the test going all right
we have entomologists in the room
tonight you can tell
because there's a buzz you get it
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those are my people those are my people
i'm a plant pathologist from ohio state
so
glad to have you here anyway welcome to
the cold wintry edition of city council
bexley city council uh here in ohio we
never get too excited or optimistic when
december passes with the uh the warmth
because we know that snow is coming
however the great thing about living in
bexley is we know after a big snow
we go out the next morning the streets
will be nice and ready for us as they
were this week yes
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so it's cold but the streets are not too
bad and i thank each of you for making
the drive here tonight get in here to
city council good to see everybody back
again
and
i thank you for your service to our city
mr mcpeek can you give us a roll call
please
here
please join us in saying the pledge of
allegiance
i pledge allegiance to
the united states of america and to the
republic for which it stands
one nation under god indivisible with
liberty and justice for all
all right we have a presentation here
and i i should turn it over to
councilmember robinson probably right
would you like to introduce you
certainly can um and then shall i turn
it over to miss elizabeth ellman
who some of you may know as when you get
up here give me your title again because
i keep forgetting you change so often
your responsibility to
this city so elizabeth ellman i'm gonna
hand it right on over to her
i'm elizabeth and i am
the city's sustainability programs
coordinator
and on behalf of the sustainability
department
i'm here this evening to introduce
rebecca ness vice chair of the
environmental sustainability advisory
committee rebecca is passionate about
biodiversity and the natural world and
has strong interest in supporting
pollinators and ecosystem preservation
rebecca revitalized the city's love your
alley program and building on that
success is here to discuss another
initiative an integrated mosquito
management plan so without further ado
here's rebecca ness
hi
thanks for having us tonight
can you all hear me it's kind of high
for me
yeah
yeah oh all right um
is it bendy
a little bendy little bendy okay
i'm rebecca ness i've been a bexley
resident for about four and a half years
now and um i'm serving as the lead on
the mosquito task force and as vice
chair for green bexley i spearheaded
love your alley as elizabeth just told
you all it's a bexley initiative to
transform our underutilized alleys into
extended living space and a homegrown
national park
for biodiversity and to support all of
our pollinators
and now i'm happy to let you know that
i'm a business owner in bexley i
relocated my acupuncture
clinic to to bexley on main street right
by the drexel theater
yeah
and as an acupuncturist i recognize the
strong correlation between the planet's
health planet's health and human health
and my aim is to support and care for
both
i'm really excited about this pilot
program it offers an opportunity to
manage mosquitoes without hurting our
pollinators
or unnecessarily exposing our residents
or pets to chemicals
franklin county public health agrees
that if we reach the point where
spraying is required that the programs
failed
so let's try something different
dr mary gardner and dr megan mewte both
entomologists with osu are here to
present tonight and sarah fink from
franklin county public health is here as
well to answer any questions about the
current mosquito program
so we're ready for the powerpoint
oh and megan megan doctor megan meady
will get started for us
thank you so much can you hear me okay
excellent okay so i'm megan media i'm in
the entomology department at ohio state
and i study mosquitoes which we all hate
because they suck our blood and they
transmit diseases so on the slide you
can see
on the image on the top is a female
mosquito taking what we hate her for
sucking our blood and she uses the
protein from that blood to produce eggs
which is what the mosquito on the bottom
is doing she's laying her egg raft on
the surface of the water
and then those eggs will hatch out into
larvae that live in the water and then
they'll form the pupil phase which is
also aquatic and then they'll emerge
into the adult mosquitoes that we know
and loathe
so we go to the next slide and the
reason the disease that we're most
concerned about here in ohio is west
nile virus this is the most common
mosquito-borne disease in the united
states and in ohio as well it can cause
major die-offs of birds and particularly
in the fall mosquitoes transition from
biting birds to biting people
and most of the people that get infected
with west nile virus are fortunately
asymptomatic they don't have
any symptoms and most of the people that
do have symptoms
experience pretty mild flu-like symptoms
however one out of 150 people that show
symptoms of west nile virus
can have very serious illness and can
die in 2018 was a particularly bad year
for west nile virus in ohio where there
were 65 confirmed human cases and eight
fatalities
and then the very next year in 2019
there were only two cases confirmed
faces and no no mortalities thankfully
so currently in um
in bexley you guys are doing amazing and
wonderful things you're reminding
residents on a regular basis to remove
breeding habitats for mosquitoes so any
containers that collect water
which is wonderful and better than what
hilliard does where i live
and then also franklin county public
health will treat catch basins which are
another source for mosquitoes can breed
and any other standing sources of water
that can't be drained with larvicides
and then franklin county public health
will also collect mosquitoes adult
mosquitoes from two traps one in north
bexley and one in south bexley and
they'll have those tested for west nile
virus and if mosquitoes from those traps
test positive for west nile virus
then they'll initiate a spray of an
adulticide which is a pesticide that
kills the adult mosquitoes that are
flying around now i'm going to hand it
back over to rebecca to talk about some
of the concerns that she has as a bexley
resident about mosquito management
so some concerns that our community has
about mosquitoes
bexley doesn't have
much to do with eliminating nuisance or
biting mosquitoes and so i think we can
do
a better job there
and then as according to franklin county
public health and the and the cdc
spraying adult size is usually the least
efficient mosquito control technique
only 0.1 percent of pesticides on
average actually reaches the target
pests
some additional concerns is that
pesticides can also harm beneficial
insects including bees and butterflies
which are really important for
pollinating our flowers pollinators are
critical to the ecosystems in ohio
85 percent of flowering plants and a
third of worldwide food crops rely on
pollinators monarchs are a national
insect currently in jeopardy and also
negatively impacted by pesticides
lacewings lady beetles and spiders
consume insect pests like this ground
beetle we see
consuming a pest over there to the right
on the bottom picture or the middle
picture excuse me and beetles and ants
recycle nutrients and improve soil
health
so as far as the timeline for developing
the task force in july greenbexley
presented an integrative mosquito
management plan to the bexley board of
health at the meeting the board voted
unanimously to move forward to
re-examine our mosquito management
program alongside franklin county public
health in august bexley's mosquito task
force was formed and the task force has
met a couple times per month since
august to develop a mosquito pilot
program for the 2022 mosquito season and
that's what we'll present to you tonight
the members of the bexley mosquito task
force in addition to myself and dr mewte
and dr gardner are jen robinson
and dr robert shalowitz who's a
pediatric pediatric endocrinologist he
also serves on green bexley paula
krasnoff who's a virologist and also
serves on greenbexley alex meyer an osu
grad student and a bexley resident
mike linger from ophi which is the ohio
pollinator habitat initiative
and um doctors megan mewten doctors uh
mary gardner as well
our beneficial insects
using a city-wide experiment we will
determine if we can effectively reduce
mosquitoes using traps and p and
resident education
and removing the need for pesticide
applications
and i'm going to hand the talk back now
to dr muty
thank you so i'll tell you a little bit
about our project design so we are going
to have um four different treatments and
i'll be describing those in more detail
in the upcoming slides but we're going
to work with members of the community to
enroll in one of these treatments and
then we're going to establish five
replicas and each one of these
replicates is going to consist of five
properties that are either going to be
along a roadway shown on the bottom or
that um share an alleyway
which is shown on the upper image
so now on the next slide i'll tell you a
little bit about our treatments the
first treatment is for
best best mosquito management practices
so this treatment is akin to those
residents in bexley who are currently
acting out of franklin county public
health mosquito spring program and this
is serving as the control in our study
um because they're not doing any
additional management apart from
eliminating breeding habitat for
mosquitoes and we're going to provide
training on best mosquito management
practices for all of our participants
because we do not want any extra
mosquitoes in your beautiful city
um then the second treatment
is where um is the best mosquito
management
practices plus using traps
so in this scenario we're going to use
two different kinds of traps
um 80s gravid 80 straps which are shown
on the bottom um left hand side side of
the
other side
which are nuisances
and on
the track on the lower right um those
traps are used to collect the helix
mosquitoes which transmit west nile
virus and those contain just a tub full
of really stinky water that has um some
kind of larvacide inside so the females
in both cases the female mosquitoes will
be attracted to the traps um
