yeah I you wanna why don't you do a
little oh you want me to
it good evening good evening welcome to
bexi City Hall we're so glad to have you
guys here tonight we are going to do our
swearing in uh Oaths of office first and
then Council will begin their meeting
they're going to have a very short
organizational meeting unless unless it
turns into like a point a pope uh then
it could be long but it probably won't
be and then adjourn and then for all the
festivities that may follow um we're
going to start with council members in
alphabetical order so if I haven't
actually done the math yet but I think
does that put early first that's right
so if you are swearing in Danny Hurley
and come on up Danny you might want to
face the camera so be on that side of
the Le turn you just turn on the
microphone you should be
good
all
right
okay repeat after me all right I Danny
Hurley I Danny Hurley do solemnly swear
that I will do solemnly swear that I
will support the Constitution of the
United States support the Constitution
of the United States the Constitution
and laws of the state of Ohio the
Constitution and laws of the state of
Ohio and the charter and ordinances of
the city of Bexley and the charter and
ordinances of the city of Bexley and
that I will Faithfully
faithful and that I will Faithfully
honestly and impartially honestly and
impartially discharge my duties
discharge my duties as a member of
Council of the city of Bexley as a
member of the city council of Bexley
according to the best of my ability
according to the best of my ability and
understanding and understanding
effective January 1 2024 effective
January 1
2024
I think my understanding of the alphabet
is different than yours oh no I'm sorry
you're
right you're good to go for two more
years all right maybe we'll do something
with her
later yeah my
guys I
do can't believe you don't
know all
right Mr
President please repeat after me I Troy
Markham do solemnly swear I Troy Markham
do solemnly swear that I will support
the Constitution of the United States
that I will support the Constitution of
the United States the Constitution and
laws of the state of Ohio the
Constitution and laws of the state of
Ohio the charter and ordinances of the
city of Bexley the charter and
ordinances of the city of Bexley and
that I will faithfully and that I will
Faithfully honestly honestly and
impartially discharge my duties and
impartially discharge my duties as a
council member of the city of
Bexley as a council member of the city
of Bexley according to the best of my
ability according to the best of my
ability and understanding and
understanding effective January 1st 2024
effective January 1st 2024 and I do want
to say I corrected this because it did
say
mayor
we would have had a problem
there
thank okay all
right I Alex silver
I Alex Silberman do solemnly swear do
solemnly swear that I will support the
Constitution of the United States that I
will support the Constitution of the
United States the Constitution and the
laws of the state of Ohio the
Constitution and the laws of the state
of Ohio and the charter and ordinances
and the charter and ordinances of the
city of beex the city of beex and I will
faithfully and that I will Faithfully
honestly and impartially discharge my
duties honestly and impartially
discharge my duties as a member of the
Council of the city of Becky a member of
the Council of the city of Vex according
to the best of my ability and
understanding according to the best of
my ability and my understanding
effective January 1st 2024 effective
January 1st
2024
all right and I have asked Larry Helman
to uh perform my oath of office if you
don't know Larry Larry is a rock star in
Bexley he gives so much to our community
I think he served about on every border
commission that we've ever had um and
he's been a great friend and a great
mentor to me over the years so I'm
really glad to have you here Larry thank
you and I'm going to put my kids on the
spot and ask if my kids could please
join me
the do it to you guys want to stand
over I need to tell you that prior to
starting this I was thinking I would
maybe start off dearly beloved we're
gathered
here and say it's the wrong ceremony but
we'll do the right one here so please
raise your hand and repeat after me I
Ben kler do solemnly swear I Ben Kesler
do solemnly swear that I will support
the Constitution of the United States
that I will support the Constitution of
the United States the Constitution and
laws of the state of Ohio the
Constitution and laws of the state of
Ohio and the charter and ordinances of
the city of beex and the charter and
ordinances of the city of Exley and I
will Faithfully honestly and impartially
and I will Faithfully honestly and
impartially discharge my duties as mayor
of the city of Bexley discharge my
duties as mayor of the city of Bexley
according to the best of my ability and
and understanding according to the best
of my ability and understanding
effective January 1 2024 effective
January 1st 2024
gratulations all right welcome to the
special uh meeting of uh Bexley City
Council first meeting of the new
year who we who we missing oh all right
we should not Jess is gonna
bearing yeah that is true we will have a
swearing in next week on the nth an
additional one for Jess s who's not able
to be here but for now tonight Mr mCP
this is like we keep saying it's gonna
be the last time today really is I think
unless something crazy happens but well
that's true that's true okay uh I'm
gonna count on you to take the roll for
well I'm honored to take roll call hey
it's gonna be a little different this it
is it is Miss F here miss lamkey here Mr
Markham here Mr Silverman here and Mr
Hurley here and Miss sad and Mr
Marcelino are excused they are and then
I think we only have one item on the
agenda tonight right and that is the
election of the new president I want to
say that what an honor and uh what a lot
of fun it's been to be president uh of
this Council over the last two years um
it's been a very exciting group of
people um it's been a group of people
that worked very well together debated
pushed each other at times uh but came
