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e e
where we regulate is um the cleanliness
and unfortunately um last week the
scrubber that gets attached to the front
of skid steers that came out from a um
popular rental company not to be named
was broken so they were working on
getting a new one out there and getting
a mechanic to fix it so we did have some
some dirt in the street I did talk to
the superintendent about that um we've
had a lot of dust that have has and dirt
that has flown over here we're
constantly reminding them and asking
them to water their site um you know
there's
only there's only so much they can do
when there's no rain in the forast and
they're they're trying hard to water I
do see the watering truck but we'll
we'll stay on top of them but that's
that's you know our purview is to make
sure that they're keeping a clean site
and and maintaining Street safety when
they're hauling stuff away thank
you Mr Clinger I just wanted to welcome
you back to council chambers this side
of the desk in your new role I know that
everyone here is so excited and we can't
imagine anyone better than you in the
troll so congrat and welcome back thank
you I so excited to see all of you
amazing yeah yeah I am I'm proud of
myself all right couple updates for you
all um first off I had a council member
asked me about the speed bumps on Aster
are they coming back the answer is maybe
um what we're doing is we're studying
the speed after after the street was
reinstalled without them um determine
how that compares to other residential
streets that we have um and then if
indicated they would be reinstalled but
more as the kind of humps that we have
on G um but those speed
survey the stats should be in like the
next few days so don't have those in in
hand yet we took speed
before the project so when the speed
bumps were in place and then we took
numbers in the summer before students
were in session and we're doing another
study with students in session just to
make sure we have accurate
information
um today we had uh three uh engineering
firms um Talk us through their uh
proposals for studying our sewers that
in-depth study that we talked about to
update our Capital Improvements plan for
sewers I want to thank Andy and Megan
Meer who have been working on that
project we've been making good progress
on that um very very in-depth
presentations so if anybody wants to
know anything about inflow and
infiltration I'd be happy to talk about
it but not today please I've heard
enough about it already um the cic
meeting was this week uh and or was it
last week yeah last week details um at
the cic meeting it was discussed that
the cic has gone into contract on the
Lucky Lotto building um that's the
building between Speedway and the um
peaking
Dynasty sat vacant for a very long time
um and had a couple different proposals
but just hasn't been working out it's uh
become blight on Livingston Avenue and
in consistent with the cic's objective
it's one of those projects that doesn't
seem like the development Community is
taking taking care of it so the cic is
gonna come up with some ideas for that
assuming successful closing but I just
wanted to make sure the council was
aware of that
um and a couple things in my written
update first off
do want to note the Livingston Avenue
update and Q&A is on our calendar here
October 1st at 5:30 as Sam had asked
about um we will be sending letters to
the residential the Residential
Properties on Livingston and the first
block north to make sure that they're
aware of that um I went to a couple
different block parties this weekend
just north of Livingston Avenue and I
was really surprised by how little
people knew about the project going
forward even though it's been in the
newsletter and some other things that
people's uh in people's mail so I hope
that that people and spread the word if
you could about that meeting um it
should be should be really uh valuable
to Residents in the area along
Livingston and anyone interested for
that matter um Chelsea and Maine you may
have
noticed has been uh has been leveled um
there is soil there right now we'll be
planting some seed for the fall that's
part of our agreement with the property
owner as we prepare it for a Brownfield
revitalization grant that we hope to get
um that property that that project is
being assisted by the city it will be an
assessment it is consistent with our
code enforcement assessments it's just
much more exhaustive than many of our
assessments would be um in the event
that uh that property doesn't you know
returned uh to development soon um I
also want to talk about
a project that
started many years ago and continues
which is our noise ordinance uh
modernization and many of you have been
through different iterations of this but
I've been working with councilman
Silverman on how to move forward best
and we have an idea and it seem it may
seem to you that I'm kind of crazy with
questionnaires recently but you will
receive from Alex and uh maybe tonight
maybe tomorrow uh a questionnaire that
looks like this and it's kind of hard to
fill out actually on Google forms
because there's so many questions on
this grid so you'd prefer a printed
version Jessica I can give you one of
those and we can we can manually fill it
in or put it in the system for you but I
wanted to kind of Orient this concept
which is you'll notice the language on
the left the types of activities that
we're talking about we're using just
kind of plain English and we want you to
think about don't get hung up on
definitions but try to understand like
the spirit behind some of these
scenarios are like literally there a
scenario right right so that's not going
to be a that's not going to be captured
in a in code language per se it's more
to understand how does council feel
about different time restrictions on
different types of activities so we
won't write in for example light jazz
music over bluetooth speaker that is
lightly audible from the next yard over
that wouldn't show up in the ordinance
but it's just to gauge your comfort
level like okay it might show up in the
or I shouldn't promise something that
might end up happening so um that'll be
that's the spirit behind that ser
uh it looks like a lot but once you get
the hang of sort of what we're talking
about with different time restrictions
hopefully it's quick to fill out and I
do need still to add one other question
that Alex pointed out were're supposed
to ask so I we'll be doing that is it is
it is a standard for the elsat uh so
there you go with
that um Matt covered the hiring of
Colleen we also working on that City
Hall reconfiguration including some
secur enhancements for council chambers
and we'll have some finalized numbers on
the the that project some of which has
already been budgeted for soon lots of
photos of the past couple
weeks uh but I do also want to talk
about one Bexley and we are about to
launch our fall programming uh for one
Bexley and part of that let's see if I
can actually cue this properly will be
a video which I'll see if can you
XY is
Le beautiful a great place for a place
to learn place to play and Vexy has a
bright future building on the STS but
not everyone has been able to
participate in our community literally
deed restrictions and National lending
standards made it impossible for
families of color to live in Bexley well
into the 1960s and hon red lining was so
powerful and Vexy that few many students
of color graduated throughout the 60s
70s and the 80s the culture that
surrounded that exclusion has carried
forward never since in seemingly
innocent ways like facing legitimacy and
belonging how many generations of came
when families of color that structurally
can never belong to that safy PL or in
bigger more threatening ways including
racist taunt and tropes that percolate
from the dinner table conversations to
the classroom or the historical Legacy
of profil that continues to cast a
shadow over everyday interactions or the
fact that historically Blue Line
communities like Exley have been much
slower to Diversified in communi form
since that time showing the longlasting
heritage of structural racism because of
this Legacy we believe that we need to
be intentional and purposeful in
building a true sense of belonging in
beex today we have the opportunity and
resources to continue making posi change
to be a better version of ourselves to
