Welcome everyone to our May 27th, 2025
Beexley City Council meeting. Thank you
for joining us this evening. Uh I am
calling our meeting to order and asking
our auditor to do our roll call. Mr.
Marcelino present. Mr. Hurley present.
Miss Fible.
Miss Sod here. Miss Lamkey here. Mr.
Markham and Mr. Silverman here. Council
uh Miss Fible let us know that she was
not able to join us this evening. At
this time I move to excuse her absence.
Could I please have a second? Second.
Second by Mr. Marcelino. All in favor
say I. I. Anyone opposed? Right. Seeing
none, please join me for the pledge of
allegiance.
stands
indivisible, justice for all.
I spy with my little eye a very special
someone in our audience known
affectionately to our community is Coach
Chris. I shared with him a few minutes
ago that I told my kids that he was
going to be here tonight and they fondly
remember many of the classes that he um
had them be part of and that he was
their coach. So, thank you so much for
joining us tonight. I I think the mayor
has a few words that he would like to
share as
well. See, everyone's laughing because
they know exactly what that joke's
about. Um, I've never seen you outside
of I think a soccer field, so this is
pretty cool to see you here at Council
Chambers. Thanks for joining us. I do
have a proclamation. As as you all know,
Coach Chris after many many many many
years of giving passionately,
enthusiastically to our community is uh
moving on beyond Beexley Recre Services,
but we wanted to not let this
opportunity pass to thank you for all
that you've done for us. I know we have
many Coach Chris parents in the room.
I'm one of them, and I have a
proclamation for you here. This is funny
thing here. I haven't had a chance to
ask this, Coach Chris. I've never ever
known you as anything but coach Chris,
but in this proclamation we do have your
last name. Quickert. Is that how I
pronounce it? Okay. Coach Chris has a
last name. Do you guys know that Chris
is not his last name? Oh, you did know
that. All right. So, here we go. Whereas
coach Chris Quicker has generously
dedicated 20 years of his time, energy,
and seemingly endless patience, that's
the important part, as a beloved coach
for Beexley Recreation Youth Sports
Programs.
You know, you've taught more than 11,500
students over that time. That's what our
statisticians came up with, who he
affectionately called his turkeys over
the course of more than 650 classes. And
whereas coach Chris holds his bachelor's
and master's degrees in education from
the Ohio State University. And along
with coaching every imaginable youth
sport, he's also found time to develop
the homeschool gym trademark patent
pending, a PE curriculum designed
specifically for homeschool students.
And while his stats and his background
are impressive, what is truly
astonishing about Coach Chris is his
endless ability to connect with young
people, inspire them from a wide variety
of ages and ability levels. And Coach
Chris leaves an unrivaled legacy of
positivity, good humor, and the sheer
joy of play in our city. his shoes will
be impossible to fill and we are
grateful to honor and celebrate him
today which by the way May 27th 2025 is
coach Chris day in the city of Beex
I don't have a speech but all the love
that I've been getting over few months
since I have uh announced that I was
going to be leaving Beexley parks and
wreck I give right back. So, I've
enjoyed my time here and I will miss it
greatly. So, thank you for having me.
Thank you,
Coach Chris. We're not going to let you
off the hook so easily. I think there's
a few council members that would like to
say a few comments. Mr. Hurley. Hey,
Coach. Um, much like uh the president, I
told my kids we were honoring you
tonight and they misheard me and got
upset because they thought I was playing
soccer and they weren't. So, um, no, uh,
just, you know, you've been phenomenal
to the community. Every time we meet a
new set of parents to Beexley, they say,
"What's, you know, what should we do to
get involved?" And I'm like, "Sign your
kids up for Coach Chris. I don't know
what we're going to do now." I know
Michael will fill in the gaps, but um,
no, my kids have loved uh, doing, you
know, soccer and T-ball and everything
else with you and um, yeah, just thank
you. Thank you. Thank you so much, Miss
Sod. I'm not going to let you off that
easy.
um the man, the myth, the legend. You
know, Coach Chris, I um Hayden, Ila, and
Hudson did all of your programming from
the time that they were eligible until
they aged out. And I'll never forget
with each one of them when they would
age out, they're like, "Wait, aren't I
signed up for Coach Chris?" And I'm
like, "I'm sorry, you've aged out now
from Coach Chris. You got to move on."
And you remember you were always
welcoming to the older siblings. They
would come and sideline um when their
younger siblings were actually
participating in your program. So, not
only did you handle the kids that you
had in your programs, you handled the
siblings and you were always so
inclusive to every kid, you reached
every child. And I love hearing our
younger council member Danny Hurley
talking about how he now is saying um
you know, that's the legacy that you've
left is that it never it never stopped
that everybody wanted to be in your
programming. So, best of luck to you. I
know that you've got a lot of other
great things going with your homeschool
gym and I remember when you started that
program. So, best of luck to you. I
can't wait to see what the future holds
and always don't be a stranger. Come
back and see us and um we will miss you.
Anyone else? All right. Thank you so
much, Coach Chris. We so appreciate you
being here.
Yes, please.
We're gonna
Coach Chris, you're welcome to stay for
your first city council meeting if you'd
like as as an extra bonus to your
proclamation. Understood. Um, if there's
anyone in attendance tonight that has a
speaker slip that did not already hand
it in, I ask that you please do so at
this time to Auditor
McPeek. All right, moving on to
ordinances with visiting presenters. Uh,
Mr. Fishell, I think this is over to you
to be read.
So this is the second reading of
ordinance 12-35 approving the updated
rules of the Beexley Civil Service
Commission introduced by Mr.
Hurley. Thank you. So yes, we have
second reading and I believe we do have
a special
presenter. Wait one here.
hand it over to the mayor or Mark for I
believe well we have a couple members
here from the civil service commission
and I think along with Mark we're gonna
present uh yeah yeah you can leave
whatever you want the rules and and Mark
I think if you want to just talk a
little bit about what went into it and
Sure I mean I I I mean uh Lee and John
were there from the beginning and uh
then the second beginning and maybe a
third beginning um one was blamed on CO
one's probably my fault. So, um, no, as
I mentioned last week, uh, thei civil
service rules had not seen a
comprehensive review probably since the
1980s. Um, there's been some changes
here and there when some things change,
but um, it needed a massive update. So,
that's why, as I mentioned last week,
you don't have a a stri, you know, a uh,
striketh through change, you know,
readable. I can tell what where
everything changed because it really
started a lot from scratch. Um and um
you know again it governs a lot about
worst case scenarios. What happens with
employees when we have to talk about
discipline or layoffs or things like
that. None of which we're here to talk
about thankfully. And a lot of it also
governs um how employees get promoted
primar and hired primarily in the police
department. So, you know, obviously I'm
happy to answer any questions. I think,
you know, you know, you have two of the
Civil Service Commission members here
who can speak to this as well. So, I'd
certainly turn it over to them.
I had a couple questions maybe for you
or for Mr. Offenberg or Mr. Nathan's.
Um, what are generally the most
significant differences since we don't
have the prior version?
As they're walking up, I will say a lot
of it went away because it was way more
than we needed. Okay.
If you could hit uh if if that
microphone's not showing green, if you
could hit that, that would be great.
Basically, we went from 80ome pages to
45,
but so much of what had been covered
before in all of the pages has been um
neutralized by the um negotiated
agreements and um the Ohio Revised Code
has specified um that those are that
they would control under those
circumstances. So, as Mark had
indicated, this had been around for, you
know, 30 years or more. So, we really
updated that to comply with the Ohio
Revised Code and to um be certain that
um all of the edits and the uh rights
for those employees who are um outside
of the negotiated agreements are adhered
to um in conformance with Ohio law.
I to answer your question further to
sorry to answer your question further um
there were many provisions in there that
the Ohio civil service law change in our
rules did not. So they were just no
longer applicable. But I will say that
the most significant changes deal with
the most significant parts uh dealt with
the most significant parts of the rules
which deal with with police hiring of
police officers and the promotion within
the police department and I think the
commission spent a lot of time trying to
make that more realistic. Got input from
the chief um and you know some best
practices. So that's where I think most
of the most significant changes are the
most the changes that will have the most
application on a day-to-day, week-
toeek, month-to-month basis. Great.
Thank you so much. Um there any
comments, questions from council
regarding this ordinance,
Mr. Hurley, more more of a curiosity. Um
how does the commission interact with
like bargaining unit employees? Is there
a would would a collective bargain
agreement potentially supersede civil
service commission or how does that how
do those two relate? It does supersede
it. Okay. So, there's a lot of unionized
employees in the city.
What we learned
was the bargaining units come first, but
they do not speak to hiring and that's
when we have been most involved.
And that that's particularly as as
market indicated with um the police
officers for initial hiring as well as
promotions um for sergeant, lieutenant,
um deputy chief.
One more. This is a um I'll pick your
brain a bit, Mark.
Um, is there anything in our civil
service commission that you know would
be considered a departure from what you
know a neighbor a similar community
would do? I mean I I read through these
nothing really jumped out but I don't
really have the time to read through say
Westerville's so you know is there
anything here that would be a departure?
Probably not from Sorry, I got kicked
out of my off the internet. I'm getting
back on. Probably not too much for
significant from central Ohio suburbs.
However, one thing that we can do that a
lot of cities can't because they don't
have if they don't have a charter is the
way we hire our police chief and and to
some degree do our promotions is a
little bit different but I think a
little more flexible too. We were
provided with rules from
um several other cities and we kind of
manipulated them to see what we thought
was best
as well as looking at um some of the
other practices in other communities
with regard to police department um
promotions.
Thank you, Mr. Nathan's. Any other
comments, questions from council?
Okay. Thank you. Oh, Mr. Offenberg, go
ahead. I just wanted to say that we had
a wonderful group working with Ben and
Mark and Lee and Rachel and Emily and
Natalie and others. Um, it's been
fun. Four and a half or four plus years.
