right
take
that welcome everyone to the Beckley
city council meeting today is is May
28th we have somewhat of a full house
and a light agenda uh I'm going to go
ahead and ask that if any members of our
audience have a required speaker slip to
hand in you please hand it in to Miss V
here at the end of council chambers or
to our auditor mCP at this
time Mr mCP would you please call the
role Mr Marcelino pres Mr Hurley here
miss fible here miss sod here miss lampy
here Mr
president and Mr
Silverman please join me in the pledge
of
allegiance to the flag of the United
States of America and to the repu for it
stands one nation God indivisible with
liy and justice for
all we are at the point in our agenda
where we will take public comments
regarding items not on the agenda Mr mCP
do we have any speaker slips no speaker
slips all right turning now to our
visiting
guests um first up we have a guest that
uh council member s has invited Jess
would you like to maybe welcome our
guests I am so excited to see our new
state champion for D2 uh yes drum roll
Henry lard here tonight um his family is
filling our city hall and uh this family
is not new to supporting Henry through
his tennis Journeys or our Harrison
who's gonna be up next or the biggest
brother who helped all of this possible
Samy um so send that on to Sammy make
sure he hears this tonight but um it's
with great gratitude and just you are
one of the most humble kids too that
I've ever met um it's been fun to watch
you grow up you're more than a tennis
player you're a great young man and
there's so much ahead for you but
tonight it's exciting to recognize what
you just did on Friday which was very
hard to do and in life we uh we' don't
always get those opportunities to come
out with a Big W and you did on Friday
and um it's just going to be really fun
to sit on the sidelines and continue to
watch your development and growth as a
young man and as a tennis player so
Henry without further Ado um I would
love for mayor Kesler and president
lampy to come on out and and uh let's
get some pictures going and um and we've
got a
proclamation by the way I think last
time I saw Henry I hate to do this to
you but you were like I was like which
one is Henry I was like I guessed got it
right so um this is super exciting for
us to have you here today and what a
testament as a freshman that you're here
in this room for the reason you're here
I have a proclamation to read to you all
if it would if it would please the
audience
whereas as a High School freshman Henry
Lard has demonstrated exceptional Talent
on the Bexley Lions tennis team I think
we have Coach here today coach finishing
his 2023 to 2024 season with an EST 27
to one
record that's
right during this impressive season
Henry was named the Columbus Buckeye
League player of the year and the
district champion and while these
accomplishment were remarkable for a
freshman Henry capped his freshman
season by winning the division 2 state
championship for high school boys tennis
the first in Bexley in 26 years more
class all
right and whereas as a talented and
hardworking athlete Henry has already
demonstrated excellence in his sport we
are confident that this is only the
beginning of the great things that we
can look forward to him achieving in the
future therefore today
May 28th 2024 in the city of Bexley is
Henry lard
day
welcome this is for you and if we want
to get a photo Jess come on
you Jo
us come on
Sor perfect okay this one's on chess
is right my phone
you're not
done mom's had you on you could
walk okay
you want one on
your all
right by the way um
thank
you don't really need more more of these
but it's
fine um well I'm very honored for this
day to be named after me and uh I'll
continue to try and win every state
champion for you guys as long as I
Bexley so thank you guys so
much we do have a rule around here which
is on somebody's aonomus day you have to
buy them as much I ice cream is
unlimited ice cream for Henry for the
rest congratulations to you and your
entire
family um moving on to our next special
guest uh missad would you like to do the
honors yes my um fellow patania the most
passionate person I know for team Bexley
Suzanne has is here tonight to talk to
us a little bit more about upcoming
exciting news um to announce for team
Bexley and patan so Suzanne come on
up thanks Jess I'm honored to be
here congratulations Henry that is
amazing um just awesome super great um
so I have a little slide deck mayor no
okay okay
yep okay yeah that's fine I'm going to
get started um first of all I want to
shout out so I am representing team
Bexley and Pat we raised money for uh
cancer research in Columbus Ohio and
throughout the world uh really because
we are reach is far-reaching um Team
Bexley is coming off our um most
successful fundraising year ever last
year um and we're really poised to do
some amazing things this year so I want
to um first thank uh the the community
for the support uh I want to thank our
sponsors uh who have been amazing Sam
has stepped forward with his company and
we're so excited he's a pedal for
pancakes
sponsor um and I think he heard me me
talk last year and he was really sweet
um afterward and and said how can I help
how can I get involved um also the
Bexley High School class of 2024 we have
to give them a huge shout out uh they
made a tribute gift in honor of Doug
alond who was their speaker uh the
retiring he moved from CEO he's a
consultant CEO now uh for patania um but
brought in so far
$1,945 uh toward patania and those are
from gifts from the family and friends
of the class of 2024 so that is amazing
and I want to thank
them um I want again our sponsors
include like Bexley boosters Bexley
Community Foundation we received a grant
this year we will be receiving a grant
as long as we fulfill our obligations so
um to be continued on that also the
Bexley stock teams um through the uh
Bexley boosters have uh repeatedly for
more than 10 years hosted a car wash so
U mark your calendars at first week in
August last week in July uh when that
car wash should be happening again at
rabinos but what I'm here to talk to you
about tonight is June 15th
2024 at Capital University pedal for
pancakes is back it is in its fifth year
and pedal for pancakes is a bike ride
for our littlest people it's a kids only
bike ride and it's pretty
special this year however you there's
some breaking news Okay so we're going
to have Safety Town we're going to have
Columbus fire safe house uh we're going
to have the Bexley Public Library story
time um you can register at Bexley rack
okay so all you kids who are here I have
a job for you hey kids are you
listening tell all your friends to sign
up for petal for pancakes and you sign
up too okay we can probably give you a
lar discount okay that's that could
probably be we we can manage that um but
if you guys get in there and do some PR
for us that would be great oh I have
props hold
on sorry okay so I have props anyway
pedal pancakes if you want to go to the
next
slide so as you know supports patania
and we raise money for cancer research
uh being announced tomorrow by patania
is there will be a new platform called
patania kids this is um and you can go
ahead to the next slide you're familiar
with the green arrow this is now the
patania kids Green Arrow um any events
that are um kind of held under the oaces
of patania kids uh the money raised is
going to go to Pediatric cancer research
there's always been collaboration
between the James and Nationwide
Children's Hospital um but this is
official and this is the first really um
you know the the fundraising that is
typically done is is general and it goes
to particular areas this is very
specific so any kids rides that are held
under the offices of of P sorry pelia
kids we go to Pediatric cancer research
we're super excited um that we will have
a grand Marshall uh a special member of
our community Lucas Riner and he will be
race starter and we'll be working with
him in that next few weeks to see what
his specific responsibilities will be
but watch out for Lucas because he's
gonna get he's going to get us all in
order
okay so I am hoping again
kids these are pennies everybody start
collecting your pennies for patania
bring them to uh to our event this is
kind of a fun thing you can do at home
go ahead and decorate a jar bring your
jar um PES for
palia
okay if you sign up you get a t-shirt
there'll be different colors next
year those are our cute t-shirts they'll
be green they'll be green this year
everything will be green okay and there
you can see the um the James and
Nationwide Children's Hospital
okay and we'll go on to the next
slide our event on June 15th will be the
first pedal for pancakes or the first
pelat kids event there's five in the
books right now um but ours will be the
first one so we really want to shout it
from the mountain tops we really want to
make we don't have any mountains but you
know what I'm talking about get out
there and talk about it um we really the
what the Treetops the Treetops perfect
um so anyway just please talk about it
please spread the word we're super
excited and we promise it's going to be
super special there's going to be a big
arch it's going to feel like the pelat
experience if you have been a part of
that uh it's going to be just on a
little bit smaller level little smaller
people but um it's G to be really big
fun Switching gears that's a subtle
cycling reference thanks chess um to
ride weekend this year ride weekend is
August um 3rd well Saturday August 3rd
and the ride is coming through Beckley
again this year so there we weren't here
last year but yay yay
okay the banners yeah
everybody more Bells if you want a
bell again spread the word we need lots
of people out on the streets it's on
Broad Street we'll turn north going to
on Cassidy uh same route as it's it's
been before but there will literally be
thousands of people riding through
Bexley so we need to make some noise so
get your coffee get your lawn chairs
whatever you need make signs let
everybody know that you're excited that
they're riding their bikes um for
patania you right remember a few years
ago there was the ride like Lou Cheer
Station that was on Cassidy and that was
for Lucas Riner that was a a fundraiser
that the family did that year and now
we're celebrating that Lucas has put
that part of his story behind and he's
in the surv ship story so that is
something to
celebrate one more slide I think that's
it um I want to talk to you a little bit
about ride weekend
installations uh we will have we have
