it was it was a lot
all right kids let's have some order
here
welcome to the Tuesday January 24 uh
meeting of the Bexley city council uh
Mr McPeak how was your week
it's fabulous sir how are you good it's
good to see you looking healthy again
here this week yeah all right you see
who's here all right all right Mr
Klingler
here Mr Marcelino here Massad
Miss Robinson here miss lamke here Mr
Markham here and Miss Bible I am here
and I would like to make a motion to
make uh Ms sod's
um absence excuse she has I can prepared
the way tonight for all her stuff and
that's second it all in favor say aye
aye all in favor same time sign
please rise join me for the Pledge of
Allegiance
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the
Republic for which it stands one nation
under God indivisible with liberty and
justice for all
ah
it's clear yes
oh it's so much fun to see the place
full I love it hey I think we've got uh
a lot of exciting stuff uh presented to
us tonight here and so let's get
underway Mr Meyer we have a candidate
for the cic I believe
Mr Simpson hilarious hey Mike how's it
going uh yeah Mike Simpson is here as a
uh a proposed appointee to the Bexley
CAC Mike if you want to stand up and
join us at the diocese if you could push
the button on the microphone it'll turn
on
too bad this is uh have you ever seen
like the grueling Supreme Court
nominations it's kind of like that so
just be prepared so
come back here
you don't have to say anything but the
mic has to be on while you do it and a
lot of people like to say you can't
handle the truth you know or something
like that it's kind of fun
yeah tell us a little bit about yourself
and uh sure brings you here yeah
um Mike Simpson I am uh 57 years old and
uh work in the commercial real estate
brokerage and Property Management world
uh live in Bexley a long time about 57
years and uh used to share the Planning
Commission and enjoy that contribution
to the city and being in the commercial
real estate business I I'm always
interested in things going on in Maine
on Main Street in Bexley and different
things going on from an economic
development perspective and I've always
told the mayor that a spot ever came up
on the cic I'd be interested in
participating
thank you it's exciting we're really
glad to have you here we appreciate you
uh but then it's time for the city and
everything do we have uh some questions
or comments I just want to augment what
Mr Simpson just said and um and just say
that like over the years Mike you've
been such a great resource and so
helpful he's uh if he hears something
that's going on and in the real estate
World in Bexley he reaches out lets us
know
your fingers are the pulse and I think
you would be a fantastic addition to the
CAC so thank you for your continuing
thank you appreciate it yeah
any other comments or questions Mr Price
just a big thank you Mike well we're
grateful that you're gonna continue I
mean you've you took a bit of a
sabbatical although I think you uh
but still took on any advice you happen
to have but I'm glad that you're back
doing something great so thank you so so
very much
thank you sir uh you may sneak out
anytime you want your attendance has
already been noted yeah yeah thanks guys
thank you
oh Rebecca Ness
good to see you in the house you want to
tell us about mosquitoes we had so much
fun last year we've been waiting for
this sure this doesn't Okay
um hello
so I wanted to thank you all for taking
the time to listen to the mosquito task
force mosquito task force tonight and to
hear our preliminary findings for the
2022 mosquito pilot program I'm Rebecca
Ness I'm the vice chair for green Bexley
and I'm joined tonight by Dr Mary
Gardner and Dr Megan Moody before we
start I wanted to take a moment to thank
both Dr Gardner and Dr Moody for their
time for their work for their expertise
throughout this entire 18-month process
and to thank them for helping Bexley to
determine the best strategies for
controlling mosquitoes while protecting
our beneficial insects
and thank you to the Board of Health for
listening and hearing our concerns in
the summer of 2021 and to Franklin
County Public Health for partnering with
us throughout the mosquito pilot program
as the grant for the pilot program
unfortunately did not come through the
city covered the costs of the traps and
some of the various supplies that we
needed
the OSU assistants were paid out of
other OSU accounts and Dr Gardner and Dr
Moody both donated their time and here's
a summary of the process so far I
presented to the Board of Health in July
2021 at that time a mosquito task force
and Franklin County Public Health
Partnership was formed the mosquito task
force devised the pilot program between
August 2021 and February 2022
between February and may 2022 the
treatment groups were formed
this was tricky we needed a total of a
hundred houses in specific
configurations
um which we'll get into more
specifically during the presentation we
required five groups of five houses for
each of the four treatment groups
initially to help get the word out we
use green bexley's social media channels
the Bexley newsletter and the Bexley
blast I also contacted pretty much
everyone I know in Bexley
as residents started signing up for the
pilot we created a map to see where
treatment groups were forming naturally
um
and a few complete treatment groups
formed on their own but for the most
part we needed to help the groups form
the maps we created allowed us to see
where natural pockets of residents
interested in the program were located
and at that point I called and emailed
residents to help them in reaching out
to their neighbors
give them some pointers and ideas in an
effort to complete these incomplete
groups sometimes this worked but it
wasn't working very well
so we came up with a different plan
Paula krasnoff another member of the
mosquito task force and I walked and
biked to visit the neighbors who live
next door or behind residence who had
signed up for the pilot in an effort to
complete these incomplete treatment
groups we informed them about the pilot
program and asked if they'd like to join
um the large majority of people were
interested in being
um a participant this was very time
consuming but also very effective it was
hard and it was a steep learning curve
for me
um I learned tons and I'm glad I did so
in the end we had 294 households sign up
for the pilot program of the 294 105
households participated and I have a few
maps to share with you this first map
here are these are all the opt-outs
Franklin County Public Health opt-outs
from Summer 2021
these are people who opted out of the
spray so this helped us um also in
pulling together our treatment groups
because we knew some people who were not
interested in being sprayed so that
helped with some of the treatment one
groups so then this next map
this is these are our survey responses
these are all the people who wanted to
sign up for
um the pilot program and as you can see
they take up
um all North Central and South Bexley
um in this next map here these are the
treatment one groups that formed
with one in North two in Central and two
in South Bexley and then treatment two
is the next map we actually ended up
having six treatment groups for
treatment two with one in the north one
in the South and four in central Bexley
this next one is treatment three groups
and the next one
the next map is treatment four
and the last map is all the treatment
groups
so throughout the pilot program I
updated all 294 households by email to
tell them what was going on at each
stage of it and
um that's all I have thank you I look
forward to hearing the presentation with
you and Dr Moody we'll talk next thanks
hello everyone
um so I'm Dr Megan Moody I'm an
assistant professor at the Ohio State
University and my research focuses on
seasonal responses in mosquitoes that
I'm so excited to have had the
opportunity to partner with
um with Rebecca
um yeah can you can you okay sure it's a
big file Welcome to our city council and
uh you know what we love entomologists
here in Bexley and uh I did my graduate
work at Cottman Hall at Ohio State so
worked with Dr Dave shuttler over there
so yes I'm a plant pathologist so my
goodness I did my undergraduate some
undergraduate research with Dr shetler's
yeah
Okay cool so um Dr Gardner and I have
prepared a short PowerPoint presentation
to kind of oriented to the study a
little bit more and then share some of
the the key preliminary findings
um that we were able to uncover
so
we know why we all hate mosquitoes they
suck our blood and in the process spit
into us which leaves behind itchy bites
but then also adding insult to injury
they can transmit pathogens
um like viruses or cosmodium pathogens
or things like that that can make us
sick and here
in Ohio we're most concerned with West
Nile Virus so mosquitoes require water
for three of their four life stages so
an adult female mosquito will lay her
eggs on or near water as you can see in
the picture on the bottom and then those
eggs hatch out into larvae like weird
looking little regular things
um and then they form their pupil stage
um that also move around in the water
and then they emerges the adults that we
know and loathe it's only the females
that bite
um and they do that so that they can
acquire enough protein from the blood to
lay eggs
that's what the picture on the top is
and as you mentioned West Nile Virus is
what we're most concerned about
um in Ohio and throughout most of the US
it's the most common mosquito-borne
illness it can cause major die-offs of
birds when it was first introduced we
saw large diopsis of crows and blue jays
which is not good
um ammo mosquitoes can't find Birds they
will buy other animals including humans
um and most of most of the time West
Nile Virus in humans is just like a
summer cold
flu-link symptoms you might have a low
fever you might be achy
um and but then sometimes it can be
fatal
um and 2018 was the particularly bad
year for West Nile Virus in Ohio where
we had 65 confirmed cases and eight
fatalities unfortunately
okay on the next slide
um so as you as as Bexley residents are
familiar with current mosquito
management you guys do an amazing job
within the city
um you remind residents to remove pools
of standing water
um like bird baths where mosquitoes can
breathe and that's the most effective
way of controlling mosquitoes is just so
many pools of standing water that are
their breathing habitat
um and then Franklin County Public
Health is a wonderful partner they go
around the city looking at catch basins
places where that can't be drained to
see if mosquitoes are breeding there
um they also monitor for resistance a
pesticide resistance in mosquitoes
um and then throughout the summer
they're collecting mosquitoes from North
and South Baxley every single week
identifying those mosquitoes
um to species or at least to genus and
then testing all of the mosquitoes that
can transmit West Nile Virus to see if
West Nile Virus is present and if it is
then they will apply in a adult side
which is the pesticide that can kill
adult mosquitoes
so as Rebecca mentioned a good chunk of
Bexley residents are currently acting
out of Franklin County Public Health
Integrated mosquito Management program
meaning that even more muscle virus is
detected in the area these residents are
electing to not have their property
sprayed for a number of reasons mainly
concerns about the impact those
pesticides might have on beneficial
insects and then in addition and so this
map here shows the opt-out map in 2021
