stay soon
[Applause]
although they
okay
i'm ready i think we're waiting on
the mayor here
hey hey
hey hey maybe
are we ready to go
please
ah thank you can call your excitement
for just a moment while we start this
thing
thank you
like to welcome you to the city council
meeting tuesday may 24th 2022
as always uh remember the uh people of
ukraine as they defend their country and
i would like to thank each and every one
of you up here
for your service to our city uh i would
like to
start off the meeting with just a moment
of silence
for the children of texas victims of the
shooting this afternoon if you would
join me please
thank you mr mcpeek would you call the
roll please
bible here
here marcelino here
here rob here
here i would like to note that uh mr
klingler is out tonight notified me and
i would uh motion that his absence be
known as as excused second
uh all all in favor say aye aye all
opposed same sign
please join me for the pledge of
allegiance
i pledge allegiance to the flag of the
united states of america and to the
republic for which it stands one nation
under god
indivisible with liberty and justice for
all
we have some familiar faces in the crowd
here tonight uh i think we have a very
special presentation lee nathan's in the
bexley citizens police academy
if you would please
come up to the podium and uh
give us all the great news
it's good to see you again mr nathan
well thank you very much uh council
president uh markham um we're here this
evening to present scholarship awards to
worthy recipients
who are children of our bexley police
department
i believe you all are familiar with our
bexley citizens police academy it's
really one of the core elements of our
community policing and as such uh every
graduate is entitled to join the alumni
association
uh our tenants for the alumni
association association are meeting
serving and learning
and uh we've tried to incorporate that
in every activity that we do one of the
things that we're the proudest of being
able to raise funds to present
scholarships to
the children of our police officers
over the course of our
organization
we've had over a hundred bexley citizens
participate in the
citizens police academy um
council member uh lamke council member
fibel have been uh participants uh
council president markham has planning
on
participating in the class in september
and everyone is welcome to uh to contact
sergeant overlea who has been absolutely
amazing here on crutches this evening to
support our activities
um we have um
over a hundred graduates and uh for this
evening this will be um
a total of over five thousand dollars
that we presented to police officers
children's first scholarships we've also
made a special award last year to our
animal control officer amy jennings so
that she could train her
german shepherd
zelig to be a search and rescue animal
and uh hopefully we won't need her here
in bexley but she will be uh
a resource for us
so um we'd like to uh present the checks
uh there are um
four
checks that will be presented this
evening and what i'd like to do is uh
introduce um
first uh officer rick evans who is here
uh on behalf of his kids uh paging into
queen
checks for each and uh you might want to
tell council what they're studying and
where they're going to accomplish abs
absolutely thank you actually alumni
association unfortunately if my both my
kids could not be here tonight uh juan
is still in school and the other one
just finished schools in texas right now
uh quinn is uh taking computer science
over at ohio state university
and he's learning his last few years
over there he's already obtained the uh
associate degree at columbus state
peyton
is going to indiana state university
he's also
doing journalism and he's trying to do
it as a little bit of a minor in
computer science as well
peyton uh was at computer science over
at dakota state university in south
dakota before he realized that maybe
journalism is his calling
but
uh both of my kids are very honored to
receive this and i thank you very much
on their behalf thank you very much
congratulations
[Applause]
we have a scholarship award for uh jacob
hannah and his father is sergeant
i plan to study film studies at
the marion branch campus of ohio state
university
excellent congratulations
[Applause]
[Laughter]
just keep the acceptance speech short
all right just get it over
[Applause]
and the last check this evening uh goes
to emma call
uh
[Applause]
i am going to study accounting
entrepreneurship at miami university
excellent congratulations
[Applause]
thank you all for your continuing
support for the bexley police department
and we'll look forward to seeing you
again at uh alumni association
activities thank you before you sit down
i want to thank you guys for putting
this program together and for the value
that that brings to our art community
thank you so much for your work and your
your efforts
all of you sergeant overweight and
sergeant obama
[Applause]
we're at the
time of the agenda for public comments
mr mcpeak do we have any speaker slips
no speaker slips all right for the
president's report i have two very brief
things the first is a reminder that this
is one of those times
when we do not meet in two weeks we meet
in three weeks so make sure you adjust
your
calendars and i'm not just speaking to
mr mcpeak
specifically
the second thing is
i did meet with library director ben
heckman you may remember uh
maybe a month or so ago we talked about
the memory lab that the the library is
instituting and ben shared with me this
email that he got from one of his staff
josh bryant
and josh writes to ben says a patron
came in to transfer a vhs tape in
october 21.
