and then your best feature in
oh there's the chief too look at him
uh hi Beecher
he looks a little too comfortable
it's okay I just said okay
hello Troy
oh there I am
foreign
what's going on
thank you welcome to the Tuesday May
23rd uh meeting of Bexley city council
and uh we're back on video tonight
exciting for everybody here in the room
hopefully everybody combed their hair
whatever
anyway I would like to uh thank all of
you
for your service to our city
and Mr McPeak good to have you here
thank you for your service how uh you
liking this warm weather this week
yeah
and you're super active out there right
and it's your assessment that we're
heading straight into summer from here
on out no more cold weather
professional assessment as the auditor
excellent I'll tell you what we're a
little bit light tonight but we better
take the roll call and see uh who we got
bye I'm here here
inside here no uh move to uh make Ms
Robinson and Mr marcelino's absences
excuse they both uh contacted me and are
unavoidably uh busy tonight any uh I
guess I need a second to that second all
in favor say aye
aye all opposed same sign
please raise join me for the Pledge of
Allegiance
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the
Republic for which it stands one nation
under God indivisible with liberty and
justice for all
right we have some special guests here
tonight and a very exciting fun
presentation as well Mr Mayor do you
wanna welcome
yes
um
do okay yeah sorry I'm sorry I was I
thought public comments was next yes so
we are uh we are privileged to have with
us some gentleman here from Aspen energy
uh to talk about
um our electric aggregation program we
do have a first reading this evening we
might want to actually do that read the
reading okay which is part of this uh
section ordinances with special guests
um so if you want to go ahead we have uh
oh we have Melanie Williamson here
tonight instead of uh Mr Fishel thanks
all right
um our first reading of ordinance 1623
to approve the supplier for the city of
Bexley electric aggregation program
introduced by Miss feibel
so exciting so glad that you guys are
here with us I think all of us remember
that we passed an ordinance
um last year that said that indeed we
can do aggregation
um with our uh electrically
um or however
um if we if we found a a good a good
rate but the rate and all the specifics
would have to come back to us before we
could pass it and
um being very prudent
um the mayor guided us to put a halt to
um furthering actually doing it until we
did until we did get that so that our
our community would benefit from that
but um it's very exciting this is I talk
all the time about the different RS that
we have recycle reuse repurpose this
one's rethink I think
um we're rethinking a better way of
doing things so no further Ado Mr mayor
would you like to introduce the
gentlemen that are here to speak to us
yeah if you guys want to come up to the
podium John and
thank you and you even say that
um thanks so much for joining us uh we
as Council knows to start to add to what
Lorena just said uh we put the brokerage
contract to bid Aspen energy is our
selected
um broker or consultant
fill in the blank for the for the term
of the phrase tons of experience with
other municipalities throughout Ohio
um just recently I think you wrapped up
Shaker Heights which is similar to
Bexley in some ways
um and uh
you're here to talk about where we are
in the time timeline and what this looks
like going forward
electric education
places so we've been helping out uh
getting everything certified passed
through and getting really trying to get
this process moving because of uh
no more reasons one is A3 is where it's
kind of happening there and the great
Skyrocket that's happening
um the two we're looking at
um
people about 450 to 500 for household
savings and also going to make
back from
I think we've got an extra week in there
maybe
yep three weeks
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thank you
and creating me because did you miss the
cutoff date 21 days what's the program
interchange they can certainly call us
and then we can help with it later
excellent any comments questions
yeah Mr Klingler
what is the opt-out process
um
uh
services
foreign
thank you
the program won't be about starting to
save last week
Miss lamke
and you maybe go back to basics for me
and tell us
about the type of clean energy that this
program
includes and why our residents should
truly be interested in participating in
this
most likely which is the most affordable
most reasonable way to do between energy
together and that's where we give up and
cigarettes as well
um idea we need to have Ohio
assets that we could use right now with
how things have changed at the state
house or divorce they put in place for
our new uh builds are done
how the log works with them that's
really hard to do anything
uh pjm the grid operator is also
extremely backed up so it's just really
not ideal right and it's not as possible
to have local or high on the green
energy right now so we're doing the next
best thing available energy credits
um which we will be able to say hey this
is how much harder than yellow set
through this survey so that's something
that we'll be able to come up with uh
specific information on a if you're
signing the customer we have here's how
it was probably we're all set in by
buying these removable Energy payments
and as we move forward with the program
we can look at some of Ohio options
where it's affordable and resource we'll
bring it to you and you can decide what
we're about to
and
um is there a good website or other
resources where you could direct me to
if I wanted to kind of learn more so
that
I have more information at the next
reading
so if you punch in the amount of
kilowatt hours of the load we're
projecting it to be around 38 39 million
kilowatt hours and you'd actually have
you know the number of cars of gasoline
and cars that you take off the road each
year
I think we got some of that information
already based on estimates it looks like
it'd be roughly 6100 cars per year to
take off the road by implementing
interesting programs that's exciting
to supplement that Monique we do have
the resources from before about a look
at the congregation in general and some
pages on our website so I can send those
to you again and also to highlight I
think the hope is not just to have
renewable credits but because of the
pricing today that it's going to be more
than competitive pricing we're
projecting I think I heard you say a
savings most likely for households in
Bexley
per house
just on our website yeah so
pending pricing from the market but
that's right
right yeah
thank you that's exciting yes Mr Klinger
just real quick from a logistical and
like a billing standpoint or your
generation cost right and tnd cost is is
it all one bill still from AEP and
you're on it just says Aspen energy for
the generations
uh there is going to be a bump up in
that there's just on the news again
today so transmission rates are going up
it's in other reasons why we need to put
things in place to be able to save
people money on the generation
I think with this program you're going
to be able to make an environmental
impact and you're going to be able to
save people
that's pretty great I know we've been
thinking about uh this for a while and
exciting to have you here and uh
like we're gonna see you again on June
13th then and you'll bring in the silver
briefcase and open it and show us the
rate
be excited all right thank you both
thanks guys appreciate it
uh Mr mcpeek do we have any speaker
slips
all right I have no president's report
tonight I will turn it over to Melanie
Williamson for
no City
no City attorney report
we'll move it right back to you Mr
mcpeek for the auditor's report
just a brief update
um feature and I have a ball with the
Moody's radio so as uh I think we shared
in a previous meeting the rating agency
has changed the way at which they're
looking at municipalities and ultimately
changing and potentially could change
how cities like Bexley are related so we
had a ball it was a 30-minute call it
was incredibly helpful
um the analysts and reassurance that
we're reading stays the same so it's
double a double A1 which is you know
just you know second highest rating we
can get and we also looked at
essentially how these calculations are
run and you know as we start looking at
uh I'll close the cash just 20 years
apart
um also my love just wonky things
happening in the economy
um as we went through it and looked at
our rating uh
within that category so I feel
comfortable that all the things that
were going on within the city and all
the things going on in the uh
you know macroeconomic conditions that
are waiting will stay consistent so
nonetheless if you or anyone in the
community has questions around movies
ratings and the impact to the the city
