I now call our March 12th 2024 Beckley
city council meeting to order Mr mCP if
you would please collect any speaker
slips from our audience those in the
audience that wish to submit a speaker
slip if you could please hand those to
idor M Peak at this time that would be
much appreciated uh Mr Mr mCP would you
also please call the role yes Mr
Marcelino present Mr Hurley present Miss
F Miss sad Miss lampy present Mr
Markham present and Mr Silverman
here Council uh council members uh fibel
and sad let me know that they would not
be able to attend tonight so I would
move to please excuse their absences
could I please get a second second
second by Mr Marcelino all in favor say
I I anyone opposed all right absence is
excused please join me for the Pledge of
Allegiance
okay first up on our agenda is a very
special guest who has brought it seems
like her whole family with her tonight
and filled up our council chambers cdy
Sendo would you please come on up to the
podium I believe the
mayor the mayor has something very
exciting for
you how you doing I'm good how are you
good so for those of you who don't know
Sydney she's awesome um but specifically
the work that she's done recently is
creating a little free Pantry in Sher
Park um as part of a project she worked
on for quite a while yeah very patiently
through
bureaucracy all mik price is for um but
I have this proclamation to read to you
all today whereas Sydney swend it's a
junior at Bexley high school and a
participant in the global Scholars
diploma diploma program and the global
Scholars diploma program progr some
reason bful which is a program of the
Columbus Council on world affairs
provides interactive and collaborative
activities that aim to grow student
awareness of global cultures and
worldwide issues as a final year student
in the program Sydney was tasked with
completing an independent project that
takes local action on an important
Global issue Sydney's passion for
addressing food insecurity led her to a
project to create and install a little
free Pantry in Schneider park by the way
looks really schol it like matches the
design of the uh of the Community
Gardens uh shed and some of the other
architecture around it whereas we're
grateful and proud to recognize and
honor Sydney's passion and persistence
in this project which culminated with
the donation drive to fill the new
Pantry providing a valuable resource for
individuals in our community with food
insecurity now therefore I do Proclaim
March 12th 2024 as Sydney sendle day
congratulations
you want to get a photo yes okay let's
do a photo thank you Sydney for went the
speech there's an exra extra money
forc
Sydney I wanted to thank uh council
member uh Mr Silverman for for kind of
bringing your amazing work to our
attention I mentioned to your mom
outside that uh I knew that I suspected
that this was probably not the first
time that you have filled our free
pantries so this afternoon I went into
my archives and I sent the mayor a photo
if you can please put it up and and
Council would you take a guess as to how
many years now uh Sydney's been filling
our free pantries you want to guess one
year two years three years four years
it's five years uh five years ago when I
was a new member of city council I
organized beckley's first ever youth
service week and your mom sent me a
photo indicating that you and Wyatt had
filled our uh little free pantries with
peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and
Kate you actually sent me a photo and I
shared it on Facebook uh okay it's it's
coming up but I think that that sort of
continued volunteerism is
so infectuous and hopefully contagious
in our community and I wanted to say
thank you so much for sharing it with
this there's the photo from five years
[Laughter]
ago congratulations we're so proud of
you miss Lamy you mind but I thank you
president
I I just want to thank you so much for
everything that you do uh you know your
hard work and everything it's hopefully
a sign of other great things to come
from your generation but thank you so
much for being a leader in our community
and also thank you so much for being a
I'll give a a free plug here one of the
best babysitters in Bexley uh but really
it's just you're such a bright spot for
our community and thank you so much for
everything you do well done anyone else
want to have any comments for our guest
before she heads out and you're
certainly free to stay for the rest of
our city council meeting as is your
family if you'd like otherwise uh again
congratulations we're so honored you and
your whole family could join us
tonight you're so
welcome
all right um at this time I'll turn it
over to public comments uh for items not
on the agenda Mr mCP do we have any
speaker
slips hey Monique just want to note I'm
getting a thing that it says we're not
broadcasting right so we're having an
issue not it's not going to YouTube so
we're recording to the cloud and then
we're post it afterwards okay thank you
thank you Troy and I apologize to any of
our fan bases listening after the
fact no speaker slips okay um moving on
to the president's
report uh Council I do have a motion
that I need to make regarding a purchase
order
um as you are aware purchases in excess
of $3,000 in which purchase orders were
open opened after the date of the
invoice require our approval these can
easily occur at the beginning of the
year when the books have not yet been
opened for purchase orders and when
projects roll forward into a new year
