oh
all right
hey welcome to the first city council
meeting of
2022.
i want to extend a welcome to everyone
and a
[Applause]
to everybody and welcome to the rest of
city council today what i would like on
behalf of the city of baxter to thank
you all for your service to our
community tonight
mr mcv
would you like to
give us the roll call today i would be
honored
mr markham
here
sorry
thank you
mr markham here ms marcelino here it's
robinson here
here assad here mr clement here
and miss
thank you here
rise for the uh
and to the republic for which it stands
one nation under god indivisible with
liberty and justice for all
cross country teams here tonight
number five we have public comments up
next if you will note
a new addition to the agenda tonight on
behalf of uh natalie who's unfortunately
not here and one and he had worked to
revise our agenda a little bit so it
includes when
a speaker slip is required when one is
not required and if you look at the end
of the agenda
there is a detailed description of our
policy in terms of public comments
please note that we will have
this opportunity for
speakers with a speaker slip at the
beginning of the meeting
you may speak on a council agenda item
if you have a speaker slip
for that item submitted before the
meeting starts
and also speak without a speaker slip at
the end of the meeting and also for any
third readings
yes we have two
um
miss lewis
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i also want to give
props to the mayor for finally
completing
the cyber park
walk to main street
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um by parkview on the south side
and uh take a little walk down and you
don't even have steps
man thank you thank you
uh mr sharp
president
congratulations
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that was presented that the earlier
meetings drafted then due to the
subsequent timing development allowing
council to individually
review the said document and to allow
for individual feedback
to catherine cunningham to make sure
that the summary of thoughts on each
point match that particular council
member's thought
and then the scheduling of the public
presentation and vote on the findings
all that precluded the opportunity for
me to join in prior to the expiration of
my turn
so i thought it was important for the
residents to know that i agreed to the
timing of the meeting that was held 5 30
and although i was not able to vote
tonight i was not precluded by council
from participating and on the contrary
schedules were adjusted so that it was
possible for the appeal hearing itself
to be held prior to the end of my term i
appreciate those efforts by council and
the transparency that was offered
as a result i can say that if i had the
opportunity to live
that that vote would have been the same
as the vote that's what took place
tonight
that was because of the wording of our
code the evidence that was presented
and provided by both the appellant and
the kelly
and due to the legal standards that
require the burden of proof to lie with
the appellant
and in cases where the code being
ambiguous that the benefit of the doubt
goes to the property
and to the burden of proof standard
being clear and convincing evidence
that is the standard that is higher than
preponderance of evidence
and in layman's terms for conference
is more than 50. slightly more than 50
percent likely that the evidence
presented is true
whereas our standard
which was in councils was clear and
convincing which means significantly
more
than 50
but less than beyond the reasonable
doubt
so the opposition had to prove that
higher standard level in presenting
their evidence not the property owner in
this case
additionally our code does not allow new
evidence to be presented and have
an evidence
that wasn't presented at the
vote prior to the vca
so what does that mean going forward
i think it's clear that residents are at
a disadvantage with business entities
who have financial and human resources
to research and gather evidence months
and sometimes years in advance if they
have done similar projects elsewhere and
residents have a couple weeks or best a
month
maybe two together
um
and study the plans
the city code absorb the interplay
between provisions and that to even know
whether
there is a case law on the subject and
then to evaluate if there are problems
and gather research and evidence to
present to the reviewing floor prior to
so
those are considerations that residents
um
need to be aware of
and that the uh these app needs to be
aware of too
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but together information and evidence to
present section
otherwise
evidence can't be introduced
later
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and i would suggest to council on these
app in their annual retreats or
committee meetings to additionally
consider the following with regard to
conditional uses
they should not be approved for new
builds or major renovations or requiring
if the cost to convert a conditional use
back to a permitted use is so
significant as to