Well, thank we We work through
everything on revising the rules at the
same time of doing what our um ordinary
responsibilities are uh quarterly
meetings. Thank you both so much for
your service and especially for your
work on this ordinance tonight. Much
appreciated.
Okay. Okay. Moving on to public
comments. Mr. McPeek, we have any
speaker slips?
We have no speaker slips.
Right. Moving on to the president's
report. Um, I had just a few things to
share. First and foremost, I wanted to
wish Council Member Silverman a happy
belated birthday. He is officially 21.
Um, so make sure you give him his kudos.
Um, I also wanted to share with council
that last week I had a chance to spend
some time with uh the nation's most
famous amphibian, Kermit the Frog. He
was the commencement speaker for my
daughter's college graduation. And this
green frog stressed how important it is
to listen more and to find your people.
wanted to emphasize that to the folks
who are listening because I think that
that is one thing this council does
extremely well is to listen
well listen without the intent to
respond immediately but to absorb what
is being said. So when I heard that I
immediately thought of this group and of
other city leaders here and wanted to
share that with you. We also do a great
job, I think, of asking lots and lots of
questions so that when we are poised to
vote, uh, we know that we have each done
our due diligence and understanding what
it is that we're voting
on. Um, and I did want to just add one
other thing for housekeeping purposes
and for folks who listen maybe via
video. Um, if you can, I know that we've
done this in the past and I want to make
sure that we are continuing to do this
in a very organized way. uh when you'd
like to speak, if you can just please
continue to raise your hand and wait to
be acknowledged so that I can uh say
your name so that Natalie gets it into
the minutes and whoever is listening to
our audio is aware of who is speaking.
So I know um that you will continue to
do that for us. And then finally, happy
upcoming Pride Month to those who
celebrate it. And that is the end of the
president's report. Mr. city attorney.
Over to you. Thanks. Just a couple quick
things. Um the as you may have seen,
this is a bill that was introduced but
didn't go anywhere last year is intro
been introduced again and is likely to
go somewhere this year which is raising
the employer's contribution to the Ohio
police and fire pension fund. So for all
police officers they have 12 and a
quarter percent deducted from their pay
for towards pension and currently cities
pay 19 or 19 and a half 19 and a.5% of
their salary towards pension that is
going to increase over the next several
years to 24%. Um the employee share is
not scheduled or being discussed to be
increased. Um the 24% is what we all
what is contributed by employers for
firefighters. So we will see an increase
in our costs for associated with
police salaries through the pension but
should not see an increase commensurate
increased costs in our fire contract
because they're already at
24%. Um second thing is um and I may
have mentioned this before, sorry if I
did. Senate Bill 104 is currently
getting testimony. Um, in fact, there
was some today on uh prohibiting local
regulations of Airbnb Airbnbs and um so
that would address our
1266.19 section if it if it goes
forward. So, just two things. Great.
Thank you for that legal update, Mark.
Uh Mr. City Auditor, over to you. Uh
three things. Um, one, I just want to
thank Carrie and her finance team. I
know that they've been working hard to
uh wrap up
2024 um year-to- date results and then
also all the work um with our auditors
to complete a compilation and then
ultimately a financial audit. So, it's
just a ton of work. Um so, appreciate
you and your team uh for all of that
that hard work. Uh couple other quick
things.
one is um city council funded audits
this year um and we did receive one
audit back for uh the payroll audit. So
the goal of that payroll and benefits
audit is really to make certain that for
individuals that enroll in our
benefits that one they're signed up with
our carriers. Two, we are charging them
the appropriate amounts. Three, we're
getting build the right amount. So it's
a fairly comprehensive review of all of
those
transactions. So um that audit came back
probably about a week and a half, two
weeks ago. Carrie, the mayor, and the
team have been going through that and
and really better understanding it. So,
you know, what I know is that what the
auditors provided showed, you know, uh a
number of transactions that didn't align
with what they expected. Um, in total,
those dollars were um I'll say um
immaterial. Um, with that being said, I
know they've identified a lot of false
positives, meaning that those were
actually intended to be that way for um,
very specific reasons. So, long story
made short, um, what I will do is meet
with the mayor and Carrie and team to go
through that and better understand, you
know, what do we have here? Talk about
what we can do to improve the processes.
Um I know that Emily Buckley's been
heavily involved, but um wanted to make
sure that the council knew that was that
that had happened and um you know when
that's completed we'll meet with a
handful of different folks um to make
certain that they understand the work
that's been done to improve that
process. So really appreciate again all
the hard work it is to just turn over
that information in the partnership to
really ensure that we improve our
processes internally um so that our
employees, city council members and many
others um are seeing what they would
expect within their benefits. So again,
appreciate all the work. Just want to
keep folks apprised of what's to come
next. But again, the next steps will be
I'll go through the results with with
Carrie the mayor. Um, and then we'll
talk about the processes and and close
the loop with a handful of folks. Great.
Thank you so much, uh, Matt. I know that
you were heavily responsible for us
putting in our budget money for those
audits. They've proved to be very
helpful and very effective and thanks to
Carrie for working with you on that.
Yep. And then one other real quick
thing. So, one of the things that um
I've u you know wanted to make sure is
that we have um a very uh competitive
banking relationship with our primary
bank and um requested a meeting with PNC
who is our primary bank probably a
couple months ago and we ultimately
ended up meeting with them um late last
week and long story made short I think
that there are a handful of things that
they can bring to the table that will
improve um financial returns for us
through better um interest rates um as
well as enhancing uh fraud controls
within our current processes. So it was
a very productive meeting um meeting
with them tomorrow. Carrie, are you on
that invite? I want to
make Oh, okay. So long story made short.
I know I've got a meeting on their
calendar tomorrow. I'll make sure you're
involved, Carrie, but um looking for
recommendations to improve the overall
relationship um and um really enhance
controls within the city. So, really
pleased with that that conversation.
Great. Thank you, Matt. Um moving on to
administrative updates. Mayor,
thank you, Madam President. My first
remarks were to thank Carrie for all the
hard work she's been doing with the
onboarding of Tony and and uh the crew
and just generally streamlining
processes and modernizing our flow.
She's been incredibly busy. She's been
doing a great job. So, I want to thank
you Carrie for that and make sure
council knew that which you covered, but
we covered it some more. There we go. Um
also, uh Mike Price and the recck
department have been super hard at work.
The pool opened this weekend. The
Memorial Day service was held. the uh
Jazz in the Park was held. So, our
summer is off to an intense start. Uh
and because there's no rest for the
weary, we're going to have Mike and crew
back in action on Friday for the main
event. Um on Saturday, of course, we
have Porchfest. On Sunday, there's the
Pexley House and Garden Tour. Um and
right before the main event on Friday is
the Pridewalk. So, there's a ton going
on this weekend. Uh I'm sure you guys
know all about that, but those are also
double referenced in the uh the what's
coming up uh section of my update.
Um also want you to know that we are
close to having sort of a draft concept
for the Commonwealth Park um sort of
trail through the through the center to
talk to neighbors about. Um I was going
to I wanted a graphic of that to share
with you, but I actually don't have it,
so I'm going to forward it out to you
guys. Um um and it's a it's a concept of
a um brassfield fines walking path which
is the same sort of material that we
have around the pond um but more of a
wider path um with trees flanking into
both sides and a planting in the center
of the park um and some pergolas in that
area. So I'll share that out with you.
We're looking for maybe June 19th to be
a meeting with residents in the area. If
uh if everyone internally can make that,
we'll know that soon because we would
send out letters uh to residents. It
might be a little bit later than that,
but that's a provisional date I wanted
to share with you. And in the state
house tracker, we have what Mark covered
plus some other stuff. So, take a look
at that. I'm happy to answer any
questions or to pass it on to Carrie.
Mr. Marcelino. Yeah, two questions just
in regards to what you've been up to
here. uh note first fair avenue meetings
meeting uh any projects that we should
be aware of there? Yeah, so the Beexley
um the Beex Beexley beautifification
fund has funded or wants to fund um new
trees in the Fair Avenue medians. So
we've had a a number of mature trees
have come down on fair um and in general
there just some gaps and so they're
developing a concept of a bidum. Did I
say that right Troy?
which as of course you know is a row of
oak trees and so uh they're hoping to
have all the different types of native
Ohio oaks in there and um with infill
trees. It's not it wouldn't um they're
not looking at a drastic change to the
overall like any sort of landscape plan,
but more like the way that they're
infilling the trees. And then the second
question is just in regards to your
meeting with Columbus sign again. Is
there a specific project or is this just
getting um an update on current signs?
What was that? Um I think that and I
think that refers to um perhaps meetings
we've had regarding our park signage
although I have to it might have been
we've had a lot of different meetings
about with Columbus signs. So uh there's
we have ongoing discussion about our
park signage program that's going
forward. Um we're working on ordering
arboritum plaques. So we've been doing
some design work on that for the
Commonwealth Park Aliden Walk. And
recently we ordered a bronze plaque for
the um the trail head Main Street. It's
it is being named the Tad Jeffrey Trail
Head. Um right now it just says Main
Street Trail Head. So that's being
ordered. Maybe maybe refers to those.
Nie does a great job of capturing stuff
from my calendar and throwing it on the
what I've been up to. So thank you.
That is that mind meld correct? Sure.
Okay. Gotcha. Cool. Any other questions?
Mayor, I had a question. What's the
estimated date that we might see the
land use strategy report and
recommendations coming to council? So,
we have six more pages of draft that are
going to the committee uh in the next
day or two for comment and review. We're
looking at a mid July meeting where we
hope to have a full complete draft for
the committee to review. So, I would
look maybe midsummer. Okay. All right.
You can we're towards it. Sounds good.
Questions with that? Uh, we have Carrie
an update from the finest department.
Yeah, I feel like all of this pressure
now is on me since, you know, I got all
these kudos, but I'm kind of
disappointed that Mike didn't get more
because usually it's all about parks.
