each time
I think the stigma is a private college
non-profit partnership and it has over
150 individuals that are made up of
business education math office and the
government organization and in 2018 we
launched denial higher which was
primarily in central Ohio and focused on
opioid misuse and properly presenting a
disclosing of those pills and then in
2021 if you launched the statement
um here is a list of our membership this
is uh 150 of them currently um
I remember at the late um baseball team
it's a minor baseball team that joined
the Li and then initiative today
uh denial of Ohio was an award-winning
campaign 57 of those parents who saw the
bad cops to their children about the
Illinois district and then the 53 of
those who saw the campaign reported that
they have complete disposed to their
leftovers because of the campaign and
the success of a Governor's wine coming
to the alliance to continue when making
but make it a Statewide Clinic not just
as Ohio in order to continue to describe
the awareness
um so Veterinary line and team really
came to us amazing it was 9.7 million
dollar contribution towards the campaign
and with that we have done incentive
research to support the development
that launched into 321 is uh that was
done through focus groups interviews
conceptual detecting with Ohioans and
during that research and I came back
today was an issue with mental health
and enrichment that people did not
understand the reporters together with
us being together we had two separate in
state three day one on the state of
associated to addiction and then we
launched a phase two of this big event
Associated to mental health and if that
was done through the creative insights
and the Insight that we found through
this posters was that there's always
more to the story than you know when
people are suffering that you don't know
the whole story there's usually another
Factor that's done through that
and so with the campaign there are three
false options one is to know about
addiction and the result and the
challenge you can do that through
empathy announce judgment and to go to
looking for sigma.org where you can play
a 60-second game that challenge you and
this year one thing that's trying to
with health and addiction know your risk
and this is one where we encourage
individuals to talk to lowers because we
know that there's an extent over it it's
from genetics and then the last one is
that words do matter supportive words
make a difference and that is what we
are thinking through this one let people
know that you are there for them that
they are able to seek help that there
are more answers to the solution through
some of the research anything that
stigma's attention to get you in the
test actual learning about receiving
their proper treatment without receiving
it to continue students they need
um
quick ads completing candies and Market
that they said they have been in market
for about a year and this is the first
one and it's fit all 88 now
years drug addiction is often the result
of what a genetics B mental illness C
traumatic experiences for D all of the
above
Beth E none of the above
there's no e
something they choose locking in my
answer also not correct then I am
unlocking my answer and changing it too
because they don't know right from wrong
well none of those answers are right
Beth you did not beat the stigma Ohio
challenge what you know about addiction
players drug addiction is often the
result of
welcome back to beat the stigma
contestants someone tells you they've
been living with anxiety or depression
you say Ben just snap out of it what
Maddie you have no reason to be
depressed that's actually harmful I'll
push through it no everyone gets sad
sometimes no come on you don't have it
that bad
no but let's see what you can say I'm
here for you you're not alone talking to
someone could help I was close
not even remotely you did not beat the
stigma
words
without their research with
us
I received this is me doing showing up
and services
that was already about 89 of the steps
are pretty called facility
so take that initiative if you're seeing
a nonsense
and of those attitude of the percentage
there are 40 percent of those are three
taking this survey in order to learn
more to the challenge to talk to us
so another reason that we are bringing
the campaigns around Ohio is because not
only that is also over the course issues
but I'm concerned like maybe numbers
here we are using the national Community
household
and the other number is for mental
health and so I an employee Career
Information who is one of the members of
investors
and that is actually Nationwide members
according to see their every year we've
lost 25 offices
42 million dollars in cost
um
it's not necessarily that the employee
other moderatives Independence is very
popular I'm sure so these are two tools
that we are going around we are sharing
recommended investors
um the calculator you put it in your
industry population size and it will
produce remembering that gives you a
great accurate employment costing you
for a year
um
measuring on a quarterly basis to show
that we are improving that it is really
the difference and at the end of the day
that Ohioans are challenging discussed
and learning more about Physicians
so I appreciate the opportunity to be
here to talk to you today
um you mentioned in his bio I was the
former expert graduate and I think this
year I have a kid about baseball
opinions and elementary school or either
Investments I work with you guys just as
we are going through the part we have
opportunity to speak at the Ohio
accumulators Council in February is one
of our Golden State all the cities in
Ohio on board with people stigma and
that means to find out what's remember
sharing the awareness
provides you know runways or personal uh
thank you
any questions
I would just that what does it mean if
we sign up so how would we do that and
um
great thank you
um are we able to get a copy of this
presentation
that's why I would love to look back and
see the um current sponsors that you
were just talking about that would be
great yeah thank you
and we show the Those ads that are like
are at the main event like we did that
before with denial Ohio
okay great thank you so much for coming
all right the second presentation who
who's who's introducing that
um
Senior Center it is the senior center
this time so I would I would be happy to
or Jess do you want to sure all right
okay
we're all fighting over you Kristen so
without further Ado we have the lovely
Kristen Schweitzer who is our rec
supervisor for 55 and over programs and
she is coming um to us tonight to give
us a pilot study that we had asked for
after the senior center was open for a
year and so without further Ado we're
excited to see the presentation thanks
Kristen
you can move that down you can kind of
move it down the thing there yeah do
whatever you got to do
down that
there you go
that's good yep
a little over a year um so our Baxley
Senior Center opened in February of 1922
and I just want to get the shout out
right here that we have several of our
series remember numbers
and see themselves in the photos
uh so
as uh
as we were discussing like we are
looking at this event so the city of us
that has never had a super set um
programming and it's been sponsored by
the recreation department but for 30
plus years
but it's become support well I should
say actually put it from the referees
and a few years ago we transitioned and
moved all of the recreation activities
including our student programming under
our departments
um so I just sort of want to talk about
our numbers that has really grows
so in the um last year of the best dance
activities Club so that that private
club that I was supposed to be there
were actually two care members and as of
last week what I would say today we are
at 1373 members which is
did you sign someone up like here in the
audience
nice nice
even today
so we have members who live in
surrounding the Cesars are with we even
have numbers as far as foreign
Lawrence not here how many units they've
operated because she thought
we'd actually have many men who
participate in nursing and some of them
are here
so we have the classes every morning
um Monday through Thursday all the time
you're always going to drive by we're
putting our capacity with you guys are
collectible we've got cottage cheese
senior Fitness circuit training here
yoga the list goes up and you can see
that we've had several
um
several different options early
and I certainly get down by the things
that we do weekly monthly bi-monthly
um
and I also wanted to talk a little bit
about our average so as soon as Saturday
um for those of you have been there you
know that it's one day it's a really
beautiful nice programmable space
but there are some frozen ones
um you can see that we've got an
exercise classes at the fair and then
let's say for example if you had book
club an hour later that means that bar
the brighter and I are
you know put all the chairs away hold on
the furniture
um and it's working pretty well but it
would be nice if we had a whole lot of
additional space it's just because I
said our membership
and there is such a concourse the need
for the space
um so I also talked about here in this
documents you know we're open Monday
through Friday
and what's really unique about our state
is that we may not be sure what's that
thing Monday through Friday Friday but
our members moving in and
we've got a keypad on the board they can
go in we can grab coffee use the
restrooms or hang out we have people are
dropping off books we have a couple of
lending libraries to give me love that
it sort of people
um so I also sort of put some numbers in
here you know we have let's say 16 hours
of programs
but that doesn't take animation
accountants those time when we are
members of describing that so you might
talk to someone who's wants them back
for the flowers are downstreet you may
drive by Big Steve Carson parking lot to
make them they want to know what's going
on they want to see if their friends are
there and they want to grab a bottle of
water they just wanted to chatter
because we really want