preclude the current or a teacher on
earth from currently converting it back
to
the jeeps
the result
being
allowing the traditional use to become a
de facto use for the life of that
provision allowing conditional
residential use on the first
set
and
the separate
conditional
allowance for second and upper floors
were
in the code understandably
to
um be allowed to teach developers in
their design layouts to comply with
other aspects of the code
but those two conditional uses should
only be used in conjunction
at least in my opinion if at least fifty
percent of the first floor is used for
permitted or conditional
commercial purposes and fifty percent of
one or
of the upper floors is also used
for commendable condition of commercial
purposes so that there is in total one
floor of commercial use
in that commercial zone or next district
through business
reason is or if you have a
fully residency
in the middle of a business district
there are certain expectations that
presidents
living in a residential
unit
expect
that um
don't necessarily apply or or their
they understand more if there's um a
business use in their building
additionally
considerations should be
uses for that district more for approved
additional use so that it has to more
easily allow the property to be
converted back to the underlying
that's all i have to say
and
it's up to council to consider or not to
consider
and i respect
the decision on rayleigh thank you
thank you mr
no more speaker slips
next item on the agenda is the
president's update
that's me
so i'm going to tell you a little about
why out here i've been here for six
years in city council
and uh people often ask me about other
council members
they
they want to know sometimes about your
political affiliations
they want to know who's liberal who's
conservative and someone actually asked
me
questions about
and i suppose if i took the time to
click a couple times
i could probably investigate and find
out but to be frank with you
it just doesn't matter
in the six years that i've been a member
of city council
it's never mattered at all
there's a famous story about richard
sharp and i
uh about our the plastic bag dan and
richard voting against the classic bag
ban the night that was actually this
finding
and uh after the meeting was over uh
richard needed a ride home and i gave
him a ride home
at one time or another probably i made
just about every member of the city
council
a little bit annoyed
or a little upset with a voter
and we all meet each other for coffee
with each other
when we have something that we want to
talk about
over the holidays i saw a story on the
news that i see almost every year but i
just love this story
and the reason is because it's a great
story the new stories always have it's
this
very wealthy man who goes out and
he wears red hat he hands out 100 girls
to people you know they call it the
secret santa or whatever and it's
exciting it's a fun
episode and that's why they can't resist
the joy that these people have when it
gives them the hundred dollar bills you
know and it's usually people who maybe
you know they have kids and they work
you know
low-paying jobs and you know enjoyed it
against that it's pretty infectious
so i went to this year and all of a
sudden i realized you know
i don't really know who this guy looks
for right
now it's for the same people
or if he votes differently
it really doesn't matter either right
because what is he doing
uh it doesn't matter his national
politics is because he's serving his
community
that's what really remains best and true
about city government
all share an environment with each other
our kids go
they gather together and they play
we work together to build and maintain
our social structures and our
infrastructure
and the reason
that we can argue with each other
and we can annoy each other and come
back to work together the next week is
because we have
respect for each other
we see the work and sacrifice that goes
into
each of us take this job
and the responsibility of the community
we all know that often it's a thankless
job
this takes away from our recreational
opportunities
that's why these city council members up
here
sacrifice their valuable time on tuesday
nights
and every week for the year in order to
do good for the city of exodus
at the end of the day we know we each
know
that if we disagree with another member
of city council
it's because we have different ideas
about how to do it
so my charge to you tonight as president
is this
disagree with each other
question
vote against each other
and keep taking each other's calls and
meetings for coffee
keep digging to come up with better
ideas for the city while you're here
don't be afraid to be
one to six toes
a little bit of business to do tonight
before i pass on on the agenda and that
is to introduce
formally the
committee chairs
listed at the back of the agenda
conveniently
our new science service and
environmental committee chair is gloria
anthony
our new finance committee chair monique
lampe
aren't you safety and health committee
chair sam marcelino
are you zoning and development committee