already scheduled with Pata we're gonna
have um not yet just back
up I'm teasing you uh we have Pia will
be um giving doing a give back that week
and we're also going to have like a team
ride that Thursday night so I'm hoping
we'll ride through Beckley and then um
end at Pia so everybody get involved
with that um Chipotle is also going to
have a night during that uh that week
and if anybody else wants to get on
board that you hear of let me know
because we invite lots of people to be
involved our banners will be out on
Broad Street thanks to the city uh our
post signs will be on Cassidy and we
just need lots of Spectators so that's
what we're talking about and we can go
to the last slide sorry I did I told you
it was the last slide that was my fault
so if you I don't know whether you've
seen these yet but these are team
bexley's jerseys each year we are all
about jerseys each year and I I have one
to show you does anybody know what this
image is on the front of the
Jersey anybody does it look a little bit
familiar it does look like it's the same
um sculptor Alfred tber
yeah bonus points for lauan it is this
is um um did I say Alfred Al Alfred
tbbor um is it's a sculpture that he has
done at the James it sits outside the
James and it's called the statue of hope
so this is a depiction of that um
rendition of that sculpture and we're
going to be proudly wearing this Jersey
this year so we hope it'll start lots of
conversations people will want to know
what is on our Jersey um and we've got
that nice blue color so um again our
sponsor our Jersey sponsors are on the
back here and look for us so we are we
would love for you to join us as a
writer as a volunteer um as a challenger
you make your own experience Ben has
done that he's written his he's done his
boat rowing his boat um Sailing sailing
rowing
okay
crewing um so let you can yes you can do
all kinds of things so thank you all for
this platform and I was a little um
disheveled just because this isn't this
hasn't even been announced publicly by
patania so tomorrow is the day I thought
it was going to be today but it's
tomorrow supposedly so cross our fingers
but we can talk about it so um but it's
a real honor to be able to uh to host
this event on June 15th so wonderful
thank you so
much and Council I know that council
member sad is still recruiting
volunteers to help for pedals for
pancakes if and there's a young man in
the back of the audience
Hayden s wrote his first one last year
you can start at the age of 14 and he's
gonna be a second year writer so I'm
just saying Henry any other you know 14
and above you can get on that bike and
uh and I think Hayden would even tell
you that day of writing is all about the
fundraising and there's so many
survivors that you get to write out
there with it's uh as Suzanne could tell
you Suzanne's been with it since the
beginning in May Kesler my first year I
rode six years ago signing up right now
hav't done
thank you both so so
much um and now we have our third and
final guest council member Hurley would
you like to uh introduce our guest of
course um Larry come on up we have Larry
de Ellison from Bexley Pride I think
someone we all know very well um we are
on the cusp of pride month uh in June we
have some exciting events planned in
beex and also in the broader Central
Ohio community and so I just wanted to
come and just give us a rundown of
what's on deck and what we can do to
make this a really special
month thanks everyone um thank you mayor
thank you city council um thank you
council member hurle don't know if you
had a choice in where I sat but I don't
have props I don't have slides I'm sorry
I'm not a state tennis champion um but
I'll do my best
um I'll try um I I appreciate the
opportunity tonight to um talk a little
bit about Beckley pride and pride month
I want to be the first to wish you all a
Happy Pride I know I'm a little bit
early we got a couple of days of of uh
May left but uh I just wanted to say how
excited excited I am about pride month
coming up and
that um really because of all the
intersectionality that happens in the
lgbtq plus community that we really get
to celebrate all year
around it's may we can celebrate aapi
members of the community um we also
could have conversations about the
importance of mental health because this
is also Mental Health Awareness Month um
yesterday was Memorial day we can
celebrate members of the lgbtqa plus
community that have served and protected
this
country um so it's Unique uh a a unique
Community to be a member of and I want
to be able to say that I'm very excited
about celebrating that as we move into
June and talk a little bit about the
ways that we can celebrate or that we're
going to celebrate in June so first I
wanted to let you all know that um our
unpacking Bexley podcast is um on the
cusp of being released and it's going to
feature uh a discussion around the
anti-lgbtq
uh specifically the anti-trans and
gender uh affirming care bills that have
been going through our state we also
talk a little bit about what gender
affirming affirming care exactly is um I
think there's a lot of myths and
misconceptions about that and that it's
not just care that is received by the
transgender or gender diverse Community
it can impact all of us um so it's
really important it's great information
it's coming out really soon I know that
there in the editing rooms as we speak
so hopefully in the next day or two
it'll be there wherever get your
podcasts or you can visit Bexley
de.org um also wanted to announce that
Bexley Pride along with other Suburban
Prides including Reynoldsburg Grove City
Hillyard Pickerington and Upper
Arlington are throwing a pride prom it's
going to be a great night um celebrating
love diversity equality and pride um
it's going to be August 3rd it's at
Stonewall of Columbus from 7 to 11: I
tickets are on sale
now the real reason that I want to come
tonight and share with you all is that
our third annual and I can't believe
this is already our third annual Beckley
Pride walk is happening this Friday May
31st um kickoff is at 5:30 it's on the
lawn of Capitol
University and if it's okay I just want
to take a minute to tell you a little
bit about how the pride walk actually
came to be um at a Girl Scout camping
trip that's the scene um so imagine
yourself at a gr Scout camping trip um
nearly three and a half years ago then
seventh grader Grace Hansen went went
into her duffel bag and pulled out a
notepad with some notes jotted down she
gathered the group and shared her idea
for a pride parade in
Beckley the kids immediately r around
Grace after some discussion the kids
determined that a parade where people
come and watch from the sidelines was a
little bit limiting and they wanted
something that everybody could be
involved in so it evolved to a March
after a little more discussion they
landed on walk because well walk felt mo
more welcoming and inclusive thus the
Beckley Pride walk was
born um we're expecting a great turnout
Danny promised great weather I think
earlier when right before council
meeting
started or he may have jinxed it let's
hope not um I think we're expecting uh
paint Refresh on the rainbow crosswalk
just in time for the walk as
well and um I just can't help but stand
here tonight in awe thinking about that
group of young people that wanted to
celebrate the LGBT Q ia+ community and
they wanted to do so inclusively as
inclusively as possible so I just want
to say thank you for letting me come and
talk tonight and um just ask all of you
that to take away from this that we want
to celebrate love and celebrate with
inclusion in mind so thank you oh there
you go there it is thank you
just one thing um you know Larry when we
were doing the podcast last week that
that stood out and I like that you said
the word celebrate many times um you
know in my day job I do a lot of uh
advocacy and lobbying around you know
gender affirming care and it's it's been
hard I think for a lot of folks in that
community and and supporting that
Community because it feels like at the
state level you know you're just getting
hit over and over again and I was what
Mike I think from aquality Ohio who
brought that point home and you
emphasized that that it's a month to
celebrate it's not you know it's not a
month to feel bad or to how it's a month
to celebrate and I think that's a really
good message so thank you for for coming
and just reminding us that it's it's a
time to celebrate those in the community
um those that we call friends or family
and um I really appreciate that right
thank you and Larry I too want to thank
you and your husband Brian for uh coming
up with the idea to do the rainbow
crosswalk uh I know years ago I think I
sat down with you and our here and uh
really this was your brainchild so kudos
to you I'd like to inv invite all of our
audience all of my fellow council
members to come join me as an ally at
this coming Friday's uh Pride walk uh we
would love to see you there um and thank
you so much for coming today absolutely
yes and third annual uh Pride walk
fourth annual rainbow crosswalk so
that's right and I I want to also thank
the service department because when we
volunteer painted it the first year
we weren't as good as they are so you
know you guys are much better so thank
you for
your thank excited support the walk this
week marel I think I saw the service
department today working on it during
that like 5c down for painting it and
then they ran out to cover it with the
tarp but that's good work I I have a
question where can we get a shirt like
that those are that's an amazing shirt
yeah we just did this as a little
fundraiser prior to pride month um I
don't have it active but I will be um
talking to the vendor to do it again so
I will let everybody know when that's
available again let Natalie know your
Shir shirted
upid us Mark out a swag but we'll make
an
exception I'm sorry
Mark I'm I'm a Halloween Patrol person
from 2017 you gave me one of those sure
Mr Hurley did you have anything else to
add
okay thank you so much Larry for coming
um all of our guests you are certainly
welcome to stay and join us for the rest
of our meeting you will find it
fascinating but you are also welcome to
exit if you'd like to reclaim part of
your evening at this
time what's up
wait you'll be sorry oh
wait hang on Council we may be having uh
some additional speakers to honor one of
our presenter uh one of our guests to
come back in
maybe
not is it looking like no okay no all
right no I think our guests our guests
have exited the building that is
