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right that mean we're
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wait uh no you're good sorry I was
multitasking good evening everybody
Welcome to the Tuesday December 12th
meeting of Beckley city
council I am not gonna do a good job
tonight I can tell I feel a little I
feel a little W you know justess saw has
brought me tissues because I got a
reputation for being a
crier oh yeah I'm gonna cry probably
wait not not just yet all right Mr MC PE
how you been the last two years H it's
been um it's been an adventure Troy yeah
it has it really has oh my God but good
thank you I love the fact that you just
jumped up on that seat when I jumped up
on this seat and we've been here and
yeah somehow we're figuring it out
aren't we yeah yeah yeah yeah been a lot
of fun yeah but it's a Bittersweet day I
believe is where you're heading with
this well yeah it just feels that way to
me I'm so happy I'm just curious I want
to try and pull out those emotions
sooner rather than later so just curious
just kind of drain me right here and
then get on with the meeting right so
listen for uh for the last time I'm
going to ask you to give us the roll
call okay I shall do well that's the
last time I'll ask yeah I know I mean I
don't think going I think we're gonna
wrap up the whole thing when I'm gone I
think you know but we'll continue doing
this all right Miss
sad yes Miss Robinson here Mr Markham
here Mr Marcelino present Mr Kingler
here miss lamkey here and Miss Bible I'm
here please rise with me and say the
Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance
to the flag of the United un States of
America and to the Republic for which it
stands one nation under God indivisible
with liberty and justice for
all they said I could have uh anything I
wanted on my last meeting and I said I
need Lee Nathan and Susan quintens
here and uh yeah they made it happen
it's just shows we do have the Bexley
Bloomers here tonight to uh we're going
to give them some sort of major award
right I think that's corre all right
well come on up don't just sit back
there what they use what they call that
the the peanut gallery you two clean up
okay you f your mud
[Laughter]
free well ladies welcome to City Hall
here it's good to see
you all
right I noticed it was myos here at City
Hall watch so I think there's some mud
stains on
it well it is a pleasure to have our our
founding Bloomers with us
here and the founders Club here received
actually a bench from an an
anonymous in their honor H which is
going to make its way to do we know
where it's
Mak I think the Bloomer should have a
say in that don't you all right so I do
have a proclamation Mr President
yes whereas the hardworking and
dedicated volunteers of XI Bloomers Have
Been instrumental in the upkeep and
Improvement of the grounds at Jeffrey
Park and the Bloomers Group which meets
every Thursday morning seasonally what
are roughly your seasonal may may
through October May through
October was founded in 2021 by Susan
quintens Mary mcmun and Ellen Bowen and
whereas in 2023 the Bloomers generously
contributed more than 993 hours of work
over 23 weeks that Jeffrey Park
Havenwood Park and bexley's two
Community Gardens which constitutes a
value of more than $31,000 to the city
of beex
Le then whereas the inspiring vision and
commitment of the the volunteers is a
true gift to Bexley and this year we
have been thrilled to honor them with
the 2023 Recreation Department Barb jenx
triffin volunteer award therefore today
December 12
2023 is
among am above all other things let we
say Bexley Bloomer day in the
city there you
are um speeches are
welcome Mary has the
script I'll take this thank you mayor
Kesler thank you everyone on city
council um a huge thanks of course to
Mike Price and Ron G and Craig whose
last name I'm not sure um who are huge
supporters of us obviously every week
when we uh show up at the Jeffrey
Mansion so we Bloomers were all about
community and the fact that we achieved
almost a thousand hours uh was because
of not only the existing crew that we
have and our celebrity Bloomers several
are here this evening um it's also
because we formed some new Partnerships
this year so in April we had the kids
from St Charles help us um remove
the ever um overwhelming honeysuckle
found throughout the park uh so they did
a great job helping us and then we also
uh had the pleasure of hosting the
Beckley High School girls soccer team
and they were a lot of fun to have so
they did tremendous job for us and they
promised to come back next summer so
we're pretty happy about that and as the
mayor mened mentioned we did venture out
uh to new uh grounds this year we wound
up at the North and South Gardens um
which as um I'm part of the community
garden program too and I can tell you
what we did there was tremendously
appreciated uh we also did some work at
havenswood and then we also had um a
branch our new branch of the Sheila STW
area um she worked at the Historical
Society and at the Bexley Community
Foundation for us and she also brought
in a crew of Realtors from the East side
um Bexley whiteall area to help along
Clifton Avenue earlier this year which
was wonderful and finally I would uh
like to mention Celeste Williams and her
crew who do a fantastic job for us down
at the fairy gardens and she's another
branch of the Bloomers so thank you
again we really appreciate the
recognition we appreciate your support
and we hope to see many of you maybe
next year at the at the Mansion or
somewhere in the city um and happy
holidays thanks thank
you oh all right I'm coming
next I want to
mention prom blers that next year God
they have exclusive swimming R to the
pond
Merry
[Music]
Christmas so the other half of my wish
list Mr Lee Nathan is here here tonight
and I think I think we have to have Mark
fishell introduce him because it's it's
very very official thank you so
much yeah okay so we have a third
reading of ordinance
43-23 uh
authorizing the city to add chapter 1485
to the city of Bexley codified
ordinances establishing requirements for
automatic external defibrillators and
bleeding control kits in certain
establishment within the city introduced
by Mr Marcelino yes as you know this
ordinance was inspired and encouraged by
uh by Lee Nathans who has done an
incredible amount of work for our
community um in regards to call Post
shock and heart safety throughout our
city um so I just want to invite Lee to
come today to answer any of council's
questions and just talk about the
ordance and its uh importance so Lee if
you wouldn't mind stepping up oh there
you are
sorry I
council members thank you I think the
last time we were all together in this
room was Sunday October 1st when all of
you got trained in um CPR and AED usage
and um you're not alone since we
launched on October 1st including the um
events that we've had at um churches and
synagogues we've trained over 200 people
in CPR and AED us
so uh I'm really grateful for your
leadership and support in this um M
Kesler and Sam Marcelino and every one
of you who have been very supportive of
this you know um before I address the
ordinance if I could um just let you
know that um hards safe Bexley is
intended to create a culture of action
to empower every Beckley resident to be
able to act when they witness a cardiac
arrest and to give them the confidence
to turn from a bystander to an active
participant in Saving a life um the
ownership of this effort has been
through your leadership but through the
support of every Beckley resident we
brought training to the community we've
um done it in a way with times uh with
the support of of Chief Lewis and the
and the police department with two
training sessions a week we're going to
continue on through 2024 with at least
one training session a week
hopefully two weeks ago I was in San
Diego uh for the cardiac arrest of
Survival Summit and I can tell you that
Bexley is now on the world's map for
becoming a uh being on our way for
becoming a heart Safe Community people
in Singapore Australia Switzerland all
know about what we've been doing in
actually and are extremely supportive as
well as academic centers from Harvard
Medical School and Yale medical school
as well so we all know that prompt
action saves lives and um that's
something that we're uh designed to move
forward for next year the ordinance is a
big part of that prompt action but even
before I discuss that let me just bring
up one other point um through our work
with the sudden cardia arrest Foundation
the city of Bexley is going to receive a
donation of a save station um AED
container that we can put anywhere in
the city we'll have it available for
public use either at a park or on Main
Street wherever it's going to be um
we'll be receiving that and um it'll be
installed sometime hopefully in the next
few months right that's something that
we can look forward to as I mentioned
the the ordinance is a big part of
moving forward with hard safe Bexley and
um my understanding is that um there uh
the third reading is the time when it
would actually be voted upon there are
some improvements that I've heard
comments of and would suggest that we
consider maybe um giving it a little
more time until the first council
meeting in 202 four of on January the
9th to refine some of those um sort of
loose ends that are contained in the um
the ordinance uh I have already reached
out to um our code enforcement officer
Dave rink her Linka who is going to be
contacting um fire safety officials from
around the state to look at some models
that might be used on um ad placement I
know that we'll be the first city in the
the state to actually have codified
ordinance on ad and bleeding control
locations so that's something that we
can um we can be proud about this
afternoon I met with Jason cell the
principal at the high school and the
middle schools um talk to them about
what we're doing um the school's been a
little delayed in getting um the project
Adam certification but that should be
coming up in the next month or so but uh
Mr cell was very supportive of launching
a CPR AED team at the high school level
so that uh we can train um Bexley
students to become um uh Lifesavers as
well so that's going to be something
that's going to happen in um in January
as well so um I'm happy to answer any
questions I I think that um we've made
astonishing progress I'm very gratified
um that we've gotten to the point where
we are now I truly appreciate each and
every one of your support in getting us
launched and um you know the best is yet
to come thank you Lee do we have
comments or questions for Lee or
Sam Miss s just wanted to say thank you
leave this has been a passion project
for you for a while and we've fielded a
lot of phone calls and you're doing
really good work keep it up and um we're
excited to to put pen to paper and and
make this it's you know the strongest it
can be and uh looks like we'll be doing
that on the 9th so thank you for coming
tonight and thank you again for your
support thank you m Kesler to for your
your leadership in this as well I I will
be nominating you for Time person of the
year 20204 Well I you know I'm not I'm
not going to attempt to compete with
Taylor Swift because I hold her in such
great esteem as you I noticed your
bracelet I believe that yes good did
they see something over here yes Jen
I don't have a question Lee I just want
to say much like chess thank you so much
and I'm really really sad that I will
not be sitting here when we vote this uh
when we vote this up I'm really proud of
the work that you've done and I know
we're better off as a city for your
being here so thank you thank you so
much and thank you for your devoted
service and Matt your devoted service
too um you know showing up and putting
in the time and the effort and the love
for the city has not gone unnoticed so
thank you very much we have a comment or
question here from Monique Le I Echo
what uh uh Jess and Jen have said um you
have really spearheaded this from the
get-go and as we uh discuss this
afternoon we really want the best
legislation that we can put forward
because if we get compliance what that
ends up doing is Saving Lives which is
what I know your purpose is and putting
this forward and we want to make it as
easy as possible to accomplish that
objective we we want to make the
training accessible we um I also should
tell you that um despite a a slight
setback that we had with one of our
vendors that were was going to have an
Infinity program with us we have other
uh vendors that uh I've talked with
today and they're going to be coming up
with some marketing strategies as well
so they will be able to get um ads at a
discount for Bexley residents as well as
businesses and um and uh multif family
do you want to share with Council um
what you shared with me I believe it was
um Johnson Iowa what their Rotary Club
did sure so um one of the the best
hearts of communities in the country is
Johnson County Iowa which is um Iowa
City and they have um maintained their
heart safe designation because their
heart Safe program is in partnership
with the Rotary Club so their Rotary
Club actually buys ads and then
disperses them to um Community groups
and businesses and um and residents who
want to apply for them and so that could
be a model that we're going to work with
I've talked with uh Brian jewry about um
the Rotary Club uh in Bexley in White
Hall and um you know hopefully we'll um
we'll be able to get some additional um
funding for uh the expansion of ads in