chair matt
klingler
our recreation and parks committee chair
jessica
and our strategic committee chair
jennifer robinson
i'm excited to see the work that you all
do this year
and i also have
the latest assignments as well
i'm trying to keep in mind with the
layers on assignments that many of you
have raised on assignments already that
you really really enjoy and affects the
case i've tried to to keep you in those
assignments um
in some cases
i've pulled through and added some new
ones and moved them around i just want
to as i give you these to you and as you
take a look at them sort of go over a
quick
overview of what the liaison assignments
are it's not really an official duty to
city council it is a point of contact
between some of these organizations and
the community and city council you're
not really required to you know attend
every meeting or do any specific duties
of these with the exception of the cic
where we have three building members and
also the right board with which the
chair here is serves as a
really regular convict with the uh that
chris gave some legislation that comes
out of there as well however i would
encourage you if you have new
assignments or even if you have existing
assignments go ahead and reach out to
them let them know who you are
and find out about them let them know
that they are free to contact you with
any type of questions or
or issues that they have
also
just because you're not a liaison to an
organization doesn't mean that you can't
contact that organization and work as
well all right so let's be frank about
that
um are there any questions this time
about the community shares on
assignments
how about the auditor mr mckee do you
have a report for us tonight
i do not have a report
um but i will simply say um
you know over the past probably two
months um have been partnering with bill
harvey and frankly all of you guys on
essentially transitioning and ramping up
into this role which i'm incredibly
appreciative of attending my first cic
meeting participating in the pre-council
meetings um so really getting up to
speed and i know in the next few weeks
i've got one-on-ones with most of you
scheduled um so really looking forward
to learn more about what you how i can
support you um and your role in city
council so uh in the meantime feel free
to reach out to me if you have any
questions um also been partnering with
feature on a handful of different things
so far um but nonetheless please reach
out super excited to get
actively you know engaged in this role
appreciate it
mr mckay we're really excited to have
you on board
you are going to get to know all of us
administrative updates i'm going to turn
this over to you mr mayor and bring out
your live
thank you mr president um
first up service department update andy
bayshore who i believe is on the line
with us
andy
yes sir hi myron mr president um i have
attached my written report
don't really have anything to add to it
other than i know leaves have been a hot
topic
the guys are still working pretty hard
and we've been working extra shifts and
i am hoping to have the leaves done
tomorrow and then we're going to start
the alleys and then scout around for any
leftover piles
but that
that's pretty much it right now in the
service department
thank you andy and i i do want the
record to reflect that uh
ms lewis very graciously credited me
with uh
bulldozing a path along schneider park
and installing boulders along the side
for uh
control of erosion but that was
i did not i believe uh lift a finger
physically on that project so but thank
you very much the crews of the service
department
have been working on that and actually
what's pretty remarkable about that is
they've never constructed that sort of
path before and so we've been working
with our city engineer and they've been
learning his skills and um
it's it's far from finished but we do
hope to complete it this year and andy i
thank you for your support and specif
also
assistant service director grant archer
who's really taking the lead on that
particular portion of the project so
thank you
for that
um any questions for mr bayshore
all right thank you andy enjoy your
evening thank you for joining us
um
police department update is being
presented by our interim chief
goff who is here with us in person and
actually we need to get him a microphone
if you want to pass yours for now
um so i don't know that everyone here
has met captain goff deputy chief goff
or interim chief goth all of those
titles are currently appropriate
um he is a uh a member of obviously our
police department that rose in the ranks
from officer to
sergeant to captain and then that
position was tweaked to be deputy chief
um he's a veteran of the gulf war did i
get that right
um he is also the person who is
responsible for
actually being certified early on with
the ohio collaborative which you haven't
if you haven't looked at the ohio
collaborative
um i i recommend you google it it's a
partnership
of agencies who are working for best
practices above and beyond kind of just
the standard
uh reactionary sort of policies that um
