we're going live by the way right now oh
well thanks
sorry but thanks for that
all right we're on we're live almost
okay klingler was all worried about me
thanks matt
i was you're welcome we're so glad
you're with us
we are good to go whenever you are ready
president bible
all right thank you mayor kessler i
appreciate that
i want to wish everyone
a very happy passover and a very
um happy holy week at our house we call
it
uh east over because we celebrate
everything
so hope everyone um is enjoying this
beautiful beautiful
weather um this spring and
um i want to welcome all of those who
are joining us today to our
last meeting of march and
i would ask uh that everyone remember
that we are here for the good of bexley
all of us are here for the good of
bexley we'll call mr harvey
miss fibel here mr klingler
here ms lamke here
mrs mr markham here ms robinson
here miss sod here mr sharp
he said he's having problems hearing
he's here though all right yes he is
okay all right
we'll continue with the pledge and
hopefully figure out that um
as we go um so take a good look at
the mayor's screen great lag there
waiting for us
i pledge allegiance
all right thank you everyone
so uh presentations special guests
everybody is special tonight and we have
no one outstanding
um so we will
move on to um
item number five which is public comment
i'm going to
um remind to everyone that that council
or administration will do their best to
answer their questions you will be
allowed to speak um after you please
give us
your name and your address please
and i am going to look and see who might
have
used their icon to raise their hand
to speak to us tonight
mr mayor will you double check to see
that i also do not see
that you also do not see a hand raised
i do not thank you so much
all right then we will move on to my
report and i have
um nothing to add this evening so
i will move on to our city um attorney
and see if he has a report to give
just real quick the as you folks will
recall
uh the city was a party in a lawsuit
that challenged the state's authority to
collect municipal taxes
for on our behalf awfully nice of them
we prevailed
in that lawsuit uh um and then the next
step was the state was collecting
while they were a law before the court
ruled they were collecting
fees that they allowed themselves to
take
on that money and they were refusing to
return it well the court just ruled that
the state has to return those fees um
that were
collected while they were unlawfully
collecting taxes for us so that's good
news it'll be a few dollars back to us
that is all thank you so much
mr fishel we appreciate you um and that
is
that is great news uh we'll move on to
the finance department i know
that um there has been a report that has
been prepared for
us and i would love for either beecher
or
um mr harvey to give us a um
a high view over of you know just give
us a gloss over it and we could get into
details if he has
anybody has any further further
questions you can go offline and have
have great discussions with him okay
i'll be happy to do that
mr president um the uh
the report shows that our city income
tax is higher than budgeted this
this month uh we're up for the year
uh of course it's only two months i
think we're going to find that we are
down
in march so this could very well be a
timing issue
as you can imagine we're getting weird
finances from the county as they
distribute their money
uh i see nothing in here to give us any
concern at this point
we ended up last year fine and right now
we're doing
great even even if the march numbers
aren't much better they
they we we still look okay but i'll be
happy to answer any questions that
anybody has
either now or or at any time in the
future
anybody have he i'm sorry i keep losing
my
um little screen that shares the the
hands raised we do have a hand raised
i'm not uh looking at the right thing
actually we have two hands right um ms
robinson has her hands
hand raised um jen yeah mine is just a
really quick question first of all
um feature and and bill thank you for
putting together such a comprehensive
report it's always really helpful to see
mine
is actually under public health and
safety i saw
a line item that i have not seen before
or
at least it i hadn't noticed it before
and that's the emergency warning
um and there is you know a you know just
over seventeen thousand dollar
expenditure is that
our own what warning system is we
we beecher or the chief can answer this
too but that's money that we pay
uh as part of a county-wide thing that's
our share of that
that's the short that's the short answer
yeah the
the most specific thing is it's um a
part of the tornado sirens
um we paid our city share for that and
um and that's the biggest part of that
teacher it looks like there might be a
typo there because there is a budget
line item for that
and the report is showing no budget for
it
yeah that could be um
you're probably just pulling from the
wrong field and i'll correct that
yeah it looks like our budget is 18 558
in that line item
so just something to look at yes we do
have a budget yep great
thank you i appreciate it
is that the year i can't see on my phone
ben is that the year-to-date budget as
well
uh year-to-date budget versus actual
uh oh do you think maybe you just timed
it differently monthly it's not the
overall yeah
okay yeah yeah that's a little
misleading or confusing
got you so beecher projects which months
he's gonna pay out certain things and
that shows up in the year-to-date budget
and it sounds like it just was projected
for different months but there is a
budget for the year on that and that
tracks with the budget
thank you all right i also know that
ms lamke had her hand raised
monique bill does this take into account
any cares act money
that we have already received for this
year i
did sneak a peek into the mayor's report
and i know he has a
cares act uh sheet in his report but
how does this take into account um
the kova dollars that we're expecting
this
the the new money that was just passed
this doesn't have any of that in
it there is some money from the
last go-around in here
not all of it but those things that we
could
uh that we had allocated to the city
we've put in here
some of that went last year some of it's
in this year but the new money there's
nothing
of ours in here yet because we don't
really know what we're going to get out
of that
i mean ben has some ideas but
i help it it does and i'll see what the
mayor mentions maybe during his report
too to see if it prompts any more
questions thanks
okay any other questions
for uh feature or for um
mr harvey all righty then we
can move on to um
i believe it's the police report chief
sir do you have anything to add to your
report
no ma'am i do not it was great and i
have asked um the information
um concerning the dogs to be put um in
the blast because i think it's
definitely something that we need to be
reminded about so um
we do have a question from assad jessica
yes thanks president fiable um yeah i
just wanted to say thanks so much for
that wonderful police report it you just
reminds us of
how much that our bexley police
department is doing for our community
and that was a very thorough report if
the rest of council hasn't had a chance
to read it please do
i thank you so much president fiable for
making sure that that goes out in the
blast that we do have a dog leash law
in the city of bexley we all love
our animals we love our children we love
thy neighbor and it's just so important
to make sure that we are doing our due
diligence as good neighbors
to make sure that our furry friends are
on leashes
i know that the sweetest of dogs can be
tempted when our
lacrosse sticks are out and balls are
going across the alleys or across the
street
and we just don't want to put our dogs
our furry friends or our children
or our neighbors in a situation so
please do
abide by that dog leash law that's why
it's there
um and then i just wanted to um as the
as in the statement from the chief in
the department
to encourage residents to be aware of
surroundings i think that's an
important thing for all of us to
acknowledge right now
and it says that um in your report chief
and i just wanted to make sure that that
was highlighted
um as a council person and then just one
question for you chief
arrest um it looks like our are down
currently but
thefts burglaries and robberies are up
and i
just wanted to have you kind of speak
upon that i didn't know if it had
anything to do with
some of the juvenile um cases that we've
spoken about
oh the juvenile case has certainly
impacted that but you know this has just
been a crazy
a crazy past several months uh trying to
get some of these statistics to flatten
out
and that makes some sense but i
as we often do uh we look at we try to
look at the bigger cycle
and and i think we're doing very well uh
arrests aren't down that much but uh
everybody's working hard that's that's
about the only explanation i have for
the numbers you're looking at
thank you
um looks like we have another uh handed
the air ms lampke has
it does monique just so council is aware
i did reach out to the mayor and to the
chief
to see if there might be any
recommendations that our
police department has by way of
potential signage on livingston
i know mayor i don't know if you want to
speak to this but i obviously recognize
that
while bexley police can't control
signage on livingston they might be able
to advocate for that
and i know that they are currently
looking to see if they have any
recommendations to pass along
to columbus pd regarding signage on
livingston
is there anything more that you or the
chief would want to add to that
um chief i you and i have not discussed
that since monique's question i mean i
think i said at the last council meeting
we've advocated in the past we advocated
for the
active speed signs that are in place and
if they've ever gone down we've
made sure that columbus is aware of it
and they've been quick to to repair it
um i i personally do not feel that
there's a lack of signage i don't think
that's the issue on livingston
and as you rightly said we cannot
control signage on livingston but chief
have you guys had a chance to look at it
oh no sir not uh not being on our normal
travel on livingston but if there's some
some part of it you think we should take
a closer look at we'd be glad to do that
but but i agree i agree with you i uh i
sure appreciate
miss lampke's uh thinking about it
trying to come up with different
solutions
she's offered she's offered several
several suggestions
some that we're already doing but i
don't i don't know i wouldn't know what
signage changes we could make
that that might get somebody's attention
down there quite frankly
do you have anything specific monique
that you have in mind
um a couple of the suggestions that that
i had that i'd certainly
you know maybe want um our
officers to consider or you may or to
consider is
if we have something emphasizing that
uh speeding laws will be enforced or
i've seen in other
communities where they emphasize what a
speeding fine
amounts to um or even just something you
know
slow down let our kids grow up but when
i took a drive on livingston just a few
days ago before i sent you both
uh that note it occurred to me that
sometimes when people see the same signs
over and over
they totally disregard them and while
there's adequate signage
to state the speed limit perhaps
something emphasizing
that speed speed speeding will not be
tolerated that speed limits will be
enforced or what potential fines are
something new to catch someone's eye so
that they know that they need to really
abide by
the speed limit on livingston those are
the kinds of things that i was just
thinking about
my experience has been the signage about
stating that speed limits will be will
be strictly enforced
can be effective if in fact speed limits
are being
strictly enforced and i think as we all
know that's not happening the way we
need to see it happen
down there our officers are down there
on our border and a show of force as
part of uh
an effort that that the mayor has uh
has created but as far as action
officers actually out on livingston
in static enforcement well we're not
seeing that but
but i think we're we're in a good
partnership and a good relationship with
the city of columbus and we keep talking
to them about it
and uh and i do think they want to be
part of the solution
they just haven't been able to make it
happen
great well thank you just continue to
think about it obviously i know that
the mayor's you know spoken about
the long-term approach i'm also
interested in maybe some short-term
things that we could do so
anything that you or your officers think
of that might be helpful
if it's appropriate to make the
recommendation that would be great
thank you chief if you could talk real
quickly just to highlight what you just
alluded to
we started i think it was actually since
our last council meeting
we started uh staffing an overtime
mini shift along livingston avenue to
make sure that we had a presence on
livingston
as the chief suggested we cannot enforce
columbus laws on livingston
but the theory was that in the current
climate with what's been going on
we wanted to put resources into having a
presence on the street we've
received really good feedback from
residents who live in the corridor
and subjectively maybe are even seeing a
difference down there since we've done
that
chief do you want to talk a little bit
about how that's being covered and
and uh what you've heard i
uh uh to echo what you said mayor
it does seem as though we're having an
impact i i uh
i don't want to speak too soon because i
i'm always concerned that this is a lull
in some of the bad things that have been
happening down there but
it seems as though since our cars have
been so visible
on those uh the south end of those
bexley streets
that some things have have not happened
near as much
shots fired we haven't had the incidents
of that
some officers have said that as they're
sitting there
very visible and of course you know
those cars are very reflective and that
and that's some signage
that is having an effect when they see
that bexley emblem on the police car
uh they feel that a lot of people are
slowing down
taking note of the police car they don't
know
that we're not actively pursuing them on
livingston avenue
