Silverman and Markham are not able to
join us this evening I move to excuse
their absences could I please get a
second second second by Mr Marcelino all
in favor say I I I anyone opposed all
right their absences are excused Mr mCP
at this time would you please collect
any speaker slips from our vast audience
as
required thank you so much and Mr mCP
with that would you please call the role
Mr Hurley here Mr Marcelino presid Miss
sad here and miss lampy here please
stand and join me for the pledge of
allegiance to the flag of the United
States of America the for it stands one
nation indivisible liy andice for all
folks you also may have noticed that our
City attorney was not able to join us
tonight um so we are going to go ahead
and proceed without him but Mr Marcelino
is now sitting to my right you can be
Mark official sometimes if you'd like um
at this point Mr Mayor I'm G to turn it
over to you because we have a very
special guest um joining us tonight
Madame President uh we are delighted to
be welcoming the beex Public Library
represented by their official mascot
director Benjamin Heckman who is here uh
and we are celebrating their 100th year
of operation 100 Years of library of
thriving and we have a proclamation and
Ben has promised a uh boisterous speech
to follow
so Ben if you you want to join me at the
podium I
so um if you hadn't heard uh we and
Bexley are celebrating 100 Years of our
Public Library we know that we do have
the best public library in the world not
just the country and I will tell you I
visited the Bexley public library in
Bexley England and it has nothing on the
Bexley public library in Bexley Ohio so
with that I have a
proclamation whereas the beex public
library has long served as a Cornerstone
of our community offering an expansive
collection of resources and services
while maintaining the charm the charm
and warmth charm and warmth together are
charms of a beloved small town library
and whereas Beckley Public Library was
established on September
30th 2019 19 24 got a little typo fix
that uh the library grew quickly in both
size and popularity and within a few
short years moved to the iconic Main
Street building that we all know and
love the library's leaders and employees
have Faithfully supported our community
for the last 100 years serving job
Seekers emerging
readers readers who've been reading for
a long time burgeoning artists genealogy
afficionados and more with an Ever
evolving selection of books resources
and
programs and while it's impossible to
calculate the many lives that have been
touched by the library's tireless
commitment to inspiring and informing
our community in 2023 they tracked more
than 150,000 in-person visits and more
than 500,000 checkouts 100,000 of those
were my checkouts just see you know
whereas it's an honor our honor and
privilege to extend our warmest
congratul ations to the Bexley Public
Library on the occasion of their
centennial celebration and it is fitting
that we honor their long and positive
Legacy therefore I Ben kastler mayor of
the city of beex
Ohio am going to do a
first inspired by our council president
Monique Lamy I do here Proclaim
September 30th of this year and every
year moving forward as Beckley Public
Library day
oh she
can that's what I thought probably was
in the center
it will Beed
for there you go there you go
you have five minutes which time door
will open underneath you thank
you
uh part of being such a great library is
serving such a wonderful community and
you guys are all representative of that
great community so we
appreciate um all of you guys in your
efforts uh for this this year of
Celebration we still have a few events
left for our Centennial uh this is hot
off the presses it's our fall guide that
I brought for everyone and our next big
uh conversation will be well we have a
couple left this Thursday we have a
celebration of James Baldwin he would
have turned 100 years old so I hope that
you'll join us on Thursday evening for
that and then on September 6 is our big
birthday party it's a Friday night it'll
be our third annual classic car show so
we're going to have cars from every
decade we've been open someone's working
on a playlist for all the top songs for
every decade we've been open uh we're
gonna have cake and ice cream we're
gonna have a giant cake we wheel out on
a book cart with sparklers so you guys
should definitely be there we want to
invite all of you including the members
of council not here tonight to come and
join us on that and then we're going to
wrap up our Centennial birthday on
September 26 with Maggie Smith and say
Jones at the library uh so I want to
invite you all to come and participate
in those things and just thank you
overall for your support uh coming to
programs sharing it with friends and
family we've had a tremendous year of
Celebration and we couldn't have done it
without all of you and our wonderful
community so thank you thank
you and we're excited to wrap up wrap up
wrap up the Centennial Celebration by
bidding out the library pocket park
reading room as part of of our year of
the parks it's going to just catapult us
that's right thank you very much for
joining
us all right moving on to agenda item
number five public comments regarding
items not on the agenda Mr mCP do we
have any speaker slips for this um
agenda item no speaker
slips um moving on to item six uh since
Mr fishell is not able to join us
tonight Mr mCP has warmed up his smooth
jazz easy listening voice and he will be
doing our readings wonderful all right
well we have ordinance 2324 to amend
section
262.50 cons con compensatory time
section 20
262.50 section
262.50 our cleanup ordinance um it has
four different sections and she will do
a deep dive for us on um how this is
going to change some of our code yeah
thanks
Emily green now it's green now um yes so
this is a popery of some HR cleanup
items um items that we have identified
that there would be a positive change in
terms of um consistency throughout the
city um as well as just some um cleanup
items to align our practice with our
code so
um I I think if it is okay I'll just
sort of do a quick uh overview of each
section and then if there's questions
from Council at the end I'd be happy to
answer so um so the first section is
amending um the Callin time for
non-exempt employees so um this would be
for if an employee was not working
during uh regular hours and was needed
to be called in for an emergency reason
um right now the code specifies that we
would pay them a minimum of two hours um
so say you needed to come in for an
emergency reason um and it took you an
hour to do the thing you needed to to do
um the code says we would pay you for um
two hours all of our contracts however
with all of our unions stipulate that
that call-in time is a minimum of three
hours paid so if we amend the code be
consistent with what our contracts are
it helps in terms of um payroll
processing and consistency there um the
next section speaks to compensatory time
so this is an option that employees able
to take in lie of being paid um time and
a half for hours worked over 40 in a
week um right now the code says that
they may accumulate up to 24 hours of
compensatory time um and so the um
irregularity there is our askme contract
stipulates 40 hours is the minimum
amount there our fop contract stipulates
it's 80 and so for our non-bargaining
unit employees um we'd like to make the
change to level that out so that it's
also um 40 hours as well um so another
item there is if a employee were to work
more than 25 or 24 hours so they were
working 25 hours um uh their balance I
guess would be over 25 hours of
compensatory time we would need to pay
them out at time and a half so that's
also another benefit of
having it at that 40-hour threshold um
so that folks can take that as time off
instead of um time and a half um next is
um I guess codifying the 40-hour work
week so there was a a past uh Legacy
practice that has um that was changed in
2014 um the past practice was a 37 and 1
half hour work week that hasn't been in
place since um
2014 and so this change to the code um
would codify that for any employee hired
after January 1st
2014 um and then the um there's a slight
change in the um acral rate for sick
leave so the code currently says 4.6
hours of sick leave all of our contracts
say
4616 and so um that Small Change um
helped us be consistent from a payroll
perspective um and then we' also um are
proposing a change in that um sick leave
would be paid at the employees current
rate of pay versus um some Legacy
verbiage that spoke to paying that at
the rate in which um it was earned in
the past so um if you take sick leave on
January 1st 2024 we would pay you at
your January 1st 2024 rate versus um
when you earn that maybe two years
ago and so those that's the the quick
overview of all of these changes and I'd
be happy to answer any questions that
Council has looks like uh president L
has a question yeah Emily thank you so
much for the the run through do you have
a ballpark figure on the Financial cost
to the city if we make the changes that
are being suggested here so um the
largest I guess Financial impact would
be if a employee were to leave and we
were to um pay out their sick time at
their current rate versus doing a a look
back on that um that may range between
like 600 to, 1500 per employee however
um we typically only pay out sick leave
um for about six to nine employees per
year so the code stipulates that an
employee needs to have at least 232
hours acred um of sick leave in order to
be eligible for payout and then um
there's a formula that it's um one hour
paid for every eight hours for certain
threshold and then um above the next
threshold it's 1 to four hours so so uh
we took a look at a couple of sick Leaf
payouts that were calculated just this
year um for somebody who has a low
amount of um sickle kind of banked it
would be on the lower end all the way up
to maybe a police officer who has a lot
of tenure and a lot of sick leave um
that individual um the difference there
would have been
1500 so fairly nominal Financial Impact
versus balancing out and making things
more uniform that's right that's right
and it also um when our payroll person
has to make these calculations it's a
very manual process that she's looking
up a lot of um pay stubs and and doing
that manual calculation and then it has
to be validated by our finance director
and so there's some um efficiencies
there too from that perspective and I
will represent Mark fishell who as we
were talking about this in calculator
said and besides which I can't do a good
Mark official presentation it's crazy
Nobody Does this that's my best Mark
official I've
got
currently Mr
Mar Mr Marcelino yeah two questions one
is Clarity on my part um just in regards
to the compensable time compensatory
time excuse me uh you noted that we have
two contracts that we're trying to align
line with uh one is the as me one is the
police Union contract one is 40 one is
80 uh you are we're asking that we go up
to 40 that just moves the askme to 40
that doesn't impact the police Union
contract correct so askme is already 40
and the fop is 80 right now this change
would be for non- bargaining unit
employees okay Goa okay thank you very
much absolutely and then the second
question is just that we know that the
40-hour work week uh will only apply to
those hired after 2014 under the Legacy
provision um but then in underneath AC
cruel for sick leave we are going to not
apply the Legacy rule to those it'll
just be straight across the
board right so um the way that the code
is written is that there is um 4616 for
every 80 hours completed um our new
payroll system is able to do a pro-rated
amount for that so if you're working a
um 37 and a half hour work week um you'd
acrew at a slightly less um rate however
you'd be taking the time um at seven and
a half hours per day and so it does work
out that way um we use this methodology
too with our part-time folks who are
eligible to acrew sick time um and we
have a formula in which that's
calculated for them as well okay I guess
my only question for Mark before we uh
vote on it is just to confirm that
there's no issue with applying Legacy in
one scenario and then not applying
Legacy in another one if you see where
I'm going with that sure and we we can
ask him that I think I'd point out that
the way that we're applying it is pro-
employee so um you know we're not
looking we're not we there are exempt