in the case of the gravity strap the
mosquito the female mosquitoes will get
trapped in there and won't ever be able
to lay their eggs in the case of the
helix mosquito traps the females will
lay their eggs but the eggs in the
larvae will die out
so that we can hopefully reduce the
level of
both kinds of awful mosquitoes and back
sleep
then um our third treatment is going to
be the best practices
plus the franklin county public health
integrated mosquito management and here
again residents are going to follow
the best mosquito management practices
and franklin county public health will
continue to spray their properties from
the roadside if um west nile virus if
and when west nile virus is detected in
the area
and then in the fourth and final
treatment
it's going to consist of um the best
mosquito management practices and then
properties that are routinely sprayed
with a barrier spray using commercial
pesticide applicators
okay
and so we need to know within all of
these treatments if this is working are
we what is the level of mosquitoes
generally in our control sites and then
are the traps reducing the number of
mosquitoes and are they reducing them to
the same extent that the sprays are so
to determine whether that's happening
we're going to be using another kind of
trap these are called cdc light traps to
just collect the
adult mosquitoes that are flying around
the duration of the study is going to be
from mid-june to mid-september
and
during this time we're going to collect
mosquitoes from all of the different
treatment sites twice a month
and we're going to publish all of the
findings on our website um which alex
has just created which is very exciting
and then
at the conclusion of the study we're
going to survey the residents to
get their perception of the levels of
mosquitoes on their properties and their
experiences in managing the traps
and then next dr mary gardner is going
to be telling us about how we're going
to manage or assess the impact of
spraying as well as the mosquito traps
on beneficial insects
thanks megan hi everybody so as rebecca
mentioned earlier one of the goals here
by removing sprays from the community is
to help to hopefully provide better
habitat for beneficial insects so how
will we measure whether or not the traps
versus spraying versus doing nothing
influence beneficial insect habitat
quality to do this we'll use a series of
different traps to collect flying and
canopy dwelling insects like lady
beetles and bees and these include
yellow sticky card traps which are a pla
a paper card with an adhesive the
insects are attracted the car gets stuck
on it we also use handheld vacuums to
collect insects off vegetation and pan
traps which mimic flowers that have a
soapy water solution
to collect ground-dwelling insects we
use pitfall traps which are a
cup sunk at soil level again with soapy
water and the insects will fall inside
we'll set these traps in all four of the
treatments and we'll compare the number
of species and the abundance of
different species of beneficial insects
among the different treatments to see
whether or not we see more insects and a
greater number of different types within
the trap and control sites versus the
sprayed treatments
and then on our next slide we can also
assess the direct effect of spray
applications by using these drop cloths
so um we would put these in all of the
treatments just so we have a control but
what you would do is before a pesticide
application you put out these sheets
under the vegetation canopy
after the spray application you come
back and remove any insects that have
died and fallen on the sheet and then
compare that mortality among the
different treatments
and on the next slide
so what are our next steps as a group so
uh based on feedback that we any of you
would have or the community would
provide to us
from our website will be refining our
study design protocol
we hope to begin our site recruitment in
february to to collect these uh
individuals who are interested in being
part of the sites that megan described
our team is submitting a grant proposal
to the osu
infectious disease institute and that's
due in april that will fund much of the
work that megan described
uh we will begin our sampling in june
and that will run through mid-september
and that will be both for the mosquitoes
and for the beneficial insect sampling
then in the fall we will identify all of
the insects
finish up the mosquito count and analyze
the data and then we plan to be prepared
to summarize and prevent present our
findings to you by late uh 2022 or
january 2023
i also want to point out that megan and
i are both state specialists with osu
extension so we do a lot of public
programming
we are here to help educate the
community about all sorts of insect
related
management so this could include things
like the specific goals and experimental
design of this project
to get the word out about it but we also
speak about best management practices
for mosquito management frequently as
well as how you can create habitat in
your own yard to support beneficial
insects and we can do this in the
library like indoor settings as well as
outdoor workshops at farmers markets
parks et cetera like you see in the
photo
thank you very much
all of us would be happy to answer any
questions that you have
thank you
thank you for this great presentation
i'm uh really familiar with extension as
i did my graduate work over in cotman
hall and it's great to see uh these
projects you know integrate into our
community and uh be helpful
do you have any questions for our
presenters mr marcelino
yes thank you very much and uh first
thank you so much for the work so far
into this uh
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reaction to mosquitoes i know many
people do um the question is is there
any other program like this that you
guys have uh studied in the past and
what was the uh efficiency of that
program what were the results of using a
more green approach to controlling
mosquitoes so we based the project off a
paper in the proceedings of the national
academy or not in the proceedings of
national academy scientific
reports
which is
a journal published by the national
academy
and this was a study done in the
baltimore area
and they were able to effectively trap
out mosquitoes using traps set up in
block groups and that's how we got the
idea in the first place uh also
trappings have been done in several
other cities and i think we have a slide
on that if you forward
you see some other cities
in ohio
right here
these are all cities that have
implemented a no spray mosquito
management program
a follow-up question if you don't mind
if that's okay
you mentioned that the traps are very
stinky
does that become a nuisance in itself to
the community and people that have them
close to their homes
the traps do have an odor but it's not
something like putrid that you're going
to smell from far away however we did
think that people probably would not
want to change the stinky water so when
megan and i well we really send grad
students out to do this because you know
i don't really want to clean up the
sticky water either but what we do is we
make the stinky water every week we
change it out
well what we think would work better in
a community standpoint is to put a
mosquito dunk in the stinky water which
many of you are probably familiar with
if you have bird baths or whatever and
then it would really only need to be
cleaned out like once a month
um we haven't decided if we will do that
if we'll have the people do it
i mean i ideally the commute to assess
whether this could work longer term i
think we would probably want to have the
community take care of it but in terms
of a test we might want to do it so we
have to decide that yet but our goal is
to make this as um
least of an imposition as possible
thank you
any more questions anybody else
mr klingler
have you just
will the traps go in people's front and
backyards and do they volunteer
who do they contact did they contact
rebecca if they want to participate in
this or is it going to go on public
right-of-ways and alleys where do the
traps go
great question um so yeah we're
imagining that we'll have
two tracks in front yards and two tracks
and backyards and we're going to
canvas neighborhoods and hand out
letters letting residents know about
this project and their opportunity to
become involved and we'll let the
residents decide which kind of treat or
indicate which treatments or
they would be interested in
participating in
if they're in the track treatment we're
estimating that it would take them about
15 minutes per week just to monitor
their traps like and see what's going on
and then obviously all participants
would be letting members of our research
team visit their property to do sampling
for mosquitoes and beneficial insects
did that answer your question adequately
yeah and how many traps are you
envisioning in backs like one per block
or
four for four per house four per
household for every household for in the
track treatment yeah okay uh-huh and
then yeah one of the light traps would
be in like a wrap okay of the five
houses that are grouped together
sorry i'm trying to understand that too
so it's like one um per like you as you
were showing a row of five houses
or one per
alley shared
so it's not necessarily
so yeah it's confusing and i'm so sorry
because you have three different kinds
of potential mosquito traps so for the
people that are in the the trap
treatment they're going to have two of
the gravid 80s traps the black bucket
ones if we scroll up on those slides and
then two of the tubs of stinky water to
collect the the culex mosquitoes oops i
think a little too far down a bit
right there
yep okay so they're gonna have
two of the two of the gravid 80s trap
for the mosquito the 80s mosquitoes the
black ones circular ones there and then
two of the keyless
traps in their yard but that's only for
the trap treatment then for all of the
other three remaining treatments as well
as in the trap treatment we're going to
have those those cdc light tracks that
are just used to collect the adult
mosquitoes that are flying around so we
can get a sense of
in this general area within these blocks
of five houses how many mosquitoes are
there
