all right we
are we'll be
sharing all right you were G to some
it's just generation side that's all
we're talking about so a 10 to 15 but
yeah let's just talk about generation
side yeah for that one month yeah you
will see increase um there won't be a
savings for that month compared to where
a is again people can switch out to go
to that a if they like this is no
there's no fees during this whole
program it's still opt out program
meaning that there's no fees for anybody
so uh if we do do june start what we're
seeing um the numbers come back up it's
a little bit of a jump in price we do
25% 25
30% um compared to May to June you're
seeing about a couple T of a penny kind
of deal I'm just trying to say it
overall if you look at basically that
one right there if you look at D's price
May till June we see 9155
9335 so we're going to see a little bit
of a jump there if we decide to start in
June so our price will be a little bit
higher savings won't be good as good for
another whole 12 months after that you
go to the I think it was the last
slide you go to the last slide not
yeah yeah
but and I'm sorry what I believe also is
that the projected rate is what we would
enter into to a 13
months or is that that projector rate is
for also for a 24 uh 24 month program
okay so that is what constellation
provideed 8997 that is the best overall
but at the same time we don't know where
capacity is going to be at come June of
next who come June of next year so we
can lock that in yes we could certainly
do that but then we're locked in for
another 12 months and we don't know if
there's savings we don't know where
their capacity is going to be at coming
up we know it's going to be high like it
is now but what level and also Energy
prices other factors are still they
still have a chance to come down during
this period yeah I guess I'm just I'm
still kind of confused because I'm
trying to understand what are we make
are we looking to make a decision or
recommendation on taking
the May
25th aggregation price that we have
access to or are we making a decision or
do we are we suggesting we hold off it
sounds like so I I would my
recommendation actually would be to do
the 13 month because with the letters
being sent out from AP and you're back
in the back on the standard Choice offer
then you're going to get a letter around
the same time period an opt out letter
it's in your back in aggregation
program and with that yes you might have
one month you're going to be higher but
then the other 12 months you're going to
be significantly lower so it's the
choice that you guys have if you want
that kind of community stir up where
it's a lot confusion people are
receiving letters people are calling
which we are happy to call I mean I
people happy take the calls but you the
whole decision is about if you want to
do a May or June
start but ultimately to clarify I think
what you were asking Matt is if we do
nothing the aggregation drops
and beex goes to the market which in May
will be will be less expensive for a
month if we act on the ordinance in the
three reading timeline then we would
move forward and the number would be
something like what we've gotten from
the RFP although we can't guarantee it
until we actually do a new
RFP um and there would be a slight there
would be a jump over we are today it
would be slightly higher than AAP for
one month and then it would be lower
than a for the remainder of the term
most likely or we could table the
ordinance wait a few more months let the
AP rate rise on
everybody um and then come back with
aggregation an unknown future rate it
may be worse so it's a
murky Mr
Silverman you elaborate more the a price
that we're seeing on projected shune is
not public provide yet to Consumers but
you're confident that's going to be the
price or is that a guess no so we see we
have seen that what they have always
done their auction prices AP dos one
more auction to go so they're going to
do another auction come March so the
time period to meet a may start actually
has to be at the end of February and
then I'll AP sells one more auction to
go you know the AP auction is going to
be pretty high and it's going to be put
in this area of being 10 and a half to
11 cents come June because they have to
go out and purchase that price estim
correct it's not something that's to the
public certified from a corre show what
they currently have correct
yeah to to follow up to Mr Silverman's
question I'm still a little unclear if
the auction goes in March for the may
start for
a does
the rate for June change from from
projected to actual when would you have
better number I know that that's a guess
is that also in March or is that a month
later no we're we're projected to see
what June 2025 is around miday to like
end of May they announce it kind of
right there right when it's about to
happen Okay so you will after people
have to do op in or op out yeah and we
yeah we again we see where all the AP
auction is and where they have been um
and there's huge factors in there that
we cannot calculate it's solely on them
and again what we have seen the past
couple years is just based on their
auction what they had in place and they
have one more going in place we expect
them to be 10 and a half do we know what
percent of our residents have opted into
this I know um at the end of the Bexley
blast each week There's a great amount
saying you've saved this much by being
in this but what's the percentage of our
residents that we think have opted into
um this program I don't know exactly
what the percentage is um I have to
actually look at the numbers but I mean
I do have the
average uh like I said average about
3,000 meters there goes that yeah I want
to clarify it's an OP
out I think it's around 70% of
our 70%
okay what we could do for next speing is
we could kind of lay this out on a
similar chart to what you guys presented
when you showed
this is a really powerful chart here
where the blue line is what people have
been playing in Backle and the red line
is what they would have paid at just the
a face rate so we can do something like
that that projects
out but maybe to Alex is the line of
questioning it's not going to be an
exact science it's a little bit of a
guess um we were taking a guess last
time we we pulled the trigger on this we
you know we knew the market was going to
increase it did
um we also knew it was probably going to
get a little bit better in the short
term it did um and it got a little bit
better but not as good as ours which is
great um we also did a lot of surveying
of the community prior to going into our
first aggregation where we said would
you be willing to pay more for clean
energy and there was I think the average
resident the there was a super majority
of residents that were willing to pay
$10 extra per month for clean energy
even higher majority if it was $5 extra
per month I can pull those numbers back
so we know that even if there was a
little bit of a price differential the
commun supported the concept that we're
going to wind based energy um so we can
refresh refresh that too as we as we
continue to talk about sounds good Miss
fibble but I'm
understanding that the experts are
saying that that is that what we're in
now we should stay
that
um that it's going to be difficult to
communicate but if I want our households
in vaccine to spend less money that's
where we should St I'm also
understanding that we can all opt out
whenever we
want that I don't want to do it and I
don't trust I can get out correct
no no fees on our side there's no yeah
what I didn't what I thought I heard the
mayor say and I wasn't I thought I had
it clear until I heard him say something
about that that won't be we won't be
able to opt out in time
for what were you saying that I got
confused I was clear on it I thought oh
this is the best idea the experts are
saying yes and so what we'll have to do
a lot of explaining a big deal because
they can op out if they want to initial
opt out
deadline will occur before we know the
new AE price to compare
right
everything yes
so everything
um all projections everything like that
yeah okay yeah sorry we uh there's no
doubt that we're going to be good under
that price where AP is going to be at
coming up for the next term yes but
there will be again if we want to do a a
12 month or 13-month term start in may
there's going to be one month where it's
yes AP is going to be better than us but
after that we will clear it out and
that's why we suggest just doing a
13mon and making sure that we can clear
and get under that price for the entire
time Mr Hurley yeah
um just you know I I work a lot around
