progress. All
right. Welcome everyone to the April
8th, 2025 Beexsley City Council meeting.
I'm calling this meeting to order. If
there's anyone in attendance tonight
that has a speaker slip to turn in at
this time, uh, please do so to Auditor
McPeek. And with that, Mr. McPeek, would
you please call the role? Mr. Mercelino,
Mr. Hurley, present. Miss Fable, I'm
here. Miss Sy here. Miss Lky here. Mr.
Markham, present. And Mr. Silverman
here. Please join me for the pledge of
allegiance.
Ice to the
flag of
to the for it stands. One nation under
God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for
all. Okay, we do not have any special
guests tonight. Um, Mr. McPeek, do we
have any speaker slips for agenda item
number five?
Uh, we do not. We have just one for
resolution 225. Okay, great. Uh, moving
on to the president's report. I had a
few quick
announcements. Um, council, April is
Earth Month. Uh, Elizabeth Elman has
done a great job of putting out events
and activities that we could all
participate in to celebrate our planet
and to take action to protect her.
Please sign up if you have not already.
Um, I wanted to congratulate Mr.
Clingler and the mayor on a great Coatch
grand opening. Very well
attended. Such a big success. Um, so
thank you for all your hard work in
making that happen. Um, and council, you
may have noticed that once a month we
agreed that we were going to do a uh
council article in the blast. Uh, Miss
Fible submitted hers and, uh, that went
out end of March. Mr. Markham, you are
up next at the end of April um, for
safety issues. So, I just wanted to send
out that reminder. If anyone wants to
switch or you can't do it, just let me
know. We'll we'll work it out. And that
is the president's report. Uh, Mr. city
attorney. First of all, I want to thank
you, city council, for the grandpa's
sidekick uh outfit for my new
granddaughter. I appreciate it very
much, and she certainly will be wearing
it, at least around me. Um, one thing
just I want to share with uh with city
council that is not directly on point,
but certainly hopeful and beneficial to
our fight about the tobacco issue. Um,
the United States Supreme Court
recently, just like two weeks ago,
issued a unanimous, unusual decision
upholding the FDA's authority to
regulate tobac flavored tobacco. Um,
it's more the case is way more nuanced
than that, of course, but as you know,
we have a case pending that we're, you
know, riding the coattails of Columbus
somewhat um a lot um in the 10th
district court of appeals on the local
government issue.
we're concerning regulating uh the the
tobacco. So hopefully that Supreme Court
case at least I'm guessing it'll make
its way in front of the judges and
hopefully have some positive influence.
So that is it for me. Thank you. Any
questions for our city attorney?
All right, Mr. Auditor, over to you. Um
I just always like to share this on a
monthly basis when I get our investment
report. So, um, I tempted to make this a
pop quiz just to have fun with it, but
with that being said, I'm not going to
do that today. But we've got, as a
reminder, we have about $22.5 million
sitting with our, um, investment
advisors earning us $74,000 a month. So,
um, lots of great work that our
administration does. Um, but we've got
pile pile of money sitting with our
investment advisor earning about 74K a
month. I just always want to share that
with this team. And um that's really it.
Um the only other thing I was going to
mention is that um I I do continue and
I've referenced it in the past that um
intend to do a bank RFP just to make
certain that the city's getting um you
know the best uh you know market um
service for our banking services. I put
that on pause as we stabilize some
things within the finance department,
but I'm optimistic that we'll release
that here in the next um two to three
weeks.
Any questions for Mr. McPeek? I had one.
How often do we um re-evaluate our
investments to make sure that we are
being smart and thoughtful? Um so you
know we have been using the same
investment advisor for gosh probably
five to eight years. Um stay in touch
with other investment advisors in this
space. Um we've not done a you know we
did a light evaluation
um of of alternative services within the
past probably year. Um uh you know so we
could certainly review it but the types
of investments that we can investment
are very restricted. Um so we feel like
we're getting good service right now and
then on a monthly basis again we I get
updates and they you know and and
confirm their recommendations on what
we're investing in to ensure that we've
got a balanced portfolio. Thank you for
staying on top of
that. All right, moving on to
administrative updates. Mayor, over to
you.
Thank you, Madam
President. One moment while I pull up
those
updates.
Um, my update is in my written update is
in front of you. Um, I do want to
highlight a couple things. Sorry, I'm
trying to do like too many things here
at once. First off, I want to thank Matt
McPeek for making sure I knew this news
because it is so r it is not often
shared with me by the person who
deserves the credit for it. But
today, Natalie D. Richards, our own
Natalie Vodder, launched Survive this
Safari. Two class for
Natalie. So, we got a book launch day,
which was she was very koi about. So,
thank you,
Matt. Um, you want to talk a book,
Natalie?
No. Sure. We'll have you here later as a
visiting author. Um, uh, a couple things
I want to highlight on my written
report.
Um there is a there are a series of
dates from uh Jeff Speck for the Speck
and Dempsey kickoff of the commercial uh
design guidelines project uh in which
council members are um warmly invited to
attend and be a part of uh including
some workshops. Uh Jeff will be at our
council meeting just introducing himself
at the next council meeting um and then
the keynote at the direct soul. Uh, so
take a look at that. If you're
interested in attending any of those, if
you uh obviously not the council
meeting, you don't need to RSVP for
that. But the other ones, if you could
let Megan know uh so that she has a
count, that would be awesome. Um, also
uh did we talk about the remote meeting
changes to the law? I don't think we
did. I should have brought it up, but go
ahead. So, no, that's fine. Um, we have
the state of Ohio passed uh House Bill
257, which actually goes into effect
like tomorrow. Okay. like very soon
tomorrow. Um, and that house bill allows
for true remote participation of public
meetings except for uh elected bodies.
So council doesn't count, board of
education doesn't count, but our boards,
our other boards and committees can meet
uh remotely if they have a policy that
they've adopted. Um, so we're looking at
that closely. We're looking at what that
means and what policies might apply.
Some of our boards we don't think for
example zoning boards we should do that
with um but there are some lesser known
you know maybe it's records commission
or tax and senate review committee where
we could see um you know remote meeting
being a possibility. The CIC for example
uh discussed uh very briefly that some
of the members who maybe are on vacation
in the winter more often um would have
the ability to at least phone in and
participate materially. Uh but if they
were in the in in the area they would be
required to be in person. So there's
kind of a like a hybrid with a policy.
So that's the sort of stuff that we're
talking about. By the way, if I could
just sorry to interrupt, but the records
commission won't work because there's
two elected officials as members of that
commission. Well, that's one of the
things we need to study is I think if
you're an elected official by virt Yeah.
Yeah. I think it needs to be studied a
little bit more because that would also
apply to the CIC. Then
um we have as Monique mentioned a ton of
Earth and Arbor month events. There's a
full list at back.org/earth /earth and
arbor. But there are a couple that I
highlight here in my update which
includes um a giants rising filming next
week at the Drexel Arbor Day author
visit with Amy Stewart and the Jeff Spec
keynote. And we are doing our Robert
Frost
Birchwalk dedication tree planting on
Arbor Day on April 25th. Uh where our
Beexley's own Maggie Smith will be
reading the poem and uh we'll be
planting a birch tree. Several of our
birch trees got n gnawed into
non-existence by a beaver last year. So,
uh we've been told the beaver has moved
on, so we're okay to replace some of
those trees. Um I've also included in uh
your packet the we had circulated the
RFP, but we've worked some more on what
the commercial design guidelines process
will look like.
Um and uh council member Sam Marcelino
will be the designate to the member the
committee as the zoning and development
chair and we're looking for designs from
other three boards or commissions that
talked about that to steer through this.
As a reminder, this is essentially our
update of the 20 the 2003 Main Street
design guidelines um which have served
us very well, but uh there's some
several items that are in need of a
refresh. So, uh, that concludes my
report. I'm happy to answer answer any
questions. Okay, we are moving on to
who's up next, Mike
Price. That's a better way to do it.
Thank you, Mayor. Uh, a couple quick
highlights. Um, the Bloomers are are
getting geared up for the start of the
season. Uh, they will start on Thursday.
I think it's May 1st. Uh so everyone
should keep an eye out for invitations
to join the bloomers as celebrity uh
bloomers during the course of this year.
Again, we really appreciate all all the
work that they have done. Um the egg
dash uh will be in a couple weekends,
Saturday, April 19th at 12:00 noon. Uh
be there on time if you want to get any
eggs, but please join us at Jeffrey Park
for that. Um, we did receive notice uh
from the community foundation uh that
received a $75,000 grant for lighting
for the pickleball tennis courts. So
that is is very exciting. Uh the bulk of
that money is coming from the Ryan
Solomon Memorial Fund um who's been uh
very supportive of a lot of things we've
done including our Jeffrey Summer Camp
program. Uh so we really appreciate all
of uh their support. Um and so we are
actively working. Uh thank you to Matt
Klinger for his work on uh getting an
RFP together uh to go out to solicit
quotes for for lighting for the the
courts. So that'll that's in process. Um
our summer activity brochure should be
delivered this week. Um and uh
registration will open up uh April 22nd
for residents and April 24th for
non-residents. So keep an eye out for
that. a lot of obviously great fun
activities. Um and
um couple last but not least u but then
happy to answer any questions. Just we
we received an update we met with the
community builders regarding the senior
center uh uh on on North Cassie and that
project. Uh we do have a a more updated
timeline uh for what that looks like. We
are going to be vacating the space by
September 1st. Um, and we're
anticipating that that project will take
upwards of uh two years, so roughly fall
of 2027. Um, so we we are actively uh
searching for a potential temporary
space for the senior center to operate
out of for the next two years. So if you
uh come across any ideas uh any place
that seem like a good fit, please pass
them along and we will uh again continue
to work to find a a good temporary
location for that. But other than that,
happy to answer any questions.