so think of the light trap as testing
how did these different treatments work
it's monitoring how many are left in the
air you know flying around these are
actually meant to trap them out and kill
them out of the population in the track
treatment but every treatment will have
one of those light traps because we need
to see are there fewer
in this treatment than in the control
where we didn't add the traps and then
as we're doing this we'll still franklin
um county will still come through
with spray if needed
absolutely okay
yeah and we're going to try because
these first two treatments we don't want
them to be sprayed we want to compare
like
how many mosquitoes are around when when
people are when franklin county public
health isn't allowed to spray because
these people have opt out of the spray
program
and then also how
good are these specific tracks at
reducing mosquito populations
um
but otherwise the rest of bexley will
continue to be sprayed if and when west
nile virus is detected
we're going to target households that
have already opted out of the spray for
the treatments one and two because those
folks are already not getting the spray
so those would be good locations the
sample with the traps and perfect try to
trap out with the trap since they aren't
getting this right
that's fiber
hi guys thanks so much for coming and
bringing your expertise and wanting to
experiment with our with our city so
thank you so much um
i too have a relative
who's really
susceptible to
huge wilts when she gets bit
um
so i guess i'm curious if you were to
put
one of these traps if you were to
welcome one of those into your yard
would it
make
more mosquitoes come that way
even like maybe your neighbors would
even notice more mosquitoes i guess
that's one question i have the other
question i have is
some of those cities that you suggested
are no spray does that mean they don't
get
the public spray but they can still opt
to have their own spray
i can't answer that first question and
then maybe rebecca might be able to
answer the second question
so um
these two traps that we're using are to
collect gravid female mosquitoes which
means those are the females that have
already bitten someone and they're full
of eggs ready to lay
um so
these these traps will attract those
females and induce them to lay their
eggs the nice thing about the gravid 80s
trap the black circular one is that the
females fly in there and they actually
do get trapped and they don't leave um
and so it should reduce the number of
mosquitoes bacteria um with
the culex traps that we're proposing
those females could leave right and bite
again um
the calyx mosquitoes are not generally
very aggressive biters people usually do
not
get bitten by them a ton um
but that means that all of the eggs in
the larvae that they put in there are
going to die because there's a larvicide
right overall in the long term it should
reduce
um
populations and then the kinds of
females that
are being attracted into people's
properties are the ones that are not
interested in fighting um the light
traps are the mosquitoes that are
bloodthirsty and on the hunt and looking
for a meal so
um those should hopefully help maybe a
little bit in reducing mosquito numbers
um and then
you know that's a good question i don't
know if those cities have disallowed
residents
from hiring professional mosquito
companies to come to their yards or not
i can just imagine
you know my
my sister-in-law is really really i mean
it's very evident and it happens like
that i mean she has to
take all kinds of very serious
precautions and so you know she would
i'm not sure she would be trusting it so
you know what i mean and i get it if you
saw her you would understand
so anyway i was just i was just curious
how that worked so i'd love to figure
that one out and uh
good luck i love it thank you
one thing sorry if i can just say real
quick one thing about folks that are
very hesitant you know if they are
interested in being part of our
our monthly spray group
those people will be their yards will be
treated with insecticides on a calendar
basis and we will pay for that as part
of our grant and i think what that could
show is if the traps work just as well
as that treatment and they're directly
involved i think they're going to have
first-hand evidence of
you know how well it or you know how
well it did or did not work so i think
we really want to engage people that are
concerned um to be part and if they want
we will be looking for people to be part
of the the pesticide treatment group um
so if you know of folks that might be
interested definitely i'm not sure she
would be interested but maybe if you
could prove it at my house
thank you mr president first off
before like i have a couple things i
want to say but you guys the amount of
work you put into this
and your the detail is so impressive so
i'm gonna give you a round of applause
um i i wanted to kind of bolster some of
what you guys were saying and this this
isn't even the best map to show this but
this is an example of
the most recent spraying that occurred
in bexley and you can see all those red
dots
those are areas that weren't sprayed so
if you want to get a feel i don't have a
number in my head but i would imagine 30
plus percent of our community is
geographically not currently being
sprayed
and in many of our yards if we have a
little bit of a deeper yard and we don't
have an alley
we're not even remotely getting sprayed
like maybe our front yard is getting
sprayed and our backyard is not so
there are a lot of conditions where
currently even this type of sprain
that's occurring is absolutely 100
ineffective at controlling indian
mosquitoes
furthermore when it comes to the the
comfort treatment like somebody who's
getting bitten a lot we're treating for
west nile virus carrying mosquitoes we
treat after right around dusk
that's a time when a lot of those
nuisance spiders i believe are not
active right so
maybe i'm wrong but all i know is that
we're not really treating for the
nuisance fighting so for people who are
concerned about getting bit and their
reaction
our current program isn't at all
addressing it so what what's being
proposed here has the potential to be
much more effective tool
than what we are currently doing so i
think that's what's really promising and
i think the fact that it's voluntary try
it out we'll have numbers to back that
out up is really is really uh exciting
and i'm looking forward to seeing what
happens
and i had one more point but i oh yeah
and that is that the current traps that
exist
my understanding is that they're pretty
odorous correctly correct the ones that
the franklin county public health is
putting out are
use that yeah
they're smelly so they're out there the
people have them near them
um it's not like it's not such a
nuisance that it's just if you got
pretty close to it you would start to
realize it doesn't smell fresh
but it's not like a huge hardship to
people who choose to have that and uh so
i just want to back up what you're
saying
i think it's really going to be exciting
to see what happens and thank you for
all the work you put into it miss son
quick question for um
oh yeah
good question from kessler that's cool
um the red are those that have opted out
yes so well kind of so yes most for the
most part and then like capital
university doesn't get sprayed i imagine
either they opt out or for some reason
maybe because they don't always have
dorms and i'm not sure what the reason
is is it opt out red is opt out is it
also because they don't have a alley
like what are all of the red what is all
the red it's opt out primarily or it's a
it's a property that isn't covered by
our sprays uh for whatever reason and i
think there's another exhibit that's not
that i could find on your website that
shows
the actual coverage
which is maybe something we can send to
said that we council a map that
generates the the expected area that our
sprays should be reaching okay the other
thing on that map there's also red dots
where areas that we turn off the sprayer
so sometimes you'll do that if there's
guest rants out or if there's a car
following us
or any number of reasons so it's not
necessarily every single spot and
opt-out
but i will mention that bexley does have
the most opt-out
yeah that would be helpful i've always
wondered and then i also have always
wondered why we collect in certain areas
for west nile
and not you know i'm sure there's a
science behind that too which has been
so interesting tonight so
any of that information would be great
because residents are always asking and
the more information the better yeah
thank you
mr robinson i'm sorry i just think to
pick it back up what you're saying
there's a mis there's a misconception
and an expectation that when we spray
we're eliminating the nuisance of
mosquitoes and we're not so like
you know people we frequently get tons
of complaints when their mosquitoes out
so we're feeling those all the time at
the front desk and then when we announce
that we're spraying we have a lot of
people upset that we're spraying and
then when we're done spraying we have
more people calling and saying
why do i still get bitten by mosquitoes
so right now this is not like the most
perfect plant so it would be nice to
have a better option i am with you
this happens i i also want to say to the
three of you and to sarah back there
from franklin county public health i
mean this has been just a complete
learning ex journey i hate the
expression any kind of journey but it
has been um and to learn what we
currently are doing in the city and how
ineffective as we've just discussed it
is i encourage council to you know take
some time because we could spend
probably an hour and trust me you'll
have tons of questions we could spend a
lot of time doing it now but please take
some time to to really look at that
powerpoint and please forward any
questions that you have to me and i'll
make sure that i forward that i'm on
because i know what we want to do
is create a program that's successful
for our city and that really helps us
bolster our green initiatives and this
is absolutely i think going to be
something that's going to give us a lot
of information and help us make
decisions about how we treat for