the state house and I know energy policy
is a very Hot Topic in Ohio and we're
very likely to have a at least robust
debate around a comprehensive energy
reform package that would do a lot of
what was in House Bill six from a few
years back how worried are you
about good or bad impacts of that bill
on on these figures and I'm asking from
the standpoint you know I understand
you're recommending 13 months is it is
there a case to be made for taking a
36-month approach so then we're hedging
against whatever adverse effects that
come from that
legislation so you think there could be
benefit if we just do a 36 now and going
forward well I'm I'm just looking ahead
and saying there's a lot of uncertainty
correct and that's where and that's I I
of course this is of course your guys
decision overall but I I kind of see as
like I like to make sure that we can
least save the community as much as we
can and I can't I know we can guarantee
that for majority of this program if we
do a 24mon 36 months yes it's has been
up and down it's been a lob movement and
we we put fixed in rate locked in rate
we're locked in there's no change in
that so but again people can opt out
anytime they want so and they also join
in anytime so Mr
Silverman this is important question for
B of the aitor if a resident wanted to
know where they're currently at they
would check their AE Bill and they' see
Dy on it or if a resident's asking how
do they know if they've been opted into
it is there recommendations on how to
explain where they can check what rate
they're currently good I get that call
of time actually from Bexley we just
describe it to them just give them
information like hey do you have a
chance to look at your bill in front of
you we walk them through the process or
if they just want to email to us they
can email it and we can tell them if
they're on the program or not real quick
if somebody ask me where is it on the
bill where do they want to identify it
second page left side of the bill there
it is so you'll see D little you see I
don't I don't have the d symbol
D they're going to see that on their
bill you'll see that in a little
generation box on the left side of the
bill that's where it be at second page
left
side thank you yep thank you any other
questions from Council um this is only a
second reading so we do have a third
reading reading scheduled in two weeks
um thank you so much for being here and
for answering our questions um I do see
that your slides are uh online so
Council if you want to take a look at
those before the third reading uh they
will be up on the website yeah any
additional questions please reach out to
me any time much appre appreciate it
thank you so
much
um how do we do that connect with the
mayor to get your emails I don't know if
I still have them I'll give you my card
all right there we go we'll take a
card thank you so much for being
here thank
you thanks Jay thanks thank you so much
so much next time all right
right like iagree with everything he
said thanks thank you thank
you all right we are moving on to agenda
item number six public comments
regarding items that are not on the
agenda for which a speaker slip is
required uh Mr mCP do we have anything
for items not on the agenda we do we
have
um I believe just one um
by Mrs
Lewis Miss Lewis thank you so much for
joining us um uh we we know your name at
the beginning I'm going to ask you to
give your address but uh I am tr trying
to do a more consistent job of
explaining to folks uh what our public
speaking policy is Council as I stated
last time public comments are the
Public's chance to share their thoughts
as to matters involving City business or
a resolution or ordinance this is not a
back and forth nor is it a debate but
council is going to very respectfully
listen to your comments comments that
violate our policies such as personal
taxs or disparaging comments may result
in termination of the comments our
policy is available online and is
printed on the speaker slips just
outside council chambers each speaker
can speak up to five minutes if there
are questions asked during public
comment I'm going to do my best to write
down those questions as they occur and
once the public comment is concluded I
will refer the matter to the appropriate
council member or the city
Administration for a response as soon as
possible if there are no questions asked
during public comment please know that
we appreciate and thank you for your
comments and of course any speaker can
also reach out to any council member or
the mayor using our email addresses that
are available on the city website for
further discussion with that Miss Lewis
if you would please give us your name
and your address constant Lewis 663
eclair um I didn't know if I needed to
fill out two slips because I want to
speak on something else later on uh 0225
later on but for right now I would like
to say that having not been here
physically for this s last several
meetings um we do watch online and I
please beg you all to turn your M
microphones on and speak into them there
is very very difficult time trying to
hear several people some in particular
than others so um with that being said
I'll wait for my next time to talk thank
you thank you for your comments and you
do not need a speaker slip for that
because it's a third
reading and you're right about that I've
heard I've tried to listen and when
those microphones are off you can't hear
a thing we just forget sometimes
make sure that's green when you speak Mr
official all right moving on to the
president's report uh Council as you are
aware uh I have circulated the draft
recommendations from the council
Communications working group uh
consisting of myself uh Miss fible and
Mr Silverman we are going to go over
those during the committee reports um
but um I look forward to that disc
discussion um and I also wanted to add
that the Bexley minority parent
Alliance um has a couple of great events
coming up I believe this Thursday they
are presenting um a movie that is
currently available on Netflix um some
of you may have seen it it is an
extraordinary movie
entitled
68 68 hopefully you've seen it uh Carrie
Washington
is extraordinary that uh it is a movie
about the only all black all female
Battalion sent overseas in World War II
uh it is a free event to attend and it
is being held Thursday February 13 from
5: to 8 at Jeffrey Mansion um and also
you've noticed the Banners are up for
black history months um what an
extraordinary way to celebrate those um
in our community who work here live here
play here and spend their time here for
that entire month so I hope uh you can
join me or attend some of those upcoming
events that is all that I had for the
president's report Mr City attorney over
to you you have a couple things one I
actually I want piggy back on what you
were just mentioning again we all read
the news and realize that there's a
different perspective that we're hearing
and I just want to emphasize how
important I believe the things like
black history month and women's history
month and those things and we continue
to recognize and I know Bexley will
continue to do that but again how
important those things are to call
people out and you know we don't do it
every day but there obvious reasons to
do so I did want to share a couple of
things um relating to some legislation
that's been uh proposed at the state
level um that can certainly have some
impact on Bexley and some that are
indirectly have some impact but just to
give you an idea and again there's no
guarantee or even indication if some of
these are going to pass or are not going
to pass but the one I wanted to point
out in particular is House Bill
26 um which is a um which is a bill that
would make it require a political
subdivision which of course includes
cities um and their law enforcement
agencies to number one participate in
any available program operated by the
United States Department of Homeland
Security um regarding um and to submit
information to Federal authorities
information about an arreste to allow
the federal authorities to determine if
that person is here in the country
legally um to immediately report the
identity of any arreste who who a peace
officer has reasonable cause to believe
is unlawfully present in the United
States um and it goes on for some more
other things too these are historically
not been the the realm or the
responsibility of local government the
bill also goes on to say that if any
member of the general assembly decides
that they they think this is being
violated and again it hasn't passed
hasn't been voted on um that he he or