Uh, just historically, I'm curious like
the number of eggs
like
45 like Yes. What has that been? That's
in That's in the ballpark we've had. Is
that a new record or is that No, it's
it's right around where we've been doing
the last five five or so years. Do you
uh those are not all golden eggs? No. Do
you keep historical um records on the
the start and stop times of the uh egg?
I can I can safely say it is more than
one minute and less than four minutes.
Okay.
Sorry. Sorry, Jess. I'm sorry, Mike. I I
wanted to just also talk about the egg
dash. Um, I think back to when Espen and
Hayden and Gibson and Ila were little
before we had our youngest and it was
really the community that was there and
then over the years we've watched it
become a destination for Columbus and
the amount of people who come from all
different communities. You also were
sustainable before we were really
pushing sustainability in the community
by reusing the eggs. So, I just want to
give a shout out to uh Mike and the park
and rec staff for taking something and
making it equitable before we were
talking about that and sustainable
before we were talking about that. Um
it's really come a long way and when I
see that number up there, it's it's wild
to see 4,500 eggs and our small little
Beexsley. Um but it's really awesome to
have all these people come in from other
communities and make that a destination
at Jeffrey Mansion. So, great work.
Thank you. Appreciate it.
U Thank you. In regards to the senior
center, how large of a radius are you
exploring for a rental space for the
temporary place? Are we looking at
bordering neighborhoods or we are we
looking exclusively in Beexley? We are
we are not looking exclusively in
Beexley. Obviously, if we can find a
space in Beexley, that would be our
priority, but it's not being limited to
Beexley proper. So, yeah. So, do you
have like a radius in mind where you're
exploring? Um, I know the population
traveling is a concern. We don't
necessarily have a, you know, a specific
radius that we're looking at, but we are
we are actively looking at space uh
around in and outside of Beexley.
Obviously, there there's a lot of um uh
things that we're looking for in the
space. So, if we can find the right
space, but it happens to be a little
further away, then we'll take that in
consideration. Likewise, if we find
something closer, but it doesn't have
maybe all the bells and whistles that we
want, we'll take that in consideration
as well. And last question, do you have
like a square footage idea of what
you're looking for minimum? Yeah, it's a
good question. Uh, I mean, I think we
we'd love to have
somewhere north of 1500 square feet if
possible, I think, is is probably a good
number. Um, again, there's a lot of uh a
lot of factors that we'll look at. You
know, parking is obviously one of them.
And you know, if we found a space that
maybe had a little bit less but was
better in parking and had some other
things that we rifted in, then you know,
we'd probably move on that. But
somewhere near 1500 feet or more would
be ideal. And that also depends on if
it's part of like a shared facility.
Like we looked at a space in Trinity,
which I think is a pretty good lead.
It's roughly the size of this room,
which would be fine if all those other
common amenities were available. So it
wouldn't have to be super big if it was
part of a common structure. Any other
questions for Mike? All right, who's up
next? The chief.
Chief. See that we have your update and
an IT three-year strategic plan. Yes,
sir. Bring it. So, good evening. Um,
wanted to obviously share our report.
Um, two big highlights that are not
captured, but I do want to verbally talk
about um I know the recent council
session, um, Dr. fine had presented and
a lot of questions came up about just um
a school resource officer building a
relationship. We have and continue to be
in um positive communication with our
school district and um very happy to
share that we're going to enter into a
partnership that has very specific
programming where we'll be able to get
in and really conduct some very
structured engagement and partnership
with our schools. So, I'm very excited
about that. Um, number two, um, the
other thing that's not captured, um, but
it's shared in our social media is our
second annual cops and kids day. That's
going to be on May 3rd. Um, but happy to
answer any questions specific to the
report and as the mayor shared as an
addendum. U, one of the things that, um,
Mr. McPeek has asked and really
challenged us has been it uh, from cyber
security to just a number of things. So,
we've been very intentional in 2025 to
provide quarterly updates. We've also
really um taken a a strong look at
developing that three-year strategic
plan. Um we'll be doing quarterly
updates. We're also going to bring in um
Eric um closer to budget time. I think
it's important to be able to answer a
lot of the tough questions that are
specific that impact the city. And so,
we're staying consistent with that
promise.
Question.
Just wanted to thank you for choosing a
Saturday for that cops and kids day. I
know last year you live and learn. Yes,
sir. Last year was during a a school
week. So, I'm hopeful that more of those
kids will be able to enjoy that
experience. It was an absolute
phenomenal thing put on and um I think
it's going to be well received on that
weekend. So, I'd love to hear the
feedback after it. Okay.
Yes, Chief. I wanted to thank you for
putting that three-year strategic plan
um together. I know uh when we met a few
weeks ago or a few months ago with
Auditor MCP, myself and some other
folks, we had asked for that. Um I will
thoroughly read it and I'll I'll get
back to you with any questions I have.
Thank you. Yes, ma'am.
Yes, sir.
Thanks, Mayor.
Um, while you're pulling my plan up,
I'll just go over a couple highlights.
You'll notice, um, you may have noticed
we have some traffic pattern changes out
here on Main Street. That's only that
was only yesterday and today. The normal
traffic should resume tomorrow. And that
was so they could get, you might notice
the new fixture we have out here, the
large tower crane. um that will be there
probably about two six weeks to two
months and then they'll move it to this
back part of the site to start working
uh back here. Um on April 28th, uh the
the the Mason Continental's Mason will
start putting up scaffolding on the
sidewalk really close to uh the parking
lot here. So we we'll have to shut down
the the north sidewalk on the street for
about um six to six weeks to eight
weeks. Um, while they do that,
um, what else? 420 North Cassie and 2300
Livingston uh received their
certificates of appropriateness from
BZAP as well as um an approval from the
Tree and Public Garden Commission. So,
as far as um all of the formal approvals
prior to uh their building permit, um
they have passed all of those. We just
await their construction drawings. And
then I know all of you um spoke a lot
about code enforcement at the end of
last year. Um we're we now have a really
good process in place uh for follow-ups
uh follow-up inspections on um violation
letters and and we're really hitting it
hard this
spring. I'll take any questions. I want
to just uh shout out to you Matt. both
the code enforcement process you've been
working through has been uh really great
to see you focus on that and and the
excellent work that you're doing and the
new position that council authorized
with Colleen has been seen great
progress and um Matt has also been the
lead on on putting the city hall
renovation project to bid yeah which has
been super helpful so that is now out to
bid um and we are expecting to start
probably in the next two months with
construction that will include some
security enhancements here for council
chambers, upgraded I AV as part of our
council chambers, but most critically
for us, well, not most, also critically
for us, uh that additional office space
in the back to um handle our uh our uh
the employees that we have on site. In
order
to rearrange what we have going on
during the construction, we also
snatched up one of the uh office spaces
in Cohatch for Megan Meyer to be working
out of during the process. So, primarily
Megan Meyer. Um that'll free up those
because right now we have people working
in that back nook that is going to be
under construction. So,
um that was in my report, but I want to
make sure to highlight that. Any
questions for Matt?
Matt, I know it's outside of our
jurisdiction, the North Cassidy project
that the city of Columbus is doing right
now, but I don't know if there's any way
we could give the community updates on
that project just because I'm noticing
traffic from 7:30 a.m. till, you know,
6:00 at night. Very congest, you know, I
know you know, chief, because you take
that route. We see each other on that
route a lot. Um, but if we could give an
update to the city because on, you know,
how much longer that project, any update
we can give, how much longer that
project will be, what we can expect as
far as when they're working, when they
close that down. So, it helps redirect
um community members to exit the
neighborhood another way. Yeah, sure.
Absolutely. I'll reach out to City of
Columbus and see um who I can't um get
to. I've got it. I've got the contact.
Yeah. Thank you. Yeah, I was hopeful we
were, you know, ending soon, but it
seems like it's going to keep going for
a little bit. Yeah, I do know what
they've been doing is is the um upfront
work with um some piping, some gas
piping and some other things before they
start the road work and then it's a
substantial project. So, uh yeah, we'll
we'll get that for you. You're going to
want to avoid that for a while. Yeah.
Yeah, I'm aware, but I keep forgetting.
Yeah, you know, Nelson, but yeah, we
we'll work on getting a timeline out.
Thank you. Yeah, any questions for Matt?
All right, one more thing I forgot to
highlight on my update, which is that um
the finance department has hired a
part-time payroll clerk. Uh so that
position starts on Monday of next week,
and we're really excited to have that uh
that function back up and up and
running. So, wanted you guys to have
that update. And that concludes our
report. Thank you, Madam President.
Thank you, mayor. Uh, Mr. Fischell, over
to you for consent agenda.
On the consent agenda, we have the
meeting minutes from March 25th, 2025.
All right, council, are there any
questions or comments on the consent
agenda? All right, seeing none, I move
to adopt the consent agenda. Could I
please get a second? Second. Second by
Mr. Marcelino. Uh, any comments from the
public? Seeing none, Mr. McPeek, would
you please call the role? Miss Fable,
yes. Mr. Silverman, yes. Mr. Markham,
yes. Mr. Hurley, yes. Marcelino, Miss
Sad, yes. And Miss Lanky, yes. Agenda
pass. Wasn't
all right. Now, uh, third reading of
ordinance 09-25 to approve the
collective bargaining agreements between
the Fraternal Order of Police, Ohio
Labor Council, Inc., and the city of
Beexley. introduced by Miss Sad.