if we were all coasting we were doing uh
captain goff was instrumental in that
and his leadership allowed us to be
certified in that i believe we're one of
the earlier agencies to be certified if
that's correct
there we go number two really i didn't
know that um so and we continue
certification and every year there's a
little bit of a change to that
certification so
um the role of the assistant uh or sorry
the deputy chief the captain
um is very administrative in nature for
the most part so we don't always see
captain goff but he's always there and
uh we really appreciate you stepping in
as interim chief um during this time so
thank you very much for your service to
our city to our country and for being
here for council thank you
so
now with that you you now you have to
really knock out of the park with your
update
no
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i believe in face to face uh plus
there's a few members i didn't get a
chance to meet yet like to hopefully see
you next time
my experiences especially
through
all my
leadership roles that i've had
throughout life military and
of course back for 24 years but uh
um yeah there'll be some challenges
coming up but
i'm there for it but
you know i said i've been here for so
long i know the process and it'll be an
easy transition so
um
so yeah so
you have my attached
um
update
not nothing to add there however we have
been working a lot of
overtime for shortages and uh i know
that's probably gonna
occur some more coming up we've got some
people leaving
so um it'll be
just fine we have those roles already
filled
you know
won't be a slight coverage off of the
city
department
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appreciate it
any questions sir
i should also have added that uh interim
chief golf is a hockey dead as well i
should have added that to your
credentials so
um
we could do anyone here play hockey we
could do some like a little intramural
pickup maybe
city council versus
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i used to play with one of yours
all right that's the future okay um
thank you thank you captain gough
mr price
with the reckon parks update
thank you mayor uh nothing to add to my
report
we have to ask where you are
oh my goodness i know exactly where you
are
so nothing to add to your written report
except there is internet at 420
north cassidy
yes
just doing a couple things here so
um but we're excited the senior center
has come along and
um we we do have internet sort of uh and
we're building still building on the
space that's what we're doing here
all right
i'm sorry you know what i saw you in the
building i didn't recognize you with all
the facial hair and i called in
mike i just want to highlight um that
you
spoke up on your report you wrote about
the registration we had a very
successful registration yesterday so
kudos to your team um for
pulling that off it's good news
thank you
all right um and so
one thing i think that we also need to
add to the report is
we have yet to come up with a name for
the space
like a cool name
like
you know i came up with the boomer room
nobody liked that so
i think you guys need to start
exercising your creative faculties and
and coming up with the name for the
space
and anything that mentions 420 is not
appropriate so
all right
what
thank you mike
thank you good
thanks mike take care have a good
evening
i think it's just to be the record
yeah mr hale anything from the finance
department
yes no report mayor except for hope to
have uh the
monthly
the monthly numbers out to you guys for
december and the year end
next uh next meeting also hope to have
the budget completed ready to go out on
the internet
or on the website i should say um
a little bit behind having been out a
week at one of the busiest times of the
year with covid but just glad to be back
and uh that's it that's all i
have thank you beach or any questions
for beecher
um i apologize uh my update was not
attached that's my fault i was
burning the midnight oil getting that
ready uh right before the meeting so we
will get that attached to the agenda so
that you guys can all view that um
but in the meantime it is up in front of
you on the screen so i'll try to scroll
slowly through this
um but a couple things i want to
highlight
is
we have an ask an expert
virtual panel it's a virtual luncheon
learn on friday at noon
we're going to have a couple members of
our covet task force there
just to talk about the current state of
the pandemic in bexley and
ohio and franklin county and
america and the world nothing ambitious
about that
um we'll have cindy tyson who's a nurse
at bexley schools to also talk about
school policy and what's going on at the
schools
um roger friedman and abby norris turner
so
that should be helpful and informative
it'll also be a link on the blast
friday afternoon so you can catch it if
you missed it
the south drexel virtual workshop
notice to residents on drexels going out
that we're going to have a workshop
to talk with residents about some of the
traffic coming options that we have for