she can ask for the Attorney General to
conduct an investigation and potentially
penalize a political subdivision by
losing 10% of their local government
funding in Bic that's about $40,000 it's
not a huge number but again these are
all these are obligations that folks you
know from the federal level are trying
to impose on the state and the state
level are trying to impose on local
government couple other things too and
again these are going to have indirect
impacts on Bexley the the legislature is
decid has has is considering a bill to
modify the marijuana referendum that was
um passed by the voters a couple years
ago which they have the authority to do
one of the things they are doing is
looking at perhaps redistributing the
10% of the tax money that was that is
designated to go to local governments
who allow dispensaries um and right now
the which we don't so we weren't getting
any of that money but right now the
placeholder in that bill is that 15% it
will be a 15% share and it all go to the
state although again the word is that
they'll willing to negotiate some money
going to the cities and more being kept
by the state and again just for giggles
and laughs it shouldn't affect us that
much but uh the general assembly is also
proposing that a significant and I'm not
a Firearms guy so I can't tell you what
where it is but a significant number of
um non shotgun firearms that are 50
calibers or smaller will be exempt from
sales tax in Ohio should this bill pass
because of course we have to protect our
Second Amendment so again as St more and
more things happen at the state level we
will keep you appr prised I know and
again I don't want to get in the Weeds
on this but we did discuss in
pre-council that the mayor along with
others me but more importantly the the
chief and others are certainly staying
on top of this everchanging landscape so
that we are able to react
accordingly and in a more in a bestly
manner in regards in particular to the
immigration issue so that is all I have
thank you for staying on top of that for
us uh Mr auditor over to you um just
brief update on investments always like
to bring this stuff up and keep keep it
visible for you all but um as a reminder
we have about $ 22.5 million sitting
with red tree um which is our investment
manager um those are earning on average
about
4.1% um which translates to about
$900,000 a year in interest income for
us so it's a meaningful number um what
we also do is as those um Investments
mature we reinvest those dollars based
upon their
recommendations in January we reinvested
another $1.6 million at
.7% so the point of me bringing this up
is that the interest rate environment
continues to be a creative to our
current balance so we're going up from
4.1% um and we're investing dollars of
4.7 so um these are dollars that um can
certainly help us with our budget and
and all things um you know City
Financial so if you have questions let
me
know much appreci creative that's a big
word all right we are on to agenda item
number 10 for administrative updates
mayor uh you want to walk us through
your updates please thank you madam
president I just want to say on the
record that my appreciation of Matt mCP
is a
creative yeah it really
is over day it's not delive it's a
creative um and
secretive uh you're about to hear some
fantastic updates from uh from Mike and
Matt and the chief who've been doing
great work I just wanted to highlight a
couple things in my update we do have
our Maple tapping prior to the next
council meeting in Jeffrey Woods what
time is that at Mike the maple tapping
do you know nine o'clock I believe it's
nine o'clock feels right um You don't
have to have registered to attend that
it's a great way to learn how we tap the
maple trees um we will be then the week
after that March 1 having the Jeffrey
Woods Festival it is getting um blown
bigger than ever Mike's going to talk
about that a little bit it's more Woods
more Festival uh so highly recommend
attending that
um want to let you guys know that uh
council president lampy witnessed Megan
Meer did a great job at the Bexley
chamber breakfast uh given a great
update um I did have lunch with Jim laow
from St Charles in the past couple weeks
I am trying to get some one-on-one time
with all of the heads of our private
schools and churches and other major
organizations in this first couple
quarters of the year
um and Thursday uh we will be hosting
the mountain Vernon mayor who's coming
to learn more about our sustainability
initiatives uh along with his engineer
uh prior to our morsy meeting that
afternoon um couple other updates uh
here uh we do of course have the new
Resident welcome happening on the
February February 23rd so that's also
prior to our next meeting um state of
the community I'm sure you already have
it on your calendar it's March 4th uh it
will be at torado met um
and I want to shout out uh Sam
Marcelino the water bill relief program
planning is underway you guys will be
seeing an ordinance soon uh to kind of
enact that program um with a framework
around it we are also having the aqua
Hawk what a ominous name Aqua Hawk Aqua
Hawk Software System is going to be
deployed in the next month or two that
will allow residents to keep um real
time time um monitoring of their water
use and get alerts if their consumption
goes above a certain amount um so those
two things are not unrelated um so
that's something I really appreciate you
guys to support around both of those um
and then there is some just a reminder
um I think many of us have kids that are
uh you know in a learning about Internet
safety mode uh and and making mistakes
and you know hopefully learning from
those mistakes but we've had a uh I I
personally was uh alerted to a issue by
a teenager who reached out to me over
email because he didn't know who else to
talk to about a um extortion scheme that
he was involved in um and and talking to
the chief about it and and uh looking at
our just reading our logs as we have our
shift reports it's a really common thing
to have happen it's scary that our kids
are being targeted um in lots of
different ways online
so I think I just want to remind us all
uh to have those talks with our kids
about I think F first and foremost um if
you make a
mistake that you're a safe person to
talk to it's a safe place there's and um
that that you will be there to help them
through it and to guide them through it
and to help them find the resources and
that um sorts of threats that kids get
and threats are happening left and right
are often not actionable and that you
can help them navigate through that so
um just a reminder put that in the blast
last Friday um and there was a bill
actually recently through the state
house that criminalizes some of this
activity that passed in December which
is really good to hear and um I'm I'm
looking forward to learning more about
it I covered House Bill 26 but Mark did
a great job so you don't need me to tell
you more about it and I happy I'm happy
to answer any questions before we move
on
to the
chief all right I don't know if you you
are next chief but you are now because I
just said that
so let me find your
update Chief there you
go thank you
sir happy to answer any questions about
our most recent yes
ma'am I saw and I want to highlight it I
don't know that I see it in the report
but there's an upand cominging teen
driver yes ma'am we just shared that
today yeah yes yeah and good job I'm
excited for that program I'm hoping
Hayden is around and not out of state at
hockey he might be but um I am ecstatic
to share that with a lot of teen drivers
and I'm very happy to see you guys
picking up that initiative I think it's
at St Charles and ma'am robot
collaborate yes ma'am we're GNA partner
with um Department we're going to teach
teams how to change attire to what
happens if you are stopped by law
enforcement a very comprehensive
approach this is really our first chance
to engage interact with our youthful
drivers and to really try to educate
proactively thank you and I'm excited to
share the program yes
ma'am other questions Alex I didn't is
there is it free of cost absolutely
absolutely just quick question has uh we
consider some com minor completes heard
do you ever get calls about people uh
having drones flown above their house
calling in to ask
about get complaints on those through
not very often okay no sir not very
often appreciate it thank
you you do I look who
likes you talking about Jenny any other
questions for the chief Jenny does all
right um Mr
price thank you mayor I will uh quick
highlight uh as the the mayor called out
the Jeffrey Woods Festival uh the event
