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welcome everyone to the Bexley city
council meeting today is Tuesday August
13th what a great um attendance tonight
by folks if there's anyone in the
audience that has filled out a speaker
slip and would like to hand that in at
this time if you could please please
hand it in to Miss V that would be much
appreciated if you have not
already and Council I hope that everyone
is refreshed and energized from our July
recess time has flown by as some of you
may have noticed council members
Silverman and Hurley are not with us
tonight uh they are not able to join us
so at this time I would like to move to
excuse their absences do I have a
second I'll second that second by Mr
Markham all in favor say I I anyone
opposed all right motion passes Mr mCP
would you please call the role sure Mr
Marcelino yes Miss viable I'm here miss
sad here miss ly here Mr Markham
present right would you please join me
for the Pledge of
Allegiance Pledge of Allegiance to the
flag of the United States of America and
to the rep for stands one
nation indivisible with liberty and
justice for
all okay we are already at Agenda item
four public comments regarding items not
on the agenda for which a speaker slip
is required uh Miss water or Mr mCP do
we have any speaker slips yep we have
two speaker slips um I believe one is
going to go or is requesting to speak
closer to the chief's update this is the
time for public comments so if you have
a speaker slip at this time this is when
we'll take your the comment unless You'
like to wait um towards the end of the
meeting or if your item is on the agenda
there are opportunities to speak with
the speaker slip at that time okay so
we'll we'll go with the two now then um
first one is son hooker
okay good Miss hooker would you like um
we can either bring the microphone to
you just want to make sure that it's on
so that we can all have the benefit of
your
comments how you doing today good how
are you you can just leave right there I
can um I'm glad to be here today I am
like a traveling sales lady but I was
only traveling because of distracted
driving my name is Sandra hooker just
like I said I am a state of Ohio
Ambassador for change against
distractive driving and
crosswalks
laws I am advocating to change the
culture of the state and beginning at
the local level and promote a more
preventive measure to reduce distractive
driving
I also want to advocate for more harsh
penalties and more rigid
enforcement against distracted driving
to make the motorist more responsible
for the action for their action behind
the wheel while
driving I am here to raise awareness for
our citizens and pedestrians of the
danger of distracted driving
everyone should understand there is no
justice for for injuring a person taking
your eyes off the road for whatever
reason can cause you to drive distracted
the driv should pay a higher penalty for
their action distracted driving is
dangerous and can cause catastrophic
injuries and
paralyzation these type of injuries can
be longlasting and you may never heal
from them drivers need to slow down and
be and
be accountable for their action when
driving those who drive distractive and
cause valid injuries to others should be
prosecuted to the fullest degree of the
law the law needs to change to benefit
the injured person and not the motorist
I propose to ask you to raise your
penties at a at the local level for from
$150 to
$750 a second degree a Mr Mina and the
first degree Mr Mina
$1,000 and that's still not enough but
that's a beginning
the if the injured person I if it Resort
,00 if the injury Resort in into um
death or
paralyzation take taking care of a
paralyzed person is hard and forever and
time consuming and exhausting I should
know we don't we don't need an apology
from distractive drivers we need
accountability this is not this is a
serious issue people are dying on our
streets as a result of distractive
driving cross Crossroad crashes are at a
alarming high and people need to slow
down and pay attention to where um to
pay attention when they are driving
behind the
wheel this danger issues need to need
all the tools available
to prevent and and reduce this bad
behavior and habits of distractive
driving I really want I really really
saying make him say that again I really
want to make it a criminal
crime the current penalty is not the
current P penalty is nothing but a slap
on the wrist for uh for the driver who
caus who a slap on the wrist who caus B
the injury a body harm to the human
being the motorist is charged only
$150 and no justice to their action this
is not acceptable for the good of our
citizens and and our pedestrians please
help me support the effort to change the
penties and the laws in distracted
driving and crosswalker crashes and I
was SC ready I've came to BR I read this
but I want this also speak to you I'm
here to make an awareness I'm here I
have I'm I travel from city council to
city council y'all you just don't know
hire I pay my own fail to be to be able
to come and present this to you and uh I
have been
to a many many can couns I was over in
Lor and so I was already a long time ago
over into uh uh Westville and uh
whiteall and so now I came down to you
know back to you and I just want you to
make you know school going to come back
in and uh you know make an awareness
that this issue really need to take a a
front receipt and I when you and I'm
from gr City let me say this we already
passed
our pendencies and raise our pendencies
because I'm the one went to it when my
son got hit in the
crosswalk and he still trying to um you
know
uh still trying to get him together but
it's been a it's been a catastrophic
type of injury and that's what I'm
talking about ma' thank you so much I'm
sorry to tell you that your five minutes
are done but we appreciate you coming
tonight and joining us thank you so much
thank you so much thank
you Mr mCP was there a second speaker
there's a second uh Bill
Fenner or sir if you wouldn't come on up
I know you and I spoke uh before the
meeting good evening council members
Chief Lewis evening got a brief opening
statement
and I'm sure most of you are aware some
of you may not be but there's been a
recent rash of accidents on Livingston
Avenue and a lot of them are happening
in between Sheridan and
Chelsea but the main which is our
biggest concern as
residents um the others I mean we had
probably about 10 that week between
Allen Creek and James Road and it's a
hot spot now they did slow lingon down
okay as far as the speed but there are
times you can watch the electronic signs
they're flying down going east you know
45 M hour it's it's just a constant
thing and when there are accidents on
Livingston Columbus is rerouting all the
traffic down around our streets and
everything um I know the city is
handcuffed as to what they can and
cannot
do um but the problem that we have
is our side streets are suffering
because of the bad behavior of drivers
on Livingston Avenue they're using
Francis and they're using
ucair as streets when they come east
they're shooting up those streets to get
up to Main Street and they're driving
with Reckless abandoned and we're
getting to the time year we know what's
happening kids are back in school I mean
some parents are probably going to be
happy about that uh so my question is
Council what can you do we've got an
issue and
maybe when the Corridor is
redeveloped that may be a remedy but
it's not going to be the only remedy but
right now we've got a serious problem
and our side streets be you and I have
been back and forth on this issue for
over a year when it started when we had
the big food bar at 5:15 on a Sunday
morning when a woman tried to flee
uh I see them coming by my house I can
be standing looking out the window from
the kitchen it's
border that's not 30 m hour that's more
than that so Chief what what can uh the
police department do for this right now
obviously you can't do much on
Livingston excuse me sir if you'd like
to direct your questions to council I'll
write them down and then when the chief
presents an update during his
administrative updates I'll make sure
that he answers that's my main question
what can be done okay you know to to
protect our citizens and our residents
and our children okay thanks a lot
appreciate it thank you so much sir if
you'd like to uh stick around for the
chief's update that'd be a really good
opportunity um Mr mCP any other speaker
slips no more speaker slips okay all
right Council moving on to the
president's report um just have a couple
of quick
updates um at the council Retreat there
was some discussion about uh Council
Communications uh being the topic of a
Council small working group so myself
and Mr Silberman and Miss FIB are going
to be meeting here in the next couple
weeks to uh to keep that conversation
going uh this Sunday from 5: to 7: is
the Bexley minority parent Alliance back
to school picnic from 5: to 7 I think I
emailed council with the specifics and
address for that I wanted to commend um
the chief and the community on a
wonderful National Night Out which was a
big success I know you you might be
touching upon
that you might be touching upon that
Chief and your administrative update but
also a very special thanks to um the
Bexley Community Foundation for helping
to support that as well um and then
finally I think the mayor's going to
touch upon this in his administrative
update but there is a community meeting
this Thursday from 5: to 7:00 p.m. here
at City Hall um regarding link us they
are doing a series of Community meetings
um there's another one in whiteall
there's also one online um and I think I
C I provided consel with the specifics
on that if you are able to join that is
all that I had Mr City attorney any
report from you this evening yeah just
by way of update the um case involing
Bexley among other cities that Columbus
is taking the lead on regarding um
flavored tobacco is now fully in front
of the sprank 10th District Court of
Appeals here in Franklin County um we
don't expect a decision until sometime
early next year but that's the latest in
The Saga that is
all thank you for that update um Mr MC
peek any report uh from the auditor's
office yeah just a couple things um one
I always like to give a brief update on
investments so um just as a highlight we
have uh or as a reminder we have about
$22 million sitting in Investments now
that's yielding about 4% which is
pushing $850 to $900,000 a year in
interest income for the city so just
like to call that out it's a pretty
significant number we'll keep our
fingers crossed to some extent that
rates stay high because it's great for
us um but uh you know nonetheless I like
to call that number out for for
Council um another just quick update we
got a opioid opioid settlement dollars
in the month of July so that was um
about
$26,000 we received so just like to
share some of these dollars that come in
um but you know most importantly um you
know we've had what I would say and I
think ER could attest to this um a
summer of audits so have been working
closely with our Auditors to wrap up our
2023 audit um we have an audit close
meeting scheduled for Thursday morning
to go through the audit with those
Auditors as well as a handful of
different um special audits that we have
going on in in our ordinary course um
Control process
um so just to be clear no red flags um
but some areas of opportunity that that
we're working on closely with the
finance director so it's been a very
active summer um but um again really
appreciate the dollars that the council
has allocated to help with the audit and
Control process and then one other just
quick note um as um our finance director
has been going through and updating and
getting things current with the
transition um we've really identified
that there's no backup signer on check