um certainly feel free to reach out to
be happy to sit down and talk through
that
um so we can all be educated on it
that's fantastic thank you for you know
thank you for the great work like
keeping an eye on things like that and
asking those questions I think that
really that's really great to know
we'll move on to
um oh unless there's any question I'm
sorry I should spin this around any
questions for our auditor
and if not we'll turn over to the mayor
for the administrative report
thank you president Markham
um Chief Lewis uh is with us via Zoom
this evening
I'm going to pull up his report and then
good evening sir
good evening can you hear me okay
hold on one second we're
working on making sure audio works on
our end
are you able to hear me
I can't yes okay good
and as you're why don't you check your
output
can I make another Edition to the
auditor's report
I think the time is right okay wonderful
I I just thought I would share that
amongst this group
um we have a fabulous coach who over the
past year has not has won not just one
Championship oh my goodness two what
three championships within the fifth
grade boys and that is coach Klingler
um last night was that yeah for the
fifth grade baseball team
um all uh yeah with uh councilman
pointless uh great tutelage so you know
very excited I just heard cats that's
all I make sure they're in the right
spots and that's that's it they worked
hard those boys uh you know finished 500
for the season but then really came
together at the end and won three
tournament games and took home the
diocese Championship oh that's a basic
congratulations in in dramatic fashion
in a couple games no no coaching
ejections either I hope no he was a
fabulous yeah it was it was um
did he did a fabulous job very Skillet
behind
No I
um I keep scorebook on a bucket right by
right in the Dugout and like I gotta you
know I had no parent volunteers want to
keep scorebook this year so and that's a
you have to keep pitch counts and the
whole nine so it's it's kind of I have
two great assistants that do the
uh basis through the basis yeah low
pressure with the auditor there watching
you too you know yeah in his and
honestly his uh he did not mention his
son through an amazing three innings in
the championship game started us off and
only yeah really well
parent volunteers
Chief try try again and see if our your
audio is working
can you hear me
we got it
for troubleshooters over here
go you it's your turn go for it
well um prior to just opening it up for
questions from the report submitted
yesterday
and met with the judges in Franklin
County court and upon entry of seeing
all of the top brass in Franklin County
the courtroom coach uh Klinger had been
mentioned in that room and so
um his legacy spreads far and wide and
so I would uh be remiss if I didn't
acknowledge the congratulations for the
championship and just how his coaching
um Legacy is starting to spread well
outside of Bexley
all right Chief uh
I'm gonna pull up your report and if
there's anything you want to highlight
in it
that'd be great
am I am I do I have the right document
here
oh that's sorry that was the attachment
my bad
that is the correct one yes sir
um not not included in the report but I
will say from a timeliness
uh yesterday the news media was
reporting a number of uh breaking and
enterings that were happening in Bexley
and um I've sentries out to the news
media to have them correct that they are
businesses adjacent to Bexley
um not in Bexley and so I know that that
generated some concern in the community
so we did get back with that outlet And
the reporter and they're doing a a
follow-up story tonight to correct it
and change that narrative so just if
anyone has gotten any questions
um I wanted to make sure and share them
uh Miss sod
Chief thank you so much for doing that
when um the news outlets get it wrong I
really appreciate us getting it right so
thank you so much for taking the time to
make sure there's a follow-up on that
much appreciated in addressing that
tonight to council
um
so interns I saw on your report interns
at the um Police Department is that
something internships that we've done in
the past
we have not this is a new idea and
concept um you know we have gotten a
number of young people who are either in
their junior senior year who have been
looking for criminal justice Public
Safety
um internships for the summer and so I
thought would you know after um one call
and then two calls I thought maybe we
needed to do something different and
really open up this as an opportunity to
let them engage
um and so we will have two young ladies
who are both criminal justice Majors
that will be working with us and they're
in the police department they have a
number of credit hours to meet the
expectations I've been in communication
with both of their professors they're
coming from two different universities I
think this has a chance to do a lot and
a lot of good not just with with them in
particular but just building on it for
the future
yeah thank you so much chief for giving
us that update I look forward to hearing
more about that are the two um college
students are they Bexley residents or
are they from other areas of Columbus
um they're from other areas the irony
though is that one of them is a daughter
of a physician in Bexley and so there is
a not a direct but yet an indirect
connection so we're excited about her
being apart during the one Bexley
project one of the attendees had
approached me and said hey chief so
excited that um you know my doctor's
daughter is going to come over an intern
with you and so you know it's already
generating some great conversation alone
and we haven't even started it but we'll
be starting next week
that's great
any other questions oh Monique
Chief thank you for your uh update
earlier today uh when I asked about an
arrest that was made this morning of an
individual who we believe has been
breaking into Bexley
businesses uh I I did ask you what if
anything the BPD can do to maybe
um
heighten their police patrol for our
business corridors during the night
would you share with Council uh the
Department's plan to maybe
increase
policing for some of our businesses
during nighttime hours please
yes ma'am absolutely so one of the
things we're getting away from just the
standard driving our Cruisers On All
Ships and on the midnight shift in
particular it truly is getting out of
the car utilizing a flashlight doing
true walk-arounds and walk-throughs many
of our businesses and I have to say it
has been extremely productive we get
updates every day about what has
happened in the previous night and so
we're finding a lot of our businesses
with unlocked doors Windows security
systems not functioning so we've already
seen some success but I think that um on
the heels of these recent attempts at
breaking and entering increasing that
and just doing things very different
with the visibility
with the walk arounds and then also
doing some playing clothes if and when
needed
um and using that as another resource
great thank you and then my last
question was I know tomorrow you have a
retirement celebration at the BPD thank
you so much for inviting Council and
City leadership to that could you remind
me of the hours that you'd want us to
come by yes ma'am so tomorrow from 11
A.M to 1pm we're going to do two things
tomorrow one this will be the first time
that we're really recognizing those who
have served the Bexley community and
have retired and then two one of our
existing dispatchers who has served the
Bexley Community for 39 years many years
as a parking enforcement officer and and
most recent the last 12 is a dispatcher
so we'll really do both and really focus
on on them tomorrow so we're excited
about the recognition for Janet but
we're also excited to bring in many of
the retirees from over the years and
even some of their spouses who are
surviving I mean again during the one
Bexley um project that we were able to
connect with with one of the the spouses
he is he's passed on but
um she's going to be there tomorrow so
we're really excited about it great
we'll see you then
uh Matt
yeah I was just going to commend you on
um the amount of business checks uh 1586
year-over-year versus five is
outstanding um and that's a direct
reflection of your leadership and we
really appreciate what you've done to
reach out to the community thanks thank
you yes thank you thank you
any other questions for the chief
thanks so much chief for uh joining us
this evening
yes sir have a great evening thank you
um wreck and park update Mike Price
thank you mayor um no additional update
it's in writing and happy to answer any
questions
mine isn't a question mine's just a
comment which I wanted counsel I
certainly could have shared this with
just you Mike but I wanted counsel to
hear this too
um I was at a lacrosse game last night
