um yes eyeball here klingwood here
lampke here
did we get everybody um
please note that uh we have uh
councilman uh
council member jen robinson is absent
tonight and she is ill and i believe we
have a motion yes thank you i moved to
excuse council member robinson from
tonight's meeting second
uh all in favor please say aye aye
all opposed same sign with that um
we have no presentation there's a
special guest we're going to go the
pledge of allegiance
i pledge allegiance to the flag of the
united states of america to the republic
for which it stands one nation under god
indivisible with liberty and justice for
all
thank you
and uh auditor beecher hale do we have
any speaker slips tonight
i have no speaker swoops all right in
that case i will go to the president's
report i have two very brief things
actually one very brief thing and one
thing that might
jab her on for a bit but uh first of all
i just want to take note uh that today
is uh national fentanyl awareness day
and uh sadly we had the uh the passing
of two students this week at ohio state
university the some of the students that
i am responsible for caring for as well
i want to take note that here in bexley
of course we have a pretty light with uh
dr beth weinstock who is
leading the fight every day to
promote awareness of the dangers of
fentanyl and we are also seeing i think
some more legal action taking place in
ohio even as we speak to hold
the pharmacies accountable at this point
for uh fentanyl and opioid distribution
second item on the president's report is
i wanted to briefly have a discussion
and invite
discussion and questions on the
uh consent agenda and just the idea of
the consent agenda i had a few
discussions of council members this past
two weeks about the consent agenda and
i realized that sometimes we turn over
city council members and and we just
assume institutional uh knowledge is
there and often it isn't and sometimes
it was never there to begin with so
maybe we should uh have a quick
discussion about what the consent agenda
is how we use it and our thoughts on uh
how
we can utilize that and the limits to it
as well
consent agenda as you're well aware as
an item afterwards uh eligible put on
the consent agenda after it's had two
readings hearing in city council
it is an item that goes on the consent
agenda we usually will ask is anybody in
mind if this goes on the consent agenda
if even one member of city council
objects to that going on consent agenda
it does not on the consent agenda and it
travels
forward to a third reading
consent agenda items are
meant to be things that have unanimous
approval
uh and they're also items that there is
something that we would not assume that
further discussion would take place on
or that we would need further
information
on they tend to be items that are fairly
routine that we don't want to take up
extra space on the regular agenda with i
tend to keep in mind
that it should be somewhat routine and
also
in my brain it should be something that
we assume that there will be no
further input from the public as well or
you know that's been out there had a
chance that we don't anticipate that
there would be uh input from the public
with questions or items as well keeping
that in mind and you notice tonight the
consent agenda has a few items on it
when things are on the consent agenda
they are not
out of your reach for discussion we can
remove items from the consent agenda if
you ever see something on the consent
agenda that you feel you have
you you're not ready to vote yes on
anymore for some reason we should remove
it from the consent agenda it should be
voted on separately however it can
remain on the consent agenda we will ask
for discussion and comments at that
point we can still uh discuss items that
are on the consent agenda uh as i said
we can also if you feel that you want
something removed again one member here
can remove that from the consent agenda
and replace it back on the agenda
separately please be sure to remove or
ask to have an item removed from the
consent agenda if you have changed your
mind for any reason you wish to vote no
on it because the consent agenda does
assume unanimous approval
um
mr official anything i've left out there
or any misstatements that i've made no i
think you covered everything um in
pretty good detail again
it's really just a legislative tool for
efficiency purposes um again one thing
to point out though is that still as you
folks know that consent agenda are other
than the minutes is a are includes all
third readings so members of the public
still have an opportunity to speak in
response to anything on the consent
agenda just as if they would be separate
from the consent agenda and again
frankly if they as as
as president markham said if somebody um
raises an issue from it
from the member of the uh if a member of
the public raises an issue that
leads one council member to say hey we
should think about this some more and
take it off the consent agenda you can
do it at that point too
uh if anybody out there have any
questions or comments anything they want
to
weigh in on this
i'll just say i love i love the consent
agenda i mean many of you are
have been blessed to
to enjoy efficiency in the last
four years or so um
when we've been able to
um get out of here
at a decent time
in the past there have been it was very
very
rare to get out by nine o'clock
i've been in this chamber till two
o'clock in the morning i've been in this
chamber at a different time until
midnight i've been so
when we have
a piece of legislation that we agree on
that seems very you know comfortable
to be put on the consent agenda picking
up our dog's poop
changing
changing changing some of the bike
laws amending those some of those seem
very simple but again there is as as
president markham said there is never a
time that you cannot remove something
from the consent agenda
and and to that point there is never a
time that when we look at the agenda
itself that we can't
offer up
a motion
to change
the agenda to remove something to put
something on
so
so please know that you know if there's
ever anything you're uncomfortable you
just have to say hey
mr marco i need i i i don't i'm not
comfortable with this even if you don't
know exactly
how it works that's why mr officials
here
so he can make it work so
thank you any further ms lamke
i did also just want to add that um kind
of to attorney officials point um there
still can be further discussion on a
consent agenda because we do call for a
round of comments and input from counsel
as well as from the audience which is
what president marcus mentioned
but for me i think that there's a
healthy enough
dialogue
and healthy enough discourse here where
we freely offer our comments on either
the first second third reading consent
agenda whatever it is but to me the
consent agenda is a great way to put
those items that seem fairly clear-cut
maybe non-controversial maybe it's a
simple grammatical one-sentence deletion
by putting those items on the consent
agenda it truly frees up time for all of
us here to then focus on
ordinances or resolutions that have much
more substance or possible changes so i
appreciate the way that we've handled it
so far um and i appreciate your comments
troy
anybody else
yes ms assad
i just appreciate the discussion thank
you
it's always good to stop from time to
time and make sure we're all kind of on
the same page and aware of the rules uh
and i will move along to the city
attorney report now
i have no report this evening all right
is there an auditor's report
uh i don't believe there's not at this
report all right in that case i will
turn over the mayor for the
administrative update
thank you very much president markham
first up we have
mr bayshore thank you for joining us
andy yes sir department update
take it away
uh mayor city council i do not have
anything to add to um my report tonight
um i have everything
i tried to list everything on my report
that's what's going on i'm sure i missed
some um
the street department and all the
service department has been extremely
busy with the weather finally it's
starting to cooperate a little bit
any questions for mr bayshore
yes sorry
andy i
love and mare i love the trees that we
have um put on uh cassingham
they are blooming and i don't know if
you've noticed that when you're dropping
your kids off but they're beautiful and
i think what i uh
what a great investment that the city
made and then i can't wait for them to
continue to grow but it's i don't know
why i just noticed it this spring i
don't know if anyone else but
it's really pretty and i i love uh oh
there we go look the picture maybe the
mayor's gonna talk about that in a
little bit but it was uh it's really
beautiful and what a
beautification of our city so
um with that i was gonna ask and maybe
we have and i just drove when they were
not are we putting our planters back up
on the livingston corridor
awesome so
all of our planters are between
plantings at the moment um so you'll see
that i understand that me too
but the flower baskets are going in and
uh and on livingston and andy do you
know the timing for that
i'm hoping i'm hoping the first week of
june or so is what i'm hoping for
yeah it'll be relatively soon
all right
thank you
any other questions all right thanks
andy appreciate it have a great evening
you too
um
next up we have
cheap cough
yes i don't have anything to add to the
report that's
up there on the screen um
if you have any questions i'll be happy
to answer
can you expand on the uh so there are
five applicants
on the list maybe this goes to mayor
kessler i don't know
narrowed the list
five applicants for our vacancy right
now yeah it is the application process
is still open at this point right
or is it not
yeah it is actually it's been up updated
since i drafted this report
a few days ago and it's down to four now
okay dublin stole another one so they
took two of our applicants so
but uh three of the four remaining are
certified so i'm hoping that we can get
they're very good candidates so i'm
confident that we can get a good person
in there so
any questions for the chief
all right
mr price i believe
thank you mayor um hello everyone
nothing to add to my written report but
happy to answer any questions
any questions for mike sorry yes laurie
hey mike how are you
it's lorianne i'm good how are you
good um
anyway i um
i wanted to ask tell me about um
commonwealth park and the
the red
or not red but orange like fencing
around
some one of their neighbors asked me
about it and i was just curious about it
real quick is that just to protect the
trees and the roots that's what i
thought okay that's correct yeah that
orange fencing
sort of delineates their access point
into the park and also protects the um
trees and their root system in the areas
that they'll be working
that's what i figured and it is getting
