welcome everyone to the January 14th
2025 Beckley city council
meeting um it is a brand new year lots
of work to be done lots of uh
collaboration lots of effort and lots of
dedication to our city so welcome
everyone you'll also notice that we have
a new sitting Arrangement uh where
council members will be um sitting next
to some newer folks so hopefully that is
going to be a good thing Mr mCP would
you please call the
role Mr Marcelino I'm here Mr Hurley
here miss f
Miss sad here miss lampy here Mr Markham
present and Mr Silverman here and
Council uh council member fibble let us
know that she was not able to join us
tonight I move to excuse her absence
could I please have a second second
second second by Mr Marcelino all in
favor say I I anyone opposed okay please
join me for the Pledge of Allegiance IED
to the flag of the United States of
America to the repblic for it stands one
nation
indivisible andice for
all we are joined tonight by two very
special guests with the Bexley
Historical Society Larry Helman and
Stacy Grossman are joining us and uh we
are going to be hearing a brief update
on the caretaker cage repairs if one of
you or both of you would like to come up
to the podium just make sure you you
press the button show it shows up green
so we can all hear you and you hear me
now no I'm sorry neither rain nor sleep
nor snow will keep us away um one of the
things the city is really good at is
Partnerships uh great partnership with
the city of Columbus great Partnerships
with the chamber Capital JCC the list
goes on and on and we're really thrilled
uh that we're one of of your partners uh
in 2007 you you graced us with a home
for all of the artifacts and the and the
curated stuff we've got incredible
material in that little cottage and uh
probably the best photographic inventory
of bexley's History that's you could
imagine um but 17 years have gone by and
we had some electrical issues had some
Plumbing issues uh roof and things just
normal uh and the city really stepped up
uh Ben Mike Price uh Ron gold wonderful
wonderful folks so we're we're here to
say uh a gracious thank you for that uh
we will uh now be proceeding with some
landscape plans uh for the outside we'll
probably pay for that uh or do it by
volunteer labor so we're excited by that
and then eventually we'll probably move
on to uh the insides a bit but the
insides as you know is an ed May heral
Shrine so uh we we tread lightly when we
go to that and then uh really lastly um
you know we have a variety of roles but
uh certainly the curator role is is a
major one uh but the other role is more
of an Outreach role and so uh just to
touch base on a few of those things with
two Bexley day uh presentations uh that
has garnered over 800 contact points
through YouTube and in person uh we will
be doing a couple of Tours this year a
new thing for us
uh March the 23rd this year working with
again Mike Price we'll have the bullet
Park Edition and the Jeffrey Mansion
really the the start if you will the
gentleman's house in the country which
is what the was kind of the grounding
for those two things and certainly the
Jeffrey Mansion was the gentleman's uh
house in the country at the time then in
October we'll have a Halloween tour
we're still working on that a little bit
uh and then we're thinking we'll try to
do uh some pairing up with uh we've got
all those kids in the shelter house all
summer long and maybe we could have
special things where they come up to the
cottage or maybe the the caretaker comes
alive and talks to them about the LA the
lawn and the green so lot of Outreach
activity that we're looking for uh but
again I think we just really appreciate
um all of the supports you've you've
given us and uh we hope we continue to
earn your trust and confidence as we go
into the future
Stacy did you want to add anything no he
said well thank you both so much for for
not only the update but for the
collaboration and the Outreach to us and
to the community I can't wait to go on
one of those stores and I think um
there's a lot of wonderful work that you
do perfect um does does anyone on
Council have any questions or comments
missad I would just say thank you to
both you guys you're so involved in the
city on in so many levels and we
appreciate you taking your passions to
um to that place and having some
Ingenuity ideas for future our future
residents and kids I I I should I should
mention one additional thing um I don't
know if some of you certainly knew that
but uh we've had this long-standing
involvement with the pancake breakfast
uh and so this year um with Kevin Smith
we decided to do a flip and so Sheila
was Miss Claus I think most of you know
your daughter was delightful uh and I
made the mistake of of being Bobby elf
but he's an older brother um and and I
just some of you heard this but one of
the delightful things from that just a
story is that so one of the kids comes
up says do you know such and such elf
and I thought okay here we go and and he