in Bexley for next year um we do we we
received a very generous Grant from um
the Community Foundation that we'll be
using to help subsidize the um the cost
and we we will also be using that to um
to get some additional mannequins
because as we set requirements for AED
use we have to make sure that everybody
knows how to do CPR so um we're uh we're
looking forward to great things in
2024 yes I
I'm so glad that you said that about
rotary I don't know that you know that
I'm a very very proud member of the vley
well it's technically the White Hall
Bexley rotary the Bexley guy didn't show
up the day that it was named so it
became White Hall came first so that's
why um but I would love to have a
conversation with you about that in fact
I would love to invite you once I get a
date to come and speak in front of R to
come because they would love that in um
in Johnson County it's called the um
Kerber rotary heart safe uh community so
um there there are any number of
opportunities to help offset the the
cost of AED acquisition no matter what
format the legislation produces um we're
not looking to make it into a hardship
we want people to uh recognize the value
of having an ad and having the
life-saving
training you got one more
here
I I did also want to share today that
when Lee and I spoke uh we spoke at
length about some of the concerns I had
on um what what this would cost some of
our businesses uh the way that the
ordinance is set up as of now and I
agree with Jess you know we want to uh
probably tweak that and have some
amendments coming but as of now it would
fall on businesses to um cover the cost
of the AED the um the bleeding control
kit uh to install those to maintain them
and also the cost of training their
employees and obviously Bexley is small
we want to make sure that the
accessibility is is for for every
business whether it's um a business
that's on the smaller side of whatever
guidelines we agree to or or if it's on
the larger side so I really appreciated
Lee sharing with me some of the
innovative ways that other communities
have maybe tried to help with some of
those costs obviously there would also
be um somewhat of a cost to the city you
know regarding inspection of those uh
devices and then also uh enforcement um
so we we shared those as well um I also
mentioned to him that uh I would love
that once we think the ordinance is in
as good of a position as we can get it
uh that I felt it was important to um to
share that with our businesses and let
them see um and maybe you know get some
of that input maybe we could get some
help from our Chamber of Commerce um at
the right time um and then finally Le I
wanted to mention to you that after you
know you and I had shared some of those
concerns I was able to talk to the mayor
and I did let him know that I felt it
was important to maybe put a line item
in our budget uh for um some uh
community relations work working with
our businesses uh regarding uh uh this
particular project and um I think you're
going to probably see that that maybe at
the next reading or at the next not the
next reading maybe a few ordinances from
now um but I think we've been able to
put um uh a placeholder of I believe
$10,000 for your project well thank you
very much and um you know to the point
that you made um Brian jury in the
Chamber of Commerce were was the first
person that I talked to in considering
getting well the second person after
mayor Kesler but um
the there support was essential to this
and they've been uh great partners with
us all the way uh Al along the way and
so the important thing to consider in
terms of what you had mentioned is we
need to start um saving lives within the
first two minutes of a sudden cardiac
arrest so every minute that that you
don't start CPR or get an AED used um
the chances for survival declines by um
10% so having the aeds strategically
placed um in businesses and most
importantly in residences is um is going
to be essential to um the the successful
outcome of the
program thank you thank
you I have a question just we should I
know where's the AED located in City
Hall oh right out I do remember now I
guess we should all know
that I we're at the third reading I
would extend opportunity to comment from
the audience as well if there's
anybody if not I will turn it back to
you Mr Marcelino yes thank you very much
uh just to comment on what uh seem to be
council president there you go Monique
Lany said when we sent this over to um
you know to lead to take a look at Slow
Down slow down and we're discussing um
we also sent it over to Brian right away
so I know Brian's had some time with it
as well so um I look forward to January
9th and uh kind of I will take Lee's
advice here and we will ask that we
table this ordinance until the next
official meeting is that a motion to
table it sure is a motion all right
motion to table by Mr Marcelino I will
second that motion uh Mr mCP please call
the rooll Mr Marcelino yes Miss Lany yes
Miss sad yes Mr Markham yes Miss Fel yes
Mr Kingler and Miss Robinson
yes
Ted um Mr Amin mayor Kesler recommended
that I read 3923 for before 38 that
makes sense to me okay so we have a
third reading of ordinance 39-23
authorizing Appropriations for the
calendar year beginning January 1st 2024
to reappropriate all unexpended opwc
project Appropriations for 2024 and to
confir wait a second we need a motion to
take it off the
table motion to remove ordinance
39-23 off the table we have to take it
off the table before you read it yeah
all right I'll second that um go ahead
Mr Markham yes Mr Kingler yes missad yes
Mr Marcelino yes Miss FIB yes Miss lampy
yes and Miss Robinson yes all right as I
was saying ordinance third reading of
ordinance
39-23 authorizing Appropriations for the
calendar year beginning January 1st 2024
to reappropriate all unexpended opwc
project Appropriations for 2024 and to
confirm the appointment of Mark fishal
City attorney introduced by Miss Lamy
and I really didn't even need to read it
because we've read it three times
already all right mayor I'm going to
turn it over to you if you want to uh
update us on any last minute change or
anything new got some
cover wow thank you uh Miss lampy um
festive as you as the audience may or
may not know we have a theme for every
one of our draft budgets the theme Here
is
community uh
Loosely uh so I wanted to highlight some
changes in the latest updated draft
budget there are a few uh but they are
meaningful um and I would turn your
attention to the final page of the
budget which is our Capital
summary and then specifically there is a
new line item under Police
Department um for a flock camera
system uh Chief and I have
been we've attended several
presentations by flock we've uh thought
about this for a while uh and watched as
adjacent um jurisdictions have have
signed on to the flock camera system it
is a it's a private third-party camera
system that functions as a um a form of
automated License Plate Reader um and
what it does essentially is it
identifies
uh uh cars that are driving through the
community that might have been flagged
for theft or uh violent crimes that uh
there might be warrants out for um and
also allows us to filter vehicle
activity based upon say there's a bank
robbery and we know that there's a red
sedan that's driven during a certain
period of time so you can filter down
and identify vehicles that might match
the description
investigatively um there's been interest
in from Council to pursue this uh what
is different about this than other
Capital expenditures is it's a
subscription based model and so um we
don't own the equipment we sign up for a
year contract it's installed we pay a a
per a location fee and then um if we
don't like the service we can choose not
to continue that subscription um the
chief and I have talked about it we've
um you know we've toyed with this in a
for a couple different um uh for a
couple different reasons synagogue
security has been brought up um we've
had an increase in auto theft activity
throughout the region um incidentally we
think that that has led to some of the
Pursuits that we've seen recently um and
some other jurisdictions and I want to
reiterate that we do not have the same
Pursuit policy as some adjacent
jurisdictions um but we think it would
be it could be a really meaningful
investigative tool we would like to give
the system a try for two years um and
learn from it um how helpful it is to
our operation
so this is a budget for one year of
operation of flock slightly there's a
small installation fee so it's a little
bit less year two I think it's 30,000
year two um something around there so
this provides us the ability to do that
through the capital budget um I would
want to come back to council with a more
dedicated proposal and information uh
that the chief would present um for
example this is based upon the initial
proposal from the company in terms of
locations I'm not sure that I'm
convinced that we the locations
identified are exactly the right ones so
we would want to talk about that some
more and I also want to raise the fact
that one of our hesitations in the past
in exploring this has been um concerns
around um civil liberties or concerns
around privacy and so we have to weigh
that against uh the need for security of
the community and
um you know whether or not it's the
right fit for
Bexley I I see I see a hand raised so
let's what is it okay Mr President we
stop there and and take discussion
around this first yeah let's do that
Chen hopefully this is a really quick
question but um I'm glad you you brought
up that last point because I know that's
the one thing that we've heard like with
license plate readers and those kinds of
things um is this something that you and
the chief collectively feel um is I know
you said there'll be more conversation
but you feel like this is a good thing
to explore given those concerns um and
is this something is this technology
something that is um kind of fine-tuning
that kind of License Plate Reader
technology or is this a completely
different um
technology um it is a little bit
different so our our we have had a
license plate reader in the past that's
attached to one of our Cruisers uh
connected to um the state database
essentially and highly customizable
based upon what it's flagging um and in
the past our policy has been pretty
restrictive where it's flagging um
violent crime warrants and auto
theft I I think that was sort of
generally speaking sort of as narrow as
it was um so it was not for example
flagging you know failure to appear or
sort of like more Petty warrants Duss
warrants that sort of thing um so and fr
quite frankly operationally we wouldn't
want to have a camera system that was
flagging less intense
um security concerns
because it would be overwhelming and
unmanageable right so um primarily this
would be used as an investigative tool
and also to uh intercept sort of the
most um H heinous of uh of uh of
offenses that we would be participating
with with area agencies um you know
white White Hall and Columbus both have
this system so this is in place all
around us not that that says that we
should have it um there's a theory that
we're seeing more Vehicles dumped in our
jurisdiction because people know that we
don't have the cameras I don't buy that
but there's that's a theory I don't
think that it's that well known where
the locations are but I could be
wrong they do they do Columbus
is I I don't Matt maybe you know how
many Columbus has it's not like it's
everywhere but Columbus does have corre
it's not everywhere but they're
expanding yeah there's not enough
right you have a
question oh I did but was Jen done I
didn't I think s
was
um go ahead okay gentleman first I I
agree no I appreci I just I actually
just want to thank uh councilman Kingler
I was a post meeting kind of message
just talking about flock and the
strength that it has I mean you know
with this great power comes great
responsibility from our police
department and I can say that in the
past I may not have had the same
confidence that I currently have in our
police police department to use this
effectively efficiently and
appropriately but certainly the
leadership and our current officers are
just doing an excellent job and I I look
forward to hopefully them having this
tool and helping make our community as
safe as it possibly can be and so I just
want to thank uh you uh councilman
Kingler for bringing this to our
attention I know it's been on the docket
before but really pushing it to the
Forefront for the mayor and the chief
for kind of really evaluating this and
making sure it was correct for our city
and I'll just also note just uh my
theory on the Privacy aspect of this is
that I think there's a million Camas
around our community already in the form
of ring cameras and stuff you're on
camera every day whether you know it or
not so I don't see this as a big
violation of my personal privacy or
Liberties but I'll leave it at that
thank you very
much thank you and I would add um just a
couple use case scenarios that we have
um you know we
have frequently had instances where a
vehicle's been involved in a hit skip or
um um a median hit skip and the we do
have cameras in many of our
intersections and so they capture some
information but they don't capture
enough information often to assist our
detective Bureau appropriately so this
would really be very helpful in
instances like
that um I just have a finance question
so you had mentioned that we don't own
these assets it's a subscription so I
believe this should actually hit the um