recognize our past and inform our future
it won't happen by accident it won't
happen without you without all of us
working together to rewrite the play
introducing the one Bexley project one
Bexley is an intentional purposeful
program to craft a Bexley that is
welcoming to all and creates a sense of
belonging for all community members and
visitors one Bexley has a direct support
of the city of Bexley the Bexley City
School District the Bexley public
library and passionate resence you know
that this mindset is vital to our
future
Focus all sh action disruptive
welcoming future forward
Jo for conversations for
education
training and
one all right so that will be circulated
out of the community um on Friday in the
blast and On th Thursday in the school's
email and I want to recognize uh Nick
Robinson who was our intern the summer
who helped us produce that Nick did a
great job with that uh pton Jackson also
helped with that so with that I'm happy
to answer your
questions me with the
Bloomers yes Mr marcelin just a question
are we going to talk about that noise
ordinance during your report later
today we will okay no question thank
you uh question and a comment question
just any updates on Paving of drexal
Avenue from our friends at OD do uh yes
it's supposed to begin in less than two
weeks so early October awesome and
before early October comment on the
Livingston thing I I um I am excited
about the the event on the 1 and and the
amount of Outreach we've done I just one
sort of addition additional perspective
I've got in recent weeks is talking to
some of the parents um at The JCC as I
know there's a concern around this isn't
necessarily people that live in close
proximity to Livingston but um like
parents that want to walk their kids or
ride their kids on bikes to school and
just fearing that Livingston Crossing so
I don't know if there's a way to engage
that cohort I know that JCC does have
like a parent advisory Council my wife
actually sits on but I just think that's
a interesting perspective but um
certainly very minor compared to what
some of the folks are dealing with that
live on Liv s right by there yeah and I
wouldn't I mean it's same comment that
you hear from folks who live close to to
it as well as the desire to be able to
cross safely it's a big piece of the
project I agree um we'll make sure to
reach out to The JCC and um you mantras
so we can talk offline about it because
i' I've got some some resources
potentially okay connect you with Danny
I have been in touch with the JCC that
this meeting's coming up and letting
them know and I know that there's going
to be some participation as the liais on
to The JCC so I'm so glad you brought
that up and now that you're hearing that
and so we'll just leave it to them to be
here that's October first meeting that
Sam helped set up thank you thank thank
you Mr
Silverman um first off the the video was
very nicely done uh Nick Robinson did a
great job uh my question is one Beckley
you know when it initially started was
designed to kind of enhance and build up
is there plans in the budget or has
there been any identification for things
that could be funded in relation to one
Bally Beyond events and and kind of
Outreach uh meetings is there anything
related to one beex that we're planning
to budget for currently in the 2025
budget well it's in our 24 budget as
well um we haven't I haven't finished
working the 25 budget yet um but we do
have money in the 24 budget is there
anything in particular you have in mind
no I just didn't know if if anything was
identified with u once we got the uh
coordinators in their positions on on
what they are kind of looking to spend
money towards um I see the production of
the video I know that there's plans to
do another Community dinner which was
really well received last year and so
I'm just trying to get a picture of kind
of from a planning standpoint how those
conversations are going and and and what
um kind of is being discussed in terms
of funding for projects related to one
Beckley yeah I again there's there's
money in the budget for projects that
would need funding but so far we've been
pretty successful in having projects
that don't require outside funding but
if there would be something that
somebody would have in mind that would
require it um and this is we will by the
way also on part of this whole thing is
launching all the different events that
we have and so the one beex dinner
signups will be on Friday and all that
stuff is coming out as part of this
whole events calendar for the for the
fall yes Miss suck just a quick question
um with our L use strategy public
workshop on September 16th from 6:30 to
8 y p.m. here at City Hall are we able I
know we have it in the last and it's on
our calendar our City calendar are we
able to since we had a handful of um
residents that reached out to us via
their responses to our survey can we
make sure that they are emailed back
that this is happening so they're just
um they get that connectivity for the
time they put into the survey it's a
great idea yep thank
you um and then so great call out that
is that is I think it's Monday right the
16th um here at City Hall 6:30 to 8
um for those who went to like the board
and commission Retreat it will be an
expanded version of that expanded in
that it has a little bit more
information from that
feedback uh contracted and that it will
be more succinct than the board and
commission retreat was also want to
remind you all uh that the smoke and
fire festival and Main Event is on the
14th and I know Alex I'm sure we'll talk
more about it but uh I am tasked with
doing the cookout wagon for for the
sales of food and so anyone who wants to
help cook out let me know I'm always
looking for for
help that concludes my report Madam
president awesome all right Mr offishal
over to you for a consent
agenda all right in the consent agenda
we have the meeting minutes from August
27th
2024 okay um Council hopefully you've
had a chance to look at the meeting
minutes are there any any questions from
Council about the consent
agenda any questions or comments from
the
public okay seeing none I move to adopt
the consent agenda could I please get a
second second second by Mr Marcelino Mr
mCP would you please call the role Mr
Silverman yes Miss
sad yes Miss
fibble yes Miss lampy yes Mr Hurley yes
Mr Marcelino Y and Mr Markham yes
consent agenda
passes all right onto third readings
onto third readings ordinance
20-24 to amend the pay range for Deputy
Chief of Police introduced by Ms
sad yes all right so ordinance
20-24 is
um being amended from uh for our
department to make the adjustment of 140
$ 6, $390 to $149,600
third reading are there any questions or
comments from the
public okay missad do you have action on
this ordinance yes I moved to um approve
ordinance
20-24 motion to approve by Miss sad is
there a second second second by Mr
Marcelino Mr mCP would you please do a
roll call Miss lampy yes Mr Hurley yes
Mr Markham yes Mr Marcelino yes Mr
Silverman yes Miss fibble yes and Miss
sad yes yes ordinance 2024 passes all
right moving on for a third reading of
ordinance 20-20
21-24 to reverse the 2024 appropriation
of
$567,500 act it was the auditor's
recommendation that we um change the way
that we have these funds set up so that
the burden of proof is easier to follow
does anyone have any questions on this
ordinance we are in our third reading
we'll be looking to approve this this
evening I don't see any questions from
Council any comments from the
public Miss do you have action on this
ordinance I move to approve ordinance
21-24 mtion to approve by Miss sad is
there a
second second second by Mr Marcelino Mr
mCP would you please do the roll call Mr
Marcelino yes Mr Silverman yes Mr
Markham yes Miss FIB yes Mr Hurley yes
Miss lampy yes and Miss sad yes
ordinance 20-24 passes all right third
reading of ordinance 22-24 to
appropriate
$3,559 48 from the rad and Alley fund
$322
58.62 from the water fund and
$695 and 74 cents from the sewer Fund in
order to provide Debt Service for the
South cassingham Road and Vernon Road
comprehensive improvements project
introduced by Miss
Z thank you Mr official ordinance
22-24 um we came to find that the second
half of the year the project was
41,000 and um um we need to approve this
tonight to make up for that difference
and we did uh the city has said to