the Saint Charles lacrosse game and I
was talking to a mom and we were we were
sharing what our kids are doing this
summer
and she happens to be from
Blacklick her husband happens to be a
Gahanna Police Officer
um but uh and so her son lives in
Blacklick but he's going to be a
lifeguard I think for the second year in
a row and he enjoyed his time last year
so much that he shared that information
and there are two other friends of his
again not Bexley kids but kids who will
be joining you
um to tell with the pool so I just
wanted to share with you that there must
be something that's going right that
they're passing their own pools in their
own neighborhoods to come to ours to
work so
we had a meeting this past Sunday and uh
they did indicate a that their retention
rate is much higher than the previous
years of 50 and same thing they said
they had a lot of
uh you know referrals from the existing
staff of their new staff exists because
a lot of referrals so that's been great
I just knew that it was a concern I know
it was a it was something we were we
were concerned about certainly something
was like Miss lamke has has noted and I
was um thrilled to think that you know
that there's a lot of Youth that really
enjoy being in Bexley and not only do
they want to go to school here but they
would also like to work here so maybe
someday they'll want to live here so
yeah so
like I know that the pool is opening and
that is exciting
uh and I know on your report you do
mention the new feed structure or get
any feedback from that of any sort are
there any changes in memberships sold
yeah I mean our membership continues
continue to grow
last time
uh it's still Below in terms of
number of individual memberships we had
last year I think we talked uh maybe the
last meeting how that was a really high
year for us
um
you know I would expect which is typical
we see a lot of registration you know
the first weekend's budget the weather's
been uh so it'll be interesting to see
you know what we see this weekend I we I
will continue to try to encourage
residents uh if they haven't bought the
membership try to do it online before
they go it'll save a lot of time waiting
in line to show up with 400 other people
that are trying to buy a membership on
that first day it takes a lot of
processing
um you can do it online it can be done
really quickly and you'll have your your
QR your code your barcode membership
immediately so it didn't encourage that
but
um anytime will tell it's it as I've
said before it's it's a completely shift
in the structure of our memberships it's
also the timing of all of that is sort
of relevant we didn't have an early bird
thing
um so anytime time will tell whether we
see an increase or lot or otherwise but
um you know we have interesting enough
we have maxed out we are on a weight
loss for our non-resident sponsored oh
really
thanks
all right well keep us posted on that
just you know Mike I have to mention
teen night teen night so May 12th uh
Friday May 12th was the first
um City teen night and it was held at
the temporary space the senior center
um it was a success I know because I
stopped in and it was pouring down rain
and the kids did not care they loved the
Kona Ice and the Papa John's Mike and
his staff were giving extra time that
night 6 to 10 p.m four hours of more
service than you already do
um a lot of the kids stayed in till 10.
so a great success communities excited
about it what do you got next
was a ton of fun uh we had you know
I just sort of show up the staff
actually needed all the work
um and uh the group really enjoyed it
even though the weather was uh raining
um that was my biggest concern you throw
this party for this age kid and are they
going to be sitting there going this
late
um
I would have used I'm not sure they even
said Lane they might as well some other
term but uh they really got into it they
had a blast and uh so we were excited to
see that response because
first time you try something you know uh
it sets the tone for any other future
opportunities with this group so we're
going to do a um after hours pool party
uh for this age group
um we are going to do uh Halloween event
the day before we do our adult Halloween
bash of the decorations will all be up
uh for this age group we are also
planning on doing a uh school year trip
uh to either Kings Island or Cedar Point
for their Halloween one of their
Halloween weekends
um so we're continuing to sort of build
on this
um
so far so guys I appreciate it I wanted
to just note
um working with the Bexley Education
Foundation they've really put a focus on
as far as fundraising on Mental Health
um with the teens since the pandemic and
what they're seeing and what you're
doing here is a part of that so thank
you so much for
these programs and recognizing that
that's needed for teens
um and uh you know the center has really
gotten a lot of positive use to our
community from a lot of different
perspectives so it's been really
important
how many questions for Mike
um I just wanted to commend councilwoman
Saad for asking Parks and Rec to
um do maybe a presentation at our June
27th council meeting regarding the way
that the senior center has been used how
often it's been used things that have
been ex success I know that's going to
be a lot of information to put together
but I really do appreciate you Jessica
asking for that because I think that we
are all interested in in getting that
information so thanks for agreeing to do
that for us Mike
any questions
Mike uh how did the Jeffrey Mansion
master plan Workshop or working group go
today just curious you had a great we
have uh we're obviously blessed this
community to have a lot of wonderful
volunteers we've got a great group
together uh we had a lot of good
discussion
um you know we we have contract with ohm
to facilitate moving forward this is
sort of a kickoff meeting that Mitchell
hm did not attend although we'll make
sure they have notes from this meeting
uh but we had a lot of good discussion
around it
um talked a lot about preservation being
a key Point uh with this limited
resource that is Jeffrey Park
um you know I think we still are having
good discussion around sort of what what
this plan will be what will be the focus
um but I think we got a good group of
people and uh they were really engaged
today so it was it was I think a good
good start to the process
all right
moving on I believe
next up is
uh service department Mr Bayshore
yeah I have nothing to add to my written
report tonight but happy to answer any
questions
any questions for Andy
Jess
Andy you mentioned in your report the um
sewer lining project and where we're at
and where we're going so um the storm in
sanitary sewers on Aster Avenue between
Pleasant Ridge and college are being
scheduled for early June
um so they'll receive or they've already
received they've already received one
notice but we will make sure we notice
them again before awesome thank you
yes ma'am
Andy I wanted to give kudos to your
service department for the senior
banners that are up this year it means
even more because my daughter is up
there
um so I appreciate you guys doing that
and also just wanted to commend you on
Drexel every time I drive by I see a new
bump out some new work that's been done
uh you really are change changing that
street for the better so it's much much
appreciated thank you
any other questions for Andy
all right thank you Andy
uh
uh Mr Hale
yeah I'm having technical difficulties
okay we can hear you
okay I can get the video to work
but I guess that's not necessary I don't
know what's you can watch that video
because it was lost or disabled okay
well you're not going to get video
um but uh
Matt and I decided to give our the
report a little bit just the summer the
summary sheet
um which Just Hits on the main things
um so I don't have to go through a bunch
of comments or anything like that
um so if you go through that summary
sheet you'll see the main drivers and
what's going on with our general fund
um and you get down to the bottom and at
Point number four that's really where
the rubber meets the road we're 1.9
million dollars better than forecasted
um and then as you go through the report
of the charts has comments that are more
more detail oriented on some of the
different departments and revenue items
um but that's the gist of the report
we'll be giving you now just a summary
so if there's any questions I'll be glad
to take questions
did everybody love this I I I I just
loved it I opened this up and uh
beecher's bottom line uh is obviously a
picture of feature in younger days
what do you mean younger days
I just loved it really really great
thank you to you and Matt for putting
this uh sort of new format out there it
was a lot of fun to read and I look
forward to
thank you Troy any questions for Beecher
good work Beach good clip art
yeah I think it's from 1981.