Thank you, Mr. Fishell. Um, so we have
had um good dialect regarding this
ordinance. We're on our third reading
tonight. This ordinance has to do with
the dispatcher and animal control um who
are represented by our FOP. Um it was
negotiations and changes to the
contracts for these two entities. Um the
contract goes from 2024, it'll actually
be retroactive um to
2027. The changes that we have in here
um that are updated are the animal
control. We've reviewed the dispatcher,
but the animal control information is in
there as well. Mr. Official, I don't
know if you there's anything you want to
elaborate on with animal control. Animal
control is identical to the dispatch
agreement with one exception. The
dispatch agreement has some detailed
language about vacations and those
things because a 247 operation with a
oneperson shop that the animal control
officer is. We just didn't need that
language. So that's the only difference.
Any questions on ordinance
9-25 from council? You want to show the
proposed amendments just so Yeah. So,
would you like me to show the proposed
amendments? I would love that. Thank
you, Mayor. So, the proposed amendments
to my understanding are that we added
the letter S to
agreement and we added animal control
officers in the recital.
Yeah.
I had a question though. On section one,
you reference an exhibit A, but on the
agenda, you have two exhibit
A's. Does that matter? One's for
dispatchers, one's for animal. It
doesn't really matter from a legal
standpoint, but you're right. One is one
is the dispatch contract and one is the
animal control officer contract. So
there two there's a word file and a PDF
file. They are distinct and they are
both a part of exhibit A. Is there any
like just a quick word smith you want to
do to section one if we're going to uh
amend it anyway or could you one a and
one B? You can if you want to.
Is that okay?
There. Problem
solved. All right. Um, Miss Sod, do you
have a motion to amend ordinance 9-25 as
shown on the screen? Move to um amend
ordinance- 925. Right. Motion to amend.
by Miss Sad. Is there a second? Second.
Second by Mr. Marcelino. Any comments
from council on the motion to amend? Mr.
McPeek, would you please call the role
on the motion to amend, please? Miss
Lampy, yes. Mr. Hurley, yes. Mr.
Markham, yes. Mr. Marcelino, yes. Mr.
Silverman, yes. Miss, yes. And Miss
Fible, yes.
Uh, motion to amend ordinance passes.
Miss, do you have a motion to adopt
amended ordinance 9-25? I move to adopt
um amended ordinance 9-25. Right. Motion
by MSD. Is there a second? Second.
Second by Mr. Marcelino. Any further
discussion from council? Uh this is a
third reading. Any comments from the
public? Seeing none, Mr. McPeek, would
you please call the role? Marcelino?
Yes. Mr. Silverman?
Yes. Mr. Markham? Yes, Miss Fel. Yes,
Mr. Hurley. Yes, Miss Lampy. Yes, Miss
Sad. Yes. Amended ordinance 925 passes.
All right, I guess we are moving on to
first reading since we have no second
readings. We have a first reading of
ordinance 11-25 amending the designated
outdoor refreshment area in a spe spe
spe spe spe spe spe spe spe spe specified portion of the main street
district and enacting regulations and
declaring an emergency introduced by Ms.
Lami.
Thank you uh council for for those of
you who were on council quite some time
ago we um we adopted a DORA uh several
years ago um Mr. Clingler was the uh
instigator/leader for the DORA and at
times as needed we have expanded it when
we've had an application that needs to
be amended. Uh recently there's been an
amended application submitted to council
uh that was sent out to council um I
believe earlier today uh and this
ordinance is proposing to expand the
DORA to include one additional block um
on East Main Street. Mayor, do you want
to show that specific block relative to
the door or maybe walk us through the
amended application, please? Yes. So,
um, open it up. One
moment. In your packet, uh, there is a
the door application, uh, which is an
it's an amended application from, uh,
2021. Uh, much of the language is the
same.
I would love it if anybody notices we do
have a photo of actual Dora cups that's
new to this application. Um but if
anybody notices
um anything inconsistent like may we
tried to make sure that all the
businesses were updated correctly but if
there's anything that jumps out at you
uh please let me know. Seems like Alex
already has noticed something so we'll
get there in a second. Um the map the
difference in this application is that
the map now incorporates these parcels
uh to the far east side of the district
um between uh between Montro and
Cassingham. Previously the map had ended
right here at Cassingham on the south
side. So that is at the request of the
um business the lion that operates in uh
one of these parcels over over in the
shopping center. And so uh at their
request we are submitting this
application to amend the DORA to expand
further east. Nothing else has changed
in the uh proposed application. It's
just a a geographical switch. So um
happy to answer any questions. Alex
really has a question that he would like
to ask. I note, Madam President, Mr.
Silverman,
not saying whether I support it or not.
I'm more curious if there is any legal
issues with Madora extending to the
border of a school.
Not that I'm aware of. Cool. I mean, I'm
happy to double check that, but I just I
just I mean, I know that the very end of
that, I'm assuming, is
um Montrose and then the school is just
is right right over that street. So, I
just wanted to check to make sure there
was no feed feet requirement from Adora
to a active school if there was a legal
issue there. Pretty sure we know there's
not from the previous discussion, but we
can double check. I'll double check. I
don't recall that. I don't think there
is. There is for dispensaries and those
kinds of things, but I don't think it's
included in the door. It's a good
question because I'm surprised it's not,
but I'll double check. We looked at it
last time because it was part of the
original actually the original
application had this block and then we
concluded that because at the time there
were no permit holders in there, we just
left it out. Right. I'm pretty sure
you're right about that, but it's worth
double checking. Great question, Mr.
Silver. Mr. Hurley, actually a comment.
I I had a similar thought and actually
read section 4301.82 of the revised code
and I did not see any restrictions on
proximity to schools. Um I had a
question. I don't think this is going to
be issue for us but uh the the DORA with
this extension will not exceed 320
contiguous acres. Correct. That's I
think we're well below that I think.
Okay. Okay. Um that's all I have. Great.
I had two comments. Um the first is for
our city attorney. Um is there a time
restriction on when we need to hold the
public hearing referenced in the
ordinance? There is needs to be heard
within 30 days and not later than or
that's passage is within 30 not later
than 90. The timeline that we have laid
out is in keeping with the timeline in
the OC. And so the DORA application
itself references a proposed hearing
date of
um
shoot. It's written in here
uh May 13th. Okay. It's needs to be held
within 45 days of receiving the
petition. Okay. We will anticipate that
we're proposing that we publish I'm
sorry notice of that in the dispatch
next next week. and the week after.
Sounds good. Did you have a follow-up to
that? I did have I had another question.
Um, when did we create the door
originally? April 21st, 2021. And so
therefore, in anticipation of your next
question, the ordinance itself
references that the five-year review
process will be on April of 2026.
Could I read your mind, Councilman
Hurley? Good question, Mr. Hurley. Uh,
the other thing I wanted to add is I
have a comment. The title says it's
declaring an emergency, but I don't see
an emergency language in there. So, if
we want to keep that on the list of
potential amendments um right before
we're going to adopt it, or is that
not is that not does it not need to have
emergency language? I took out the
emergency language that the old one had,
but I didn't forgot it was in the title.
Okay. I mean, it doesn't didn't matter
then, right? that it could be referendum
within 30 days of the of the passage or
signing of the mayor. So, but we would
should probably technically amend that
ordinance not to declare the emergency
in the title. Right. That's right. We
should or decide that we want to declare
an emergency. We'll keep we'll keep it
on the list of of of things to to tweak.
That was just something I noticed. Um
any other comments, questions from
council? Uh Mr. McPeek, do we have any
speaker slips on this one? We do not.
Okay. Moving on. All right, we have a
first reading of resolution
02-25 to support the linkus bus rapid
transit route on Main Street, including
the planned median station on Main
Street west of Pleasant Ridge Avenue
introduced by Ms. Lami.
Okay, council. Um, I wanted to to be
forthcoming about something. I am listed
as the sponsor of resolution
2-25. Uh but that is because uh the
substance doesn't squarely fit with any
any of the other council committees. Uh
which is why uh it's myself as the
president introducing this. And quite
candidly, I am undecided whether or not
I'm going to support this or be against
it. I'm going to uh keep an open mind.
I'm going to keep doing my due diligence
and factf finding and I encourage all of
you to do that as well. I would also
love to hear from residents on what they
think. Um, but I just wanted to be
candid in case there's folks thinking
that um that uh I I wrote this or that I
have already adopted a position because
I truly have not. Uh for the past couple
months um a small council working group
of uh council member Sad Marcelino and
myself have gotten together with the
mayor with Megan Meyer and at times uh
various representatives
of Kota link us maybe some other
community partners in that. And we've
talked about um not only the levy that
was successfully voted upon by Beexley
voters this past fall, but we also
talked about um if implemented what this
could mean for Beexley. I want to make
it clear to folks in this room and
whoever is listening that this
resolution is not whether or not council
supports um uh a bus rapid transit
system in Franklin County. That is not
what it means. the the voters have
already voted that there will be a bus
rapid transit line coming down East Main
Street. So that's not what this
resolution addresses. What it addresses
is whether or not there is going to be a
BRT stop in Beexley and if so, where is
the best location for that stop to be?
So that's the kind of issue and um and
question that's being presented here um
going forward. I've asked the mayor
tonight to give council a brief overview
of uh BRT and link us and he's got that
prepared and then I know at our our next
council meeting um I believe he has
invited Kota to come to our meeting to
answer your questions um at that time.