council that moving forward on our opwc
projects that we will ask for an
estimate for the budget for better
planning tonight we are at our third
reading so we will be calling this for a
vote unless anyone has any
questions are there any questions from
Council any comments from the public
given that it's a third reading seeing
none Mr M oh sorry Miss do you have
ction on this ordinance to approve
ordinance
22-24 motion to approve by Miss sad is
there a second second second by Mr
Marcelino Mr mCP would you please call
the rule Mr Silverman yes Miss s yes Mr
fible or Miss fible sorry yes um Miss
lampy yes Mr Hurley yes Mr Marcelino yes
and Mr Markham yes ordinance
22-h 24 passes sorry lost track all
right moving on to a third reading of
ordinance
24-24 to create section
45224 electric vehicle charger metered
parking in order to provide for the repl
for the placement and enforcement of
metered parking for on Street electric
vehicle charging infrastructure
introduced by Mr
Silver thank you um as Council knows
I've been absent the previous two for
introduction of this so I have watched
and reviewed the conversations previous
to that and I appreciate the the Insight
that I was able to get from your guys's
questions I do plan to uh table this um
to give us some time to discuss as a
whole and I also believe that we have
some uh backend stuff we have to get
involving the payment and the processes
um but I think if you've seen the
locations um they are up and usable I've
seen a car at Schneider Park parked
there and charging
um the signage is up letting them know
kind of the future plans for it and the
fact that it's free at the moment um
I'll hand it over to Mayor kler to
update more about some of the other um
components that were look that we're
researching to get more information on
and I'll open up to conversation after
that yeah so um as councilman Silverman
pointed out we have our four four new
locations up um I think currently Maine
and Cassidy and Main and Drexel are not
yet powered because we're waiting on a
to hook them up but and there will be
temporary panels there that look really
unsightly that will be replaced
by cabinets in like three months because
they're in back order through AP
apparently which was a surprise to our
electricians um but those will be up in
operational here soon um so the backend
work that we're doing is we're still um
inter interpreting what vendor makes the
most sense working with the police
department on that um
Mr mCP has asked for a little bit
further due diligence in terms of Market
rates so we're getting that information
that will be circulating out to you all
um that's more than just incidental what
uh some of us have experienced in the
market so um we'll get that out and
hopefully you know take it off the table
the next meeting with all that
information in hand would be the
goal if it pleases uh Council and your
committee
chair Mr Marcelino you had a question
yeah just a question for it goes uh
before it's tabled here under
42.2 4 E2 the mayor is hereby authorized
to establish modify and change from time
to time regulations which set forth the
days of the week hours of the day inters
blah blah blah uh just looking to have
better understand what that means and
when may or you may step in to modify
and change from time to time just so I
haveen an understanding going
in
um I apologize has been asked a question
so I think the the you're talking about
changing rates and and yeah
administrative rules under that section
it just may it just gives you some
discretion here and so my question is
that for say no parking because we're
doing street cleaning or is that uh for
holidays or hours and will those be
something that fluctuate or will it be
pretty predictable based upon the
signage there yeah so I think it would
be very predictable very static except
for you know to you you raised multiple
different scenarios where we might um
you know have no parking at the time um
it allows us the ability to adjust rates
for
expenses um which is so like if our
electrical charges go up or we find that
we're having um you know harder or more
expensive uh maintenance costs than we
can we can
adjust thank you y Mr Silverman um just
to kind of give an Outlook to Council on
the plans uh you plan to present um
rates and
enforcement of of these meters um before
we are able
to remove it from the table I mean we
had the table at first so I'm trying to
figure out the best way to communicate
that process but I know like we've
talked about the company that we're
going to use to to do the
payment feature and then we've talked
about how we're going to enforce it with
police and and parking authority and how
that would look so would we be able to
get update um regarding all those
matters uh right so the rates that that
we that we talked about at the last
council meeting were based upon a park
mobile model um that vendor selection
probably wouldn't be finalized until
obviously the ordinance passes because
we would finalize the vendor but it's
we're going to come to you with a
complete recommendation
the piece that's missing still is having
a better feel for the backend
enforcement tools that are provided by
the different vendors and so we're
working with Police Department to make
sure that we're all comfortable with the
vendor that we're talking about we would
come back to you guys with either
confirmation that those are the sorts of
rates that we're referring to it might
be slightly different if it were a
different vendor they're all quite
similar I mean there's in terms of over
arching cost at the end of the day we're
putting a premium right now on you know
being part of a larger Regional Network
so that people are comfortable and
familiar with that infrastructure in
terms of Park Mobile um but if the
police department's not comfortable with
the ease of enforcement and tracking
then you know we might come back to you
with a different
recommendation thank you um so I will
make a motion to table ordinance no h
hang on um any other questions from
Council this is a third reading any
comments from the
public now go ahead thank you I'll make
a motion to table ordinance 242 4 motion
to table by Mr Silverman is there a
second second second by Mr Marcelino Mr
mCP would you please call the role Miss
lampy yes Miss sod yes Mr Markham yes Mr
Silverman yes Mr Marcelino yes Miss
fible yes and Mr Hurley yes ordinance
24-24 is
tabled okay now on to a third reading
excuse me of resolution 5-24
adopting the 2024 recommendations of the
Bexley tax and Senate review Council
regarding tax abated properties in the
city of Bexley introduced by m sad thank
you Mr official this is an annual review
that the city conducts um in this review
Bexley Gateway commercial Bexley Gateway
residential and one Dawson building in
the gramarcy building all um showed that
tax delinquencies they had
none any questions on this resolution
this
evening seeing no questions from Council
are there any comments from the public
given that it's a third
reading all right seeing then miss
missad do you have action on this
resolution yes I move to adopt
resolution
5-24 right motion to adopt by Miss sad
is there a
second I second by Mr Hurley Mr mCP
would you please call the role Miss
fible yes Mr Markham yes Mr Silverman
yes Miss Lany yes Mr Hurley yes Miss sod
yes Mr Marcelino yes ordinance 5-24
passes all right now moving on to a
third reading of ordinance
23-24 to amend section
262.50 2c1 regular work period and hours
of work and section
262.50 to make a stronger
um you know ordinance for our city so I
think we probably are all up to date on
um from our first reading to our second
reading hearing from Emily and her
suggestions but if there's any questions
tonight um now is the time lorian I just
I just thought
um we need P we need am instead of PM if
you look at section
three at the very end
payroll and overtime eligibility the
work week shall be def as 1201 a.m
Monday and it should say 12 I think am
Sunday correct
correct okay so you have Miss uh Miss
Bible a proposed amendment for that one
change okay unless it's just
a it needs an amendment this is why
flights don't leave at noon or midnight
because it's
confusing right so there is a motion to
amend by Miss fible to change the
language in section three uh to
read um towards the end shall be defined
is 12:01 am Monday to
1201 a p.m. 12 am.