we also included some testimonial ones
this is really uh heavy on the photos
because I think that the pictures of the
singers really tell the story much
better
um so we've heard over and over from
this year so thank you it's a space
that's for them they know that they have
first Pilots it would be local program
class for the leaders that's expected it
um
and I don't necessarily want to read
through these factorials instead of
Public Works they're really I sort of
just feel like it's not my voice to do
it but you've been seeing the face has
um some really special connections
um so they're making connections with
together
and I'm putting her um one of our
members is playing for about 23 Medical
Treatments and
involves you know someone else at the
center of it it would not tell no others
gone through something similar
um that is something that I'm really
important that a physical space that I
gave two seniors
I also wanted to talk about sort of
great things to different things with a
community of art so
while the seniors do get posted and they
realize
[Laughter]
for the members and I've been very
strongly that they are the most
important you know clients people is
their space it is also a wonderful
future
um he has opened it up for rentals
through our policy state that members
have to run to space and I felt pretty
friendly about this because I
remembering benefit for our seniors and
sleeping
um but yeah and plenty of members who my
friends say for it's their neighbor
their grandchild so I wanted to talk a
little bit about him why we had several
birthday parties graduations baby Towers
family excavators and so I hold the
numbers in here
um we've had 53 paid rentals uh and it's
very reasonable it's the same rate so
for example for declaration it's 25
everywhere that's okay and that's fine
there's nothing
uh and then we've also opened it up for
different communities
in this uh picture here you can see our
most recent sea nights we had over 70
things there Mike was
um
and so let's see we've had lunch bags
some details of all the schools that
we've said here's a great picture of the
casting from last year and we did the
same celebration for the fifth graders
this week
absolutely thinner
um so it's just been a really great
asset for doing
in fact right now
um we have a feeling
so that's what I said being used really
really consistently
um so I just wanted to come and talk you
know again with these hard fights a
pilot program but sometimes I
feel a certain way about them I knew
this is
but I knew that we had a massive
solution and so I expected questions
thank you
can just start by saying uh thanks for
coming and sharing this with us I know
we've all been excited and interested in
how this is going
um and we're going to get a copy of this
right are we can you email this to us or
whatever and then I'll open it up here
questions yes
Kristen I had a question about your
memberships for 2021 and 2022 were those
memberships as of the end of those years
so realistically
you still have another six months where
you're already high number of 272 can
still go away
or 273 that's right
okay my other question had to do with
the community space obviously the Bexley
Women's Club has had book readings there
I think we as a council or we as a cic
have had meetings there I've also
sorry
um if the space
structure stayed the same for the next
year what would you suggest could be
done internally
creativity creatively to further enhance
that space
so the visible space
you know so while it works and
um
Tetris
it would be amazing if we could have had
a little bit more square footage so we
could have two
spaces you know where we would always
have a lounge area or our book club
for sort of like chit chat
um
the restrooms
you know there's a yeah
but we have utilized backgrounds for
plenty of versions for our emergency we
might be a wheelchair we'll have
mobility issues if they have pain or
conquer you know if I'm seeing someone
parking closer to the garage door and
walk into the pretty floor our residency
run over and we open that garage doors
oops
same I was just joking with somebody the
other day that every time I drive by the
place is extremely busy being well used
and I said that I think the seniors are
doing a set of spite to make sure that
we know that they need their own space
but I kid you not it's just because of
the Vibrant Community that you all are
are creating and it's it's awesome to
see
um my question from a city council
standpoint is that
um a how are you reaching out to some
seniors that may not be aware of the
Vibrant Community that you have built
and continue to grow and be what can we
as a council do to help uh with that
Outreach as a whole
um if there isn't if you don't have
those answers that's okay I just want to
help
I think that yeah
um done a pretty good job with the
Outreach I mean honestly word of mouth
and being there so you're driving by
people will stop by all this time
um because they speak that people are
there in their sexy there's five or
candies inside so I think that that's
still really helpful
um I know that there is one thing that I
skipped over here and Matt's a picture
of the location and I think it'll be
really important that we are committed
to finding a space
for the seniors during construction so
as we all know in here that this
building is best for the development and
we're planning on having the senior
space only on the first floor if
possible
um I think that's wonderful uh we've
been working there and getting a
response you know
working to address some potential issues
such as by parking or you know just
maybe being
displaced for a bit I think those are
all things that we can do
um I do things important that you know
that will likely need to rent something
in our own um just on a temporary make
sense and I think that as long as we can
continue to serve the seniors that we
have and I really think that in fact
just a quick follow-up do you think that
you will outgrow the space in the near
future here have you already outgrown it
what are your thoughts in terms of the
amount of space that you anticipate
you'll need
more difficult to answer because
sometimes sure I've been saying yes you
know there are three different groups
that would love to be at the senior
center on a Friday afternoon
um but there are also plenty of times
where we do have open blocks where
they're minority programming so I think
there can be specific with getting more
um and just utilize the space at the
beginning
absolutely
yeah I think um
I uh I want to thank Christian tomorrow
Mr as well they haven't came in a space
that is
so
um they've grown dramatically the you
know they talk about membership and
70 30 more
well I've noticed a lot of membership in
recently just the numbers I think is
given the amount of members that are
active right the BAC are the membership
200 people and sending their money and
some of them go on trips some of them
are safe connected and they did a great
job of doing that with the resources
that we had at the time we now have a
membership to work very accurate and the
difference isn't just about the numbers
that there's more members it's about how
active they've been would be able to
follow that space and there's a lot of a
lot of wonderful things I think I think
there's a lot of opportunities for
advanced advancements
and the size of the part of that and you
can being have flexibility in the space
as a part of that so I'm going to say
what I think Kristen probably is doesn't
a lot of necessarily these things she
will always find a way to put that space
whatever whatever resource we can
provide is really interesting and that's
been what we've seen the last year
thank you
chief
so
um listening to you I got really excited
because I'm hearing programming
educational opportunities and I'm
wondering why our Police Department is
not reaching out to our mature audience
our mature seasoned citizens in
providing vehicle inspections and mature
driving tips and winter driving tips and
a lot of safety initiatives that really
focus on them how to prevent identity
theft are mature audience those citizens
are being impacted with scams and under
a different Target and so I think we
could really help and be proactive but
I'd love to get on some programming to
provide some of that education and
resources to them
yeah
I've done several presentations for us
over the years the last one was probably
available
um
to come to us as well we do have plenty
of members who participate in some of
the other activities like the citizens
uh alumni group with the maintenance
I'm looking at Linda top here of course
but
well rad was awesome
because it was offered three days a week
when people signed up for one
okay
so I think we could probably maybe work
a little bit okay
one of the more uh
very unique exciting experiences about
working in city government here and
being a part of this is seeing these
little ideas come up and then become
enacted and then go from this idea into
this living community thing and you know
we see these photos which are you know
fantastic and these testimonials and
it's you know like that like the dog
park and some of these things like this
that are just you know now uh an asset
in the community and I really appreciate
I especially appreciate seeing the
photos of the activities because I have
a little PTSD about the center because
the chief put a bunch of us in there for
an active shooting uh
training and so I'm get a little
a little paranoid there but uh what
happens I'm curious what what is the
happy hour that you put on there what
happened to the happy hour
I mean this may drive up the numbers a
little bit
okay
[Music]
all right that sounds great
yeah hey
okay
oh that's great
any other questions or comments for our
group here
oh yeah
I believe so mayor you need mayor there
you go July 14th it's gonna be a good
one guys
to be determined is that a is that crab
legs and steak is that what that is
I shouldn't have made that joke it's
gonna cost me dearly
[Music]
dogs
just keep the requests coming I
appreciate it I'm looking forward to it
Mike price is helping out too it'll be
great
so is Troy and Mark and Matt all the