pre-existing conditions for that regular
work period as we're will make sure that
you guys know that's I think three
employees two employees it's a very it's
a very small population that is at that
30 to seven and a half hour but they are
being car they're giv the carve out um
which which is a um you know is is a
pro- employee change it's it's not it's
friendly to Legacy employees as is you
know the change that brings everybody up
so it's not but we can ask Mark that
thank
you Mr Hurley um thank you uh so section
one just I'm more Curious um do we have
a definition for emergency reasons I
just is it anytime somebody is called in
when they're not scheduled or is there
actually a policy when this would be
activated versus hey we're a little
short staff today can you help us out
yeah so I I would say that um an
emergency would be you know outside of
their working hours um and so it would
be um for folks that would be in scope
here um it would be um our non-
bargaining unit folks so um Andy's guys
that's they're all under the ask me
contract and so if it's like a water
main break or that sort of thing that's
well defined um this would be like an
office emergency right so um for example
if there's a um Finance emergency where
like there needs to be a check cut and
run um that are outside of working hours
that might be um an example for a
non-bargaining unit um related emergency
so if you think about the scope of that
it would be um you know our city hall
folks and then also uh Mike's folks as
well I don't know what a recreation
emergency looks like but maybe you give
you an example oh great I mean like
Lauren Lauren Miller oversees our events
if something happened at an event that
she had to be called in to help
address she be overtime eligible this
does draw a distinction with hourly
employees
um that's right yeah so it would be a a
non-exempt employee so if you're
eligible for
overtime then this pertains to you so in
some
instances um you know so in example of
Carrie if a check needed to be cut she
may be the one coming in to do that work
as the leader of her Department she's
not overtime eligible um that's
typically a leadership Duty in where a
director might um Step In
um in versus just a um non-exam
employee so so it's just kind of I guess
self-defined by each department that's
more I just was curious if there was a
written policy on what constitutes an
emergency I guess I was trying to get at
is there a scenario where somebody would
be called in where it wouldn't be
considered an emergency what I'm hearing
is no which I'm right right and um we
would look
to typically it would be um the mayor
and the mayor's cabinet who would be the
one making that decision call somebody
in in in defining that emergency and and
you could Define it as unscheduled and
unpredict unpredictable and unscheduled
so the most common one would be a snow
event or trees trees or water so from a
from from a Rec side if we have like a
community event this weekend where there
we have staff that'll be scheduled to
work it they would not be eligible to a
three- hour minimum although they're
working more than three hours but it
wouldn't be a situation where it was
emergency where we called them in last
minute right I was just looking for a
little Clarity on that emergency reasons
um and then just on section four I guess
first I'm just sort of curious do we
have a calculation for what the the
city's total acred leave liability
is we know that
number or I'm just yeah there is a
spreadsheet yeah um and then this so
effect of September 19th we're changing
4.6 4616 are we then going back and
retroactively adding sick leave back to
September 1
2019 so the way so this change codifies
what current practice okay is Okay so
we've been calculating at 4.6 right okay
um and then last
question um I know a lot of this uh
other parts of this ordinance were
harmonizing kind of non bargain unit
employees with bargain unit is that the
case here or I guess in terms of terms
of the um how they how uh employees can
pull out their sick Le when they
depart
um yes so uh ABS me it's you you pull it
out at your the salary you have or the
rate you have when you leave for non
yeah so this this would be another
instance where um we are codifying
current practice okay so um you know if
you take a sick leave you're going to be
earning that at your current rate as
well um and then um where there may be a
um change going forward is the instances
where somebody is um leaving employment
and has a large amount of sick leave and
we need to calculate um uh that payout
so um and so we'll have an opportunity
to make sure that that language carries
over from here when we negotiate the
askme contract this year um as well as
um our Animal control officer and
dispatch contract as well that are
coming up this year and I and I'm maybe
I misheard so current practice is when
somebody leaves City service and they
pull their their acred sick Le out
they're being paid at the rate of pay
when they leave not sort of calculated
over the lifetime of their employment
here so our current practice is when
somebody leaves employment there's an
intensive calculation process and so
it's inconsistent right because um
previous language um or I guess current
language talks about um paying it at the
rate in which it was earned which could
have been five years ago depending on
how quickly you you use your sick leave
however um practice has been
inconsistent when it comes to payout so
this change would make it consistent
across the board um and um have less
confusion there all right thank you Mr
Marcelina thank you just a followup to
councilman Hurley's question so we were
talking about the definition for calling
what constitutes an emergency and I
think Ben you said it could be defined
as an unscheduled or unexpected call and
so I guess my clarity question is is
that what it's defined as or is there
other language um if you know
I mean to yeah I I I think
it's very clearly that and I know we
apply it on a regular basis because the
section code exists but I I will double
check if there's some other I'm just
thinking from an flsa standpoint I mean
that's I'm just the definition there so
if it's included then that probably
covers it as you stay out we want to
make sure it's in there just in case
thanks
okay any other questions from Council
for Miss
Buckley Miss Buckley thank you so much
for joining us this evening we much
appreciate it you're certainly free
tocome you can head out and enjoy the
rest of your evening thank you so much
thank you and since thank you Emily um
since this was a second reading Mr mCP
were the new speaker slips for this
ordinance no speaker slips all right
moving on to president's report um I
just had a few things uh first and
foremost since Mr Heckman is still here
I do see in the uh Library guide that on
Tuesday September 17th the League of
Women Voters is having a national voter
registration dat at the library from 4:
to 6: PM as everyone knows there's some
elections on the ballot this fall so if
you have someone who is um old enough to
be a voter but is not quite registered
please send them over to the library on
that date uh Mr Hurley has a birthday
coming up on Thursday so happy early
birthday to you council member Hurley
thank you um I also wanted to share with
Council that over the past couple weeks
maybe it's summertime maybe it's the
warmer weather uh I have noticed an
increased uh amount of incidents which I
would call distracted driving distracted
biking distracted walking distracted
everything um just today uh on Dawson I
saw a a young teenage girl riding her
bike which I think is great right at
least at least they're not they're not
doing other things but the only problem
was um she was riding in the middle of
the
road um without a
helmet with her iPhone in the right hand
um not just holding it but holding it in
front so that she could watch
it and shatter airpods
on um if I had had peace of mind I would
have somehow telegraphically
photographed that in my mind to share
with you but um I just encourage folks
who are listening um to please make sure
that when you are driving you are biking
you are walking that you are still
around uh paying attention to your
surroundings that you're still able to
see things you're still able to hear
things and you are being as smart as
possible um the mayor and I also had our
quarterly meeting recently with the
schools to get some updates and some
exchange of information um we continue
to do that once a quarter
uh so we will meet again later on this
fall if there's any topics or issues
from Council that you would like me to
bring up at that upcoming meeting please
feel free to send them to me say um in
another two months and with that that's
the end of my president report um Mr
official's not here so we don't have a
City attorney report so Mr auditor over
to you for your report yep I was just
going to thank you councilwoman sad and
the mayor for joining in our audit close
meeting with Juliet and gr week and a
half or so ago um so we uh we walked
through the audit at a very high level
and um really ended up being one of the
cleaner audits that we've had over the
past few years so appreciate your
engagement in that and I know we've got
some follow-up discussions that we'll
have but uh again appreciate your
engagement all right Mr Mayor turning it
over to you to take us through your
administrative updates thank you m Madam
president and we're going to start with
the most exciting topic on everyone's
Minds at all times which is finances G
Martin I gota go first with the finance
right department so through July um our
revenue is looking really well we are up
almost
$223,000 compared to um July of 23 um in
saying that our income tax is slightly
lower um that is due to um individual
and net profit collections um basically
timing we just have not received some of
those payments um but we are following
in line with 61% collected through July
which has been um the trend for the past
several years and then the um
expenditures everything's we are up um
compared to last year but the majority
that is due to um salaries and wages um
fop contract and just the um General pay
increases so if anybody has any
questions any questions Sam sorry yeah
quick question if we are on Pace with
where we normally are um at 61.53%
was in June so if you look at June um we
had received greater income tax revenue
okay so if you and then if you look down
at the bottom of the screen or at the
bottom of the sheet June we were
actually at 67% of total collections as
of 23 so we're following Trend 23 was a
little bit higher but a lot of this I um
was on the phone with redit today just
to confirm everything and it is a lot of
it is just timing issues with taxpayers
f filing oh okay got what thank you what
it is appreciate thank you and Sam you
can kind of see that visually with this
B bar chart or stacked whatever we call
this chart um where this is where we are
supposed to be this this color blue and
if you look real closely it's just a
little bit below uh oh uh oh you got it
here thank you I appreciate that I lost
it Jess
Carrie can you um dive a little bit into
the building department um experiencing
elevated Consulting fees and
professional contract
expenses and then some of which have
been offset through development fees so
wondering if there's just a couple
projects yeah one of you got that yeah I
should probably I'll cover that so the
biggest chunk of this and it's not the
last you're gonna hear about it is if
you recall we had um our building
inspector
submit his invoices for an entire year
late and you all
authorized a um you authorized us to pay
it out of a PO that had not yet been
established at the beginning of this
year we ended up paying and I think I
said at the time I said okay what we're
doing right now is we're paying in
2024 a lot of these 2023 expenses
because our budgeting has been lagging
so one of Matt's charges coming on U
Matt Kingler uh has been to
get much tighter controls on the budget
better sense of where they stand um we
have generally had better reliability
with that vendor billing and so what's
happened is our our expenses are
reflecting last year's expenses plus
this year's expenses that's why it's
accelerated primarily um there's been a
little bit of additional legal but it's
not like a huge shift from years past
it's most of all that is represented by
last year's bill being paid this year um
and you'll be hearing more about that in