Sunday 2400 hours that's right that's
right um I will move to second that's
right um that motion to amend uh any
comments or questions from Council on
the proposed
amendment um any comments from the
public all right Mr mCP would you please
call the RO on the motion to amend Miss
Fel yes Mr Silverman yes Mr Markham yes
Mr Hurley yes Mr Marcelino yes Miss sad
yes Miss Lam ke yes
Amendment
passes yes I'm sorry I'm doing it sorry
it's two screens over
here
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getting you
knowed that's your amended
version think you should change another
letter and make it second amended just
yeah any other questions from Council
regarding um the amended
Ordinance missad do you have any action
on this one move to approve ordinance
23-24 okay move to approve by Miss sad
is there a second second second by Mr
seleno um any further discussion from
Council on the
motion any comments
from
public Mr mCP would you please call the
rooll Miss lamkey yes Mr Hurley yes Mr
Markham yes Mr Marcelino yes Mr
Silverman yes Miss viable yes Miss sad
yes ordinance
23-24 passes so before I go into second
amendments I just want to say that that
was very impressive and that's because
it's clear that everybody has done their
homework over the last six to eight
weeks or whatever I'm serious I mean and
people were up to speed and you've talk
through issues so again it's you know I
I want to you hear a lot of bad things a
lot of times so I just want to share at
least based on my experience that that's
that you guys are working hard what have
you heard
Mark I haven't I said you
do you one years one here un imagin one
could hear why is there something we
should know about okay anyway I just
want to make that comment second
readings should I continue yep second
reading of ordinance 25-24 to add
chapter 1478 to the codified ordinances
of the city of Bexley Ohio entitled
securing and fencing of construction
sites to require to require the securing
and fencing of building sites during
construction activities introduced by Mr
Marcelino we discussed this the last
meeting for those of you that are not in
in attendance we likened it to parks and
wreck where Andy DWI falls into the pit
we want to avoid uh injuries taking
place around construction sites so we
are asking for uh the securing INF
fencing of those construction sites to
prevent injury or
issues any questions from Council Mr
Silverman thank you um Mr
Marcelino when I was reading this um
just so I'm accurate this is discussing
only complete rebuilds of a site or a
excavated basement that would require
fencing I don't think it's complete only
complete rebuilds I think there would be
other types of projects that would uh be
encompassed by this but they would
require significant modifications we
wouldn't be looking at things like the
front of a house let's say just putting
over a cover over the front entry or
something along those lines but
significant uh modifications to the
structure itself so if somebody was
adding a porch would that meet a
requirement of front yard fencing well
if it's in the front yard and it was
significant enough that it might warrant
you know something that they could fall
into or get injured yes I think we're
looking for obviously primarily the
examples on Roosevelt and brenwood right
now where there wasn't much
protectionist Start um and eventually
they came into compliance with the
city's request um but I think that part
of this is to put it into place for the
city to utilize where we are concerned
or Bap or ARB becomes concerned about uh
safety around that structure itself and
so I think that when you say a porch I
think it would depend on the size of the
porch where exactly the porch extends to
um how far back from the street or
sidewalk it would be Etc but this at
least gives us a little bit more of of a
bite behind um our our code here to at
least ask that they comply with this but
no we do not wish to add this safety
requirement to every project that comes
before the city as we know that that
cost may be too significant uh for an
average homeowner would we we would
designate this during the Bap process if
it
requires yes we look for their we look
for their guidance yes as as this goes
through and also through I think ARB as
well if they have concerns about types
of materials or anything of that that
could cause injury or issue I I
appreciate you mentioned you know one of
the concerns was just the cost Factor
because we know Builders will pass on
the cost sure um so kind of just getting
a picture of of when we feel it to be
opal and you covered that so I
appreciate that good question Mr over Mr
Hurley um just I guess a thought here I
had had kind of a similar line of
questioning to Mr Silverman at the
previous hearing around this this
definition of building site in are we
potentially
omitting um projects where you know
fencing may be recommended I just I you
know hearing more about just the Bap
role and knowing we have you know
director cleaner who has a wealth of
experience in
this would it be do we want to Grant
some additional Authority for Bap to
require fencing outside of so basically
we have the building site definition
it's going to be that's very clear about
when fencing should be used but do we
want to sort of build in a process by
which if Bap or director cleaner or the
mayor
felt even though it's not a
uh new principal structure or excavation
of a basement that sensing should be
used to basically have them require it
then may have a thought on that you want
to respond to that just a thought yeah I
want to clarify that I think we might
have gotten some
things confused about the Bap piece of
it bap's not the party that decides
whether or not something would need
fencing that's through the direct the
building director and it's based upon
the definitions that are laid out in the
code um and I one of the comments that
I made last last meeting the question
came up similarly you know what about
all these other types of projects what's
really distinct about a new build is
it's not occupied and there's no one on
site and so that's very different for
most of our construction projects and in
my time helping to administer the
building department I can only think of
the times when there have been
complaints about secure building sites
have been tied to new builds with nobody
on on site um so I think that's a unique
but I think you're trying to say and
maybe there are give unusual conditions
where the building director could Pro
could you know require securing of the
sfe and and that's something I would
maybe put to you and Dr cleaners is that
something you feel you need I would use
like Speedway as an example where
they're doing all that work I mean is
that they're not building a new
principal structure they're not
Excavating a basement but they are doing
some work that you defin and they have
fencing up I'm not trying to pick on
them but I I put that you know to to the
two of you into the sponsor if you think
there needs to be some additional power
given to the building department it's
not going to affect I mean I support
this so it's not going to change my mind
I just just putting it out there as a
policy discussion you guys can have if
you feel it's
warranted to director cleaner I
guess do you want more power no I mean
that's a fair point we don't uh play the
role of Osha especially on Commercial
sites but um it's it's a fair point
anything under you know any EX ation
over you know 3 to six feet um well
three feet should either be laid back or
have fencing or you know there has to be
some safety so that's really a liability
the contractor takes on at that point uh
but what you know certainly I'll work
with our code enforcement officer
anything that's you know I don't know if
we need it in the code but as as
director I will uh make sure it happens
and I one one I just want to keep keep
following that thought it's it's it is a
uh it certainly is not a bad tool for us
to have it just so happens that most
commercial projects are fenced in
because of what match is said exactly
that makes sense and this is also just
it's only a second reading so to the
extent that there's maybe some
additional thought to be given before
the next uh reading you could certainly
give that further consideration Mr mhina
did you have your just just briefly I
also see this is a tool not only for the
director but also for um frankly the
mayor or anybody in the city that sees a
project that they are concerned about I
mean we have to think about how it's
going to be utilized if you see a
project that you wish uh to enforce this
for we can utilize this code so by
specifically delineating the director it
I don't know that you need it just I
don't you can use this code whenever you
need to whenever you need to step in
with it is how I see it being used so
and same I think that somebody on Bap as
a project comes through could at least
ask somebody from the city to enforce it
so I do that's a tool so that's I guess
what I meant to kind of get around
absolutely but I digress that's why I
don't know that we need it but I do see
the purpose behind what you're saying
thank you mrman did you have a question
I just want I might have caused some
confusion in my earlier question um as
you pointed out this is is this only for
new principal buildings not additions um
because we had made an example of a
addition to a house that wouldn't be a
structure so sorry so the way it's
currently written it's for new principal
structures or an addition where there's
excavation of a crawl space or a
basement so there are lots of additions
that or there are some additions that
don't have that so is there room for
discretion as we just kind of talked
about um to be able to if we if we have
something that's kind of doesn't fall in
within those two to be able to to to
layer in this ordinance into that we'll
talk about working that in I want to
talk to Mark about it too I want to make
sure we don't have extra liability from
like right we
it any anything outside of
A1 will need language um will need
language allowing for that discretion
