roll call us in well i can move him over
if once we go live
okay move him over there he is
he's connecting to audio
roll
we are live right now sorry about that
yeah yeah
now we are yep all right
happy snowy february 9th everyone um
and happy snow day to all our young
citizens um
i know they're happy that our fabuloso
service guys
um couldn't uh fast forward a few hours
to uh get the snow
all taken care of but they did get it
all taken care of and it is beautiful
thank you so much and
while i do love the snow i am a little
sick like them of shoveling and i think
i'm about ready to fast forward to
complaining about um
how hot it is i don't know about you
guys anyway i want to welcome
all of you to the our our first february
meeting
council and i want to welcome all of
those
in attendance as well um mr auditor
are you ready to do roll call sir i am
miss fibal
i'm here ms robinson here mr klingler
here miss sod here mr sharp
here ms lamke here mr markham
here benjamin can you scooch over so we
can see the flag
thanks i'm allegedly agents to the flag
the united states from america and to
the republic
every once in a while i'd like to make
sure that i'm quiet to make sure you
guys all know the words you do
good job that's that's the school
teacher in me
all right we do not that i know of
have any um
uh special presentations or special
guests
all those online of course are very
special to all of us
um but we are going to move on then
if we may um to
to item number five which is public
comment real quick
um this is a time period when anybody
that wants to share
thoughts about things that are not on
the agenda this is the time when you do
that
and we would love to hear from you
please keep your remarks to five
minutes please make sure that you give
us your name and your address before you
start
speaking if your comments can
con contain questions
and we can answer them briefly we will
at the end of
public comments um if not we will
assign someone to to answer your
questions um via email
so uh are there
um is there anyone who would
like to speak ben for giving up there we
are
participants here we go attendees we do
have someone
um with their hands raised um
lori uh you are permitted to speak again
give us your name
and your address and uh we're glad
you're here
uh lori i think you need to uh unmute
yourself
okay is that is that working that's
working good job
awesome we can hear you thank you so
much so much
um i'm sorry i better turn off my my
phone
i'm hearing uh an echo here
i have a couple questions and i wanted
to thank you for the opportunity to
speak
um this has just been a very confusing
process for me
one of the things i'm wondering about is
that
there are um i was reading and hearing a
lot about how these housing units
are going to help accommodate employees
of bexley
and i want to know how many units
will be for bexley and is this a
contractual arrangement where the uh the
developer will need
to keep these units for our citizens
are there any stipulations do they need
to
meet the uh federal housing fair housing
situations how does this
how do these particular projects play
into
the um strategy for bexley employees
that's one question another point i had
is that it may be difficult for the
council to see if there are two
different people
from one household who want to speak and
a way around that may be to have each
person
call in on their you know on a
smartphone and a computer so that you
have
uh two two sites
uh the last thing i want to do is to
just read a statement that i had sent
um is that is that appropriate now i'm
not sure
who gets what statements you are more
than welcome to share
a statement that you'd like to to share
it but i will uh reiterate that we try
to keep all of our thoughts within five
minutes if you can please and thank you
this will be this will be um much less
than that
um uh i'm just pulling this up i'm sorry
uh and also a question
when we i have a lot of questions about
these projects and i want to use your
time
effectively who do i write to do i
copy everyone i know council needs to
stay neutral on this
we'll address that we'll address that at
the at the end of public comment for you
lori why don't you go ahead and share
with us your your comments
okay actually can you move on because
i'm having trouble pulling it up and
and uh if if there's a minute or two at
the end
i'll read it okay and i don't want
everybody
thank you we will come back to lauria
she is having difficult with technology
something that all of us can really
appreciate
i'm guessing some of you are better at
than i um is there anybody else in
attendance other than lori who would
like to share
uh their comments um in public
comment right now i don't
i don't see anyone um and um
mayor kessler or or mr official you may
be able to help me a little bit better
but i would suggest that um
that laurie sends her um
her comments i would guess to um
the zoning to um to be zap am i correct
is that who she needs to be sending her
her comments no sorry madam president
these are the questions that she's
asking are
specific to the project and not zoning
of the project and i would
say she needs to reach out to the
developer and i've shared that contact
with her before but i'll do it again
the community builders contact would be
the appropriate one to answer those
questions
i will do that that sounds great and
laura you are correct um
council can we can we can certainly
listen to what you have to say
but as of right now we don't know
whether or not we will hear an appeal
and um so we do really have to
keep ourselves out of um
debating these concepts these these
thoughts about these developments but if
you're ready and you've got your
technology we'll
we'll let you go i think you have about
three and a half minutes left if you
if you'd like if you'd like to share
oh she turned her nope
nope ready to be much faster than that
i'm sorry
no i'm probably sorry we're glad you're
here please share
thanks my experience is that the answers
that i have gotten or that i
thought were true for these housing
developments
from what the builders say are not true
and so what i'm looking for
is am i misunderstanding something or
how does a normal citizen
look and find out if this contract
that's on the table goes
through how do we know if there are
or there are not housing for city
employees
how do we know what other strategies
have been considered
for affordable housing in my experience
scattered housing is much more
appropriate for a city like bexley
rather than having a concentration that
ends up going low income even if that's
not the
original design too many of these
projects have gone
have become low income often within five
years
um i don't know specific to this
developer i've not been able to find
that information yet
but i think that city council or zoning
board
at from midnight till two in the morning
heard a lot of research that other
people have done
on the builder and some things that
should be at least red flags
and i want to know were checked out i'm
not saying the research was true
i'm saying we need to find truth and
i whatever the builder does the builder
does the city is
the one that i want to have my back and
i feel that that this
this is definitely to the builder's
benefit
my biggest concerns are twofold
the first is it seems like a really
atrocious thing
to push on those people of francis and
there were a series of snafus
where they did not get the information
so i think that i hope that there is an
even bigger push