checking accounts or operating accounts
so um what we're going to do and and um
our audit advisor team is recommended
that we you know disclose this to city
council but just add me as a signer um
to serve as a backup on our operating
accounts with our banks so that is just
a notice that we provide to council to
um keep you up to date with some of the
things that we're doing um within the
finance
area Mr Marcelino you had a question yes
in regards the interest rates you're
talking about hanging around 4% do those
mirror the like the consumer interest
rates that are currently there yeah it's
it's a good question I mean we have um
an advisor that manages all of our
accounts and you know ultimately there's
very strict um types of Investments that
we can invest in so you know what we
believe is that we're getting you know
good Market rates at the time but um you
know we aren't allowed to invest in some
of the higher return um opportunities
out there there but uh we we do get good
rates for the types of Investments that
we can invest in yep any other questions
from Council for autod M
Peak all right thank you uh Matt all
right turning it over for uh to the
mayor for our administrative
updates thank you very much Madame
President and I'm GNA pass it over to
Chief Lewis uh with his
update thank you sir we have um provided
really a snapshot over the past two and
a half months of a lot of the activities
so that has been presented in this
report uh capturing a number of
different trainings swearingin in our
federal Partnerships to our National
Night Out we have two new officers that
we recently sworn in um we've had a lot
of activity I mean we've been extremely
busy um these past couple of months um
our K9 team you know I can go on and on
and on about a lot lot of the great
progress we're doing in the
community um one of the questions that
has been posed is um about our flock
camera project that um We Are One camera
away from final install so we're excited
about that um we're going to do a press
release and make that very public and
talk about their partnership and the
impact of um having that technology and
what it will do for the city and really
helping us to reduce potential incidents
of crime um that would take place
um I know one of the questions although
it's not in my update is um and the
mayor and I may tag team and just
addressing some of the concerns with
traffic Livingston and the partnership
that we're doing with Columbus Police
Department in trying to make sure that's
safe so Mr Mayor I don't know if you
want to wait until um later if we do
that or how what might be best to just
kind of give an overview from my
perspective now from your perspective
now and then I will uh I'll follow up
with some of the infrastructure uh work
and and Joint
plan be great so um one of the things
that we really look at are the what I
call the three e education engineering
and then enforcement and one of the
challenges for us and we're very open
and and to this is that Livingston
Avenue is the corridor that impacts our
residents but we don't have that
Authority and that's something that we
spoke about and continue to be
challenged with how do we provide that
so we met with um individuals from from
Columbus Police Department a few months
ago talked about the impact of what that
feels what it looks like um how can we
partner with them with enforcement um
you know full disclosure they're down
several hundred officers um across the
city they have five priority of calls
when their officers get in the cruiser
at the start of their shift typically
they are down five to 10 calls as soon
as they start um they are looking at
that top five PRI ities they say often
times they can't get past the top two
and those top two typically are going to
be domestic they're going to be other
Crim of incidents um that generates that
immediate response and so we're well
aware of that well aware of the impact
but also looking to build and continue
relationships with Columbus to to not
just monitor but to manage a lot of
those things and the mayor will share
with you um some of the data that we
able the Ohio Department of Public
Safety and looking at some of that
engineering piece and how can we
continue to to build around that I know
we're going to meet tomorrow and sit
down and discuss those things and so I
appreciate that the dialogue is always
important we're being as proactive and
bringing it to them um having spent you
know nearly five years with the highway
patrol and understanding the importance
of traffic then 10 years at universities
and the challenge similar to my time at
universities is although I was
responsible what happen on the campus
when you have that Urban environment
things that happen directly adjacent to
you make it challenging because you're
relying on other agencies to provide
that level of support but we're working
to build those um existing Partnerships
and look at trying to help them but also
being mindful that their priorities are
very different in their calls for
service as
well and just to add a little bit
further to that Chief I I really
appreciate when I asked to meet a few
months ago it was uh you uh council
member Markham as a safety chair the
mayor and myself uh and we welcomed our
partner the Columbus Police Department
to join us um a few additional things
that I know I raised at that meeting
because I believe the question was what
can this council do given that our
police department does not have
jurisdiction over Livingston Avenue um I
I raised things such as could we
reassess signage is signage
is it enough uh should we have more
signage about what the speed limit is or
if you are going over the speed limit
sometimes there's different Radars in
place I know some currently already do
exist on Livingston but could those be
uh looked at again to determine if the
placement is Right are they visible are
they easy to see um I think I also
raised could we advertise what the
amount of a fine is if you are speeding
so things along the lines of what may be
able to be assessed uh also know that um
the CPD uh was going to further evaluate
some of the data concerns that we had um
so I just wanted to share that with the
folks listening here uh regarding that
discussion um Mr Markham was there
anything from that meeting that that we
haven't already touched upon that uh
maybe got to to share I think the only
thing I was curious about was I know
that we talked about having some sort of
police presence there that Columbus had
some ideas about I don't know so I'm I'm
a frequent traveler in Livingston and I
don't I know they haven't noticed
anything do you know that has any has
any of that been done have they put some
officers there every now and then to me
that's probably the biggest deterrent I
think about when we're talking about
speeding and reckless driving is if you
have seen an officer present and if you
have the feeling that there could be an
officer present at some point um they
have at times but not a targeted
enforcement
um they have most recently been working
High Street around wrath Mill High
pedestrian fatalities and things that
they've been dealing with they've also
identified 10 other areas within the
city that are generating their attention
towards as well as just there other
calls for service and I think that's
been the challenge for them especially
with the Manpower as well and I think we
left it chief that we are hoping to have
a second meeting once we get that data
um so that we can get back together and
I'd be happy report to counselor have
you report once we have that followup
meeting and I know Mr Marcelino has a
question I want to absolutely responsive
to that but I will share even yesterday
um for those that don't know Columbus
was hit with a very significant data
breach officers personal information um
they've really the city's been crippled
and so their inability to extract
information they have no internet
connectivity and so some of the things
we requested from them specifically they
weren't able to draw from however we
were able to utilize some specific crash
data from the Department of Public
Safety but Mr Marcelina I know you had
some questions for me sir yes thank you
very much uh I guess I'm gonna hop off
Livingston for two seconds because I
don't think it'll take long uh flock it
says once it's finally installed there's
training how long does that training
take so we are looking at probably 72
hours max great okay so we we are
literally weeks away from that being
fully up and and implemented um that
last camera and we had some challenges
because we're using some solar techn
ology and so a lot of it was just the
placement this time of the year Etc okay
great thank you very much now hopping
back to Livingston uh it's clear that uh
they have a lot of stress and a lot of
other issues around the city to handle
and that uh Livingston Avenue may not be
a significant priority for them at this
time whether that be based on their own
statistics um or frankly just man uh
person power I should say um that
they're dealing with but if it's not a
priority to them but it is to us how can
we as a community uh make it a priority
or make sure they're aware of our
concerns um are there uh numbers to
reach out to um are there uh resources
for us to contact what can we as council
do anything you have in terms of
recommendations from your opinion yes
sir so when speaking of Columbus um th
and so we're in this very unique kind of
space and so those who reside in
Columbus have the ability to call pound
311 into Lodge Traffic Safety complaints
and that also drives a significant
number of where they deploy their
resources so if those residents within
Columbus um generate a lot of calls for
service and they're saying they're
getting a lot of complaints then they
are reactive to that challenge for us is
that our residents in Bexley sharing
that same space are unable to utilize
that number because it's asking for very
specific information with your residency
um but I share that because it is still
a resource for our partners there in
Burwick um and some of those who who
share the same safety
concerns and then just a follow-up
question um there are a couple other
agencies in close proximity to us
including cap as well as the Ohio State
Patrol uh down the street on Alm Creek
there um are there any other agencies or
anything that could help out with this
that we could reach out to or so um I
will very politically correctly respond
to that sir number one Capital does not
do any traffic enforcement um you know
were very specific in what their role is
there at the University um having spent
a lot of time in the highway patrol um
and understanding the challenges of um
the political impact of what that would
say to to a law enforcement agency and
its leaders is that we don't have the
trust and confidence in you so we're
going to go externally and request
someone else and so it really becomes if
Columbus canvased the patrol and said we
need help that's one thing but I just
don't have the authority to go to them
and and put Columbus in in a very
difficult position to to Lodge that
request uh I guess finally it's just an
opinion question I'll just ask it on the
records that way uh that we can all hear
is that uh at this point as Council for
city of Beckley would you recommend that
we allow the F meetings to take place
before we try to place any additional
pressure as a group or individuals upon
Columbus or uh sit tight or do you want
me to go bang down those doors you know
on on Wednesday here tomorrow um what
would you recommend from your standpoint
yeah I think the recommendation is to
allow us to continue to work with our
partners I think at the end of the day
even for I I am going to be held
accountable to what happens in our city
and I think that the same with
leadership within the city of Columbus
and it's up to me to work with them and