which is the case here with an invoice
from the Paul Peterson group While most
of the funds for this invoice were
covered by 2023 purchase orders a
portion of the total bill
$643 66 uses a 2024 purchase order and
due to that portion the invoice requires
a
motion um mayor did you have anything
else to add before I make my
motion
okay uh I move to approve the payment of
the invoice from the Paul Peterson
Company for $
35,5
$354 could I please have a second second
second by Mr Marcelino all in favor
please say I I I anyone opposed
all right motion
carries and I actually do not have um
any other report tonight uh Mr City
attorney yeah I have a couple things
thanks first of all an update on I can't
remember what the house bill is but the
house bill that was passed that reversed
Bexley among other Ci's ability to
regulate locally regulate tobacco um
what is it 3 33 thanks
um so um there is going to it goes into
effect April 20th um and basically what
it says is that I'm paraphrasing but
local any local or regulation or
ordinance regarding tobacco including
our flavored tobacco ban it cannot be
enforced um by municipalities I heard
also though that an unintended
consequence about this because somebody
or somebody's didn't think through the
legislation that also means that as of
April 20th local municipalities can no
longer enforce their laws prohibiting
sales to people under 21 they have to go
under state law only whatever I mean
again there's supposedly going to be a
fix to that from our perspective though
there's going to be a legal challenge
Beckley is going to participate with the
city of Columbus and probably some other
jurisdictions um and that legal
challenge will be filed sometime I I
haven't connected with the assistant
City attorney we've traded emails on it
who's who's heading it up I assume
that'll be filed sometime after April
20th with a request to the Franklin
County Comm Police Court to enjoin the
enforcement to issue an injunction
prohibiting the state from enforcing
their law which would allow us to
enforce our law while the if an
injunction is put in place um the Ben
Humphrey who some of you met last week
by Associated my office because I was
out of town attended a zoom call with
Franklin County public health and
several other jurisdictions during which
one of the recommendations that was made
is that cities with these kind of
ordinances actually uh pass an ordinance
suspending or temporarily suspending the
operation and instead of repealing the
operation of that that ordinance and I
don't remember this number of our
ordinance so I got to work on figuring
out legally and so what we would do is
probably recommend that Council uh pass
an ordinance to suspend the application
of our city ordinance pending either the
outcome of the litigation or any kind of
injunctions that might um be granted so
I want to let you know that'll be coming
down the pike probably either at the LA
next meeting in March or the first
meeting in April um the other thing to
share is and I think probably everyone
in this room saw it or most of you saw
it that today The Columbus Dispatch
reported that our former employee that
you've been briefed on um pled guilty to
a theft in off well not a theft in
office charge it ended up being a felony
though yeah um but she played guilty to
a felony um and has been has or will be
making restitution to the city through
her account with opers so the money that
she put in so the city is going to be
made whole on that
um but I also wanted to just I guess for
anybody listening or who doesn't know I
just wanted to and I'm going to bring up
the information that we had
previously discussed among some of us is
that um so the um again just as a
reminder during an internal audit
conducted in 2021 the city became aware
of this financial misconduct on the
behalf on the part of this former
employee the city immediately contacted
the state of Ohio to report what it had
found and um worked with the auditor and
law enforcement to investigate the
matter the financial impact turned out
to be about $1,000 as I understand it um
City continued to work with law
enforcement and most importantly and I
assume Mr mCP may want to speak on this
and could probably do a much thorough
more thorough job the city has put in
place measures to make sure that
this kind of
misconduct can't occur again I mean
there's no guarantees but I think we've
done made a lot of changes to make sure
it doesn't occur again so I just wanted
to make folks aware of that as well um
in case you hadn't seen it end of report
any questions uh from Council for our
City
attorney okay Mr
mCP you're up yeah um thanks for that
update and yeah I think um just to kind
of dovetail off of that um you know we
certainly made changes within the
finance department to improve controls
um and continue to make um again
additional changes to to just improve
that Control process with that being
said as a reminder um in this year's
budget we have dedicated dollars to have
third-party Auditors and that is one of
our key areas of Focus right now for um
the first wave of of targeted audits is
is really looking at how does money get
out the door um or the doors of of City
Hall so whether that's payroll or
payment um that's where we're focusing
so um just want to make sure that city
council our community understands that
we are continuing to Pro our controls
and um leveraging third parties to also
help with that thank you Matt we are so
lucky to have you kind of adding a new
