mayor not sure if you guys meant to be
on mute but right now we have no
sound they can't hear
me now
can all right so I'm gonna welcome
everybody one more time to the May 25th
uh Bexley city council meeting which is
not only live but in person uh we have
we have members in uh the lobby um from
the public and we welcome all of you and
we welcome every all our directors Etc
who are with us um virtually so if we
could please remember um that we are
here for the good of uh Bexley we
welcome Mr Harvey back to our chamber he
had a great vacation please uh go ahead
and do roll call Sir Miss F here Mr
Clinger here M Lamy here Mr Markham here
Miss Robinson here miss sad here Mr
Sharp
here we could please stand for the
pledge I pledge aliance to the flag unit
States of America and to the for it
stands one nation under God indivisible
with liberty and justice for
all that sounds so much better I
know it's special no matter what and I
did wear my red white and blue because
this weekend is Memorial Day and and um
I love those colors good color it's it's
red I promise you it's red I promise you
it is red and we have Zack southernland
here um from Kota Zach thanks so much
for coming to be with us tonight yeah
thanks for having me uh thank you Mr
Mayor mayor Kesler and Council um today
I'm going to try to share the screen see
here
great so um my name is Zach Starland I
am with Kota I Am project manager in
service planning and today I'm going to
talk about the East West codor project
that is a partnership between Kota the
city of Columbus morsy and Franklin
County and of course we have
representation from Bexley on our
technical group and stakeholder group
meetings um we began the process uh last
year and we are currently um kind of in
the final final process to wrap up a
locally preferred alternative to bring
to the FTA but before I go into that
detail I do want to mention some of the
previous processes that brought us to
where we are today so in 2014 morsy um
morsy's Insight 2050 plan which looked
at our region to see that 1 million more
people would be moving here by the year
2050 and then in 2017 Cota wrapped up
its nextg plan which looked at what our
Transit Network could look like in the
year 2050 included new Serv new lines
technology improvements most importantly
toward to the link us initiative it
looked at 14 different corridors within
the region and um the corridors that
were suitable for high-capacity Transit
each one of those corridors were looked
at for mode to see what was most
feasible mode including bus Rapid
Transit Light Rail Transit commuter rail
and street car and then 2019 uh morsy
The Mid Ohio Regional Planning
Commission um picked up the information
from Insight 25 50 with the growth in
the region and the elements included in
cota's nextg plan I'm really looking at
a holistic approach of combining that
growth um with that transit for along
specific corridors one of the corridors
specific them Bly was East Main
Street and then in 2020 the link us
initiative formed uh which is a
partnership between the city of Columbus
morsy Dakota and Franklin County um the
Northwest Corridor project was the first
Corridor to be
um led by the city of Columbus so that's
a quarter primarily along ol and tange
River Road um but today I'm here to talk
about the East West Corridor which um is
along Main Street and Broad
Street and really like I said we're
looking at a holistic approach so
primarily I'm talking about Transit but
the link us initiative is really about
um again focusing that development along
these corridors and looking at how
people get to these corridors whether
that's walking biking or other active
Transportation so the East West Corridor
is a 20 Mile Stretch stretching from
prair Township on the west side all the
way out east to the Franklin County
liing county line um so the East Side
obviously going through city of Bexley
city of whiteall city of Reynoldsburg
and parts of Columbus um on the east
side we're looking at what stretch makes
the most sense to directly tie into West
Broad Street So currently today we have
Koda operates as line 10 along Broad
Street which is 15minute service um and
then along Main Street is aligned to
through that next gym process that we
completed in 2017 both of these
stretches um were deemed suitable for
high capacity Transit so really we're
looking at to see what is most feasible
to directly tie into West Broad Street
and then based on the analysis on the
east side um if it is East Main Street
then looking how that operates downtown
if it's Broad Street then it would
obviously remain along Broad Street to
connect West Broad and East Broad
Streets
with the 20- Mile Stretch we realize
that it's a very diverse uh Corridor
obviously operating in all those
different jurisdictions in townships
including Franklin County so we broke
the quarter into 10 different segments
specifically um segment six is the city
of Bexley um and we want to look at each