so all the red circles are residents who
opted to not have their properties
sprayed so it's a good chunk of the city
and I shouldn't say 40 of the presidents
are that would correct me it's like 40
of the area
uh the residents of that account for it
in about 40 reduction in the total
possible area that we are able to see
because we apply a100 but harder to each
property uh
right so like 150 feet on either side of
the property is not getting sprayed so
40 total reduction I'm sorry I didn't
fix that okay
um and then on the flip side you have
other residents that really hate
mosquitoes and really don't want to be
bothered by them so they will pay for
commercial pesticide applicators to come
to their properties and spray their
their yards to control mosquitoes and
these in these commercial operators come
on a calendar basis so every three weeks
or so they're spraying regardless of
whether or not mosquitoes are super
abundant or whether or not they're
infected with a disease so there's kind
of two sides of the same coin going on
um next slide so
um but with such a large proportion of
Bexley residents opting out of mosquito
control this illustrates that there's a
wide amount of concern about mosquito
management within Bexley
um and you guys have decided not to
spray when um levels of mosquitoes are
reach a certain threshold that's what
many other municipalities do so if they
detect a high number of nuisance-biting
mosquitoes then for a Franklin County
Public Health will spray the bexley's
not doing that they're only spraying you
guys are only spraying when West cell
viruses are around
um and then according to all the
mosquito management people Franklin
County Public Health and the centers of
Disease Control and prevention spraying
adult Society is the least efficient
mosquito control technique it's so much
better like you know
um an ounce of prevention is worth a
pound of cure right it's so much better
and more effective to eliminate pools of
staining water
um by the time you get to adults flying
around and biting you it's really too
late
um and 0.1 percent of the pesticides on
average reaches the target pests which
is another reason why spring adults
aside is relatively inefficient
um
but it's the best way we have of
protecting people against West Nile
virus So within Baxley
um people are really concerned about the
impact that pesticides can have on
beneficial insects which include bees
and butterflies which are super
important because they pollinate flowers
which are critical to ecosystems within
Ohio and if you have Gardens right you
know that your Tomatoes start off as
flowers so you need those you need those
flowers to get pollinated to have a good
crop of tomatoes in your garden
um and 85 percent of flowering plants
are rely on power rely on pollinators
and monarch butterflies are a national
insect and there are some studies
showing that pesticides spraying can
jeopardize their health
and then in addition to the bees and
butterflies that pollinate flowers we're
also concerned about lacewings and lady
beetles and spiders because these will
consume insect pests
um so the picture on the bottom there
shows a ground beetle I think right here
grab it yep
um going after Amelia bug
Maybe
a pass
oh a caterpillar okay just Mound down on
it um so that's good and then also we we
like beetles and ants because they're
really important for recycling nutrients
and improving soil health and again
helping our plants to grow
okay so um as Rebecca mentioned uh she
with her concern about beneficial
insects and the way that mosquitoes are
managed might be impacting beneficial
insects she really spearheaded this
effort
um and reached out to First Dr Gardner
who's an expert a world-renowned expert
on Urban insects ecology and beneficial
insects and then Mary is like oh Megan
you know mosquitoes so she brought me in
and I'm so so grateful so we formed the
task force
um in last in July 20th 20121
um and then
um at the Bexley Board of Health meeting
the board voted to move forward and
re-examine
um impacts of mosquito Management in
collaboration with Franklin County
Public Health and then um the task force
was officially formed in August of 2021
and then for the next several months we
met we met monthly to develop a research
project
um and then we started our study this
past summer in 2022.
next slide please okay so members of the
task force really include One Rebecca
she's our
uh our hero
um and as well as Jen Robinson
um Dr Robert shallowitz uh Paula
krasnoff Alex Meyer Marcy linear me and
Dr Gardner
um and there are pictures
and the goal of the task force was to
determine how we can concurrently
protect Bexley residents from mosquitoes
without harming beneficial insects and
to really see if we could
um using use a city-wide experiment to
examine if we could effectively reduce
the number of mosquitoes using mosquito
specific traps and whether that would be
sufficient to remove the need for a
pesticide application
and this um was based on a study that we
found published in scientific reports
the title of that article is called
Neighbors help neighbors control Urban
mosquitoes the study was conducted in
University Park a suburb of Baltimore
Maryland where they use one kind of
mosquito trap called rabid 80s traps and
they found that they were able to
successfully reduce the abundance of 80s
albopictus the Asian tiger mosquito so
this mosquito is recently invasive to
the US and is a very aggressive biter
but does not transmit West Nile Virus
and what the authors of this study found
is that if they had really high coverage
of these specific Gap traps yeah gravid
80 traps cat traps they were able to
reduce the number of 80s albopictus
mosquitoes which made us think we might
have some success in Bexley using these
traps
um but we also yeah okay so oh no no go
ahead next slide sorry
um so we designed This research project
um and as Rebecca said it took heroic
efforts and a ton of hard time to
recruit participants to join the studies
and to assign them into these groups of
properties and as she also mentioned we
had four different treatment groups so
the first was a group of residents that
were opting out of Franklin County
Public Health mosquito spraying
um which as we established was a good
chunk of Bexley residents already
um the second treatment were those who
also opted not to have their property
sprayed by Franklin County Public Health
or hopefully anyone else
um and then we put in these special
traps to try to control the mosquitoes
the third treatment were those that had
their property sprayed by Franklin
County Public Health only win West Nile
Virus was detected in the area
and then the fourth and final treatment
were those that had their property
sprayed both by Franklin County Public
Health when West Nile Virus was in the
area and those that had a commercial
pesticide company applied barrier spray
um and so we had five replicates of each
treatment you might be saying well
what's a treatment well okay the
treatments are one two three four
um but then what's a replicate a
replicate was a group Next Advantage
yeah
um a replicate was a group of five
houses so those houses could have either
been arranged along a road or they could
have shared an Alleyway so two houses in
the front and three houses in the back
with the shared Alleyway in between them
okay
um and
um
yeah just to describe the traps a little
bit more specifically so we we also use
the gravid 80s traps which are shown in
the picture on top there
so they have a black bucket with a clear
cylinder on top of that and a smaller
click um black cylinder in there
um and then there's a sticky card that
goes inside of it and these traps are
collecting the 80s mosquitoes the
nuisance spiders that are really
aggressive so the pregnant mamas the
females will fly and they're looking for
a spot to lay their eggs and because
mosquitoes really only like to fly
um well they get trapped in there and
they get stuck to the sticky card and
they die
um we also wanted to develop a trap that
would control the Helix mosquitoes which
are the ones that we're most concerned
about because they're the ones that
transmit West Nile virus so what we came
up with was using tubs of water that are
tubs that had stinky water in it they
had grass clippings that had fermented
for several days in the hot sun and
smelled really really bad
um and they also had a pesticide tablet
in there so if a qlex female mosquito
laid her eggs in there I would kill the
eggs in the developing larvae and the
pupies so they wouldn't be able to
complete their life cycle but the mom
mosquito could leave and fly and bite
um like again which was obviously not
ideal but that's what we came up with
for our traps to control the mosquitoes
and these were present in treatment too
and then as we mentioned um treatment
three was the Franklin County Public
Health threshold spray in that image
down there just shows what the um
the display events look like so the
sprays are applied using an ultra low
volume sprayer that's mounted to a truck
that moves carefully down the roads
and then the fourth treatment
um where we um
contracted with a local mosquito company
who is asked to remain non-anonymous and
they applied a barrier treatment around
like the edges of the property once
every three weeks
okay and so then we wanted to determine
whether or not the treatments worked
whether it there was any change in the
number of the mosquitoes across any of
these treatments so in addition to the
control traps we also use two different
kinds of surveillance traps
um one is called the CDC light trap and
you can see my graduate student Alden
sipperstein setting it up in the picture
above
um they there's a little light in a fan
um and the canister of carbon dioxide or
of dry ice that gives off carbon dioxide
mosquitoes think that they're finding a
blood meal and they'll fly into the
track and get stuck and die
um and then we also used
DG Sentinel traps which is the image
shown on the bottom so four times
throughout the summer we set up these
traps and then collected them 24 hours
later and then sorted all the mosquitoes
that were in there identified them to
species and and just counted how many
there were among the different
treatments and we were sampling
specifically from the center house in
each of those replicates
okay
um in addition to that we also collected
the sticky cards that were inside of the
gravid 80s tracks within those all of
the properties that were in treatment
too that had those mosquito control
traps in their yards
um and we found that let's see
there's me and Paul setting them up on
the picture on top and then on the
picture on the bottom is my research
technician Hannah who is the one who
actually went out and collected the
sticky cards and identified all the
mosquitoes to species
um
which is not an easy feat
and then we found that a total of 906
mosquitoes were collected in those
gravid 80s traps during the study season
so they were out from June 15th through
September 16th and most of the
mosquitoes that we collected in them
were the Asian tiger mosquito 80 pictus
that nuisance spider
the highest catch in any yard within a
two-week period was 32 mosquitoes so a
decent number of mosquitoes were being
eliminated but there's a lot of 80s
mosquitoes around
um and in addition to those traps you
also collected over 36 or 100 3600
non-musques which were mainly small
gnats and midges and things that
aren't really playing much of a role in
pollination or are predatory so
um
some things to know okay and then in