again as the mayor just alluded to you
know there's the one side of the
discretion then there's the other side
which is well if you have the discretion
and don't exercise it what are the
ramifications
so I had a question for director cling
lerson is here uh would your department
have capacity to do the compliance in
the enforcement part given that this is
new or this would be new yeah that's
part of what I'm going through in the
first 90 days is is viewpoints a robust
system and there's a lot of if and then
statements you can plug into the the
application that they the applicants
fill out so this would essentially be
are you building a new structure they
check yes and then a box pops up and
says do you know that you need a fence
around the whole entire site and they
check yes and then then from there
if they check yes to those things it
would alert Dave for Lia our code
enforcement so it's not like we have to
go around and police the city for all
new commercial construction sites or or
places with basements those would pop up
on his um task list to go out and check
so great thank you great discussion
Council um any other comments from
Council at the second reading um all
right Mr M any speakers slips on this
one no speaker slips all right moving on
Mr official all right second reading of
ordinance
26-24 to establish the position of
assistant Finance director and to
establish the pay range at
$28.35 per hour to 4328 per hour to
reduce the appro to reduce
Appropriations in the contract
professional line item of the auditor's
office account by $10,000 to appropriate
$110,000 into the salaries and wages
line item of the auditor office account
and to declare an emergency
mad thank you Mr official um the intent
of this ordinance is to fulfill the
existing Finance duties that have been
fulfilled with consultant a consultant
role that ends in October of
2024 um I would ask that Council refers
also to the exhibit a of the job
description that comes with this
ordinance and you have questions at this
time let's ask them all right any
questions from
Council um Mr mCP do we have any speaker
slips on this one no speaker slips how
would Council feel about this one going
on the consent agenda at the next one
all right I'm not seeing anyone opposed
Natalie if we can put ordinance 26-24 on
the consent agenda that would be
great all right moving on Mr right first
reading of resolution
6-24 approving the petition for special
assessments for special energy
Improvement projects in affidavit under
Ohio Revised Code chapter 1710 and
declaring the necessity of acquiring
constructing installing equipment
equipping and improving certain public
improvements in the city of Bexley in
cooperation with the Columbus Regional
energy special improvement district and
declaring it an emergency relating to
the Bexley Gateway project introduced by
Miz sad it looks like E Cummings wrote
that a lot of that with all the no use
of
capitals this is our first reading on
this resolution 624 tonight and I am
going to hand this over to Mayor Kesler
to elaborate more on what this
resolution 6-24 Pace means the PACE
program I am so excited excited to talk
to you guys
about
pace so excited that I pulled up some
old presentations from past Pace
presentations that were in the uh in the
docket um actually no that that one's
from a conference ignore that
one uh so this is a a presentation that
are uh that are Columbus Regional Eid
the energy special improvement district
Columbus Regional e ID is a group of of
government entities uh Bexley is a
member of the Columbus Regional Eid and
others who partner together to allow
property assess clean energy in our
communities um Bexley joined the
Columbus Regional Eid uh back when we
put solar panels on to of City Hall if
you guys would recall that who were
around we used property assess clean is
a way to get into property assess clean
energy so that we could offer it exactly
for a similar purpos to what we have
today so I'm going to give a very brief
presentation as a refresher about what
is property assessed clean energy and
I'm going to try to make sure that it's
viewable by people
on line as well so um the Franklin
County Finance Authority helps
administer our regional Pace District
I'm going to skip past some of this but
what it is really quite simply is it's a
way that uh
Property Owners of commercial properties
can voluntarily borrow funds um for
clean energy improvements or or uh Not
Just Energy improvements but energy
efficient improvements um and use the
assessment vehicle that we have to often
it maybe leads to better interest rates
orable lending terms it's a basically an
incentive that the region provides to
Property Owners to incentivize um energy
efficient Improvement
improvements back four years ago over 20
million had been provided through Pace
in the region it's now much larger
number so I should have a
more up todate version of this but here
are some examples of what eligible
improvements are for Pace you know
lighting HVAC Roofing windows and
instulation solar EV charging and the
ordinance and resolution before you are
specific to a project here in Bexley
which is the 2200 East Main project
um so why is this helpful this keeps a
portion of the lending stack off balance
um it provides upfront financing it
provides stability for lenders and it
allows us to uh get energy efficient
improvements into our community making
those developments more
competitive so this is just endorsing
what's going on here so this is what Ro
does local government play so Council
approves each individual commercial Pace
deal which is why it's in front of you
um the city is not obligated so the city
does not in any way shape or form expend
funds in order to allow these Pace
projects to come forward if you read the
language and the ordinance it might feel
like we are but what's important through
the statute with the state of Ohio is
that we declare as a council that you
declare as a council that the project is
um um you know is uh additive to the
community it's a it's a positive
Improvement and that you allow the use
of assessment uh for the project it is
literally identical to when we
do um it's not identical it is quite
similar to when we do special
assessments for uh you know sidewalk
improvements in the past it is pretty
identical to when we've recently started
doing Special assessments for our sewer
project where there's a sewer loan
payback over 10 years it's just we're
not the lender in this instance there's
a third party lender it's either the
Franklin County Finance Authority or
it's a thirdparty lender like Greenworks
or there are others Huntington Bank uh
is involved in some of these I'm not
sure who the lender is in this
example I'm going to send you this whole
stack because I don't think we really
need to go through but they have some
examples and I'm happy to go in depth
and you've actually probably remember
this graphic because I showed that to
you in the past happy to answer any
questions about it um also happy to get
the attorneys from Bricker in front of
you if you really want to go deep in the
weeds uh they are National caliber Pace
nerds they'd be happy to answer all of
your questions probably to a level you
do not wish to have them
answered it's a lot to absorb thank you
for agreeing to send us the
presentation uh my recommendation would
be that
we um have our first reading tonight we
look at your presentation maybe at the
second reading we as a council decide if
we'd like to bring in the outside
experts maybe for the third reading okay
to to present um if that's all right
given how how much is here Mr Hurley did
you have a question um yeah I've got a
few um and and I some of these are you
know I read the resolution read the
ordinance so some of these may be if
they're better suited to be asked during
the ordinance then please let me know
but first um the the resolution speaks
to a petition and supplemental plan from
the property owner are we able to see
those yes thank you um also and I think
this one maybe is the ordinance but uh
there's a anou mentioned that I believe
the city enters into can we see the
draft of that sure yeah okay just bu
supporting documents um and just but
just what will be in the mou and 100%
will circulate those will be essentially
that the city agrees to assess uh the
property so that the lender gets paid so
that we're doing what we need to do to
make sure that the that the uh the loan
continues to be processed appropriately
um how long is the assessment period is
it for the lifetime until the until the
financing matures I assume there are
different terms for different projects
and um I will come back to you guys with
a more specific project term sheet um
and if and if I read correctly it's 100%
the city's not putting anything it's
100% property owner that is correct
there are no funds being used by the
city for this I know you mentioned the
the um solar panels on City Hall have we
had any other private developments join
you said um Trinity Seminary at the time
did did do something several years ago
um but we this is our first commercial
based project which is great we've been
trying to encourage it but as you know
we don't have that much new development
so
okay here we go yeah that's all thank
you questions Mr Mr Mark I remember when
we did this a few years ago and it kind
of hurt my brain to have to go through
and I'm not a does not how I work
scientific knowledge not Financial
knowledge really well but uh so I
understand how the that that works uh
those financial uh mechanisms work is
there a financial cost to the city for
for using this in this no the city's
just serving as Matchmaker between the
lender and the property owner and
allowing the vehicle of an assessment to
occur money comes in through the auditor
gets dispersed to the lender the city is
not outputting any of the funds there's
no use of other than my time and Megan
Myers is time there's not there's not an
expense and your time thinking about it
thanks good questions any other comments
from Council oh Mr Hurley yes I thought
one more question just any details on
what they're planning to do
