count i'm not sure but it's too late now
we started the show
richard's not here we got dylan so
that's good
yeah we do have dylan welcome dylan
we're thrilled you're here we're gonna
be there we go
okay we are left count oh yeah you did
is monique here too i guess we'll find
out in just a minute
who was here and who's not here but um
welcome guys to uh tuesday december 8th
um the usual peeps who are at city hall
are zooming from home or feeling like we
need to be a little bit
uh healthier and safer and distanced and
um and of course you can imagine that
makes me sad
i miss i miss all of you so much and
it's a it's a big bummer
but we're gonna stay healthy and strong
for uh
for bexley so that we come out of this
mess we're gonna be
stronger and better so um
remember that we are here for the good
of bexley and then i would call
ask our our wonderful auditor to please
do roll call for us please
here mr klingler here
ms lamke here mr markham
here ms robinson here mossad
mr sharp here i think mrs sod
is here here she is she is here she
didn't say she's here i see her i know
she was here
all right everybody let's uh we can uh
stand for the pledge i think ben's gonna
there we go all right i pledge
allegiance to the flag of 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
we have lots of participants here
tonight
um only a few attendees but we want to
welcome
everyone we want you all to know just
how thrilled that we are
that you are here um
we do not have uh but we do have one
special guest but we're gonna
we're gonna bring him in a little bit
later um we have a specific spot for him
um but this is um so we will go ahead
and get to the point
in our agenda item number five which is
public comments
this is a time when um attendees if they
would like to
panel us actually i think we were got
this
mixed up but that no worries people that
are joining us tonight
um who are not on council etc members of
the public who would like to
speak to council this is an opportunity
for you to do that
you simply have to hit the icon at the
bottom of the your
your page that allows you to raise your
hand and you can
speak on anything that you would like um
to talk to us about that is not
on the agenda information we're not
going to cover tonight if you'd like to
share with us something
right now we would love love to hear
about you
i hear from you or hear about you
i don't see any hands mr mayor is that
true you you do not see any hands either
i also do not nope okay i like to have a
second set of eyes um
all right well i don't have i don't have
a much
information to share i just want to say
that most likely this is our last
meeting of the year
um you all know saying goodbye the 2020
will feel so good
but i don't think i need to remind any
of you of all the hard work each of us
have
have done individually and collectively
i think we have made
the city better in spite of the
challenge the challenges that we've had
to hurdle
our freshman council members were a
breath of fresh air
no patience was needed onboarding them
they jumped
at the chance to get busy being
productive
you have no idea how grateful i am for
the culture
of work hard do good be respectful that
seems to be our
unspoken uh council mantra our mayor our
auditor and our city attorney
have each patiently given us a leg up
when a leap seemed too high and for that
we owe them
our gratitude and we are oh our unending
thanks to all of our city departments
each were tested differently but their
creativity agility determination
integrity and unwavering dedication
to the community they serve was nothing
less than remarkable
it is my greatest wish that 2021
uh in 2021 we will be blessed with
patience and gratitude but i will be
praying
that our community is blessed with unity
togetherness
health resilience and of course lots of
hugs
so moving on from that i have nothing
further from my report
um but i would like to see if
our city attorney has anything he has to
say
you know that last night uh the charter
review commission
wrapped up its work after 13 months of
hard work
and um i know john offenberg the chair
was going to reach out to you lori ann
and i think the mayor as well um my
suggestion
and i think uh there's as well more
importantly is that
we'll probably need a should schedule a
special council meeting just for that
soul purpose of that presentation
sometime in january
or february the good news is while we
nobody wants to wait till the last
minute we don't have to have anything
uh passed and some by you and submitted
to
uh the ballot submitted up for the
ballot until august of this year of next
year
so just wanted to report that they
worked very hard
they did work very hard and indeed um uh
john aufenberg
reached out to me and i was he and i
were
talking about how how it would be best
to present that
uh to counsel and um
he he suggested that he bring not all of
charter review but some key people to
explain the different um changes that
they are proposing and i think that
sounds like a really great idea so
um if any of the council members have
other suggestions or ideas of how you
think that
that might work best we certainly i
would love to um
have a conversation with you and then
you know bounce that off of
of mark so um thank you mr fishel
we appreciate all your time invested in
um
in that work as well um so we could we
could move
on if you don't mind to item number
eight the consent agenda mr fishel
all right so in the consent agenda we
have the minutes of the 12-120 city
council meeting
the um sorry ordinance 56-20 to
appropriate twenty-two thousand dollars
from the street fund to pay
oprah's for the remaining of the
remainder of 2020 and to reduce
appropriations for oprah's from the
general fund by 22 000
that was introduced by mr markham and
resolution 14-20 confirming the mayor's
appointments
of members to the bexley community
investment corporation that was
introduced
by ms assad all right thank you so much
much mr official is there anyone and any
council members that have any questions
or concerns about the consent agenda
are there any is there anyone joining us
that has any questions or comments
about the consent agenda
can uh look like president it looks like
someone oh from the panelist does okay
richard yeah i just
noticed in the minutes that
it says we tabled 52-20
the calendar is that correct did not
it passed uh
yeah it went um no it was not tabled
it was part of the consent
agenda am i right somebody help me i'm
almost positive it was part of the
consent agenda last
go around i'm 100 sure that was part of
the consent agenda
president fight well you're right it did
pass last time
so what's this on the screen
it shows mr markham made it
motion to table and it's not supposed to
be 50 to
20 what would that of which one of those
might it have been
mr official will you walk us through
what we need to do here please
oh is this this is the budget this is
tabling the budget
okay i'm sorry so so 50
52 20 was what was the budget
or was that what was 52-20
that's the budget
so it's fine it's fine it's fine it's
fine okay
thank you sorry about that no don't be
sorry we're always grateful for a second
set of eyes and there's
always always room for questions in our
in our meetings
all right thank you so much mr sharp um
all right is there a um can i have a
motion on the consent agenda then
mr clinton will motion thank you mr
klingler is there a second
masato second thank you miss zod um
mr uh city auditor please
ms lamke yes mr klingler
yes mr sharp yes
mr markham yes miss fibel
yes with assad yes ms robinson
yes thank you
thank you so much all right so we will
move on to item number nine
administrative updates finance
department
update mr hale or um city auditor
uh harvey do you have anything that you
would like to report
no report
all right any questions from anyone
concerning that
i mean we're going to have a lot of
finance tonight but does anybody have
any questions
i am not seeing
anyone all right um
so we'll move then on to uh the the
police department update
nothing beyond my written report ma'am
all right thank you sir
questions or comments for um the chief
all right thank you everyone moving on
to the recreation director
update nice job lighting that tree sir
anything no nothing other than my
written report
all right any questions for michael
oh zoom meeting part of me
oh someone's on a zoom meeting okay um
who do we have next we have mr bayshore
mr bashar hi i have nothing else to
add to my written report tonight all
right thank you so much
um all your departments great hard work
guys thank you thank you thank you mr
mayor do you have an update for us
we know you do yep it's attached um
and i don't have anything substantial to
add to my written report so
go ahead and check that out and uh
the photo from mike's written report of
the tree lighting was much more
uh populated with people than what what
we ended up with there's kind of a
blurry uh
capture of our zoom i do want to thank
the three random children that were
walking by on the street that helped me
light the tree they were not
random and they are standing close
together because they
are part of his pod they are his
children it's
all coveted friendly it's all good um i
i just want to echo what you said
uh president bible we we've had a uh
we've had a very challenging 2020
uh but intermixed with the challenges
have been just a whole lot of blessings
and
and you guys have been fantastic to work
with during
during a pretty choppy times so thank
you to all of you
and i hope that you all have very warm
holidays and
uh i'm happy to answer your questions
have any questions for our good mayor
i don't think so all right we are ready
to
move on if we could please madam
president i'm sorry i couldn't raise my
hand quick enough
oh sorry
okay
uh mayor i just saw in your update um
the internal cares act through end of
september 2020.