mosquitoes in a way that's effective not
only to treat mosquitoes but also to to
keep our city healthy which is what we
want so please email me your questions
and i'll make sure that you guys get it
and thank you all of you for all the
hard work that you've done i've learned
more about mosquitoes i'm going to say
let's pretend that you're talking to
somebody who doesn't know anything about
mosquitoes
dumb it down and you guys have been
really great so thank you thank you for
bringing your class here tonight yeah i
think you're one of our most popular
presenters with all this participation
it sounds like uh we have an appointment
with you maybe this time next year to go
over the results and i
think we'll all be sort of excited about
hearing how that goes thank you very
much
public comments mr mcpeak do we have any
speaker slips
natalie any speaker slips coming in no
speaker sleeps sorry all right thank you
uh president's report the only thing i
have to report is i did receive this
last week a certified letter
from community builders and they have
expressed
that they will continue to move forward
on their livingston avenue project
and that is declaring their intention to
do so
city attorney report
i actually had a couple things one one
one more much more significant than the
other dimension and i just want folks to
be to recognize this
there is in the ohio house pending and
likely to pass house bill 512
which affects
what the city has to pay for
police
well
you only have to worry about police it
also covers fire but police pension
um right now the city of bexley all
cities contribute 19.5
of officers salaries to the police and
fire pension fund
the and the employees contribute
10 of theirs do you know
12
thank you um so
and the under this bill the 19 and a
half percent will become stay effective
in 2022 but in 2023 it will go up to
20.9
and eventually capping out in january of
beginning in 2027 at 26 and a half
percent so that's an extra 7
on the budget that the city will have to
absorb if this passes and again i think
it's likely to pass that will that the
city will have to be paying for
employees
pfpf contributions this is not money
that goes in employees pockets directly
so as salaries go up uh the pension
obligation for the city is going to go
up too and that's something that we'll
have to be budgeted for
um that's the first one the second one
just to just uh i shouldn't say for
giggles and last because it is oh
what was that 512.
um it shouldn't say giggles and last but
i just want you to know that there is a
uh bill pending i think in the ohio
house that is not likely to go anyplace
but it would prohibit cities and
counties from contracting with any
companies that discriminate against the
firearms industry i don't know what that
means
but i think it's more of a political
statement but it went around the ohio
municipal attorney's association
list served and i just thought i'd share
that with you so that's all
keep us updated on that
city auditor mr mcpeak do you have a
report for us uh no significant updates
just want to thank just assad and troy
for meetings this past week and the rest
of you for meetings that are upcoming um
very interested in learning from you
what are some of the things that i can
get you on a monthly basis that will
just help you become better informed um
and have a cheat sheet we'll say on just
city finances so that is certainly my
goal and hope to roll that out in
february um beecher has been great
bringing me up to speed as well as ben
um
so with all that being said you know as
he walks through the december results if
you have questions certainly circle back
with me or beacher um we will chase them
down
and uh get back to you quickly so thank
you all there i am hey what's up guys
our camera disappeared on us there's
another one okay
let's turn that off
i'm so sorry for the internet having to
watch that
yeah it disappeared
mr mcpeek thank you for taking the time
i know you're meeting with all of us and
appreciate and i think we are really
going to benefit uh this year from your
energy and your fresh perspective and i
uh definitely encourage city council
members to come with to you with ideas
and and things that could help us
and help you
mr mayor would you like to take us
through your administrative update i
would love to uh
begin with the service department i
believe
andy how are you doing
hi mayor hi mr president council um i
have my report attached but i do not
have anything to add to it tonight
any questions for mr bayshore
andy i know that the
guys
have been pulling a lot of late shifts
and weekend shifts clearing salt and it
feels like every time
the snow stops it starts up again it's
just like just enough to need us to come
out but not enough to feel significant
so thank you for all the work you guys
have been doing thank you no problem at
all
leaning on pretty hard but the
department has been doing an excellent
job
thank you
all right thank you andy
and we have with us chief goff
jess would you mind sharing your
microphone with the chief
it's loud enough
yeah not for the people
sorry i'm
yeah i don't have any
i don't have anything
additional other than the attach report
unless you have anything of interest
that i can answer for you
any questions
yep
uh i just wanted to say thank you and if
you could pass this along you called it
the c company yes um for their work um
that they've been doing for the city and
for uh the city of columbus because it
sounds like their work is
is helping many other municipalities so
thank you and if you could share that
with them we'd appreciate it actually i
already did matt reached out earlier and
i
as a reminder it was a reminder to me to
do it anyway so uh yeah the emails have
been sent and um the other hard workers
so i don't expect more of that on a
consistent basis i mean
they do a great job so
it's like everybody up there
but nothing else appreciate it
all right
uh mike price
recreation and parks
parks and recreation
yeah nothing to add to my written report
uh it looks like your background has
changed did you fix the chair yet
yes i'm now on a couch
i'm stepping it up
i know that the community is very
excited about the ice rink excellent job
to you and your crew for getting that
out and uh
i saw some stick and pucks coming up
over the next couple of days it's pretty
exciting that wow
any questions for mr price
ms cyborg yeah
mike i just wanted to thank you for
giving myself and council members assad
and marcelino the tour of the upcoming
senior center at 420 north cassidy uh to
my colleagues here if you haven't had a
chance to walk through highly highly
recommend it
if you don't get a chance you can go to
the grand opening i think it's sunday
february 13th super bowl sunday what's
the
mike
you know i believe it's gonna be at it's
either three or four i will i will make
sure that gets out it's yeah as long as
it's not half time
it's a pre-game it's a pre-game so you
can go off to other other events if you
have uh scheduled and if you're over 55
you can watch the super bowl from the uh
from the rec room that's right
thank you
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if and if any other council members
obviously please reach out to me if
you'd like to take a tour i'd be happy
to take you around
thank you mike any other questions oh
but jess i'm sorry
uh mike i know we discussed at the um
uh rec meeting that barb uh
jinx triphen isn't huge on uh a lot of
pr but i just wanted to recognize i
think that award is awesome
um that that park and rec is going to
start doing for volunteers and i know
she's going to it's going to be called
the barb jinx triffin award and it'll be
i'll let you kind of talk to council a
little bit more about it but i was
excited to hear that because we have so
many sexly runs by having the volunteers
and it's i've said it's infectious it's
contagious
um everybody's just willing and if they
if they say no then that's just because
they're on
too many things already and the next
door neighbor is ready to uh to jump in
so i'm so excited that you have this
award if you want to talk a little bit
more about it i would love for you to
share
yeah thank you thanks jess um yeah
barbara james triffin is a bexy resident
long time back to resident that has been
an integral part of what we've done for
decades at the rec department frankly
she has volunteered so much of her time
helping to create programs helping to
run programs for us
she is obviously a strong advocate and
supporter of everything jeffrey park
she ran a blog
called the magic of jeffrey woods for a
number of years
taking pictures chronicling the
different seasons at jeffrey park she
also spearheaded uh efforts to restore
uh
the statue at jeffrey mansion uh which
was done this past year with uh
help from barb as well as the community
foundation and you know we've been for a
while trying to find a way to honor her
efforts and support of our department
uh jess as you mentioned she's not one
uh to to take a lot of credit or be in
the limelight we had even had
discussions about doing a proclamation
at city council and she just doesn't
really necessarily like being put in
those settings
which we obviously respect but but
nonetheless we also want to honor uh
what she's done for our department our
community and so
uh we have also at the same time been
talking for a while about how we can
honor the
the vast number of
uh volunteers it takes to do what we do
at the rec department we rely so heavily
on our volunteer coaches or 5k run
volunteers split splash and dash
volunteers uh you know again we rely so
heavily on our volunteers we're blessed
and lucky to have a community that's so
willing to help out and so this is the
start of of taking an additional step to
make sure we're honoring uh the efforts
and help of uh of those
in and around our community
thank you mike
thank you so much mike for joining us
i'm going to move on to beecher hale and
financial report and we have some
motions and mr auditor do you want to
present any of this or
be true i see beecher there he is
he's lurking in the shadows
i apologize if it's dark i forgot
connected to the meeting while i was
still in my car and then i didn't want
to bother the mayor to reconnect me to
the meeting if i