Okay, so um you will notice that I do
have finally have the December report.
Um, just briefly, the um revenue was up.
The expenditures were lower than
expected. A lot of that is because of um
we did a transfer from for ARPA money
that which covered the um police funding
um that had to be spent by December
31st. So it was just reallocating funds.
Then the um all I have for May is the
um income tax keeps looking bright. Um
we are higher than expected um once
again. So, we will keep um our eye out
on that to watch for trends, but um we
are I'm finalizing the information for
the financial reports. It's due by the
end of this month and then our audit
begins July 14th. So, busy gathering all
of that information, but that is all I
have. If anybody has any questions,
questions for Carrie.
Good job. Thank you so much, Carrie.
Thank you. I mean, I don't know how it's
happening, but I'm doing this fantastic
job. Well, and as a reminder to council,
we we actually um do we project a
decline? Yes, we did. I think we did.
So, we were being extra cautious in our
projections. We've seen a a surplus over
last year, which would be normal. Um we
were just not sure if the take the the
work from home impact had fully gone
through the curve. So far, it's
suggesting that it had indeed. And so
we're have we're experiencing what would
be normal I would say normal inflation
over last year's numbers. Um but we'll
continue to watch those closely. We're
actually above 23 numbers to date. So I
mean it's everything's looking looking
great and we always just keep we're
going to keep encouraging people to work
from home. Keep it up guys. Keep it up.
Thank you so much Carrie.
Mr. Grace. Thank you mayor. Um, first of
all, I do want to thank you. I want to
thank Mayor Kesler, uh, Natalie V and
city council for, uh, the proclamation
of Coach Chris and the recognition of
all his work. Really do appreciate that.
So, thank you. Um, other than that, um,
you know, obviously, as mayor said, we
had a busy week, busy weekend, um, with
pool opening and and, uh, activities and
events. Um, big thank you to all the
staff uh that was working this weekend
to pull those off from service to parks
maintenance to uh parks and recck. So, I
appreciate all their work and time. Um,
but other than that, I'm happy to answer
any questions about the report.
And there Mike does, turns out Mike does
have the graphic for Commonwealth. So,
that's
I think the most up-to-date one this so
this this version maintains the beach
trees. There's been a lot of
conversation over whether or not to
maintain the beach trees um that are
currently were previously flanked the
street and I think the tree commission
was leaning towards keeping that cadence
but doing infill of additional trees
kind of um around so we don't yet have
that exhibit we're getting it and I yeah
I would add to that just and maybe
council is already aware but this has
gone in front of tree commission and the
rec board for initial review for
feedback like feedback yeah they haven't
made it they haven't voted on it all and
it's showing probably an oak to be
planted at the center of the circle and
with some pergolas they would have some
swings and that sort of thing. So you
this this is viewing out towards the
different fields. So this one would
point towards the um the east field.
Yeah, that's north comwalth. Okay, the
east field and this one will be the west
field. Sometimes these exhibits are
upside down but obviously those are the
bathrooms so it's not but I'll we'll get
you a higher uh fidelity version of that
to take a look at.
Jess had a question. Hi, Alex. Um, with
the Commonwealth um, development and the
uh, permanent bathroom, is that open to
the public with everybody out now and
people using our parks more, is that
open 247 to the public or how is that
managed? I've gotten questions on that.
We have a a locking system through our
security. Uh, so it is open till dusk.
So, um, roughly 7 to 8 right now. The
same as our Jeffrey. Yeah. Same as our
park hours in general.
Yeah. I just wanted to know um at the
pond is
there I I noticed algae was growing and
I just didn't know if it was plans
because I know there was talk about
fishes going in but is there treatment
or is there things planned for that
pond? Were you there like a few weeks
ago maybe? there this weekend and there
was considerable amount of algae coming
up in one of the ponds and I just didn't
know if it was something that was being
monitored uh for growth and how that
would affect any plans if there were
still plans for fishes going in. Um we
just treated a few weeks ago for algae
and it cut back. So maybe it we're still
our staff are still learning how
frequently to treat for it and that
still allows fish to do to do fine and
does not disrupt the fish. So there is
ongoing treatment. Yes. Algae. Yeah.
Thank you. They're still still getting
our pond lakes. I mean I know I I went
to visit it and and and and walked on
the stones and just noticed that there
was some considerable buildup in one of
the corners of algae. So I
I mean discuss what is also true. I mean
we'll be treating it and continue to
clean it, but it's also going to over
time look more and more like a natural
pond as opposed to like when when it
first went in, you know, it was fresh
limestone. It looked like a quarry,
right? And over time it will look more
organic. Um and there will be plantings
of you know lily pads and some other
ponds like aquatic plants over time. So
there will be algae but I think there
was a big bloom this spring and so
they're learning how to treat it and
keep it balanced. We've also had a lot
more plantings going in. So you probably
saw that but I did check it out. There's
been a lot more planning. There's still
a little bit more to go. Um, so the
plantings should be mostly in within the
next couple weeks and then you know
they're still so as they grow in it'll
feel more and more like So is that
through the forest compartment that
would be doing the maintenance for the
pond? Yeah, Grant Grant Archer and his
crew is currently maintaining it. Thank
you. Mike really wants to do it though,
so we might Well, Boxing Day you're
jumping in, so that's right, you know.
Megan Meyer was not able to make this
evening. Her report is here and I'm
happy to answer any questions
um about it, but I would call attention
to the fact that we do have our
commercial design guidelines steering
committee kickoff uh coming up soon. Um,
and the Columbus CEO Beexley economic
development guide will be out in
July. Some other things in there. Happy
to try to answer Megan or Megan. Yes,
Alex. Is there a planning committee or a
kickoff for the slowdowns initiative?
So, we're working internally on that and
we're looking to kick it off uh right
before the start of school in August.
Thank you.
Questions? All right. Thank you.
All right. Uh, moving on to item number
11, consent agenda. Mr. Fishell, and we
have the meeting minutes from May 13,
2025 on the consent agenda. Council, are
there any questions or comments on the
consent
agenda? Any comments from the
public? Seeing none, I move to adopt the
consent agenda. Could I please have a
second? Second. Second by Mr. Marcelino.
Mr. McPeek, would you please call the
role? Mr. Silverman, yes. Mr. Martin,
yes. Mr. Hurley, yes. Mr. Marcelino,
yes. Miss Sod, yes. Miss Lani, yes.
Consent agenda passes.
Okay. No third reading. So under a
second reading of resolution
03-25 to adopt a tax budget for calendar
year attached here too as exhibit A
missad.
Yes. Thank you Mr.
Official. So this is pretty
straightforward. This is um just
basically allowing for us
to adopt the tax budget for the calendar
year. And we can also look um at exhibit
A which is in our
attachments. Are we able to pull that
up?
There's the tax budget in all of its
glory. There it is. Thank Thank you,
Miss. Um, are there any comments or
questions from
council? All right. Um, are there any
public comments or I'm sorry, are there
any speaker slips on this one, Mr.
McPeek? No speaker slips. All right.
We'll let this move on to a third
reading then. Might this I think maybe
in the past it's been a consent agenda
item. Maybe I'm making that up. That's a
good idea. Um, anyone opposed to putting
this on a consent agenda for the next
meeting?
That uh, Councilwoman Fel doesn't
doesn't make a difference. If there's a
reason why otherwise without her here
just in case, give her one more time to
see it. I think Okay. All right. Well,
we I'll raise that point with her.
Natalie, if we can make a note of that,
that would be wonderful. Thank you so
much. And moving on. All right. First
reading of ordinance
13-25, appropriations ordinance for
building department to appropriate
$53,500 for the increase in required
development related plumbing inspections
introduced by Ms. Sad.
Thank you, Mr. Fishell. So, this uh
ordinance basically is allowing the city
to make a payment to the Franklin County
Health. The cost of the inspections that
are included in this ordinance are
passed on to the developer, but this is
allowing us to have the money approved
to go ahead and make our payment to
Franklin County Health. This um is in
regards to I believe two projects,
Fitzgerald and the community builders
are in this ordinance. Is there anything
else, mayor, that you would like to
elaborate on? Um I think there's also
been an increase in residential building
inspections. Uh so there's I think the
the recital kind of cover but those are
the three sources and as the recital
show it's we re we collect more in
income than than we expend out to uh
Franklin County. So this is an this is
an in-n-out and actually a minor profit
center that helps offset other building
department costs.
I I had oh Mr. Harley go ahead.
I think the mayor partially answered
what my question was but I just want to
make sure I heard it correctly. So,
we're we're appropriating 53,600 now,
but we'll recoup that and then some
fees. We just have to pay county on the
front end. And if you look at those like
those three recital that are up on the
screen, those add up to that 53,000. And
the second one is a great example of
that. It shows you we're projecting
38,000 in appropriation due
derald and we've already collected
um 58,000 along those lines. So that's
an example of
the it covers the costs for those
inspections plus uh covers our own
overhead sort of associated with it.
I I appreciate the pass through but just
wanted to confirm is it
53,500 or
53,600 because the or the title is a
little different from section one.
Sure is. That's a great catch. Um, I
think that I would go with the the
higher number, although I honestly think
either one of them would work. So, if
you would like to get an I don't know if
Mr. Fishell the title says 53. He's
going to tell me the title can five and
the ordinance body says 53. A clerical
error on the title. Sounds good. Change
it. Okay, sounds good. Thank you so
much. Um, any other comments, questions
from council?
Mr. McPeek, we don't have any speaker
slips. Correct. No speaker slips. All
right.
All
righty. So, a number of these tonight.
Yes, it's been a while. Um, first
reading of ordinance 14-25 authorizing
the mayor and auditor to sign a consent
and hold harmless agreement on behalf of
the city of Beexley with the property
owner at 240 South Drexel, parcel number
020-003767 regarding improvements made
upon and within the cityowned right of
way between the sidewalk and the
property line introduced by Mr.