the coming weeks Once Matt and I have a
pretty good forecast for what the rest
of the year holds because that is a uh
it's a pretty as you we've talked about
this already it's a tight it's a tight
appropriation right now thank
you any other questions for
Carrie right thank you Carrie uh Mr
bashore service department thank you
mayor really don't have anything to add
to my report tonight um the department
as a whole has been extremely busy um
then as far as contractors we have three
different contractors working in the
city right now just busy time of
year questions for Andy Danny uh the
drug project excuse me when do you
anticipate Paving being complete well I
actually talked to ODOT yesterday um the
contract has been awarded
um actually talked to the contractor
today um oh we're waiting on OD do um
there's still not been a pre-con meeting
um decent phone call with them we're
hoping and on my report I didn't get
time to change it but we're hoping it
will start into of September once it get
started it won't take very long it'll be
pretty quick process but ODOT is still
holding us
up we can't wait for that Andy but we
know that's out of your control and and
they're paying for it and so that's why
we're waiting but I cannot wait to drive
down Drex soul I will be glad when it's
done yeah it'll be wonderful we both s
right any other questions for
Andy all right
um Megan Meyer Administration
development thank you mayor um I'll
start off my update by thanking Andy and
his team um as mural Festival quickly
approaches I have been asking for the
very odd task and it seems like daily so
thank you for hanging with me um with
that you may have notice that the first
of the five neurals is going in at the
Anthony Thomas location that first one
is a family um inspired Muriel if you
will the owner's sister of that building
is installing that um and then you'll
see starting September 6 the other
artists start to arrive they're all
working on different time frames um so
sa the date we really hope to see people
out at the main celebration on September
21st we're also working out um some
smaller events that Thursday and Friday
leading into the event um if you've seen
me moping around lately it's because I
had to say goodbye to both Nick and
Payton our summer interns um and they
had a huge impact this summer a big lift
um Payton was instrumental a number of
projects um one of them helping with
some Landing strategy updates you'll see
there a new date may not be familiar
with we are hosting our next public
workshop on September 16th um so hoping
to unveil preliminary recommendations
similar to what this group may have seen
at the boards and commissions Workshop
in June um and yeah beyond that we are
hosting our next round of meet your
street business meetings um tomorrow
Thursday and Friday um we are still
hosting each of our main corridors
separately we'll continue to evaluate if
that's the best option tomorrow for Main
Street we are welcoming link us again um
to help discuss uh that initiative with
those business owners along Main Street
um leading us right back into link us I
know that a couple of you were able to
attend the open house that we had in
August uh despite its bad timing um and
um some really interesting feedback um
some really pointed questions and I know
some more follow-up that we need to do
both with the community and council
members um yeah with that I'll take any
questions
Danny uh just one on the EV charging
stations um where will those temporarily
be
located four yes absolutely so uh the
locations are permanent um the fact that
they are free is what I mean to be
temporary um because you considering the
parking meter ordinance and so that's
all still being worked out of course um
but the new locations will be um two on
Street on um Drexel just north of Maine
as well as Cassidy just north of Maine
and then two going in Schneider Park um
just on the north side of the parking
lot near the tennis courts and then to
Schneider Park um pretty close to that
um um garden shed in that parking lot
there um so those will be installed or
are being installed this week um Andy
may be able to provide you an update
there he's been overseeing just Jess
Howard who's doing the installation for
us um I want to note that this exhibit
that shows Drexel that's the old
crosswalk so we're not putting the
parking spaces on top yeah and each is a
dual Port so each location I mentioned
is going to be two two
Chargers so it's one sort of base unit
with two charging ports ex okay so
that's where we that's how we get to
eight okay so they're going where and
the mayor should map they're going
basically all right they're temporarily
free they are permanently installed yes
got
it and just to be clear about timing we
need to have them functional
by three days from now sure because of
the terms of the grant that we have for
them they're going to be functional
three days from
now well that's the so that's the
revenue piece and the the charges will
be there but the yeah Revenue piece will
be important if you guys don't pass that
I'll just put some parking meters out
there like old style with quarters and
uh we'll see what happens it's
joke yeah a question from Jess um Megan
i' I've gotten a lot of interest in that
follow-up meeting for the land use
strategy so I'm sure we've done all of
our due diligence that it's on the uh
blast it will be um yeah we tend to hold
it for about two weeks prior to that but
yes absolutely and I'm sure it's I'm
just trying to think of any way and you
always are awesome about this making
sure that it's very
transparent um so for the people I don't
get a see to remind them that they know
about it because that's definitely been
topic um over the past six months if
people ask me when it's going to be okay
any help you know I can do if you put
anything and I can share it and the rest
of council absolutely great and I've
started to get some requests for kind of
just like images that might be um
sharable through text messages for
neighbors and things like that always
helping happy to put something together
like that for you all okay thank
you questions for Megan all right
Michael price thank you mayor just a
couple quick call outs from the report
um a huge thank you to all those
involved with the Splash and Dash thank
you to the over 100
volunteers uh specific shout out to uh
bexi City Schools cross country and
men's and women's soccer teams that were
a heavy volunteer contributors uh but it
was a a the 12th annual event was the
our our largest number of registrants to
date so that was really really great
weather cooperated and we again we
appreciate all the assistance from all
the volunteers including council members
uh so thanks for everyone's help Labor
Day block party is this Sunday uh Main
Street will be closed uh starting at
noon the event runs from 3:00 to 8 uh so
come join us should be a lot of fun but
otherwise Happy to answer any
questions question for Mike Monique Mike
I don't have a question for you but when
I was reading your report earlier um
today all I saw was this event exceeded
expectations this registration exceeded
expectations our numbers are higher than
they've ever been before and I think
that that is a true Testament to you and
to the amazing staff that that work with
you uh one thing I want to ask uh over
the next couple weeks is given that we
are seeing these amazing numbers and we
we likely want these numbers to keep in
the direction that they're going um is
to think about what kind of Burden
that's putting on your department and
again revisiting the issue of resources
staffing so give that some thought over
the next couple weeks um and when
council member sad gives us her timeline
for uh for financial stuff for the city
uh please give that some some deep
thought I think it's wonderful um it's a
great asset to our community but I also
wonder um you know how taxing it would
be on the folks who are Staffing and
putting that together no I I appreciate
that obviously most most of our
programming any additional participants
is an additional cost uh either directly
or indirectly and so those are things
we'll keep an eye
on any other questions yes Sam oh Sam
then Jess all right well just a comment
and the question uh first I know I told
you uh privately but I just want to
commend you and uh the recck uh group
there for Splish Splash and Dash it was
amazing councilwoman F was frequently
commented on how wonderful of an event
that is and it was my first year uh
spending any time there in volunteering
and it's true it's just amazing and I
thank you so much for doing that for our
community and the adjoining communities
it's really cool because it brought in
people from whiteall from Reynoldsburg
all around just to be a part of it so
thank you for that and thank you for
your whole team it was an excellent
event um question uh just has to do with
the robotic mowers because I'm not as
familiar with those and I think we've
addressed this in the past but I just
forget so help my aging mind here how
heavy are those and how concerned are we
about those potentially being taken uh
if not watched
closely so um I don't know the exact
specs on how heavy they are uh I've seen
them operate they they could physically
be taken right they if you had two
people probably you could lift it and
take it uh there's GPS tracking on them
so there's a lot of ways to deal with
that besides um you know just trying to
lock them down so um you know it's
something that we'll have to keep an eye
on I don't you know the history The
Experience from the from those that have
used it and from the companies that
we've talked with is it's not generally
a big issue there's not a lot of value
to them uh because they can't really
operate outside of the way they're set
up so uh it doesn't seem to be an issue
that we currently you know that they're
currently seeing in the industry but
it's something to keep an eye on thank
you with new technology comes a odd
questions that just pop into my mind we
also have that attack mode right when
they ATT good yeah that's it no I mean
you know this is going to be a test for
us we want to roll this out and see if
it has potential opportunities in in
other settings um but there are a lot of
benefits especially at at at Jeffrey
especially with the athletic fields the
quality of the the turf um having it
mowed every night and taking a little
bit of grass instead of a lot of grass
will mean for will leave a much more
consistent surface for the user groups
as well so there's a lot of benefits
that we want to evaluate we do want to
see what what are there will be
drawbacks I'm sure there'll be drawbacks
there'll be things that we have to deal
with um that we are counting for but we
want to we want to see what it you know
how that works in in Practical use and
we'll evaluate for for future
opportunities um Mike when do those it
says September are those coming soon and
what will that because I know we have a
handful field hockey field hockey going
on on that those fields so will that
someone will def defitely be overseeing
it so if the grass isn't cut to the way
we need it it'll probably be something
that steps in to make sure that they're
accommodated yeah so um they are ordered
I'm hoping they'll be in the next couple
weeks um and then be operational soon
thereafter um obviously we're mowing in
the meantime until they are operational
and we'll you know currently we're
mowing essentially once a week right and
these will mow every night uh if we see
any sort of issues then we can obviously
still address it with our normal mowing
process to the extent that we need to so
um the question I was actually coming
but I just wanted after Mr Marcelina
brought that up by that question came up
but um so spending so much time over
there with field hockey right now uh
lots of questions on the unification of
Commonwealth and um all that
construction that's going on looks great
so wanted to just if you would mind
elaborating a little bit there are
people who are going by that and not
sure what's happening a lot of great
comments very positive comments but just
wanted a little bit more uh detail and
you highlight that in your report so
yeah so we are we are um the fols are
close to
completion uh they were hoping by the
end of the month it looks like it's
going to be a little further into
September um the we had a unification
committee uh that met um last Friday I
guess it was to start to talk about uh