it was at that moment i realized the
computers were not able to transfer the
vhs
fast forward the same patron came in
yesterday to fax a form she also brought
the same bhs tape in case the
transferring services were fixed while
the memory lab is not yet open all the
equipment was ready so she agreed to be
my guinea pig to test out the equipment
as we were walking downstairs she
mentioned the tape is only a couple of
minutes long and it's of her mother who
passed away
but because she doesn't have a vcr she's
never seen the video before
i fired all the equipment up and popped
the tape in her mom was on a stool in
front of a green screen in 1992 singing
a song
for four minutes there wasn't a vhs vcr
rca cables
vidbox or imac it was just a mother
singing to her daughter the patron was
crying with joy
i gave her some space and when i came
back we uploaded the video to a flash
drive she mentioned she was going to
watch it over and over that night
we could go on and on about what this
means but to put it simply this is why
libraries have brick and mortar this is
a library that is weaving itself into
the community's fabric
we don't get to see it happen a lot of
times so i feel lucky to have witnessed
this one
and i think that's a great it's a good
story isn't it
and it's worth again uh commending the
library for finding new
ways to just really be a valuable
service to the community and fantastic
and i know a lot of us got our
videotapes now ready to go
uh we will move on to the city attorney
report
all right so i have a couple things just
a couple updates on legislation now
chances are these bills aren't going to
go anywhere because they're primarily
sponsored by democrats and they don't
hold a lot of sway these days and
frankly i'm glad that they're not going
to go in anywhere because one of them
senate bill 193 and again they're
introduced so they're working through
the process
would prohibit political subdivisions
from placing liens on properties for
unpaid water or rent charges so that
would not be good for a city betsley
where you wouldn't i don't know how
you'd collect that money
the second one is even more problematic
and again not going to go in place but i
thought i'd mention it the bill
eliminates full defenses to liability
for political subdivisions when their
employees negligently operate a vehicle
within their scope of the employment
causing injury or deaths so right now
political subdivision employees of
political subdivisions as long as
they're not acting
recklessly with reckless disregard have
immunity when they're driving a vehicle
and um it would also um um i'm sorry
the only exception would be when a
plaintiff is attempting to flee from a
police officer so as to avoid
apprehension so again um it would um
definitely erode some of these the
current immunity that these folks that
our employees have
again i don't think they're gonna go in
place but i will keep you updated in
case some input might be beneficial from
comma or the city of bexley or higher
municipal league so
the other thing i just want to say and
this is outside my bailiwick
but i'm gonna say it anyway
i i am such rage right now 14 kids were
just killed today you know what we're
gonna do those those thoughts and
prayers are gonna save the next 14 for
kids from being killed i'm confident no
i'm not and it's unbelievable it is just
unbelievable that
so many people seem not to care
sorry i'm off my soapbox
thank you mr official any uh comments or
questions for city attorney
on to the auditor
um no formal report this week but um i
do want to just remind everybody that we
are searching for a part-time finance
resource so we are beginning the
interview process if you know within any
strong candidates please be sure to pass
them all
i'm gonna be studying accounting so
we're ready for you
okay
[Laughter]
yep
so
that's it thank you thank you any
questions for our city auditor
thank you mr mcpeak mr mayor would you
take us through the administrative
updates
yes
thank you mr president um first up we
have a service department update with uh
mr bayshore
hi mayor hi city council um
my report is uploaded and i do not have
anything to add to it tonight but happy
to answer any questions that anybody
might have
uh yes sorry monique
hi andy how are you good monique how are
you
i am good um
i'm so happy that the preliminary work
on drexel is complete and i know that
you've got some other projects there
underway
it's a lot of equipment a lot of barrels
a lot of orange
can you give us maybe an expected
timeline for when the water main
storm and sanitary work uh should be
completed
sure um right now um we're still on
schedule um
it will be completed we are hoping uh
late summer
um but as far as the overall project as
far as drexel being complete complete
will be early next spring
it's a very large project and i know
it's been frustrating for some of the
residents but if everybody can be
patient i promise once it is done it
will look amazing
thank you
andy i just wanted to point out a couple
uh things in your report sure
i've been noticing this bike repair
stations popping up around town i think
that is really cool what a neat what a
neat idea what a neat resource for the
city
i also noticed in the report that
the first work starting on the dog park
which heavily anticipated so that's
exciting to see that the
finding a fence contractor
and finally the the street sweeper that
we spent a lot of time talking about
last fall is out and about in the city
keeping the streets clean which is
that's just fun to know
yes sir
jen
andy i just wanted to say thank you for
uh making sure that there were some very
clear cross
crosswalks open on drexel i know that
was a concern at um several several
council meetings ago and having had to
park on one side of drexel and figure
out how to get to the other to get to
saint albans i really appreciated that
you guys took the time to make sure that
there were there were safe ways to cross
drexel so thank you and your team for
doing that
any other questions
thank you andy have a great evening
you too mayor
interim chief goff with the police
department update
i walked all this way up here to say
there's nothing to add to the report
unless you answer any questions sorry
gloria i just just a comment i i
absolutely love um the the reminders
about the partying and the and the dream
king and i and i will note that i put um
i i mentioned that to sam metcalf i'm
hoping that maybe he'll stick that in
the blast because those are really good
yes good points
very busy
chief i have
sorry were there questions
a quick question for you i don't know if
you have any
um not to put you on the spot
with this but that's kind of part of the
fun of this meeting
no robbery stats this year which is
awesome to see do you have any idea why
that is do you attribute that to
anything
i don't we had a couple
reclassifications but other than
other than that
no i have no clue
all right thank you maybe we're doing a
better job patrolling and how's that i
think yeah clearly
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uh monique
steve goff i wanted to thank your third
shift officers because i know on may
19th around 11 30.