fine all right moving on to the
president's report uh Council a couple
of quick things I wanted to share um I
recently had the honor of attending uh
the never again is now president
presentation at the Jewish Community
Center uh last week it was a very
thoughtful moving and
impactful uh presentation and a way to
support our um our Jewish community and
I was honored to to be invited to that I
also wanted to remind Council that a few
weeks ago council member Hurley rallied
us all together at our Council Retreat
um and there were two things that I
think he and I wanted to briefly recap
um
from that Retreat um to make sure that
everyone felt that they had been heard
that everyone had a chance to share
their thoughts uh the first was
regarding
resolutions uh I think that uh Folks at
that Retreat shared that going forward
it would be our preference to use
resolutions uh more sparingly than has
been done in the past certainly from
time to time we use res resolutions to
appoint members of a commission or for
legal reasons such as if we need to have
something in writing that tells city of
Columbus that we uh want to actively
participate in a lawsuit sometimes uh we
will pass a resolution to that effect
but not withstanding the substance of
any
resolution what I took away from that uh
retreat was that uh Council going
forward would like to uh not have as
many resolutions
introduced and if we were going to
introduce one that it was the thought of
council that there would be action items
uh affiliated with our resolution that
there would be something more than just
words on paper there would be things
that council could do there would be an
allocation of resources there would be
um deliverables if you will on behalf of
council um I want wanted to make sure
that my understanding uh that was
correct um Danny do you want to add
anything to the resolution discussion um
no I think that was a good summary I
think the the you know I I looked back
at my notes and I had underline I
written the word actionable and then
underlined because I think that that
point was really driven home um I think
as we look Beyond maybe those more
procedural resolutions you know some of
the other things that jumped out they
should be locally focused I think we've
seen um other municipalities that have
maybe stepped a little outside of their
um purview and that you know regardless
of subject matter is is not always a
good
idea um I think uh yeah if if we're
going to put something out there it
needs to be important it needs to be
very relevant to the community and it
needs to be actionable um that that was
made very clear Council does anyone else
have anything to add or have we
accurately captured what the consensus
of council seemed to be from that
Retreat regarding resolutions Miss bble
I I couldn't have summarized it better
than the two of you I really do believe
that that's was my understanding that's
how I uh thought that the conversation
went so and I am I'm I'm grateful to
hear that how I understood it was how
the two of you understood itk you anyone
else before I move to the second item
from our
Retreat okay um the second thing that we
discussed was uh Council Communications
going forward um I did not take notes
during that conversation but I recall
that at least one or two folks indicated
that they would be willing to serve on a
working group with me um so if you want
to think about it look at your calendars
uh if you want to email me I will take
the first two volunteers that would like
to serve on a working group for Council
Communications I think we wanted to uh
make sure that we are transparent with
our public that we are sharing
information as we get it that we're
making that information easy to find uh
and easy to understand um shortly after
that Retreat I did put an article in the
Bexley blast and um I think it's coming
out in our quarterly newsletter called
Council corner and it was uh an
announcement of office hours uh it was a
list of our email addresses how to reach
us uh and also link to our upcoming
Council calendar so that folks knew when
we have council meeting
um Dan anything you'd want to add to to
that Council communication discussion
piece I think that's good um you know I
I want to say that that conversation I I
went back and listened to the audio
again and it was a really just
enlightening conversation so thank you
all for imparting your wisdom um and
your experience um you know my I guess
my vision for this so the resolution
discussion I took as more of a you know
us kind of setting expectations and and
especially those of you that have been
on Council longer kind of sharing with
you feel to be the Best Way Forward uh
the communications piece you know and
you and I can speak more about this but
my my vision for that was it to actually
be a policy we would vote to adopt sort
of like we adopt our calendar so more of
a you know a combination of this is our
expectations this is the etiquette but
also you know a governing document for
how members of council may or may not
utilize say City resources for
communications so I kind of view these a
little bit differently because one of
them is more informal and kind of a this
is Council setting next expectations
whereas Communications I would like to
see that actually a formalized policy
that we would vote on eventually and
would be something that future councils
could go back and amend if they felt um
they felt that it merited
that okay that that might be something
too that this small working group could
could help work towards and maybe
further develop uh anything else from
Council that you'd like to add to that
Council communication discussion from
our
Retreat okay um
and I think that is it for the
president's report uh Mr City attorney
over to you for your report yeah I just
wanted to bring something up that was um
just started circulating today on the
Ohio Municipal attorneys Association or
whatever the Oma stands for um list
serve um and it relates to again what I
believe to be and I think probably a lot
of people in this room would agree that
another attempt at overreaching by our
friends down in the state house um and
again I don't know that this bill is
going to go anywhere but I think it's
again I think it I think it signifies
the importance of um stepping up and
responding whether it's from a legal
standpoint or through think groups like
Kama or the oh high Municipal League um
to um efforts to limit the uh Authority
that you folks have here on the local
level um I think it's House Bill 350
I might have that wrong but the proposal
and I haven't seen the exact language is
to allow the state of Ohio and only the
state of Ohio to appeal temporary orders
issued by courts in cases involving the
state of Ohio which basically means that
when a court issues a temporary
restraining order or preliminary
injunction to be followed up with a
full-blown trial or hearing or whatever
the case might be the state of Ohio
would be empowered to immediately peel
those decisions when nobody else has
that right and again the idea is you
know call me a cynic to get to the Ohio
Supreme Court much quicker than they
otherwise would be allowed to do so
again I bring that up to you a because I
think we should be paying attention to
it but B we definitely need to continue
to step up in terms of like we did with
the tobacco issue which I assume Weck to
the court of appeals on the I think I
sent emails to all you that the court
issued a permanent injunction uh
prohibiting the enforcement of that law
at least in the cities that were parties
to the lawsuit um and I think we're
headed for the same thing with the
single use plastic issue um that Athens
is dealing with now that you know once
we get to the court of appeals I think
Beckley should participate in some way
as well so just wanted to share
that um just to shed a little more light
on that legislation so my understanding
is this is a direct result of an Ohio
Supreme Court uh I guess opinion or
ruling to weeks ago involving House Bill
68 which is the bill that Larry was
mentioning so this is the instance was
Franklin County Common Police judge
issued a trro through now July 15th to
allow time for parties to brief and
actually argue the case and the state
was arguing the Attorney General Dave
was arguing that um a single judge in a
single County should not have the
ability to stay the law outside of maybe
that County so that's that's where this
legislation has come from because the
Ohio Supreme Court despite being a
republican majority did not agree with
the attorney general's argument so and I
yeah I I would say anything that's
possible on that b so thanks council
member Hurley anything else Mark all
right uh Mr auditor any report this
evening yeah um just a quick comment um
this is the time of the year where um
Carrie works very closely with our
Auditors to compile our financial St
statements in a format that
um is what we call gap which is
generally accounting generally generally
accepted accounting principles so over
the past few months car's been working
with them to do that what we have now is
what we call a compilation which is
their first pass of those financials um
those are required to be posted to the
state of Ohio auditor website by the end
of this month and that is in process so
um I'm going through now the if I'm not
mistaken 119 pages of that compilation
and I'm happy to um walk each and every
one of you through every word if you
wish um but my intent is to um kind of
go through the compilation process we
have Auditors coming in and they do a
deeper dive in the month of July and
then they finalize this in the form of
an audit um so at that point in time um
we've really um done extensive work to
validate the financial condition of the
city um and it's my intent at that point
in time that we'd sit down you know what
we we can talk about a plan but um
either have an open house or just a
period of time where we sit down we can
talk through that have address any
questions that folks have but um this is
that time of the year where we go
through this extensive um financial
review and I just want to make sure
you're aware of it and I'll keep an eye
on this Hinkle website which is part of
the state of the Ohio or part of the
Auditor's website and once that's public
I will share that link with you all so
that you know that it's out there right
that's it thank you so much um Mr Mayor
turning it over to you for your
administrative updates thank you madam
President we are blessed with the
presence of our service department