do you are you just going to update one
more time at the end of 2031 because the
projected totals half of
or spent is half of what the projected
total is but you have
more more solid numbers to date yeah so
those are our internal
through the end of september um mostly
that's personnel
we have several projects that we're
working on
and we'll be updating that all when
we're um
you know in the coming weeks and i can
keep you guys surprised via email just
where we are with all that
i can tell you that i see uh
little to no risk that we're not gonna
be able to to make use of the uh
the funds that have been uh provided to
us excellent
awesome thanks monique
mayor could you go back to um the coven
numbers in bexley i i didn't get a
chance to look at those but how are we
doing covered wise here in bexley
yeah so um we've had
uh you know if you look at our trailing
14 days
we were at 120 new cases seven days ago
in the past 14
if that makes sense and today we're at
124 in the past 14 so um
we've we we have had a uh
you know we continue to have a a lot of
new cases
um i can tell you a lot of the cases
from the 120
a week ago were clustered within a time
period that's still captured in this
trailing 14 days
within 43209 or sorry within franklin
county
our zip code 43209 which is all of just
bexley for franklin county's tracking
purposes
is at the very bottom in terms of the 14
weight weak incidence rate which is good
um but it's also at the bottom among a
list of fairly
intense uh rates so uh
all that to say we're we're a little bit
below the average for franklin county um
but certainly not not uh
not in any way shape or form out of the
woods we need to be
you know incredibly diligent on
practicing everything we've all been
talking about
great thank you um and i appreciate you
still trying to see if we can do that
another drive-by kova testing and flu
shot if at all possible
in the next couple weeks thank you we're
looking at january for that based upon
availability but we're keeping on top of
it
awesome thanks mayor
right great questions for the mayor
mayor are you ready for us to uh move on
sir
i am uh very much so yeah all right
thank you so much
um so i will turn it um over to mr
fishel for number 10 please
all right so a first reading of
ordinance 63-20 to support the creation
of the bexley electricity aggregation
program
and the issuance of requests for
proposals
and to authorize a process for the board
of control to award a contract to an
electricity
aggregation supplier introduced by mr
sherp
mr sharpe okay
yeah um as samira had indicated
um a couple weeks or months ago um
he was looking into um providing a
service similar to what the city of
columbus
their residents just passed their
charter amendment or
ballot initiative i'm not sure which it
was to
allow for renewable energy
direct rather than through the
ric's i believe they're called that the
city
currently is using for the city
only utilities but to make that
alternative energy source
available to all residents through an
aggregation program
and the mayor will go on
with his explanation and i believe we
have a guest here this evening to
speak to that issue as well and then i
do have a couple questions that i'll
have afterwards
mayor yeah thank you thank you mr sharp
um so i i do want to just correct one
thing richard
the city of columbus is is uh doing what
we've been talking about doing for many
years
uh they were just late to the game and
getting their ballot initiative that
we've had since 2001
so i say that a little bit
tongue-in-cheek but anyway
um you know we have been working for
many years
we've been talking to you guys about the
concept of
buying into a utility scale renewable
energy
and making that available to our
residents for household consumption
and so um we're no longer alone in
talking about that lots of folks have
been talking about it and
certainly credit columbus and um
smart columbus with helping and actually
honestly before that google
with creating a market that did not
exist a couple years ago so what
happened when google came into ohio
is that they had some very district
requirements for renewable energy being
additive and local
and in doing so they really spurred the
marketplace in ohio
in creating these utility scale
developments
what we're talking about is as a city
buying into
wind and solar developments that are
under planning right now
not yet not yet complete and
selling that electricity to our
residents at a rate which is
hopefully based upon a successful rfp
competitive
if not when i say competitive better
than market-based
traditional energy and that's the hope
um
columbus is in in terms of process
columbus is actually
a little bit uh similar to where we are
they
now have the ability to aggregate we
already have the ability to aggregate
they recently got it in november
they are you know i believe they've
chosen their supplier we're at a point
where we're
looking to choose a supplier but we're
hoping to
hit the same magic date of january june
1st
2021 to get going and that uh that date
is significant
for just practical reasons that our
guests today can talk about
the ordinance that's in front of you is
basically in section one it provides
you know support for the idea of going
for an rfp to seek
this additive new renewable energy
that rfp would be circulated and then
section two
authorizes our board of control after a
public hearing
and after presenting back to council
what award
they would like to select to go ahead
and select a provider
so the way that to remind you the way
that aggregation works is the city
negotiates a contract
that electric rate would then be made
available to all of their households in
bexley
residents would have the ability to opt
out at any time really but there would
be certain published opt out time
periods including right on the front end
if they didn't wish to have that power
but what we're looking at is
100 percent local ohio renewable energy
in the first couple years before those
developments are completed
we would infill with what are called rex
or
oh my gosh i just blanked on what that
stands renewable energy credits
um so those wrecks are what we have like
richard said in our in our um
our administ are our own use of energy
here at the city
uh those would go to all households
currently worthington actually has an
aggregation program with rex
um we have been seeking for many years
to go beyond the concept of rex
and so it's really exciting the market
has gotten to the point that it has
and with that introduction i wanted to
introduce you to
dylan borchers who's here with bricker
dylan is a expert in all things
aggregation
um you may you may remember his some of
his partners
from bricker who have helped us with our
pace um
and our residential pace program so
bricker is a uh
really well respected uh expert in the
uh legal energy space
we've asked them to represent us in
going through this entire process
um and selecting a um a potential a
provider
of course assuming that we get through
this ordinance so dylan
if you could just introduce yourself and
open it up to any questions people have
hi good evening thank you mayor first
can everybody hear me okay
yep i fortunately i have to uh use my
phone's audio because uh you know this
this being
uh the era of zoom my computer mic is
uh not working all that well uh
so i think we can really dive into
questions here in a moment
just to add a little bit more color to
what uh the mayor
presented um i i have a few additional
points uh but i think
that the mayor did an excellent job of
giving an overview of what
the city is is moving towards um
to hit on a couple of additional points
though and just to emphasize some points
uh this is really a unique time in
ohio's energy
landscape just a couple of years ago
municipalities and customers did not
have the same opportunities that they're
looking at now
namely ohio's energy landscape is
quickly changing
in particular there's an influx of
utility scale
solar that's being built here in ohio
that's being driven
by a number of things as the mayor
mentioned there's
corporate demand corporations like
google
but other corporations like general
motors are all driving
renewable energy ohio also sits in
the middle of the world's largest
wholesale electricity market
the pjm interconnection and so ohio is
ideally located
to serve states
surrounding ohio and throughout
the midwest other drivers are that
ohio because of this location in the
transmission system
also has access to that system
and available land for development and
so
for those reasons ohio has been an
attractive area for
new solar development and what that
means is that
customers in ohio can access power from
those
projects so it adds another
layer if you will to the ability to
procure
clean energy so instead of buying a
product that is
you know quote unquote green where
you get renewable energy credits let's
say from a wind project in oklahoma
you can now seek supply
from projects here in ohio and that is
compelling and we
saw that be a compelling driver
for the recent success of the columbus
aggregation efforts
as the mayor mentioned bexley
did already aggregate there are a few
items that my team will be supporting
with
the aggregation is certified
by the public utilities commission of
ohio as a governmental aggregator
because it has been some time since that
certification was provided
we'll have some administrative updates
to make with the utilities commission
in advance of actually
procuring supply for the aggregation
in addition we will be helping the city
with
the rfp and that's really a
key deliverable in this process because
that's the opportunity for the city to
define its objectives
and send that out to the marketplace to
see what suppliers can
provide in terms of a product that
aligns with those objectives
and then we'll also be supporting the um
update to the plan of operation and
governance for the aggregation
that that effectively uh outlines
um the customer
protections and the governance structure
of the aggregation and so those are some
of the key deliverables that will have
to be
put together and finalized between now
and the objective of having supply in
place by june
so with that i think we can go ahead and
get into questions uh a couple
real quickly before we get into
questions uh two two more things to
highlight just for council
um you do have attached to the agenda
some historic information about
aggregation and bexley
so the uh the exhibit here shows
ordinance 6101 from 2001 that
um uh authorized a ballot initiative and
then there's a certification of that
ballot initiative from 2001. so there's
there's a little bit of historic
information about when that initially
happened
bexley never i don't think and i could
be wrong
maybe bill would know this but bexley
never actually ended up
entering into electric aggregation we
did enter into gas
aggregation with igs but we had we we
did get the
the right to do that through the ballot
issue in 2001.