their hard work got two ounces of
marijuana nine narcotic pills more than
an ounce of cocaine
plus
a gun off of our street so it's helpful
to remind residents of what is being
pulled off of our streets as the rest of
us sleep comfortably so thank you
you're welcome i'll note that to uh the
sergeant too when i see him tomorrow
morning
anything else
just to
add to the reports not on there but uh
if you don't know we have a
um an oral board tomorrow morning for a
new hire um eight o'clock in the morning
uh three candidates civil service
uh we'll be present uh hopefully we can
get some good candidates
or a candidate i'll take i'll take his
i'll take whatever i can get right now
so
um it's a very important time for us
right now trying to get
good quality people here so
yep so we'll see what happens
thank you chief
mr price
recreation and parks update
thank you mayor um just just want to add
a couple couple things obviously it's an
extremely busy time for us
um i want to just publicly thank andy
baitshore and his team and ron gould
with the park staff
uh as they have a a
lot of work that they've been doing to
get you know the parks ready and get our
facilities ready for the summer and
really appreciate all the support that
they've all all provided for the
department um
i also want to add a supplement to the
report uh the commonwealth park
um
athletic field project has started they
mobilized a couple weeks back but due to
weather conditions haven't been able to
really sort of get into the
project as early as they want to but
they have started up um today with
stripping that uh athletic field and so
that's hopefully going to start to move
forward
other than that i'm happy to answer any
questions about the report that's in
front of council
mike i just wanted to call attention oh
i'm so sorry one second i want to call
attention to the jeffrey mansion rental
narrative thank you for providing that i
think that's really helpful data point
for council to look at as as we continue
to see look at that policy and just make
sure it's the right
policy for the space so i wanted to call
that out and then just
mike when does the bexley pool open
bexley pool opens on saturday at 11
o'clock
the community is so excited
we are excited as well we're excited as
well
monique
mike i noticed that a little further on
in our first readings we have ordinance
21-22
to unappropriate 75 000 for the pool
management account um and to remove that
from the concession stand but given that
you did find a vendor for the concession
stand
would counsel like kim to stick around
for that first reading or ask him any
questions now it's a fairly
straightforward
unappropriation
any questions for him
okay all right
thanks mike
thank you
also want to call out the senior center
narrative that's also great so just
seeing how many people are coming on
board who were no not previously bac
members i think really testified to the
effectiveness of that space already so
thank you mike no i appreciate you
pointing that out mayor that has been um
you know obviously getting getting um
memberships and getting people involved
has been great what's what's been really
cool is seeing how people are engaging
in this in the center and and new
you know sort of participants in our
senior programming uh as a result of it
so it really has had its
intended effect and it's really been fun
to watch
it's great and i think it's really
exciting you guys hosted the central
ohio gerontological society monthly
meeting
sounds like it was a a party i would
imagine yes we're still cleaning up yeah
okay
and i would we have not yet come up with
the name for the temporary space i would
uh posit that uh
the
gerontological aloft or gerontological
hang might be a good
a good one we're still looking at
acronyms for that but yeah
let's just
i think we ought to be careful what we
name it because we're all not we're
closer to that than we are to like you
know
preschool i'm just telling you i don't
know
i am yeah okay i am if you're convenient
thanks to the community foundation and
your staff and everyone for watching
anything else for mr price
all right thanks mike have a good
evening
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uh mr hale
good evening mr kessler
and everybody else
i'm doing well um
on to my report i do have some written
notes you probably saw on the report
um
you'll notice that income tax is always
right at the top
follow that the closest of everything it
drives the ship
and our income tax right now is a little
above budget
but it should be significantly above
budget
uh at the end of may so we'll keep that
in mind as we go through the discussion
here
on as we get into the discussion of the
tax budget um other than that i usually
put notes on things that kind of catch
my eye that i feel like might cause
questions among
uh either you or either mayor auditor or
council members um
one thing that caught my eye this time
is just it looked odd it may look odd to
some people that cic revenue
is above budget by forty five thousand
eight thirty three and that's due to
them paying catch up
from some things that
some fees that didn't get paid um
in the prior year and then the
development department which isn't that
huge of a department was 50 000 better
than budget
year-to-date
and as the note says it's because we
have some large payments like income tax
incentive grants and
um income tax trading with the schools
get paid later in the year so i will oh
well i will remember to take that into
consideration for next year's forecast
again the unspent we noticed there were
1.3 million better than
budget on ending fund balance quite a
bit of that is due to unspent
um six unspent prior year appropriations
of 690 000
um
so
i anticipate that a lot of those will
remain unspent that is my anticipation
anyway
um and that's all on the on the report
is there any questions on that
it's an impressive uh
list of hits there beecher
expenses are down and revenue is up
over and over again
that's always good it's
it reflects that you have
finance departments working hard
um
but ben or mayor if you will scroll down
and hit the second report and bring up
the tax budget information but first the
second page on my monthly report because
this ties into the tax budget
y'all see that's called uh
projected resources and appropriations
this is a this is a report that i file
not just to give it to you guys but i
give it to the county every month if we
have appropriations for if we change
our
revenue estimates
i will most likely make a change to this
report
this
um following month for revenue estimates
because income tax is significantly
higher
and but how this gets started is the
budget or the tax budget
mary did you pull up the purpose of the
tax budget
hold up
okay so the purpose is we filed this
with the county we're required to buy
higher vice code we file it with the
county
and it basically serves two purposes one
they ensure
or we're ensuring them that we are using
the levies that we've passed um for the
purposes so for example
we have a
um
we have a tax lady that goes to the
street fund and so we demonstrate to the
county that yes indeed we are
using that
um that money
for streets and so we filed that
report kind of this initial report which
is the tax budget
when we file the tax budget that's the
beginning of our budgeting process and
basically it's just estimates i'm making
