all right
i think we're ready to get started um
it's summer happy summer everyone so
excited
this is our last um meeting until
until the uh second week of august so we
will be taking a recess
do not think that because we take a
recess we stop working
we do really hard anyway we're so glad
to have some really um
exciting um people here um with us
um some uh bexleyites who are doing some
really
outstanding things for our community and
we're really excited
and we have somebody else who really
knew tonight that
um ben's gonna share a little about um
a little later so um let's please
remember
why we are all here for the good of
bexley and we will ask our good auditor
to do his thing ms fiable here mr
klingler
here ms lamkin here mr markham here ms
robinson
here mr sharp here all right can we all
please stand for the pledge
i pledge allegiance to the flag of the
united states of america
and to the republic for which it stands
one
actually you're second on the list
benjamin kessler wants to introduce the
people who are
trying to kick cancer's ass yes
you're on what i think you
i think you made the introduction just
now i did my dad's
butt was kicked by cancer so all right
well we have with us this uh evening
nick denby and lauren graham from
pelotonia
and thank you for joining us to talk
about palatania 2021 and
most excitingly i think the new route
and i know that you have a powerpoint
which we are going to share here in a
second
as we multitask on our
power pointing so here we go i want to
make sure that jessica knows that we are
so grateful
that she made sure that we connected
with paletonia and we're so thrilled
that you're here
please yup please thank you
yeah it doesn't matter but why don't you
introduce yourself and tell us where you
live because that's kind of the gig here
at
at city council we like we like to know
that turn on mike
there you go yeah uh
well thank you my name is nick denby i'm
the chief financial officer for
pelotonia
uh and i've been a bexley resident for
five years i live on stanbury avenue
between maryland and rural
and uh you know to june of 2016 we moved
here from
austin texas and it's been a fantastic
neighborhood
uh we've loved every minute of it quite
honestly i can't speak uh
enough about how much we we truly enjoy
being here
and we thank you for the peloton
community thanks you for the ability to
come and speak to you
uh and i thank you for your service to
this community your bexley is a unique
community
and uh i don't know if it's equal and
that that doesn't happen serendipitously
uh you know it takes guidance and
leadership from people like you and
and the mayor and the council so thank
you so much uh with me tonight
is actually carolyn apple hans uh she's
taking over for lauren graham
yeah we didn't uh we didn't upgrade it i
do apologize
uh ben but uh so carolyn is our
community engagement coordinator and she
spends her days speaking to the
community and she knows everything about
all the details about
uh pelotonia and this year and beyond
and the things
uh very exciting things that we have
planned this year and
uh ben we could probably go to the next
slide if you don't mind
uh so beltany was founded in 2008 and in
2009 we had our first
ride there were 2200 riders
and they raised over 4 million dollars
an extraordinary amount for a first year
ride especially
in 2009 so you fast forward
to today the palatine community has
raised over
221 million dollars that is an
absolutely outstanding number
221 million dollars in over 13 in over
13 years
100 of those funds go to comprehensive
or research at the james comprehensive
cancer center
next slide please sir one of the pillars
of the pelotonia community
is team bexley team bexley has been
there from the very beginning
there aren't that many pelotons as we
call our teams
there aren't that many pelotons that
have been there from the beginning
team bexley has riders that have ridden
every year
not only have they ridden every year
they've ridden
every mile of every ride
they've gone the farthest you can
possibly go every year on our ride
it's extraordinary there are 13 year
riders there are 10 plus year riders
there are volunteers and donors and
participants of all kinds on team
vaccine
so it is with profound gratitude that we
that i am a member of team bexley a
resident of bexley and get the
the opportunity to stand before you
today
thank you mr kessler as we pointed out
earlier there are four main ways one can
participate you can be a rider of course
you can be a challenger this is what we
used to call
a virtual rider and you can be a
volunteer and a donor
i would encourage anyone to participate
in some way and selfishly i would ask
that you join team bexley
it is an extraordinary peloton led by
fantastic
people many of of of whom you know
uh and once uh next slide please sir
so this brings me to why we're here
today we're very excited that in 2021 we
are going to have a physical ride
uh this which sounds uh sounds wonderful
quite frankly uh that we're going to
have a physical ride this year
we are going to do something this year
we've never done before we're going to
take the route through bexley
it's going to go straight down broad
street and it's going to take a left on
cassidy
and our goal our hope is that the drexel
circle
is the epicenter of the ride similar to
what
grand view granville i should say is
is currently i would love to have a
massive amount of participation there
uh we can go to that next slide please
sir uh you'll see there
that uh the pelotonia weekend spans
three days we have
to opening ceremony on the sixth and
the majority of our rides will occur on
the seventh
and we have day two rides uh primarily
out in new albany on
on the eighth so in in deference to your
time and all the things you have on your
agenda i will simply conclude by
by saying uh and reiterating the
gratitude i personally have for each of
you in this room
for the work you do for this community
in which we live for allowing us to
spend a few minutes talking to you and
i will simply close if you have any
questions we're happy to answer them but
please know from the bottom of my heart
carolyn's and everyone of pelotonia we
appreciate the opportunity
thank you thank you so much for being
with us tonight thank you for all the
hard work that you and your team
do i we know that you are the biggest
cheerleaders for
for for kicking this and um as a
as a chick who celebrated has celebrated
uh
father's day without a dad for the past
23 years
thank you keep it up thank you so much
thank you so much nick and caroline
sorry about that
okay you have to sit through the rest of
counsel though i'm not
kidding i am really kidding please you
are i'm so joking
i would go while the getting's good we
have to come back
we do want you to come back right
exactly so thanks for being with us this
evening
take good care troy i want you to go
ahead and introduce this proof
you don't mind all right let's stay with
the racing theme
racing bicycles and racing ducks
which is also exciting i think uh
i am proud to be of course everyone's
neighbor
but uh caitlin is actually
she lives two doors down from me so she
is here
with castile to tell us about the
nationwide children's hospital
rubber duck race
this coming fall so super excited about
that and i just want to echo
thank you to you all my father was on
city council and traveled for
years and years and years he served as
the first mayor of that city
and i know from his war stories it is
often a dangerous job so
thank you for everything you do thank
you for welcoming us here today
castile is a co-chair of the duck race
for the fellows reporter for hy
children's hospital
and she is the best position to tell you
all about it so i'm going to ask her
thank you um thank you so much for
having us here as caitlin said my name
is
castille jorge i live in dublin so
we're
am sorry this year's columbus duck race
uh we
uh host the decorative part of the
development board of national children's
hospital
um development ford is a group of young
professionals who are committed to
raising awareness and funds for the
hospital
through a series of events throughout
the year so the event that i'm going to
focus on is this year's duck race
it's the 10th anniversary of the duck
race
the easiest way to explain the duck race
is a really fun raffle so
not near as much physical activity
um but we sell what we call rubber duck
racers which are
just like it sounds like rubber ducks
that in a typical year
we would raise thousands of them down at
300 foot slip and slide
um unfortunately this year the event is
going to be virtual and given the
uncertainties with coven specifically
um with vaccines for children the event
takes place right outside the hospital
doors
so we just want to be extra safe to take
care of our kiddos and our families at
the hospital
so this year it's going to be virtual
again but the great news is that whether
it's ritual or in person the goal of
raising funds for the hospital remains
the same
so we are raising funds specifically for
pediatric research at the abco wexner
research
institute um i jumped a little bit ahead
of my slide so
troy or whoever's gonna charge the
slides if you could go
through a second are you is your button
on
is it green light there we go there you
go
go thank you i mean i have to start over
it is not full screen we have a link
issue with our zoom so i'm trying to fix
it right now as we're talking inside
okay that's fine i think you you can see
it so as you see
what is the duck race um it is a
raffle to raise money for pediatric
research at nationwide children's
hospital
um you can actually go to the second
next slide
the event this year will take place on
saturday august 21st
um as i mentioned it will be a virtual
event um so we will do what we're
calling our virtual duck pluck
instead of actually getting to see the
300 foot water slide of racing ducks
we're going to post a video to all of
our social media platforms
that we will thank our sponsors and all
of our partners that have worked with us
the
months leading up to the race and then
our patient champion will still be able
to pick the three lucky duck winners
who will win one of three cash prizes
the grand prize being three thousand
dollars
um so when you purchase a duck if you go
to the next line
each duck is only five dollars
and then there's an increase if you buy
25
worth of ducks you get six ducks um 50
you get 12 so there's an incentive for
the more that you get but essentially
buying a duck is like buying a raffle
ticket
you get entered on the back end you're
assigned a number
and then we will draw the lucky duck
winner that will be
corresponding to your number to to
announce the winners
but um one of the great things about
being virtual is our overhead cost is
extremely low so
100 of the donations are going to the
duck race
minus a few admin costs that we have um
so we're hoping that we are able to sell
as many as we do in a typical year
um so that we can give even more money
to the hospital
than we when we have a live event so
we're asking for the city
of bexley's help and there's lots of
different ways that you can help
um one of the easiest ways is to buy
decks yourself
um uh councilman markham generously
already purchased ducks
from caitlyn's deck ambassador page um
and we would encourage