budget of the police department and not
be captured as a capital asset so if you
could feature research that I I do think
this would not hit Capital expenditures
because this is a a month or an annual
subscription okay
we can
um I think maybe with a vote it could be
a part of I guess we could
amend I guess I could send beer back to
the office to amend
that I'm sure you did um so let's just
let's there might be some others so
let's just say we're gonna reduce 34,000
out of the capital budget and add that
into the police budget and it would fall
under
um
sorry getting there it would fall
under man we could really go a lot of
ways with that
so the what contracts slash or leads
yeah you could add that there with a
little budget
node
um good news we do have enough uh
Surplus appropri or
Surplus income or sorry cash increase to
cover that in the general fund
so that will work all right okay any
other discussion on that item yep just
want to say a couple things um this is
very relevant today I'm very glad to see
this in the budget um City clumps
attorney there he's suing Kia and
Hyundai because of all of the stolen
vehicles were're our chief of police is
giving or our Police Department is
giving bars to K and Hyundai owners
because they're getting stolen so often
um and and this is really a tool to not
only track violent um criminals that may
be you know um in in those cars buto
stolen cars I mean it's really where
it's at I saw there was tonight on NBC 4
they were doing a story on a whiteall
stolen vehicle and the journalist said
since they've installed the flat camera
system um they've quadrupled the number
of stolen vehicles that they can uh
track down so um it's a real thing
Columbus um is starting their whole
real-time crime Center Public Safety
campus where they want to reach out to
Regional and work with regional Partners
um so it's it'll be a really great thing
for our police department and for our
residents considering the amount of
thefts that
um happened in the last five
years I'm happy to see this in the
budget
thanks all right I think you can move on
okay moving on um I'm now G to take us
to the
forestry
and Forestry and uh maintenance vehicle
maintenance account which
is coming up here see if I beats me to
this page I need to start just doing
page
down vehicle grounds mantenance and
urban forestry here we are I think it
shows up as page 25 on the packet
maybe uh we reduced uh contractual work
in Grounds Maintenance let me Zoom this
in so you can see that if you'll recall
at the last uh budget meeting we talked
about that reduction that would occur as
a result of um expansion of the ground
SC so I just want to show where that
occurred any questions on
that and I I I'm aware that I'm skipping
all around so I apologize but then I'm
going to take you back to page two of
the budget if you go
into the
summary you will see
under it says timated Appropriations but
it means estimated pending finalization
we have an estimated heart safe AED
support of
$10,000 um as per what council woman
lampy uh stated just to provide
potential funding for support of
um AED expansion into businesses through
the ordinance being discussed in
institutions um the reason it's in that
category is that's where we put things
that don't have that are really lacking
detail and finalization so it provides
us with the placeholder for Budget items
but we don't currently have a detail
around a program such as maybe a grant
to help support
businesses um or or training or whatever
it might be that's needed so that's just
a a placeholder there any questions on
that okay uh and
then if we go near the end of the NOP
let's not do that next let's do food
waste okay if we go to the refu fund
which is also near the end of the
budget and that is page
53
um we have a change a change in what we
have discussed in earlier
budgets and that is that um after diving
deep into exploring self-performance of
our curbside program um I I'm going to
push that discussion into
2025 um I think it's a great I know set
right uh I think it's it still
represents cost savings it's still
something I think we can really pull off
but I want to execute it well um there
are still too many question marks around
a self-performing um uh Vehicles won't
come in for six months for example to
try to support that and so uh and there
will be some changes to the way that we
do the planet so we're still trying to
like definitely double triple check all
of our assumptions we've been doing
tours of different facilities and we're
taking it quite seriously I also think
it kind of needs to be taken into
consideration alongside the larger
discussion that we've had about taking
over Solid Waste and Recycling service
in general um and so the plan that I
have is to continue to work with Andy
and the department on exploring that um
we have a placeholder in the capital
budget for equipment come back to you
all in the coming months to finalize
what we will or won't do uh and then
move forward and getting prepped for it
in time to really have a good solid
launch in
2025 um meanwhile we have notified our
contractor today that um I'll be asking
for Board of control to award the RFP
which actually is a lower rate than what
we're paying today so it would we would
show a reduction our current cost not as
low as we think it will be to self-
perform but lower what than what our
current expense is
so the the notes are in there from the
old number but the number is reduced
that's correct right um that is correct
except even as I say that um Beach and I
were doing some of this last minute and
Beach I think that our food waste
contract number or sorry our overall
contract number uh didn't go up by
140,000 from where it was
before in the cell for there is now a
plus 140,000 so and it
did we were
at
1394 I'm sorry I stand
corrected apology accept it right I'm
sorry that's right because rumpies was a
very minimal increase my bad thank you
beer your good name is
cleared what we're looking at is
different than the hard copy I have it
is that's how that's how uh so is this
what we're that's how last minute this
will vote on this is the one to vote on
up here not this is slightly changed
from the hard copy that you had okay and
then for my own Clarity it is the only
change from the hard copy okay and then
the 8K in resources what what is that
for resources or I'm sorry salaries and
wages that is so we have a full-time if
you'll remember we have a full-time
employee today that does street sweeping
and trash collection of common areas and
litter pickup
um that was left that position was paid
out of different funds last year
inadvertently um so it wasn't in last
year's budget in the appropr appropriate
space you could see it was in 2022 when
that individual was brought in I think
it partially through the year at a you
know step one okay but it's not I mean I
was inferring that it was ramping up in
anticipation of a change in the future
but that so it's really unfortunately no
I think that's it's both a full-time
employee I should if you'll notice in
the notes which are now need to be
corrected it's one Service employee and
half of sustainability programs
coordinator so it's one and a half
people um when we go to present you with
a fully fledged proposal which will look
I think a lot like what we were talking
about before it would be two and a half
people as the account notes G show right
there
okay yeah yes a couple things uh the new
the new Waste Management employee for
food waste collection that goes away
that's correct yeah okay so it's no
longer a budget note um right are we
using I know you expressed concern about
the current company we were using
ability to
compost uh I'll call it to the fullest
degree which we expected to be composted
is is that who this contract's going to
or are you going quality based yeah one
that aligns with our goals so uh let me
pull up real quickly
the oh that's our Eid agenda that has
nothing to do with this sorry guys
um for a board of control let me pull up
a board of control information because
this will help
illustrate that question I know you said
the one that I think most aligned with
our goals was was more expensive correct
yeah
so right ostensively and there's a lot
of asterisks still what we're gonna say
here so Earth Peak Organics is our
lowest uh total bid at 123654 that is
our current contractor they are
processing food waste into organic
fertilizer right um that is being um
it's being used it's being packaged and
sold but it's not the same as uh raw
compost so the Earth the gozero and
compost exchange represent raw compost
where they would take it to Raw
composting gozero though takes it like
two hours away and so actually has
there's some really NE negative carbon
implications for what they're doing
they're they have a farm in zay's field
which is and then Wason is that the
other place so it's really not only is
it far away which is environmentally
negative but it doesn't give us the
ability to effectively oversee and make
sure that Ure and then compost exchange
doesn't say where they would take it
they say it's within a certain mile
radius and there are only two vendors
that could really perform what they're
saying or which would be Price Farms and
uh the London correctional institute um
so I could go real deep on this but the
problem with Price Farms is that they
don't take
compostable uh single use items
including bags so the liners that we're
currently using our program aren't
accepted by Price Farms nor nor would
Cutlery or cups or any of that so we
would have to change our program in
level of Serv service that's what I was
referring to by level of service the
London correctional institute is um
we're less familiar with and so we're
trying to learn more about that that's
kind of part of our continuing due
diligence um all of which to say there's
not like a perfect 100% perfect solution
right now um Earth Peak Organics is
legitimately uh you know they are
finding markets for that organic
fertilizer and it is ramping up and
there's we've re since as we've been
doing more due diligence we've heard
some more positive things about it but
we've also been there for many years
with them and kind of as they've shifted
their models a little bit so
um I it's it's more murky than just
saying it's not as good of a level of
service right what about the bucket
management because I know that's been
ISS that's been issue is the bucket
management oning house or is that going
to be still with yeah so I think we're
going to keep bucket management for now
with the vendor uh just to keep things
as consistent as
possible then lastly if there's a
working group on switching to
Solid
Waste okay as a citizen I think you
should share it but yeah not share
it okay it's something we're I'm very
serious I like the idea very serious
about pursuing that
yeah it seems like the uh we're seeing
more uh competition and
right so that's a real positive because
when we started off there was one One V
to go with so we seeing more competition
but it's um you know it's it's still a
maturing Market yeah um what's also kind
of cool to see is I'm not I'm sorry if
I'm repeating myself but Upper Arlington
recently awarded a curbside program for
their whole Community yeah and um Athens
has since done curbside so and we were
hearing about other communities in
central Ohio that are doing it so when
we started off we were the community and
now Upper Arlington is doing it which is
really cool and I I believe
that so I mean I don't want to take
credit where it's not due but I think we
as a community should say we're creating
a model and showing how it works and
they're actually took a lot of our
Concepts and they're going with it which
is great that is really really good even
though you got us all excited and now
we're not gonna still be excited okay we
want to do it really well like and
that's part of the part of you know we
we uh I honestly think if our tour last
week had been a little different we
would have probably been right out the
gates and figured out the equipment
issue but learning about some of the
changes to service and how we're going
to manage expectations we need time to
do that well Sam and I are gonna have to
dial it down now for a year I guess but
okay no it's we'll get Sam two
buckets
so so po Clarity how much is sitting in
this budget
for waste because I know we've got a
board of control later so I so in this
budget is is
140,000 the food waste component um last
year was 145 of actual cost I expect it
to be less than 140 you saw that bid
okay but it gives us a little
variability in our totor contract that's
all
okay um okay this next one
is very hot off the press Andy got an
email from the city of
Columbus Andy when did you get an email
from the city of Columbus earlier this
week I think
um about the joint Livingston Avenue
plan and so as you know we were awarded
federal funds and we're working with
Columbus to work move forward with the
federal funds it's like a $16 million
Grant and um uh there's a a cost share
where Bexley I think we're
around 25% of overall costs and it's
several million dollars in overall
expenses on the project the reason I'm
being vague about it is we have yet to
agree with Columbus how we're um
splitting it that's going to come before
Council and we have yet to have final
estimates from them and how we're doing
that so that's also going to come before
Council but we we need to budget for our
piece of the front-end due diligence
which is a lot of the cost because
engineering and project preparation is
100% it's our grant match it's what's
