mr sharp
all right could you all please
pledge uh
to deflect the united states of america
and to the republic for which it stands
one nation under god
indivisible with liberty and justice for
all all right mayor kessler
we have some awesome young women here in
our presence that do observe a little
bit of celebrating
and then we have an awesome woman
afterwards but
you and i especially always love to
celebrate so
carry on sir all right so
normally when we're doing a proclamation
we have the folks that were given a
proclamation to stand up and i don't
think we should do this any differently
so
come on up we have all of our lady lions
standing
i i it's it takes a village man takes a
team right
so uh i have a proclamation for you guys
tonight i don't i want to um
i want to congratulate you guys on a
season
a season well fought a well-served
season
and also i want to thank councilwoman
jessica assad who made sure that we had
you here this evening
thank you jessica
if i'm gonna read this whereas
i'm going to actually take this off just
because i'm speaking right now and
otherwise you won't build here what i'm
saying the hard-working and talented
athletes and coaches of the bexley high
school lady lions soccer team recently
concluded a notable season of successes
where
they achieved the distinction of many
coveted titles including league
champions district champions
regional champions and state
semifinalists
and whereas more than a decade has
passed since bexley has achieved this
level of success in women's soccer
and whereas the exemplary commitment and
teamwork of these athletes and coaches
are a source of pride for our city and
an inspiration to all of us
i lost my spot here we are and we
congratulate them on their many
accomplishments therefore i have been
kessler mayor of the city of bexley
proudly honor and celebrate the bexley
high school lady lions soccer team for
their outstanding season and their
commitment to excellence well done great
work
and then i don't know if you guys have
anything you want to say but usually
we'll get a big group photo too at some
point so
thank you man appreciate everything
thank you city council for having us out
here uh this has been awesome girls
enjoy this soak this thing all in like i
said before uh i don't have much to say
so let's get some pictures in we look
forward to having you guys back here
next year
[Music]
now you guys are welcome to stay for the
entire meeting if you want or you can
also feel free to do whatever you're
doing this evening
girls thank you so much for allowing
bexley to shine thank you so much thank
you
congratulations sweetie on your special
honor that's pretty amazing were you
academic
all-state
it's just all-state somebody got
something
all region i'll stay
congratulations sweetheart way to go
[Laughter]
they can all hear in the hallway they're
all they're all listening we should've
done elaine first
so we we uh i can't see
because that's not that's not
but uh we saved the best for both times
both the first and the second
and second um
up we have elaine peltz
who i have we have all had the honor of
working with for so many years and we
are going to miss you so much in your
role
as the executive director of the chamber
but i was going to say you're we're not
letting you off the hook for much
but if elaine if you can come up i we
have a proclamation for you as well and
a special surprise
uh-oh don't get too surprised don't get
too excited uh why not wherever right
here i can move this just slightly
um
so elaine
how long have you been with the
with the chamber
four years it feels like more than four
years not not in a bad way but i will
tell you and i i thought about this a
little bit before this evening like how
to say this in a way that wasn't um
like offensive to your predecessors
but i will say that elaine for those of
you who have followed the chamber of
commerce and been members for over the
years
we have a fantastic chamber of commerce
and it has evolved over the past four
years from being a little bit more of a
conventional chamber
with sort of some networking events and
and it's been always been it's always
been amazing
but it's gotten amazing her right and
elaine under her stewardship the chamber
of commerce has really blossomed and
come into its own and really taking on a
new energy and a level of excitement and
i would say
it's expounded upon its relevance in the
community and so i
i just i i i don't even remember what's
written in here but i wanted to share
that with you and thank you for your
time and what you've poured into it
so as
so whereas i should say and the in the
um the cliffhangers at the very end here
but elaine peltz started with the
chamber of commerce in 2017
and during her tenure she's helped to
launch several innovative programs
to promote bexley businesses including
the women in business group and the
hugely successful bexley beer crawl
among other programs i shouldn't say
that those are the only two
in addition to these and other
outstanding programs elaine also created
the bexley chamber directory a valuable
resource for businesses residents and
visitors in her city with over 3000
copies distributed
and whereas elaine has truly embodied
the mission of the chamber to advocate
for local businesses
by hosting everyone starts somewhere and
the startup series
and she has worked tirelessly each year
to organize the food truck festival
during the memorial day jazz in the park
as a partner with us
and whereas through her work with the
chamber and as a volunteer in the
community elaine has been a force of
good in bexley bringing positivity and
creativity to each endeavor the chamber
has truly flourished under her
leadership and we are grateful for her
hard work and her generous spirit and
therefore i do proclaim december 7th
2021 as a lane pelts day let's all
celebrate it appropriately
[Applause]
do you have your speech prepared i have
no speech no speech
she also is a local television
personality now
abc6 abc 6 came the other morning before
the holiday hop it was really funny um
thanks most of you for not watching
that's how i feel
thank you i'm i'm completely flattered
you know
um
i am humbled by the compliments and i
have to say
it has been a labor of love the whole
thing because
i'm getting choked up here because i
honestly
love
our businesses of course i love our
community but i love helping promote our
businesses be successful i love that i
love helping connect people i love
supporting them i love
putting on events and having fun so
all for the betterment of the community
with a great group of people how can you
go wrong you know so
thank you
[Music]
oh
thank you
back at you
thank you for allowing me
you know scoring so many
oh no he's filming me oh no
a picture a picture
[Music]
cheerleader
love love love take care of yourself
i know you won't you better not
we know it's d-day we understand
thank you
what a great start
jessica thank you so much for making
sure that we got to celebrate with
with our special soccer kids
that's awesome
okay i'm going to move my poinsettia so
that i can see everyone i love this
point
we'll talk we'll talk about the
poinsettias in a minute
i'm guessing since there
is no one but
are incoming elected officials unless
you have something to say
no gentlemen all right then we can skip
item number five and move on to my
report which is
quite lengthy tonight so bear with me
i'm joking it's not
moved it is really not
i just want to remind everybody that our
next council meeting is the 14th
i want to remind everyone that the 15th
the very next day
we will hear the appeal regarding the
development on
livingston avenue
uh it is at six o'clock however our
january third meeting when we will have
our um
swearing in ceremony is at seven o'clock
on the third okay
everybody got it
i have been told that you can hear lots
of sighs so if you're gonna sigh please
turn your mic off
there you go thank you mr city attorney
that is all i have madam president since
you referred to that have you talked to
the um
incoming elects about
they may
pick someone to swear them in
this this is true
this is true um those of us who will be
sworn in have an opportunity
to have anyone they so wish
to swear them in so if
you can get you know your favorite rock
star you can get your wife
your husband your significant other your
kids
we prefer you not to use the mayor so as
tonight
yeah mayor madison might be available
he's good at that
anyway
moving on thank you for the reminder i
appreciate that and we will move on to
um our city attorney i am
i have no report this evening all right
thank you so much
we will then move on to administrative
updates andy bayshore are you there sir
yes ma'am
right
yes ma'am i have nothing to add to my
written report tonight all righty uh
massad has a question for you or a
okay i know comment just wanted to hear
my voice because i feel like i reached
out to you every few days but um
i thought it was neat that we had some
um movement on the dog park that sounds
like stump removals have taken place so
we're moving forward on the dog park
awesome excited to hear that so great
job
and then um i noticed so it was like
great to see in your report i thought i
noticed something new with the south
cassingham mid block east-west alley
project
could you
enlighten us all a little bit more on
that project and uh
what what we expect to see from that i
know we might roll that up to some other
areas
yeah i had problems hearing you uh jess
but i think the last was about the south
casting hand the safety project is that
correct
okay yeah we we just completed that um
we were trying to slow down some speeds
and make it a safer a safer crossing
right there mid block
we did some no park or some no parking
signs
north and south of the mid block alley
and we did stop signs in the alley and
we also
stripe the alley and we also put speed
bumps in
um we did also install some speed signs
we're just trying to
make it a little safer for the kids um
walking down through there and also
crossing
south casting him there
looks great thank you
another thing i'd pull out of your
report a little bit uh is the um
the median you mentioned on bellwood so
if you guys take a look at that that's
what we are trying
to have uh appropriate solutions to