anyone else to purchase ducks and to
encourage go to that sixth slot
which one's yours here we go so i have
committed to buying
sponsoring a ducks oh my god that is
hilarious
look at the look on my face
so we want as many people to get
involved as possible and and wanted to
encourage you with these little souvenir
decks that actually when we sell ducks
at like farmers markets or
other events around different cities we
actually give these souvenir ducks out
to people who purchase
duck racers so they're walking away with
a lot of times the kids are drawn to
them and want you know the fun decks as
well so
that's something that they would get to
go home with but those aren't the actual
rubber duck racers that go down the
slide
um but we like to have as much fun with
them as we can to help promote the
promote the event um so like i said you
can
purchase ducks yourself you can
encourage other people to appear to
stocks as well
um some other events or other
opportunities would be for the city
potentially to become a duck ambassador
themselves um if you go to slide
five there that's an example of the duck
ambassador page that we have
on our duck race website this is
actually katelyn's page
um so if you would go to this page on
her website you could donate directly to
her fundraiser
and it would be an opportunity
potentially for the city of bexley to
come up with their own page and that
then
we were able to promote and see
specifically how much bexley was able to
raise
um another opportunity would be for you
all or anyone you know to post on your
social media page
and either direct people to the columbus
duck grace website in general or
to your own resident caitlyn's investor
page to encourage people to post that
way
if you go to slide seven that's actually
an example post
that we have there are lots of
fundraising tools
on the website www.columbusduckgrace.com
this is an example of one and that it
would be simple enough to post something
like this on if you have
an instagram or any sort of social media
either for the city or for your
individual
um councilman or woman as well or you
can post the death photo with all of
your
name tags as well it's very cool we also
have a partnership with dos armando's
food truck
where a portion of the prison goes to
the death race so to the extent that we
might be able to hire that food truck to
come to any bexley event
there's a lot of ways that we can get
the city's support on this and i
hope to have further conversations with
me specifically
caitlyn has been calling and we've no
you have not we've been emailing back
and forth trying to think of how
it might fit into the main event or jazz
in the park
so it would be nice if we could make
that happen so
yeah really we just appreciate any
opportunity to raise both awareness for
the event to get people excited
um we'll hopefully be back in person
next year and so we
um you know would love to start gaining
awareness for the event to promote it as
uh next year as well
but then to really sell ducks and raise
money um i know my family first hand has
benefited from the
life-saving work that nationwide
children's does and they saved
at the time my 11 month old son from
acute respiratory failure so
it's a cause that i'm very passionate
about i know that i'm not alone in that
i know that there are families
all over bexley and the surrounding
communities who have benefited from
nationwide children's hospital being in
our backyard so
thank you for your time and your
consideration thank you for sh
thank you for sharing and thank you for
your work thank you we appreciate it so
much thank you for being with us
and caitlin don't be a stranger i don't
know right
take good care of yourselves
all right people fighting the good cause
i love it
all right we are to uh portion of our
meeting called public comments
i don't think that we have public who
have a comment
in the with us this evening and it
doesn't look like there's anybody in
attendance is there anyone registered to
speak
we are having an issue with that and i'm
trying to scramble right now to
the the link on our website for this
date is for our
for a july 13th council meeting so
it was the wrong link was inserted shall
i do my president's report
and the city's attorney's report and
then we could come back
to what i'm trying to do is make sure
see who did register for that the wrong
link and see if i can reach out to you
are you getting the right link are you
close to doing that or do you not know
i'm not quite there yet okay then i'll
go ahead
and i i just found i found um this quote
that says you know how i like quotes
um do your little bit of good where you
are
it's those little bits of good uh
put together that overwhelm the world
and i
am overwhelmed counsel with the work
that we have done um just
in the past year we
have passed laws attempting to protect
our young
from vaping um we've expanded our fair
housing laws to protect individuals
from source of income discrimination
we've clarified zoning
laws right jess we've carefully
evaluated the work of charter review
committee
and um we're getting ready to pass a
city-wide
bike plan um six months ago
this council was gearing up for quite a
ride in fact we were already on the ride
um with with covid it would
it would have been easy for us to just
use
that as an excuse for not getting work
done
but this council is a bunch of workers
we are workers and last year at this
time i looked at our pre-counseling to
try to figure out what we were doing and
we were
passing a resolution to um
distribute our our cares act money
um we were um looking
at some adopting some amendments to the
city
bexley strategic plan and we were
looking at
backflow valves at that time because we
had just finished dealing with flood
number two um we were
planning our front yard fourth
of july bexley we were working
um every week with the covet 19 task
force
we were talking about heritage
trees um and it was a it was dying
despite troy's proper cultivation
um movie
dora was something matt had in his
backpack but had yet to explore
let alone map out um
masks um were a good idea and then they
were a must-do
and now they're uh no you don't have to
um
from cautious counting covet 19
infections and worrying about variants
to proudly displaying our vaccinations
practicing social media to sharing warm
hugs
we've zoomed apart but now
we celebrate that we can come together
and come together is indeed
uh the theme for our fourth of july
celebration this year
so and i've heard that jessica has some
ideas perhaps
for our crew so let's get thinking about
how we are going to celebrate
together we know that the parade route
has been extended by at least
a block in south bexley so that we can
social distance better and we also know
that
um for the same reason we are
registering
for the events and fireworks
so please get on the website for details
to
register if you want to go
see the fireworks and participate excuse
me participate in the events i'm sure
that the mayor will
add on to some of those things but i
wanted to make sure that everybody
realized just how hard
this council has worked this last year
and how proud i am
of all of us i think we've done a
bang-up job
and i'm really happy that we all can now
come together
um the one other thing that i wanted to
share just like we were we went from dr
good to dr fine um csg
is um going to be in search of
a new head of csg
um jennifer ciccarelli is taking a
position
in california and we we sadly
wish her good luck um but um so she will
be here for another year and then
someone new will be taking her place
just as excuse me an fyi to everyone
so all right um hopefully i took some
time so that you're getting things
together not enough time
but we're gonna go ahead and see what mr
fishel has to say
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now you took enough you took enough time
i did you got it fixed
sort of okay go ahead mr fisher
thank you a couple things first of all
just to let everybody know for sure if
you if
i don't know if this has happened at the
left by the last meeting but an appeal
officially
has been filed in common please court
over 2300 livingston
um so that's proceeding through the
courts
second of all um i just wanted to remind
everybody i know we've talked about this
before but now that we are on the
precipice of actually
getting some things on the ballot uh for
charter from charter review
um i just want to remind everybody of
the process so
at this point um and um it just
there doesn't appear to be any reason to
have any reconsideration in fixing so
we're we're good on that tonight
um the um so at this point i've reached
out to the franklin county board of
elections
i intend to not wait to the last minute
and hope to have something to the
franklin county board of elections with
not just the language you guys have
approved of course but also the summary
that i'm putting together
for each of the bundles each of the five
separate issues
um i've asked monique and bill and the
mayor to take a look at that and i'm
hoping to get that
you know to them by friday or monday at
the latest
um and then they will say thumbs up or
thumbs down
on the
summary they don't have any authority to
tell us no on
any of the actual charter language and
again all that has to be approved by
august
3rd ish but again not wait until last
minute so that's the process
and you know as it develops i'll let you
guys know by email
that is
thank you all fisher we appreciate it um
mr festler would you like us
administrative updates
yes um i can tell you that no one
registered for the wrong date that was
posted but
and we did have one person register for
the right date and they were on for a
little bit but they're off now
so i'm not sure that we would expect
anyone on
i'm just trying to fix our website to be
totally full it's the youtube link is
correct so if anyone wants to watch us
they're able to watch
agenda is us before the administrative
updates
um so are you i wouldn't
i think we should do administrative
updates that's okay
everyone um is and do okay
updates um there's no one um in
attendance who wants to speak or has
registered to speak for a public comment
so we're going to whatever reason
a consent agenda is supposed to be down
with
our ordinances so that we're all both
voting
we have all the voting pieces together
so unless someone objects i'm going to
bump it down after our administrative
reviews
no objectives all right all right then
we will go ahead to
our service department in bay shore and
it seems like as
summer progresses his list of things the
guys and girls of the service department
are doing gets longer and longer ready
i don't think anybody can hear me andy
you're upset
i can hear you now um
i don't know madam president ben is my
report showing up
on it's not showing up on the
on my agenda on here yeah it's on it's
on our website
i don't um i don't have anything to add
to my written report tonight
all right thank you did anybody have any
questions for mr big short
thanks for everything andy things are
looking things are looking great people
have gotten really excited about those
stars getting painted
on the streets so thank you thank you
for helping us celebrate we appreciate
it
no problem all right moving on to
um chief reinhardt chief
reinhardt here
no ma'am nothing beyond my written