irrigation we're going to talk about
that later right
irrigation yes
and and
um we have it we haven't we don't have
anything
permanently um
decided about
colombia do we
but well those
and the mayor may want to jump in
obviously we have a master plan um
right
that includes specific work to be done
at columbia as part of this project
um
the connection between this project and
the columbia work is uh there's going to
be housing
there's going to be some vertical
equipment pumps that support this
project for the irrigation system
they have been designed to fall inside
of
follies that are part of the master plan
uh which sit along colombia so that'll
be
i guess if you will the connection
between this project and some and
potential future work along colombia
okay forgive me i just needed just a
refresher on that one i want to do a
deep dive into it i just wanted to make
sure that i can answer some of the
questions you know as my neighbors pass
by um i'm so close to that area they're
all curious so anyway thank you
trying to download the commonwealth plan
just to show that
exhibit
software license expired it did it
no it didn't
um
so just as a refresher
lots of pages in this
but
this is sort of one of the slides here
here's a better slider
i'm sorry mr mark my man
i i just couldn't remember we're not
moving forward with that with this is
the plan was my what is my
my question i guess we are
so but that's not mike's project right
so
mike's project is the fields these two
fields right we have an opwc grant for
the street piece of it okay we have
funding for the following these
restrooms
i'm circling with the mouse right now
restrooms and utility equipment
the that is something that needs to
happen sooner or later because the
utility equipment is
is allowing the fields project to happen
so we're moving forward with those
that's in our capital budget right now
obvc funding is funding
the
bump about parking and the center
medians it's not funding the brick and
cobblestone so that's something we're
still working on the funding piece for
that but the idea you know the safer
pattern safer crossing
is is all lined up with funding thank
you for the refresher i apologize but i
just want to make sure that my
my brain is on top of it so that i can
discuss it with our neighbors let me ask
a follow-up question then since you
brought that up
this was the first thing that i worked
on i think as part of city council i
remember it and it's it's
yeah i'm sure uh so you said it is
funded to do the
the bringing up the curbs um as part of
that so that is underway and also that
that median putting that median as well
all that structural part the concrete
and the soil yeah yeah but then you know
right so
no no no that's that's what i'm asking
and then um you said and so the
you know the stone
uh
that is something that maybe we can
expect to see like in next year's budget
or something like that or
is that yes pushed even further out or
no so next year it would be the earliest
that the street piece of it happens and
we we don't yet have the timing in terms
of
the budget or where it fits exactly
relative to you know some funding that
we're seeking through outside entities
for that um we certainly have street
funds that can apply towards this uh not
just capital so we're still kind of
shaking everything out to see where the
different grants will come in and how
they can be helpful the lion's share of
the cost is covered by that opwc grant
the finishes are what we would usually
seek you know some additional funding
for and we're working on that um so
we're looking at a 2023 to 2024 time
frame okay uh commencing 2023 probably
wrapping uh 20 20 40. and what about the
uh you know those paid pathways that are
in there as well is that also sort of
part of that timeline or is that
included or is that another phase yeah
so the these are
the granite uh crushed questions say
granted crushed the stone pathways
that come around here just kind of a
natural natural path
are part of
the funding that we are seeking
for the west
arboretum piece with that pond okay that
path
alignment
is planned for
sorry this is
i'm skipping all around but this is sort
of the this is the western portion of
the park it's planned for kind of from
here over it's just the western edge
we haven't yet finished planning for all
the rest of the trails
um
that's probably a future space
so we're just taking a phased approach
for this okay
yeah you know so if you're relatively
new to city council you might want to
take a look at this it sounds like a lot
of this work is coming up
in the next
maybe a couple years then and it's it's
pretty fantastic right we did we did a
symbol for this plan just a really great
group of people and brian kent jones
right was the
architect group that worked with us
uh residents near the park and also we
had
athletic we had all sorts of different
components of the community way in and
it just really is kind of a fantastic
plan it's exciting to see that a lot of
it will happen i think you'll be
kind of amazed if you haven't seen it to
take a look at that and see if it's
coming up that's it
thank you troy and at the state of the
community it had some renderings of what
those follies look like i i don't have i
can't put my hand on them right now but
it's pretty it's pretty neat seeing how
this project's progressing
mike back to you
yeah just happy to answer any additional
questions
thanks mike
oh wait i'm so sorry jess okay um hey
mike
i just wanted to uh just go on record to
you know say congratulations to you and
staff with where we are with our early
bird memberships for the pool
um
rough time with where we were during the
covid um hideakovit and it's important
to look at that and i
just want to say congratulations um
i'll let you indulge us all a little bit
on those numbers
i appreciate it thank you we're
obviously really happy to see uh i'll
say a bounce back if you will on on the
early bird memberships for the pool
like your microphone's fading out
is that any better a little bit yeah
i'll try to i'll try to speak up yeah
we're happy to see a really nice bounce
back uh for early bird memberships um
we are uh we sold i think 705 uh
memberships through the early bird
period
which is is just about 50 less than our
total memberships in 2021
and a couple hundred about 200
memberships more than the last time we
had a true early bird which was in 2019
um so we were we're really excited to
see that uh we think our online
registration which is fairly new for the
pool it's the first season we've had
an online early bird option um you know
obviously makes it a lot more convenient
for the residents and i think makes that
process a lot easier
it doesn't necessarily indicate what our
you know our total numbers will be at
the end of the year but obviously um
having good early bird numbers is is a
good start to the season
i also wanted to say i love seeing all
of those pictures of the um the dance
recital i know that that's a a big deal
for a lot of the families that they even
have that option here in the community
and 140
dancers that's amazing
yeah i appreciate it it was a it was a
lot of fun it's always great to see
those young dancers up on stage and and
the families enjoying that i will say
kudos to maryland
maryland's maintenance staff
this was on friday when we had the very
significant rainfall and they had about
three inches of water in that basement
at about 10 o'clock so
they worked really hard to clear
everything out and clean everything up
and uh we really
really appreciate all their efforts and
it went off without a hitch so
thank you again to maryland for all
their support in the school systems
mike did the new space in the mansion
work for the
for the program itself was it
successful
yeah the new space was great for the
program um some of the classes would use
the dance room some of them were maybe a
little bit bigger and fluctuated into
different spaces
um but it is it's an improvement in
terms of the experience uh in terms of
the dancers being able to
um you know
a to have a wood floor uh that'll hold
up
and b to have the mirrors where they can
kind of see what they're trying to
accomplish um from an educational
perspective is really really beneficial
so
it's been it's been nice it's been it's
been a wonderful improvement and um on
top of that we have you know as a result
of that space we have flexibility of
other programming going on at the same
time which has also been nice
all right thank you mike
have a great great evening enjoy that
stun
thanks see
y'all see bye
mr hale
i have no report
all right
thank you mr ali any questions for mr
hill
he's gonna hear all he means so
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i don't know if it's for hale or
you um
when we did the budget last year
did we talk about
funding
the sewer
lining putting more into the sewer
lining
yes okay so i didn't i didn't want to
lose track i don't know why it popped
into my mind um
yeah i know why i don't know
well well we didn't have a recent event
um
yeah you can talk about your i just was
wondering if that was on the radar yep
all right in fact there was some mention
in andy's report earlier on with the
projects we're working on yeah yeah
so uh we accelerated funding for sewer
lining
we're doing not just the the sewer
capital projects but also a lot of sewer
work on drexel as part of our
project there and if anyone had the
pleasure of driving around vexley on
friday
when we experienced an inch and a
quarter of rain in like two hours um
you got to see what our streets do in a
pretty strong flash flood sort of
situation so drexel and fair always
floods and what we're doing with this
program should really help mitigate that
quite a bit and there's flooding even um
that's associated with drexel
at like dawson and dale i think pretty
commonly so
that program will help alleviate some of
that surface flooding that we get with
the storm plus some additional uh
sanitary line that has occurred already
on that
andy i saw you pop up there for a second
do you want to
further expand on that
oh mayor now you kind of covered it um
you know the 21 lining project is
complete
separate from that is all the work we're
doing on drexel you know the storm and
sanitary lining
and then our 22 lining project we'll be
going out to bid
relatively soon
and once that bid comes back
i'm pretty
pretty confident that we're gonna get a
good bid and i think we'll actually be
able to do more lining after that big
comes back
but that's all i wanted to add to that
but we didn't need to transfer any of
the unencumbered
funds from the general fund to
the salary whoever fund is in pretty
good shape okay
for some reason i thought we talked
about using some of our unencumbered
funds to
help accelerate it but if it's
um
i think we increased the funding um and