from historical experience and what's
going on in the world right now
i held our revenue kind of flat pretty
conservative on that
the mayor and i came up with a 2 2.6
10-year rolling average on income
tax increase and i stayed with that
and
we're talking general fund now
and then
you're gonna pull up the tax budget
mayor
uh yeah
we got
no where is that is that under our
yeah it's i saw it
yeah it's down there on first readings
all right
it's getting real
oh yeah it's getting real so anyway um
so i will file this report with the
county and it's just the beginning
estimates our first look as the purpose
if you read the purpose is our first
look at what we're having then they'll
send me what's called an official
certificate
because right now i'm just projecting
year in balances at the end of the year
i'll file that first report that we just
looked at for my estimated resources
appropriations
and
i'll get amended certificates and we
have to file those
every time we do appropriations and we
can if we increase our income or our
revenue estimates
um to demonstrate that the county that
we have sufficient resources so that's
what this whole process is about
um
and we're not bound i always make sure
to make the point we're not bound by any
of this when we go to do the
appropriations ordinance
uh none of this i mean we can change
everything on there i mean it could be
very different at that time and that's
what binds us by law to our
appropriations so
do we have any questions on the tax
budget
uh no no no i'm sorry beecher and i have
talked a little bit about this and again
this is just a very procedural
submission we do it every year um and we
just again give guidance so um
appreciate you kind of walking everybody
through this feature
um and then much like mike price um
you know i don't know that we does does
anyone want to ask feature questions as
we read through
the ordinance
um or are we okay asking questions now
i'm assuming so
okay any questions for beecher on this
okay
okay i rarely get very many questions on
the tax budget
that change is getting stuff to me um so
i appreciate it yeah thank you i think
yeah
that's pretty interesting though thank
you
yeah it changes quite a bit on how many
questions we get when we finally get to
the appropriations budget
that's when the question starts so
all right well that's it for me then
thank you future thanks all right good
evening thanks mayor thanks matt thanks
everybody have a good night
i want i want
i wasn't going to tell beecher that you
said he was really cute and laurie but
he might have heard you
thank you
[Laughter]
thanks lorianne
you're so welcome
i can see far away
okay um
a couple things to cover this evening
um one second
there we go okay
um
i don't even know what to say i want to
piggyback a little bit off of what mark
said i
i'm just
i am i don't even have words i mean i
feel like there's a sickness in our
country and
what is it going to take i mean after i
have a lot of respect for governor
dewine but after the dayton shooting he
pledged
to lead on reforms and we're still we're
actually behind where we were then
things were worse than they were then in
our state and i don't know how long this
negligence is going to continue
and how many lives have to be lost
14 second third and fourth graders it's
just unconscionable
i can't even
i don't i mean we ran out of words years
ago right what are we doing
and i've struggled with what we as a
city can do and i i don't have answers i
just have
grief
we're lucky about that but we're not
solving the underlying dandelion issue
thank you natalie
so i uh you know i mark and i talk a lot
about what we can do in our small little
way
and mark usually just brings me bad news
every time i ask him
it's not his fault
but i just think we should continue to
monitor that and advocate any effective
way that we can absolutely i agree
why am i using my filter now
yeah
um
anyway um
sorry for that starting off that way but
uh
the good news is we've had
many good things happen in our community
recently many things to look forward to
um
and i want to cover some of those here
this evening we have uh
our summer events calendar is going to
pick up uh with the vengeance over the
next coming weeks we have our
uh memorial day uh
service on monday and then a food truck
festival first jazz in the park
over at uh havenwood park
and then this weekend after that
june 3rd is the main event
right before the main event is the
bexley pride walk
and there's going to be a chalk a
professional chalk artist at capitals
campus and shock drawings with the kids
and
seeing the new
permanent crosswalk at the library this
time uh installed
and the main event will be luca
and the music from the fairweather and
then on june 4th is the porch fest and
then on june 5th
is the uh house and garden tour so if
you see me like crawling on my hands and
knees on sunday afternoon
it will be
appropriate um so yeah porch fest i'm
excited for uh there's a photo i think
over here that of a random porch that's
the evoli porch i will be
helping out as a musician at that porch
on the fourth so please swing by to that
um also baxty high school graduation
is
this sunday at 10 a.m it is the 100th
anniversary of the graduation i'll be
there presenting a proclamation
um
which might be attached
is attached a lot of proclamations as
you can see i asked thank you natalie
for attaching those
um
a couple things i want to highlight uh
there we did receive word last week that
oppa the ohio housing finance agency has
awarded the financing applied for by the
community builders for 2300 east
livingston and 420 north cassidy
um
we have a partnership with building
inclusive communities which is a
a program of
um
move to prosper and they have organized
a another community conversation we had
one back in march but another one for
june 13th at 6 30 p.m just to program
learn more about affordable housing in
general uh so i hope you can join at
that that will be at the bexley public
library i also sent a letter out to
residents in the areas of these
developments just to make sure they were
aware of this and kind of had an idea of
what we knew about timing
so that letter is attached to uh my
update um talks about you know what we
expect arb probably at the earliest in
july
um and some changes that have occurred
with the cac partnership
and in general i think just in the need
even
more so today than it was a year or two
ago for affordable attainable housing in
our community
um
so those went out
so if you hear any feedback
i wouldn't be surprised you can look for
that i'm really i mean i'm i'm
i'm impressed frankly the community
builders uh has stuck with this project
as long as they have and gone through
a lot of hoops to get to where they are
there are a lot more hoops for them to
get through still
this this award of financing is sort of
like a lets them get started they still
have additional contingencies
um obviously additional city of
approvals so uh we'll look forward to
seeing how that progresses one thing
that i think is really interesting about
this is i was talking yesterday to jeff
beam who's with community builders
and
you know he he expressed i think he has
a letter going out to residents and he's
talking for example that
they're going to be tweaking their plans
to make sure that they conform with the
joint livingston avenue
uh
plan so that's really exciting to kind
