foreign
do you want to run home and get a tie
thank you I love that I'm better dressed
than Sam Marcelino how about that
okay
when I learned I could bring in the city
council
um I thought that that would be a great
opportunity and I just wanted to express
my thanks to council and the mayor and
the other
for allowing me to bring him here and to
give us the opportunities
he can speak today because he is on the
list
but that's just I just wanted to thank
you all for allowing this opportunity
to continue to come and hope to be
different will continue to improve his
behavior at Town speeding so thank you
um thank you yeah
hey
and we will confirm that Pippen did fill
out a speaker slip for for tonight
please tell Pippen if uh he can't join
us we are on YouTube uh
all right hold on some good timing here
we have uh PR Casey
all right
good deal how about that yeah that works
out just right it does like it's like we
planted
tada
we're ready
welcome
good evening hi there
my name is
thanks for having me tonight thanks for
inviting the office to speak to you
about a real important topic it's going
to be affecting everybody in Franklin
County and putting all the residents
vaccine and that is the 2023 uh property
of appraised
um
I just wanted to become we're trying to
get around the county and make sure that
uh folks like you the Republican General
know what's going to happen with the
real appraisal
um I think it's great I think it's
important to come to the city council's
because hopefully if we can educate you
guys a little bit about what's happening
then of course you can go giving talk to
your constituents pass that along and
people are getting informed and not
confused or seriously when it comes to
uh
so I'm going to take you through a
PowerPoint and if the question for me at
any point raise your hands otherwise I
can take some questions at the end
um and I'll try and not related things
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um
tell me when does yes which slide we're
just checking some audio and settings
real quickly I think they look good now
you guys hear me I don't know
you sound okay to me yep
okay so um
the the uh reappraisal is required by
Ohio law every six years
20 Auditors have to properties all the
property commercial industrial and
residential and account and then every
three years so on a every three years in
in between the six shoes on games we
have what required to be required to a
finance update which is very similar to
reappraisal but we don't actually have
to look at the receiving property that
triennial update happened in 2020 here
we are three years later we are upon the
first of the appraisal and uh auditor
spenciano has been in in office now for
over four years but because of the six
year cycle he he in his office did not
have an opportunity
so we have working towards this in a
couple years now we're really excited
um to do the best job for Franklin
County Buchanan I will I'll talk to you
a little bit about some of the cool
innovations that this Administration put
in for the table this time
uh one more thing to note on that last
slide uh the Ohio Department of Taxation
you have to create the values and then
submit them to the Ohio Department of
Taxation there must be viewer values and
improve them before you become official
they can take them off
um so what happens during this process
well we do Mass appraisal so Mass
appraisal is made up by the basically
the three points there the bulk the very
appraisal work is done by recent home
sales in a neighborhood we also take
into accounts certain neighborhood data
and we also have to do a visual
inspection the property and this is
where it differs from for What's called
the theaters although if you really get
your house
um you're already getting mortgage
signal words in your house or whatnot
off and the bank will say hey we need to
get a bracelet that's up here for
instance so they're paying people to
comment professionals and they get into
the inside of the house they get into
the outside they see the whole thing to
give you about well in master phrases we
have over 400 000 questions to review
this site called perfect incoming so we
can't uh get into the insights of the
home so we do the exterior and then we
take all the neighborhood data and home
sales
in creating a value
this is a really important slider this
is our home's homepage or the website
we've created for the 2023 pre-appraisal
that is called know your home values
they know your home value campaign uh in
green at the bottom is the website
address that's that is a great thing if
you could
um so you guys hand out it'll get my
hands out
um and that will be on that's a great
thing to pass on to the public event
questions I'll be hitting the website
and going over a couple things on that
as we go through but um we've been
linked to it through the frankincense
part of the website and that is a
picture of the homepage as it consists
foreign
but in August we will be mailing
everybody in the county Who belongs
property a uh tentative about so we're
going to get the new value in August
also going to be posted on websites
um it's at that point that people can
look at their value and if they decide
yeah I'm okay with that value that seems
fair given all the factors that we can
get into in a minute
um they're not not anymore needs to
happen that that is to do that I use
reflect one website and
um factors under your taxes
um however if you're not satisfied with
the value
um we are offering an opportunity in
September for property value meetings so
we will be setting up people eventually
all over Franklin County Fernanda
directing them close throughout the
month of September we have sites where
people can schedule appointments to come
in and sit down with Actual appraising
office and review their review their uh
their evaluation they can bring evidence
and they can handle back and forth and
make an argument if they can as to why
the value of the potential prior or
lower
um and they can start scheduling those
as soon as they get their values months
those