uh so it has it's had a positive effect
and i uh
my my morning stroll through
uh social media land i've seen so many
positive
statements from residents that it's it's
kind of encouraging
that's great that is that is exciting
i'm glad that um
the mayor has you know put um a positive
um uh proactive approach
on this and i'm glad that that that we
can at least
cross our fingers that it's heading in
the right direction
so um please make sure that the officers
um know that we appreciate them
um is uh is there anyone else who has a
question or
a comment uh for the chief
all right thank you chief we appreciate
you
um then we can move on to i believe
we are at the wreck department and i
believe uh mr price
is with us tonight he made it back
from his vaccination
does anyone mr price do you have
anything you'd like to
add to oh
to uh your report i thought i saw him
maybe
no madam president i don't have anything
to add at this point all right thank you
sir
thank you does anybody have any
questions for
mr michael price uh jessica assad does
miss sod
yes um mike i was
seeing that your um goal is to on sunday
may 9th
to complete this wonderful jeffrey
mansion
project and i was wondering if myself
and fellow council members will be able
to
come over for another um tour of
not the construction but the uh
completion
yes i i'd love to have a tour we can set
that up
we can even do that prior to completion
or we can wait till uh
finalized uh project but i'd be happy to
take
council members on a tour at any point
awesome well great job with all of this
send that on to your staff you guys have
done an
amazing job and this the whole community
and you know the state of ohio are going
to benefit from this
because it's um such a wonderful project
and such a landmark
that our community gets to have so thank
you so much
thank you i appreciate it anybody else
have something for
michael thank you mr price
you stay healthy sir
we are moving on to service department
mr bayshore is so busy
his crew is so busy
do you have anything other than your
report sir i do not madam president
thank you andy um any questions for mr
bayshore
okay i don't see any all right
um thank you so much uh andy you'd be
well
um i believe then we are
to our mayor's update sir
um councilwoman fibo can i ask something
of andy real quick i had my hand up i'm
sorry
absolutely i'm sorry in fact it looks
like there are two people with their
hands up
so forgive me looks like jen does as
well i don't know how i missed it please
forgive me
um assad go forth thank you um
just really quickly andy i wanted to um
get an idea of the uh flashing beacon
that's going up
at fair and drexel um when you think
that will
be completed i know a lot of residents
and
um children that'll be great
for that crosswalk there for um
so i just want to get an idea of when
you when that looks like it's going to
be completed or up
sure um the foundations were actually
set i believe
thursday we have the crosswalk already
striped and the beacons and signs
should be in wednesday or thursday it'll
be this week
i would say in the next couple of days
okay great job
no problem that will be a really amazing
addition to that area i used to live in
that area and it will be great
so i thought that jen had her hand in
the air was i not right jen
i was just gonna make a funny comment
about the snow in the forecast for
thursday
no more snow nothing funny about it
nothing funny about that i can't do it
all right not appreciated i thought it
was kind of funny jen
all right we'll move on to the mayor
then sorry andy
buckle up guys i've got a long one today
i apologize in advance
um a couple things to just draw your
attention to in the calendar the bmpa
circle of excellence is a virtual event
happening on april 11th so look for more
info on that
uh and um
mike just in his report i think you
might have seen that for safety reasons
and it's understandable
we're not gonna have a community easter
egg hunt but
i will be launching a virtual scavenger
hunt
for easter egg prizes either tomorrow or
thursday so so keep an eye out for that
as an alternative
to those missing the real actual way
better easter egg hunt that we'll have
again next year so
now that i've said that publicly i have
to actually do it um
something to add to andy's report that's
not in my written here
uh we marked drexel um or maybe it was
in your report and i apologize we marked
drexel
25 miles per hour in the business
district
along maine and then also in the school
district at csg
so we're allowed to do that via the ohio
revised code as you probably know drexel
is a state route so it has some
some restrictions on where we can mark
25 so
if you check it out you'll see that it's
now formally marked 25 miles per hour in
those areas
and then transitions to the state
requirement of 35
in the in the center of south drexel so
keep an eye out for that
um grant and his crew are are
wrapping up the final community garden
beds in the south garden
so it's going to go into the spring
season completed uh from a garden
perspective
um one thing i forgot to add in some of
what i've been up to is earlier this
week yesterday i had a meeting with
some other central ohio mayors and
managers and then some of our juvenile
court judges
just to reiterate some of the
conversations that have been happening
among the chiefs
and within the community just about
recurring
juvenile crime and among
repeat offenders and ways to deal with
that in a way that is
compassionate to the victims as well as
to the
our youth who are caught often in very
tragic circumstances
so um that i think was a good
conversation and we'll be continuing
we'll be having follow-up meetings uh
with the with the judges
um you can read what's in my report i
don't think i have to
focus a whole lot on many of these i do
want to highlight uh
we have several trash cleanup events
coming up this month so
i launched a new program trash talk with
the mayor at uh we started that
last weekend at pump house park we got a
ton of trash
at the park and then across alum creek
drive and we'll be doing different
locations at different times and
different days
so if you'd like to sign up i'd love to
have you join me tomorrow is a good
cold one so if you're feeling like you
need to get your blood flowing
then uh tomorrow at five we're gonna
have like a one hour
trash talk over at schneider park and uh
other dates are on the website
um i sent you guys an email capital
university
deferred their football program until
the spring from last fall so they didn't
they never had their night game that
they have one license a year to have a
night game after 9 30 and up to 11.
um they have asked to be credited for
the fact that they didn't use it last
year
so that they they can have a fall night
game because what they did was they used
they have used their license for the
year in this
spring night game that occurred last
week i sent a um
email to the sbna so that they're aware
of this as well ahead of ahead of this
game i did
but in order to do that it's not
administrative and council actually has
to pass an ordinance that allows it
so you can expect an ordinance that
allows for one additional license in
2021
in order to make to make up for that
lost license last year
for what it's worth this is actually a
photo on your screen of the actual game
and you can see um they had you know
coveted restrictions in place so pretty
sparse attendance it was a quieter game
than their normal football game
so it was a it was of a different
character um but i'll be
curious to hear what neighbors think and
how they feel about that
um our bike plan workshop went well last
week and you can expect
in april to have a resolution uh with
the final draft plan uh for you to
review
sewer remediation program we have
over one we have over 100 applicants to
our sewer remediation program
if you remember the pilot is funded for
100 it's funded for 100 that would use
the whole program
so currently eric is going through that
list to making sure
eligibility of those who signed up and
i'll give you a andy or i will give you
a final number of how many have signed
up and have been screened for
eligibility to give you an idea of what
the funding need is
and we can handle that two ways we can
we've told everyone its pilot program
or council might choose to fund it
further so we'll have that conversation
i think at our next
uh council meeting and richard i'll be
in touch with you before that so we have
a chance to talk through our options
um
you know i want to i want to read a
statement that i put together
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bexley is an increasingly uh diverse
community
and um that's a fantastic thing we've
talked a lot about that in the past year
about
what it means to be a diverse community
in a welcoming community and many of us
have watched
um in the past weeks uh the
um the fear and the and the justified
fear
and um uh concern in our in our asian
community and from our asian american
neighbors
and so i just wanted to make a statement
tonight and say that that we as a
community stand in solidarity with our
asian american community in the wake of
a tumultuous year
of anti-asian sentiment and hate crimes
the killings in atlanta earlier this
month are just one tragic example of a
national rise in racist attacks and
rhetoric
during the past year asians asians and
those of asian descent have been the
victims
of increased racism and xenophobia
as students of history were aware of the
tragic weight of anti-asian sentiment
and the ways in which it has traumatized
families and communities throughout our
history
additionally we've witnessed the
proliferation of xenophobic sentiments
by including references to the coven-19
pandemic by the
geographic location of its origin in a
way that's disparaging and harassing
such statements have stoked unfounded
fears and they've perpetuated stigma
about asian americans and they've
increased
they've contributed to increasing rates
of bullying harassment and hate crimes
against asian americans and pacific
islanders
when we as a community witness bias
harassment racism violence or threats of
violence
towards our most vulnerable we cannot
stand by in silence
the city of bexley is committed to
social justice
we urge all citizens to uphold the human
rights of all people
and to consistently call out injustice
we recognize the implicit and explicit
role that we as a community have played
throughout our history
and marginalizing some of our most
vulnerable populations
and we reaffirm our commitment to bexley
as a community where all are included
feel safe and are fully valued
i'm also going to be posting this
statement to my facebook page
and i thank you guys for giving me the
opportunity to share that this
evening anyone who wants to read it it
is written here in the report
thank you uh mayor kessler do you have
anything to
share with us a couple more things and i
apologize for the length
um the the cares act expenditures report
is here
actually was pointed out to me that the
business impact grants
looks like we might have actually
processed a couple more of those since
i generated this report so that number
might have changed but
this is this is primarily current the
american rescue plan
we believe that we are in the position
as a community to receive 2.7 million
dollars
um from that the department the treasury
the u.s treasury department has not yet
issued guidance on that
i just had a call actually today about
that so we're continuing to watch that
and as soon as we have more concrete
information we'll let you know
but my understanding is those funds will
be able to be used for infrastructure
as well as the same same items that
cares act was able to be used for so
infrastructure water sewer
some other capital items that it will
help assist us with
but we'll keep you apprised of that as
we learn more and then further on the
report i have
info on our all of our litter pickup
efforts which include the trash talk
as well as uh greenbexley that is in a
partnership with the south east moore
civic association this saturday
and uh and conducting a couple others so
plenty of opportunities to pick up
litter litter is a big problem always in
the spring this spring has been
particularly bad i think because
a lot of it volunteer efforts were on
hold in the past year so
i would encourage uh some fun out in the
sun
with an orange plastic bag and some
trash pickers uh we have a super busy
arbor day coming up
schedule events there and then get ready
for a relaunched love your alley month
this was a passion project of mine back
in uh the past eight years and in the
past couple years it's been on
hiatus so it's awesome to see this
relaunched and re-envisioned through
green bexley
with a green bent to it i'm really
excited to see
this grassroots spin on love your alley
so take a look at that
and uh hope you guys can participate in
your own alleys if you have them
and if you don't then love your front
yard and
let's show some community pride that way
so that is my report and i see troy
markup's hand
has been deftly raised uh
troy mr marcum
thank you i will be looking forward to
joining the mayor picking up some trash
this weekend but my question actually is
with the
bike plan for me
personally the bike plan was one of
those events that
will go down historically as a
major coveted interruption i remember
going to several
community meetings and actually being
scheduled to go for a
uh a community ride before
things got shut down this time last year
i guess i'm curious to know a few things
if there's anything you can tell us
about the bike plan at this point give
us a sneak preview but also
um is this a strategic plan in the forum
that you have
it is it an action plan
um are there um are there
things that we will be um when when you
will be presenting it to us it sounds
like the next
city council meeting um are there things
that we'll be looking to
implement i just am curious to hear
what has happened to the bike plan i
know it's been going on but i have been
unplugged from it yeah that's those are
great questions so i actually just put
in the chat
a link to the youtube presentation from
last week
for you all to watch um i'll get a copy
of the powerpoint i don't think i have
that so i'll circulate that to you guys
it's um it's best
read in context of the presentation that
catherine gave so
