can i go
okay welcome to our the organizational
meeting for our specsley city council on
january 3rd at 7 pm as our charter says
so first of all we're i'm going to get
this started but then it's going to get
turned over to more important people um
but i'm going to do roll calls so ms
robinson
here mr klingler here miss sod here mr
markham here ms lamke here mr marcelino
here ms fibel here
can everybody who is able please rise
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
so the first part of this organizational
meeting is to make sure that people are
officially sworn in as they need to be
or should be
so i think we would start with ms lamke
ms lamke do you have somebody who will
be
swearing you in
and do you need a copy of this or does
she have it
all right
i don't remember doing this two years
ago
i don't remember doing that
you may take your ass off should you
choose
i'm monique lampke do you solemnly swear
i'm monique lampley do you solemnly
swear that i will support the
constitution of the united states that i
will support the constitution of the
united states the constitution and laws
of the state of ohio the constitution
and the laws of the state of ohio and
the charter and ordinances of the city
of bexley and the charter and ordinances
of the city of bexley and that i will
faithfully honestly and impartially and
that i will faithfully honestly and
impartially discharge my duties as a
member of council discharge my duties as
a member of council of the city of
bexley of the city of bexley according
to the best of my ability and
understanding according to the best of
my abilities and understanding effective
january 1st 2022 effective january 1st
2022
thank you okay i think it's mr
marcelino's turn and if your kid does it
i'm going to be
very impressed
she's brilliant but she's
my hands are not working
you don't have to memorize brittany
i came on perfect
hi sam marcelino hi sam marcelino do you
solemnly swear do you solemnly swear
that i will support the constitution of
the united states that will support the
constitution of the united states the
constitutional laws of the state of ohio
the constitutional laws of the state of
ohio and the charter and ordinances of
the city of bexley and the charring
ordinances of the city of bexley and
that i will faithfully honestly and
impartially and i will faithfully
honestly and partially
discharge my duties as a member of the
city of the council of the city of
baxley discharge
according to the best of my ability and
understanding according to the best
ability to understand effective january
1st 2022.
january 1st 2022.
i should have read that before
moving uh clockwise around
why did you assume that you're next
laurie anne fibel is next
this guy says silver linings of covet my
kids are all with me because two of them
went virtually
they didn't go back to college
they are for sure
i laurie ann fieble do solemnly swear i
laurie ann fivel do solemnly swear that
i will support the constitution of the
united states that i will support the
constitution of the united states the
constitution and laws of the state of
ohio the constitution and laws of the
state of ohio
in the charter and ordinances of the
city of bexley and the charter and
ordinances of the city of bexley and
that i will faithfully honestly and
impartially discharge my duties and i
will faithfully honestly and impartially
discharge my duties as a member of
council of the city of bexley as a
member of council of the city of bexley
according to the best of my ability
according to the best of my ability and
understanding and understanding
effective january 1st 2022 effective
january 1st 2022
and now mr mcpeek with an a in his name
and also our clerk of council
sure
do you solemnly swear that i will
support the constitution of the united
states i'm matt mcpeak do you solemnly
swear that i will support the
constitution of the united states the
constitution and laws of the state of
ohio the constitution and laws of the
state of ohio in the charter of
ordinance of the city of bexley and the
charter and ordinances of the city of
bexley now faithfully honestly and
partially and i will faithfully honestly
and partially discharge my duties as
auditor of the city of bexley discharge
my duties as the auditor of city of
bexley according to the best of my
ability and understanding according to
the best of my ability and understanding
effective january 1st 2022. effective
january 1st to
2022
congratulations to the four of you and
your families
uh so now this is the last part before i
just hopefully have to stop doing stuff
here so at this point
as part of the organizational meeting it
is city council's job to elect a
president who will serve for the next
two years and it is my understanding
that lorienne fibel
has uh
some thoughts on that i do
i do have some thoughts on that
um
if you read my tagline at the end of my
signature or whatever you say i i i i
firmly believe that
it is best to lead with optimism
and energy and enthusiasm
and i hope and pray
that will be
my legacy
as a leader
in this city and whatever position it is
whether i'm running the main event or
whatever it is
i think that
we decide what kind of leaders we want
to be
based on
what we see in others
what i know i parent that way
i want to do that just like my mom but
no i don't want to do that like my mom
so what works for us you know we we
watch
and and we see and
but we all have our own definitions our
own
ways that we lead
and i think
that my job as a as the first two years
in this position
was
not fun it was very hard
but this group of people
this fresh breath of air
made even getting through covid when it
knocked on bexley's door and when
political unrest knocked on our door
you all made it easy
and i have great confidence
that this group of people
are going to lead
troy marcum the same way they are going
to have his back
they're going to disagree with him but
be respectful
they're going to make sure