property value reviews occur like I
mentioned in September the whole month
October we kind of take all the changes
we can put it all together and then we
finalize the values in December and
anybody who actually came forth and had
a problem value review will get a final
value confirmation mailed in the center
for the customer
so um
they are
um so that's that's in all seriousness
that is it that's why we're trying to
make this push
and inform folks about what's going on
and we're referring to the factors that
played here as The Perfect Storm
um you just have a bunch of disparate
factors coming together all contributing
to Historic uh rises in value
those factors are listed there we've got
a continued demands
such a competitive real estate market
um
population growth coupled with
unfortunately a real insufficient amount
of housing to meet that demand and boom
we've got a lot of outside Investments
that's the local government outdated
state laws wanting to keep you keep the
case and uh frankly the attorney meeting
of the of the uh we appraisal is is not
helping we are again part of my law to
do it now
um I'm sure you all know fed is these
interest rates they're trying to pull
down the market and inflation well that
is likely going to have an effect on
because but it's not yet
um if we can wait till next year yeah
maybe we'll be seeing um in effect where
we could start putting values down in
the plants but we are bound right now to
do uh
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our total number of sales in 2022
decreased when compared to 2021 property
values
over 33 of the last 36 months so
there there are some conflicting news
nationally
that the housing market the values are
coming down it's just not happening
in the future
say we've seen an effect in houses and
on the market maybe a little bit longer
the values are not going
yeah on the other side
this is just a
of route to demonstrate correctly
values are going off
we also have the blue counties in
particular the ones that I believe so
this year everybody is a 13 and above
um
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so so many people
hear increasing value immediately go to
the oil and taxes available and I get
that because Franklin Ohio taxes
property taxes property value is the
main type into attachments
um so I like this slide this to ask the
questions
reappraisal effect on taxes followed by
a very honest answer later
you know we're not about we're not doing
the reappraisal U.S Place tax we're
doing it to people who fired by law to
assess the property Institute cycle
um however people should we're not going
to have a ball
in Franklin County is everybody's values
are going up in that real likely lead to
an increase in taxes I think that the
real important thing to take it home and
hopefully you can help me in the office
relates to the public use data is not a
one-to-one ratio value to test
so if your value increases 20 percent
that
very much likely leading support for the
taxes
20 percent rise in value most likely
will not replace for 20 percent
taxes the formula is there I don't
really do math but I can write I have it
on this one
um that's laid out by the state it is 35
of our offices system value
multiply times the tax individually and
that people's individuals
um
passing district is best right it is you
know you affect the rate that gets
modeled by by the 35 years can be
subscribed as levies and that's bonds
and obviously if you even vote on that
they would return them foreign
because I'm going to say something that
I think you probably can't say but I'll
say it because I'm not you and so you
won't have to have said it
um which is that
I'm a tax nerd I'm proper tax nerd it
used to be my my former field I know you
guys would be surprised by that so we
have inside milogen Bexley that inside
millage does float when property values
change but most of our millage is what
you're referring to voted millage that
voted millage is really voted as a
dollar amount and so the effective rate
changes over time so if property values
go up
the rate goes down because we're not
paying as much as a percentage and so
our inside millage is roughly like 15 of
our tax rate so it will go up and down
but if all of us got a 20 increase in
value
based on my very quick napkin if all of
us got a 20 increase then the effective
rate goes down obviously because we're
our rates are our values going up our
inside millage goes up a little bit but
our our actual tax increase would be
about a three percent increase in our
taxes roughly so it's super confusing
and I think the really important message
message to drive home to people is that
we're all in this this Rising tide right
and we're all going if we're all going
up then we're all going to be
not really that impacted by it I think
what you can't what the reason you can't
say it quite like that is because if
person a has a 80 increase they are
going to feel that and if person B has a
a 10 increase not a 20 increase they're
actually going to see a lowering of
their tax bill
so this is fun stuff guys
it's hard it's hard to understand you're
exactly right um
um and we're going to get into some of
that of your uh
um so
this is just kind of an interesting
slide because I think it shows you like
names that this referencing there are a
lot of different factors that can result
in different scenarios when it comes to
the tests
um some some value changes uh will lead
to decreasing factors small increase of
moderate increases I would say this
cycle will probably be looking at the
top one which is a mineral interest in
taxes for the bottom one interesting
I don't see those uh those two three
pieces
seven
um
but that's just a good life experiment
um a question that we have been asked we
just added these slides the other day
and so I want to please give it them
yeah but
um
we get asked by public by City councils
well if values are going off and
corresponding to the taxes are going up
more money who's benefiting from that
influx and that's a great question uh
this is our attempt to answer it but you