of see how some of the stuff feeds into
decisions that are being made right now
we have 17 candidates and growing so
expecting to see more come in before the
may 27th deadline and then early june
we'll start to screen those candidates
so i have uh been in touch with robert
berry i have purposely not inquired
about who has applied or not applied
um sort of letting them do their work
and letting that process
move forward
linkus is having a workshop here in
bexley this friday at noon to two
the purpose of it is to talk about what
the stations for the rapid transit might
look like in bexley right now there's
only one planned
but there's a in bexley proper at drexel
in maine but there's one plan in the
area between nelson and elm creek drive
and so i think they're going to be
covering those stations
and also just talking general about the
project and placement we've also put up
a page on our website that provides
information specific to bexley and link
us
if you didn't have a chance to check out
the murals for love your alley the love
your alley page has a has a map of them
um and we're loving our own alley uh if
you there's some images there but if you
haven't seen isabella minkin's
project is underway um
it's a really cool concept that you'll
start to see kind of come out as the
time goes on but it's
it's a mother nature and time and she
does some abstract kind of stuff which
is really neat she's a super talented
artist bexley grad
um who uh goes to u of m
and in general lots of cool alley
features
check out that map
also just if you know of anyone who
would be well suited to for example
the cra housing council
or the arb or bzap um the their annual
appointments that goes up and always
looking for good applicants so
there was a notice in the blast about
that just wanted to make sure you guys
saw that
um
cookout trailer was at the uh asian fest
it was
tons of fun a little ramen take over at
akisa's insistence
i had to share these photos with you
i'm hoping mike price isn't still on the
line the first one
uh is a deer on the left that was
grazing right next to the future dog
park
but the good news is
the good news that awfully
now legally
grant archer and i were there talking
about the project and it didn't care at
all i didn't even it didn't even do that
look where they like freeze and look at
you it's just like whatever
uh it'll be fine because you know it'll
be outside the fence um so it'll i'm
sure it'll be great and then the deer
that i drove past and did a double take
and almost got hit by the car behind me
uh grazing on the trees at the capitol
convergent media center wow so
um
and actually just to let you guys know
we're
we needed that ordinance for the dog
park in general just to be technically
correct we're probably leaning against
off leash
north of the dog park because as we've
talked about some more the boardwalk and
safety issues with the boardwalk that
just might not happen you know so we're
going to continue monitoring just so you
know
um
uh we i wanted to congratulate mayor's
cup
athletic and sportsmanship award bobby
meyer and mia diffley robbie meyer i'm
sorry and uh mia diffley sorry um
and uh amy acton has been
named the head of rapid five so uh that
organized so if you remember rapid five
was a planning organization for the five
creeks the five waterways rivers and
creeks in central ohio and
they have named her the executive
director of the effort she's super
passionate about it as a public health
and also the idea that um
you know
sort of the home steadying concept that
like a large civic space a large
continuous park is like the lungs of the
city and she's really excited about it
so we just had a meeting today actually
with aecom who did the planning for
allen creek
coincidentally is also working on the
lincus main street piece
and amy just to talk about allen creek
and that piece and there's some really
interesting concepts
as you know like the grant application
for the bridge we have is part of that
and the farmers market is open
they're just like app that they use they
took a video and it auto transcribed and
overlaid have you guys seen that before
it's kind of scary actually
[Laughter]
i'm like did they transcribe this i'm
like no that's i think it's called i
think it's called reels okay there you
go look at you sam metcalf mech kev
norcelino
sam somebody
show you something
that's right
um and then just some graphics about our
upcoming events and that is my update uh
any questions
sam more of a comment i've uh made it
this far without feeling like the young
guy but that comment about reels made me
feel like the young guy all of a sudden
shot
i just wanted to highlight the mayor's
award that you gave to the seniors
it's really fun to finally know the
group of kids who are graduating and
young meyer and young dipley are
wonderful leaders in so many capacities
and it's neat to see that they receive
that award and i definitely look forward
to what their future holds so absolutely
exciting to highlight them a little
history the cup has been given since
1927.
so it's like
yeah
i heard about it like i've been mayor
for a couple years and someone was like
why aren't you giving out the mayor's
cup and i'm like yeah that's kind of
weird actually what's going on here
so um it's it and it's since 1927 it's
been about athletic accomplishment and
sportsmanship so which i think is
i mean as i said last yesterday like
more important now than ever i mean like
this is this is what we need the
character that we need out of our neck
or joy out of our next generation i
appreciate it and there are hope
so it was
they are they and all of them and the
whole the whole stage was just it was
just kind of jaw-dropping to just kind
of listen to what everybody's doing and
um
see those kids it was really great
really great
any other questions
thank you mr markham on to you thank you
mr mayor president sorry president mark
we will turn the meeting over to
mr official all right consent agenda
meeting minutes of 05 10 22 from city
council and ordinance 17-22 to amend
section
824.03 license fee effective period in
order to eliminate garage and yard sale
license fees introduced by ms lamke and
i assume mr mayor that the um
the tax budget takes into consideration
the reduction of those that income
so every dollar counts
i can't believe you're saying that
regrettably after tonight we will no
longer have this uh joke material for
the garage and yards the license fee uh
right now any comments or questions
about items on the consent agenda
if not can i get a motion to adopt
motion to adopt second
motion by miss seconded by minister
marcelino mr mcpeek please
miss robinson yes miss fibal yes mr
klingler
miss lamke yes mr markham yes
yes and mr marcelino yes
consent agenda passes
thank you
all right apparently no third readings
so we will skip to second readings
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 website to provide for city council's
ability to decline jurisdiction based
upon conflicts to conflict 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 that
was introduced by mr klingler phew mr
klingler is not here tonight um
mr mayor do we have any updates on this
do we want to
do want to carry this out a little bit
this is going to be discussed at b zap
on thursday night um
other than that i don't have any other
updates
any comments or questions
on ordinance 1922.