um other thing is tonight so tonight
we're talking really high level we're
talking concept
concept being additive uh competitive
rate
you know opt out at our meeting in
january our second reading of this
we'll have a lot more information in
terms of a fleshed out you know
what what a draft rfp looks like that
we'll be presenting
and a lot more information and detail
about what we're looking for from the
marketplace so
tonight is a uh tonight is a sneak peek
and it's just over
overarching big picture january we'll
get into the details
and with that um any questions
uh ms lamke mr borchers thank you so
much
for for being here tonight um two very
quick questions for
you one if i wanted to do some research
on my own to learn more about this
because i am not an energy
geek and i i don't know a lot of that
language if i wanted kind of a
renewable energy 101 to learn more and
understand this better where could i go
to
to to get educated
yes thank you i think the first place to
start
as an ohio resident would be the public
utility
commission of ohio they they have a
website that is geared towards uh
consumers
and they have good background
information about
renewable energy supply as well as
governmental aggregation
and i'd be happy to follow up with some
additional
materials if that would be helpful great
thank you and my second question was the
mayor just referenced um
there's a possibility that obviously
this could be a competitive rate
um does that usually mean cheaper or
substantially cheaper for
users
yeah so without going too far
down the rabbit hole and history of
aggregation aggregation has been around
in ohio for a couple of decades and it's
been utilized
extensively by communities hundreds of
communities
and millions of customers use
governmental aggregation
traditionally communities have had
really aggregated with
one purpose in mind and that has been to
negotiate a lower price now that
other objectives are being identified
and opportunities are becoming available
in the market
products seek to achieve other things
for example
local in-state renewable energy
uh and so part of the balance uh
through this rfp that we'll be seeking
is how do you
how do you achieve both of those
objectives um renewable energy
is increasingly cost competitive um but
it's also important for the citizens of
bexley to have a competitive
product and so that's something my team
will be
working closely with all of you about
through this rfp
process um traditionally though in
aggregation
we've seen a variety of price models
there's there have been fixed price
products variable price products
uh there have been products and
aggregations that are a
percent off the price to compare
or the utilities standard service offer
so you have a guarantee that your
aggregation supply is a certain percent
less than that price so there are a
variety of
um ways that suppliers might propose
to provide a price and and that'll be
part of the process of evaluating the
rfp responses to
ensure that the price stays competitive
one thing to add to that is that you
know prior to us going and engaging
bricker we had been having conversations
uh and trying to determine what what
might pricing look like if we did this
monique and we were encouraged that
at least in today's costs with energy
costs being actually quite low right now
we were able to achieve savings for
residents
based on some preliminary numbers now
one of the major concerns
that we have is that over the next
period of time with this we're able to
continue to have
some levers in order to maintain a
competitive pricing because the
in order to do this it will require a
pretty long-term horizon on
a long-term commitment into some
renewable projects
so that's going to be a piece of that
and you'll see more details emerge
through the rfp
the other thing is because in terms of
references because columbus
has done so much work in getting this
ballot initiative out there's a lot of
information out there
now it's not exactly 100 the same plan
so you're not necessarily like there are
for example some aspects where columbus
is adding on some additional expenses
in their project in order to fund some
other initiatives
uh which we don't anticipate doing as
part of our fp
so there are some smaller details but
overall
the generic the general concepts the
overarching ideas are the same so like
sustainable columbus is a really good
resource with lots of information on
that website it's up it's up on the
screen in front of you right now
and if you just as in essence if you
search for materials related to
columbus's program
you'll be able to find a lot of really
good information which will be
99 uh tracking with what we're looking
at doing
great thank you both i look forward to
learning a lot more
great questions monique richards is up
mr sharp
okay um so if thank you um mr um
fortress for attending i really
appreciate the time that you
are giving to citizens and council
tonight
so if i'm understanding there's no
existing
aggregation plan that is currently in
place for the residents
that's dormant or inactive
at the moment or is that something that
we're
still looking into if there are any
residents under our program
yeah thank you for that question
the city uh activated
um back in 2002 so that that's when the
voters approved it
and the city was certified as a
governmental
aggregator for the purposes of providing
electric supply
or procuring electric supply for the
citizens of bexley that certification
expired in 2006 so it's effectively
a dormant status
so we we have initiated discussions with
the utilities commission
in terms of the best way to effectively
reactivate the certification
that that'll be some form of an amended
application
for the commission to review and
reauthorize the certification
okay and then um our enabling
ordnance 61-01 specifically referenced
american electric power
as a provider under the program
so are we allowed to have really have a
rfp from other entities or
are we uh limited since the voters
specifically uh referenced american
electric power in the ordinance
uh limited to aep proposals
yes so that is a good
clarification so american electric power
is the distribution utility
uh for the city uh they will remain
the electric distribution utility uh
what
the rfp will be seeking is a
supplier for the generation um
and for the generation supply of the
city and so
um nothing will change in terms of who
actually
owns the wires and operates the
distribution system that that remains
the
uh incumbent distribution utility aep
ohio what would be different
is who's actually supplying the
generation
just by way of analogy some of you may
shop
with competitive retail electric
suppliers
certainly you've all received
solicitations in the mail or
over the phone to purchase your supply
through
this supplier or that supplier
we're looking at a similar thing for for
this aggregation except it's for the
entire
aggregation the the pooled load of the
city
for supply but again the the incumbent
utility
that actually owns and operates the
distribution system
remains the same okay so in that
authorization ordinance uh the section
two
near the end of that section where it
says the cities program shall be served
by one or more
supplier agreements that's basically
what you're saying that gives us
the authority to um
that aap can provide this as a supplier
okay okay i'm generally supportive
in the city um
um doing things that meet the needs of
of the residents and i know a lot of
residents have concerns about fossil
fuels and
um would prefer alternatively generated
um energy which i appreciate my main
concern i'll just throw it out at the
beginning is
that um in the past people have been
concerned about the
environmental impacts of suburban sprawl
and now i'm seeing that most of the wind
and solar projects in ohio are taking
farmland
and in the recent columbus
agreement if ever if everyone who is
eligible at the percentages that they
anticipate
to provide that solar and wind
surface would take up to the area of um
equivalent to the size of the city of
dublin
um in land so
i i prefer brownfields like the
phoenix golf course um
that sueco was working with and i prefer
existing building
um footprint additions
but i'm just raising that as a concern
and trying to do good in one area that
we don't actually
do harm in another area
thank you
one thing i can tell you polar
developers and we've
been looking over the past several years
with this is that
you know they're they're looking at land
that is is the
um obviously lowest priced because that
to them is it gives them the greatest
return on their investment
and so a lot of the land that ends up
getting used is not tillable either
because of
floodplain issues or you know other