disconnected from my bluetooth
my apologies
but you have in front of you the um
the december report
and i'm bringing it back up on my screen
um and of course to highlight is that
income tax was 2.6 million dollars above
budget and while that's great news you
might think ben or the mayor and i did a
lousy job of budgeting um
but we didn't have any idea what the
impact of covet was going to be
and
we just assumed our income tax was going
to go down we picked a number we reduced
it by five percent
if you look over to the year-over-year
comparison
you'll notice that we are actually up
1.9 million dollars
um i believe just by looking at some of
our top
uh with top taxpayers and with and
withholders um it could have been due to
people working at home i can't say that
for sure but we had a big increase in um
withholders that don't have a location
in the city so that would indicate to me
there was holding that residents
withholding for residents that work
there but live in the city of bexley
just a couple other things of note that
might be you know raised questions
you'll see that grant revenue is under
budget but if you look down at the
second line
under general government operating
you'll see that grant expenditures are
also under budget but even if that
wasn't the case a lot of times there's a
lag time between the time we expend the
money and the time we get reimbursed
from the grants
additionally one that raised my eyebrows
because i thought we had taken care of
this um
was the seventy thousand dollars in the
cic but not to worry i'll just get with
the cic
and get that collected
um and we're down a little bit
in uh
franchise fees so i'll work with our new
right-of-way coordinator who would also
be working on that trying to find out
why that's when i know wow was purchased
by another company and i don't know and
had a chance to look to see make sure
that they're paying us a relatively same
amount
um
then our operating expenditures came in
good under under the budget even with
additional appropriations
we ended up oh i lost the number now on
my little screen here about 350 000 i
believe um under budget
other expenditures were over budget but
that's simply because as the mayor will
tell you at the end of the year we had
more money than we anticipated the next
income tax and we
supported the capital improvements fund
the new infrastructure
development fund
and the
budget stability fund
so with that anybody has any questions
for me
none
featured thank you so much that's a
excellent thorough presentation i also
point out that um
i believe if i'm reading this correctly
our ending fund cash balance despite the
transfers to the infrastructure
development fund
and uh
capital fund
were a million dollars over what we had
even budgeted uh so we're still
a million dollars to our general fund
capital fund transfer uh infrastructure
transfer which is uh excellent so yes
sir that's correct
mr auditor anything that added
something to add thank you
thank you beecher you're welcome
that is our most thorough beecher
presentation of the of the actuals yet i
appreciate that don't leave yet though
beecher because we have
uh so
i i made a big stink last year about how
rare these were
and then
i'm like egg on my face
because and maybe you can explain this a
little bit betray but what happens is we
close our pos in
middle of december-ish
and then we carry forward money that we
know is when invoices are going to come
forward
and then we can't open pos for our 2022
budget year until about a week or more
after i think it was like january 10th
this year maybe be sure that we open rpa
that's correct i mean what happens is in
the beginning of the year is when you
have these
most of the time
um
and
our current assistant finance director
um
angelo kelly used to be the deputy
auditor a similar role at city of
whitehall and they had many many more
times than these she said because we do
work hard
to
basically
not use up council's timing there's
really we we will spend the money
either we'd have to budget for this year
or
well we will end up using this year's
budget but um it's just a matter of we
have to close out those purchase orders
which we would have used and sometimes
um
then what happens is we have a purchase
order date which ends up post dating the
time we got the goods or services
and we will
mainly happen in january
right so
the invoices have come in they have a
date in early january there's not yet a
purchase order open purchase orders get
open we have to pay the old invoice if
it's above three thousand dollars it
requires a council motion
each one of these has a different story
beams is our fuel supplier
rumpke is our trash contract
uh ohm is a jason city who does planning
consulting for the building department
and zoning karen boker the same thing
architectural consulting
so um
i can answer any questions you have
about these the rumpke one stands out a
little bit because if you'll recall we
when we went through the budget we
realized we had not been increasing our
budget for refuse and so we were under
budget and refuse
we had to bump it up a little bit we
still got a straggling invoice at the
end of the year there was no money at
all left over from the prior year to
carry forward that's why you have such a
large
invoice we think we i think that we
think that we have adequate capacity
through the rest of the year but we'll
continue to keep an eye on that
um so i think the motion is a simple mr
fischel is a simple
motion to approve the payment of these
invoices
it's a voice vote um and i'm happy to
any of us will answer any questions you
have the only question i have is are
these um for services
from 2021 or are they services that will
occur or did occur in 2022
right so
my understanding is that beams is from
2021. is that correct beecher
that is correct all of those
white well let me not speak i do know
the rumpke that's the december rumpke
bill
and so we're using
january's appropriation for this and
these all represented
sorry future i'm sorry that's fine go
ahead
they all represent
accounts where
we
closed out the year and did not carry
forward funding
in the case of the rumpke there was no
funding to carry forward to pay for that
that's just also true beams the price of
fuel went up quite a bit in the second
half of last year
so we didn't have adequate fuel
uh
funding so we are using 2022 budget
to pay for 2021 invoices having said
that that's not a i mean that's not an
absolutely totally unusual condition
because there is a little bit of leader
at the end of the year and can i
interrupt you mayor just a little bit
see on the uh so for example on the
rumpke
and i may sound like i'm
i don't know don't care enough but we
budget for 12 months we're going to pay
12 months i guess you know you have to
budget 13 months one year in order so
that you can carry forward that 12th
month and pay it
in
january
but that seems like an exercise in just
moving numbers around to me but however
the state auditors would prefer we do it
that way
there is one more invoice that's not on
this list and i'll tell you why there's
a invoice to our building department
inspector who comes around
he has a really bad habit of waiting
until the very end of the year and in
invoicing us for the entire year
i had a fairly direct conversation with
him about this about a year or two ago
it happened again this year so
before i bring that back to you guys i
want to have another chat with him
and we're going to discuss that because
i'm
incredibly unhappy about it so
i just want that to be you to know that
there is at least one more hanging
around that we'll have to potentially
bring back to you and
i don't think there are any others but
it's not impossible that something shows
up that was has a heat of invoice that's
in early january before the po was
opened up
any other questions or yeah
is that len the building inspector well
len is a as a
employee or contractor of mike verrica
who's architecture inc
i like glenn don't go too hard online
they're great but they do need to bill
us like
regularly as opposed to waiting kind of
a bizarre practice it really isn't it
messed up our budget from for 2022
because we had no idea and despite
having asked for those numbers quite a
few times so
it's it's bad for all of us yeah that's
exactly john so just to reiterate this
doesn't affect the bottom line for 2022
by
spending this now at the beginning are
we going to find ourselves at the end of
the year going oh now we're short no
none of these do okay i'm a little
concerned about the arc the building
inspector one understood that that's one
that i'll address none of these here
that we are looking at today are going
to affect the our 2022 bottom line that
that is correct okay we're fine
as far as i know
my understanding
and if it's if i'm wrong
it's uh mr mcpeek's fault just for the
right
but to be clear the expenses will be
captured in 2022 but it's unclear if it
will be leading to being out of budget
that's a good point let me just let me
clarify i assume that your question
meant that we're not going to be in a
position where we're inadequately funded
in these budget items for 2022. and from
what i know today that is correct
as far as i know
yes thank you any more questions
are you looking for a motion then on
this right now
um yes i am looking for a motion
motion to approve invoices received in
early january before purchase orders
were opened up for the year
second
look for a second
second
motion by ms lamke second by mr klingler
mr mclaughlin voice vote i guess right
yep
all in favor say aye aye
all opposed
thank you thank you mr hale
thank you
all right have a good evening
you too sir
all right
try to make this quick guys
he said it every week i do
i was going to recognize our cub scout
but i believe our boy scout i should say
but he's i'll do that in a second okay
um a couple things coming up for you to
know about we have uh cic retreat is on
friday afternoon
it will be occurring at uh the rec room
at 420 north cassie i'm really trying to
get this name to stick okay so
i'll keep working it um and this is
exciting february 9th the board of
education will hold their first meeting
here
in this space you'll notice that camera
over there that we're not using right