uh perspective and for um steering Us in
the right direction any questions from
Council for our
auditor nope okay at this time we're
going to turn it over to our mayor to
walk us through the administrative
updates thank you Madame President um I
believe up first is H Kathy
Rose it's here it's good just not
talking sorry about
that I do have pictures on this one good
evening the the I wanted to share what
the new cohatch is going to look like
and in in the smaller right hand corner
if that scooted up a little bit you can
see what it oops previous building so
that's so the open porch addition in the
front and several site improvements
around it to really dress it
up um St Charles they're still of course
in process of making improvements and uh
we're we've been doing that in phases
Trinity Apartments we are currently
working with the engineers on site
changes that have to occur related to
utilities before they can even
consider uh any construction so that's
going to be a
process um also I've
shared the February 22nd architecture
border of zoning and plan uh if you want
to scoot that up the page a little bit
are you controlling that mayor what's
that are you controlling this I can keep
going yeah sorry yes okay so th those
are the cases Board of zoning heard last
month
um and then we have the architecture
review upcoming
cases so if anybody has any questions
related to any of
those thanks Kathy um I saw you made
mentioned with the with the Trinity
apartment of um demolition possibly
coming up late spring early summer um
what are the discussions when it talks
about removing some of that land are we
looking at um closures on Main Street
possibly or we going to try to take it
out through uh Park View in the back
access area we try to get the shortest
route and they are planning to work off
of the Main Street side we will have
meetings with City staff just to get
that nailed down but they would like
access to the site
um and work around the hours where they
have to have lanes open on Main Street
there will will be portions of time
where we have to have that curb lane
closed so they'll work around what the
city would recommend uh they also plan
on not using the brighten Road access so
there's less issues with the neighbors
to the north and we'll be meeting with
them as well to discuss any concerns
they may have uh but a lot of them are
similar to what the concerns that the
city would have of routing this uh what
they're removing from the site out of
the city 5 500,000 tons of gravel
dirt like 500,000 tons is what I
remember hearing about for the removal
of of dirt and soil so plus there's
existing uh surface and holes that you
know you're going to have to lower
stations and whether they have to move
some of that so we're investigating what
lines are available who's tapped into
them and where to make sure that you
know we don't create any issues for any
of the homes and have done studies to
track the capacity and make sure that's
also not going to be an issue so it's a
long process because we have to figure
that out and then uh there are still
conditions that have to be addressed by
the zoning board so we've had one
meeting where they've discussed some of
the conditions however they want to come
back and and actually knock all of those
conditions out at the same time so that
we have you know the December 18th
decision with conditions and then we
have the date of the conditions being
addressed and hopefully reviewed and
approved by the zoning
board and then they'll have they'll be
submitting construction documents the
conditions mostly apply to like the
materials of the
building uh colors things of that nature
landscape but the actual massing and
footprint of the building shouldn't
change so the best they can do at this
point is provide construction drawings
that deal with the foundations so if we
can get a foundation
start that's at least an approval of
allowing them to go forward with
construction which we won't allow a
demolition unless they've got something
they can turn around and start building
so once we get that approved then they
can do the demolition of the buildings
then they can start the site changes so
there's a lot of working parts here
thank you for that Clarity and update
appreciate it you're welcome are are you
saying that the condition so the
conditions that have been placed on
approval those have to be passed before
then they can get into those next stages
right the zoning board makes the final
decision for the Main Street district
and the architecture review board had
conditions those conditions continued
forward to the zoning board they agreed
so they are doing their homework to
address those
conditions uh what they can make work
with this project that's not the
internal meetings though that you're
talking about no I I'm meeting with
staff uh David KO our city engineer with
their engineer and Jason Hawk just to
talk about the site what's with the
utilities wor where everything's laid
out and how it works with their plan is
there is there a a not sure if you said
there's a specific timetable for them to
go back and see if those conditions are
met with and they get that final like
there's a final then they say approval
based on the conditions and it's voted
on again right I would think they' want
to work go forward as soon as they can
because if there is still something
that's not quite right they still need
that time to find a solution and bring
it back to the board so and then but