all right i think we can move on
[Music]
i'm sorry just i'm drawing a blanket the
other one was already past the change
this was the one that that was held
because bees have didn't
okay no no there was there was this is
the third
step has not yet discussed this
right there was the
appeals of like staff decisions one
that that they did discuss in council
pass right that's my question this is
the one that they solar that's tabled
solar's table and this one okay thank
you i just lost track sorry yep um all
right second reading of ordinance 20-22
to approve the proposed joint livingston
avenue plan
this is just a kind of thing about and i
didn't know quite how to phrase it is
there any kind of conflict of interest
on
visa
i guess giving us an opinion on this as
you review the second or the the
ordinance 1922. i mean do we really
do we need to wait
or do we want to move it along
so it's a
second reading so you'll hear from them
potentially for your third reading in
time for your third reading
and then also the code requires them
requires us to ask for their perspective
on it
um
so
answers my question thank you this is
not being tabled though it is moving
into the third reading
thank you
okay second reading ordinance 20-22 to
approve the proposed joint livingston
avenue plan ms robinson
uh yes so um thank you for to president
uh markham for pinchating for me last
time and in presenting i'm assuming that
you you did that
um
but i did want to mention that there
will be after speaking with mayor
kessler there will be some people to
present at our next council meeting to
talk us through a little bit in more
detail and answer any questions that
council may have about the plan is there
anything that we need to do tonight any
conversation that we need to have or or
um are we comfortable waiting until the
next meeting when we can ask the powers
that be in any in-depth question that
that we have i don't think there's any
action needed tonight this will also go
to the be zap 3u because it's also
showing a change to zoning could by
swapping this in in lieu of the main
street design guidelines
great
yeah miss sun so our presentation will
be with the third reading
yes
thank you mr roberts
all right i guess run to first readings
first reading of ordinance 21-22 to
unappropriate 75 000 from the pool
management account 14-550-51190
and to remove 75 000
from the swimming pool funding
concession stand revenue line item
introduced by ms lamke
thank you as mike price mentioned
earlier um
we did end up finding a concession stand
vendor so as you recall council had
appropriated 75 000 just in case we did
not find one but luckily we did
so this ordinance is to unappropriate
that and remove it from the concessions
and revenue link
any questions from council
all right let's move on all right
ordinance first reading of ordinance
22-22
to amend section
1226.19 a to allow alcohol at specific
community events conditional upon
approval by council mr markham thank you
very much
can you click that link
so that you can see um
this actually came about from the
discussions on the planning for the
smoke and fire festival that will be
coming up this summer and uh this will
be a jazz in the park uh
event that's gonna be held at schneider
park we have interest from a bexley
business owner a couple bexley business
owners and sort of sponsoring this and
providing some food uh seventh son is
brewery owned by bexley resident that
would we hope to have involved as well
with that in mind this ordinance would
amend our policy of alcohol in the park
to permit
a vendor there to sell alcohol for
specific events that are approved by a
city council voice vote
so keep in mind again this alcohol be
limited it would be
from a vendor a
specific
vendor and a specific community event
that we would
specifically vote on to allow
yes
assad so essentially troy this would go
away after the event and if another
event comes up then we would have to
vote on it again
a unique ordinance in that regard yeah
it just allows us to have these specific
events where we may say like this is an
event where we would like to extend uh
an option to have alcohol served as part
of it and then it would be up to a vote
by council to approve that or to not
approve it but as you state it doesn't
carry over to anything else doesn't uh
perpetuate or anything like that
specific incidents
mr marcelino
do you have any concerns in regards to
slowing down the ability of the
um
the event
and moving forward with their plans by
requiring us to vote on it could there
be a more efficient way by perhaps
having it reviewed by somebody uh and
you know a miss rose or something along
those lines initially for a permit and
then if there's an issue it can be
appealed to us if it's not if it's not
approved i mean i guess that would be an
option in this case what we're doing is
we're putting it into into our hands
really to determine whether that seems
like something we want to allow or not
and uh
with our ability to get feedback from
the community so we would be putting it
in city council's hands to vote for that
and not the administration's uh hand so
that's something to consider i suppose
do you have any thoughts i i would
prefer for it to be in council stands
for one thing a lot of these are going
to be city sponsored to administration
sponsored events so it's like a good
checks and balances so like you know i
think smoking fire festival is a great
idea
but
maybe i'm missing something so you know
it comes it comes to you guys for review
and because because the reason we set a
voice vote as opposed to ordinance or
resolution is that um
it's something like kind of like when
employees need to travel out of state
it's it hasn't really been a hindrance
and i don't think it would be in this
like for example smoke and fire we
started talking about it
in february maybe and we would have
simply followed up that meeting to come
into the next council meeting and said
hey can we get a voicemail to approve
this concept once it's fleshed out so i
think it's okay and i would prefer
for the sake of our community and myself
and my administration that we have
better oversight over it
any other comments or questions
i will note that during the second
reading uh which again will be in three
weeks from tonight i do hope to have
alex silverman here and he will uh give
a presentation on the silicon fire uh
event since this will be the one first
one that we'll be voting for uh
theoretically and he'll let you know
about he can ask questions of him
i was going to ask
i got to refer that to mr fishel i don't
know
because i don't have a vote
i'm okay and the auditor's okay
all right onward onward and upward or at
least onward just onward problem all
right let me find oh there i am all
right we now have a first reading of
ordinance
23-22 to repeal section
452.21 skateboard and roller skates
prohibited in parking lots introduced by
mr marcelino
this came by way of finding ordinances
that might be outdated or not relevant
to our current community