called me buddy and I said don't Bobby
Buddy's still in Manhattan and I said
let me think and I said you know I think
that guy works in the next building over
he he works on wagons and I'm in the
main building doing Electronics but but
I'll tell you what when I see him I'll
say hi for you he goes thanks I really
appreciate it so the power of being an
elf thank you well done thank you so
much I do want to say Madame President
um Larry Helman is a Bexley gem uh as a
Stacy for that matter but the talks for
Bexley day that he referred to are in
the libraries YouTube channel they are
fantastic uh very very well done very
well researched um and so entertainingly
presented so I'm looking forward to what
comes next thank you thank you very much
thank you for all that you do and thanks
for being here
tonight all right we do not have any
public comments so on to president's
report um I just wanted to say Council
that boy we accomplished so much last
year um I think at one point I was
keeping track of how many pieces of
legislation we discuss we voted on WE
considered we tabled and the amount of
work that this council did was beyond
productive it was beyond impressive I
look forward to another great year
working with all of you um so here's to
2025 for all of us uh Mr City attorney
over to you for your
report excuse me yeah just a couple
things um we're um specifically we
talked about this previously but I did
file an amus brief on behalf of the city
of Athens in the fourth district court
of appeals in the case involving the
state's challenge to the uh single use
plastic um and basically it involves
home rule Authority um I
um semi- optimistic I mean I think we
certainly have a chance at that um the
good news is that um I think bexley's
ordinance is sufficiently different from
athens's ordinance that I don't think
will be automatically shot down should
that uh case not go the way we hope it
will having said that I think there's
probably other things but I can't think
of them so I'll update you some other
points if I think of them sounds good Mr
auditor any report this evening um just
was going to share with Council that um
at the end of last year we received um
one of the multiple audits that you um
have graciously approved for us to do um
I might have touched baseed on it in in
the last meeting but likely not but this
was just want to touch base on it here
but um this was a cash internal control
audit so this is simply about making
certain that um you know the accuracy of
our financials as we're looking at the
financials we can have trust and
confidence in it so this was very much
around reconciling our bank accounts to
what our internal records say so not
exactly the most exciting stuff for most
people but for me it is incredibly
important that we can trust the confid
uh trust and have confidence in our
financials so um good news um no you
know significant challenges or issues um
our accounts are reconciled properly but
they do through these audits I identify
opportunities to continue to improve so
um we are working with the mayor and um
Carrie to work through some of those
areas some of it's around centralizing
some activities that have been
decentralized but um again nothing
significant but I think what is
important is for Council to know and the
community to know that we are doing
these types of things to help ensure um
our internal controls are accurate and
the quality of our financial statements
are are accurate so um I just want to
say thank than you again for um
supporting those
audits thank you Matt we are also
grateful for all your ideas and your
fresh eyes to to so many things um we
are on to administrative updates mayor
over to you all right um lot to kind of
a lot to cover since our last council
meeting was almost a month ago over a
month ago I believe uh so we uh have
been really busy wrapping up the fiscal
year and starting the new fiscal year
here um couple things to highlight here
uh you can read through some of what
I've been up to I don't have to go
through those for B but I do want to
recognize that Sheila St is now the
chair of the Bey Community Foundation uh
so we met and talked through kind of
their our goals and objectives coming
coming up down the pike um there is a
aggregation update to take a look at uh
we will have an ordinance coming your
way at the next council meeting um with
an indeterminate direction of this point
because of some of the ways energy
markets are moving but we'll do lots of
Education around that um and I want to
highlight the save the date for the
state of the community March 4th and
also this one Beckley story slam which
is happening
next Wednesday January 22nd at the
drexal theater I don't know if anyone
else here is a radio nerd and likes The
Moth Radio Hour but it's fashioned after
that uh and are you a radio nerd with me
I love I love the off so no pressure
that has kept me in the car longer
than it's a it is a podcast but it's
also like an hour of radio on Saturday