yeah so um that'll be part of the
overall they do an audit that we'll
present at the next meeting that shows
the savings over the life of the
improvements and against the code um I
have not looked at this one yet but I I
uh typically it has to do with building
envelope efficiency hbac efficiency
lighting efficiency recently we at the
at the Eid we changed our rules about a
year ago to require any of these
projects above a certain size which this
is to get a solar assessment to see if
it's something they want to do it
doesn't require them to do it but it
requires them to check into it I
actually just spoke with Continental
this afternoon about that because
they're trying to better better
understand what that looks like so coach
them through that so we should it might
change a little bit by the time they
finalize their terms and then I'm gonna
connect a DOT and I this is probably
already in your radar but I think I
mentioned the last council meeting so we
have the tabled ordinance related to
charging stations I know EV installation
is eligible under the Eid financing I'd
be curious if if Continental or anyone
else ever wanted
to put EV stations in there in their
private lot how how would we then sync
that in with our network of EV that's
just a it'd be very fascinating to make
sure we have that functionality because
I'd love it if some of the private
property businesses put EV charging
stations in but they could be then
migrated what the city is invested in
that would be totally agree in fact
early on with this project we asked them
to install Chargers and they have they
are going to and I I don't know yet if
that's part of their TR if that's
actually part of the what's allocated
for the pace financing but it is it is
eligible so I think so great questions
all right any other questions from
Council uh Mr MC any speaker slips on
this one you guys want to talk about
Pace anymore you sure well you got an
ordinance C oh yeah that's a good point
new opportunity yeah you still get there
are no speaker slops okay thank you all
right now the one you're waiting for
mayor first reading of ordinance
28-24 approving the necessity of certain
public improvements in the city of
Bexley Ohio determining to proceed with
those improvements leving special
assessments for the purpose of paying
the cost of those improvements approving
a Cooperative agreement and a special
assessment mou with respect to the
special assessments and dispensing with
three
readings introduced by
Miss thank you Mr official um Council
this is a healthy ordinance there's a
few pages on this one so I am going to
um pass this over to Mayor cesler who's
very passionate about pace and elaborate
on the key points of this ordinance we
we covered uh we sort of were treating
them as one and the same because they're
related to each other um Mark accent the
dispensing with three readings portion
which I also had not read before um I'm
not surprised if they want to do a
suspension on the second reading but I
know that we didn't promise them
anything so we'll get back to you with
what that looks like yeah you have
PowerPoint on this I could do another
power we will have to think through this
one as well um any questions from
Council on this first
reading Mr mCP any speaker slips on this
one from our audience no speaker slips
okay all right moving on the first
reading of ordinance
29-24 to transfer $55,000 in
Appropriations from the personal
services portion of the building and
zoning department account to other
expenditures por to the other
expenditures portion of the account and
to appropriate $65,000 from the general
fund in order to provide supplemental
Appropriations to operating expenses
within the building Department account M
sad yes so this ordinance um has to do
with some money that
we um need to now pay in
2024 and so this is where the transfer
of these funds are coming from we are
lucky to have Matt Kingler still here
with us tonight so if you would like to
elaborate a little bit more on this
ordinance we would appreciate
it in in the um process of putting
together the 2025 budget I've been doing
some some deep dive accounting into a
lot of invoices and kind of seeing the
the past history um the past couple
years um I believe Council uh has um
appropriated more funding at the end of
the year because uh we
have uh a con some consant who like to
bill in large amounts long after you
know the work is done so uh our chief
building official sometimes he'll he'll
Bill four months at a time right and
well at the end of the year that's not
always uh what we like to see so I'm
going to try to work on that this year
but that being said um it sort of kind
of let us down a road where we we get
those Appropriations but then um my job
this year was to go back and see okay we
got more Appropriations but where were
we with those budgets in those last two
to three years and um so so we're a
little under budgeted um the budgets the
budgets um needs to grow a little bit
this year but um the
40,000 um is we have some additional we
have more construction going on in the
city more homeowners are doing uh
renovation projects and we've got a lot
more inspections than usual inspections
are taking a little longer um we're
trying to be more diligent um um in our
inspections with our homeowners to help
them out
more um and we've had some more legal
cost with um some projects in the city
uh namely this one right here uh we're
working on um seeing what's reimbursable
from the contractor due to some things
that we've worked out with them you know
the Tiff and easements and things like
that
um that's you know so what it boils down
to is uh we're a little we're a little
short we'd like some some more money
please I just can't believe that Matt
comes in here and he just asked for more
money yeah I just uh he did and just add
to what you said and thank you Matt
Matt's been doing such a fantastic job
digging deep uh into the mystery that is
our uh building Department's budget so I
appreciate that U one of the things that
we said when we brought that motion
early in the year was that we would
probably have to come back for
additional appropriation if you remember
when we paid some of our we closed the
books in 23 early we didn't have
carryover Appropriations because of that
and so then we spent some of our $24 on
23 expenses so we knew already that we
were kind of going to be behind what has
exent what has made that worse is as
Matt said the additional projects that
we're taking on we've also leaned heav
yarn Consultants frankly over the past
several months between the transition of
Kathy leading in to Matt the Silver
Lining is that $55,000 of this
appropriation exists already in this
budget it is um excess Personnel
appropriation um that we have
because uh the transition didn't take as
long with Matt and also we didn't start
this new position that Colin's taken
until now and Colin is being brought in
as a robust part-time employee so it's
going to be less expensive we budget it
for so good news is we'll have lower
salary costs as well into the future as
a result of everything I just said U but
this does require 65,000 in new appropri
from the general fund the last thing
I'll add to this is that I also said
this in the beginning of the year we
have habituated ourselves to borrowing
from our next year's budget to pay the
previous year's expense in the building
department have not been as disciplined
as we need to be in that budget this
catches us up we would get through the
year we would spend all of our $24 in 2
four we'd have a clean slate going to 25
so um we are carrying in this ordinance
some of the load that we would have in
the past carried in the next budget year
just by practice does that make
sense I had a couple quick questions is
it 55,000 or
57,000 whatever you want it to be it
should be 55 but there's a typo at the
bottom
57
always of course all right so it's 50 we
think it's 55 what I'm hearing it was
supposed to be written as 55 was it okay
yeah because we we said both numbers I
wasn't honestly I wasn't sure when we
were talking in your office okay well
now you're gonna make me go back and
look at my notes maybe something to do a
deeper dive on and then how how'd you
get to 65,000 in section
two um a lot of spreadsheets it was a
lot I I went back through all the
invoices over the past two three years
and then figured out so I Pro so I
basically projected where we're going to
be with each one of our Consultants
through 2024 based on historical data
and what they've what we've seen this
year their hourly rates and in that sort
of thing and then did all the math and
came to 65 this is there anything that
we can do I don't know Mark I'm looking
at you if we have vendors or Consultants
that are not regularly sitting
submitting invoices whether it's monthly
or bonly or quarterly or once a year is
there anything that we can put in place
as a city such that we have to get those
invoices more regularly
or they would be out of luck I think
someone submitting an invoice like you
know a year later is not very realistic
is that those options for us oh yeah
absolutely we can put out put Provisions
in a contract that says You must Bill
within 30 days otherwise you get nothing
or more practically if you don't Bill
within 30 days we'll treat it like kind
of a reverse interest rate that you get
reduced by one and a half% I mean so
there are
options M Mr mCP has his hand raised to
well I was just gonna say I mean I think
interest what director Kingler did is is
really what is like rigor and discipline
that should be done by most all
departments and that is really to make
certain that they are aware of the
expenses that are coming in their budget
um or I'm sorry in the remaining part of
the year so that they can't can
proactively pull those invoices in and
make sure they get paid so you know
there are instances where you know you
would have to be you know direct into
the point and say you can't pay but that
rigor of discipline and pulling the
expenses into the the current period
where they were earn is is really just
something that we should be doing