report thank you be on your written
report
i i want to make sure that i wasn't the
only person
in this room that didn't know what the
words skullduggery
meant pick that one up
i went down to pete after i read the
draft of that and i said
man you pulled out the old skullduggery
on him huh
somebody else didn't know what that
means it's underhanded or unscrupulous
behavior
trickery old school
pete ricky we read his reports okay
anybody have any questions or comments
i love the trending down loving it
thank you so much for all you do tell
everybody in your department to please
be safe
ma'am i will do it because it is them
and their good work in those patrol cars
they
they deserve every ounce of the credit
so thank you
we know it thank you so much um
if we could move on i believe
we are to michael price
and the recreation department did we
wake you mike no
no i'm still sleeping um
no thank you madam president um the only
thing i want to add to the report
uh is and may or may be talking about
this as well
is as we continue planning for fourth of
july
festivities i want to continue to
encourage
our community to volunteer where they
might be able to
whether it's the 4th of july 5k run in
the morning or
the efforts to pull off the evening
activities i know there if there hasn't
already shortly they will be going out
some information about how to volunteer
on a sign up genius but i want to
encourage uh council and the residents
to
to look at that and get involved if they
can
jonathan and i will be with you passing
out bags at six o'clock in the morning
for the race we always start our fourth
of july that way and we love it
we appreciate it thank you anybody have
any comments or questions for
mike yeah please on that race
um mike could you you haven't in your
written report that you talk about the
john barr 5k being pretty
um normal to what we knew of it
pre-coveted i know that's a little
different than some other races
some 5ks that have gone on in the
community this is great news to hear
do you mind just touching on that a
little bit about what the 5k looked like
that morning
yeah so that morning our race bag pickup
process
uh and following the event the awards
and the
refreshments will be somewhat structured
a little bit different to allow for more
distancing as people are coming through
to get their bags or to sign up
or at the end of the race when they're
getting their water
or their snack to limit contact
but we have been in touch with
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race industry leaders and um
we're good to move forward obviously
people are more than welcome to wear
masks if they want to
um but given the outdoor environment
they're comfortable with us moving
forward with a fairly normal race
yeah it's great looking forward to it
yeah
yeah i'm looking forward to watching
it's kind of hard because pro tips if
you haven't been in the parade before
which i think you guys have to run the
race and then
yeah i remember the year quick
turnaround i remember you did that
all right thanks michael price for all
you do
um finance department update bill harvey
a couple of things the may and april
reports
are attached i'll be happy to answer any
questions about them
but they are pretty generic where our
income is up
over budget and our expenses are down
the general fund has
more money in it than we expect
obviously we didn't
budget to spend a lot of money this year
and that will be coming up later in the
year as we
see what our income looks like but we're
in pretty good shape um
so i'll be happy to answer any questions
there and then i got one other thing if
you
richard sorry i guess that's your call
madam president
go on please i did notice the grant
expenditures in the grant income seem to
be
out of whack or we're spending some
anticipated grant money
or in many cases we do that because we
and you can't get reimbursed until you
complete the project and submit those
things
and some of that's a lag from the prior
year too
anything else questions from mr harvey
mr mayor did you have something to
contribute
just that i believe that's a higher
number than normal because i think
jeffrey mansion is tied up in the grant
it is that's part of yourself i think
there's that there is
it's going to be a bigger impact with
that lag but we also
just submitted reimbursement on other
projects we'll be expecting quite a bit
of income to be coming in
in fact we just booked forty thousand
dollars right
from vcf
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anybody else i know mr harvey has one
more thing he wants to share with us mr
harvey
we in case you get messages from her we
have hired a replacement for
jessica her name is victoria yang she
will start in the next
i don't know a week or week and a half
uh as jessica's replacement
um so i want to if you because she'll
at some point be communicating with you
as she does as
as the payroll administrator and
whatever else
um and before you ask we are paying her
more than what we were paying jessica so
um just fyi
uh and that's all i had thank you thank
you mr harvey any questions more
questions for mr harvey
all right mr mayor
okay um and by the way that event has
been
corrected on our website so it's now
correct but still there were no
registrants on the one that was the
incorrect
okay perfect we're we are where we are
okay i am going to pull up my update
here
and uh want to highlight a couple things
first off i want to welcome natalie
water
who is in attendance and has been hired
into the position of chief executive
assistant
and we'll be talking about that a little
bit later tonight um so welcome natalie
glad to have you here um she starts
full-time
july 8th yeah okay i think vicky's july
7th
so we'll have a busy week that week
after the fourth
um calendar of upcoming events covers
major community events and public
meetings leading up to our next council
meeting which is august 10th
so enjoy your six weeks of respite um
some of what i've been up to and then i
want to highlight uh
a couple things here um first off i want
to thank
the bexley minority parents alliance and
jen robinson who worked with them and
other community members who worked with
them to plan an excellent
juneteenth series of programs and then
observation on the 19th of june it
it went really well st charles provided
their venue because of
threats of rain which continues all day
all like every day of this weekend it
was supposed to just like flood flash
flood but
it held off nonetheless it was pretty
wet out on capitals lawn so
it made a great venue at st charles and
a lot of vendors a lot of music a lot of
art and it was a really great
well-attended
uh positive event so um
kudos to those who organized that it was
really awesome
fourth of july i have attached
to the update what we are mailing to
residents and you'll receive this in
your in your mailbox here very soon this
will come out a little bit before our
water bill
but we really wanted to highlight the
tickets are required for the evening
celebrations
so it just talks about the logistics and
and some tips for getting in a little
bit early and it talks about the
expanded parade route
uh so you will receive that
communication it's going out
we had our first public workshop for a
joint livingston avenue plan
well attended lots of really good
feedback and good ideas
there's going to be a companion survey
that's going out and the blast here
pretty soon
and planners will be using that feedback
to continue working on the plan
i also had a second youth interaction
policy working group meeting
our third one scheduled for july so that
is moving along
link us came and talked to you guys
about rapid area transit
on either main or brad they have since
been kind of coalescing around the idea
of
remember they talked about different
places where people could embark and
disembark
on the on the bus or the rapid transit
vehicle uh they hear a coalescent around
the idea of a me
a median based embark disembark
with travel being the left lane for the
buses so
that actually i think works pretty well
in bexley compared to other conditions
because we do have existing medians
in place and where they where they are
looking it would obviously require
modification of our medians
it also helps us because we do have
dedicated on-street parking
our condition as they're proposing it
would be a mixed vehicle condition so
there would be
not just bus traffic because we have a
lane during peak hours
non-peak hours that allows for parking
so they're going to continue to work on
that i just wanted to give you that
update
and and they'll be giving that to us
more formally soon
while we're talking about roads drexel
avenue we had a working
a working group or study group maybe
that was
before our last council me i can't
remember but we had a public workshop
with
residents on drexel talking about
traffic calming on drexel for our next
summer project and we'll have some
recommendations coming out and i'll
i'll be sharing those with you guys i
think we have a follow-up meeting in
july
um i did want to draw your attention to
sheets because i know that you guys
passed a resolution and i had written a
letter
and i want to remind anyone listening
that we were asked or at least i was
asked what the city's position was on
sheets
and so uh felt that providing some
feedback made sense it's an unusual
circumstance
where columbus specifically asked the
developer to get our feedback
um since that columbus has approved the
traffic plan for sheetz so it's gone
through that
hurdle and it's going through their
zoning process it does require rezoning
i had a conversation an update
conversation with the developer
and they have made some interesting
changes to their plan which i find
pretty intriguing and it changes my
perspective a little bit on it i just
wanted to be transparent with you guys
about that
so they are in talks with the adjacent
property to the west
um which is the large
there's a subway in there and a nails
and a liquor store and a pawn shop and a
banquet hall
and then some storage warehouse in the
back so you're familiar with that
property
that property's been in disrepair for
many years it's been kind of a magnet
for negative activity at times
and they're in talks to take over
management of the center
to infuse i think a hundred thousand
dollars into improving the facade and
landscaping
and um take over the leasing to me that
really solves a problem potentially
that's been there in the corridor and so
i'm
that sort of softens my feeling about
what
whether or not sheets is the highest and
best use and frankly kind of makes me
think
i'm in a neutral position at this point
and i think i just would withdraw any
comment to columbus about it
but i wanted you to be aware that that's
where i'm coming from
certainly invite any feedback from you
guys that can either happen right now in
this meeting
or at a future point i have not sent any
communication to columbus
i've had the conversation with the
developer i guess the developer
represented
that i was now in favor of the plan at a
meeting which is probably strong for for
what i talked about but that's
apparently came up at a mideast area
commission meeting or something so
um i am in favor of the idea of
improving that strip center i think
that's a
huge liability we i know you know the