director Andy bashore development
administration department director Megan
Meyer Finance director Carrie Martin
today so we're gonna start with Andy who
will be regaling us with his service
department
update hi mayor um I really don't have
anything to add to my report tonight but
happy to answer any
questions see a question over here it's
not a question it's it's it's a praise
and a comment for you and your
department uh having had a nie graduate
from high school uh this weekend the
senior banners mean so much more than
anyone realizes it's so special that
only in Bexley could our service
department do something so extraordinary
for our families so thank you so much in
case no one ever says thank you I I want
to thank you profusely very
welcome I'm GNA follow follow that that
wasn't originally in my report but um
I've had the opportunity to go to a lot
of uh cities municipalities in central
Ohio recently with both boys playing
baseball and I haven't seen one city
that still does what we're doing with
our high school graduates and it's so
special and I get a remind a lot of our
graduating parents when they ask about
what the city does I go oh let me tell
you what the city does and that time um
is exponential and the dollars are um
appreciated that goes towards that
service so thank you to Andy and team um
it's an exciting time the flower baskets
are going up that makes it feel like
it's summer here in Bexley I uh I love
that beautification to our city so my
only question is along with the ones
that are at Drexel Circle and Main
Street are we putting the baskets back
up at
Livingston we are okay that is exciting
news can't wait for it thank you sorry I
didn't
me you're fine
Andy I'm hoping that if you didn't get
them today that there will be four more
banners and I hope we have spaces for
those four more banners I find
Space a girl from CSG and three boys
from St Charles Andy's being very nice
just to just so you know that the
logistics of this project are a little
mind-bending so good work yes very
challenging
Sil yeah I was um driving to Schneider
Park the other day and went down Aster
between college and Pleasant Ridge and
was very happy to find the speed bumps
were gone so I guess my question is
outside of Paving is there anything left
from traffic mediation from that area to
add I saw that the medians were in on
Pleasant Ridge and the speed bumps were
gone um so is it just now resurfacing
and that that area will be complete or
is there more phased for that
project call it are are you referencing
College as far as that pavement or well
I guess I guess if you want to cover it
all I wasn't College um I'm hoping in
the next week or two um but as far as
asra um right now we're doing a speed we
did the speed study with the speed bumps
and now we're doing one without the
speed bumps so the verdict kind of still
out on that um other than pavement
markings down through there it's really
kind of wrapping
up so is there a chance of speed bumps
coming back ending C study they wouldn't
come back as the speed bumps if they
came back they would be more of a speed
table like we did on G um but we we have
we first asked the residents for their
perspective on it and initially kind of
didn't hear much back and then we've
heard from a few that feel strongly that
they want to keep those speed bumps
there that live on the street but again
we're going to go we're gonna we're
gonna pause on that check the data they
can always be added um and so we're g to
see what it looks like regardless it
won't be as high as correct
cor I'm well aware of how they feel um I
can tell you the college and and Andy
said that just so you know the College
Avenue if anyone's driven down it
recently it's like driving on the
surface of the Moon that is our those
are our friends at Columbia Gas uh PL
the plates will be out soon right
they're they're going to patch first
before we resurface so and just to
expound a little bit he has up here 2024
Street project starts in mid June I can
get you guys a full list of this but
that is going to include Maryland Avenue
from Park Fe to Cassidy North Ardmore
from Brad to Denver North drexell from D
Denver to Maryland Denver itself from
Merkel to G Columbia Place ucair
avenue um and the North viw Rural
intersection and of course there are
other um projects that are part of opwc
including um
Chelsea and Grant in um Paving will be
starting around the same time
there yes so they'll be a columnar
Oak and um we will have some native
ground cover that we're testing in the
Pleasant Ridge medians do you remember
what the I know we did bellw yeah put
you on spot we're uh Bellwood medians
and and Pleasant Ridge we're trying some
different ground cover treatments from
the winter creeper that we have on Maine
and Drexel and
which we found is not not not beloved by
native was it a chestnut tree that we
were yeah it's going to be an
[Laughter]
as all right moving
along to Megan Meer thank you mayor um
so I'm gonna start with neural Festival
um mostly because it's fun to talk about
we did have our initial call for
applications in which we solicited um
portfolios of passwor from artists from
across the country um thanks to the
mayor's suggestion we reached out to a
couple different um M festivals that
have been planned in other regions and
got as it states 58 artists to apply um
thank you to council members Silverman
and sad and to the mayor for helping us
to narrow that to a group of 10
finalists those finalists have a few
weeks yet to give spe specific Concepts
we gave them template walls um one being
robinos one being westbo and so we're
going to go through the even more
grueling process of picking our final
three to four artists at our June 7th
meeting and the reason I want to say
that here is because we really hope that
members of the community might come and
join us as we help pick out those final
um sets of artwork and so really
exciting stuff and it's moving forward
in great fashion and if you haven't
heard the date of the actual event is
September 21st so save the date for that
um it is going through a review by BAP
both ARB and Bap were given some initial
Concepts that we got from artists as a
head up but they'll um give hopefully a
consideration and favorable approval at
the uh June Bap meeting um the other
update and I think that I'm certain that
uh director Rose as well as mayor
kussler have also been giving you
updates on 2200 East Main um but given
that um action was taken last week by
BAP to ow Continental to now cement
their building and demolition site plans
I thought it was worth mentioning here
um so you'll see some site activity in
the coming weeks if you haven't already
noticed they are doing some mobilization
they do not have their demo permit as of
today I can tell you it's under review
um but in the meantime um we do expect
city of Columbus firefighters to be on
site to do some training with their
cadetes um there won't be any live Burns
but there might be some smoke um so do
not be alarmed it's all planned um and
know those are not looters there are
some nonprofits that are going to be
coming through to remove old appliances
um and other fixtures that can be reused
off the market and so working with them
on that um open to any and all feedback
on how to communicate out these updates
um right now Continental has done I
think a decent job of communicating with
the neighbors they hosted a meeting um
last week in person and there was a
pretty good turnout for people who live
nearby um and then we plan to put
updates in uh the blast on the city
website as well other than that I do not
have an
update I just want to say that uh I
think there's like a little buzz
building with the the mural project here
in the city and I I just really really
like this you know I mean we did the
just saw and I we did the selection for
the first mural back here and I I think
there's it's kind of fun it's not
expensive which is nice and it's
creative and it's also exciting to
wonder about like you know what that
will do and what that will look like
also just want to say uh General too uh
Megan I think you've been doing just a
fantastic job uh since we brought you on
board and uh I don't think we've thrown
you to the Lions but we said definitely
have set you out there uh to handle a
lot of important uh uh you know
challenging projects and I think you I
just am really really impressed with uh
with your work thank you
all right thank you
Megan um now for the moment you've all
been waiting
for drum roll please the April 2024
financial
[Laughter]
report e
plenty more detail behind that I just
don't I can't quickly scoll scroll
through all these very beautiful charts
and
tables question suggestion just please
let me
know I love
it
it I love
that first and then that will help me
into the charts and then the visuals and
laying out so many so many different
ways allow you to you
know get my she's been a huge help in
getting the lay out I provide the
information she makes
pretty mad Teamwork Makes the Dream Work
right um yeah so under the general and
expenditures when we're looking at the
building department um Consulting fees
and professional contract expenses um I
know you're showing that that's offset
through development fees but just maybe
something to explore more um and convers
maybe set up a meeting and just I would
like to probably do a deeper dive into
that with um the fact that we'll be
hiring a new zoning director and to see
if there's some opportunities for us to
Max are you referring to permit fees and
where we're at with those or I would say
yeah all of it okay yeah cool yeah Mr
Marcelina yeah uh I know it's going to
be your first budget but uh one thing
and I'll just be CED that stresses me
out as a guy that's not great with
numbers is it always seems like we are
rushing to the end of the year and that
we maybe get one meeting uh of a gap
between and I know it's hard because
we're working uh up to it as the year
goes on but if there's any way that I
could ask that maybe this year we uh we
get some numbers earlier on so we can
work through them and I can have a
little bit more time with them because I
just I get anxious and if I'm speaking
only for myself I'm sorry city of Bexley
can vote me out if I run again but for
me I need a little bit more time so I
just as we go into our break in July and
whatnot I would ask that maybe we look
to see if we can maybe move it up at
least or get a general overview a little
bit earlier than we have in the
past and so so that we're clear um
typically our first draft budget is