Monique has a question for you Beach
it's not related to the Great Clip Art
although it is really really great
um at the last meeting I had a resident
ask me if I knew if we currently charged
interest on assessments uh I don't know
the answer I'd like to get back to uh
that Resident who is sitting here
um I don't know if at some point maybe
you could look into that or maybe you
and the mayor could look into that and
then just let me know so that I can
provide the answer I can tell you that
the only assessments I'm aware of that
we are charging interest on are the ones
for the sewer
um remediation program
and we
I don't have the notes in front of me
how we came up with us I think it was a
one-year treasury bill plus a certain
percentage
um and that's what we do but the other
assessments we have for
um you know people that don't clean up
their property and whatnot I'm not aware
of any interest being charged on that
mayor you might be able to speak to that
as well you know you're correct and just
uh the the one exception you mentioned
is spot on um in that instance it's a
contracted loan so the interest rate is
a part of the agreement in the first
place okay thank you for that
thank you
it has come to my attention
foreign
I just that's not fair it's the dog park
committee
um we have a couple other updates for
year the parks there is a um
we're looking to have some preliminary
designs on the bridge coming up uh we
have received bids for the Follies they
have come in under our budget number
which is great and hopefully we'll be
rewarding that contract tonight at our
Board of control
um
one Bexley project went really well this
past week we'll be doing some continued
meeting and I have you can read my I'm
not going to read my whole updates but
there's some more information on that
there I am going to read my human
resource contract update because I gave
you guys an update in the last meeting
but I don't think I read it out loud
which is that uh We've interviewed the
firms that have expressed interest
um frankly the pricing came in a lot
higher than I had anticipated and at
this point is basically the one the one
sort of viable candidate from the mix it
was going to be about ninety six
thousand dollars a year so it makes us
really rethink the idea of doing a
dedicated staff member for HR so
um Mark and I are going to be working on
a job description
um and we're gonna
probably what I have to figure out with
our leadership team whether we post that
and see what sort of interest there is
uh before bringing forth a formal in an
ordinance for it which is probably my
preference
um just to gauge uh it's got to be
obviously when you have one person who's
a department of one would really want to
have a very solid candidate with that
um our Nola is now open so go enjoy some
boiled seafood and fried seafood and
other occasion Fair uh on Main and
casting and ham we held our recycle
bikes annual event and I'm gonna pull up
some of these photos here
uh
because they oh oh fake out photos
aren't right here
it opens the wrong one
uh oh my
there's some photos of one Bexley public
Workshop we distributed over 60 bikes to
families and kids in need at the darn
block party those bikes are all uh are
all donated and volunteers work year
round to fix them up for this annual
event and then other supplementary
events throughout the year
but there's some photos from our
voluntary bike mechanics pollen the if
you haven't seen it the alley on
Sherwood behind Starbucks got the love
your alley treatment
uh it started with
uh the concept of I had brought Andy out
there actually to paint the bollards and
then we just we just discovered they're
actually on private property so we we
gave the love your alley folks a
challenge to reach out to the property
owners and see if they would agree and
some of them did and you can see what
happens when you let them paint the
bollards not that our service Crews
wouldn't have done the same but it's a
nice artistic treatment
John Lang received his Eagle Scout he
helped assemble 40 beds raise money for
them to distribute to Refugee families
and the hand delivered them himself to
40 families throughout Central Ohio
and then that handsome gentleman is Andy
Bayshore standing in front of
one of if not the first all-electric
pickup truck in a municipal Fleet in
central Ohio
good job Andy
Now Matt Klingler it is no street
sweeper I admit but
here's how rock star Andy Bayshore is so
when we first performed this it was a
forty thousand dollar vehicle
and then Ford we had some reservations
in on it we had done our
we had done our return investment and
payoff period and everything looked
great then Ford raised the price to like
52 and then they raised it again to 55
and again to 58 or whatever it's a 58
right now
and so we have been really dejected
through that process
um although plot twist there's now a 7
500 Federal Credit uh for purchasing
which has actually changed the numbers
again on us but Andy
the sleuth that he is reached out to
every car dealership in Ohio and found a
a man card sales managers model that he
had it's 2 900 miles on it for the year
uh sold it to us for forty three
thousand dollars which is the same price
a conventional F-150 was going to be as
we were exploring what we'd have to pay
for it which by the way is different
from World members too because
everything went way up in price
um and we are still my understanding is
we're still eligible for that 7 500 tax
credit on this vehicle uh because it's
even though it was used by the
dealership it was a dealership car so
it's sold as a new vehicle
um and so worth looking at like thirty
five thousand dollars so it's not even a
payoff period we like paid it off like
six months ago or whatever the negative
payoff period so uh it drives like a
beast Andy let me drive it a little bit
today it's very kind of them
um and if anyone wants to take a ride
around the block with it at any point in
time just let me know it's out here uh
we can take a little spin after Council
if you're bored
um does it seem like I'm excited about
this yes I am this is one of the use
case scenarios for electric vehicles
it's really makes a ton of sense so it's
exciting to add that to our Fleet and
hopefully I think it's gonna be one of
those that helps really onboard people
into electric vehicles Ben yes on that
note can that be in the parade it's
going to be in the parade it's it's on
the the idea we had was for it to to
pull the year of the parks float
um but then also there's talk about a
one Bexley float so whatever it is
I think we're going to try to see a way
that lots of us can participate and then
I thought we maybe had sort of a
different vision of how it might be used
in the parade I I would never want to
put pressure on the mayor in a public
meeting yeah don't do that you don't
want to do that I thought a city council
might be kind of fun yeah just on the
truck
I'll have to talk to Andy about that and
uh
it's going to be a uh it's going to be a
desirable uh truck for the parade for
sure one of the great things it has it
on onboard Outlet like generator so it's
really good for any trailer that has
sound or live music on the back of it
I mean you're you're selling us on it
right I know yeah I'm gonna stop talking
okay
so uh
one two more things guys Landing
strategy meetings are going to be
scheduled here pretty soon I got the
polls back from people interested looks
like we have another evening meeting our
books coming up sorry about that
um and then I wanted to ask I don't
think I need this but out of a
preponderance of caution uh I am
attending a pace conference in two weeks
property assessed clean energy
conference I chair the Columbus Regional
esid pay Sport and we're going to be
presenting at the conference in New York
City the board is paying for my flight
and hotel but they're reimbursing so
it's going through City funds first so I
wanted to see if just out of Honor
socaution
I think all in costs Natalie about
a thousand fifteen hundred or something
okay
but it will be reimbursed by that you
said either way um is it okay to get a
motion just to approve that it's the
first time I've traveled out of state
but as a mayor
motion to approve the mayor to attend
the out-of-state Pace conference second
all in favor say aye aye
aye all opposed same sign
motion pass thanks guys I'm gonna get my
passport
any questions
did we did we link that to using the
truck in the
parade
it was very close I think a game I think
a game of chance may have to blend this
oh
yeah and there is a attached to the uh
um into the uh my update also uh just a
financial analysis of that for you guys
because I know they've been part of our
earlier discussion
all right
questions for the mayor
all right if not we will move on to the
consent agenda and that's all you all
right on the consent agenda we have
meeting minutes for the May 9th 2023
meeting
any comments or questions about the
consent agenda
comments or questions about the consent
agenda from the audience
if not I move to adopt the consent