Sunday um it's just storytelling and
kind of it's almost like a TED Talk
format but a little bit shorter and more
personal less businessyoutube
sign up although Natalie has graciously
agreed to do that for you so if you
email her she can get you on there or
you just go to the drexl website or read
your blast or scan the QR code on the
posters all sorts of ways to to get
connected that that's next Wednesday at
the drexal full concessions will be
served so you can listen to the Chief
and eat popcorn at the same
time um have some fun photos over the
past month this is a tour of the cohatch
space com along well still got a couple
more months I think left Matt Clinger is
doing everything he can to keep that
train moving down the track um your
Commonwealth pond in the sort of the
snow we have even more snowy photos but
I didn't have it up there I also
included our preview of our our I was
going to say summer but not really our
summer our entire Year's uh community
calendar for 2025 as seen in the Bexley
times which is going to be hitting doors
in the next week or two so the the XY
times is there for you uh has kind of a
year in review has that
calendar uh some you know articles to
check
out and such so that concludes my report
and I'm happy to answer any
questions all right oh I do want to say
one more thing the uh EV charging
um metering concept is is moving forward
so uh we will be launching here in the
next in the coming weeks I think with
Park Mobile working with the Department
on an initial kind of warning period um
and we'll we'll be giving you reports
pretty soon on how that's going so keep
an eye out for that with that I think
we're moving on oh yeah questions to the
chief good evening thank you sir
submitted our report capturing some of
the recent
events and highlights with the police
department um one of the things that's
not captured on there that um the mayor
and I spoke about today that I I do want
to highlight will obviously provide much
more context but extremely proud of the
work that our police department has done
over the past few years um in 2024 they
doubled the number of OVI arrest in
comparison to the previous year they've
also doubled the number of um citations
and warnings and traffic contacts that
they've had from the previous this year
so the work output and the call for
safety in our community in our
neighborhoods is clearly being completed
and so very proud of the work that
they're doing and we'll have much more
uh to share in a comprehensive anal
Report with that but didn't want to call
that out um happy to answer any
questions of some of the recent work
we've been
doing I just want to uh call out our
Animal control officer Jennings again I
I always enjoyed reading that part and
uh you know it does strike me how uh
that part her role goes above and beyond
what we would expect even I think from
from that and the story of the three
cats uh you know that were left after uh
deceased resident and uh finding homes
for the two and then the one that was
challenging even still going out of the
way to find a place for that cat to live
uh just I just think it's amazing that
you know I think most places you would
just expect the Animal control officer
just put him in a you know shelter
somewhere or whatever and instead the
care is and I will definitely share and
take that back to her but you know I
think even our own uh madis Maddie in
honor of Mayor Madison is another
example where um finding those pups and
then finding homes um amongst many
within the community and and how she
goes above and beyond so yes sir we
appreciate
that Mr Marcelino yeah just want to note
I was watching TV the other night and I
I saw I was like watching and then all
of a sudden I saw a couple people that I
recognized was Sergeant Johnson um as
well as another officer here from Bexley
so great job getting them out into the
community I don't know if I've ever seen
a Bexley police officer out supporting
the community uh on TV prior to uh your
presence here uh you know in the city of
Bexley so it's great I have them on my
phone I'm happy to pass it around but it
was just two of them and then they all
got together and I think they have a
little saying about click or yes sir all
right well that's just great stuff I
love to see them out there officer
hessen and officer Johnson uh were a
part of that so thank you sir thank
you it was NBC and I think it's a they
had a a couple Puck guys with them and
they were sending out a message for
safety across Columbus but it's just
really neat to see your own out there
representing our community
so Mr mCP um I was just can you explain
the k19 what those statistics represent
yes sir so that is a look at what um he
did during this most recent reporting so
you know as you know with our K9 bomb
detection really continuing to build and
enhance that so uh the number of
synagogue related um responses the
number of can9 um sniffs that he's doing
to perform and and make sure that the
our
canines um that's just in the past month