to be transparent um if i were living
there
it could be done to me i don't want it
done to anyone on my watch
even if it was a high income property
the size the footprint it's terrible
for those neighbors no one should have
to lose their property value that much
so that bexley feels like we're doing
the right
um compassionate thing for the poor if
we want to do it let's spread it out
through the city
and let's all pay for it equally
i've not been able to find and maybe
it's there
a um a city document that shows what are
the expenses we're expecting to be
incurred and what are the monies
that we expect to come in and i know
that lots of the benefits
are intangibles but i'd like to see a
list of what we're expecting
and if there's a way to know when we've
reached success
and i also am very concerned about the
livingston traffic
if i understand the planning it will be
an
at least another year in planning and i
am guessing at least two more years
before the traffic mess is cleared up so
i hope that will be
taken into consideration again when
um the powers that be look at
this design thank you very much i
appreciate it
sorry i was muted again my technology
i'm not so good at it either but what i
was saying was lori we're so glad that
you were with us
um tonight thank you so much for taking
the time to so passionately share your
thoughts
um i know that the mayor will certainly
send information
as to who um he believes could best
answer your questions
so thank you so much um are there any
other individuals
in attendance who would like to share
their thoughts
seeing none i would um like that we
could please go
move forward to um item number six which
is
um my report um
i just wanted to um
tell um council that um
ms lamke is doing a fabulous job trying
to plan
for us our retreat which will be later
on
in the month and i'm sure she will ask
the same thing that i am going to ask
you if there are thoughts things that
you think that we need to strategize
please send items those items along to
her one of the items that i know that
we're going to strategize
and i know that each of you heard from
me in regard to this
was our zooming um rather than meeting
in person
and we will talk about what what will it
make what will it do to make us
all comfortable um to
to join each other in chambers so until
february 20
i think it's 26 is our date if you could
please start
thinking about what that would entail
for you as an
individual please let us know you know
please please gather those ideas
so that we can share at the retreat um i
don't really have
any other um comments for my report
um so i will turn it over to our um
good attorney um mr fishel are you there
sir
i am here and i have no report this
evening all right
thank you so much thank you for all your
hard work this week and
answering all of our phone calls we so
appreciate it
um then if we could mr um official if we
could move on to our consent
agenda i would be grateful for that sure
so on the consent agenda we have two
items
ordinance 0-2-21 to appropriate 100
000 from the grant reimbursed
expenditures account
of the general fund for the purpose of
paying for
expenses associated with the jeffrey
mansion expansion
and accessibility project after the
receipt of a hundred thousand dollars
from the 2020 state
of ohio capital budget and was
introduced by mr markham
and also the 1 26 21 city council
minutes
all right ladies and gentlemen um are
there
any comments or questions from council
on the consent agenda
i don't see any any comments or
questions from those in attendance
about the consent agenda seeing none do
i have a
first do i have a do i have a motion on
the consent agenda please counsel
mr klingler will motion to approve the
consent agenda thank you mr klingler
matt has made the head first is there a
second oh
second is jess thank you jess miss
uh mr um uh auditor
if you would please ms robinson yes
mr klingler yes miss fibel
uh yes mossad yes mr sharp
yes mr markham yes ms lamke
yes right thank you so much consent
agenda passes
um we are moving on to the
administrative update if we could
please um does the finance department
have um any report for us
no report ma'am thank you so much um
chief do you have anything further than
your update sir
no ma'am i do not thank you was a great
it was a great um a great um
report as always thank you so much a big
shout out to uh
to to officer bird um
then also i'm sorry are there questions
on the individuals and council have um
for the chief and i'm sorry that i i
also um you can also lump any questions
you might have for finance in this time
period as well i'm sorry i forgot to
i forgot to ask if you had questions i
see that jen has jen robinson has her
hand in the air
i don't have a question chief but i i
would um
love it if you would pass on to officers
bird moss kim
and and chapman and detective evans um
reading the report was really um it's so
wonderful to see how hard the
well are all of our officers but them in
particular that they have been working
um over the past few weeks so if you
would pass on our thanks to them i would
really appreciate it
yes ma'am i will do that thank you
thanks absolutely
all right any questions for um oh we do
have another one um richard sharp you
have a question for the chief
or for finance um it's not a
well it is kind of a question so the um
flag disposal
um box that was referenced
that's a eagle scout project
that will be open for residents to
dispose of
flags and also assume city flags
yes sir anybody who needs to dispose of
an american flag properly
that box will be available for them
and that projected date is
well yes he's working on it uh
i think it'll be very soon he's had a
couple a couple things a couple speed
bumps
but uh but it's coming along okay well
congratulations to that
uh scout in advance of his achievements
all right any other questions for the
chief or
for um or for finance from our
from our council those in attendance i
just want to um
let you know that um this is a period
during the updates um this is
this is um a period where we do not
accept
public comment all other sections um we
do allow and there is a time period
at the very end of our agenda where you
can
um make statements or comments um
so we will welcome them there okay
so if we could please we'll move on to
mr price's update
um recreation michael thank you madam
president nothing to add to my written
report
we loved ice skating it was pretty
awesome
thank you for coming all right you all
need to get out there and do that
thanks for all the hard work all right
um questions for mr
for mr price
nope all righty thank you mr price uh
service department insurance
department's been
really busy these last few days
mr bayshore anything beyond your written
report sir
i don't have anything else to add to it
tonight you're just too exhausted to
even think about adding it to it
we are ready for springtime over here in
the service department i know let's get
the lawnmowers out
primed and ready to go i'm ready too all
right any questions for mr bayshore it
looks like miss sod has a question
jessica i just wanted to thank andy and
his team who are working insanely hard
getting our streets salted and clear i
know my husband and the neighbors are
trying to keep up with you guys with
their snow blowers
you're doing a fantastic job and that's
one of the most important things
here in our city and for all of our
residents and i just wanted to say thank
you and please
send that along to your staff thank them
all for working so hard