terms of our preliminary results with
the total mosquitoes let me walk you
through these graphs and I apologize for
their complexity so on the y-axis we
have the total number of mosquitoes on
the x-axis we have the date
um in each of those circles represents a
replicate so the center house from one
of those treatments
um and then the different colors
indicate that replicate changing over
time
um and this is the first treatment that
the first treatment that I'm showing you
here are those that opted into Franklin
County Public Health Integrated mosquito
Management program
um and what you can see is that the
number of mosquitoes within a yard
changes over time I'm not super
surprising the black dashed lines are
indicating when Franklin County Public
Health detected West Nile Virus and
needed to spray during this during the
study period but overall mosquito levels
were pretty pretty low in most people in
most yards
throughout the season
um the second graph here is oriented the
same way but now we're looking at the
data from The Yards that we're opting
into Franklin County Public Health spray
as well as having the commercial company
spray every three weeks so the addition
of the red dashed lines indicates when
that mosquito company was applying their
pesticides and again mosquitoes are
changing within yards over time but
overall we can see that they're the
total number of those mosquitoes is
pretty low
um Emily do statistics on the data
um what we find if you advance on the
next slide is that actually there is no
statistically significant difference in
the number of mosquitoes between the
Franklin County Public Health opt-in and
adding the commercial spray so even
though there are fewer mosquitoes when
you added this spray it wasn't a
significant statistically significant
difference
however when people opted out of the
spray
um the total number of mosquitoes was
significantly higher than both of those
other two treatments and when we add the
last graph showing there um is the Trap
is the treatment that had the mosquito
specific traps so
um the addition of the traps also did
not significantly reduce the number of
mosquitoes those those yards had more
mosquitoes than the yards that opted
into Franklin County Public Health
Management
um either with the spray or without
and now you get to hear from Dr Mary
thanks Megan everybody uh so my role in
this was to look at the beneficial
insects and how they responded to the
different treatments and so we chose to
focus on two really important groups
that are found in urban Landscapes one
being pollinators which are the focus of
the law of your alley program here in
Bexley and also lady beetles lady
beetles are important because they're
predators of many Agricultural and
garden pests they're also a major
conservation concern because we've lost
many Native species of lady beetles and
others are threatened and endangered and
so activities to promote their abundance
they respond to many of the same Garden
features as bees and so we wanted to
look at both of these groups they're
both pretty easy to sample so that made
our life a little bit easier to look at
the B abundance we use small pan traps
that are painted bright yellow
white and like a neon blue and to Abby's
eyes those are looking like Floral cues
and so they're falling into those pans
and you can see a sample from one of the
front yards there in the foreground to
measure lady Beetle activity and also
total insect flying insect activity we
used yellow sticky card traps it's a
similar thing the yellow card actually
uh to a lady Beetle looks like a plant
that's been damaged by aphids the lady
beetles go to the card and they get
stuck on the card so like Megan we went
out uh once a month put out these traps
the pan traps stayed for a day and the
sticky card stayed for a week and then
we collected them
so right now the beneficial insects data
does take a long time to process it is
the focus of an undergraduate research
project and so he's in the process of
pinning all of the bees that we
collected from front yards to identify
bees you have to wash dry with a hand
blow dryer and pin each individual
identify them then fly them to DC to
have them verified so it's quite a
process so he uh this student is doing
an excellent job at this we're targeting
early April to complete the B
identification because we're going to
take him to a conference to present this
and hopefully he could also come back to
speak to a group here and present his
findings if that's a possibility so
tonight what I'm going to show you is
the lady Beetle and sticky Card results
so my graphs are a little bit different
because I pooled by month so what we're
looking at here this is the total number
of insects per yellow sticky card trap
in June July and August and then the
treatments are the different lines so
you see all four treatments on this
figure so we're called treatment one was
uh the kind of No Control no Franklin
County Public Health no traps treatment
two had the traps the orange line is the
Franklin County Health sprays when West
Nile was detected and then the red is
the Franklin County Public Health Plus
the barrier spray
so what you see here
um like in Megan's graph there's
variability by month we do see a slight
reduction in total insect abundance in
July versus uh the treatment one where
there was no control but by August the
there is no significant difference the
insect abundance is similar in all the
treatments
and then also here for the lady beetles
uh the first thing I want to point out
is that I've spent a long time
collecting lady beetles
17 years or something like that which is
like a crazy thing to do with your life
but I enjoy it
and
um overall they were very in very low
abundance in in Bexley
um and I don't know exactly why that is
um but we'll talk a little bit about
some uh activities that we might do to
increase the abundance of beneficial
insects kind of at the end but what we
did find was that there was no
significant difference among the
treatment one which had no sprays and
the two treatments that had some level
of sprays although recall from Megan's
the first Franklin County Public Health
spray didn't happen until early August
so really you're just seeing variability
there we did see fewer lady beetles in
the Trap treatment that's not because
the lady beetles fell in the Trap I
think it's actually because the people
who had the yards with the traps were
also the people who had abundant floral
resources Gardens vegetable gardens a
lot of habitat sometimes when you have
variation and habitat quality among
sites your trap capture rates can be
affected because a bright yellow card in
the middle of turf is a lot more
apparent than a bright yellow card and a
sea of flowers
so my prediction here is that the Trap
maybe just was not as effective I don't
think those folks negatively impacted
the Beatles
so Megan do you want me to go through
your mosquito okay so
um what we found here was the mosquito
specific traps failed to reduce the
total mosquito abundance
but as they just mentioned this could
also be because the Landscapes the
people who don't want sprays are the
people who love to Garden they are
concerned about pollinators they have
all these flowers they have very complex
Landscapes and we only put four total
traps
and we predict following this that those
traps were not enough to maybe overcome
the amount of mosquitoes that were in
those yards
so that's one thing we need to think
about for future research and that's
kind of shown here in this variability
where
um those that opted in the Franklin
County Public Health with just some
small numbers of sprays did have fewer
mosquitoes but when we had the traps
they just weren't performing as well
unfortunately
yes
the starting point yeah the starting
points on the graph with the traps is
higher
so
and people who opted into the sprays
typically had a front yard lacking
floral Resources with mostly turf grass
and that's going to be a lower mosquito
environment so that's a challenge as a
field biologist you know you want if any
of you are in medical research or Life
Sciences you're like your experiment was
flawed yes we know but every experiment
in the field is always flawed to some
extent because you're working with
communities and with a ton of
variability so what we can say here is
there is variability to start we will
not we were not able to overcome it with
the current trapping technology however
there are other options that we can
discuss if we can go to the next slide
uh Franklin County's integrated mosquito
Management program did significantly
reduce mosquito abundance
it did not impact non-mosquito abundance
in either of the trabs and it also did
not have a negative effect on the
beneficial insects thus far that I've
studied so that's a very positive
outcome
um
adding the barrier treatments to the
properties did not significantly reduce
mosquito abundance beyond what Franklin
County Public Health was doing so I
guess if people are paying for this they
may not be getting
what they are paying for at least in our
findings uh signifi this did
significantly reduce the abundance of
non-mosquitoes in light traps so Megan
did pick up that hey these additional
sprays may be negatively affecting other
insects but we didn't see a signal of it
necessarily in my data now another thing
with only sampling in the city of Bexley
you have 40 of the area not sprayed so
when you're collecting insects even if
there is mortality very locally if only
40 percent of the area
well if 40 of the area is not sorry
there's a lot of unsprayed habitat to
serve as a refuge which is really good
um if you don't want to have a large
impact on your insect population it also
makes it hard to really measure the
effect of spraying because
um we can't unless we put little cages
out we can't necessarily see the the
target effect and by after a week things
are able to recolonize so that's very
good in this area but you might have
found something different if there was
no one opting out and the spray was
taken across a large area
the next slide uh so I think I've said
most of this but just a word of caution
uh these insects are good dispersers so
they're able to recolonize
we have a lot more to process including
our RB data which I hope to be able to
present soon
and another thing that traps do not
indicate is if you see an insect walking
along you don't know if it's about to
die or if it's really healthy and about
to reproduce and so when you capture
something it's just a count but what we
really want to know with these rare and
threatened insects is how well are they
doing are they reproducing how long are
they living are they surviving in the
winter things can be weakened by
exposures to pesticides and lack of food
and that's another really important
thing to measure
next slide
so what are we doing next so we're going
to finish processing all of our data
produce a final report that will be
provided to the city council Megan has
also done a ton of work with Rebecca to
put together a survey to get the
feedback from the residents I did a lot
of the Trap upkeep in the summer and
people
um there's a few things that are awkward
if we're going to have traps in people's
backyards uh and somebody would be
coming to replace the water we would
need them for instance to bring them out
and put them on the sidewalk like you
would a refuse container because going
into people's backyards is problematic
for a number of reasons of dogs
frightening people Etc some people also