organizationally to avoid these types of
issues to make sure that when we build a
budget out and we want dollars to be
spent in that year for that that that
the dollars actually go out that
we and we do organizationally do that
this particular vendor has been more
difficult the normal we've talked about
a contract change they have they have
gotten much better this year and I think
maybe that's what you're about to say is
it since maybe maybe that was something
different you're about to
say yeah so as a contractor I wanted to
Bill all the time and when I worked for
the city of Columbus I wanted to get
bills all the time because you want to
close purchase orders and then you want
to get more money and do more projects I
would with that mindset you know that's
the mindset I take and I would um ask
for um some time to work with this
vendor um and you know be on him
constantly about and and get him to
understand so that's at the top of my
mind he's a great vendor he does a great
job um really well liked by um everyone
around central Ohio um but and to be
fair um well to be fair or not but to be
honest uh
he's not the only one in his field that
has trouble billing I've come across
several others with that experience he's
not the only one but but the the
consistency has improved I mean we we
had last year where we just wouldn't we
didn't even have anything at this time
last year that is not true this year
that we have we have been managing that
much better um since early this year Mr
Silverman did you have a question yeah
just just for clarification it's
120,000 in total coming from two
different funds but is the the split
allocated for a certain reason to is it
wants to pay is there any past due
payment or future projection payments
with the budgets needed there's 55,000
of of excess appropriation from personal
services so it's just showing that it's
not new money it's already budgeted for
it's moving personal services is the
Personnel line item of the building
department and we can we can't
administratively move money from that
that line item to our expenditures line
item Council has to approve that but
it's in the budget already so it's it's
we're asking Council to allow us to move
existing budget money from the Personnel
side to the expenditure
side and then we're asking Council to
approve new budget money to cover the
difference yeah to get to yep good
questions all right uh any other
questions from Council Mr M if I could
just add one one more one more item um
last thing it's very difficult these
aren't quoted contracts they build time
and material so it's their time so we
you know we're not all the way through
Trinity and reviewing those documents
left so that could be a large chunk so
just keep you know we come back to you
we're hoping in you know future years
it's not like it hasn't been in past
years that much but we can't project
accurately the amount of time certain
things are going to take so there you
know that's why there could be overage
in the future a little bit very good
point sounds good U Mr mCP any speaker
slips on this one no speaker
slips right uh moving on to tabled
ordinances I don't think there's any
action on tabled
ordinances all right seeing
none wow we made it to committee report
740 City counil I'm impressed uh Miss
sad over to you for
finance Council
um our pre-budget discussion will happen
at our next meeting September 24th here
in City Hall at 5:00 pm um please be
sure to get that Google survey back in I
will be meeting with uh the mayor and
Megan here between now in that meeting
would love to see um that survey done in
the next two days so please um give some
attention to that detail and then
um I would like to ask council tonight
to um give a moment of silence to the
world of hockey and our hockey family
I'm sure everyone in the room is aware
of a recent loss of Johnny and Matthew
gdra number 13 and number
21 Johnny played for the Blue Jackets
and he and his brother Matthew um were
on the ice together which is a dream
situation at um Boston
College it is more than just a hockey
story it's a story of loss of a very
sweet family and Johnny GD um in my
household came to my attention because
of my youngest child my youngest hockey
player fell in love with the guy Johnny
hockey number 13 and I fell in love with
Johnny hockey because he's everything I
say to my kids that they're more than
whatever they're doing so you're more
than just a hockey player and he and his
brother were amazing family men um they
were examples of who we all want our
kids to look up to and be and and they
are gone too soon so if council could
join me tonight in a moment of silence I
would appreciate
it that is my end of
report thank you Miss sod uh Miss fible
for recreation and parts no
report all right Mr Silverman service
and environmental thank you president
lamkey I'll start off with the uh
obvious smoke and fire Festival coming
up this weekend uh defending Champion
president lamp key currently holds the
belt for her sugar-free
brownies um in all seriousness this is a
event that we've combined with another
main event for a movie night it's down
at Schneider Park it's one of the parks
that we highlight in South Beckley it's
a great opportunity to get the family
and friends out there for food reggae
movie entertainment Splash Pad end of
summer celeb so hopefully everyone come
out Saturday September 14th starting at
5:00 pm. um now a more important
business uh I wanted to Circle back talk
about the survey that I'll be sending
out um probably later this evening or
possibly early morning um the the idea
behind it was brought up to me when I
when I started talking to Mayor Kesler
about
um it originally started because I had a
question about electrical yard equipment
but now it started to mitigate more
toward towards noise in relation to
events celebrations um not just to the
to the kind of larger scale ones but
more to Residents especially in uh South
Bexley now that the capital students are
back I know that's a constant concern
with residents in that area um so I plan
to send out the survey to kind of get
some feedback on how we should approach
some of these time frames and and
different types of noise uh so to open
up to any any
questions Alex by when do you want us to
fill out the survey that you or the
mayor's going to send
us uh be before next council meeting
would be preferable um we plan to try to
take that data and then make edits to
the ordinance before we release it okay
for first reading Sam did you have a
question a question and comment um I did
take a look at the survey it does seem
lengthy um again Jazz and the house next
door I mean really what are we getting
at I I want to know what the goal of
this is and the ordinance is and if the
survey could be boiled down to include
what we're trying to address
specifically it would be beneficial for
me so I could start to frame my thinking
because if you're going to present an
ordinance that says you can't play quiet
Jazz at the you know at the house next
to him after 6 PM I'm going to
absolutely disagree with it and this I
think it's a waste of our time but if
you're trying to have a constructive
discussion regarding the use of gas
Motors or small engines after a certain
time let's let's focus on that or if
it's for parties or Gatherings above a
certain amount after a certain hour
let's focus in on that and I understand
it's just to get an idea and to gauge
but at the same time I'm trying to get
an idea and engage engage excuse me what
we want to accomplish with this because
I think throughout my time on Council um
there have been a couple potential uh
discussions surrounding this type of
ordinance and I've had some concerns
about it over the years just from rumors
or what it may include or may not
include and so the sooner I can help
frame what we're trying to accomplish
with this ordinance uh the better I can
give you my opinion as to where I stand
with it so not to create additional work
but I would ask it to be paired down to
whatever type of noise violation we are
specifically seeking to limit control um
or or I guess modify here and so I guess
I'll leave it at that
any any other comments on this
discussion for Mr Silverman's betterfit
are you no and I appreciate the feedback
I I I could say that from my experience
um it's more specific towards the early
morning and evening of what would be
acceptable uh noise and and then it
comes to a question of you know
enforcement at that point past that
certain time prior to that certain time
I think the goal of the survey is to be
very broad um and kind of focus on all
different types of sound past basically
600 p.m. on and then earlier just to
gauge when we should create those hard
cut offs for certain things because I
think the the inflection Point's always
going to be when we
enforce uh the ordinance whether it's 10
10 pm or 900 pm and kind of getting an
idea of of what we would gauge amongst
ourselves for an appropriate time
towards those kind of events in the
evening or early morning and if I can
Madam president supplement that comment
because I think it's a really important
concept and you hit it on the head which
is this has
been all the things I get complaints
about noise is one of the tops Natalie
can speak to that as well our current
ordinances from the 70s at the latest
pretty much it it's concerned with
photographs literally pile drivers
Street pedalers and Hawkers it regulates
internal construction on property but
not Landscaping it regulates
Ates uh putting Plumbing in your
bathroom but it doesn't regulate
Excavating the driveway in terms of
noise so our noise ordinance is awful it
is incredibly difficult to enforce the
police basically come to us all the time
when we get complained and say our hands
are tied there's nothing we can do about
this we need a better noise ordinance
the reason of having such an extensive
survey is I really what has eluded us
and is this some some sort of consensus
so I love it light jazz music check off
should be allowed at all times that's
why that column's there you say no maybe
after midnight we shouldn't have light