we appreciate it thank you i would
definitely pass it on
thanks jess i know the rest of us echo
your sweet sentiments
mr mr sharp do you have any questions uh
you have a question your hand is raised
richard
yes i was going to say thank you but i
was going to be real short
by saying that and also
andy's report indicated 450 tons of salt
were used
um how does that relate to our overall
winter supply and what we have available
to order
yeah richards each year on my contracts
i usually get around right around a
thousand ton
right now we still have 600 tons i can
order
but we also had some force i mean i
have 1300 13 1400 ton yet to go
we're in good shape thank you
not that we want to use it right exactly
all right thank you so much andy we
appreciate you please know that
um all right if no other questions for
um
our superstar service director we will
move
on to our good mayor mr kessler do you
have an update for us sir
i do thank you um first off i want to
continue i want to brag a little further
on andy and his crew
and somebody mentioned snow days and
you know whether or not we could have
school and i could tell you our crews
were out at 12 30 uh plowing and
when i asked andy about the condition of
the streets early this morning
uh the library had reached out to me
asking how things looked and uh he said
the main drags are pretty good the side
roads are dicey
this is his definition of dicey because
then i promptly looked out my window
and uh so that's dicey and andy land
so that's that's just i thought that was
pretty funny
um also want to highlight one quick
thing from the chiefs report
um that i think it's in the report i
actually didn't
read it just now i think it's the report
is um
that our as you guys mentioned our
detective bureau has been very busy
and um i wanted the community to know
that there was a
uh a pretty dramatic carjacking that
occurred
uh several weeks ago it's been over a
little bit over a week
since our detective bureau uh
closed in on the perpetrators of that
and made some good arrests on that
but a lot of the defendants that we have
been
or the suspects that we have been um
interacting with have been juveniles and
that is true also of the uh suspect
uh in the um i can see you guys are
chatting about the report i'll get to
that in a second
suspects have been juveniles um and have
been
uh perpetrating very similar crime
throughout the entire region
going into the court system uh being
released immediately there's a
there's a new program through the
juvenile prosecutors uh juvenile
detention
alternate detention alternative
initiative
um spoke with chris clark at the
prosecutor's office
who was a juvenile prosecutor
and he suggested they've also been
struggling with this issue where
fairly violent offenders have been
returned right back into the communities
and have been continuing the same cycle
so
he suggested that elected officials may
want to write to
the administrative juvenile judge kim
brown
and just express you know of course our
appreciation for all the work they're
doing
but also our concern when we have
instances like we did where
it was a violent offense it's coupled
with felonious uh vehicle
theft um just that we are
we and other suburbs because this media
this came up at uh central ohio mayors
and managers association
uh prompted by grove city grand view has
expressed the same issues
several of the suburbs have experienced
very similar issues up for arlington
um and of course columbus obviously
we've all been uh experiencing um
fairly dramatic criminal offenses that
have been occurring among a
fairly small group of criminals that are
just kind of cycling through
the juvenile system and getting
immediately released so
i would encourage you to to think about
writing to
judge brown or if you want to be a
co-signer i'm working on a letter
uh you can feel free to do that as well
i just wanted to to bring that up
um okay changing gears slightly
today is national pizza day uh
i i hope to make it this report short
enough that we can all leave
and have pizza uh although it's taco
tuesday too so
a little bit of conflict there um
i'm hearing that my mayor's court my
mayor's update is not uh is not
generating the system
as you know this is a brand new system
we're working on right right now so i
apologize for that i'm going to pull it
up
if you want to see it it's also on our
website under city council documents
mayor's updates so that's another place
you can find it
i'm loading it right now and i'll share
it on screen
sorry for that okay so i will uh
i'll cover this but also i'll email you
guys and send a link to that
so um i also want to highlight february
12th
share what you can food drive at
montrose elementary that's being
conducted by the bexley police
department and the bexley
citizens police academy alumni
association b-c-p-a-a-a-a-a
they get all my a's uh so that's
february 12th from 10 to 1
at montrose elementary be aware of that
i wanted you to
have an update on mayor's court we made
some changes to mayor's court over the
past several months you knew that
marquan stewart replaced ruby arnold
after her retirement as clerk of courts
uh
last week we had our first mayor's court
with kevin shannon being moved to
magistrate
i have appointed david ingram as
prosecutor of mayor's court david
is a former columbus prosecutor now
serves in a private practice at
kegler-brown
um and uh he comes highly recommended
from a variety of sources and of course
leslie alba
continues to be our public defender but
be aware of the speakers in the court i
have a lot of uh i think that that team
has been working a little together
already and has been a great support to
mark juan as he
uh takes over the reins um
door applications on its way uh still
making some uh
some changes to that there's a little
fact sheet attached to the agenda
um still working on getting the
remediation program launched we've been
having internal meetings to make sure we
have all the
materials set up for that uh gabby
frazier is interning with us this summer
in order to assist us with procurement
coordination and diversification i'm
gonna have gabe gabby
come on to a future council meeting just
so you can meet her and then hopefully
she
can return at the end of her semester
with the kind of a report on the work
that she's done
um we are looking to launch our rfp for
community choice aggregation
tomorrow will be due by march 5th
i'm not gonna sorry i'm just going
through the whole thing uh something
else i wanted to be aware of is
uh commonwealth park uh obviously you
know about the master plan
we've been working with our designer
elena andrews
and a team of uh folks from the city and
the tree and public gardens commission
to work on visioning for the first phase
of the arboretum
feature set for um commonwealth park
and so this is kind of a broad brush
overview of what's being talked about
it's has yet to go to tree and public
gardens commission and the rec board
that'll be happening soon after it goes
there
we'll bring it back to council and
council will have the opportunity to
take a look at it and provide any
feedback i just wanted you to be aware
that that was occurring
and then similarly not the same exact
thing
part when we started the commonwealth
park master plan we also had a
a plan to do the hidden wood park
landscape plan so we launched that
steering committee of residents in the
area
to board members um and they've done
some great work with elena
similarly that'll go through tree and
public gardens commission sbn i'll take