had complaints about the smell of the
Trap so those are some of the things
we've heard but we'll get the total um
feedback from the survey another really
exciting thing we went ahead and put
took our preliminary data and put in for
a USDA Grant in August uh we got support
from the city here and also from Green
braxley and other groups Franklin County
public health and we were funded for 750
Grand to continue this project so the
project can really take off now there's
a catch though with the federal
government because there is no federal
budget until there is a final federal
budget USDA will not release their
budget and so they will not release our
funds so we are very hopeful that we
will get this money in time to start
this summer if we do we will be
expanding the project to include four
neighborhoods or cities including
Grandview Upper Arlington and the
neighborhood of Clintonville and
Columbus along with Baxley so that we
have more variability in the number of
households opting out and we're able to
spread out the treatment groups more
across the city
so we will continue to look at different
types of traps and expands our
beneficial Health uh beneficial insect
Health outcomes with this project and
we're happy to provide you know more
details on that project if you would
like
and we just want to thank everyone
because without of all your support we
wouldn't have been able to get this
information and be able to move forward
with the project we want to thank
everybody on our task force all of the
people who let us collect insects with
all kinds of traps from their landscape
some of you are here so you know what
that was like we want to thank the
mayor's office for their generous
support
um of our study providing traps
materials paying for the spray
applications for one of our treatments
it was a huge could not have done it
without that help it's been amazing
working with the Franklin County Public
Health folks and they're here as well
tonight to answer questions we
coordinated sprays we they provided us
with stinky water when our container
blew up
um they let us store our field materials
in their location they were provided
Maps they were incredible and obviously
Megan and I get to work with some
amazing young people who collected and
processed all this stuff
um so with that I think we're done and
we're happy to answer any questions that
you have
Mr Marceline thank you very much uh so
my position is the health and safety
chair here for city council I stepped in
after Jen starred this with the group
um as I'm seeing through the results
here it seems like there's really not
much of a change
um here but it you know in terms of
Franklin County
um as long as they opt into it but it
doesn't seem like there's much of a
change when they get the private company
to come out and spray so to be your
recommendation per the initial results
in the study to consider outline that
spray since it has a negative impact
upon beneficial bugs sorry for lack of
biological terminology
that's I think a big step
um that I would want to test a little
bit at least with a second year
before I would put stamp my name on that
recommendation just personally one year
uh it does appear I mean as a as a
citizen of Columbus if I saw those data
I would probably decide not to spend the
money to spray my own yard just as an
individual but as a scientist we know
that you know year to year mosquito
populations can vary weather patterns
can vary
um
the number of sprays that Franklin
County Public Health might need to do
could vary and that could affect the
success of or the effectiveness of the
barrier spray so because of those
reasons I would want to do one more year
of testing which we should be able to do
as long as we get this USDA funding
um with that in hand then I think we
could definitely we would be able to
make a decision yeah
and I don't know if you guys feel
differently about that but okay
Mr President have a quick sure yep I
just wanted to
um first off thank you so much for all
the work you guys have put into this and
the time clearly a ton of work I have a
super quick follow-up question going to
the slide you guys said a couple times
that there didn't seem to be a big or
sorry that the opt-in for SCP H top left
chart was more effective than the op out
but and I I'm just looking at those
numbers and it feels to me like
yeah not much of a difference which from
a public policy perspective it's like
why would we spray if those are the
results that were at lack I would say
lack of results so I wanted to just
clarify that statement because I heard a
couple times that the opt-in was that
much more effective than the opt-out but
I look at those numbers and it seems
like they're all over the place frankly
and and maybe it's not a large enough
study but I'm just curious if you have
any comments on that
Megan do you because I agree I don't see
yeah so
anyways um so
sometimes you can uncover things that
are statistically significant that may
not be biologically significant right so
the data are super noisy this test that
I used here was a two-way repeated
measures analysis of variance
um to try to account for the fact that
we're going into the same yards over and
over again and so the number of
mosquitoes in the past might be
influencing the number of mosquitoes in
the future
um
I don't remember how significant those
results were like what exactly the
p-value is for those of you who are
familiar with Statistics I would imagine
it's not super tiny so the more tiny the
p-value the more strong the like the
more statistically significant that
result is I would imagine that it's
probably a fairly large p-value
um and it does seem that like towards
the end of the season certainly one of
the yeah it's mosquito populations are
going up
um despite what Franklin County Public
Health is doing on some of the bonus
secret slides I I went through and I
also looked at on a more granular level
um what it you know what are the 80s
mosquitoes nuisance spiders doing versus
what are the QX mosquitoes doing the
ones that transmit West Nile Virus
um and it does seem that the Franklin
County Public Health opt in in those
cases are probably a little bit better
at reducing the number of the nuisance
biting or sorry the the Helix mosquitoes
then the
other mosquitoes that don't transcend
that disease so yeah but agreed like I
wouldn't make any kind of public policy
decisions based on this one year of data
given
um the fact that this is you know we did
we did our best
um I think we uncovered some really cool
and interesting things
um but yeah there's definitely a lot
more work that we have to do thank you
and I also want to acknowledge Dr Beth
Whitted from our Board of Health is here
with us in Kathleen gravel also from a
Board of Health so thank you guys for
joining us tonight and I was I was so
happy to be a part of this study one of
the great things about it is they were
rifling through my backyard they found
some confidential documents in the tool
said so I was able to get those to the
uh special counsel and so that's that's
good too so thank you that's all I have
uh I have a couple questions so uh is
your design and study based on uh some
existing research that it has shown
significant uh results and if so can you
tell us a little bit about what's been
done out there and what what's been seen
so Megan had a had a picture of the
publication if anybody wants to look it
up so the we got the idea to do this
after Rebecca contacted us because in
Baltimore area some folks had done a
trap out successfully of 80s mosquitoes
the nuisance biting and they put a high
density of these 80s traps in people's
yards and were able to successfully
reduce 80s mosquitoes
now because it's culex that triggers
your spray controls right because those
are the West Nile Virus mosquitoes we
wanted to build on what they did by also
trying to control qlex and nobody had
done that before
so that was the novel part of what we
were doing that we didn't know how it
worked now as Megan said there's a lot
of variability one thing that we talked
about after the project was over that we
think especially for one thing in the
Baltimore study it was very small yards
you know if you've been to certain
cities where they have you know the
really narrow houses and people are
living pretty close together the yards
are a lot smaller so the density of
green compared to buildings in that area
was a lot smaller than here so when we
got here and saw how big the yards were
we quickly thought we probably don't
have enough traps but if the pilot study
we have a very limited budget we're
going to go with what we have if we were
going to Institute this I think we would
need more traps to deal with the larger
yards also we talked about potentially
designing a qlex trap that would not
only have the stinky water to collect
the larvae but would have some sort of
netting that would trap the females
and it would have a fan that kind of
sucked them in there is a commercial
trap like that that we could purchase
with our larger Grant and test you would
need less density of those because they
collect several hundred right Megan
mosquitoes per trap so we're really
excited to test out that trap and see if
it's more effective because I think
you know the Baltimore Street was a
great place to start in science you
always want to build off what someone
else has done right so we you know we
took their information and implemented
it but this is a much different
landscape and we have to modify what
we're doing
um to meet the needs of the people here
so I think a higher trap density is
going to have to be part of it but you
can't put stinky traps all over
someone's yard so I do think this is
vacuum crab and having fewer that might
work with people I don't think people
would accept more of the singing tracks
in their yard because we had some
pushback even when people opted in when
we showed up with it you know they had
second thoughts and so will you be uh
testing out the sort of design
modifications with the second round then
is that what you anticipate yeah with
the grant funding we're going to be
purchasing some of these other traps and
testing that out we'll also be testing
the different treatment in multiple
cities so in Grandview for instance
there's a very low concentration of
people opting out of the spray program
so we need to test the effectiveness of
the spray program of the barrier sprays
in Landscapes that vary in pesticide
concentration here you have quite a few
people opting out 40 and grant you that
have like five percent ish very low
Clintonville similar to here Upper
Arlington more similar to Grammys so we
have kind of two communities with very
low opt-out rates to communities with
more High opt-out rates so we can
compare that um effectiveness of the
surrounding area which is really
important too
it's interesting because the culex is
what triggers the sprays but the 80s
course is what we notice yeah that's
what aggravates us so you've got to have
both because if you if you kill the
culex but people are getting bit they're
gonna call Megan and I
so we've got to figure out really good
and I don't know if you thought the 80s
trap needed modification too I feel like
we could work on some
yeah I
um I was underwhelmed with the 80s check
um and maybe having a higher density of
them would help
but yeah people liked the 80s trap
because it looked more professional yeah
so one thing that we ran into that we
did not anticipate was that uh the
gravid Trap was a bin with water it's
very simple we thought you know it's low