i i think we're going to be coming back
to you guys with ideas to further
increase funding
for some additional sewer concepts
because lining is great
and uh we could get sidetracked by
talking about sewer for quite a while
lining is great but the challenge is it
it only solves so much the problem it
actually can exacerbate the problem in
certain situations that's the
frustrating thing about the sewer
infrastructure you can fix a problem and
actually make it worse because
of the fact that when you have very old
infrastructure that's leaking out
everywhere sometimes that leak out
everywhere is part of the solution so
when you line it you you really contain
the system better so you better make
sure that system is functionally
functioning optimally so
there's the what's that
kind of yeah so there's a lot more
i mean we have a lot of approaches that
we're taking to this not just on the
private property side but also the
infrastructure and i think we've been
internally kicking around more ideas for
enhanced capacity in certain areas
additional studies that we you know some
additional flow monitoring that we don't
currently have so just getting more data
because um
whether it's changes in columbus
infrastructure or changes in weather
events we're definitely obviously seeing
more extreme weather or more extreme
outputs than we've seen
recently
that sounds promising so we have plan a
and b and then
c and d coming maybe i love it
we're still
we're still talking about it but we'll
be continuing to talk to you guys about
it and um
lori ann was actually a meeting this
week we're talking about a little bit so
never resting i like to hear it yep
um
real quickly before my update i do have
a proclamation i asked captain goff's
chief captain goff to stick a stick
around
for this but i do have a proclamation
for
the week of may 15th coming up
to declare at light ohio blue week
whereas in honor of men and women in
uniform the city of bexley has come
together to light ohio blue from may
15th through may 21st
whereas every day our 44 officers and
civilians of the bexley police
department face the challenge of keeping
bexley neighborhood safe with bravery
and honor and the members of the police
department perform their duty under the
direction of fairness integrity respect
and empathy
and whereas these men and women provide
vital service to our city and we're
grateful for their hard work and
commitment i have been kessler may of
the city of bexley along with the
council of the city of bexlessly to
hereby declare may 15th to 21st 20
may 15 to the 21st 2022 as light ohio
blue week
you guys want a picture
what is it
is
leading up to the chief search
and that whole process we've been going
through i've had the privilege and honor
of
doing ride-alongs with a lot of our
officers i still have
like i think a third of the department
to get through and i've
need to get to that um but
it's you know it's always eye-opening to
actually spend some time uh you know
minute by minute with our officers and
just kind of see what they are dealing
with and the
the level of complexity in the
interactions that they have and the
um
you know the
the
race with which they carry themselves
and the way that they navigate through a
lot of those situations is very
impressive so i want to thank you
the situations that our officers are
doing every day are like
you know we've been looking at some
camera recently you just think of all
the things that could go wrong and all
the ways that they really put themselves
out on the line
and all these interactions every day so
thank you chief and thank you to our
officers appreciate it
i appreciate it thank you very much
um with our update a couple reminders we
have coming up the community foundation
annual gathering is thursday evening at
six o'clock uh the asian pacific
islander heritage festival is friday at
six
um
akisa who helps organize that
um i made the mistake of telling her
that i've been on like a multi-year
mission to try to make homemade ramen
like really good homemade ramen
and so i got asked to serve ramen at the
asian festival i believe troy's gonna be
helping me do that and anyone who wishes
to join is always welcome in the cookout
trailer but i told her i like 25
servings max i it's it's and i'm daunted
so in the next couple days i will be
doing like a 24-hour broth but they're
hearty servings right they're i mean oh
they're hearty yeah this could be like
hot too probably i'm not sure it's wrong
about that we're gonna bring it super
healthy super healthy yeah i'm not ready
actually i don't think i'm i don't think
i'm ready for this but it's happening
um
we've made
sorry this weekend also we have love
your alley festival and the community
arts on free cycle day
both on saturday the festival is at
jeffrey
uh
shelter by the pool parking lot um
and i think works i heard
nine
new murals i think nine or 12 or
something like that uh going up around
fences around uh the city
and i've been talking to rebecca about
maybe having a very a nice small kind of
understated love your alley
mural on this blank wall over here on
bexley square i know there's a talk
about another mural that's still being
worked on
this is a more of a love your alley
mural so that might happen
um
tree lawn maintenance in case you guys
hear anything about this um
you passed ordinance 42 20 like how i'm
like you passed wherever it is 40 to 20
last year uh that's the care and
maintenance of tree lines that basically
um put some standards in place for some
of the
items that we're seeing start to pop up
between the curb and the sidewalk
um code enforcement has sent out the
first batch of letters about violations
that aren't there so
we're getting a lot of questions about
well can i just get a consent and hold
harmless which is an agreement with city
council to have improvements
so
i will be working with
uh i would imagine that's either a
lorient or a matt klingler issue
who wants to claim this one
trees
code enforcement that's designer
development so
uh just in terms of like how you'd like
us to take those requests and if you
want us to have some like gatekeeper
like
here are some things you guys wouldn't
really consider you know so generally we
can give advice to property owners like
if it's
i don't know what it might be but i'm
not going to cast judgment but like
traditionally consenting old harmless
has been like um
walkways or
sometimes like pillars that are in
certain situations that are unusual but
they happen on city right-of-way so
usually it's not you know
let's just say for the record it's
actually
everything
but trees
right
so this is all sorts of stuff right
right so what do we say i think that's
you know that is it's true that anyone
could ask for consent no wireless and
that would give them the ability to
have some of these improvements i did a
drive through i looked at what dave's
list was and i drove a lot of these
properties and they're not traditionally
things that would fall under consent
form so okay we'll kind of discuss if
there's some sort of a
process for that little statues of
brutus buckeye or whatever because i
have a feeling you don't want to hear
like 30 different consenting
i would imagine
but you might
so good good for you
uh joint liberties plan update has
passed through the steering committee
we'll be talking about that later
tonight um project taillight is set to
start in the next 30 days we have a
city attorney approval on our consent
and released
and the program is planned the way it's
going to work is essentially if a
somebody is pulled over for an equipment
violation
which i will reiterate 90 percent of the
time that results in a warning from our
police department
they will be provided with information
that if they meet an income requirement
they could qualify for free
repairs to those equipment violations
that will be initially conducted through
our service department uh vehicle
maintenance
on a saturday morning that we'll we'll
schedule and so we'll schedule like an
initial comment see what's needed um and
then saturday morning workshop
we're probably gonna actually try to
have them at the same time as we have
the bike workshop because there might be
some
crossover with some of that stuff um but
we're we'll see
how it goes i have a couple photos of
some
fun fun
things going on first off we received a
grant from the community foundation for
a beautiful piano
at jeffrey mansion which will be
unveiled officially on thursday at their
event and it'll serve
to be
sing-along music time for preschool and
for some of our dance classes maybe and
for events
and this is the inside of the bike
trailer the maintenance trailers
community foundation funded
um that's going to be
it's going to be going it has been going
around to like our elementary schools
and some others during the workshop it
just
come check it out one of these times
city
staff worked on this we have a former
ambulance
uh
furnisher
carpenter
outfitter who works for us in our
service department has done a fantastic
job helping out with this so it's a
great it's a great asset to the
community this is the cleanup during the
greater brexit cleanup day
that's a picture that i took at the
capitol student union that i thought was
really cool and kind of just show the
integration of the community and the
university
and
i did take a shot of these trees it's
really hard to get a picture that really
shows what is supposed to be happening
here
but this was an idea to
responsive residents we talked about it
last year who have been complaining
about speeding on cassingham to help
kind of make the street feel a little
narrower so this is year one they're
small trees but they're gorgeous and uh
as they get larger those flower buds
will be even larger they're they're
columnar
um crab apple so they're not gonna
spread out a ton but they will get more
vertical and uh
like the word kilometer or crab applied
okay uh and uh just it's kind of neat to
see how infrastructure can help
potentially
you know if you sit in a tree commission
every month for your career you start to
like pick up on stuff he's praying you
ask him to distinguish between the types
of mosquitoes too because i know he
knows
going back to code enforcement for a
minute given that the weather is nicer
and i see lots of residents out
and about
do we just have one full-time code
enforcement i thought maybe a couple
years ago we approved a seasonal
part-time additional code enforcement
but we may put it on ice because of
cobit maybe
yes so we had that position
active last summer and he is back again
this summer dick o'donnell
and right now he's focusing primarily on
going through commercial landscape
installations to make sure that they're
being kept up
and then he's going to be continuing to
help out with seasonal violations but
yeah we're seeing
we're already seeing lots of tall grass
it's been it's been tough for mowers in