covered by the cities Columbus has
estimated that next year we would have
up to
$543,000 as part of that um it's project
engineering it's planning it's a very
deep uh a very deep and very complicated
project um we can do two things we could
have this in the budget
today uh which would not be able to
spent anyway until you guys approve the
Moa which is the agreement between us
and Columbus which we're probably going
to look at in January um or we could
wait and put it in the budget at the
same time as we approve the mo MOA with
more
information um I don't think there's a
reason we can't wait but I wanted to put
it in as a
placeholder for me I say whatever is
easiest and more convenient I am just so
excited that we're doing this I think
this is great I'm fully for this I just
I just think this is an amazing thing
that's G to make a huge huge difference
for Bexley I'm so excited that Columbus
is an active participant with us on this
and uh so uh it doesn't matter me how do
it as long as we are ready to do it okay
um all right well we could leave it in
as now and again we can't spend that
money until we had the M MOA so that we
come back to you in in January I think
City Council in Columbus is also
considering they haven't already pass
I'm not
sure um and thank you for bothering them
Andy or whatever you do to make sure
they keep getting back to
us however you do
it that is there's one more I'm sorry
one more I almost said that's it uh this
is pretty minor it's a wash but under
the rad and Alley fund we didn't perform
anything on Colombia this year that was
$400,000 of our street project so we're
reenberg it next year so it's a
reappropriation of delayed 2023 it shows
therefore there's no impact
on uh the
overall bottom line of
that
or there shouldn't be at
least I me I'd have to like
spend is that right beer we cured that
out of the
budget yeah I put in a line for
estimated unspent Appropriations which
takes the total expenditures down from
one million 388 down to
988 so we're showing the increase this
year and then it shows a decrease next
year which is essentially wash do that
makes
sense okay and that's the sum of what
has changed before you leave let's just
make sure there aren't any further
questions or further changes that might
come out of this let's send her a new
ordinance for that
police be looks like the students there
toward the end of the hour getting all
fidgety with his backpack and everything
you got any
uh you just have that one change to make
have that one change to make okay and
then I'll send that to now and I have no
report tonight so I'll probably okay any
other conversation okay why don't you go
and make that change and I guess we
could we could vote on approval of the
amended
ordinance subject to that additional
change is that does that work or does he
need to print it
out okay
comments
questions and then uh we extend that
opportunity to the uh yes Mr
Lewis Don Le 663 you Clair Mr Mayor
about two or three years ago I can't
recall
exactly there was a fund created of
which you had comment that you could
take these funds to be used towards any
given specific something need to be done
are you can you remember that all I
can't remember the name of it
infrastructure fund that's the yeah is
that still in this budget uh it is and
we were just referring to that actually
when we were talking about the
Livingston Avenue project okay so uh in
our budget we have um an additional
we've been adding money to the
infrastructure development fund and I
can pull it up if that's okay Mr yes
please
um so give me one second to show you
what that looks like right now so
currently that fund is carrying a
balance of 2.9 Million so we've been
added to it over several years we're
adding another 100,000 in this budget um
we usually don't add as much during the
actual budget itself it's we're using
excess funds that are occurring to tuck
away into infrastructure um Livingston
was one of the primary reasons for the
structure fund and so uh the two things
that are being proposed out of the in
infrastructure fund for next year would
be remediation at Ferndale Mayfield and
then our contribution to the Livingston
Avenue project super thank you
yep excellent question anything
else all right I'll give Mo'Nique the
eye here okay um on your agenda there is
a proposed amended ordinance
39-23
um mayor I I'll ask you since beer
stepped out but we have double checked
these numbers consistent with what
changes you've made and proposed
tonight uh we have and I think um I
think Natalie is telling me that there
is
even you're saying there's a new new
ordinance
right but the one from just that he just
left
for that's the the latest is up on the
screen
um to the best of our ability I believe
it's been checked and double checked
okay and I understand there are a couple
changes just now that we're talking
about so what I would what I will do is
we will triple check it and if for some
reason there's an additional issue then
we will let you guys know we would have
to have a special counsil meeting around
that okay but my my you know it's been
through a lot of combs over the past
several weeks as you know so what we're
looking to do then is we do need to
amend and then we go from there so Y and
do you want to incorporate in the
amendment the change that you guys were
just talking about going from Capital to
not should be it should be incorporated
I think you can just do it verbally so
it's on the record and then we can
change the actual version
you know for the
record okay so you would amend as
presented on the screen as in the packet
it's what's currently in the packet and
U additionally amend it with removal of
34,000 from the capital
expenditures and and an addition and
moving that money from the capital
expenditures to the police department uh
total other expenditures sounds right MC
PE that sound great right
it
does it does I just wrote notes on
something I'm supposed to sign so we're
on a on a roll here well H but yes there
you go Monique all right don't get any
better than that here it goes I moved to
amend ordinance
39-23 as shown on the
screen with the additional amendment of
moving the $34,000 for the flock camera
system from the capital budget to the
police department budget motion to amend
by Miss lamkey second second by Mr
Kingler Mr MC peek Mr Marcelino yes Miss
Robinson yes Miss fibal yes Miss sad yes
Miss Lany yes Mr Markham yes Mr Kingler
yes motion to amend
passes um further comments or questions
on the existing document
then
okay all right I move to adopt amended
ordinance
39-23 motion to adopt by Miss lamkey
second second by Mr Kingler Mr mCP Miss
hod yes Miss fible yes Miss Robinson yes
Mr Marcelino yes Mr Kingler yes Miss
lampy yes Mr Markham yes motion passes
yeah thank
you now we go to you well actually now
this is Al 3823 is also tabled so it
just needs to be moved off the table so
uh we have a motion I move to remove
from the table ordinance 38-23 motion to
remove ordinance 38-23 from the table I
will second that Mr Mr mCP please call
the rooll Miss
fible uh yes Mr Kingler yes Miss lamkey
yes Miss Robinson yes Mr Markham yes Mr
Marcelino yes Miss sad yes motion to
remove ordinance
passes now can now do you need to read
it I've read it three times already so
we're good well geez Mark right I can
read it if you really want me
to we don't I will turn it over to miss
lampy then
okay um on your agendas there is a
proposed amendment ordinance
38-23 um we previously discussed there
was a change to the pay range for Camp
administrators the new pay range as
shown is4 to $23 an hour mayor are there
any other changes besides that one uh as
reflected here um miss lampy the only
other changes are there are changes in
the exhibit so I would point you to the
exhibit pay scale um there are two
changes um one
is I should actually say there's three
because one is of form um the director
of administration development position
has been added uh which we discussed
earlier in the development department um
that's a pay scale that is a
commensurate with similar director bands
the HR coordinator rate has been moved
to hourly because it was previously
expressed as a salary based on a
full-time position and our HR
coordinator is hourly um arguably could
have been placed in the part-time
section of the ordinance but because
there is a pay scale with this I felt it
most appropriated put it here and then
finally um we have uh we are working on
a honed job description for one of our
employees who works between wreck and
City Hall um and was last placed as a
recre programs coordinator
um job continues to expand and so we've
we're creating this position called
operations and creative coordinator um
and that more fully explains what the
employee is doing and it slightly
increases the pay
scale all of which was reflected in the
budget any questions from Council before
I move to
amend okay I move to amend sorry about
that ior it's okay no worries sorry
about um in terms of the HR coordinator
versus the other HR can you show me
where the other HR position lies just so
I can
see um there is no oh I'm sorry because
we have that situation where we're
calling it HR but it's so the finance
the payroll and Personnel coordinator I
just want to see where it fell in terms
of the description thank you gotcha okay
and the pay range difference you can see
the
same I just highlighted on your screen
the position you just spoke about this
is the full-time equivalent pay range
right here up here it's the it's the
same band as the chief executive
assistant public records administrative
manager it's a good call out Sam thanks
um all right I move to amend ordinance
38-23 as shown on the screen motion to
amend by Miss lampy second seconded by
Mr Kingler uh Mr mCP Mr Marcelino yes
Miss lampy yes Mr Kingler yes Miss sad
yes Miss fibble yes Miss Robinson yes
and Mr Markham yes ordinance is
amended I move to adopt amended
ordinance
38-23 motion to adopt by Miss lamkey
second second by Mr Kingler uh comments
or questions comments or questions Mr
mCP m
yes Miss Robinson yes Mr Markham yes Mr
Marcelino yes Mr Kingler yes Miss Lamy
yes Miss fible yes ordinance passes
thank you woohoo there we
go I could see all right we return to
the agenda for public comments do we
have any speaker slips no speaker slips
all right pres report oh
geez
oh my gosh guys I'm
sorry just oh my God I
just
ah I just wanted to try and like just
Express honestly just all day like what
a terrible job trying to scribble
something down here and let you guys
know how much you all mean to me and and
what this what these last two years has
meant and uh
I just I want to say how much I've
enjoyed being here with all of you guys
doing this um I just I think this is I
mean this is just the most amazing group
and I started calling you guys the uh
the Dream Team like a little while back
and uh you know and it kind of stuck
because it sounds corny but it really is
uh it's just so true um you guys are a
group of really smart talented caring
people uh you care about the city and
you know you care about each
other um you're individuals and you also
are just this amazing cohesive unit that
works on behalf of the city as
well um you know the one thing that I
have said what what have I always said
Matt don't don't be
afraid to be the one six vote to speak
up to be the one six vote yes thank you
uh and you've never you guys have never
let me
down uh you brought raw honest
willingness to come here and do combat
and give it your all and then lay down
your weapons after the battle is over
and then you Embrace each other uh as
brothers and
sisters after every meeting you've left
it all on the floor when you go home and
and I just I just love you guys for that
I really
appreciate the job that you do and how
you are able to to bring all that and
then still bring such compassion and
really love to uh to this body as
well uh let me be uh let me be
when I say brothers and sisters you guys
I feel like you are my brothers and
sisters I feel like you guys are my
family here um you're everything that I
could have hoped for uh when I stepped
up here two years ago this has been one
of the most experiences of my life uh
I'll carry the uh the relationships with
all of you the rest of my life as
well uh even now it's like you know I'm
a little choked up and I'm enjoying
myself but uh it's I feel I feel this
moment you know Sliding Away and uh and
I know that you know we'll never have
this again and that that feels very big
to me right now as much as I've loved it
from day to day and week to week here uh
I want you to know that this has been uh
this has been the honor of my life to be
up here and to serve uh as your uh city
council president I just I want to thank
you all thank
you
so the attorney
report well I know at the end of the
meeting folks go around and council
members talk about those who are
departing and whatnot and um so I'm just
going to do it now and get over with it
real quick about it so I don't step on
anyone's Toes or interrupt your time
later on so Troy it's been phenomenal
working with you the last two years I
know you're not leaving Council I'm glad
about that um I think I mean I really
have enjoyed and I think they've been
very productive pre-council meetings so
I hope that continues with whoever else
will be attending these meetings and
again you know I don't want to I don't
want to compare children but it has been
a
very enjoyable and productive two years
I mean I can't believe it's been two
years it's boom um so I appreciate that
very much um and uh you know Jen and