profile kind of be in the grass no one
will notice but they actually preferred
the bucket trap I think because it
looked like a trap so that's another
thing to think about with this kind of
thing that it seemed like a lot of the
public liked it to look more scientific
like they were doing something not that
they just threw something in their yard
and forgot about it which is an
important thing to think about when
you're designing something in someone's
front yard
so a practical question for people uh
residents like myself who have a couple
dogs in the backyard are there concerns
about having dogs or animals roaming
around with those traps and do you take
any modification on that
yes to which we ask people to not let
their dogs in the backyard or or if they
did have those trucks to put them up
from here like on a deck or on a shelf
where the dogs couldn't get them
um so the gravid water just smells
wretched
um it's there are no words to describe
how bad this we smelled like that water
all so much oh yeah my dogs love that
smell you're right
to them but it's not problematic yeah
right because then if they drink all the
water then they're not going to be
attractive to the mosquitoes anymore we
and we also did have a pesticide tablet
in there
um but it was derived from bacteria and
it's only harmful for insects so like
mammals like your dog we could drink
that water and it would be the bacteria
from the gross stinky grass clippings
not the not the pesticide that would be
problematic to our health so that'd be a
totally different experiment really
wouldn't it
potential issue if this was going to
get a good trap where we thought it
could collect a lot of mosquitoes
but then people would not like the
placement and they would move it into
the Sun or anything in an area where it
probably didn't collect any mosquitoes
uh so there's some level of loss of
traps that you deal with and so I think
a public awareness campaign with the
launch of something like this
um would be part of our larger Budget
moving forward so that people would
really understand more the why I mean I
I think people are excited they're very
Cooperative they tried but there's a lot
of moving Parts with this and you know
even though we had sheets explaining all
of that people are busy they don't maybe
read all that stuff so we had a few
issues with that too well this is a lot
of fun thank you for doing this here and
it you said that you will have the data
in April and so when can we expect you
back maybe to tell us about that data
use meet every month like in the summer
we meet every other week except in July
we need to take July off so let's
perfect like springtime we'll talk about
mosquitoes you guys you guys have you
guys have priority scheduling here so
thank you thank you thank you very much
all right we have reached the point for
public Commons any speaker slips
no speaker slips all right president's
report the only thing I have for the
president's report is I did receive the
notice actually I think Mark received
this the Ohio ethics commission
following reminder
Financial disclosure statements for you
guys uh
Monday May 15th so that's a little bit
away but uh don't forget that that will
be coming up
and time for City attorney report don't
forget your um disclosure statements no
report yes
how about auditor uh no report
well I'll bet you mayor Kessler has some
reports
um yes Mr President although I would I
would say if you want to skip to the
ordinances with visiting presenters I'd
be happy to see the floor so that our
commission members who are here tonight
let's do that
lengthy update
although they may of course that work
yeah that works for me uh do you want to
skip to number 10 and Mr official do you
read that for us
uh ready
all right so we have I is this the third
reading 30 it is the third reading of
ordinance
49-22 to adopt residential design
guidelines that was introduced by Mr
Klingler
thanks Mr Fishel thanks president
Markham I believe we have is Karen Karen
Boker is going to speak uh on behalf of
the ARB on all their hard work on this
yes thank you you have my slideshow
ready to go
slideshow right I only have eight slides
one moment um I was looking the wrong
folder I see it
so while there we go that was quick
um thank you for giving us the
opportunity to present this to you we're
going to do a very short presentation
and have a little interactive
conversation of which at which time I
think I have a couple board members and
participants
um in this project which is really a
labor of love that we've been working on
for I bet four or five years at this
point uh covid certainly slowed it way
down as all of you probably know
architecture review board has been
swamped through
um the pandemic so it um slowed us down
quite a bit but I just want to talk a
little bit about
um this project can you go back one
slide yep
um I also want to point out before I
start how incredibly lucky Kathy and I
are to have this board this architecture
review board
um just about everybody came tonight I
didn't tell them they had to they didn't
didn't twist any arms they just are
really
um are you here because this is really
part of it I just wanted to recognize
the board members if you could just
stand for a second Joanne strausser our
chairman this is Antoni Larry Hellman
Bill heyer Jocelyn did I miss anybody
croskey
um
I just wanted to do that before I forget
when I get into this because that is a
board that has spent an unbelievable
amount of time on their own reviewing
this document Time After Time and giving
me comments back it's been an
interactive process the board of zoning
and planning I also want to recognize in
the Bexley historical preservation
committee which has been a little bit
inactive we'll talk a bit about that but
um that really was the the start of the
whole project
um I also wanted to thank Matt and
actually just sod also who started with
us on this and of course um my fellow
staff members mayor Ben Kathy and Jason
okay that's it that's enough for the
appreciation and recognition I just
wanted to tell my job for you tonight is
not to go into the 189 page document no
way I'm taking it for what it's worth
that you've thumbed through it and you
get the idea what I really want to
um make clear is why we need this done
and why we need it to be approved and
blessed by all of you so that we can get
it up and running on our website so that
we can help our residents designers
um do better job
to help them better with design with
Renovations projects Etc so this what
you see up there right now is literally
the design guidelines and standards the
entire thing that we've been using since
2000 it's five pages it's very narrow in
scope it just describes you know you
should match materials you should it's
very there's no illustrations it doesn't
have any context in it doesn't talk
about the neighborhoods of Bexley the
characteristics of Bexley homes the type
of styles designs Etc none of that nor
does it have context about how our
process works which is confusing it can
be very confusing
um next slide
fast forward to Now 23 years later
um this is what we're proposing to you
new design guidelines and standards
there it's going to be very modern Broad
in scope
it's a living document which means that
we will be asking as part of this
blessing approval that we have the
ability to change it and grow and add to
it as things changed
um and add to it there's there's a
never-ending vocabulary of architecture
and details that we constantly we could
go on forever and we would like the
ability to do that by a living document
we also mean that we want it up and
running on our website so that it's it's
um immediately when this passes here
we'd like to post the PDF but then I'm
going to be working with Sam and Medcalf
to make it interactive so that you can
click on something it'll take you to the
ordinance that
you know as for example the solar panels
which I have a slide in here to to
illustrate that
um we also have a very large section as
I'm sure you've seen that talks about
the existing neighborhood
characteristics that I think is is
really important and a lot of effort
went into it
um it seemed to literally blur the lines
on our preservation our historic
preservation committee and we've learned
rightly so because when you go to do a
new build a renovation even just
changing a window or door it's really
helpful to understand the context of the
neighborhood that you're in there's some
neighborhoods have more front porches
and some neighborhoods have less and I
think Mr hire is going to talk for a
little bit about that and also Mr
Hellman
this is also Illustrated if you remember
the first slide I should this third
slide I showed you with only three five
pages there's not a single illustration
in there which is so odd for anything
that a designer would want to follow or
create so it's heavily Illustrated I'm
going to show you some sample Pages the
responsibilities and process here in the
city what committees are in boards and
um staff are responsible for what and
where a resident or a builder or an
architect or designer should go to find
out how to accomplish what they want to
accomplish that's all going to be in
here and click and point and lead you to
the forms and documents that that you
you'll need to accomplish a project
and we also have lots and lots of design
and planning examples next slide
just really quickly I
want to sum it up in in about 30 seconds
for you what we had meeting after
meeting on how do we Define the
difference between standards and
guidelines and you know you have I've
been in many many rooms that that
discussion has occurred but we just set
it out very simply the standards are the
widely applicable principles and
considerations and the guidelines are
how to get there
um so that's just a slide I thought was
a page in the beginning that I thought
was pretty important just to put out
there next slide
so I just want to run really quickly
through just some sample Pages I'm not
going to read them I just want to show
them this is the kind of example of
process charts that we have created
Jason and Kathy Rose helped me
with this next slide so we do have
process flow charts the Bexley
neighborhood map which talks about the
different kinds of neighborhoods Larry
Hellman created this and Bill higher
took it to the next level with breaking
down examples in each one next slide
this is an example of the The Narrative
including
um streetscapes and photographs of
different neighborhoods next slide
and you can see how
we have illustrations and they're
amazing illustrations thanks to bill
heyer and his firm
and I'm going to let him say a few
things in a minute about these I I he
it's the illustrations speak for
themselves they're just beautiful and
I've used samples of these already to
get residents and Architects through the
process and they are they are really
working next slide we also have simple
detail samples of how to do things right
and how to do things wrong and um this
has just changed changed my world
because I instead of sketching out every
single time I can go right to these
Pages even in the rough draft and it
people get it like that when they see
the illustrations
next
these are some other examples of how to
do windows right how to do porch details
right
I am already using these every single
day just had somebody yesterday call to
didn't understand what we meant by
matching grids on Windows pulled up this
page and you can just see clearly like
do your windows have
the sixth over you know three over two