dropping in October and you're you're
asking for earlier than that just
slightly so we're not as close to the
end there because we always seem to have
that one meeting at the end that we save
in case we need additional time to vote
on the budget and pass the budget and it
just my two times doing it or whatever
it's given me some anxiety and so I'm
just throwing it out there this year if
we can maybe get a general forecast
slightly earlier to take a look at and
start working our way through are you
are you referring to the like the and
I'm I'm just trying to understand what
you're asking because the we've like we
had a budget has been tabled in P in I
think four readings for the past several
years at least but are you talking about
the forecast like the fiveyear forecast
uh yeah that yes that's yes if can yes
that helps me work through it sorry
thanks we can we can talk through that
okay thank you
thanks okay let me make a quick note
about the five-year
forecast before I move on
to um the uh
okay my update is here all right we
already saw that photo so we don't have
to cover that again um
one thing I forgot to include of some of
what I've been up to is that we did have
a meeting with Franklin County Public
Health regarding tobacco retail
licensing Administration and they are
moving forward with that they just
wanted to confirm that we still wanted
to do that and that that was like right
before the Judgment actually got passed
down but we had already said that we
were good to keep
going um we do have a board of control
meeting tonight it is for our sidewalk
project it is we received four bids and
I want to note that both this um project
and also our street project met our Edge
goals for the year which is really good
news um Megan gave you the 2200 East
Main update but she did not tell you
that she was named to the Columbus
business first Power 125
list that's
right so congrats
Megan uh it's a illustrious group on
that so we're very really proud to have
had you name to that um and expect you
that next year you'll be in like the
power 10 or something so we'll keep
track that's right um want to introduce
you to pton Jackson she is our morpc
intern for the summer she graduated
recently from Michigan state with a
planning degree but she's going to get
her Masters in planning so she's still
in the internship track and she's um she
is assisting Megan with as you can see
link us um some doing some one Beckley
work doing some mayor's court stuff so
she's kind of all all over the place um
we do have a board and commission
Retreat coming up uh June 21st is the
date the morning now that's a Friday and
we'll be covering it'll be a a land use
strategy Workshop prior to doing an
actual public Workshop we're doing a
board and commission Workshop is the
main focus and then uh we will be moving
forward hopefully with a public workshop
for the greater public in the fall mayor
do we have a location for that yet no
okay uh TBD T TBA uh obviously Memorial
Day weekend was packed thanks to so many
of you who came out for a variety of fun
lots of photos here um got a sad here I
believe if I recall correctly uh I do
want to uh let you guys know that we
have extended the license for the
AO uh which is the lur iCal boundary
that surrounds portions of Bexley
eastmore and Burwick it is a I'm going
to say this wrong Mark but it's a sort
of a symbolic U extension of the lease
but we we her reinal law extended that a
couple weeks ago so that has been
accomplished yeah I think I summarized
that properly but uh I wanted to let you
know about that um tomorrow morning CSG
students are going to be continuing
another volunteer morning at the alley
of the future love your alley project
where they've been helping install
native plantings here's one of the
murals that is in that alley it's
looking really good uh you can start to
see that project take shape it's kind of
hard to tell what's going on but um
we'll be giving you some more
information on that soon and yes the
pool is open and so is the splash pad at
Schneider Park and the kids have been
loving it
so uh what else do you want that's
that's my report answer any
questions um I'll just first with a
comment I will Echo we have already got
uh two Splash Pad trips under our belt
and the Hurley household and they are
loving it so that is such a nice treat
um two questions I I was gonna ask this
to Megan and her but I guess I'll ask it
to both of you is um at cic and talking
about 2200 um a few things came out and
and I know you all will overc
communicate this as much as um as we can
but really um I think just making sure
people in the community understand first
and foremost there will be some
temporary and permanent changes to the
um Ingress or really the egress for the
parking lot in terms of closing the
right turn only option also um and I and
know I I hope Continental will give us
the best uh notice we can but there will
be sidewalk closures and reroutes as
part of that and then lastly um
construction parking I think it was made
clear that contractors should not be
parking on residential streets and if so
there should be a remedy for that again
from continent so I just you know as
much as we can Elevate those issues and
give people notice I know that's you
know where where we can only provide as
much notice as we're given from
Continental but um those are three
things I think uh folks in the community
will want to know about as much as
possible so yeah it's a good call out I
want to clarify the
um just to put more words to what you
just said the the write
out um dedicated Lane here so there's
two ways to get right out out of Bexley
square there's the one at the signal and
there's the one that sort of eases off
to the side that will be permanently
closed so that'll be closed as part of
the project and in the future that's
going to be pocket park um that was
actually at our request uh we feel that
that has is not a very safe uh situation
with the two different curve Cuts so
close to each other and at least this
driver frequently like feels like you
know it's not as clear to pedestrians
that somebody might be coming up on that
uh curb cut so that will be closed the
sidewalks will be um for a good chunk of
the construction uh most of it will be
closed but there will be an alternate
route of sidewalk where the current
parking is is going to be um cordoned
off for a sidewalk so kind of like in a
you've SE you've all been in a city
environment where you're walking around
a construction zone but you still have
access so there'll be big orange barrels
protecting pedestrians in that area um
and absolutely right about construction
parking not impeding what's going on
we're going to have uh dumpsters
temporarily relocated to the corner of
our lot while we figure out how much
space we actually need for them so we'll
be doing some testing all sorts of fun
stuff's going to be happening and now
that we're now that I'm thinking about
and going back through my notes you know
one of the things that was made clear
from Continental is at least for the
first phase of demo all of the parking
should be on site this is more when
they're building up and building out we
there may be some contractors I think at
the highest they said what 150 workers
is that the that's the peak I guess they
could expect in a single day so and
they're working to secure private
parking for that yeah yeah I mean
they're you and I think they want to be
good partners I just just have it on the
record that we are going to have some
temporary disruptions but it's all for
the greater good Mr Silverman did you
have a question for the mayor yeah they
discussed the method of demolition is it
going to be with excavator heavy
equipment is there any explosives or
anything on that on that level not
believe they'll be using explosives so I
haven't heard that uh I I hesitate to
even repeat that question in case it
gets misconstrued I'm sorry strike that
from the record no ask that question
Megan do you have any further
information on that I do um no
exclusives um so essentially what
they're doing is a phase demolition
starting with the interior buildings and
to control dust the construction fencing
will be up they'll be laying gravel most
the dust comes from kicking up of the um
traffic moving over the you know
excavated area and so they'll be doing
that so you'll see the interior
buildings come down first and then the
exterior ones and they'll work back
they'll also have sprayers water
sprayers on site to help control the
dust as they come
down and and storm water uh protection
as well yes Mr Mark and no uh no
Godzilla monsters crashing the buildings
either right just to
clarify that alley uh with miral there
is that part of that alley of the future
segment I'm just curious I'm glad you
asked that was that installment done
with like the little Gates that close
and everything too the gates aren't on
site yet but you can get a feel for so
this is the remon stwood alley um North
of Broad Street south of Denver um it
has been paved and so you can get a feel
for the fact that there's an area of
that narrows that's going to be sort of
the play zone and there will be gates
the gates are not installed yet um we're
still waiting for our uh our test
lighting to come in last I heard um and
so there are components of that that are
gon to kind of trickle out through the
rest of the year but the alley of the
future is the highlighted love your
alley alley for the year as well so
they're working in concert and did you
did you just say it what's the timetable
for that like to be finished I said
trickling out throughout the rest of the
year okay that's good enough thanks uh
the gates being made um I I would I I
mean I know they're actively they're
contracted I would imagine that's a
couple months um but the lighting is a
little less certain when that comes in
do you have any guesses on that Miss
B I just wanted to to mention I know
that um Mr Marcelino um Miss sad and Mr
Silverman were were there there but for
those of you that were not at the
memorial service
um our mayor did an amazing job on uh
what he had to say about Bill it was all
dedicated to Bill Harvey um he had took
a lot of time and energy I know to put
something together for his good friend
and um Mo Harvey was really really
touched by it I mean we we heard stories
about him slugging through the jungle as
a Vietnam V we heard stories about him
writing notes to her um while she waited
for 14 months well or 18 months
something like that while he was gone on
on the labels
of so it just was it was really