express how it's impacting our
stakeholders and hold them accountable
in the same way that I would want to be
held but given that opportunity and
shared that very lengthy conversations
with their leadership in the past really
48 Hours especially in building upon
that relationship so um that's what that
would be my request and I would want the
same from them thank you very much yes
sir Miss up um Chief I just wanted to
draw upon your report with the um
education opportunity that officer
Grimes the SRO at St Charles just had um
I wanted to commend you on that I think
we're coming upon your second year um
anniversary yes ma'am and something that
I've noticed um that you definitely
bring to our department is education and
empowerment and I believe that's what
you just did for officer Grimes by
having him go out to the National
Association of uh school resource
officer conference in Phoenix um it
looked like he had some great training
and he'll be a able to bring that back
to our community and to um continue to
um Empower him in that role as an SRO in
our community so great work and um
please uh extend that to officer Grimes
too for taking that time away from his
family to do that yes ma'am thank you
thank you anything else for the chief
chief first off fantastic report it just
shows how much guys have been up to over
the past month plus I highly encourage
anyone who's listening to click on that
report and read through it also want to
highlight um we track the statistics and
sometimes we don't kind of Point them
out but I thought it it's worthy of
noting that uh you know with with almost
well with seven months of experience
under our belt for the year we're
tracking uh very favorably on uh our
different crime stats both 12- month
trailing as well as year-to date so
great work uh to the agency I know
that's not some of that's just overall
metat Trends but still I think it it
speaks I would love to take credit but
um the men and women are police
department working hard and they're out
and they're doing um when you look at
the functional activ
the number of impaired drivers have
removed from the roadways in Bexley um
this year in comparison to previous
years when you look at the business
checks and the impact in being proactive
um they are doing a phenomenal job and
um I I would be remissed if I don't give
the credit where it's due and that's to
them and the supervisors in challenging
them and holding them accountable thank
you yes thank you to the whole agency
and speaking of which I think uh because
we have some of bexley's finest in the
lobby with today I think it would be
wonderful to if we could quickly meet
officers hon and she who have recently
been uh graduated from the academy uh
come on in
here oh going on there we go look at
that and uh good to see you and of
course officers Donovan and Johnson it's
always wonderful to see you guys yes
um officer she was the valid dictorian
is that the right term was
itorian academic he was a top of the
class academics as well as class speaker
etc etc
etc so dynamic duo
there um I I I would um I'd like to add
that um cannot say enough about what
these to bring to our department um the
you know they're both Masters educated
they are one is now aexy resident um
they bring diversity they bring
different of thought just a completely
different approach and the two uh
amazing gentlemen behind them and
Donovan and Johnson have stepped up and
are training these young people in
showing them the right way to police and
to be involved in our community um can
not brag enough about what it is that
they're doing and just being absolute
examples um even officer Johnson he's
family reside here now you know one of
the things as I approach my uh two-year
anniversary next is how do we go from
zero to more and living breathing and
being a part of our community we're up
to seven as of last week in being a part
of our community and living here
so I will also lastly say alovan will be
jumping the broom and uh as we would say
and getting his numps this this weekend
with marriage we're excited about that
and so I just want to say
congratulations
CL uh thank you so much for coming here
and uh Chief it's not in my update but
we did pave officer Johnson's Street
recently just to make
sure part of the
part of The Fringe benefit there um and
I don't know if and and I'll close with
this in our report um we partnered and
and this is um Mr Donovan gets all the
credit he approach me and said Chief I
want to be more impactful in our
community how can I help and we
partnered with the US Marshall's office
and became a part of the Southern Ohio
fugitive task force and he owned that
role and we have successfully closed out
a number of cases where fugitives have
left Bexley after committing serious
felonious crimes um he's been such a
role model in that direction officer
Johnson has since joined him on that
same fugitive task force they both are
working hand inand so if you turn on
Channel 4 and you see those handsome
gentlemen uh arresting bad know that
this is just been an amazing opportunity
to really showcase and highlight that
partnership and what those two mean in
being on that task for for so thank you
job well done
gentlemen proud of you guys thank you
very much um this is the Clapp City it's
so good so good wonderful I know better
than booing and you guys are yeah you're
you're good um and we will be speaking a
little bit more about Livingston Avenue
from the infrastructure perspective
coming up so just that's hold tight
that'll be in a few minutes um Mr
Kingler is our new development or sorry
new director of build and planning not
sure why it says building and
development update that's typ up um and
uh in his first official appearance
before Council as director unfortunately
he's had some or fortunately he's had
some family stuff to attend to so he
will be with us next month but his
written report is uh before you uh he
has been I can just speak uh from from
observing him working he has been
everything that you would expect uh just
sort of learning eagerly um
running right into the front lines and
uh tackling some of the issues that
we've been having and uh and doing a
great job and really and and just kind
of peeking into every corner and and
already starting to really show uh some
real progress in that department so Mr
Markham I'm sorry at the top when you
scroll back is it the Chelsea Filling
Station if not can you yeah so what the
top when you say the Chelsea it's 22
Yeah 2 m is right next door but the
Chelsea gas station the former gas
station of Chelsea are you asking about
what's going on there yeah um so as you
all know that's we've been working for
many many years to try to get that
property to turn um and Council passed
an environmental assessment ordinance
years ago that has been used against
that property and to slow effect but to
effect um and where we are today is we
have negotiated with the property owner
that um a an agreement where we would um
where they are applying for a grant that
only can be applied for with the
assistance of the city we've we've done
this once already recently that grant
program closed we moved on to another
Grant
application um the site is part of that
agreement the site is getting uh cleared
and and just returned to sod for the
time being or grasped for the time being
while waiting for the actual true tank
removal because of the environmental
impact um then they have a timeline by
which if you know as that progresses
they need to make it available for
development um if it doesn't progress
they still need to make it available for
development so we're in the process of
thatou with them so you're seeing that
site work being done there is not a
Redevelopment currently anticipated but
we're trying to just show the progress
that's happening clean up the sidewalk
area and the curb cuts and also just
improve the presentation of that section
of the city so what we see is that just
going to be um until the tank removal
happens it'll just be slded over grassed
over grass
yep uh any other questions for uh
replacement Matt that's me no
okay uh thanks you're welcome uh so a
couple things to highlight coming up
before the next council meeting uh you
already mentioned the link us Beckley
openhouse it's happening this Thursday
here um we also have the Beckley adult
pool pool adult splash I think that's to
commemorate the first day of school on
Thursday so it'll be a busy day um
Splish Splash and Dash not to be
confused with the splash is this
Saturday um are we still looking for
volunteers or are we good do you know
lauran I have heard that while they have
and it's part of my report and Sam's
gonna give my report tonight um I have
heard that uh while they usually need
like 80 volunteers for that event they
are in really good shape they will not
turn people away and big thanks to our
support from the all the sports teams
great okay so always looking for
volunteers and information on that is on
our website on the blast um jazz in the
park is also happening before next
council meeting uh that's the Sunday
right before the next council meeting
25th um it's been a really busy month uh
during Council recess uh it feels like
even more than a month ago but we had a
Fantastic Four July um huge kudos to all
of you for helping out the police
department it was an all hands on deck
situation the service department the W
Department it was an exhausting day as
always but it was a beautiful day it
went off without a hitch it could have
been a little bit less humid but other
than that it was great um and uh just
kudos to everybody who pitched in for
that that was a lot of work and and very
well pulled off I also want to
especially or I'm calling out everybody
but I also want to call out Natalie
vodder who helped uh steer the parade
organization which is always a thankless
and difficult job um and in concert with
the with the police department and
volunteers throughout I think we made
real Headway on our lifelong goal to
eliminate gaps in the parade so that was
great work Natalie and company that was
really awesome um talked about the
Police Academy graduation uh and the
openhouse but there's some more
information about link us in general and
what this open house is about and where
that's headed I know you guys have heard
a lot about that but I'm going to really
quickly uh just focus on a couple things
we we the city of Bexley are currently
interfacing with Kota who has contracted
with kimley horn which is an engineering
firm to work on a 60% design for link us
on Main Street 60% design means it's
designed to the point where it's the
project is 60% of the way towards
completion on the engineering side of it
um the advocacy for from Kota is that
link us would have a dedicated bus l
throughout the entire route um but we
have challenged whether or not that is
possible on Main Street because of um
the traffic congestion and the parking
environment that we have uh as well as
uh the access to to businesses because
of the way that a dedicated bus lane
would require um uh shutting off
left-and turns into uh side some side
streets and some businesses and so um We
are continuing along the path of
advocating and and
specifying that the Bexley section of
Main Street would be mixed use traffic
and what that means is the bus would
operate but it would operate in a
context of along with other vehicles not
a dedicated bus lane which would
preserve parking on the street and would
preserve access to businesses
um at this Workshop I think they're
going to present a larger sort of just
Regional update and and what's going on
a Main Street sort of RIT large it's not
going to get as granular probably into
Bexley and some of those conversations
but I do want to explain that we've been
our our team here has been hard at work
working with link us in good faith um
understanding better what the different
