right
well thank you it's a pc so i could
actually i could if it was a mac i would
just quit
i'm done
okay
we all said that okay yes i i texted
right
both well it's a pc
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we're recording now okay okay all righty
we've got molly on and it looks like
only molly for the minute so
um elena would you like to set up this
uh
this application for us from mr george
fisher tabith at 828 south vernon yes
as just to remind everyone this is an uh
a request that was tabled and is being
brought forward
in the subsequent months
already so um
we
um we're looking at 828 vernon road
and um
last month we were looking at this
particular tree and whether or not the
homeowner would like to have it
relocated
in order to accommodate a
potential landscape plan
that it would we would have to do a new
lead walk in the right-of-way and move
the tree
and so these are just some of the
existing photographs that
we were looking at a couple of things to
note
is that we really couldn't go
to the north to this direction simply
because of
a lot of utilities that are within this
area as well as the shade of the maple
that is here so really the only spot
that
it could potentially be relocated to
would be over in this location
george was nice enough oh and then just
let's see as
also a point of reference
here is an aerial view so this is the
existing walkway the tree that you're
seeing it wasn't in within this
particular area ariel but it's about
right here and there's a bay window that
is located here that they're hoping for
a new um
pathway that would be on center with
that and then curve up into the door and
he provided us george provided us with a
nice sketch
that you can see here now
with the understanding that they didn't
want to you know go into too much effort
with
doing a landscape plan they wanted to be
able to understand what the tree
commission may or may not allow before
they did that next step of working with
the landscape designer or architect so
here is um the porch and the steps that
come up here's the existing brick
pathway and
the existing lead walk in this location
there is a bay window
that the intent is that there would be a
new brick path or whatever particular
path would come up on center with that
bay window and then have this gentle
curve then to meet up with the steps
there would be
new bed lines you know kind of
throughout you did send a different one
and i can show it in a second i
apologize george thank you for sending
that um but you know some different
trees and different landscape
and that you know there would be a new
lead walk in this location this tree
would be located towards the south as
well as having the downspout um to be
relocated um and all of this would be on
oh sorry going to the north all of this
would be at the expense of the owners
so this is a
information that we did share
with let's see if this one reads maybe a
little clearer
yeah there we go
um this is the plan that we did kind of
share with everyone and i did reach out
we got some initial feedback
from um commission members that were not
here um
molly um o'donnell mentioned that she
thought that the existing tree has a
great form and it's now established and
that given that cars can park on both
sides of the street and the sidewalk has
access from the street and that the
sidewalk access from the street is often
blocked to a residence the desi design
does not necessarily have to rely on a
direct connection to the curb the house
design from the house to the walk could
be installed without moving the tree and
walk in the tree lawn so her thought is
that this lead walk could potentially
stay as is and there's just a jog
as a connection from the lead walk to
where this new
access path is to the front door if that
is a landscape plan that they would like
to pursue
ellen bowden also agreed with molly's
suggestion saying that the tree appeared
healthy and um recommends to keep the
sidewalk track um sidewalk lead sidewalk
as is
um they said that uh their hopes they
think it would look like it would be a
great landscape improvement overall
and dave wakeman also thought that there
was a nice plant but the relocation of
the tree was not necessary
for the proposed sidewalk to get this
design
so
um and his vote would be no on the
removal but he's obviously not here to
vote
uh
eleanor i have a text from ellen who
says that uh that you need to let them
in okay i will do that
admit
thank you
all right
you're admitted
okay
so
that that is where things stand so with
that i will open it up to um comments
and questions from the
commission members
is this a relocatable tree
what do we put this tree at risk to try
to
well yeah independent of whether we
will prove it but is it
yeah i feel to get to the adequate root
ball
on this i mean it would be because
there's a street i'm assuming there's a
street light that cable that runs
underneath there as well
how about the spacing because we're
usually real sensitive about it moves
closer to the it does move closer um
these are smaller green mountain