general because like it's been very wet
so the grass has grown it's been hard to
mow it but um
we'll be seeing all those normal
seasonal violations it was really
helpful having him last year let's look
forward to him now you know he's got
some more experience under his belt
continue to help us out glad to hear
he's back thanks
sir
so i know we're at kind of a delicate
stage in this process but you do have a
section on the police search update
you say that we have 12 candidates i
know that chief just mentioned four can
you kind of
explain those numbers to us or where we
are and the process i don't we're going
until may 27th and then it says
um the candidates will be presented to
the interview team so
uh like
what's that sort of
sure
so um
and what i'm going to tell you is also
on our website under the chief search
url
but we do have 12 candidates for the
chief position i think we thought you
were talking about that we have a
vacancy in the department for an officer
oh i'm sorry i think i misunderstood
that we're hearing two separate members
for two separate positions
um
i don't know who those candidates are i
haven't seen them and i won't see them
until uh end of may uh the
the first step is the
search consultant will go through those
and narrow the list based upon what the
criteria is
as they understand it if there is any
narrow interview down then there will be
a first round of interviews
with the interview committee which
includes
tiffany hunt who is the head of our
civilian review board
rachel lang from the civil service
commission
uh this is the list i brought to you
guys last time council member monique
lamke sam marcelino troy markham and
then lee nathans and john arkenberg also
still service commission
um that group will narrow down the
candidates to probably
three candidates three finalists two or
three is the hope
uh and then have a community-wide
town hall type process where
there's additional feedback coming in
from the community on those candidates
before the final selection
uh and since we have
12 candidates and they are marketing the
position until 20 may 27th is there any
speculation like how's the flow of
you know candidates and
applications for the numbers so 12 is as
of last friday so uh
it's been increasing by a
few three to five
every week okay this is a different
um
different stages to the marketing and
things that the ralph anderson is doing
that they expect to hit different
populations or is it just
that's out there for 30 days and
so it's out there for about six weeks by
late april it was posted to the national
association of women law enforcement
executives the hispanic american police
commando officers association
the international association of chiefs
of police the national organization of
black law enforcement executives the
ohio association of chiefs of police
and then they're out also recruiting
with the neural network okay
thank you
any other questions
thank you
we are going to move to
the
aforementioned consent agenda
you got a lot to read yes we do all
right on the consent agenda meeting
minutes of 4 26 22 ordinance 10 22 to
establish the rate for the police
administrative assistant at 32.72 per
hour effective
321-292 that was introduced by ms lamke
ordinance 15-22 to amend sections
474.007 safe riding regulations for
bicycles section 474.08 parking locks
section 474.12 operation of many bikes
scooters etc on sidewalk park and school
grounds and section 474.13
bicycle license required that was
introduced by mr marcelino and
resolution 3-22 confirming the mayor's
appointment of kathleen gravel
to the board of health that was
introduced by ms robinson
less work for us the same amount of work
for you mr official
any uh comments or questions about the
items on the consent
agenda um at this point we open it up to
uh the audience for any
questions or comments
can i i'll take a motion to approve the
consent agenda
so moved
uh motion approved by mr klingler second
second by miss sod
and
auditor hale
yes
all right consent agenda passes zero
onward
all right unto ooh that was loud sorry
under third readings ordnance 11-22 to
provide for designated off-leash areas
within schneider park that was
introduced by mr marcelino
yes thank you very much we've discussed
this again and it's not a requirement to
keep your dogs off the leash but an
option we're building the parks for the
park for the dogs so we think this would
be beneficial we went through the space
last
meeting but does anybody have any
questions at this time
or concerns
and one question uh regarding the
penalties listed in the strict liability
mayor can you remind me who would be
responsible for enforcing this
as it pertains to that area of the dog
park
i believe that when we have animals at
large or animal issues that goes through
our police department or animal control
officer okay thank you
any other questions mr klingler
this is optional right it's an optional
off the leash correct area and
we don't
i don't know a lot about dog behavior
like mr markham um
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but we don't see it potentially being a
problem you know some people might have
them off leash some people might have
them on leash on the way to the dog park
that that's not going to be a we don't
think that would be too big of a problem
it's my understanding that there will be
multiple entrances to the uh park so if
you do not feel comfortable with the off
leash portion of the park you certainly
could use the other entrance at that
point okay so we're only going to have
the off leash on the north end that was
yeah that's the feedback that we were
getting to the last meeting
so the off leash would happen after you
were you know north of the entrance to
the park
so you could approach the park from the
north the more convenient parking spot
would be from the south that would be
the most common
there's also going to be a dog cleaning
station
near the astor parking area so that'll
be the most
logical entries
and there would be all all leash area
there
okay
assad
so i would just say to a company which i
know will do a good job with this good
signage
indicating where you're off leash and
where you're on leash
i'm going to put mike price in charge of
dog signage because he loves dog signage
wonderful
he hates cat signage though
that's a nasty river
any other questions comments
uh this is the third uh so uh mr
marcelino do you have uh
action on this
i move
to pass
ordinance 11-22 to provide for decimated
off-leash areas within schneider park
motion to adopt by mr marcelino second
second by mr klimer any comments or
questions from city council
once again we extend comments or
questions for third readings to the
audience
auditor hale please call the role
yes
yes marcelino yes
yes
yes pass thank you
all right moving on to third reading of
ordinance 13-22 to amend
1226.18 appeals to the board of zoning
and planning in order to specify the
applicant as the appellant in certain
situations introduced by mr cleanliner
thanks mr fischel um
third ring the third reading of this
ordinance again it cleans up
our um
our appeals process
are there any questions from council
no questions no comments
i guess i would have one comment of
course mr marcelino uh you know as an
attorney i was pretty concerned at the
initial reading of this that we were
going to be removing the right of
citizens to have
an appellate right here basically to
appeal a decision
however upon further discussion with the
council person proposing this order and
it's it's very clear that we're not
removing any appellate right whatsoever
in fact we're just clarifying who the
appellant uh can be at this time
moreover in uh in favor of appellate
efficiency i think that this ordinance
is well written and serves its purpose
to allow the bees app uh the ability to
carry on without an overburden some uh
docket over minor uh property uh
modifications so uh just to note that i
did have those concerns at first but i
think it's been well explained by
council and i appreciate that time
thanks tim
ms lam key i'll chime into i i spent
some additional time with this and i at
the previous two readings i did have
some questions but i assured everyone
that i would do the deeper dive
i did the deeper dive i listened to the
words and interpretation of our legal
counsel and the light bulb finally got
off and i echo what council member
marcelino was saying so i too can
support this
other comments for questions
i have a comment i would like to thank
mr klingler for his work on this i know
that you put in a lot of
time and effort and uh thoughtful
thoughtful debate i know along with the
mayor on this and you have brought
that
energy and thoughtfulness and your
experience to this and i'm pleased to
have you here being our zoning chair
work on this these type of things
what do you have
even if you don't know much about trees
we have some amendments to that to
propose
so mr klingler i thought we already did
that yeah mr klingler uh and i were at
the beez at meeting he was
there for like three hours wait four
four four sorry for return
reviewed this as our zoning code
requires they
voted unanimously to
they don't have to prove it but to
recommend it to council subject to a
couple changes that's right
with catherine cunningham in attendance
wordsmith
do you want me to review those or do you
want that okay
so the first thing they suggested that
we change is that we consistently say
final orders adjudications or decisions
it varies a little bit throughout this
section of code with what they're saying
sometimes it's orders decisions it's
adjudications determinations but those
three words final orders education
decisions are
consistent with the orc and so the
recommendation was to be consistent with
those
and to say that
section 1220 which is powers and duties
of the bzap
would say to here and decide appeals in
accordance with 1226.18 which is
what you guys have been looking at
before
so again in 1226.18
we added final order adjudication or
decision
before it's just decision
final order adjudication or decision
before right there it was just decision
um and again down here final education
or decision before it was
requirement decision or determination so
it's consistent i love it it's a good
cleanup um
and those are the changes
so we're seeing bold there is that
what's
you're seeing bold anywhere the code has
changed and i was highlighting the
things that changed in this proposed
domain okay so it's it's really just
anywhere you see order changing it to be
final order adjudication consistency
consistency and adding in accordance
with 12 26.18 okay a few changes
the
blanket changes that aren't to this
proposed event
all right i think we need to then open
this up to some questions or debate
about those amendments then
you guys buried the lead on me
annie
all right well now