and so if you think of the three
synagogues doing that mult multiple
times per week we've expanded that we
have partnered with New Albany
Worthington and parts of Columbus who
also have synagogues and so that is
really that Outreach there so um p is is
doing really well and and continue to
build that brand specific to
that Mr Silverman hey chief just wanted
to get a little feedback how was the
roll out of the safe at home initiative
and you know was that a well-received
the Comm I thought it was a really great
yes sir so um Lieutenant overly has done
a fantastic job with that initial
announcement the true unveiling will and
start on January 31st and but um just
that roll out the announcement
everything that go has gone along with
that we've really gotten a lot of great
support in the idea and concept now you
know it's not unique just to us but it
is a first for us and so we're trying to
learn some best practices from what
other communities who have instituted
that what they've done and and just
continuing to um really be proactive
with our um safety efforts specific to
our
community any other questions for the
chief
chief also with us this evening is Mr
Kingler thank you mayor Mr Kingler I
don't
know my report's attached um nothing to
add to take any
questions uh Mr Marcelino landscape
consultant can you tell us a little bit
about that and what you're looking for
what that person will be doing yeah
we're um we've narrowed out to two
positions or I'm sorry two uh candidates
um I think we have our thoughts
internally but also we want them we want
to get um the tree and public garden
commission's input uh before we make a
final decision and so uh Thursday I
believe the 23rd they are meeting with
um Jim Wilson and Susan quintens at City
Hall um so we can gather their feedback
and and make a
decision anybody else have any questions
for Mr Kingler Matt I had one can you
elaborate on the um continuing to meet
with city of Columbus regarding joint
Livingston Avenue concerns and uh
construction project yeah so um as as
you all may know that is about a five to
seven year process that whole project uh
but we're we've begun sort of the
preliminary um talks with city of
Columbus um it'll be a team effort on
the RightWay acquisition plan so we have
a meeting set up at the end of January
to meet with him on that and then we're
still meeting with omm omm is the design
engineer on the project um through the
city of Columbus and we of course
contribute funds um to the whole project
so they're they're in kind of design
development right now developing
cross-sections of what different
scenarios could look like um all the way
through the Corridor and it
encompasses um you know west of college
to Alam Creek and then all the way even
past uh the Bexley City Limits all the
way nearly to James Avenue was there an
FAQ that was coming or at some point
going to be posted I think we promised
that at the end of the public Workshop a
couple months ago we have updated um our
website okay FAQ on living on vexor
Livingston um there was some some
information we were waiting for from
Columbus that we weren't able to obtain
okay but yeah that's been updated and
there's a public Workshop coming up in
February March I think as an initial
public workshop for it so we'll start
advertising that pretty soon yeah we
need to talk to col we need finalize
that date with Columbus for the public
workshop and then also um I have fielded
questions from community members so
we'll make sure my uh contact
information is very visible so people
can email me and I can fill them in
sounds great thanks for on top of that
um anyone else
nope
okay thank you all right moving on to
consent agenda as I suspected I
remembered the other thing I wanted to
mention so I just want everybody to be
aware of this the city we're on top of
this and Ben's definitely on top of it
but
um Sometime Late in December kind of
almost on the on in the dark of night so
people weren't paying attention um AT&T
uh filed with the puco a request to move
the to change the rule regarding who
pays for move moving uh some of their
infrastructure should there be the need
to do work on the roads or other City
improvements or city beautification
projects currently the the rule is at&
pays for that if the city has a reason
to require them to move it guess what
what they asked the PUO to change change
the rule to be the opposite so that the
city of Bexley and other any other
jurisdiction would have to pay that cost
I think it would be pretty expensive um
the Ohio Municipal League H jumped on
that pretty quickly and there is a
hearing on the and the high Municipal
league has has retained Taps to tenus
and Hollister to um protect our
interests um some point Bexley might
join that for more formally but we're
still working through that process a
little bit but there is a hearing with
the Pu on the 17th I think Friday um on
the um on on whether you know on the
application that they've made so