So that being said, Ben, do you want to
walk us through your presentation? Okay,
you
um hold
on. Oh, there we go.
Okay, it worked. Okay. Um so the yeah,
the intent is as as uh President Lanky
said to give a brief kind of broad
overview. Many of you will already be
very familiar with everything we're
talking about tonight. Um, and then I'm
happy to answer any questions. Uh, if
it's beyond my anything I'm aware of,
we'll make sure that we refer it to Kota
or Megan Meyer, who who she and I have
both been working consistently with the
KOD team, uh, through the current design
process. Um, just again, this is going
to be very fast. So, uh, we all know
that the the central Ohio region is
growing and growing rapidly. um that's
only going to escalate with some of the
most recent employment information
coming out with Anderell and um you know
the delayed intel and some of those
things happening. So these projections
actually were crafted prior to those
announcements. But we perpsy are
expecting over 700,000 new residents uh
by 2050 which um is going to lead to all
sorts of issues in the region. Um those
issues have already started. Uh uh we're
having a housing shortage which is
increasing the price of cost of housing
to our residents and the affordability
of transit has been uh increasingly
problematic especially for lower income
families. Um it costs more to buy a car
today than it ever has. That's only
getting worse right in front of our
eyes. And so the need for quality
transit in central Ohio is long
overdue. Oh, there's an arrow that moved
there. Oh, look at that. Um so how will
Kota link us? Um Kota is re uh is has
submitted to the voters and it has
passed as Mon'nique mentioned five new
rapid transit quarters which will mean a
45% increase in their service hours. But
it's a very different type of service
than they have had uh to date. with
rapid transit. Um the goal with those
bus rapid transit uh vehicles is to
match the speed at which a passenger
vehicle could go down a corridor. And it
does that via uh many different means.
Um but uh some of it is is where the
stops are located. um the physical um
higher elevation of the bus and the and
the platforms themselves and the ability
for the buses to control signals and to
then get a green signal to go through
their route. Also part of link us um and
part of at least the 0.5% income tax
sorry sales tax. You can tell I
rehearsed this uh is 500 plus miles of
bikeways, sidewalks and greenways that
they're calling transit supported
infrastructure. Really good news for us.
You guys know this. We had three
projects submitted for the first round
of transit supported infrastructure
which are funded now. One of them is
making the main street bridge better for
for cyclists and pedestrians on Maine.
The other is the comm corridor to to
link the three elementary schools in
Beexley with the safer street. And the
third is uh our contribution to the
Livingston Avenue project is being paid
for through uh TSI money. Also link us
is more affordable access. So, um, we'll
have those complete streets, roadway
improvements, but better quality transit
at a more more afford affordable price
for the region. This is a subwayesque
style map of the uh, corridors that are
being contemplated through link US. I
shouldn't say contemplated, designed
that are part of links. Uh, West Broad
and East Main are are the first ones off
the ground and Northwest is now
following in design.
The East Main BRT is currently conceived
and it's approaching 60% design. And
what that means is 60% of the details
are being worked out. But some of the
most deep basic details have already
been worked out such as proposed stops
in these different locations. And you
can see um you know you can count the
number of stops all the way out towards
Wagner Road on two hands practically. Um
so this is very different from the type
of bus service that you're used to
seeing. These stops are spaced out
further. Um there's anticipation that
that they will have they will spur
development around them and they're also
being placed to be around where
development is. So areas of greater
population density that would be best
served by these stops. When we last
presented this to council, I think that
we were contemplating a stop on uh at
Drexel and Maine. Um, one of the
outcomes of the council working
committee was studying a different
different locations and after and
actually it was this was conversation
was happening at the same time that we
were really getting into the weeds on
what it would mean to have a stop at
Drexal and Maine and uh because of
utility work the cost of Drexal and
Maine is much higher than Pleasant Ridge
and Maine with similar utility and I
think that we also was a location that
the council working group preferred uh
over Drexal and Maine. There's some real
advantages of Pleasant Ridge Main. We'll
get to that location here in a
second. To date, there's been a lot of
engagement around link us. Um, a lot of
it I think the early years of, you know,
2022 was sort of what is this thing
that's distilled around what it is that
we're talking about. There has been
additional engagement. Um, there's the
city administrative involvement which
has been ongoing. Um, and we do monthly
and bi-weekly planning meetings with uh,
link us and the city council working
group which has been meeting, you know,
one or two times a
month within our community. We've had
about seven different public workshops
around link us. Um, some of those were
sparsely attended. I'll be honest, some
were better attended than others. Um but
they have provided a great amount of
feedback to the link us uh team and to
us as we have interacted with link
us location being con considered at
Pleasant Ridge is being considered for v
variety of reasons. In general the
western portion of East Main Street has
a higher density of of development and a
future potential for more dense
development. Um that's due to primarily
geographical reasons. There's much
there's much deeper uh positioning of
the sites along that section of Main
Street. Um and because of that depth of
sight, there's the ability to have
greater density. Um that's why initially
Kota had looked at Drexel and Maine as a
really ideal location. Moving it a
little further east um gives us more
space on the side of the rideway,
specifically on the south side to work
with with associated amenities like
additional uh maybe covered bike parking
uh kind of multimodal options there. It
also has the same T intersection um
configuration as Drexal main which is
really helpful because in doing that you
get into a situation where there's uh
less traffic putting pressure on that
intersection easier for uh residents to
safely cross into the meeting area and
um there is less conflict with the buses
as they're stopping. So that is a really
nice feature of these two intersections
and it's an unusual feature. It just so
happens that we have them back to back
like this. This is a rendering of what
that station would look like in that
median. The work that would occur in the
area, the medians, which we have today
are about 8 feet wide. Uh where the bus
stops are along the East Main Street
route, they are 14t wide medians. And so
there would be a little bit of roadway
right widening right in that area. And
our ride ofway does accommodate it
without any sort of impact on buildings
or structures.
So, it's a it's a wider median. It has a
lot of um physical infrastructure to
provide a buffer between pedestrians and
traffic in the area. And the other thing
that we're anticipating as part of this
because this would occupy some space
that is currently filled with trees um
is that we would we would close the
median gap that it currently exists
between Drexel and Pleasant Ridge and do
additional infill median with more trees
which would provide for a better
interface anyway for the buses and um
bring back the trees more trees more
medians. where we are today. Um, this is
a rough timeline. In November, 68% it
was actually
67 or something. Beexley voters uh
supported the links initiative. It was
greater support than uh the overall
Franklin County vote.
Um, we're now nearing our 60% design. So
at 60% design, they're hoping to have
the rough layout of like where these
stations are located, what sort of
rideway needs to be looked at in terms
of making them possible. And then
between 60 and 100% they're taking that
baseline information and they're getting
deep in the weeds with infrastructure,
utilities,
um very specific drawings for those
locations. So at the end of the 60%
design frame, COD really wants to know
where those stations are going. When we
get to 100, we're going to get to the
real details of the
construction. Then for the step that the
city needs to take to actually allow
them to use our medians is a
right-of-way agreement of some sort.
That needs to be executed
before they start
construction. And so the resolution in
front of you
tonight isn't approving the agreement.
It's approving the concept of the
location so that we know in good faith
that we can move forward to work with
them on an agreement at some point in
time which we anticipate will occur
within the next year and a half. So our
timeline is still pretty protracted
before we get to the period of time when
we're talking about an actual agreement.
And then the construction
itself, this is not an exact window, but
it will be a small window in the overall
BRT construction where our meeting is
being installed. So we'll get installed,
they'll move on. We're not going to be
an installation for two years on Main
Street in Beexley. It'll be maybe a um I
think they said a 3 to six month
window. Um
the resolution that is before you
tonight is supporting in concept that we
are going to have a stop in Beexane
specifically at this location. And I'm
happy to answer some questions about why
this location and not others. If you
want to talk about specific places in
Beexsley, I'll do my best to um answer
those on the fly. Um but I know that we
literally looked at every single
intersection initially for different
locations uh before it was landed on as
as the best location.
I want to add um we could you know not
that anyone asked but I do want to add
this because I think it's important and
that is
that whether or not we are going to be
personally writing link as some of us um
transit is a very critical piece of this
future story for central Ohio. Um, we
cannot ensure good places to live and to
work for the majority of central Ohioans
without having a quality public transit
system. And I think we all know that has
fallen short of that for a variety of
reasons to do with simply the lower
density of our geographical footprint
and how much you're limited in those
sorts of contexts. But the most thriving
cities have really good public transit.
Um there has been a ton of thought
behind this project. I firmly believe
and I see that the new kota is not the
kota that we all grew up experiencing.