different speeding issues velvet is an
example of a street that has
higher stock accounts for many
higher speed
i think due to the nature of some of the
apartment complexes just beyond it just
it engenders more traffic so
there are some
there's some calming small medians at
casting cayman velvet so take a look at
those
um and if residents say to you why can i
not have that on my street you can
certainly refer them to us to take a
look at their traffic accounts but uh we
do try to tailor the solution to the
actual
on those streets
and then
all right
anybody else mr bayshore
all right thank you with the leaf pickup
i'm praying for no blizzards before they
are all picked up
i hope so i hope there's not
all right thank you so much andy for
everything please
uh convey our thanks to your to your
crew
we'll do thank you
uh looks
like the chief is next
chief reinhardt
yes madam president i'm here
hey there lots of good stuff in your
report do you have anything to add to it
no ma'am i do not
as always there's some really important
things i think that we could um
highlight in there and i will talk to
sam um about doing that metcalfe our
communications
director
these are always written in such a way
that it
enlightens us of things that we should
remember and i think that they are
things that for sure
our community should also be aware of
not just council members and i i fear
that not everyone gets on
um our director's reports and so having
them uh read it
at least once and maybe more than once
on our blast i think is a good idea so
anybody have any conversations or
comments for the chief
miss lamke chief i just wanted to add um
with respect to the last half for your
report
thank you to your officers for
protecting
and helping so many bexley children
i know that
some of this was really hard and that
your department was intimately familiar
with uh helping uh so many of our kids
so thank you
i'll pass that on now
i think we also should get a special
thanks because we all got fight set us
and i know that that was um
don overly and her uh
her crew of people from the bexley
citizens police academy did that please
please um
tell dawn we said thank you we all got
these from the nathan's family lee
nathan's who is president of that that
group so
anyone you have an opportunity to see
and say thank you please say so for us
uh chief please
we'll do we'll do madam president
for
the chief
thank you chief reinhardt
thank you sam
all right so we will move on to michael
price
michael hello madam president nothing
nothing to add to my written report you
looked really you really looked festive
in your hat the other evening um
making sure that uh santa got to our
children appropriately
um i think that bexley gets
some sort of a word i don't know what
for cutest kids
lots of cute kids that green truck is
amazing so thank you for that anybody
have any comments or questions for
mr michael price
all right mr michael price
thank you thank you all
all right so we will move on then to um
our suite auditor bill harvey and the
finance department update any update sir
no report ma'am no report thank you so
much
all right then we will move on to
our burger meister meisterberger mayor
kessler thank you
um
so the the santa hat in question i
believe there it is
[Laughter]
great job as you said the rank
department did a great job with the
christmas tree lighting the weather
could not have been better mike looks
like he's doing that
he was
yeah you missed it
today's weather it was gorgeous
and then we also have a photo here of
the menorah lighting and i want to thank
our council president she was
the head
menorah lighter of the season
um and was out there every evening
making sure that the uh
the uh the lights were lit yeah but
there's one mystery evening somebody
beat me to it two nights and i wasn't
happy
[Laughter]
we don't you know we have a pretty quiet
calendar this month but obviously you
know there is your hearing coming up on
december 15th as well as another council
meeting next week so you guys get to
stay busy as things start to wind down
um
highlights and stuff i've been up to
um
i don't think i need to go beyond
what's here in writing although
i will tell you that we've been making
really good progress on a strategic plan
and that is just like one of the spreads
that it sort of shows you an example of
how we're talking about
um
outlining all of the major strategic
plans and where we are on all of them
and what the key
hopefully make its way to you guys by uh
january it's my my latest estimate and
good progress and thank you to natalie
for scheduling time on my calendar to
help make sure that that happens so
that is my report i'm happy to answer
your questions
anybody have any questions for mayor
kessler yes ms lamke
mayor last year santa rode his sleigh
through the streets of bexley
and
made so many kids so happy
do you know if he'll be back this year
did you prefer one two or three
[Laughter]
i don't know they were all very jolly
i think mike might still be on this call
i have i have not heard anything about
that uh mr price have you heard anything
from remote santa
you might not be here how did i miss
santa last night
i have not heard anything from remote
santa uh i'm not sure given that uh that
was uh
more of a coveted uh i think visit than
what we did this year i'm not sure if
that will be happening but i will try to
reach out to the north pole and see what
i can find out
that would be great we have some sad
news which is that santa's sleigh
converted to it's what it was intended
for initially which was a cookout
trailer
not the same sleigh that he used to be
well maybe he can find something
different in the north pole
and see what happens and i will tell you
that having helped helped participate in
that
it is a logistical uh it is a logistical
feat so
uh it may be one of those traditions
that we all remember fondly
wait a minute wait a minute i thought
santa was magic
that's
exactly
all right anybody else have any other
questions for the mayor yes mr klingler
is there any do you have any update on
the um vehicle that we were going to
purchase for
didn't we approve the for the speeders
yeah so the mid yes i do not actually
have an update i've been we've been back
and forth a little bit with the vendor
for that um
and we need an ordinance before council
before about a vehicle so
we've talked a little bit about that
there's a like a 10-page draft that
needs to not be ten pages long oh yeah
that's a lot of time yeah
that needs to show
so i think we need to get that ordinance
passed before uncomfortable purchasing
equipment because
it works together
all right
with council's permission i'll move on
to the consent agenda
okay on the consent agenda we have the
november 16 2021 meeting minutes
resolution
14-21 to schedule the bexley city
council meeting dates and times for the
year 2022 that was introduced by ms
fibel and resolution 15-21 to authorize
the mayor to seek financial assistance
from the state of ohio and the ohio
department of natural resources for
funding of a pedestrian and bicyclist
bridge at schneider park near astor
avenue
introduced by mr klingler
all right
there are any comments or questions from
council
any from those with us tonight
all right do i have a motion on the
consent agenda
motion to accept the consent agenda
thank you mr klingler is there a second
thank you i think that was mrs robinson
thank you um mr harvey mr markham
ms fiber yes mr klingler yes ms robinson
mr sharp yes assad
ms lamke yes
we do not have any ordinances with uh
visiting presenters so we'll move on to
item number 11 third readings all right
third reading of ordinance 50-21 to
establish the water and sewer rates
charged by the city of bexley introduced
by mr markham
i already turned mine out
thank you me too
you too
i know i was just kidding
no that was fixed you got
you took care of that well
well that's working
joe harvey has always has the
power right
all right thank you uh we have uh this
is the third reading where we have our
uh water sewage and refuse rates uh
we've uh gone over this a little bit
before
spread out over the next five years we
have the the increases if you open it up
if you have it in front of you you can
open it up you can see those
um
so we have that increase spread out so
that it's hopefully more manageable for
our residents
to to to budget for
and we do have
an amended version
and it should be attached right yeah the
amended ordinance
yeah and so what what is our what's our
change there
so this was
this was tweaked the numbers were
slightly tweaked in order to
allow
our water department to more evenly
split partial periods
my understanding
um it's very very similar to what it was
before i think there's a difference of
some pennies on some of those rates
anybody have any questions about um
mayor does the level and quality of the
services extended to our residents stay
the same even though the rates are
slightly going up
so the the is yes same level of service
and water sewer refuse rate we are
increasing some service in refuse
by bringing on a dedicated street
sweeper slash
trash
litter pickup assistant
so that that is built into a refuse
refuse rate
anyone else
uh mr markham germany action on this
piece of legislation uh motion to
approve nope emotionally
sorry
second
we have a first for mr markham a second
for mr klingler
i
have a question that i just thought
about for
mr official
um section
section 4 states that all existing
ordinances of the city are hereby
repealed and as far as they may be
inconsistent with the provisions of this
ordinance
would that
that wouldn't inadvertently um repeal
because we got water and sewer rates
inadvertently appeal repeal ordinances
that had our
surcharge
no
no this is this is actually really
pretty much boilerplate language
although i'm glad you pay attention just
because it's boilerplate shouldn't we i
mean we doesn't mean we shouldn't ask
questions but that that won't affect
that
okay i i just no that's fine one to make
sure that by omitting those
amounts that we
and the previous ordinances that
indicated the amounts for those
surcharges
wouldn't be
deemed to have repealed them no only
because it's not inconsistent right
we're good okay
uh so we have um
the amendment