options would look like and the pros and
cons and whether or not you know it
would make sense for us to have the
position that we're at that's our
current operating position and as you
know at some point in time in the future
as we get more information probably in
the coming months I'm gonna ask Council
to help also sort of formalize our
position on uh on the bus infrastructure
piece of link us on on the Main Street
Corridor because of course it does
require the city's participation um for
anything that they wish to do so uh
you'll be continuing to learn more about
that um we're not going to get to that
level of detail probably in the open
house it's more of a general public
information session um not related and
not unrelated is the ride the bus event
I want to thank Monique Lamy for joining
me and Brian jury we rode with cot CEO
downtown and back and we learned uh sort
of it's kind of like how to ride the bus
for people that don't know ride the bus
it was very informative yeah and uh
mural Festival is coming up what is
mural Festival mural Festival is a
series of events later in September
19th maybe the 20th maybe and definitely
the 21st uh where we're going to have a
variety of murals painted um thanks to
donations from the back Community
Foundation as well as the main street
Tiff um one of the murals will look
something like this it's going to be
happening right uh the wall right next
to Johnson's it's the wall that you see
uh when you're when you're facing out
the door with an ice cream cone in your
hand right from Johnson's uh rabinos uh
is due to get a mural as is the Second
Glance hair salon and the Anthony Thomas
wall so this is kind of focusing on the
uh Eastern portion of M of East Main
Street and Beckley uh the festival will
have a variety of events focused around
the murals as they're being created with
the final event on the 21st including an
artist alley where we're gonna have
artists join and um almost like a very
mini Columbus Arts vest live music and
just a celebration of these of these
spaces so look look for more information
as that continues to progress um huge
kudos to Megan Meyer who's taken Point
uh very it was one of the first things
that she was given when she joined the
city was like here's mural Fest go for
it um I do want to say um we've had a
little bit correspondence about one of
the mural locations
uh would be a uh a mural kind of in this
area behind behind City Hall um whether
or not that conflicts with the rotating
student mural space that currently is
occupied by Isabella Mink's Mother
Nature mural um the artists that's due
to do the mural in this area has reached
out to Isabella they're working together
now um so I think we have a great
solution where I believe that that
rotating student mural is going to
continue to rotate as a student mural
and this other mural is go in a
different space but Isabella alls to be
participating in that so I want to just
let you guys know that and then um
infrastructure update for Livingston
Avenue this is a wordy one I'm not going
to read the whole thing uh but this is
available on our uh this is on our
agenda um uh documents folder on their
website and also you can visit be.org
Livingston where some of this
information is but the chief talked
about you know working with with the
city of Columbus and their enforcement
efforts and how we have had an active
and ongoing uh correspondence with them
and encouragement of what they're doing
uh he used the term um engineering
education and enforcement and so I'm
going to speak to the engineering uh
piece of this puzzle as you all know we
entered into a joint plan with
Livingston Avenue several years ago it
was a big public process um and it was a
document that was designed both to talk
about short-term wins Monique key was a
big champion of that as well as
long-term um so shortterm uh the city of
Columbus did a road diet in the in the
residential area and that has shown some
real benefits the the number of uh
injury accidents has dropped since that
occurred and the average speed limit has
dropped I'm not saying we haven't had
days like we have had this summer we've
had alarming accidents and and frankly
and there's a little chart at the bottom
here that shows kind of the accident
history
there is no accident not one accident's
acceptable right so our goal is to
continue to push for an increasingly
safe Livingston Avenue Corridor and the
vision is that Livingston Avenue is a
street that that safely stitches
together the Bexley Burwick and East
neighborhoods and reflects sort of the
built environment of all those areas and
is functionally and practically very
different than it is today so we're
continuing to push towards that in in
doing that uh last year we were awarded
the largest grant that we've ever been
awarded in our history by far $13
million from the federal government for
the infrastructure project in Livingston
you might say wait a second I thought
Livingston wasn't inex that's true it's
not uh but we were the applying agency
that applied for the money for the grant
and Columbus agreed yeah that's a good a
grant to apply for and they are the
agencies that is overseeing and
administering this project as it goes
forward in partnership with us um that
kicked
off late last year it's an engineering
project right now in the in the process
we have gotten the survey done
underlying utility location and
currently the engineers are working on
alignment and they'll have a preliminary
engineering plan for the corridor later
this year now they're going to chew on
that for about a year takes a long time
to look at every single line that's
being drawn in the in the engineer
alignment Environmental Studies have to
be performed and this is a Federal grant
process which means it's a long burn the
actual construction isn't expected to
start until 2029 because after all that
engineering work there's going to be
some rideway acquisition and then the
federal funding kicks in at around
2029 um in the
meantime we are focused on continuing to
work with Columbus the chief's been
speaking with the police department I
have spoken with the division of traffic
management spoken with their service
department and continuing to make sure
they're aware of the accidents that have
occurred recently the nature of them
make sure that they're studying them
make sure that they're looking at what
they're doing and what more they can do
and and make raise that awareness
advocate for for additional action um so
that's ongoing additionally I don't
think the chief mentioned this but
business checks are being conducted with
great frequency on Livingston Avenue so
that our officers are interfacing with
businesses and seeing how they can
support them in um increasing safety
within our jurisdiction uh in every way
that we can possibly and I want also ad
and highlight that you know vehicular
traffic is a huge Focus here but so is
as importantly pedestrian and bike
safety so our goal and our vision is
that Livingston is going to be a street
that you don't hesitate to walk down you
don't hesitate to bike along and a mixed
use bike path that is going to be
created as part of the plan um and that
we see a radical transformation from
what we have today good news is we're
well on the way to achieving that all of
the all everything is lined up and
moving in the right direction um and
we're continuing to push hard um for the
interests of our residents and and the
Columbus residents on the other side of
the street who have the same concerns um
in light of all that I know that you
know information only not everyone
listens to these Council meetings I know
that's G be shocking uh we're going to
be asking for Columbus to join us at a
uh sort of an update for residents about
what's going on um sort of forum so an
update Q&A we're Target in the evening
of October 1st making sure that works
for everybody so pencil it in we'll
finalize it uh here soon um and that
would give our residents and Columbus
residents an opportunity to hear this
message uh in a more refined fashion uh
and get some of the data that we're
still waiting on from the city of
Columbus that's the most current
information uh and give Columbus an
opportunity too to answer some of these
questions so that's that's where we are
today with that um lots of fun photos
follow and I'm happy to answer any
questions that you
have okay thank you very
much all right moving on to the consent
agenda all right meeting minutes from
June 25th 2024 is the only item on the
consent
agenda are there any questions from
Council regarding the consent
agenda uh there any questions from the
or comments from the audience regarding
consent agenda all right seeing none I
move to adopt the consent agenda could I
please have a second second second by Mr
Marcelino Mr mCP would you please call
the role uh Miss fible yes Mr Markham
yes Mr Marcelino yes Asad yes slam key
yes incent agenda
passes okay on to third reading of
ordinance 17-24 to authorize the mayor
to execute an access easement between
the city of Beckley and CAG Bexley
Apartments LLC in order to provide for
cross access to and from the Bexley City
Hall site parcel number
02-1 1825 and the adjacent property to
the West at 2200 East Main Street parcel
number 020
d350 introduced by Mr Marcelina yes
thank you very much uh obviously a third
reading so we've seen this uh bopping
around a bit um prior to our break um
I'm going to propose something to
council to see what your thoughts on it
are um it depending upon what the mayor
answers in regards to this are we on a
strict timeline with this if we wanted
to push it back one meeting so we could
allow for Mr Silverman and Mr Hurley to
be here you'll be delighted with this
answer it needs to be tabled tonight
perfect because we don't yet have an
easement agreement that has been uh has
is it the way where it needs to be even
better than that makes me feel better
about that then I would just I would
leave it to the mayor to see if he
wanted to cover anything else with the
easen or any development that's taken
place over our break yes so there have
been several meetings with cic
leadership and the C itself and uh the
uh legal council from the city and and
uh the developer
um drafts have been passed back and
forth I think we're getting close the
latest red line is close
um for the cic to say they're good with
it and then for you guys to take a look
at it um but like the latest Redline
came in a couple days ago and we made it
clear that it Council needed time to
digest it need to be published to the
agenda we needed time to actually see it
so hopefully by the next meeting but
we're not
gonna I mean it's we're not going to put
something in front of you that's not
ready for you to vote
on any other questions
from
Council um this is the third reading are
there any comments from the public no
speaker slip is
needed okay seeing that Mr Marcelino do
you have any action on this ordinance I
sorry I'm movement I make sure I'm sorry
was there um somebody who oh I'm so
sorry come on up um if you wouldn't mind
giving us your name and address
please John Rous 500 South Park View
Avenue can you tell us
where the location of the easan
is the uh the easement location
would essentially be over the travel
Lanes of the Bexley City Hall and Bexley
Square site accessing the parking garage
of the adjacent property and
allowing users of the parking garage to
travel over this site and vice versa
and I can Mr R I can follow up with a
it's a pretty rudimentary exhibit that
shows that if that would be
helpful nice right thank
you none I would move the table
ordinance
17-24 motion to table by Mr Marcelino a
second by Miss sad there is no
discussion on a motion to table Mr mCP
would you please call the role Mr
Marcelino yes Mr Markham yes Miss f
yes Miss L yes missad yes ordinance is
Ted all right onto second readings uh we