of these segments realizing that we're
working with different rideway
constraints and opportunities in each of
them as part of this process um Sim to
what the work that was done in the next
gen we also uh relooked at to make sure
that to see what mode was most feasible
for the East West Corridor and that is
bus Rapid Transit and the reasons being
is that it's most federally competitive
in the ft's capital investment grant
program it's most timely and it's most
suitable to our projected
ridership and really when we say bus
Rapid Transit it's really something that
we haven't seen here in this region
these are some of the elements that are
are seen around other bus rapid transit
systems around the country um you may be
familiar with the Cleveland's health
line which began service in 2008 or even
the work that Indianapolis has been
doing with their red line that began
service in 2019 some of these elements
include um level multi-door boarding
which makes speeding um which makes
boarding time quicker offboard Fair
collection big one dedicated rideway
which makes Transit speeds um much more
quicker and reliable Transit seal
priority um modern and larger
vehicles and then Transit supportive
development so Cleveland's Healthline um
since 2008 has attracted $9.5 billion do
of investment along that Corridor and
then one of the bigger ones is enhanced
stations where instead of just having a
pole in the ground or a shelter it's
really creating a safe waiting
environment for
passengers so looking at Bexley itself
um that segment six this map indicates
you know currently today we have our
frequent line 10 operating along Broad
Street which is one of our most popular
routes and also along Main Street we
have a a route two that operates along
North High Street and then all the way
out to
rburg um both of those are 15 minutes
throughout for majority of the day and
we have our stops are currently spaced
um you know quarter to a half a
mile with brt we look at limited stops
to facilitate those boardings as key
locations so through our analysis so far
and our engagement um these uh the dash
circles represent potential station
locations for the East West Corridor so
if if Broad Street is determined to be
most feasible it would be Broad Street
and Cassidy if Main Street is deemed to
be most feasible it would be Broad
Street and Drexel near capitals uh
University
campus and then we're also looking at um
when we look at brt I talked about that
dedication so really we're looking at
each one of these segments to see um
what is most feasible for each each of
them so so the first one is mixed flow
which is currently kind of how we're
operating today um similarly the the
cmax line along Cleveland Avenue which
is which is brt lights not full brt it
operates in a mixed traffic concept so
this is kind of what that looks
like another option is dedicated
curbside which has that the side lane
would be dedicated to to Transit um in
other cities it's called a bat Lane
where it's bu business access and
Transit and then the third option is uh
Center dedicated Center median running
which is similar to what Cleveland's
health line has and the Indianapolis
thread
line with all that said um so so far in
the process we've had seven different
virtual public meetings um most recently
we had uh two of those last week uh last
Wednesday and we also had a road show
last week we're actually out at Kitty's
case uh collecting feedback and we had a
survey out and open from February to
April to collect uh survey responses uh
from the
public but really since this is a short
amount of time I want to direct you
towards our website which is www.link
USC columbus.com there's a wealth of
information there on the
website and also just a plug uh follow
us on on LinkedIn or L Facebook Twitter
Instagram and Linkedin then we also have
a YouTube page which has um public
meeting um recordings if you're unable
to attend those but um again thanks for
having me uh speak and give an update
about the eastwest cordor at this time I
can answer any questions if if there are
any
thanks Zach so much we're so grateful
for you filling Us in on what's next
with Koda um colleagues anybody have any
questions or comments for
Zach
Richard yes um how How firm are those
two
routes as yes so yeah consideration was
given to Livingston Avenue or
um because it's in in close walking
distance with Bexley as
well and Columbus Berwick
area yeah that's a good question so um
you know currently we have the line one
operating on Livingston which is also
frequent service it was one of those 14
corridors that was identified in NextGen
is also needing um you know better
better service um initially for this for
this specific project we were just
looking at Main Street and Broad Street
but as the link us project as a whole is
looking at different corridors
Livingston could be a potential future
corridor I was thinking with ch the
massive Children's Hospital complex you
know which Bally has a lot of doctors