agenda can I get a second second second
by Mr Klingler Mr McPeak please
Robinson Mr Klingler yes yes yes
thank you
we've got a couple third readings
tonight uh first up ordinance 1423
authorizing the mayor to accept the
donation of real property from the
Columbia Place Association and providing
for the amendment of the Columbia Place
pure conditional upon the completion of
certain repairs and upgrades under the
conditions outlined introduced or herein
introduced by Miss feibel thank you
so we've talked about this
um
even a B4 uh the first reading I mean
this is not something new it's in
regards to the cul-de-sac that I think
is like behind me this way somehow
um which
was not a public Street the neighbors
would like it to become a public Street
there are some things that we have asked
that the neighbors have done to the
infrastructure above grounds below
ground
um they are going to be assessed for the
next I believe 10 years to cover that
um
trying to think what else I need to add
do I have it anything else
and Andy feels very good about
um how we have we've handled this and
and the the items that are going to be
done and I think he discussed that with
us last time around so
I did a pretty thorough review last time
around are there any changes to the
paperwork or any of that
no no we're still at the same estimate
and I know that we have residents that
are anxious for us to begin
especially because there's some water
line issues that make sense for us to
address in the short term well we've
been thinking about this and considering
it for a long time so we're uh
getting it right any comments or
questions from City Council on on this
ordinance yes Miss Assad
I wanted to thank uh lorianne feibble
and the mayor on the work and due
diligence this has been a work in
progress for some time they did a very
nice job of making sure that we had
documentation speaking to the residents
that are involved in their commitment to
the project
they also did a very nice job of um
along with Andy Bayshore and his crew of
helping us with the estimates per what
the project costs are going to be to let
us know how everything was itemized
which I really appreciate it was just
very thorough so I feel very comfortable
with this unique
um
area of our community to move forward
with this ordinance I also think it's
important that because of the estimates
of the costs that we received and that
the residents have committed to we all
know on projects that we've done before
if you let it linger too long those
estimates could change so
um I am going to vote in favor of this
ordinance tonight but I just wanted to
take a second having had worked on it at
one point to say thank you so much for
leading us through this ordinance and
doing a great thorough job because it is
unique
thank you Jess yeah I want to Echo that
uh Laureate has really stepped up here
to like really uh comb over this take
you know take a really hard look at all
the details and I will uh I will say uh
thanks to Andy and the mayor also say
thanks to to you Jess because I do
remember a year and a half ago when the
first version of this came up that you
stepped up to put in a lot of work on
this too and so I think this is a really
great job by all of you miss Lemke
I I will add that when we had a similar
ordinance come before us a few years ago
uh I I did have very very mixed feelings
and wanted more information
but this is an ordinance that I am much
more comfortable with given that the
seven homeowners are willing to fully
pay for the assessment at our last
meeting I think I asked Mr Bayshore you
know what what
um funds are they already paying into
and I think he and the mayor listed
those as well and we're also already
providing city services like snow
removal and we've been doing that for
quite some time
um so now having had this version this
agreement and that history I too can
fully support this
I will uh this is the third reading I
will extend the opportunity to comment
to the audience as well if you have
anything out there
oh I'm sorry no don't be sorry I just
there's just uh before
um you do that I just wanted to add one
um piece of of angst that I have
um concerning this and I think we talked
about this last week and I and I do
believe that there's nothing that we
really as a council can do about it but
I know that some of the individuals that
moved on to that street didn't really
even understand that it was Association
that they didn't really understand that
it was their responsibility to take care
of the streets Etc I just um I'm just
hoping that if the neighbors are
listening
um that I I very much hope that should
they
should they choose to sell their homes
before those 10 years are up that they
are very upfront with
um their buyers to let them know that
that this is this is the situation and
that our city will be assessing them
um just I I just that is my hope again
there's nothing we can do about that
um really as a city I mean it's not our
responsibility but I really wanted that
just to go on the record so
sorry nope that's fine
uh once again extend out here we have
step up and please state your name and
address please
because the residents really would like
to see this happen and I would just like
to assure you that there would be no way
that now that the residents know about
our situation that it would be hidden in
any
um sales contract in fact we just
recently had a new Young Community move
on our street and the old residence
paying the cost of the repairs so I just
wanted you to know that thank you
you are
now
yes it's an amendment of of the plan so
it's like planned you know at the time
it was
uh no it was PR so the the plan changes
just because this the right-of-way is no
longer a part of the plan
but it's it's not changing into a
different zoning
so the assessment is recorded with the
um not only
part of the auditor's record so anytime
anyone pulls the property tax record
they'll see the assessment on it but I
think we talked about putting the Liz
pendens on the title as well just so
it's it's absolutely clear in a title
search
yep
thank you
action is uh misfiable
all right thank you
I really do believe that the mayor and
um Mr Bayshore did that the heavy work
on this one so I walked you through it I
asked some good questions but I thank
you too for making that happen we all
feel so grateful everybody is so thanked
um and if I may Mr President also Eric
Ash at the water department put a lot of
work into this instead of their city
engineer Dave Cook wow sweet takes a
village thank you yes everybody we have
some serious rock stars anyway with that
said I would like to make a motion to
um pass ordinance uh number 1423 motion
to uh adopt by Ms fiebel second second
by Mr Klingler Mr McPeak
yes
thank you
next up we have ordinance 1523 to amend
618.15 dogs on city park and
recreational property Assad
yes thank you so this ordinance has to
do with our wonderful athletic fields
that we have added on to our city
um this
ordinance is an amendment to help out
with um
making sure that our friend you know our
fur friends our fur babies our walk in
the past and enjoying the splash pads
and the community and the new dog park
but they're keeping their business off
the athletic fields
this is uh our third reading we wanted
to make sure that the public had an
opportunity to speak on this and so this
is the uh last night we will be hearing
about this tonight we will be taking a
vote
comments for questions from City Council
on this
if not as Miss said we'd take comments
or questions from the audience and if
there are none you may take action I
would like to
um
make a motion to adopt ordinance to
amend
618.15 dogs on city park and
recreational property motion to adopt
ordinance 15-23 by Ms sod second second
by Mr Klingler Mr McPeak
yes
yes yes yes yes
thank you Mr mcpeek
next up we have one second reading
tonight resolution 223 to adopt the tax
budget for calendar year attached here
to as exhibit a miss lamke
um
thank you as Council knows that we are
required to file the 2024 tax budget
with the auditor's office before July
20th of this year so we are simply
complying with that requirement the tax
budget is attached
are there any questions from Council
questions or comments on this resolution
something maybe to put on the consent
agenda
I'm good with that if the others are any
objections to resolution 2-23
all right Natalie
thank you
all right we've got
um two first readings remaining
um we've got resolution 323 confirming
the mayor's appointments of members of
the Architectural Review Board the board
of zoning appeals and planning the
Recreation and Parks Board the tree and
public gardens commission at the Board
of Health the Civil Service Commission
the citizens review board and the
environmental sustainable sustainability
advisory committee
this is Miss Robinson's I think uh mayor
you are working on this
correct so you'll notice some blanks
um there are some open seats and we are
going to work on uh
interviewing those who have expressed
interest I wanted to get a first reading
going because of our calendar where we