other issues that make it lower price
than agricultural land
now i'm not saying that's universally
true i just know that that is
a consideration that goes into trying to
cite
uh solar development and i certainly
don't think that we could necessarily
well i think it's worth worth taking
into consideration your concerns and
seeing if we could somehow
you know get a little more information
about that
council is there anybody else that has
any questions for mr fortress or
the mayor any concerns or comments
i know that dylan will make himself
available to us he's been very generous
with this time should we
should we have other questions for him
and um certainly the mayor can provide
his
his email um and he could uh
help you out if that if if you if you
need
to talk to him is there anybody in
attendance
who has any questions for mr borchers or
for the mayor or any comments about
about this piece of legislation
i don't i don't see any so um
i guess we will bid mr borchard's ado
tell him thank you thank you thank you
for sharing your time
and um hey you can stay on if you want
to be completely entertained for the
next
i don't know how long or you could or
you could just
you know snap off that's okay too so
anyway
you're thrilled that you were here with
us um happy holidays whatever holiday
you celebrate
and um have a healthy healthy 2021 and
we will see you on the other side
likewise thank you all and have a good
evening bye
thanks so much for being with us bye-bye
all right if we could
mr fishel i believe readings
thank you we have a third reading of
ordinance 31-20 to establish the salary
for the office
of bexley auditor for the years 2022
through 2025
introduced by mr markham okay let's do
the markham show you ready mr marcum
i'm ready to go thank you thank you
president fibel
uh this is a third reading for uh this
ordinance so i
just want to make a quick review of what
it does cover
uh this would uh uh reestablish the
salary for the auditor position here in
bexley that's an elected
uh it's an elected official it's elected
office
uh it is a with the as is written right
now as a
step uh over four years uh
to uh to uh uh raise the auditor's
salary
it would not be a raise for our auditor
it would not be a
craze for our current auditor would be
for the
next election cycle so it would not take
place until
2022 um
so i think that covers the basics i know
that we've had some
pretty good discussion about this
especially in the last meeting i would
like to thank uh
council members i think lampke and saad
several of you
brought up brought some uh research and
information to the table
i would turn this over to uh council
at this point to uh to discuss
all right ladies and gentlemen anything
that you would like
to ask any concerns that you might have
regarding this piece of legislation
mr sharp richard i don't have any
concern i just
would like to put on the records since
the
salary hasn't been changed for 20 years
and
bexley auditors need to be back sea
residents it's not something that we can
um
get from outside the city
we need to make at least that part-time
position
um competitive for someone to
want to fulfill that
duty thank you great i love the summary
that
um that mr markum presented for us
and um richard's points were were well
taken as well
um looks like ms lamke has her hand in
the
uh raised monique please i just wanted
to reiterate that i will
support this we typically
do not have droves and droves of folks
who
want to be our city auditor who live in
bexley who want to run for office who
have the right
financial background and skills
experience
that we need so i agree with mr sharp
that we do need to remain competitive
to attract the very best future city
auditor that we can
thank you miss lamke another great point
um
jessica yes i just wanted to
for the record um as we discussed last
time in our research at other
municipalities it's very hard
to compare bexley to other
municipalities
because there's different structures as
far as where the
auditor um and their responsibilities
set in the city and with that being said
we we look like we're not as competitive
we don't even come
close to what other municipalities um
pay their auditors but again
we have a different setup with beecher
and jessica
and um mr harvey currently than than
other cities it's structured differently
so i do i am tonight going to be in
favor of this because of the research
that we have done
um looking at 20 years with
no increases this not affecting our
current auditor who
goes above and beyond is always
accessible to us
works really hard for the city and as a
new um
council member has been a huge help
helping me with the history
of the city and and um has also as
as he stated in the last meeting you've
got to be someone who's firm
who keeps the um the council and the
mayor all of us in line on
what what and where we should spend and
it's important to get the right person
in there so
what we're looking at tonight just to
readdress this as it's on the screen is
this is not effective until 2022 it's
four thousand dollars over four years so
it's a thousand dollars a year
and i think that um it is time to make
this happen
thanks jessica anybody else want to add
anything on yeah
i i i don't think that there is anything
more to add
all of you have spoken so eloquently
about this
and i do believe that if we are blessed
with another
uh auditor um we would love it for bill
to continue and run again
um but if he so chooses let's pray that
we have somebody
um like him and if so
this amount of money more than
needs to happen so is there anybody in
attendance that would like to share
their thoughts about this piece of
legislation
seeing none mr markham i think that we
are ready for a
motion from you yeah i'd just like to
add before i do that that this seems
appropriate time for me to also
uh say that we we do really appreciate
the work that bill harvey does here we
rely on him
so much and i i think this is probably
an overdue measure
we do supplement his uh position with
compliments wherever we can but
we know that probably attracting new
candidates they may not
appreciate that as much so it is my hope
that we can
invigorate that and this will provide a
necessary correction to uh to where uh
that has not been uh corrected for many
many many years
having said that uh at this time i would
like to move that we
adopt ordinance 31-20
all right there's a first i was i'm
sorry matt was that you
i believe it was mr sharp all right mr
sharp thank you we have a first from mr
markham
and a second from mr sharp um
mr city auditor assad
yes mr klingler yes ms lamke
yes says robinson yes mr
sharp yes mr markham
yes miss fibal yes
passes mr auditor we will try to make up
for
all all that uh that we owe you in hugs
after the pandemic is over because we
know how much you love hugs
thank you he does not like hugs
anyway moving on if we could please
all right ordnance third reading of
ordinance 54-20 to establish pay rates
for full-time
non-bargaining unit employees and
officials of the city of bexley
effective january 1st 2021
introduced by mr mark
have at it thank you and i i do not
promise to hug bill harvey by the way
uh ordinance uh 54-20 we've uh we've had
a few readings on this
uh the pay rates and i know that we have
some amendments that we have to make
tonight
i know that the the mayor and uh beecher
have been very busy on this
yeah so um the one i'm aware of
is uh first off this is a proposed
amended and so i think we talked about
last
week what those amendments were they had
to do with the hazard bonus
they had to do with making the chief and
captains
pay an hourly as opposed to a salary
which doesn't really impact next year
but in the future would be a good thing
to have set up because of the pay period
issue
and then the uh attachment the pay scale
does now include the right-of-way
coordinator position
which is in our budget
and we came up with this pay scale using
uh morpsy's salary survey
now right-of-way coordinator that
position itself is not a
is not a it's sort of it's
it's a different position in different
cities that have it so it's not like a
straightforward apples to apples so we
looked across a broad array of like
building inspectors on-site construction
inspectors
assistant engineers and just like sort
of similar skill sets
and we made sure that we were
competitive within that arena
we think that this range which is the
same range you'll see as our supervisors
within the service department
captures the uh the talent
set that we need um we hope that's true
um this being a new position obviously
you do your best to try to
to make sure that you're competitive and
you know you live and learn so
um i think it's important that the pay