now because it's not totally hooked up
it's fancy and new and i think we're
gonna put another one over here so
they're they're upgrading our av a
little bit
thank you board of education um
uh they've just they've got like you
know it's it's more controlled than ours
um they have better i.t they have more
comprehension not better itself they
have more i.t staff i should say
um i have a relatively wordy chief of
police search update in here this is
very similar to an email i'm about to
send out to
anyone who has asked about the process
or expressed interest in it we have
engaged ralph anderson and associates as
our search consultant after interviewing
uh three potential consultants
i'm also finalizing engagement with
gail saunders who is a local pr
executive
who has a firm that has done similar
community engagement outreach over the
columbus chief of police and other like
campaigns for the city of columbus and
other area cities
and i'm asking her to help us with
reaching out to
community groups that are interested in
providing input into the process
summarizing all of the input that she
gets into and and looking to a community
survey about the next chief position for
the next chief
the same position
in term and using that community
engagement report to help
our search consultant
as he prepares
a candidate profile and begins to
advertise the position
so that's a search that's a engagement
process that'll take the better part of
february thanks better expect the report
at the end of february early march
position gets posted early march and
we'll start to have candidates
interviews later in april is the current
timeline
based upon
what is coalescing as as i think a
pretty solid plan
um
i'm going to be providing weekly email
updates to anyone who asked for them so
right now about 180 email addresses on
that list
uh i did ask i did say early on i think
i came right out of the gate and i said
i would like to create a
process i sort of outlined it i talked
about having an advisory committee and
the more time has passed and people have
expressed interest as i just mentioned i
have an email list of 150 people
there are a lot of people that want to
be on an advisory committee and i
understand that
and i have felt increasingly
uncomfortable with selecting eight
people to somehow represent uh our
community because we are s we are small
enough that we know each other and we
can reach out to groups and quantify
and and have a direct connection so
i'm currently
not thinking that i'm going to do a
formal advisory committee instead i'm
going to have a really robust community
engagement process
i'm going to have regular calls for
updates where anyone can join the call
and ask questions and just have a very
open like accessible process throughout
so that's my current thought process i'm
open to any ideas about that if you guys
disagree with that change of tactic i'm
just too concerned that there will be a
lot of focus on who's not in the
committee as opposed to just making sure
that everyone's voice is heard so
and i understand many of you said
comments that were somewhat consistent
with that idea early on so you're right
good job
um
so uh any any questions or thoughts on
that before i move on yep
you were talking about the 150 who have
reached out and you try and contact them
weekly is that something i like that
you're going to do that community
engagement and um and open on that
are is that something you could put on
the blast or
you know there's there's a lot of people
who know how to reach out in the
community and there's a lot who do not
sure no no we have a page and we'll keep
updates on the blast for sure okay it
might not be i mean it's probably not
going to be as lengthy as right as what
i'm sending out but it's it'll at least
point people to the lengthy material
that they can read yeah it'll all be
accessible i like it
and i to be clear i did not have 150
people asked to be on the advisory
committee it includes
stakeholder groups and people that i
just know are interested in but but
there was a lot of interest enough so
that it was clear to me that if i
selected a manageable small number that
it would be
i think kind of construe the process to
be more closed than i think i want it to
be
at our next council meeting we will be
presenting drexel avenue concepts for
calming traffic
and providing for multimodal
transportation options
there were two primary options that we
presented to residents on a call that we
had last week
i'm going to i'm going to give you a
preview because some of you have fielded
calls on this so i just want to make
this context really clear and so that if
you hear anything more about it in the
next two weeks
you're armed with some more information
so we came into this process um back in
may of 21 we had a resident meeting with
drexel avenue residents and other
interested parties who just wanted to
come to it
and slowing traffic
um and making for safer pedestrian
crossings was were both priorities that
really emerged strongly out of that
meeting which is not surprising
and so we developed concepts for drexel
that would basically narrow the street
and i'm going to show you these real
quickly and we're going to go into more
depth of the next meeting the first
option
narrows the street this these gray
these gray areas those are bump outs so
the that's beyond where the current curb
is
it's narrowing the street it's not going
to be concrete it's gray just to show
you where it is that would be grass
or eventually street trees potentially
or some sort of landscaping but it would
be green and natural
and there's room for
narrow medians in places and so these
green in the middle represent
where we would have medians that would
be landscaped lightly they're five foot
wide so they couldn't support big trees
or anything like that
but they would create safe landings for
pedestrians they would narrow the street
physically
and
this would happen all along drexel so
anywhere there's an intersection like
this you would have that street
narrowing you would have a protected
crosswalk
and there are a lot of advantages that
pedestrians get out past the parked cars
where they're much more visible when
they crash
cars that are pulled up to the
intersection
have a better field of view because they
don't have parked cars at the
intersection block in their view
and cars that are driving on drexel
because of the physical narrowing of the
street are much less comfortable driving
35 miles per hour posted speed limit
now it's posted 35 because it's a state
route we can't slow it without first
proving that the traffic is driving
slower the way to prove the traffic is
driving slower is to make the traffic
drive slower the way to make the traffic
drive slower is to narrow the street
so this is the primary concept that came
into this
but around the same time actually a
little bit afterwards the spikes
bicycle-friendly bexley plan was adopted
and created initially that plan called
for bike lanes and drexel
and we showed some of these early early
concepts to the bike plan consultant and
said you know
we have some ideas to calm drexel but
they wouldn't physically don't
accommodate a bike path
and so the warding changed a little bit
and it said for us to study bike lanes
on drexel so we did we created uh we
went through a ton of different
scenarios
and the one that allows for the safest
bike traffic and also the safest
pedestrian would not allow for parking
on both sides of the street there's just
not physically room we can't legally put
bike lanes both directions and any
configuration
plus parking on both sides plus two
lanes of traffic something had to give
so this concept it's what's called a
cycle track concept
it has a lot of advantages over one
where you would have one on each side
uh keep spikes out of door zones
uh either option would not have parking
on one side anyway so
the cycle track concept it could happen
either on the east or west side we
showed this happening on the
uh
east side but
the next because of some feedback we're
gonna show a mock up where it's on the
west side of the street
makes more sense for a couple different
reasons but either way you lose parking
one side of the street
and there's some other negatives um
you know there's
a little bit less of a sheltered
pedestrian crossing there's a little bit
more going on on the street so
the feedback we received from residents
was universally that live on the street
against the idea of the bike lanes which
as i said even before i presented it
which probably shouldn't have said this
as like i'm not going to be surprised if
nobody likes this idea which is turned
out i predicted it accurately
we do have bike advocates that are in
favor of it they were also on the call
i felt that it was our duty it is our
duty to present this and think about it
seriously and i want your guys's weigh
in on this this is not a normally we
would just make infrastructure changes
you approximate and move on this is
something that's more sensitive and i
think i i don't decision alone so
at the next council meeting uh we'll
have our
pros and cons i'm going to ask for your
feedback on it we're going to have
residence here as well so expect
oh there i am again
unfortunately
should we just start at the beginning
called order and roll call and pledge
allegiance yeah it looks to me like we
i'm i'm i have an audio back up here and
it looks like we're still live on
youtube so if anyone is on youtube we
lost internet here for a little bit but
we are back
uh and
i'm gonna share the screen again so i
apologize for that delay i think we kind
of
went down as i was talking about
uh
the race
that we would orbit faith and then just
sod said that uh you were grateful we
were sending mailings thanks thank you
you're welcome so
any other questions or thoughts
is your vision the medians will have
electric for
lighting lights to go on the street
trees
so i don't i don't know that we have i
don't know that we are thinking street
trees in the medians oh so these are
five foot medians so
for example the
main street ones are eight foot medians
the ones on drexel or sorry bryden are
you know 12 to 15 foot medians and so
that's one of the reasons we didn't use
mediums more extensively because we
would have we first looked at medians