something that that that Ben really took
the time to share and of of all people
this year for us to really remember you
know the service he gave to our country
it was really was really great so thank
you so much for doing bill right he
would have absolutely hated
it that's the
truth I think it's like as with many
things like this you learned something
about somebody after they passed that
you wish you knew you know and so that
was there was that was definitely an
exercise in that just getting to know
Bill a little bit more I wish I
it was you could you could
really tell that he was somebody that
you really cared about and it made me
really cry so thank you for that what he
did for the community in so many
different ways and for our country was
immeasurable um I will tell you one of
the sort of unintended side effects of
that whole conversation was just looking
at that World War II Memorial of those
who served in backley and realizing we
don't have one for Korea or
for um Vietnam for Afghanistan or Iraq
or any of the other conflicts and so um
look for some interesting Concepts to
come forward in the com years idea thank
you thank you mayor um anything further
from administrative question sounds good
thank you all right moving on to consent
agenda Mr official all right in the
consent agenda we have the meeting
minutes from May 14
2024 all right Council uh are there any
comments or questions questions
regarding the meeting
minutes um any comments from our
audience 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 r Miss B yes
Mr Silverman yes Mr Markham yes Mr
Hurley yes Mr Marcelino yes Miss s yes
Miss lamkey yes consent agenda passes um
thank you Mr official I'm going to hand
over uh item 11 to you okay so I'm going
to read a condensed version that will
cover what we need um for this executive
session if somebody wants to make such
make such a motion um so the motion
would be to go into executive session to
prepare for conduct a review collective
bargaining strategy as provided by 12
12122 G4 of the high Revised Code and
also to consider the uh compensation of
a Public Employee or official as
provided for in
12122 G1 of the Ohio Revis code I so
move to enter executive session for the
two purposes just stated could I please
have a second second second by Mr
Marcelino uh Mr mCP would you please
call the role Miss lampy yes Mr Hurley
yes Mr
Markham he stepped out okay Mr Marcelino
yes Mr Silverman yes Miss F yes and miss
yes thank you and I'd like to invite our
City attorney our mayor and our city
auditor to join us in executive
session
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e e
all right uh Council uh I make a motion
to exit from executive session could I
please have a second second second by Mr
Hurley uh Mr mCP would you please call
the role Mr
Marcelino yes Mr
Silverman yes Mr Markham yes Miss Fel
yes Mr Hurley yes Miss lampy yes and
missad
yes all right M Mr official back to you
all right we have a third reading of
ordinance
14-24 approve the collective bargaining
agreement between the Fraternal Order of
Police Capital City Lodge Number Nine
and the City of Bexley introduced by
Miss
sad so we are on our third reading um
with this do you mind my computer's not
up yet so okay on
14-24 and um I believe at this point in
time that if anyone has any additional
questions we have uh done a nice job of
going through this in our last two
readings as far as where our agreement
is at with our police
department but I'm open to hear any more
questions anyone may have any questions
or comments from
Council um missad do you have a motion
on this yes would like to make a motion
to approve ordinance
14-24 motion to approve by Miss second
second by Mr Markham um given that this
is the reading are there any comments
from our audience seeing none Mr mCP
would you please call the role Mr
Silverman yes Miss sad yes Miss fible
yes Miss Lany yes Mr Hurley yes Mr
Marcelino yes Mr Markham yes ordinance
1424 passes
terrific thank you Mr official back over
to
you okay we have a second reading of
ordinance 15-24 to appropriate $10,000
from the unencumbered general fund
estimated Social Services reserve line
item to provide funding to support the
Bexley summer fruit program introduced
by Miss sad so this ordinance we're on
our second reading tonight this um
basically is the city helping um provide
for our summer programming for our
Bexley students that receive free and
reduced lunches during the school year
to make sure that that's extended
through our summer programming to make
sure that these families um are still
make getting good meals so they can
continue to be you know great residents
of the community and continue to um be
able to learn we know that food provides
all of that for um these families and
our students so this is um for the city
to um have that um part to be able to
also work with darn and um the Community
Foundation and hopefully the Education
Foundation and all of us going through
the uh the identified 35,000 that we
need for those services to uh be able to
meet the needs of the families that
we've identified that need this
help thank you uh are there any comments
or questions from Council on this
one um I think at the first reading we
had some discussion about whether or not
10,000 was the the right amount and
whether or not maybe there were
additional ways that we could help these
families mayor were you going to CH on
that okay yeah so we've got a meeting
coming up later this week and uh still
working with other community foundations
to see if there's additional
contribution so uh that number could go
down I don't think it would go up okay
okay um Mr mCP do we have any speaker
slips for this ordinance no speaker
slips okay given that maybe that number
might change uh I would suggest we not
add this to the consent agenda and keep
it on as a third reading uh for our next
meeting sounds
great all right Mr to you sure moving on
to First readings resolution
0324 accepting the amounts and rates as
determined by the budget commission and
authorizing the necessary tax levies
introduced by m
sad so uh I am actually going
to hand this over to the mayor to give
us sure so this his Insight uh this
ordinance we have every year it's
statutorily required uh that we provide
an estimate of um our budget to the
believe it's the Franklin County auditor
right that we provided to um and so you
can see the ordinance has an exhibit to
it um which provides a quote unquote
budget um and what you're really looking
at is um a forecast that uh Sam this is
a forecast right
here it's it it has applied a sort of a
modest rate of uh inflation to the
expense side and then uh also to the
income side um resulting in a tax budget
which is directionally appropriate but
uh in no way shap performed as it
represent a budget that we're actually
proposing it's it's for compliance
purposes good news is it's uh showing a
surplus next year in our forecast so but
we'll see what actually happens when we
bring you the real budget sounds good uh
there any comments or questions from
Council Mr mCP do we have any speaker
slips on this resolution no speaker
slips
right thank you Mr
official sure we are now on to
resolution
0424 first first reading confirming the
mayor's appointments of members to the
Architectural Review Board the board of
zoning appeals and planning the
recreation parks board the tree and
public gardens commission the Board of
Health the board of tax review the Civil
Service Commission the citizen review
board the tax and Senate Review
Committee and the environmental
sustainability advisory Comm committee
introduced by Mr
Hurley thank you um so this is an annual
resolution confirming various
appointments boards and commissions my
understanding and I'll let the mayor
elaborate on this is these are
individuals currently serving who have
indicated interest in being reappointed
to those boards so mayor with that I'll
let you explain a little more that's
correct we we've actually had this
openings on this uh resolution for I
think two months um when I say openings
we broadcast that the we will we're
taking applications the window closed
last Friday so we have not yet um
interviewed everyone who's interested um
in vacancies there are some vacant seats
throughout a variety of our boards and
commissions um the resolution that you
have in front of you does not include
new appointments it's um reupping
existing so there are some additional
positions that will show up in an
amended version that we hope to have at
the next council meeting um in many of
these boards and not not all of them and
I could answer any question questions
you have about that or I think it
probably makes
sense any questions for the mayor on
this one just want to make sure I
confirm so this will be amended at the
second reading for additional
appointments yes perfect thank you thank
you any other oh I'm so sorry Mr anybody
switch or move around here I'm just I'm
basically looking at section seven and
eight in the Civil Service Commission
citizens review board um is I thought
Lee Nathans wasn't he on civil Serv
Service uh he is he's also on citiz
review board okay I'm just trying to no
I'm just keeping okay so for yeah so for
example under Civil Service Commission
Lee's existing term is continuing he's
not expiring but John's is expiring okay
uh and
under you can see the review board yeah
he's on there because that is an
expiring term uh coming up here at the
um end of this or sorry end of this June
month in 24 um you see there's a
difference in Glenn's date that's
because under a new Charter we can
stagger appointments appropriately and
and we were a little lumped together on
citizen review board thank
you all right uh any other questions or
comments from
Council U Miss F help me with Patrick
King he
is on Schoolboard
now yes so therefore he is
on so he's
he's a wck he's a he is he's on wreck
with us oh he is okay because Joanne was
last
I they no longer
join board meetings is it Joan pel or
Patrick King Patrick King guess changed
okay I had still have it being Joan so
so I'm just that feels a little Patrick
King heavy it does see I mean I love
Patrick
pck Patrick King doing it you know he's
also he's also on the he's also
currently chairing Solid Waste Authority
of Central Ohio so that's nice to have
him seems it
seems I
just I'm so fine with I confess my
roster is incorrect here so I will
update it and I will Maul over your
points okay I might
actually you know he's he's a helpful
member to have on these up so I'll I'll
discuss this a little bit more but well