is on Saturday March first um we have we
are um partnering with uh Elizabeth
Elman Susan quintens to bring some of
the Arbor Day uh Earth Day festivities
to this event so we're we're
collaborating on one sort of bigger
event so this event uh which is a ton of
fun come and go as you please uh we'll
run from 8 to 2:00 at Jeffrey park by
the the pool parking lot we will also
have additional programming going on
from 10:00 to 1 which will focus again
on Arbor Day uh celebration and Earth
Day Celebrations um we'll have a n some
naturalists there to lead some walks
through the woods one that will focus on
uh bird watching one that'll focus on
Woodland uh exploration uh we are hoping
to have the falconer there so we'll have
a a bird of prey flying around under a
controlled situation um we will have uh
F County so water there with some soil
simulators uh to um to show the impact
of runoff and different sort of
scenarios um there'll be a nature
display display table and Russell Tree
Experts will be out to help kids learn
how to climb trees in a harness um but
anyway uh we'd love to have people come
out enjoy uh the park enjoy the maple s
production experience uh and learn you
know more about our woodlands and our
our natural environment so other than
not happy to answer any
questions um thank you so I've had a lot
of parents and actually my myself I'm
worried about this too um the departure
of Coach
Chris um just curious have you been able
to you know obviously you can't replace
coach Chris he's amazing but uh in terms
of the programs that he's offering
soccer t-ball sporties for mean do we
have a person or persons who can kind of
step in and and keep those offerings
going
yeah so obviously uh we wish coach
Chris a lot of uh success in his next
Endeavors he has moving on WE sad to
hear that but very happy for him we need
to form a blue Urban task force and you
know we are we
are we are in the process um you know
there uh these programs in large part
are as good as the people that are
running them the people that are
teaching the people that are Hands-On
with the kids and Coach Chris has been a
blessing for our community for for many
many uh years so uh you know going to
sit here and tell you uh that it's going
to be easy to replace coach Chris it
won't be he's he's irreplaceable in
terms of what he's done um we are
actively uh going through the process to
evaluate uh approaches to um fulfill the
types of programming that he's offered
for our community um we have a plan in
place an initial plan in place uh with a
um company that's done a lot of you know
other programming for us not NE
necessarily in that realm with Coach
Chris but we've had success with um uh
but again you know he's a he's a unique
individual that has a special way with
the kids that he works with and the
families that he works with so it's
going to be a difficult process our goal
obviously is to uh continue to offer uh
the similar similar types of programming
making sure we're we're providing
opportunities for especially the younger
age child and families uh and we'll do
that um but it'll be a process to uh to
find the right the right fit and and do
our best to um uh you know fulfill the
efforts of of Coach Chris I have no
doubt you and your team will we take
care of that and and may I don't know if
it'd be appropriate if we did something
for Coach Chris as a thank you for all
he's done for our community maybe we can
look into a commendation or something I
just I know my kids they love them yeah
we do have sure where we do have a we
putting finishing touches on a plan to
recognize him in many different ways so
fantastic thank you yeah
all right I can't say I saved the best
for last because that would seem like
favoritism but I just said it out loud
just kidding it's joke Mr Kingler you're
doing a bang up job what's
up thanks I I don't have anything to add
to my all the best just the record yeah
don't have anything add to my written
report
well I can add to your written report
and just say that um I've been super
impressed as Matt has continued to um
create new systems and um tackle some
kind of backlogs on certain
processes that might seem a little
overwhelming at times but he's been
doing a fantastic job and um kind of
systematically going through that it's
been really awesome watching him work
and uh watching our team here respond
very well to his leadership so I want to
thank
you see a hand raised I think was Sam
yes thank you very much uh I know one of
the efforts you undertook when you took
over this position was maybe
streamlining uh code violations and
getting around the city can you maybe
give us a slight update as to how that's
going and what you're working on with
that yeah sure so um part of it came
from when I dug in and figured out how
it was being done we we had a lot of um
active record so every time we write a
code violation right it becomes active
in our system um we weren't doing a we
weren't closing out old active records
so when you try to F when you try to
process reports and it can be
overwhelming when you see thousand
active records right so currently we're
going through and closing out all of
those old records um and in the future
when we write um um a code violation
Colleen is helping to um process
inspections for Dave or code enforcement
officer to go back out in the field on
certain dates so if you um not not
singling you out as you ever would but
if you had overgrown vegetation in your
alley right we give you two weeks um to
get that done well a lot of times you
know Dave was a oneman banned he's all
over the city the followup on you know
two weeks later did so and so take care
of their problem didn't always happen
and we didn't close that out so um
that's something uh we put in place for
this year um our code enforcement season
really ramps up around March when things
start growing again um and I've also
challenged um Dave and and myself I mean
I'm out in the community as far as not
just looking we we look a lot at
overgrown vegetation but we don't always
look at um paint shipping on houses uh
kind of rundown houses um things that
need to get brought up to code so
there's some other violations that I
think we've we haven't really emphasized
that I think we will in 25 so um and
then as I talked with the mayor today we
had our we had we we have a weekly
meeting and uh we're really going to
hone in on how we address our commercial
um customers so our commercial
businesses and and strategize around the
best way um to get things done you know
you you you want to treat the corporate
entities kind of different than the
locally owned entities and and how we do
that we can get the most bang for our
buck um and they're cleaning up their
trash
and um so it's a little bit we've been
doing um Matt Walter Reigns the new
landscape consultant is that an addition
to the team or is that a replacement a
replacement okay a replacement so it was
Elena Andrew okay yeah yep Ellena has um
stepped back from her role as um a
reviewer of um residential and
commercial landscape applications for
the city she um is doing more of the
city design work for city capital
projects so she's still heavily involved
but Walter's taking that role so he'll
he'll he'll do the staff review for
everything that has to go in front a
tree and public garden
commission so kind of an addition right
yeah yeah unique I mean the problem was
Elena was is doing a lot of design work
for us and also reviewing the design
work so um you know many of the tree
commission applications they're
reviewing are coming from the city so we
needed two distinct voices in that
yeah and his background is in um
strictly horiculture and um he's been a
longtime arborist um he he's got a real
Um passion and expertise uh when it
comes to um Less on the design side more
on the plant side so viability the
plants we want to see you know how to
maintain the plants and and what will
flourish within a landscape design
Matt thank you Madame President that
concludes our report I also want to
thank officer Ron Moss for being with us
this this evening out there in a l great
we always appreciate officer Moss all
right moving on to agenda item 11
consent agenda all right it's the
meeting minutes from January 28th
2025 right uh Council are there any
questions or comments on the consent
agenda seeing none I'm to adopt the
consent agenda could I please get a
second second second by Mr
Marcelino
um any comments from the audience on the
consent agenda all right seeing none Mr
MC would you please call the role Miss
fible yes Mr Silverman Mr Markham Mr
Hurley yes Mr Marcelino yes Miss sad yes