the project this summer we're going to
be presenting them with two scenarios
one of them is going to have bike lanes
both north and southbound on drexel
the other will have
some center medians
to help kind of
throttle the street and slow traffic
down the two cannot coexist together so
it's sort of a choice between the two
and we're going to get feedback from
them we also have some alternate bike
lane ideas if that doesn't end up being
the ultimate um
addition to drexel both scenarios
involve
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some
blanking on this but some bump outs bump
outs to sort of narrow the crosswalks
all the way along drexel uh north to
south
um
we have made some progress on moving
forward with the fine the income
income-based fines and fees i had a
meeting with our mayor's court team in
december and they're working on a draft
policy to circulate to mark
january 1st was the launch or the start
i guess of phase two of our single use
plastics ordnance
you may find plastic straws and other
non-conforming materials in restaurants
throughout bexley right now
we did send a letter out to all of our
businesses saying we understand there's
a lot of supply chain difficulty
we understand that you know there's a
lot of pandemic uncertainty we
understand that this is a year of grace
and just kind of learning together so we
had we've had two workshops with
restaurants
to talk to vendors of
compostable alternative materials
recyclable alternative materials
we plan on assembling an arsenal of
different types of straws for example
elizabeth element is working with all
these different vendors to get
like a you know
suitcase full of different compostable
materials for restaurants just to check
out and try out because we've had a lot
of questions
you know what's great for a milkshake
you know might not be the same as
bubble tea milkshake workshop yeah bunch
of different straws
that's a great idea uh and i did mention
that to johnson's ice cream so hopefully
we'll take us up on it and i do want to
give johnson's kudos they've been really
at the forefront of trying to work with
us they have some unique challenges and
they've been at the table and that's
been awesome but you will notice if you
go to starbucks right now there are no
longer any drink stoppers uh that is no
coincidence that's thanks to you guys
and your and your work
uh i think they have stickers hopefully
that's uh they they didn't blink i mean
they were ready to go so it was good
um
i wanted to announce this evening that
elizabeth ellman has been installed and
hired as our environmental
sustainability programs coordinator so
she has everything lots of clapping
tonight
um
she's in like day two of that uh last
night she presented to reynoldsburg city
council uh they had some interest about
single-use plastics ban and so she's
she's hit the ground running and she's
also continued to be helpful with some
of our pandemic
preparedness stuff
um the chief and sorry this is this is
narrative because you know time
the chief of police search update
we have selected a consultant
um i have been trading voicemails with
said consultants so i'm not ready to
announce the consultant but i want to
thank um
jen and troy and sam for helping me uh
with interviews for search consultants
i'm also talking tomorrow with a
uh
public um
public uh
it's actually gail saunders is a pr
consultant
who can who can potentially help us
workshop with our with our different
resident groups
uh helping us to find the chief profile
helping us um reach out to different
resident groups and interact with them
as we go through the search so that may
also be a component of this um that's to
be determined
and i'll have i think a more substantive
update at our next meeting
um
electrical aggregation uh we met with
aep today actually and we should be
coming back to council in the next month
or two with
actually an idea that i think will
potentially be workable so
i know that we've talked about it a lot
i know no one's holding their breath but
uh
that's yeah we've got some interesting
concepts that might help us launch us
into a
really exciting
sustainable
financially feasible electric higher
education program
i also wanted you to be aware that
starting march 4th the uh vuenovic
the school of pornovich school of
government
through ohio university
um which has a campus here in actually
in dublin um is offering a program
that's weekly uh it costs i think 450
there's the link here on the update that
you don't have because i for and you'll
have it soon
um and it's for new it's not just for
newly elected officials it's for elected
officials of all
experiences they have a pretty rigorous
um
curriculum that includes uh
governance economic development
fundamentals
um growth economies safety public works
budget and finance
current issues in
public and local government that is a uh
750
uh program and
the city
i believe can offer that to any elected
official that wishes to partake in that
although i didn't ask mark that first i
don't think that that's i think that's a
training
so if anyone wants to attend i mean it