adjourn in July
um so that everything is doing is moving
along uh regardless of that
well-deserved July adjourn adjournment
yep just to do the math we have this is
uh first of three meetings before we hit
our July break so yep keeping that in
mind
thank you any comments or questions on
this resolution
all right all right next up we have
ordinance 1723 to approve and authorize
the mayor and City auditor to sign the
Bexley office incentive agreement and
tax increment financing agreement
between the city of Bexley ncsd Bexley
LLC cohatch to provide incentives
available for public infrastructure
improvements in the Main Street
incentive district and to establish the
CSD
Bexley LLC account is stricklingler
yeah thank you uh this week auditor
McPeak myself
uh the mayor and Mr Markham met with um
I think the founder owner founder Mr
Matt Davis yeah
um of cohatch
um it's it's for those of you haven't
seen the renderings of what they're
going to do to the building on Main
Street it's um it's pretty fantastic uh
we hope that this organization brings a
lot of um economic Vibrance to our
community improves our overall economic
economic health with uh employment
opportunities
um done a lot of research on cohatch
healthy business uh it's a it's a great
sort of idea for a business
um to bring in
spaces that you can rent out or you can
have permanently as an office space they
have Gathering spaces there I think it
fits really well within
um our Bexley community
dad
it's exciting it was it was great to
hear them I think uh he's coming in the
next meeting is that right
yep we've got them scheduled for June
13th to do a presentation and it's
pretty it's there we go it's uh and it's
pretty exciting uh a business that is
actually designed to bring people from
outside Bexley into Bexley to work and
uh and uh also shape up a little bit of
Main Street there so that's kind of uh
kind of neat any comments from Mr McPeak
or the mayor here
no I don't I don't have anything
particular to add
um I think we've done a lot of due
diligence and you know conversations and
structuring this consistent with how
other communities life-backs that we're
structuring
um programs for companies like ohatch so
I think it's consistent with what the
market demands
um for um bringing Aborigines like this
to the community
do you want me to Mr President or Matt
talk a little bit about the specifics of
what's being offered here just from a
yeah because the deal is a little bit
different and interesting that'd be
great
um also what is the address of that 20
to 2691 I believe
um so uh there are two pieces to this
incentive package
um one of them is a proposed uh office
uh income tax incentive Grant which we
had provided in the past
to several different users in the city
we are proposing a 10-year
50 split up to a capped value of fifty
thousand dollars per year so we've never
done a capped
Grant in the past but we've also never
done a 10-year Grant in the past so it's
a little bit longer term this would be
only for new payroll tax dollars so it
would be somebody who was not previously
paying
um payroll tax dollars working in the
city of Bexley so bringing in new
employees only that would have to be
audited and proven as part of their
application the other piece of it is a
tiff
um which you guys have become familiar
with I think tiffs over the years this
is what we would call a no school Tiff I
feel like I'm reading off a special to
restaurant and here we have a no school
Tiff
um which would be which means that City
Schools get made whole they aren't
losing any potential tax revenue we
would be taking any Revenue that we
would otherwise get in our Tiff for
streetscape improvements and that sort
of thing and helping offset the costs of
development for this project and the
logic just so you understand is you know
we've we've tried for years to attract
office sharing space to Bexley
they are not typically able to pay
necessarily the highest of rents without
some sort of additional assistance and
we found that to be true we engaged a
third party
Economic Development consultant help us
with this they looked at deals in Dublin
and Upper Arlington and Worthington and
and so we came up with a package that
was in keeping with what the market was
offering with analogous projects uh
before we came to you guys with this
you'll note that there are not exhibits
attached to the ordinance that's because
legal is creating them so again we
needed to get this ball rolling so that
uh we hit that July recess and economic
development legal is hopefully having
those exhibits prepared for us and ready
for our next our second reading
so if you have general questions
probably good to maybe ask the mayor or
Mr mcpeek if not get ready for June 13th
for a presentation and then we'll have
more of the economic details along with
that
thank you all right
can I ask just a couple real quick of
course you can I'm sorry I meant to
um I know I've driven by other cohatch
where else are they the actual cohatch I
know that there's similar
um businesses like this but where are
the other cohatches and then square
footage
ten thousand square feet
um they're at or not I think roughly 2
000 don't quote me on that I think to
the building to that front
um another thing we didn't like extract
from that conversation is that the
current building you come into the front
door and you have to either go up or
down so there's no Ada accessibility at
all this will bring that to the building
which is a pretty important Improvement
because other than that this building is
just kind of sad
um partially occupied just a bit
struggled to have tenants so regardless
of whether or not they're successful
help they're very successful they will
have created a real amenity by upgrading
the building to be Ada accessible there
are two locations in Worthington there's
one in Dublin in the historic Dublin
area yeah I just drove by that that's
why it's like yeah there's I walked past
one in Indianapolis a few weeks ago yeah
I did that as well this weekend so
um Worthington upper Upper Arlington
okay
so yeah I mean they're about to launch
one in Westerville that has like it's
three acres though and has like a
brewery on it and stuff so it's you know
this is more of a modest footprint for
them but um
that seems to be it seems to be a market
that has come into its own a little bit
like post covid as remote work has
become more and more feasible for people
of course I'm sorry
one of the you know most many of the
other things that we've talked through
um really working to create those types
of opportunities for non-profits in the
city of Bexley and other community
agencies will say to use that space as a
meeting space to add some additional
professionalism to the non-profit work
that they're doing
um so there's just I think a lot of
kind of pull through benefits that this
would create
yeah a good point thank you for bringing
that up other comments or questions
all right
all right we have uh one tabled
ordinance ordinance 3522 to amend
section 1060 in order to require
recycling
service to be provided at commercial
institutional and multi-family
properties within the city of Bexley
Miss Bible as a look at over Lori and
I'm sure she's going to give me the yeah
we have some action on table ordinance
yes I would like to make a motion to
take this proposed amended ordinance
35-22 off the table actually I'm not
taking the proposed one off the table
have we passed that we have not passed
proposed so I'm asking to take uh um
take 35 22 off the table uh motion to
remove ordinance 35-22 from the table
second seconded by Mr Klingler all in
favor say aye
aye all post same sign all right let's
hear what you got this is super exciting
guys we took care of uh rethink now
we're gonna do uh recycle all right so
we've covered two of those so far it's
really exciting I remember having a
conversation about this when Troy
Markham was living in an apartment and
this was when he was service chair so
it's been probably four years ago you
know I was still married and my family
was living there too I think we should
yeah
you were in between houses right so yeah
so he started talking about this and he
was appalled that they didn't have
Recycling and then I had a dear friend
who lit who worked on Main Street had
her own business on Main Street and was
paying exorbitant prices to do the right
thing and so this is you know a way of
making it
accessible for people throughout our
community whether they're in a multi
um uh family building or they're in
businesses it's exciting it's so
exciting we get to recycle so we've been
waiting on the prices and if you'll
scroll down you'll see
on the proposed one you have the
proposed one up
um you'll if you scroll down you'll see
that we now have prices and we are going
to wait till January 1st to begin this
so that we can get the toters ordered
get the toters to the people really have
more of a conversation again with some
of the businesses remind them this is
what we're doing
um I forget anything we have a couple