um
sugar maples uh
i i
try i think that it's it's doable
whether i i wouldn't technically plant a
tree that close together um
but yeah i i don't know that this tree
is movable
like go ahead and dig it up and move it
does it we don't know if it is you're
saying i don't think you could you don't
think you could you cannot relocate yes
if mr wilson did you have your hand up
for did i no no it was a blink of an eye
other questions for
miss andrews or kristarcher
linda
i just wondered about the the lead part
i mean we used to have one of those in
front of our house and just got rid of
it
just
more concrete so i don't know what the
miss williams anything
any any questions for mr tavick well he
needs to present okay
okay we're done here then all right i
think so george you want to come up and
stay your face
could you say say your name please and
your address george tabbott um
i live at 828 vernon road
i'm kind of a newcomer to bexley i've
only been here 20 years
but that house has been in my wife's
family since she was born
so it's um
50-year history there we bought it from
my mother-in-law uh about 10 years ago
so we really care very much about the
neighborhood
um we have one of the neighbors three
doors down used to walk to school with
sue ellen every day at montrose when she
was a little girl so
um
i think i guess i just share that so you
know how serious we are about
doing the right thing and making sure
you know um that if we did go forward
um
we would plant a tree
of like size um i have checked with some
uh local nurseries that species is
available
it's probably even available um with
some luck in the exact same caliper size
so i think
really and if it's not available in the
same caliper size it would be a half
inch last so i don't think we're looking
at
it's not like this is a legacy tree
that's 50 or 25 or even 10 years old it
was
planted within the last five years as
you saw in the
aerial photo and
would be replaced with something that's
of pretty much the same size um
what else did i want to add
as far as leaving the lead walk um
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i mean i wouldn't
if we couldn't move the tree i wouldn't
be able to move forward with this i
don't
i wouldn't be comfortable with my
neighbors
asking them i think it would just look
incongruous and incomplete to have a
lead walk that
crosses from the curb the sidewalk but
doesn't connect to anything i think if
you look around that's not a typical
solution um i mean i i get where that's
coming from and it's an obvious sort of
first thought but i just in the long run
i don't think my neighbors would be
satisfied
with that outcome and i know we wouldn't
be either um
i do think elite walks is important
um if you look at any
any house in south bexley that doesn't
have a driveway there's always a lead
walk um i did some internet research
morphs he publishes a
guidebook on how to build streets
including sidewalks everybody knows what
morphe is right
and so it addresses
sidewalks you know there's an entire
chapter on it and talks about um
the importance of sidewalks being
everywhere that anybody walks as part of
an equitable transportation plan in a
community
um so i'm really not comfortable not
having the sidewalk there
and it says in particular the reason for
that is um
giving deference to the very old the
very disabled so i wouldn't want any
guests at our house ever to be
expected to walk across uneven terrain
or anything like that
i think that's good public policy
um
i'm not sure what some of the other
objections i heard were
i think this is really
um to me this is good community making
this is like really something that
i work in um community development i
have for 20 years
i think good communities happen when
neighbors work together
property owners work together with your
city officials to produce a compliment
compromised solution that improves
the the neighborhood
improves property values i have spoken
with all my neighbors about this they're
they're in support
um the neighbor to the south there's
actually a third potential tree on this
plane on the neighborhood of the south
when i showed her this
over the weekend
she has an existing um ornamental tree
on the north side of her house that is
dying so we're talking about okay it
needs replaced we're going to put it on
my side or your side
the neighbor to the north um has been
talking to me about how we could
uh work together on the landscaping
along the side of our houses so i think
this is really actually this is what
communities ought to be promoting
neighbors working together
investments in our community
um
i'm having a hard time understanding the
prejudice to the city we're we're
replacing the existing tree was
something of the same size okay
thank you okay
any other questions for mr cabbage
no okay well yeah this is um
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this is a tough one because you know the
the
um
that space
is city property i'm sorry and that's
the space of city property and it's
where we have