um
i can't but i'd like to ask a question
just for clarification um
assuming
this obviously assumes that we
take the extra years four and five from
rumpke if by chance that doesn't happen
all we need to do is drop this off and
revise the rates so okay correct yep um
i will
take a vote
and
ms fiable
yes zlamke yes assad
yes robinson yes mr sharp
yes markham mr klingler yes asked all
right perfect second readings please all
right second reading of ordinance 51-21
to approve the collective bargaining
agreement between afscme ohio consulate
local 3318 and the city of bexley mr
markham yeah this is our uh i have a
point of order we just moved to amend
but
all right thank you ms lamke we got
really excited
all right do we have mr markham do we
have action on the amended version
of 50 21
thank you mr markham is there a second
okay okay
i think mr klinger beat you to it ms
robinson
roll call please mr klingler yes ms
robinson yeah this fiber
yes mr sharp
yes lamke yes mr markham yes miss assad
yes
good call miss lamke all right let's
read second readings again ordinance
51-21 to approve the collective
bargaining agreement between afscme ohio
consulate local 3318 in the city of
bexley mr markham
yeah i mean the the two big things there
were very few changes the two biggest
things were
the wage increase which is four percent
in 2022
three percent in 2023 and three percent
2024 three-year contract that's the
maximum we could do under ohio law and
the other
relatively significant change although
it's not very expensive is that there
was a provision in the contract that
grandfathered people in um i know i'm
not supposed to use that phrase i'm
sorry that that
employees hired i believe before january
1st 2013 continue to receive their
longevity pay employees received after
that date no longer got longevity pay we
agreed to put it back in for everybody
um so those are the two major changes
there's a couple other changes that off
the top of my head i can't recall but
they were relatively minor the agreement
the draft of the agreements in in
legislative forms so you can easily find
the bold that would be new and the
strikeouts that would be deleted
and the good news is there won't have to
be a back wage calculation because the
contract expires at the end of this year
and we got it done before the old one's
done
awesome
are there
any comments or questions
all right more action on this one please
okay mr markham
oh right because the second reading duh
okay i'm really confused tonight all
right moving on i was paying attention
that time at least yeah
all right second reading of ordinance
53-21
to ban the discharge ignition or
explosion of fireworks within the city
of bexley that was introduced by ms
robinson
uh yeah thank you so um this is we are
proposing a couple amendments to this
piece of legislation we've just added in
the specific chapter
that um
refers to both to our bexley code so it
just fleshes out the ordinance a little
bit more than
it did um initially
but as as you may recall from was it
three weeks ago that we were last
together this
ordinance is in response to
house bill
ohio house bill 172 which removes the
statewide ban
on consumer grade fireworks on a number
of holidays throughout the year
it does allow for municipalities to
restrict the or prohibit those
activities which we are choosing to do
and this ordinance will
keep the ban um in existence in the city
of bexley on those consumer grade
fireworks so
does anybody have any questions about
the um the proposed amendments to this
would you like to go ahead and amend so
that we can just absolutely let's go
ahead i i motioned to um approve the
amendments all right
21 is there a second
i'll second him
there was the first by ms robinson as
second by um
ms fibel
um
mr klingler
yes zlamke yes
yes mr markham mr sharp
yes assad
yes ms robinson yes
ash
awesome with that um
with the amendments made is this
something that everyone is comfortable
putting on the consent agenda there is
an issue that i just thought of in
reading this that might not be an issue
but i want to look into it okay so no
all right perfect thank you
thank you for having me it's an issue
it's a very minor one all right if it's
not an issue
right that's that is if that's okay with
people that's fine with me is that okay
with everyone else okay we'll have we'll
have the attorney look at it
all right the attorney that man that
money
that man that dude that sits next to me
all right um we can move on um if that's
okay with everyone all right we are on
to a second reading of ordinance
53-21 to authorize the supplemental
appropriations for calendar year 2021
introduced by mr markham
yeah you know it did occur to me that
maybe you were turning to me on
ordinance 51-21 to ask about consent
agenda if that's the case
uh
would you like to put that on the
consent agenda it's possible i didn't
know if that was maybe what was
prompting you people comfortable putting
the ask me on consent agenda i would be
fine with it as well
all right thank you mr marcum i'm sorry
so 53 suggestions 53-21 uh supplemental
appropriations yes sir i'm i'm sorry
i
since
the
since residents have a chance to ask
questions
on third readings do you think for the
contract it should be separate rather
than
put put in the consent agenda
for the collective bargaining agreement
right yeah it's fine if you want to
leave it i think we should as far i mean
there may be no one who asked questions
you're comfortable if you're more
comfortable with that we'll we will we
will not put
5121 on the consent agenda
madam president just a point of
clarification residents can ask
questions about consent agenda items
right correct oh they absolutely can
okay just make i mean i don't know that
that's that's mister it's mixed in with
others okay all right i hear your words
all right we will not
all right moving on
uh
yeah we're so we're looking at
supplemental appropriations if you want
to go ahead and click on uh we can take
a look at them again
it's a little
a small little laundry list of uh
additional appropriations for it this
year well i would yeah
yeah i disagree with you but there's a
there's a fairly chunky one well no it's
a small list small but large some of
them are a little bulky on the list
you want to take us through them again
real quickly
yeah so um and i don't know if bill you
can chip in on this one um
i believe that we've discussed already
sections one and two i don't believe
that those have changed unless
okay
section three is our water contract
and so uh beecher came to us last week
and said that there was insufficient
funds in our water contract
to pay columbus
and in digging into it we discovered
that we have kept
our
appropriations for our water contract
flat for three years which is
mysterious but true
uh relatively flat and um
i think the reason that's
that's functioned so far is we had some
older we used to be over budgeted and so
we had some carry forward appropriations
that are allowing us to to
continue to pay the water contract and
we are now out of those uh carry
forwards is that correct bill
okay
and so you'll also notice that the
budget revision includes
more appropriation both for the water
contract also a higher estimate in the
income side because that that side was
also
showing up as is relatively flat in past
budgets
um so this will play into also just a
quick discussion on the budget uh some
some changes to the budget draft
and then
any questions on that
the next section
which should say section 4
for the sewer fund
is
not new money it's an old it's a 2019
sewer project that we are almost
completed
and inadvertently the purchase order got
closed on that um and once you close an
old purchase order apparently it can't
be brought back even if it's a mistake
which it was so uh we're asking to have
that reappropriated so we can pay the
contractor this is a
it's a north of broad street sewer
lining project that's um was held off
because of covid
because um
if you've ever
gotten a the joy of being near a sewer
lining project you might find that every
now and then sewage ends up in people's
homes as a result of that project and so
during early days of covid we were
extra cautious about both having to
enter homes with contractors and also
just the thought of like it's already
bad you know right if that happens which
is not ideal um and that would be a less
desirable outcome so
we resumed that project this summer it
is almost done we just need to finish
paying for it
just so everybody is clear that we have
plenty of money in the funds
this is not going to have put any strain
on the phone we just haven't appropriate
the money to spend for these items both
the water and the sewer fund are
uh very well funded
so i thought you said
i thought you started out by saying the
water fund was in a deficit
but that currently the
the appropriation for paying columbus
was not adequate for 21. it's it's the
payment to columbus it is not the fund
itself
so if you look at for example so so the
one year that we columbus had a zero
percent increase we missed
increasing the other
years i
well last year for example there was a
three percent increase that we didn't
increase the appropriation for that
okay
nor did we increase our rates actually
last year that's probably why we didn't
increase the appropriation and then
there was a flat year
there was a columbus flight here i'm not
recalling that but i could be wrong i
thought there was but
maybe there wasn't
i asked you to double check all the
numbers to make sure there wasn't
something we're missing and make sure
that like
i'm sure bill did the same
okay
i
i thought we looked at these every year
so
well i did go back to the past three
budgets and i realized that our
appropriation for the contract had not
really gone up
yeah probably went
down sorry probably what bill happened
was a bill said that a rate increase
wasn't passed under the vote to the the
residents and so we just didn't increase
appropriations that's all
this is just catching up on the bill the
money we owe well and i think that um
and this is
nobody's fault whatsoever but as our
we had a change in directors in the
service department and i think
previously the service director was
making the call on what the budget was