and um Associates that work at the
complex and
then keeping the inte Integrity of our
pedestrian based um Main Street if there
was like a loop to to
go um maybe keep the Main Street General
format but Loop it down Alum Creek and
then back up steltzer or something like
that any other James that is not
stalzer any other comments or questions
for Zach Zach thanks so much wait before
you leave Zack I just want sorry I
wanted to supplement one thing because
we've been we've partnered in this
effort the city has and one of the
comments that we've made consist ly
throughout the effort um is that you
know our our lanes in Bexley on Main
Street are you know outside Lane is used
for parking uh during non- peak times um
and obviously we have medians that are
established and so any sort of widening
of the street would take out commercial
property pretty quickly um so we've
expressed um support for the concept of
Rapid Transit but you know outside of
some sort of radically Innovative
solution we haven't seen it seems like a
dedicated Lane in Bexley would be really
difficult Main Street and Broad Street
so Broad
Street um because of the volume of
traffic on Broad Street so we we've made
that consistent comment throughout we're
supportive um and we want to make sure
that we're collaborating with other
communities but we are we are not at
this at this time without seeing some
hard Solutions with good traffic data
behind it we don't see how we can have a
dedicated Lane on Main Street especially
ever but also Broad Street based upon
today's reality so um that's been a
comment from us not to be killjoy um is
that fair Zach I I don't want to like
yeah yeah I think I think it's mayor K I
speak I I can see it's kind of small but
um but yeah that is concurrent with with
what you've uh communicated to us um you
know that being said looking at ways to
you know for the peak hour restrictions
having those you know right currently
the setup is having those restrictions
for parking which is definitely
beneficial to our current service and we
definitely would U want to continue that
with with the future brt um other
elements outside of the dedication so if
that's not feasible within that segment
six is looking at um Q jumps or or TR
Transit signal priority um where um if
there was a pocket at a certain
intersection where the the bus could
dwell and get ahead of the traffic so
exploring those different options if you
know um we understand that the parking
is very uh very important for the
commercial District especially on Main
Street maintaining that is something
that um you have you have shared with us
yes yeah and we've also talked about
maybe during those peak times we do have
a dedicated Lane during peak times but
we're we're trying to be creative and
open to to problem solving but also
aware of our context so um until just in
case we start getting people picketing
that we're going to widen Main Street or
you know takeaway parking that's that's
an ongoing
conversation um thank you thank you Zach
for coming uh and for sharing this with
us and all the work you guys have been
doing on this this is a really exciting
project great thanks for having me and
i' direct anybody if they want any more
information um feel free to hit up uh
link USC columbus.com thanks thanks so
much Zach we appreciate it take
care all right Madam president or the
mayor could I didn't catch that site
that he referred
to uh link
of link us okay thank you we'll get that
link out and we'll also get the
presentation up on our uh on our
uh agenda on this from the meeting
perfect thank you all right um we are to
um item number five on our agenda which
is public comments um I see that do we
have people registered for public
comments please remember remember that
public comments um are um to address
subjects that are not on the agenda we
ask that you please give us your uh name
and uh share with us your address and
try to keep your comments to five
minutes do we have anybody with speaker
slips who are here for for a public
comment
[Laughter]
yes John
I think that John is here to speak about
the charter which is later
on okay so both are both of them perfect
perfect um so uh then mayor Kesler I'm
I'm wondering are these um panelist um
registered individuals to speak tonight
umat registered for public comment all
right is raised and talking has been
enabled all right Mr Cat sir
oh hi this is Lori Catz his devoted wife
and I hate to speak again but I wanted
to let you know that the server was down
for people to register and there were
people who were registered to speak
about the um uh the housing that did not
go through and we're wondering what next
are those projects absolutely off the
table are they trying to be refigured
for this year and is there a way to
um uh to to influence that
decision if there if especially if
they're not someone with standing and I
apologize for speaking again but again
when I got the word out I got the
message back the server that their