a look at it and we'll get it in front
of you guys
um for it's fairly minimal honing of
havenwood park but putting some
investment and attention
to that area of the city i
have provided a cares act appropriation
update as requested
so the first totals are what has been
spent to date
and the remaining is what has project
has been reserved or
is budgeted uh to to finish out
the funding and you can kind of see
where that's all headed right now
we are we we believe that our household
impact grants will will go at least
through the end of june
um currently based upon uh current
utilization
uh we think we're wrapping up the
business impact grant process and
that sort of gives you an overview of
that
and then some stuff i've been up to and
i'll send you the link to that report
and certainly take any questions
president fiable you're you're muted
thank you so much it looks like it looks
like ms lamke
has some questions for mr kessler
thank you mr uh klingler i appreciate it
mayor i'm so excited that kevin shannon
has now been appointed as the magistrate
with covet and i think city hall being
partially closed
if i or other residents wanted to
observe mayor's court
to kind of meet our new prosecutor and
and our new folks is that available on
zoom or what's the best way for us to do
that
yeah so we don't have it available on
zoom currently um
we could uh we could try to facilitate
that i would prefer
especially as a council member just that
you you know
let us know and we'll make sure that we
we have some space for you it's you know
i sat in the court
uh last week you know it's very spread
out there's only a few
people in there at a time so if you're
comfortable with that we could
accommodate you in person obviously
masked
up and distanced um okay
all right good to know sounds great
thanks ms lamke
um miss jessica your hands up
yes um just a quick question for you ben
um giant eagle as you know we're both in
there a lot
um plastic bags just want to remind the
community that we're not using plastic
bags in there anymore
are we working with them to get some
reusable bags that we can purchase back
in there
um i haven't spoken with them about that
um
certainly you know they they continue to
want people
to use reusable bags at self-checkout
only um and
i actually wasn't aware that they
weren't providing reusable bags but
i could certainly talk to the manager
about that yeah it would be great i keep
forgetting i think for now we're not
going to have that take one leave one
you know
oh it froze okay yeah and i did see that
they put your
bin that you built back up and they have
a lot of brown bags but um
it kind of reminds you when you have the
reusable bags as an option to purchase
when you're in there
so just food for thought
ben might have froze for just a minute
um looks like it
i think he'll be back on soon um
for those of you who haven't um met
marcon
um stewart he uh he um
he replaced um ruby and i never thought
that anybody
could replace ruby um she'd been there
for
so so long but um he's a gem too
so you need to meet him upon it pun
intended
um anyway uh
are there any further questions for the
mayor
uh seeing none uh that's sorry i froze
up but yes i'll talk to john eagle about
that one sort of short
thanksgiving it wasn't a bad freeze face
just so you know
it was fine all right
if we could um i would suggest that we
move
on um to our third readings mr official
if you would please sure so we have one
third reading
ordinance 0-1-21 to approve the
collective bargaining agreement between
the fraternal order of police
capital city lodge nine number nine in
the city of bexley introduced by ms
robinson
jen you're on so we are on the third
reading
of our fop contract and if you remember
last meeting we had several
members of the community come and pose
some questions to us which were really
incredibly interesting and certainly
things that i think we
would like to look at as we go forward
with
future contracts but um my understanding
after having conversations with
the uh the city attorney um and
learning a little bit about collective
bargaining uh agreements and how they
work
uh my programming background did not
make me privy to that
before becoming a council member but
um the contract still remains as
it was last meeting
so um i guess at this point it unless
the city attorney or the mayor has any
additional
information to add um we would open it
up to any kind of conversation
uh within council nothing new for me
all right anything new from you from mr
mr kessler
nope thank you all right well i
really truly appreciated um mr officials
very
um
very amazing explanations of
of things last week and um how amazingly
well
he was able to answer the questions that
our
our good citizens had for all of us
concerning this um uh
this um contract and i i really do um
think that uh we we are blessed in lots
of ways to have mr fishel but um this is
really his bailiwick and we're
you know it you're good at this stuff
and we're glad to have you so thank you
so much
um and it makes me feel really good
about this contract and it makes me feel
really good about um
voting for it this evening mr sharp do
you have any
questions or comments sir you have your
hand in the air
yeah um i was just gonna recognize um
one of the comments uh from the
residents that was discussed at the last
meeting
um i felt was
an issue that doesn't necessarily hold
up the approval of the contract but i
think it's worth
considering wording changes in the
future to make it
uh more clear in the documentation the
personnel documentation area that
there's
almost like two separate there's a
personnel file and there's a
progressive discipline disciplinary
area file that um and make it clearly
um indicated that the
that the documents when they're removed
from the progressive disciplinary file
or not
destroyed but are maintained
based on the city's record retention
policy
and as i indicated at the last meeting i
would encourage our um
judicial and strategic committee to look
into
the the record retention policy of the
city as a whole
to make sure that um we're not
um inadvertently
uh leaving loopholes for um
if there is ever is an issue with
personnel that we aren't
um inadvertently leaving
documentation unavailable for future
employers that
might be interested in that information
so that's all i have to say regarding
that but thank you
thank you mr sharp uh ms lamke
and kind of piggyback off of what
richard just mentioned i had a chat
today with mr fishel and he had
mentioned to me
obviously based on his expertise in
representing other municipalities and
his collective bargaining experience
that um our records retention policy
is keeping in best practices with what
he sees with other clients
and i guess other
other entities mark do you want to speak
to that for a moment
sure as we discussed before and as
richard just reminded us
the the the provision in the collective
bargaining agreement that says that
certain documents are no longer have any
force and effect are relate only to the
the principles of progressive discipline
and those documents are still maintained
by the city consistent with its records
retention
uh schedule um the records return
the city has historically um
followed the recommendations thank you
mayor i was going to look for that
has historically followed the
recommendations from the ohio historical
society
and the city has a records commission
that by statute consists of
the law director the mayor the auditor
and one citizen
um and and actually we we we meet pretty