we're trying to take that right now that
was kind of presentation powerpoint and
put it in a written document that kind
of contains everything
but the the recommendations are varied
they vary from
providing for designated bike routes for
different types of riders
signage on the streets signage
along bike routes that lets bicyclists
know about destinations in bexley and
how to get to them and how how far away
they are
there are some you know kind of
recommendations for further study about
some more rigorous infrastructure
um suggesting that we should maybe study
uh drexel
south drexel as a location for a
dedicated bike lane
um but uh and then some policy changes
recommendations and um recommendations
about education and advocacy so just a
variety of recommendations some of them
are
are ones that we can move quite quickly
on
and have been prepared to do that i
think
this kind of got launched as we were
looking at the
how to sign broad street project and how
to best
get those routes going so it's going to
be exciting to move quickly on that but
um richard or richard has been
at all of these meetings is there
anything else that you'd like to
highlight before our
big presentation to council
uh can you hear me okay i'm working for
myself for my voice
you sound great okay um yeah it'll be
similar
i believe to other it's kind of
a master plans that we worked on where
there are definite phase
things that can be addressed i would
assume
that um the the multiple routes that are
listed in the pro
in the plan will be phased in
uh so we can make sure that as their the
routes are being implemented any
thing that we find out might be
helpful to be done a little bit
differently can be
adjusted before other routes are are
created and costs expended
so um and they'll probably
most likely be a provision annually in
the budget
for some of these costs
super
does anyone have any further questions
for the mayor
we're all good thank you all right thank
you mr kessler we appreciate
the updates um
i believe we can move on to the consent
agenda um
mr fishel thank you on the consent
agenda there's two items
ordinance 09-21 to unappropriate 86
971 from the urban redevelopment tax
increment
equivalent sorry i had to look at my
other screen
equivalent fun more commonly known as
the city hall tiff fund
introduced by mr markham and the city
council members from 39
21.
all right are there any um questions or
comments
from counsel on the consent agenda
any questions or comments from those in
attendance on the consent agenda
all right seeing none is there a motion
on the consent agenda
that we adopt the consent agenda at this
time thank you
um mr markham and i believe mossad is
seconding it
yes yes yes all right so we have a first
and a second
um mr mr harvey mr markham
yes miss fibal yes mr klingler
yes mr sharp yes
ms robinson yes ms lamke
yes mossad yes
right consent agenda passes um there is
nothing
under um agenda item number 10 so we
will move on to our
third readings um and in our third
readings
uh we are going to move immediately into
um the public hearing of
ordinance 10 uh 21. i will
ask um that our city attorney mr
official please
would you read our ordinance for us
sure so third reading of ordinance
1020-21 creating a designated outdoor
refreshment area
in a took it away from me um
outdoor area in a specified portion of
the main street district and enacting
regulations
and declaring an emergency introduced by
mr klingler
all right um thank you um mr klingler i
am going to turn it over to you
and to the mayor to give us a a
synopsis of what exactly a um
designated outdoor refreshment area or
as we
love to call it um our dora
um what exactly that means what that
will mean to our community
and what that will mean to our
businesses so it's
pretty exciting and i i love the
creativity and doing this so
turning it over to the two of you
mayor would you like to take the lead
i would be happy to um and i want to
thank
um while this application is uh coming
from me per ohio revised code matt
klingler has been such a good
great has shown such great leadership
and making sure that this concept goes
from couple notes on a
update to a 30-page
application thanks matt
it was my pleasure we uh we have a
couple changes to the
application but before i highlight those
i want to talk about
what adora is because this is the
noticed public meeting so for anyone who
is
responding to that notification here to
uh to learn
um we're gonna we're gonna talk about it
um
so the bullet points on um a couple
pages in on this application talks about
what the uh what the what the door is
door stands for designated outdoor
refreshment area
and we're proposing that we brand our
dora the bexley patio
and what a designated outdoor
refreshment area allows is for
restaurants that have liquor permits
to sell liquor or alcoholic beverages
in a specified compostable cup um
that has the rules and the hours for the
dora in it and
patrons of those restaurants are then
able to consume
said beverage outside of the traditional
boundaries of the
of the establishment so that's they
could walk down the sidewalk within the
district
and go to another restaurant at which
point in time they can't take that drink
into another restaurant but
they could potentially responsibly order
another one
so the idea behind this was spurred on
not just because it has provided other
communities with
a powerful economic development tool
that helps restaurants
to just add another line of business to
their repertoire
but also because as we continue to look
for ways to help businesses in the
pandemic
it gives us a way to get people kind of
spread out a little bit more
and allow more options for you know take
out dining and that sort of thing from
from restaurants so um
the uh the proposed boundaries of this
dora are in a map
in this application and you can see that
this map has actually changed since our
last
presentation based upon some feedback
that we've received from
property owners and from you guys the
map incorporates
essentially the commercial parcels
between
alum creek itself which is our western
boundary
and then cassingham road to the east
it also incorporates the business area
of drexel avenue north of main street
up to the bed and breakfast um and
it carves out uh capital and trinity's
campus
and it carves out the religious
institutions uh in the in the form of
christ lutheran church and toronto met
um
so that is the proposed boundary
um currently we have um
a commitment to partake in this
endeavor from several restaurants
that are listed in this application once
i find them moshi sushi
brassica giuseppe's harvest pizza
kitties cafe and cafe istanbul
now the three that we are still waiting
from are rusty bucket market district
and cobb they haven't said no but
they're just
either we haven't had a chance to
connect with them robustly or the right
people there
or we haven't gotten a response back yet
so we're still working on that
um we expect that
um for this to be successful we're
hoping to table it this evening
and and vote on it at the next meeting
and the reason for that is i think we
want to finalize
which restaurants are participating take
any comment we get tonight any comment
from you guys or from the public
and incorporate that effectively and
then
if that were to happen we could expect
that as soon as may
we would have the dora up and running uh
giving us a chance to order signage
order cups and uh for the
this to go through the process and the
state of ohio through the
uh i believe it's the department of
flicker control though i think it's
called something different than that but
you get the idea um so that's my that's
my presentation matt
would you like to supplement that really
um no you pretty you pretty much
covered it i don't have anything to add
i will well i guess one thing the
restaurants did
um that i spoke to they were excited
about it all for it uh
cafe istanbul um in particular in moshi
sushi
it's not mandatory for restaurants to
it's strictly voluntary so although
they've expressed interest you know they
they could say no
you know in the future we don't want to
do it which is
totally fine um but
that that's all i have to add
okay i i i will um allow um
a council of members to to speak um if
they have it i
it is my understanding that this for the
most part um
this portion and we will move into
another time when we can as council
members can discuss it more thoroughly
but we
um really want to focus on what um
anyone in attendance might
have to um say about this but i did to
see richard's hand
raised um mr sharp do you have a
question or a comment
sorry you can't see my face i said i
lowered my hand and said no
oh sorry all right thank you richard
um so i i am really interested in um as
as we all are
in hearing from anyone in attendance who
would like to share their thoughts
um or their questions or perhaps their
concerns
about the door or perhaps you want to
just say yay this sounds great um
does anybody um have anything
to add tonight to our public hearing
um concerning um the dora
adam president could could we have just
anyone from the attendees just
practice raising the hand just to make
sure that future is working properly
that would be great okay we had track
we have someone with the initials tm
raise their hand is that
and if they want to speak keep it up or
up okay good work
okay great awesome all right
um okay well
i will um oh we have one we do
the bestly fox all right
please please go ahead and speak um
unmute yourself
we're anxious to hear what you have to
say there you go you're unmuted
please tell us who you are and give us
your address
and then please share since lewis 663
euclair
i'm just curious if there'll be trash
receptacles along the area to be able to
take these
cups whenever they're empty that is a
great
uh question slash uh suggestion
um mr mayor can you answer that question
yeah so the receptacles that we have in
place
uh are we think well
situated for the restaurants that are
signing up but what we're really hoping
to do is
get compostable receptacles
and i think we're gonna try to to have
them at the restaurants themselves
um for dropping off the cups so that
they're able to be composted
one of the challenges with having a
public compostable receptacle
is contamination is a real issue a real
concern so
we need to engineer that carefully and
uh we're we're looking into that to try
to make sure that uh
the compostable cups that are gonna be
used are able to actually be composted
but it's a it's a great a great point
another thing we need to do with our
service department
is visually just kind of walk these
routes and make sure that we do have
the proper uh spacing of
receptacles and then crucially that any
additional demand
placed on them is allowing them to be
you know
emptied out in due order so if for some
reason it's you know putting more strain
on those receptacles we just have to be
cautious and careful about emptying them
more frequently
that is already a common practice so we
have variability
in when we pick up trash based upon the
intensity of use
um and and it's even like a little bit
different seasonally so
i think we have the resources to do it
we're just going to keep a close eye on
it
one other question is this just a trial
period or is this going to be enacted
permanently
good question too so the way the
ordinance is written
it's it doesn't specify a trial period
per se it does specify that it's going
to be revisited by council
to make sure that the safety and
sanitation
and any other miscellaneous issues are
addressed purposefully
if there are issues council can at any
time terminate the dora
so it's it's set up as permanent with a
review period
an ongoing review and council could at
any time
discontinue it
all right does anyone else have anyone
else in attendance
have anything to ask or any concerns or
any questions
i don't see any hands all right
um so
um mr fishel please walk me through this
a little minute do i need to officially
end um the hearing and then um
move back into counsel is that what i
need to do i mean i think you should
just verbally say that so it's clear on
the record yep
okay so we are we're gonna go ahead and
move out of the session where we had
public conversation about
the dora and we will just move
back into our regular reading
of this we've we've read it already this
evening
in the public hearing um i don't believe
that we need to read it
again but now would be the time for um
any council members who would like to
share or discuss or talk
um about um the dora any further than
what we already have this evening
your questions or concerns would be
welcomed now
oh we do have mr sharp has a question or
a comment
okay um my main concern is the uh
12 am end of the door period
and how it would relate and
affect residences that
are behind the business districts
and in light of our ordinance
648.11 disturbing this
piece number four which
limits yelling chatting hitting
whistling singing etc
noise in general on public streets
after 11 p.m
do we um who would like to address that
question who would like
anybody um i need to try to
if you want okay i mean
certainly anything that goes on between
11 and 12
in the dora would have to be red
and what that activity would have to be
consistent with
the the ordinance you just read richard
so while
people could still be out partaking in
their
beverage of choice in on main street if
they are acting in a manner that
violates that ordinance they would be
subject to being cited for violating
that ordinance
i don't know if ben or matt have
anything to add but that's how
the law director i interpreted well i i
you know i asked the chief to remain on
the
call through this section i think i
might we might have uh
might have lost him um he was just there
a second ago
um he had spoken with his uh
his colleagues over or i guess whatever
his
counterparts that's what i meant to say
over in gahanna and um i believe
hillyard where they have a dora
and um they just found it to not
be a disruption it was the they didn't
see a change
in the sort of behavior that richard
that you're concerned about
and i think um you know if we are seeing
that
uh certainly we have the ability to uh
tweak uh we do have some restaurants
that are open that late
sometimes even later so it's it's sort
of to accommodate their
operations a little bit um i don't