message and signing up was the server
was
down thank you for your question I'm
going to uh allow um Mr Kesler to
quickly um give us a an overview of of
what's happening at this and this will
be quite brief because the Bexley cic is
the agency that's um looking at this and
is going to be discussing it their
meeting is on June first think is that
correct Monday T Tuesday from now week
from now at 6 PM um and I know that
there will be an update from the
developer at that time so there have
been no subsequent meetings with the
developer uh so I we have no knowledge
or intelligence to share beyond the cic
meeting that's coming up on Tuesday okay
thank you Mr Kesler there's another
someone on the umed as
well um sorry sounded like maybe
L LA you
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might if you're not done sorry you can
unmute no
okay oh I'm sorry um while the mayor was
speaking there was a comment uh that was
a text to me that the server is still
down and
um I I'm puzzled
is if the if this project did was turned
down for funding is there a chance that
it is still going to go through um with
the c you know the city via cic cic is I
guess part of the city are they
supporting it going through and
continuing or is it is it no longer on
the City
radar uh we will find that out on June
the 1st when the cic
meets okay and is there any way that
citizens can influence that decision at
this point or is it just out of their
hands um I believe that cic correct me
if I'm wrong does take public comment
they
do very good thank you so M so the first
um June 1st would be the time when
people should speak to cic
yes and it will okay thank you yes and
thank you all for all your time thank
you and we have one more person who is
registered um that we know one else had
reg wait we
have no hand raised so I think no hands
raised okay I believe she might be with
Kota so I think oh okay all
right
um I think just for anyone watching it's
possible that because of this is a zoom
webinar so the the registration for
folks who want to U participate
electronically cuts off I think when the
meeting starts so pre-registration is
required I think but also obviously
council is open to the public in person
um and zoom is really intended at this
point to be for those who have not had a
chance to get vaccinated or have
underlying health conditions so would
encourage you to come we have a lovely
lobby with free water and
restaurants and while um this is the
this is um public comment for items not
on the agenda at the very end of the
meeting we welcome public comment one
more time and it can be on any topic
that the public wishes to address with
Council so please know that there's
there's yet another opportunity and
there's a there's plenty of time for you
to get yourself over to City Hall um
mask on and um wait to speak we would
love to hear from you all right so we're
gonna go then move on to um the
president's report and um I want to
thank Council because I know you've been
really busy this week um and you've done
lots of work I know that a lot of you
have been talking having discussions
about the pool with the recck department
and reviewing um amendments to our
Charter I know that um some of you have
turned into event planners and um not
just policy makers and um we have had a
lot of C celebrations a lot of events
designed to celebrate our diversity our
accomplishments and our bond as beex
leite so um I want to thank all of you
for your work along with all the the
planners who are planning some of these
events and our opportunities to get
together and I also want to to thank the
participants because in doing that we
build
um a stronger Community with these
shared experiences so um
piggybacking on that I want to give you
a quick update um the Bexley
celebrations and events is going to um
be kicking off its H summer season so
bring a lawn chair to Havenwood um on
May 31st uh jazz in the park meets the
chamber um truck food festival so um
come um I've made a special request from
the band for a sing along so come I
promise this song you will know the
words to this song I Love the song so
please come
um
June it starts at five I think it starts
at 5:30 actually 5:30 we're starting a
little bit later so that it's nice and
Shady so we can we can we can spread out
or at least we hope and June forth the
main event is back for its seven
nonconsecutive year
um thank you co U the Black Panther will
be shown on capitals lawn and there's
going to be magic there's going to be
dancers there's going to be drummers
there's going to be aerialists and
there's also going to be a flame jugler
yeah so exciting um Ben and Mike and I
met with the we did our we did our a
quarterly round table and we met with Dr
good for the last time so that was not
good but it's okay it's gonna be fine
because Dr Fine's gonna be working with
us next time our new superintendant and
I do believe that um M lampy has invited
Dr Fine to come visit us in June and I