conceptual ideas uh with the design of
The Bu
unification in the more immediate term
we are working on bringing fi dirt to
the site potentially sourcing it from
projects that we have going on in the
city so we might start to see some of
that fi dirt start to pile up on that
location in preparation for unifying the
two parks uh likely there will be an
interim unification process that we get
it sort of combined and get some grass
growing uh while we continue to work
through a final design for what that
that area of the park will will look
like and then I saw very positive news
that a permanent um restroom is coming
into Schneider Park we're working on it
yes we've had preliminary conversations
with the potential contractor it's in
the budget and so we're hoping that uh
they'll be working on that this fall and
that's still in the plans for the
Commonwealth project as well unification
project there yeah so the Foles do have
a restroom in it that um not two though
just one just one okay on the east side
the west side is Mechanicals and
um and yeah as soon as that's op
operational will'll remove the temporary
facility there and begin using that
thank you
great Mr MC
peek just have a quick question about
the pool I got my notice to remind me to
register my dog um for the swim so I
encourage everybody to do that if you
have a dog um but just looking at the
financials um looks like we're a little
bit short in revenue from what we had
budgeted the expenses are significant
down but I also recognize that we
probably have some invoices or some
payments that will go out so you know at
at an incredibly high
level um do we think we'll land where
the budget was or lose a little bit more
you know we're we're planning on having
a a wck board um presentation on the
pool at the Wednesday meeting next next
Wednesday okay so we are just now sort
of putting those numbers together I
couldn't tell you for sure okay today
um you know if it's a little bit short I
don't know at this point whether that's
memberships daily excuse me which are
you know or programming Revenue I have
to take a close look at that okay all
right historically we won't get excuse
me we won't get a lot of Revenue at the
end of the season right there's not a
lot of Revenue opportunities um uh swim
lessons are already pretty much are done
um memberships aren't obviously being
purchased at this point in year so
um unless there's you know again I
haven't looked at closely unless there's
some trailing uh credit card receipts
that don't hit hit the books until the
following month from when they get
purchased then okay I yeah ultimately
just curious like where the what what
the plan was for 25 and I know we're not
a budget but it sounds like you're
you're going through that now you'll be
talking the board I um on the expense
side you know most of that expense is
the contract and so it just depends some
of that is timing on when we get invol
voices from a uh for swim safe from a
contractual standpoint as to where we'll
end up for the end of the
year any any questions for
Mike all right thank you Mike
um couple things to update you all on
from my side uh we do have the one
Beckley dinner on Drexel coming out
October 6 want to highlight that in the
calendar because I don't think it's been
talked about yet it's a Sunday Sunday
afternoon
um Jen Robinson is helping plan that uh
the Hometown Heroes program um they did
have a deadline of Last Friday but
they're they're leaving it open a little
bit longer so you can encourage people
to still apply for that I have nominated
Bill Harvey and David Madison to be
included in those banners um although I
don't have all their details of service
so I'm working on that um we have uh we
had a link us public Workshop here that
was great Monique thanks for coming to
that I got had pretty good attendance
and I think was informative those you
were there too Jeff sorry about that
everyone who came thank you for coming
great job um and uh I do want to call
out we Rebecca NES and the OSU
entomology team received a large Grant
to do further mosquito studying in
communities throughout Central Ohio
bexley's one of them um also I think
Hillyard and Gan and some other um
suburbs um that will will be occurring
next year it'll be similar but much more
rigorous in terms of the data that
they're deriving from the last trial um
I know that mosquitoes and mosquito born
diseases are are very prevalent right
now in the media so if you have any
questions about that because we will be
putting some word out about that it's
not none of the potential controls are
any less rigorous than our current
situation um people who are already
opting out would be part of the group
that is opting out you know that has a
control group but actually there's more
controls in place because they're doing
trapping and some other things so um
it's not in any way sort of diminishing
the level of service but it is testing
alternative treatments of the existing
optout some some existing optout
residents
um okay I mentioned the one Beckle
dinner we have uh just want to call out
Chief Lewis was recognized by mahogany
magazine in their list of central Ohio's
most influential men of color that uh
they had a event for that last week and
so and he was he was kind of on their
Banner he was part of their primary
honores so want to recognize him and
applaud him for
that it was mentioned that the Liberty
block party is on Sunday I'd love help
at the cookout trailer you can help cook
you can help serve let me know if you'd
love to help out I offer easy shifts um
excellent benefits which include free
food I'm not in the band thank goodness
this year
thank I kept on telling Tim no uh as far
as I know uh and I will promise that the
weather will be cooler than it is right
now and less humid it is actually be uh
low
80s very low humidity feel like Arizona
in the winter on Sunday maybe I might be
overselling I probably should to do that
um I have some fun photos from the past
couple weeks there's G fluis the
recognition event uh oh and I want to
recognize um Alex Dutton who received
his Eagle Scout award he's one of our
latest Eagle Scout uh awardees from
Troop 166 and there's a bunch of nephews
hanging out as Splash and Dash rabble
rousers um and then one more thing
before we move on uh we will be
circulating the sort of New Look for the
budget um to make sure that the
information being provided uh is meeting
your expectations we'll be working with
Jess on that I'm G to add this I I'll
email this to you it's not it's not on
the packet but I'll add it to the packet
as well but this is kind of an example
of what we're looking at for this will
be what the final budget book looks like
um with obviously Phil blanks being
filled in um but also I think when we go
into our budget process and correct me
team if I say anything wrong um we're
going to want to have those expenditure
highlights ready for you as we're
presenting budgets and then showing
the budget sort of in this format um so
we're moving a lot of those notes from
the table itself into a narrative to
pred it and the reason for that is the
difference in size of notes the fact
that they sometimes exist they sometimes
don't make the budget book really hard
to read and consume and so we're hoping
that this is a a good system that that
meets your needs again I'm G to send
this to you uh we're hoping the reason
we're asking you so early because we're
not we know we're still circulating
internally the budget books uh is
because we want to make sure we get it
right before we go into the deep work of
making sure that we're setting this up
for success in October so and I'm sure
Jess is gonna have a little bit more
about that but I'll be circling that
around and I want to give huge kudos to
to Carrie and to Megan for really really
working on this early and we've been
meeting frequently about it and uh
making great progress on it so great
work um and with that I'm
open oh yeah I didn't want to steal your
thunder but should I say that we have U
uh and kind of along with that we will
have a uh a survey coming to you guys
specifically um about what you would
like to see in the budget process and in
the budget presentation so this is um
you know what's worked in the past what
hasn't worked what do you care the most
about in terms of presentations and then
sort of any comments that way we can
kind of just gather some information
from you guys and uh we'll be getting
that out maybe this week who knows um
just to get some feedback again before
we get too deep in the weeds with how
the final presentation looks okay thank
you any questions
bique mayor at the the last meeting with
when the chief was here we had a number
of residents come and ask about
Livingston Avenue um I think that there
was brief mention at that time that uh
we were going to look at a potential y
uh Community input night maybe October
1st with CPD um any progress or updates
on that's a great question we did reach
out to Columbus to see if that date
worked for them and I haven't heard back
so let me Circle back on that it's a
great reminder just keep us posted
yep any other questions for the
mayor
nothing thank you right
moving on to um item 11 consent agenda
Mr mCP over to
you sorry you scroll yep my bad okay
thank you thank you okay um reading so
help me if I don't do this appropriately
but we are reading the consent agenda
here um one is the first ordinance is is
1824 to establish the full-time position
of child care administrator with the pay
range of
48424 to 6829 introduced by laurianne
fibble on June 25th
2024 and then the second consent agenda
item is ordinance 1924 to amend section
26.0 to C12
C5 use of sick leave and to amend
section 26 262.50
compensatory time introduced by Jessica
Assad on June 25th
2024 and to approve the and to approve
the meeting minut it's sorry about that
from August 13 2024 thank you Mr mik um
are there any questions from Council on
the consent
agenda any uh comments from our audience
on the consent agenda all right 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 RO
Miss sad yes Miss lampy yes Mr Marcelino
yes Mr Hurley yes consent agenda
passes thank you um we don't have any
third readings so let's have you walk us
through our second readings please okay
first one is ordinance 2024 to amend the
pay ranges for Deputy Chief of Police
introduced by Jess sod on August 13
2024 so this ordinance is to um
basically bring and change um bring in
this position of the Deputy Chief of
Police
um and to
financially
um bring in the uh pay rate for the
Deputy Chief of Police when we uh this
was something the chief had brought
about and spoke to last week in our
first readings as far as changes um in
the department that he was going to make
so this is a market uh adjustment
received by our sergeants and
lieutenants from our 2024 to
2026 fop
contract oh Mr Hurley you have a
question um I I think you hinted at this
but um this is the salary range is
pretty compfortable with other
jurisdictions it is um yeah we we yeah
sorry it is we track with our officers
and and Command Staff um it is
um any other questions from
Council Mr MCPE do we have any speaker
slips on ordinance 20-24 no speaker
slips Right Moving On okay second
ordinance is ordinance 2124 to reverse
the 2024 appropriation of
500,000 567,000 605 from the arpa fund
into the water fund and to approve the
payment of public safety personnel
expenses from the arpa fund introduced
by Jess sad on August 13
2024 this um again we spoke about the as
the first reading that the Auditors
recommended um this change just to make
the burden of proof easier to
follow and we uh were fine with taking
this to third reading so I guess tonight
if anyone has any questions to elaborate
on this
ordinance I don't have any questions I
think the fact that uh the Auditors
recommended it um is good enough for for
me but any other questions from
Council um Mr mCP are there any speaker
slips on ordinance 21-24 no speaker
slips All Right Moving On Third
ordinance tonight is ordinance 2224 to
appropriate 3,500
5948 um from the road and Alley fund $
32,2
5862 from the water fund and
$695
7.74 from the sewer Fund in order to
provide Debt Service for the South
cassingham Road and Vernon Road
comprehensive improvements project also
introduced by Jess sod on August 13
2024 wonderful so um this ordinance has
to do with um basically an amount of
money that we came to us in the second
half of the year of the project it was
around