have a second reading of ordinance 18-24
to establish the full-time position of
child care administrator with a pay
range of $ 48,4 24 to $682 190
introduced by Ms
vible um I think that it's fairly
self-explanatory um Michael is here
Michael price isn't here to discuss this
but Ben do you have anything you would
like to
add I do not have anything I'd like to
add but I'm happy to answer your
questions any questions from
Council okay Mr mCP do we have any
speaker slips for comments from the
audience no speaker slips or
comments um this is the second reading
would folks be okay with putting on this
on the consent agenda at the next
meeting
yes right yes right uh Natalie is out
but I will make myself a note that this
will be on the consent agenda thank you
all right onto a second reading of
ordinance
19-24 to amend section
262.50 use of sck leave and to amend
section 262.50
Rea so I'll just remind councel a little
bit on this ordinance that we're
changing language um currently
we give
um the sick leave to immediate family
immediate family is defined as mother
father brother sister child current
spouse grandparent grandchild current
mother-in-law current father-in-law
current sister-in-law current
brother-in-law current daughter-in-law
current son-in-law legal guardian or
other person who stands in the place of
a parent
we are adding um language to also say
domestic partner so domestic uh partner
is defined in here as relationship is
defined as individuals who share a
regular and permanent residence have a
committed personal relationship can uh
demonstrate Financial Independence and
are not related in
blood um so that part is language that
we are amending to this ordinance we are
also amending um going from 24 hours to
40 hours of compensatory time are there
any questions from Council on the second
reading of ordinance
19-24 Mr mCP do we have any speaker
slips on this sorry no speaker slips
okay um would folks be okay with this
one being on the consent agenda at our
next meeting any
opposition well okay I will let Miss V
know that ordinance
19-24 is also going to be on our consent
agenda Mr bishal back to you all right
first reading of ordinance 20-24 to
amend the pay range for Deputy Chief of
Police introduced by
missad yes so um this um ordinance is
allowing us to do what we spoke about
when um Chief Lewis we spoke a little
bit earlier about empowerment in our
police force so when we had discussed um
approving different levels of um
awarding our Police Department for their
achieve ments we uh agreed to a deputy
chief of police and so this is just
amending the pay range for that
role any questions from Council I had
one for uh Mr ficial U Mr official given
that the fop contract is three years but
this one um is amending the annual pay
rate I
believe I don't know if it's one time
could you kind of speak how those are
going to U go together so the reason
behind this ordinance is that when
everybody else got increases um up
through the rank of Lieutenant that was
all negotiated in the collective
bargaining agreement there needs to be
more separation between the deputy chief
which is the de highest rank above uh
Lieutenant so it requires this one-time
bump thereafter in subsequent years even
though the fop agreement has a has
increases in there the deputy Chief's uh
wages will be part of the coun council
approved wage increase ordinance that
comes at the end of that at the end of
the year so going forward it'll just be
covered in that and should not need this
one time bump great thank you for
answering that anyone else on Council
have any
questions Mr mCP any speaker slips on
this one no speaker slips all right
we'll put this on for second reading at
our next one all right moving on to a
first reading of ordinance 21-24 to
reverse the 2024 appropriation of
$567,500 into the water fund and to
approve the payment of public safety
personnel expenses from the arpa fund
introduced by m
sad so this ordinance was recommended by
our Auditors um it just tracks better if
it stays within where it came from with
the rescue plan act so um it helps out
with any burden of proof that we might
need um by allowing it to stay where it
was originally planned
for sounds good anything you would add
to that Mr M no and again this is just
again the value of having these Auditors
who you know work with a bunch of
different other municipalities um to
navigate these things and making certain
that as we um use these bunnies that
that are there for us that we do so
appropriately and compant with the terms
of it so very customary I would add one
other thing to that which is that we we
have about 1 point oneish million in the
arpa fund I believe somewhere around
there we get a final number
um public safety personnel expenses AKA
officer salaries can be paid directly
out of the arpa fund as an allowable
expense it's much easier for us to do it
that way as opposed to trying to tie it
to a specific project and then prove
that it's eligible and so the intent of
this ordinance is what we would do with
this ordinance is we would then start to
pay the rest of our our police salaries
out of arpa until there's no money left
in arpa to pay police salaries out of
for the rest of this year effectively
what that's doing is building up the
general fund balance we're gonna have a
surplus in the general fund and then
Council can choose to allocate that to
Water and Sewer fund as we had
previously discussed as a surplus or do
something else with it if Council wishes
as part of our budget process for next
year something else of an eligible
expense no cu now it's in the general
fund at this point it's a it's cleared
arpa belief salar is an allowable arpa
expense it's cleared arpa and now and
what effectively it's done is it's not
transferred to the general fund the
general fund is now healthier as a
result oh I'm sorry I misunderstood you
I thought you were talking about
additional arpa funds you're talking
about the Surplus that is generated by
paying I I got you
sorry it's good question though ask
spent sounds like yes it has to be spent
in a certain time frame to be spent end
of this year the projects have to be
identified by the end of this year and
the expenditure needs to occur several
years out but it it's just easier for us
to just clear it from the books have it
done with and uh be good to go great
very helpful any other questions from
Council Mr mCP no speakers lips correct
correct all right all right moving on oh
I'm sorry moving on to ordinance
23-24 to amend section I just lost my
224 go to amend amend section 22.0 to
c9b non-exempt employees section
262.50 to um we're g to go back to back
we'll do this one now and then go back
so
excited go back to that one numb no this
is Mark's favorite one so okay so we're
we're doing ordinance 23-24 correct and
then we'll go back to 22 you got it okay
no problem because this might benefit
from pulling it up on the screen if you
want but your your call how to do it yes
please pull this up on the screen we're
going to cover four different sections
of our codes so I would appreciate that
it turns out once you're done the
last the second it is
oh is it
okay um one
moment working on
it why is this in the way Zoom has
redesigned itself on me
okay all right so yes ordinance
23-24 the changes that we're looking at
making in this are necessary to reflect
the best practices for employment
matters within our city it's basically
um HR cleanup and it's covered in four
different sections so we'll start with
section one um
to basically reflect best practices
we're looking at moving from two to
three hours and put everyone on three
hours um so that's the language that
we're changing in section
one and in section two we're looking can
we hold can I pause can we pause yes and
may can elaborate on that so currently
um Union employees are receiving a
minimum of three hours when called in
for an emergency reason that would be
could imagine all manners of emergency
reasons but snow plowing trees are down
a police
emergency um so we have a small we only
have the superintendent maintenance
service superintendent Grounds
Maintenance supervisor assistant
supervisor who are not cover by those
Union contracts so we have a small
handful of employees that would that are
supervising their Union employees that
currently have a minimum of two
hours the logic and asking for this is
both parody so it's just the same across
the board just from a fairness
perspective but also frankly ease of
administration it's a hassle for payroll
to have to figure out oh this person
gets two this person has to or this
person has a minimum of two this person
has a minum of three so you'll notice
set the theme of many of these is just
trying to streamline the payroll process
so that we don't have all these multiple
classes uh as it pertains to some of
these moving on to section two so in
section two you actually heard a little
bit about this from our last ordinance
um on our second reading that I just
covered 19-24 when we're looking at
compensatory time of an employee um
again we had maintain up to 24 hours
we're bringing that to 40 hours and um
again to be more consistent currently
the fop is at
80
so just looking to make that more
consistent mayor is there anything you
would like to elaborate on section
two ask me's at 40 fop is at 80 non
non-unions at 24 this at least brings
non-union and asks me on parody uh comp
time bank actually costs us less money
because we don't then have to pay it out
earlier uh so this actually would save
us a little bit of money operationally
it's more it's just more
streamlined moving on to section three
um Regular work period and hours of work
instead of it being
37.5 um in our code we're looking at 40
hours a week I believe we streamlined
that a while ago um under the mayor's
leadership but we just need to now make
sure that it's applied in our code right
so this is mimicking now what our
employee policy has been saying since
2014
um employees that are these are office
employees that were hired prior to
January 1114 are Exempted um from the
the 40-hour requirement but what what
that basically means is that it's a it's
a 40 hour work week not a 37 and a half
hour work
week okay moving on to section four um
again this is um we're looking at
consistency with our contracts so
amending um the employee for uh sick
leave instead of it being 4.6 we're
looking at 4.61 six and um how the
amount of sick Leaf can be accured is
2100
hours and then we're talking about sick
leave shall be paid at an employer's
rate of
pay and effect at the time the leave is
used so this is something that the mayor
and I spoke about today that we're
probably going to evaluate and get back
to us on how we'll be affected by that
so it would basically be um upon you
taking and cashing out your sick leave
right now it says that we would need to
go back and look at the books of when
you your acral was so if you have an
employee who's been here you know for 20
years you're going back to 2004 and
looking at each year and so there's an
evaluation process in that but I just
asked the mayor can we just look at what
that cost would be um by taking the most
current year which obviously we know
that that would affect some of our
employees to be tenured and making more
income so we might be paying them out
more but um how that affects us and does
it affect us affect us enough to then
have our staff be looking back to trace
all of those years of acral so's gonna
look into that and get back to us for
our next reading and then um is there
anything else you would like to add on
I'm sorry can I just chime in on that
last piece you know as you folks know I
do a lot of employment representation
throughout the state I've never seen
anything like what we're getting rid of
what we're going to is the 100% of the
Norms so yeah and in the spreadsheet