on a regular basis not often but on a
regular basis
and we did just review the police
department side just
last year or maybe even early last year
the police department's records
retention schedule and we did make some
changes but certainly didn't change
anything that affects personnel records
and again i guess i didn't say that the
personnel
records are maintained for seven years
after someone separates from the city of
bexley
and frankly even even though it says
seven years
that doesn't mean that it gets destroyed
on seven years in one day
it requires effort to go in get say okay
we're ready to destroy this group of
documents then we have to actually
send that request to the with the list
of the documents we want to destroy
to the ohio historical society and they
give the approval
on whether when we can um finally
destroy those documents so i guarantee
you that there are personnel records
that exist far beyond but not
less than the seven years after someone
left
great thank you so much for sharing that
too and i think i understand that the
resident who sits on the records
commission is an assistant attorney
general who
specializes in record retention so we
are pleased that she
also serves uh one thing i wanted to
mention
to folks who might be listening that
even after tonight that i believe that
this council is committed to equity
issues
and we will continue to work on our
revised strategic plan that we
just passed unanimously uh this past
summer so
the work's not done yet we'll continue
to go forward
thanks ms lamke well said
um is there anyone else um
on council who would like to um
to share a comment or about
um this um
seeing none um ms robinson do you do you
have a
do you have a motion on this on this
piece of legislation
i'm i move that we uh approve
ordinance 121. thank you
is there a second i'll second it's just
sod
thanks jess any further comments from
council before we vote
any further questions from the or
comments from those in attend
attendance before we vote
seeing none um mr
demarco thank you mr markham ms
mr klingler yes assad
yes ms robinson yes mr sharp
yes ms fibel yes
ms lamke yes
motion passes thank you so much everyone
um if we could move on mr um mr
attorney for uh to uh our second
readings please
sure we have a second reading of
ordinance ordnance 0-4-21
to allow for the for vacation time
buyouts for unused vacation time in
excess of 10 days
in the instance where a staff member was
unable to take vacation leave
due to extraordinary circumstances in
their job impacted by
the city's cobia 19 pandemic response
that was introduced by mr marcum
mr official reads the title and the
title tells us exactly what it is
i think we discussed this last time i'll
open this for
any uh questions or comments or if
there's any updates
uh add this and if not i will probably
make a motion to
or i will probably suggest we put this
on the consent agenda
it looks like we do have um a question
from ms robinson
um jen can't unmute myself fast enough
um i had asked um last council meeting
if there was
if we had a dollar figure for what that
looked like i understand my
understanding is that this is covered by
cares act funding but
i was just curious what that um actually
looked like in real dollar terms
mr price or mr kessler do you have any
uh updated
info on what that would cost um
yeah mrs robinson i i apologize i do
remember you asking that question
mike do you have an idea of how many
hours we're talking about
i mean i have a rough idea for my
department
um not to put you on the spot but i
think you are the
you guys are the ones that are in this
position um
i don't have it on at my fingertips but
i can definitely look up
yeah here's what we'll do we'll get
hourly rates and hours
estimate mike can share that with me
and i'll get i'll get that to you guys
before the end of this meeting
with a rough estimate and i do want to
say mr markham there is a proposed
amendment to this
okay you also allow additional vacation
as a
vacation time carryover in lieu of the
buyout so somebody who would prefer to
take it as vacation time as opposed to a
payout
would have that option as well
so that's a that's a proposed amendment
so it would need to be amended prior to
being added to the
consent agenda so do we want to
entertain that main
amendment now or would you prefer that
we just
leave it off of the consent agenda
who are you speaking to anybody who
wants to answer
i think we should keep it off the
consent agenda at this point then
okay then we'll tweak it and that will
give them um some time to get that
information
to all of us and it wouldn't necessarily
have to be at the end of
of the meeting we could we could have it
um a more
thorough explanation is everyone okay
with that everybody comfortable
thank you you're to say is there any
objections to that i guess
um all right um it's a great question
jen um and um is are there any other
questions
for for troy or for
um uh mr kessler
i have a question then i'm just curious
what what is the normal amount of
vacation time carryover that an employee
can typically do
10 days is the standard so that's the in
excess of 10 days
okay they can carry over 10 days
correct and it's a it's correct me if
i'm wrong this is a use it or lose it
in terms of vacation
yep all right
any further questions for uh mr kessler
mr price or mr markham
okay see seeing none i i would ask that
we
go ahead and move on we will have the
language for that amendment
as well as the number um that ms
robinson requested
before the next meeting um
if we could move on please
i'm muted all right we have a second
reading
of ordinance 05-21 to appropriate 35 000
from the salary and wages line item of
the vehicle and grounds maintenance and
urban forestry accountant to appropriate
35 000 into the
dollars into the turf maintenance line
item of the vehicle and grounds
maintenance
and urban forestry account mr markham
thank you mr fishel uh we had the first
reading on this last
uh last meeting this is an attempt by
our service department to save us some
money uh
unappropriate that thirty five thousand
dollars from a
contractor what we normally pay a
contractor for some mowing and
instead uh handle that
handle those duties uh within our
service department
am i
i think you got that backwards i got
that backwards i do
yeah it's my understanding if i could
impress and it's my understanding it's
to
not hire a person and contract this out
that's correct i'm sorry say that again
what did i get wrong
you said we're gonna not we're gonna use
a contractor
no you said we're gonna take it away
from a contractor and use it for
somebody in-house
it's the opposite we're going to
eliminate a step i'm sorry yeah i
i thought i said that but i said the
opposite you're right
that makes a difference in what it means
yeah
bottom line we're saving money
and it's good uh looks like ms robinson
has a question for us um
jen sure i'm keeping in on my
my asking about dollars do we have
uh where that yellow line is do we have
a figure for what the savings is the
projected annual
savings yeah so i just shared uh
the that document that has a number i
apologize it's up to forty thousand
yeah it's up to forty 000. that would
assume that the employee coming in
has a full family health insurance
coverage so it's
it's going to be roughly between 30 and
40. i need to get the i can get
i could get the over under from uh
feature
but 40 was the number that was given but
i think that's the best case scenario so
somewhere in that range 30 to 40.