uh infrastructure uh clearly if this
were a fire plug there
uh you'd have to live with a fire plug
you know we wouldn't be relocating now
this isn't a fire plug
but it is city infrastructure and it's
uh it's gotten to this stage it's
healthy
uh it's it's survived we can't plant
trees of this size because they don't
survive we have to plant trees smaller
so they can acclimate and they grow even
back to our next shirt i mean i'll argue
but we've already done we've got we've
got a few trees we've planted so we've
done we know what best practices tend to
be for these areas so
um
it it seems to all hang
on whether there's a lead walk
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and uh i kind of agree with linda i mean
most places you can go up and down your
own street there's very few lead walks i
mean a lot of people don't have right
across the street there's uh
they're missing some and so that it's
it's not a and i understand when there's
driveways it's a little different um
but if just the jog and the lead walk
has to cause the death of the tree and i
i just think that's a that's a hard one
for for for me to be honest with you uh
so you can curve your walk all the way
and and do whatever you want and the
lead walks stay in place and everybody's
happy so i the you know just for the
sake of the disconnect this tree has to
go and and i for me that's a little bit
of a well
i would say i mean the tree is to be
replaced with another tree it's maybe
two or three years younger than um if we
can't get one the same size that was
planted within the last five years so we
would be but we would be replacing it
with the tree of the same size yeah and
and if the
if if if the tree grew and survived to
the stage of this one
uh where it's being relocated to your
lead walk would be
right under the tree right through the
tree so that wouldn't really work either
to be honest with you because that tree
you know imagine if this lead walk that
exists now or within three feet of the
trunk of that tree you'd be walking
under the tree and you wouldn't want
that either that wouldn't work so we
don't have a real good location to put
the tree and
have a fully functioning uh lead walk
that would spare
the the time so it's a tough one i mean
again i i don't see the problem
personally with the disconnect
because you'd still have that and then
you you're seeing the uh from your lead
walk still lines up with your door so
you can see that then you make this jog
and you're over in the yard you're
making and i'm not questioning the
design of that but you know a nice curve
through the yard is kind of pleasant um
and so i just don't you know to me that
would be the compromise
in this situation and you could do your
walk our tree survives and life goes on
any other questions
or comments
when we look at the initial picture and
then there's a second lead walk we call
it that on the other side that's a
gravel pieces of brown
that's not my property that's a three
long rules
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it would not be in
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then it's not a street tree it would be
a city tree yeah
be a city trent no that yeah
we don't i am sure
okay other questions from mr tavin
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you may sit down with mr kevin one one
final comment that when when you look at
the second photograph
um
those
large mature trees
uh are what makes this part of the
street special
trees don't get to be large
and mature uh if we take them out and we
start over
if we just don't get there so i i just
i'm concerned about that i'd have also
met a little concern about the precedent
uh that if somebody wanted to change
their walker to do this then the trees
are you know we can cut down a tree and
make it make it work we'll because we'll
never get to the maturity of a
tree-lined street that way so that's me
all right thank you thank you mr kim
all right you you may sit down okay are
there any other questions is there any
other discussion
uh
well i would just say that
in a felon i wanted to say something i
could wait no i'm good i i mean for me
it's a really close question
um i think that this is a really nice
landscaping
plan for the house and i do understand
the owner's desire to curve this and
make the landscaping more consistent
with the architecture of the house so i
and i understand that homeowners
desire not to have the lead walk
not match up with the walk into the
house for me the hard question is just
where would we draw the line
in terms of other
homeowners that want
also to do landscaping and not you know
i
that's where i'm having trouble
with approving this is once we set the
precedent then i think it's very hard to
say
to other people
you can't
do something similar and you know um
grant doesn't i mean grant hasn't
replanted my tree yet so he obviously
doesn't have the resources to plant
trees constantly
um
and so from but
as i said i think this is a really hard
question because i do think we
as a community need to