don't have to ask for it
um
and I think this really goes to Mayor
Kessler what we were just referencing uh
without reward knowledge
um notice property values increases
don't result in much higher overall
effects
of subdivisions and values as well it's
actually it's generally go down to
maintain the same tax collector this is
to the tax Equalization
but in the Triangle for years ago
uh property values process on that
average amount of 20
property taxes for all taxing
authorities conscious Villages everybody
comes schools as a result of that 20
value increase went up on that it was
6.96 percent
in order to take out all of the tax
employees and just focus on things the
facts and resource
um and then just continuing
um really
entities that receive tax dollars will
continue to receive tax dollars they
might just give
so Bexley might uh you know the public
investing might want to ask you guys hey
you got a little bit of influence which
is phones uh same question people go to
the next step and
um the
that graphic right there I think is more
instructed to help because that is off
of a property search and website
and and a homeowner business owner can
look up the property and see the current
year distribution
in a nice
a nice rule for the public creative use
so how can I help ensure a protective
evaluations as a member of the public
number one
we should be encouraging the property
owners to come to the honors website and
look up their property on the property
search page and then look to make sure
that the data we have collected those
threads again we don't get into the
insides of the houses but we don't
always
we don't know always
three bedrooms before so we really do
rely on the public to call us up email
us and so they know what you got is
wrong and we fix it very quickly and we
appreciate the assistance because again
you don't get inside the house so that's
one thing and number two
um if people want to talk to somebody
and they want to question the process
they want to bring the other leads to
support to talk about why they think
their value should be good they should
definitely schedule and participate in
the property value review session
instantly
is that a new program that you're
offering
it's not um
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it's easier it's quicker it's fast and
cheap and so that's a good problem and
formulas you're gonna think that is
really varied on the descriptive the
followers
um an informal way to come forward and
just have a conversation
appraiser and it's not something we need
to do we're not required by law
the auditor has fell very strongly that
you know we need to get into the
community
at least that they're being heard
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I'll let that auditor know on the
baseball fields he's doing a good job
so
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um
I wanted to bring your attention to the
lower portion of that slide
really excited about some Innovative
things that are going on in an office
that are going to be reflected on a
website and not there yet because we
haven't yet
um put the the values up that happens in
August but um the first thing is an
interactive compare my own value
Department I don't really get it but
it's massed and what you're going to be
able to do is you're going to be able to
find your property on the map see the
value move over to your neighbor's
property see the value go down on both
Street take it out to the next town pick
it out of the county take it out the
whole state you can donationwide with
the school to to compare values so
initially we're just going to do it for
Franklin County and you are under
Temptation hey can you take a statement
but that's going to be I think that's
going to be really cool
um and then we're going to have a 2024
property test estimated to Tool people
are so prepared to be so concerned about
how it is beyond Factory taxes they're
going to have we've worked really hard
to develop a tool but we are going to
with pretty good accuracy
um uh that it gets what's more value is
going to mean to your taxes
so hopefully people will find that
helpful and now we're going to have a
very um easy to use scheduling portal
for people that want to schedule their
meetings
those are all coming in August
um I.T offices to put a visit
uh this is another piece of the know
your home value website um it's it's our
FAQ section
great place to send the public if we
have if you were the public have any
questions it's more than likely their
in-depth answers
um waiting for you uh FAQ section
um a couple more maps we love Maps
um the one on the left the purple and
green one and blue one that's an updated
um map of the Native affiliations so we
work in appraisal to break down all the
neighborhoods in the county to the most
um like
areas so that he as a result we're only
preparing or special from sales basis
the most
um similar properties which which really
AIDS in the overall effectiveness and
accuracy of the appraisals so we've done
we we started that process with the
triennial we started making our
neighborhoods smaller to make them more
accurate and we've only drilled down
more for the ridiculation and so that is
going to be an interactive map where
people can see okay what's my
neighborhood and what am I doing
and then the other map
um with some orange and yellows is you
know we talked about how the taxes are
are done is 35 of the last value defines
the the local effective tax rate so
that's a map that people can find out
but they're local types of time
another thing that's on the uh on the
website we have videos
um
but we're gonna have a bunch of videos
to break down different topics like
attacks
um the math question and how increases
um
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the last thing on the second one is
requested speaker to come to the group
um I suppose knowing my boss
okay
specification
um but that is the place where people
can
um
finally
um here's our contact information
um but that's the other news email
address and there and the jewelry I mean