mats and Alex and Jen everybody you guys
are all welcome
all right thank you so much thanks for
coming thank you yeah
uh president I also want to thank Barb
Greiner who's been working there at the
center thank you Barb for coming to this
and for all of your support our grinder
um and uh as always if you're here we
appreciate you coming you're free to
sneak out for the rest of the meeting if
you want to
nobody would yeah because if you have a
happy hour of any kind to go to
uh at this time we moved to public
comments any speaker slips for us
tonight Mr Rick Pig no speaker slips
oh I did skip number five sorry because
we had so many presentations that's good
yeah wow so now we know we can go
through there ordinances with a special
guest and that one I think I moved to
you to introduce right well you're going
to read the Ordinance do we have it is
it on the table is it on the table
I don't think so that's okay hold on we
better find out okay thank you thank you
so we have a third reading Warden 16-23
to approve the supplier for the city of
Bexley electric aggregation program that
was introduced by Ms fiebel
thank you Miss feibel's unable to join
us tonight so she asked me to take this
one as Council will have seen I think we
have some numbers that came in mayor do
you want to walk us through what those
numbers were and then I think we've got
some additional guests to present to us
tonight
I will walk you through a little bit of
the process leading up the numbers and
then John and Jay can take us through
the numbers themselves but I'll start
like years ago we started looking at
aggregation as you guys all know we got
pretty educated on it and the market
went Topsy turbionis and we had to set
that aside for a moment
um recently the market has looked like
it might start to become favorable for
aggregation again we did an RFP selected
Aspen energy to be our broker and
helping us to find a product
um I've had my fingers crossed uh for
the past several weeks is that RFP has
been active and yesterday we got numbers
that came in uh that are quite
encouraging so with that introduction
John tell us how encouraging were those
numbers please
we just say elsewhere in Ohio here we
just say elsewhere in Ohio
what they do
the standard shorts I guess a little bit
um those people will get a notice say
hey I wanted the program is opt out you
can popped out so it's a little card
sent it back
appointment
in the program kicks in from the program
if you can enter by OB
crisis terms that you guys selects
um opt out so yeah you're not posting
this program with responsibility by
yourself
there's no fees to helping out there's
nobody's jumping in for with that
pricing if you see it better navigation
program better
so
have a quick rewind of how the
aggregation progress has happened so
mayor mentioned uh you guys kind of
passed through the left side of those
three
um
documents
right there that's when we kind of came
here
um trying to take care of that late last
year the country schooling um Smith
certified but you can go to this whole
program
that's a little longer than participated
um
30 days 40 days it's a push our uh
once we did that we got AED a lot of
diagnosis
distance
um as we talked about before ADP rates
have raising increased uh for the next
year until May 3.4 and
um because of that
effects so it's a great lawyer eight the
last one went out with the 7-5 minutes
so good took a big city so so the annual
usage of the spoken teenagers is almost
39 vote so
um averages of each meter is 32 151 and
57 was a year ago that's a government
assistance
but
so how did your grade report on this um
carbon dioxide
so if 100 of it all available program
that is 47 13 year
um uh metal carbon dioxide
um that is three I'm sorry two million
383
378 pounds of gasoline consumed and um
23 billion plus uh um
now I think we had a hundred percent of
90 feet so we don't know who's all going
to be a vote if you can opt out of the
time and find out things to do the
program
so
probably
so here is the important part so here's
the price
so we did a big price for renewable
energy credit score
which is
so what we did always turn based on what
we're seeing in the market trans uh we
did 12 months we usually go out to 36 to
48 months those rates are pretty high a
little bit big sevens you wouldn't
recommend doing anything like that
because
so we did a standard of 12 months
um 24 standard for the proper sweet
spots in there 15 20 months and it
didn't put a long term in there
you can see
um
so if we take that price
Eric's birthday is currently at
11.847 kilowatts but we've taken that
qualified by a little uh compatible
communities
this is great I mean this is what I was
hoping to see today through that email
that that this morning what one thing
I'm just curious about
um I would not
I would have assumed that Brown energy
would be would would be
well I would say that the savings
wouldn't be so close I would have
assumed that that would be a much
um cheaper cost of energy so help can
you
maybe help me just understand why
um
it's so close
the difference is about
so yeah
but you're asking why yeah why it's too
good to be true it's too good to be true
exactly so I that that's but if that's
the way the market prices it that's
fabulous but I would have thought ground
energy would be a lot
uh less expensive I would imagine that
you'd be paying more substantially more
and see less savings by going green but
this is
yeah okay
you do it by yourself
by yourself yeah and that and that's
that's at the point that you're making
there right like I mean traditionally
we've all said well if we wanted to do
this we would have to pay a little bit
of premium for green energy but you're
saying the buying power that we're going
to get from this aggregate is going to
make it kind of a wash is what we're
seeing here
yeah even that shows the 20-month
savings is higher with dirty electricity
either way I think so to
dovetail into what you're saying John I
mean when we were looking at this a few
years ago we were seeing similar the
premium was not as much as you might
have thought okay
um
this is a national product so we're not
like only buying Ohio based which is a
very rare asset this is a much bigger
footprint so it's a different kind of a
different market for that
um and I also want to make sure that
everyone is crystal clear so just we
really draw attention to this that
20-month number of savings on the
left-hand column this is showing that
with this compared to our current AEP
standard rate which is what percentage
of our community is currently in AAP
standard rate do we know that
okay so 80 of our community with this
program at the current rate that AEP is
is is charging us will save 653 a year
um so that's that will probably change
aep's rate every six months adjusts
right right
and that's that's still a dynamic Market
process though this is not like a
promotional rate or anything weird like
that yeah and and AEP went to Market on
the current rate at a very bad time as
my understanding and and it was
um
I have a dumb dumb question
um
that slide you showed that said you know
100 80 percent
or 90
um
if Bexley say we're 100 opt-in we save
more money than if Bexley was 80 opt-in
or is it does it matter right other than
each household is obviously going to
save money yes so I was saying like how
many people actually
and it would be fixed
okay and then when you said you send out
those opt-out notices is there an
educational piece in there so that my
neighbor who may not have been listening
to City Council meetings or reading the
blast knows why they should consider
this and really want to opt in
thank you
on those numbers I'm just curious uh
what is the do you have an idea like
what your projection is for opt out what
what have you seen typically is there
anything that we could that you're
expecting I assume
when you
think okay
okay
crap
um
right now
they're the same value
of 699
so if you look at that we're writing the
ballpark and there are a few other
things
and
the market area is good right now but I
think it's going to go out of the worst
that's good August
and um
so the supply that we did select was uh
Texas the operations
uh just here in Ohio I have 100
foreign
energy markets have been hearing
volatile last 50 years back around if
you see there is
National Park School the financial gas
natural gas driver call
um
it's
so we recommend this instance the green
option uh the stadiums are awesome
and this is also net native definition
of solar going into new copper in your
bags
um
uh spring summer
I have a net meter in question so I have
a net metering question yeah so if we
had divided solar on my property which I
don't but I want to
um would uh
when it sells back to the grid does that
get at all impacted when AEP buys that
back if I'm producing Surplus does that
get impacted by the segregation rate
samples
yeah it will still be able to sell back
into the grid if it's effective online
program
I don't know okay
thank you
thanks mayor Kessler asking for a friend
there yeah yeah
thank you
um
because
um we don't have been here as the
program kicks in we continue to uh
um
we do annual streets of data for people
on AP so next year we can speak today
we're doing the DC race
uh we constantly watching the market
can I mentioned
um right now there is
belong against the pipeline right now
maybe next time and we also give you a
lot of people let's say we will learn
peace
on this
Council uh questions for Aspen energy
here
thank you very much
thank you
Council discussion
or questions
Among Us here do we need to amend this
to include
um Aspen energy on the ordinance
that's a fantastic question
um
oh that would be um I believe section
one would be filled on out with Aspen
but with the uh supplier correct okay
I know we've uh I know we've messed
around or we waited around for this for
a while and I think it's I appreciate
you guys coming and giving us this
information I also appreciate mayor
Kessler being pretty uh judicious about
the timing and the research I like the
program uh I
plan to support it I like the fact that
we've built in the opt out and they opt
out at any time so people are not going