obviously we're opposed to it um I don't
know what's going to happen I think that
if it looks like it has some legs then
we'll probably consider getting involved
with that um along with the other many
many municipali are already involved I
don't know if you have anything to add
well we are technically are involved
just not in we're not we're in a
non-committal right we're on record as
being opposed and co-joined with the oml
but there's nothing for us to do and and
and we're sort of monitoring if it goes
any
further so I just want you to know about
it Mr
Hurley I actually got a couple panicked
emails about this today in my other job
um so yeah we've signed on to the oml
correspondence good cool excellent all
right sorry I forgot that um I'm I guess
I'm still more Rusty than I should be
all right consent agenda meeting minutes
from December 10th
2024 all right are there any questions
or concerns from Council on the consent
agenda all right seeing none I move to
adopt the consent agenda could I please
get a second second second by Mr Hurley
um Mr mCP would you please call the role
Mr
Silverman Mr Markham yes Mr Hurley yes
Mr Marcelino yes Miss sad yes and Miss
lankey yes consent agenda
passes okay third reading of resolution
12-24 to enter into a Professional
Services agreement between the city of
Bexley and Koch Engineering Group LLC
for General consultation and Engineering
Services introduced by m
sad thank you Mr official so we um had
great discussion on this at the end of
our 2024 year with our first two
readings but I want to bring everybody
back up to speed since we've had about a
month off um this is just um finalizing
for us a year contract with our
current you know General General
consultation and Engineering Services it
establishes a rate schedule which is um
attached here as well if anyone wants to
review the hourly rate schedule that we
have um that this will approve and the
professional agreement so this is a year
contract that Starts Here January 1st
2025 and it go through December 31st
2025 and will allow us to then um at the
end of the year look and see how all of
this is going and um
reestablish a contract but it basically
just puts a contract in motion so that
there's
transparency thank you Miss sad um Mr
Hurley you have a question uh yeah just
just a question I guess probably more
for the mayor or for uh Mr fishell uh
the rates and or the fees and the rate
schedule is that I guess pretty
competitive with other
municipalities I don't I don't know the
engineering World well enough to know if
these are I I would assume this is
pretty standard yeah I'd say they're
actually a little low oh great job
yeah strike that from the record yeah
say the record not
refle static assuming we passed this
tonight do we need to fill in the blanks
on that exhibit
a I don't remember what the blanks are
it's just the dates dates okay
okay sounds good all right Council any
other comments or
discussion all right missad do you have
a motion on resolution
12-24 yes I'd like to make a motion
to um approve resolution 12-24 right
motion to approve by Miss sad is there a
second second second Miss by Mr
Marcelino um any other discussion all
right Mr mCP would you please call the
role Miss lampy yeah yes Mr Hurley yes
Mr Markham yes Mr Marcelino yes Mr
Silverman yes and Miss sad yes
resolution 1224
passes
none that's the second
reading good job all right how about
first readings m madame president you
got it all right first reading of
ordinance 0125 to approve the collec
bargaining agreement between asme Ohio
Council 8 local 3838 in the city of
Bexley introduced by m sad
thank you Mr
official so um the mayor had this in his
report is something he's been working on
so thank you mayor this uh the work this
thank you Mr official I just bought them
some tacos this ordinance has to deal
with our American Federation of state
county and Municipal Employees and it is
an agreement that um will be established
from 2025 to
2027 if Mr official or the mayor would
like to elaborate on this well we will
discuss the details in executive session
later in the meeting but two a couple
points one is that the wage increase for
2025 will be retroactive to January 1st
but there it still can go three readings
you will have at the the final contract
all the details weren't finished by me
until this afternoon so you will have it
well in advance of the second me reading
so you guys can take a look at it and
ask any additional questions sounds good
looking forward to that executive
session um any questions or comments
from Council on this
ordinance all right moving on all right
first reading of ordinance 02-2 to
certify special assessments to for
various for the various sites where the
work was not done by the property owner
after being ordered by the city in
accordance with Bexley code section
14915 b4a or Bexley code section
14924 B1 and it was necessary to do the
work and assess the owner introduced by
Miss sad and before we go on it looks
like there just might be a Depot in the