It's totally different leadership. We
were just talking last week with Kumi
Walker who's a kota board member back
resident. He's been on KOD board for six
years plus and um had a ton of insight
into the organization, a lot of
enthusiasm for this project. It has been
funded. It's happening. there will be
buser at on East Main Street. I think
it's incredibly important that Beexley
is a part of that story. Um, so as I
look at that, I see that we have not
only an amenity to bring to our
residents, to our visitors, the workers
in the city, the students at Capitol
University, but we also have a role to
play as a regional partner in making
sure that this is a really quality uh
piece of transit that's being added to
our community. I'm happy to answer any
questions if if you would like. Sounds
good. I think Mr. Silverman had a his
hand hand up first. Thank you, President
Lami. Um, I think I heard you right. You
said our current median at Pleasant
Ridge is 8 feet and the proposed median
for the Kota bus rapid transit stop
would be 14 ft. Yeah, I should clarify
the lane width is 10 feet. So, it's a 4
foot lane width increase and it's being
borne by a two feet foot increase to the
north and south. So it'll flange a
little bit in that one section. So then
that kind of goes to the question I had
is um you said that there' be some there
would be some road widening in that
area. So would we be taking from the
current sidewalk and widening the street
north and south to accommodate that
increased dimensions for the the stop in
the middle? I guess if if you could help
highlight that visually for one of the
future meetings, that would be helpful
to just see the impact if we built a
wider median bus stop and how it would
affect the street because we already
have a y a condensed main street
compared to the rest of the communities
around us. So, um I would love to see a
visualization of of that process if we
move forward with Pleasant Ridge. Yeah,
that's spot on. We do have a we do have
a more condensed uh main street. our
lane width is 10 feet and adjacent lane
widths are 11 or 12 feet. Um that Alex
has been a big part of the study and we
will have exact answers for you of what
that looks like in that one area. Um I
don't believe that it requires and I
don't I I want to say that when I say I
don't believe there have been a lot of
iterations of this. Okay? So I'm not
committing to this but I don't believe
that it requires any additional widening
of the right of way. I think we have
adequate right ofway in the area to work
with um and we're able to maintain
street trees, but as part of the
project, there would need to be some
removal and
replanting and we'll have all that
information the next meeting.
Okay, I I'll wait till next week to
continue or next council continue.
Hurley, I think you had your hand up
next. Um this may be a better question
for Kota when they're in, but um what
will happen to because we have number
two local service down Main Street. What
will happen to is Kota going to continue
in some form or fashion local service or
utilizing the bus stops we currently
have or is I can answer that one. Um we
asked that the council working group
asked that exact question. Um and they
indicated that the number two going both
west and east will continue at least
four five years even if this BRT stop
goes in the current location and then
there's a chance that over time it may
be phased out but I do think that they
were going to contemplate adjusting some
of the times mayor correct me if I'm
wrong adjusting some of the time so that
you wouldn't have say a BRT bus at
sitting there and then on the right side
in front of graders, you wouldn't also
at the same time have a number two bus
sitting there. Am I am I right about
that? Yeah, you're you're right. And a
key point to know is that the federal
funding
requires that Kota and other similar
transit authorities doing this to get
the federal funding that they keep
existing service alongside. I
understand. So, um, two two things
they're looking at, not just the timing,
but also location of stops just to
double check that there's not a
conflict. It does not appear there's a
conflict physically with these two
locations of stops, but they'll continue
to be looking at that.
Um, and then another just, you know, we
we have existing code of stops on the,
you know, sides of the road. Is that
just because the configuration of BRT?
Is that just not an option if we were
just to say have a a westbound and an
eastbound stop on the north and south
sides of the street respectively? So
instead of taking out the median and,
you know, really changing the traffic
flow, Yeah. Is it just not an option to
have a BRT bus stopping? I guess they'd
at some point they'd have to cross from
their center line. Yeah. So, it has to
do with turning motions and efficiency
of infrastructure to have a single point
of embark disembark. And I will say
consistent with what Monique said about
like we're not here to debate should
there be one on Main Street. They are at
the point in their design that those
sorts of decisions have long been made.
Right. So, like the it's it's and we're
happy to answer like and get more
answers to like revisit why that
location was there, but it's not a we
won't have the option to say, "Hey, we'd
like to do this, but we'd like to have
north and south stations." It's it's
it's a median station. Meeting station.
Y um and then lastly, this is um I mean,
I for the record, I I think the location
is great. Um, I just know I've gotten
questions about, you know, the center
line and what that means for future, I
guess, disruptions to traffic flow on
Maine. But this last question is just
really more of a you know I was just
wondering have we or is is any of this
reflected in our land use strategy draft
land use strategy because I mean this I
think you know to your point about
attracting
amenities you know if I were looking to
open a business in Beex I mean locating
it at this intersection would actually
be be more advantageous in the future.
Do we have any of that reflected or do
we need to maybe contemplate that? There
are some I I there are linkus there's
linkus language in lane strategy. Okay.
What exactly is I don't recall right now
but it's all right. It's part of the uh
bullet points for that. Thank you
Miss
Fible. And so I'm wondering for example
are you going to be able to as you're
going south on Dawson, will you still be
able to turn um
yeah, there would be no change in
traffic pattern. So the the it would be
exactly where this the mouse is hovering
over that median right there. We we have
the advantage of already having the
median. So we get to see where it would
be. It would be taking the place of what
is currently there. So there's no change
in traffic pattern. Um, this is a mixed
traffic condition in Beexley, so there
will be vehicles and buses sharing that
center lane. So, there's not a change in
access. And I want to make sure that you
guys have this talking point so you
understand it because we still continue
to take heat about the fact that we're
not a dedicated lane in Beexley. We have
literally less rightway on Main Street.
So, while we started saying, which is
true, parking on Main Street is very
important. We don't want to lose that.
We have a lot of businesses that don't
have on-site parking. Totally true. The
more we got into the weeds, we wanted to
stress test our assumptions and see look
at a parking study and look at the
physical location of what happens if we
do do a dedicated lane. And what we
learned was we can't do a dedicated lane
in Beexley because we don't have
adequate width to allow the U-turns that
they will have in other areas of the
routes without taking out buildings like
buildings that we don't want to talk
about being taken out. So, uh, it's not,
it was never an option in the first
place. It will continue to dog us
because we still are taking heat about
the fact that we have a different
condition in our section of street, but
it never would have passed engineering
to get us to a dedicated lane. An
important information for you guys to
have
business
So I'm trying really hard to understand
I I can I'm not business so I can see a
lot of that
businesses you know from the people
busing to take a bus rather than to try
to find a parking spot. So I'm
interested
places one question one question my
other
question we
let the businesses in that area know
that this is
yeah we had a we had a main street
business meeting around this and
specifically talked about this location
now not every business showed up and I'm
familiar with the business you talked
about she and I trading texts and I'm
going to be meeting meeting on site and
talking through it uh with her.
Um to answer the question about parking,
there
is parking that
starts and we'll have the actual counts
here. So you can kind of see this is
where the no parking starts as you head
further east. This this will have to
come a little further this way.
That incidentally is not parking that is
often being used by the businesses in
that area. I'm just I I I see what's
parked and not parked. These spaces are
sort of asked to fill up on uh often has
to do with CAP students. Um and we have
the ability to add extra parking spaces
on Pleasant Ridge which we plan to do.
So this is probably going to be a
parking neutral condition. We'll get
some additional spaces on Pleasant
Ridge, lose a couple on Main Street. um
of the different locations that were
looked at, this is one of the huge
advantages of this location is it has
very little impact on parking.
Thank you. I'm just trying to better
understand the negativity around the
idea of having that. I just want to know
all the pros and cons. So, thank you. I
think it's, you know, any change is
really difficult for businesses to
anticipate. We had same concerns when we
first insold the medians that we were
going to turn away people from coming
down Main Street and visiting
businesses. Um I think it's hard for
people to imagine things until you
they're in front of them. And of course
a business it's their livelihood. So
like you know they are super riskaverse
and it's it's our job to meet them where
they're at and um explain
until we can't explain any further
what's going on and we're committed to
doing that.
Mr. Hurley, you had your hand up again.
Yeah. Just going back to the the comment
you made about just the narrowness of
Main Street. I if I recall from some of
the presentations we had on this last
year, isn't Reynold going to similar I
thought we weren't the only sort of Main
Street community where that was going to
be a a challenge. Old Reynoldsburg has a
similar condition. I'm talking about our
physical actual width of rideway. Um
which is distinct from Yes, we have
narrower lanes which is great. That
means slower traffic. There are lots of
good advantages of that. We also though
have less by about 20 or 30 feet total
right of way to work with than uh areas
east and west of us. I don't know the
condition exactly in older rentals. I
just remember that was we weren't unique
in that to the you know some of the
criticism we're capturing for not having
dedicated lane is that was that was not
by I mean that's by design. It's not
anything we're and my only other
question is just you mentioned having to
widen the road there. If I'm looking at
this image correctly though, I mean the
only what would happen to the curb cut
there is that forget if that's Christ
Lutheran or Beexley Methodist Methodist.
This is the Yeah, to the north there
that that that's this seems like the
only I guess actual parking access
point. I know that dumps out to the
alley as well, but that's Yeah, that's
not impacted by the plan. That that curb
cut could remain. It wouldn't we
wouldn't have to push it as you Oh, wow.
That's nice. the the curb cut that we're
proposing change. It's not a curb cut,
but we are proposing that the left-hand
turn into the Coldwell building u is
eliminated as part of this. Okay. And
that's a conversation we have to have
with greater depth in greater depth with
the property owner. We've started
talking to some of the users.
So, I did want to add a few additional
facts and then also kind of share with
council some of uh the things that I
like about a proposed BRT stop in
Beexley and also some of the concerns
and questions that that I have. Um I did
want to share that a BRT bus is about
one and a half times longer than a
regular KOD bus. Um and obviously to Mr.
Hurley's point um any proposed stop
picks up in the center of the road. It
is uh mayor, correct me if wrong, it's a
even platform so that um if you have
somebody who's in a wheelchair or a
child on a stroller, there's not going
to be that um um that barrier to get
them onto um the bus as well. But I did
originally um share with our council
group and with other folks that when I
first moved to Beexley, I was a pretty
avid buser. I would uh take the number
10 on East Ma East Broad Street and uh
at time I would take the number two on
East Main. Um Broad Street had less
stops, so that was always my preferred
route. Uh the number two on East Main
Street was a lot more unreliable.