and Miss lampy yes sent agenda passes
all right moving on to third readings
third reading of ordinance 0 1-25 to
approve the collective bargaining
agreement between asme Ohio Council 8
local 3838 in the city of Bexley
introduced by Miss zad thank you Mr
official this is our third reading we've
had great discussion on this ordinance
um this is the American Federation of
state and County and Municipal Employees
the 2025 to
2027 um agreement is attached believe
Council has had
um a good amount of time to review that
attachment there's no changes to this
ordinance and um would love to see this
voted upon tonight are there any yeah
any questions concerns from
Council Miss do you have action on
ordinance 1-25 got speaker usually we
get public comment on the motion to
adopt so let me get the motion to adopt
first that's okay motion to adopt
Ordinance one -25 right motion by Miss
to adopt could I please second second
second by Mr Marcelino any other
comments from Council right now I do
understand that we have a a speaker slip
sir you've been so patient thank you so
much um I'm sure you heard my earlier
comments regarding our public comment
policy but if you wouldn't mind sharing
your name and your address with us and I
will keep time for you thank you
honorable Council hello my name is
Austin Fairbanks and I live at 201810
alagan Avenue Bexley 43209 I'm speaking
today to urge you to reject ordinance
0125 which would extend the collective
bargain agreement with asme for three
years I want to begin by dispelling the
idea I've heard in some previous Council
watch online that you only need to focus
on the changes to the prior agreement
this ordinance is an emergency measure
to adopt a new agreement so I believe
it's Inc comb on the council to ask the
question what does the city and
therefore the residents get out of this
deal after all this is the only real
opportunity this Council will have to
address to get a better deal for our
city for 3 years and that point the
20225 and 2027 elections will both come
and passed so as reach today this
agreement shows a lack of initiative
from the city so I believe it should be
rejected leading to a stronger
negotiating position for the city on
behalf of our fellow residents first I
want to highlight a couple of
fundamental flaws in the agreement that
encourage mediocrity over performance
for example in the event of layoffs the
city must use seniority to determine who
remains and who's fired and that ignores
star performers who among the city's
employees might be newer but might be
performing at a higher level than some
of the senior staff and since senior
employees have higher pay it also means
that they will have fewer people
Staffing our services another example is
automatic pay increases if you approve
the agreement you're agreeing to 4%
raise uniformly in 2025 3 and a half in
26 and 3% 27 this uniform pay schedule
rewards doesn't reward Talent having
previously worked in a public sector
setting myself I want to note that Merit
based pay increases based on measurable
performance are much more fair than
uniform automatic and scheduled wage
hikes second this agreement with askme
yields substantial ground to what I
think is hyper partage politics article
38 of this agreement the people check
off makes the city and its nonpartisan
officials that's you complicit in the
funding of partisan political activities
what do I mean exactly the people fund
is a super pack that has spent 100% of
its funds in the 2024 cycle to benefit
candidates from a single political party
let me repeat that 100% of as pack
dollars flow to support a single
political party worse we look at the
packs independent expenditures 20% was
aimed at negative campaigning against
the other political party so if you as a
member of the city Council care about
elevating the public discourse here in
the city and across the country using
the city as a conjur to send money for
dirty polarizing attack ads is not the
way to show it in my opinion my third
major objection relies on the nature and
history of public sector unions after my
last point you might think that the
labor union is little more than a
political front organization aimed at
influencing the voting choic of people
of beate in Ohio but that would ignore
the fact that public sector unions like
ASI are majorly lucrative organizations
for their leadership the president of
asme makes roughly $400,000 a year from
his gig as Union president and nearly
60% of the Union spending is on
administrative costs so as an employer
the city should really oppose this type
of waste spending of the city employees
dollars but as Citizens we should also
have a deeper philosophical objection to
public sector unions due to limited time
give you two examples from our nation's
history from two different political
parties and two different ideological
Persuasions both come from presidents of
the United States forign presidents the
first is a quote from the president who
signed the National Labor Relations Act
a big friend of uh organized labor this
president said all government employees
should realize that the P process of
collective bargaining cannot be
transplanted into the public service it
has insurmountable limitations end quote
the second example is from the first
president to have been a card caring
Union member and he served as a
president of a major AFL CIO Union in
fact this president was quoted as saying
quote I respect the right of workers in
the private sector to strike indeed as
president of my own Union I led the
first ever strike call by that Union but
we cannot compare labor relation
management Labor Management relations to
the private sector with government with
government government cannot close down
the assembly line it has to provide
without interruption the protective
services which the government's reason
for being these Quotes come first from
president Frank Del roselt and second
from President Ronald Reagan this is not
an ideological issue both sides of the
aisle both sides of the spectrum it's an
issue of good governance and I believe
beex deserves good governance not
capitulation to public sector union
bosses given the time of constraints
this evening I've only been able to
scratch the surface of this flawed
Collective bargain agreement but I'll
glad I with any member of this commit
this Council to go into more detail and
line by line offer suggestions for
improvement but first I believe you need
to reject this bargaining agreement if
you do so some of the suggestions I
would have would be to uh in negotiation
would to encourage city employees to
exercise the Constitutional First
Amendment rights under the Janice
decision by the Supreme Court we should
get the city out of the business of
being a middleman for partisan super
pcts as well but better yet I think we
should really ask ourselves who askman
is negotiating against I can tell you
the answer in my opinion they are
negotia against the people of Bexley
because this Council has an obligation
that people of Bexley and not special
labor interests I urge you to stand firm
and reject ordinance 0125 thank you
thank you for your
comments um any additional comments by
Council Mr mCP would you please call the
role Miss Miss Lamy yes Mr Hurley yes Mr
Marcelino yes Mr Silverman
yes Miss fible yes and Miss sod yes
ordinance
passes okay moving on to a third reading
of ordinance 02-2 to certify special
assessments to certify to certify
special assessments for the various
sites where the work was not done
properly uh was not done by the property
owner after being ordered by the city in
accordance with Bexley section code
section 14915 b4a or Bexley code section
14924 B1 and it was necessary to do the
work and assess the owner M side thank
you Mr official um this uh ordinance as
was just brought up and the city um
they'll do the work and then we'll ask
uh ACC assess the
owners we have a few adjustments to this
ordinance that we need to make um just
another set of eyes over the numbers so
I'm going to ask tonight that Council
table it um so we have a little bit more
time making sure those numbers are
reflected properly doing our due
diligence thank you motion to table my
by Miss sad before you do that since
it's a third reading oh yes yes I'm so
thank you for for pointing that out um
all right hold hold that just for a
second um any discussion from Council on
this before I open it up for public
comments all right seeing none if
there's anyone in attendance that would
like to speak to this no speaker slip is
needed please give us your name and
address thank you constant Lewis 663 you
Clair um I'm glad that the city is doing