Matt you will definitely be missed up
here um I wish that wasn't the case I
know that there
capable people who are ready to step in
but it again it's really been a unique
group of people in my seven or eight
years of doing this and how much you've
gotten done and how much everyone how
well everyone has gotten along so you
know I very appreciative of it of it as
City attorney and as a resident of
Bexley so that is my report which wasn't
much of a report but thanks guys thank
you Mr
fishal Auditor's report I'll do the same
thing as Mark did um
but um I will simply say Troy I really
appreciate your leadership um you have
brought um heart and compassion um to
these meetings that has really helped
open my eyes to um you know things that
I would read about but you bring um
emotion to it um for us here today and
and in Prior meetings which I'm
incredibly grateful for so thank you and
then um for Miss Robinson Mr Kingler um
it's been an honor to serve with you
both um you guys both bring um a really
unique skill set um and personality to
the council um it's just been great to
get to know you and get to know you
better um but
um you know really think a lot about how
councils work together and everybody
bringing a unique skill set and what you
guys bring to the table will be
genuinely missed um but optimistic about
what new folks will bring um so thank
you for your
service thank you Mr mCP and you are
also uh just an especially dear part of
this experience for me too having you
here as well I just want you to know
thank you administrative
update thank you Mr
President um Mike price is joining us
remotely I
believe and even if not I'm going to
pull up his
uh his
update uh he's been on the zoom or might
be his
doppelganger can you see me or hear me
yeah we hear you and we see you you're
looking great Mr Price all right all
right so
um yeah take it away Mike but I wanna
just congratulate you and your staff on
a fantastic pancake breakfast
uh as always a very successful we have
had Council since the tree lighting it's
been it's been a one past few
weeks never mind um but yeah thank you
Mike it was a great event sorry go ahead
no no thank you uh thank you all the
council members mayor ker for all the
volunteer support of the pant breakfast
it was a wonderful event and uh nothing
to add to my written report but happy to
answer any
questions any questions for Mr Price
just sad Mike I just wanted to say what
an honor and a privilege it's been to be
the chair for Park and wreck the past
two years and to really dive in even
though I thought I knew all the work the
park and wreck does having been um very
involved in all the programming over the
last 15 years there was so much more to
learn so thank you to you your staff and
um the whole crew for all the things and
including me in on the barbie uh the
Barbie Halloween parade shenanigan but
I'm truly Gonna Miss uh chairing
chairing that committee it's very
special and uh I look forward to
continuing the good work with other
projects even though we'll all be
changing roles in January but just thank
you for your leadership and all you do
and all you put in um we appreciate you
it's been a pleasure thanks Jess and we
appreciate all your time and energy and
your support so thank you very
much any question other questions for
Mike okay thank you Mike miss you here
good to see you virtually you too all
right um Mr Bayshore service department
update thanks for sticking around with
us here Andy no problem thanks mayor um
nothing really to add to my written
report I just wanted to give a quick
update um Leaf Crews have been working
over in the evenings and also on
Saturdays I believe we're probably going
to start our third round this Friday and
um I think once we start our third round
it's really going to go quick and be
able to finish up before winter hits
hard okay any questions for any and
lauran I would feel remiss if I didn't
follow in Jess's footsteps and thanking
you for being such a great partner for
me and doing service I I I looked
forward to it because I know the guys do
such an amazing job and there are such
an easy group of people to to cheer on
um but just because I'm not doing that
please make sure that they know that the
hot chocolate the
lollipops and the milkshakes will not
stop
okay thank you Andy um beer I believe
has done Yan's work today so I think uh
we're good with updates from him I think
I saw his tail lights just I think it's
peel peel
out as you know the the police
department is having their annual
holiday party this evening um rudely on
the same night as a council meeting
perhaps by Design I can neither confirm
nor deny uh but good for them for saving
money on their catering bill um any
questions relative to the chief I could
pass along or attempt to uh
answer yes ma'am hopefully everybody
gets a chance to read some of this stuff
because oh my gosh some of the stuff
they did this week so uh they got that
felon in there um and and they were uh
talking to a different County about um a
juvenile who was talking
about doing something awful to his
school so please make sure you read
those if you
haven't okay anything
else all right um my update is uh is
typically short during budget season for
you so that's my gift to you um I will I
I have some things up my sleeve for the
holiday party to to recognize um our
outgoing members but I do want to say um
what a gift it has been working with all
of you in this Council session um the I
think I've shared this with you before
but every month I get together with
Mayors and City Managers from Central
Ohio and we commiserate and of course we
share ideas uh it's a fantastic way for
us to um as you could imagine also kick
off some steam and sort of uh complain
about our situations and I've been known
in the past to complain about my
situations but for the past two years I
have kept my mouth shut as I've listened
to uh discussion of some of the um
dysfunctionality that might occur in
some other jurisdictions because really
how gifted are we um I've always said
that I don't care if you disagree with
me that's great I can handle that I just
care that your heart is rooted in our
community and that comes across so
clearly with the council and the
leadership as our council president Troy
um and the servant leadership of Matt
Clinger and Jen Robinson who I am going
to miss so much work in basad um I think
that our chances of having a council
band have really just been reduced
greatly moving into the next year not a
good one anyway four years I never got
the invite oh man oh oh I didn't even
see there we go now I'm now now you're
gonna go complain to that group yeah
yeah I
am well I will consider that a challenge
Miss Robinson um and uh Matt I have your
Insight in um and bringing your
professional experience to the table has
been invaluable and the good news for
our community is that you're not off the
hook not only you chairing the solid
waste contract exploratory committee
that was just created this evening um
but I I really look forward to seeing uh
seeing you work on Bap and serving
beside you on the cic um but I just
can't I I I just can't say enough words
about how find it has been to work with
this group it is really this is the best
Council I've ever worked with I'm really
sorry for any past councils um because
not because you said yes in fact I was
on the phone with one of you guys
disagreeing today and that's fine
because we're going to figure out a plan
this is a group that works together for
Solutions um and doesn't let ego get in
the way I'm not saying
anybody I wasn't even talking about
you
Sam's and Troy I have
[Laughter]
enjoyed as good as you are Troy Troy has
has thinks that he can tell when I'm
angry by the look in my eyes and I want
you to know you did crack the code a
little bit a little bit but it's like a
5050 rate on where you read me so I want
I want you to say that you still have
room for professional growth oh yeah but
we have such we have a very complex
relationship you know so great so it's
been it has been a true a true honor and
pleasure serving to you up at this Das
thank you I I just love being up here
for the two years and working with you
in those pre-council meetings yeah
stop and I look forward to seeing that
look a little bit I told my my kids I
was like Troy thinks that when I make
this look I'm angry all the time and
they're like yeah that's what that means
and they were like yeah we know that
look
too sometimes I'm just excited thank so
much uh thank you uh and more more
accolades and uh recognition to come um
I do want to highlight a couple things
on here uh of course we do have our
holiday party coming up on Thursday um
also not in the report because there's
not really much in the report uh as you
know we have posted the position of
administra administration and
development sorry director of
administration and development I'm
getting there it's right there in front
of me um and interviewed and some of you
were uh helpful in interview you were
all helpful but some of you were present
for the interview process uh this week
and I appreciate that um you will be uh
I will be asking for a vote of
confirmation of a new uh director of
administration development this evening
uh following an executive session um so
I do want to make sure that everyone's
prepared for that I think you are uh and
make sure that the public is aware of
that so um that will be happening later
in this meeting also after the end of
the meeting we'll have a board of
control to discuss the uh awarding of
our compost uh RF our compost bid um so
with that that concludes my report I'm
happy to answer your
questions Mr
official I believe we're on to third
readings then so we're not we need the
consent agenda oh I'm sorry I was too
far I rolled down too far thank you we
have the consent agenda meeting minutes
from December 5th 2023 and ordinance
42-23 authorizing the mayor and auditor
to enter into a contract between the
city of Bexley in Franklin County Public
Health that was introduced by Mr
Marcelino comments and questions on the
consent agenda seeing none motion to
adopt the consent agenda by Mr Markham
can I get a second second by Mr Kingler
Mr mCP Mr Marcelino yes Miss lampy yes
Miss sad yes Mr Markham yes Miss fible
yes Mr Kingler yes Miss Robinson yes
consent agenda passes thank you all
right now we'll move on to third
readings we have a third reading of
ordinance
41-23 to amend ordinance number 9104 to
extend the life of the Main Street
incentive District Main Street
Redevelopment streetcape Tiff and the
period of the tax exemption provided
therein by an additional 15 years
introduced by Mr
Kingler thanks Mr official I don't know
if we need to bring this one up I don't
think there are any amendments to it
it's a third reading uh just to refresh
all your memories this um we want to
extend the life of the Main Street
Tiff um to pay for to help pay for
things like the the medians on Main
Street um all the improvements we've
done in Main Street over the years but
there's a law within the orc that allows
us to do this um it'll extend the Tiff
out to 20 49 or something 51 51 yeah 20
a long
time um any questions on this one it's a
great
thing comments or
questions comments or questions from the
audience all right Mr Kingler I make a
motion to approve ordinance of
41-23 before anyone seconds that sorry
um I'm sorry I was slightly distracted
for a second this one is the one where
you have to send public notice to the
schools in the county still oh sorry
about that need more time my bad days
from last meeting yep correct all right
so what does uh withdraw your motion
draw my motion to approve and I make a
new motion to table ordinance 41-23 I
motion to table by Mr Kingler second
second by Miss Robinson uh Mr MC Mr
Markin yes Miss
Kingler Mr Kingler sorry I was like I
don't see Jess yes Mr CL okay sorry
about that Miss s oh
man yes Mr Marcelino yes Miss fibble yes
Miss Lamy yes Miss Robinson yes
ordinance is Ted
okay okay third reading of ordinance
44-23 to establish the water and sewer
raage charged by the city of Bexley and
to declare an emergency Miss lamp
key thank you um as previously noted um
the water and sewer rates are going up
so we are merely passing those on to uh
our
residents um any questions about this
ordinance I think we've already amended
it right but I'm sh last time I'm
showing it's already amend I thought we
did not as well it's should it be listed
as a proposed amended then it's listed
here for me is an amended one
but
well there's a but is that from just the
old one I I don't remember discussing
amending this
ordinance hold on I can figure that out
really
quickly that is a type I'm so sorry
because we were using amended ordinance
from last year as the as the uh as the
basis and so we need to amend it with
those changes as shown mayor no it's the
the title is a typo it is not amended
ordinance it is an ordinance because it
has not been
amended unless something you remember
that I'm
misremembering we haven't amended it
before that we started off with
5% and that's been that way since the
first reading okay so what what had
happened was we often take the ordinance
from the year prior and last year it had
been amended and so it was my failure in
seeing that title issue
so it's okay as is just as ordinances
listed there I will print out a correct
version right now that just shows that
it's okay ordinance straight
up but it can't it can be approved in
this
form it will be signed without it saying
amended at the top sounds
good it'll look something like
that um I move to approve ordinance