there's a typo in there and so double
check the ordinance I me just a clerical
thing but
sorry all right thank you Mr official so
um for the record these residents have
been notified by the city um so the
property owners have been notified and
um now the city and um is requesting to
do the work so if we open up the
ordinance you'll see which residences
are affected and then what the work uh
rates have established to be so if
there's any questions from council
members on any of these residencies um
or what these established amounts are if
anything stands out to you guys um let's
have discussion but it's pretty
straightforward Mr Hurley um yeah just
curious you know these are all
relatively small amounts except for one
that's pretty sizable just curious what
the work is being done at 36 South
rington that's a great question mayor 36
South Remington
Road
House I believe you said it was I think
it's code enforcement related these are
all code enforcement related so oh
you're um just curious what I mean
that's that dollar amount just sticks
out because it's really significantly
more than everyone else except for this
yes property this is a uh I know we did
this ordance a year ago very unique
situation with a resident property owner
who lives in Florida I think out of out
of state
and and has had it had some pretty
extensive
damage um which was not getting fixed
and so had to be done through this
assessment
process um there's it's I have a deeper
story I could tell I don't think it
really need be told right now so
there's
aware sure thank you and um as each
reading goes by if some of these are
paid we will revise them accordingly all
right any other questions or comments
Council nope
okay first reading of ordinance 03- 25
to appropriate
1,656 $145 to the Health Insurance Fund
for 2020 2 for the calendar year
beginning January 1st 2025 introduced by
m
sad thank you Mr official so um as this
kind of this is addressing a
typographical error in section one of
our ordinance
35-24 isitt ination amount for health
insurance fund which funds health
insurance benefits or benefits eligible
staff and elected officials the health
insurance expense
um
1,665 145 was properly included in the
expense side of the orance where health
insurance expenses were appropriately
reflected and help trans transfer line
items and personal services appropriated
throughout the budget while the expense
side of the health insurance transfers
were appropriately accounted for the
typographical error did not provide the
city the ability to expend health
insurance funds so the 1,665
then appropriated to the Health
Insurance Fund in ordinance 35-24 to
ensure the timely payment of health
insurance invoices for the calendar year
beginning January 1
2025 with all of that being said this is
one that we're going to need to suspend
and
adopt Council I don't know if you could
see where the mayor was highlighting but
under healths it said n and that was the
the typo um right there which is Greek
for infinite so it actually wasn't wrong
um yeah and and
so unfortunately we do need to start you
know obviously we will have health
insurance expenses that need to be paid
as Jess just said we we we encumbered
all those funds we showed the expense
side to transfer them into the health
insurance fund so all the hard part of
it was reflected in the budget but the
ability to then spend out of the health
insurance fund was typographically
omitted
um any any comments questions from
Council I should have made the council
pay equal to n you
know that's right that's
right okay seeing no questions U missad
do you have a motion to suspend the
three reading requirement for ordinance
3-25 move to suspend um the three
reading requirement for ordinance 3-25
all right motion by Miss sad is there a
second second second by Mr Marcelino
Mr mCP would you please call the role Mr
Marcelino yes Mr Silverman Mr Markham
yes
Miss well fible Mr Hurley yes Miss lampy
yes Miss sad yes motion to suspend the
three reading rule
passes right um Miss sad do you have a
motion to adopt ordinance
3-25 yes I'd like to move to adopt
ordinance
3-25 right motion by Miss sad is there a
second second second by Mr Marcelino is
there any further discussion or question
from
Council Mr mCP would you please call the
role Mr Silverman yes Miss sod yes Miss
lamkey yes Mr Hurley yes Mr Marcelino
yes Mr Markham yes ordinance 3-25
passes okay moving on to a first reading
of ordinance
0425 to appropriate $1,100,000 from the
general fund to effectuate the
previously authorized transfer to the
capital fund and water fund to
appropriate $8,500 from the general fund
to the police department account within
the general fund for public records
training and management and to
appropriate and authorize the transfer
of $37,500 from the general fund to the
water fund for the Ohio EPA lead service
line mapping Grant introduced by m sad
thank you Mr fishell all right so to
take you through this ordinance and why