think Emily can help schedule that and
that will be
perfect Emily perfect for those of you
she is the voice of Bexley right now so
she is who you say hello to when you
give her a call so um we met with with
Dr with Dr good and we met with um the
head of the library and we and and and
again I can't stress that was a lot of
really good um conversations things that
that we know that we need to look at and
work on and one of those is the mental
health of our youth so um we need to
start brainstorming some things that we
can do to help our young people that was
definitely something that across the
board people were noting so um
I hate to end my report on a sad note
but that is a very serious one so um I
think that's all that I have for all of
you for this evening I want to
congratulate you all for getting your
financial reports done well maybe by the
skin of your teeth 11th the 11th and a
half hour but good job all right I think
that's it for me so we'll move on to um
Mr City
attorney just real quick um as you just
heard that the um properties and uh
specifically well both properties the
Cassidy Avenue and Livingston Avenue
properties and what's going to happen
with those things are very much up in
the air at this point but as as of today
there still is an appeal pending I
cannot tell you what's going to happen
with that appeal I have no idea
whatsoever but my advice that I gave at
the last meeting continues which is
there's still a pending appeal where
people are effectively suing Bexley so
we shouldn't be discussing that in too
much detail outside of public meetings
such as the cic meeting coming up next
week that is all thank you Mark that's
really that's really good to know um
Richard do you have a question this is
not related to um Mr official but um Can
someone in the audience just because of
I know at the last meeting we had some
sound issues um whether we need to
actually you know speak directly into
the microphone or if we're this far away
whether it carries sufficiently or not
well Mr B sure is I just want to make
sure because you were turning your head
and laurianne had the microphone to her
side so I just want to make sure that we
are communicating effectively with our
residents Andy are you able to hear
everything okay I am thank you usually
volume is not a problem for me but in
the
event please please let me know I I I I
want to know all right we're gonna move
on to our administrative update and we
have Mr Andy bashore on first Mr
bashore Madame President I do not have
anything to add to my written report
tonight well thank you for all that you
do and thank you for allowing me to chat
with you to find out about some road
work this week and um please note that
um Mike and Paul are doing a fabulous
job with trees on my street and in um
and in uh the comments so thank you
thank you thank you good job ly has a
question for you okay you please give
your service department a huge thank you
from all the senior parents for the
amazing senior banners that you uh so
skillfully put up I know that there were
some hiccups and you uh and your
employees did a wonderful thing he made
a lot of parents and a lot of students
happy so thank you thank you thank
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you another bright idea that came out of
covid so yes and that does win all of
the hearts of the parents so so we love
that one anybody else have any more
questions for um Mr bashore Mr um sharp
us it's not a question it's also a thank
you I see um the painting project was
started for hydrants and light poles I
have been noticing as I am more
frequently driving around now um that
they do look like they need some good uh
tender loving care so uh thank you for
including that on your list absolutely
thanks Andy keep up the good work we do
we're gonna move on to um Chief
Reinhardt
sir yes ma'am I have nothing beyond my
written
report I love that some of those numbers
are going down down down just gradually
slowly but they're turning down good
stuff I've got questions for you sir um
Miss Robinson hey chief how are you good
good thank you good um I just wanted to
say um and if you would please pass this
message on thanks to detective Sergeant
Bicky his report this this time was
really actually um it's always a little
entertaining when he writes because he
has a way with words but this one was
really um particularly poignant it
really shows all the sides that U our
police officers all the things have to
deal with in a given day and I just
wanted to make sure that you all knew
that we were aware of that and that we
really appreciate that report and please
pass that on to him and thank him for
for putting together such a
comprehensive report we do I would like
to thank his English teacher for
teaching him how to write so well so
tell him
that Miss sad yeah I just wanted to send
along um a shout out to our new officer
uh Josh Davis for keeping a safe at
night thanks for including that and just