44-23 motion to adopt by Miss lamkey
second second by Mr
Kingler uh comments or
questions Mr MC PE miss lamkey yes Miss
sad yes Miss fibal yes Mr Markham yes
Miss Robinson yes Mr Marcelino yes and
Mr Kingler yes ordinance
passes okay third reading for resolution
9-23 confirming the mayor's appointments
to of members to the community
Improvement Corporation the CRA Housing
Council and the board of zoning and
planning introduced by Miss
Robinson uh so this is pretty
straightforward I know we've looked at
this for the last three weeks um are we
gonna make Mr Kingler get up and do a
dog and pony show tonight so we can we
can pepper you with all sorts of
questions oh I don't think he wants to
that's fair I know where he
lives I'm very excited to continue
serving thank you we are excited as well
thank you for saying yes yes yeah um
does anybody have any
questions all right I make a motion to
pass resolution
923 motion to adopt by M
Robinson second second by Mr Kingler
comments or questions Mr mCP Mr
Marcelino yes Miss sad yes Miss
Bible yes
careful I try I'm being careful now I
got everything sideways here Miss
Robinson yes okay uh M Miss lampy yes Mr
Mark yes and Mr cler yes ordinance
passes okay we are onto hopefully a less
challenging resolution actually is you
have to say the names the same each time
though um resolution 10-23 to schedule
the Bexley city council meeting dates
and times for the year 2024 introduced
by Mr mkam thank you um I don't think we
had any discussion or debate last time
on these dates uh I'm not sure if
there's any discussion or debate needed
yet if not I'll talk for a second or two
just in case and then I'll say uh motion
to adopt resolution
10-23 thank you Mr Kingler second by Mr
Mr Kingler uh Mr
mCP Miss
fible yes Mr Kingler yes Miss lampy yes
Miss Robinson yes Mr Markham yes Mr
Marcelino yes Miss
sad
yes ordinance
passes now we have a third reading of
resolution 11-23 adopting the city of
Bexley 2023 strategic Plan update
introduced by Miss Robinson working uh
Jen and Matt Hard here on the last night
eek every last bit of work out of us um
I hopefully you all had a chance to look
at the latest revision of the Strategic
plan um it is literally been updated
today I'm GNA have everybody take just a
second and look um at the V mission and
vision that we worked on last week um
Matt Clinger I think you will be very
happy with our
vision
it's concise oh man look at
that we got it down to four we said five
but yeah or three
s listen all right baby steps Mr
Kingler we're doing the best we
can back to your Corners folks uh aside
from the the mission and vision I have
to say this is an incredibly impressive
document uh the mayor I know has worked
really hard along with all of the
department heads and everybody the work
from the community you can still see all
these lovely Post-it notes out um this
is definitely a document that we can all
be proud of and I'm I'm super um super
excited that we finally gotten to the
point and that I can do it on my last
day um put this up for a vote so um yeah
comments or questions start with me I
love this so much I I I really do I
think this is fantastic such great work
uh on both of you guys uh I love it so
much if I had another uh council meeting
I'd bring you up as visiting authors
give you a give you a bottle of syrup
but um thank you Mr President a couple
there are a couple changes just to talk
about that were informed by the public
Workshop if it's okay yeah um so there
have been some minor tweaks in language
there was one call out that uh you
remember one of the things in our
uh and this this plan shows like
previous plans that are still active and
and where we are for example the reboard
pointed out fitness centers at uh key
points along the park perimeter of
Commonwealth it it was incorrectly
labeled as no longer applicable and
that's not true we're still we still
have that in the Horizon so minor kind
of Corrections like that typographical
Corrections I'm sure we'll still find
more uh in the future but added a a
couple goals based upon
conversations um at the workshop and
Beyond one of them is um within the
development section of the plan uh
discusses streamlining bexley's zoning
approval process so I want to make sure
to highlight this um you
know 20 years ago uh we created a new
structure in our zoning approval board
with the creation of something at the
time was called The Main Street
commission I'm not sure if you guys are
familiar with that
but the design of the Main Street
commission was to make it really easy
for development to go through an A A
streamlined process not to make the
approval easier but to make the process
easier if that makes sense um since then
we we actually folded that back into the
Planning Commission the Planning
Commission became the board of zoning of
planning ARB sort of sprung out of what
was bza to a degree and then the tree
commission has become more and more
pivot
in the development approval process um
all of those I think are really positive
things but I think what has been also
true is that it's become more and more
complicated for applicants to navigate
um I think when it comes to large multi-
multi-million dollar
developments I mean it shouldn't be
complicated but of course it needs to be
a strenuous review process and I'm not
really referring as much to those sorts
of review processes because those are
sophisticated applicants who have
resources in their aware not that we
should be unfriendly to applicants but
it actually kind of hits more like uh
there are some home projects that have
had to go to all three boards and have
been kind of tied up in those processes
so I'm not saying that it shouldn't have
to go all three boards in fact like many
of these recommendations it doesn't
really prescribe The Cure it identifies
the problem and the Cure needs to be
discovered among the community and then
ratified by Council so it simply calls
out an issue that I think we see more of
that we need to sort of take a step back
look at how our review processes are
working or aren't working um learn from
other communities in the area because
there are communities that do things
quite differently from us others that do
things quite similarly and see if there
are ways that we might streamline that
process so that is a new objective since
the last
draft and then also are you gonna chair
that committee as
well also we have think you'd be great
at it just for the record U within our
sustainability goals um have
included
uh specifically
mentioning the tree
canopy that's Recreation sorry they're
both green we're getting there um so
that was
a that was sort of an Omission um that
should not have been omitted from uh the
the draft uh which is that obviously
there are a lot of benefits to our tree
canopy it's really important to us to
continue to nurture a healthy canopy and
expand it where necessary and and where
indicated um so that's just called out
in this we don't actually have that
formally called out that I can think of
in any other strategy so I think it's
important to name
that and then other than that I think
those are the two primary changes um
there were a lot of comments on there
that sort of in during the meetings that
ask some questions but often they were
asking like can we have this but it was
already in the plan but in a different
place that hadn't been seen so I think
we're encapsulating
um almost everything that was was
gathered during the public
Workshop so
that ladies and gentlemen is the uh
updated Bey strategic plan December 12th
draft further comments
questions if not we will send it back
over to M
Robinson sorry my husband is distracting
me you kick him
[Laughter]
out I
know yeah seriously no I I make a motion
that we approve uh resolution
1123 uh motion to adop by M Robinson
second second by Mr Kingler comments or
questions Mr M peek oh hold on we have a
comment or question good work Mrs
Robinson way to keep us on
track and all the good work uh you do it
very well and that's another reason
we're also going to miss you but good
work on this I'm excited to uh to get
this approved
yeah work all the things should go to
Ben we're just gonna team effort thank
you for the collaboration of working
through it it was
Del all right Mr MC PE Mr Marcelino yes
Miss lampy yes Mr Kingler yes Miss sad
yes Miss vial yes Mr Markham yes and
Miss Robinson yes resolution passes
maybe a little Applause for that one to
that's kind
of I'm all right I'm so appreciative to
have this Council V on that thank you so
much bennifer did we just give Ben I got
you oh man Ken's standing right there
man that's yeah that's not
appropriate Affleck and Jennifer Lopez
that's I'm gonna insist that we move on
yeah please all right how about a second
reading of ordinance
45-23 to amend chapter 880 of the city's
codified ordinances to comply with the
changes made in h Bill 33 effective 1124
Ms Lamy
thank you at our last uh reading uh the
attorney um City attorney walked us
through these changes and why they are
required pursuant to um House Bill
33 um Mark I did have a question given
that the changes are effective as of
January 1st 2024 can we let this go to a
third reading or do we need to um adopt
and suspend it tonight so it's in effect
I think it's cleaner to adopt and
suspended tonight um and I I think I I
UD emergency language too that will make
it effective upon signature by the mayor
okay any questions before I move to
suspend I move to suspend the three
reading requirement for ordinance
45-23 motion to suspend the three
reading requirement Miss Lamy second
second by Mr
Kingler uh Mr mCP Miss sod yes Miss
Robinson yes Mr Markham yes Mr Marcelino
yes Mr Kingler yes Miss lampy yes Miss F
yes motion to suspend third reading rule
passes I move to adopt ordinance
45-23 motion to adopt Miss
lampy second oh Kingler second by Mr
Kingler it's getting slow he's getting
tired okay Mr
Marcelino yes Miss Lamy yes Miss sod yes
Mr Markham yes Miss fible yes Mr Kingler
yes and Miss Robinson yes you know
without Matt here will anything ever be
seconded we may just be frozen next
year all right okay under first readings
first reading of ordinance
46-22 to approve an intergovernmental
agreement between the city of Bexley and
the Bexley public library and to declare
an emergency introduced by Miss
Lamy thank you this is pretty exciting
stuff I'm going to turn it over to our
mayor but I also see our library
director you have a surprise
witness um who who you may you may
approach the bench
sir uh Mr President members of council
uh I would like to introduce you to our
library director Ben Heckman oh my
goodness honor to be here with this
Council for one last go round
welcome Mr Heckman so in front of us
today um we have uh proposed ordinance
4623 which anticipates an
intergovernmental agreement between the
city of Bexley and the Bexley Public
Library um this is relative to the Tiff
funded the proposed Tiff funded project
at the library um specifically the
city's contribution um allocated in
spirit to the outdoor reading room Park
uh which as you know is a year of the
parks project um conceived of over a cup
of coffee as uh Mr Heckman and I sat in
like I think it was in a parking lot
outdoor chairs and what was what is
currently still a parking lot a drive a
driveway driveway between the library
and the and the synagogue um the way
this essentially works is it allows um
this it it sort of puts in writing what
we've been talking about all along and
what we've already approach operated for
um that the city is contributing
$450,000 to the project um that the city
has helped in the development of the
designs for the project and in the
bidding um and and it formalizes that
relationship frankly not anything we
need on our part but it is something
necessary for the library um and from a
legal from a legal perspective because
you your the actions you've taken and
appropriating the funds are adequate for
what we are doing at this point but the
library needs an agreement to show um
not just the good faith and to to to
show what we are doing but also to make
sure that they're legally conforming
with um bidding laws and um legally
conforming with what they need in order
to make the project move
forward did I synopsize that it's great
to be here with all of
you I think the only thing I would say
to that is uh we we put a bid out for
this project we should be receiving bids
and opening them uh anyone can attend at
noon on Friday and I think that will
help us with a better understanding of
what the time frame of this project is
if the project is a go as far as funds
and timing are concerned so um yeah I'm
happy to take
questions questions for Mr Heckman while
he's here under
oath I don't remember that
part
implied I have a question why didn't you
come as Ben
Franklin that was requested actually one
time a
year unless you know yeah that's another
another conversation let the record show
he made the money
sign yes Mr Kingler say fully in support
of this project it's G be a great
project um I live a couple hundred yards
from this space and I can't wait to see
thank you for your
vision the invested
V that's our band name we are gonna ask
Jen Robinson to join it as well thank
you you have a lot of extra
time so I think um I will return in
January with more update with timing and
time frames from that aspect uh and I
can answer more questions at that point
too I think from timing perspective uh
from a timing perspective I think uh
we're looking at least a second reading
and at that point in time it might make