to feel like they're locked into this
um I like the fact that it's competitive
pricing so uh we're gonna give people
here the option to get green energy uh
which I think we feel pretty good about
at a competitive price and if they want
to save a little bit more and not be
green they can they have that option as
well which I think is pretty important
um
and the fact that we don't have any fees
I think
uh and penalties for the city as well I
think is essential for the plan
I'll open it up to comments questions
from the audience too since this is a
third reading anybody's got any out
there
can I I want to clarify something you
just said to make sure that we
understand that is there going to be an
option to opt out into the brown product
or okay but it will be a default into
the green is that how that's structured
okay
if you can speak in the microphone sorry
John just so we have it on the record
are you saying stay in the program here
but but with brown instead of green
energy is that what we're talking about
or you're talking about leaving this and
going to AEP
so either one okay
um
so it may still be considered
in our plan
so they're still like you know but just
kind of almost half of what AEP is
currently
yeah Miss sun is there any way that
council could get copied on and a sample
of something you've already done in
Worthington or one of the other
communities that is that opt out that
our residents will be receiving so we
see what that looks like yes yeah thank
you
and I imagine you said they do
Cincinnati and Cincinnati has some of
their own Supply through the Highland
development so they somehow must mix
that in with their product is that what
they do yeah yeah okay
we're actually going to see Hillsboro
right now
yeah
my follow-up question is that
communication that's going to go out is
that going to be coming from Aspen or is
that coming from the city
yeah to the residents so that you know
the the information with the car dropped
out is that coming from the supplier
from diet what is it but it will
probably be marketed specifically which
yeah okay
make sure we put a mayor's cell phone
number on that everything city council
president's uh Instagram account and uh
Twitter handle so I think the key though
is it's going to have the city
seal I would imagine it's going to be
clear that it's an official program but
we've had a lot of
um counterfeit
um right marketing going on recently so
it's going to be a point of Sensitivity
I think
yeah I think that's essential if people
see a you know an unknown they are going
to be a little
so can I I just clarifying the browned
energy option okay so if I'm getting
this piece of mail it's going to give me
option A which is the green option
option b which is the brown aggregation
option or option C i opt out of all all
of those two options that I stay
floating correct
so
one question I just have is is that
brown aggregation option required
do any communities like Bexley when
they're going through this choose not to
option to offer the second option which
is the brown energy
aggregation option
[Music]
regardless of whether or not they're
individuals
because the benefits of the community as
a whole yeah
benefit so individually folks want to
save more money themselves that they
have that option okay just wanted to
make sure I understood and I've I've put
a lot of thought on that too in terms of
from a policy perspective I think it's
really helpful we did we did a lot of
surveying about like how much more would
you be willing to pay
I think especially if this first
go-around it's very helpful to see what
people opt to do on their own
um when no one's asking them it's just
like so we'll have that data we'll have
some percentages
um also it shows that like we have
offered this option it's totally you
know otherwise they'd just still be with
AEP so they can they can maximize that
savings but I think having that data
will also help us inform future
decisions if we choose to go more
rigorous and then we're not like I don't
know that's a little more I think
permissive that makes sense
thanks yeah so just one more point of
clarification this is only it's only
opt-in for those that are with AEP
generation
correct
yeah yeah so so like I I went because I
wasn't sure when we're going to get this
done and I heard about this so of course
three months ago I decided to go on
apples apples.org or whatever and change
mine
um I mean I was worried about the rate
hikes and I wasn't sure what ours went
so anyways um I just went with somebody
else uh
that doesn't I'm not you're not opting
me in because I'm with somebody else
correct it's only a B Energy whatever
they're called
um
make sure you know if you're in a
program
feels like 30 months fully fixed
but if there was no early termination
fee you could terminate with no fee and
then octane if you wanted to I'll look
into it
so this could be a processity
you know we'll get the early
determination teams then do the math
although they're not it makes sense to
join the program that we did personally
handle those calls so instead of them
following a false generally they don't
know the folks John and I will actually
speaks
thanks
and we all we all have to vote to let
Matt back in if you want
it's frustrating because I was like I
didn't know you know did you have one
money
um no I was I was just gonna say I can't
think of a reason a single reason that
we wouldn't do this if it's better for
the environment it's better for the
community and it's
savings for our residents so I intend to
support it I know lorianne couldn't be
here tonight but she has thrown a lot of
energy and effort into getting this done
and educating all of us about all the
acronyms and the language and the words
so she too has been very enthusiastic
earn a power outage uh
same as today
okay yeah just making sure that there
will be no
service
but not that one that's fine that works
a a chunk a big chunk of your bill is
Generation so there's generation Supply
generation is the AEP piece that they
own all the lines and the supply is this
piece that we're it would be changing
yeah it does bring up a question or call
the mayor that's really effective just
curious I know we're buying Rex but what
happens if
vista's solar
Farm gets hit by a tornado
and it goes to put you have the same
service that you have today it's really
going to be the same power same lines
what we're doing through this program is
we're applying renewable information
credits right to cancel all the brown
energy so so just goes into normal
you're doing something proactively
trying to make a difference between two
so it's just kind of the methodology
eventually we'd love to have a local
Supply and have it be cheap we're not
there yet
I don't know how they were new I
renewable energy credits work with Vista
and how they get
there
that's part of all it is
even those of us who generate all of our
own free electricity still pay that fee
to AEP to maintain the infrastructure so
that's always part of it
do we have a question out here
all right no hold on are you a resident
all right we'll approach approach then
please identify yourself
to that so just you know communication
great question typically the opt-out
notices for the Public Utilities
Commission of Ohio they have a pretty
standard opt-out letter but they recruit
that has utilized by suppliers they
typically built this depending their
surprise him in there at all but it's a
great suggestion but I mean supplies
important
I mean you could always look into it um
typically with the opt-out notification
is pretty standard so you typically
don't have a lot of big changes to it
even the price is really the lowest of
any aggregation program that's green in
central Ohio right now I think the price
of the program is really really
competitive
um whether or not A supplier would be
willing to put a better nervous bracelet
or have them go elsewhere I don't know
but I mean it's something to worry about
the truth okay
Matt you got another question yeah I
mean I don't seem to I don't see any
issue with putting like
um
for different options go to Apples to
Apple or
energychoice.ohio.gov on the literature
because that's I mean that's how I did
mine and then I mean there's so many on
there that you know in so many different
options that it would be difficult to
list it on like one
postcard you know all the different
Market rates or whatever so yeah I mean
to let them know hey if you opt out you
could go to this website and see what
but we'll run that by the supplier as
well and say Hey would this be
acceptable and then we'll go back and
forth on the opt out letter and make
sure that we get the administration
any other comments or questions yes
thank you but Mr Mrs Smith who's been
about to pay attention to it and so on
and so forth and all of a sudden
September 15th or October I'm going to
do this yeah and they signed up again
time so you'll have an initial 101 day
period but then after that you can throw
his offered as well of the same term so
I also thank you excellent good question
thank you
do we need to amend this then yeah so
it'll be amended just to add dynergy the
the current orders such as the blank
um okay yep
um motion to amend ordinance 16-23 to
add dynagy as reflected on the screen
motion to amend by Miss lamke second
second by Miss Saad Mr McPeak uh masad
yes Miss Robinson yes Mr Markham yes Mr
Marcelino yes Mr Klingler yes Miss lamke
yes and miss fiebel
Amendment
the ordinance is amended thank you it
got we've changed it motion to adopt
amended ordinance 16-23
uh there's a motion to adopt by Ms lamke
second second by Mr Marcelino uh Mr
mcpeek
Miss fibol Miss lamke yes Mr Klingler
yes Mr Marcelino yes Mr Markham yes Miss
Robinson yes Miss sod yes there we go a
median ordinance pastors thank you
thank you folks I have to sign something
now right
they need your credit card
hold on
you had
this is what we have from you guys so
I think it gives us the authority to
move forward with what you talked about
but
yeah
thank you all very much
thank you
appreciate that that's a great
opportunity thank you yeah thanks for
your work on this
all right we have already uh gone past