that's required to try to figure
out when you made the sick leave and
like how much you were paid is like it's
just it's it's it's just calling for
errors you know it's
like so we will do a followup then
probably um via email on that because we
are um looking at possibly making this a
second reading we may be asked to
suspend and adopt correct this one no no
it's the other one yeah it's the other
one so my notes are on 22-24 on that one
y okay never mind we will be taking this
to third reading and uh a followup at
the next meeting on what that acral will
mean cost-wise to the city mayor did you
say that Emily Buckley is maybe going to
join us at the next meeting yep she
happy to do that yeah so questions for
her at the next second reading we can
have her answer those Mr mCP no speaker
slips on this one correct correct all
right Mr official let's take you back to
ordinance 22-24 so weird I looked at 23
I'm like something doesn't seem right
and I can figure it out all right
ordinance first reading of ordinance
22-24 to appropriate
$3,559 48 from the rad and Alley fund
$2,258 62 from the water fund and 6,00
$97.74 from the sewer Fund in order to
provide Debt Service for the South
cassingham Road and Vernon Road
comprehensive improvements Project
mad so this is in reference to the debt
service for the loan that didn't come to
us online until the middle of 2024 um if
you go down to section one you will see
exactly what that debt service that came
to us for cassingham and Vernon Ohio
Public Works commission project came to
so you've got your rad and Alley fund at
35594 Water fund at
32
25862 and your sewer fund at
6,957 74 which brings you around the
41,000 um moving forward we are going to
um look at these opwc projects and ask
for an estimate as we're heading into
our budget season as the May can
elaborate on that um to do better due
diligence so we're not having to bring
this to council yes you got
it U Mr Mayor are we certain that these
are the right numbers they've been
checked they have been checked these are
directly from the
award-winning Bexley finance
department but just to further I mean I
think you said it all but we we didn't
receive this CL we didn't close the
project until the late last part of last
year
so this is second half Deb service there
was no first app service and this is the
one that um we will be looking at second
reading um asking for a suspension and
adoption on ordinance 22-24 keep in mind
based on conversations I heard before
the meeting you're going to need five
council members to do
that yeah it's we we not going to be
putting notice of default if we can't do
that but um opwc alert is of this you
know right after the last council
meeting which is now a month and a half
ago so you know it would be it would be
good to be able to move on forward and
get them get them uh paid for this great
thanks for highlighting that Miss sad uh
any other questions from
Council Mr mCP do we have any speaker
slips on this ordinance no speaker slips
all right moving on to our next
ordinance ordinance
24-24 to create section 42.2 for
electric vehicle charger meter parking
in order to provide for the placement
and enforcement of metered parking for
on Street electric vehicle charging
infrastructure introduced by Mr
Silverman but somebody else tonight I
guess uh Mr Silverman is not here so I'm
going to take this one and handily hand
it back to our mayor for a more detailed
riveting explanation all right look at
that map it's first time I've looked at
it Megan Meyer good job
um so we we talked about this as part of
our budget process but we have um green
back Grant dollars coming to us from is
through our electrical aggregation
program that can be used for that must
be used for if if if if we want it for
uh sustainability projects specifically
around energy um we have for a while
been seeking Grant dollars for expanding
the public EV infrastructure and so
we're proposing um adding to what we
have today here at City Hall with a
location on Street location on drexell
Avenue North of Main Street as proposed
it would be um on the east side of
Drexel just south of Sherwood so the
first couple spaces just south of
Sherwood on the east side of Drexel um
and then on Cassidy on street as
proposed uh that would be on the east
side of Cassity just the two spaces just
south of the alley there where the salon
is um those locations are chosen both
for density of Commerce as well as
location next to a Transformer where
they can be accessed uh most efficiently
to the grid um and then two spaces at
Schneider Park um that would be
located uh sort of right near the
entrance to the Community Gardens maybe
a little bit south of the entrance to
the Community Gardens and then two
spaces at Jeffrey Park that would be
located at the tennis court parking lot
um on
the north side of the parking lot um
sort of right across from where the
pickle ball courts are uh and what we
are proposing is we you know we we've
gained a lot of experience with chargers
and we've been really active with morsy
um and rece like looking for and
receiving grants for Chargers and
there's sort of two ways to go in terms
of the infrastructure one of them would
be to um find a third party like a
charge Point that's what the the one
over there that's lit up and says
available right now is a charge Point
charger we received a grant from AE for
that charge Point
charger um we could use charge point
they would charge us about4 to $660,000
per location for the privilege of having
their equipment there and they would
charge us transaction fees as they do
and all that other stuff
um and we we could cover a small
fraction of that with the grant but we
couldn't even cover one location with
the grant money that we have the other
model that we have is to use and we're
by the way we're talking on all these
level two Chargers which are um they
provide roughly 10 to 15 miles of range
per hour of charge so they're slow
they're a slower type of charger the
charge point over here is a fast charger
uh but then next to it you can see this
is very helpful you can see these
Clipper Creek Chargers these are a phase
these are a level two charg charger um
that piece of equipment cost about
$1,500 um as oppos this this is
analogous to the 40 to $60,000 charge
point so it's $1,500 to $2,000 depending
on the model you
get um and but it's it's a it's not
networked they're called non- networked
Chargers the charge Point's networked
because it has a cell phone signal and
it use an app and you pay for it and
charge Point sends us a check every
month that is a Network charger it
doesn't have a way to accept payment
doesn't give us any data it's just it's
a dumb charger right it's just power um
so the model that we're seeking or
proposing with this is to go install
these uh more affordable Chargers I want
to say there's something else you should
know about these Chargers we've done in
the 10 or eight years we've had it we've
we've replaced one piece on it and it
was able to be maintained by our staff
the charge Point charger
not to throw shade is constantly down
constantly being M maintained and and I
know that level two Chargers by charge
Point have had similar issues because
they're much more complex pieces of
equipment that have a lot more piece
things going on this is just a very
simple um charger that's just you know
connecting to Electric panel and
providing energy and some safety
controls so uh the concept we have is to
to use these more afford this more
affordable and more reliable equipment
um install it in these are that we're
talking about and use Park mobile or
some equivalent that makes sense that
we're all that's what park SE buus is
Park Mobile so our residents are used to
having that app and paying for parking
and so they're you're paying for the
parking spot which is where the charger
is and so this ordinance would allow us
to enforce a meter parking space where
there are Chargers and only where there
are Chargers it does not create an
infrastructure at all for us to put
meters anywhere else you would have to
change the ordinance to do that it's
only where there are Chargers um it
would be it gives us the ability to I
mean it doesn't have to be Park mobile
we're in the process of researching
Alternatives Park Mobile makes some
sense because of its ubiquity um and
then if somebody is parked there and not
paying the the parking meter uh they
would be ticketed just like you would
with a normal meters so in other every
other way it's analogous to a meter but
the difference is that this would be
confined only to these 10 am spaces
within the city and that would include
the Legacy Chargers here going to that
going to that
model so that's what this ordinance
accomplishes um we can expect a
potential amendment I think Mark is
still working on the the uh penalty
section or maybe you have an update on
that yeah actually I think I think we're
okay on the penalty section okay and so
the penalty section it's it's it's the
same as if you were parked in a
restricted parking space and you know
you you were ticketed for that it's the
same penalty for that parking ticket
right now does the city pay for the cost
of supplying electricity to those
Chargers there we do so um you know it's
not uncommon for for cities and other
areas to have free to use level two
Chargers it's pretty uncommon to have
free level 3es that's the fast charger
they do exist but they're it's less
common um so we have had that as a free
amenity and it gets used a lot and
that's not being Illustrated right now
but it gets used a
lot both all of them but the level two
especially gets used a lot and so I
think it's it's time for us to you know
recapture those expenses we know that
the market has changed it's and it it
makes sense we're providing an manity
and the proposal here is that we would
recoup costs not really make it like a
profit Center but make it a cost
Recruitment and when you say recoup
costs it would be for the cost of the
electricity plus some portion of
Maintenance to
maintain the locations on the map that
you just showed us correct so we would
build a rate and I have some
models I'm they're almost ready for
prime time and I can Flash them up on
the screen but I'd prefer to have like
another couple weeks to work on them I
have some models that would
show um you know parking rates that are
about a150 an hour um and get a little
cheaper as you add hours because The
Upfront transaction cost is is
incapsulated in the first hour um that
would cover both the transaction fee
from the from the park mobile or you
know or the most the one that we would
use the cost of the electricity and a
maintenance recapture okay thank you for
answering that um Mr Marcelino you had
your hand up so just to be clear here as
a non uh car owner if I park in those
spots because there's nothing else
available I can get ticketed and that's
what the penalties we're working through
at this point you can get ticketed if
you don't pay for the parking if you
don't pay the meter and you're an EV the
way this is currently written and this
is a great conversation that that we
have to have because I need to we need
to understand this the way it's written
if you're not an EV and you paid the
parking meter you are also going to get
T
ticketed you could write it so that
anyone could park there and um it would
just be whether or not you paid for it
that's how we initially wrote it and
then talked through it with
Alex who's you know we'll be here at the
next meeting um and he I don't think
that I can't represent what he thought I
think we both agreed it was a good
conversation have like as drafted it
would not allow combustion engines to
park there but we could draft it
differently so you could allow
combustion engines to park there and
they would have to pay for the parking
um I I just know know that one of the ma
one of the major reasons for this