or six over whatever it is that helps
residents who aren't used to to hearing
architectural language understand it
immediately next slide
I wanted to throw in there an example of
the the living document kind of thing
this is as you are well aware of this
the solar importance that you all just
um passed we're very happy about that
that you listen to a lot of our comments
at the architecture review board and
board of zoning and planning
um this isn't even updated yet and you
can see so the next thing I will be
doing is going through and I think that
um Connie rightly pointed out that we
that you had changed uh six foot to ten
foot it doesn't matter but that's what
we mean about living document so we will
just be able to update it readily as
ordinance are updated or changed
um next so what are the next steps we
would like you to approve this and bless
it and we want to get it out there we
want to have open forums take it to the
Bexley board of realtors to our
Architects and designers to our
contractors we want to put it live on
our website and pre and then work to put
links to all the other documents and
sites that are important
and we just want to continually update
and expand as as we grow
any questions on my part I tried to be
as short and succinct as I possibly
could I could go on for 189 pages of it
Mr klinglick not so much a question but
I commend you and all of you on this a
lot of Labor and love was was poured
into this one thing I will say as the
former contractor
um if we could get the flow chart on the
Viewpoint site when you go to register
for a permit that will help I think
immensely homeowners contractors that
don't understand the process you go get
ready to try to start a project and you
say oh wait I gotta go in front of vsap
I got to go so just that flow chart
catches people attention and um I think
it'd be good to have as soon as you go
to apply for a permit yeah and I think
that's a great that
that is kind of what's what's in our
heads not just to go from this document
to to the process but have a have a link
on the contractor's webpage that will
take you then to this so it's going to
be a lot of work going creating all
those links but I think that's going to
be invaluable to Residents contractors
Realtors
anybody in the building industry
um I I think I probably have a couple
board members that would like to yeah to
speak bring them up bring up your best
the chart real quick
um
I guess first thing I would say Bexley
is an architectural treasure and we all
get to share that treasure each and
every day and it's a joy to work on this
and to participate in something that has
such meaning and value for the community
uh and I'll do two minutes here two and
a half
um you know 1910 to 1930 was a vibrant
time Rich time and residential
architecture and tutor came out and and
you know Dutch Colonial and Cotswold
Academy it was just a wonderful time and
that coincided uh with post-war 20s boom
uh to where young couples wanted to
leave the city or Leave apartments and
and get a house and get a yard and a
garage and a backyard for a garden uh
and they came in the hundreds they came
basically oh no I'm sorry Ben the uh the
neighborhood chart
um and then
uh we have uh it and so that really
created the the movement that
established this place up the hill and
just quickly from a historical standpark
uh the the initial big development of
course was Bola park that's 200 300
acres and that was a delivery system to
where you bought a lot you hired an
architect you did a builder biggest
state in lots and it kind of sets the
tone for the community uh eventually of
course you run out of rich people and so
you've got to just do regular housing
and so as things move from east to or
west to east uh both uh South Bexley
Central and north
um you ended up with the developer
Builder who then uh bought lots copied
some of the designs and carried them
forth on these houses on these regular
houses uh and and people loved it
because you could you could you could
elect your lifestyle uh with your house
um and then
at 1930s in the depression everything
kind of came to a stop and so everything
by then had pretty much been plotted out
um but there were a lot of vacant lots
and so most of the vacant Lots were
further east some were integrated in and
so you've seen a different kind of
housing that got developed then in the
40s and the 50s the smaller two stories
and Cape cods uh and then to the Far
East uh by that time uh people were a
little less interested in detached
garages and they wanted Ranch houses and
so of course we have our section of
ranch houses I say that just simply
because the richness of the architecture
and then I'll end with just two thoughts
one uh different Extremes in there
especially special Focus areas
throughout our community one obviously
is sessions and that whole area is like
a little housing laboratory you've got
the you've got the the French Normandy
of of of sessions Village which is just
renowned you've got the other kind condo
projects you've got four frankly right
houses you've got the tutors off broad
wonderful wonderful setting and then the
the the quiz question for the day uh
would be and you could use this at your
your next uh party
um where is the greatest concentration
of stone houses in Bexley uh and few
people would would uh would get this
outright it's on North Merkel uh when
when the when at that point of
development we were doing cape cods and
smaller houses some Builder decided my
Cape cods will sell better than your
cape cods if they're Stone and so
there's 32 stone-faced in and so the
point of all that is that kind of
neighborhood understanding feeds into
the way you look at how to protect and
enhance and make sure these
neighborhoods stay viable uh and we've
done it for 100 years we're hoping to do
it for another hundred thank you
thank you Mr almond
Mr Mayor members of city council I just
have a couple things to say I've been
involved with
um the design guidelines in ARB and bza
before that I'm Bill heyer I've had my
practice and I've lived in Bexley for 21
years now
and in this process as an architect I
learned so much about the character of
Bexley and I think a lot of our board
members and Karen and Kathy and there's
a lot that we discovered along the way
and I say that because so many residents
come to our board and
are interested in understanding the
character of their neighborhood they're
interested in our viewpoint on that uh
and what is Bexley and what is this what
is this character
um so putting together these design
guidelines it was really a learning
experience for everyone
um also just being able to recognize how
diverse the architecture is in Bexley
which led us to really understand that
these guidelines are unique we looked at
other design guidelines from other
municipalities and there are a couple of
things that are characteristic of these
guidelines that are very different from
other municipalities one is
there is no time stamp on the design
guidelines this covers everything from
Modern design contemporary uh
additions to Historic styles
unlike some other historic districts in
in your downtown that have a time stamp
or another city municipality about 15
miles Northeast of us that has a sort of
Applied timestamp right Bexley is is a
city that has a diverse
um growing and ever-changing
architecture and so the design
guidelines really had to respond to that
um
so that's that's
um really what we started with and I'm
really excited for
um these design guidelines to really
help all the residents of Bexley to
appreciate not only their own house more
but also their neighborhood in
particular with all these names
these historic names for for the
different districts understanding how
their neighborhood is is different from
other uh neighborhoods where porches are
like uh Karen was mentioning where
they're not predominant but again
leaving this open for
um developments in architectural design
and that's the challenge is not trying
to just close it down we want this to be
a living document that continually is
updated for those and refinements and
changes over time
I'd also like to recognize two uh people
from my office Reed Thompson and Sarah
abelos who were instrumental in putting
together the images that you are seeing
here and that will be throughout the
document so thank you thank you thank
you
council do we have any uh comments or
questions
yes Mrs Robinson just a quick comment I
have to say I am not an architect so to
approach this document as a complete
layperson
um who would love to do lots to her
house much to my husband's Chagrin
um I thank you so much for all of this
it's it's easy to understand
um not always easy to read but if you
are looking for specific information
it's there and um you know as as just a
regular resident of Bexley I can tell
you that a lot of people will really
appreciate this so thank you so much for
your time on this
it really is also just the night and day
like you say to integrate the drawings
and the graphics versus just that plain
text like you feel like you're more of a
lawyer than anything to have to kind of
sort through that so it's it really
looks fantastic
uh at this time I open up to uh comments
since this is the third reading from the
audience if anybody has uh anything to
say
if not do you have a comment would I
ever not have a comment Mr President I'm
just no I just wanted to thanks Karen
and all the hard work you put into this
care and organizing all this and Kathy
and I think um Connie
as part of a historic preservation
committee so I think I was sitting here
listening and Karen mentioned it a
little bit at the beginning but we
started a historic preservation
committee right before the pandemic hit
a bit before the pandemic hit and as we
worked through it I think we realized
that we were really lacking in standards
in order to then start to develop a more
coherent and holistic historic
preservation policy and law and so this
was actually step one so Council you're
kind of unnoticed at step two is that
long-term ambition to start to more
comprehensively look at historic
preservations especially commercial
property because we don't have any
protections for commercial property and
a more holistic protection for uh
residential property that does not only
apply to tear Downs so that's hopefully
like how this then evolves as we move
forward so really great work thank you
thank you Connie excellent
Mr Klingler yeah I'd like to make a
motion to
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um
pass ordinance 49-22
motion to adopt ordinance
49-22 by Mr Klingler second second by MS
fiebel MR McPeak
Ms lamke yes Mr Markham yes Mr cleanler
yes is feibel yes masad
Mr Marcelino yes it's Robinson yes
ordinance passes thank you and thank you
to all of you
foreign
hey hey save that mosquito
we need to test that
all right let's move back to the
administrative update please
thank you Mr President and um
one one quick
moment here I was letting the directors
know when we're back on that
um to give them a little bit of time to
rejoin us I'm going to ask Mr Price if
uh
he could uh join next
or sorry join next sorry Start sure you
know what I'm talking about happy Duke
thank you mayor
um the only thing I would just highlight
in the report is again the Mexican
Community Foundation Texas told um
fundraiser is this Friday at Jeffrey
Mansion uh starting at six with food
thank you Jimmy Johns for their
sponsorship and providing food for all
the participants and the uh poker
tournament will start at seven uh