in general phone number
5251
to help there and then we have listed in
blue the local blue boards at the bottom
a couple of the programs
that people could look into and be
directed to as far as helping out if
they're feeling stressed out
taxes going on
um
thank you thank you
any any questions for Mr Casey
yes
it's been pretty awesome
if there was such a thing you know
fairly quickly again I think that maybe
the scientific question that we put that
link
um at some point on the class yeah I
just say it looks really seems to be
super friendly experience
I would say it might be beneficial to
work with possibly the library on having
the same kind of presentation for the
community to come in
um whom values are very important to
every resident and not everyone's going
to have all of this information I think
what your office has done has me made it
a little bit more Equitable too with
having the opportunity to go in and you
know
um rebuttal if they don't feel like it
was the correct
number on their home so I think this
this is really a lot of work you guys
have done and not everyone's going to
know about it it might be a really nice
Library presentation
sure
and I like the request of speaker
it fit in perfectly
yeah
great well thank you so much
thank you Karen actually if you could um
if to that point about the blast if you
have like a paragraph or like a press
kit that you can just send Natalie then
we can make sure to send that out as
well
we can we can have those at our friend's
desk as well
um
okay great thank you thank you
good feeling
all right we'll move along to the
president's report
um I just want to say thanks to the
mayor for the awesome strategic plan
that we all have here that uh says
sidetracked me a little bit at work
today I started just about I was gonna
take a peek at it and I started like
like a good book and started kept going
through it or whatever so I uh I think
we've all been kind of anticipating it
it looks really great so uh thanks for
that and also uh to uh not just the
mayor but Matt Klingler for uh opening
up the new land use strategy uh group
last night Matt are you going to talk
about it during your chair
good I won't give away any of the
exciting stuff but Jen and I were there
as part of it it's just a really really
great group it's really exciting and
then the main point of business is
either we emailed you about our August
meeting we currently have an August 8
meeting and I think we will be uh if we
do have that on August 8th we'll be
missing both mayor and Natalie which
seems like I don't know how Anything
could happen here without both the mayor
and Natalie but uh uh we did send out a
uh I think to you guys uh it looked like
possibly the 15th was maybe almost as
good not as bad as the eighth mayor did
point out the eighth is also a special
election day here in Bexley as well
if there are no objections I will
propose that we move that August 8th
meeting to the 15th
are there any you guys can discuss any
objections to that or do we want to hold
off and discuss it further
yes ma'am I will just note that I will
be and I think I share that with
everyone I will be at some point in
August moving a child to New York and as
as of right now could be the 15th could
be the 8th it could be neither one so
just FYI fair enough fair enough
um Mr Mayor or Mr clerk no Mr Mayor what
do we need to do do we need to amend our
ordinance or do we just need to put out
a public notice that that's changed I
believe that a public notice is
sufficient but I will get a code based
answer for you thank you I appreciate
that if Melanie doesn't beat me to it
we'll we'll see who gets there first
yeah
all right that's all I have I will move
it to our our new City attorney Melanie
Williamson for her report
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no report and I will share with Mark How
Deeply missed he is yes
uh and then we have an Auditor's report
do we have
I think we have anything I can't
remember if he had said all right
if not then we will move right to the
administrative report please
thank you Mr President I am going to
share screen here
um I believe that our first
reporter of the evening is our chief of
police chief Lewis
thank you nothing to add
but here for any questions
any questions for the chief
thank you sir we will have a quiz
tomorrow about the um
all the reappraisal information
I think the millage is the part that I
really want us to focus inside millage I
thought so thanks uh I will say that um
one of the from the events
um we got a lot of media coverage for
our partnership with uh Noble which is a
National Organization of black law
enforcement Executives and be smart at a
number of moms here in Bexley
participate in that
um a lot of great coverage
um it's now generated enough attention
where
um Noble out of DC has asked me to come
to Cleveland and speak at their National
Conference and talk about the
partnership and the success we had next
month so a lot of great things and
really them using us as the blueprint
for other agencies across the country to
follow
it's fantastic and that was a great
great event great group of people there
thank you for a chance to swing by
um it did also um
Sam I hadn't had a chance to talk to you
about this but I'd like I'd like to
brainstorm uh gun storage laws with you
which I think
we'll have to talk to Mark about it but
I think actually we we do have the
ability to
to work on I think I don't think there's
a state preemption on safe storage laws
but I could be wrong I don't know if you
know that off the top of your head okay
four AR-15s with uh those that actually
need them and not residents of our
community safely
right
thank you sir
have a great evening our worst day
around whatever oh you're right
yeah amen
hahaha
we would love to have you stay the whole
time if you're welcome
thanks thanks Chief thank you Chief
Chris
this fiebel great numbers
awesome numbers and I wanted to um just
you know speak really quickly to just
how great Mike is at being dread through
a park and rec he's always out there