together uh always very friendly uh with
each other as well I want to say that uh
um got my family here tonight which I
really really appreciate um my kids uh
uh watch uh they've come along this
little uh path with me and this year
they got to both cast votes probably for
me
uh and you guys everybody here that
serves knows that uh takes a toll on the
family and and my spouse Patty Markham
as well and they appreciate the uh the
support and everything and uh and my
wife's been doing this for for eight
years now and signed up for another four
years so I want to tell you how much I
appreciate you how much I love you and
uh for that support and your campaign
skills also which uh also very
invaluable as well for myself I I always
say uh I never thought I'd even live in
a place as nice as Beckley you know I
came from Southern Ohio and now here in
this community I get to meet these
fantastic people I look out there and I
can just see the amazing amazing people
that have made part of my life over the
last uh few years and uh not only live
here but to be elected as a city council
member as uh it's it's really just an
amazing thing for me I really it is
beyond anything I would ever have
dreamed to be uh council president for
two years here uh beyond that the the
honor of a lifetime and I want to say
thanks to all of you and to all my
council members as well for uh for being
a part of that and the mayor and the
auditor as well tonight uh we're going
to take nominations for the new
president and
um I'm going to eliminate the suspense
and nominate Mo'Nique
lamkey uh myself Monique uh when I was
getting ready to uh become president
last year uh and it came time to sort of
assign the roles and everything I went
to her and I
said you're going to you want to be
president in two years I'm want to know
and she looked at me in the eye and she
said said yes I do and uh she has been
such an instrumental part of my
presidency these two years uh being a
part of those pre-council meetings being
Council for me being the all-important
finance chair um support yep keeping MC
PE in
line she it's just really uh she's just
a very very intelligent person and I
just appreciate the way that her mind
works
um we all are used to the way that we we
look at problems and we think about
things and when I look at things I'm
always uh always interested in hearing
Monique's perspective on it um and often
I don't agree with your perspective but
I think that's what makes me appreciate
you even more is the fact that you bring
that perspective and I learn from
listening to you and I will tell you
that I won't say what it was but Monique
was responsible
for probably asking the most I just
think the most intelligent question I've
ever heard a city council member asked
in these Chambers once and I think I did
go up to afterward and I said that was
just a fantastic question um she's spent
the last two years I think kind of
getting ready for this this moment which
I hope will and I um and I think she'll
be just an amazing president for Council
over the next two years I'm really
really looking forward to it and so that
is my uh very very brief nomination for
president of council could I get a
second I would love to second that and
then we have a second by m f and uh I
think we can take the roll call on this
one miss
FAL yes Mr Markham yes Mr
Silverman yes Mr Hurley yes Miss lamkey
absolutely
yes all
right
congratulations to it all
right well as as luck would have it I
had typed up some notes and I left them
at
home so I am going to wing it um but I
wanted to first and foremost say that
I'm humbled and honored to be elected by
my peers as council president I love
having my girls in audience shows them
that when they grow up they can be
anything
including a woman
leader I would also like to say that
before
you is a group of open-minded
vibrant and dedicated public servants
I'd like to especially congratulate Alex
and Danny for joining us on city council
they have ran wonderful campaigns and
I'm so excited to have them as one of
our
peers I also wanted to congratulate
those of my city council members who
signed up to run and won once again
because this is not an easy job I wanted
to congratulate Jess sod Troy Markham
uh for the way that they ran and also
wanted to congratulate our mayor for
once again running for reelection and
for the way that he has handled the city
for so many
years I know that the next two years
will bring a lot of different ideas with
a lot of different
personalities and trust me when I say
that we are going to agree but we're
also going to disagree and in my mind
both of those things are way okay
Troy wasn't kidding said that he and I
have disagreed I think one of our most
heated disagreements happened in the
mayor's office a couple years ago about
issue we went round and round for two
and a half hours and when we
left neither one of us were satisfied
but we listened to each other and we
respected what the other had to say and
then we ended up working out a
solution the legal eagle and me will
tell you that I love nothing more than a
hearty meaningful
debate but I know too that our community
and our nation wants a civil discourse
so the only thing I will ask of all my
council members including Sam Marc luno
and Jessica sad who aren't able to be
here tonight is that when we do disagree
we do it with transparency
honesty and respect and I have no doubt
that the council before you is going to
be able to do that so thank you so much
for electing me as your president um and
in closing I also did want to also thank
uh Troy Markham for being our President
for the past two years he has worked so
hard and has led the city through
differing times varying times he's done
it with the Steady Hand and a lot of
Grace and a plum and I appreciate you
doing that
Troy that being said thank you so much
our first council meeting is going to be
next Tuesday I'll be reaching out to my
fellow council members regarding
committee chair
assignments and if no one has anything
further I'd ask for a motion to
adjourn so moved can I get a second
please second all right all in favor say
I I I I anyone opposed all
right