other amendments in here oh do we yep oh
that's fun
um so the dates and the and the pricing
um
we have businesses and institutions have
it until October 1st to provide
institutions show a recycling plan
businesses would say if they if they
have an exception or maybe a different
recycling stream that they use and why
um so that date's a little bit different
but then we added two definitions one
was for commercial property right
um just it it was lacking in the
ordinance before and then we
um added that in mixed use properties
that we would calculate it based upon
them the different uses being
independent uh calculations for total
capacity to the property
um and Mark did some research regarding
contracts I'm just making sure that we
weren't in a position where we're
infringing on contracts and determined
that we were in good shape so
um you know I'd
I have a little more commentary at some
point in time but those are the
amendments
well that's exciting yeah those
amendments are exciting and it was
really wonderful that that Mark gave it
another look over so
can you can you talk a little bit about
I don't know if what your further
comments are going to be but can you
talk a little bit about the business
Outreach that you did there yeah so we
we wrote letters to all of our
businesses actually we had a workshop
with them a couple years ago but then we
reminded them and had another one with
the specifics and the pricing uh we had
some some businesses respond but mostly
there didn't seem to be a whole lot of
uh interaction on that of course that as
we all know that sometimes changes once
the it's real and then we're you know
explaining what's about to happen
um so we expect that we'll have
additional feedback but it helped us we
had feedback from businesses that helped
us with some of these amendments
um specifically the definitions changes
came out of our business workshops
um and I want to thank the you know you
guys for for being so supportive and
part of this and helping to develop this
we're starting from scratch here and
we've worked we've scoured the country
for models we had a OSU agricultural
that sounds odd but agricultural
environment uh student class Workshop
this and come up with some
recommendations a couple years ago
before ultimately this is probably for
the fourth or fifth version of the
ordinance
um that came forward so it's taken a lot
of time uh and patience and I think it's
one of those things that we can do well
because we of our size we have the
ability to know all the different
addresses and to really brainstorm
through all the challenges and we're
super hopeful that you know as with some
other things we've done that we can help
set a template for other cities to
pursue this it's also one of the
objectives from our zero waste plan that
we adopted many years ago so it's
exciting to see this uh hopefully
passing soon I I just can't say enough
how much I appreciate that aspect of uh
the way that you've LED on this and that
we've done as well too and I think I
know Lorraine's nodding with me here too
because I think you know working with
the esac and and to just make a lot of
these just really huge strides and
environmental
um
but not you know not stepping on the
backs of our business owners and our
small business you know that's super
important I think and and I I like to
think that we are just a great model to
the rest of the country for how to to go
about doing this I'm I mean I'm being
very serious I'm not really trying to be
dramatic but to take these you know
environmental issues and make those
improvements but not just you know
Sledgehammer through you know and and so
I'm especially it's it's been it taken a
while
but but to do it right you know and
similar to how we did that the plastic
bag ban and things like that and Lori
and it's right it was like I had just
been elected to city council and I think
I'd been on city council for maybe a few
months and my family and I were between
our houses and we were living an
apartment complex and I would have
people hunt me down in the apartment
complex and they would say are you the
guy that's on city council and I would
be like yes I am they're like why can't
we recycle you know our stuff here and
it just you know they had a big trash
bin and and broke people's hearts to
throw
newspapers and aluminum cans and things
down this trash bin you know every week
or whatever and so like I just have like
a
so happy big sigh to like see this come
to Bexley and to have that now be an
option and I'll stop talking open up to
other comments and questions here
all right that's a thumbs up by Mr
Klingler I'll open it up to comments and
questions from the audience because this
is a third reading
yeah
oh we're doing something on this tonight
we've got a good vibe
thank you Connie
well I could put it back on the table or
you might you want to do something else
I think I'll do something with it I
think we owe a big thanks to the mayor
and to Elizabeth ellman for all the
effort and sure
uh for this one so I I would like to um
I would like to ask um
Council to uh please pass uh the
amendments on
um ordinance 35 22. so motion to amend
ordinance
35-22 by Ms fiebel
and I will second that
Mr Mr McPeak
facade
yes
sorry
are you thinking about it yes of course
yes
so amended amended so amended all right
then I would like to make a motion to a
pass amended ordinance 5 22. motion to
adopt amended Ordnance 35-22 by Ms
fiebel I will second that
um and Mr mcpeek will you give us the
roll call again
yes
yes now the ordinance fast there we go
it's your birthday present
the sword nights
[Laughter]
all right I think we've reached the uh
point in the agenda where we have
committee reports it looks like Mr
Klingler our
star coach is leading off tonight
just a couple things the mayor mentioned
it earlier but we're beginning our
meetings for the land use strategy
commission 2.0
and uh we have a bizap meeting this
Thursday and we do not have do we have a
date and time for the land use strategy
yet okay yeah
I was hoping for Friday mornings but
it's not going to work for the Doodles
you got like this
6 a.m yeah so we can stick a couple more
meetings in Friday morning Miss fiebel
uh I we had both esec and a tree of
public garden meetings this week
um I can't for the life of me uh Mr uh
mayor help me out Mark subal craigness
and
who was the other gentleman for the
column corridors oh oh sorry Eric
Bernard yeah they are
amazing members of our community
um they gave a presentation that is just
crazy great
um for the calm corridors and we are
going to be working on this and it's
really it really was their brainchild
they brought it to the mayor and then
they presented it to a very
for a public meeting a very large group
of people I mean I counted like 25
people I think something like that
well but it was one it was it was
wonderful and and it was really
professional and I just we are so
blessed with such crazy great volunteers
um so tree of public garden
um we they talked about
um the opening of the dog park they
talked about
um Havenwood Park and they reviewed all
kinds of different people's um landscape
plants and including our Columbia Plaza
and burglar uh landscape plan
um and that's really moving along and
you should come to my corner of the
Arboretum to see what's going on with um
Commonwealth Park we have these
these wives is it Limestone Limestone oh
my God are so huge
so please please come by and and and
take a look at those um I did um get a
request from uh Elizabeth ellman to let
all of you know and perhaps you don't
know but that it all the fabulous events
and our first fabulous event is jazz in
the park next Monday night please come
and join us the um the chamber will be
having their food truck Fest so there's
a plethora of choices for people to to
come and eat
um but Elizabeth comes and a lot of
times it's just her under a tent taking
people's trash and sorting it
now doesn't sound like a super wonderful
job but it is fun it's a great way to
meet and greet and I know that a few of
you might be running for
Council again this year and so I'm
thinking since she needs volunteers it
would be some great face time for you so
anyway know that we're in need of some
extra volunteers underneath the um
trashed it we should reach out to the
middle school and high school groups
that are the youth esocs because they
get so excited about what she's doing at
those events throughout the events it's
great to have them out there I know one
of those young ladies
so well that is a yes and
yes and we will end a report I would
keep going on to you then all right
yes yes so um we had our last Bexley
Education Foundation meeting
um last week so I wanted to highlight it
was a great meeting just recapping the
year
um the success of Bravo which is their
largest fundraiser came in around six
figures this year
um which was a Rejuvenation post
pandemic so that was great but really
wanted to highlight these two retiring
members from the board
um can't say enough great things about
them with the Bexley Education