think we tend to have issues with those
restaurants and rowdiness
they tend to be not the sorts of
restaurants that
engender routines but uh if that
indeed seems to be the case we can
tailor it or you guys as council can
right now decide you're
gonna limit the hours a little bit more
i i'm just bringing up the issue because
it will
it could potentially be a concern
um as the door becomes more popular
compared to the activity or
lack of activity that's on main street
generally after about 10 pm
so it's just it may be
an issue for residents i don't know
i think it's something we should for
sure keep our eyes and and ears open for
um if this should pass
um jen robinson has her hand up
uh this was to sort of piggyback on what
richard was just um
discussing it's a good point um i i kind
of have a two-prong
question um for those restaurants and
establishments that have decided that
they want to be part of the dora
um i would imagine that if somebody is
has been over served or is behaving in
you know
a manner that's inappropriate um for
you know being in a public space i would
imagine that
one of two things would happen one um
or would one of two things happen i
guess is my question
what kind of of um ability do
staff have to say hey you know we're
gonna shut this down
and then secondly um you know how
much um do we have a hand in in
saying to our officers when do
uh when we would like to have you know
kind of police out and about if we find
that there's any concern after
the um 11 o'clock hour i can't imagine
that there would be a lot it's just an
hour but um
you know i guess so my my question is
twofold um
what um what kind of what responsibility
do
does the restaurant have to curb some of
that behavior should it occur and
two do we have the ability to um have
police
at least in the beginning of this when
we're you know
getting getting the lay of the land so
to speak and have somebody
there present to handle whatever
potentially might arise
yeah so the chief's opinion was that the
resources that we have
today are currently adequate to handle
handle those concerns but certainly it's
not out of the question that we would
have some additional
coverage dedicated especially during the
launch
um in regards to the restaurants the
the concept that the you know the cup is
able to be
traveled down the sidewalk with i think
sort of limits what a restaurant can do
per se um you know they what they can do
when it's within their confines
is one thing but what if it's something
that's happening outside of that i think
that they would have limited
options uh nor i think would we want
restaurants to somehow be responsible
for what's happening outside of their
boundaries so
um you know i think we're really
confident having
spoken with other leaders who have
ex put place these in our communities
with similar sort of similar types of
communities of bexley
and by types i mean like a core of
commercial use this
is kind of designed for um that the the
issues and the concerns have obvious
have have been
have not played out in those communities
so um you know we'll keep a watchful eye
but uh we're there's a fairly there's a
fairly good
good body of experience now among other
communities that suggests that these
probably are not going to be concerns in
vexel but
it's good to think through them for sure
and matt talked
matt i know earlier on had relayed some
of his conversations matt do you want to
kind of recap that again yeah i spoke
with um
uh lou griffin of gahanna the and they
did a creekside
the creekside district alliance cda um
uh worked with the city of gahanna to to
institute a dora along creekside
and he said they had the same
thoughts that we do now uh when they
originally
implemented it and none of the none of
that
um came to fruition so
they it's been nothing but a success for
them um they have they've had
no issues um and uh it was it's been
great for the restaurants
so and then i i did homework on hilliard
worthington and and i didn't see
any any major any issues at all
with with this program in those
communities as well so
we're i'm i'm pretty confident uh ben's
talked to the
um to the chief of police uh chief
reinhardt
um and it's it seems like it'll be a
good thing
for our community
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go ahead do we know how many of the
restaurants that
um have um expressed interest in being
part of the dora
are open past 10 or 11.
i would imagine the majority are open to
midnight which means we
likely would have seen these issues
arise already
um yeah so i just wondered if we knew
how many were open past
um you know closed before the dora
um actually uh the curfew for the dora
was enacted
i don't know but that's a good point i
can i'll
do the research and get back to you on
that just curious thanks
thanks jen great questions for all of us
um matt thank you for
following up with answers to that one
that was good and um
just sod has her hand in the air jessica
jess are you doing just your meeting uh
thank you president fibel and uh yeah
matt
and mayor kessler um so a couple
questions i have after listening to some
great conversation here with
council members and matt and mayor
kessler um
you know in zoning i've had a lot of
experience with making sure that we
reach out to people in standing
of a project so i'm wondering if this
isn't a bad idea to reach out to
residents that fall within standing of
the dora
just so we're transparent no one's
surprised and they're not
confused or concerned about people
walking around with cups and
they know that this is a great thing for
the community in our restaurants and
what's coming at them
so that it's transparent so i'm just
thinking of
some of the residents that come right up
against main street
um and then since we're expanding that
out to
the area of drexel i think of like
there's a great group of neighbors very
active in the community right there on
sherwood
so just they don't and i don't think
everybody always
uh gets the information that we're
hopeful that they do through the blast
or
city council meetings um so i just think
that that might be food for thought
to get something out to those in
standing so that they just
have the information and they know
what's coming um
so food for thought on that
let me ask you a question if i may if
it's okay madam president
please um the the water bill newsletter
that's coming out
in the next week i'm sorry guys your
water bills are coming
um is highlights the dora on the front
page
and uh provides information on the next
council meeting for feedback to counsel
if it also has been in the blast and
will be
again i
we can certainly mail notification
in addition to that but i wanted to see
if you felt that was adequate the
the uh the task of pulling those
addresses is is a little more
complicated than it might seem just
because of of the
the way that the streets run south north
and south and all the different points
that we'd be pulling so it'll
it'll be a little bit of a task for
staff so i just wanted to
see if you felt that that was adequate
or if you would like some more
notification
and i'm we'll do whatever you want i
just wanted you to have that
information i think that's a great idea
which the the to go out as an um
the information with the water bill okay
well it will be yeah
it'll be going on the water bill now i'm
not telling you everyone reads the water
bill newsletter but uh
matt what do you think about those in
standing
um well i think does everyone in
standing get a water bill wait wait
let's be careful when we use the word
standing again i don't want to confuse
anything i know you're not you
nobody has standing here the whole city
has standing here because we have
a we have a public hearing obligation
which we've fulfilled
i think what jessica you're saying is
that
and correct me if i'm wrong is you're
using the definition of standing
um the zoning ordinances which is 200
feet
from the project in the zoning
aspect and if that's what you're
referring to that's fine i just want to
make sure that
nobody listening later on mistakes um
the use of that word for some additional
obligation and thinks we're not
fulfilling it
that is exactly you stated it correctly
mark that's exactly what um the
definition that i'm looking for is that
you just said
okay okay so is everyone
um comfortable with it going out in the
water bill and on the blast
and um is that sufficient and mr sharp
has his hand in the air
richard would you like to weigh in
yeah i'm i'm fine with it going out with
the water belt since it's
uh timely yeah um the only
caveat to that is i don't know whether
parking arm residents or
the alexander residents give individual
water bills
they may or may not i'm not sure how
that billing process works
and then um that's why you're doing your
research through your mind
um checking if there are other
university-based cities that have doors
because that's a key difference i see
between
dublin worthington hilliard
gahanna the other difference between
those communities
not so much sure about failure but
i i think potentially when you're
looking at dublin
and gehenna
um it the adora areas
sent back a little bit more from
residential properties than
we would be because there are other
businesses
interspersed on those side streets
behind
like mill street and grandview street
in gahanna and also
in old town dublin
i'm not sure the door extends there or
just in the bridge park area but
most of people that live in the bridge
park area know that they're living above
bars and restaurants so
with late hours that tom bexley
residents
may not be used to
yep i will do that research for you not
a deal breaker for me but
i'd just be interested in tweaking if we
need to
thank you it looks like monique lamke
has her hand in there
um just so i'm clear how does the
proposed dora
work with any existing open container
laws regarding alcohol
so it it provides for the ability to
have
open containers within the district
under the conditions it's within a cup
that was provided
by a restaurant purchased lawfully and
stays within the district
does that answer your question monique
it does thank you
all right is is there anyone um
who is not okay thinks that it's
not enough for us to send the
information
out in the water bill jess are you
comfortable with that
um look i'm already not muted um
i just i think this is such a great
project and i
i think that transparency and what
richard just brought up i guess i didn't
articulate as well
is i spent a lot of time in gahanna and
i i've
walked those streets with this dora and
it is a little bit of a different setup
so i just think
making sure that um
you know that those that are close to
the project are just aware so they're
not surprised and i think that
i'm very confident we're going to get a
great response from the community and
what this is going to do
and in a post-covered time when we need
to support our restaurants and how they
can expand
their business i think it's all very
positive i just think that
you know i guess my question would be
what is the cost of adding that on to
just
make sure that people who are right up
against the project
receive an additional notification
because as the mayor said not every
not everybody always reads their water
bill
but they probably would pay attention to
an individual letter about this and i
think that they would
then be talking to their neighbors it's
nice out and they'd all be excited about
it so
i'm going to let council and the mayor
and
matt's done such a great job on this
project to make that final decision but
i do think that as transparent as you
can get on a great project like this
is a good thing so if it's not a if it's
not a big additional cost to the city
and now if it is
then let's just do the water bill but if
it's just another way of letting our
residents know this is happening and
they're not surprised that's great
uh madame president i'm sorry jenna
sorry
jen has her hand up i can't do my hand
thing i don't have that
miss robinson question comment uh just a
comment um you know i have to say that
um i know it it would likely be more
work
uh for the city but i i i agree with
jess here
you know there are there are so many
times when
you know things that should be a good um
project or a good idea um people feel
blindsided by and this shouldn't be one
of those this is such a great way
after we all are vaccinated for
everybody to come back together so if we
can do this one extra step
um i think it could be really um just a
really good thing to
to make sure that our residents are
informed and wouldn't it be
easier for the city if you just did the
streets that were north and south of
that door
do we have to divide everything up into
i mean
i don't know exactly divide it up into
east-west corridors and all of that or
can you do
is it sherwood and then whatever what
other street is
directly to the south whatever would
make it easiest but would inform the
most people
i think would be um i think it would be
a great uh great
idea and something that i would
absolutely support so
we will come up with a uh madam
president if i may i was just going to
say it's after jeff's book but
we'll come up with a methodology similar
to our radius of 200 feet
and send out a letter with a fact sheet
and a notification of how they can come
to the next council meeting
um or contact myself or
or mr klingler with any concern so we'll
get that out
thanks mayor kessler thanks for that we
appreciate it
um anyone else have anything more to say
about the dora
uh just a quick update uh quick google
search
while um you guys were talking richard
um
defiance ohio has defiance college and
they've had a dora for two years and
it's been so successful they are now
expanding it another 18 acres
i think to encompass the university so
um that's one but i will i will do
research and get
get a few more examples i think council
needs to take a field trip to defiance
it's working well ohio we could try it
out thought
could get our steps in sounds good
all right i think we've had
lots of exploring about this topic and i
think
we can probably um move on if that's
okay
mr official that would that was the
third reading that needs to be
oh it's the third it is the third
reading i am so sorry
thank you so much so i'll move it back
to matt klingler
mr klingler do you have action on the
dora
yes i'll make a motion to table
ordinance 10 21.