this because it's important to keep our
our old housing stock up and and uh and
looking nicely however I am disappointed
that 603 Sheridan is not on this list
603
Sheridan
is in demise there's a
huge hole in its
roof there's a an addition part in the
back that is falling in
um I believe um councilman Silverman and
I walked over and and looked at the
property this is a property that is
owned by Capitol University
it's my understanding they have received
numerous
citations it's also my understanding
that they would like to demolish this
property
so I'm asking the council what can you
do can you enact some type of of
litigation or or uh ordinance or
something that would
penalize property owners that have no
intention
of bringing their property up to code
and instead will allow it to come into
such
disrepair and look like a nuisance in
order to just demolish the property I
know um this Council has done well
Council has done something to for
property owners that that didn't remove
the um the gas tanks and they were
assessed monies can
can't you all do something to Property
Owners to penalize property owners that
have no intention of bringing their
properties up to code um because it it
really makes our property the properties
around them um lose their value so I ask
that you consider that and um and do
your due diligence and keep Bexley a
wonderful place and I do want to say
that um
Matt Kingler has been doing a marvelous
job and I know this is probably on his
radar so um give him some
some some pats on the back thank you so
much for your comments um the question
that you raised as to whether what can
be done um to penalize or go after
non-complying owners for 603 Sheridan uh
I'm going to ask that uh the mayor um
look maybe speak with code enforcement
to see if there's anything going on at
that address or if it is a city
prerogative and if you're able to
meeting this morning and I'm happy to
give you a real perfect perfect that's
great so I did actually address this
with our our building department this
morning um first off ordinance 225 is
about work that's been performed and an
assessment is done for that it's not the
same there's lots of enforcement that
occurs all the time without necessarily
work being performed by the city and in
fact the city would not be in the
business ever yet typically of you know
replacing a slate roof for example that
would far exceed anything that ever
happens Within These assessment
ordinances but having said that
um it is a uh it is a property that is
under active code enforcement um it's
somewhat complicated because of the way
that the planned the campus plan
District zoning works and the type of
application that needs to be filed which
has to be predicated upon a plan that
has received Visa approval and I will
will say that capital is not entirely at
fault in the fact that it hasn't yet
made its way to to beap for that route
so we're aware of it it's something
that's on the radar it's uh it's
something that Matt has is going to help
address thank you for indicating that uh
the city will further look into that
that's
not okay Madam president yes while I
have your good grace for a quick second
I just wanted to say to uh Mr
um I'm sorry Fairbanks if you ever want
to reach out and discuss a little bit
more I know that we weren't able to
address comments but I'm happy to talk
with you anyone up here would be uh
there's a little more context but I'm
happy to discuss it okay thank
you all right now now miss sad I think
you had a motion to table motion to
table ordinance
2-25 all right motion to table by mad is
there a second second second by Mr
Marcelino Mr mCP would you please call
the RO on the motion to table Mr
Marcelino yes Mr Silverman yes Miss
fibble yes Mr Curley yes Miss lampy yes
Miss sad yes ordinance 225 is
tabled all right moving on to or third
reading ordinance
0425 to appropriate $1,100,000 from the
general fund to effectuate the
previously authorized transfer to the
capital fund fund of $500,000 in the
water fund of $600,000 to appropriate
$88,500 from the general fund to the
police department account with a general
within the general fund for public
records training and management and to
appropriate and authorize a transfer of
$37,500 from the general fund to the
water fund for the Ohio EPA lead service
line mapping Grant Miss zad thank you Mr
official um there is a proposed
amendment that um will change our
summary of these numbers once it's
approved so if we can yep it's
up so these are the numbers this is what
we are waiting on to approve um we
wanted to let those numbers sit for a
hot second to make sure that that these
were correct and they are and so we are
ready if council is ready to vote on
this
tonight Mr
Hurley just um if you can go to the
second
page just the section for the the $5,000
from the police officer optional
equipment fund uh just curious what's
going on there and guess we have the
chief here if he on to take that one
yeah absolutely
Chief the buyback which one what is this
for officer weapons they're oh so yeah
um in the past this has been something
that's been a part of our budget to
officers that want to purchase weapons
um the city will pay for it up front and
then the officer rate are able to have
money taken out of their check over the
course of the year so this is just a um
really the opportunity for them to to be
able to purchase um their weapons in
that
way any other comments questions from
Council my only question is we've double
checked these numbers given that I think
it's due for a reading or an adoption
tonight we're sure that these numbers
are good they are and just to reaffirm
just to reate this is a these were
dollars with the exception of section
four which was omitted but these dollars
were in our budget process they just the
language needed to be tweaked to
be all right so based on that missad you
have a motion to amend uh ordinance
4-25 motion to amend ordinance
4-25 right could I please get a second
second second by Mr
Marcelino
um any comments from Council on the
motion to amend
Mr mCP would you please call the RO on
the motion to
amend Miss lamkey yes Miss sad yes Mr
Silverman yes Mr Marcelino yes Miss
viable yes Mr Hurley yes motion to amend
ordinance 4-25
passes Miss do you have a motion to
adopt amended ordinance 4-25 move to
adopt ordinance the amended ordinance
4-25 right motion to adopt amended
ordinance 4-25 by missad is there a
second yes second by Mr Marcelino any
further discussion from Council any
comments from the public no speaker slip
needed all right see none Mr M would you
please call the role Miss sad yes Mr
Hurley yes Mr Marcelino yes Miss viel
yes Mr Silverman yes Miss lamkey yes
amended ordinance 42
passes all right moving on to Second
reading of ordinance
0625 to create the Bexley galvanized
water service line replacement Loan
program otherwise known as BG
wslr introduced by Miss sad thank you Mr
official I like that acronym um so this
is um the EPA looking at replacing um
these galvanized water lines with copper
or PVC
um EPA has redefined what the galvanized
service line should look like
and we um this is what we're looking to
do as far as uh meeting those
requirements by the EPA looks like we
might have some amendments to talk about
we have some proposed amendments but the
major presentation is going to wait
until the next meeting when Megan and
Andrew are here um so we could talk
about the proposed amendments now or I
feel like it might make more sense to
talk about it all at
once okay and maybe hold off on amending
tonight so that we could amend after
that next one in case other things come
up% agreement with that all right
question not major material changes
they're just okay just Mr Marcelino yeah
just a statement in regards to since
we're going to a third reading I I think
I'll want some additional time with this
I'll just let it be known um in regards
to it after that presentation um so
throwing it out there for your
consideration when it comes to that
point I I don't disagree with you Mr Mar
yeah we were not we weren't anticipating
asking for a vote I'm sounds good just
making sure thank you sounds good all
right no other questions from Council um
Mr MC do we have any oh I'm so sorry Mr
Hurley I just thought of one I'm looking
here on under loan terms this is maybe a
question for the mayor or possibly for
the auditor uh just a few questions on
interest rate first what is the current
um for uh Oda the water Development
Authority what is the current 10-year
tax exempt refiner
rate it
is you
ready shoot but yeah yep here we go
3.07% so it's a it's a it's a rate that
gets
adjusted