now you have something to say
yeah
i'll make a motion to approve the
amendments to ordinance 13 22. uh motion
to amend as noted second second by mr
marcelino
uh mr hale
um
klingler yes bible yes markham yes
yes marcelino yes
yes
amended
all right that is amended and then
next mr klingler make a motion to pass
amended ordinance 1322
questioned by mr klingler seconded by ms
assad
mr hale
bible
klingler yes
yes arcelino yes
yes
all right thank you
okay
we are now on to a third reading of
ordinance 14-22 to amend section 1266-14
solar panels in order to provide for
consistent regulation in a streamlined
approval process for solar panel
projects mr klingler
thanks this is um again streamlining our
solar panel approval process allowing
for staff review and approval
of solar panel installation
are there any questions
see we
it's time
so i know we're on our third reading and
i do apologize because i thought this
was second reading tonight and it's
third reading so i do have a little bit
more um than i would normally have at a
third reading
current so what this ordinance the
intent of this ordinance would be that
it would no longer have to go to the arb
for
solar panels to be on the front
of a resident see so right
in general
first off the beez app has not yet made
a vote on this so we we're gonna table
tonight just so you know okay so got
time i appreciate that secondly um
yeah so currently any solar panel needs
to go in front of the arb not just the
front face facing but they do review
front facing
has some criteria in order to be able to
be allowed it needs to
be quote unquote needs to be required
for feasibility of the project
which is not really defined well in our
ordinance at all not defined
so it's a pretty you know low burden to
say i need this feasibility for my
project i need this for my pencil app
and that's often people would put it in
the front
it's facade because it's generating
enough output to make the entire you
know installation make sense
so
is the current system working when we
have it go in front of arb i guess my
question would be why would we just not
keep this
in front of arb if it's currently
manageable why is it not manageable
why isn't it
yeah we're getting a lot of i'm getting
a lot of feedback from applicants who
feel that it's a really burdensome
project process
um
we uh
there was a social media thread recently
about this exact topic where people were
piling on about how bad the process is
i've observed the process being really
unfriendly to applicants i think that
the
arb is is of
split minds about whether or not they
like solar panels and so regardless of
what our code says there are arb members
who take every opportunity to sort of be
grouchy about solar panels
and so you put somebody who's trying to
put this installation in front of arb
although they have an affirmative zoning
right to have the panels they're
happening to navigate multiple hearings
tablings
and
the process is you know often they'll
get kind of
they'll get pushed to maybe
take them off certain areas or put them
somewhere else where like recently we
had an applicant last summer who was
convinced to build a separate structure
to have additional panels that she
agreed to
covered ports that didn't exist before
but it's not really a reasonable it's
not part of what our code says
and so we've tried to educate around
this we've had a lot of workshops with
our irv members as you know about solar
panels
um i just think that it's been
unsuccessful we've continued to have
this tension with the air b about the
concept of the panels
we received feedback from a
solar
designating group called soul smart that
warps is really pushing central ohio
community to be part of they did a whole
audit of our code which i will send you
i
will also attach it to the agenda
because i attached to these apps agenda
and it's really informative and it goes
through all these and it talks about
like
you know why for example glare
is not really a concern with solar
panels they absorb light they don't they
don't glare they are designed to not
glare so
our code talks about glare so
there's a lot of changes in here that
are based upon industry kind of best
practices that we aren't currently
employing
so um thank you that is very educational
and i would love to get that information
on the soul smart
i guess my concern with this ordinance
would just be
the responsibility and review process so
if we
take that away from our current system
which some people residents i've heard
they feel like it was working from my
experience in my conversation some feel
like it wasn't i'm not an expert on that
um i'm just listening
but
who would then say we pass this who then
is responsible
to
you know is that kathy is that karen to
review and help
educate
um
the owner because it's my understanding
that when it when it's actually
installed the installers may just
install
as many as they can for the square
footage which may not always be
um for our neighborhood
sure pleasing
um
yeah so just trying to seek to
understand that for the community as a
whole
right so there's still design standards
um
staff still reviews those there's still
a permit issued based upon the plan
and it's inspected to see if it's
compliant with the plan
staff currently reviews roof
installations so the selection of
different types of shingles and their
color already
reviews windows reviews siding
reviews certain porches and and decks so
there's a lot of
current staff review that's in directly
analogous to this staff reviews garages
that fit code
and you know within a certain footprint
can go ahead and sign off on them so
it's not unlike other processes that we
have today it's simply treating the
solar panel as if it's roof
if that makes sense
so then i would ask so you
we would just say staff we wouldn't say
designated who that would be too it's
talking about the zoning officer and
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it says staff review but that is under
designing officer
would we be able to amend that and
actually put
zoning officer
we'd set a staff good oh yeah sure and
then um
could we also follow up that if we went
that route that
that person would receive additional
training on the science
of where they should be placed these
solar panels for effectiveness
additional training for design review
placement of solar panels for their
effect to make them the most effective
so staff would review them and make sure
that they're placed effectively
staff would receive training maybe from
soul smart um i don't have history with
them but
that they would then better understand
when they're making that review
are you asking for
maybe what i'm following here is are you
asking for
is there going to be
something some sort of set standards
then since we're bringing this in-house
we're going to have a set person that's
going to review and they're going to be
a set
standards that will be published for the
public that would be sort of out there i
guess as it sounds like and that would
be sort of
my understanding moving in the spirit of
what actually it
not just the spirit what we're doing
here which is taking this away from
being more
arbitrary decision by a group of people
and sort of codifying that is that
that was very well said troy yes
thank you yeah
just making sure that we stay
if
again if some people felt like it was
working the process and i agree some
people did not that we still have
something in place because it is new and
i think what we're looking to do is make
sure that the residents have the
opportunity to do it
and but then it's effective
and from what i've talked to with people
who have installed it they hand it off
to the installers and then it's they
just go for it if we didn't have some
things in place
so
yeah i want to clarify a couple things
first up
the coordinates itself does have design
standards in it so that's something to
look at think about because there it
talks about
configuration it talks about profiles
the hiding of the infrastructure so that
exists
also i think it's important to note that
they don't the the
installer doesn't just go for it they
have to submit a plan that shows exactly
what the configuration is and then that
gets installed to plan and so it gets
reviewed by plan and then it gets a
follow-up inspection to make sure it's
installed to plan
and um
i know for a fact that happens because
i'm familiar with some installations
where there was
uh some some installation that occurred
not to play
um so
that's part of our process
and i think it's you know it's a process
that's well honed and it's
it covers really analogous installations
in our neighborhoods
in terms of training about like you know
configuration and photometrics and all
that i don't know that it's realistic
that we're going to have staff that's an
expert at
whether or not a panel needs to be in a
certain place to generate a certain
amount of input
but there are design guidelines that
they can point to so they can still say
you know this is uh
this one panel off the side is not
symmetrical with the rest of the
configuration there are aesthetic
considerations that they can review
i'm not sure i'm comfortable saying that
we would have staff that would
get trained in um
like the photometric piece of the panel
installation maybe that's not what
you're saying
i would just want to empower them so if
the installer's saying well this is why
we need to do it this way yeah they were
educated enough to agree or disagree so
in those situations we would typically
reach out to an industry professional to
get further assistance and if we needed
it
okay i don't want to misstate what
you're saying either here but it my
interpretation of your concern is we're
taking this from a public forum where
people can come and appeal and they see
those faces and they know and this feels
maybe like it's a little more mysterious
that it's coming in house
but there will be a point person here at
city hall where a property owner and a
contractor can come
and get answers and talk to that person
and find out so it's not going to be
something that's then suddenly gonna be
pulled away from people that have
concerns is that am i going off base
there that sounds to me like maybe what
your concern is yes so that was i was
just saying if we take away
determined by staff the architectural
review board
then i think that we need to fill that
by stating who that is here on staff
that would review it
would be my recommendation
and i need to double check that section
of good doesn't already define staff but
i'll we'll double check that
sounds like we're going to get a couple
more weeks too to think about this so
that's something to
weigh in on in the meantime yes mr
marcelino i'm glad to hear that we're
out tabling this tonight as i had in big
bold i i would move to table this um for
a lot of the same reasons that uh