thank him for his work that he's doing
and I also wanted to um just mention in
the report it talks about Sergeant
overly's work in um providing you know
significant
um video um and I just wanted to say is
there anything that we can do you know
keep us posted on how we can support her
efforts so thanks for the report thank
you
yeah that reduction is like super super
timely so if there's something we can do
to figure out how to make
it go faster I don't think there is but
please share with us miss Lamy has a
question as well Chief I wanted to add
two things first of all I know that the
police officers are going to be lending
some assistance to the senior reverse
parade this coming weekend it's supposed
to be hot but please know that uh myself
and other senior parents very much
appreciate the uh officer support during
such a celebratory time on Saturday and
second uh I did have an opportunity to
review uh a lot of recent police reports
um that are available on our website and
I wish that the community uh truly was
aware of what happens as the rest of us
sleep how many drugs and weapons and
other things our officers are um coming
up against uh while we're all in the
comfort of our own beds so please extend
my thanks to them as well I I will ma'am
thank
you thank you
Chief is there any topic you want to
take a deeper dive
into yeah I'm I'm sorry uh president if
I was sort of hard to hear you on that
one oh yeah you you actually weren't
your mic was off oh it was hard oh
that's a that's a bummer I I I'll say it
again I was wondering if there's
anything you would like to take a deeper
dive
yeah I I would like to just uh talk a
little bit more about the pool plans and
and answer any questions that Council
might have one thing I'd add to the
update that was provided that is part of
the resolution passed by the uh
Recreation board in support of this plan
for the um uh for the opening of the
David H Madison pool was a request uh
that any
deficit uh any operating deficit for the
for Council to look at uh
augmenting that deficit with stimulus
funds as Oppo as opposed to being
absorbed through the pool fund um and
they also I just want to also make sure
it's really clear because we fully
expect things to change pretty regularly
throughout this Summer that they have
also authorized the administration to
move forward with any changes without
having to come back each time um to this
plan based on uh consultation with the
the covid-19 test
Force but with that I would I would also
just like to answer any questions that
that Council may have at this
point Jessica I don't want to put you on
the spot but you answer but I'm going
to you you there there there was a a
citizen who um was
um who made it clear that closing the
pool would have been would be a better
option than providing a service to you
know our community um that that pool
option and and I really liked your
response today because I think you did a
little bit of research and I was
wondering if you might share that with
counsel um yeah in in the research that
um I did have the opportunity to do um
one of the cities that I finished um my
conversations with and and Mike Price
and um Natalie and and staff they do
this research you know it was just me
having some connections to be able to
speak uh quickly but the City of Grand
is 87 you know five so it's
8,750 um people in that community so
it's similar to our size and you know
their pool is opening and um and other
municipalities that I've spoken to uh
their pools are all opening because
pools are communities and um in our in
our community I know I I can sit and
speak to everyone here at the table uh
we have limited space so we get outside
of our homes to enjoy our community and
the pool is what brings us to do that
and to be able to do that so um it's so
much more than um just a pool it's a
it's a um Gathering opportunity for all
of our residents to be there I can speak
to um many of times where I've been at
the Beckley pool and residents that are
looking to move here I met there and
because of the pool they move here um so
there's so much more to it than than
just the pool so and it and um one of
the things that I did mention that um
email was that many of the these
municipalities have included in their
budget that they are anticipating due to
covid and lower numbers um that they
will have um money that they will be
allocating to spend on opening that up
that service but I haven't found one to
date and there could be one um that is
not opening so um it's important and
it's an important part of our community
and um I know that we will uh continue
to watch the numbers but um when we were
here two weeks ago um with um Mr Price
and Council um we were at a different
place than we are today and in two weeks
from now I think we'll be at a different
place and I think we'll keep continuing
to see that but as I said to the mayor
and to Mike here recently I get when I'm
out in the community which I have the