41k um what we spoke about at the last
meeting was that moving forward we will
have opwc projects um ask for a better
estimate for the budget so we're working
on that so we don't have um these
Appropriations hopefully that we're
dealing with tonight but that is um
what's going on with this ordinance and
why it has to come in front of council
and we also can take this to a third
reading any questions on this ordinance
tonight Danny uh just out of curiosity
is this a 20-year Bond so 20-year payoff
or what's the timeline I guess for this
I think it's 30 do you recall I think
it's 30 okay it's set upon it's set by
the opwc sets it based upon the age of
the Improvement as they assertain it
okay and I remember I did a little quick
division it's zero interest but I think
it's
30 cool thank
you any other questions from
Council uh Mr mCP any speaker slips on
this one no speaker slips Right Moving
On ordinance 2424 to create section two
or 4
45224 electrical electric vehicle
charger metered parking in order to
provide for the placement and
enforcement of metered parking for on
Street electric vehicles charging
infrastructure introduced by Alex
Silverman on August 13
2024 thank you since Mr Silverman's not
here tonight I'm gonna um have M the
mayor kind of briefly walk us through uh
Council may remember at the last meeting
we walked through kind of what some of
the initial steps were and there were
some diagrams to show us where these
proposed um EV charging spaces were
going to be but um mayor since I think
we have a few additional council members
here tonight who maybe weren't at that
last meeting could you briefly walk us
through ordinance
24-24 yeah absolutely
um pulling the actual language up here
one second uh
so uh to how much I need to repeat about
what I said last last
time listen then maybe mrle is
so much great great um and then
subsequent to our last meeting uh
actually during our last meeting I sent
you this exhibit that shows uh roughly
where the spaces are located and if it's
not clear this is Sherwood this is that
um town home apartment complex on Drexel
so it' be kind of the northern before
you hit Sherwood uh portion of Drexel
and then Cassidy this is the salon right
here and uh gr Mery building over here
and this is the alley that leads to
Starbucks
um and then
Jeffrey got the tennis courts SL pickle
ball is actually right here and then
like these are the last couple spaces
here before that pad I didn't pull it
out too much because I wanted it to be
clear where we were or sorry clear where
the spaces were exactly and then um
these are the two spaces uh near the
Community Gardens um primary entrance to
Community Gardens is right here is south
of that primary entrance um next to the
shed that we use for rec storage and it
will become the
restroom so those are the spaces um the
the ordinance itself I know there's some
questions about you know maybe some
pricing
models um and we have some preliminary
pricing models um that I'm going to pull
up here and I can also send these uh and
I I want to really stress
that uh these are based on our best
estimates of use in terms of down here
where we have like projected annual
income but the rates are really designed
to offset any costs which is easy enough
to do because costs are incurred to
these spaces based upon consumption
which is based upon time spent at the
spaces and so we calculated what rates
would make sense to recapture the cost
of electricity plus the cost of
Maintenance and plus the tra our cost of
transaction fees um on the spaces and
roughly we're looking at like 80 cents
for 30 minutes a125 for an hour it gets
a little cheaper per hour as time goes
on because you you capture those
transaction fees on the front end um and
we would want to create a tier that
allows for overnight parking um which
that tier of eight would recapture a
full charge on a on a vehicle of any
sort of like normal commercially
available vehicle right
now um and then estimates we've used are
based upon observation of these CH these
this charger over here and so and then
some then some sort of
really uh educated guesswork in terms of
how that might vary from place to place
um and we could imagine that we might
have as much as
$40,000 in gross income based upon the
consumption patterns we're talking about
here that would result in some net
income to this from this project um the
idea wasn't to like make profit off of
it um going into this but under this
model it would make a little bit of
profit off of it help help fund it would
go to the general fund the way that this
is written um but you know you could
think of it as helping to fund future
projects thank you for pulling that
information together questions from
Council Mr Marcelino I think I Mr Hurley
did you have questions yeah um well
first I think there is a drafting error
um real minor one in the in section
45224 C meter spaces limited to Vehicles
only pull it up here right there um that
reference in subsection one I think that
should be
B8 because referencing vehicle but
that's that's B8 not B2 just minor
um no uh
so in terms of the the spaces I mean I
just want to the wording is awkward
there it should say the vehicle is
defined in that in B2 that is able to
park there um I I whereas vehicle is
still it's it's defin yeah but we can
we'll I'll take a closer look at that it
does feel like it's not worded quite
right for what it is I mean it's it's
clear what you're yeah um because there
within the parking space yeah the
vehicles to yeah so in general this res
this ordinance would allow um
theoretically allow the placement of
electric charging metered parking at any
any public I mean Street or any public
lot am I correct in that I know I know
the plan's for eight spaces but um yeah
it would allow the it would allow us to
charge for space for Chargers that are
installed I mean in theory we could
install Chargers that we don't charge
for but yeah any any public Street could
allow for more I'm saying it would it
could um
one other question
here oh gosh I should remember this um
what's happening with the Chargers we
have on the laot right outside here so
they'll be uh they will also be getting
the meter signage they would be part of
this program okay but they won't be on
the Park mobile app right they will be
they will you can well what we haven't
finalized if it's Park Mobile we have a
couple other vendors
um assuming that this passes that we
would look to there's some pros and cons
Park Mobile has ubiquity um there's some
other vendors that have slightly lower
transaction costs so we're just the the
the key for us now because it's not a
huge difference in transaction costs is
enforceability so we're trying to see
that on the back end how easy it is for
our parking control officer and police
to yeah easily know that there's an
infraction and enforce against it as
opposed to happen to do a lot of work to
figure that out and and I again was rep
for Council
um we uh the the as it's written now you
have to have an EV or Plugin hybrid to
use one of these spots I couldn't Park
my Subaru there and pay the meter
correct right unless your Subaru is one
of the right EVS yep it's all right
sutera is that the Subaru EV something
like
that Marcelina thank you so in regards
to enforcement of that scenario um or
somebody running over um on the meter
itself um I know there have been some
questions from those that aren't here
tonight as to how that is going to be
enforced and who will be enforcing that
and my assumption is that it would fall
underneath at least to some
degree um but do we have the ability to
uh use our resources to enforce that
through the police department without
incurring
additional budget cost that may cut into
that
40,000 um that's so that's part of the
due diligence we're doing right now with
the the tech behind um the different
solutions that we have um and Megan
maybe can speak a little bit to what
that back end looks like but my
understanding is that it makes it really
obvious whether or not there's a a
paying vehicle there um our parking
control officer would be the primary
enforcer uh we would want the police to
when they aren't other wise occupied and
they were just driving by anyway um get
in the habit every now and then of just
checking that app but Megan if you could
talk a little bit about what we know so
far about right right and we are
exploring multiple other options there
are some competitors in the field now um
you know with Park Mobile kind of
Leading The Way in Columbus but there's
some others as well um their backend uh
third-party platform it's pretty uus we
don't pay per user anybody on our staff
could have access to it it could operate
from a mobile phone that we might give
them or any laptop that they may have in
their Cruiser um and so and it is all
cloud-based right um and so anytime they
would drive by they could just pull it
up see if the license plates match what
is in the spot and go from there um and
then we do anticipate you know in
addition to the potential Revenue that
we would have from the actual parking
meter there would then be potential
additional revenue from the issuing of
tickets um that might help offset some
of that workload um we do not think at
this point that it would be necessary to
add additional staff to to do that work
as's a followup to that uh as it will be
parking enforcement that would be part
of the uh enforcement I guess of these
uh parking spaces is parking enforcement
on
duty during the night time I mean I know
during the day yes but during the nights
and weekends I assume not well in theory
they it's it's an individual and he does
rotate from time to time in theory I
don't think that he's ever coming in at
2 am um I also think that like I I I
read every I read not every but many of
our police logs and so I know that there
are certain shifts that are a little bit
less um occupied and I'd feel a lot
better if the chief was speaking to this
but I think at night especially it will
be obvious you know the the type of tech
that they're going to have I think
they're going to be driving past and
it'll be Geo based and it'll tell them
whether or not somebody's pain to be
there and they'll see and they can
either choose to enforce it or not I I
mean are
um frankly the model even if a few are
enforced against there revenue from that
will offset those that aren't and I
think it's important that we enforce I
also don't we're not viewing this I am
not viewing this as like a new Revenue
stream um I'm viewing as an amenity
we're providing to the community and
we're trying to create a sensible
charging model for it and not having EV
I uh you know when I'm thinking about a
parking meter oftentimes the way that uh
people enforcing parking determine
whether or not somebody's following the
law so to speak is that there's like a
red light that flashes is that similar
there will be a red light or a beacon or
anything and would that be distracting
to people that live on that street I'm
not yeah no it's going to be like the
newer Park Mobile areas the Columbus has
where it's just a sign okay and it's
telling you to pay with based upon this
Zone number okay which allows us to give
different rates too by those zones which
is important because there will be in
the future especially certain situations
where we might have a charger that has
like higher output and we can have a
different rate for it okay um that
answers one of my questions about
whether or not there's a cash option in
these and how we would handle that um in
regards to the actual enforcement and
then the fee schedule associated with
any violations uh can we get I I I know
it's referenced in here but can we have
that included before the third reading
as to what the breakdown is going to be
for violations yes thank you
Mr
mCP um can you pull up that amazing
spreadsheet
yeah only the amazing one yes okay now
for my own education um if I were going
to purchase electricity at a charging
station for a
comparable um kilowatt per hour whatever
the the right metrics are what what is a
commercial rate that someone would
typically pay if they were purchasing it
from charge point or Tesla or something
like that because it ranges a lot yeah
there's not a you know um first off
level two charges the charge often will
charge you lower rates because the
equipment is less expensive um but like
a Tesla right now is like 35 to 40 cents
for fast charging and this rate that
we're proposing is very similar to what
you pay
a lot of level two chargers throughout