there's kind of two things that this is
hoping to accomplish uh one is well
maybe more than two but we'll start with
two one is that we have uh it's an
economic development piece where people
are coming into the city they're able to
use the charger and that's a positive
for them and there are there are drivers
that feel that way and the other is
especially at the Schneider Park area um
and at Drexel and Cassidy that we're
providing apartment users a space where
they can pay to park overnight and
charge their car and there would be an
overnight rate that I didn't get into
but that would be part of the
presentation um so apartment users it's
are it's a difficult use case for them
to have an electric car this would be a
big uh Boon for them and we do have um
just from speaking with people charging
over here we do have a number of
low-income users there are there's a
whole generation of very affordable EVS
that you can buy used um and obviously
the cost fuel is lower than than gas and
so um that's a great use case and so
what would be a real negative is if
somebody's like coming to park there and
there's a you
know 1990s truck there or something like
that um and even maybe parked illegally
it didn't pay the parking meter and you
know is using up a space that could
otherwise be used productively so I
think it's a good conversation and um I
think we should have
it Mr Markham
so uh I know you said this one over here
is hooked into some sort of automatic
finder the way that people would find
these is they would just be noted like
on a Maps kind of thing that there are
yeah so they wouldn't say whether they
were occupied or not occupied right yeah
that's true now charge points I I hate
to knock on charge Point notoriously
inaccurate about on their app about
whether or not somebody's occupying
their their uh their charger but that's
right the
there are a number of thirdparty apps
that that have located Chargers and
they're they're user data driven um and
they don't have real they usually don't
have real-time information anyway so I
wouldn't tell people if they're occupi
or not what do you say um we would pay
for these and then recoup the cost like
how like what's the financial mechanism
for that are we borrowing money to buy
these and then paying back that debt or
the this phase that we're talking about
these
uh four new locations are fully covered
by the grants from the greenbacks okay
so we're not expected to have any costs
associated with The Upfront installation
the model that um I'm proposing wouldn't
try to recoup that because it was part
of a grant it would try to recoup the
ongoing operation including the
provision of electricity and like what
fund was would the revenue then go into
from those uh unless otherwise specified
it would just go into the general fund
general fund so then now since we don't
have actually any other paid parking
spots here in the city like how do you
envision enforcement happening for these
okay so it's a great question we do have
parking control and it would become part
of parking controls um domain but
parking control is not here 24 hours a
day and so we need to have some ongoing
discussion um the chief and I are
continue to talk about it about like to
what extent do we want the police
department involved in it um some of the
solutions we're looking at
involve a really easy interface where an
officer could quickly glance and see
whether or not there was a payer in that
area without having to do a whole lot of
research and um I don't know maybe that
would be a good form of entertainment
for some officers I'm not sure so I
don't they certainly could enforce it
it's extent to which they would I don't
know we continue to work on it I guess I
I see the this little general map here
and I kind of have a a vision in my head
for some of these locations do is there
when you've chosen these locations is it
because these spots besides being in a
prime territory they're like a small
percentage of available spots that are
around them that would not be there eeve
ones um that is I don't know if I
understand your question correctly like
basically are we picking an area where
there's Surplus parking availability so
it's not put in as a consumer I'm just
thinking if I want to go like one of
these is next to graders or something
like that if I want to go to graders and
I want to park my car are there only
five spots and now two of them will be
EVS they G cut them in half almost or is
there a percentage that's going to Del
that a little bit so we tried to find
spaces that during like the most of the
time aren't being used necessarily you
know it's not the first priority for
example right in front of graters there
is a Transformer it's one of the
locations that we looked at but it's not
the best place to put these parking
spaces because those are almost always
occupied that's why we chose uh that
Drexel and Sherwood location because uh
it gets parked but usually it's during
like the most Peak that it gets parked
otherwise it's mostly free and um same
with Cassidy Cassidy certainly gets used
just south of the alley but it's not
always being used and um and there's
additional adjacent parking further
north if somebody wishes to to use that
as a EV car driver when you go out to
park somewhere are you always kind of
keeping in mind that you want to charge
your car when you park or are you often
just parking your car and not worried
about
charging
um if I know that there's a charger that
is reasonably priced uh I will use it
most of the time level two so like I I
was at morsy today and I I pay to park
at morsy at an EV space because it's
priced at the cost of life electricity
so it's it's fairly priced okay thanks
any other questions from
Council Mr mCP are there any speaker
slips on this ordinance oh I had
question I'm so sorry just to kind of
wrap this up um are we able that map's
great are we able to actually identify
like how many spaces and the cross
streets that they'll be on like you just
kind of took us through there but it
would show yeah I can I can prepare an
exhibit for the next meeting that more
clearly
Y no feet your slips all right Mr
official back to you all right saving
the best for last it's a Turk related
ordinance resolution five oh resolution
sorry resolution 5-24 adopting the 2024
recommendations of the Bexley tax and
Senate review Council regarding tax
abated properties in the city of Bexley
guess what Miss sod's turn thank you so
do this annually our Turk our tax
incentive review Council um and this is
going and reviewing our current
Tiff and I again we do this annually
this looks good um what we're currently
seeing but if the mayor would like to
dive into anything deeper on
this yeah just that the Turk met in June
and reviewed the incentives that were
under their review which included
commercial abatements and the any tips
that are in place um we as of tax year
2023 do not have any commercial
abatements anymore in the city so 2022
is our last year of commercial
abatements so that's good news for City
coffers and for development um there is
however a tiff as you know on Main
Street has a streetscape tiff and we
also have our city hall Redevelopment
Tiff so essentially they're just
reviewing the
Tiff uh making sure that there aren't
any delinquencies on the Tiff and
approving the continuation of the Tiff
which The Turk did vote to approve
unanimously then it comes to council to
review that and ratify that approval and
that's sort of a checks and balances
against incentives that get provided so
this report is attached to the agenda
and uh available for your
review that is it great thank you so
much um any other questions from
Council Mr Mr M peek any speaker slips
on this
one no speaker slips all right moving on
to tabled ordinances I'm not aware of
any action on table ordinances looking
to the left side of the room okay um no
action on those at this time moving on
to committee reports uh missad
Finance yes it is um hard to believe
that we haven't been in Council since
the end of June it has been um a full
summer I think for all of us and um and
there's been a lot of things like the
chief said earlier the city even though
we're on recess has been doing um as of
recently it was great to write along
with you know thousands of patania
writers and our pelia 2024 it was a huge
success I wanted to thank the mayor um
and the police department and our
service department for showing all their
support and having the city ready to go
for patania 2024 it was great to write
through and uh see all of the the
Beckley residents out there cheering on
uh the writers it was great to ride
along with Hayden again this year for
our second patani I say as you get a
teenager I encourage everyone to do this
because you get time with them you get
to talk to them for the whole entire
ride and uh you're out in the middle of
nowhere as soon as you make it through
the city and so uh so it's it's a lot of
fun but again just thank you to all of
the team Beckley writers um we'll have
them here um um in Council upon um
president lamp Key's um you know saying
yes to that to when we finally get
numbers in to report their success of
this year's um ride I know the mayor has
the gravel ride coming up um have yeah
so it continues on and we'll we'll be
able to talk more about that it'll be
our second here for the gravel ride but
again thank you to all those who rode
and to those who um donated end of
report and by the way Jess I sorry I
cheered you on twice I mistook someone
else for you like go Jess and then you
actually came along I like oh go Jess
again well the good news is I only went
through
once we did get lost we did get lost on
our route this year and we rode an extra
10 miles but
again and it was my 15-year-old who was
very calm cool and Collective by you
know remapping us um so I was impressed
with the way he handled it because the
the mom and me with a lot of cars on the
road was not so calm and patient we are
super proud of you and and Hayden Jess
thank you H Miss fible had to leave but
I think Mr Marcelina was going to U give
her report did I hear that right you did
thank you uh as you heard earlier
Saturday the rec department is holding
its 12 youth
Triathlon Splish Splash and Dash this is
the cutest day of the Beckley calendar
of events and a big thank you goes out
to all the volunteers who have signed up
especially the 37 members of the boys
soccer team Michael price Natalie Mullen
and staff work super hard to put on this
event for the over 300 young athletes
from our community and the surrounding
area so thank you to the volunteers and
best of luck to all the Kos in this
Triathlon uh Board of control meets
tonight to vote on the skate Park
contract so keep that in mind and then
finally uh Bexley Park and reca their
Camp wrapped up this last week and
preschool and after care are starting up
this week the Summer Camp staff and
those who have worked uh to get the fall
schedule plan deserve our gratitude
speaking of fall this year's first day
of registration for programming
surpassed last year that is very true we
logged on right away and I think there's
already a wait list like two minutes
later we heard so everybody is R Iraq
that's a great sign for the programming
um August and September is jam-packed
with the with Beckley event fund the rec
department the service department and
the beex celebration and events team
will be very busy so Applause all around
end of report wow you did the report
Justice can can you do it
again Madam president can me do my
reports from here I think Sam's gonna do
all of our reports
sounds awesome um Mr Silverman is not
able to join us tonight um I don't think
he left a committee report so we will
have him present at the next one Mr
Marcelino do you have a report for
zoning and development yes uh August
19th there's a land use meeting and