Marcelino.
Yes, I don't have uh too much here. I
would kick it to the mayor to describe,
but I will have uh two questions. So,
thanks. The first question, has it
already been built? Correct. The answer
to which I do not know, and I'll find
out. Um, my understanding is this is an
18inch decoration decorative wall that
spans a total of 10 feet along the
rideway. Uh, the image that we were
provided
uh does not really answer that
question. Mr. Marcelino, is there a
second one? Okay, my bad. Sorry. Thank
you, Miss V.
So, it's proposed in this in this area
and the ride of way
um I would assume
goes goes quite a bit bit deep, but
we'll get I' I'd like to see a site
plan. So, we'll show that to you. Same.
And just a secondary question, if you
don't mind hopping in here, just does
this go out into the sidewalk, and if
so, do we have any ADA concerns there?
It does not go into the sidewalk. I know
that. But I will we'll get you the site
plan that shows exactly what the layout
is. Thank you, Mayor. Uh Mr. Silverman,
your questions.
Yeah, that does not look like Drexel. I
agree with you. I think the address is
on on Drax and it's a corner lot. Yeah.
Yeah.
Thank you, Mr. Silverman. Maybe we can
confirm that. Yeah. Okay. I think the
site plan will it will help that out.
But it is an 18inch height. Just I I
know that much. But I'll make sure we
have the site plan for the next next
meeting. Any other comments? Oh, Mr. uh
Markham, is it just the
The wall that we're looking at is that
stone sidewalk already approved. That's
okay. So, I believe this is part of the
driveway. It's being installed. You can
kind of see right here. Oh, is that what
it is? Yeah. And the driveway not being
a vertical element. Uh the driveway not
being a vertical element and driveways
constantly going right through our
rightway ironically are not do not
receive consent alarm.
But it I think I mean it's both that and
the driveway that comes along. So I
think it's the you're going to see that
all along. Um it is an
interesting point though which is that
people's all of our driveways are
actually going through city right of way
and so that is a just implicit consent
and hold armless. We tend to only apply
them with vertical features or with
other Oh my why is my video on right
over here? That's terrible. Sorry about
that. Um with uh
How
long? Oh dear.
Um yes. So t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t
t t t t t typically it would be vertical
features or um the code references uh
underground sprinklers which are
administratively approved.
Mr. Clinger will be here at our next
meeting. Yes. And I admit I've we, as
you'll see or have already seen, we have
a lot of first order readings and I had
not uh looked very closely at the exact
site plan for this.
Other comments or questions from council
for this ordinance? All right, seeing
none, and we don't have any speaker
slips on this one either, so we will
move on.
All right. A second reading, I'm sorry,
first reading of ordinance 15-25 to
amend the codified ordinance ordinances
to permit accessory dwelling units under
specific conditions and to enact new
section
1266.24,
1290.01, and 1290.02 of the codified
ordinances introduced by Mr. Marcelino.
Yes, thank you very much.
uh Beexley as we all can see is
increasing in terms of uh the cost of
home acquisition or even uh apartment
acquisition. Um and it's due to a
limited amount of stock uh and and no
place to expand outwards. Um, I think
there are a lot of uh families in the
community that would benefit from having
the ability to build an ADU potentially
to help home uh a family member. Um, or
uh try to bring in an additional source
of income. Uh, and so I think that in
trying to keep up with I don't want to
say housing trends, but keep up with the
increase in cost etc. uh we can build or
allow with passing this uh people to
build basically one-bedroom apartments
um above their garage um and and and
allow uh new people to enter our
community that may otherwise uh be
priced out. Um read through it. This is
a a first reading obviously. Um, I'm
happy to answer any questions from my
intents here. Uh, and uh, but aside from
that, I'll I'll leave it open. Thank
you, Mr. Marcelino. I saw Mr. Hurley's
hand up.
Um, yeah, just, uh, couple of questions
just on the formation of this. Uh, is
this based at all or has BAP or ARB
weighed in on the content?
It's been discussed. It was the mayor
and uh, Mr. Fishell itself. I haven't
run it by them because I think each
accessory dwelling unit will have to
fall within their code and their
guidelines um as they're applied for and
I think it says that BAP has reviewed
and recommended it as well. Okay, that's
yeah that's what I was getting at and
then um I can answer that. The reason it
was d if that's okay madam president.
Yes, it's drafted that way because by
the time you vote for our zoning code,
BAP is required to review and provide
feedback. And so by the time you make
that vote, there would have been a
review, but until an ordinance is
introduced, there's nothing for them to
review. Um and then second question, um
I I know in the at least the drafts and
discussions around the land use um
strategy, it does speak to ADUs as well.
Uh is this consistent with what we've
discussed and what is potentially going
to be approved in land use strategy in
your opinion for me or for that can be
for either of you. That is probably
bigger picture for the city of Baxisly
that I would graciously pass to Mayor C.
So I it is consistent with what's been
discussed with the land use strategy.
Some of the provisions in that general
standards section which is pulled up on
the screen right now uh were developed
through the conversations of the landing
strategy commission and
um I know that Mr. Arcelino you've been
part of those and I think that kind of
spurred some of this moving forward.
Yes, Mr. Hurley. And this may be a
question that that's better suited uh
when we have uh Mr. Clingler in next
week which is um under general standards
item five parking you know the the
minimum of one additional off streetet
parking
space how I guess I'm trying to work out
my head having you know seen some ADUs
or other structures I mean is that just
the number of cars that can fit into a
driveway I'm just trying to understand
how that might practically be calculated
madam president yes mayor current code
requires two parking two off street
parking spaces so this adds an
additional
requirement for one more. I don't know
if that answers your question. I'm just
thinking, you know, if somebody has a
long driveway that can fit three or four
cars, would that then be if if you're
required to have two, one additional, if
you have an edu, would a driveway that
could fit three cars be compliant?
If I guess is the one additional off
street parking space parking were all
behind the front facade because parking
has to be behind the front edge of the
house. Thank you. Good question, Mr.
Harley. Um, any other comments or
questions from C Mr. Silverman?
Yeah, thank you. Um, if the unit was
built and rented out, how would
addresses work for the tenant occupant?
Would it be uh based off of your home
address with a letter variant or
registered somehow with the city?
That is that for the mayor or Mr.
Marcelino or either. I think do whoever
wants to jump. whoever wants it. Mr.
Melino, why don't you go first? Your
last portion has to do with the
registration requirement. You'll note
that uh under section E there does talk
about um the ongoing require to register
these units themselves. Uh, in regards
to the specificity of the address, I
would anticipate that it would require
some form of an A or something behind it
that would indicate would be my guess,
but I would leave that to I
guess it makes sense to me if you put an
A, but they'll have to register the
address itself. So, yeah, I think Mayor,
do you want to add something? would
increase the registered addresses for
the city if they
we so we don't keep a registry of
addresses per se. It would increase the
number for the it's just a post office
question. I I think it's a I can I don't
have an official answer for that's fine.
Um, I think it probably some latitude
and then I I believe it references, but
are we changing anything with the square
footage um with the zoning for what
different parcels could build in
relation to the ADUs? Are they is there
any increase to the square footage of
those units that we currently have on?
No. So, the way this is drafted, it
would it would this use would live
within the current physical constraints
on a site. So both the size of any
accessory structures, you know, overall
hardscape ratio, and then I think that
an important um provision that is in
here is that an ADU can't contain more
than one bedroom. So it's designed to
provide for some additional housing
flexibility, but it's not a situation
where you would end up increasing the
demand in the school district.
Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Silverman. And
Mr. Mr. Hurley, you had one another
question. Uh yeah, uh Mr. Silverman uh
gave me a question. Uh how do um how
does it work with utilities in an ADU?
It goes back to that address question.
Like would would they get a separate
beexley water bill or is it all on one
parallel? It's kind of up to the
property owner to give it up. Mayor, do
you know that? Um I I I don't think it
would get its own meter. I think it
would have to be either a submeter
situation or some sort of if they wanted
one, we would have to there would be a
tap fee required in a separate service.
I don't really envision property owners
choosing that be a pretty expensive
route. I know that submetering is a hot
topic right now, too.
Any other um Miss Saw, you have your
hand raised. Yes. So, I'm going to be
honest. I haven't gotten to dive into
this as as much as I would like, but I
would like to ask. I saw the penalties
on here. Um what exactly allows for the
penalty? What's what is the intent of um
these misdemeanors? You guys could give
me a little bit more explanation. Yeah,
mayor, you want to take that one? We'll
take that one and I'll ask Mr. Fishell
to chime in as well because we we worked
on this a little together. The the
current zoning code actually does not
have a penalty section which is pretty
surprising to us. So, this is this is a
zoning codewide penalty section. Um, and
it's just establishing what happens if
somebody violates provisions of our
entire zoning code. Um, and then we
added and it it mimics what is in the
building code. So, it's it's exactly the
same language as you would find in the
building code. The building code
violations would be, you know, not
building to building code standards
or code enforcement violations are often
building code violations. So, um this is
the same provision in there and it also
adds that organizational penalty section
which allows for pursuing um you know
property owners that are companies and
not individuals which we found to be
pretty important. So, I'm not sure if
that answered your question. So, it
would not allow for an
organization. It has to be the property
owner who oversees the renter.
If I may, I'll try to answer your
question. I'm not sure. I I'll try to
I'll try. Um the property owner
organizational penalties is if the
property owner is is a LLC or a company,
not an individual. The the proposed
ordinance here requires that the
property
be have a the principal resident of the
person renting it out. So, you can't you
could not be a landlord that doesn't
live on premises and rent out under this
the way that this is being proposed by
Mr. Marcelino. And that's under the
occupancy requirements um section of
that
code. This says either the principal
dwelling or the ADU has to be rented by
an owner occupant where that property is
their principal res. So then the next
quick question is how are we managing
compliance?