then it does go back for like a vote
whether that is they have voted on the
variance and the uh you know the the the
six-story building in exchange for the
five-story building because they made
modifications to address concerns
expressed by the boards and the
neighbors so they did vote that it is
appropriate how they've got the massing
and the sighting uh but it's the details
we'd like to have the details also a
part of that approval so that's what
we're really waiting for at this point
I'm going to ask this in a different way
so um when they say that when they say
there's approval but with conditions
then like just when someone says well
how do we know that the conditions are
met how do we know that the conditions
are met if it's not voted on again well
okay so the foundation that that will be
voted on the conditions the applicant
will actually accept uh if there's any
conditions that the board adds on these
they'll have to accept it then they'll
vote on it okay but also when the
construction documents are submitted I'm
looking at zoning information Karen's
looking at design information to make
sure that you know if something was
supposed to be changed or modified we
verify that before we allow for the the
second phase of that construction permit
that to make sure that all the
conditions are met when I listen to
those meetings I hear The Architects
they they they're really very nuanced in
a lot of their details and opinions and
to me I I I understand the spirit of
what they're saying but then that's what
I'm curious about does it go back there
then and do they have it feels like a
group that enjoys debating uh debate
about whether they feel like that's what
we were intending it will go back to the
architecture review board so they can
have good discussion and in in case
there's any other modifications to the
condition or a recommendation on what
their solution is okay um a lot of times
it's simple uh new materials that they
they're curious as to how they weather
over time because we want to make sure
that whatever we approved you know 15
years from now we're not looking at
something that's just you know not
not and that timetable is up to the
developer I would assume contingent on
the scheduled meetings of the ARB then
right well like the developer could come
back to them the very next meeting and
say Here's how I think I've addressed
your conditions and then they could vote
on it right correct it's only to the
detriment of the developer if they drag
their feed on that or if they're slower
being able to address those things and I
think they wanted to make sure that you
know this was a wellestablished
design before they closed on the
property yeah so that's should be
happening this week so I would think
time is of the essence I mean they've
provided me with a rough schedule of how
they'd like to proceed so it's it's on
their books and they're they're moving
forward as quick as they can okay I was
in my mind when I see a gig I'm a you
know I'm a biology teacher so when I see
these gigantic development you know all
these plans and I see the debates about
all that I don't know whether those
conditions are a two- we thing or a tw-
Monon thing or a you know is this a you
know something that's really up for a
lot of interpretation again and I think
uh for me that's where a lot of people
in beex are kind of wondering too has it
been approved has it not been approved
how it's kind of like a road block maybe
you could call it a roadblock and they
can't get pasted until they've addressed
the concerns of the boards but I would
say it just to simplify it it's it has
substantially been approved yes I mean
where we are now is sort of
haggling is not the right word but
refining the fine point of details and
unlikely that anything that is currently
closing in would would my question is
addressing how you get to that that last
point then is it a vote is it an ARB
vote again that like depends so there
are conditions on staff there are
conditions which require further board
approval and there are conditions that
require further staff approval okay and
the board determines what those are so I
think we have both coming up we still
have more board approvals is that
correct correct yeah I mean it's overall
approved but the conditions are have are
open-ended so we need those addressed
and that's going to require
recommendations from both the
architecture review board and the tree
and public garden commission and then
the board of zoning will finalize that
so an example of one that still would
pend staff approval is I think like
shielding of the Mechanicals I think
written into the decision was or that
was that board approval uh the the
garage that the screen of the garage
opening on the west side of the building
how they were going to address that
that's a design element so that's
something that the architecture review
board will say this is the material
mechanical screening is one that was
referred to staff for the future I think
yes yes that's that's an example of one
that still has yet to be determined
through staff approval you said referred
to staff by rooftop Mechanicals staff
has the staff was given the right the
ability to review and approve based upon
Dr submitted it was felt that that was
and that is pretty common place I think
for rooftop Mechanicals but Kathy raised
an example of garage entrance screening
which is going back to the board and
that's the sort of thing that we would
see at a future meeting where they would