for that and i think our current service
director thought that that was happening
in the finance department so there was a
little bit of a disconnect there
any other questions
sorry any other questions concerning
concerning this
or this evening
all right council then we can move on to
ordinance 5421 please all right second
reading of ordinance 5421 to immediately
rescind the city's state of emergency
first declared on march 15 2020 and is
last amended on september 10 2021 and
all executives orders
issued relating to the cobin 19 pandemic
except for previously approved temporary
signage at commercially zoned properties
temporary expansions of restaurant
patios and temporary facilities for cova
19 and testing
testing and vaccination which will
extend until june
30th 2023 introduced by mr sherpa
well
thank you
um i've passed around some
graphs of
franklin county and neighboring counties
as far as coveted statistics
that i thought might be helpful and
one of the provisions of our emergency
is
mitigation
personal device mitigation
mask
and
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so to me to me it doesn't appear that
the only three cities in franklin county
that have
adopted
current
emergency regulations regarding
remediation
personal remediation equipment
is columbus whitehall and bexley
and um
as i indicated in the past and there's
some other uh comments in the whereases
um i i feel that at this point it's
council's obligation if the mayor feels
that there are
things that need to be
passed that they
are changed that they come through
council and council
passes appropriate ordinances
um because otherwise it sets a a bad
precedent
for um
future situations so thank you
anybody have any comments on this piece
of legislation
all right then i think we can move along
to
55-21 please
oh mr arrest not here
does he have to read it or can i read it
all right so
ordinance 5521 to renew the city of
bexley housing voucher acceptance
program grant previously established by
third amended ordinance 4320
for the purpose of encouraging
for the purpose of encouraging bexley
rental property owners to accept and
participate in various state or local
government and not-for-profit
organization housing voucher programs
introduced by richard sharp on november
16 2021 sir
okay for um council
information um i've patched some
you're fine some
literature
the first is
if
residents are are interested or
prospective residents are interested in
housing voucher
availability to to use with units in
bexley
the last page
shows that when you put in
i put in 43209 but it changed the name
to bexley
in its search
and there's zero properties that are
available for housing voucher
availability at the current time in
bexley
the the middle page
is a map
of properties that are within
around bexley
that are currently available
this is through
columbus metropolitan housing link
and go
section 8
it's a national search database
so that participating landlords
go into this database through
the columbus housing
authority
and enter their units when they have a
property that's
that's available and has been registered
the first page
is
a special program that columbus
metropolitan housing
had for this past
2021 concurrent with our program um
i'm i don't
know whether it's been well publicized
or how our property owners would know
about it
if they wanted to
have an incentive program so um
this
by renewing um
our housing voucher program
and we could
have a session here at city hall to
invite
all property owners of single and duplex
properties to have an informal learning
session
i've extended an offer to the
from this metropolitan housing authority
i haven't gotten a response yet to see
once they start
doing in-person training again which
they still haven't
they haven't had their quarterly um
sessions um
that we could have a session
and if their pro if their program gets
renewed
if they have additional funds to do that
and it would go along with our program
as well
so i i just think it's important
that we um offer
make it easier for
our
property owners within bexley that have
single and duplex
housing units to allow diverse
populations to be able to
intermingle with our residents rather
than being clumped in a large facility
where people don't get the full benefit
of living in bexley the
interactions and relations that
people need to
successfully integrate within the
community
so
additionally
there was a letter that went out in
january
that i had asked the administration to
send out to
highlight the changes to rental property
owners regarding
various
law changes that took place
in 2020
including the
airbnb
legislation the
source of income legislation
i think there was another change in
fam family member
status or boarding the boarding house
ordinance
and um i had also asked that the source
of or the
housing grant program be included in it
um unfortunately that did not get in
that mailing as well so
there was no
publication to the to
property owners this past year
about the program
anybody have any questions or comments
um on this piece for
or for the administration
okay can we move on please
okay then we are on to ordinance
i'm sorry oh there goes my computer hang
on i'm getting there we are on to
resolution
1621
confirming the mayor's appointment of
members to the bexley community
improvement corporation introduced by ms
saad
thank you yes this ordinance is
confirming um our
members being
their terms extending for the cic
we currently these members that are the
nominees currently serve on the board
they've been amazing members to the
board um it's a great group of people
the only change here i believe is that
beecher hall will be
replacing mark official
so um if you take a look at this this
would be for terms beginning january 1st
2022
expiring december 31st 2025. it's uh
just um
december 31st 2024 yes okay
all right good job
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um so that that is what we're looking at
here anybody have any questions or
comments about this one
i have a question for the mayor has
there was there any um additional
interest from other residents to
be appointed um because we we have all
new appointees uh several of these have
been
multiple term
people which is isn't bad but as far as
i've had a couple people with interest
um and i considered that i've had some
members so you know there's some
community members who have expressed
interest in the cic for sure um
and for a variety of reasons i thought
that these four
uh made the most sense um i will tell
you those
um
who i've had interest from has
served in the past with the city so it's
not like we're necessarily bringing in a
new person
um and i would be interested potentially
in that
but i will tell you that every single
one of these four members here are very
high functioning cic members
to give a lot of time and have a really
strong
current involvement in the cic so i felt
strongly about keeping them
thank you and just wanted to have that
analysis on the record
and i see a lot of cic people shaking
their heads that these
these four are really fabulous and i uh
remember uh working with three of them
as well and i think they're they're
stellar
um
yes mark just for clarification all we
have to do is change that date we don't
need an amendment it is it is clerical
there's no not even an authority to have
that because it would exceed the
three-year term okay yeah that way
you'll take care of that then i'm sure
thank you very much
and just really quickly i think sarah
gold is a newer member to the cic so
that's yes and then that's her second
tournament um ben david is i believe the
second term as well
right
um so i'm curious if council would be
comfortable this is in the past we've
we've put resolutions very similar to
this on the consent agenda is this
something everyone is comfortable put
putting on the content agenda okay
so natalie please resolution 16 21
consent agenda
thank you
okay assad with your permission i'm
gonna we're gonna move on um ordinance
uh 5721 please all right second reading
of ordinance 5721
to establish the rates for the police of
chief of police of chief for the police
chief and police captain of the city of
bexley effective as of january 1st 2022
and to approve the revised pay step
schedule attached here to his exhibit a
introduced by mr markham
thank you um we we are still looking for
exhibit b though right
no because the proposed amendment
oh i see it's just tacked on to the end
there okay
i did not notice it there so please take
note of that council that exhibit b is
attached those are the this part time
and so
you'll want to take a look at those
especially before uh next week when we
meet
the the other change to this proposed
amended is um it adds the i know you
just said this exhibit b which is part
time specifically
um i also want to be really clear about
something because as you look at things
a million times you always see something
new every time you look at them
and there is something new that i saw
and i put it in here just so you
understand
the
previous exhibit a you can pull it up on
the screen actually
let me pull it up because something
popped out at me on it
um we've tried to keep you know we've as
you know we do we do pay studies when we
uh
in the past when we set up the step
scale we we have looked at we continue
to look at paid studies
and
i don't really understand the historic
flukes that exactly led to this but
if you look at the clerk of quartz pay
scale we have some of our staff in city
halls in particular that that live in
essentially the same pay scale
the executive assistant position
our building department assistant
manager
um i think there's some others but it's
this 54 28 low end
sorry
sorry i'm wrong it's a 51 658 low end
74618 high end
and i noticed in looking at this our
clerk of quartz
tops out at the same
rate as these other individuals but
starts out a little lower at 48 789 as
opposed to 51. and i don't um
knowing that position and how it
compares to for example the executive
assistant positions or building
department assistant manager i feel like
it does not make sense for it to have a
lower first step it really jumped out at
me so
um
i
the attached exhibit a has
the clerk of courts having the same
first step