thank you is there a second mr sharp
thank you mr sharp all those in favor
say aye aye aye was opposed same sign
hi i think everybody was saying i
put it on the table right i think so
all right um
so um ordinance 1021
is um on the table for conversation at
our next meeting and we can move on
uh mr official i believe to 8 21.
all right we have a third reading of
ordinance
0 8-21 to certify special assessments
for the repair of sidewalks where the
work was not done
by the owner after being ordered by the
city in accordance with bexley code
section 1490.15 b4a
or bexley code section 1492.04 b1
and it was necessary to do the work and
assess the owner
this is introduced by mr sharp
okay um mr official i see that the
ordinance has been reformatted now i
believe
is i think i need to amend
the ordinance to reflect the new section
and the grouping by the year
of assessment the first section is for
one year assessment second section
news section two is for three years
of assessment with a renumbered section
three the effective recitals
yeah i think you're right the option to
amend is appropriate at this point
so to start the conversation i would
make a motion to
amend ordinance 21 as
it is uh sorted and shown on the screen
thank you richard is there a second um
on the amendment
um to ordinance 821
president i believe that was jen
robinson making a second
and i and i hear that um mr um harvey
has a question
i i think we've also updated some of
these
numbers from the last time so that's an
additional change to this ordinance
i mean numbers as in people or numbers
as in
updated all the the people from the last
time as people have made payments
perfect um so can um so it's not just a
formatting change i guess is what i'm
saying
but it's a formatting and changes um
as indicated on this document that's
attached to
correct agenda mr mr fishel are you
comfortable with
the the verbiage of what are you
comfortable with
how that was articulated yes
okay all right so we have a first and a
second are there any comments or
questions other than what mr
um harvey just suggested um
from council about amending
madam president i do have one more
question both first to the attorney
and for the auditor okay um i know
with the new grouping there are not
totals
should there be totals that are
administratively added
to allow the county auditor's office to
have a control total to make sure
that things are entered accurately
unnecessary from a legal standpoint and
they'll
they can balance it too we'll work
through that with them
okay this is on channel four any further
questions about the amendment
you do not have one and any on the panel
um from councils but i do see that there
is a hand
um raised by someone in attendance
uh looks like actually city hall has
their hand up
i don't know what that means exactly i
don't know who that is but
okay hello a president
bible okay hello
it's debbie maynard hi debbie how are
you
good thank you i'm sorry i did not catch
who seconded that motion
um it was seconded by
who seconded it was generated
raising all right thank you jen
thank you thanks debbie
okay um it doesn't look like there's any
any questions about the amendment
um to amend an ordinance uh 8 21.
so um roll call please
mossad yes mr klingler
yes mr markham yes
ms robinson yes miss fibel
yes ms lamke yes
mr sharp yep
all right so the amendment passes
um madam president i would like to make
a motion
to pass amended ordinance 821-21
thank you richard is there a second
uh i think i heard ms robinson first
sorry uh monique
um all right any questions
um about the um
amended the second amended ordinance
from council any fra
in the uh um attending
mr harvey mr mr klingler
yes ms lamke yes
miss fibel yes mr sharp
yeah ms robinson yes mossad
yes mr markham yes
all right wonderful okay um let's see is
that the end of our third readings i
think
so so we'll move into second readings if
we could please mr official
ordinance 11 20.
you're muted mark
sorry and or second reading of ordinance
11-20 to amend
amended chapter wait is that right
okay to amend amended chapter 12 30
definitions
chapter 12 52.15 accessory uses and
structures
and chapter 12 23.05 demolition in order
to provide for additional rate
you took it away right there it is it
just
additional regulations and criteria
related to the construction and
demolition
of accessory uses and structures in the
city introduced by ms
saad yes thank you mr fishel
this ordinance is to amend the amended
1230
accessory structures in order to provide
for additional
regulations and criteria related to the
constitution and demolition of accessory
uses and structures in the city
a garage and accessory structures
working group
compromised of members of the
architectural review board
and bees app have been meeting to
facilitate amendments to the bexley's
code regulating the design
placement and specification of accessory
uses and structures
the amendments incorporate in the
ordinance below
are intended to ensure preservation of
bexley's architectural
fabric and to provide design criteria
for the development
of new or replacement architectural
structures and uses
i would like to thank as i did at the
last meeting
larry hellman karen boker kathy rose
our mayor mr mayor kessler mike paplow
ryan scheck and william heyer this is a
combination
of people who work for our city as well
as volunteers who serve on the bees up
and arb um who in their day jobs are
architects and lawyers definitely
professionals that we are lucky to have
to help us
with ordinance 11-21
with that being said um mayor kessler
has
asked to dive into this
tonight as he has done a lot of great
work on this
i am going to hand this off to you mayor
thank you uh i just wanted to thank you
jess councilwoman sod i just wanted to
um
just give a broad brush overview because
i had a couple of folks call me
asking questions about the ordinance and
what it did or did not accomplish
and i want to put this in plain english
because i think it's maybe
it's it's a long ordinance and there are
a lot of provisions so to try to
simplify it a little bit and then answer
any questions let me know where we stand
in the process so
i'll start with the process bees app
needs to provide
or is is we're required to seek bzap
feedback for zoning change with this
which this
is b zapp got first blush at it at their
meeting last thursday
they were told at the time
you know you're seeing this now take a
chance to look at it and then you can
provide feedback at your next meeting
which is
the third thursday in april we have
published
notice in the dispatch that there will
be a public hearing on this similar to
what we just
held for the dora on april 27th that's
our second council meeting
in april so this is the second reading
third week
reading april 13th table at the time and
then april 27th
take off the table public hearing
potential passage maybe not so
we'll hear what bzf has to say at that
in terms of the purpose this was really
engendered by conversation from uh
board members and concerned residents
that
garages that are fine in one context can
be a little bit overbearing in another
context
and so and also some some thoughts from
board members
and residents that the code that we have
for garages
specifically the code that limits the
second floor to a certain percentage of
a volume of the first floor can provide
for some
fairly unexpected designs that
honor the letter of the law but not
necessarily the intent of the law
the intent of that diminished
cubic space on the second floor was to
make that
any attic space above a garage or
accessory structure do an ms so that it
would be
it would be fairly non-obtrusive it
would be
you know essentially like a cape cod as
opposed to a full sec blown second story
and we found that architects are of
course exceedingly clever and have come
up with designs that have
in places shown an almost two-story
interface in garages
and by sacrificing volume in other
spaces of the attic so
from a big picture perspective what this
does is it provides
a form based code that scales garages to
the context
of the lots they sit on everyone's
allowed to build a garage in bexley
that's great
if you want to put a space above the
garage everybody's allowed to put a
space above the garage that's great
but um as that space gets larger
some additional requirements come into
play
one of the things that this ordinance
does is it establishes a minimum
eave height and so the eve is that
section of the structure
think of it where the gutters are right
on your roof line it's it's where the
roof
projects over the wall that's the eve so
the the maximum eave height i'm sorry
in this ordinance is established at 10
feet and what that does is it prevents a
situation where you have a true
two-story structure or component
structure to the property
the other thing this ordinance has is a
is a in addition to that a maximum ridge
height
and then a maximum floor area
ratio of the second floor compared to
the first floor
those three numbers together provide a
situation that we think
based upon all of the great minds that
have put their time into this
that we think effectively eliminate the
concerns about massing
being overbearing in certain contexts
the other thing the ordinance does is it
creates additional
criteria if somebody wants to have a
dormer on their second floor
so if you want to have a dormer on your
second floor it matters now in this
ordinance if it's overlooking the
neighboring property
and if it's overlooking the neighboring
property it matters how much
how much of a setback there is so
there's more of a setback required
similar to a home has a greater setback
today than an accessory structure
because there's living space in there
and there's you know there's potential
that you're looking out over someone's
backyard
the other thing it does is it it has
maximum
dormer sizes so those dormers can't be
quite as massive and they can't
effectuate a second floor structure
either
so that way you allow for dormers but
you also contextualize them so they
can't be overbearing
the additional thing it does is that it
provides for larger garages on larger
lots
and scales the size of the garage to
those lots because today there's a
maximum garage size that applies no
matter what zoning district you live in
no matter how large your lot is and so
we find that historically
on larger lots there were pretty fairly
large garages