say here's kind of how we're addressing
that and then that would be um not not
necessarily like like maybe there's a
parit wall at the top of this Mass
they're garage screening question let's
focus on ones that require board further
Board
review that that was one of the
conditions so they'll look at what their
solution is and they will get a
recommendation from architecture review
board and then they will approve that
condition okay yeah I'm just seeing it
from the perspective of someone who
listened to the meetings and followed it
and then there was a certain point where
there's approval and there's conditions
and I'm like well what's the next thing
that we would expect to see our people
would expect to see and there's a lot of
questions I think like I think what we
hear all the time is is this a done deal
you know and then I go well I don't
think so I think there's still
conditions that you would see but it has
been approved pending those that's right
and Kathy Maybe you can just make a list
of approve conditions that are still
pending out there and where they're
going to that'd be something we could
make and get back to council oh
absolutely it's it's all included in the
uh record of decision from the December
18th yeah I'm just trying to see like
how that looks then in the future I'm
sorry I don't mean for this to be a
really long no it's a really important
but uh yeah I just think there is like
you
know this coming there where you know
people can see that those things like
that doesn't all just happen over the
past couple months and it will continue
to some of it's kind of hard to predict
because for example even under
construction there will be some change
in conditions maybe I'm not saying there
will but and you know they have to come
back to tree commission for a change of
plan or whatever so okay that sort of
process continues but the the
substantial approvals have occurred okay
thanks
y any other questions for
Kathy um I believe Mike
Price thank you mayor um just a couple
quick highlights uh the committee that
has been working on the preservation
enhancement uh plan at Jeffrey Park
approved at the February 28th meeting uh
approved a final design that is now in
front of the W board uh who reviewed it
at the past meeting and will likely vote
on at the April 3D meeting um the
Jeffrey Woods Festival was last weekend
uh March 2nd um uh huge thank you to
Scout Troop 166 uh Ron Gould uh Grant
Archer and their teams for all their
work mayor kler for all his support and
efforts with that and uh we had a our
biggest yield to date of over 150
bottles and we had a really good turnout
it was a really nice day for the event
um Skate Park public uh Workshop is set
for Wednesday March 27th the committee
actually reviewed the final design
yesterday and um unan unanimously uh
voted to support the design so we will
um go you know it'll go in front of the
rec board as well and we will present it
at a public workshop on March 27th with
that uh oh and the Egg Dash is coming up
uh mark your calendars um March 30th
between 12 and 12:05 pm. um so come on
out we're gonna hide one egg really well
and see if we can get to
1205
yeah happy to answer any
questions any questions for
Mike all right um my update is sparse uh
this week but I do want to call
attention to Capital is hosting the
division 3 NCAA women's basketball
championship which is exciting they've
been slated to do that for about four or
five years I think um and we had
provisionally we had scheduled a ride
the bus with mayor Ben through Cod
for March
23rd uh that is a Saturday during spring
break which uh we actually had a little
bit of sign up but I was not adequately
vetted of my I did not adequately vet my
schedule and I put that date out there
so we're going to push that back a
little bit but uh in case You' already
signed up just there will be an email
coming your way and state of the
community has been um moved to April
15th so that will still be at St Charles
and look looking forward to seeing you
all there and happy to answer your
questions and we've got some on city
council chambers yay saying thank you
president lampy for the doors although
they're missing words so we're excited
that that'll be the next we're excited
to have those n month
project thank you mayor for walking us
through all of that all right uh Mr
official I think we're on to consent
agenda all right on the consent agenda
we have the meeting minutes for from
February 27th 2024 and amended ordinance
60624 establishing the Craig kimman fund
to support families with special needs
designed to receive donations intended
for the provision of support and
services for Bexley residents and
families facing special needs challenges
and to authorize the appropriation of
$5,000 from the unencumbered general
fund to provide funds to match private
donations introduced by Miss sad thank
you uh any questions from Council on the
consent agenda um Mike uh just to to be
clear um the amendment changed that
language it's not an authorization of
appropriation of 5,000 just so
the yeah just just in terms of the
reading the amendment changes that
because I I do want to read it correctly
into the record just thank you
yep I forgot we did that all
right well that what
that has red does the red come out
no that's the oh matching bu I see okay
so I am going to just so it's clear read
this again it's on the consent and
gender proposed I'm sorry amended
ordinance 6-24 in ordinance establishing
the Craig climate fund to support