councilwoman assad has mentioned tonight
um it seems to me uh that this differs
from the last ordinance in the sense
that uh we're removing an appeal process
for the individual uh from what i'm
hearing it sounds as though we're going
to put this in the hands of the staff
but it's not quite clear uh what happens
if the homeowner doesn't agree with the
staff and i feel as though we may offer
more opportunities to homeowners while
it may take a little bit longer to a
homeowner that is uh whose plan is
rejected
by
not necessarily just moving to staff but
keeping it with the arb so i would have
questions um in regards to how many of
these we're getting a year because i
anticipate it's probably less than uh
fences windows things of that nature so
i don't think that it's necessarily
overburdensome in the same way windows
and defenses would be i mean more over
again i'm just i'm concerned about this
removing it from the arb aboard where it
can be discussed to staff review and
where it goes from there because
obviously after a staff review i think
the idea would potentially be to sue the
city potentially if they didn't agree
with that or no and so i just want some
clarity on that perhaps before we move
forward so
you guys just passed an ordinance that
further clarifies that applicant has the
right to appeal that staff decision
to the to be zap
so it would be with you if they had a
denial of a permit then they have 10
days or whatever to do to process those
appeals
and we provide them when we do that we
provide them with that so you can go
ahead and appeal this if you don't like
this decision
i think that um
our hope is to get this turn to be again
to be analogous to other
exterior changes that are within code um
and i
i know you know just that you sat
through some of those board meetings
before so you've kind of seen what can
happen
um i i'm not trying to say that the
system shouldn't be rigorous and we
shouldn't like you know have high
standards we clearly have high standards
but i am saying that i think that
there's an arbitrary nature to the way
that hearings are conducted and i can't
you know we can't stop that from
happening because it's a
at least so far we have not succeeded in
that it's not you know there's just five
different people five different opinions
about what solar panel should look like
on a house and we have historic
preservation architects who don't want
them right so
we're asking
residents to come before this board
where they're met with hostility from at
least one or two members
and often are unnecessarily jumping
through hoops for something that
may if you agree
be uh be a right that somebody should be
able to install um
panels i also want to clarify i
misspoke
at the beginning i said that
all solar has to go to arv that's not
correct it's it's solar
that our
solar not facing an adjacent street
right
is exempt from arv so if it's side solar
or rear solar so you were correct
so again though just to kind of state
that
it would be the front facing that goes
in front of arb um sam had a good
question i don't have the answer to this
either but i love knowing the numbers
um
you know the question would be how many
of these go in front of arb currently
for front facing solar panels at those
meetings are we backlogged or are these
residents getting heard at that
every 30 days at these meetings
and if so you know there's an answer
there as well about us
yeah i guess working or is it not all
those stats there i know there's two on
thursday right right so i think we're
running maybe one a month on average
i would also like to show you the
average number of months they have to go
through because i think that's an
important thing for you to know
um i think that
we can't control installers giving false
information but installers are telling
people don't bother getting a
front-facing solar effect you're gonna
get you're gonna get harassed and you're
gonna turn down i've heard that from
multiple people so i know that that is
the perception in the installation
community and there are residents who've
gone through it that feel that way as
well and i think that
it's just something we should be worried
you know and hopefully address if we
can't
mr clinton yeah well i will point out
that um
two
point a
any installations on the front roof
facade shall be justified by providing
an analysis no don't scroll too far
of why the front facade is necessary in
order to generate so that would have to
be submitted to our staff review
um
so it's an additional
um i guess hoop they would have to jump
through you could say
to get a front facing but that's also an
opening up thing because that used to be
completely prohibited so now we
leave it up to interpretation to allow
that right
no uh back in
several years ago this was added this
language
it was opened up is that you're saying
yeah okay so it's still there okay but
that control still exists i think yeah
yeah yeah
we're not removing that is what i'm
saying no i'm just saying we're we're
opening up more opportunities for our
solar placement not not the opposite
direction at least at this point
good
more questions more comments
can i just make a comment of course
again it's a little outside my bailiwick
as the city attorney but i don't want to
lose sight of it i mean i really think
there is an actual and
without a doubt per se perceived issue
that
are
imp that it may be impeding
folks who want to put solar to not
bother because of the process of aarb
and i i can't i mean again i've sat
through some of those too i can't
emphasize this enough
understanding that you know the idea
behind solar
is
there's an environmental ideal obviously
there's also a design idea
but
arb
in my ex limited experience tends to
look at one of those the design idea and
again whether it's
you know i've had this discussion with
some of you whether it's solar or
something else there are a lot of
minutiae questions that go before arb
that perhaps that perhaps are more
appropriately addressed
by the zoning officer or whoever that
staff person is with the right of appeal
again to be zap where it would end up
anyway
now
i think two misconceptions one is that
and the other one is that we don't allow
any flexibility on
placement of those panels on the front
so i think
yeah as we move forward it's nice to
get some uniformity and also
let people know that yeah we're we're
open for
solar power solar panels anything else
just i mean
reader if the next time we talk about
this will be after bzap i would imagine
and there's probably plenty of feedback
from them because they you know they all
they were quick to move on the other
ordinance and they were like ah give me
some more time to think about this yeah
that makes sense it's good for
mr klingler to stay up late for a lot of
those meetings
he's got that energy
way past my bedtime
mr official
we need a motion to table oh we do i'm
sorry mr klein got please i'll make
motion to table ordinance
14-22 i'll second
uh motion under table management mr
klinger seconded by ms assad
mr hale
um
yes
yes eyeball yes
yes
all right that motion is tabled then
move on all right we are on to the
second reading of ordinance 17-22 to
amend sections 820 men's section 824.103
licensed fee effective period in order
to eliminate garage and yard sale
license fees ms lamke
thank you as stated that the previous
reading this simply removes the one
dollar nominal charge for those folks
pulling a permit for
yard sales
are there any questions or concerns from
council
mr klingler what sort of impact is this
going to have on our finances
i think it's a half 30 percent of the
general fund budget
i suspect we might be losing money by
how much time our staff puts into this
granting
that's right
any more comments or questions
um what oh
agenda i would be in favor of that
all right natalie please note
thank you
okay we are on two first readings we
have a first reading of ordinance 18-22
granting the donation of an easement
consisting of a certain strip of land 20
feet in width
the center line being the facilities as
installed as further described in
ordinance number
24 is adopted by the council of the
village of bexley on october 24 1911
for the electric and other current and
future energy or communication
purposes to american electric power
introduced by ms fibel and as you
discuss this i would appreciate a
summary of the 1911
uh ordinance adopted by the village as
well
i i i was planning on giving a
30 to 45 minute presentation on that at
the second reading so i'll work on that
and you'll love it
this is an exciting ordinance because um
it is going to allow the irrigation that
we were talking about
um in commonwealth to happen
so we have uh we are going to grant a
piece of property
that is plotted
to the city of bexley formerly
the village of bexley in commonwealth
park formerly formerly known as bullet
park
so that ap can access it for electrical
um
mayor kessler what do you have to add
um
that it's
uh necessary for the the fields
yeah we need it for the fields
irrigation i mentioned that so yeah the
the current electric service is right up
in the north portion of the park
the work that's
anticipated is that the ground the line
will go underground
through this area
to the
mechanical room folly
on this side uh where it will be
enclosed and there will be
the electric service there which will
then
feed back
to the air the irrigation pump which
will be right there plus also ultimately
probably feed over to the rice trims
over here so um
it does specify that we need to consent
to any structures that they put in place
and as i was reading it i actually
didn't know maybe this is a
dumb question i'm not sure isn't the
easement is revocable
oh absolutely it's not an irrevocable if
it was irrevocable we would it would say
irreplicable that's absolutely right
okay
do i understand that there needs to be a
suspension
it was
it would very much help the project um
if we had a suspension adoption because
they are
they're needing to trench this and get
everything in place before doing the
work in the fields which they're
currently in the process
do we have any uh questions or comments
on this
he said
did you have a question just excited to
get this project going hey then
for real you said something about
structures is there an anticipation of
some sort of structure or is this just
bearing no i was playing like devil's
advocate like what could adp do without
asking us
randomly put up polls through there
right i was just reading through it just
like you know i think they're going to
create a dog park on that easement
that's right that does allow them to put
a dog apart without asking us just it's
a joke anyway
you're my joke clarifier
all right question any more questions or
comments and if not we'll
turn it off then i am going to make a
motion to suspend the three reading
requirement for ordinance
18 22.