the city level two is the slower charger
which is what what we're talking about
is not the fast charger a fast charger
is an incredibly expensive piece of
equipment and so it tends to cost a lot
more so that's where you pay like I'm
looking like four or five bucks an hour
kind of thing for a fast
charger more than that even okay fast
okay okay it's giving you a lot of
electricity yeah I was just I wanted I
was just trying to ultimately
quantify um
you know while again I I respect that
this is not intended to be a revenue
stream for the city and more of a
um um you know service for the community
and access I just wanted to understand
you know what are we foregoing in
revenue for the city and you know if we
did charge more are there things that we
should be using that
for um so that's just just a
philosophical question um that that I
was again just trying to understand if
we did go to market rates what what what
could the opportunity be for the city
yeah it's really hard to Define market
rates um they are really all over the
place uh it's free at coai it's free
here it's you know a dollar an hour at
morps C it's just like and and it's it
just varies at time Ikea charges 20
cents a kilowatt hour I mean they just
they're all over the place um this is
modeled to to cover our costs but we
could certainly tweak it to more than
cover our costs even it more than covers
our costs but more than more than cover
costs U my my my personal philosophy
would be that we're trying to recapture
costs and and encourage it's almost an
economic development tool especially in
our Main Street area and it's a one of
the major problems to adoption that we
hear a lot about and that we know even
from watching people who are charging at
our stations and talking talk to them is
that apartment residents have a really
hard time with ownership and so this
going to the especially going to um
Schneider and a future phase Danny you
asked about it the only other location
we kind of have on the horizon that we
know of is North Gast area uh would
appeal to a lower income demographic
that would have that
amenity Mr Harley I just thought of this
um if uh let's say
they wanted to put an EV charging
station in the Fitzgerald garage would
that be able to be connected into
whatever system we have so that like I
guess if a private sorry if a private
developer wanted to have an EV station
or if any of the businesses on mainst
Street wanted to put an EV station in
their lot can that be integrated into
the same system that the public system
the public charging stations are so it
it depending on our platform so if we do
Park cus or Park Mobile then it's it's
just a different Zone code on their
system but the same app would use it and
they are actually putting Chargers over
next door so uh there I've noticed that
downtown some of the private lws because
I I use Park Mobile weekly um I'm just I
think that's that'd be any opportunity I
would just say maybe consider this as
you're selecting vendors to say you know
if a private business because maybe on
North Cassy maybe the solution there is
maybe the uh Natural Market wants to put
an EV station on their blot in which
case tying it in so it's all the same
system would be really a great tool and
hey if we can find a way to make a
little more money maybe that turns into
a grant program to allow some of those
private businesses it would be trickier
for us to be a collection agency for
that because of the income expense side
of that we want to get in that business
but but I think having a platform that
anyone can access which is what we're
looking at anything that we're looking
at anybody could access I just imagine
there probably some cred some businesses
like and Commercial areas they may want
to offer that to to their guests to
their residents and having it be one
system would be really nice if we can
make that work agreed so yeah question
um any other questions from Council Mr
mCP any speaker slips on this ordinance
no speaker
slips all right moving
on resolution 5-24 adopting the 2024
recommendations of the Bexley tax
incentive review Council regarding the
tax abated properties in the city of
Bexley introduced Again by Jess sad on
August 13
2024 um so our Turk uh Council met and
these are their 2024
recommendations at our introduction of
this at the last meeting um the mayor
did say he would like at the second
reading to do a deeper dive so I'm gonna
hand this over to the mayor do that or
if you well it's your call I'm happy to
do a deeper dive um so let me do that
thank you
uh I I mean because with more members
yeah I mean there's not I'm not I'm kind
of there's not a ton to dive into our
commercial abatements are no longer
active we're not active for the STK um
and so the technical perview of the Turk
was actually just the Tiff um incentives
and they were just they were the
incoming expenses and everything Ved to
continue it so we do this yearly yeah
I'm not sure that I don't know how
deeper to go than that happy to that was
great okay that was great that was all
good any questions on this ordinance
resolution
5-24 all right no questions from Council
Mr MC any speaker slips on resolution
5-24 no speaker slips all right and
Council since we are missing uh half of
our folks uh I'd like all of these to go
to a full third reading uh at our next
meeting so that we have the opportunity
to get additional input from our other
council members so you do have just more
of a general
curiosity with tax abatements in general
I mean do we have or is it easy to
assemble just like a list of active tax
abatements and then foreg gone Revenue
just so we can get a handle on I just
you know if it's not too much trouble
yes I'm just
curious I can get you that we have we
have a model of that um which is real
quick if anyone's listening like I've
seen it before
remaining
are
uh some units I think at Gateway
although those are about to all roll off
uh the Alexander and then one dosson has
like two units
left at all Point Mr Hurley uh Mr mCP
Would You Walk us through first readings
please yep ordinance 2524 to add chapter
1478 to the codified ordinance of the
city of beex Ohio entitled securing and
fencing of construction sites to require
the securing inv vening of building
sites during construction activities
introduced by Sam Marcelino on today
August 27th
2024 for anyone listening out there um
I've considered this uh ordinance called
uh it's the pit and that's a reference
to parks and wreck and if you've ever
seen it there's a the first season is
pretty much based around a large pit uh
which a main character falls into and
injures himself and uh the whole goal of
it is to turn into a beautiful Park and
make it safer while that's not the
objective of this ordinance we are
trying to avoid unsafe uh development
sites around our community as more and
more people uh must undergo significant
uh changes and developments to outdated
or unstable properties around the
community so the efforts of the this
ordinance are to protect our community
when those new uh uh buildings are being
put up uh throughout the city after
obviously going through our rigorous uh
Bap and ARB process so that's what the
the basis of this is but IID then lend
it to the mayor to see if there's
anything additional he'd like to add
it's beautifully summarized thank you
any questions from Council Mr Harley um
yeah just a few uh so have we has there
been I guess an issue with an injury at
a construction site well is this more I
guess I'm ask is this reactive or
proactive in the aforementioned um
television show Andy I think did break
his shoulder or his arm both his legs
his legs okay there you go was also in
Pon I'm just curious I'm just curious
about we had have we had we've had we've
I would say that we haven't I would say
we have had an issue no one's as far as
I know been injured we've had a couple
different construction sites where
um residents have called and saidhe this
doesn't seem like a safe condition we've
gone out we agree we've asked the
contractors to uh fence them in and in
the two or three examples I can think of
they've agreed to do that okay a little
bit after the fact they've agreed to do
it um and so fortunately we haven't had
any accidents but it seems like a real
Omission um after having just had that
experience so no no bad accidents
thankfully but certainly some examples
of where it could have gone WR and I
think there's an impetus to do this and
I can think I mean just I don't want to
founder any horrific images but I
remember visiting a site a couple years
ago the basement had been dug Footers
were in place there was rebar sticking
out of the Footers 15 feet down in that
pit and your imagination could quickly
go to what could go wrong in that
situation so I think it's a wise
ordinance for Sam to be introducing and
then another um line of questioning just
around liability I mean if if you know
does the city have any exposure
liability currently I guess only if it
would be a city I'm just curious is this
going to help us out in any way with
like
liability it would this would all be
private liability I mean Mark could
opine further but um I
certainly no so I don't I'm Sam Maybe
has more I would state that uh there's
always a liability by simply existing um
and so you know while the city of Bexley
might be named in an initial complaint
my guess is that they' be able to uh to
get out of that complaint but at the
same time uh we might incur costs
associated with uh getting ourselves
removed from that complaint um and as a
whole uh I think this this gives us
further protection uh noting that we
have done everything in our capability
to protect community members I would add
to that that with this ordinance now it
seeks to implement an additional process
so as long as the city follow that
process uh we should be good but
sometimes um there can be additional
liability if you have a process written
in place that is not followed but that's
not going to happen because not going to
happen and Municipal liability is also
interpreted differently than
organizational liability some other um
yes and then my last question is around
the definition of building s so we're
we're talking about construction where
you are building a new principal
structure or Excavating a basement AC
cross space or I guess parking garage or
what what have you um what about if I'm
if I am doing an addition uh renovation
demolition adding you know Building a
garage like I guess is that that
definition almost feels a little
narrowing um but I you know yeah that's
a I also don't want to cast too wide of
a net if you know I great question I
think when drafting it when we Matt and
I were thinking through this um we felt
that you could
go further than we did but that it would
start to become a hardship for
especially smaller contractors smaller
projects um and that in those instances
ostensibly you would have somebody who
was present and occupying a primary
structure that's one of the reasons we
called our principal structures so like
a garage or an addition to a principal
structure in most instances and so you
have some oversight I think what what
makes these sites especially problematic
is after hours there's no one around
like there's no eyes on the site so I
think that was we felt that was a little
bit of an extra
control any other questions from
Council Mr mCP any speaker slips on
ordinance 25-24 no speaker
slips moving on to the next one
please um ordinance 2624 to establish
the position of assistance Finance
director and to establish the pay range
of
$28.35 per hour to
$432 per hour to
reduce Appropriations in the contract
professionals line item of the auditor's
office account by $110,000 to
appropriate $110,000 into the salaries
and wages line item in the auditor's
office account and to declare an
emergency introduced by Jess sod on
August 27
2024 yes so this is an assistant Finance
director position that the city has
identified um that we are in need of
with um the hiring of Carrie Martin
who's here tonight and helping support
her and her staff here at City Hall so
um if you open up the position
description um Council can see exactly
what we are looking for as far as
purpose of work
responsibilities and
qualifications um to get an idea but the
interview process has
started and no no no so we have we're
waiting until a first reading to even
post the position okay because we wanted
to make sure that we could answer any
questions take the temperature of four