cic has
looked at what they could do to improve
that property in the past and so i think
that's a private market solution that
makes some sense so
i wanted you to be aware of that and
once i'm done maybe we can circle back
to that
um also attached
is some information about or first off
our covet dashboard let's talk about
this real quickly
we are um that's weird oh it's straight
but
we had five cases in the past 14 days
that's
instance reached 21. good news just to
say is that our instance rate has been
very low for the past month or more
really somewhere around that four or
five and over 14 days
that's astonishing to tell you the truth
it continues to outperform franklin
county pretty substantially so
we're doing a great job in baxley with
our coveted stats
and i want to highlight coming out of
esac and greenback sleep plastic
free july this is a rough draft so
plastic is you just wanted to see if you
could check whether or not we're
spelling it right
so uh that's right there in front of you
it's a global initiative to reduce
plastic consumption
and over july we're going to be
highlighting all the different ways we
can reduce our plastic consumption
elizabeth will continue to regale us
with all the ways we can do that
if you have some ideas to add to the
calendar let her know um
but as usual uh esac is rocking it so
i wanted you to see that and then i will
take any questions you guys might have
anybody have any questions for uh mayor
kessler yes mr markham
i have a multi-part question for you
great yes your uh youth interaction
meetings um how how how many
meetings are scheduled can you give us
an idea of sort of the
you know the agenda in terms of where
you are and
and and what these meetings are
accomplishing and
what can we expect like at the end of
this will there be
uh something that will come to us for
the policy changes that will go
straight to uh you and the chief etc
yeah so i think they're trying to
achieve their product in the next six
months
right now they're meeting monthly
they've divided into subcommittees that
cover the areas actually that i
outlined on the update so their
subcommittees
are covering best practices community
engagement
and and information gathering
um they are hoping to have
recommendations
for distribution so in the next six
months they're they're looking for that
community engagement so they're look
sorry there's a typo there that's really
bad
that was engagement which is different
from engagement it's actually the
opposite it's close
um uh so i they're looking to hear from
the community about what sort of
priorities
uh you would have they would have in
terms of youth engagement um
looking out at best practices and other
communities that have worked on this
in this field and then have a draft
for circulation back to the the
community and discussion so there's
going to be feedback it's not going to
be like a
sort of a happening in a vacuum
but it is not a it would not necess it
would not
by default be a council ordinance it's
just something that would go into police
policy
if a public they had a a public meeting
where they
were they taking input for this or
they're at the very very beginning okay
their second meeting
uh it's a group of 10 or 12 individuals
they're kind of
with really a pertinent professional
experience during the information
gathering stage they do anticipate
either a series of like sessions work
working
like workshops or a survey or something
that sort
yeah it's a very impressive group of
people i think this is really really
uh important work i'm really happy to
see that we're doing this so
please keep us updated on this then
thank you
yeah any other questions for mayor
kessler
all right oh mr uh harvey please
so are you intending to communicate with
the city of columbus
that you've changed your mind or are you
not uh i'm not trying to put you on the
spot i just know i know
since you came out once and said we're
not right so
who said i was from my perspective i i
do plan on communicating in a letter
that i'm
aware of agreements that the developers
working on with json property owners
that i feel that would contribute or
change the corridor
and i withdraw my my uh
opposition and in general don't
think it's you know necessarily that we
need to evolve get involved in adjacent
zoning cases and that i'm neutral on it
that's what i to write and i think i
think it's
only fair for that to be formal since
it's been represented
and i've talked to you guys about it i
agree and i guess
as you said that did you write that
initial letter
on your own or did council ask you to do
that
okay so okay council had a resolution
that supported the letter i think
basically
so this is a council question i guess so
they need to
you guys do you guys need to now
pass should you think about passing a
resolution
in support of his new letter my guess
would be we would wait till
prop probably yes but we probably should
wait till after the letter is actually
written
and that's fine just something i mean
if we did it as a group you should do it
yep yep i'm going to put that in my
notes for
free counseling and uh troy and i will
take a look at that and report back to
the rest of you
if that's okay richard do you have a
question or comment
i i for one am but i don't think it
really is
something it's not going to make a
difference
it's fair enough to you know the plan
has changed
for me to express that change if you
guys feel really super compelled to i'm
not sure that it's
it's something that's being closely
tracked
i don't think so if someone
feels very strongly about that um
i think you could reach out to troy or
to me
and if residents might have you know yes
might have special charts that they'd
like to share for sure you know i think
one of my
experiences from this i think i would
probably if ever asked in the future
something along these lines by
columbus i would say i appreciate
requests for feedback
which i will i just don't feel like you
know it's i'm trying to
yeah i think it's something we have to
carefully consider in the future and
and just one note onto there too i
i would have to pull up the original the
resolution but i do not believe that
where we are now is
deviates necessarily from the language
in that resolution that we
passed anyway i believe that resolution
was a call for
taking into consideration the community
the traffic the environment etc it was
not
it was not an opposition letter i don't
believe so i have to take a look at it
to be sure but
i will um i will grab it
and send it to you guys just to remind
you to look at it how does that sound
and and
if you have some sort of strong feelings
about us revisiting it
all you need to say is uh lori ann
please put that on the agenda
and we'll have a conversation about it
okay fair enough
okay if
any one of you feels like we need to
have that on the agenda please
please let me know all right and
anything else
um before we uh scoot back to the
consent agenda
nope mr official please
okay one item on the consent agenda the
minutes from the 6821 city council
meeting
all right are there any um comments
or uh questions about the consent agenda
and no one has registered to speak on
that
so i think we could do real help oh do
we have a motion motion to adopt
thank you is there a second mr mark on
the question
yes mr markham yes sis fraible yes mr
klingler
all right madam president yes
um since we've had basically a new
format
of the minutes for the past
month or two maybe if there's
or are there any comments or concerns
from residents or council regarding the
format
the format um the amount of detail
included
anyone have any comments and certainly
um if residents have any comments they
can share those with us via email
um anybody
i would say i'm finding it a lot more
productive
to follow where we're at with first
second and third readings and
how we go through that and i think it
has worked well with the residents and
that
and organizing ourselves that way so
great i was referring to the the minute
preparation he's talking about minutes i
think he's worried you're talking about
the agenda
i am talking about the agenda i love the
attention too
does anybody not love the minutes
i love the minutes i think um i um
am in favor of uh mr fishel's um
comments that less is always more
um and i think it keeps us from you know
having the must-haves
on it i i think is important and that is
the direction
that is the exact direction i have given
to elizabeth to do
is less is more because we can always
look
um and many of us do when we want
more details we go right to
the video and listen ourselves um
question regarding that is there is
there going to be a way at some point
to to like granicus she used to be able
to go from an
area of the minutes to the video um that
has been
one of the things that's been a little
bit
harder so they're not side by side
they're still
all on the same page you just need to
scroll down to get to the right video
but they're not
they're not like next to each other
where you would click
on and then go right to the bookmark on
that meeting
that we did give up that technology but
we're saving 400
a month in exchange for giving up that
technology
and we have a better product i think
just that the public can see
to find an area in the video
you really have to listen to the whole
video you can't go
to like that agenda point correct
bookmarking isn't there yeah that's
right although you can estimate i mean
pretty good sometimes i mean it's yeah
that that is a shortfall but
the trade-off is i i understand that but
i've
my my question was is there any
technology improvements
or youtube features or however it's
recorded that
that can be explored or added at some
point
in the interest to full disclosure you
can manually bookmark youtube videos
but that's a process that would require
like a whole another set of that like
basically a staff would have to go
through and
manually bookmark after the fact when
certain things keep up on the agenda
um which could could be done but it's a
pretty laborious process
so so the person preparing them the
minutes
are you are you preparing them after the
fact you refer back to the video
as far as your normal process
please elizabeth no i'm trying to do it
right now okay thank you
that answers that question thank you
elizabeth
any other comments or questions on the
consent agenda
please now that we're back to the
minutes
um i would say um
i think there could be a nice middle
ground like less is more but maybe
just a little bit more detail
i do from experience coming on
to this role and then having friends
that have certain things that they were
interested in a little bit more
it is nice to go to that agenda read a
little bit before you go to the video
more than maybe just that someone made a
statement on it but just maybe a little
bit of meat
to what the statement was just food for
thought
it's really hard we've had this problem
yeah
um we have had this problem where
council members
will um really be
on the phone or sending lots of emails
um if the person doing the minutes
isn't detailed enough or it's too
detailed auras didn't get the wording
right or didn't do this right and it and
it gets and it gets really hard and i
think
i mean can you would you like to speak a
little bit more to the must-haves
legally
yeah i mean the must-haves are