it might be that but I think that the
board of the Board of Education person
on wreck votes yes well I do not correct
correct or maybe they could just swap
somebody
out maybe they'd be willing to do that
I'll I'll I'll dig into that I
appreciate it yeah that's a good point
uh any other questions or comments from
Council uh Mr mCP any speaker slips on
this
one no speaker slips okay uh Council we
will expect some amendments and some
changes uh in the future Mr official all
right first reading of ordinance 16-24
to amend chapter
47402 J to add protective helmet
requirements in instances of persons
under 16 years of age to wear a
protective helmet while operating an
electric bicycle skateboard Scooter
Roller Skates hover boards or similar
vehicle on any City street alley park
recreational path or sidewalk introduced
by Mr Hurley thank you um I mentioned
this at our Council Retreats um you know
in my professional life I do a lot in
the field of injury prevention and
advocacy around that
um with Summer coming up uh with you
know the city opening a new skate park
later this year or into next year um I
thought it was a good time to look at
our law so for those that are unaware um
since 2010 city of Bexley has required
children under 16 to wear a helmet when
operating a bicycle on a street out
sidewalk um and thinking about the
skatepark and just really watching kids
on my street you know kids are getting
around a lot of different ways so I felt
it was appropriate to go back and look
at this law and say okay what are the
different vehicles um you see this list
you know electric bike skateboard
Scooter Roller Skates hoverboard you
know the list could go on and on and I
want to talk more about that in a second
and the second piece is really the
locations um obviously kids are
primarily riding on streets alleys and
sidewalks uh but we do know kids ride
you know in certain Park area and of
course the skat Park I didn't think it
made a lot of sense to have a law that
said you know ride your or if you're
riding your bike to the skatepark you
have to wear your helmet while you're
riding to the skatepark the minute you
get to the skat Park according to city
law you can pop your helmet off and do
your tricks um I also didn't see a
reason why we would just ex or just
focus on bicy and not on many of the
other vehicles kids ride um uh Mr
fishell pointed out that the term
similar vehicle may be a little too
broad um and I I tend to agree with that
so we're I'm going to think about how to
narrow that l or at least add to that
list and where we don't to say other
vehicle and the intent is you know
bicycles ebikes scooters skateboards
roller skates okay you have to wear a
helmet um you know for example someone
could read this to say uh like a power
wheel or something like that which you
know my kids have a little power wheel
Jeep and I don't think they really need
a helmet for that but they definitely
need a helmet for where you know when
they're riding their scooters or what
have you so um you know this is
something I care a lot about um this is
a law we have on the books and so I feel
like if we're going to have a law on the
books it should be reflective of reality
and how kids are getting around and
where they're getting around um last
thing I'll say is really on the
enforcement piece um you know I I did
ask BPD you know have you ever issued a
citation under this I I you know suspect
the answer is no but I've not gotten
that response a lot of the enforcement
of this which there really has not been
a lot of enforcement and I'm fine with
that but the enforcement has been
positive um you know a lot of times it's
giving out a free coupon for ice cream
or something this is how it's done in
many municipalities I think pretty much
every city in central Ohio has in a
helmet ordinance I think we're probably
the first to really look at modernizing
it um my understanding from speaking to
uh some folks in the community is that
you know from from an enforcement
standpoint I think Bexley police already
treat this as kids should be wearing
their helmets no matter the vehicle and
again it's it's a conversation it's
um it's a chance to just have a good
interaction you know if we have some
coupons give a coupon out so I think
it's great I think the timing's good
with Summer coming this is a great
awareness tool um if nothing else we can
put some signs around the new skate park
that say Hey according to beex law you
should be um uh you should be wearing
your helmet so with that I'll uh take
questions Mr Marcelino you mentioned
that you weren't aware of uh anything
with the citation I don't know of
anything specific but the May or might
wasn't there recently an interaction
with a student or or minor in Bexley did
that have anything to do with this type
of law talk about the rollerblading yeah
that one no it was an adult and it had
to do with a different law that we're
discussing yes relating to um which
other communities have to not allowing
rollerblading or r or skateboarding on
the street okay not just okay but
different but also working on it separ
if it made sense to put that into this
ordinance I would have I think because
they're two different sections but yeah
yeah ve very much support repealing that
prohibition I got other any other
questions or comments from Council
I the age 16 is that for most
municipalities so it's usually 16 it's
not 12 it's not 14 it's 16 it's under 16
yeah and that's a pretty obvious you
know kids once they ageed 16 are
probably driv you know Vehicles golf
carts what have you and then a different
set of rules apply so yeah that's pretty
I don't want to say it's Universal I
actually can get the data on this um a
few years ago I did a census of all Ohio
municipalities and their by com laws
it's 16's pretty much the standard I
think some may do 13 or 14 a few do 18 I
can tell you this has been debated in
the general assembly and when general
assembly is debated a Statewide
enironment um it has been under 16 see I
think that there's a point where we of
accept that kids are you know older
they're going to exercise more autonomy
um but yeah under 16 I'd say is probably
three three out of every four
municipalities have a under 16 if you're
able to get that I would just be curious
I can have that for the next I think I I
love the way that my my young people
have been you know reminded about
helmets and I could just say's in a
different category at 10 than Hayden is
at almost 16 so if an officer um you
know the reminders are different
right with those different aged kids so
I would be curious to
know I have a question for you Danny um
if if this does pass could you envision
some sort of Education piece to not only
you know maybe the the 10 to 16y old but
also the parents who are buying some of
these um devices and letting their kids
go out so that they're aware that maybe
you know things things have changed a
little bit I would love that um that was
one of the things in my email
correspondence with Chief Lewis he
mentioned is doing some awareness around
this um also had a conversation with uh
Mr Price I think you know because a lot
of this activity is happening in parks
and wreck I think there's an opportunity
there as well um another thing I I'll
note on this um you
know there two
violations liutenant Ken run after
those get him Sergeant Ken pick oh
my for the record the majority of those
cyclists were following the law yes they
were and and that's and that's what you
see um I guess two things one is um I
work with some organizations if there is
ever concern around cost or just
requiring to buy helment there are
organizations that can give them out for
free I've actually had a conversation
one with one of them about doing an
event in Bexley in the near future we
bring helmets and just give them out to
anyone who needs them we don't ask
questions you know doesn't matter what
your income is um I will say they are
not as cool as some of the ones you can
buy but um
but they are yeah yeah I actually think
Bexley has got some in the past from the
American Academy of Pediatrics so
yeah there you go perfect and then also
have well the the other thing I I would
just say going back to the very timely
example um is you know I this is not
something I would I would Envision
requiring because I think you know we
part sort of look at kids a little
differently than adults but I would just
say to parents please model the behavior
um because kids see that and I sort of
cringe when I see kids wearing a helmet
and parents not wearing a helmet because
I think the kids are going to see okay
once I get a little bigger I don't my
helmet yeah as somebody who's been in a
bike accident I can tell you helmets are
very important and I do have a a second
question my second one's not related to
this ordinance but um do is it lawful in
Bexley for young kids who are in a bike
trailer to not be strapped in and to not
have a bike helmet because I know those
bike trailers can you know your speed
can get pretty good um and I hate to say
it but from time to time I do see young
kids put in there being pulled by their
parents and they're not strapped in
there's no helmet um mayor do you happen
to
know I
would if you're a if you're a young
passenger in a bike trail I don't know
that that's ever come up not that I'm
aware of
well and I would say the the operative
word in here is shall operate a bicycle
I contend cuz I have a Burly trailer and
when my kids are in they're not
operating the bicycle their passeng I
know that it wouldn't fall within this
that let me let me look into that
because if that's I mean I I would
personally be in favor of some language
that says you know sort of like we have
you know we have state laws on booster
seat and child car seat usage yeah so I
would say if there's not a requirement
that you're if you have passengers
whether they be in a trailer or on one
of the chairs or in the basket in the
front um if you're riding the Dutch
style
bike the spirit of the law is if you you
know you're under 16 you should be
wearing a helmet again with the caveat I
don't want that to be enforced you know
de cronian fashion I think that's a
maybe an amendment for this so let's
I'll I'll speak with the mayor and Mr
fishell and uh Chief and we'll think
about if that's something that would be
appropriate for this but I personally
would be very
supportive to this from the spirit thank
you was there another question over here
miss miss Bible
sorry some really great information um
yeah I will um for the next mean I will
share because I I've got access to