the public comments president's report
is just to note that uh please make sure
you note that we have changed the time
and date of our not the time but the
date of our next meeting from August 8th
to August 15th so
don't show up here on August 8th please
show up the next week August 15th but uh
on August 8th please show up at the
polls to vote because it is a state
issue among I don't know if there's
anything else it's just that isn't it
yeah
and then I'll hand that over to the City
attorney and actually along those lines
I will um I'm not saying this
just read that just trust you along
those lines for people but when you I
don't know how it affects Bexley if at
all but it's my understanding there are
far fewer polling locations that will be
available in August days because who
cares about democracy but that's
editorial partner no there were some
people should be checking that to make
sure that they are have the opportunity
and know where they're going or do early
voting so I did want to talk and I know
we're you know 7 15 but I did want to
mention something that is just so folks
here are aware of it
and I'm actually going to do a little
training for the city employees
um concerning uh topic that is bizarre
to me but kind of ubiquitous and it's
drifting into Central Ohio regarding
um First Amendment audits
um so first amendment audits aren't what
you think they necessarily there weren't
what I thought they were initially which
is like oh I'm gonna go and look at my
clients
um policies and procedures and make sure
that they're complying with the First
Amendment no First Amendment audits are
conducted by folks who are
self-proclaimed self-appointed First
Amendment Auditors they're just citizens
who walk around with the camera and try
to get a lot of provocation from public
employer public entities I mean the
police face them in this in out on the
road probably way more than anybody else
will but now a lot of folks are doing
this by coming into like our lobby and
filming and they want to get a reaction
of you can't film here they can film
there they are allowed to film any Lobby
open place in any public building and
anything that's showing and so there I
just want you to be aware in case you
hear that coming to Bexley because it
wouldn't surprise me if they do if you
would go on YouTube and Just Google
search public uh um I'm sorry First
Amendment audits you will see some
interesting things and you know there's
one I did some training on it recently
for a group of public employers and I
got a I used a couple videos and one
they were both in uh post offices in in
Ohio and the post offices had something
on the wall that says you're allowed to
do this and and whatever it is you could
do the people at the uh behind the desk
said you can't do it you're not allowed
to film and you can basically you can
film people walking to their cars
whatever the case might be it's
certainly intrusive and but again I just
want to make you aware of it you know so
private it's basically private citizens
photographing or filming in public
spaces there's no requirement for them
to be a journalist it's often
confrontational nature because as you
will see if you look at the videos
they're selling ads um or you you know
YouTube through YouTube is selling ads
and so what I'm going to do is um and
there's a court case real quick it says
that
um although I'm not unqualified as
Citizens right to film government
officials including law enforcement
officers in the discharge of their
duties in a public space is a basic
vital and well-established Liberty
safeguarded by the First Amendment and
it can even be live streamed so I'm
going to be meeting with and it's not
going to be anything extensive but I'm
going to be meeting with the employees
here
um and do a little bit of short sweet to
the point training because we don't need
to be the ones on the news so you may
hear about it Hilliard just had some
rigmarole with it and I've had some
other clients who have had to deal with
it but the best you know they have the
right to do it and that's all there is
to it so just wanted to share that
thank you Mark uh auditor support
no report
all right Mr Mayor take us to the
administrative update please
good evening I'm about to pull it up
here sorry
good evening
do you Chief do you have anything to add
to your written report which is in front
of council uh nothing to answer
sorry I'm just doing two things at once
here there we go
any questions for the chief
compliments
just wanted to uh compliment you on
reaching out to St Charles and putting
on the law enforcement day and Cardinal
Camp thank you son was there uh his
favorite part was the marijuana goggles
that's interesting for him to come over
I was Justin Fleming was happy to hear
that and he said that's that's pretty
impressive considering we had a
helicopter flying right he's like the
helicopter is nothing but those goggles
goggles yeah it was a good time there
they are oh yeah look at that
um so thanks for all of that they I know
all the boys really appreciate it thank
you
okay
yeah
we're there there he is hanging out
there
uh any other oh sorry Jess I think you
had your hand up I was going to touch on
the same thing and I love that you said
that about Cole because um I got this
update and I saw the helicopter and I
was like this is amazing but again thank
you for engaging youth in the community
which is something that you know was a
platform and you continue to do it and
um that was great to see I also wanted
to just touch upon it looks like um we
have recently hired a new officer that's
in here Stephen Anderson has been
selected yes ma'am will swear him in
July 13th and then he will leave for the
Academy in August great so yes ma'am and
we'll um when he's finished with his
training we'll bring him in do an
official swearing and once the training
is completed wonderful thank you yes
ma'am
I just wanted to say a great huge thank
you for your presence at the Juneteenth
event
um and you and your fraternity brothers
made quite a quite their presence known
it was great and it was really really
wonderful to have police I know you
weren't in your uniform and there
officially as a police officer but it
was really nice to have the chief of
police there thank you so thank you
just wanted to pass on a message to Ivy
Lewis that next Tuesday July 4th Bexley
is going to have a big parade fireworks
the whole bit for her birthday yes ma'am
thank you thank you she is very excited
all right thank you very much Chief uh
Mr Price Rec Department update
the only things
[Music]
um no just we're near enough Fourth of
July
um 5K run 8 o'clock in the morning so if
you're looking to get a little exercise
videos
um we're volunteering together
volunteers yeah
um
foreign
thank you Mike
I have one quick question for Mike yeah
well the price family all be in the same
location on the parade route that
they're in every year
we will it is it is uh Bryce Family
Vacation
so all these all these things are coming
in from out of town I would expect
nothing less
well yeah no but we've actually worked
on the techniques
thank you
Mr Bayshore
service department update how's it going
Andy good how are you
good
um I really don't have anything to add
to my written reports tonight
um the crews have all been very busy
getting ready for the fourth and uh but
I'm happy to answer any questions
Andy there was a question posed on the
internet today uh somebody was asking
if the Columbia Gas project that's
occurring right now at Aston Pleasant
Ridge will be cleaned up during the
Fourth of July festivities sure so it
will be cleaned up
um they have ran into some pretty
serious issues down there
um I think encountered some utilities
they weren't expecting and had to go a
lot deeper so that's why the projects
that has been delayed more than it we
were expecting they will be out of the
area but there will be some steel plates
um probably right there at Aston
Pleasant Ridge and then probably right
on Pleasant Ridge but they will be uh
secured down and probably has some cool
patch around them
they wanted to start on College also but
I
um
more or less shut them down on that
because I don't want them starting on
college right before the fourth but uh
we're going to make them clean it up the
best that you know best that they can
and everything will be safe but there
will be some steel plates out there
okay thank you Andy
um any questions for Andy
all right compliments
complaints you're good Andy thanks
have a good night man you too
um Mr Hale
good evening
I really uh don't have too much to add
to my summary sheet
um of the bottom line
um
general fund balance is 2.4 million
dollars better than forecasted for the
reasons uh outlined there on the summary
if anybody has any questions I'll be
glad to answer them
features bottom line any questions for
Beecher
all right
good job good work Beach appreciate it
thank you for this update thanks sir
good evening
you too
is that okay uh oh that brings us to me
um so I have a written report in front
of you uh couple things to highlight
uh we've had some
um
I think I've got varying feedback on the
Drexel project which has been
predominantly positive but we have a
couple people concern about like wow
this is narrow I would just encourage
people to remember that any any
construction project looks different
when it's underway than it will when
it's complete especially when they're
orange cones everywhere so uh this is
this this is the apex of the narrowing
right now that we're in the midst of
um I think uh the the community is gonna
be really happy with the outcome
um this tree commission last week
approved a type of uh Asian or Japanese
cherry tree similar to what we have in
our parking lot here
um but with blossoms a little more
robust
um that would go in the medians and
overall a project is looking really good
and come along well so yeah it's going
quickly uh summer newsletter we're about
to get out although
and there's a draft of that in the uh in
the agenda take a look at that if you
will it's a it's a long one so there's a
lot of information on here it is in a
draft format we're almost complete with