doing the extra I saw him taking
attendance for some of the field trips
that are put on by park and rec for
summer programming for our teens in the
community and I had and then I had to
ask now did Mike get on that bus and go
with those teens and of course he did
um you drove it that's right he drove it
and there you go there's the picture
these kids had a blast and
um again just a reminder of getting out
being social
enjoying our programming and as lorianda
said the numbers look great
um but Mr Vincent who is very well liked
in the Middle School Community you know
was one of the volunteers and and our
one and only Mike Price the kids had a
great time and it just speaks again to
all the things that the rec department
does and does so well and um it was just
and they had really great weather too
right
yeah
I think you also um had the opportunity
to clean up vomit twice in like a one
week period as a wreck director so
condolences and congratulations at the
same time on that at the bus driver's
job oh man
Ms Robinson okay quick question for you
and I just lost oh no I've been driving
by um on Cassidy the the senior center
and have noticed how many activities
have been taking place there can you
like how many of those are senior
related how many of those are rentals I
feel like that is like the place to be
she didn't I literally am like again
again
fabulous okay
amazing yeah I know theater parents yeah
I was good I was going to say theater
parents tried to get in at once and it
was booked so uh kudos
amazing okay great I look forward to
that report
the answer is price
thank you Mike have a great evening
Mr Bayshore uh how are the sewers doing
um I'm hoping pretty good I haven't got
any emails yet on my phone so uh
sorry guys
but I have nothing to add to my written
report tonight
questions for Andy
bassad just a quick question Drexel is
looking amazing and the bump outs and
the mediums it's all coming together
but we have a lot of bikers out that are
biking you know
um families younger kids teens now the
school's out
and those you know
it gets pretty deep with some of those
bump outs so any ideas that we have to
maybe on the blast just remind
you know that that's going on in case
not everyone is always on Drexel as much
as the sod family
um
remind I'm just just so I understand
what you're asking so remind them that
there's a project happening projects
happening cones are up you know on your
bikes just take you know be mindful of
that at dusk
um when you're on Drexel we can do that
for sure yeah but great project the crew
is doing a fabulous job and when they're
there during the day you know it's going
on but when it gets a little later
um
just good reminder if you're not always
on Drexel
but the project looks great keep up the
good work
any other questions
more of a statement uh Mr Bayshore I
just want to thank you for your
continued responsiveness to all issues
around the city for anybody that reaches
out as well as a grand Archer I know
we've had a couple requests of him
recently but just a great team you're
out there all day which are also still
communicating effectively so thank you
no problem
all right
thank you Andy
um
a couple things to highlight in my
report the uh natural have a great
evening the natural dog park grand
opening was rained out under conditions
similar to what's happening right now so
but we will be opening on Saturday
uh
I wish that it weren't raining right now
before Saturday but that's all good
it'll might be a little bit a little bit
muddy but it'll be great
um pedal for pancakes is also Saturday
morning
um so we've got a lot of things going on
and then on Monday we have our
Juneteenth Community potluck cookout
anyone who wants to help Cook Out
Alex Silverman and I are uh organizing
something there so feel free to join us
um just let me know in advance and uh
also if you want to kind of just bring a
side dish and uh
it's at Jeffrey Park Memorial Shelter
um the
I have several updates here in writing
but the one I want to focus on the most
is
uh the oh wait I thought I'd open this
I'm sorry one second
give me a moment
hold please hold our uh the Strategic
plan
draft which I circulated to you all
um
and I will get it on the agenda it's a
pretty large file so I gave you guys a
shared link to that
um it's many years in the making uh and
I hope that you have had a chance to
look at it if you haven't I also have
paper copies if you're more of a paper
person and I can print those out what I
was hoping is that we could uh and do
you want to talk about it during your
committee or is it okay if we talk about
a now in terms of timing why don't you
go talk about it now and I can add
anything additionally so let me I guess
let me first like talk through the logic
of the document and then um and then
talk a little bit about like how we see
next steps evolving on this
um and this is really designed to be
laid out like a booklet so this current
view is a little a little unusual so let
me see if I can get you a better view of
this as I'm talking but
um essentially what it's doing is
um
I'm not really not clearly not very good
at doing two things at once here
uh
the uh
okay there we go
so
the plan uh
first off looks at what our current
plans and strategies that have been
passed and that are effective as I think
I've talked to you guys about in the
past and so it profiles uh the plans
that you see up here on the screen it
also lays out a road map for future
plans that were already currently in the
process of or budgeted or are
anticipated just based upon
recommendations in this plan
and then it profiles all of the
different active plans where we are
today with them with the major
recommendations in terms of progress
made or not made in status of those
those reviews just sort of like
subject-specific plans and the overall
strategic plan has larger some umbrella
goals that are then categorized based
upon these categories that you see here
um
every time that there's for example in
development section we have development
goals some of these you'll recognize
from past plans some of them might be a