families with special needs designed to
receive donation intended for the
provision of support and Services for
Families facing special needs and
challenges and to authorize matching
funds from unincumbered general fund
Appropriations in the mayor's office for
special needs up to $5,000 in donations
all right thank you uh any questions
from Council on the consent
agenda uh any public
comments I move to adopt the consent
agenda could I please get a second
second second by Mr Marcelino all in
favor say I I I anyone opposed all right
consent agenda
passes um I I want to make quick comment
about the The Voice vote which is
perfectly fine no no it's totally fine
but I just want all council members to
understand that if at any point it's
unlikely to happen any council member
can call before an individual vote and
not just the eyes and a totally your
call just want you to know you have that
option
perfectly fine to do though um all right
moving on to third readings uh third
reading of resolution 0124 supporting
the purposeful unification of
Commonwealth East and Commonwealth West
Parks into a single cohesive Park
including the closure of North Columbia
Avenue between Commonwealth Park north
and Commonwealth Park South introduced
by Miss
Bible Mr Marcelino is this one you
covering this Miss B yes thank you very
much um for Council here um Miss fival
has asked me to uh read a brief
statement before we uh take a vote on
this resolution so this statement is
from her in her words so when I say I
picture this being Lan thank you I want
to remind Council prior to our vote that
this is a resolution that simply affirms
our support for the city to combine two
beautiful Parks into one large one by
changing black top into grass I have
been asking Council to think green for
the past year and I want you to continue
to do so this time Green Space the
resolution is not asking us to choose
chairs or pavers gazebos or water
features for this added Green Space it
is asking us to vote safy for our
children vote for more room for our
residents to enjoy outdoor Gathering
spaces vote more opportunities to
improve our tree canopy and vote
beautification over uglification
if this resolution passes we can rest
assured that no time in our future will
residents in our community look back at
this decision and say I wish our leaders
would not have created more green
space and that is all in this Bible
thank you um any questions or comments
from
Council uh I will just add that um I
appreciate the mayor kind of hitting
pause on something that had been
approved years ago um for a much higher
price tag I also appreciated the
opportunities for input uh not only for
public Workshop but this going to
various Community groups and other uh
planning groups to see what they thought
um I think after considering this and
knowing that option one which was the
proposed keeping it separate but making
some upgrades at the tune of uh a,
338,000
versus option b which is to do nothing
uh which cost is projected to cost
97,500 uh leads me to think that option
C which is unification to the tune of
$135,000 really makes the most um
economic and beautification sense and
I'm happy to support
it so just wanted to say
that all right no question questions or
comments from Council all right this is
the third reading any comments from our
public okay Mr Marcelino do you have a
motion yes I move to approve resolution
01
d24 move by Mr Marcelino is there a
second second second by Mr Hurley Mr mCP
would you please call the role Mr
Silverman yes Mr Markham yes Mr Hurley
yes Mr
yes and miss or I'm Sorry Miss lamp key
yes okay ordinance passes I'm sorry
resolution passes resolution passes
fantastic thank you all so much thank
you Council it's a big deal it is a big
deal work my
price all right I guess we're on to
Second readings uh we have a second
reading of ordinance 0724 to amend
section 262.50 2 C3 holidays in order to
rectify juneth as a holiday for
non-bargaining unit employees that was
introduced by Miss
sad uh thank you Miss sad is not here
this evening but um at our first reading
I think uh it was fairly explained that
uh there was an in
inadvertent um kind of omission to uh uh
that we are trying to fix with this
ordinance um mayor do you want to pull
that up just so Council can look at that
one more time
yep it's
coming
we need to get rid of them that
highlight is not of significance it's
just there for your and pleasure
okay so this just adds back in
juneth correct correct yeah
okay had been added before and then
accidentally un added with an earlier
version that was used as a basis for a
different Amendment this is returning
sounds good any questions from Council
or
comments uh Mr mCP do we have any
speaker slips on this one no speaker
slips U Miss sod let me know that she
would not be opposed to this going on
the consent agenda at our next meeting
are folks fine with
that okay Natalie if we can put
ordinance 7-24 on the consent agenda
that'd be
great all right now we're on to a second
reading of ordinance
additional responsibilities added to
this job description that came from
Mad thank you um again since missad is
not present this evening uh at our last
meeting I think the mayor uh walked us
through the necessity for this ordinance
especially regarding uh an amendment to
a pay range mayor would you be able to
pull this one up
please so this establishes a pay rate uh
from
48424 to
68,276 some other internal positions and
seems to be good from an equity
standpoint sounds good any questions or