and then escalating the same as those
other positions that are sort of in that
band
um these are all
employees who have quite a bit of
responsibility in their role um the
clerk of courts
as you know is a is a department of one
essentially and so it's
i think it's fitting that it be along
the same line and that jumped out at me
so i
i did uh
put that in there this afternoon when um
beach and i were looking at it
any
questions about this ladies and
gentlemen
and then finally the title is
streamlined
the other the other title was super
clunky and it's
it is just you know it's pay rates for
employees like that's that that cap
encapsulates what's going on there
questions comments
um
can we amend this next time or
do we need to do that now
oh i'm sorry say that again
do you want to wait to amend
oh yeah we can we can always do that
okay
all right
ms lamke are looking at me like you
might have a question
okay
all right
moving on
okay we ready for yes please ordinance
56-21 that's okay with you mr mark i'm
right yes moving on okay second rating
of ordinance 56-21 to authorize
appropriations of 55 000 from the
general fund into the grants account for
the purpose of funding the kindness park
and senior slash community center
projects introduced by mr markham
he has not asked for this uh so thank
you uh 5621
uh we're going to check to see if mike
price has any updates for us on this
any any questions or any further
explanation if mike is still on the call
um
i did want to just double check that
this
doesn't need a suspension adoption
because i know that they are there he is
i know that they're active with um
you know trying to get this project done
in time to get it going
yeah no i'm sorry can you no
okay
um no i don't uh
this is the second read
yes
no i think it should be fine this is uh
grants appropriations to match the
community foundation 30 000 grand for
senior center is that right mayor that's
correct yep
no i i think we'll be fine okay thanks
mike wonderful thank you for sticking
around yeah thank you so much
mr markham anything else on this one not
from me nope all right first readings
please all right we have a first reading
of ordinance
5821 to revise section 432.38 of the
bexley city code to restore
regulations relating to weaving and
full-time and attentive attention while
operating a motor vehicle or motorcycle
that were inadvertently overwritten by
ordinance 2716 ms robinson i have to say
having a newly minted driver in my
family this is particularly poignant
so um as our
uh city attorney said back in 2016 when
we passed the uh banning of the use of
handheld personal communication devices
while driving this language on
zigzagging and um are weaving pardon me
and full time and attention uh this this
language was inadvertently eliminated
and this ordinance actually allows us to
have that back in our code so i think
this came to our attention when there
was an accident caused by somebody who
was reaching to grab something and we
realized that there was nothing in our
code with which we could act upon so
here we are and here's this piece of
legislation so
um it's pretty straightforward does
anybody have any questions about what
this is
anyone
have any questions comments concerns
all right and just to clear this is
verbatim what used to be in the code in
the previous iteration okay
nice that it was already written
wonderful
bringing it back ms robinson with your
permission we will move on to tabled
ordinances and we are going to move on
to table ordinance
4621 mr markham do you have action
motion to remove ordinance 46-21 from
the table for discussion is there a
second okay
i think that was mr klingler
uh voice vote all those in favor signify
by saying aye aye those opposed same
sign all right mr markham thank you very
much and uh i i
several weeks ago when we adjourned the
last meeting i
contacted all of you and said please
make sure that you use this time
to think about the budget to ask
questions to come up with questions to
contact our auditor
and our mayor and even me with any
concerns that you have and i want to
thank you because i know that all of you
did i know that all of you were very
active over the last over the off time
that we've had between these meetings
and uh tonight we will continue that
discussion
i will lead off by pointing out again
hopefully i think all of you have noted
that the information that i asked i i
did ask for some more additional
information on the sustainability
coordinator that was sent separately in
an email
with a
additional information
a line item cost of the salary pulled
out
that's in there as well there are also
descriptions and pulled out items for
all the additional
for each additional position that's
being added in the budget this year
so that information is
very helpful
i know that
as well as job descriptions i know that
for me adding job
new positions
is uh i take a little extra care with uh
with looking at those since the cost is
intended to be in perpetuity uh so
having said that
i did mention that the job description
for the sustainability
coordinator which is a new one includes
a annual report to city council
and i would recommend that perhaps that
report be timed maybe sometime around
next year for the budget so that we can
kind of take a look at
how effective that position has been and
then with that i will turn it over the
rest of you for questions and concerns
questions and concerns about the
proposed amendment amended
budget
anyway mr martin would you like me to
quickly review with you guys the channel
oh i'm sorry that would be lovely please
and thank you i'm sorry they should have
done that first
okay yeah so um
since the last meeting uh there there
have been mostly some corrections
um
in fact almost all corrections with the
exception of the the with the water
contract which i think is also a
correction
but
um feature in reviewing income that's
come in found that his local government
fund estimate and real estate tax
estimate was low
based on our experience recently in the
past year or two
and that our interest was high we've
been
not doing as well with interest recently
i'm going to change the inflation more
than anything else
right
which is not surprising given the sort
of investment we are required to conduct
so um water usage fees estimate as you
can see is a little higher
and the water fund contract is also
higher
and
the um and when we were talking
about wages and benefits i think richard
brought this up that under the refuse
fund it looked like the street sweeper
position the person
slash trash pickup position was not in
the budget so uh that had been
overlooked and it has been put back in a
full-time position that is a full-time
eq1 position yeah so that's an all-in
cost so those are the changes that have
been made
all consistent with what we've talked
about in the past with the exception of
the water contract pricing which was a
more recent uh revelation
if you look um the net effect of all
that is that
we actually are adding more to our
reserves
so we have a
projected
increase to the general fund of 156 000
for next year
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and as a
just a reminder this is a
now this is our first
budget coming out of
some
very difficult years with covid
where we've held off on some of our
capital expenditures and so in our
budget we have some pretty exciting
projects for the community with parks
improvements
we have a police community housing
allowance that's included in this budget
we have the sustainability programs
coordinator position which i think will
be very helpful to me and to you and to
us
in advancing a lot of our projects
and um
we have the creation of the
infrastructure development fund which i
think will allow us for the first time
to really take on some of the stuff that
we have been
looking at whether it be livingston
avenue or some of the southwest
basically master plan
items
or
fernando mayfield and some of the
environmental issues there so
i think that
this is a really strong budget
it adds to our bottom line
it spends in a way that really brings
value to our community and i would
welcome any questions but also heartily
obviously encourage the passage and i
will say
troy mentioned this you know you guys
have been so active not just we started
with the budget retreat
or whatever we called it the huddle
where many of the ideas that came out of
that showed up in our budget and
every single meeting that i had with
somebody we usually found something to
change uh in terms of maybe there was a
mistake maybe there was an idea that
hadn't gotten incorporated maybe there
was
um something new that came out of this
conversation so
this has been a really positive and
productive process i really thank all of
you for the way that you've worked
through this
and
with that i'm happy to answer your
questions and
stop talking
anybody have any questions for
the mayor i
appreciate the fact that he put up with
all of our questions and um
i was on with him i think as he was
probably stepping out the door to
play the piano to make sure that i got
everything
i think that mr
city auditor has perhaps a question
ben i think i've asked you this
privately but i'm going to ask you
publicly to make sure everybody hears
that the the sustainability person is a
part-time person with health care
benefits
i'm sure you realize that our codifieds
specifically say
part-time people don't get health care
benefits and that person does that will
obviously drive some issues as you go
forward with
other part-time people saying they want
health care benefits yeah so this is a
strong part-time position so we're
budgeting 30 hours and i think at that
point it is a benefit illegally yeah i
don't even know
under the affordable care act 30-hour
employees have to be given health care i
understand that but our that's not what
our ordinance says
then we need to change 26202 says you
gotta understand 40 hours
so
okay but
do we need to look at that well i mean
we should uh theoretically we should
change it technically we should actually
change it because we have a similar
situation we may have staff it's
possible i mean the bottom line is the
30-hour requirement is what applies to
federal law so
we have to
okay it's good to know