still good thanks
all right any further yeah madam
president if i can ask uh
mark does that that was a blank in the
ordinance does that require amendment to
fill in that
you know that the recital number
you're muted
no it does not okay so we'll
we'll get that properly filled in and um
we'll provide that
on the agenda next time perfect um
is everybody uh troy i'm gonna ask you
are you comfortable putting this on the
um this one on the consent agenda
even though we don't have the money that
the exact number that we're saving
yeah i'm comfortable with doing that i
was going to suggest that as well
okay does anybody have any concerns
about doing that
all right thank you
um with your permission mr marcum i'm
going to ask
our uh good city attorney to move on to
first
reading let's move on let's move on
let's see whatever what somebody else
has to say i don't think so troy
orton first reading of ordinance 06-21
to authorize the transfer from the road
and alley fund of
5256 uh
to the bond retirement fund and to
appropriate 5256 dollars from the bond
refi
retirement fund uh to appropriate 52
559 from the water fund and to
appropriate seven thousand
eight hundred eighty four dollars from
the sewer fund to pay debt service
related to the south roosevelt
and ashborne improvement project mr
markham oh still me yay he's a closer
here baby
yeah yeah all right so this is pretty
simple this is south roosevelt and
ashborne
uh project that project is completed
uh so this will appropriate the money to
start making payments
on that okay
must do it's a must do everyone
we have to pay all right uh any
questions from
anyone on council concerning this
and i'm not sure why i'm not seeing my
parts there we go
any questions on this one any questions
from those in attendance on this one
all right mr markham are you ready to
move on i believe you're still
i think you're still on i got one more i
think you got one more
all right mr fishel okay ordina first
reading of ordinance
0 7-21 to establish
a special fund designated the south
drexel avenue
and grandin avenue comprehensive
improvement fund
to record all revenue and expenses
associated with the south drexel avenue
and grand
avenue project to appropriate five
million one hundred fifty eight thousand
eight hundred and seven dollars from
this fund to pay for the cost of the
project and to authorize transfers
from the water sewer and road and alley
funds of one hundred thirty four
thousand one hundred eighty one dollars
thirty one thousand five hundred seventy
two dollars and 997
347 respectively to the south drexel
avenue and grandin avenue comprehensive
improvements
fund to pay the city's portion of the
project all right now this time is that
the whole
ordinance i think so
i like how we just you know what instead
of adding a lot of detail to the
ordinances we just make the titles
longer put all the info
right there i'll ask uh mr harvey to
check
my uh check my math on this one too but
this is an
upcoming project uh we need to establish
the fund this uh this ordinance
establishes the fund for that that we
will use for that
those last three numbers 134 000 31 000
97 000 are the city's responsibility to
this fund which is
uh cost of this project is 5.1
million dollars so those are our costs
and the rest i believe we are
getting in the form of grants and loans
zero interest loans is that right
if i may madam president that's right
troy the 260 thousand dollars that you
mentioned
is our portion the 5 million 158
000 is both loans and grants that we're
getting from the opwc and i think it's
25 i think it's a 25
grand 75 percent loan so about three and
a half million dollars of this
will be a loan and we have to by law
set up this separate fund to track it by
this according to the state
thank you mr auditor does anybody have
any questions
um concerning this piece of legislation
council those in attendance
seeing none mr city attorney would you
like to move on to our
final piece of legislation for the
evening okay
we have the first reading of resolution
01-21
confirming the mayor's appointments of
members of the citizen
review advisory board introduced by ms
robinson
and so this didn't show up on the agenda
that i printed out but i did know it was
coming so
um i can tell you that uh the mayor
and myself and community member minika
williams
um spent the last several weeks
interviewing what i can
truly say is a large number of people
who
were incredibly qualified to
take positions on our newly expanded
civilian review board
we after some deliberation and back and
forth we have pared it down to the five
that we would like to present to council
um and you can see uh there
who those people are the five people
there and uh
when their terms will be expiring um
uh mayor do we have their resumes and
things included or was that included in
the
email that went out to everybody earlier
uh
no so on the website and they are
opening i just confirmed um
are the uh our background information on
the new appointees
glenn soden and tiffany hunt um
and i just want to reiterate what jen
said we had a lot of really qualified
fantastic
applicants this as with all board
decisions was
was difficult because uh pretty much
anyone who applied could have
certainly served incredibly competently
on the board
as with other boards one of the things
that i look at and we looked at and we
talked about
is how the board balances out with
different perspectives different
backgrounds different
professional and personal backgrounds
and felt that glenn and tiffany
would be the right choice to provide for
a balanced
and uh really um frankly
um very impressive board in terms of
uh just their the background and the and
the
temperament and the just expertise
of those appointees so i'll be inviting
glenn and tiffany to
one of the next two council meetings for
you to to get to meet them if you
haven't already
and um happy to answer your questions
i'm really excited that you're that
you're going to do that mr mr mayor i
i know glenn sodon and i think um
council will be incredibly impressed
with him
um but i and i'm eager to to meet
um to meet tiffany hunt i i i do not
know her i have not met her before so
i'm really excited about that so thank
you so much it looks like mossad has her
hand
um raised as does mr sharp um jessica
yes just a quick question to jen and to
um
mayor kessler have we thought about
these term
the way the terms would be expiring
yeah uh if i may madam president thank
you
yes so we would typically stagger
our expiration um our resident killjoy
auditor harvey pointed out last time i
tried to do that on a new board that
we tried to do in the ordinance that was
a joke mr harvey is not a killer uh but
he pointed out that the charter
specifies three-year terms
and so one of the charter review
recommendations would allow us to
stagger like an initial term or to
readjust
so that it keeps staggered but for the
sake of
having an unchallengeable appointment
process that's as clean as it could be
uh we made it this way now i want to
point something out that is inconsistent
with the charter
oh i'm frozen dang it am i frozen
i'm not okay you guys are frozen
is that the charter says three-year
terms but
it also says they have to expire at the
end of um
at the end of june so technically this
isn't really three years this is a
little bit less than three years but we
aired on the
you know the most applicable uh going
with the
roughly three year term that we could
that makes sense not to confuse things
just did that answer your question it
does i think my concern on any board and
i know you
probably share it is just that
leadership element