it I think we need to add information on
aggregation though so it's trying to get
into the printer tomorrow morning uh
we will
things keep on happening as we're
drafting this thing so
golf cart safety there you go
um
yeah that's right wrong picture for
safety uh Splash Pad grand opening I
think July 9th is what's looking like
for the grand opening uh which I have
not looked at on my calendar but if you
guys would like to
take a look at it that's a Sunday
Splash Pad grand opening July 9th
does that generally work out for you
guys if we picked a time in the
afternoon
okay cool
so I'll let you guys know when that is
just hold hold your Maybe
your two to three o'clock-ish time frame
and it looks like you're using this
opportunity to once again remind us that
August 8th is not the city council
meeting that's correct the typo is
intentional I like that well done Mr
President Markham city council meeting
is August 15th do not believe any
literature that you've read to the
contrary right
[Music]
um
I wanna I wanna commend uh those who
helped plan the Juneteenth celebration
um at the library it was an amazing
event it was supposed to be outside at
Jeffrey uh the rain looked like it was
going to come and hit us hard it didn't
but that's okay we moved into the
library and pivoted especially Courtney
Baker who kind of ahead I think steered
up a lot of that but there was an entire
committee behind it that did a great job
um unbidden uh Senator Craig called me
to congratulate us on you heard it was a
great event and sent us a commendation
or citation
citation sounds negative but it's
positive in this instance uh so I just
wanted again to thank those who who put
a lot of thought into it it was a really
beautiful event and it was great to have
a great show from not just our community
but many of our East Side greater East
area Neighbors
and that concludes my report for this
evening I'm happy to answer any
questions
mayor Ben can I add one thing to uh the
the summary of the Juneteenth event the
speaker I believe what she said was
You're Gonna Fly
it's a thought next year bexley's the
place to be for Juneteenth which I can
tell you when we started this whole
process a couple years ago was what we
had hoped would happen so it's it's
really nice to see that three years in
that Bexley is the place to be for
Juneteenth so who knows Alex and and
everybody else who was involved in the
program
Alice did a fantastic job organizing the
food stations
[Laughter]
everybody we had food Runners it took a
village it was great and Jen thank you
for all your work early on in this
process uh getting this started in our
community
any questions
all right thank you nope I would also
just like to say uh thanks to Jen for uh
bring this whole initiating this whole
Juneteenth to the city and be in that
driving force behind it and it's
exciting to see this now sort of become
part of our uh part of our uh City uh
annual
sorry I'm just very excited I I remember
when you brought this up I wasn't on
Council I was nowhere near there um but
you called around to a lot of community
members uh gauging interest and I I know
that there's pushback at times and and
it wasn't always as as open uh people
weren't always as open to the idea so to
see the community rally together pick up
new uh people of interest and for you to
continue to push this event forward it's
really truly inspiring and just
objectively I remember sitting there in
my computer at work talking to you over
Zoom about it and then I know that
there's push back on but she fought
through and just really helped create a
great event with Courtney and bringing
in people like Alex Etc
um to help grow it so just thank you
from the bottom of my heart for that
thank you yeah you know Sam said that a
lot better than I said and that's what I
meant to say I know I know it's the same
way that's awesome
right
all right I will move along here with uh
Mr Fishel all right we are on to the
consent agenda which has a meeting
minutes from June 13th 2023. comments or
questions on the consent agenda comments
for their questions from the audience on
the consent agenda and uh I move that we
adopt the consent agenda can I get a
second second second by Mr Klingler Mr
mcpeek please call the roll Assad
yes Miss Robinson yes Mr Markham yes Mr
Marcelino yes Mr Klingler yes Miss
lamkey yes Miss feibel consent agenda
passes thank you Mr official okay we
have a third reading of resolution 3-23
confirming the mayor's appointments of
members to the Architectural Review
Board the board of zoning appeals and
planning the Recreation and Parks Board
the tree and public gardens commission
the Board of Health the Civil Service
Commission the citizens review board and
the environmental sustainability
advisory committee committee that was
introduced by Ms Robinson
yes we have a slew of people on this uh
list here today
um that we will be um
uh
will we be meeting with anybody today so
these are the reappointments
um because of some some good interest
and finalizing some of those interviews
and just actually this afternoon I had
somebody I'd interviewed um and and
suggested they might be good for a
different board than they had actually
applied for and they said they were
interested in fact so that um I think
we're going to come back with a
resolution in August for new appointees
and we're fine our boards can our boards
can uh Soldier on well uh with the
appointees here okay great then this is
pretty straightforward then I uh move
that we
um oh I did it wrong
make a motion to you can move me nervous
I know we can I can move but then I can
just you can't I can't you can't say I
motion no I
now I'm all confused you were nope Jen
you were you were on it I moved to I
moved to pass resolution 323. I'll
second that get me out of here
motion did uh by Ms Robinson second and
by Mr Markham uh Mr mcpeat Miss viable
Miss lamke yes Mr Klingler yes Mr
Marcelino yes Mr Markham yes Miss
Robinson yes Miss Saad yes resolution
passes oh gosh all right we are on to a
third reading of ordinance 17-23 to
approve and authorize the mayor and the
city auditor to sign this the Bexley
Ohio incentive agreement and tax
increment financing agreement between
the city of Bexley and School District
I'm sorry and CSD Bexley LLC cohatch to
provide incentives available for public
infrastructure improvements in the Main
Street incentive district and to
establish the CSD Bexley LLC account
introduced by Mr Klingler
thanks Mr Fishel uh third reading of
this ordinance can we pull up the
ordinance please
while you're doing that I will say thank
you to Monique lamkief for setting up a
meeting at cohatch
um with Jenna Dre and thanks Matt for
letting us go
um
uh tour it with her uh we went to the
Upper Arlington one I don't know if you
know where that is it's over past Whole
Foods on late Avenue on the south side
of the street incredible I mean it was
it was amazing it was really great
spaces
um
excellent amenities I I I walked through
and I thought I know probably 10 people
right off top my head that would would
utilize the space so I'm excited it's it
was awesome
well done
which one do you want the ordinance or
the ingredients no well uh the ordinance
first I saw a typo earlier and uh I
thought it was a typo in section three
page three top of the page
670 but then it says 800 and
uh thanks man thanks
exactly 670 because that was the
purchase price right okay
um that's a good catch yeah and
um what I will I I don't know if
Mark that requires a uh that's a typo
because it is a 670 purchase price that
requires an amendment if it was the
opposite and the numbers were the wrong
one I'd be okay with the typo but not
this way
okay
cool
I will
pull that out just saved us 130 000 well
hey you put it on my tab
um
I didn't see any other typos or anything
anything else in there that was the only
one
okay
more comments questions from City
Council
yeah
um I just wanted to add that when I
toured the cohatch at Raleigh to
location what struck me was not only
that you had folks from non-profits
solos companies
um big organizations working but it was
also a very active Lively space that
kind of made me think of it as the the
neighborhood place where maybe you
wanted to come have a cup of coffee they
also serve beer or not serve but they
have beer and wine for folks who work
there but also they they really are a
community draw we talked a lot with uh
with Jenna about ways to maybe have the
community come learn about cohatch and
and Bexley and I think that for as many
people that work from home and maybe
occasionally need an afternoon or a
morning or want to meet clients in an
office setting it really seems like it's
a wonderful Community draw as well as a
workspace place we also talked through a
lot of the parking
drawings and the you know the Terrace
that's coming in and I came home and I
was thinking wow I wish I wish we had
attracted cohatch earlier
um based on what we saw but you exceeded
every expectation that that we had at
least that I had when I toured it so
thanks mayor for for working with
cohatch and bringing this to city
council
yeah I'll piggyback on that real quick
we did look at the parking when we left
and there
correct me wrong there's no dedicated
parking there you share that with all
the businesses there and there's a lot
of businesses to share parking with and
at this location there's going to be
um it's it's your it's collages parking
um because I know that was a
um
oh man we had heard in the past but it
was it was uh it seemed
seems fine seemed well attended for
cohesion enough parking that I can
Envision in this space
you know what comments or questions
I messed up on the last one it was the
third reading I should have extended
opportunity to the audience so I will
extend the opportunity on this one if
anybody wants to comment or question
if not then I will uh send it back to
you Mr Klingler
uh make a motion to amend ordinance
1723. motion to amend by Mr Klingler
second second by Miss Saad Mr McPeak uh
masad
yes Miss Robinson yes Mr Markham yes Mr
Marcelino yes Mr cleanler yes Miss lamke
yes MS fiebel
Amendment passes
uh make a motion to approve amended
ordinance 17-23.