little bit new most of you will
recognize frankly most of what's in this
document because we've you know talked
about it in the past as we've worked on
this but then it also points to other
uh items in plans that have been
profiled earlier on in the strategy
um
so that's basically how to use the
Strategic plan what I was hoping to
accomplish in review is a couple things
first off our mission and vision
statement we started to talk about uh
tweaking that
um so that is sort of faded out in this
document and I'd love it if we could
finalize updates to that as part of this
process the other piece is just as you
read through it like what's missing like
you know what is what is what do you
think should be incorporated that hasn't
been Incorporated
um and Jen I think we talked about ways
to capture that information maybe have a
separate meeting talk through it what
were well my thought was as you begin to
to read through it and I've had an
opportunity to look through it a couple
times and yes there are spaghetti stains
on my version so I was caught on the
couch so it's a good good read but
um as you think of things or if you have
any suggestions let's start kind of
maybe we can create a document or where
we can all share that information or
shoot me an email but but if there are a
lot if there's a lot of input we thought
about looking at our schedules for the
next couple weeks and see if maybe
there's an opportunity for all of us to
get together for an hour or so and
really talk through the document after
we've all had a chance to really look at
it and digest it it's incredibly well
done it's a lot of information you will
as mayor said you'll recognize a lot of
things but there are some new things on
there as well and we definitely want to
make sure that there's nothing that
we're missing so why don't we start you
know if you could all over the next
couple days really look over it and
digest it a little bit and start
shooting me some emails about any
thoughts or questions you have and then
we can judge I can Circle back with you
mayor Kessler and we can see if there's
a time and if it makes sense for all of
us to get together to talk about it
together but the mission and vision
vision statements were we started to
work on that in our you know in our um
uh Dei training and um so you know maybe
spend a little bit of extra time
focusing on that and and let's kind of
uh all jog our minds on the things that
we talked about because I know there
were some really good ideas floating
around the room and it can really
capture a really important mission and
vision statement for for the city so
that is it
thank you the one thing I would also ask
if you're if you're emailing with
thoughts or ideas if you can include me
in the email too that'd be awesome just
so I have that
I have that for my reference
um
right so so yeah the version Theory I've
never used this feature that Adobe
InDesign has but you can comment on it
online on the link that I gave you
yeah right take a look at that I was the
hard copied girl so yeah I haven't
looked at the online I'll take feedback
either way like
online thing for sure
um via email uh coffee I'll buy you a
cocktail at uh Giuseppe's like whatever
you want like it's what I'll meet you in
your space yes all right I have one
comment every evening
[Laughter]
it's convenient
um
I uh I also attended the uh sorry
anything else on the Strategic plan any
questions or thoughts concerns I love it
this is my favorite thing of the day I
have chicken wing sauce on mine I mean
I'm getting hungry about all the food
that's splatted all over these strategic
plans
um
the human resource coordinator position
has been posted to our website
um we are accepting applications through
early July and we will be circulating it
on indeed and some other platforms and
getting it around to
anyone who's a couple people have asked
me for copies of it so just getting
circulating it as widely as we can so
take a look at that that's in your
agenda packet as well
um
the
Pace conference that I attended as in my
role with the Columbus Regional e-cid
was last week and it was really
energizing
no pun intended
um just learning like what other states
are doing and other cities are doing to
encourage clean energy and building
efficiency and um so came back
excited for a region but also how we can
leverage it even more in Bexley
um even had like a sort of a Skunk Works
idea for how to hack residential Pace
back together up to the state sort of
put the kibosh on it but we'll figure
out if that works or not
um
and we've just had a ton of community
events have gone really well and I could
keep talking but I'm not going to I will
answer any questions anyone has
yes
mayor going back to the HR position
description it looks like it's got some
flexibility on whether it's part-time
full-time 20 to 40 hours are you looking
for the best candidate and that's why
it's got that flexibility or is it uh
it'll be dictated by duties laid out
there it's absolutely because I want to
I think that the position could uh with
the right person be a part-time position
um and I so I want to make sure that
we're casting a pretty wide net for
candidates
um you know speaking with other like the
school district just recently got their
first HR professional last year I think
or the year before that
um with a staff of 350 I'm not saying
that that makes sense but I think that
um you know the library with a similar
smaller staff has a very part-time
position that works very well for them
so I think we have there are lots of
models that we can work with
um as you know we have a uh through our
finance department we have somebody who
has
taken that position to assist with some
of the benefits and some of the payroll
pieces so I think there's capacity for a
part-time person I think that a
full-time person with the right skill
set might be able to take on additional
um duties for example uh somebody with
perspective with prospective or
experience and diversity inclusion type
of work is a nice to have on this and
that might be