as wide as drexel is it's not as wide as
back super bright and or fair so it
can't accommodate the u-turn traffic
that allows people access to their
driveways
so the medians make sense
sporadically and sparingly
and they start to actually
become even a little bit better north of
fair
but there aren't that many of them
they'll probably i would imagine they
would have low
shrubs of some sort maybe so they'll
have some presence but they're not going
to have the same
presence as uh as main street or they
could have some smaller ornamental trees
but that's something to think about is
whether they have electrical i don't
have an answer for that yet
jen did you have a question
um i did but i think it's something that
i could ask um
not and not take up council's time it
was just a numbers thing and it's either
that my glasses aren't as strong as they
used to be or
the numbers
for distance um
i was questioning how those bump outs
how deep they would be and then is that
equal is are we talking equidistant on
each side so that the center lanes are
11 feet
yes so there's seven and a half feet on
both sides
um uh
10 feet
is is
uh
10 feet is a normal is like a standard
travel lane maybe in a residential
setting 11 feet is the minimum on a
state route okay seven and a half or
eight feet is what you need for a
parking space it's going to force cars
not to want to park too far out into the
traffic sure
um but it's not that it's not a
different where it's parked is not a
different width than today so we know
that cars can successfully park on both
sides of the street and accommodate
traffic we are adding that five foot
spacer in the middle you know um
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and there's some question as to whether
or not we would use the yellow
line like the
marked medians because you know
that actually kind of
increases the idea that like you're
it's more markings aren't necessarily
helpful so that's that's sort of stuff
needs to be worked out but this is the
physical infrastructure that we're
talking about okay
jess
financially what's the difference
between plan like a call that the medium
plan and then plan b the bike lane plan
plan b is a lot cheaper
i mean that's true they're both uh
we're we're hoping to accommodate both
of them within our opwc budget
it's actually it's not the curb work
that's that expensive it's the fact that
every time we do that we have to can you
clarify which plan is cheaper the bike
the lane the bike lane plan is cheaper
it is less expensive
it is more economical and in certain
ways
it's less economical than others
plan a traps
trap storm water more
because it has additional
permeable surface
and it's less
so uh but it does require additional
stormwater infrastructure to do the bump
hats so we have to add catch basins that
don't exist today on either side if
they're added
okay
any questions
that was my bs answer to that but if you
want the real engineering answer you can
ask that question again next next week
and then compare
how accurate it was
by the way i did i did want to recognize
you and thank you for coming to our
meeting we have a boy scout with us
today
would you mind telling us real quickly
what troop you're with
603 and what's your name
reids thank you so much for joining us
good to have you here today
and
read i assume are you here for a civic
badge of some sort
citizenship okay
well in order to get that you have to
stay until the end of the meeting and
then write us an essay no just kidding
i'm joking
oh
well you just wait
it's about to happen
um
yeah does anyone have some real concern
concerns about the can we get it in a
fight about something i'm not sure i
think uh that we should honestly
consider putting in some power into
whatever medians that we actually have
here and making sure that we're paying
attention to is this a disagreement i
don't know
so if you were thinking no i'm thinking
yes and i but i genuinely mean that to
think for it to see what the cost would
be now versus having to consider
installing a later date okay check that
off well done
yeah i am offended at that suggestion
uh we had uh speaking of differences
opinion we had a great
we did have a very good livingston
avenue workshop it was fairly heated at
times
so if anyone wants to watch the video of
that there was disagreement
but in the lobby you'll see the boards
we've invited the public to come in and
continue to mark up uh with post-it
notes their ideas we have an online
survey and there's more information
effectively
livingston
yes jen robinson um and how long will
those lovely posters be in the lobby uh
until next friday perfect thanks yep and
then um at least you know
give or take not less than next friday
though um the youth interaction policy
working group our next one is thursday
morning it's been a while since we've
had one
uh we'll be reviewing the survey that
went on in the fall and talking about
best practices
we'll keep you apprised of that
um i do want to let you know that uh
rec board architecture review board and
esac all have open seats right now and
those are posted on our website
and we put some stuff in the blast about
that but i wanted you guys to be aware
of that so if you know of anybody who
would be great thanks matt mcpeak for
becoming auditor and leaving rec board
that wasn't polite but uh
that's also a disagreement that i have
with you sir oh there we go
true
uh and then we did submit four lois at
least i tried to get them all here to
the bexley community foundation
asterisk have submitted or are about to
submit halley's aware of all of them
our year of the parks is a very generic
loi just talking about what we've all
talked about just all the different
programs that we're looking at putting
in
2022-23 so it's more of like a warning
because the community foundation and we
want to get your feedback on this fairly
large ambitious concept
hispanic heritage pride month and did i
leave out another
aspect asian
specific
events
yep
um our police community housing
assistance we've asked the community
foundation to assist us through that
program as i said we would and a police
appreciation week concept with the
community awards ceremony
sent in an officer to the event um
uh in d.c
and uh
police appreciation event in general so
those are all either submitted or on
their way
here some photos got a photo and i'll
stop you can look at the photos yourself
but there's a livingston avenue workshop
i'm not stopping i'm still going
our guys at work
uh and this was great john lang from i
think troupe 166
organized a litter pickup on the
livingston on-ramp
he is uh currently my second favorite
scout
do you read you read you're my favorite
right here
but we we got a ton of litter off of the
ramp which is just such a rewarding
project so we'll have some trash talks
coming up in the next couple months i
would love for you guys to join
and then this is a sneak peek of the
record wow
so it kind of it kind of tells you what
some paint and carpeting can do in space
yeah yeah
exactly
i just want you know that i'm a very low
seed on that whole uh
that whole uh set up so
that's true never mind well by the
charge well for the charter i can
participate in the ping pong for the
charter i can participate in the ping
pong tournament
uh but this is we're having the cic
retreat at cassidy so
uh fittingly there will be plenty of
parking
and i'm sorry mr president that
concludes my exceptionally long report
after promising a short one that's okay
full of good stuff you're consistent
yeah
let's
let's move on then to uh mark fischel
can take over here for that all right we
have one item on the consent agenda the
minutes from the january 11 2022
city council meeting thank you do we
have any comments or questions on about
the consent agenda from city council
do we have any comments or questions
about the consent agenda from the
community out in the audience
if not
i'll take a motion on this
motion to pass the consent agenda
motion by mr klingler
second
second by ms robinson
and
give us the roll call mr mcphee mr
marcelino
yes mr markham yes
assad yes miss lamke yes is robinson yes
yes
so i think that i'm not trying to do
your job mr martin but i think we're
down to second readings we are we're
going to skip through the thirds into
the seconds all right second reading of
ordinance 1-22 to amend chapter 2020.01
rule 8 of the clarified ordinances of
the city of bexley that was introduced
by mr markham is it just me or you feel
like you stretch a little bit right now
oh some old all right let's see this um
this was introduced uh last meeting and
it is just some slight modifications
to our uh chair positions and if you
scroll down for me just a little bit
i've got them highlighted
made a couple additions since last time
we were here decided jen robinson didn't
have enough to do so i threw it in some
extra work there for her
uh
showing that she actually of course as
strategic has uh
traditionally helped plan our uh our
plan mostly
planned our retreats in our strategy
sessions
also just to designate the coordination
and
curating the strategic vision of city
council
and uh i think curating's appropriate
word there i like the word curate yes
this song could we um possibly add to
her role that she would also um
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be
our caterer that she would bring the
meals
she has a lot of shadow
shadow responsibilities if you continue
to roll down just a little bit i think
there's maybe one more thing
uh that's what we introduced last time
again the zoning and development
committee we have restored uh legally
the overseeing of those zoning appeal
hearings that we all enjoy so much mr
klinger will be happy to take those for
the next two years and one more scroll
down please
and then just an addition there on the
safety and health committee
pertaining to mayor's court at it as
well
any uh questions or comments from city
council about this
if not it would be my opinion that this
might be the first good offering for the
consent agenda well don't we need to
amend this
oh do we do need to amend that don't we
yes
um
yes
so
i i may i will um
i i will uh
what what's the term i'm supposed to use
here my brain motion
i'm going to make a motion to amend
ordinance
0 1
22.