second
that's right motion to suspend the third
rating rule by him is fiber
seconded by mr klingler
auditor hale
uh marcelino yes saad
yes
yes eyeball yes klingler yes
yes
suspended suspended and is fiber yes i
would like to make a motion to pass
ordinance 1822
so we can get some irrigation
on commonwealth park motion to pass by
ms fiber
second seconded by mr klingler
um and we do need to
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pause for a comment or question
here right and also to the public
and there we've done it
auditor
yes eyeball
yes
yes marcelino yes
yes
thank you
all right we are moving on to ordinance
19-22 to amend
1226.19 appeals to council in order to
specify an appeals timeline based upon
the date of receipt of a written
decision and posting a written decision
to the website to provide for city
council's ability to decline
jurisdiction based upon conflicts of
interest or for other cause to provide
for the suspension of active permits
pertaining to those parts of an
application that are under appeal and to
accommodate additional procedural
improvements mr klingler you are busy
i love those titles can we a couple
lines longer next time thank you it's mr
klingler tonight here tonight
so this is another
this ordinance does multiple things part
of it
streamlines some processes that we have
in
place i think we've noticed
and talking to the mayor um
over the last couple years there's been
issues with um
timing as far as
getting projects approved through
building zoning plannings today
it doesn't official things don't get
officially approved until they approve
their meeting minutes
and that can be an issue when they don't
have a quorum to approve their meeting
minutes
um so things can take quite a long time
60 90 120 days
so we're adjusting
1226.19
a
to say after a record of decision has
been received in writing by the
applicant and has been posted to the
city city's website and that's within
30 days
an appeal can be filed
we've left it at 30 i had some thoughts
about going to 15.
um
i i welcome feedback on whether
you all want 15 or 30 or how you feel
about that
i'm probably in favor of 15.
i'm sorry so
just to clarify you're saying that 30
calendar days you're asking for input
now on that 30 days versus maybe a
shorter amount of time
yeah or just think about it so
a written notice of appeal um
they have 15 days any anyone who wants
to appeal
after a decision
has been approved
but the main thing we're changing
with the ordinance
is that it's it's no longer going to be
when the board has approved their
meeting minutes
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which can take a long time
sometimes
and if your homeowner trying to start a
project i mean
it could be three to four months you
know depending if it's a holiday and
they don't meet and then they don't have
a quorum
so that's the first change mayor do you
have anything to add for them
uh a real world example that was this
past this is that meeting this month day
last month sorry i didn't have a quorum
they didn't have any
not enough members were present at the
prior meeting to vote in the minutes all
right because you know they have some
alternates and so
they
and those who were not present hadn't
watched the full meeting so we're
comfortable voting the minutes
um
and so we had we have at least one case
we know where there's a
attorney that's
concerned about a potential appeal
but yet the clock doesn't start on that
and it was from a decision that was made
in march and it has not yet been
memorialized in the minutes
and the issue is actually brought to us
from a different attorney based upon the
fact that
the bee zap did meet in december which
is normal that's the month they recess
there was a november decision
and then they couldn't get a quorum in
january
so there was again a situation where
minutes from
november didn't get voted on until march
so then there's a 30 day so there's a
90-day waiting period plus a 30-day
liability for appeal to council
this
is
really simple it does not take away any
appeal rights
all it does is say that the written
record decision has been received by
applicants but pushed the website people
have as this is drafted 30 days to
submit just like they do today it's it
just solves a problem you know doesn't
change anything
this is a
horrible disservice to the residents and
so random too something like this or if
the court doesn't meet or something like
that so we're seeing in this extreme
case like how much time has passed are
we talking
three months or something like that
yeah three or four because like so the
property that
wow get the minutes approved on it you
know it's in its own it's in a it's in a
purchase contingency on zoning
and they think they have to choose
whether or not to proceed at risk or not
that's terrible
so this is a weird question then uh how
long does it take i mean to get a
decision of record and writing to an
applicant then i mean just
by the way i think it should say after a
written record decision has been
received by the applicant and has been
posted but that's that's a minor change
i think that would be
more elegant record written decision
yeah or written records
um
how long it takes a matter of days okay
so we were talking about like it's
received
maybe the next day or so it's written up
here and it's sent out and so that's
okay
other questions miss sod
so this would be our next step
after we did change what the quorum was
for our visa
we did change that remember to help this
process and then this would be the next
step yeah quorum was designed to make
sure they could have a meeting right but
sometimes we now know that doesn't mean
that they're going to pass minutes so
which makes sense it's fair and that
that's the problem is we're like we're
putting a lot of pressure on the bzap
members
the past minutes
because of this timeline that's being
created and it's it's a
it was a decision that was made um
when this ordinance was written
i think without thinking through that
potential problem so it's this is not an
unusual
concept that it would be based upon when
the regular decision is received and
this language was crafted in
uh cooperation with catherine kennedy
with her help she actually recommended
the shorter time period that matt was
saying but
it's drafted at the same thirty that it
is
but i'm in favor i'm in favor of 15 in
case anyone wants to know
just to clarify as written it is 30 days
but you are asking us to consider 15 and
i'm possibly amending that
okay other questions or comments on that
first part and i know we'll go back to
if not go ahead and you want to take us
through the second part then the second
part is it yeah sure um
so
farther down on the paragraph if the
appellant is not the applicant the clerk
of city council shall serve the
applicant
by certified mail or as provided through
the city's zoning application software
so we have good
city software that
emails applicants out and
i feel that's a good
good clause to provide in there
um
and the decline jurisdiction
there's one more on e
on e
we added email
okay
so that's
big change
any questions on email
and which apparently is now orc allows
email service
of course do it all the time
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um
if we scroll down to m
so here we're adding these sentences by
a vote of a simple majority city council
may at its sole discretion decline
jurisdiction
based upon a conflict of interest or
perceived conflict of interest or for
any other cause which council deems
appropriate should council decline
jurisdiction the decision of the
building board of zoning and planning is
deemed final and binding
can we get expansion on that maybe mr
official talk about the
decline jurisdiction like what sort of
well again we just had a recent example
with the livingston avenue issue and uh
this city council
you know everybody mostly council
members each individually decided for
themselves that it would be best if and
it would be best if that they did not
hear the appeal and again everybody has
to make that decision for themselves
with some obvious exceptions that didn't
apply there and ultimately although i
think very incorrectly the court of
common pleas said nope under under these
circumstances you don't even have that
option because there's nothing in your
code that gives you that option so
that's what that's why this language is
being proposed that in the unlikely
event that the majority of city council
cannot hear an appeal because of
whatever conflict issue might apply this
will allow you to this will overcome the
what the court of common police uh ruled
sometime last year
is would this be something that's more
commonly found in other cities
that they would have this written into
there
i'm going to say the honest truth is i
don't know but the answer my best guess
is no they don't because the
it's implied i mean and we had a common
police court judge who for some reason
ruled if it's not there you can't do it
so i think perhaps other cities might
start putting it into their code if
they're paying attention to that
decision they'd be well advised to do so
thank you
comments or questions ms lamke
i was just going to say that i know that
the seven council members take their
duties and obligations as a council
person very seriously and if
one of us or some of us feel that we
have either an actual conflict or a
perceived conflict or something
has arisen to give the rise of
the appearance of impropriety
i think that we would
raise that and respectfully
decline jurisdiction i did have one
question for attorney official
mark section n
says after an appeal has been filed and
prior to any final determination by city
council
that word determination would that
include if we declined
jurisdiction to or is that while it's
pending
maybe that's the question for kev yeah
okay well go ahead i think it's i think
it would would address that yes but
it agrees okay
that declining jurisdiction is a final
determination okay
so um
and that if i if i made that section
is
you know so so this is this is a very
this is a more this ordinance has
multiple pieces to it it's not that
complicated but one of these is we're
trying to address the challenges we've
had one of the challenges we've had is
neighbors who have appealed decisions
and steam work continue
on projects and really kind of
obviously for good reason driving crazy
so this does put a stay on work which is
not currently
the law but only a stay as to the any
work relating to the appeal if there's
other work that's are not under appeal
then the homeowner will be allowed to
continue to do that in the zoning
officer city could not
stay that portion of the
um project yeah i really do like that
last
clause of uh part n that would allow the
rest of the project that's not subject
to the appeal to go forward
excellent and then one last thing that
maybe was already said which is that the
final sentence in m
is
yes it's true that it's it's a final