is a time commitment um
but i've heard from some of uh our
colleagues in
other governments locally who have
really benefited from it and enjoyed it
when
it starts
march 4th
i would imagine there might be a remote
option but um their campus is in dublin
so i'm not sure if that's in person or
remote
so the link is there i just wanted you
guys to be aware the resource if it's
something you want to take advantage of
let natalie know and we'll get you
registered
and that is my update
uh
also i had a photo of of the uh
the path that connie was talking about
that i forgot to show you just now but
maybe you saw it
there you go there's the path
pointing to main street
and that's my update any questions
can we say questions
is
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yeah i did not put the time for the
retreat i i think you were correct it's
the afternoon it's on our it's on our
calendar i'm not sure that's a hundred
percent firmed up
but okay thank you
item numbers
all right
december 14 2021 reading minutes
do we have any
discussion of the events
uh we have a motion from mr klingler and
a second from this fight
mr mckee
do we believe you will
yeah okay sorry
okay it's my father's day yeah
uh yeah
empty yes sod
yes marcelino yes markham yes klingler
yes and robinson
yes minutes pass i don't know if this
what what are we is it what passes
minutes
consent agenda passed thank you
that was awesome good work
[Laughter]
you guys are doing great
uh item number 11 is ordinances
resolutions with visiting presenters and
we have not
item number 12 is third readings and we
have none
item number 13 is second ratings and we
have none
and item number fourteen are first
trainees which we do have some first
readings all right the privilege of
ordinance 1-22
is to amend chapter 20 20.01 rule 8 of
the codifying
just
one or two highlighted changes and here
are our standard committees
our strategic committee formerly was
known as judiciary and strategic
committee it has been reported to the
strategic committee
also the text of it still needs an edit
there it still says in that
right that's a type yeah typo right
there
um and then in the role of the zoning
and development committee uh
placed in the
responsibility for overseeing
quasi-judicial functions such discerning
coherence councilmatic variants hearings
and the like that we approve
for the next two years
it's not reasonable
all right ornaments 222 which is to
authorize fifteen thousand dollars in
supplemental appropriations for calendar
year 2022. we're paying expenses
associated with the cheaper police
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ideas for what the search
process will entail
um he was recommended an additional 15
thousand
anything you want to add then yeah i
want to clarify that um so the
the quotes that we received from
different search consultants ranged
roughly from
high 20s to 40 000 roughly i think
they were fairly tight um
i'm expecting the search to be 35 to 40
000
um
now if you add up 10 and 15 that's not
35 or 40.
but when i budgeted 10 i knew that we
had money from
2021 that could be carried forward so
this allows us to cover that that gap um
you know we've
mark and i were talking about this
yesterday we we could do it ourselves um
but i don't think that's wise i think
that uh the expertise of the folks who
do this day in and day out um they're
specifically they have
uh the consultant i think we're working
with has a very specific police
expertise
which will allow them um not only to
understand
the right candidate for bexley but sort
of help us understand culturally
who will who will work well both with
our community and with our department
itself so i think that's a really
important skill and asset to bring to
the table and obviously
the decision for police chief is
really
one of the most if not the most
important hiring decision that we make
as a government um and so i think it's
one that we take seriously and that's
why we're giving the amount of attention
to it and
will require financial resources
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and worked with the police chief around
before they also
show a seriousness that the city has and
may very well enhance the number of
equality of candidates that we have as
opposed to
mom and pop uh
do they act as i ask questions okay do
they ask is it act as a recruiter or is
it truly just someone who helps
administer the process and ensure
we'll say all the the eyes get dotted
and piece gets crossed and we we get the
best candidate
so they do both of those things um yeah
so they're they are recruiting
candidates they're doing a
candidate profile they're advertising
the position they're helping through the
interview process
uh from very start to finish it's a wrap
around service
and if
within the first year the chief leaves
or is fired they will for free do
another search
now i don't
anticipate that being an issue but i
it's uh it's an interesting i saw that
as an interesting caveat to the contract
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tonight