that exceed the current maximum and
likewise on smaller lots we didn't have
such large garages so it
it really kind of codifies our
historical template in bexley
and provides some protections against
obtrusively large
projects that can clear over people's
properties lear is probably overly
sinister word but you get the idea
and the final thing this does that i
think is really important the council's
aware of this
is and maybe i talked about this at the
last meeting
but it talks about demolition of
detached garages
which is a little bit of an unrelated
topic but not totally
and and what it says is basically if
your garage
is going to be demolished then
it asks you to have a replacement plan
and the reason for that is
many of our garages in bexley
historically
were built um frame on slab
so if you've ever owned one of these
garages in bexley as i have
they have uh you know the sill plate is
often rotten
maybe it's had some replacement it's
it's a it's a structure that's not
really designed to last
a hundred years and many of them have
lasted a hundred years and they're on
their last leg
and so we think we're going to have an
epidemic pardon that use of that word
but we think we're going to have a
proliferation of garages that are
demolished in the coming decades
and this says if you want to demolish a
garage that's fine but you need to
replace it with another garage
that's a that's a change right now
that's not true
right now we're not seeing it a whole
lot but it is happening from time to
time
and so what happens then is you get more
exposed parking a totally different
interface on your alleys
and um in backyards and that is
something that will
you know potentially become an issue
over time so this anticipates that and
puts that in here as well
so i just wanted to give you that
context and
allow jess or i to answer any questions
that you have tonight
thank you mayor kessler for for that i
was one of the ones who uh had to have a
quick conversation with
the mayor to make sure that some of the
concerns that i had
during some of our appeals in the past
some of those some of those concerns
that
many of us had um were eliminated and he
has
uh pointed out that um to all of us
now this evening and i think i feel
really good about that and i'm wondering
if anyone else has
any concerns or um questions
for the mayor
sir you explain things beautifully
clearly oh richard sharp has a question
richard thank you
madam president um
just so i'm clear with the mayor's
synopsis
if a garage is built as part of a
in addition to a house so that's
not a separate structure there are
somewhat more liberal massing allowances
that are allowed i
take it then yeah
so that the existing code for that stays
in place this doesn't impact it
so and the way that that is accomplished
in our code today
is that those residential setbacks for
for primary structures
are different than accessory structure
setbacks so
if you're in a small lot you've got an
eight foot setback
often if you're in a larger lot it
extends
12 feet or maybe even more i'm not i
don't have the numbers on my my
fingertips but
so this kind of takes that concept and
it applies it to a situation where you
would have a second floor space with a
dormer
so it's pretty pretty analogous to what
we have
if it were an attached structure but
long story short no it does not change
the code relative to attached garages
because those protections exist today in
the form of
front rear and side yard setbacks of
primary structures
anything further anyone
okay so let's just go through the
procedure one more time mr
mr kessler um so
bzap meets um in the end of april
uh after our next meeting
is that correct so we will read this
for a third time next go-around we will
then
table it correct yes okay so
lorianne just to kind of give you dates
on that bees apple meet april 22nd
okay and then but we meet
april 13th so as mayor kessler said
we will table it there and then our
april 27th meeting is when it'll be a
public meeting
for this ordinance 11-21 and we'll also
discuss any feedback from bzap at that
time
great sounds wonderful thank you so much
for keeping us so organized miss sun
you too um mayor kessler
all right but i did ask our visa members
to i've challenged them to a hackathon
where they have to figure out clever
ways to get
around the code that we've written up
here to uh
and we'll see we'll see if they come up
with anything interesting i
i don't believe i asked our attendees if
they have any comments or questions
about
um ordinance 1121
and please remember that all you have to
do is raise your hand with your icon at
the bottom of the
of your um of your screen
all right i don't see any so i believe
that we can move on to our next um
uh ordinance another second
reading um ordinance 12 21
mr fishel right so ordinance second
reading ordinance
1221 to adopt and approve the city of
bexley electric aggregation plan of
operation and governance
and to declare an emergency mr sharp
richard okay
um i'm sorry i was i'm just looking at
this
um so mayor um you indicated that the
board of control had met a couple times
regarding
the proposed request for a proposal
and i was also
looking at the plan of government
government exhibit do you have any
comments
on that draft exhibit
yeah in in full disclosure that was
prepared by ricker
and eckler and i have not examined that
we've been focused on
on examining those rfps and interacting
with the
rfp respondents um i think the
if i can first give you an update on
that richard and then maybe we could
talk about the plane of governance
the uh the rfp response
aep uh energy was the most um
responsive in terms of providing
specific information that we could act
on
um that information at this time
the numbers they have provided seem to
be
a little bit higher than what they had
uh
communicated to us informally in a in a
presentation prior to us going to bid
now there's a whole lot of complications
so the seem to be is pretty key
there are a lot of different variables
here and we're we're filtering out those
variables and trying to make sure that
we have a very responsible
grasp of the facts and and fully
understand the program that they're
proposing so
we have a meeting coming up uh yet to be
scheduled but a border control where we
will have
ask aap to join us to better understand
their program and we've been working
closely with bricker to
get some information back so we're still
in sort of a um
fact finding that's to the extent that
that's a
term of law i don't mean it that way
we're still gathering our information
to provide you counsel with some good
information as to what we're
recommending
um and so that's where we stand we would
love to have something actionable by our
next council meeting
i can't promise it that's that's our
target and then in terms of the plan of
governance
and plan of operation and governance um
i i don't know if mark can speak to that
i have not looked carefully at that
yeah i'm sorry i missed that part of
richard's question
mr sharp can you repeat your question
um i i was wondering if there were
comments regarding the
plan of government that's as far as
any of the details in there
and any timing that we need to be
considered consider regarding
this before whether this
needs to be approved before the border
control
um approves a contract and
whether there needs to be a public
hearing regarding this
change in governments i don't think it
needs to be approved before the board of
control
um accepts a contract certainly before
they enter
into the contract um as to the public
hearing i'm sorry i have to defer to the
bricker and eckler
folks i can tell you that they they did
not say it needs a public hearing so
we're
we're not operating under that
assumption unless there's something
missing this is a
revision to our 2002 plan of operation
governance
um it's it's supposed to be
incorporating
um the aspirations that we have shared
with brickerneckler but
that is something that we would uh i
would recommend that we have them at our
next meeting
to uh present it and explain it because
i i think
sounds like we're not equipped to answer
those questions we've been relying on
their expertise
all right i will put a note on our
pre-counsel to
remind ourselves that we need to make
sure that um
they join us
and and ben would you anticipate
i think i'd be uh more comfortable
after that presentation to have another
meeting before um approving
having a vote on the ordinance um
with an april 27th
tabling at the third after the 13th
meeting
until the 27th be problematic from the
timeline that you're looking at
i don't i don't know the answer to that
richard i
i need to get i'd have to get the answer
to that um so i think what i'd recommend
is
my understanding is that the changes to
the plan of governance are fairly minor
and clerical almost in nature so i could
be wrong about that
let me get some more intel on that and
if
richard it might make sense for us to
set up a call with you and bricker so
that you can have a comfort level with
that if there is a tight timeline
i mean you know we
don't want to be scrambling on the
numbers and the rfp and the education
at the last minute so i can't speak for
the rest of the border control but my
perspective is
while it would be really nice for us to
have that june 1st launch
and that's what we've sort of geared up
for if we're not at a point where we're
super comfortable with everything and
able to communicate it very clearly
then i think delaying is going to be the
most prudent approach so
just i think we should probably
shouldn't all be too hung up on that
june 1st launch i think the most
important thing is to get it right
that's my
my personal perspective i
appreciate that and applaud that
information that you're giving counsel
so thank you
all right um council members does
anybody else have any
more um questions about ordinance 12 21
before i ask those in attendance if they
have questions
all right seeing none is there anybody
in attendance who would like to
talk about ordinance 1221 um
the city of bexley's electric
aggregation plan
all right mr fishel could we please move
on to um agenda item number 13 which is
our first readings and on to ordinance
1321 please
yes we can ordinance 1321 to appropriate
8089.45
from the unencumbered general fund to
pay for replacement of a jeffrey mansion
stage intent that were destroyed during
a storm in 2020.