Um, and who would give the misdemeanors,
the fines? Yeah, it would be through our
code enforcement function. And so it
would be through the building department
if there is typically
um it would be a complaintbased
enforcement. So if somebody says, hey, I
think that there is a two-bedroom ADU
happening. And this is it's already I
mean this is a current thing, right?
Because you could have an ADU that's not
um not not allowed. Um and that would be
referred to code enforcement. Um so go
through code enforcement who would be
also working with the uh prosecutor
through mayor's court determine how to
move forward with something.
Thank you Missad. Any other comments or
questions from councel? I could just add
what would you like to add Mr. Official?
So, first of all, again, a as as the
mayor just pointed out, we don't
currently have an enforcement mechanism
or a good enforcement mechanism, an
effective enforcement mechanism on the
zoning code side of things. So, even if
and I'm not I'm not offering an opinion,
but even if folks are not thrilled with
the ADU of things, still should be
considering adding 1290.
01 or and 02 or whatever those numbers
were also and again this is something I
need to look at again and we can talk
about it also may be effective to add
specifically add in the code the uh
civil civil enforcement mechanism which
I've seen in with other cities that
allow the city attorney to go into
common police court and try to get an
injunction to get it to stop because a
misdemeanor doesn't necessarily get us
that end result every time. So,
something else to think about, we can
talk about offline. Thank you, Mark. Um,
any other comments, questions from
council? Okay, we don't have any speaker
slips on this one, so we will move on to
our next first reading.
And that is by
ordinance 1625 to authorize the mayor to
enter into a lease with the city of
Columbus for premises located at the
southeast corner of Alen Creek Drive and
Main Street, also known as Pump House
Park site and to declare an emergency.
Somebody other than Miss Bible must be
talking about this. I'm going to cover
this one for Miss Fible. uh council, as
you're well aware, Pump House Park is
located uh on Main Street just by Alum
Creek. Um it's been leased um by I
believe the city of Beexley pursuant to
a lease for many years with Columbus.
And I think the mayor is going to give
us an update and kind of tell us why we
should consider u another lease. Yeah.
Uh I think this is fairly
straightforward. It's a dollar a year
lease. It's the um the space at Pump
House Park, which is at the souththeast
corner of Alen Creek Drive and Main
Street. Um, interestingly, other spaces
that we lease from the city of Columbus
are usually parks and recck ground. This
is Columbus Public Utilities because
Pump House Park is so named because
there is an actual storage of storm
water underneath the the park. Um, so in
1999, the city entered into that lease
with the city of Columbus public
utilities. Um, we approved the park
improved the park with athletic fields
with the stone wall and the aluminum
fencing and with the picnic shelter and
it was a 15-year lease with two
five-year extensions. We are now at the
time to renew, not renew, but there's no
more renewal of that. So, start a new
lease. The exhibit which is attached is
um the proposed new lease. It is Mark. I
believe it's substantially the same
lease just updated dates and and names
of people executing. So, um, very little
has almost nothing changed between what
we had and what we're proposing. Great.
Thank you, Mayor. Mr. Silverman.
Yeah. Um, on the current lease or new
lease, oh, what's the provision for
allowing that space to be utilized
through the recck department or the
city?
Yes. So we as the as the tenant of the
space, we have full latitude to program
it, which is what the rec department
actually does currently do is is do the
programming for it. Um, one of the
impetuses of this first off, it's
important I think that we continue our
programming through that. We also have
some investment to to make in the park.
The the roof of the uh pitching shelter
is beginning to fail and needs some
needs some
repairs. I went beyond answering your
question. I apologize. No, it just made
me think of Is the shelter a a rentable
space? We allow it to be booked. Um I
don't I'm not positive that we charge a
fee for it, but it is reservable. Yep.
Thank you, Mr. Silverman. Um Miss Wait,
I'm sorry, Miss Sad. Hold on. I thought
Mr. Hurley, I think you had your hand up
first. Okay, Miss Sod, Mr. Hurley would
like you to go before him. So, just to
share a little history on Pump Park, um
my middle child, Ila, we actually had
her CISA team under coach Fletcher use
that field. Um the improvement that
would be great is it was a, you know,
she was young at the time, so we would
park in the parking lot across from
Rusty Bucket. You would definitely as a
parent have to walk your child down and
then we had soccer there. But at that
time, we were limited on soccer fields
and we didn't have our partnership with
DFC. Um, but it may be something to
continue to think about in the future of
that connectivity. I do like that we get
to manage that park because it's an
entry into our lovely community and so
keeping it up is important, but yeah,
future uses I know that we'll continue
to discuss. Well, and if I may, Madam
President, we have two things we're
working on right now to that point. One
is an agreement with Life Church. uh
they've agreed that we can allow parking
there when they're not having services.
Um but we're working with we want to
work with the city of Columbus. We've
broached the subject with them. Their
parks and wreck owns the easement for
the bike path that goes the church
property to try to get a walking path
that goes from that parking lot to the
park itself, which I think is pretty
feasible, but it's something we're
working on. The other thing is that the
linkus um levy raised those transit
supported infrastructure funds. One of
those is to make a safer bridge on Main
Street. So, we'll be widening that
sidewalk portion. So, even if you are
parking, you know, somewhere in Beex,
it'll be a safer crossing over to the
the park. Thank you, Miss uh Mr. Hurley.
Um I guess first question just out of
curiosity and this can be you know
something for next council meeting. um
you know $1 lease but obviously there's
a you know cost to maintain the park and
you just do we have any idea of what
that what that has been throughout the
life of the lease and I'm just kind of
curious you know what what is the budget
I guess for the park for the next say 15
years I'm sure it's minimal or do you I
can work on formulating that more
exactly I can tell you that like for
example we did recently paint the
aluminum fencing there was a cost
assessor of that and obviously we do
ongoing landscape maintenance but yeah I
mean I wouldn't That's I wouldn't
imagine it's anything too significant.
And then just you know I'm curious
because I you know I guess I'd never
realized you know I'd never thought to
use the shelter house for say a party. I
mean do we have any kind of information
on utilization? Do we know if this part
I mean you know council member sad
mentioned you know it was used for CS at
one point. Just curious because it's you
know we don't get we don't have a lot of
green space in Beexley and certainly
anytime we have a park like that I you
know would love to know if there's ways
we can you know make it more usable
understanding there are you know some
limits to the geography. Mayor would you
be able to look into that for the next
meeting? I would be glad to do that and
um yeah I will look into that. And last
question, and this again goes back to
some of the things that we've talked
about either at the council retreat or
in land use um because of the the park
being a you know utility based um site,
there's nothing we can do. I mean, we
can't like build anything on this
location beyond like a shelter house or
maybe like a playground, but there's no
this isn't like a development
opportunity. That's correct. Yeah, it
would not support any substantial
structures. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Hurley.
Um Mr. Markham, I I think maybe I missed
this. You probably this one that was
introduced. But what what's the origin
of this lease slate?
I I don't have the full history, but my
understanding is that in the late in the
'9s, it was brought up as an idea to
improve the that that site, which was
just kind of overgrown. You know, many
years before it being the Palm House
area, it was actually an amusement park
closed in the 60s or early 70s.
Um Yeah. Right.
ferris wheel and all that good stuff.
Norwood was that's how was the name of
it. Um and then um while Columbus was
managing it, it was just kept to the
very bare minimum standard and it was it
was the thought was hey this is a good
gateway. The the precursor to what is
today the beex beautifification fund I
think was put together the rotary helped
fund it. Um so funds were raised for the
all the stonework and the and the
shelter house itself and then the
leveling of the field. That's as much as
I know. I just know that there was an
initiative that that was put behind to
to raising those funds and and putting
it together. And it looks like just a
cursory look, Mr. Hurley, on our uh rec
department um facility uh reservation,
it is treated the same as um or other uh
shelter house houses at Schneider Park
um and the Clifton Shelter Jeffrey.
That's the memorial shelter that
actually has to be reserved.
Great. Thanks for checking on that. Um,
any other comments or questions from
council? All right, we don't have any
speaker slips on this one, so we are
going to move
on. Okay, first reading of ordinance
1725 to establish the speed limit on
Drexil Avenue between Main Street and
Broad Street at 25 miles per hour.
Introduced by Mr. Markham. Thank you.
You know, I know we're a lot of things
going on in the city. It's hard to keep
track of everything. So, I just want to
notify you those of you who weren't
paying attention that we did make some
slight modifications on Drexel Avenue
couple years ago. Uh some uh islands in
there. It doesn't say what the speed
uh study showed before then, but I know
it was 35 miles an hour and anecdotally
I think we were seeing speeds 50 mph
plus going down Drexel pretty regularly.
It was very wide. It was really somewhat
it felt
unregulated. Uh so well we've had our
couple years now uh with that in place.
Um and I think when you have something
here some data average speeds 28 to 30 m
per hour in the four area survey 85%
over the 35 mile limit. So we are now
tasked with setting the new speed limit
on truck Avenue and
thank you Mr. Markham. U Mr. Hurley,
just out of curious, I guess this is
probably a question for the mayor. So,
if I am driving south on Drexel as I get
close to Maine, right on the back of
Ben, there is a currently a speed limit
25
sign. Are we I guess is that area we
allow are we able to set the speed limit
currently because it's a like what
what's the rational for why that is 25
that little strip basically
commercial part of Yeah. as a state
route. State routes um under the Ohio
Revised Code allow for a speed limit of
25 miles per hour in commercial
districts. And so it's posted that as
such. Um and then the default would be
35 in an urban non-commercial uh
setting.
Mr. Silverman.
Yeah. Yeah, if I recall last council,
there was
a note from, I believe, ODOT that said
that their recommendation would be 30
miles an hour without any variance and
if we wanted to do 25, we would have to
submit to them. So, I'm just wondering
if you can explain a little more about
the ODOT decision and what that means
compared to what we are obviously
recommending on this ordinance would be
25. So, that would require additional
paperwork. Is that all? Is that all? Is
that a question for the mayor or Mr.