jazz music but that's the whole point
like there's a whole range of activities
in that is jackhammering that's one of
them too you know should that be allowed
at all times I bet you have an answer of
like what you think is right or wrong
and so I think what is helpful for me
and Alex and all of us is to just get a
feel of like what's a test of
reasonableness you know when do we start
to say we don't want a leaf blower next
to my kids's window at 6:00 am. on a
Saturday but I'm okay with it at 9:00
a.m. and now all I want to all I want to
know on this is what do you think is
right like for you and I think that my
theory
is Alex and I our Theory as we talked to
this is we'll start to kind of see some
consensus build around some
commonalities with this because what I
think is for me pretty insufferable is
continuing to try to answer residents
who are literally shouting at Natalie
like on pretty regular basis because we
have a terrible ordinance that we can't
enforce I'd love it if Council would
please give us an ordinance we can
enforce Mr Markham So to that point if
we're gonna ask us to do sort of like
what I would considered preliminary uh
committee work on this could you then
also include the current ordinance with
that survey so that we can
see
Please Mr
Marcelina just a quick and then can you
please also include some statistics in
regards to potential complaints as much
as you can in terms of understand calls
to Natalie may not always be recorded uh
in in the same fashion maybe they are
maybe they aren't but at least that
include like police how frequently we're
seeing these complaints complaints I can
get that for you yeah thank you sad I
think this is a good time to be reminded
of the city
curfew could you Enlighten us on the
city
cumer I think it's midnight under the
age of 18 but that's a good pop quiz
maybe along with um the old ordinance
that council member Troy Markham asked
for that we should just be enlightened
with that as well because I think it
plays into
this okay is that 12 am or 1201 a or you
know I would prefer to write at 12 12
midnight so that there's no confusion
all right sounds like Mr Silverman what
else do you
have that is the end of the report can I
I I at the risk of dragging this out
longer I mean that's great everybody F
out the survey but doesn't it matter
isn't really the reality the noise level
is what matters not what someone's doing
so you don't want a belief blower
outside your kids window at 8 am but I
don't want someone playing the trumpet
either and we're not going to have an
ordinance that says Thou shalt not play
a trumpet at 8 am right I mean which is
why I really
specifically hopefully we can synthesize
from the feedback how do you take that
and turn it into law okay we can do that
so it's just like that's what I was
trying to get out of the first place is
this a common sense test
scenario and what does how do we
then got it uh Mr Marcelino zoning and
development Mr hly and I we're having
yeah we're having a sidebar here about
complaints that we hear um hey RB meets
on September 12th
2024 uh and I think the May discussed
the cic but I leave to Mr Hurley if he
has additional comments and to in
regards to what was shared earlier and
of report thank you great M Mr Hurley
strategic and health uh yeah um the
mayor gave a good recap of cic on
September 4th I I would just add um you
know cic the mayor you know they're
doing a great job of just managing
properties of working with gber groups
so just just a shout out for all the
folks you know that that do a lot more
on cic than I do um they're they're
doing great uh land use commission
public Workshop is this Monday at 6:30
um very excited for that please I hope
uh everyone
attends um I will have my monthly office
hours on Friday the 26 at 3:30 at
Starbucks so um love to see more than
just Connie and tan there but I hope
you'll come
too um and then lastly you know this is
this is maybe more of I guess a health
issue is uh you know my professional
life I do a lot with pediatric healthare
um September is National Suicide
Prevention month um there's a lot of
resources and a lot of awareness being
put out for that so I'm not going to
believe the point um just some kind of
very scary statistics that that I I keep
at the ready um in Ohio about five
people on average die each day from
suicide um rates are increasing uh it's
actually the second leading cause of
death among children ages 10 to 24 so
you know if if you're if you're
struggling please reach out uh it's as
simple as calling 988 on your phone or
visiting 988 helpline.com
um you know we can never know what's
going on in someone's mind or in
someone's home but uh you know be sure
to check in on your friends and show
folks lots of love so um yeah I'll have
some uh materials I can hand out at the
next meeting just to kind of help with
that but um I me they could be put into
the blast as well but I'd love to you
know just let folks know we we love them
and we're here for them sounds great
thank you so much Mr Markham for safety
about a month ago we had a discussion
about uh Council pay uh and I had
proposed or had sort of put together an
ordinance that would have uh tied it to
oers uh imp perpetuity is that a legal
term uh and then I advise by Mr fishal
that that may not be able to be done uh
so after thinking about it for a few
weeks uh instead of submitting a uh a
new ordinance and updated ordinance that
ordinance will catch up with opers next
year and we'll stay ahead of opers for
another two years after that so instead
of trying to fix something that is going
to get fixed on its own for the time
being I've decided to not submit
anything uh that will stop being fixed I
believe in about four years so I would
just recommend to the next city council
president whoever that is that uh they
may want to uh assign someone to take a
look at that maybe two years from now
would be uh so that to stay on top of
that um my Le's on duties to the Le
Beckley Library uh on Friday September 6
they had their 100th birthday party in
the parking lot from 5: to 8:00 p.m.
from 5: to 7:00 p.m. was the only two
hours of hard rain that Ohio has
received this year but 7 PM uh it really
was a fun event uh went out and uh they
had some food trucks some great trucks
there and everything and of course
Bexley Library probably one of our most
beloved uh valuable establishments
assets give you a sneak peek that maybe
in two weeks only come back back I will
extend an invitation to all of you that
will be fun exciting event uh probably a
first in the history of Beckley city
council that I think you might enjoy
taking part in so stay
tuned so
mysterious all right we are on to agenda
item public uh 21 public comments no
speaker slips required come on up and
please address your comments to council
it's Louis 6 through you CLA um we have
a neighbor that is going to install
their uh their own personal charging
station would this PACE program be
something that that that would interest
them may I um so residential pace is
actually something that this Council
worked on extensively and actually
created a model that the state
Consortium of governments tried to pick
up and and go with but it was
um pretty much barred by the state
government so residential pace is not an
option there were concerns about
um The Lending from The Lending
Community Fanny May Freddy Mack about
sub subservience of primary mortgages to
to Bas lending within residential
property so unfortunately no it's the
long the short of it
sadly okay um Council are oh come on
up Mr Lewis please address your comments
to
council
um it was a year or two ago councilman
Maron stood before you and the City of
beex stood against anti-Semitism towards
Jewish
people a couple of weeks ago Connie
showed me something online in where the
city of beex had put blue and white
ribbons around the city trees in support
of
Israel what as I read Connie explained
to me and showed me online these ribbons
were taken
down I don't know why either Council
supports anti-Semitism which would
include standing with Israel or it
doesn't and why were they taken down if
it if you don't stand for Israel thank
you thank
you may do you want I would love to and
thank you Don for for asking that
question I appreciate it um we actually
put out a communication a couple months
ago explaining that we have a law in the
city that nothing can be fixed to City
trees at all
um and so we also explained that we need
to um enforce that evenly um and we did
have some non-bl and white ribbons fixed
to City uh property uh that I think some
in our committee would have found very
offensive um and we believed that we
needed to equally remove property from
City RightWay so as to be compliant with
our own law and even evenly applying it
so that we weren't exercising any
discretion on which statements we were
endorsing and not um I also want to
state that any of the trees that had
ribbons if they were on Street trees
right in front of houses we provided a
letter neatly wrapped up the ribbons
with the letter explaining that to the
property owner any of the trees that
were in medians we removed those ribbons
and we place them they're over here in a
receptacle in the lobby if anybody would
like them so they remain available um
and of course we fully support the First
Amendment rights of all of our residents
uh and what they choose to put on their
own trees and this is exclusively about
the city rideway city trees and it is it
is in our law and um we think even even
if it weren't I think it's really
important that we understand that we
can't be in the business of deciding who
gets to say what on city property thank
you Mr mayor council uh as council
member sod mention mentioned our next
city council meet meeting is September
24th but please if you can show up at
5:00 for our financial Retreat start
thinking about uh what you'd like to see
in the budget kind of your your bigger
items your wish list um and then we'll
have that from 5: to 6 and at 6 o'clock
we will start our regularly scheduled um
city council meeting um I think that is
all we are adjourned see you see you in
two weeks