um you know there might there then have
capacity for additional training and
additional programming you know
oversight of some procurement that sort
of thing so I think there's lots of ways
to go with that so I wanted to be
flexible
yeah
any other questions
all right
thank you
all right I think we'll move along to
the consent agenda Melanie
yes we have uh two items on the consent
agenda we've got the meeting minutes
from the May 23rd 2023 meeting
and we've got resolution 223 to adopt
the tax budget for the calendar year
any comments or questions on the consent
agenda from Council
comments or questions from the audience
if not I move to adopt the consent
agenda can I get a second
second by Mr Klingler
um Mr Kessler please
um Ms Robinson
yes Mr Marcelino yes Ms lamke yes yes Mr
Markham yes Miss Sun yes Mr Klingler yes
Miss viable yes
all right all right
um
we have no
third readings tonight but we do have a
couple of second readings
um we've got resolution 323 confirming
the mayor's appointments of members to
the Architectural Review Board the board
of zoning appeals and planning the
Recreation and Parks Board the tree and
public gardens commission the Board of
Health the Civil Service Commission and
the citizens review board and the
environmental sustainability advisory
committee
Miss Robinson
it's that time again to bring more
people from our community in to do some
great work for us um Merica so do we
have any plans to bring any of these
folks in to to talk to us at our next
meeting yes
um I'm still doing interviews
um with the assistants like for example
with Rec board Mike Price uh for some of
those so I the existing members are on
this uh resolution right now I expect
that we'll have new members added as an
amendment to the resolution under next
meeting with those new members present
amazing but we're not we haven't been
through everybody yet is the intention
to then pass it on the third reading or
I would would love that as soon as I
have new members to add to that I'll get
those to you so you can see that in
advance
um but yeah that would be the intent all
right great thank you
comments or questions on uh the
resolution so resolution
323 anybody else
if not we'll move on all right
we have Ordnance 1623 to approve the
supplier for the city of Bexley electric
aggregation program this Bible
we talked a little bit about this the
last time around
um although it's not a new topic for all
of us we did last year remember
um a vote to say that we could you know
when we picked a supplier when it was a
good time for our community to dive into
this financially that that we would
consider this so we passed that
um now we are actually looking at the
prices thinking that they're a lot
better and
um trying to
um nail all the particulars down um
Mr Kessler do you want to share new
information we might have about this the
uh puco approved their application we
are now at Market so we'll have pricing
before the next Council day okay and
that's going to dictate timing so I
guess once we have pricing and we see
what it looks like right I think that's
when we'll get you know so you think we
will have pricing by then by the next
that is what they're saying yeah okay
oh
any more comments or questions on this
if not we have already had a reading for
Orient
17-23 and you just want to say that
there's no first ratings
there are no first readings and no
tabled ordinances excellent all right
let's move to the committee reports this
Bible servants
um we um we do have next week
um uh esac meeting as well as a tree in
public garden once Tuesday night one's
Wednesday night
um since our last meeting the
um you know this is a crazy crazy
um time of year for Bexley celebration
and events and my team is working really
hard
um we did have a fabulous jazz in the
park already
um I uh thank you Monique and Jen for
volunteering at that I know that I saw
cm and
um Troy opening the um beautiful new
um
features at that Park that was wonderful
and the Chamber was there doing their
thing as they always do so
um we had some fabulous food trucks
Talent night uh was two Friday nights
ago and if Talent night is question mark
does Bexley have talent uh yes we do
indeed
um so that that was fabulous it was a
lot of fun having done overly as part of
the judging for that so there's lots of
departments I I'm hoping that you're
realizing there's all these different
people that make all these things these
things happen including uh Ben Kessler
on the um sound and Mike price cleaning
up the Messes in our bounce houses
um porch Fest was lots of fun
um those of us who volunteered at that
that was that was a hoot please come to
puddle for pancakes this Saturday
um you can you can pedal on up and sign
up to do that I get to be a guest reader
um so I'm looking forward to that
um I just picked out my bicycle book to
be reading so come join us
um and Thursdays please know that we are
trying really hard uh the Bexley
Bloomers are trying really hard to help
our service department and help our rec
department take care of our Parks so um
it is the Bloomer's goal to get a
thousand hours so if you might be free
at nine o'clock on any given Thursday or
thereafter I think they work till noon
and you can give an hour I am going to
make it my personal goal to do 10 hours
I am a fifth of the way there so
please come it really is a lot of fun so
um next main event is uh July 27th next
Jazz the park is the 25th love to see
some of your faces and your families
there
and a report
thank you Parks and Rec Miss sod
thank you
um so as Mike and Jen kind of had the
conversation a little bit earlier on our
next council meeting Tuesday June 27th
we will be hearing from Kristen
our director of the Bexley seniors and
she will be giving us the pilot study
um analysis so um be looking for that
and I'm hoping we can also include that
which
on the Bexley blast mayor Kessler that
works
yes thank you and then
um as lorianne spoke to the petal for
pancakes Adam and I will be out there
registering the little ones at 7 30
um this coming Saturday uh Hayden and I
know a lot of young adults that are