opportunity to be a lot with three
children um everybody wants to ask me
about the pool so and when is it opening
and how are we going about it so um it's
an important piece it's another one of
those shared opportunities to you know
for memories and and bonding for our
community so um thank you Michael for
putting so much effort into that and
please thank Natalie especially for
putting so much effort into that um I
think that um Troy Markham has has a
question or comment
sir Mike uh certainly um these numbers
look good I'm I'm glad we're going to be
able to increase the capacity you know
so much because I think that will make a
huge difference also uh the discounted
poll membership looks like a great idea
as usual do you anticipate uh people
without memberships will be able to come
do walk up
daily yeah I I do anticipate that we
will have I mean we're we will be
offering daily admission opportunities
uh I do expect that the 550 person in
capacity will allow for that to occur
often um really the the number that we
ended up with in conversations with um
uh the task force is really a number
that we think on most days will
accommodate most people but will prevent
us from having a really overcrowded day
uh and prevent or limit the possibility
of of a a spreading event uh for covid
so uh to give you some context on a
really really nice day uh Saturday in
2019 we'll average between 800 to 1,000
people in total coming through not at
one time the difficulty we do have is we
don't have that data uh we will moving
forward with our new uh people counting
system that we're having installed but
we don't currently have a way of knowing
how many we had at a given time we can
assume a large chunk of that are there
between 12 and 4 but on a really really
nice day we will have 800 to a thousand
come through in total over the course of
the entire
day
great I think um Mr Markham has a
followup and then uh just um the the
revised capacity Max 550 what is what is
the percentage what's normal capacity
there so our our capacity is about is
about, 1500 I think it's
1550 uh we are almost I I don't recall
ever a time that we've approached that
capacity so you know it's it's about 35%
of Max Capacity but in terms of what we
would see on a normal day uh it's much
higher percentage of that number if that
makes
sense anything further for
Mike in the research that I didn't bring
up
um we and um councilman Kingler brought
this up in uh an email that he had sent
out and it was that 20% of our
municipality uses our pool in my
research and I I thought thought that
was a high number but I wasn't for sure
and that's kind of what stimulated me
looking at other municipalities pools
and it seems that um most municipalities
are using their their pool via their
residents at about 10% so I think that
speaks to again and this is I'm not an
expert I haven't done but we have you
know not large lots and we get outside
our homes we get into our sidewalks we
get into our alleys and our streets we
use everything we have we use our pool
so I think that's important when we're
looking at numbers and finances uh I
thought that was a great point that Mr
Kingler brought up and then it led to
more research on my part so thank you
see I told you our people have been
working really hard this week is
Lamy Mike I'm excited pool is opening
yay um given that we're not yet out of
the covid woods can you speak a little
bit on how you anticipate the concession
stand and food being offered are there
going to be any lessening of people
bringing in own Foods or restricting
that even
more um it's a good question we we are
uh poolside Grill will be back again who
was with us in uh 2019 so we're excited
to have them back they did a wonderful
job um we are not having any limitations
on on the pool we're having some
internal discussions about allowing more
of uh the food to go down towards
people's SE area so that people can
spread out a little more while they're
consuming food instead of limiting it
just to the upper deck um we're just the
only thing we're trying to work through
on that is is the cleanliness involved
with that making sure that we have trash
cleaned up and we have receptacles and
we have you know things not left sticky
but that would be the only real
adjustment we're looking at in terms of
food to help uh spread people out while
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consuming okay thanks
right
no report ma'am all right
thank I think we lost the we lost
loran's mic again sorry that wasn't
wasn't saying anything I wasn't saying
anything important the opposite of
muting yourself on Zoom now you got to
do the opposite I got to keep stopping I
I'll just stop turning myself off all
right so um we're gonna Mike I think
we're good thank you so very much um uh
Bill Harvey suggested that he has no
report I asked um Council if they had
any questions for him and they said no
and so now we're
gonna listen to the mayor for a little