we are needing to um to do this in 20124
water and capital fund transfers um
these transfers were authorized in
ordinance 35-24 but the language
specifically appropriating the funds
from the general fund was not included
as per Auditor's recommendations so this
bolstered language makes it crystal
clear and this is the language we will
be using in similar situations moving
forward the $8500 for PD public records
management and training and in internal
miscommunication move line item that was
in earlier budget drafts was mis Mis
mistakenly thought to be a duplication
of a software line item this restores
those funds which are necessary for
records management and the
$35,500 transfer from the general fund
to water fund this amount reflects a
grant that was received from the EPA for
waterline
work uh this should have been deposited
in the water fund to begin with and this
allows us to correct that
error any other questions on these
um these $ three amounts I'm gonna um
let the mayor speak to that but there it
is doesn't need a supension this is not
so this will go three readings Mr
Markham just on the uh the second call
out I there's a typo there which I
believe
it should be a d at the end of
appropriate which changes the meaning
significantly
Y and the second the second
[Laughter]
wereas thank you for catching that Mr
Markham um Council any questions
comments from this one with this one
we'll obviously go to a second Ard
reading all right seeing no questions
thank you so much uh um I don't believe
we have any action
or um anything on our tabl ordinance uh
but as you may have seen Council from
the mayor's report on January 28th we
have a scheduled hearing on tabled
ordinance
42-24 is that
correct okay I noticed it's been
provided thank you for for doing that um
we do not Oh Yes sounds good right we do
not have any public comments so let's go
through what's
that no we're going to do it during our
regular council meeting and uh Mr
Marcelino I think is going to be running
that public hearing and I'm going to
reach out to they do have an attorney
I'm going to reach out to them just to
make sure that they understand the
process and I don't doubt they do um and
also to uh I mean I I don't know but I'm
C cautiously optimistic that there won't
be any opposition to it but we'll
see oh missad um I'm sure we do but do
we have the mark do you know for the
signs
up I assume so I mean that's what Mr
cling or yeah I know he had the the the
notice is ready to go and they've gone
out so I'm assuming the sign's up as
well okay maybe if we if we comes back
in we'll we'll ask him yes but look
forward to that at our next um oh that's
right that's right look forward to that
at our next uh council meeting on
January
28th oh Mr Kingler we're we're calling
you back
[Laughter]
in uh we wanted to ask of all the
notices uh that are required have gone
out for the January 28th hearing on
tabled ordinance
42-24 yes they have all right and also
the sign
up we usually put it up the week the
week of okay so that's yeah like the
Monday before the Thursday meeting
that's when we put the science and the
Arts so this will be a Tuesday meeting
so you do we'll do it yeah I'll make
sure Dave gets them upan I don't think
there's any legal obligation to do it
but the question just came up as you
were loitering
yes thank thank you director Kingler for
for that information yes all right uh
Council we do not have any uh public
comments for agenda item 14 so we're
move on to committee reports Mr Markham
for safety yeah I feel like I'd like to
ask Matt some more questions while he's
still
here uh just a note um you know we've
all seen the California wildfires uh
this last week and uh it it just brings
something um not to not in comparison or
to be dramatic but uh brought to mind
the fact that you feels like every you
know few years we kind of uh discuss you
know cutting the cord with Columbus and
creating our own fire department um just
to note that you know when you see
obviously that's a pretty dramatic
example but if you have multiple fires
larger fires our contract with the city
of Columbus uh includes multiple fire
stations that that bracket the city and
so we do gain a lot of extra protection
for our money as compared to having our
own fire service that's a good call out
and thoughts and prayers are with the
folks of California um I do know that
there are several Bexley families that
um have been impacted by that I was just
at The JCC yesterday and a good friend
indicated that her son lost his home um
the day before in Southern
California uh Mr Silverman for service
and
environmental I have no report it's nice
to see everybody happy New Year Happy
New Year to you
too uh missad for finance no report
tonight thank you Mr Hurley strategic
and health all right uh the Beckley
Board of Health will hold its first
quarterly meeting on Tuesday January 1st
at 5:30 p.m that's Tuesday January 1st
21st Tuesday January
21st um time's a construct on uh Baxley
cic holds its first meeting of the Year