Official? I guess I'm just trying to
figure out because what I had read from
from that was that we can go to 30
without needing to do anything
additional, but to go to 25, we'd have
to take an additional step. So, I'm
trying to understand basically what is
ODOT saying back to us based off the the
the findings of the study. So, you want
to address that one? Be glad to make it
up.
president. Um the speed studies were
submitted to ODOT and ODOT looked at
them, reviewed them and said that they
would allow for them to go down to 30.
So OD ODOT has statutoily the ability to
lower this the speed in their routes.
They said, "But if you would like to
pursue 25 and it would have to be
through a councilmatic process or
through the city's own process." Mr.
official did the research on
that and um concluded that council could
lower the speed limit to 25 miles per
hour if if they wished. Yeah, it's kind
of a weird process and I'm not sure that
ODOT revealed everything until we got to
the end. Whatever we but we got to the
end and that's the important part. So,
it turns out that because it's a state
route and again through through a um
residential area and mayor is correct.
It's 35 miles an hour on the state
route, but since our state route is only
9/10 of a mile long on Drexel, we had
more flexibility, which allow I don't I
think the cut off's a mile. I can't I'm
not sure about that, but it doesn't
matter because we're below the cutoff.
And so, city council has it the o its
own authority to pass a resol. I mean,
an ordinance reducing it is what it
comes down to. um regardless of what
even speed studies even say, but ODOT,
as the mayor correctly points out, would
only do it change it below 35 based on a
speed study and they would only go as
far as 30 based on that study. But ODOT
would take no issue to the to whatever
the decision is on this ordinance
currently rated. Correct. Okay, Mr.
Marcelino. Yeah, I just wanted to uh
thank you, Troy, for uh for pushing this
forward and also uh to the mayor and the
team to look into this. I think it will
make Beexley safer. Uh that was
basically a highway in the middle of our
community. And uh just thinking about,
you know, how how much consideration we
give um to everyone here. I just think
it's a great great decision. I was going
down there uh the other day and I was
going 25 and I was like, I don't see how
this, you know, you can go 40 on this
throat at this point. I don't want
people doing it. So, I think it's great
and I appreciate the research that went
into it, the time you took with it, and
also pushing it forward. So, thanks,
Miss
Sod. It's a marathon, not a sprint. That
has been the uh what has happened here
with Drexel. I am ecstatic to see this
ordinance, Troy, in front of us. And um
I know a lot of my uh constituents and
neighbors will be as well. Um, the
project has definitely been um, embraced
and now we get to finish it. So, great
work, Troy, and I'm looking forward
to voting for this ordinance.
Thank you, Miss Sad. Um, hang on, Mr.
Hurley. Before we uh go back, I just
wanted to to share that it's my
understanding that is it East Broad and
Draxel right now are the only two
streets in Beexley that are 35 miles an
hour. Everything else is 25. Yep. Okay.
So, if this passes, then the only street
above 25 miles per hour is going to be
East Maine or East Broad. Yep. Okay. Uh
I also wanted to share
that however many years ago. Um this was
probably the issue that we heard most
about via email. We had at one meeting
three hours of public comment regarding
the road diet and being able to listen
to neighbors and our community members,
our business owners who lived or worked
on Drexel. And we did our very best to
um change the road diet so that we could
slow down traffic to hopefully convince
ODOT to have a lower speed. Um this this
is long overdue. So Mr. Markham, thank
you for bringing this to council. I
think Danny and Alex should go back and
listen to that.
We were we were going to ask for the for
the origin story. So, if you have
time origin history. Yes, that's that's
all I wanted to share. Any carousels?
Mr. Hurley, go ahead. First up, that
gives me a really fun idea for our next
holiday party. Um, so I
uh just a question. I know I know, you
know, in the buildup to the road diet,
there's a lot of community engagement.
Uh, do you have any plans with this
ordinance being out there to notify or
to kind of proactively reach out to
residents on drugs so they're aware? I'm
sure the support will be overwhelmingly
positive, but wasn't sure if there was
if there was still kind of a community
engagement or if it's, you know, folks
are expecting this because of the road
diet. Mr. Markham, I I assume that the
mayor will put that in his
communications out to the city as part
of that. and the signage will be there.
Yep. And I anticipate too that this is
probably going to go a full three
readings. So the public will have at
least three opportunities to tell us
what they think. You know, one of the
things that when you know, we've been
thinking about this and obviously uh the
mayor's done a great job there with the
the Draxal design and if you drive on
it, I think it is a challenge. You know,
it is a challenge. There's somebody had
mentioned like maybe it was the code of
the roundabouts too, right? Like how
people were like but like there's really
something uh that's I think positive
about making you pay attention to your
environment when you're driving
especially in an urban environment with
residences and businesses around. And it
is it's a growth process I think to
drive down Drexel versus the old Drexel.
But that's also because the old Drexel
was I mean if you'll permit me so
terrible. I mean it was just terrible
when we start to you know all kind of go
everybody has a story I feel like you
know and when I was talking to the mayor
I was like I want to share the story of
just one day I was driving down Drexel
and I was probably going I was at least
going 35 miles an hour. I'm probably
going 40 mile an hour. I don't know. And
then a car passed me. It It passed me,
you know, and I remember looking over
and I was like, what? You know, what is
going on here? And and so I think like
what we have there now is not only uh
it's a lot safer. uh it's a lot more
attractive. But I think uh Ben, you've
shared that anecdotally and maybe you
share whatever you want to share
anecdotally, but the neighborhood
certainly is appreciative of that. And
anybody that's lived in Beexley and
raised a family in Beexley knows that it
feels like the number one thing you get
concerned with at a certain point in
your life is traffic around, you know,
your neighborhood and you and your kids
and you're out, you know, and so I think
this is a a really a great uh step
forward for the city to have have this
happen. Thank you, Mr. Markham. Any
additional comments or questions from
council? Uh we don't have any speaker
slips on this one, so we will move on.
Okay, moving on to first reading of
ordinance
18-25 to amend the bed and breakfast
variance at 519 South Drexel Avenue in
the city of Beexley, introduced by Mr.
Marcelino. Yeah. Um this used to be a
multifamily home. Uh it was turned into
quite a gem of our community in 2013 uh
where a family took it over and lived
there and had a bed and breakfast. Um it
was sold in 2021 historically to Capitol
University um as I assume an investment
but also I think a teaching opportunity
or something was part of the discussion
in regards to students there looking to
get into the industry. Uh it has come
back up for sale recently. Um and it's
currently listed. And I know they've had
a lot of interest. Um but that interest
has not been from somebody that wants to
live in the facility itself. It's been
from people that want to live elsewhere
and run it. And I'm going to call it as
an Airbnb. And this is tough because
currently we're allowing the bed and
breakfast. But uh I think the proposals
that have come forward so far have been
all people looking to run it as an
Airbnb model, meaning that they live
elsewhere and that it's kind of they'll
have people going in there kind of to
clean it up, but there's not going to be
anybody on site. Um, I am bringing this
one forward because it clearly falls
underneath uh my metaphorical desk, so
to speak, though I don't have one here
at Cal City Hall. But, um, I'm bringing
forward because I don't know what to do
and I don't know how I feel about it
yet. Um, I'm not really in favor of it.
I'm not really against it. But the thing
that's driving me on this one is that I
I don't feel comfortable just letting it
be an Airbnb without us having some
understanding of who's running it. And I
keep on going back to uh to the idea uh
of candidly just the property on like
Chelsea, that family that somebody owns
it and they live in like California and
sometimes we can't get a hold of them or
we've had to find them or do all kinds
of things and we just don't have a
person to really point towards or once
we do find that person. They don't live
here so they don't care as much. I think
that it is such a special place that I
would like for it to have some tie to
our community. I would love if the
family wanted to live there, but I
understand that's a unique uh proposal.
So, it may not be possible at this
stage. Um, and so I wanted to kick it to
council for consideration. Um, and and
let you all kind of debate on it. And I
don't I don't know where I'll fault you,
but take a look at everything here.
Basically, what we're saying is that the
person would uh that was an investor
would basically live in Beexley. the
majority of the owners that have a
principal residence um within the city
of Beexley and that they have somebody
that's their employer, agent, orever
checking on the property on a daily
basis to make sure that it's in good
um in in in good condition. So, that's
kind of where we're at at this point and
then I would leave it to the mayor
additionally if you want to add
anything. Did you have anything to add,
mayor? just that um and I you might have
covered this, but just to be clear that
that this is being brought forward
because it's in contract um to somebody
who's asking for these accommodations.
Obviously, they have the right to ask
for a change in the existing use
variance. That's how capital purchased
it in the first place. It required a
change in that use variance. Council is
the only body that is allowed to grant
use variances in our code. Um and so it
the question is being asked by this
applicant who is vested as an applicant.
uh sorry as as a um as a somebody in
contract to the property to ask
question. Um so it's it's as as as with
other ordinances it's being written in
the affirmative. Um that doesn't mean
obviously the council supports it. It's
just an opportunity for you all to talk
through. Um we have met with we being
myself and um Megan Meyer and Matt
Clingler have met with the person who's
in contract or the entity in contract on
this and talked through you know what
what is what is their thought process.
We have tried to craft an ordinance that
would provide for reasonable controls
based upon what they're asking to do but
what they're asking to do is obviously
different from an owner occupant um B&B
model. So that also I guess I would say
um we have not represented to the
applicant that we think it's a slam
dunk. You know, we said it's a question
to be asked. There's a I think that
there will be a lot of good hearty
discussion around it and um I know that
they want to be in attendance at the
next two readings. So great. Thank you,
Mayor. Miss Sod had her hand up next. So
um like Mr. Marcelino stated, "I am also
seeking to learn, but I am hesitant to
approve a first time ever Airbnb setup
in our community. I've been a huge
proponent and fan of what the Beexley
bread bed and breakfast has done. I
voted for that along with other council
members here for this variance to
happen. So, some questions I have on it.