any other comments or questions mister
this
um
indirectly relates to the budget and i'm
sorry because i was trying to do some
calculations
um but with our pay ordinance
um i had asked the mayor about the
percentage calculations and i'm i'm
still coming up with a variance from
what i expect looking at last year's
exhibit i don't know whether i'm looking
at a wrong exhibit i would ask you to
ask feature that we we double checked
the spreadsheet behind the
scenes is a four percent flat there's
nothing different about it is the math
checks on it so i'm not sure what
yeah some of them it's somewhat hard to
follow it seems like every year that pay
schedule form format changes which makes
it all so hard to find follow because
last last year the pay schedule included
um employees current rates this year is
doesn't um so we could see where people
were on their on the scale
um it also um
their shift they're shifted around in
different lines so you gotta go okay
that one's here and then i have to
mentally think back did we
change um
did we restructure some of the
positions and
um
are they different positions and what
they were
last year so there's a lot of things
when i'm looking at but on a couple of
the
key ones that i don't think change i'm
getting a 5
to put it out there
yeah i heard i heard that and i asked
speaker to double check it and he
confirmed it was four so i don't i'd
have to look at what you're looking at
or he would i would ask him to look at
it i think it's better that it go
through the auditor's office okay if you
could work with him on that
all please i guess i would um at this
point ask um mr marcum
if he has any questions i just have a
comment too um
i know i was the only one i already had
a comment i've got another comment so i
just i just want to say um
uh that i appreciate you taking the time
to answer a lot of questions and i have
spent the last few weeks
asking a lot of detailed questions
sometimes i ask maybe the questions over
and over again which can probably be
kind of annoying but i do appreciate
that
all from the small things i would like
to say this though
i think this budget contains some very
large bold visionary items in there
especially with the
infrastructure fund
i want to
congratulate you on
building a budget around something like
that
because i think this does not only
put to uh
put to paper the ideas for some of this
progressive change that we want to make
but also builds the structure and the
funding to implement some pretty dynamic
significant improvements in the
community so uh while i am picky about
some of the small things i do want to
also acknowledge the uh the vision in
here with this
and uh and fully support
uh that part of it as well
thank you mr markham very well said it's
very true and um
we are very blessed um
to have forward-thinking progressive
people and our
major does a great job leading us to
that so it's a collective vision and
it's it's been a partnership i
appreciate that
all right well i would expect you to say
that but thank you and thank you troy
for highlighting that and
thank you troy for leading us through
this budget again
i um i
am proud of my efforts in choosing a
fabulous finance chair
and um i am i am grateful for all of the
questions that you
um proposed and
everyone else's questions as well
so thank you so much slam key do you
have something to add
i was just gonna add one comment and
then
i guess maybe two comments um the first
was
if i understand what's before me
correctly
i think that hundred thousand should be
150 000.
am i wrong mayor
i thought it was 150.
it has a hundred thousand
oh okay then i
i guess i i was looking at page maybe
it's from 2022 is the 150 is
this that what
putting aside this year's 100 000. okay
and 150. so got it no that makes that
makes sense
and also wanted to voice my support for
this budget you know we're in a
unique position to have such a healthy
amount of revenue coming in
amidst now a second year of a pandemic
and as you all may recall when the
pandemic started we put so much on hold
including a hiring freeze and lots of
other projects
i see this budget as a good opportunity
to not only catch up
but then to make clever use of the
healthy budget to try to get ahead on
some other important things and i'd like
to commend the mayor for
answering all my questions even those
that are phrased this morning
so i can support this because i think it
propels bexley so far forward that i'm
so thrilled that it does
thank you miss lamke
all right with that
uh mister
has something to say
i'm sorry oh you're fine i
hadn't got a chance to go back and forth
between our schedule and the ordinance
itself and there are some line items
that don't match
and so before we
pass this i think those should be
rectified uh tote auditor's office there
851 669
but maybe i'm looking at an old
one online here
it is matching the budget
okay i must
have pulled up a link from before it was
updated tonight it's hard to read it's
just faded i had a itch set the one i
pulled up said 8 15.
so um that could be
the problem
i'm not sure which one you pulled up
okay i i probably pulled up the
other one from the last meeting so i
apologize
yeah the that number is the same as our
last revision as well so i'm not sure
what the
i don't remember what had changed
maybe it says here
i know i i noticed at the top
um that it said october 26th so i don't
know how i pulled that up off the agenda
if it was the original one that was
attached and i clicked on the wrong one
correct looks like at least not on that
line
we're good and we can
all right mr marco do you have
action on this proposed amended
motion to adopt amended ordinance
nope motion to amend
motion to amend
ordinance 46-21
we have a first is there a second second
first by mr markham a second by mr
klingler
your auditor
mr sharp
yes assad yes ms fiable yes mr klingler
yes mr markham ms robinson yes ms lamke
yes
all right
that's the amendment i know it's the
amendment i'm ready for the oh that was
just oh that's the drum roll
drum roll that wasn't the clapping that
was the drum roll
i know steve you're diving
well now i'm gonna have to make her wait
for it for a second
motion to adopt amended ordinance 46-21
we have it first do we have a second
second i am mr klingler again
voice is his second
mr obama assad
yes mr sharpe
yes
yes ms lamke yes mr markham yes ms
robinson yes mr klingler yes
with your permission mr markham we will
move on to
there is no uh there's no action on the
columbia place ordinance there is no
action on the aggregation
ordinance um
we do have action on ordnance 47-21
yes um
ms robinson
um yes i'm motioned that we remove
ordnance 47-21 from the table
second second second
i can find mr sharp
all those in favor please signify by
saying aye aye aye all those opposed
same sign
all right ms robinson please uh yeah
thanks guys for letting me uh have just
a moment with this ordinance i wanted to
um let you know that after
well we used the three weeks well i
think
um we um really took into account the
comments that we heard in the
conversation that we had surrounding
this ordinance and i want to draw
attention to a couple of the changes
that have been pulled up on the screen
for you
um so we have um in in order to really
make clear that the eligibility of this
um
of the
use of this income-based um
uh fine uh program uh that eligibility
is set by the mayor's court um
magistrate and the city attorney as you
can see in section one subsection two i
uh two one is it i or one i always say
that wrong whatever that first section
um you can see that we we
we just spelled that out very clearly
subject to eligibility criteria to be
specified by the rules and the rules as
you can see from above are actually
created by the mayor's court magistrate
and the city attorney so we wanted to
just
uh make sure that that was very clear
also we have added um section one
subsection two
i i
yeah we're just calling we'll go with i
iii
that says because there was a lot of
concern um expressed or a lot of
comments made about you know repeat
offenders and and what do we do in an
instance where we have people coming
back and um constantly or multiple on
multiple occasions um using this
particular um
income based fine um program and so we
wanted to say very clearly that this
is maybe limited the use of this
particular ordinance is limited or may
be limited um by the rules themselves so
again the magistrate
and the city attorney
can and have the the power to say yes
this can be used or no it can't be used
so
um those two were the the two um
changes and additions that we felt would
really kind of round out this piece of
legislation and i wanted to bring that
to your attention i know it was just
added to the agenda late this morning so
i don't unless you know if there are if
there are a lot of questions i don't
necessarily feel like we need to move on
this tonight but i did want to bring it
to your attention so
um at the very least what i'd like to do
tonight is um have some conversation
about the amendments and then
potentially
move to approve those amendments um on
this piece of legislation so comments
yeah i would love to start us off with
the comments i want to say a big thank
you
i um
this
piece of legislation did not sit
well with me
um
and
when it was even being
just a thought
it was just a thought
in the mayor's head and he shared it
with me
i said i'm not sure about this one i i
you know we say safety comes first and
safety in bexley does
it is very important
um and so
the idea of
you know
and and i also you know while i well i
am someone who strives for equity and i
do understand
you know as as a child had my parents
been ticketed for speeding 150 dollars
would be
a lot like that would have made a huge
difference
we truly lived paycheck to paycheck so i
do
get that aspect of it but i also
often times believe that speeding
is a choice it's a choice we make my
children reminded me that
um how many times have you just said
i'm going so fast and i didn't mean to
be going so fast and so
i loved that you put the
repeat offenders i mean
it it does make you you know you get
picked up once you you you know you
think twice about it when you're you
know when you're going down a certain
stretch of of road so i guess that was a