Sometimes the buses just wouldn't come
or they'd be substantially delayed. And
I would purposely try to schedule
catching a bus earlier than I needed to
in anticipation that there might be
delays much like you would if you were
trying to fly somewhere important. You
might trying to try to start catching an
earlier plane. Um by the time this was
brought to our council working group, um
a proposed BRT stop on East Broad Street
was not um an option. It is still not an
option. So, for this council's purpose,
it is on East Main Street. The BRT is
coming down East Main Street. Um, and
then we get to have some input as to
whether or not there is a stop and where
that stop should occur. Um, if we were
talking about a proposed BRT stop on
East Broad Street, I would be in full
support, but that's not the scenario
before us. So, just to give you some
some context, it is one of Kota and
Linkus's um future routes. I think mayor
in your presentation that had kind of
had the subway map. Uh you will see that
east broad is contemplated
uh possibly
for an additional round in the future.
So that is likely to um to come back. I
love the environmental um issues that uh
an additional BR a bigger bus uh
presents. We are not considering this
for today's population. We're
considering it for the population that
we know is coming. And with all those
additional people moving to central
Ohio, they would be bringing their cars
and having a BRT and more public
transportation would get those cars off
the road. So, I like that very
much. I like the fact that um taking the
bus is a lot cheaper than driving. It's
a lot cheaper than paying car insurance.
It's a lot cheaper than paying for
parking. uh wherever your destination
is. And I also like the job access and
opportunities it would provide for
people who want to maybe come visit,
play, work, stay in Bexley. It also
might give our residents an opportunity
to go downtown or go to an OSU football
game um and come back round trip for
less than it would if he were driving
and having to park there. That being
said, some of the the concerns that have
I have is that um since the proposed
location is now at Pleasant Ridge and
East Maine um and since the levy
passed, I think that there's still um
input that I would like to hear from our
residents whether it's a workshop held
by KOD or link us um other than the AARP
workshop that the mayor showed in his
chronology. ology. Um I don't think
there's work available to Beexley
residents since the levy has passed and
since the location is now being proposed
for Pleasant Ridge and East Main Street.
So I would love to to hear um some of
those comments. Uh the mayor and I have
talked with our small group. Uh we're
going to be putting kind of a brief
survey in this coming uh Friday's
Beexley blast to give people who aren't
able to come to our council meetings. Um
if they're not able to email you,
they're able to just give us some
general feedback and the mayor has
indicated that he will share whatever
whatever responses we get to that with
all of council so that you have all the
same information. Um, I already talked
about the number two East Main Street is
going to coexist for at least five
years. Uh, maybe to be phased out over
five years and maybe some changes to the
timing so that you don't have a BRT bus
next to a number two bus at the same
time. Um, other considerations and
questions I had was what would be the
financial cost to the city if we have a
BRT stop at Pleasant Ridge? Uh, who who
would build it? Who would maintain it?
who would empty the trash, who's
responsible for the signage, if there's
property damage, or if something hits
it, who's responsible for undertaking
that. Um,
uh, it's also my understanding that, um,
this is this is contingent upon federal
funding. So, uh, hopefully, knock on
wood, the federal funding would come
through. But I would have a concern is
if it's kind of started and then some of
that funding doesn't come through, what
what then? that that could happen. Um, I
also had concerns about some of the past
unreliability of bus service. To the
mayor's point, the KOD of today is not
the Kota that I used to ride when I was
new to to Beexley. Uh, when we met with
Mr. Walker uh, just recently, he
indicated that Kota's service has
garnered uh, uh, a lot of accolades and
awards. I'm going to do my due diligence
in seeing and seeing what that is. But
um previously as a bus rider I had a lot
of questions on reliability cancelling
delay. As you know if if a bus shows up
early that bus has to wait to get back
on time. So if you had a BRT bus somehow
get there early which early is great but
it does have to sit and wait to get back
on schedule because then riders are
expecting that that bus is on schedule
and they may be walking quickly to catch
it. So that that is one thing to think
about as well. Um and then I think
finally my last concern was um feels a
little a little scary. I know it'd be
new but a little scary to me to be
attracting residents even our youngest
residents to the center of the road to
catch a big bus. Um,
obviously, you know, our our
our residents, they they try to be safe.
We encourage them to be as safe as
possible. I know that if this passes,
there would be some great signage and
that we do we would do all that we could
to put adequate safety measures in
place, but it feels just not the most
organic thing to promote, you know,
people going toward the center of a
road, especially when the road is so
narrow. Um, and Mr. Walker had an
interesting response to that when I
asked him that last week. He said, you
know, it's actually better that it's
such a narrow road because then what
happens is that traffic slows down,
which is is something I had not thought
of until he thought about that way. But
still in my mind, I I do have concerns
about folks going towards the center of
the road. So, I've talked too long. I'm
so sorry. Those were just kind of things
that I've had on my mind and things that
I will continue to think about. Um, any
other questions or comments to Mr. Oh,
I'm sorry, Mr. Please go ahead. I a
question that the mayor or possibly for
Mr. Fell. So, if I'm just I want to make
sure I heard you correctly.
Regardless, I mean, you know, of what
happens, I mean, we're the council is
still going to be asked in a year and a
half or at some point in the future to
vote on the actual agreement between the
city and
Kota. That's true. I mean, if if um if
this resol this resolution is a
temperature check because I think there
was
some a desire and it makes sense um both
for me to have clarity when moving
forward in in working with Kota, you
know, when when we're going from the 60
to the 100% design, which is the ne the
next contract, we should have a really
good feel that there's going to be
support for that the future council. Um,
so if it were to be defeated, this
resolution,
um, irreconcilably defeated, then we
would have to pull out of the process,
you know, or I I don't I don't I would
have to revisit how that goes, but I I
don't see I would assume when I Yeah, I
want to be clear. If it were
irreconcilably defeated, that's what we
would have to do. We would So, no, we
would not be bringing you a future
agreement because we would have
concluded that the city wasn't going to
the council was not going to support
one. But if we were to favorably
favorably report this resolution or
adopted, I mean there's still this isn't
the final
vote on this matter. We're going to have
a lot more to the more or less the point
of people in the community who may be
concerned. I just want to make that
point that and the this is a I guess for
lack of a better expression a
non-binding resolution. It's expressing
our intention. Correct. But the actual
sort of agreement that has to be adopted
before we start tearing up Main Street,
that's a vote for another day, that will
also have a lot of public input in the
future, as well as, you know, great
negotiating on your part, of course. And
the language that's operative and the
ordinance is subject to future council
approval and inclusive of reasonable
accountability measures relative to the
use and maintenance of any KOD
infrastructure.
So, sort of aspirational language in
there. Yep. Mr. Marcelino. Yeah. I mean,
just to kind of go over that, I think
this is like any resolution. Why I hate
resolutions that doesn't really do
anything. We can say yes to this and
then absolutely turn around and say no
to the ordinance when it was put before
us. But I certainly after having our
small group was curious to see what
council thinks about this. And I think
this gives us to some degree a
temperature check from everybody else as
to where they stand on it. um and also
gives the community additional chances
to come in and speak to us. Um and also
hear from Kota and hopefully uh a more
polished uh uh approach and presentation
because I will tell you candidly the
first time they came in I couldn't be
less impressed with Kota the
presentation they gave the way they
presented uh for our city um and the way
that I felt as though I was being
basically forced into our community um
without explaining any of the benefits.
It honestly wasn't until Kumi Walker
came in to speak to us to when it
started to make sense to me, at least
where I landed on this and where I would
land on this. And this is nothing
against the hard work that the mayor uh
that Megan put into this to get it
there. It's just that Cota was doing a
terrible job um explaining why this was
important, how they were going to make
it work. And so I'll be really curious
next week what they do because even
though I might be leaning one way right
now I could see them coming in here next
week upsetting me again and I'm just
going to go the other way on it. I mean
I'm kind of like miss uh President
Lamkey there where right now I'm I'm
actually leaning yes but I will tell you
that will be the one to blow this for me
if they do. Um because again they time
and time again when they've come in
until we had Mr. lock them in. Uh they
just didn't do a great job presenting
this project in a light that I could
understand the importance of it and the
gravity of it for the future of Beexley
and the future of Columbus. So, um we'll
see what they do. I'm I'm interested to
hear everybody's opinion though, but I
think that's why we really need this uh
resolution. I didn't see who had their
hand up who had it up first. Mr.
Markham, let's go with you. I may have
missed this, but um so does Kota have a
preference on where this goes or if one
goes in Beexley or doesn't are they is
there a default from Kota? Their
preference is Pleasant Ridge. This is
their preference. It used to be um it
used to be Drexel and Maine, but kind of
the same time there was questioning of
is this the best location. It became
pretty clear that there's a power pole
right here and the this this light and
this pole would have become a huge
conflict that would have been very
expensive to to remedy. And so they're
coupled with there's multiple reasons
it's not the best location. Um the you
know everyone has their own reason why
they might have thought it's not the
best location but Kota also has
concluded that that's not the best
location but they do have the position
that they they are proposing a stop
somewhere in this area. Yes. Okay. Mr.