incredibly minimal it's basically
motions and seconds and the vote
that that's all that needs to be in the
minutes essentially
so i mean i i for one from
the lawyer and from the reading
standpoint think these minutes are great
the way they're
the they're being formatted um now and
and again
the problem of course as laurie anne
said is that
the more you starting to add then why
didn't you add what i
said and you know i'm quoted verbatim
but
the other person's not and and that that
starts to get pretty difficult
it doesn't that being said
if this council wants more meat
then that is what we will do
um the question was um as far as
if there are proposed amendments i don't
or the wording of the amendments
aren't alway always or a statement
summarizing the amendment might
be appropriate as well because that i
did notice that wasn't included
in some of the ordinance
discussions that we have to give people
an idea
what the topic was a little bit more
right without being verbatim or right
suggesting that even if there wasn't um
action taken by council on something
that was proposed it would be nice to
have
what was proposed on
the document okay i can work with
elizabeth on that a little bit and i
think she probably knows what i'm
talking about i know
i know in in some instances it's really
hard because if you're
like changing a bunch of sections of an
amendment right but
right um but maybe i summarize the
amendment changing
genders or you know amendment
just a summary of what was suggested
and was passed i appreciate that
and um we can talk about that and
i i don't i so if but again if we all
want if we want more meat like we could
certainly
we can certainly do that um did you have
a comment mr kessler yeah so
first off don't get too overly
comfortable with the new format
because we're all about to get trained
and there's a couple more features on
civic clerk that haven't made their way
into our minutes okay
it might change a little bit so just be
aware of that and then secondly
i just want to expand a little bit on
what you said like let's
let's say mrs smith came and wanted to
testify about 123 acme street
and maybe somebody wanted to see well
what did she say about that
you know even when you say like mark
might
disagree with me but when you say miss
smith came in opposition to the
to the proposal or 123 acme street a lot
of our testimony is not
that cut and dry so you start to make an
editorial decision about
what are we characterizing her testimony
and pretty soon it goes straight from
like just that that person came and
spoke
to like a full-on verbatim of all the
minutes
and it's just been impossible for
staff to know exactly what's the right
mix of
of picking out what any one person said
because you're making an editorial
decision which really corrupts the
minutes and so that you
you're either like full-on transcription
or just stating fact somebody came to
speak and if you want to hear what they
had to say then the video is right there
for you to reference
as an example and i love that example
um i think another way to look at it too
though is like when we get when we're
here at council and we get
the reports from our service department
or park and rack
and then we get that time to really
focus on that and they put the detail in
there
um it's nice for us to catch up on it so
when someone comes in and a resident and
they're going to look at
the last council meeting that's kind of
our report
and i totally agree with you in a um
how to capture when someone's coming in
for a rebuttal or
how they feel about it go back and watch
it but just maybe
a little bit more meat to maybe some
discussion we had
um i think there could be a middle
part that makes me extremely nervous if
you're going to do have discussion then
you got to add the discussion
and then you're going to have to get
into the detail and actually and again
that's not i i kind of disagree that
this is the same as similar
to what the that council minutes are
similar to what the reports are from the
various departments
because they're reporting everything
that's going on
um now one thing that could be done and
i'm not trying to get make
anyone do more work is though that
perhaps
elizabeth can note that
the consent agenda was discussed and
608 or got wouldn't we love it it was
608
648 um and that way somebody can go to
48 minutes into the
video to look at it and that might not
be that difficult just
no times that public comment was offered
on
123 acne street or whatever and that way
people can go and get the verbatim stuff
relatively easy um by just going
at that point in the video again only if
it's not too much more work
and and not this meeting
mr markham and then just i guess to
expand on
uh what mr fitzgerald is saying just a
caveat there i think
you know once you start to document
things you actually
influence and create the impression of
what happened
uh dozens and dozens of times probably
hundreds of times since i've been on
city council i've gone back and i've
read the minutes
and i will think that's not what
happened you know because
just little word choices and and and
things like that make it very kind of
delicate what has been presented or
whatever and so just to echo again
the care i think i i probably
would advocate for what we have here
because i think it gives you what
happened
you can go back to the video to see and
hear verbatim what it was when you want
to
but just some caution there because i
know i mean i
i can think of just dozens of times and
i've said
that to me i don't think what was you
know what happened or what was said
the more controversial it gets i didn't
need to cut you off i'm sorry
the more controversial it gets sometimes
the more personal it gets and people
editorialize and they don't even realize
uh they're doing it
they really just don't so just the facts
mister just the facts
is sometimes you know a better way to
report our work
and madam president please and
and don't get me wrong i'm only bringing
it up for
the record and discussion because you
know i think
it has um had improvements you know
to to readability um but
i just thought maybe we should discuss
it for in case any
council or any resident
says these minutes have changed you know
right
did council even talk about you know
about it so i just wanted
to get it in the in the record so that
people know that we
have been thank you noticing and
and taking
potential resident feelings in the
account as far as how it's changed
thank you thank you mr sharp and and
anyone who wants to come
to council and speak to us about how our
minutes are taken are welcome to do so
um all right if there is nothing further
on that
and if my computer will come up yep it
did third reading
and we will move on yes we do not have
anything
under um item number 10 so we will move
on to
item number eleven third readings mr
fishel please all right third reading of
ordinance 24-21 to award the bexley
electricity
aggregation program contract to aep
energy based upon the terms and
conditions
provided for in their rfp is modified by
the board of control
introduced by mr sharp
okay before i make a motion i think
it would be appropriate for the mayor to
to give an update we were originally
scheduled to have
representatives from aep um to come in
to speak to us prior to passage
and as soon as they aren't here i'm sure
you're wondering where they might be and
what the status of this
ordinance is so uh thank you mr sherp
um i think it's house bill 52
maybe send i'm getting my sentiment i
think it's house bill i think it was
senate bill 52.
whichever bill 52 it is continues to
roil the markets for
renewables and um
there might be some progress on that
between now and august
frankly the pricing has gone up as you
can imagine because of that
so i've
talked to mr sharp about this and and
lori ann earlier today
that instead of having ap come here and
tell us how the pricing had gone up
and then we go on you know vacation or
sorry not vacation we're all working
hard through our
sabbatical no not even sabbatical the
break the july break
recess oh my gosh uh coming back in
august uh
and then kind of revisit it all over
again it just would make sense for us to
hear from them in august where things
stand um you know
with that in mind
so with that information in mind i would
like to make a motion to table ordinance
24-21
thank you we have our first is there a
second second thank you ms lamke all
those in favor please signify by saying
aye
[Laughter]
all right ordinance 25 21 please
all right third reading of ordinance
25-21 to amend sections 12 20.03 12
20.05 12 23.06
and 12 23.08 to specify the membership
quorum and majority vote of the board of
zoning appeals
and planning and the architectural
review board introduced by ms
assad
so as this is our third reading um just
reminding council that this ordinance is
intended to encourage greater continuity
between commission and board meetings
and to provide better service to
applicants throughout their approval
process
as we have discussed this helps our
boards
to become more efficient with the
members that are attending as well as
making sure that with the number that's
in attendance um
that that will serve well to the
resident
as well so that if um the correct amount
there
that evening matches who can actually
vote on it
in the past we've had times where we've
had to
revisit at the next 30-day meeting for
these residents to be approved so i
think this is going to
allow us for more efficiency in our city
and our boards
it's a positive thing thank you
does anybody have any questions um or
comments about this before i asked
to take uh action on this mr sharp
i just want i wanted to have a
clarification
on the section that
referred to
in 12 20.03
item b in the middle sentence any
vacancy during the term of a member
should be filled by an alternative
member appointed by the mayor
so that means that if someone would
resign
off the board or be replaced
for for some reason due to cause or
other provisions
of um our code and charter
that the mayor would select
one of the two alternate members to take
that place
that person's place for the remainder of
the term
and that would not require any
additional council approval at that time
am i understanding the reading of that
correctly so that is yes
that is the current language um and
honestly
while i remember that looking through
this particular
ordinance just practically speaking we
don't do it that way
so we i have practically speaking
proffered somebody to you guys
as you can probably recall in the past
to be a full member
so i guess there's the ability to do it
it doesn't make it wrong to put it as a
resolution before council
that's in practice what i do okay
mr mark is this so is this currently
amended as shown what we're seeing here
there's a yellow highlight no it needs
to be amended okay so we are still
yes and that that is the proposal that's
the proposed amendment and the highlight
correct because that was inconsistent
with the change so
the change to a majority of the board
membership and attendance
language was inconsistent with that last
night and the
scenario that we're setting up here is
what we would consider
the like worst case scenario where you
would have three
board members there on some night and
you would still
want to be able to make a decision based