motion to uh approve the amend the
amended ordinance by Mr Klingler and I
heard a second by uh Ms Robinson
um Mr mcpeek Ms fiebel Miss lampke yes
Mr Klingler yes Mr Marcelino yes Mr
Markham yes Mr Robinson yes Miss sod yes
amended ordinance passes thank you thank
you Matt Mr President if I can ask thank
you Matt for being for coming to Bexley
we're excited
they're giving away freely
that's official all right we have no
second reading moving on to our first
reading first reading of ordinance 18-23
to authorize the mayor an auditor to
enter into a contract between the city
of Bexley and Franklin County Public
Health introduced by Mr Marcelino
yes thank you very much uh this is just
a re-up uh We've utilized uh Franklin
County Public Health for some time uh
it's a first reading so it's not a very
lengthy piece of uh legislation so take
a look at it and let me know if you have
any questions it's not a first reader it
is a first reading but we're helping
suspension and adaption because it
probably should have happened a while
ago it's the calendar year 23 contract
ah man that should be done then huh
is the language
mayor is does the ordinance version of
the ordinance if you could pull it up
make sure it has the
emergency language
18-23
nope we need to amend section two
for x
uh
is a state's the standard it's their
standard contract but let me
see am I did I sent you that contract
right uh you sent me an email in regards
to it and I saw us I just didn't see I
missed the emergency part of those in it
so I'll take you
uh
yeah so I think you might have said in
the comment but not in the actual
ordinance
here so the contract is now attached to
the agenda it is the same boilerplate
contract that they have used in the past
the the operative section of this on
page that's not the it's there's there
are many operative sections but on page
two the fee is outlined that's
denominated there it is the fee that we
budgeted for for this year so that's not
a surprise
um we are going to put a Tickler on for
future years because this really does
need to be approved when as soon as it
comes in uh which is not necessarily
normal for most of our contracts but
it's a requirement they have I think
right
yeah that's there comments or questions
on uh
it's uh the ordinance and the and or the
contract that's what we have there it
may mayor oh you got it they're right I
was going to tell you it's in the next
ordinance so you can just yeah
I'm going to cut and paste out of that
yep
um but first I have to go back to
the actual ordinance so
[Music]
um
nope
oh there it is
almost there guys
Sam do you have comments or questions
the effect of not suspending and
adopting tonight is what I'm considering
here just because again as I reviewed it
I've seen her email that you mentioned
that we'd be requesting it but it wasn't
within the ordinance language and that's
all I'm concerned about and your
position any issue or if counsel I want
to mainly bring it up to anybody else if
anybody does have an issue with
suspending and adopting tonight before
we amend this that they want to give it
a little bit more time it shouldn't
impact our ability to retain them if we
come back and do this first thing August
and suspend and adapt but if anybody
feels bum rushed by it since it wasn't
part of the ordinance at that time I
would be happy to
hold off on that I just want to run it
by anybody else I see no major issue
okay cool
all right yeah answer your question I
don't know enough I don't think they're
going to drop us
to put you at ease it is identical to
the every ordinance that's been passed
about this so we'll throw that out there
it's anybody have uh objection that
they'd like to Voice or concerns about
potential
suspension and adoption tonight
all right do you aren't I'm so sorry Mr
President we should add in the title and
to declare an emergency is that correct
yeah we should
and we need to amend this right correct
I would uh move to amend ordinance
number
18-23 to include the changes we've just
discussed question to a man by Mr
Marcelino second by Mr Klingler Mr
McPeak Mossad yes Miss Robinson yes Mr
Markham yes Mr Marcelino yes Mr Klingler
yes yes Miss lamke yes Miss viable
Amendment passes
uh
Mr President and Mr City attorney just
real quickly just to explain the
difference with an emergency versus
non-emergency and again not I just
wanted to clarify weep we could have
suspended adopted and not made an
emergency
and it probably would have been just
fine for that purpose so those are like
I mean this we're buttoning it down by
doing that we wanted it it will be
effective as soon as the mayor signs as
opposed to 30 days from now my point
being that there would be times when you
might want to suspend an adopt that you
wouldn't put in emergency language oh
absolutely so this that's the two don't
necessarily go don't go hand in hand
you and I do this or me Sam
motion to suspend the three reading role
on amended ordinance 18-23
oh second seconded by Mr Marcelino Mr
McPeak Miss feibel Miss lamke yes Mr
Klingler yes Mr Marcelino yes Mr Markham
yes Miss Robinson yes Miss sod yes
motion to spend suspend the three
reading rule passes
do you want to do this part Sam sure I
moved the password it's uh 18-23
question to adopt by Mr Marcelino second
second by Mr Klingler Mr mcpeek Miss sod
yes Ms Robinson yes Mr Markham yes Mr
Marcelino yes Mr Klingler yes Miss lamke
yes Miss fiebel ordinance passes amended
ordinance passes thank you beautiful all
right moving on to ordinance 19-23
declaring the improvements to the former
Trinity cemetery apartments cite to be a
public purpose declaring such
improvements to be exempt from Real
Property taxation requiring the owners
thereof to make service payments in lieu
of taxes designating the public
infrastructure improvements to be made
that will directly benefit the real
property
establishing a public Improvement tax
increment equivalent fund for the
deposit of service payments authorizing
a revenue sharing agreement with the
Bexley City School District and
authorizing a tax increment financing
and Redevelopment agreement with the
developer of the site introduced by Mr
Klingler
thanks Mr Fishel I know how much we all
love talking about tiffs
maybe the mayor when we come back from
break can give us a rundown on yeah I
know you enjoy that we're getting good
at uh yeah but on um in all seriousness
this is an exciting one
um if we could pull up can you pull up
the ordinance please
read through a couple of the whereas is
um
this is this is a tiff for the
development for those that don't just
adjacent to our parking lot here
um the exciting part right there is that
it's get you know mixed use development
you're like
like that those words uh 219 residential
Apartments
um 12 000 plus medical office space a
bunch of retail space
um
this is for a tiff for that development
the developers Continental
um
I don't I don't have anything else to to
add other I mean
I think you had some details to add
about the school
yeah I think well so we s this is newly
in contract
um it is uh as you you just stated the
current proposal has apartment units
medical office or normal office space
some commercial retail space in the
parking garage
um because we don't need to get into
August 15th and because the developer is
asking the school board to be a
participant in this we needed to get a
first reading going they have not
submitted any formal application to the
city of Bexley so we are still waiting
on seeing that so I think I've you know
we all have a lot of questions and we'll
have some more answers in the coming
weeks so by the time we meet again
in August I think we will have a
development proposal on hand to look at
I think we'll have some more details to
look at we might have some disposition
from the school board to understand
better and the developer and or their
Council will be able to present it to
council to our Council
um more comprehensively so this is
getting the ball rolling and scant on
details
is there any way we can include this
just the proposed ordinance in the
Bexley blast or something I just see as
though this is going to be one of the
most exciting things that happens in our
community for a while but I anticipate
there could be some questions to some
added uh communication uh in regards to
it so people can take a look at it
between now and when we come back might
be beneficial Mr Marceline you'll be
glad to know that there's an article on
the blast on Friday that uh this Gabe
look at this
year that's good the project in general
that we hadn't received the drawings yet
but that it did it while it mentioned
the Tiff within our Council we didn't
specifically talk about the Tiff and um
without I mean I
yeah long story short I can update those
Communications I'm a little nervous
about communicating too much out because
it's not communicating but nuancing that
communication because a lot of work has
to be done with the school board and
that's kind of their you know that's we
need to know where they're going with
that before we have a whole lot to say
about it I think
but yes
what the what the blast had was a
development update just saying that it
was in contract that we were expecting
some plans and given kind of generally
that there would be a good heads up to
people whenever they were filed uh the
deadline was I think July 13th for
August hearings so just kind of giving
people a heads up that it might be
coming on the bike
you know the questions are
but Sam I'll make a note in uh as
developments keep happening I'll remind
the mayor to put updates in the blast as
will I
I'm just kidding good I'll also remind
myself so we will be so well reminded
[Laughter]
uh Monique can you remind me too a
little bit thanks appreciate it
I think we're good to move on all right
so we are moving on to a first reading
of ordinance 20-23 to establish the
mandatory drug fine fund pursuant to the
applicable sections of the Ohio
rivervised code that's introduced by Ms
lamkey
thank you this ordinance as well as the
next two ordinances uh came up recently
because there was a court adjudication
on some seized funds and assets and it's
my understanding that we as a city have
30 days to disperse a portion of those
funds back to the court system mayor do
you want to walk us through maybe this
one and maybe the next two as well
I can try to walk you through them but
I'm I'm going to actually ask your City
attorney
the attorney was made aware of these
today so with that caveat was your mayor
as yeah I'm not blaming anybody in this
room
um but um so so I'm giving you some
caveats so this first one and they're
all three related they're all they're
all uh required by the Ohio revised code
in order to make sure that we have have