appreciate residents that want to make
this kind of investment in their home to
improve the landscaping of their
their own yards so um
i'm i'm very torn i i think it is a hard
question and i think that mr tabith has
shown that he's
diligent in assuming responsibility for
uh removal and replanting a couple
questions is you know
we can replant but not all of our trees
survive and so we could be down six
years or eight years if the new tree was
put in and it didn't make it i mean
that's just the fact of life and it
doesn't mean that you're not a good
steward just as is what happens with
drought
and the other thing is um as both jim
and larry pointed out that consistency
in decision-making is helpful
in the long run and it's uh
it not only sets standards it gives us a
certain you know parachute that
we're able to
say to the community that you know our
decision one month will undoubtedly be
reflected in decisions in coming months
so i do think that
you know
both mr hillman mr wilson's uh thoughts
that we should consider that as we
ask for a motion
one
thing that i i feel that we are thank
you i feel that we are torn about this
or most of us might be
um
and
i believe that perhaps in the future
what we can do is be more mindful and
communicating with our with our
residents of what's to happen to come
that will certainly
help
reduce some
changes that other people might want to
make as later on am i did i make that
clear to you
i'm not sure what your point was
um that
i think to avoid this problem happening
again
is that we notify the the residents
sooner
of what
of a planting so that they can say now
wait a second before it's planted i
wanted to ask you something
so
the sooner street trees are planted
response pardon before street trees are
planned yes yes yeah that can be we can
go forward with that positive thought
which is already happening i believe yes
i think grant grant's on to that so any
questions any other comments
i had i had one comment i think um or a
couple of things one i think that um
some issues that definitely have been
brought up are um
you know the consistency in the decision
making but also whether or not if if
there is because
this situation has not at least in the
time the number of years that i've been
here hasn't come up before and so i
don't know if this is you know it's not
like everyone is coming and saying take
down my tree take down my tree right so
um i i
i understand about not setting a
precedent but i also think that um if
there is something that we say that
under a certain caliper right so three
inches or below or something that
we would consider it but anything above
is a definite no
um since it is still a relatively young
tree
um you know regardless of you know what
the commission members vote on today i
think that that's something that we
should maybe you know kind of think
about and have some kind of policy that
we can fall back on about you know
whether or not it is a carte blanche
no street trees get to be removed and
that's just the way things are but
different situations always come up and
bexley is unique and you know each of
the architecture of the home is unique
and people are going to have you know
different designs so you know if we are
able to work with community members who
you know clearly love a home
um something to just consider
i agree with that um
but this street tree also belongs
to the street it belongs to the
neighbors
as long as people drive up and down that
street uh it is matured beautifully it
is done well there
um
and
i i'm just concerned uh we i mean we've
got a property right next door that's
taken the tree lawn and done something
different to the tree line we've got all
this kind of stuff going on and
if if we're we either we either believe
in street trees that are allowed to grow
and create the canopy that we all love
uh or not restarting that clock i think
is uh
and we haven't heard from any neighbors
maybe they don't care maybe they would
care maybe they would notice the
difference because the tree going back
in will be vastly different than the
three here because that's our
we do not replace and caliber
so i'm ready to um call the question and
i'm ready for a motion
typically for these things
the motion has to be in the affirmative
and you either know that yes or no okay
thank you that's that's good information
so so so i would move to approve the
request all right is there a second i
second it okay is there any discussion
okay a motion is made and seconded to
prove the request to remove the tree at
828 south vernon road and put in the
like tree or similar tree
um in the same
tree lawn all those in favor say aye aye
all those opposed say no
no
wait what are we doing i said we're
voting on the in the informative all
those who vote
for it
all for the replacement or for the
replacement but yes
all those in favor say aye
all those opposed no no
no
linda i didn't hear you
sorry are we confused here advice
okay sorry okay
so i think we're three and three
and um
mr
wakeman's vote would not count because
he is not present those are the zoom law