um
regularly uh and it's published on the
Ohio Water development Vel authorities
front page their
website okay I would I would maybe just
Echo Mr marcelino's comments and just
you know just take a little time on this
one but I just want to understand some
of that a little more thank you
understood sounds good all right
um the second reading we do U Mr MC do
have any speaker slips on ordinance 6-25
no speaker
slips move on no first readings I am I
believe there's action on the table
ordinance yes uh Mr Marcelino do you
have a motion to remove from the table
ordinance
42-24 I move to remove ordinance 42-24
from the table all right motion to
remove by Mr Marcelino can I get a
second please second second by Mr Hurley
um Mr M would you please call the role
on the motion to remove from the table
Miss
fible yes Mr Silverman yes Miss lampy
yes Mr Hurley yes Miss
sad yes Mr Marcelino yes motion to
remove ordinance 4224 from the table
passes right Mr Marcelino floor is yours
excellent thank you very much as you all
know we did have a public hearing on
this at our last meeting uh we wanted to
wait to get uh an updated findings of
fact and conclusions of law those were
distributed via uh attorney fishal um
and open for review so at this point I
guess I would open it up does anybody
have any issues with what's being
proposed in the findings of fact and
conclusions of
law seeing none at this time um I would
move to amend
42-24 um to include and incorporate our
findings of fact and conclusions of law
into ordinance
42-24 as an attachment and I believe we
also need another small Amendment to the
exra ordinance to reference this
decision Ben can you go down I don't
know if I sent
you is this
the
okay I don't know if I said let me pull
it up real quick because it's a very
small change and I could we can make the
change on the Fly here
sorry it's possible
incented yes that's but there's a
whereas on there and I think let me see
if I if I have if I don't have it we can
do I could just do on the Fly here real
quick
oh of course it was a 2024 makes it
older here instead of me looking for it
um could you I'm I'm going to recommend
that we add another where
as yeah at the end
um actually make it the second last
where ass
sorry nope get rid of the wear as and
it's going to be we're going to go back
to the we don't need to add a wear as
just the prior where as just add at the
end as as as attached here
to sorry making much more complicated
than needed and that is it and then
it'll be attached so that would be the
motion again sorry to make it so
convoluted my only procedural question
is would you like me to move to amend as
just proposed and then move to attach or
doesn't can it all be together it's all
together okay thank you very much no
worries um I uh move to amend ordinance
42-24 to the changes there before you on
the screen uh and then also to include
the final ings of fact uh and
incorporate them into fact and
conclusions of law excuse me and to
incorporate them into coordinates all
right motion to amend by Mr Marcelino
could I please get a second second
second by Mr Hurley is there any further
discussion from Council on the motion to
amend right seeing none Mr mCP would you
please call the role on the motion to
amend Miss fible yes Mr mkam sorry Mr
Silverman yes Miss lankey yes Mr Hurley
yes Miss s yes Mr marcley now yes motion
to amend ordinance 4224
passes Mr Marcelino do you have a motion
to adopt amended ordinance
42-24 you do I have a mo move excuse me
to adopt uh amended ordinance 42-24 all
right motion to adopt by Mr Marcelino
can I please get a second second second
by Mr Hurley is there any further
discussion from
Council um is there any comments from
the
public Mr mCP would you please call the
role on the motion to adopt Mr Marcelino
yes Mr Hurley yes Miss F yes missad yes
Miss Lany yes and Mr
Silverman and I assume Mr Kingler will
reach out to them the mayor and let us
know yep thanks thank you from here
thank you motion to adopt amended
ordinance
4224 pass
sorry um thank you so much Mr Marcelino
for heading up that hearing and thank
you to you Mr fishal for helping us uh
navigate through that uh we are now to
agenda item number 16 uh is there anyone
in attendance that would like to turn in
a speaker slip at this
time seeing none we are moving on to uh
committee reports uh Mr Markham was not
able to join us this evening and we have
excused his absence so we are going to
skip Safety Committee um turning it over
to Mr Silverman for service and
environment thank you council president
um I have nothing directly involving
service and environment tonight but I do
want to talk about the communication
subcommittee that myself councilwoman
fibal and council president lampy were
participating in and talk a little bit
about the documents you have in front of
you um so we got together to discuss
communication and ways to improve that
NW work between the council and the
community and we've determined some
steps that we want to present forward uh
if you could see bulletproof bullet
point one uh we are encouraging Council
to do a monthly write up they will be
included in the Bexley blast I believe
the fourth one of the month um we have a
schedule that is a template for who
would do that write up uh the process
detailed
below um this would give an opportunity
for each council member to speak towards
the subject and present it out to the
community in an established
communication platform the bexy blast um
the second poet point we agreed as a
group that at this time we do not
believe the city council should have its
own social media page uh but each
council member would be free to share
their own opinions on their own page as
they see fit follow point three
highlight the Beckley times as a
quarterly newsletter that goes out to
The Community we we felt that it'd be
the position of the council president to
have an article included um for the
community to to read about the
activities of council as a whole um and
then we also speaking with the city
attorney to review any appal council
meeting notices and legal issues and
where those and how those communicated
out for future meetings um the goal
overall is to empower all the council
members and recognize Council efforts
and provide a platform to communicate
directly with the residents um through
the mediums that we have available uh I
will open it up if there's any direct
questions we can speak to or Miss F did
you want to talk about the rest of like
me to do that now sure okay so I was um
asked to speak on public comments and
and I think Council will recognize that
that what we are going to be doing
moving forward has is was um basically
what happened um when we changed things
uh while I was President we kept them
the same way while Mr Markham was
president and we will move forward with
the same um strategy with uh Miss Lamy
um I want to reiterate that we want to
hear from our constit consents always we
want to listen to them in
Council we want to listen to them via
email they're more than welcome to um
meet us in person happy to um we um I
always give um people when I write them
back my telephone number and in fact I
talk to a constituent today who is
concerned about um a bike path um on
Broad Street so we do want to hear from
them and we do make ourselves available
um if Council if individuals want to
join us in at Council we love that and
um we like to keep it under five minutes
um we know that uh we found that five
minutes proves to be an ample time for
individuals to share their thoughts and
thus for Council to keep their minds
fresh for a productive evening of work
it also helps to ensure we get through
our agenda in a timely manner so that
everyone in the audience is able to
remain to hear the business for which
they
came often residents have questions for
our Administration council members or
department chair and as Miss lampy has
done and will continue to do she will
collect questions and assign someone to
respond to the resident's questions at a
oftentimes at a later date
uh the mayor did it on the fly a little
bit today so that was great um we have
found that using time and Council to
debate or to carry on it back and forth
with residents has not been healthy or
productive our Council has worked hard
to develop a healthy culture where
debate is honored and respect is
steadfast we expect members of the
public will also respect our friendly
warm culture and guide their language
and comments
accordingly thank you thank did I miss
anything the only thing uh no the only
thing I was going to add is uh I was
hoping to just have this up for
discussion tonight I'm not asking for a