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committee reports service and
environmental
for insight
super excited to be
the new chair of service
i don't have anything to report as a
chair however i do have
some exciting news coming from
the corner of
broad and drexel
csg board of trustees announced
unanimous unanimous appointment of neil
seals as the next head of school ms
seals who currently serves as assistant
head of school at the agnes irwin school
in rosemont pennsylvania will begin her
tenure
at csg july 1st 2022 so i would um
ask you permission
um mr president to have her come join us
maybe in our early august evening
finance committee
i think the mayor has already
workshop on january 20th
um and i would also like to congratulate
the three two school board members who
are being sworn in
as we speak
thank you mr president could i quickly
augment something that
miss lamke brought up that thank you so
much for bringing up the livingston
workshop because i forgot to mention
that um
we've had a couple questions about is
that still going to be in person um
we are going to create a very safe
environment for it to be in person we're
also going to offer a virtual option
which will include you know interface
through a q a
um
uh online survey for virtual
participants and then we're going to
bring the storyboards that have like
post-it notes into our lobby here so
that for a week or more people can put
their own marks on them in a low
density environment so at the meeting
itself we'll be providing these stylish
k n 95 masks and requiring them to be
worn by participants
and we believe it'll be safe for those
who wish to come and are comfortable in
that environment
thank you
safety and health committee mr marcelia
thank you very much very exciting for my
first resort here
just to note that i think that we're all
aware of some gunfire issues on new
year's eve i think we've all heard of
our neighbors here on evening uh
obviously interim chief job is uh still
getting his speed bullied up below but
i'll meet with them to see how we can
hopefully work with uh alumnus and see
if there's a way to
change the features i know it was a big
concern for a lot of residents but again
i don't anticipate another event that
taking place this week it's about a year
away so we will work on that in the
media
that's the end of the report
just flipped here um so i had a great
meeting with uh mike and the team today
over at park and rack and we're excited
to get started i asked him to share with
me the next two years of what he is
looking to do over there we had a really
productive meeting
super excited about the ribbon cutting
that mrs lampke reminded me about today
and uh
park and friend was excited to share
that february 13th
um at 4 pm the river cutting for the
senior teen center will be happening
over at the old art with anna so hope to
see everybody there for that uh that's
the february 13th it's the super bowl so
i said now do you have to stay around
for the super bowl
and um but it's me they're already
planning a lot of events there at the
senior center and
a great place to mingle and hang out and
get get everybody back as safely as they
can to see each other as um
said tonight
we're all better and first when we can
be we can be safe so they'll have a nice
super bowl party there that night is
really good
um
next meeting for park and rec it's
usually the first wednesday every month
but we didn't have a forum last week so
we're gonna have it tomorrow at 5 30 so
that
and was great
a report from the bexley education
foundation
um
i wanted to
say that
our hearts have been having since we
learned about the death of the
high school alum david elliott an 83
uh grand um on december 31st david was
the father of three bexley high school
grads he's the brother
of the former bef board chair preston
elliott who was our new um
president of our mexico community
foundation david's wife lisa and the
elliott family have made the bef the
beneficiary of the memorial gifts that
will be used to establish a scholarship
in david's name if you want us to reach
out to the bf on behalf of david um the
bdf is grateful to be able to honor
david's legacy at jackson baseball and
keep his light shining so just keep the
elliott family to see preston and jill
um and
david's wife out to the top of mind
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luncheon i know you're all dealing with
clothing in so many different ways and
you know so many questions have come up
and i know that
between don friedman and abby
and sydney tyson we are we're
in good hands so please tune in and if
you have questions for those questions
uh along and just a reminder of the um
joint livingston uh task force meeting
and thank you mayor i know after the
last task force meeting there was a lot
of concern about how to do that safety
in person so thank you so much for
adding that online on it
other than that and that's it thanks so
much
john thank you for uh your work on both
of those tasks you are a
very hard working
um item number 22 public comments
we
have an open forum right now
and this we just saved voice
yeah