range
be similar to the supervisors
if indeed you know that does bookend
what the market
uh would pay for that position because i
think just from a you could imagine from
an organizational morale perspective
it's it's good to
keep people on an even keel as much as
possible so i am um
suggesting that that that pay range be
the one that we adopt
and i'm happy to answer any questions
about that and beecher i don't know are
they
there are there any other changes
uh the only one i'm aware of is that we
need it
past or we need to have a language that
says it goes into effect immediately and
bill harvey can chime in on that
we we do have that oh okay yeah
bill and i had talked on on my way home
and i wasn't sure if that had been added
or not my apologies
that's fine the other
minor change is the initial document i
think
suggested that the uh finance director
had the authority to make those changes
this gives the auditor that authority
the to move the money around so that we
didn't um
section five that that section five did
say
the finance director had that
authorization now it says the auditor
all right um it looks like richard has
his hand
um raised richard
mr sharp yeah i'm trying to find my end
meet
sorry don't worry my only question
is this person
are they actually supervised would they
actually be supervising on a day-to-day
basis
anyone um i
i'm not i'm i'm looking at eric and
and brandon and um that are
supervisors that have a number of people
directly
and ron gould under them uh supposedly
to this person that's pretty much
working
on their own i would seem to think
with the building and sandy department
this position is um
going to be incredibly independent it's
going to be important they have a they
have a technical skill set
um coming out of the gate that is not um
necessarily the same as
employees who are rising up through the
ranks of the service department
and they are supervising the utilities
in the right-of-way so
in going through the at uh and
the inspection and the um oversight the
analysis of plans the communication it's
a skill set that is uh
not exactly the same as you know uh
supervisor supervising employees but it
requires its own
level of as you could imagine its own
level of technical expertise
communication ability
and knowledge and experience so this
will be a
experienced position it will most likely
not be an internal
uh position unless we have maybe an
employee that
has these has this training and the
skill set from a prior life that
is bringing it to the table um you know
there are
analogous positions in some other cities
going up to 120 to 150 000
i think um andy can speak to that
in his is trying to determine the range
we feel that because it's being overseen
through the service director and because
bexley's not you know 30 square miles
that we can
we can make this position happen within
this pay range but i think it's
um certainly if anything we're spewing
to the lower end of the range not to the
higher branch
andy would you like to add to that at
all is andy's still here
oh yeah i don't see that andy's still on
oh yeah yeah yes
but he's just hanging out in the
sidelines so all right
all right um council does anybody have
any other questions or concerns
about this prior to me asking um
mr markham if he has any action
on it
troy do you have some amen do you want
to
move to um make a motion to um amend
yeah let's do that uh i move that we
amend ordinance 54-20 as shown
um in a second please a second
thank you mr uh klingler um
any questions on the amendments
from council from those in attendance
um mr auditor mr sharp
yes ms lamke
yes mr markham guys miss assad
yes mr klingler yes miss fibel
yes ms robinson yes
passes uh mr markham
do you have more um
on this at this time i move that we
adopt ordinance 54-20
thank you amended ordinance
54-20 thank you mr auditor a second
please
a second i thought that was mrs robinson
um any questions on
this amended piece of legislation
from the council from those in
attendance
mr auditor mr markham yes
ms fiable yes mossad yes
mr sharp yes
ms lamke yes mr klingler
yes ms robinson yes
passes thank you uh mr city attorney
hey we are on to the third reading of
ordinance 55-20 to establish rates for
part-time and casual
employees of the city of bexley
effective as of january 1st 2021
introduced by yes you knew it mr markham
troy i have in my notes that we also
have some amendments for this ordinance
as well
all right who has those amendments that
we need to
consider i'm
i'm not aware of any or or uh am i
forgetting something
beecher bill uh
beecher i thought jessica said there
were a couple of typos in here that were
corrected
uh i don't recall i'm not sure we'd have
to amend it for typos
okay so i'm i'm
i'm guessing we should uh mr city
attorney were okay with this one
typos okay
are there any questions that anybody in
attendance has
i mean any of the any of the council
members has concerning
um ordinance 5520
any questions from those in attendance
all right mr um markham do you have
action on this
at this time i move that we adopt
ordinance 55-20
right um is there a second i'll second
miss on thank you massa again any
questions from council or from
those in attendance mr auditor
ms lamke yes mr markham
yes ms fiable yes mr sharp
yes ms robinson yes
mr assad yes mr klingler
yes passes thank you
mr official okay so
if next ordinance can be read
um or if somebody's making a motion well
let me just read it um third reading of
ordinance 58-20 to establish the water
and sewer rates charged by the city of
bexley introduced by mr markham
so last week uh the mayor gave us the
news that
we are able to actually absorb
uh the increase from the city of
columbus without passing that cost
on to our uh community
this year and it seems like a timely
thing to be able to
to do so it is
my pleasure to make a motion to
withdraw ordinance 58-20 and the
citizens of bexley will see no increase
in the rate for water and sewage this
year
is there mr sure thank you mr sharp
any any questions about this from
council or from those in attendance
all right mr auditor please mr markham
yes mr sharp
yes mossad yes
ms lamke yes mr klingler
yes miss fibel yes ms robinson
yes passes all right
mr fishball secondary all right
for for that that's i think the
residents will appreciate it and
obviously it's uh i think it's really
great that we can do this right now
sorry
sorry to speak out of order madam
president i apologize good stuff mr
mr kessler it's all good
oh sorry second reading ordered in 60-20
to create the bexley residential
sewer remediation loan program
introduced by mr markham
so the mayor talked about this last week
this is part of the comprehensive
program to help our community fix
the uh issues that we've had with sewer
and water and flooding in basements
uh this would help create the loan
program or it could extend
funding to residents who need to make
extensive
uh remediation uh to their to their
systems
uh this would uh be a net
zero cost to the city because the
residents would pay this money back to
us
uh over time uh any comments from the
mayor and questions at this point
mr mayor anything else you have to add
i i uh you know we covered this last
week's meeting
um and i have not prepared any
additional material but
i expect that we can go into a deeper
dive at the our first meeting in january
and then hopefully
pass this sequentially with the um
with the uh the grant program
thank you mr mayor and uh it looks like
monique lampke has um her hand
and up monique uh mayor i know that uh
we we said you know it's not really a
loan program because residents will pay
this back but can you give us an idea of
the administrative costs to the city
to administer this loan program
yeah that's a fantastic question um i'd
have to
put some thought into that monique
obviously some of it will depend upon
the volume of interest in
in moving forward i will tell you that
the actual grant
and inspection program will be far more
labor-intensive than i think the loan
program would be
um but uh we can put some thought into
that
great thank you any other questions from
council
any questions from the attendees and i'm
just going to remind the attendees that
if they have a question
there's um there's a button you can push
at the bottom of your screen that raises
your hand and then
we would just ask you to give us your
name and your address we would love to
hear from you
okay um mr markham is it okay if we move
on yeah i'm just gonna
ask you to follow up to that and see
what uh mr harvey if he has any thoughts
on that that's that's kind of an
interesting question because i guess
on the other side of that uh we
definitely will have some administrative
costs but we'll actually be charging