Voice vote um but um I think it is uh a
unanimous recommendation it's an
opportunity for individual council
members to uh submit things in the blast
that go out to our residents on uh areas
of concern for their committee um it's a
way for residents to also kind of get to
know you informally um I'm happy to
include in the quarterly uh newsletter
in my uh um Council Corner update if
there's something that's really
important for you that you'd like me to
share with our residents just let me
know um when I took a stab at the
proposed dates for here I realized those
may not work for everyone if you want to
switch with someone that's okay just you
know that's okay everyone's everyone's
busy
um but it's a it's an opportunity for us
to uh further communicate with our
residents so that's why we have made
these recommendations and at this time
I'll open it up to a discussion or
questions Mr Hurley thank you um first
uh just thank you all for taking on this
important work I know uh this was the
you know something that grew out of our
Council Retreat last year and it's clear
you all have put a lot of time into it
and I think these are some really great
changes um the only item
I would maybe just just throw out for
consideration and we can you know folks
can can chew on this and we can think
about it for the next council meeting is
um I know some uh some cities will do
like a recap of council action um so you
know I know in the buzz or the the blast
I'm sorry that precedes a council
meeting Ben always drops in you know
Council shall discuss these items I
don't know if there's any appetite for
in the in the blast immediately
following
um council meeting like so this Friday
for example just a recap Council passed
this this you know very dry you know
just uh you know that's probably the
only thing I would I would toss out for
consideration just a brief recap of what
council's doing great we'll certainly
think about that maybe I'll even raise
it at our next pre-council to see if
that's some thought you probably have
some done in the past oh we did um we've
done it though instead of having a SE
well sometimes I put it in four things
but we we did it or categorically it was
the beginning of the council coming up
so like two weeks from now we'll have
you know what you just talked about
these ordinances will be read but at the
top of it would be it the last meeting
Council voted on this is what the
disposition of ORD did it work out
pretty well yeah it's fine okay totally
doable it's just one way to kind of
Consolidated that's fine yeah well we
can yeah I mean that that sounds fine to
me just just a thought but otherwise no
I I like a lot of this and appreciate
you all taking it on thank you Mr Hurley
any other discussion points from Council
um I know you just got this not too long
ago so you can think about it for the
next couple weeks but I do want to thank
uh council member Silverman and fiable
for working with me to bring this
forward and we look forward to hearing
more from you um at our next
meeting right Mr Silverman uh does that
conclude your committee report my
committee report thank you you all right
Miss sad for finance looks like we've
got some activity under your committee
yes uh thank you president lampy um
tonight we need to make a motion um for
Council to approve some invoices that re
received prior to Po's being open due to
uh the end of 2024 po closures and
beginning of 2025 po openings purchases
in excess of $3,000 in which purchase
orders were opened after the date of the
invoice require Council approval these
can easily occur during the end of the
year when purchase orders are closed in
late December and then any carry
forwards aren't able to be immediately
reopened it can also occur at the
beginning of the year when the year's
purchase orders are in the process of
being opened thank you for pulling that
up this is in our my attachment under
committee reports for finance um so you
can find it there and then it lists the
POS that we would be approving
tonight I have a question is are there
so many them because of the time of year
because it's February and we just closed
out uh
2024 yeah so if you look at the PO date
that'll that tells the story for you our
books don't open to open purchase orders
until a little bit later we had a
similar number we always do but I think
the differences for some reason we're
doing these all once um we had them a
little more spread out but you can see
so like for example the 1217 1220 we
closed the books in uh like in the third
week of December um and then can't open
the back up again until later so some of
those purchase orders are wacky relative
to the invoice of the okay and I will
just add if you don't mind that this is
a processing control that I look at
every month to make sure that the POS
are open before the invoice so this is a
customary process control in the procure
to pay process so this is definitely
something that happens just because of
the process that the mayor described but
it is something that we monitor on a
monthly basis great thank you um any
discussion from Council before missad
makes her formal
motion seeing none missad yes um a
motion for Council to approve motion to
approve by missad is there a second
second Mark is a Voice vote okay okay
second by Mr Marcelino um all in favor
say I I I opposed
right motion passes miss anything
further for your committee report end of
report all right Mr Hurley strategic and
health thank you so the 2025 city
council retreat has been scheduled for
Thursday February 27th from 4M to 7 pm
at the Capitol University alumni house
uh you all should have received a
calendar invite and I've noticed that
has been posted to the City calendar so
we have properly
noticed the
meeting um I'm
[Laughter]
sorry oh ouch you're hard at me today
all right um if you have any items you
would like to be considered for the
agenda please send those to me by Friday
I intend to sit down with President
lamkey next week finalize the agenda and
get it out at least one week in advance
um and end of report sounds great thank
you so much jny for putting that
together and a special thanks to Natalie
V for looking at all of our schedules
and getting us all on the same page so
that we can have our Council Retreat
much much
appreciated uh Miss B for Recreation and
Parks uh just really really quick on
February the 2 uh February 22nd excuse
me um the rec department is having a
hiring party um I think that it's at the
senior
center not 100% sure um but be looking
be looking for it which is really
exciting that's the way they they um
rally to get more people to be able to
help out our little people and work in
the Parks Etc um for the um summer uh
Camp so that's exciting and um the
department just got back uh that last
week uh from the opr conference that we
you know that we get funding for and um
I said they came back with great ideas
and it was a fabulous experience and um
great for bonding so just FYI good stuff
happening with the rec department and a
report Mr Marcelino for zoning and
development yes unrelated to my position
I will note for councilman Hurley that
batting 500 will get you into the Hall
of Fame so keep up the good work um
moving on to my actual
responsibilities uh we have 420 North
Cassie and 2300 Livingston going before
uh bab sorry uh sorry going ARB this
Thursday for review and recommendations
for certificate of appropriateness it
pass Bap at the last Bap meeting so
Thursday at 6m uh for ARB for that
review so everybody tune in as I'm sure
we'll get questions and interest from
the community on that that's all thank
you all right uh moving on to agenda
item 23 I move to go into executive
session to consider the appointment
employment dismissal discipline
promotion demotion or compensation of a
Public Employee or official of section
12.22 of the Ohio Revised Code could I
please have a second second second by Mr
Marcelino Mr mCP would you please call
the
role Miss fible yes Mr Marcelino yes Mr
Hurley yes Miss Lamy yes Miss sod yes
and Miss Silverman or Mr Silverman
sorry yes can't get any of this stuff
right thank you and I'm also gonna
invite uh Chief Lewis our City attorney
in the mayor to and Mr MC to join us in
executive
session
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all right uh Council we are back at this
time I mov to uh exit from executive
session could I please have a second
second second by Mr Marcelino all in
favor say I I any want oppos nope all
right Council we will see you in two
weeks at this time I move to adjourn can
I please get a second second second
second by Miss F all in favor say I