comments from
Council uh Mr mCP any speaker
slips no speaker slips um Miss sad also
let me know that she would be fine with
this one going on the consent agenda
anyone oppose to
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that can we just can we just this yeah I
do I yeah let's just have one more just
in case any no problem we'll have to go
to a third reading um all right moving
on all right second reading of
resolution
2-24 adopting the solid waste management
plan for the Solid Waste Authority of
Central Ohio introduced by Miss Mr
Silverman thank you um as we talked last
meeting this is to approve the Solid
Waste Authority plan that they released
to the general public um
I talked to esac and Elizabeth Elman
about her position she seemed pretty
confident in what they were doing um I
don't really have much more clarity this
was given so I'm GNA ask if Ben wants to
add anything additional um for us to
know about in regards to the solid waste
management
plan
solid that's better than not solid it
seems to be consistent with our zero
waste objectives and um they've been
gracious enough to have us be heavily
involved some of their strategies which
we see in it so we're we're happy I took
I took it in front of esack so I figur
they they're the ones that would
understand mrle just a a question for
the mayor uh do we do you know from any
of our I guess partner cities how many
of them are close to or have taken
action on this I
don't right any other questions or
comments from
Council I'd be open for this to go and
consider agenda if something I can well
hang on a second Mr M peek any speaker
slips from the public on this no speaker
slips I still have a question oh Alex
you said you took it before the uh e
SEC yeah I had a conversation
withe I had a conversation with
Elizabeth Elman with isack uh in regards
to the plan and if she has a position on
it I was interested to see her opinion
and the and she was talking to the group
on the 11th um she basically got back to
me and said that it was pretty solid and
she supported it were there any other
comments I'm just curious when they
talked about it not to my knowledge okay
thanks all right and Mr Silverman has
indicated he is fine to have this on the
consent agenda uh folks okay with that
I'm going to jump up and say I think
that probably let's give it a reading
okay all right Natalie this one's going
to stay on as a third reading uh at our
next meeting okay sounds
good um I believe there is no action on
our table ordinances Mr Marcelino I am
looking at you no nope neither one nor
two nor three
only only three we're getting okay
moving on uh Miss s did not have a
finance report this evening so um um I
don't know floran also gave you a rexen
park did not let me just make sure there
wasn't the last minute submission to me
here if you want
to I don't see any she did kid that she
was going to send me a five pager but I
never received such a document so I I
think we're okay to pass all right
sounds good uh Mr Silverman for service
and environmental you have any report
this
evening thanks president lamp key um
only thing I want to make a note I know
that the uh esack had a meeting on the
11th as I mentioned earlier they are in
heavy planning for the upcoming month of
April there will be more updates
probably at the next council meeting
regarding to all the things that are
being planned but to the community and
to the council at large if you are aware
of somebody that has a skill based on
repairing items uh possibly a mcgyver
that you might know about uh they are
looking for people to help with what
they call the uh repair Cafe and they're
looking for volunteers to sign up for
that uh and what that can do is somebody
can come and bring a microwave in and
somebody could try to attempt to fix it
and hopefully be able to keep items in
circulation longer um that's just one
example but there's going to be various
trade skills that can help address stuff
and try to keep items from being
disposed the goal always to reduce the
landfill so this is one way um this is
one of many things coming up in the
month of April but this requires some
people to assist with their skill set so
if you know anybody let me know let
Elizabeth Elman know we we are looking
for uh repair people of different skill
sets and that is the end of my
report zoning and development Mr
Marcelino yes thank you very much uh ARB
uh is meeting on March 14
2024 at 6pm uh they will discuss the
projects that Kathy just put before us I
have a question because I was looking at
the calendar to make sure I didn't miss
any of my uh my uh boards there and I
see a dog man party at 2:00 on
March
24th it says Dogman party and it's on
our City calendar here
um okay so the beex library okay I
didn't does anybody know what it was
enjoy crafts and games as well as a
scavenger hunt as the library and Grammy
book celebrates the release of the
latest Dogman book Dogman the Scarlet
shedar very cool book will be available
for purchase I put it on a calendar but
it might have went on to the wrong
calendar because my kids they also
that's the author of Captain Underpants
I believe okay I remember my kids are
really excited I think fornie Marcel my
kids are really excited to go to dog man
so I will take accountability for that I
will move it to my personal but I
believe I I accepted that uh reservation
for the event calendar very good well my
apologies that's F I just saw it point
of order which which chair is
responsible for the