mr markham you finally get to
participate
here i am again
uh so it is my understanding that this
is an insurance payment
that we need to apply to be able to
replace
the stage and the tent and i guess it is
my hope
that no people were harmed as a part of
this either
all right um does anybody have any
questions about this
um does anyone in attendance have any
questions about this first reading
all right can we please move on to our
next ordinance 1421
okay ordinance 1421 to appropriate
180 000 from the recreation fund to pay
for expenses related to the jeffrey
mansion
uh mr merkem
yeah um i'm going to i don't have this
window open
there we go um mr official is
is okay sorry that's right can you could
that title was not updated in the agenda
would you mind
i think we should read that title yep
let's read this
so ordinance 1421 is an ordinance to
reappropriate 180 000
from the recreation fund and to
appropriate 350 000
from the unencumbered general fund and
an additional 150 000
from the recreation fund to pay for
expenses related to the jeffrey mansion
expansion
there we go yeah okay so that makes more
sense okay
now that we can see that there you can
see there are a few
different um sums here that are being
applied and one
is 180 000 that was in the 2020 budget
but uh was not spent um so we are
planning to apply that here and then the
other
is a 350 000
uh that we will be applying from the
bexley community foundation so that is
grant money uh that they have given us
uh
for this as well um
and then we have a third amount right
which was a hundred fifty thousand
dollars
which are asking to come from uh the rec
fund so um if there's any um
additional explanation um you can throw
this in here mr kessler and i'm guessing
we will probably have some questions to
uh to go along with this yeah i think
mike is uh
still with us mike are you still with us
yes
i think it would be good mike if you
could cover i know the council has
gotten some
information on um you know we all it's
almost a separate project the
pretty extensive porch repairs that were
uh identified as
the porch was unearthed a little bit
more that
you know we had a situation where the
porch exterior porch that wraps around
the mansion
was in immediate need of repair and was
due to collapse
if not repaired properly so that's not
really part of the project but we are
funded as one big project
it was identified obviously through the
construction
process and so that is the majority
of what we're still dealing with when
we're looking at this additional funding
but mike if you expound on that and
provide any answers to any questions
sure a couple things just to again make
make clear
the first two whereas is 180 and 350 000
what's
more funds that were already earmarked
for this project it's just about making
them available to spend so that's not
if you will new money towards this
project we'll make that clear
uh to begin with uh the additional 150
000
is what is what you might consider new
funds for this project to come out of
the rec
fund and as the mayor alluded to as
everyone's aware we asked additional
money
associated with the porch issue
our hope in going to the porch issue you
may recall
we cut out a few things that we had
looked at doing with the portrait pair
which was removing the stairs
and the handicap ramp uh in an effort
frankly just to keep the cost down
um and the hope was that we would just
be taking off the top layer of the porch
uh replacing the uh structural supports
and then relaying the top layer of the
porch back down uh
not to get too technical it's gonna
require some underpinning of the wall
supports
of the porch that they thought would be
able to be done when they got into it
uh the soil under the walls sort of well
not sort of it failed uh so the ability
to put underpinning was not going to be
a solution that would work
as a result they ended up having to tear
out the entire support walls
uh for the um for the porch
as a result of that because the stairs
were connected on the front edge
as well as the uh handicapped ramp were
connected on the
um eastern side of the uh porch they had
to tear those out as well
in order to remove the structural wall
support walls uh and then to rebuild it
from scratch
so it's resulted in a you know it's
resulted in
a more significant line item for costs
associated with the porsche
so that's that's the bulk of that i will
say
some conversations that we'll say um
you know we've done a you know deep dive
analysis with the construction company
with the designers
uh as it relates to getting to the end
of this project we are anticipating
this project uh essentially being the
end of this month
um there will be a couple ticket items
that will be a little bit outstanding
nursing class
some other things that are back order
but generally speaking we expect the
project to be
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for the most part complete by this month
but in talking with them
um about any outstanding
you know fees that we're looking at we
feel very confident that 150 will see us
through the end of this project
as a matter of fact there's a little bit
of extra in there just in case some
smaller items come up
uh through the through the you know the
remaining month of this but i didn't
want to get into the situation we're
coming back
every couple weeks the council with
another little item here we'll write
them there
so i feel confident 150 000 would get us
through the end of this project
and again a lot of it is dealing with
some additional costs associated with
the
porch can we uh break this down just a
little bit
you know since we're looking at a lot of
stuff here um
the uh the section two the b part i
think is the easiest part
to uh to pull out first which is the
three hundred fifty thousand dollars
that is being given to us by the bexley
community foundation as a part of the
grant for this project
and then we have two other items here
and i think mr official is correct i
think we need to
update that math in section one that 320
should be 3 30 because that is a
combination of
items a and c above
which would be 180 000
uh in the 220 budget that was unspent
uh uh my question to that i have two
questions i guess i'll say
uh as part of this intro is um why was
that not spent was there a slowdown or
uh or part of the project for 220 why
that was not spent
and you can hold off if you want to uh
the the
item c that is additional money one
hundred fifty thousand dollars to come
from the ruck fund and then my question
for that
is how is that going to impact our
uh our ruck fund um what is that going
to create any funding issues
where does that money come from thank
you sure
uh and i apologize you can't see the
whole um
ordinance in front of me but um
the 180 000 i guess i'll take this two
parts
the 180 000 that was not spent in the
2020 budget
uh the in the re the reason that wasn't
spent in 2020
uh is actually tied to cobit uh because
of the impact on the direct fund budget
as a result of covid
lost revenue on programs we made the
determination that the rec fund at the
time
was not in position to
spend the 180 000 that was earmarked out
of it
um so uh and bill obviously feel free to
jump in on any of this but that was the
determination made
last year we wanted to see how we got
into this year with the rec fund
obviously cara's money came at the end
of the year which had an impact on that
which offset some of those losses but we
weren't in a position to spend it in
2020
which is the reason for a reallocation
in 2021
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the 350 000 again that is
the the community foundation we have to
appropriate it to be able to spend it uh
there will be a revenue offset on that
uh we have already received uh the
difference
of the 1.75 uh
and the 350. we've already received
those payments from the community
foundation
we will receive the last 350 generally
upon completion but we have to have it
appropriated on the front end to be able
to spend it
um the last what was the last question
there
mark the question was whether or not the
150 is able to be borne by the rec fund
yeah i've had that conversation with
feature um to
confirm that the rec fund would be able
to support that at this point in time
he was comfortable that it would um
you know i was asked from another
council member i think when i was just
giving some background on this
um you know will that have an impact on
uh
current planned programming uh you know
i would sit here and say it does not
but it is you know it will have an
impact on the rec fund
balance and so that'll be something
we'll have to keep an eye on for future
years
to get through this year we don't see
that being an issue
and again hopefully we get back to a
time where we're we're adding that
positive to the rec fund balance through
operating um on the other end of this
you know the pandemic especially as
you're doing a pretty good job of
booking up the
uh that new mansion right now so
hopefully
exactly so what we're looking at is an
unspent 180
000 that we do want to spend we're
looking at 350 000
coming from the bcf and then really
uh council is being asked for right now
this 150 000
is as would be my interpretation of that
and i would open that up
to uh questions and comments right now
any other council members want to um
to ask anything of mike or the mayor
anyone in attendance oops i do see a
question mr klingler
thanks mike uh and i i may have missed
this but
we don't need to uh suspend and adopt
this or
get it done quickly for you to spend the
money correct it can it can wait until
the end of the project
until three readings that's that's
correct that's the anticipation
um you know i apologize i think the 180
000 was part of the original agenda uh
that went in on
friday um but having conversations with
president fibel
in an effort to try to avoid having to
do with you know suspension and adoption
we added the additional language when we
found out that we were going to be a
little bit short
and i appreciate president five will you
allowing us to add that in
um so that we can get a full three reads
on this well i appreciate you making an
effort to reach out to the council
members and make sure they felt
comfortable with it
as all of you know we do everything
possible that we can do
to make sure that the information um
that you get on friday
is the information that you will be
discussing on
tuesday because i know many of you have
um very difficult jobs
um outside of this one and i want you to
have the weekend but we try really hard
to be flexible and i also know
that it's not um something that we um
like to do when it comes to a hundred
and fifty thousand dollars
on any kind of uh rushed way so
mr sharp has his hand in the air
richard yes thank you madam president
um mike uh would it be possible prior to
the third reading to have a summary
of like the original proposal and
what's been done differently
and kind of a little reconciliation
summary
to what we originally did prior to
the third reading of this i know you're
busy but
hopefully a month would give you
time just for us to review the project
as it's coming to completion
richard you're specifically talking as
relates to the porch stuff or the
project as a whole
the project as a whole sure of course
that would be something good for our
historical documents anyway i think
that's that's
that would be good to have um anybody on
council have any further questions
um anyone in attendance have any further
questions on
this
piece of legislation mr fishel
i think we can move on
okay we are now into a first reading of
ordinance
15-21 to appropriate
you do that to me another screen i can
go to it's not on purpose i swear it's
not a purpose
ordinance 1521 to appropriate fifteen
thousand seven hundred dollars from the
water fund to pay for water line
reconstruction in conjunction with the
2021 street
reconstruction project introduced by mr
markham now move it as much as you want
uh yeah this is just appropriating money
from our
water fund to pay for the work that
we're doing i think
i don't think there's anything
especially uh
odd about this unless i'm missing
something
there's nothing odd but can i just give
a little just a tad more background
yep um
the estimate for
the water line work was
in our street bid because we're bidding
it with the same contractor under
this is for underneath caroline before
we're doing this work a lot of our water
line work is through
opwc so what we didn't catch when we
were budgeting
our year was that we didn't have a line
item in the water fund
for this sort of a project because it's
so
typically through opwc funding which is
a different source
so it's a fairly obviously it's fairly
minor
and our water fund when i say minor by
the way i'm not
i'm not saying that this is no money but
the water fund
has been accruing money for capital
projects just like this over time
we simply missed that it needed to be
placed in that budget as a
as a capital project so um
it's i think the good news is we're
continuing to work on our uh
our water lines and uh hopefully that
makes some sense for anyone who likes to
delve into the water fund budget
anybody on council have any questions on
ordnance uh
which one is this one it is 1521.