sense to ask for suspension um if
Council should so choose we're either
gonna Crank It Up or slow it down thank
you Mr Heckman thank you very much
yman yeah I think it's we we need to
right I think it' be
I need to I need some help where we are
on the agenda because we are we're
moving around a little bit here
right we have table we're done with the
reading so we're at tabled ordinances no
action on tabled ordinances unless nope
right nope what do you think mayor no
I'm just
kidding all right uh in that case um I
move that we retire to ex executive
session to consider the appointment
employment dismissal discipline
promotion demotion or compensation of a
public employer official or the
investigation of charges or complaints
against Public Employee official under
Section 22303 A of the codified
ordinance
second it could be done it doesn't have
be part of the motion done yeah let the
record show that someone has been
invited and then it should be put on the
record after you got moved to go into
and it will be after after you vote to
go into executive session I mean the
suspense is killing everybody all right
did you second it all right um Mr mCP
give
us miss s yes Miss fible yes Miss
Robinson yes Mr Marcelino yes Mr Kingler
yes Miss Lamy yes and Mr Markham yes so
so two two points of order here one is
uh give us the name of the person that's
being invited um I would like to ask if
we could invite Megan Meyer uh into
executive session unless there are
objections and then then we will grant
that and then the second thing is I do
know that we have people in the audience
who are here for some specific stuff
tonight so I promise you we will try and
make this fairly
brief you can stay we're gonna we're
gonna go back here but I just want you
to know we
won't we make this a
shorty
do we have everybody no we're missing
luran
still can
I should we come out or should we wait
does it matter we can come out and then
sort of him and Hall a little bit right
yeah you can somebody can make motion
motion to uh I don't know what emerge
from return from executive
session motion to return from executive
session second second by Mr Kingler Mr
we can say Voice vote right all in favor
say I I I'll oppose same sign and then I
think you have some business you'd like
yes Mr President thank you very much um
as council is aware uh we have as I
early said uh advertised the position of
director of administration and
development and um after a thorough
search and interviewing um I have
arrived at a final candidate I have made
an offer to Megan Meyer um subject to
council confirmation in accordance with
the city Charter and at this time Megan
if you'd like to come forward and
introduce yourself uh for the for the
benefit of the audience I know Council
has met you thank you mayor kler and
president mark it's a pleasure to be
here and thank you for the invitation of
course to attend tonight but also to
step into this newly created role um I
was telling everybody earlier this would
be the fourth community that I have the
pleasure of serving in my young local
government career and I have something
to learn in each case and I really
respect here what makes specy unique and
can't wait to bring some new energy into
this community so thank you so much for
the offer thank you and before you sit
down Megan sorry I just want to uh add a
little bit to that which is that Megan
is currently serving as The Intern kuram
City administrator for the city of
whiteall U most recently before that was
the assistant City administrator for the
city of whiteall um worked with the
village of Glenco in the Chicago area
and with Upper Arlington in the past um
in case anyone thinks that she's
skipping jobs uh really logical kind of
career progression through those and and
life life changes that resulted in those
moves um she has quickly gained uh
tremendous respect within the central
Ohio community uh for her leadership and
I'm really really pleased to bring her
forward for Council to consider I think
she will be a tremendous addition to our
staff and I'm excited to work in a lock
cider so with that um thank Youk you
mayor uh I would uh welcome if possible
a motion to U approve the appointment of
Megan to this position I will so move
that we approve the appointment I'm
sorry s give me the rest Megan Meer to
the position of director of
administration and development the
director of
position I
will uh second by Mr Kingler and it's
just a of Voice vote here all in favor
say I I all oppose same sign thank you
thank you to you for coming tonight and
being with us and welcome aboard aboard
thank you
Megan all right are we ready to move
on I think we are getting into the
committee report and with all due
respect Mr Marcelino I'm going to move
you down a little on the report list
tonight if you don't mind and I'm going
to push Jen Robinson and Matt Kingler at
the very top um we're gonna start with
Jen Robinson and um I'm sure you
have a nice report for us tonight but I
do want to
start by uh saying just how much I've
just loved and appreciated having you as
the Strategic uh chair um both you and
Matt had something in common which is
both of you fought me on the
appointments that that I made for both
of
you and you've done so such an amazing
job both of you but Jen I I I just want
to say
um like you've just done such fantastic
work in the four years that you've been
here you're you're an amazing person to
work with I think you're you're just
insanely creative you're very
energetic um I had some notes down here
um you know when when we did the uh
citizen review board for the for that
the police were maybe a little hesitant
about and I was invited invited to go
into the police station and meet with
all the sergeants to defend that uh Jen
Robinson said I'll come with
you I said uh yes
please and went in there with me uh and
helped me to do a good job I think of uh
of selling that that program that the
the mayor uh had put together and then
we had codified uh to the police
department um the uh the AR of our
juneth celebration here in the city way
ahead of uh way ahead of the rest of the
the nation and and most of that um
fought very hard for that I know you did
um and uh you made that happen what an
amazing accomplishment uh for our city
uh that uh that you made happen and um
honestly another story that I think I I
really want to share about John is um
you know when you did did the uh your
vaping
ban and I think it really speaks to to
what a what a great council member you
are that you called me and you said you
had this ban on vaping and you wanted to
me to be a part of that committee and
then I said
Jen I am not gonna vote for your vaping
pan and you know and Jen put me on the
committee anyway and I think uh you know
she said well I'd like a CH to convince
you I would like a chance to hear your
side of of of why you're not uh uh why
you're not voting for for this um and I
think that speaks to again the strength
that you brought to the council and why
I appreciate having you
here wow okay so um I have no strategic
report tonight I will say I sat down on
my computer and I was trying to write
some things down and the truth is how do
you summarize the last four
years it's been
a it's been a lot it's been a lot we all
Oho Greenley the three of us were so
excited in 2020 to sit in our little
Council seats and figure out the Roberts
Rules of Order which we never ever
figured out I think I did it wrong it
tonight um and then the world
changed
and we
maybe it was a moment of Grace that we
didn't know any different so you just
keep plugging ahead but I
think there are so many things that I
could say that I've learned over the
last four years um first of all the
support of these three people plus the
one who isn't here tonight because he's
at school taking exams but
um my family is literally the best I'll
fight each one of you um they I I mean
we've been married for almost 25 years
now and there have been many times when
I said hey I think I'm G to do this
thing and it's something new that no
one's ever thought of but four and a
half years ago when my friend Mo'Nique
Lamy said all this could be yours
do you remember and I said what are you
talking about and then we talked and I
said hey family I think um I might want
to run for city council and not one of
them said you're insane you shouldn't do
that you have no political experience
they just said okay what can we do what
do we need to do to get you there so
first and foremost what I've learned
over the last four years is that you
can't do it without people who are in
your corner but what I don't think I
really was expecting was how much this
group would be in my corner I mean
famously I did some really some things
not so well and then famously I did some
things pretty okay and it didn't matter
if I was succeeding or if I was failing
I knew every single one of you had my
back and that is something that I will
take with me
forever really if I could say something
probably
lifechanging about each one of you that
would take probably about three hours
and I know my kids have to go study for
exams but um I am incredibly grateful
for you guys I decided not to run again
because I have a lot of things that are
coming up in my life that will require a
lot of my time and we can only partition
so much of our our time to do things
well and I wanted to make sure that who
whoever was sitting in this seat would
be able to to do it well I am so
grateful to each one of you for helping
me do what I've done over the last four
years to the best of my ability and I am
so proud of each one of you for the the
work that you've done and for the group
that we have formed together we don't
always agree and I know you know my only
experience with Council was you guys so
I don't know any differently but when I
hear people talk about other
councils we are so lucky and I am so so
so grateful to each and every one of you
for allowing me to be a part of this
these last four years and to push myself
and to learn more about myself than I
really ever thought I could thank you
thank you thank you thank you it's not
enough but I will say it from here until
you guys just don't want to hear it
anymore turn off my mic so do we have
some comments or questions for Jen I'm
guessing we might yes Milik right I'm
not gonna look at you because I I might
cry but
um I think that Jen has been such an
amazing collaborator Communicator um one
of the smartest kindest legislators that
I know um I remember and
spring of 2020 Jen and I were uh
enjoying a margarita on her porch
because it was covid and we
had um recently weathered a few weeks of
the pandemic hitting Bexley we had
weathered two
historic uh rainfalls that ravaged a lot
of basements in
Bexley uh we were dealing with protest
protesters in our city and I'm remember
looking at her and I said you know what
I'm hoping the worst is pastest and then
the very next day George Floyd was
murdered um I'm so glad you said
yes that's
all we have do we have a a
thing
yeah it's for all three of you because
we all started together in January of
2020 so I wanted to start off by just
saying thank you to president Markham
aka the professor for your leadership
over the last two years um I've been
fortunate to serve under two great
leaders these past four years and you
both have brought something different to
the table unique in who and what you are
and I um I've enjoyed every minute of
being under your leadership the past two
years it has been a privilege and an
honor to serve with council members
Kingler and Robinson these past four
years Harmony and comedy these two
brought to their leadership roles among
the seven members of council they both
share a strong sense of self and
character you will be greatly missed
serving here with us and council
chambers on Tuesday nights this great
city is lucky to have had your service
these past four years
I look forward to watching you both
continue to give back and serve and
other capacities moving
forward in the email signature of Jen
Robinson and the words of William Arthur
Ward greatness is not found in
possessions power position or
Prestige it is discovered in goodness
humility service and character thank you
both for doing the good work and setting
the bar high for Bexley elected
officials thank
you all right
uh I'm glad we're getting some crying
yeah uh John I need you to come over
here though for a minute I need you to
approach the the podium you're not
getting syrup no we don't have any syrup
a
no
you know what what could I give you you
know I don't know I don't know what
would be appropriate
but what what would I do better
question giving me a hard copy of the
Strategic plan that's right found all
right I got
you I got you this Council MVP trophy
Jen and uh I hope uh you can find
someplace uh to display that and put it
on my absolutely
congratulations
yes that's
hilarious there's nothing like a
trophy nothing like a trophy there's
nothing like a trophy I tell you what
absolutely
right all right are we moving on to Matt
Kingler here Matt klingler's chair
report Matt fought me too
you fought me so hard man do you
remember I did I uh but before you I
fought lorianne fibble yeah I fought Ben
castler you're you're obate my wife um
you're obstinate you're pigheaded yeah
well um I wouldn't I wouldn't be here
without uh a group of dads on Brien road
that talked me into this and then I need
more talking into from laurianne I need
more talking into from mayor Kessler um
then I finally decided to do it had no
idea what I was getting into um
throughout my whole life