in reviewing it there were a couple
drafts that we went through
and within each of those drafts i think
it really took the teeth out of the
ordinance which
came to a
conclusion that the ordinance may not
actually be necessary an example that
was uh proposed during a review of this
was that if any of us were to ride our
bike in a parking lot um around actually
we would theoretically be guilty
or at least we could be charged with a
minor misdemeanor
uh certainly i think that's a bit
overburden some i don't think this
serves a real purpose for our community
um and i think that therefore we would
be uh just in
uh repealing it thank you questions
just if i could add to that sam that
that doesn't prohibit a property owner
from saying in my parking lot i don't
want any skateboards or whatever like um
that could still happen and somebody
chooses to ignore that as guilty of i
believe criminal trespass
mark could uh oh right absolutely yeah
yeah i'm sorry
so we have we have a legal mechanism to
enforce
operator signs i was i can't remember i
think i came across this because i was
looking up permanent parking zones and i
did a double take when i read actually
red was like are you kidding me like
every time we go to harvest pizza or
starbucks on a bike i was at starbucks
on a bike today
i was
i was a criminal right i like the toy
vehicle part that's my favorite
yeah it's
a good one is that a golf cart
barbie car
ms robinson
well not to make light of this um very
important ordinance but as someone who
is not a proponent of buying every kid a
car i really love this because it gives
us so many other ways for our kids to
get around the city and for us to get
around the city it keeps everybody safe
and it keeps us way more green so i'm
all for this
this looks like the sort of
straightforward simple
to the point of legislation that people
elected sam marcelino for
i do know also i think that ms robinson
is this is the sort of thing that she
kind of charged us with earlier at the
strategic meeting is to take a look
and uh certainly the wording of the
existing ordinance or not ordinance by
the code is bulky at best and confusing
probably so
kudos to you for
taking this on i would encourage
everybody to kind of take a look at this
over the next three weeks and
run scenarios through your mind and come
back for the second reading with any uh
other follow-up questions or role-play
some situations for sam to explain
through
thank you
all right we are on to first reading of
resolution uh 4-22 to adopt the tax
budget for calendar year 2023 attached
here to his exhibit a introduced by ms
lamke
thank you we heard from mitra hale
earlier once a year we have to do a
proposed tax budget for the upcoming
year by july 15th
i didn't hear any questions then any
questions from council now
all righty
i just if i can
natalie can you make sure at the next
agenda that ordinance 24 21
under table ordinances goes away because
it will have been a year and
ms fibel asked a question today um and
the mayor answered it correctly which is
that that can be reintroduced at any
point no need to wait it just by council
rules goes off the agenda after a year
so you just clean up
one other note on the table ordinances
ordinance
14-22 the solar panels this one has been
tabled i believe the mayor uh has some
additional information that he will be
sending out to us in the next few weeks
is that is that the case all right you
can read then i'll read the spreadsheet
but this has the arb history please send
us to copy too though
no just wait we're done
all right
with that we are into committee reports
and we will start off with mr marcelino
safety and health committee
nothing additional other than just to
note what the chief said in his report
about safety around graduation parties
and holidays please please please be
safe and take a cab or an uber thank you
thank you mr marcellino mr klingler is
not here tonight so we'll move on to
miss sod with recreation and parks
i'm never this soon okay i'll be quick
exciting stuff um wanted to first report
that we have some people retiring from
the bexley education foundation who have
had
been very instrumental in a lot of great
programming and have had years of
service so the first i'm going to
recognize is amy wagonbrunner
michelle hall and betsy
i just wanted to say thank you to those
three women who have contributed a lot
to our education
foundation and and programming for our
children in our schools
and then wanted to welcome the new
members um courtney carnahanna amy
lauerhaus which we all pretty
um know amy from a lot of her work that
she's done here in the city summer
sheila
and steve uh warmer warm man
congratulations
and then wanted to recognize the mayor
and andy bayshore for doing something
this mic is really loud does it sound
good okay for doing something um unique
and extraordinary last friday um they
took the opportunity with our athletic
director to shut down stanwood in
between fair
and dale
and
our bexley high school men's tennis
program took on academy and it was just
a really amazing night for our community
between the hours of five and eight
i don't think and hopefully we didn't
get any calls from any residents that
they didn't like that because i saw many
people who didn't even know anyone on
the tennis court stopped by a lot of
strollers were coming through on the way
to the park i had a couple conversations
with young families that haven't met
anyone since they've moved here in the
past two years and they said what is
this what is going on and it was just a
really neat night so thank you for doing
that
well i think we have to do more of it
because i i think that it didn't disrupt
traffic from what i could see
um it got families out in strollers
people were putting benches up um
and just really enjoying golf carts for
coming in bikes were coming in and
really enjoying the night and uh we beat
academy we beat academy as a team so
even better and i think it had a lot to
do with the community being out and
giving them that support because we
weren't favored so good job mayor
end of report
thank you
uh next up jen robinson with strategic
committee good to have you back with us
thank you guys thank you um i don't have
a report today but i do want to say i
just want to echo sam and i wish i would
have said this earlier but my mind was
elsewhere um it has been really great to
see bexley police out over the last
couple weekends um when i mean i have a
graduating senior year so i'm
experiencing graduation in a very
different way than people who have not
been through it before so i know how
many parties there are how many kids are
out and it's just been really nice that
the police have been out
no one's harassing anybody it's just
keeping a safe eye on uh on our kids and
making sure that everyone's okay so just
a reminder as sam said to the community
just be aware that they're going to be a
lot of kids and families and and be safe
and just on a personal note to the all
of the graduates of the class of 2022.