very long-winded way of saying thank you
for the amendments because i
i like those and i um appreciate all of
you who have listened to me as i
floundered a little bit with this piece
of legislation so thank you
anybody else have any comments or
questions
um
i find little i a little bit confusing
when i when i read it it says rules may
limit income base to me it sounds like
you're limiting the the fines
not
limiting eligibility for the income
based so
if i would feel more comfortable if it
said the rules may limit eligibility for
income based lines for repeat offenders
yeah
makes it even more
clear mr kessler you might have been
sharing conversation with um with the
city attorney when richard
made this sound a little bit better and
perhaps you can i don't know if you can
pull this up to change
this version is not the version to be
voted on there are some additional
changes that i thought i said i'm pretty
sure i sent to
laurie anne the mayor and eugene and
that's not the version there's some
they're minor changes but
well well i'm here right now there you
go
that's exactly the way i
read it
based fines for i mean offenders
right so this would be user error
this is the version okay
yeah my apologies i sent the wrong
proposed image to natalie so this is
actually and actually just so everybody
knows the other version said practically
possibly possible and now it says
whenever practicable yeah that's a
change just so you know it's just
more grammatically correct i think
that's all yes
what else do you know about the future
something that i just thought of though
i'm pretty sure
that d2 should say rules is establishing
confines shall be established because
otherwise you're leaving it to the
discretion of the so so that means we
don't he doesn't have to have any right
that's correct okay that's fine never
mind that might not be what you wanted
that's how it was written that way
perfectly i i did not realize that it's
fine if you want to leave it that way
it's a policy decision
so the logic there was that it it the
magistrate and the city attorney might
find in the in the administration of
that that the program for whatever
reason you know maybe it's not working
well or whatever maybe they want to put
it it just gives more discretion it
gives them the ability to not do it and
if if you as a council felt like they
weren't doing it and you wanted them to
for sure absolutely 100
then you could mandate it absolutely if
you wanted to
jen
i'm jess sorry
it's the j's and you're next to each
other sorry
um and with the marriage point there i
have in my notes that we've discussed
this multiple times that with this
ordinance um
we should hold ourselves accountable to
audit this on an ongoing basis to review
it in a year and see how it's going so
just wanted to agree absolutely agreed
and i think there's a third change then
if you scroll down just a little bit
more there was an oh no
i saw red
no okay we're good
does anybody have any further questions
before i ask um if there is
any action
okay would you like to amend
yes so first um i motion that we accept
the proposed amendments to ordinance
47-21
here's the first is there a second
second again i think mr sharp
beat you to that mr klingler
um
miss fibel yes
mr klingler yes mr markham yes ms lamke
yes ms robinson mr sharp yes assad
yes amendments approved okay now further
action
um so
um
unless there are no further questions um
unless council yes richard um
so
is it is there a report that or uh
can council be approved a prize after a
year of this
to
absolutely that's what jess was just
mentioning that we really need to make
sure that we're keeping an eye on this
and that there we have a report at the
end of perhaps the first year
um do we need do we feel like we need to
add that to this piece of legislation or
are you guys okay with just knowing that
that will at the end of the year will
will reassess how this is working
i would suggest
just
being all our very busy selves i always
find myself more accountable if it's
written
so i would suggest i don't think that's
a bad idea
to put
language in there so we hold ourselves
accountable but that's just me
i fear that even if we put language in
there we may
we may forget
so what i would suggest maybe that we do
is write ourselves the notes and and our
calendars to remember to do that and i
would um
i would suggest that
it's a top priority on um the future
president's
choice
for safety
to just ask the mayor for an answer
every year yep
and understand it's going to be months
before there's even final rules or
several months i shouldn't make it sound
and so
madam president yes also i would say
that like
i'm i'm pretty passionate about this
project and i think i'll be bragging
about it to you guys so i imagine you
will hear more about it than you wish to
hear about it so
i think there i can see some things that
that might
i also
loathe personally to create
really specific calendar items that
sometimes we sometimes miss
and then and then we are
yeah we did revisit that
yeah
so
that's right all right um so then um i
would like to make a motion that we
approve ordinance 47-21 all right is
there a second
thank you mr klingler mr markham mr
klingler yes ms robinson yes
yes mr sharp
yes ms lamke yes assad yes past
okay i am going to um
before before i ask for um mr markham to
take uh to see if he has action on
ordinance 49 21 i do um
want to um
address
the fact that i forgot to ask um ms
fowler to put on our agenda
a um executive session
that our auditor has requested so
after we get through our committees i'm
just letting everyone know yes we are
doing really well on time but don't get
too excited because we do have a short
executive
meeting just to catch up on things
madam president before we go on um
oh shoot i almost lost oh
i and follow up to this
um points are still assessed
for
but
for violations correct because that's
the major did true
right right thank you for that reminder
mr sharp
um all right
sorry for that quick
um
note but ordinance 49 21 mr mr uh
markham you have action on that sir yeah
a motion to take ordinance 49-21 off the
table for discussion second
oh
i think mr robinson had that i'm not
positive
but i think so all right so at first by
mr mark i'm a second pie miss robinson
um all those a favor please signify by
saying aye aye
um opposed same sign
mr markham police yeah i think we've had
some
um proposed amendment at least one
significant amendment to this and i know
maybe
the mayor will tell us what
what activity has been going on in terms
of how we want to maybe alter this a
little bit thank you mr markham so i
call this
fondly the klingler amendment
as well
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that is correct
so 270.02
thank you mr fishel
um
suggests that it says the the chair of
the finance committee is an alternate
member that's already in our charter
so it's important that we reiterate that
here
um and
and that so up until the
comma it's in the charter and then and
shall serve as an ex-official member
while not serving as an alternate is not
in our charter but it's not inconsistent
with our charter so
basically
it puts it so that it's a three voting
members but always four members in
theory on the uh
on that border control so
make sure to rope in additional council
participation
and again there are public meetings so
any council member can attend and most
commonly those
meetings as we've talked about already a
couple times happen right after a city
council meeting just from a practical
perspective it works that way that's
when we're shushing you and telling you
you're welcome to stay but be quiet
please and then in addition to that um
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the klingler amendment uh just is
anticipates times when there might be
less than three competitive price quotes
and there are
there are examples of that being a very
legitimate and valid
circumstance that occurs for example our
organics recycling contract or curbside
food waste there's only two vendors in
the in the county that can even provide
that so
there are instances of that that occur
but if that occurs
then um not only will those that
expenditure be called out specifically
in the board minutes
as was previously in here but also it
that has to be reported to city council
prior to a vote being taken to border
patrol so
um
it would i would imagine it would happen
in the finance committee for example
that there would be a bullet item that
would say on on the upcoming board of
control meeting agenda there is a
contract for acme
uh
pest control that or whatever i don't
know whatever so i was about to make up
something stupid so i won't do that but
it will be a contract coming up there's
less than three quotes here's why any
questions council has could be asked at
the time council members of course can
attend border control meetings
but at least then there's full
transparency and disclosure there's even
more full transparency disclosure
uh in such an
instance for clarification then the
council does not have to approve it
approve the uh
issue the uh the contract with less than
three members they just have to be made
aware of it okay
i just wanted to thank uh councilmember
markham and the mayor for their um
effort in working with me to
come up with uh this language
thank you
[Laughter]
i i also um appreciate the amendment for
the
um alternate member because that
does protect
council's involvement from
the
auditor and the mayor maybe
not taking council's
approval
already that's not an amendment it's an
amendment to what he initially offered
but that's something
okay
don't ruin the moment
guys i still like you he still likes it
and i also like the fact that
the the the finance chair can attend
um what you know specifically
stated that they can attend
awesome
all right
siri here motion to amend ordinance
49-21
it is off the table it's off the table
so there was
motion to amend ordinance 49-21 thank
you and was there a second by you mr
klingler yes thank you um
mr harvey
mossad
yes mr klingler yes miss fibel
yes robinson yes mr markham yes
amended right okay further action
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i moved to
adopt ordinance number one
amendments
ended ordinance
what's the ordinance
49 21.