those are the zoom rules
so
what the field so it fails then right
okay
just so it is everybody everybody's
understanding clear what they're okay
all right so mr tabbett the motion was
made seconded and voted upon and it has
failed
everybody voted yes i'm not sure that
was their attention
no no we should be clear on our vote
okay okay
let's let's do it or an individual vote
son
all right
i'm gonna go back to my youtube here all
right emotion is made and seconded that
we approve
the removal of the
green mountain sugar maple at 828 south
vernon
an affirmative vote means that you prove
negative won't mean that motion fails
so we'll start with mr hellman no
miss straub
yes
mr wakeman is unable to vote miss
williams yes mr wilson
yes yes
ms zubnik no
no this is contents no
so we have three and three and the
motion fails
and that will be you will send the
finding of back to mr tabith for that
yes
thank you george
thank you
all right now as we move on in our
our agenda for the day we are going to
go to old business which is the urban
tree canopy assessment assignments
mr wilson how is that coming along
are you feeling unloved
i'm not feeling unloved i'm feeling like
the commission members are somewhat
challenged in filling out a chart
but i've received a lot of information
there's a couple folks who i know
have tacitly promised me that they will
give me their information before our
next meeting and i'm taking
the variety of forms of reports and
trying to put them into one document but
it's a little more challenging than i
thought it might be but so how many of
the let's see of the 14 you
have i
believe i have
eight
okay we're halfway there
so
i have the chair has set up for example
let's be honest
it has she has been uh dilatory she
submitted one
and then she sent an email a voicemail
to the urban forester manager in
arlington virginia he was on vacation
and i got a note back from him yesterday
thanks for your voicemail i'm a former
columbus ohio resident and osu grad and
i'd be happy to talk about our tree
programs i just came back from vacation
so let's talk in the next few weeks good
how about that i will send reminders to
everyone that i um haven't gotten
information for from and if you think
you gave it to me and i reminded you
just point me to where it was um
um so
and how can we be i mean i know
uh that the two that i had one
um it didn't take long before there was
not much there's nothing to be learned
from that one and so uh but the city of
davidson one i know i sent you the
ordinance but i don't know if that's
helpful
actually for me the most helpful pieces
here are for actual citations to
ordinances and a link to any plans that
the city has to preserve its trees
because at least in my mind the the end
goal of this is to
um use other people's language either in
ordinances
or um tree protection plans to see if
we're doing everything we can so i think
it
in my mind that's more helpful than
a narrative than the narrative computer
okay so
the narratives are fun
i i can tell that many members enjoyed
writing the narratives
and i i will see if grant's 15 minutes
are long enough for him to train
out a chart
so
lori ann just to bring you up to speed
um the bexley community foundation
underwrote an urban tree canopy
assessment study for the city of bexley
about a year ago and our numbers came in
and our tree canopy assessment showed
that we have 39 coverage
there are communities that have better
coverage than we do
and
we have the names of those communities
and the percentage of their coverage and
jim has graciously
probably maybe foolishly but graciously
just helped
choose 14 communities with better scores
than we do that we're investigating to
see how they have grown a bigger canopy
than we have and to his point are their
ordinances stronger are their ordinances
focused in different areas do they have
you know is there is there some way they
grow their trees better
so that that's what this is all about
awesome yeah it is kind of awesome
that's that's based on 2019 right
yeah but you know grant it's
it's 2019 but one of the things in that
hugsy study is that once a year
everything we've done will be
um upgraded to that year the technology
has moved so fast now that they every
year we're going to get an assessment
of both green space and canopy okay okay
that's the way i write the information
okay naming rights anything back from
the city attorney jim
um
no but the mayor has promised me to that
he will clarify with the city attorney
what we're looking for and we can report
back at the next meeting
so lori ann do you know anything about
this when i say naming rights okay so
let's just say your family wants to name
jeffrey mansion after you so it's the
lorient bible mansion
we we wanted to develop
some rules around
what gets named who who names
why would it be named and for how long
and what does that mean so jim
yeah so jim brought together uh folks
from
rec board community foundation tree
commission elena and we developed
some information that we've
