
briefly there natalie's been doing a
fantastic job of like
catching some things and helping bring
us up to speed and lots of many other
ways and just thank you for that work
you've been doing a great job
she's catching up to speed perfectly and
um we are grateful for you feel free
please feel appreciated
mr markup do you have any further
reports sir uh just a quick report on
the cic meeting this last week uh cic
met
uh just did our basic uh
maintenance reports on finances and the
properties uh we did talk about the
mural project that even though that is
approved we'll see that's not started
yet hopefully
maybe we will get some work done on that
uh maybe during school break we're
hoping our artist i think has
reported to campus or whatever at this
point
uh the pilates studio has opened
a lot of pilates is going on out there
people are really liking it
cic took a very rare field trip to look
at a trash enclosure
um yeah
you wanted to see for yourself there's a
trash enclosure over the side of the
other side of the wall and
the concrete and the blacktop is now
done our guys went over and did it
i saw
whatever they have that's here wednesday
or something look at that there's a big
update all right looking fresh
have a follow-up field trip maybe then i
guess is coming up for sure warn people
against public dumping on those
dumpsters because there are some cameras
that are there
prominent cameras very very realistic
looking cameras
that's all i have to say thank you so
much mr marcum we'll move on to safety
don't do anything
just just just don't do it
so we'll move on to safety and health
committee um miss robinson please i have
nothing to report just please stay safe
wear your masks inside and uh let's get
through this covet craziness
good job miss robinson
zoning and development committee jessica
sod yes just some reminders of some
upcoming meetings um this thursday bees
up will meet at 6 00 pm
um
september 7th is the next cic meeting at
6 p.m
ar
oh
22nd september 22nd yeah okay
thank you thank you this is why it's a
good group here okay so september 22nd
that's a busy week it's a very busy week
okay
um at 6 00 pm is the next cic meeting
arb is uh september 9th at 6 00 pm
had the pleasure this past monday of uh
working with the bexley education
foundation and serving coffee
at the katsingham complex and it was
so wonderful to just see the community
back out and kids walking into school
and meeting a lot of new families not
just kindergarten families but families
across all age groups that have made the
decision to move to our wonderful
community for our schools
covid uh you know is a unique year for a
lot of people so
families have made different decisions
that have lived in other states and
other places other countries i got the
chance to meet
so we are um
you know we're a great community and it
was really wonderful to hand coffee off
and talk to these families and
and help them
understand which door of the complex to
walk into it's something i've missed and
it was really awesome to see so i wanted
to share that and thank you to the
education foundation
for doing that it's the little things
like that that matter
and
make us very unique in our community
that we're able to do that
it was funny though some people asked if
the sods were providing starbucks and i
said no no no this is the education
foundation
family
we love you all
don't have that kind of budget okay so
bexley um chamber of commerce wanted to
put out there i know it's on our city
calendar but just to remind the
community
that the taste of bexley which is such
an awesome event will be coming up in
september on thursday night from five to
eight and this year it'll be outdoors
right mayor kessler sounds like a
clifton meadow so
um mark your calendars it's a great
event and a wonderful way to not make
dinner that night so
i think they're also looking for
volunteers so i know i'm volunteering so
if you need something get a hold of a
link else she would really appreciate it
i'm sure and
mike price and i i think that's right
yeah are going to be an entrant
to the taste of bexley we will oh anyone
from the bexley cookout crew who would
like to join
the bexley cookout crew will be a uh
participating restaurant uh
that's right well
also labor day block party sorry plug if
anyone wants to help out of the cookout
trailer
all right thanks jessica and thanks for
being a great ambassador for our
community with that group of
of new citizens um matt klingler
recreation and parks committee
thanks just a quick uh a couple quick
updates uh if you've driven down broad
street you've noticed a lot of
construction out in front of st charles
um st charles is putting in a new storm
sewer out front there for new catch
basin over on the east side of the
property so that's what's going on there
um trash and treasure sales um is coming
the trash and treasure sale is coming up
it's on saturday september 11th between
10 a.m and 5 p.m and sunday
and the following sunday between 12 and
5 p.m at the jeffrey mansion
we're going to talk about those oh
oh they're in front of the natalie
i thought yeah before you leave
thank you okay
because i did mention to parks and rec
that that would be something we would
be willing to do so if we could grab
we'll grab that please take one hand so
they might be somewhere else but
okay
so we will
we will go get those
okay all right
moving on
mr klingler is that all you have to say
[Laughter]
where do we make donations
were you going to say that
yeah yes thank you done yeah
[Laughter]
donations are being set accepted at the
old art with anna on select dates um
well
saturday september saturday august 21st
already passed uh tuesday well today and
31st i'm sorry
next tuesday the 31st between 10 a.m and
12 p.m you may also drop off items at
jeffrey mansion the week before the sale
um
tuesday through thursday september 7th
through the 9th 10 a.m to 3 p.m
and if you have any questions you can
email christian schweitzer um at k
schweitzer at bexley.org so she can get
you
it in the right direction
the last thing i have i just want to
give a big shout out to the bexley
brewfest
it is on labor day during the block
party sunday september 5th between 3 30
and 7 30. um anyone who's interested can
go to bexleybrewfest.com
all prof all profits go towards the
fight against alzheimer's and caregiver
support
tim pitts
generously throws that together for us
so we're all excited about that it's an
exciting brewfest and um just a quick
update i have heard great things about
the dora i don't know if anyone else has
so
citizens
citizens are enjoying it
maybe you should sit down
just just sit down
or maybe we should get you a sippy cup
don't think they're recyclable but
all right so we're good and so excited
about the brewfest is it just a brewfest
no it's also a main event is it just a
main event no
it's it's also the labor day so is that
a dora qualifying um
event for
are there going to be
but
and the brewfest itself will not though
they can't provide dora cups okay but
within that area but you could bring
your dork up
and stroll through
and enjoy
along the sidewalk you just can't go on
experience and look at the cars and it's
going to be this car show it's going to
make your egg drop it's going to be
great cookout yep judiciary and
strategic committee monique lamke
uh the only thing i wanted to share is
that after delay after delay due to
covid uh next week i start the fbi
citizens academy so yay special agent
i love it lambke love it thank you
all right we are too
uh item 22 public comment is there
anyone who would like to speak
please
constance lewis 663 euclair
of the south bexley neighborhood
association along with other
organizations and uh retailers were
pleased to
greet the new incoming capital
university class
this past saturday and uh it was an
event it was different than in past
years but um but we do have new
residents for our city of bexley
going to capitol university so welcome
them
very nice hooray hooray
uh to our new cap fam
all right uh
we will have a happy labor day between
now and our next meeting i am wishing um
our jewish community shanatova
happy new year i hope that it is a good
and sweet one
for all of our jewish community and um
and for all of our
community in general
with that do we have a motion to adjourn
motion to adjourn thank you mr klingler
is there a second thank you mr roberts
and all those in favor signify by saying
aye all those opposed
same sign all right i am going to fly