sths of council uh before I mean we were
able to post something and then
ultimately not offer it so it's you know
but still we didn't want to go forward
without you guys having a chance to take
a glance at this well we appreciate that
and it looks like we have some questions
so Mr Marcelino yeah a quick question uh
and I Ben I already asked you about this
but I think it would be helpful to uh
have the public understand we've we've
already voted on this matter in the past
uh correct yes so that we have formerly
had an assistant Finance director um a
couple years ago we changed our
model Matt you can interject at
anytime uh with some changes in staff we
changed our model to have a contract
position that took up some of the of the
work of the assistant Finance director
um and then have another uh position
that did did a different function within
the department um as you could tell just
from the ordinance itself uh it's
suggesting reducing the contract
appropriation because um our our
contractor uh will be um no longer being
our contractor in a couple months
um and by their choice and so we are now
looking to return to this assistant
Finance director position and Carrie I
don't know if you want to chime in in
terms of what we think is the importance
of having somebody who's kind of your
right-hand person on site just giving
like real robust support this was also
brought up with the um internal audit
that we have going on that we do need
support within uh um office so the
current contractor it would be doing her
um her current responsibilities plus
being an assistant to me to be there
onsite um five days a week instead of um
an off-site contract
one thing that I don't think we've
talked about and we still should finish
quantifying and it will depend a little
bit
on if if we post this and if we award it
what is this person coming at in terms
of pay um we've offered it as a robust
part-time as well um so it will depend a
little bit about what the cost
differential is between between a
contract uh the contractor budget and
this position um but we'll have prepared
for you at a future meeting next meeting
um sort of the over under on that it'll
be undoubtedly at a bare minimum a
little bit more and at a maximum depend
I a little bit I'll predict it'll say
something between 10,000 to you know
$30,000 an additional expense that
actually
was somewhere in the range of 10 to
30,000 an additional expense from a
contractor position but I think what
Carrie
would gladly attest to is the real
importance of having um this as a
position as opposed to as a a third-
party contractor Mr Hurley do you have a
question that was one of my questions so
thank you I'd love just to see the cost
comparison uh I'm just more curious what
was the why was the decision made to go
with a
contractor as opposed to filling the
position a few years back uh we had
somebody who was a former employee and
had a lot of um institutional knowledge
uh but was traveling a lot and wanted to
work you know remotely and um based upon
the specifics of that contract or that
individual it made more sense to have a
contract as opposed to an employee um
but that person is ready to depart okay
and then I don't know if this would be
considered a drafting error in the title
um it references we're moving 10,000
from one account to another but then in
the actual text of the ordinance section
three and four that figure is 20,000
I don't know if that matters I mean
that good point good call out yeah I me
I think the 20 20,000 is what you want
to move and that's one is the correct
number so we I think Mark will be okay
if we uh yeah type a correct the title
we'll double check perfect good good
catch Mr Hurley um I had a brief
question the the contractor how many
hours a week generally did they
work um it would range anywhere from
approximately 15 to 20 hours depending
on um the situation for she um gets paid
weekly so during audit time she may be
putting in some more hours regular just
normal it would be 15 hours 15 to 16
hours so this job encapsulates that
contractor's duties but also adds some
additional duties but we could fill it
still part-time to fulltime depending on
the candidate correct um and
is
there I assume it's a slight increase
from the prior contractors given that
there's some additional hours and duties
in there potentially there could be is
that within our current
budget um that's so it yeah we we can we
can pay for this within our current
budget okay partially because we uh
provided for a longer overlap period
with carry I think we just kind of
budgeted healthfully for that overlap um
so this year we're fine we're not we're
not spending any more money next year
depending on uh the pay that this person
gets brought in in at and the number of
hours it could most likely be a little
bit more of expense but I I mean one of
the things that's coming out of these
Audits and again please chime in in any
time is uh additional I mean there's
additional work that needs to be done in
terms of additional controls um you know
a higher a higher level of expectation
than we had of this position in the past
and so I think you know while we're
looking to fill a gap left by a
contractor we're also looking to do much
more than
that yeah I I mean and that's I mean
that I think summarizes it quite well I
mean I think that the city has done a um
good job of you know man you know
managing the finance department in the
past um clearly um it it's grown um and
you know with the help of the Auditors
have identified just areas of
opportunity that we should be um
investing in to ensure that we are um
really doing and and living you know the
the financial standards that that other
municipalities do and and this has been
a very lean um Finance organization
where certain activities have been
decentralized into areas that um
probably shouldn't be doing certain
finance activities so this is an
opportunity to bring more of that stuff
in house so it is um you know it's the
right absolutely the right path that the
city needs to
go any other questions from
Council um Mr mCP any speaker slips on
this ordinance no speaker slips take us
on
please and we have our final ordinance
ordinance
2724 confirming the mayor's appointments
of members to the board of zoning
appeals in planning and the tree and
public gardens commissions and to amend
section
12203 membership term and organization
of the board of zoning and planning
introduced by Dan Hurley on August 27
2024 thank you um so I'm gonna kick it
over to the mayor but this is just
making a few very minor tweets uh we are
adding a third alternate member for Bap
at the recommendation of staff and then
tweaking some of the representation on
the tree and public guards commission
but mayor if you'd like to outline this
yep that's correct um so some specific
movements Here Charlie flowers just
appointed as an alternate um there was
another member just appointed and that
member had took a different job and was
no longer has capacity for Trea public
Guardians commission so this is
proposing that Charlie gets moved to
full membership um I'm still um
interviewing a couple folks who had had
who might be alternates um and looking
back at my notes from other past
interviews for the past year um and then
with
Bap uh Patrick King is currently a
member and has as you could imagine been
very busy recently and is asking if he
could be an alternate um and this would
this is proposing that Heidi Dorne
return as a full member um and she has
she's uh I think enthusiastically wed to
do that um and in order to accomplish
this we would add an additional
alternate because right now we have two
alternates um which staff would like
anyway because we have two alternates
for ARB with the five member board we
have two alternates for Bap with the
seven member board um and and uh
sometimes have a hard time getting a
good Hardy Quorum and uh staff would
like to have three alternates to to work
with and then just um or we will have
the tree Public Gardens commission
alternate member as an amendment correct
probably hoping for next week or next
meeting okay perfect you and if if
memory serves me right I don't think we
had a chance to meet
Charlie but was he the one who he he was
at the tree in public gens commission
this last week to come to the
next let's give him the opportunity
let's do it
he wants to be a member that's fair
enough any question uh he was fantastic
by the way in his first meeting of the
Tre public yes we will he was in full
bloom Oh Well
Done Right any other questions from
Council um and maybe we'll have uh we'll
have them come at one of our next two
meetings Mr mCP any speaker slips on
ordinance 27-24 no speaker slips okay
moving mov on to tabled ordinances um
any any action on tabled ordinances uh
yes I guess any to move to bring
ordinance
16-24 from the table all right motion to
remove from the table from Mr Hurley I
will second that motion Mr mCP would you
please call the
role Mr Hurley yes Mr Marcelino yes Miss
lamkey yes and Miss sad yes okay um so I
submitted and you'll see in the Dropbox
folder a draft Amendment it's uh dated
8-27 so August 27th proposed amended
helmet ordinance draft um I'm not going
to ask Council to adopt this tonight uh
first off I'd like everyone here and
secondly um Mr ficial has not had a
chance to give this a deep read so I
just want to give him and and everyone
some time to digest the language so my
preference would be to put the ordinance
back on the table and then bring it back
off the table and two weeks amend and
pass um so if there are edits to the
amendment please take a look at the
language and we can talk through that
the the only changes uh that are in here
vers what was introduced the first is
we've expanded the list of vehicles try
to cover sort of all of the types of um
ways I guess Kids Zoom around Bexley uh
we also used the similar vehicle
language I know there was a little bit
of discussion around that I think just
you know really being clear about the
intent it's you know all the different
ways kids go around we really want to
encourage them to be protected um at the
request of a number of members of
council we are raising the age from 16
to 18 that does harmonize with city of
Columbus and other localities um and
then lastly we we did not make any
changes it's still um uh you know Parks
uh and and recreational trails and then
the other piece is I I did take a stab
at drafting passenger language um so no
person um shall be a passenger on a
bicycle or bicycle trailer unless
wearing a protective helmet because that
was in president lamp you had raised um
and then lastly um in talking to uh some
some uh pediatricians I had the benefit
of working with at work in the ER you
know one of the just major things they
say is really if your child is under one
and this is pretty consistent even in
the in in the industry they they should
not be in any any the Burly trailers the
seats anything it's just their heads
can't support with the helmet so we we
have a language in there says show on
the one should just not be a passenger
um so submitted for consideration again
not not asking you to adopt this I want
to make sure everyone has both on this
body and in the public has plenty of
time to think about this I've shared it
with at least a dozen physicians in
Bexley um so I'm I'm still hoping they
give me some thoughts as well but with
that yes mad so having been a mom of
young people and using every inch of
capacity of biking them around from the
front bike seat before it was even the
thing I think we got it at Handy bikes
and Gan to you such a trend Setter you
know I was didn't even know it just was
trying to get that energetic firstborn
out and about um I'm wondering if we can
change I'm going to recommend something
to explore just like in a car with a
seat when you're up front versus when
you're in a car seat and to maybe
consider uh weight and height because
not every one-year-old or six-month-old
or 9-year-old so know when I went to use
that front seat bike
um it it had more to do with size and
weight than year or than the age of the
child and I know that that is something
that we do look at as parents a lot when
they get to move to the front of the car
or they've graduated um whatever car
seat that they're in so I would like to
consider that yeah I can I can do some
research on that um you know I I'll say
you know I if you go to like n white
children's has a great helmet safety
resource website but uh the industry