anybody in attendance have any questions
about ordinance 1521
mr fishel resolution 30321 please
you might need to unmute yourself
i hate when i do that is it an
appointment
yep it's the very last one
okay resolution 03-21 to confirm
i can do that too and keep up the
mayor's appointments of claire's
appointment of claire ceballos uh to the
recreation board introduced by matt
klingler mr klingler
yes thank you this is um a resolution
confirming the mayor's appointment
of clarissa bios to the recreation board
mayor kessler do you have anything to
add
yeah thank you so this this actually um
this position was advertised in late
2020 um we received
a couple different uh folks interested
in
uh the rec board seat there at the time
there was
one vacancy but very quickly after that
we had an additional vacancy
and so we filled the one vacancy um
and then right as we were coming up with
another vacancy so we had a fresh
set of candidates um and then as we were
interviewing and determining uh that
second seat
we had another member indicate they'd
taken a new job and maybe would be
stepping off so we held off on
appointing until we knew whether or not
we were pointing one or two members
claire is a passionate
user of the our rec services and i'm
excited for you to meet her if you have
not met her before
we'll be inviting her to the next
council meeting or the one after
depending on her availability
and mike price has had a role in helping
to
look at different candidates for this
position you'll note
the term expires this june that's
because
that's the seat that's vacant and
available so we would anticipate with
her appointment that she would be
reappointed in a resolution soon to
follow as we go through our normal
annual appointment cycle
super um
anybody on council have any questions or
concerns about this resolution
anyone in attendance have any questions
um
concerning this resolution
all right i believe that we can move on
to
um our reports service and environmental
committee
is up first richard sharp chair
mr sharp
sorry um yes uh
service the esac would like to
share some information about earth month
um they're encouraging people to
celebrate earth months from home by
creating new and sustainable habits
so the esac has created a
list of items that people can choose
from to help
change their habits a pledge of picking
one thing
to make a change in a challenge for more
ambitious folks
that are pickups a survey about
sustainability and bexley updated
information
um that people can look up on the
website
including a kids space
for resources for kids the kids boot
camp
uh great green bexley independent study
that we had recent winners
to cancel a cup in january and
uh green becksley clean up day all that
information will be
on the city and esac's
website and there'll be articles in the
water bill and bexley living magazine so
look for that
all that information also
i would like to
have counsel um maybe think about
when we can have a planning session
later in hopefully
early summer to um review
the criteria for the
the uh federal money that
the mayor indicated the 2.7
million to prioritize
between um the various
options that that those funds can be
spent for so i i think that might be
worthwhile for a relatively large
section of time to
look at and if there's any projects that
need to be
prioritized that council is on
the same page prior to the money
actually becoming available
and i would like to also um
extend my sympathies to the families
that were affected by the
shootings in atlanta
so i join in with the city and standing
was in solidarity with the families that
love
lost loved ones and with anyone who has
lost
loved ones due to violence or crime for
whatever reason
i believe we should support meaningful
solutions that
address the causes rather than the
symptoms of the problem
and there are forces that are trying to
separate and divide us
and i think that we must always resist
that temptation
to classify people in groups by rates
or ethnicity or any other category that
um people wish to divide us by and
resist that temptation and welcome
everyone
and view everyone as human beings
deserving of respect dignity
and wars thank you
thank you mr sharp um
a finance committee um troy markham
do you have a report sir nothing to
report from finance committee tonight
thank you mr markham um safety and
health committee
jen robinson chair jen i do have just
two quick things as was mentioned
earlier in the mayor's report
uh the bexley minority parent alliance
uh
has upcoming actually it's almost april
can you all believe that um on the 11th
of april at 4 pm is their circle of
excellence event and you can find out
some more information about that
um at their website which is
bexleyminorityparents.org
i also wanted to let you all know that
there are
nine spots left in the upcoming
fall session of the citizens police or
civilian police academy
um that is offered by our bexley pd and
sergeant overly
i have gotten my registration in so i am
very excited to say that i will be
learning all sorts of things so if any
council members who haven't gone through
it want to
want to do it with me that would be
great and also be
reaching out to some other friends to
see if they want to uh
to do it i'm very much looking forward
to it um i know
um at our last council meeting um i was
asked about the progress of juneteenth
and i
want to assure all of you that we have
some really great things
um in the works for that right now and
i'll be able to speak more about that
and we'll have
some information that i'll be sharing
with all of you over the next few weeks
before our next council meeting but i
did want to give you just a quick heads
up
as one of the programs that we are doing
um to kind of contextualize juneteen and
to
give some some history um
some sort of context to to today we are
offering
an event uh a citywide event um
in sponsorship with or in partnership
with the library we are inviting dr
carlos hill who is an
oklahoma city or a tulsa oklahoma
resident
and a professor um at the university of
oklahoma
um he will be doing a presentation on
the 100th anniversary of
the 1921 tulsa race massacre
um he is a fascinating and incredibly
knowledgeable uh man and um has been
involved in some really
just really groundbreaking literally
groundbreaking things
in oklahoma as they believe they may
have found a um mass grave site
uh that contains the bodies of those who
were killed in that massacre a hundred
years ago
um so anyway i will i i could talk for
probably hours and i know everybody is
not listening or wanting to to do that
right now but i will definitely get
information out to you
um there's a lot of good stuff happening
and a lot of partnerships being
um solidified and built and
um i'm really excited for what um i get
to share with you next time so
that's my teaser and that's all i have
to say thank you so much jen hey
jen um jessica wants to know if you know
the dates
um for the bexley police i do they are
wednesdays it's a ten week course from
six to nine
starting september the first and it goes
through
uh november the 10th i think they're one
of the um high holidays
falls on a wednesday this year so it's
actually 11 weeks but 10
weeks of course work see we were paying
attention
with the time
six to nine
it's a pretty decent commitment guys but
um it goes fast and it's
really good and it's super worth your
while it really
really is fabulous and dawn overly has
um presented how she's going to handle
the social distancing um with the covet
19
group and um she got there they're okay
right jen yeah she did um and there are
only 18 spots total so it's already half
filled and that's one of the coveted
considerations so make sure you get your
application ensued
thanks jen so much we appreciate you um
recreation and nope i skipped zoning
zoning and development committee jessica
saad chair
jessica mr president bible yep just a
quick report here
the next cic meeting will be april 6th
tuesday next tuesday at 6 00 pm the arb
meeting will be next thursday
april 8th at 6 00 pm the um
next b zap meeting is april 21st
excuse me yes no i just
sorry the next beezap meeting is april
22nd
at 6 00 pm and the bef the bexley
education foundation
um has an upcoming event in place of
bravo this year which is their largest
fundraiser
they're doing it together in gratitude
event people on council we might have
all received these in the mayor
um so the residents of the community
should have received these
it is happening on april 21st
at 7 pm um you can tune in
and watch that event if you have
a teacher that you would like to reach
out to they're wanting
the community to reach out by april
and you can go to tinyurl.com backslash
staff
dash tribute to write a message to a
special teacher
or staff person by april 1st
that's all i got great jess thanks so
much
um we are moving on to recreation and
parks committee and matt klingler is the
chair
matt thank you madam president uh
nothing to report on the parks and from
the parks and rec department but our
bexley activities club
just a couple updates from miss
christian schweitzer
she says that nearly everyone in the
group has been vaccinated
and they're eager to get back to normal
they're going to resume
outdoor silver sneakers exercises
exercise classes next month and going to
start scheduling a few bus trips for
field trips uh beginning in the month of
may other than that i have nothing else
i'm so happy for them that's so exciting
me too
thank you mr klingler judiciary and
strategic
committee monique lamke chair monique
thank you president bible three quick uh
announcements
um the council committee on the charter
review proposed amendments has its next
meeting on april 7th
at 7 00 pm all are invited
i also wanted to announce that the
bexley minority parent alliance
is going to host an asian american
heritage
uh month festival food truck celebration
in our bexley parking lot on may 21st
so stay tuned for more details i think
they're working on getting some
delicious and tasty food trucks on board
and then finally the mayor and i are
going to be working with the bexley
pride group
shortly to plan some stuff for the
upcoming uh
pride month of june and a report thank
you miss
lamke uh believe it or not that
really long report um that mr that mr
kessler had for us the mayor has
one more or so update that he forgot
to um mention so we'll let him do that
really quick and then we'll do public
comment
yeah i'm very sorry sorry madam
president i believe very very fast
i had meant to mention this and i forgot
to put in my written report there's a
lot going on past couple weeks that
um last week i had the opportunity to
visit
um a community builders development in
akron they have they have two
developments in ohio that they currently
operate this one was 15 years old
and just get a chance to see firsthand
the level of management
and detail and
maintenance and preservation of the
space so
i found that to be a very positive
experience and learned a lot from it
and it verified what i had heard through
the references that we
at the cic had sought out um
when we were going through the process
of trying to find a developer to partner
with
i understand council can't discuss all
that this is for the benefit of the
forum of any public listening to this
meeting i would encourage you to to take
a look if you have the opportunity and
i'd be happy to help
facilitate that in any way that i could
i just wanted to share that information
for those members of our public that are
here tonight and any that might watch
later on on youtube thank you thank you
mr kessler um
we will now move into the last agenda
item
um of our evening which is public
comment
and i would just open um it up to
those who have stuck with us all nine of
you
is there anyone who has any comments
questions or
something they'd like to share with
council
bexley fox
if you just unmute yourself yeah here
you go
a couple questions when the ferndale
mayfield properties were demolished were
those
lots remediated and also
when can building be done on those lots
mr kessler yes thank you uh
thanks connie that's a great question
the lots were not remediated remediation
of those lots requires
either a removal of two feet which is
not possible with the adjacent
residential properties
as they lie and replacement with
two feet of clean soil at a bare minimum
or capping with additional two feet of
soil like we've done
on schneider park area to the north so
remediation really
from a practical perspective cannot
occur unless all of the properties are
remediated at once
so instead clean
fill was provided to fill the former
foundations
of those properties there's going to be
some additional
if fill provided if it settles and those
sites are going to be fenced
until such a time as a proper
remediation can occur which will
which will require action
around any other properties that are
contaminated we do have affirmative
knowledge that
there is contamination in at least eight
of the neighboring properties
uh similar to what we've seen on the two
that the cic
owns and at the city property to the
north that has been remediated so
it's a um at the last council meeting i
think i gave an update
uh based upon our conversations with
franklin county public health
where that stands and i think uh council
you will have an ordinance coming up
soon as well
that addresses environmental
contamination
as a nuisance category because currently
it's
covered by ohio law it's covered by
public health
department actions but not covered in
our local ordinance so we're going to
add
an additional route as well
all right well when can those
lots be built on once they're remediated
so hypothetically the city were to own
all of those uh 12 properties in the
center
and they were demolished the ones that
are existing how long would it take
in order to remediate and
is are you talking about months years so
if
if we were to wake up tomorrow and
control the 12
first off we know that there's
contamination under the streets
and we know there's contamination on at
least some of the sites across the
street
so just doing 12 probably doesn't make
sense and i think we would want to do
all 19 at once
so that it's a holistic plan that
allows you know there's probably a
chance to restructure where streets lie
and access points but we'll
for a second i'll ignore that i'll try
to answer your question so your question
is in theory we wake up and we have 12
and we want to remediate
we would have to line up funding for
that and we would have to engineer i'm
not confident that we could engineer it
in such a way that it wouldn't
negatively impact adjacent properties i
think it has to be a holistic
approach to all 19 but it would take it
would take years
um we just know that from experience we
would have to fully understand the scope
of contamination
on all 12 we don't have that information
on all 12 of them
that takes quite a while then we have to
line up funding
ideally there would be some clean ohio
funding or some other outside funding to
assist
we'd have to identify that and then the
action would need to be taken
and then obviously throughout that
process um
relocation of tenants in a compassionate
way that keeps them engaged in the
community is important
so that would have to occur long story
short i can't imagine a scenario where
that would not be a multi-year
process
that took place is there any uh
constraints
applied to those lots based on the the
people that did the demo
the franklin county community
improvement corporation the franklin
county land bank
funded the demolition uh it was
performed by a third party and there are
no constraints on the site
so if you were to have them you could
go ahead and build provided everything
was was all aligned
there's no you don't have to wait for
and several years before you can build
on them
other than all of the things i just said
in terms of due diligence
engineering and financing
um there's not any other constraint
obviously
any sort of building would have to be
compliant with vap requirements
so you know um a two
a two foot cap which is what we're
talking about here is allows for certain
types of uses and not others
and without knowing all the specifics of
that site and
what the environmental consultant would
say i wouldn't be able to tell you
exactly what could be constructed there
all right uh is there anyone else in
attendance who has any
question any more questions for council
all right is there a motion
make a motion to adjourn thank you um mr
klingler is there a second
all second thank you god all those in
favor signify by saying aye
aye aye that was opposed same sign
all right thanks everybody for all your
hard work all your great questions we
appreciate all of