Foundation you do get a cap as a board
member at nine years and these two have
always been Relentless brought a lot of
energy time that they don't have to the
community on any project that was in
front of them and this uh it's fun
tonight to mention Anna ramsden and Ted
Sapp and to thank them both for those
nine years of service I want to
highlight that they were both
instrumental in the one-to-one campaign
for Bexley schools during a pandemic
getting that money raised and making
that happen
um these two do amazing things things
and they make it happen and it there are
going to be wonderful members that come
onto that board but they are not
replaceable I have to say so I wanted to
just say thank you thank you to both of
them tonight and I did look at both of
them and I said we will find other
places for you in the community and they
both said please do
I'm mentioning this tonight mayor
Kessler because I'm sure we can find
other uh opportunities before them
before someone else Picks Them Up but
there's Ted
um and it's neat with the Education
Foundation because they'll do like a
highlight thank you Award with students
in the community so as they're and
there's you know with
um some young Maryland kids uh and not
saying thank you so they were both
really touched and I think they would
serve longer than nine if they could but
um
it is kept so thank you to them both
thank you misson
all right we're moving on to Ms lamke
looks like you got some business on
there
I do I'm attached to your agendas there
is
um an invoice for
6446.93 done by vendor Ohio Valley
cabling for installation of some cables
and conduits
um it looks like we
uh hang on a second let me look at
something
um
the purchase was completed before the PO
was open so I would like to make a
motion for authorization to pay that
invoice please
so move can I get a second second second
by miss fiebel all in favor say aye
aye aye all opposed same sign
thank you
um I just I had two other quick things I
have here on my calendar that I believe
tomorrow if if today is Tuesday which I
think it's Tuesday
um tomorrow at 6 00 PM I think the
Bexley Community Foundation is having an
event at Jeffrey Mansion at the Carriage
Court the Community Foundation does so
much for not only the city but for the
community so if you can't stop by I know
that they would certainly appreciate
that
um and then my last announcement is over
the years we have shown our support and
our love for various departments
including our Police Department
including our rec department
and we decided it was past time to show
us some some love to our service
department so next Tuesday which is
going to be Taco Tuesday May 30th 11 30
a.m We are going to be
serving lunch for our amazing service
department I'd encourage all of you if
you can come lend a hand and help
recognize how hard that department works
all year round I'm making the guac
hahaha
and the report
all right I think we have reached the
point where we allow public comments
anything you want
yeah you do
there you go
that is an interesting question so uh Mr
President would you like me to answer
that no I would love for you to answer
questions
it's it's the fifth grade the fifth
grade graduating class is meeting up at
the senior center and using it and so
because it's going to be a big group in
the parking lot there's orange fence and
just to make sure that like kids don't
spill over inadvertently into the street
and the trees yes just kidding just
right yeah all we three of us have it
will come down
after it went on up a little early I
think the party next week I think May
31st we get to enjoy the aesthetic until
then
yeah yeah would you like to come up and
and wish Connie a happy birthday I
assume is that going to be part of this
actually
um
yeah please
oh geez
I think he's interested I like Tito
I like Tito
um I think uh we are ready to adjourn
yeah
so moved second
order control after this uh uh nobody
seconded second oh second by Mr Klingler
all in favor say aye aye opposed
good night
I would like to call the May 23rd uh
2023 Board Of Control meeting to order
Mr Markham here
Mr McPeak present as am I Ben Kessler
present hold on one second let me pull
up the agenda
and don't forget Associated documents
yeah
um
our review of minutes uh we have minutes
from our May 9th meeting during the May
9th meeting we uh
we passed minutes from prior meetings we
also uh
we also provided a awarded a bid for the
Chelsea and granite sewer improvements
as well as the Commonwealth Park uh
landscape it's the specifically the
Arboretum botanical gardens Landscaping
um any
any concerns with the minutes
motion to proof
motion to approve the minutes
motion made by Mr Markham second by Mr
big peak any discussion
all in favor say aye aye opposed same
sign abstentions the motion carries
uh we are now moving on to our review of
bids for the Commonwealth folly I am
going to read the
recommendation here so
the Commonwealth Folly project
um
we had estimated
first up we provided four hundred
thousand dollars for it in our budget
and then we had a an earlier estimate in
the three
hundred and fifty thousand dollar range
um
the three bids that came in
or stone pillar at 328 access at 455.
Delco at 485 and change
um so we'll note there is if if you are
a scholar of numbers you will note that
there is quite a spread between the low
and the high Elena
uh dissected the line item estimates
they were all done based upon
construction drawings that were provided
to each of the contractors
and so it appears that stone pillar is
meeting the requirements of that bid and
we'll be able to perform they are a uh
all three of these are contractors that
do work in Bexley on a routine basis
Stone pillar is
is also very active in the community
primarily involved in
remodels editions uh new accessory
structure type development which is you
know this is an accessory structure
essentially so we feel that they are
eminently capable of of constructing
this and are recommending that we go
with the lowest and best bid from Stone
pillar construction for 328 081
that's where we're at
any questions is there any sort of
anecdotal information from that
examination by Elena the contracts fly
that's so significant every line item
was lower by Sometimes some by a bit
some of them a little more substantial
than others I think there's a bid
comparison sheet on
on here that you can kind of go into
so
generally across the board not totally I
mean there are some like some numbers
where Stone pillar are a little bit
higher uh they are
a little bit lower
none of them seem to really stick out I
mean some of the things that do stick
out for example you'll see let's go to
division 14 HVAC that number seems
really low compared to the others right
but yeah what you need to know about it
is that is a electric wall heater
so I mean it's it's it when you when you
start to look at actually what's being
provided
I would actually say that some of the
other bids seem
excessive considering
what it is that's getting done in fact I
found this to be quite a refreshing bid
when I reviewed it in light of the
plants
and I'm sorry what is the estimate
that we had before we went into this we
went in with let me pull it up you will
give me one second sorry
like 400 it was 400 was our budgeted
amount but then we had had it estimated
um
getting there
of course I
okay
entry features hold on okay the estimate
was 386 959
remind me I mean these are fixed fixed
bid so they have to perform they have to
perform
now it's not we've talked we talked a
lot about this like you know you don't
in my opinion you don't want to go back
to the contractor and be like are you
sure yeah I mean honestly they are
all professional they're all fully
capable of reading construction drawings
um we are going to absolutely engage the
architect as a construction doing some
oversight project manage the project
because we want to make sure that we're
going to probably do that a little more
rigorously than we might have done
um just because of that extra little bit
of concern about pricing but um you know
I
uh we we're protected
um yeah it's not impossible that when we
get to actually sign the contract that
there's
something that comes up that the
contractor hadn't realized in which case
we'll have to address that at the time
but based upon all the information we
have today I think that it is
appropriate that we accept this this bit
any uh comments or questions from the
audience
good
uh yeah I'll move to uh
accept the bid by Stone pillar yep all
second bad motion has been made and
seconded any uh further conversation
all right all in favor say aye
aye opposed same sign abstentions motion
Carriage the bid is awarded to Stone
pillar contractions construction for
three hundred and twenty eight thousand
eighty one dollars twenty five cents
uh and now I ask is there any further
business to come before the Border
Patrol
um hearing none uh do I hear a motion to
adjourn and move to adjourn okay
your journal in favor say aye aye we are
adjourned
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