all right we have a first is there a
second second all right thank you ms
robinson
um ms robinson
yes mr sharp
yes mr markham yes miss fibel yes
klingler yes assad yes mrs lamke yes
fast all right hooray
all right we're going to go move on to
committee reports service to the
environmental committee mr sharpie's
chair
sorry no worries
trying to find my email
um no report other than um to mention
about the bexley historical society
um
lorianne schaefer was bexley's miss
america
in um
1972
and she's going to be
con
she's going to be
on the december 16th recognized on the
december 16th pageant
um
for her 50-year anniversary of that
we are getting on the map for all kinds
of reasons we we might we might consider
uh a proclamation that might be
worthwhile
we should my dad claims to have dated
her but i don't believe him
and the historical society is um
initiating dialogue with bexley uk um
for i love that i'm going real quick
awesome
one day google's right it's everywhere
and then next year we're going to do
australia remember guys there's one in
australia too
we should do a field trip
for sure
retreat
the
mayor of bexley heath england and i
routinely get messages intended for the
other person on facebook
so we every now and then kind of banter
them back to each other
i bet he's really cool
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finance committee mr burke
madam president and mr sharp if you
would humor me if it's okay i have an
item for the service uh committee that i
i should have put on my update but we
did receive an email from a resident
uh this
week nah last week i lied
i'm not sure who direct this to but andy
bayshore does a great job for bexley i
walk my dog a lot all around south
bexley and notice pull lights out debris
in the alleys etc i always note it and
email andy he is responsive and positive
plus
the problems are fixed
we need to keep him around bexley for as
long as possible thanks so there you go
[Laughter]
finance committee troy markham
just a quick quick note that the
state of ohio completed their audit of
the city's finances for the years
2019 and 2000 well 2020
and they held the meeting yesterday and
we had
several of us here
for that city passed with flying colors
and if you've never sat for an hour long
meeting listening to accountants talk
about the
describe the
accounting procedures and
minutia of long detailed reports
yeah nobody fell asleep nobody fell
asleep and i was not
yawning fell asleep the report is
available if you want to check that out
it's available
[Laughter]
yes
all right um safety and health committee
dan robinson just two quick things um
first i want to just a reminder although
i did put my lovely
points out on the ground
i will
my jacket got caught on my chair um
don't forget about the gift of
poinsettia program by our wonderful
citizens police academy alumni
association um i
in the report i was reading um that
there are 138 orders that have been
placed as of the 2nd of december
deliveries will still be made so please
contact the police department don overly
i believe is handling that
i just have the the written information
i don't have a number so but i did want
to just remind people these are
seriously beautiful
um and also just on a personal note i
want to say how just thank you to
council for the passage of 47 21. um
it's really great to live in a city that
cares so much about being equitable and
the way we police and protect and to be
able to do that in a way that doesn't
um that takes into account the safety of
all of our citizens
and
the health and and financial well-being
of people who are stopped in our city is
just i'm really proud of that i'm proud
of our council for passing that
unanimously
and i know we're being asked to look at
the way we police and protect our city a
lot these days and i'm just really this
passage and all of the amazing changes
that we've done to our mayor's court and
the programs that we have in our city we
do need to be really proud of where we
are and who we are as a city and i just
want to say thanks
you should be proud of your leadership
too and we are we are grateful for it so
please know that
we we make a a pretty good team ladies
and gentlemen and i am i am i am proud
of everything we have accomplished this
year
zoning and development committee jessica
assad i'm just going to steal this from
this round
just reminders on upcoming meetings the
arb will be meeting on december 9th at 5
00 pm
um
bzap
possibly will be meeting on december
23rd at 6 pm
um it's on the calendar
but
we'll make sure that we have a quorum
that night and then um caic is meeting
january 4th at 6 pm
um the appeal that we have coming up on
december 15th i think
that we are missing that maybe on a few
different places on the city of bexley
website
so
you might want to just take a look at
that
if i if i can
quickly make a note about that because
we i get you you guys reach out very
adeptly and point out that sometimes
upcoming meetings don't show up under
city
meetings so for example
that is true under our agendas and
minutes page
for the december 15th meeting because
it's not a recurring meeting so it won't
automatically get created until there's
an actual agenda for it
it is it is on our events calendar which
is and i know that's confusing and we're
trying to continue to word that a little
bit better but
strictly speaking
just if you could try if it makes sense
and i think we need to communicate it
better as i said but agendas and minutes
page is not the same as the events
calendar page right and so you'll see
on the events calendar page
i think
if i say that
thinking that that's true and i think
you're i think you are correct i think
it is on there
but you're right in what you're saying
when you go to the it's i didn't realize
we have to wait for the agenda for that
to post but i do know that that can be
confusing for the residents who've asked
me about it
so
correct uh i see that and i will
continue to try to figure out a way to
you know maybe it's city
you know meeting agendas or something
has that button as opposed to uh the
calendar so
we'll keep working on that sounds good
that's all i've got thank you jessica
um i'm moving on to
yes have that document that i've got
from those people
what do i do with that
you've gotten the briefs yes you should
that's referring to all council members
okay thank you for mentioning that i did
not realize that yep i got it i got two
today okay he went to me and the
catherine and maybe somebody else
i will get them out to you guys not
tonight tomorrow morning
thank you mr harvey we appreciate that
um recreation and parks committee matt
klingler nothing to report thank you
matt
uh judiciary strategic committee uh
monique lamke nothing to report thank
you monique um
any public comment
gentlemen nothing to say all right
um so i am going to
i think you need the wording i think i
need the wording i don't so here maybe
it's
here
nope
so i'm going to motion to go into
executive session according to i'm going
to make a motion
making motion
okay my pre-council gentlemen are giving
me hard time
to consider the appointment
employment dismissal discipline
promotion demotion or compensation of a
public employee or official for the
investigation of charges or complaints
against the public
employee or official and in my motion i
am going to also invite um
matt and sam to to join us tonight
um
for a second
second thank you mr klingler
yes ms lamke yes mr sharp
yes robinson yes mr klingler yes miss
fibel yes mr markham yes
to be clear the only thing
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is
adjourned correct correct
correct hey everybody should turn their
mics off
foreign
okay i would like to make a motion to um
come out of executive session is there a
second okay
second by mr klingler
mr harvey
mr
yes
mr sharp yes
i guess we should note that
he had to leave yes please
yes mr
parker yeah
yes
uh i would like
there's a yes i i motioned to adjourn mr
klingler
i moved anyway whatever mister okay
second okay oh there's a favorite
version by saying hi
oh there's a pose too bad