dog um uh we we did not vote on one of
the tabled ordinances and I know that
we've been indicating that we' tell the
community when we plan to take a certain
ordinance in regarding to zoning on
Livingston off of the table uh so as of
now my plan would be to take ordinance
0424 off of the table at our next
meeting on March 26
2024 if that were to change or president
lampy doesn't feel comfortable doing it
on that date we will certainly inform
the community otherwise uh my intent to
bring that off the table at our next
meeting for a vote um I wanted all seven
people to have a say on that one um and
then Alex this is actually I'm going to
kick this back to you uh bmpa I know
there's discussion of moving some
meetings due to their busy March um do
you there's it's on the calendar for
March 18 2024 for their community
meeting do you know if that's still
taking place I know they've had a ton of
events
recently I will have to check because
they have circle of Excellence sorry
they have the C of Excellence coming up
um but I know they are trying to get uh
a meeting for the third Monday okay
tentatively it's on March 18th 2024 and
I want to thank uh Tiasha and and and
Alex and Brian and Jonathan and and I
can go on and that's the problems that I
can't name everybody but it was such a
wonderful event on Sunday that that was
put on by bmpa um I hope they raised a
bunch of money for them over $3,000
amazing I mean that's just great and
that goes obviously to the scholarship
there so just an excellent event really
cool and if you miss it this year make
sure you hop out next year that's all
thanks great thank you uh strategic and
Health Mr Hurley uh thank you uh a few
things first uh thank you all for
responding to the latest doodle poll to
try to C or schedule our Council Retreat
um we may be adding more dates to that
uh we are a hard group to Wrangle so um
we're we're gonna get it locked in
though I I exchanged an email with Ben
Heckman so we'll be at the library um
but keep I I'll communicate with you all
via email on that if you have not
already sent me suggestions for topics
please do so I'll be sitting down closer
to that date with uh mayor and the
council president to finalize the agenda
um land use strategy commission met
March 4th uh some of the things that
were discussed um the online survey has
received uh under nearly 200 responses
which I think is pretty awesome um the
results are being updated my
understanding is that the poll will
remain active but they're going to kind
of freeze the results as is and then if
there's a big influx of additional
comments they may update that in the
future but um the data was really
fascinating and so I I think it's going
to really be um informative for us um
there will be another round of public
workshops expected in May following some
of the working group reports which I
believe will be discussed at the April
1st meeting of the land used commission
uh the cic meeting for March 4th was
postponed till April 1st so April 1st
that Monday will be a very fun day and
lastly I will be at the morsy state of
the region this Friday I don't know if
anyone else jumped
in I did M president nice awesome we see
you guys there that's all for me right
good time Mr Markham my for the MARC
meeting is choose your seed according to
the dessert that's in
front right very helpful thank
you no too bad it yeah hey uh to piggy
back on the uh land use I going to ask
Ben do we have a public meeting for land
use coming up again so I think Danny was
saying um around may it might actually
be a little later than that yeah um but
uh we will be we'll be advertising that
far and wide okay we're waiting for the
working groups to have some draft
recommendations first okay uh and then I
will also say like that that survey is
pretty fascinating if any of the council
members here want some interesting
reading uh Danny me Sam and Ben I'll
have copies of that that we can provide
for you there's a lot there to uh to
read um the same night that had led use
they love your alley and I just wanted
to report that uh love your alley is uh
not only continuing to do good work but
expanding and I think uh Rebecca NES is
closing in on a
$47,000 grant to uh work on the South
Western portion of the beex over here to
do uh removal of uh some native weed
plants and stuff like that and so that's
pretty exciting that's a b big old area
there that I think they're going to work
on that's congratulations to them for
for that success that's it great um we
are over to item 20 public comments any
comments from our massive
public nope okay uh Council we do have
one more item of business before we
adjourn um I move that we go into
executive session to prepare for
conductor review collective bargaining
strategy by division G4 of section
121.2 two of the Ohio Revised Code can I
please get a second second this a voice
okay we do okay um all in favor
say oh I'm sorry I heard I heard we okay
um Mr mCP would you please call the r
hey Mr Christopherson hang on a second
we gotta vote Miss lampy yes Mr Hurley
yes Mr Markham yes Mr Marcelino yes Mr
Silverman yes all right motion
passes
e
okay uh Council I move to come out of
executive session could I please get a
second second second by Mr
Marcelino okay all in favor say I I I
anyone
opposed okay I move to adjourn could I
please get a second
second all in favor say can I do a voice
forward on this one Mr official yes okay
I'm sorry all in favor say I I I anyone
opposed all right we'll see you March
26th