there's more information at bexley.org
forward slash poker it will be a ton of
fun so if you got looking for something
to do on Friday night and obviously
raises money for a great cause and and
helping the Community Foundation other
than that happy to answer any questions
thank you Mr Price
did you guys know that it's uh you're
the parks thanks Mike for the year the
parks update appreciate that
um
Monique uh asked a great question uh is
that the year of the Park's logo it is
indeed it was in the uh
she thinks it's funny she doesn't like
the logo
it was in the uh
in the last last I think our last
council meeting I had it highlighted in
my mayor's update motion to adopt the
logo uh approved same sign it is
unanimous
actually let me tell you this is
actually a funny story
so this logo this is kind of blurry
right here but there was we were looking
for some marks that we could kind of put
out there have a logo and and put on a
T-shirt and that sort of thing and we
found one that we liked it had it was a
lot it was like this but it had like a
ferris wheel and some other stuff and so
we reached out to the designer who's in
Bosnia
and worked with him and uh the the that
the detail in the bridge which is books
that Island Creek Bridge that crossed
with the circle in the middle kind of
diagonal across the Circleville is on
the library and lots of other places
throughout the city so you see that
detail around and uh I thought you guys
would appreciate that customized logo
thank you thank you Jen and thank you
for appreciating that somebody does uh
Chief uh are you here
there he is
I am sir
all right
there you are
we can hear you well we could hear you
you're muted now
oh there we go can you hear me okay
any questions for the chief chief for
anything you want to um
highlight in this
uh you know one of the things that um at
the very top of the report highlights
much of what has been discussed since my
arrival in the three-year strategic plan
along with creating some needed
positions with the Department as well as
the city I'm very excited to announce
that the interviews were conducted today
in three were selected to take on the
new roles and lieutenants and we'll have
much more to share in a very public
environment and specifically with City
Council
thank you chief
any questions
all right I have one oh wait I'm sorry
Jen this is just a calendar confirmation
I seem to have on my calendar this
Friday at 11 is the new recruit swearing
in is that still happening
um I think that was probably a
placeholder that squaring in is is
taking place um it's a really a
ceremonial piece that the city of
Columbus the police department does at
their location we are going to do
something very formal with City Hall and
it's something the mayor and I think is
going to be really kind of the moving
forward bringing that Dynamic to city
council and then having promotions and
swearing-ins there and looking to do
something on a larger scale probably
about the third week in February
fantastic thanks so much for the update
Chief would you be willing to also give
some mosquito updates while you do the
swearing in
I am going to uh thank you for the
opportunity Mr Mayor and and defer all
calls this is the year of the park so
mosquitoes will be important thank you
for pointing out that it's you the parks
Chief I really do appreciate that
about mosquitoes no the canine is
actually going to be a Parx liaison
officer as part of the year before
yes we will make sure the dog harness
has a appropriate logos
you chief
appreciate you have a good evening
uh Mr Bayshore service director good
evening mayor and city council
um I'm very well educated on mosquitoes
now so I can help the chief but uh I
attached my report I also have a kind of
a little bit of what the service
department did kind of like a year-end
report on the on the back page and
don't really have anything to add but
I'll be happy to answer any questions
sorry oh my God Matt I need you to save
it
sorry Andy one second you're back we
lost you for a second yeah
so and you want to repeat what you're
highlighting after you
dress so rudely interrupted it says
watch out Andy can you hear it yeah I
can hear you am I coming across you okay
you're coming through you were uh you
were starting to talk about you're the
parks yeah you're the parks um other
than the other Parks I attached to the
back page of my report it's kind of a
little synopsis of what the service
department got into over the past uh
past year in 2022
um not everything we did but just a
little sample
um happy to answer any questions I'm
very ready for springtime
that's great Andy and I hope make sure
to give that to Sam so that he could put
that under annual report and I believe
Monique has a question about tonight's
snow plowing activities
it's actually not about that but Andy I
had a quick question for you I saw that
you have completed the leaf pickup
program we have
um in case we have residents or
neighbors who um maybe quite didn't
didn't make it to the to the curb is
there ever a chance in the winter when
it's decent outside that or can they
call you or are they kind of out of luck
to further notice I would suggest you
know just bag them for Rumpke
um right let's give a call in the next
week or so we could probably get them
um the problem is we're tearing down all
the trucks
um and putting plows and solders on I do
have one truck left it still has a late
box on
um so if I would get a call in the next
week or so we could take care of them
okay thank you
Anthony did you get a nap this afternoon
I did not
well Andy uh good luck this evening and
tomorrow I know that we can expect a
little bit of snow I know you guys are
ready so thank you we are ready
all right thanks Andy appreciate it
thank you Mr Hale thank you Mr Hale
got some actuals
hold on trying to get the video on oops
there it is
yep got your
um final numbers for 2022 and the theme
for 2022 which was excellent income tax
continued
um or at least finalized we ended up 1.8
million dollars or you know almost 1.85
million dollars over over budget and
that translated to revenue being about
one point
eight seven million dollars over budget
um
expenditures were under budget
uh see what was about 876 thousand
dollars
and so the bottom line was we ended up
close to 1.7 million dollars better than
budget I will highlight that income tax
was so good mayor that even though we
revised the budget upward during the
budgeting process our budget for 2023
ended up three percent less than our
actual for 2022 so at tax budget time
when we start looking at next year's
budget we should we may have to take a
look at that hopefully we have to take a
look at that and revise it upwards
um
although one never knows
um but that's about it that's all the
highlights I have any questions
so uh question for Matt was if how much
worked from home impacted our income
stream
I don't know the future we haven't
actually hard to do that would be very
hard to determine I'm I'm I would
you know if I just wanted to Guess that
I'd say it have to impact us some
um because I remember mayor when you put
out the information I got quite a few
phone calls about people asking about it
so I know there was interest in that and
there was some impact
um to quantify that
I have that'd be very difficult to do
well it's a important message for the uh
the legions of residents listening in
that if you are working from home making
sure that you're paying tax to Bexley as
opposed to
uh your where your headquarters might be
will save you money so I most likely
depending on your tax situation most
likely will save you money depending on
the taxation it will if you work in
Columbus and and many of the other
municipalities in central Iowa
Allegiance Legions thank you uh Mr Hale
any other questions for Beecher
you're good thanks baby you feel any
mosquito question join asked me I feel
like an expert now calm down
have a good night
everybody
um
so real quickly going to highlight a
couple things first off we did have a
meeting regarding our fourth of July
parade route
um and the recommendation that we're
going to make
is that we revert to the earlier Parade
route that goes down Mount Street as
opposed to uh further south at Aster the
shorter
shorter it's still like one of the
longest the longest parade in central
Ohio I think
um is is the main reason for that just
because it's uh you know it is that
longer route was pretty hard on uh
parade uh participants or people in the
parade and we plan on getting the word
out to the community and and invite
anyone who wants to talk about it to
come to uh celebrations events meeting
um in the next month or so so we really
do think that it's it's for health
reasons
that we need to revert back to the
parade route the way that it was
um is just really long remember we did
it because we wanted people to be able
to spread out during during covid
um but uh
other than that I have a couple like
quite a lot in writing here some year of
the parks updates
um I do want to call out uh and remember
it's Joe Ridgway uh senior Joe Ridgway
uh lived on Sherwood Road passed away
last week he was not just our traffic
engineer for many decades he was also
the Columbus service director for some
time and then his latest gig before he
retired was at EP Ferris and in fact up
until he he was in his 80s and up until
I think four years ago he was still
working at EP first so
um Joe was a great friend of the Bexley
and put a lot of work and diligence into
his time as our traffic engineer so
wanted to remember him wanted to uh give
a shout out to Pete bricky who retired
uh this last week formerly
um and I I might have accidentally uh
spilled the beans here with our
Solutions but uh but uh there you go
pretended act surprised whenever Chief
Lewis tells you and then save the date
the 10th Jeffrey the 10th Jeffrey Woods
Festival Mike I think I'm right about
this I was doing some math I think 2014
was our first year uh there's very
handsome gentlemen there at the festival
last year we will be making some maple
syrup chopping some wood
March 4th
um
Mike has some pretty ambitious Concepts
about camping overnight and doing lots
of maple syrup boiling and like doubling
yield
so good luck we're just going to water
it down more
[Laughter]
just add some water
and
that uh
reiterated my goals uh got a photo of
brune not wanting to have his photo
taken at the MLK Junior event at the
library so thanks to uh Barb for putting
that together
and more of this tomorrow perhaps and
that concludes my update happy to take
any questions
thank you
all right I think we are now going to
the consent agent consent agenda we have
the meetings from January 10 2023 and
resolution 11-22
confirming the mayor's appointments of
members to the Bexley Community
Improvement corporation that was
introduced by Ms Robinson any comments
or questions on the consent agenda
comments or questions from the audience
on the consent agenda
if not I will move to adopt the consent
agenda
second a second by Mr Klingler Mr mcpeek
Mr Marcelino yes Mr Markham yes Assad
Miss feibel yes Miss Robinson yes Mr
Klingler yes Miss Liam key yes consent
Edge gender passes
all right well there are no third or
second readings so we are moving on to
First readings which will then generate
second and third reading second readings
next time just so you know so first of
all we have a first reading of ordinance
1-23 to appropriate sixty one thousand
two nine hundred and twenty four dollars
to pay school Revenue sharing based on
2021 payroll taxes collected from