I do completely understand that in this
in the buying and selling of this unique
variance um not every family that owns
it would want to live on site. However,
I would like to propose that we look
into why would we not I believe this has
been um a revenue generating bed and
breakfast from um the people who have
used it over the past has it been three
years that we've had but I believe it's
been revenue generating so it's a
profitable
um purchase so um my question would be
why I completely understand not living
on site but why would we not ask that
there would someone hired to be on site
to oversee the occupants that are
renting the Airbnb to keep it as is
instead of living within it that you
actually have someone on site to
maintain it. Um so that's something I
would look for in this and then I my
question is why are we considering the
second floor
um lease extending outside of the 14
nights where currently the consecutive
nights would be up to a guest staying
there for 14 nights. Why are we looking
to amend the second floor extending out
further? So, my questions on this is why
could we not hire someone to oversee the
Airbnb to be there? Um, and we could
look at certain hours and then two is
why we'd be looking at uh additional
nights on that second floor. Thank you,
Mr. Marcelino or Mayor. Do you do you
have any answers for Miss Sad or uh we
can ask those questions at the next
meeting? No, given my position, I don't
have any answers. I I can answer in in
in theory from having talked to
different potential buyers and also
capital who currently owns it and their
thought process in selling. Um but I
would feel much more comfortable with a
more in-depth answer coming from the
actual applicant. I can tell you that
Capital has said that they have
struggled to make it pencil with on-site
on somebody on site just it's it's not
generating enough revenue to cover the
on-site employment aspect. And then the
various potential buyers who have
approached us asking about variance
different variances have expressed the
same concern that that if if they're you
know if it's not somebody who's it's a
passion project as an owner occupant
it's doesn't make sense to pay somebody
to be there is what is what we're
hearing and I think you'll hear that
when the applicant comes. Um the 14
night thought concept was that that
second floor is a self-contained full
apartment unit with a kitchen. And so it
could be actually like an apartment that
gets rented out as opposed to just
rented out by the night like a like an
inn. And I would say what and I am not I
am just trying to provide information
but I would say what differs from an
Airbnb model and what's being proposed
in this variance. An Airbnb
um would typically be like one unit
that's being rented out, but this is an
economic unit that would have five or
six units within it. And so you are
still managing multiple guests and
multiple different concerns and you
couldn't really have a situation where
you're allowing a bunch of partying to
happen because you got to keep the other
users of that in essentially that in
happy. Um, but it's really more like a
virtual guest house or virtual in than
it is like an Airbnb. Um, and I think
the model where it
requires somebody to live in the city
which Mark I think feels is legal
because we kind of talked through that
variances can have a lot of language and
have that ongoing touch point also makes
it a little bit different. But again,
I'm not I'm just trying to provide that
information as context of how it's just
to certain how it is different from a uh
traditional like European B model only.
Thank you, Mayor. Um not sure who had
their hand up next. Uh Mr. Silverman,
thank you.
Um, so when I was when I was reading
about this and also with the earlier
ordinance um on the accessory dwelling
units, I think the first thing that
caught my eye was the the discrepancy
between this one unit at the Drexel bed
and breakfast. They would allow somebody
to rent out
short-term without having to live in the
unit. whereas the
other variances we have would
require the main unit to be occupied. So
you're basically living on that parcel.
Um so there's reservations where we're
creating one
unique area that allows for per se a
virtual in or an inn without a person
there. Um and then we continue to have
variances to allow this bed and
breakfast to function.
But this new ordinance would would
basically make it irrelevant to a bed
and breakfast. It would it would become
six short-term rentals and one possible
long-term rental. Um, so I guess I' I'd
want to hear more from the applicant and
also as we start to to to research this
more. Um, I just worry about what we're
creating by allowing this one unit. And
I don't know how well we can hold that
to the person, the owner living in
Beexley. And then how are we going to
know that they're checking on the unit
on a daily basis? That's going to
increase code enforcement and and could
add to more issues. We have, let's say
it's fully occupied. How many different
people could be in that unit at one time
with
nobody responsible for supervision? I I
I can just see it. issues arising um
that we're kind of creating and hoping
for the best from a from a property
management perspective without having
much leverage. I think the the the the
reason that we want a property manager
on site or somebody who lives on site is
for those concerns. So, I'm just mindful
of of kind of what we're creating. I'm
all for
um more apartments, more places for
people to live, but I worry about this
specific one and have major concerns.
So, I look forward to hearing hearing
more over the next coming weeks. Thank
you, Alex. Mr. Early,
um thank you. And and I'm happy that the
the potential ownership group is going
to come in. Um, just a few questions and
again these may be better suited for
them but but mayor since you've met with
them. Are they intending to use Airbnb
as the actual booking
platform or Verbbo or are they
a question? Yeah, that'd be a question
to ask them. Yeah, because I and I know
I I asked because I I know with with
Airbnb and Verbbo
um there are restrictions. So, for
example, having someone come to the site
each day may actually violate Airbnb or
Verbo terms of use.
Um, does the I I know um you know the
bed and breakfast are they required to
do food service or is that an option?
Do you know that mayor?
We don't think we ever ever required
them to do do that. Okay. It was not
required. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Official.
Um, yes,
good to know. Good to
know. Um, you know, I I I guess I I'll
just say I, you know, having had family
visiting from out of town and staying at
the back, sleep, and breakfast. I would
we have no other real overnight
accommodation options. Um, I would love
to find a way to make this work. You
know, I, you know, I want to understand
more from the property owners about what
their plans are for it. I would love to
see it remain a bed and breakfast. I
don't, you know, have a concern, I
guess, about how they want to, you know,
if they want to do short-term rental. I
don't know. I I I would like to find a
way to make this work. Um, because it is
such a nice space right right by Main
Street, right by our commercial
corridor. Um, but uh yeah, we we'll see
what happens next week. But I'm I'm
excited to see this moving forward. I
hope we can uh find a way to make it
work and everyone can be happy. Thank
you, Mr. Hurley. Um, Miss Sad, just
another quick question on parking.
So, there can be up
to 12 adult guests. Correct. And
then how many parking spaces are there?
I don't even know. They're at the bed
and breakfast.
Mayor, do you know? I I don't I think
there's seven, but we have to I think
there's seven. I think permit it current
currently requires I believe one for
each unit plus one
for
the what was the owner occupied unit and
then became the caretakers unit if you
will and I believe the current this
ordinance requires seven as well. So I
think there's seven there. Thank you Mr.
Official. Mr. Markham, I
guess something I guess for them is
that their business model
here because I see where Jess is going.
I see what we have here and I just going
to say that to me I I I appreciate that
this
is helpful a little bit but it's also
sort of odd
right you know they pay the property at
least one time per
day that strikes me as odd I mean
probably
uninforceable who is going to check that
once a day is there you know to me that
what time of day does that
that to me either needs fleshed out or
explained to me
or be reassured that that's actually
going to
It's a good question Mr. Markham um
council at our next meeting um the
anticipated applicants will be here and
also for the third reading if I
understood you correctly so correct make
sure you come next time with all your
questions Mr. Marcelino, one one thing
just that I guess keeps me going back
and forth on this one just as we work
through it. If we decide to do it, I
think we have to be concerned about
where else may this issue present itself
and how are we going to look at that?
And if we decide not to do it, what do
we envision in that space? And is there
a better solution or a different project
that we're seeking? because uh I I just
think to be mindful and that's what's
causing me a lot of back and forth on
this one just personally. So I want to
get it out there where my kind of head
is at on it for you all to also help me
work through over the next couple
meetings. Thank you, Mr. Marcelino. All
right, seeing no further comments or
questions from council. Uh we don't have
any speaker slips on this one, so we
will move on. Mr. Official. Okay. First
reading, ordinance 19-25 to authorize
the mayor to enter into a five-year
employment contract with Chief Gary D.
Lewis Jr. introduced by Ms. Assad. Thank
you, Mr. Fishell. Um, it seems like it
was just yesterday that we had the uh
opportunity to hire Chief Lewis and now
we are here looking at renewal of his
contract. Um, very exciting.
you. It's very straightforward here
talking about the five-year employment
contract. Um I believe um at our next
meeting we will actually have the
contract attached. That's correct. Yeah,
that's our goal. So um I'm sure you were
all looking for that tonight and so just
uh Duly noted at our next meeting in
June it will be attached so we will be
able to review that. Um Mayor Kesler, do
you have anything else? just to explain
the timing that um currently Chief
Lewis's contract expires at the end of
August of this year. So, I was hoping
that we could get this passed uh prior
to going on recess, which actually would
make the emergency language in section
three
um unneeded. I I don't I think that
actually was just a carryover from uh
the prior ordinance. Uh so it would just
be at the you know earliest period of
law by law would be the language that be
in there. Um so we hope to have that
attachment at the next meeting. Probably
had to have an executive session in
order to answer any questions specific
to that. And then um the chief will also
be present at the next meeting if you
wanted to ask him any questions.
Um but I am I will say I'm delighted uh
that our chief uh wishes to continue
with the city. He's been um a
fantastic attribute, asset, improvement
uh to the fabric of our leadership team,
to our police department, to our
community over the past three years, and
I'm wholeheartedly supportive of this
ordinance. Thank you, mayor. Uh any
comments, questions from
council. All right, seeing none and no
speaker slips on this one, we will move
on. All right. First reading of
resolution
04-25 confirming the mayor's
appointments of members to the
architectural review board, the board of
zoning appeals and planning, the
recreation and parks board, the tree and
public gardens commission, the board of
health, the board of tax review, the
civil service commission, the citizen
review board, the CRA housing council,
the records commission, the
environmental sustainability advisory
committee, and to declare an emergency.
Mr. Hurley, thank you. So, it is uh I
guess that time of year again. We need
to confirm appointments to various
boards and commissions. Um I know the
mayor will explain this in depth. I
would just note there, as is often the
case with these resolutions, there's a
couple blanks where I would assume the
mayor is still intervening candidates.