on the majority
two versus one perhaps right okay
mr hardy i understand the reason for the
change
and i i don't disagree with it i just
want you guys to realize that
you now have in many cases two people
of a five person committee making
decisions
when we're down to only three so just so
you understand that
right it would be the same as if only
four members of council showed up and
three could make a decision for them
on an ordinance understand right
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so pick really good air b members let's
show up
and show up does anybody have any
further
questions about the amendment and
or this
piece of legislation the changes being
made
um assad do you have action please on
the amendments please
yes i would like to take action on the
amendment to ordinance 25-21
okay we have a first is there a second
second okay i think i heard mr mark come
first so we have a first and a second on
them and
any further questions comments and um we
don't we do have
one person attendance if they're
interested they're allowed to raise
their hand right
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i don't see anyone raising their hands
to speak on this um
amendment so mr harvey please
mr klingler yes mr markham yes assad
yes mribal yes ms lamke yes mr sharp
yes
yes now i would like to make a motion to
approve ordinance 25-21 amended
ordinance
and importance amended ordinance second
thank you
uh we have a first from assad and a
second from um mr sharp
any comments for questions from council
comments or questions from those in
attendance please raise your hand if
you'd like to share your thoughts about
this particular piece of legislation
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andre harvey mr marcon yes that's
fireball
yes zlamke yes mr sharp yes mr klingler
uh resolution 721 mr official all right
the reading of resolution 07-21
confirming the mayor's appointments of
members to the architectural review
board the board of zoning appeals and
planning
the recreation and parks board the
training and public gardens commission
the board of health the civil service
commission
the community reinvestment area housing
council the tax incentive review council
the border tax review of the records
commission and the bexley community
improvement corporation
introduced by ms lamke thank you mr
official i'll turn it over to our mayor
for
any additional comments or input
thank you ms lamke um so we have
discussed this before
there is a proposed amended which adds
council members saad and
klingler as the council appointees to
the reinvestment area housing council
they would get the privilege of uh
a 30-minute spin around taxabata
property in bexley every year um
and uh
and then actually there's the amendment
on the civil service commission civil
service amendment which
even as of this before
we had a potential change although i
don't
think that's been finalized so i need to
actually take that off real quickly hold
on
on my proposed amended board appointment
resolution if you'll give me a quick
quick second
um think we're
trying to you think there may be a
vacancy but it's not currently there
right now so
okay as you see there the mayor if i
understand right we just need to amend
to include
uh council member assad and klingler or
were there other changes
and to change the year for john
hoffenberg
yeah it was 27. right i was using the
statutory language but
mr official correctly pointed out that
our charter supersedes that so
what happens when you read the high
revised code in a vacuum once in a while
i pay attention to
all right um is there are there any
questions
about the amendment
to this piece and any
from uh those in attendance
okay uh ms lamke would you like to make
a motion on the amendments please
yes i make a motion to amend uh
resolution 7-21
um as shown up on the screen and is just
discussed
thank you president ellis second thank
you mr sharp
um auditor
yes mr markham yes sir klingler yes mr
sharp
yes all right is there anything further
before i asked ms lamke to take
action on this piece of legislation
anything for on those in attendance
is lampke i make a motion to adopt
amended resolution 7-21
thank you miss lamb is there a second
second thank you um
uh editor harvey ms zlamke yes assad
yes mr sharp yes mr markham yes mrs
yes mr klingler yes
all right on to second readings then i
guess um
sector reading of ordinance 26-21 to
amend section 262.02 e
to allow for the payment of sick leave
to part-time employees upon termination
from service
with the city introduced by mr markham
thank you mr official
uh this was introduced to the last
meeting uh merely to extend that payout
of
sick leave to part-time employees here
we're speaking of
our preschool teachers
when they leave service here in the city
anybody have any questions about this
second reading
and there's no need to um to
move this along over the summer break
recess and the revisions can be made
next time
yeah it says revised i don't remember if
what was revised or if
i think i think that's just the original
was oh i think it was just an original
that
that one of us said was revised after
reviewing the others version of it
okay it's not an amended doesn't need to
be amended that's right that's right we
took out the part or we added the part
about only part-time
earned with the city
i don't know good question yes we did
there it is well then we have to
revise it for that then right no we
introduced we did
introduce that way okay okay
thank you mr harvey any other questions
about this
all right um mr arkham is it okay if we
move on yes please
okay second reading of ordinance 27-21
to appropriate
281 500 from the capital fund and 240
thousand dollars from the refuse fund
for the purpose of funding mid-2021
capital projects mr markham
let's take a look at it i think we have
some detail this time
on our capital uh requests
yes here we go
can i make it like very quickly you
definitely can i'm just
reading so so the detail that you see in
front of you
is does not track with the ordinance
you'll notice the numbers aren't
don't line up okay so okay sidney
sleuths out there said wait a second
for example the capital fund number is
currently lower than we was introduced
in the ordinance
and there is now allusion to a sewer
fund project
based upon then a request by a service
director
who would like to have would like to
sort of expedite additional lining based
upon
recommendations from our sewer engineer
uh partially in response to last year's
flooding incident so
um those numbers i think might
i would not be surprised if they tweak a
little bit more leading up to august
10th
um which by the way is bexley day our
next council meeting
um but uh they we have confirmed the
commonwealth fields is that lower number
that is commonwealth
west council wanted to fund commonwealth
east being redone as well mike price has
a number for you for that as well but
this is just commonwealth west
uh field redo um
what else
oh yes that's right thank you and the
other thing that we discussed
uh was amending the ordinance to also
transfer money into the capital fund um
from surplus
from last year so we did have a surplus
budget last year uh of about
five or six hundred thousand dollars um
so we could
transfer some of the surplus into the
rainy day fund some of the capital fund
might be something you guys might want
to do as part of this uh capital
budget as well
something to think about while you're
sipping daiquiris in bahamas
mr klingler what what was the number for
capital
uh or commonwealth east was it over 200
thousand i
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does anybody else have any questions
while he's looking that up did you find
it 190.
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ms lanky mayor can you give us a bigger
breakdown of what the 143 for
commonwealth fields would
include for some reason i was thinking a
few years ago when we got estimates for
commonwealth i think it was west i
thought that number alone just for west
was in the 200s
it was so uh that was a estimate
and then we and we engaged a uh
soil engineer uh athletic fields expert
guy to come in
and we cast engineer down a little bit
so it used to be a higher number
any other questions mr markham
so for that commonwealth field uh
project here i think
it probably would would be a great idea
to
revisit what that what that's going to
do
so if you could just have mike maybe or
mike put together
just a
uh like a synopsis maybe of what that is
again i
i know we had a pretty good look at it a
couple years ago
it's probably a great idea to take
another look at it again
and my follow-up question do you do a
question about that
richard my follow-up question is
on the portable speed vehicle i know
that mr official was
taking a look at that and i didn't read
your memo
that you put together on that are you
are you satisfied that
that is uh legally acceptable
and if so i have some follow-up
questions for you yes i am satisfied
that it's legally acceptable
there are some hoops we have to jump
through which are doable
with that in mind this is a little
different than than some of the
typically it's a stationary uh thing so
if we have a portable speed vehicle one
of the large requirements is you have to
have
adequate signage for this how do you
accomplish that
if you're moving a vehicle around
a city
we'd have to study that but i'm going to
win i'm going to give you the winged
answer
which is that we would put up we would
put up signage similar to you with your
road works
it just explains that that's in the
neighborhood and or we could mount a
sign on any existing pole
uh on that street i mean we an example
of that
is we move around our stealth stats so
when we're doing
traffic surveys we frequently move
around and we're mounting them to street
signs
it's not unusual for us to put up
temporary
fixtures to our street signs for any
project the same could be done
with the speed vehicle essentially it's
just an alternative to a active speed
sign
which also requires some mounting to
pulls so
i don't think it's an onerous
requirement and i i wouldn't want to run
the program without good signage anyway
and the purpose of this the vehicle
itself is
uh there's no there's no personnel
correct and there's no personnel
required as long as
there's some sort of recording that is
monitored or reviewed not monitored but
reviewed that's great
it has to still be reviewed by the
police officer and our police department
and the other cop one other big major
caveat is that
any challenges to tickets must
go or cannot go to mayor's court they
have to go to municipal court
okay and again i think the idea is a
checks and balances
approach so that the perceived
unfairness which some people may have on
this
is addressed that way and full
disclosure like we could do this without
a vehicle you could do it with
like a sign you could do with a pole
mounted
or a tripod mounted piece of equipment
a little bit more front maybe vandalism
also i think the reason that we chose so
that we're wanting to do a vehicle is
we're trying to eliminate like the claim
that it's some sort of a gotcha
sort of new realm sort of like trap
people and speed but like we are
meaningfully trying to reduce speed was
just an example you didn't mean to pick
on them