uh I I've played team sports I enjoy the
team aspect of things this is the best
team I've ever been on
um you guys uh are amazing people um Jen
you are empathetic you're caring you are
patience um Jess the passion you have
for our community and our young people
in our
community is
unrivaled uh
lorian you are like a mom to me you're
amazing you're caring you're
sweet
um Sam I didn't know you before you
decided to run and I told you I didn't
know if I was gonna vote for you and you
respected that and I would vote for you
a million times over
you and I have become Incredibly Close
over the last two years and I love
that
Mark I love I love your wit I love your
wisdom I love your personality I love
what you bring to
this Troy I love your leadership I love
your dry sense of humor I love your
laid-back
personality I love how caring you are
for our
community badass lamp key
I remember you said I don't know if I'm
going to vote for you I don't know if I
want to sign in my yard when I ran and I
was proud of the fact that I changed
your mind being on Council I love all of
the thought you have given me and you
challenged me to be better over the last
four years I love getting to know your
kids I love the fact that your daughter
babysits my
kids um Ben I didn't know you before I
started this and I'm so thankful to have
gotten to know you so well over the last
four years and I'm confident that we
will be friends for
life Matt I knew you for a decade before
I started this and I I I will take with
me a tiny fact that maybe I had some
aspect of you running for auditor and
getting roping you into this um our kids
have grown up
together uh you're one of my closest
friends
I'm it's been an honor it's been
something I never ever thought I would
do and as I continue to push my kids to
get out of their comfort zone um I was
3 two when I 29 I you know even in my
30s you could still push yourself to get
out of your comfort zone and do new
things and experience new things and
meet new people um and I've I've made
great friends for
life um and I'm so thankful for all of
you and then there's we have the line of
demarcation of prenatal and post Natalie
and I've I've been very um grateful for
everything you've done over the last two
years um you've been a joy to be around
and to get to
know um I'm just so thankful for it all
and I'm I'm very blessed to have in my
life and
that's
that's I love all of you very
much which is why I will continue to do
things even though my wife may not want
me to hope you're
listening I love you honey hopefully you
continue to do that the rest of your
life yeah things his yeah that's what
I'm telling him yeah that's my advice
yeah comments or questions for Matt with
with his report can I go yes um so that
I can keep my act together too and
um I think that um Matt and Jess and Jen
heard the horror stories of council pre
you
guys I can't begin to tell you guys how
much I personally needed
you so that I could finish doing the job
that I was
doing my first Bel on Council there's no
course that teaches you how to be
president of council and it was a PhD
course I mean it definitely was and then
you guys came into our lives and into
beex to do your work and life changed
you were able to help build a different
kind of culture a culture where I always
love to say that we all are using
different strokes but we're all swimming
in the same direction and that wasn't
what we were doing before that and you
know what we wear on our backs team
Bexley and
Matt if I am so lucky as to have a son
that grows up to be like you I can't
begin to tell you how proud I would be
you have the sweetest little family and
they're just amazing and you've been
great to work with and I thank you for
that so much Troy has taken the Baton
and he has grown the
culture and it has been this team that
has made a
difference you have no idea how many
times I tell my children and each and
one of them say back to me Bibles aren't
and they will say quitters each one of
them and let me tell you before you guys
were here you have no idea how many
times I wanted to
quit and I recall a time that a certain
someone Among Us wanted to
quit and I raced over to her house and I
said that's not happening on my
watch because you are good and you are
kind and you are whole and you want only
good for everyone around
you and you see the beauty that you've
created and they are goodness
too and I know that you both will go on
to do amazing
things and I really think that while a
lot of people don't realize it these
jobs that we do are really truly
volunteer there are people that don't
understand that there are weeks that we
put in way over 40 hours
and I always think the very best thing
that we got out of
volunteering is the PE the friendships
you make with the other people who are
doing the same job so thank you for your
friendship I I trust that it will
continue and um I trust that the culture
that Troy has help to Foster we'll
continue with our new people and if you
have words of wisdom to them please
whisper them into their
ears all right anybody
else Matt you were uh my uh you and Jen
and chess were my running mates that
that that time we all got to know each
other and you know as lauan says it's
such an energy you guys brought in there
which was a lot of fun uh it was an
exciting it was an exciting time for
sure uh Matt and I always this last time
and the time always got placed together
on the candidates night podiums which is
probably ill advised on their part but
super fun for me uh excellent a really
great memory for me um you are um I have
those memories of that have the memories
of you the things that you brought and
you bring to the city council uh sitting
in Richard's backyard you know know late
at night going over that that those
overages for the Jeffrey Mansion stuff
like that I think is is super fun you
are um my son's favorite city council
member here which uh I have mixed
feelings about but
uh but he he has good taste and I think
I'm second so uh if you come over here
I've got something for you too but it is
not a trophy
mat
not a trophy because I I want you to
earn a trophy and come back here with me
uh next year all right buddy thank you
thank you appreciate
it now we have a three hour safety oh my
goodness Sam
Marcelino yes I do uh I just was gonna
let everybody go because you all knew
each other longer than I knew you so I
wrote down some things that I just was
going to address
briefly um Beckley loses two exceptional
Council people tonight there's no
question about it um I don't know what
we're going to do without you I know
life goes on but it's really hard to
picture without either of you uh Jen
thank you for your dedication to
countless projects that supported growth
of the growth of Bexley in a myriad of
ways your ordinances surrounding
policing Health Dei strategery they'll
help shap uh Beck sleep for years to
come I still remember when you called me
about juneth before I was on Council
before I was involved with the city
really and just talking about your
passion and what you wanted to
accomplish in beex it was frankly
beautiful to see it all culminate in
this year and what you accomplished uh
in in bringing that together so I thank
you for that um on top of that your your
work with one Bexley uh in terms of the
dinner that we had this year was nothing
short of amazing I don't think anybody
on that uh directional committee really
could have pictured it looking like that
on such a beautiful night to bring our
community together so I thank you for
that um the positive energy that you
bring to the room is palpable and your
organizational skills are unmatched um
your ability to bring people together is
exceptional and uh we'll be greatly Miss
but thank you for all that you've done
for our community uh Matt you and I
didn't always see eye to eye on things
um but somehow by the end of it we
almost always voted the same way um and
that's just a compliment to how you work
really
uh you know let's talk about the
flavored tobacco band how many
conversations do we have about that
where we weren't necessarily agreeing on
the terms we didn't have to do it in a
public sense or or or or knock each
other down over it we just had to come
to an agreement as to what was best for
Beckley um the way you work through the
solar panel legislation that I wasn't
necessarily a big fan of myself but you
made sure to take the time to work with
me on those details so I felt
comfortable with it for the community um
your your efforts were always thoughtful
tactful and logical and I appreciate
that and we'll certainly miss that you
always considered all members of our
community and your decision-making and
brought invaluable background uh in
development that Council now loses and
unfortunately we will not regain uh I
thank you so much for your willingness
to continue serving on these committees
to bring that to us and I really hope uh
you know that that people will pay
attention to what you're saying because
it's just been invaluable to have you
here as we work through these projects
where I have no bad background in it um
I don't know if you and I share a
political party I don't know if you and
I share a political party um but what I
really appreciate about this council is
that it's been nonpartisan completely
throughout its time and uh that we've
never taken our own personal beliefs and
interjected them necessarily or unfairly
onto the city of Beckley and I just want
to encourage Council to keep that in
mind as we move forward with the new
members joining that we should always
keep that nonpartisan aspect in mind as
we legislate through this um I think
we'll have some more discussions about
that in the future but I thank you both
for that service to this Council because
it's made it a much more welcoming place
to remove that aspect from our decision
making um Troy I thank you for your
leadership uh there's not enough uh that
I can say about how welcoming you were
to me um in joining Council and uh and
and what I was able to see in a city
council uh president I I apologize lauan
I didn't watch a lot of City Council
meetings prior to running um so I didn't
get to see your stewardship but but I I
but I will tell you that that you know
that it's that this is no slight upon
any any prior uh council president but
just to speak to the exceptional nature
and the way that you did this job and uh
you you ran this Council so I really
appreciate that and thank you for that
um you'll both be sorely missed I don't
know I really like you guys thank you
for everything and the report thank you
Sam uh lauan FAL yes I
no report that's draing me except for
the fact that yes tree public garden
ISE
okay see I was gonna say
wow Jess I know we're kind of this is a
little organic tonight with the uh the
love and everything but uh no report
love your lights thank you love your
lights thank you I feel very festive
Miss
lamkey um I I gotta say something about
Kingler because I said something about
Jen yes I do yes I do um I wanted to I
wanted to remind everyone um Matt served
on the U Dei Amendment small group
committee with Jen and I I think they
had only been on Council just a few
weeks and I knew that I wanted different
points of view um and working with with
Matt on that committee was is so
wonderful um it passed unanimously you
know in a in in in our city and I think
uh that was due to the thorough
thoughtfulness that he brought to that
he did so good on that I I asked him to
be on the uh Charter small group with
lorianne and I um and again he kind of
wowed us with the way that he thought
about things and um had great
suggestions all along um that too
resulted in a unanimous vote in our city
um to to know Matt Kingler is to know
that you talk about streets and
sidewalks and roofs and dirt and trucks
and his eyes just light up you know his
his background in construction um is
really a skill set that no other council
member at least sitting here has it's
not one that maybe any of us have have
wanted but I when I first met Matt I
asked him what he did and he talked
about his background and I said that is
what you're going to sell to Bexley and
he sure has um whenever we've talked
about bids or how much this is going to
cost or this kind of
Machinery that guy knows what he's
talking about so I hope that he will
continue to use that
expertise um on his newly appointed uh
boards and commissions and hopefully
continue to serve the city of
Bexley thank you have this time we allow
public comments on anything without a
speaker slip
anything anybody
anything all right seeing none I will
insist on one last piece of business
before we end tonight and I I
insist I need us to take one group
picture
together um before we adour all
right
does it involve a mug in our hands I it
can you're good here are we going
around we're gonna go around I think we
need
everybody everybody together I don't
have a seat at the table you I think we
need you in the picture and I think we
need you in the picture yes am I
right all in favor say hi all same sign
here's
my little newer no it is
newer
got
look how
good
good all right I have a mo to
adour
I move I move to adjourn can I get a
second second Robinson all in favor say
I I all oppose same sign we are
adjourned good night people Board of
control we got a board of control
meeting your you don't like the chairs
yeah that will do
it been changed a little bit yeah
yeah Ben this is how
Meg every coun meeting just
like we normally yell at each other
and thank
you yeah and I'm still president for uh
like three more weeks
actually that's true they keep