several studies from the American
Academy of Pediatrics as well as some
stuff that folks actually Nationwide
Children's emergency department has done
a lot of data and research on this I'll
also get a map of um what other
municipalities do and I'm hoping fingers
crossed to have a pediatrician from
Bexley come speak so you can ask them
all those sciency questions because
going back to council member sod's
question there there is a reason why
especially for youer kids your your
skull is not as developed and so there
is actually a medical reason why helmets
at a younger age really make a lot of
sense relative to those of us that are
older so
um Mr mCP are there speaker slips on
this ordinance no speaker slips okay
moving on um I believe there's no action
on our tabled
ordinances okay uh turning now to
committee reports uh finance
missad my only committee report was just
reminding um us all about the alumni
event that did we get that up no I was
trying to find it show oh here it is
okay the Bexley High School alumni
openhouse is Friday July 5th from 9:30
to 11:30 a.m. it's student tours coffee
Bagels facilities presentation they
always time this up with people coming
in for the July 4th holiday it is always
very well received so just wanted to um
as the Alumni Association and um Bexley
Education Foundation are working
together with those alumni more on their
transparency of their website and doing
an alumni magazine which they had not
done in the past just wanted to remind
um our community
that if you have family or people that
are here that would like to participate
that that is um on their July 4th
weekend that that is
available end of report great thank you
Miss s Recreation and Parks Miss
fibble is crazy busy this time of the
year um talked to Mike Price to make
sure that I shared with you that uh that
preschool graduation was last
Thursday um
jazz in the park was yesterday there was
a very smooth pool opening he doesn't
have the numbers yet but he will soon um
T night is this Thursday at the pool um
numbers are high even though the
temperature is not supposed to
be Friday is the main event showing
Mario Brothers Camp opens on
Monday I'm encouraging you all to um to
Pedal yourselves by with your helmets on
to Commonwealth and look at um the uh
what do we call those it's the things
that are going to house the restrooms
and the structures that are housing the
uh rest anyway they're beautiful
Commonwealth is looking really gorgeous
so it take a look Foles go look at the
Foles they're fa fabulous and um I have
been with my family on our back patio
come to my back patio and listen I
really think it's the CPS gray tree frog
that is singing like crazy we have a lot
of new residents and Mr and Mrs Mard are
checking things out I think next year
we'll be making Way for Ducklings not
sure but I think St Charles graduated
their 998th um commen
commencement no graduation right
graduation um last Friday 119 boys um
underclassman finished this
Friday Hayden's taking his test um
classes for CSG end the end of this week
as well and they'll be
graduating next Thursday the 3 so
they'll be closing Broad Street again
right our sweet officer saying yes out
in the hallway um and then interestingly
the Miss America organization created
the state and National outstanding teen
scholarship programs to encourage and
celebrate Scholastic achievements
creative accomplishments healthy living
and Community involvement a huge
congratulations to CSG senior McKenzie
Gibson who is class of 24 for being
crowned Miss Ohio Team USA over the
weekend as winner she's going to
represent Ohio in the national Miss
America's outstanding teen program in
Hollywood California this summer
congratulations so pretty cool and of
report fantastic uh service and
environmental Mr Silverman thank you um
to go along with the rainbow sidewalks
in South Bexley the Girl Scout troops
painted the moose tracks which is the
alley that leads to montro Elementary
Paint was donated by the service
department uh they were very thankful to
get it out they had to delay the first
time so the second one was kind of as
soon as they got two days of good
weather they went out there and and
painted it um but if you get a chance
you can check out the fresh moose tracks
uh esack met last week and one of the
things that I noticed today when I went
to Giant Eagle was they switched out
their bags at first I thought they
looked really nice upon a little more
research we might have to figure out if
it meets and fulfills our current policy
because from my understanding that they
are not recyclable but they can compost
but I have to do some more research
possibly about that but it is something
that they actively work on with their
businesses to meet and um conform to the
policies that we have I know there's
ongoing discussions is about uh small
Wares and looking at more opportunities
to involve those businesses but the the
Giant Eagle is going through major
changes uh if anybody's noticed they uh
have moved all the aisles and the labels
do not match where the food is so be
patient with them um but it it will look
good in a few weeks as they finish that
out um
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I suggest a resolution yes where's the
rice actually
that's
as as Miss FIB mentioned event season
wreck departments heating up um I was at
the jazz in the park and green Beckley
was in Full full mode sorting and they
probably had 10 to 12 bags full um
they're always looking for help for the
summer season uh it's a great initiative
but does require a lot of uh volunteers
behind it and that's end report thank
you so much zoning and development Mr
Marcelino Megan covered most of it in
her report in regards to the bees
meeting from the other night but just
generally uh the big discussion was on
whether or not the developers had met
the uh essentially the requests from the
ARB and the
recommendations uh the recommendations
as a whole had do with the types of
materials being used headlight screening
uh used over on the site itself some of
the greenery a lot of the elevations uh
the only uh recommendation that was not
met by the developer uh had to do with
outdoor dining adjustments this is
because they don't technically have the
tenant yet so they cannot at this point
but ARB was okay with them coming back
once that uh that tenant has been
determined um outside that I think that
Megan gave us a pretty good get overview
of it uh unrelated to zoning I will note
that I was walking into the Jazz Fest uh
yesterday behind some I think it's gen Z
is that like the 18 to like 24 year olds
something what generation is that either
way they saw the community uh police uh
vehicle that was parked at the entrance
and uh somebody says oh that's that's
really cool and then one of them goes
yeah the police are pretty cool here I
just thought that was a great stound say
don't get enough praise and I just I I
appreciate our department and all the
steps that you've taken to engage with
our community um yeah no it was great so
it's just cool to hear so keep up good
work to everybody else thank
you thank you Mr Marcelino uh strategic
and Health Mr Hurley thank you um so a
few few things uh I've been up to first
uh I was able to participate this wasn't
a Bexley sanctioned event but it
happened to take place in Bexley but uh
the Columbus MS Walk was on May 18th um
thank you mayor for and Natalie for
promoting that in the BL the blast the
was the blast yeah I almost said Buzz um
you know and actually I think I was
talking to kany hopefully it benefited
the art sale because we over 1300 people
mostly not from Bexley and they took a
nice walk around saw all the goods and
hopefully came back and bought lots of
stuff um I held a second office hours on
May 24th uh at kitties third one or my
third one is going to be June 27th 3m.
location to be determined um went to
jazz in the park is wife St with the
kids had an absolute blast what a what a
great event um so yes between that and
the splash pad we've already been very
busy uh L use strategy commission meets
June 3 uh cic uh met on the 23rd in
addition to what's been shared we also
got an update on Bexley Square
financials uh got a very brief update on
the Livingston project um mayor gave an
update on the uh the ordinance
0424 I think it's common knowledge now
that TCB is closed on the site but what
they intend to do unless it's changed
since last Thursday is still up in the
air um we talked a lot about 2200 East
Main which of course we've talked about
a lot tonight uh cic will meet again on
July 1 though certain property
Acquisitions May necessitate us meeting
before then so and that is my report all
right thank you safety Mr
Markham Alex I buried one of those Giant
Eagle bag in my backyard so I should
have some data for you here pretty soon
I was a little a gas too when I saw
those uh they are I don't know if they
are compostable or or uh recyclable they
are very reusable so I would encourage
people if they do get those to keep
reusing them over and over again they're
nice and light and easy and then just uh
a final shout out as well to I think the
uh the free cycle uh yard sale trash
pickup event here in Bexley I think is a
uh when I tell other people other
communities that we do that they think
that's the most amazing thing and I have
to agree with them it's uh what a what a
really great uh service that we provide
for everybody we fully utilized it this
year that's it thank you so much we are
now to public comments no speaker slips
required go
ahe Constance Lewis 663 Claire um first
thank you for the MS Walk going by we
were able to um sell quite a few items
as they walked by and then they came
back so that was that was a real Plus
for us um the Memorial Day service was a
wonderful event and uh I appreciate it
mayor your words
were heartfelt
and um but I would like to ask that you
reposition the memorial it is smothered
by the beautiful hornbeams that we have
so if you could possibly move it out
maybe put put it where the podium is
this past event and and and then maybe
at another Memorial those are that
Memorial is for World War II U but we
have other other uh residents that that
I would like to
see um
honored thank you miss all right Council
our next meeting is June
11th um with that I move to adjourn can
I please get a second second I'm Miss
seconded by Mr Marcelino all in favor
say I I I anyone opposed we do have a
board control other than that we'll see
you June 11th thank you
early
but this was
on Way Church
right okay except we haven't been going