tenants of Bexley Gateway introduced by
Ms lamke
thank you as the attorney official
mentioned this is to appropriate those
funds to revenue sharing to the school
based on the 21 payroll taxes collected
by the tenants of Baxley Gateway
any questions
all right then I assume we're moving on
to our first reading of ordinance 2-23
to appropriate 441 220 from the road and
Alley fund and to pay for the
uncompleted portion of the 2022 Drexel
Avenue and Grandin Avenue Improvement
project introduced by Ms lamke
thank you mayor do you want to briefly
walk through this one uh yes this what
I'm about to say applies to the next one
as well and actually Matt might be the
person to walk you through it but uh
these are opwc projects that have been
awarded to the city have been started uh
every year we have to appropriate
remaining funds into that account in
order to expend them
um we don't do carryovers uh with this
type of fund
I believe that synopsizes it I think
that sums up
any questions from Council
okay then we have first reading of
ordinance 3-23 to establish a special
fund designated in North Columbia and
South Remington Road improvements fund
to record all revenue and expenses
associated with the North Columbia and
South Remington Road Project to
appropriate four million 969 075 from
this fund to pay for the cost of the
project introduced by Ms lamke okay the
mayor covered mayor covered this one
briefly as well kind of this is actually
a little bit different you want to add
something yeah I was yeah so the other
one had already this that there was a
special fund pre-existing for the
previous project this was reincarnate
this is setting up the special fund for
the project that we have already
authorized and uh we'll be beginning
this year in fact the North Columbia
work will be for sure happening this
summer some of it
is that just roads or is that water
sewer water and what primarily water
roads a little bit of sewer yeah but the
sewer will be
um I believe any sewer work will be
storm related for these particular
projects okay
okay
moving on to First reading of ordinance
4-23 to amend section 262.02 C3
holidays what the heck introduced by Ms
lamke
some of you might remember that just
recently we passed
um an ordinance uh giving the mayor the
ability to Grant some additional time
off and because of some calendar uh
dates for I believe this year there were
some tweaks that needed to be made mayor
do you want to walk through some of the
minor changes to amend it yeah so this
is when we added that ability to we
basically codified the ability to give
some additional time off before after
holidays based upon just how we had
traditionally operated
um thinking through it it occurred to us
that you know anytime Christmas Eve was
a business day and fell right between
before Christmas that was given given
people were giving that time off uh
within City Hall and the rec department
and
um
it occurred to us that that was the case
because it was and then we had Christmas
fall on a Sunday and it you know then
occurred to us so wait a second when
Christmas falls on you know certain days
like a Monday or a Sunday or uh New
Year's is the same way
um it's really not traditionally that we
would give a full extra day before just
because we're that cheap and chintzy so
um what would be more typical was for
example we would have been a half day on
Friday which we had already told staff
was happening everyone was happy as
clams and then someone pointed out uh
the ordinance uh that we had just passed
somebody read the ordinance that's right
so um we've edited this to reflect again
we're trying to just reflect what his is
an historic norm and it's fair to our
employees uh provides a little bit more
time off so there's a little bit of a
tweak to section F and we're eliminating
the Christmas Eve and the New Year's Eve
as was granted holidays because just
because of that kind of variation from
year to year
any comments or questions on this
all right
all right moving on to a first reading
of resolution 1-23 to amend the Jeffrey
Mansion alcohol policy framework
introduced by Mrs Assad I will turn into
Mrs fibol
yeah I'm really I'm really excited about
this ordinance I think that
um we were so thrilled to have the new
space opened
um right after covid
um and
as per always the rec department tiptoed
their way into
um
the Jeffrey Mansion alcohol uh framework
um in a very very conservative way and a
very much like again like the rec
department they did a great job doing
that and things have been very
successful and
but there are a lot of opportunities a
lot of days that they could potentially
um open
that the space up to other individuals
to be able to enjoy it and
um that's what this ordinance really is
about it's also going to talk a little
bit to us about
um security and how we might tweak that
a little bit
um please know that
information has been sent out to the
neighbors who qualify in fact I know I
received mine
um yesterday
um so we um we know that that Jessica's
not here and I know that she um had
worked really hard with Mike and the
board and the rec department and she
it's her hope that you all will take a
deep dive into this yourselves over the
next two weeks and you know bundle up
your questions and maybe even throw them
to Mike beforehand if you have the
opportunity to so that he comes here
um in two weeks you're gonna come and
you're gonna give us kind of more of a a
formal conversation about it and we can
ask our questions then so
um
any comments or questions Mr Marcelino
um Mike would you mind potentially
sharing the map that she sent to Jessica
and I um in regards to the properties
that are accomplished by the 500 Peter I
just thought it was really helpful so
that way we can look at a little bit
early and ask any questions so we may
have I'll be happy to do that thanks
other comments or questions
all right uh do we have any action on
tabled ordinances
all right I think then we can move to uh
committee reports and we'll start with
Mr Miller who's had busy tonight yeah
appreciate it
um just want to update uh the mayor and
I have met a couple times to start
strategizing
um to formulate the land strategy use
committee 2.0 refresher so look for um
Coming news
for that
so I have bendy anything to add to that
you always do so
that was excellent thank you Matt
any uh any questions for Mr Klingler the
mayor
all right uh Miss sod is not here but I
think uh Mr Marcelino is reporting for
her I'm doing my best to fill in from
Assad today I would like everybody to
take a moment and mark their calendar
for April 22nd
2023. what is that that's the Bexley
education foundation's Bravo
we have some news we've moved to a new
location oh what it will be held at the
historic Valleydale Ballroom now some of
you may say why is that historic well it
was added to the National Registry of
historical places on December 17
1982. so it's been historic for a long
time and we now have the pleasure of
holding the Bravo Bexley Education
Foundation event there this year uh just
for those that aren't familiar it's only
about 11 minutes from the casting ham
um uh uh uh it's like area so academian
school so if you were in North Bexley
make it about eight minutes and if
you're in South make it about 14 but
either way make sure that you get there
responsibly and maybe call an Uber if
you're having too much fun looking at
you there's one there
um exactly
thank you very much for your
Interruption Mr Mayor but we're not done
with the presentation thank you
harder harder
you know there's a discuss earlier
that's recession earlier about this shot
at January 26th there's going to be a
Texas Holdem event taking place at uh
the Jeffrey Mansion and that'll be uh at
7 pm so I encourage you all to go out
and have a great time and win some money
uh raise some money for the Bexley
Community Foundation
yes indeed so uh please be there and
that is all for that report that uh I
tried to fill in forward wow yes
I know where it was his question
actually recognized
I think we can ignore yeah I I will say
that I think you've done Jessica very
proud tonight or Sam uh Miss Bible
all right well
whenever I don't have a
um report Sam gets a little upset about
it so Sam this this is for you okay
specifically to you okay Sam say no to
bags when you go shopping okay
a plastic bag is used for an average of
12 minutes but will remain in the
environment for a 100 years B 500 years
see a thousand years all of the above
that is why well that could be an option
theoretically but I would guess about a
hundred
Mark is right all of the above
um
tell me Sam what percentage of energy is
used during a washing machine's cleaning
cycle just for heating the water
12
90 wow
wash with cold okay recycling one pan
one aluminum can can save enough energy
to run one TV two TVs three TVs all of
the above I'm I'm under shooting so I'm
going to say all the above you are right
wow all of the above great news everyone
we had less trash landfilled in 2022
than we have had since 2009.
um
hooray hooray and
I want to let you know that
um your esac we've had a meeting this
week they are really getting ready to
have all kinds of great goals that they
want to wrap their heads around as well
as the um the tree and public garden and
and a lot of their goals overlap which
is really really very exciting and I
think one of the most exciting goals
that that they have
um at least the a tree and garden is
they really want to do everything they
can to increase our canopy
um because that it helps in so many ways
to be able to increase the canopy I'll
bring you more next time on that one Sam
um so the end of my report
Ms flamkey and there better be music
with yours too
[Laughter]
follow those last two last two reports
back to you
right all right back to Mr marcelito no
report
Miss Robinson I know there's music with
your report it's music in my heart
always
please you guys you will get an email
from me I'm just confirming the location
but please remember and for those of you
who are interested in attending on
February the 15th the day after
Valentine's Day we will have our
strategic planning meeting from nine to
noon most likely at the the cottage
um and I'm working on getting some
breakfast catered at which time I will
let you know what that is and when
breakfast will be served but likely 8 30
8 45 get there early get some breakfast
and then we'll I'm happy
um the mayor and I have been working on
putting together the document I do have
it I will be forwarding that you can add
to it you can add comments you can put
your names on things that interest you
but we're going to get that circulated
beforehand because we have plenty of
time to know what what kinds of things
we'll be addressing at that meeting and
that is it and don't be surprised
distribute some half-price Valentine's
Day candy okay yes was that nine
uh yeah it starts at nine breakfast will
likely be served a little bit before for
those who want to get there early
oh three to six and I don't want to hear
anything from anybody anymore oh am or
p.m you choose at this time we open up
the floor to public comments
all right yes
no that'll be on the 27th here this
Friday at 7 p.m at uh Jeffrey yes for uh
yeah Texas Hold'em
oh the Bravo the no the reason about the
policy
oh that was uh your
s that was the next city council meeting
so
that will be February 7th yeah
yep
uh this time I will take a motion to
adjourn so moved motion is adjourned by
Mr Klingler second second by Ms Robinson
all in favor say aye aye
aye all opposed same sign good night
everybody