congratulations this is a real special
class and um i know nick is super
excited to be graduating and be a part
of this class and and uh leo markham as
well um you know it's it's it's a fun
time at this i could wax all emotional
because you know it is an emotional time
but congrats to the class of 2022.
thank you miss fiable service and
environmental
well everybody's talking about fun grad
situations and i'm going to talk about
floods
[Laughter]
[Applause]
she graduated two years ago we just
celebrated
last weekend
um
there's there's a
there are
people are still having problems
you know that that are related to water
in their basement or sewage which is
worse in their basement and um
and and we're going to continue to be
trying to brainstorm how we can
work with that situation and i know that
that the mayor and and
mr baeshwar are and his crew are really
constantly um looking into it um but i
and and i don't really want to have a
discussion about this tonight but i want
you to put this in your heads and i want
you to think about it um there was a
there's a gentleman who um
suffered from a flood in 2020 much like
i did much like the mayor did i don't
know who all else
around here did um and it's and it's not
fun and it's not pretty and it's awful
and he did um
this gentleman became a part he did
participate in our grant
for the backflow
um
after that
he added on to his house
added on a space that also had basement
space
and
correct me mayor if i'm wrong but that
basement space was lower
than his
other basement space so he dug it deeper
um
he put a backflow valve in that lower
space and it failed
um
he has uh has since put in a
a more quality one and he is asking for
to participate
a second time in the grant
um
allocation uh program um
i just want you to think about it as
we're trying to
think about
what we can do for individuals i
feel like
um
many of uh well we have inherited
a an infrastructure that that does this
and um
to suggest that the city is
always to blame for this i'm not sure is
if i don't know if it's fair
i don't know it's fair uh
i apologize but can i enter and
you did not know this but
the the city has received one letter
from an attorney threatening
law threatening legal election
because we only agreed to give them two
thousand dollars and they want the full
amount and i'm reviewing that along with
the mayor so i would just be careful
about what we say
because i think com even even even
casual conversation or serious
conversation by council can be
misconstrued i'm not trying to stop the
conversation i'm just putting that
context and i guess and i'm and thank
you for stopping by yeah no no i i i i
appreciate it
i i apprecia i appreciate you stopping
me i i i guess this is
what i'm i'm not asking for a
conversation when i'm at what i'm what
i'm
trying to do is let you know
what you might not
know
is happening
well played
anyway so that is my end of that and i
guess i just want you guys to continue
to think about what you might have the
palette for in the future
yeah
to further clarify when when we were
approached with this i explained that
you know we're following the ordinance
the ordinance
is very specific it does not allow us to
distribute more than
the two thousand dollars to any given
household and so it would require a
change of law right into the program
um so
that's
so that's why yeah he was pushing it off
to
us
appropriately passing it to us so um
if anybody has any strong feelings about
that and would like to talk to me about
that offline i would really appreciate
it
um
on a on another note
if
if you were like me on occasion i'll
forget because i'm lettuce is not my
favorite but i'll have
really great intentions of making a
salad and sometimes this lettuce might
not look so good after a little bit of
time
and i have just thrown it in the trash
so do you know how many years it takes
in the dump for this to
do its thing
25 years 25 years
and during that time
it produces methane
which is about 25 times more potent than
carbon dioxide
so
the moral of the story is to eat the
lettuce even if it went bad
i always full of gum
anyway is that with or without the
rapper
that's a good question that's a good
question
i would guess yes so anyway
so compost
and i will just keep giving you my
little green tidbits
that one
thank you elizabeth if you are listening
she is my queen of green and when it
does decompose it produces off gases
methane i just said that did you not
hear me okay
which is 25 times trying to know it all
for saying by the way just so you know
being forgetful is a sign of
too much methane gas in the answer
madame fibel councilwoman fibel
may i also make an announcement relative
to service and environmental committee
please thank you you guys will all be
delighted
all of you to hear that the ohio epa
granted the city of bexley oh yes a
grant
to perform a program known as feed on
the street
where residents will have assistance
being educated in the proper recycling
of goods disposal of waste in the city
of bexley so we're
we're very excited to announce that
receipt of that grant that's why i'm
trying to help everyone
it is my intent to uh
to to uh bravely go forward with this
program which i have been reassured by
other mayors and city managers who have
done it is a great program
and i think it will be a really
important educational tool but if
council doesn't want me to do that then
you guys of course have the ability to
you know
pass the resolution against it or
something or just so is this the one
where they're going to look in my
recycle bin and see if it's okay
yes this is the one
and they're going to help you they're
going to coach you it's a coaching
show
if you put a sign on there that says
stay out of them we're going to urge us
to move forward a little bit here we're
uh
we're so close
miss son
we're so close
i'm gonna i'm gonna insist we move on to
finance committee at this point ms
flamke just one quick uh reminder as the
mayor mentioned sunday june 5th 10-4 is
the bexley women's club house and garden
tour
uh last year they were garden only this
year we are back inside the homes plus
some beautiful gardens
and the money that the bexley women's
club raises from this event goes to give
scholarships
to high school seniors i think they gave
10
scholarships today of 1500 a piece which
is not insignificant my daughter was a
proud recipient who won the scholarship
last year
so please support their efforts
i will also be president of the women's
club starting july 1st
we call that bearing the lead you buried
the lead money
all right
we are at public comments time no
speaker slip required anybody may make a
comment
saying none i will
it is 7 13 and i will take a motion to
adjourn
so moved
second
all in favor say aye
aye all of those