some sort of interest rate on this money
as well so
i'm curious if mr harvey has any
thoughts on
where we end up cost wise on this
yeah i
there will be a cost i'm not sure it
will be a dramatic
incremental cost my guess is it'll be
able to be absorbed in the
staff that we have either in my
department or the mayor's department
but i think mayor is right we need to
spend a little bit of time thinking
about it
obviously a big part of it would depend
on how many people take advantage of it
and we'll have to make some estimates
assuming you know percentages there
i don't think i don't think the
management alone program will be that
big a deal
okay thank you we look forward to
hearing from you guys next time around
then
um richard sherp has his hand in the air
richard
and uh since it's going to be added to
um to the real estate um
assessments uh there'll be a
annual or semi-annual um ordinance
with all of the the properties and
amounts
that are added to the tax assessments
similar to the uh
sidewalk assessment and the um
the grass and lawn mowing assessments
uh for people who haven't kept up with
their mind
bill is do you have a correction to
anything i said
yes richard if i could madam president
um i don't think we would do this
on a semi-annual basis my my
assumption is that once the people
borrow the money
we would put all that over onto the tax
duplicates and have it paid back
over time that way we have to look in
the mechanics of that with the county
but
that's what i would prefer to do because
that makes the process a whole lot
simpler than coming to council
every six months and saying you know
here's another six-month payment from
resident a and
madam president if i may i think bill's
right about that i'm not
again i'm not going to say i'm
completely positive about that but i
think that
i will i think this is the other two
that richard is mentioning
um but again i'm not sure i'm not
talking about the
i'm not talking about us semi-annual
payments or annual payments for
each one just to put the whole loan
amount
onto the assessment and not what we do
we put the whole
loan amount in one ordinance for each
property
i'd like to write the loan agreement so
we don't have to go through that process
but we'll we'll work through those
details as we
get closer i think and that's actually a
great point that might want to be
incorporated into this ordinance it's
not dissimilar to when we
first crafted the concept of the
residential pace which provided criteria
by which
if that applicant met the criteria it
could be assessed it wouldn't require
further action of counsel
i don't think so i think that might that
may be something we look into i don't
think that's currently written that way
okay gentlemen we'll count on you to get
back to us on that next time around
[Music]
thank you if there are no further
questions from council or from the
attendees
i'm going to ask mr official to move on
please
okay we have a second rating of ordnance
61-20 to appropriate 59 thousand dollars
from the coronavirus fund for the
purpose of paying eligible expenses
related
to the copa 19 pandemic introduced by mr
markham
thank you mr official uh and this is
more
uh good news that we have additional
cares act
funding that's come from the federal
government to us
and we need to uh pass this ordinance so
that we can
accept that money and appropriate it uh
it probably bears mentioning
as well that a couple things one is that
uh the city has been doing uh the mayor
has been doing a great job of
distributing
putting his cares act funding to to use
this last part of the year
to help the community help the city
and this is really uh you know it's a
fortunate thing for us
uh this additional 59 thousand dollars i
will be
asking tonight uh to suspend and adopt
this because we are facing some really
really tight deadlines
uh to uh to spend to spend these this
funds as well
okay then with that mr mr markham i
would like you to go ahead and
and make a motion if you don't mind to
suspend the three reading requirement to
for ordnance 6120 oh yeah i would did
you i guess i wanted to make sure there
was any questions about this still or
anything
said we can absolutely see if anybody
has any questions
panelists yep there's somebody ms lamke
please
um just because of the timing do we need
emergency language
in this or we find given that it's
december
uh december 8th
does it have i don't believe that
appropriation ordinances
emergency language they go into effect
immediately is that right mark i think
that's right i don't think we need again
available by the end of the year i think
we're good okay thank you
good question though monique um
anybody anybody else have any um
concerns or questions
any anyone from council or any one of
the attendees
all right mr markham at this time i
would move that we
suspend the three reading rule for
ordinance
61-20
all right is there a second second
i thank you mr um klingler
um mr auditor assad
yes mr klingler yes
yes mr sharp
yes ms robinson yes ms lamke
yes mr markham yes passes
mr marcum this time i move that we adopt
ordinance 61-20
is there a second second i think mr
the auditor has uh looked like he had a
question or comment mr auditor
just a quick question troy are we
positive the 59 000 is the right number
beecher are you on did because there was
a question whether it was 59
000 or 59 000 and change
it is 59 000 and change i believe what
does the ordinance say
59 000. um
yeah i don't believe it's exactly 59 000
it is i don't believe it exactly 59 000.
um so however not being
my computer i don't know
troy let me see can i suggest we make
that 60 000
so we don't miss out on the last 848
or whatever it is okay that's all right
with me as long as that sounds good to
uh
to you and beat you okay so let's let's
talk about this we need to imagine this
do we need them to suspend the amended
and then we need to uh
pass it correct am i right mr official
we don't need to just we've you've
already suspended you can still
you can amend now and then pass it all
right
perfect all right i'm gonna pass it back
to you mr markham
all right do your magic i i think you're
testing me tonight lauria
you're doing you're a plus professor
at this time i would move that we amend
ordinance 61-20 to reflect
the amount the increase from 59 thousand
dollars
to 60 thousand dollars in the title and
the text
wonderful mr markham is there a second
second
right we have a first from mr markham
and a second from ms robinson
on amending ordinance 6120 to raise 59
000 to the 60 000 as noted by our
auditor just to be safe
um any questions from council
on amending any questions from attendees
all right mr auditor mossad
yes ms robinson yes ms fibel
yes mr markham yes mr
sharp yes ms lamke
yes mr klingler yes
okay suspended and amended
um further action mr markham
yes more action
uh at this time i would move that we
adopt
amended ordinance 61-20
nice job is there a second all second
this is miss sod thank you miss sod
questions from council
comments from council questions or
comments from the attendees
seeing none mr zlamke yes mossad
yes mr klingler yes miss fibel
yes mr sharp yes
ms robinson yes mr markham
yes passed thank you so much
um first readings mr fishel
okay we have a first reading of ordnance
62-20 authorizing the city to enter into
an agreement with the ohio department of
natural resources
to accept the 250 000 grant from the
state of
ohio uh
capital fund appropriation for purposes
of renovating jeffrey mansion
mr marcum yeah i'm still here
uh so we have a first reading here and
again
more good news i think this is uh uh an
ordinance uh
asking us to um accept 250 000
grant for the uh mansion uh
renovation project and i think uh do we
still have
uh director mike price here you may want
to say a few things about this
michael this is yes can you hear me yep
so this is just a formality in terms of
receiving the grant from the state this
is from their
20 1920 fiscal year
so yeah it's just a matter of having
this completed and then we
can uh request the funds
and to clarify to council this is not we
are
we are currently active and seeking an
additional 250. this is the first 250
that we already were aware of so it's
the
it's from the prior uh capital budget
all right is there a special there's no
special action required for this one
there is
there is okay uh unless unless
i yeah actually uh normally we do not
ask for a lot of suspended adopts but i
believe
for uh some i think we're under a
deadline
for this one as well that is correct
right mr price
yes please i would i would request a
suspension adoption so we can move
forward with uh securing the phone yeah
mike mike called me in the middle in the
middle of a medical procedure to tell me
that