no didn't mean to pick on them no new
london
new paris you guys have all heard those
stories so
um the idea of the vehicle just a little
bit more open a little more obvious
um and i think
to residents i mean it'll be more
obvious to them in a positive way that
they see that we're working on enforcing
speed
and we're like we're talking again about
secondary streets so not our primary
corridors but secondary streets where
it's not practical for us to post a
police officer
to wait for the three or four extreme
speeding incidents that happen in a
24-hour period which is kind of like
what the stats tend to show you
um and similarly that means that we
won't have officers tied up
reviewing countless reels of speeding
tickets
right because it is going to be a lower
volume so this is a
hopefully an impactful tool we get
frequently requests for speed bumps
for other types of uh infrastructure
changes
that are more expensive than this if you
kind of totaled up all the different
requests that we get and are all
are not really the best most best
indicated
solution to the problem
all right any further questions about
the capital budget
uh ms lampke oh and i'm sorry i think
richard sharp had his hand up before i'm
so sorry richard
um what's the what would be the timeline
for
commonwealth fields west versus
east is they wouldn't be done at the
same time
right i'd let mike price present on that
i i mean because i don't think we'd want
to have
space our limited space
in construction during the whole time
they're different purposes
commonwealth west's practice field east
tends to host more games so it wouldn't
necessarily be incompatible i mean
you're going to have fields down
and taken off a commission that you
would use for practices
for or games so i would imagine mike
would probably say he didn't want to do
both the same time but he might not
and he's coming august 10th he's
confirmed to talk about this he's coming
anyway but he's going to talk about this
specifically
perfect great and obviously we didn't
have schneider
is an option back when we first started
talking about this so that's helpful as
well
and schneider is being used i was there
today guys and it was so
wonderful to see so many different
people i mean the playground was packed
and it was so wonderful and it was
awesome it was 11
30. it was great mslam key question
i think mr sharp kind of took my
question but mayor since mr price is
coming at our next meeting
i wonder if he could also give us some
additional information if we would save
money if we did them both at the same
time
or the 143 quote and the 90-some quote
that you just gave us
would that go down if they're
simultaneous correct
questions mr klingler
not just for clarifications if and i
know it's attached to them to the notes
we could just change the comment like
just put commonwealth west field for 143
and then maybe like an asterisk with
commonwealth eastfield and then and
below so anyone
reading this in the future i don't know
they're not watching
and they read this they think oh well
it's only 143 000 to do all of the
fields
and let me just i will make that
clarification thanks it's been made
all right anything further on this
and um if not
mr markham is okay we move on to um
our first readings all right
first reading of ordinance 28-21 to
amend section 262.02
c3 to provide for juneteenth as a
holiday for employees
introduced by ms robinson
sort of not here and we
haven't talked about that how we would
do that
all right you can still be introduced
because yeah
the first reading that's beautiful
that's fine it's uh
yeah this is um
okay we'll we'll let her introduce it
next time talk about it next time
there they are right
mr sharp so this isn't being read for
the first time then
she just will discuss it further with us
um we've all read it we know what it's
about um
the public can certainly read it they
will know what it's about and
um she can give us greater detail
when she is here in august that's okay
with everyone
okay all right um yes are we not giving
our
other schedule one employees christmas
off
in section b looks like a typo to me
yeah i must have accidentally hit con
control c a little early there
so and and the police chief and captain
they traditionally don't get the fourth
of july off because of
correct the intent here is that the only
changes are the ones that you see
in bold so i will i will fix that
typographical error
i'm i'm just i was just raising the
second issue
just for clarification for anyone who
was wondering
why the police chief and captain did not
have
the fourth they they get the same
holidays as in the
police contract they get the fourth they
just don't take that day off
there's a i think it's again i don't
want to speak off the cuff i think the
friday following thanksgiving
might be different to to make up for it
or is it veteran veterans day it's
veterans day that we don't have
that's what it is that's right on
schedule one so that's that's the makeup
all right any questions about this
all right can we move on please all
right first reading of ordinance 29-21
to amend sections
to amend 618.15 dogs on city
park and recreational property to
regulate the admittance
of service animals and city parks mr
markham
thank you mr official can you click that
hot link so we'll take a look at it
there we go uh this was
actually brought to our attention by a
resident
uh maria nunez sent this to us just to
show us
in our code uh currently
can we go down to there we go
it's a little bit of a cleanup with uh
with some of the definition but also
that our current code uh requires
service dogs to display
a registration tag although service
animals are not
required to have a special registration
tag
so this takes that out and instead makes
it clear that service animals that have
been
that service animals are allowed in our
parks
mr sharp i realize
that the whereas includes the definition
of service animals but
if we pass this and don't include that
reference um
would that be a problem for some people
interpret
interpreting the ordinance should should
the definition be included in
section one in some way it is in section
one actually
the last year right that's
that's as defined by the ada so that
maybe
you don't have to amend it if the ada is
amended
yeah i wouldn't worry about the ada
mandate in that situation
anything further on this one questions
for mr markham
questions in general
all right may we move on mr markham move
on
all right okay we have first reading now
ordinance 30-21 to create the position
of chief executive
oh i'm sorry yeah that's right to create
the position of chief executive
assistant mr
marcum thank you very much again we
touched on
uh this a little bit tonight that we are
introducing a
a new role uh a new role player into
uh a city here um and this ordinance
will
create that sort of a a
newer change in that position a little
bit
just to uh let you know that
we have an executive session
for the end of this meeting tonight um
at that point i think be prudent to ask
any and all questions
about this you cannot certainly ask
anything
about it now but we'll have an
opportunity to
to do that as well then mr sharp
is there a job description associated
with this new position
yes and i ms lamke appropriately asked
me for that early day i uploaded it to
the agenda it's if you refresh your
screen you'll see it
so it isn't it is an expanded job
description from
the standard executive assistant job
description with some additional
uh responsibilities and um
i you know i think we could speak in in
general terms about the idea which is
just that it would be an expanded
um a little bit not a chief of staff but
taking on some of those responsibilities
um in terms of more robust strategic
planning and involvement and that
more of a communications role
and that's reflected in the job
description and the pay scale
tracks with the water department manager
so it's on it's on par
with that position in terms of just try
to group
positions in city hall sort of in tandem
with
other positions that might make some
sense if possible
anything further on that that cannot
wait till
executive session or that you think is
prudent to share
all right uh mr markham is it okay if we
move on
yes please all right first reading of
ordinance 31-21 to create section 262.02
c14a4
vacation accrual for new employees and
to amend section 262.02 c
14d credit for prior service to provide
for credit
for prior service to employees mr
markham
thank you uh this is uh i
let the mayor talk about this a little
bit but basically we're just saying when
someone comes to work for us
we let them bring in their accrued
vacation time
and a president yes that is correct
there's another provision too that would
allow
employees with full-time experience
outside of the municipality within the
city of ohio because currently
you can get credit for the past
experience at a
municipality within the state of ohio
but not without
council-specific approval uh outside of
employment outs
employment outside of a municipality and
the reason that comes to bear with us
specifically often when we hire
directors or other uh
folks from outside of maybe a sydney
role
in this instance you've heard of two
employees joining us next month
both of them have substantial private
employment experience
that indicate that they should be given
you know some allowance for more than
just the standard
week or two when they start two weeks
when they start
based upon the maturity within the job
market
and so rather than going and having
specific ordinances every time that
situation rises this gives
me with the concurrence of the auditor
the ability to give some credit for
prior service outside of
a city which we felt was a little bit
more elegant than
than making it individual ordinances and
it also puts us in a difficult position
because we have to sort of make the
offer subject to council approval of
that particular provision
which is kind of a sensible provision i
would think mr mark can we have a
question
just to ask uh mr fishel
uh that i assume this has probably been
already asked of you but then this does
not
legally shoehorn us into
granting time that we would not
legally otherwise be required to
but instead gives the option of doing
that would you agree
absolutely the only thing we're legally
required to do now and going forward is
to give prior service credit
for time spent by a new employee and who
has worked for a municipal corporation
in ohio this
expands that on a permissive but not
mandatory basis okay thank you
is the sun yes so that was exactly
my question to expand upon that so this
just again
helps it so not every time someone
that's hired
to bexley outside of another not another
municipality you don't have to visit
that each time but you don't necessarily
have to make the decision
that they accrue that vacation that they
had
outside of working for another
municipality
no municipality it's right it's it's
still
negotiable and again keep in mind the
idea what we're talking about with the
service credit is not as effects accrual
but
the idea would be that that that an an
employee other than from a pr a
municipality in ohio
because of the market and skills and
abilities as assessed by the mayor and
the auditor
would get credit be given 10 years
credit just to throw out an example
for prior service and therefore start