August 22nd there's a BAP meeting so uh
those are on the mayor's uh update as
well so keep those in mind thank
you great um Mr Hurley was not able to
join us tonight either so we will uh
hear from him at our next
meeting Mr Markham for safety I think
you had a a discussion topic yeah I I
think it'll work out uh kind of to our
advantage the way that we have this here
two years ago we passed a council pay
ordinance where we adjusted the uh the
council salary uh we did a little study
uh we moved that up uh one of the things
that we did we we' made an adjustment
for two adjustments on the calendar we
had originally had more and cut it back
to two and then the directive was the
council would revisit this by September
of 2024 and then here it is it came
around again uh so uh I sat down and I
thought well I will do a little um
research and I started to do research
and uh I think one of the things that
had come up last year after uh looking
at this was I think we had a goal of
establishing a council salary
that
uh um what's what's the what's the what
am I looking for the uh equivalent for
the pur to meet the minimum required to
account for full credit under for one
full
credit public employees retir assist
yeah and then it turns out we missed
that so we had we put that
8,500 uh for 2024 the minimum is 8,600
and something like that it's just a
little bit bit above that as well so uh
keeping that in mind I kind of went and
did a uh did a little review of that and
thought well what seems to have what
what has been done and what seems to
maybe be an ideal goal because I think
we'd rather not just keep having to
revisit every few years and have these
discussions and and I think with that as
our Target it might be better to tie the
council salary to one credit of purse uh
uh credit is what what the thinking was
so I did actually write up uh an
ordinance and it like I said it's kind
of an advantage because Sam and Jess you
actually this is kind of a committee
meeting tonight now on this and so I
would welcome your input and I know Mark
has a few uh things that that he can uh
throw in there as well so we did not
throw that out as a a first uh first
reading I had put it to correct the next
salary change and just tie it to uh to
that number currently the purse adjusts
at um 1.5% per year
so I thought it was 1.5 I have I have
all the information though and I I think
it may be on the email chain that you
guys were both on as well so we can uh
review that if we want to um I think
mark is telling me that does not think
it's a viable legal strategy to to write
an ordinance that's tied to the purse
number is that correct yeah I mean you
can tie it to the purse number but you
have to say it a different way so
basically basically you can't just say I
mean Troy's first thought which was the
most logical thought is whatever Pur is
that's what it's going to be we are you
aren't doing this yourselves so but I
think it's too it's it's not specific
enough in terms of the
Constitutional language about interm
increases or decreases so if you come up
with a number that is equivalent to Pur
the O's contribution or the O's
credit uh the credit you would get for
that and then oers has through 2029
published what their increases are going
to be percentage wise and Council just
passes an ordinance saying that it's
this m number and then each year
thereafter until 20 through 2029 it's a
1.75 or 1.5% increase whatever it is
that you can do and that way you can
keep Pace to get full credit without
just saying that's why you do it and so
you're saying that we would have to pass
the ordinance that would have a specific
percentage increase that we would take
from
purs from their table what I would say
is that you have to you have to pass an
ordinance as a specific dollar amount
effec of January 1st
2026 okay and then for 27 then in that
same ordinance in 27 28 and 29 counil
could could include a specific
percentage increase that's tied to the
bir
increase in those individual years yeah
without saying that's what you do is
there a way then also to maybe make this
even like to kind of remove even a step
in there which is what I think I'm
guessing like we would kind of all
prefer to do and to say could we receive
you know like we get tax you know we get
tax recommendations or or whatever and
then we approve those could we get a
list of what that would be tied to the
purse and then we could approve it as a
council every so many years or something
like that or is that even more difficult
no you can do that as long as it's as
long as it's passed at least one full
year before it would take effect yeah so
you can do that every two years
essentially is what you want to do
because what but the thing is if you do
it every year then if
do it let's say let's say you did it now
let's say it's $99,000 and you say 1.5%
increase in 26 27 28 and 29 to match
opers minimum you could do that now and
everybody who starts a new term in
January 1st 2026 or thereafter would get
that automatically if you do it Year bye
it would exclude people in instead of
doing it in advance it would exclude
people because they couldn't take
advantage of that it would be an
unlawful midterm increase for some
council members you did a year a year at
a time even if we've even if we've
caught up at that point so that all
council members are on the same schedule
yes you still you still can't have an
interm increase that's why again if you
passed something today it could be apply
to sure right but then at that point
forward we could do it annually correct
you can do it annually but it won't
apply annually so it would have to be by
by anual every two years or whatever
semiannual have i' have to i' have to
every two years yeah i' have to work it
out but I still think that would would
leave some people lagging behind Okay i'
have to work it out on on a timeline but
I think I think the way because because
again I think that would involve so if
you do that yeah because if somebody's
lefted let's just say let start to term
January 1st 2025 I know that's not the
right date um and then you did something
on 27 that would take it back 28 people
had 25 that won't work so every two
years then what I guess what I would and
I'll turn this over to you guys here in
a second to hear what you have to say
but I I guess what I would think would
be better again to take it a little bit
further out of my hands is to direct
maybe our HR and finance person to
produce when and update that when Pur
updated it because they do a regular
update and maybe that 1.5% changes but
they publish that they publish that
table and so whenever they publish an
update a new table could we then get
that and approve that for however long
period that was whether it was three
years six years 10 years whatever Pur
did right that that's because my feeling
is we'd like to take take ourselves out
of this once we've set it at a certain
rate that's what my recomendation was
going to be leaning on HR and
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finance Mr Marcelina do you have
anything to no I I agree I I don't I
think it's an awkward thing for anybody
have to sit and ask for more money or
anything but I do think it's important
to uh to retain uh qualified and
interested parties to run for this
position it's a big commitment that each
and every one of us makes and certainly
if there's a slight benefit by a modest
increase that we can obtain uh to
continue to recruit solid talent I think
that's a benefit to the city um at at a
mod again moderate cost so same do you
think that purse Target is is a
reasonable Target I I certainly do I I I
think and you know and I guess we could
compare it against just to be sure when
we do think about this compare it
against other City councils uh around
central Ohio that we do for each and
every other position that we hire um and
look towards um but I certainly think
it's
reasonable yeah I mean I think but and
I'm sorry but like when I look at this I
it it appears that they released the
purse information or the data
information right now it's for
2029 I think for ease of
administration I would just
recommend that we
adjust the city council members
compensation to tie to that that minimum
in 2029
effective you know the next election
cycle just so that we're ahead of it I
mean it just to me it there's you know
from a fiary standpoint or it's not a
lot of money at the end of the day but I
think it's important that we do what's
right for Council to ensure that we
don't have some administrative clerical
issue there but I think the the the
intent my view would be let's just get
it as far out from a cycle and and just
update it for for the the next election
cycle so that that we're ahead of the
game yeah so from an administrative
standpoint so my I I totally agree with
that and so my thought was that that
again consistent with what Troy put out
there is that we come up you come up
with a number right now there is an
ordinance that says council's salary
increases to $9,000 January 1st
2026 so that would mean that some people
would get it and some wouldn't we can't
do anything about that if 9,000 is still
the right number you keep it at 9,000
and then in 27 28 and 29 you add that
Pur percentage that they've already
published to the same ordinance that you
passed this year and then you stay
caught up and I think that's what people
are sort of thinking here but again we
can put pen to paper and obviously
everybody we really want we want to stay
consistent with that and we want Equity
with the Council salaries and I think we
want to we want some sort of
mechanism so that if so that we don't
need to constantly be relying on someone
to remember to come back and do this or
there's an imbalance the next time an
adjustment is made is is I think the
main thing right you may all you were
still going to have an imbalance to get
this for the first for 26 and
27 because the people who were real who
are were elect who who whose term will
be up but one the most recent will be up
the end of 27 they don't get they don't
get the 26 increase they can't get the
26 increase there're still there still
will be an imbalance but then after that
we've caught up for all council members
right yes that's what I'm saying should
work we don't really want to leave this
burden for somebody again in the future
to be like well now there's going to be
an imbalance or inequity and also maybe
even spare I mean any council could sit
around talk about setting another rate
if they want to but but I think think
you are absolutely correct that by 20 if
you do something like that by 2028 you
should be caught up so that all C if you
assuming that goes on in perpetuity over
sometime in the future all council
members would be paid the same all four
years I mean if you think that's you I
think Mark and I can maybe work to kind
of word something here to bring out then
sure okay thanks that's all I have all
right thank you Mr Markham um
any comments from the public come on
up hon Lewis 663 you CLA um I'm not
going to be able to attend the Linkus
meeting but I have a couple of ideas
that I hope will be shared and one is
knowing that um link us would really
like to have dedicated East West lanes
and since
Main Street kind of poses a challenge to
that I would like to see the possibility
of moving it to
Livingston uh for East West dedicated
lines and also um that might have a
positive impact on all of the accidents
that we see happening on Livingston so
um I just wanted to bring those ideas
forward and hope that maybe someone from
link us will be able to
take that into consideration even though
I know there's 60% done so thank you
thank you Miss
Lewis all right Council we are to our
favorite item on the agenda anyone have
anything further before I move to
adjourn all right I moved to adjourn um
could I please have a second second
second by Miss sad all in favor say I I