going to be out there helping volunteer
and if your kids I don't know if
Franny's ready for the bike yet but
maybe the the pedal I don't know the
pedal the pedal bike but um
yeah or just the pancake just the
pancake but I I think little huttie
we're gonna try and get him out there
with some friends
um it's a great event it's really great
to have it back it was changed a little
bit during the pandemic and um it's very
well attended the community loves it and
um it's all obviously always for great
cause
um excited to be writing this year with
my 14 year old once you're 14 you can
ride for pelotonia so Hayden's gonna
jump on the bike with me so it's also
great to have him
um included in events like this and
knowing what that means and giving back
the jerseys just came in this past week
I hope he wears it
I will be in mine
um end of report
all right Finance Ms Lemke
um just one quick reminder our next
meeting I think is our last meeting
before our July recess and then when we
come back in August we're going to
shortly be turning to budget season
please consider using the next couple
weeks and months and maybe while you're
reviewing the draft strategic plan start
thinking about some financial goals and
things that are important to you from a
budget perspective for upcoming budget
season
and a report excellent uh safety Mr
Marcelino health and safety uh in
regards to health and safety for the
state of Ohio I'd like to uh draw
attention to issue one we only have two
meetings left before we will be asked to
vote on the matter
um on August 8th as was discussed we
just moved our next meeting it sounds
like to August 15th most likely so we
won't have much time to talk about this
but if you haven't read about it they're
trying to shred majority rule throughout
the state of Ohio uh requiring 60
percent to pass any Constitutional
Amendment
um here in the state that requires all
88 counties to participate
um I'm just thinking about all 88
counties in Ohio uh whether they reflect
our community and frankly what we want
to see throughout the state I'm willing
to go on a limb on my own accord not a
city as a city's official position but
my own uh position as an elected
official that I don't want Guernsey
County deciding what happens in the
State uh Statewide and blocking in that
we believe might be beneficial to the
the rest of the state so I encourage all
people to educate themselves wherever
you fall so be it I will be voting no
and I strongly encourage anybody and the
thousands of listeners out there to do
the same
um but I just wanted to bring that to
everybody's attentions I do think it has
a lot to do with the health and safety
of many people in our state uh and I
think it's important to pay attention to
what's going on so we have uh what just
about less than two months before that
vote takes place and so please educate
yourself if your neighbors your friends
and make sure people are paying
attention to what's happening end of
report thank you thank you Sam strategic
Ms Robinson
thank you Sam for that reminder that
it's really important and I too will be
joining you and voting no on issue one
um in terms of the strategy committee
um I do want to announce that the Bexley
Historical Society has a brand new
president Stacy Grossman who is
literally involved in absolutely
everything the city does is the new uh
president of the Bexley Historical
Society so if you have if you run into
her please give her a big
congratulations she's got some big shoes
to fill but I am 100 certain she's going
to do a great job
um I do want to just do a reminder for
Juneteenth I know the mayor mentioned it
in his
um his report
Monday June 19th six to eight at the
shelter house bring a side dish bring
your friends it's really going to be a
great celebration so come on down I also
want to say for those of you who are
doing things outside of Bexley remember
that this Saturday is Columbus Pride
there'll be a lot of people around all
over the place um so just uh make sure
if you're traveling you are aware that
there will be some some places closed
down and and might be a little hard to
travel from one place to the next but we
will be going from Pride to the Bexley
dog park opening in all of our pride
fabulousness so you will definitely be
seeing us with one dog I'll be proud
bandanas yes
um yeah not Apollo so anyway end of
report
thank you Jen zoning and development Mr
Klingler
um
and they just had 114 graduates earned
over 33 million dollars
College scholarships
meeting today that group will continue
to meet once a month for the foreseeable
future
the next is that meeting is June 22nd
the next ARB meeting is July 13th and
then the landing strategy commission 2.0
we had well attended and um provoking
provocative meeting last night was our
opening meeting we have
found many wonderful intelligence
creative dot dot promoting residents
that are a part of that
I thank them for their committing to our
community
moving forward will be meeting once a
month
thank you at this time we invite public
comments from the audience
uh yes
I would like to report if when the time
is right about my research on our
meeting calendar
um all right turn your microphone on
okay my research suggests from 22 22
20.01 that the yearly meeting calendar
does dictate when we meet for regular
meetings okay and therefore I would
suggest if Melanie concurs that you take
a just a Voice vote to amend the meeting
calendar to change August 8th to the
15th all right uh I move that we um
uh adjust the meeting calendar amend the
meeting calendar to change the August
8th meeting
to August 15th
um that's not good is that right yes
okay uh all in favor please say aye
aye all opposed same sign
I need a second for the voicemail yeah
typically maybe I don't know
Klingler seconded it
that was Matt all right that works
you guys are you good we're good
um
I was like what is happening in Bexley
anyway
it's Robert we'll we'll be here I'll
take a motion to adjourn and uh I will
sucker that motion all in favor say aye
aye opposed save sign or adjournal thank
you
um