actually has a lot of good resources as
well um so let let me do some research
on that and I can um circulate that and
and maybe tweak the language a bit and
the helmet of course all day long but so
you're you're you're
envisioning um having some language that
really speaks
to when kids can be passengers in
certain types of just exactly
okay Mr Marcelino did you have a
question or comment yes thank you very
much uh I know you said you were working
through uh it looks like the third
section of this one uh any issue on your
end with duplicating or mimicking the
types of transportation for no person on
the age of 18 and expanding that from uh
bicycle or bicycle trailer to include
the types of Transportation mentioned in
section two just copying and pasting for
uniformity purposes because kids will
ride on scooters on the back of them or
yeah that that that's a good point I
think you can mimic some of it I mean I
don't I don't think kids can really be a
passenger on roller scooter but I think
I think for scooters yes I've actually
seen that the tandem ride um which I
would say is not if you actually go and
look at the scooter it's not recommended
but um yeah and and again I just want to
stress you know and I was actually I
need to have a conversation with Chief
Lewis I was even going to reach out to
the people Johnson's about you know the
goal here is positive enforcement we we
just want you know this is a tool for
parents to encourage their kids to wear
helmets it's you know if if BPD is out
and they see some kids rolling around in
their helmets I want them to be able to
stop and have a positive interaction um
you know that's I I I I have asked this
before I don't believe BPD because this
this the current laws exist since 2010 I
don't think we've ever issued an
ordinance nor you know nor should we but
it is really about having that positive
interaction so um good feedback and uh
yeah I I'll tweak the language a bit and
maybe if it's appropriate circulate a
revised draft that can be shared
publicly long before our next meeting so
folks thank you so much for for staying
with this and for considering all of our
past
comments with that we might believe I
need to move move to lay ordinance 16-24
back on the table motion by Mr Hurley to
put this back on the table is there a
second second second by Mr Marcelino Mr
mCP would you please call the role Miss
sod yes Miss lampy yes Mr Marcelino yes
and Mr Hurley
yes any further action on tabled
ordinances nope all right moving on to
committee reports missad for
finance so wanted to um let Council know
that we plan to put or be looking for
the Google Doc from the mayor to provide
your feedback on um as we prepare for
the budget season so please get you know
look for that an email and get a
response to um mayor Kesler and we do
look forward to at the next meeting um
just giving you a um a an idea of what
the calendar is going to look like for
Budget season so um you can begin to get
an idea of that and plan as we start to
definitely uh get busy here and then
some highlights from the Community um
Team Bexley just met recently at robinos
for their annual after ride lunch and um
wow
$400,000 has been raised so far by team
Bexley
$400,000 um I was blown away at that
lunch it was actually the best lunch um
post uh ride that we've received we
filled the place it was warm and there
but there was great rabinos pizza so um
thank you to the leader ship team of
Todd and Suzanne who um really run the
show these days for team Bexley if uh
president Lamy um is okay with it here
once they get the final reports after
all of the uh funds are in I would love
to have them back here in council
chambers to be able to give us the final
number but they're 400,000 currently
which is great maybe after the gravel
ride maybe after the gravel ride yes may
will be in that um and then lastly the
Beckle Education Foundation last week
had their annual fund kickoff
um very well attended we got to hear
from um mantro teacher of the year
kindergarten teacher with so much
enthusiasm it made me want to go back
and just sit in her classroom um
Marilyn's librarian she um has received
a handful of Grants over the years if
you hear about the author talks that
come to our elementary schools she's
done a nice job of making sure that
those authors come in and not just talk
to Maryland Elementary but they speak to
mantros and to cassingham as well I got
to hear from her and I can see why
everyone loves Marilyn's uh library and
she did a very nice job and um thank you
to uh joy and Kumi Walker for hosting
that night and um it was a great kickoff
to to the season of school because we're
back in school everybody's back in
school all of our schools are back in
school end of report great thank you
Miss sad uh Miss F did tell me that she
does not have a report for this evening
and Mr Silverman uh did email me his
service and environmental committee
report uh he asked me to share with you
that since it's the official start of
the school season he has enjoyed seeing
all the photos of the wonderful kids
going back to school a special thanks
from him to bmpa for hosting their
annual back to school picnic and
allowing him to cook on the grill also
thanks to Mr Marcelino for the uh
grocery store run uh mid picnic speaking
of grilling Mr Silverman is still
looking for teams to compete in the
third annual smoke and fire BBQ
competition on September
14th all right practice your skills C
out and that's right and then really
bring it home at the smok and fire
Festival he also wants to share that um
the veterans Banner committee is meeting
on September 3rd to review all of the
first inaugural veterans Banner program
applications if you know of anyone who's
been missed or didn't apply don't
hesitate to let Mr Silverman know so
that he can follow up um also we talked
a little bit earlier mosquito season has
already started in Bexley if you have
not already signed up for the Bexley
blast please do so so that you can get
the most up-to-date information on when
spring is going to occur on your street
if you'd like you can also opt out uh
his block of Vernon has already started
phase two of the 2022 mosquito pilot
program Ohio Healthy Home habitats and
he's appreciative of the work that esac
has done to bring the study to Bexley
phase one awarded
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entomologist not sure I said that right
a
$750,000 grant to expand the study which
helps the city determine the best
strategies for controlling mosquitoes
while protecting our beneficial insects
so a big thank you from him to Green
Bexley and that was I didn't sound
anything like him but you guys know what
I was trying to do um Mr Marcelino
zoning and development yes thank you
very much uh a couple meeting updates
you have uh from originally was
scheduled on September 2nd 2024 but with
the holiday coming up the cic meeting
was moved to 8:00 a.m. on September 4th
2024 so next week 8:00 a.m. uh you have
uh Beckley day on September 88th 2024
where the ARB meeting um well there's a
beex Day celebration I should State at
the library that day but SE September 6
or September I thought it was 6 okay and
that's the that's the ARB meeting sorry
Ben just clarifying that I don't want to
say the wrong thing so is ARB meeting on
September 6th then and I just wrote down
the wrong Oh I thought you said the
library thing um ARB is the 12th of
September okay actually day is August
10th
okay all right well I'm getting all this
confused with the calendar there so
that's all right so there you go with
the ARB meeting at six o'clock and then
baps on September 22nd
2024 and just a final note as we only
have two guests with us today I just
want to welcome the city of beex out to
come ask us questions or comment on any
concerns that they may have um I've
noticed that there have been uh
complaints about things that go out on
social media and such and I don't find
that to be the most effective way to
communicate with our residents so if
have questions concerns or things you'd
like to discuss we welcome you to come
talk to us uh we would like to engage
with you if you uh can't make it I
understand schedules are tough because
everybody has families but please send
in your comments as I know president
Lamy is very responsive to each and
every message and we all put a lot of
thought and effort into those so again I
understand the ease of social media and
POS and complaints or concerns there
however they can't really be officially
recognized without you coming to visit
us or at least writing into us so again
if anybody body's listening out there
please we'd love to have you no offense
to the lewises who are consistently here
we appreciate that as well thank you end
of report uh Mr Hurley strategic and
health uh thank you uh Board of Health
met last on July 16th um nothing major
there Beyond I believe u from WR U Mr
Kessler um we may be swapping Out Chair
people for Board of Health yes but
things are things are humming right
along in Franklin County Board of Health
does a great job for us um next meeting
is October 15th uh as my colleague noted
cic meets September 4th 8 AM and then
Megan already highlighted this but I
want to um Double Down uh the land use
strategy public Workshop September 16th
6:30 pm exciting exciting we're we're
starting to really get close on that
so thank you end of report fantastic uh
Mr Markham told me that he did not have
report for this evening which brings us
to agenda item 22 public comments no
speaker slips required are there any
comments from the public please come on
up and address
Council
oh sorry about that Miss Lewis okay
constant Lewis 663 you Clair um with all
the schools starting I just wanted
everybody to know that Capital
University's freshman class started that
was uh movein day on the 17th and South
Bley neighborhood association was there
along with many others I saw the mayor
there too to greet them and welcome them
and their their families to the
community and South bexi neighborhood
association was able to give out 85
carabiners this year so welcome these
new people into our community thanks
wonderful thank thank you so much um
Council our next meeting is September
10th we will see you in a few weeks with
that I will move to adjourn our meeting
could I please get a second
second by Mr Marcelino all in favor say
I I anyone
opposed motion is adjourned we have a
board of control meeting immediately
follow I would like to call the Tuesday
August 27th 2024 Board Of Control
meeting to order um call order uh
Monique Lamy here Matt M present Ben
Kessler present um first up is our
review of buiness from August 13
2024 as we like to do we pull up the
minutes here and we see that uh
covers
that meeting from uh the RFQ submission
for bexy skate park which was not so
long ago um in which it was awarded to
hunger skate parks uh do I have a motion
to approve those minutes so move move by
Mr mCP all second made by mCP second by
lampy all any further conversation all
in favor say I I the same sign we
already s okay good motion carries
minutes passed review bids for Stanberry
Avenue street
resurfacing this is the resurfacing of
Stanberry Avenue it's part of an an
active opwc project um that has recently
had water line replacement occur um and
in bidding this
out uh we
received two submitt that's relatively
small project engineer's estimate
I'm sorry small as as as opwc goes
Engineers estimate was around
362,000 um the two bids were around 369
for one and around 382 for the other
straws are Paving and Decker
construction respectively both of which
we have extensive experience with um
engineer
recommends um awarding the bid to the
lowest bid strawther Paving
Company um and notes in his letter
recommendation
um that uh we have good experience with
them and specifically cite some of the
past projects I will note that both of
those biders did meet the edge
requirements in their uh
sub and with that I welcome any
discussion I was pleased with what I saw
and I don't have any questions I move to
accept the
ster estimate quote what are we talking
about here sorry bid bid thank you I
lost the word second motion is made in
second any further conversation all
favor say I I I all said I therefore the
motion carries um and at this point in
time on our agenda I would attend I
would entertain a motion to first off
any old business or new business to come
before the board motion to
adjourn so moved M King I'll second
second PE on favor say I I we are turn