decision of counsel and and so therefore
the b zap would be finally binding
however
applicants have other forums
they can appeal it downtown which is you
know what happens
so essentially just if there's a council
recusal for whatever reason
it can then just it would just go
straight down
point taken though uh ms lamke everyone
here except for one of us has already
put in some late night hours and i think
we all look forward to introducing mr
marcelino to
an evening of appeals at some point and
also letting mr klingler grab the gavel
and follow in miss fo sod's
footsteps and running those hearings
other comments and questions
all right let's move on
i i was just trying to find it real
quick and i don't want to do it off the
top of my head i mean actually
sam may know this uh just when you're
looking at
the the timeline for filing an appeal i
can't remember what that one 1912 appeal
what the timeline is
i don't really mean put you on the spot
i should know it off the top of my head
and i don't so anyway i'll i'll get you
some information that might you know
help inform the decision about how how
it's done from administrative agencies
on the state level and in terms of
deciding whether you want to do
something less than 30 days um i just
was hoping to get that answer while we
were still talking and i didn't find it
quickly
all right so we are now on to a first
reading of ordinance 20-22 to approve
the proposed joint livingston avenue
plan that was in that's introduced
theater by ms robinson but i'll turn it
back to you mr martin yeah i'll go ahead
and take a stab at this so this is our
exciting joint livingston avenue plan as
the mayor uh
mentioned in his update
was
passed by the steering committee just
last week
real very recently or whatever it's
very exciting hopefully you've all had a
chance to take a look at it but if you
haven't had a good chance we will have a
presentation of the plan i think next
council meeting is
what we're planning
yeah
and it's exciting
very thankful to have the
cooperation and partnership of the city
of columbus on this uh to benefit both
and i hope
there's lots of information in the
recitals uh it's been over a year-long
process
a lot of you guys have been involved in
it you've all been involved in some way
shape or form
really excited to see this moving
forward as i've said
in the past columbus
is really serious about it
um they're kind of abusing it viewing it
as a one of the hallmark projects for
their division zero planning efforts
which they're underway with throughout
different areas of the city
um so we're looking at some changes in
traffic patterns as soon as this fall uh
in on livingston avenue
but
this so this adopts the plan similar to
other adopting resolutions ordinances
we've had it also provides for
um
the standards in the plan because
there's a there's a design guidelines
piece of the plan
to go into the commercial service
district which is livingston avenue
zoning
because currently commercial service
districts because there was no other
standard
points to
the main street design guidelines
so
you'll see
the change version here that strikes out
main street design guidelines it talks
about the joint business
so it's just a way to kind of get our
zoning at least quickly up to speed
without
you know without any major changes just
make sure that it's like recently we had
a laundromat um get approved by vzapp
and fortunately
the applicant was there was a variance
so we had leverage and the applicant was
really
um helpful in the standards that are in
this joint life assembly plan being
incorporated into their plan which is
great
um
but when there's not a variance you
don't have the same leverage and so
having that in our code is a great way
to get started with making sure that
we're
starting the zoning piece to this which
is
a bigger right of way like more more
public space better landscape buffer
that sort of stuff
there's on it
comments for questions mrs lamke
um i wanted to add that i know some of
you or all of you attended the three
public workshops that were held
regarding this important joint
livingston avenue project um i had the
honor of serving on the um
on the committee in 2021 and council
member robinson has been serving um for
the past six months you will be amazed
by the amount of talent and discussion
wealth of information you will also get
beyond educated
it went above and beyond anything that i
thought was possible
and i'm so pleased that
we're going to have them at our next
reading to not only talk to you about
the residential part of livingston but
as the mayor mentioned the commercial
district they're also going to talk to
you about the near term meaning the
foreseeable the
very soon to be hopefully in the fall
changes they are suggesting as well as
the long-term
mayor for the short-term proposed
changes what would be the potential cost
to bexley and do we need to start
thinking about that from a dollar's
point of view
um there are no costs to vaccinate the
short-term plan even better um the and
that that's i should say the major piece
which is the striping and i want to give
monique a lot of credit because she was
one of the loudest voices earlier on
this early on that said hey
you know we're we're hearing lots of
like
great bold plans but what are we going
to do today you know which was um
certainly on a lot of our minds and
monique really put words to that and had
a lot of leadership in that so thank you
um
the
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the short term striping is the columbus
project
good job we've also uh i reached out to
columbus last week
and asked that we moved forward with a
piece of it that's mentioned in the plan
and we talked to columbus before which
is dedication of the right of way to
back sleep it's north of the curve
so that would have a cost because i'm
thinking through like what other guys
the cost to that would be that we would
now be taking on additional
infrastructure we don't currently
maintain
primarily in the form of sidewalks and
curbs
um
but
frankly i have delighted for us to take
that on
because i want our residents and those
visiting the city and on on those
sidewalks to experience
you know maybe it's a higher standard of
maintenance um
and uh i know that as they repave the
street this fall
you know having some curb work would be
great as well so that's that might not
happen this fall but we'll we're going
to continue to work on awesome we can't
wait for them to present at the next
meeting
so exciting
questions or comments
if not i think we can move on when we
have
do you say this or you're saying
something go ahead i am saying something
so on the tabled ordinances ordinance
24-21
was introduced on may 25th 2021 i
believe pursuant to council rules it
will be falling off
ex existence after not after the next
meeting so on may 25th 2022 if folks
don't care about that that's fine i'm
just pointing it out
i think you could always lawfully bring
it off the table and make a motion to
extend its life if you so desire but you
could also always introduce reintroduce
it later on
thank you for that yeah richard hasn't
been paying attention to that
all right uh
committee reports and numero uno estes
semanas
signora lanky
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gracias
i lived in mexico for six months
well as last week was cinco de mayo i
will just say no report
what was the last time that gracias
the finance chair had fewer or uh
ordinances than another community chair
matt klingler is busy
it does happen i can speak from
experience
klingwood is taking up this whole
meeting
mr marcellino how about safety chair no
report
minister klingler we want to hear more
from you in zoning i think no report oh
all right how about miss sod
of course i have a report let's hear it
so um from the bexley education
foundation and they're really making a
push at alumni sam
and they um are doing a lot of great
things with publications of their
magazine and um
and whatnot and wendy uh hosworth is in
charge of that now
she is asking for their 100th
commencement um this year
that if you are an alumni if you could
send her a past picture of you in your
cap and gown
and it will go to windy w-e-n-d-y dot
houseworth h-a-u-s-w-i-r-t-h
bexley dot us so sam i know that you're
going to be a good leader and get that
done
and copy all of us this is where it is
it was only a few years ago right you
could say the photos like was taken a
couple months ago probably right exactly
and end of report
it's just a photo dump for sam yeah
oh
uh strategic committee ms robinson is
not here tonight so we will move along
to service and environmental ms fibel
all right so i have just a few um
especially celebrations and events aka
abc and e um our team is saying happy
big great we start off with our first
not sure if i'm pronouncing that right
uh yum bombay i think anyway and then um
the main event and
mr kessler you had it as um 527 it is
6-3
our main event is
unbelievable i just wanted to see if you
were checking okay well done good yay
no i'm just worried that it might be on
some other you know document somewhere
that it's and we're have we're going to
be watching luca and um our band is
fairweather
i joined the bexley bloomers if you
don't know what that is
show up in
some
dingy clothes and help do some digging
weeding pruning every thursday morning
at nine o'clock i helped um last
thursday it was a lot of fun calm stay
for a half hour stay for an hour think
about that though 12 people showed up at
the last one
many of them stayed for three hours
think about how much those volunteers
are saving our community by
you know and at the same time really you
know building community so it's really
it's really a special thing that they do
um
elizabeth ellman figured out a way to
get
the bottles
from the dea drug
take back
recycled
normally romke does not take those and
they and they gathered 110 pounds of
drugs so you can only imagine how many
bottles um did that
and of course i'm gonna have my quick
little
uh
can you recycle it yes or no
can it be recycled
i'm learning my kids are teaching me is
that right because that was my guess to
it it's good very good yes because
you're right mark this is
recyclable and this is recyclable but
they are not
you know glass is a commodity
tin is a commodity when it comes to
recycling so if you separate it it makes
life a lot easier
this does not have to come off
it could also be used
again
if you were to you know have leftovers
fyi
salad
do you do you have to wash it
what's the type of variety of rest
vodka sauce my favorite
rice figures
as drinking glasses
all right end of report do you have to
watch it
wow all right
it's pretty best we've reached the point
where we also allow public comments from
the audience so we will extend that
uh having done it is 7 48 with the three
minute delay i nailed the time assad i
will
take a motion to adjourn from mr
klingler
seconded by
second second by ms lamke all in favor
say aye aye all opposed same sign