we needed to do this all right and troy
answered the phone and responded in the
middle of the metaphor
while they were while they were doing
while they were yeah it was it was the
dentist chair actually but you know
it's even harder to talk not heart
surgery that's good
that's so far um so at this time are we
ready
you ready for me i i i'm ready for you
and we can ask for questions after you
go ahead and
and uh do a little bit of your magic
again
okay and normally normally as i said we
don't like to suspend and adopt a lot of
finance stuff but
this is uh a positive if we're not
spending money we're receiving it so i
think that's
probably appropriate at this time i
would move that we suspend the three
reading rule for ordinance 62-20
second by mr sharp all right thank you
mr sharp so we have a first from mr
markham and a second from mr sharp
anyone in on that council have any
questions concerning
this piece of legislation anyone in
attendance i guess what i'm not asking
specifically about the i'm asking about
the suspension anybody have any
questions or concerns about the
suspension
saying none um mr auditor mr klingler
yes mossad yes mr sharp
yes mr markham yes ms robinson
yes ms fiable yes ms lamke
yes passes
troy yeah uh and just an additional
comment
uh kudos to uh to mr price and mayor
kessler for really
working constantly and so hard to uh to
secure
additional funding outside funding to
for this project because i think that's
that shows great stewardship to the city
and uh it's
greatly appreciated this time i would
move that we
pass ordinance that we
that we adopt ordinance 62-20
thank you mr markham is there a second
second by mr klingler
thank you mr klingler any questions
about
passing ordinance 6220
any from those in attendance
mr auditor mr klingler
yes ms assad yes
ms robinson yes ms lamke
yes mr markham yes ms fibel
yes mr sharp yes
passes super exciting guys good work
everyone tabled ordinances is there any
action on any of the tabled ordinances
it looks like we have some from mr
sharp mr sharpeny action on your tabled
ordinance
there's no action on amended ordinance
27-20
okay um mr markham any action on
ordinance 43-19 no action
okay i don't believe there are any
others that need attention am i correct
uh the budget oh yeah the budget sorry
sorry yes the mayor needed to scroll
down a little bit further
sorry about that everyone all right
back to troy margot after uh because i
guess we've already read this three
times so
mr markham you're on sir yeah i'm just
too tired at this point
but laura don't want to have to meet
next week because six six
six and one in six weeks is too much
go on thank you mr official at this time
i moved that we
that we uh remove amended ordinance
52-20 from the table
is there a second
ms seconds thank you monique um all
those in favor of voice vote
signify by saying aye aye aye those
opposed same sign
all right let's do it
uh yeah you know it's been a busy night
when you forget about the budget
we're gonna blame it on mr kessler even
if it isn't his fault
uh so we've had three readings of the
budget we've had presentations and a lot
of great questions i i would really like
to just
also take this time to thank all of you
i know a lot of you this is your first
year on city council
and i really appreciate the time and
effort you put into reviewing the budget
into doing your meetings and asking
questions i think
it's probably one of the more
challenging tasks that we have here
uh and i've been very pleased with how
seriously you've all taken this
uh and how uh what a great job you've
done on this
at this time uh we open this up for any
questions
any comments from the city council
members i believe
prior to doing that i might um ask um
mr kessler if you don't mind um troy i
want to see if the mayor
has any are there changes or anything we
need to
address as far as that's concerned um
yes madam president thank you um so just
to
uh bring you up to speed on the second
page here as in the past
there are a couple changes in this in
this version
um they're they're really good changes i
think we'll be happy about these one
the first one is rather minor the
feature inputted the proper
public health contract increase uh so
there's a 2256
dollar increase in the franklin county
public health contract
um but then the other one is we've had
uh to piggyback off of what we're just
talking about about
the jeffrey mansion grant process we've
had some really encouraging
indications that our second capital
budget request
is currently being is currently in the
draft version of the state capital
budget um they're due to vote on that in
the next week or two
and so uh based upon those indications
and some really positive meetings we've
had over the past several weeks
we've added that in as a line item in
the grants account
and as a income stream in the grants
income so
obviously if that does not come through
that'll just go away and that wouldn't
that wouldn't uh be in place but this
allows us to
uh get that appropriation in place in
the grants account
in the uh in the event which seems
likely that we'll receive that second
round of funding so that's
it's really good news for the city it's
preemptive we're not
you know we're not there yet or
preliminary i guess uh but
uh we're hopeful so those are the two
changes the rest of it should be
um the same as it was in our last
revision
thank you mr mayor um i do see a hand
um from mr sharp richard
yes i want to thank beecher um and thank
council for
allowing uh this ordinance to be tabled
last week
he did make a couple other changes that
i caught one was the economic
development service fund
we had last year's budget number in
there and
uh on this edition it has a cracked 88
700 and then also on the mayor's
court computer fund they had 2020's
number in there of 1 000
it's now 3500
and um we did have one item to fire
contract that's um
has since in there that i'd suggest to
be
put as a whole number but um that's not
reflected
but that's relatively immaterial and
can be a typo correction i guess
and um then on the last page
the employee separation fund
um was originally a hundred thousand
and um i think we're actually
appropriating or transferring
30 000 is what's on the general fund
summary
and mayor um is that correct
i had a question about that in my email
and i believe it was also
correctly split out between the capital
and the budget
stability fund capital should have been
200 instead of the 300 and the budget
stability fund was 100
that would have been combined with the
capital number
i think all those changes are reflected
in this revised
ordinance which then would need to be
officially amended
yeah uh richard i apologize was not
aware of those changes beecher do you
have any further comments on that
and richard i do appreciate it no
comments i didn't understand a couple
things that richard
said um in his email
but i cleaned up everything that was
budget related
um everything in the budget ordinance is
correct i
i was richard had said that there was
um transfers of capital improvements
fund not reflected
but they were um but that was just in
the budget book anyway that had nothing
to do with the ordinance so
i'm 99 and nine tenths percent sure the
ordinance is now exactly how it's
supposed to be
but due to richard's point beecher i do
think the ordinance needs to be amended
oh the ordinance needs to be amended for
no other reason just because of the
changes we made today right
all right
all right so we need we need to make
um amendments um we need to
pass excuse me madam president can we go
to
uh page two of the ordinance where it
does refer
to the capital transfer
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line i just want to verify that on this
copy that we're all looking at
because on my copy of the ordinance it
shows 300 000
from the on last week's copies
and i'm not sure what this copy states
on the actual ordinance itself not the
mayor's
um uh budget book the ordinance
page two right that's so that's what's
on this
i'm sorry i'm looking at a screen that
you guys don't have so yeah
on the screen um
i wouldn't mind it being 300 i think we
have plenty of reserve for that but
i'm talking about that on page two
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it is showing 200 but i thought that's
what we had put in there
on page two that's page four
on the screen on the screen we're seeing
i'm sorry
uh okay right in the middle there and my
screen
my thing is covering it you can't
see where it says capital transfer
to capital improvements that's our 2021
budget transfer the 200
000 is our 2020 budget transfer that's
showing up in this budget ordinance
so there's those are two different
transfers
it's a total transfer of 500 000.