rescheduled from tomorrow to Tuesday
January 28th at 8:00 a.m. also um as of
just before Council Madame President and
I have started talking about our 2025
strategic Retreat so planning has
commenced on that and I'll be reaching
out with more details uh for the
springtime um two things uh first um you
know as a member of Board of Health I
want to flag that uh January is blood
Don awareness month I know um I've seen
and we do a number of events in Bexley
throughout the year to promote and to do
blood donor or blood donations I'm just
very important if you can if you can do
that and lastly um I'd be remiss if I
didn't say that this coming Monday our
beloved Ohio State Buckeyes are playing
in the national
championship and uh whatever previous
you know divisions have existed in our
Council as side I think we can all agree
uh it's going to be a very exciting game
and we're all rooting for the buck guys
so great report add to Danny yes yes you
may miss so Danny I'm very excited for
Notre Dame in Ohio State because those
are the only two teams that Indiana
University lost to this season so that
be third so for two of them to be in the
championship game I'm you know neutral
whoever wins that but I just want to go
you know on record and say um those are
the only two teams that are I I hardly
support that I I think that it is
nothing but validation for the hooers
and I think we can all agree that the
Big 10 is better than the SEC so we'll
leave it at that thank you Mr end of
report thank you um Miss viable is not
here tonight but perhaps Mr Marcelino
has a committee report for her in his
best laurian FIB voice yes I do uh and
I'm so excited to bring the recreation
and parks uh update for you all and I
want to welcome you all back from that
uh break I hope you all had a wonderful
Christmas and New Year and Hanukkah and
anything else that you were celebrating
um the recreation and parks boort met
last week the department reported a very
strong registration for programming and
is boasting 20 new programs this season
if we could cut it with the chat if you
don't mind over there because we are
giving a report thank you you all have
your turn um while there are still many
weight lists the department is making
every effort to accommodate with more
selections and squeezing a few more in
where they can so everybody just pay
attention if they can do anything for
you they certainly will but they're
working very hard especially popular is
floor hockey which was filled in seconds
solution
ice ice in real rink really would help
us out in this case and so me being a
hockey mom and just being a hockey mom I
mean we have some insight here and we'll
be happy to help the city but certainly
it would be a solution speaking of ice
kudos to the recck department for all
their extra effort on our outdoor rink
and a special thanks to our own Captain
Ian Garett from the Columbus fire
department for his help supplying the
fire hoses to fill the rink just a few
highlights for 2025 keep your eyes up
because there's more coming there's a
skate park along the alen Creek Bridge
over alen Creek Park signage in ation
additional landscaping and continued
Park unification work at Commonwealth so
welcome to 2025 it's not year of the
parks but it's going to be a great year
for the parks and wreck uh Department
thank you nicely done
[Laughter]
wow okay all right now if you want to
drop the voice a little bit zoning and
development Sam Marcelino um we have a
BAP meeting on Thursday January 23rd and
an architect review board meeting on
February 13 2025 I anticipate that the
Bap meeting will actually have some
interesting things to discuss in regards
to the Livingston Aven Cassidy uh North
Cassidy plan I will be out of town uh
suffering from the cold in Arizona so I
will ask somebody to step up for me and
possibly attend on our behalf so that
way there is representation from city
council if you don't mind anybody can
volunteer outside of that thank you all
volunteer LA right now
thank you Mr
Marcelino
um council with our our last agenda item
before we adjourn is agenda item number
21 for an executive session um I move to
go into executive session for the
purpose of preparing for conducting or
reviewing collective bargaining strategy
by division G4 of section
121.2 two of the Ohio Revised Code could
I please have a second second second by
Mr Hurley Mr B peek would you please
call the
role Miss hod yeah Mr Hurley yes Mr
Markham yes Mr Marcelino yes Mr
Silverman and Miss Lany
yes
e
e e
all right I move to uh come out of
executive session could I please have a
second
second by Mr Marcelino Mr mCP would you
please call the role Mr Markham yes Mr
Silverman yes Miss lampy yes Mr Hurley
yes missad and Mr Marcelino yes and
missad did have to leave a few minutes
ago um Council that is all that we have
on our agenda tonight uh we will see you
back on January 28th at 6m I move to
adjourn can I please have a second
second second by Mr Marcelino all in
favor say I