accruing at a higher rate
now there's the other provision that
they could also be provided with 80
hours
of paid leave from the get-go because
again the idea is
with most new employees they come here
they're starting you know
from scratch and you have no paid leave
there are some positions
at a higher level where employees are
not going to want new employees are not
going to want to come
because if they're told you have to wait
one year before you can take any paid
leave and i can tell you
that i have other clients who in the
public sector who are thinking
and have made some similar changes
because of that
need to be competitive
anything further on this
mr markham is okay we move on to tabled
ordinances
i don't think that we have any action on
the bike friendly bexley plan
um we're waiting for miss gervas to give
us
um edits to that i believe um
and then i believe the mayor has some
additional
information as far as what edits she
might be adding
in so the edits pertain to drexel
and specifically i suggested that
since we haven't received those yet
maybe some of the solutions that they
were talking about for drexel might be
incorporated as in
are referenced in the edits okay we will
keep it
we will keep it tabled if that's okay
with you mr sharp
yeah that's fine i just wanted the
mirror to expand on it since we can't
have discussion as a council
thank you thank you um 1221 is obviously
going to stay on
because it pertains to the clean energy
but i know that mr klingler has
action on ordinance 23 21 tonight
mr klingler i would motion that we
remove
ordnance 23 21 from the table okay we
have we have a
uh first is there a second second thank
you mr sharp
um we have a first and a second all
those in favor of removing um
ordinance 23 21 from the table please
signify by saying aye
aye opposed same sign all right mr
klingler it's all yours
thanks it's uh come to my attention that
um
the easement and real property is no
longer being donated to the city
is that correct there
that is correct not at the time for the
time being
so um i think the recommendation would
be to
sorry you go to them you have action on
this if it's if it's not
it's no longer being dominated i'll make
a motion to withdraw
ordinance2321 thank you is there a
second
second thank you uh can this be a voice
all those in favor please signify by
saying aye
all right there was a post same thing
all right if we may i am going to move
us um
to um our committee um reports mr
sharp service and environmental
committee sir
i didn't i don't have any um
new information but i do have a short
statement
i like to make please twelve uh
counseling residents twelve years ago i
made the decision to seek a seat on
council in the november 2009 election
after consideration of work and life
balance i made the decision not to run
for re-election for
council many of the goals i'd had for
the city have been achieved so i'm
graduating after 12 years from council
and we'll move on to different forms of
involvement in the community
i am pleased to say as some may have
already heard through the grapevine that
my son has been considering running for
a seat on council this fall
and i wish him and anyone else who is
considering running
for a seat or for re-election the best
of luck
i've enjoyed serving the city and
working with my current and past
colleagues and the city staff during
this time
and i look forward to these next six
months as we complete the work
required for the rest of the year so
thank you
[Applause]
we're clapping because we love you not
because we're happy you're not running
clarification you know i'd accept
people clapping for me coming or going
we're just happy if you're happy so
thank you so much for your service
all right if we could um move on then to
the finance committee
mr markham yeah i would
well uh well it's hard to follow up you
know
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i don't have any big things like that
and you know richard if i'd
if i'd known i would have written
something you know
i would uh paid tribute to yeah six
months to think
so so so i'm expecting it
i don't have i'll have something really
really really good
uh coming in and december but i i do
want to acknowledge your service here
and just and say
what what a really valuable a great
member of council you've been
uh how fortunate that i personally feel
i've been to to serve on city council
with you
you've always taken time
to to meet openly discuss
and not hesitate to uh disagree
uh with me and i appreciate all of that
finance committee report um i'm gonna
just because the order i'm gonna steal
the thunder from
zoning and development committee and say
that
yesterday i met for the first time the
mural committee
jessica assad myself ellen andrews the
mayor and
our uh mural artist and i'm sorry what
deserve
it yes isabella minkin is
just fantastically talented um and we
we visited the site of the proposed
mural we
we did travel to the site to take a look
at it
right back we had to go through the
alley
and i will say as well that um
that jessica and i and the other members
have
seen the design and we have decided
to not tell you anything about it
we uh we know we know what it'll look
like
we're it's going to be pretty neat so uh
but uh uh we went we will say
that they we expect it to probably be up
here probably about time when we'll be
meeting
again next like the middle of august
early august i think is what we hope to
have done
um and i think it will just really be
a really fun neat thing
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don't worry members i know isabella we
can find out what it looks like
is that matt matt's daughter yes she
just graduated from bexley high school
this is kind of amazing i'm loving this
that is really i am so excited
and just expand on isabella she she
approached just like a year
and a half ago like i think before covid
is the potential senior project and
it's been kind of evolving over time
it's been really fun to work with her
well she's an amazing and amazing
artist and an amazing kid she's she's a
she's a really neat person she's gonna
go far in this world all right is that
all mr markham
all right um jen is not here tonight so
we will move on to zoning and
development committee with jessica saad
chair please
yes um just a couple reminders bzap will
be meeting this thursday june 24th at 6
pm
and cic does meet
in july july 6
at 6 pm so those are upcoming meetings
and i have to give a shout out to
my bexley softball team they won tonight
they will be heading in
to the finals on thursday so go
lady lion great job and
uh shout out to the bexley bulldogs
looks like they're winning right now 15
13. so it could be a good night for the
saad family we'll see how hudson does
love it i love it those kids could be
allowed to eat for the next week
all right if we could move on to mr
klingler and any reports he has
regarding recreation and parks committee
just a couple updates reminder that the
bexley patio is up and running
on saturday i had a chance to put it to
the test and i'm happy to report that it
passed with flying colors
the iron barbecue and chill joy food
trucks will be at bexley club
public library this friday june 25th
uh happy to emphasize the note on mike
price's report that we currently have
600 and
760 pool memberships this summer versus
806 for the summer of 2019
so we're tracking acting well with that
and richard it's been a privilege to
serve on council with you i thank you
for your mentorship
and knowledge
all right well said this i have a
question for mr klingler
now does the bexley patio extend to the
bexley public library parking lot for
the food trucks just
curious it does thank you sir mm-hmm
one of the record reports does it extend
to the parking lot though it does
all right yeah
do we need to get the map out
is it in your backpack
that's never going to get old i'm just
saying maybe not
for me
all right so we could move on if you
don't mind um to judiciary and strategic
committee ms lafke thank you president
bible two quick things
uh first off in the mayor's report june
30th is the rescheduled
bexley pride crosswalk rainbow painting
at the bexley library i invite all of
you to come if you can it's going to be
a lot of fun and very meaningful
and second a few weeks ago the beckley
citizens police academy alumni
association
gave a generous donation to
our animal control officer for her work
that she does with local nonprofits in
the areas of
recovery and um and finding lost
children
she brought her service animal into our
meeting
and we were able as an alumni
association to make a generous donation
so that she
and her dog and her other colleagues can
continue their meaningful
work so that was pretty awesome that's
all i've got
i will echo that it was awesome it was
fun being there and seeing those dogs do
their work it's amazing
amazing all right we are to
our second opportunity for public
comment
um this requires no um
registration um so if there's anyone
who is still with us this evening who
would like to speak to council we would
love love love to hear from you
but i don't see anyone
madam president i have a public comment
to make
that's okay i suppose that's okay well
i just wanted to give you guys a quick
community garden update of my artichoke
babies
those are mine it is
it is these are city councils
well if you look in the distance that
one right behind me is mine there's mine
too and those
little corn babies are probably ready in
time for our council
in august so um we're much more
interested in the artichokes anyone need
some artichokes just let me know
they're gonna get a little smaller as
the season goes along but uh
oh they're my friends it will be
yeah i don't know i'm on it i measured
it was about like
four inches shy it's it's moving quickly
right now
does the rays and the raised garden
count
that's right i don't know what you're
talking about
um and uh one more item of business
which is
i think that elizabeth would want me to
remind everybody that the cups from the
door of patty the bexley patio are
compostable
that it can be taken home and put in
your
compost bin do it and take a picture
she wants otherwise they turn into
methane
nope down them but then empty
carrying them home yeah you will bill
good work
it's a must we see you in the door we
better see it in your compost bin
all right um so we are going to um
vote now to go into uh executive session
pursuant to 223.03 to consider the
appointment
employment dismissal discipline
promotion demotion or compensation
of a public employee or official
so i am going to um
uh make a motion as was said
um but prior to me making that motion i
would like to
tell those in attendance that when we
finish our executive session we
will simply vote to adjourn that's all
that's going to happen
so um you're welcome to
stick with us but i will tell you that
we are going to come right out of
executive session
and and vote uh to um adjourn
until august so um as i mentioned that
was my motion is there a second
second thank you all those of us i think
with the executive session has to be a
voice vote mr farber
yes
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all right so we are going to go ahead
and
yes
what's up
yes
i would like to make a motion to um um
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