to the stagger so that you still have
people around that have done it in case
everybody
moves on but yeah i agree and i feel
comfortable that if that charter review
issue is passed that we can even the
next year or so
at during our normal kind of appointment
ordinance you know bump in another year
onto one or
the other so that we get it in line so
i'm not
i'm i'm not too concerned that we won't
be able to repair that in the next
couple years
and i'll keep an eye on that yes please
do i i truly echo
um miss sod's good words of wisdom i
i think that's really i think that's
really really smart
um to have some some people who have
some
um experiential knowledge so thanks
thanks jess uh mr sharp richard
yeah um i don't i don't have a problem
with the
uh nominations
um i just uh wanted to
bring up um we need to
maybe need to just double check that
we're not over balanced with one
particular
company background i see there's a
couple nationwide insurance
and not that nationwide insurance is not
a good resource for
talent and and whatnot but
to keep just a reminder to maybe uh
look at the um employers as a diversity
issue as well so
that's all i have to say thank you
good point um
anyone else um on council that has any
um comments or ideas they'd like to
share
i feel like somebody's hand is in the
air but i can't oh monique i'm sorry
miss uh lamke please i just like to say
i'm i'm so tickled that we still have
um residents who maybe um have not
previously or recently served on our
boards and commissions and committees
that are willing to do this
based on their love of the city and i
look forward to
meeting miss hunt and hearing more about
her thank you
thanks ms lamke president
if i might add one thing to our
interview
please do please do was um we
made us a point to re-interview the
three
um candidates who served um under
the review board that was formed over
the summer of course by
uh the mayor's executive order and um
they
were excellent choices then
and i'm so thrilled that um they will be
continuing
along with with the new uh the new folks
i really do think um
hearing your concerns richard and jess
of course understanding
that that those expiration dates are
certainly something that we need to look
at i'm
100 confident with this group of people
and
uh i'm excited for uh you guys to meet
them
and and to hear your thoughts um as we
go forward
this is something that is so incredibly
important for our city
and i feel like we really do have a good
batch of people so
um yeah thank thank you
um ms robinson i i just want to
highlight the fact that um
this is such a progressive um
concept um for a city
especially a city our size to to have
and i want to applaud our administration
for
having um had this in the works for a
very very long time
well before so much of the racial
unrest this summer caused by um the
murder of
um of um floyd we
are so um we are we are so
uh excited to have this and to have
these five
really amazing individuals to be part of
our
part of our our city and part of um
our progressive movement to to make sure
um
that everyone in our city and um and
those that are welcomed into our city
um are treated fairly and and and
and with great equity so i i'm very
excited for this this is this is
something that a lot of cities have to
fight very hard
to have so good job everyone
um i think that um unless we have
questions from
our attendees in regard to this
um we can move on mr sharp do you have
any
um do you have any uh business
um uh with the tabled ordinance
um no well to wait
all right thank you thank you so much i
appreciate it um
then if we could please we will move on
and i'm
shuffling things around so that i can
see um our agenda
on my computer um looks like we're gonna
stick with you mr sharp though to see if
you have
any um any old business or new business
or a report sir
um i'd just like the mayor to update the
residents
on the um sewer and
um prevention um
mitigation program and if there's
uh a schedule for any type of
mailing or scheduling of inspections
planned
just not that anything would need to be
done right away but just give the
residents a heads up as to how to um
expect to be communicated in the next
coming months
from the city yeah so uh
and i'm not sure if andy is still uh
here
i think he is lurking or somewhere in
this system
um any feel free to add argument this
but we have uh
we've drafted our emails that are gonna
go out um
uh the contractors have been selected
we've worked on the process contractors
for inspection
uh process for communicating we're
putting together fact sheet and
application
and we expect to go live with that uh
somewhere between mid and late february
the ordinance goes into effect in the
next week or so
so we'll be emailing everyone who
replied
to the original questionnaire and then
of course we'll have some information on
the website for any new
uh newly eligible and then we're also
reaching out to those
who i don't know if you guys recall this
but
when we talked about this we disclosed
that there were
many properties where we had identified
uh
improper connections during our survey
uh several years ago
so we will be reaching out to those
property owners as well regardless of
whether or not they
filled out the questionnaire that's a
separate
it's a letter that's going to go out
okay
and will that highlight to um and to
make
clear the process for those
property owners who have already gone
ahead and made some improvements to
their property and had
requested to be con or ask in
in the community forums whether they
would be eligible for reimbursement we
did
say that they they would be for
consideration
to clearly indicate them
to them the process so that they could
get at the front of the inspection list
yeah so they also will need that initial
inspection
but we'll have that as a piece of our
communication yep and i don't think i
i'm not sure that we had anywhere that
they would get at the front of the list
necessarily but i think
you know but yes i mean
the fact that they've done the work i
understand i understand that they're
gonna want to have answers so yes we
appreciate that
thank you andy do you need to add to
that
i do not um
i i mean i i think he touched on ben but
you know that was the
study done from emht i believe in 13
so we are working on right now currently
putting a spreadsheet together and
getting all those addresses
uh put together so we can get the
letters out to those residents
mr sharp anything further um i have no
other
old business or new business uh liaison
report
um so let me
try to find what i did with it
um the historical society
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they won't be having a meeting they
didn't have a meeting this month
they will next month but but they're
working on some projects including
um planning for mantras schools
centennial celebration and working with
the school for that celebration
and looking into possible recognition of
homes that are over 100 years old in
bexley
as a potential fundraising and
recognition project
all from that committee at the moment
thank you thank you so much mr sharp
that's exciting stuff from the bexley
historical society have fun
thank you so much um if we could move on
to finance please mr markham
i have no reports all right thank you
sir
safety and health ms robinson so i just
wanted to
um restate what the mayor reported in
his report which is the
cpaa 3as the citizens
police academy alumni association and
their food drive this
uh friday from 11 to one at montrose and
i wanted to um i believe jess at the
last meeting you had asked
about an additional covet testing
uh pop-up and i received word from