Silverman my question kind of piggybacks
on Mr. Markham. Um
Columbus I see Alam Creek and I believe
James Road identified. Are those firm
from Columbus? And so in the scenario
that Beexley chooses not to have a BRT
stop, those would be the default stops
between Beexley. So Beexley would be cut
out of having a direct pickup location
for our residents or the community
members here and you would have James
Road and Al Creek firmly selected from
Columbus or is there still negotiation
on the table with Columbus on the
positioning of those stops? They're firm
on the location in Columbus. I can't
tell you that they wouldn't say if for
some reason Beexley told them we're not
going to have a stop. And if anyone's
listening to this, I am firmly not of
the opinion that Beexley is not going to
have a stop from my perspective, but you
guys are op the operative decision
makers in this.
Um, you guys make the
decision of the belief that Beexi should
have a stop for Linkos. Um, in case it's
not clear that like in case somebody
missed my comments, you know, 15 minutes
ago or whatever, um, I can't guarantee
that they wouldn't have a a
repositioning of the eastern stop to try
to maybe move it closer outside of our
boundaries. I don't know. They're pretty
far along. I mean, at 60%. They're
getting ready to get really detailed in
the engineering. Okay. I'm just trying
to picture, you know, the disadvantage
if residents didn't have one in Pexley,
how far they would have to go into
Columbus um to try to see, you know, the
advantages of of being able to collect
our residents and have a BRT. You are
correct. Compared to where Columbus is
currently targeting for their
corresponding stops direction closest
and Alex, you're right. the uh James and
Alam Creek in front of the Kroger. I
think um Le has told us that those are
considered their flagship locations. So
um I I get the impression those would
stay. To the mayor's point, if if there
was some thought that a BRT stop in
Beexley is not
supported, I don't know if they would
consider adding another BRT stop on the
Columbus side, maybe closer to Beexley,
but at least you're you're right. Those
are the the closest locations as of now
notwithstanding this proposed stop.
Mr. Markham, yeah, just to follow up on
is one of the considerations because you
know because that is pretty close over
there to Alen Creek and I know we talked
about like population density or or I
guess user density are we is one of the
considerations that like Capitol
University would be a large user of it.
Yeah. Okay.
Any other comments, questions from
council? Um, lots to digest. Oh, Miss
Sad, I'm so sorry. Go ahead. Yes, just
two quick things. Um, mayor, I'm hoping
we can get the community engagement um
information added to um our website. Um,
on our city page under departments
development, Megan and Matt have done a
really nice job of updating all of the
development projects happening in the
city. and the link us initiative looks
great, but I think adding those
community engagements. We've already
spoken about it. Yeah. Great. And then
second is I have a couple amendments to
this resolution. Should I just hold off
and email them to you and the mayor?
Sure, you can email them and I I will
collect them. I know we're going to be
talking about this a little bit. That'd
be great. Um I also want to share with
council that um the council working
group uh over time requested a lot of
facts and data and information. Uh Megan
Meyer and the mayor were great about
working with Kota to get us that
information. Um I don't see it being a
problem if we shared that with all of
council, right? Any any sort of
attachments or data that the small group
was given, I will um write myself a note
to maybe reach out to Megan and the
mayor to send that to all of you so that
you have all the information that the
small group uh received. Yeah, I've got
it. Okay. Thanks, Ben. That would be
wonderful.
I do. And again, I was obviously don't
have a vote, so I was trying to let
council talk, but I have a question
going back to the beginning of the the
the presentation. Mayor, um, you
mentioned three projects that have been
grantfunded. One was Livingston. I don't
remember the other two. How is that
associated with this whole thing? I
didn't quite understand that. Um the
voters approved the link US initiative
which included both funding for bus
rapid transit and also for transit
supported
infrastructure. It is not to my
knowledge tied to whether or not your
community has a stop in it. Uh I know
for sure that there are suburban
partners outside of the link zones that
are receiving TSI
funds. But to be clear, we Beexley is
receiving is is is receiving these
benefits. Yes. From uh let's say
somewhere between directly and
indirectly a result of this project.
Yes. And the the value of the benefits
are north of $2 million. Okay. That's
that's what I thought you were
describing, but I just wasn't sure. Yep.
And that's by the way that is round one.
So like they're already talking about
round two. And so we're already starting
to to explore what do we have as
upcoming projects that would be eligible
for around two funding. All right. Any
further discussion from council? Mr.
McPeek, I think we have a speaker slip
on this one.
Mrs. Lewis,
Miss Lewis, I know you are familiar with
our public comments policy. I I I'm
happy to read it again, but I also know
that you will you will gladly abide by
that. Uh you uh please give us your name
and address and share your comments up
to five minutes, please. Constance Lewis
663 Uclair. And I just wanted to present
before you some information that I
received and I don't know that you all
have. Um it's from the uh United States
Department of Transportation, Federal
Transit Administration. And um I'll just
share a little bit with you. It says the
Federal Transit Administration in
cooperation with the Central Ohio
Transit Authority Kota is proposing the
East Main Street bus rapid transit BRT
corridor project located within the
cities of Columbus, Beexley, Whiteall,
Reynoldsburg. Uh and they'll be
preparing a categorical exclusion to
evaluate the environmental impacts of
the project.
as part of its responsibilities under 36
CFR part 800 protection of historic
properties and the National Historic
Preservation Act and HPA. The Federal
Transit Administration is initiating a
section
106 consultation process for the
project.
Um, so I know there has been um in
invitations and I don't know if the city
of Beexley has received an invitation uh
for this. There are possible grant
monies available as part of it, but it
has to do with historic preservation and
uh if you wanted to be uh have the cons
uh
consulting status for the section 106
historical review. Uh it would need to
be signed on by April 17. So I just
wanted to bring that before you. and I
gave you documents, you as well as the
mayor for your perusal. Thank you. Thank
you, Miss Lewis, for your comments. Um,
I have not had a chance to read um the
documents, but I certainly will. U
mayor, do you want some time to kind of
digest those and if uh a response is
needing needed, could you um get back
later to Fantastic. Yes. Thank you. All
right. Sounds good. Thank you, Miss
Lewis.
We are moving on.
Um I guess we are now to
uh tabled resolution
1-25. Miss Sad, do we have action on
this resolution? Yes. Uh President Lami,
thank you. Uh resolution 125 had um
great robust conversation at our last
meeting. Hang on a second. I think we
need to take it from the table. Yes, I
would like to um move to remove
resolution 125 from the table. All
right. Motion to remove from the table
by Miss Sad. Is there a second? Second.
Second by Mr. Marcelino. Mr. McPeep,
would you please call the role? Miss
Lampy? Yes. Miss Sad? Yes. Mr. Markham?
Yes. Mr. Silverman? Yes. Mr. Marcelino?
Yes. Miss Fable? Yes. And Mr. Hurley?
Yes. Right. Thank you. I'm sorry to
interrupt you. No, thank you for
interrupting me. I got ahead of myself.
Um, resolution 125 had robust
conversation at our last council meeting
and um, we were entertaining a workshop
and since we had received um, community
uh, questions on that workshop, we
wanted to address where we're at with
this resolution tonight. So, I'm going
to hand it over to Mayor Kesler to
elaborate on that. Uh, yes, thank you.
Um, this will be a very short
elaboration. Um we had I had thrown out
the idea of doing a workshop at the last
meeting as there were a ton of
questions. Um and obviously the topic is
incredibly technical. Um we are both
internally thinking about how to best
frame that workshop and I know the city
attorney is also doing some research on
process. Um and so we will get back to
you guys with a future timeline but
we're not prepared right now to schedule
that. That's all I have. Sounds good.
All right. Any questions from
council? All right. Miss side do you
have a motion?
Yes, I would like to move um resolution
125 back to the table. Motion to table
Miss Sad. Is there a second? Second.
Second by Mr. Marcelino, I think. Uh Mr.
McPeep, would you please call the role?
Yes. Miss Fable? Yes. Mr. Markham? Yes.
Mr. Silverman? Yes. Slam Key? Yes. Mr.
Hurling? Yes. Miss Sad? Yes. And Mr.
Marcelino?
All right, that is back on the table.
All right. Um, does anyone from the
public have any additional speaker slips
to turn in at this time? All right,
seeing none, moving on to committee
reports. Mr. Markham for safety. Uh,
land use strategy met last week. Uh, we
had a lot of fun looking at the latest,
newest, almost complete, I think,
version of the report with all the
really great graphics. And when I say a
lot of fun, I am not being sarcastic. It
was neat kind of seeing the different
types of drawings and artistic re
renditions of the various visions of
parts of Beexley. And so like I can see
like Danny's over there kind of jumping
around a little bit and I'm you know
we're all kind of excited to event to
finally get close to releasing this
document for everybody else to see and
enjoy. Great. We look forward to when
that comes to council. Uh Mr.
Silverberman for service and
environmental. Thank you President Ly.
Um just acknowledging the work of
Elizabeth Elman and all the events that
are scheduled this month for Earth and
Artorium. Um, ESAC meets next week on
the 15th and they have a special guest
local restaurant tour Randy Soal will be
discussing restaurants and the impact
they have on waste accumulation and ways
to try to mitigate that. So, if you
would like to attend as 6 PM on Tuesday
the 15th.
Great. Thank you, Miss Sod for finance.
Thank you, President Lamkey. I had the
opportunity last night to speak with the
Beexley Lions Club. Great group. Um, I
actually didn't know we had a Beexley
Lions Club, so that was enlightening. We
were at one of Danny Hurley's favorite
places, Wings.
Um, so, uh, that was great. And thank
you to them, um, for wanting to hear
more about what's happening in our great
community. Um, just reminding the group
that May is Women's Health Month event
is happening Saturday morning, May 10th,
from 10:00 to noon. We really haven't
put out a lot of PR yet, and we're
already at half uh, capacity. We are uh
welcoming 50 attendees and I think we
have about 25 spots left. So we um need
to get on, please get on and and tell uh
friends and family to register. It's a
great opportunity for you to empower and
equip yourself to um take charge of your
healthcare. Also great announcement is
that the Ohio State mobile mammogram
will be out there all day on Saturday.