so one of the things this budget
ordinance is accomplishing at section
um three is to authorize a 2020 transfer
of 200 000 so
we have we have built up reserves in our
general fund this year
so we're taking some of those reserves
and we're putting some in the capital
improvements fund
and some of the reserves are going to
this budget stability fund
on page two that's showing the 2021
transfer to the capital fund
from the 2021 budget and if i'm
stating the obvious i apologize
now no if that's what it is um
that's that's great i just wanted to
make sure because the numbers were
were very similar and i just want to
make sure what we were talking about
so that looks fine then
okay
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are we um ready to ask
for any other questions from anyone from
council
richard everything is cleared up for you
yes and i'd be happy to make a motion to
amend ordinance 52-20 as it
appears on the screen all right um
there's a motion is there a second
oh second assad thank you miss sod
um any questions um
about the amendments from anyone
anyone on council and anyone in
attendance
okay troy if you're okay with it we're
going to go ahead and ask the officer to
vote
first and a second on the amended budget
mr klingler yes ms fibel
yes assad yes ms robinson
yes mr markham yes
ms lamke yes mr sharp
yes all right mr finance
chair what do you got for us
on the biggest thing and finance of the
year what do you got
all right still got a little still got a
little left in me here
move that we adopt amended
ordinance 52-20
super exciting is there a second
um i'll second that
i beat you matt um all right
are there any are there any further
questions about the budget
from council from those in attendance
mayor kessler way to go great job
and mr auditor it's you mr sharp
mr sharp yes ms fibel
yes ms robinson yes mr klingler
yes mr markham yes
ms lamke yes mossad
yes passes
madam president by meg please i just
want to thank you guys for for the the
process it was a uh
it was a remarkable budget year for many
reasons
um the challenges that we're we're
facing
um potentially as we go into next year
but also some of the opportunities and
then also your ability to
as a council to to navigate through all
this and
and ask tough questions and and uh
with with in a spirit of partnership and
uh and a spirit of collaboration has
been really
really great so i appreciate you guys
and thank you for your support of the
budget
nice job all right moving on service and
environmental community readings
of ordinance and meetings richard sharp
chair old business
new business or report sir
no report this evening thank you mr
sharp
finance committee um mr markham
old business i know you got some new
business
i have some new business uh i i have
actually two things
one is that i'm really before we get
into uh
what's on the agenda there uh i'm really
excited i know yesterday evening uh was
sort of a field trip
for city council to attend cic
and i think you guys got a good one
because uh
uh pretty exciting to hear uh that the
the cic has uh entered into a
purchase agreement to buy the uh
building on
cassidy the what's i guess 420 north
cassie right the
art within a building and
hoping to move forward with a
with a developer to create
something with multi-use multi-income
housing something that would really uh
be a huge
wonderful beautiful asset for the city
and so i i just think that's
very very exciting uh last night
announced that
uh so that's the uh the news from the
cic and i know
many of you were there
thank you troy
other new business uh i
i've never done this so this is like uh
this is like uh a final exam for me here
tonight uh figuring out all these
procedures but i would move
that we that we move into executive
session pursuant to
2223.03 d of the codified
ordinances to prepare for conduct or
review
negotiations or bargaining sessions with
public employees concerning their
compensation
or other terms and conditions of their
employment
okay we have a motion on the table and i
know that we need a second
um do we have a second um
thank you mr klingler mr official could
this be a voice vote
no it has to be uh individual roll call
vote
okay mr auditor
mr sharp yes ms robinson
yes ms lamke yes
mr klingler yes mossad
yes mr markham yes ms fibel
yes all right so we have voted to go
into executive session
um maybe some of you do not need to be
walked through this but we have to turn
do we have to turn off this um
zoom and go into the other zoom correct
need to leave this meeting and go into
the other one and then we'll come back
gotcha you guys should have that link
and then this account will continue in
here so this meeting will stay live
until we uh reconvene all right
for me to look it up can you remind who
sent that
link it as a calendar item
that helps it was sent on thursday
december
3rd thank you
mr k hold on all right
so we're leaving this one and going to
another one
oh boy
is that right jess we're leaving this
one
okay yes yep bye-bye
all right
jessica you were the first one to come
back on oh no i thought you were but
there's lots of other people
yeah where have you been lauren we've
been just sitting here waiting for you
are we all on 8 45.
what up one two one two
three four
i think we're all here i can't quite
tell yeah
i think we're here we are all here raise
your hand if you're not here
okay okay so let's um i'm gonna move to
go out of um
executive session um do i have to have a
second on that
mark yeah
a second okay matt it's the second all
those in favor signify by saying i
i i opposed same sign
all right we are out of the executive
session um
anything else in finance mr markham
yep the next thing you hear me say will
be uh voting to adjourn that's it for me
all right good to know safety and health
old business new business or report jen
robinson
um nothing to report other than i wanted
to
give a huge huge shout out to the bexley
community foundation
who is um in lieu
of the regular cookout that we do each
year
in appreciation of our bexley police
officers we are
spending those dollars in appreciation
of our officers
we're in end of the year uh extravaganza
of kindness and appreciation so today
several council elves and i delivered
some pies
and some whipped cream to our offices um
i think monique may have some pictures
of those that may be floating around at
some
point and then we'll be doing some other
things over the course of the next few
weeks um
culminating in a zoom holiday party for
the police officers and their families
so thank you to the bexley community
foundation
um our officers work really really hard
especially this year
and it's really nice to be able to take
a moment
and show them some appreciation and
surprise them with pies if nothing else
they got a really delicious pie today
so um so thank you for
the community foundation for their
support of that and the
last thing i have to say is what i say
all the time please wear your masks
please socially distance and please
please please
stay safe and happy holidays that's it
all right thanks jen i know it's a busy
time of the year um for everyone so
thank you for taking the time
to do that and please continue to
include all of us
um because we'd love to help so
um zoning and development committee
jessica saad all business new business
or report
madam um mr markham did an amazing job
on the cic report
so nothing there i just want to um
say happy holidays to everyone and
remind our
wonderful city to just um take a pause
practice patience love thy neighbor
because we are all better together
so um and thanks to all of you guys have
a great holiday i know we all have a lot
of
meetings outside of council probably now
up until
the holiday but um wanted i may not see
all of your lovely faces
as much after this i look forward to us
all being back
um together again at some point here
soon
thanks jessica we do too thank you so
much for all you do
um recreation and parks uh mr klingler
old business
new business a report from you uh just a
few reminders from
uh the parks and rec department uh
december 14th six days from today
is the last day to send letters to santa
at the jeffrey mansion
um drop it off in the mailbox across
from council president's house
uh at 165 north parkview outside the
mansion and then december 15th
actually wrecked transitions to the my
rec software so
if you haven't signed up for your new
account
uh do so as soon as possible and that's
it
also get those get those letters to
santa and
judiciary and strategic committee ms
lamke
um i just have one thing uh some of you
might remember that back in the spring
the bexley community foundation was
generous enough to
award me again a three thousand dollar
grant for the bexley youth service week
for 2020.
and then when covet hit that money has
been unspent i have asked the community
foundation
to perhaps allow me to use
that three thousand dollars this
december to help out the darn families
and the foundation is currently
considering that request so if that does
come through
that will be money that we can spend
on our families and communities that
that do need it
and also like jessica said we've had so
many challenges this year
and this council our city leaders
i feel that we have waded through and
we've pivoted and adapted
and i'm so glad to serve with each and
every one of you
thank you monique uh
ladies and gentlemen in attendance
i am wondering if any of you have
any comments for counsel um this would
be
your opportunity to for public comment
on anything that is not on the agenda
we'd love to hear from you
nobody but richard sharp does have his
hand in the air richard
yeah um for our january 5th and
6th diversity training
did we get times for that and well
is that required to be is that an open
meeting then
as well it would be my understanding
that it would have to be an open meeting
because all of us will be there even
though we're not going to be
doing business necessarily
mark can you um chime in on that i think
it needs to be an open meeting
because i imagine there it's possible
there will be discussions
about business issues that come before
the city
as opposed to something like the
sunshine law training which clearly is
just sitting there listening and
getting your hours in okay all right but
but um
public comment would be inappropriate um
yes no problem i didn't think so okay
well um richard we um
the mayor and i have a um zoom call with
a kathleen nolte tomorrow at 11 o'clock
we'll know a little bit more um then i
just want to make sure i didn't miss the
time so
or a morning but i don't know exactly if
it's going to start at 8 30 or 9.
okay okay and i'd like to extend
um greetings from cool florida
um it's chilly down here but warmer than
up there so
you just enjoy yourself and give your
give your sweet wife a kiss for us
all right anything else to round up 2020
council
nope is there a motion to adjourn
i'll make a motion thank you matt
klingler is there a second
all second thank you miss sod all those
in favor signify by saying
aye
that was a pose same sign
that's awesome
well my very very best and i am so
so sorry guys