elizabeth ellman our magical coveted
testing elf who seems to be able to do
all sorts of
wonderful things quickly um she let me
know today that we are in conversation
with primary one health and saint
charles to do a pop-up on
march the 20th which is the end of our
spring break
um which i think was what we were aiming
for to catch people coming back from
any potential spring break plans we are
also in conversation
with primary one about becoming a
vaccination
site when that time may become
appropriate and if it if that's
something that we can do here in the
city which i think is really exciting so
in the meantime
wear your masks social distance hang on
just a little bit longer until we can
all get our vaccines and
stay safe thanks that's it you can do
this
thanks jen so much um
jessica zoning and development committee
ms saad
you're on yes just two reminders
um about the upcoming arb meeting
it is on february 11 at six o'clock
and our next b zap meeting for the month
of february
is thursday um february
25th at six o'clock so just reminding
the community of those two
upcoming um planning meetings
thanks so much jessica we appreciate it
thank you
um mr klingler matt what do you have to
report for recreation and parks
sir just a couple items uh
the bexley activities club
walking club is a go so if it's not icy
or below zero degrees the bac is walking
uh ohio and 65 and older are now
eligible to receive covet vaccinations
and be sure to reach out to chris
kristen schweitzer if you need any help
or would like to see
receive information about the bexley
activities club
and then as as was mentioned earlier
parks and rec is very excited to open
the community ice rink
this past monday they are providing week
to week registration
depending on weather and ice conditions
please be sure to go to
bexley.org recreation for more
information
and that is all all right thank you
matthew we appreciate it
judiciary and strategic committee ms
lamke monique thank you
um speaking of the ice skating rink
that's the location that i've chosen for
the city council retreat we're going to
meet outside on the ice
just kidding it's february 26 9 to noon
if you have something that you would
really like to be considered for the
agenda
please please send it to me and i will
gladly add it
there is a committee meeting regarding
the charter review
uh commission proposals on february 17th
at 7 p.m
i will be uh putting up an agenda
shortly but
all are welcome and there will be an
opportunity for public comment
and my last bit of news here
is there is an sbna meeting i believe
march 4th at 7 00 pm
via zoom and all are welcome and a
report
okay jessica be honest you as another
hockey mom was excited
about the idea of having our retreat on
the ice the cold doesn't bother us
anyway
right the cold doesn't bother us anyway
yeah
you know what uh 9 to 11 a.m is city
council retreat 11 to 12 a.m
is broomball on the ice with your
council members so come one come on
followed by glee club i love it i love
it
i love it i love it all right
followed by pickleball
sure that sounds great all right
item 21 is our last prior to adjournment
we would love to see if there is anyone
in attendance who would like to
share their thoughts with council
tonight
you simply need to raise your hand and
we will acknowledge you and we will
unmute you and we will um
love to listen to what you have to say
all right council none of our fans have
anything to share with us this evening
so come on come on julius
i will i will entertain
a motion does anyone have one
i'll make a motion we adjourn all right
thank you mr klingler we knew we could
count on you is there a second
second by jen robinson all right thanks
chen all those in favor signify by
saying aye
hi hi hi those are posting sign
good work ladies and gentlemen i was a
pleasure to work with you i'm so
grateful for all of you please know that
have a good night thank you
man we want to do border control
on this or separate one
you're on mute if you're talking to me
all right one second mike they're coming
back on
i didn't get that out of my mouth fast
enough
hey mike ben can we do this now if you
disclose it at 8 o'clock
uh mark so
i'm here but i'm muted that was a
record meeting although we're still
recording so just to be aware but
7 17. i'm just saying although
i did tell everybody we could have done
that in a half hour but
i knew it would i thought it would take
us two hours
and i know bill 45 minutes of it is me
and all me i know i know i know
you're not the only you're not the only
one you love me anyway
you know it mark is about to join and
he'll uh answer that question that we uh
that we had about look at how much
knitting i got done while we were
talking is that impressive you know if
the meetings were just longer you'd have
been finished with that i know
i could show you the stack of beer cans
over here that i got through but
we are recording our recording
but he's not telling anything that's not
true i mean
full disclosure facts true facts
exactly
so um well mark comes on mike do you
want to just talk a little bit about
the uh what we're what we're looking at
here we're looking at
approving i guess not necessarily the
contract but the
finances for the contract for
the pool management services for 2021
based on two proposals that we received
for rfp
one from swim safe and one from columbus
pool management
swim safe was the best
and lowest proposal at 185
000 for 2021. plymouth pool management
was at 188 899
for 2021 obviously they go up for
inflationary costs
uh for renewals in 2022 and 2023.
if you take even in totality if we were
to use all
three of those years swim safe would
still be the cheapest um
and we felt really good and frankly
about both proposals that they covered
everything that we needed to but
uh swim safe is we're very happy with
the swim safe proposal and it is the
least expensive of the options so that's
your recommendation
mike correct our rec board has also
discussed it and approves that
recommendation as well
so i guess my only question and this is
a question for mark
do we have to come back at eight o'clock
or can we do this now and
wait was it scheduled for eight o'clock
ben
then put it on the on the calendar for
eight o'clock
i think technically you gotta do it at
eight o'clock oh my
gosh i mean look you could do whatever
you want as long as you don't get caught
but i don't want somebody turning around
and saying
some idiotic thing about oh you
you met before your scheduled time and
therefore
you are you know the the contract that's
the last thing you want yeah i i agree
that sounds like it makes perfect sense
i do want to clarify that
i think always our board of control
meeting just is kind of slotted into a
time
on the website and it's always right
after council so this would be a
universal issue
and i don't know how to address it uh
yeah because we would always be late or
early
what but probably late you're right
which might always be late
so i i guess it's better to be late than
early maybe that's the you know well
that's true at least that way somebody
you know at least that way they can you
know
they they would be early to the meeting
you'd be running late and they'd still
have the chance to you know participate
but here it's doing it before eight
o'clock again it
i'm sure it won't matter in reality but
the infinitesimal
percent of one percent that it might
it's not worth it
but then i want to say ben i want to
suggest you stop recording this then
okay it's not a meeting this is not a
meeting and if we're going to keep
talking let's not record it
yeah good point okay that's fine
so