one second
we'll take a second by this final
and uh
let's get a roll call on the amendment
please mr mcpeak hey
um
wow
yes
mr marcelino yes miss robinson yes miss
fibal yes mr markham yes mr klingler yes
i miss lanky yes all right it is so
amended 7-0 and then now
i if there are no objections i think uh
this might be a good candidate for
first consent agenda edition to uh next
meeting of the year is that good
all right so noted
all right we have a second reading
ordinance 002-22 to authorize fifteen
thousand dollars in supplemental
appropriations for calendar year 2022
for paying expenses associated with the
chief of police search process
introduced by ms lamke
thank you i'm going to turn back over to
our mayor to see if there's been any
changes in figures or if anyone has any
questions
uh the the ordinance as drafted is still
on point for uh i think what we're
looking at
any further questions on this
all right all right let's move on
i understand there's no action on the
table ordinances and there are no first
readings this evening so we i i am done
with my responsibilities for the time
being well that was rough let's move
through the uh committees then ms lamke
finance committee report
now report
this viable service and environmental
committee
i had um my very first esec as well as
my very first bexley tree and gardens
you were busy
wow did these volunteers love our city
the environment um it was really nice
they're all
both sets are working on
our earth
month
in bexley it's not just a day it's a
month all of april please there's going
to be lots going on lots of exciting
things going on a lot of things that we
can all participate in and drag our
families
along to participating and it'll be
lots of fun um
bexley tree and gardens say they have a
tree mendes committee working on what
they're doing
um
i wanted to um
mention that we need a new chair
uh for esec as elizabeth has taken a
position
um so uh for all of those who are
listening
um
if you are interested in becoming a
member of esac please please please
give the mayor
notification
and
i would urge all of you to take a look
at a website maybe you guys know it it's
um powered by husqvarna and it's um
called
h-u-g-s-i hugsy
you can literally put bexley's
bexley
in
and see how it ranks
next to other
cities
all over the globe
in
the tree canopy and green space it's
really
it's really an interesting
and interesting thing and it will rate
us
believe it or not we we beat all kinds
of people but we really only have a
b-minus
but in green space but it's really
really cool we are on the map
but we beat dublin and up arlington
right yeah but but charlotte's got us
going
yeah
i know
who
do you guys want to compete with
do dublin
[Laughter]
see i don't think they've all gone
through the hole
oh look at that see how much greener we
are yeah
we're more greener
isn't that really cool though that it
does that
he's just doing he's doing cities that
make him feel good anyway i thought it
was an interesting thing
do we have any ohio cities central ohio
cities
i heard they estimated doubling up
arlington and we beat them bad now lava
is there but unfortunately that's why
let's leave it
anyway i'm learning a lot i will bring
you back what i learned
excellent thank you very much
mr marcelino do you have a report for
the safety and health committee very
brief uh for those of you that have not
heard uh they are providing free coping
tests at
www.kovattest.gov they'll be delivered
by the us postal service at the end of
the month it should take about seven to
twelve days to be delivered but if you
haven't heard about them please go ahead
and order as it's not clear how
available those are going to be
in the future at other places so good
luck that's all thank you excellent
thank you
mr klingler zoning and development
committee nothing new
recreation and parks committee
the rink is open
and uh for those who are looking to get
over to the rink and they're not sure
how
you just go to bexley park and wreck
like you would for registration for any
of the programming and that is how you
register to get on the ice
i hope to see you out there i'll be out
there thursday night
maybe later wednesday night
and as much as possible while it is cold
enough to have the rink up so i'm
getting a lot of text from other people
in the community excited to get out
there so
i love that this is happening again by
the wreck department um the senior tour
as monique mentioned was great we're
super excited for our seniors um i think
they recently met last week over there
for one of their um
outings and all went well as far as
parking spaces
and waiting on the dexley beat to get
them out and about and so that's a major
step forward
for us and then
as lori ann said about openings there is
an opening for bexley park and rec board
and
i am out talking about that because as
we mentioned mr mcpeak has moved on to
sit here so i would love uh another mr
mcpeek
to join us on park and rec board so
please submit your applications
and that is it
good ring good week for the ice rink and
what a great option actually to have
here in the community for some
activities
ms robinson strategic committee i just
have a couple quick things first of all
my parents thank you for adding the word
curating to
my committee description it's making
that arts administration degree come in
really handy
so thank you for joining
connie and dick morman
your money was well spent um i do want
to i just mentioned two things um cic
retreat is this friday um from one to
five i know uh mr lamke and mr klingler
and i will be attending that
um you look shocked
these masks that was a shocked look for
a moment um it will be at the then soon
to be a new senior center uh there also
is a regular cic meeting next tuesday um
six o'clock right here at um council for
anybody who would like to attend
and um also to members of council i'm
going to be working with our council
president to put together our retreat
and i will be reaching out to you guys
over the course of the next couple weeks
to talk about you know your ideas for
things we might want to cover during
that time
and i did reach out to mike price today
to see if we might be able to actually
hold our retreat at the senior center
and we've been given the thumbs up of
course pending dates and times to make
sure that that works but i'm excited to
sit on those new beautiful couches and
maybe play a little ping pong don't
believe the ping pong table yeah for
sure so uh look for those um i'm i'm
excited to to get this retreat going i
think especially with some some new
people um on council and and
hopefully entering a more normal time
i'm excited to uh kind of get us back
together and talk about what we'd like
to achieve over the next year so
um emails coming and other than that i
have nothing more thank you we'll look
forward to that and then i would also
encourage i know you did hear but if you
have ideas for the retreat things you
would like to learn about or know about
or include uh please forward them to ms
robinson
item 22 is public comment no speaker
slip required
there any
comment questions from the
gallery
if not i will take a motion to adjourn
make a motion to adjourn miss sod
motions second
second by ms lamke
all in favor
aye aye all opposed