passively approved i think but that the
city attorney now is looking at just if
i win the lottery it's gonna be really
hard for me to get something named after
me yeah well
okay so any other old business
any new business
okay i did suggest that perhaps we could
each say one goal we might have for the
year
it can be an individual goal it can be a
community goal it could be a
pre-commissioned goal
and if anybody has anybody thought about
what that would be
mr wilson
well
um
in fairness this comes to some extent
out of conversations in the in the
naming rights committee but i think
we've also talked about some extent in
the tree commission that when we invest
in new assets for the community we need
to figure out a way to pay for that not
just initially but for the maintenance
of that and i'm
a difficult but very useful exercise to
try to better identify what the
forward-looking cost is
of the kind of things that um the tree
commission is responsible for in the
right of way and in the parks that we're
responsible for
i think that's i think that's an
excellent goal
anybody else have one
yes yes linda i would like to find some
way that we can get back to and clean up
um
cassidy north cassidy
maryland you mean the vegetation on the
west side okay
grant do you have any ideas about that
are you talking about vegetation on
residential sides or in the in the
in the right-of-way between
between mary maine and maryland that was
planted with the hemlocks and the hughes
and the ruins now yeah broad maryland
right
is that
something that um the bexley bloomers
could do is that something you feel your
staff is going to have time to do this
winter i guess the goal i we need to
know what your your intentions on what
you want it to look like i mean
the the goal is to leave it a low
maintenance
low maintenance area with low growth
it's doing what it's supposed to do so i
i mean unless we have an idea of what we
want it to look like a goal or a
definition of what we want that to look
like it'd be hard for us
to do it because low-grow sumac is not
designed to be pruned
but other than there's that little
growth there or low growth taxes
you know they're designed they do and
you know whether it's the wrong plant
material or
or what i mean the trees are multi-stem
right they're doing what they're doing
all needed it seemed like it needed some
tending so maybe sheila and linda and i
who walked it should come up with a
thought about that a lot of the ivy from
the neighbors has grown into it the
hawthorns need pruning if we can't trim
back the low grow taxes
maybe um
you know we can clean up in some other
way okay i mean there was a grass strip
there i don't know if everybody
remembers that or not that we
removed because that was not doing well
so why don't sheila and linda and i come
back with a suggestion for you at some
time okay we'll put on our boots and uh
do it again yeah yeah okay anybody else
mr hellman you have to have something
well sure they uh i completely agree
with uh
jim
that um
we probably you know
as time moves on
you
develop policies to address emerging
issues and so it's probably time to get
policies set up about tree lines
and bring our tree lawn or our
city right away person into the picture
as well and
uh and maybe uh
david as well on the
on whoever does code enforcement and
uh you know try to be gentle and kind
about it but to make sure
uh i mean
we've had we've had more things popping
up they're turning into gardens they're
turning into
uh you know all kinds of things and what
what is permissible what works and um
we also have areas that are
uh where the tree lawn extends it in the
tree line it extends into their lawn
lawn it goes you know three or four feet
five feet beyond the sidewalk and
you know how can we make that clear to
people so that they
understand where these you know where is
their yard and yet they're responsible
for all of it so that's one thought uh
maybe just kind of a big
overarching one um
and this is just a just a line of
thought but the um
doing uh
having done a lot of uh because the
grandkids field hockey games have been a
lot of different places you know the new
albany's of this world the dublins and
the old and tangies and burlington
where they're just swimming in open
space i mean they've just got so much
green space um
and you think well you know how can how
can we stay competitive
and uh
and and so we've got to compete in my
mind on charm and and character
uh walking experiences gardens
and and really continue to find ways uh
to make this an incredibly beautiful
wonderful spot
um
and in that sense are are
are we done are we done in terms of
where we find open space or what we can
what takes us to the next level uh and
what can we do to
really position ourselves
and you know is it jeffrey turning into
an even more special spot is it is it uh
getting our
commonwealth park underway and is is
really focusing on our open space and
our green space and making it very very
very special and um
that's a that's a pretty wide open
unfocused uh goal uh but it's just