And if I'm reading this correctly,
mayor, uh the only new name on here
would that be Miss Giller as an
alternate member of the Tree and Public
Gardens Commission. Everyone else is
currently serving in these roles. Yeah,
I'm sorry. I meant to have that
highlight removed by the time that we I
am still confirming that she's continue
as an alternate. So I have confirmation
from all of our other members. Um and
then we have a couple blanks in those as
you said to note um openings that we are
interviewing for right now. Excellent.
Thank you, Mr. Hurley. Um Mayor, section
8 has council members Marcelino and Sad
potentially being appointed to the CRA
Housing Council. Do we think they're up
to it? I apologize. I we had a lot of
ordinances and resolutions that I have
not called everybody I needed to call
about this. So, let me uh let me confirm
this. Section 8's a little unique.
Section 8 is actually your section. Ohio
advised code allows council or asks
council to appoint two members to the
CRA Housing Council. So, you guys get to
craft this how you want. This is a
suggestion. The CRA Housing Council is
really hardworking council. It meets
once a year for about 30 minutes and it
confirms that the abated properties in
Beexley are being used consistent with
the the use of the abatements. So
currently that is one unit at one Dawson
and that is the housing units at the
Grammarcy building and so the CR the
current CRA housing council objective is
to physically verify that those units
are still residential uh to a reasonable
degree and typically that means meeting
the dorman and saying are these still
being occupied by residences and he says
yes that's right uh so it's a fairly um
preuncter task council. You get to
choose who you want on it. I we usually
have council members on it because at
that way you're not asking some poor
citizen to once a year remember what is
it I'm doing here and act kind of
confused and come to the mayor's
solicitors party and say why am I
getting a free cocktail. So that's uh
great that's a great explanation and so
I apologize Mr. Marcelino. I think I had
touch base with you about that. It's
just a shame I'm busy that that year, so
I don't know if I'll be able to craft
out 30 minutes.
Council, are there any other comments,
questions on this one? As Mr. Hurley
indicated, um we will be filling in the
blanks and um probably amending or
updating this one in the weeks to come.
All right, seeing none, we also don't
have any speaker slips on this one, so
uh we will move
on. Mr. Fishell, was that it? That is it
except for anything about the table
ordinances and I know 1120 or resolution
ordinance. I know 11:25 is subject to
the um hearing next meeting. So I assume
that on that correct I don't have any
action for ordinance 11-25 given our
public hearing is scheduled for June
10th. Um council I wanted to have just a
brief discussion um on resolution
2-25. Um, I move to remove resolution
2-25 from the table for discussion
purposes only. Could I please have a
second? Second. Second by Mr. Marcelino.
Mr. McPeek, would you please call the
role?
Mr. Marcelino, yes. Mr. Hurley, yes.
Miss Sod, yes. Miss Lampy, yes. Mr.
Markham, yes. Mr. Silverman, yes.
Resolution is removed from the table.
Thank you. Um, council, I know that uh
as even as recently as today, we were
receiving uh input and feedback on this
from some of our constituents and
residents. Um, I anticipate that we will
probably still be getting some feedback
here in the next uh week or two. Uh, I
also note that we are uh without council
member Fible tonight. And in the past,
uh, sometimes when there have been, uh,
pieces of legislation that are uniquely
important to our council members, but
also to our residents and business
owners, we as a council have decided to
maybe not vote on something until all
seven council members are present. I
think Miss Sad felt the felt very
strongly as well. Do you have anything
to add to that, Missad? I just think
that we've I don't know that we have any
uh urgency on
um voting on this tonight and I do feel
that um Miss Fible I think we're all
better in person and so having her here
um to vote on this with us. We also to
your point got more emails that I
haven't even been able to I don't know
about my fellow council members but from
today um digest but I I think we've
taken a good amount of time with this. I
do think that um we're getting close to
everybody doing their due diligence that
we need need to be taking a vote, but I
don't know that um I believe tonight is
the night. So um but I would love to
hear from the rest of council. Yes, Mr.
Marcelino. Yes, I I appreciate you uh
having that thought and the idea to wait
for Miss Fable, Councilwoman Fible. Uh
you know, I think as council members, we
all kind of have votes that the city
wants to ask us about. where did you
land on this and having a record of that
and having everybody here to give their
input and their opinion on is important
especially somebody like uh Councilwoman
Fial who has such a long-standing
history on council um from that. So I
just really appreciate you uh wanting to
take the additional time and without a
deadline on our end. I don't see any
need not to uh hold off on this. I'm
going to give the credit to Miss Sad for
uh asking that we uh maybe postpone this
vote. So good idea, Miss Sad, Mr.
Hurley.
Um yeah, just two uh two items. First, I
you know, just want to commend the mayor
and I know Megan's not here. Um and the
chief's not here, but I appreciated the
email that we received from uh the staff
at Christ Lutheran. Appreciate the
outreach there. Um seems like that went
a long way to, you know, not resolving
their concerns, but at least letting
them know they've been heard and that
we're taking a very thoughtful approach
to this and that whatever we do with
this resolution, you know, the the
conversation's far from over. So, just
thank you for that. Um, you know, the
only thing, you know, I I guess the last
council meeting I I talked about, you
know, could we have a plan B or
something sort of to to tell folks that
maybe, you know, it seems like most
people in back say I've yet to hear from
somebody who's opposed to having a BRT
stop. I think the only real hiccup is
some people aren't sold on the location.
We could have a plan B. It seems like
there wasn't a lot of support for that.
Um, you know, the one other thing I
just, you know, and you know, mayor and
I can have a conversation offline. I
don't know if we need to tweak the
languages. I just want to make sure
that, you know, when all is said and
done on the design piece of this and we
we know what it's going to look like. We
know, you know, the costs associated. I
mean, I I do want council to have, you
know, an affirmative vote whether or not
to move forward. Not because I have, you
know, I I'm I want to be RT stop in
Beexley. I just I mean, I think that's
what's expected of us. I think that is
appropriate. So I don't know if that
takes the shape of approving a contract
with Kota or if it's another resolution
where we just simply say having seen all
the information because we don't have
that final design. We don't have you
know the fiscal impact just so we get
one more chance before you I I think the
public would expect that of us. But um
you know I I after I was thinking
through after our last council meeting
and I I you know want to be very clear
I'm 100% supportive of having BRT
service in Beexley. think this is great.
Um, you know, there's a lot of, you
know, okay, it's going to open and then
Dakota is going to figure out what to do
with number two. I mean, there's a lot
of, you know, in that in that mid
midyear or midtime frame, a lot of
things that are going to have to be
worked out, but um, that's just where I
am with it. I would just like to know
that that at some point, you know, next
year, year and a half, we will have a
final affirmative vote. I don't want
this to be the only word council has on
it, but thank you so much, Mr. Hurley.
Um, is council generally uh all right
with waiting until all seven council
members are present before considering a
vote on
this? All right, I'm seeing that. Mr.
Mayor, did you want to add anything
before I make a motion? No, I'm good.
Thank you. Okay, council, I move to put
back on the table resolution 2-25. Can I
please have a second? Second. Second by
Mr. Marcelino. Mr. McPeek, would you
please call the role? Mr. Silverman,
yes. Mr. Markham. Yes. Mr. Hurley. Yes.
Mr. Marcelino. Yes. Miss Sad and Miss
Lami. Yes. Resolution 225 is tabled.
Thank you, Mr. Mi. Uh we are now to uh
agenda item number 16, public comments.
Is there anyone in attendance who would
like to turn in a speaker slip at this
time? Okay. Seeing seeing none, um Mr.
Markham for safety.
All right. No report. Uh, Mr. Silverman
for service and environmental. No
report. Wow. On a roll. Missad finance.
Um, yes. Just wanted to remind everybody
that the Petals for Pancake event is
Saturday, June 14th, and we are back at
Commonwealth uh park. So, please uh
spread the word. And there's no age
limit on the kids who can bike. Um the
registration now goes through directly
instead of park and wreck. It goes
through pedals for pancakes. Um would
like to note Trisha Gawkstetter years
ago started this whole event and now
you're seeing it all over Columbus. Um
many Pedals for Pancakes events are
taking off and it started here in little
old Beexley. The pancake flipper guy is
back. So um get out there. He's a lot of
fun. and any council members who would
like to help and volunteer um that day,
we will take you. So, just let me know.
End of report. Thank you, Miss Mr.
Hurley for strategic and health. Uh land
use commission meets tomorrow at Oh, is
that meeting postponed?
Yeah, it's instead because we didn't
have a ton of attendance. So, we're
sending out the draft new drafts pages
for like virtual feedback and then I
have a I think one scheduled in July.
So, I haven't looked at my latest. Yeah,
I checked the city calendar so we just
confirm that that's taken off. But land
use commission does not meet tomorrow.
Um July 14th. July 14th. Thank you,
mayor. Uh and just, you know, as as the
mayor said, you know, it's it's summer
in Beexley and I mean I was at Jazz in
the Park yesterday. That was awesome.
I'm excited for all the events this
weekend. Uh, you know, mayor, credit to
you and your staff. I thought the
Memorial Day service was was really
inspiring and, you know, I it was just a
really nice event. Um, appreciate State
Senator Hershel Craig coming to offer
remarks and then to those involved in
the AsianAmerican and Pacific Islander
Festival at a that continues to just
grow and be such a great event. Um, we
had a blast there with the kids. So,
just a lot of fun things happening and
Beexley and I am very excited for
summer. Thank you, Mr. Hurley. Uh, Miss
Fibble did not have a report this
evening. Mr. Marcelino, zoning and
development. No report. All right. Um,
council, we are on to adjournment. Our
next meeting is June 10th. I move to
adjourn. Can I please have a second?
Second. Second by Mr. Marcelino. All in
favor say I. I. that want to