the ability to receive funds
um that we will get from time to time in
relating to criminal convictions and
fines that are imposed so the first one
here is
um relates to
um drug fines that are issued pursuant
to
29.25.03 of the revised code and
essentially what the what that statute
says a lot of it says a lot but in this
part what it says is that basically in
in
2925.03 F1 that we have to have the
legislative body has to pass
um a a ordinance approving the receipt
of this money not as it comes in but
overall and that that the city police
department has to have a policy that
author that meets state standards for
written internal control that addresses
the Department's use and disposition of
the fines and they can be used for
certain limited purposes criminal law
criminal justice related that set forth
in the statute
and apparently there's money baiting to
be received and we don't have this fund
established for whatever reason so it's
going to need to be another suspended
and adopted thing
so the timing on you as well the next
two if you're comfortable with it
and I think the next two are
reestablishing like we have an existing
framework We Believe or there's there
are these funds exist according to
Beecher in our system so they've been
used in the past
but I guess we can wait till we cross
that bridge
any questions from Council before I
move to suspend the three reading
requirements
okay I moved to suspend the three
reading requirement for ordinance 20-23
second
motion to suspend the three reading rule
by Ms slamke second by Mr Klingler Mr
mcpeek
Assad
yes Miss Robinson yes Mr Markham yes Mr
Marcelino yes Mr Klingler yeah Miss
lamke yes Miss Bible motion to suspend
the three reading rule passes I moved to
adopt ordinance
20-23 question to adopt by Ms lamke
seconded by Mr Klingler Mr mcpee
Miss Bible Miss lamke yes Mr Mark or Mr
Klingler yes Mr Marcelino yes Mr Markham
yes Assad yes Miss Robinson yes
ordinance passes
all right continuing along this path to
Sweden first reading of ordinance 21-23
to re-establish the law enforcement
trust fund fun fund 18 pursuant to the
applicable sections of the Ohio Revised
Code introduced by Ms lamkey today
all right same thing as last time any
questions before I move to suspend the
three reading requirements oh Mr
Klingler yeah
Sarah
just more of a general question do we
have a like a seizure fund
when we see that's what these are these
are seizure funds well that's what they
call I'm sorry that's what
no that's what this one is is a seizure
fund
and it may need to be
modified after we get back and to be
able to receive actual
vehicles that we sell ourselves or
choose to keep there is some confusion
about that and I need to do a little
more research but this is a seizure fund
the first one is to get drug find money
this is a seizure fund the next one is
get you money we get from DUI
convictions and fines that go to a DUI
enforcement and education fund my next
question is
is does orc State what it can be spent
on and yes the seizure fund definitely
is and it's set forth in section two I
took the language in section two is
what's in the orc so law enforcement so
so these the seizure money and basically
what happens is that this if the city of
Bexley Police Department is the primary
primary involved primarily involved law
enforcement or agency that gets a
criminal conviction that results in a
seizure we get money it gets to other
places too because everybody gets their
hand in it but section two specifically
says it can be
um expended only to pay the cost of
protracted or complex investigations
provide reasonable Technical Training
and expertise to provide matching funds
to get federal grants or if it's not one
of those it can be used for other law
enforcement purposes as recommended by
the chief of police and approved by city
council so the chief can't just say to
the mayor I want to spend it on whatever
it has anything outside those three
categories have to come before city
council to be spent okay
any other comments or questions here
while this is up
one more hold on Mr Klingler
does that to be spent in a certain
amount of time
no
I moved to
three reading requirement for ordinance
number
21-23 question to suspend the three
reading rule by Ms lamke second seconded
by Mr Klingler Mr McPeak
Mossad yes Miss Robinson yes Mr Markham
yes Mr Marcelino yes Mr Klingler yes
Miss lamke yes it's Bible motion to
suspend the three reading rule passes
I moved to adopt ordinance 21-23 motion
to adopt by Ms lamke second second by Mr
Klingler Mr McBee
this fiebel Miss lamkey yes Mr Markham
yes Mr Marcelino yes
Mr Klingler yes uh Miss Robinson yes
Assad yes ordinance passes
all right back to you all right we are
now on to the first reading of ordinance
22-23 to re-establish the DUI
Enforcement Education fund fun fund 24
pursuant to the applicable sections of
the Ohio Revised Code introduced by Ms
lamke
all right this is the last one any any
questions
[Laughter]
comments for questions
all right all right I moved to suspend
the three reading requirement for
ordinance 22-23 question to suspend the
three ring enrollment slam key second by
Mr Klingler Mr mcpeek Miss viable Miss
lamke yes Mr Mark Markham yes Mr
Klingler yes Mr Marcelino yes Miss uh
yes Miss Robinson yes motion to suspend
the three reading rule passes I moved to
adopt ordinance 22-23 motion to adopt Ms
lamke second second by Miss sod and Miss
sod yes Miss Robinson yes Mr Markham yes
Mr Marcelino yes Mr Klingler yes Miss
lamke yes it's viable ordinance passes
thank you I think a few of us could use
a cough drop right now
no tabled ordinances and I think we can
go into the committee reports
Miss sod Recreation and Parks
yes so at our last city council meeting
we had the privilege of having auditor
stenciano's staff come and speak to us
about the 2023 property reappraisals
um and after they spoke and it was such
a a nice presentation it dawned on me
that
the few people in our audience are on
Zoom
um we probably needed to you know uh put
out a bigger net to let the residents of
Bexley know more about the education we
received two weeks ago so
um reached out to auditor stenciano's
staff and they will be presenting at the
end of July at the library
um so Thursday July 27th at 6 30 pm
um actually auditor stenciano will be
joining us with his staff and the
program is Franklin County's 2023
property reappraisals what you should
know and how to prepare so hopefully
um council members that are around will
be able to join me in uh that evening
and if anything definitely helped me
spread the word to Residents
um Paige bellato has been wonderful in
getting us together so quickly and we're
hoping that it's 43209 but if our
neighbors
um outside of the 43209 would like to
have that opportunity to meet with
Michael and his staff they're going to
be available that night so I'm looking
forward to this thank you for doing that
and now I'm gonna
also
throw that again to that I think a good
responsibility on us to promote this to
people because you know when this comes
up a lot of people have questions about
property tax reassessment and instead of
having to try and answer those questions
this is a great opportunity to send
people like go to this Workshop the
auditor will be there you can you know
and uh get that word out I think it's
probably a good idea
hey Jess let's um talk about maybe
reaching out to some of the Civic
associations for the communities around
us and see if we can get more people
coming I think it's a great idea yep
thank you
yeah uh Finance Miss Lamborghini
no report this evening safety and health
Mr Marcelino uh because we won't be back
before uh August 8th uh I would like to
point out that our health and safety is
under attack
um the issue one that is going to be on
the ballot I would encourage community
members to vote no on August 8th to the
Constitutional Amendment placed on the
ballot
um by the Ohio General Assembly uh just
again this would mean that 40 percent of
Voters could block every initiative that
the majority of Ohioans want uh it's
important to keep in mind this is also
extremely short-sighted as we look at
this I think for one uh prevalent yeah
exact one prevalent issue but it will
extend to many more down the road but it
will require then 60 so again vote no uh
on on issue one on August 8th for your
own health and safety thank you and
double check your polling station
that's always a good thing
uh
strategisticalistic Ms Robinson wow
hopefully all of you saw that
um I re-forwarded the um strategic plan
so it would be at the top of your inbox
please take some time as we enter our
July Break
um I know a couple of you have been on
and have been making some markings on
the document but please do that so that
we can have kind of a a hearty
conversation about it when we get back
and and if you have any thoughts or
concerns aside from writing it directly
on a document please feel free to reach
out to myself or the mayor and um let's
just make sure that we are giving this a
deep dive and the mayor's holding it up
like just like Vanna White oh look at
this for those of you who would like to
see what it looks like in real form
that's it other than that be safe over
the Fourth of July weekend and enjoy the
break
thank you stoning and development Mr
Klingler
uh next land use strategy 2.0 Commission
meeting is July 10th that is all
excellent service and environmental this
is she had no report this evening all
right we do have this time for public
comments yes how about comments
that's interesting
excellent thank you very much any other
comments on yes
very nice space and I think about it
that I know um
thinking about you know these questions
earlier not knowing that we development
time for him
because
the bad things you sit there we go
and I don't know how much of the
conservatives
foreign
thank you
any more comments
if not this time I move that we uh
adjourn into it executive session 22
3-03
to confer with an attorney for the
public body concerning matters involving
the public body which are or may become
the subject of litigation did I do that
right sound again
um
I needed a second for that
I'll second it second mystery Klingler
and then we need to Voice vote Mr mcpeek
Mossad yes Miss Robinson yes Mr Markham
yes Mr Marcelino yes Mr Klingler yes
Miss landke yes Miss viable
motion to adjourn and to Executive
session passes thank you
all right
uh at this time I move that we uh
returned from
executive session back to the real world
second second by Mr Klingler all in
favor say aye aye
aye all post same sign
and now I will make a motion to adjourn
second second by Mr Klingler all uh in
favor say aye
aye all opposed same sign
we're done bye enjoy the break
enjoy the break
I know
I have a
mediation