something i wonder whether we should
try to tackle a nibble one
especially to be one of the best first
ring suburbs in the country
that's our goal
okay anything from celeste
all
right to
uh we continue to present the young
children to understand the importance of
tree canopy and
what wood does for us as a
as residents okay
elena do you want to jump in with
anything um i think my goal for this
year is is really kind of procedural um
in terms of continuing to improve
our review process our follow-up process
and the coordination between us and arb
and b zap so that we make sure that
things don't fall through the cracks
i know that we're all part of the same
community but sometimes the right hand
doesn't really isn't knowing what the
left hand is doing
and so to really make sure that if
something comes up as a demolition in
arb we know about it right away and we
can reach out and be proactive and some
of the hard work that we've been doing
actually really you know put that into
motion so that's going to be my goal for
this year is really trying to
clean that up as much as possible okay
well grant i know your goal is to teach
these people the tutorial on the ipad
yes
yeah
do you have anything else google sheets
um
i mean my you know my goal every year is
better
maintain the city i mean come up with
better ways that with the limited staff
that i have to
provide the city is make it look as good
as it can
gloria ann you're a little new so we
could wait a month for you
i'm excited to be a part of this and and
personally i'm really super i i always
know that there's so much more
about
trees and gardens that i can learn and
it is really my passion i really do
love spending time outside so so
personally i'm ready to learn more i'm
also ready to communicate
your thoughts and your ideas to um
to counsel
um i i love that we want to make sure
that we can afford what we put into our
city and i love
the competitive nature
no pun intended that you all have in
trying to
you know
make what you're in charge of the best
it can be for our community and i just
am always
always blown away by how talented
the volunteers that we have
are and how dedicated they are i i just
you know
i and so many of you i love from the
bottom of my heart right
but i feel like our community is so
blessed by each and every one of you so
i want to make sure that you know
that i am grateful for what you do and i
believe that all of you know the
community is so thank you thank you
thank you
jordan your goal is probably to have
shorter meetings with less minutes
jordan you take extraordinary minutes
thank you thank you and mine is to
leverage you know continue to leverage
what we learned in the tree canopy
assessment to learn on a national and
international
a scope now i mean
some people don't sleep through the
night and so getting up and comparing
bexley to
uh you know
nairobi that's a good thing yes jim
while we do well we still only have a b
minus yes that's exactly right i forgot
to say that yes i was you know when i
saw those grades come up i thought oh my
gosh what is specs are going to have is
a b minus some have an e d c
lori is there anything you'd like it
tell us about what has happened at city
council or just sort of getting
organized you know we are just getting
organized it's just a brand new um
brand new year we really finished our
work
we made sure that our agenda was uh
was cleared for the most part so we're
going to be working on some exciting
things i think
with the mayor i mean i am blessed to be
on service and i love the service
department and each and every one of the
individuals on that
on that crew they take painstaking
efforts to make do things right
and um
so but we are going to be working on
some
real green initiatives because i know
that ben knows that i am a advocate of
that as well
great
so it's uh the list of liaison
assignments for city council just
happens to be here and i think it's
again extraordinary
the number of organizations and
uh associations and institutions that
these
these folks these
people lay us
on with laurie anne's baxter
celebrations association which of course
we know jewish family services columbus
school for girls friends of the drexel
the environmental sustainability
advisory committee and public gardens
that's six
that's fixed
that's it those are easy-peasy ones
though
you guys do all the work oh i was gonna
say i was gonna say that they're they're
fun
but still six more meetings besides city
council that's that's a a huge
commitment thank you it's a good stuff
thank you yeah thank you very much
is there anything else to come before us
old new year it's a bold new year that's
right i did notice on my agenda that
somehow i have us at 2020 or whatever it
is
2020 so we're we're already behind the
times or ahead of the times i guess so
uh if there's nothing more to come
before the good of the order may i have
a motion for german
okay second second okay all in favor of
adjournment you're here right i okay we
are adjourned
really
yeah
hi ellen
hey ellen bye bye bye
hey everybody