that he
is allowed to give his voice and lead us
in a progressive positive way
and
he has demonstrated on so many different
occasions
such grace in his position
he he was
the best finance chair i could ask for
and i am grateful for that
and i know when i was president and
asked him to do service that wasn't what
he wanted to do
i said please troy we need you there the
city needs you there
and
okay
he did
and and i think that i was right on two
accounts with you
i was right that he i said to him when
he was brand new and green i said fear
not you will find your voice
you will find your voice
and i said you are what we need in
service and it will be good for you as
well
and it was
and so
is with great pleasure and excitement
that i would love to nominate
troy markham
for city council president and i would
urge the rest of you
to support my nomination
is there a second the second second by
matt klingler does that surprise you
there he has to prove he was here
any other nominations for president of
council
seeing none i guess mr mcpeak if you
want to do the roll call since you are
now clerk of council as well as city
auditor
that would be wonderful okay
klingler
yes
robinson yes rampkey yes saad
yes marcelino yes
yes markham
yes
it's hard to get there
oh geez
all right i wrote some stuff down
because i knew
i knew i'd be a little nervous with this
uh i
i just oh my gosh i'm just overwhelmed i
just want to thank you guys tonight
uh to me uh you know uh my cup runneth
over i mean honestly you know
uh
i thought i'd hit my ceiling when i you
know came from southern ohio uh you know
family single parent family in poverty
and made my way here to columbus ohio
and
taught at ohio state university and was
able to live here in bexley ohio and
then
to
become a member of the city council and
this group and serve you know with this
mayor and and in this just fantastic
city and then
uh
to be elected uh
president of city council here and just
one of the most fantastic cities
you could ever imagine living and let
alone serving in
uh is amazing
and i i want to just echo something you
know laurie ann i have been around for a
while
and so it's not just hollow words when
you look around and say
what an amazing group of people this is
i mean the the city
has chosen so wisely and electing you to
be stewards here
this is the best city council i can
imagine being assembled to work you know
for our city right now with the
different
talents and the different skills and the
different experiences
it's no coincidence that this is the
most diverse city council that's ever
been assembled in the city of bexley
either
uh
if you always say this cliche you know
they say that uh i'm honored and
everything to be chosen to lead this
group of people but
god i just i just i feel that so so
deeply with with this group uh i i'm
just i'm really really touched and
honored
that
you guys would vote for me to be your
president of city council for the next
two years
um
uh each of you have impressed me like i
said with your skills and your
experience and your work ethic your love
of the community and how you come
to work here
i'm super impressed with the council
members i i've worked with i'm super
super excited to work with mr marcolino
mr mcpeek
and to begin this journey over the next
two years as well
i will strive to live up to your
expectations the high standard of this
community that they rightly hold for us
and i am excited and and
i i'm
really having a hard time getting a
little bit through this tonight just
with with the emotion and the excitement
uh that i feel for for all of this
i would like to thank my wife and my my
children for their patience and
sacrifice they've made over the last six
years
that allow me to spend a lot of my time
here allowed me to
spend a lot of my emotional currency and
all of that as well here as well
i'd like to stop and just say thanks
to
lorianne fibel for
the four years of leadership that she
has offered this city and this uh city
council
you know i can only imagine two years
ago when laurie sat here
and just thought
i'm ready for 2020 to be a relaxing year
you know
and just sort of you know she's been
here two years and she knew how
everything went and and uh ready to kind
of rely on those experiences to just
guide the way with no surprises
that sort of thing
really it takes a lot it takes more than
a lot of people know to to lead a city
and a city council through times like
that because
you're always second guessing yourself
you don't know what's next uh and and
and people rely on you they rely on you
to stay positive they rely on you to
stay firm
uh and and and show confidence and show
thoughtfulness
and laurie ann fibel did all of that
all of that and more for for us and i
know that we're super super appreciative
of that we're
super uh
thankful to have had
those years with you and especially
these last two years difficult time for
bexley and the world
on behalf of this city council
i have for you
a gift that we got for you
richard sharp's back there in the corner
richard uh this is on behalf of all of
us but richard uh quarterbacked this he
did all the leg work and everything and
uh this is a donation to the society of
st vincent uh on behalf of us uh in
memory
of your father
i'd like to present that to you
so
thank you and
richard good job
and thank you richard for
for making that your your your final act
here with this city council and and
we really appreciate that
that's all i have
do what what else agenda do we have a
motion to adjourn
i think that's probably the next thing
in the agenda do we have a motion to
adjourn motion to adjourn
in a second maybe second
mr mcpeak i i think you're up again and
i simply say meeting adjourned well no
you have to i have to i have to you have
to okay oh yeah get used to this all
right i'll catch up uh klingler yes
robinson yes lamke yes assad yes
marcelino yes
yes markham yes
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