So please take advantage of registering
for your mammogram. The number is ready
to go, right Natalie? It's
6142934455. That's
6142934455. Um we it will get you
registered and it's uh a Saturday. Um we
also are if there if you are uninsured
um the community foundation is working
with the city to take care of those who
to cover those mammograms. So that's
great news. Thank you to the community
foundation. Petals for Pancakes is right
around the corner. Um, always a great
event. It's moving back to Commonwealth,
which is exciting. So, mark your
calendars for that event. It is June
what? It's a great event. A lot of
council members were there um supporting
it last year, which I appreciate. It's
Saturday, uh, June
14th. So, mark your calendars for that.
And then, um, I think the mayor has a
little flyer that we're going to put up.
There it is. Um, I invite all of uh
council and city leadership to help
support the Beexley Team Beexley Pelleta
kickoff, which is Thursday, May 15th at
6 o'clock. It is actually at the Almond
Residence at 2371 Commonwealth Park. So,
Laurian, just walk on over and um enjoy
some tacos and support these awesome
residents for uh raising a good amount
of money um for cancer research. End of
report. Thank you, Miss Sad. Mr. Hurley,
strategic and health. Um, I thank you. I
would echo what Mr. Markham said. The
land use commission, um, you know, the
mayor and his team have done an
excellent job as has commission. And of
course, we've had so much community
input. Um, I'm really excited for when
that is done and out there. I think it's
going to really chart us on a on a cool
path. Uh, CIC had a meeting last week,
just continuing good work there. Um,
board of health meets next Tuesday and I
would give a shout. Unfortunately, he's
not here, but uh I uh got to see Mr. Ben
Hecman today at the state house. It was
uh the Ohio Library Council is actually
National Library Week and it is the Ohio
Library Council um had their lobby day.
So, Ben was there advocating for uh the
Beexley Public Library and I it was
probably all him, but I think they they
scored a nice win today in the House
budget. Um, I'm sure there were probably
some other folks that helped as well,
but we have a rock star uh at our
library and a great team. And so I just
want to give him a shout out because I'm
sure he's watching.
So it does.
Yeah. What was the outcome?
Some of
it governor
Nice week of to do that, huh? Really?
We're going to celebrate libraries and
gut the budget. Just screw idiots. All
right, moving on. Mr. Miss Fible,
recreation and
parks. Sorry, who'd you say? On a
happier note,
um I I I heard Miss Sod give a shout out
to the Bexley Community Foundation, and
I want to continue to applaud them. and
Michael Price mentioned that they are
giving $75,000 to Pickable Lights. They
It is not fun to fundra. It is It is a
lot of work to fundra. So, these
volunteers are doing and doing and doing
for our community. And not only are they
doing the pickle ball lights, but
they're also continuing to sponsor
Splish Splash and Dash and the the event
that we have every spring with co-side
that we partnership, the rec department.
Um, and the birthday tent at the pool
for example. I mean, we are so blessed
with so many volunteers. So, I can't,
you know, stress how much we need to
appreciate them.
Um I uh I also noted Mike Mike did a
great job of sharing last week's um
board meeting highlights, but he he
didn't mentioned that um the group that
the department actually met as a group
in a retreat and they're starting to get
an
internal 10-year plan. They're always
planning. They're always trying to think
of exciting new things. Um so I'll be
interested to see what uh they come up
with internally with that one. I also
want to add that I walked my dogs from
the corner of
Drexel on
Commonwealth all the way to the corner
of Park View and
Commonwealth on a continuous sidewalk.
So, I'm thinking Pedals for Pancakes is
going to be really big this year. So,
anyway, it was really fun. It was my
very first time to do that. I was
thinking I was thinking about all of you
and thinking we have a little part in
this and that's so exciting. So anyway,
end of report. Thank you Mr. Marcelino
for zoning and development. Yes, thank
you very much. Um just thinking I
Columbus is one of the top library
systems in the nation. Um Ohio
specifically has a very strong library
system in the nation. Ohio is rarely
number one in anything except for
football. I don't I don't get it. It
doesn't matter. That has nothing to do
with the city of Beexley, but I'm just
going to say it again because maybe some
idiot at the state house is listening
that's trying to cancel some woke agenda
that doesn't exist and therefore gut our
education system and a place that's safe
for our community all over BS. Um there
is something in Beexel I wanted to
address because it's been asked of me
here um on Drexel. Uh there is a
property for sale that we are all
familiar with and I just want to kind of
workshop this for some discussion and
some input as to where we stand on this
uh idea right now. But it's a property
that's uh that is currently the Beexley
bed and breakfast and a my understanding
is that a current Beexley family uh is
considering
uh purchasing it looking into that
opportunity. Um, but the change would be
is that they aren't going to live in the
property. So, it won't be owner operated
in that sense. It'll be owned by a
Beexley family, but nobody will be there
to, you know, during uh majority of the
hours aside from the guests. Therefore,
it will essentially mimic an Airbnb
um if this were to go through. And I
believe the the general idea here is
that the family is looking for input um
as to our feelings uh into that kind of
change because currently our code
doesn't allow it. Um you need you need a
variance um I believe here to to get
that approved or you need to go through
Bzap there.
Um and right now short-term rentals like
that aren't allowed in that area. I
mean, in general, I think we've said no
to these um in most districts, but there
can be certain conditions and if you all
are on board with it, then so be it. But
I just want to kind of throw that out
there because I believe the family is
looking to move because like anything,
these real estate markets move quickly,
but they also may not want to go into it
without some idea that we're open to
that. And my I'll tell you my personal
concern is not even necessarily this
property right now. It's what happens to
that property after this family is done
with that investment. And then what if
we have a family that somewhere else in
the community wants to turn their home
into an uh into an Airbnb and now are we
opening up Pandora's box so to speak I
guess. Um so just curious on any food
feedback anybody can give.
Mr. Silverman. Are they proposing it to
be one Airbnb or multiple Airbnbs inside
of that space? Not I don't even know if
that would matter because right now it's
configured for what? Five five rooms
that you can rent out and then there's a
living quarter at the top floor.
Correct. Um I don't think I have that
answer for you. I think that it would
just be run in the same fashion as an
Airbnb where nobody would be there. If
you rented it, you'd have like a code to
get into the place and then you would
say go to room five and that would be
your room and there's the common area
and what whatnot, but that would kind of
be how it runs.
I don't know if they intend to have any
I I see what I see what you're saying. I
can. Yeah. I mean, I think that to I
think you said it, but they would intend
to continue to operate it as a bed and
or as a bed and breakfast like multiple
rooms, but without an owner occupant
status, which is what the variance
requires. So, that's then that's kind of
what I was getting at. So, basically the
the the issue would be currently we
allow the bed and breakfast to function
because it has uh owner operating and
somebody's living there managing it. And
currently our code does not allow for
Airbnbs that would be considered
short-term without an owner operator. So
the so the the variance would be to
remove the requirement for owner
operator at this specific location and
would every location need to have that
same variance if we open the Pandora's
box? Yes. But then I think the answer is
yes. In my opinion, I think they all
would. But the issue is that then how do
we Yeah. you have you have a standard
established that then can be used for
other residents. Um no I I I I would
like some time to think about that but
definitely appreciate I too would have
to take some time to think about it. So
um
we'll see. Um Miss or Mr. Hurley I think
you had your hand up before Missad. Miss
side, I also would need time to think
about it, but I definitely have some
major concerns on that. And you know, my
f we have a lot of experience with
Airbnbs and BBOs's because we're a
family of five. The world hotels are not
built that way for a family of five. So,
we use um we use and experience that.
And I don't know that that is what our
residents
um would want from Beexley. I think that
opens Pandora's box pretty big once that
happens. So, I'll have to think about it
more, but I definitely have some
reservations and concerns. Mr. Hurley,
um yeah, where um where what zone does
is the Beexley bed and breakfast in is
it technically part of like the
commercial like main street district? I
think it's R six just adjacent to mixed
use. Um which we can confirm, but either
way, it's not an allowed use in either
one. So, you need you need a uh either I
think it's R six is a variance. In MEC,
it's a conditional use. That's why it's
worded as variance. And I have the
latest ordinance, which last time
council touched it, it was in 2021 where
it was modified to allow for capital an
employee to count as an owner occupant
essentially living there.
Um, and I think I think the context is
clear, but we have an interested buyer
who wants to know what the risk is of
asking for the variance, whether or not
it makes sense for them to go into
contingency.
I guess what I would leave it as that
kind of gives me enough to know that I
know because of how quickly these things
have to go sometimes, I would just go
back to the to the buyer and almost tell
them there's no guarantee right now. I
feel comfortable that I we don't feel
com Yeah. And then and we can send them
the uh link to this too. They can listen
to it. Yeah, absolutely. And say you're
free to try, but we don't want to get in
your way, but we don't want to make any
guarantees because I think there's a lot
to unpack there. So, yep. Thank you.
Anything? Oh, you have Oh, sorry. No.
Okay. Anything further, Mr. Marcelino?
Nothing. Thank you. All right. Um
council, our next meeting is April 22nd.
I wish everyone a happy Easter. Happy
passing
Saturday night. All right. Um, with
that, I move to adjourn. Can I please
get a second? Second. Second by Mr.
Marcelino.