bit what do you have for us sir thank
you Madame President so couple things to
cover you you've seen my written report
is attached it's been attached for a
grand total of about about an hour so
you've had lots of time to review it I'm
sure um couple things I want to
highlight uh in that the farmers market
is open and thriving and we had a great
opening day last week it will be on
Thursdays from 4 to 7 uh until the end
of
October um and we had our highest ever
turnout or sorry registration rate for
for sale free cycle event and
subjectively speaking just kind of
watching it happen it seemed oh did did
you have one okay was it good oh good
positive reviews so
it seemed it seemed to be a successful
event so lots of smiles and and I don't
think I got any grumpy emails about it
so that's that's that's a good that's a
good day in my book um love your alley I
want to thank um the entire planning
committee for love your alley this year
but
specifically Rebecca NES who's right
here in the
butterfly uh and she you like that she
uh that by the way if you want to make
your own butterfly selfie is at the
corner of Chelsea and that header alley
um like first header alley off of Main
Street you should do that so um as you
can see you might have to squat a little
bit but otherwise it's great so the
alley work was just gorgeous um there
was lots of lots of painting lots of art
lots of native plantings and so what I
loved about this was we we had an
established event that was designed to
encourage cleanliness of the alleys
which was also part of this that got
kind of grass rooted and morphed and in
the most delightful of ways my favorite
thing that I saw when I was looking
around was use it or don't just don't
complain on the buzz hash soex so true
so that was awesome um we have launched
our youth interaction working group uh
that that had a meeting over the past
two weeks uh they're GNA be meeting for
several months um we have we've been up
you've been briefed on that um I've had
questions about how people keep on top
of it I know that they've talked about
having a public engagement process and
also we'll be keeping updates in the
blast and uh our other communication
forms on that uh similarly the steering
committee has met for Livingston and the
first public Workshop is I think planned
for June 17th although I literally
pulled that date out of memory so you'll
get a confirmation and some more
information on that coming up which by
the way that means it's not that
reliable and I pulled out of memory so
don't hang your hat on that um David
Ingram our Mayor's Court prosecutor for
a grand total of three months and did a
fantastic job at that uh has been
offered and accepted a position at
Franklin County public uh uh the
prosecutor's office where he's going to
be one of the deputies to uh the
Franklin County prosecutor so he is
unfortunately not able to continue as
our mayor's court prosecutor he is
continuing as the facilitator for our
youth interaction working group which is
awesome Garrison Carr has been appointed
as the new prosecutor so he will be
joining he has experience in the
Columbus prosecu computer's office is
now private in private practice and
comes very highly recommended from
multiple sources so garison will be
joining us in that
capacity
um I do want to shift gears a little bit
oh wait one more thing sorry the U the
you see an image of a rainbow crosswalk
this is at uh the library it's at The
Pedestrian Crossing at what is no longer
you know it's the South Side so it's
it's where Cassidy is alley at that
point um the actual crosswalk is
actually going to be a little bit wider
than that that's an early rendering but
on June 3rd at the library in the
evening there will be a community uh
painting event and Monique Lamy has been
working with Bexley Pride I've been
working with Bexley Pride mon has lined
up uh some sidewalk chalk art and other
fun things for kids and um there's going
to be information on this Friday's blast
about how to sign up how to be involved
there will be limited participation for
for volunteers to actually paint because
there are only so many people that can
paint at the same time so I think Bexley
pride is working out how to do that but
uh look for more information on
that um yes Mr Sharp any questions about
this so far that's a good idea actually
good segue
yes um I received an email with the love
your outly winners and honorable
mentions and the email indicated that it
was going to be published later today
Elizabeth are you aware that that get
yeah I wasn't sure if it had been so I
didn't want to break any news before it
got
broken so just in case if it's if it's
okay then um should we announce them
right now yeah there were three winners
uh win Brien Sherwood in between
cassingham and Remington Vernon
Roosevelt in between Mound and Maine and
Broad slow between Remington and
Stanwood there were also individual
honorable mentions Katie and James
Eisley
merlette
and uh ukir cassingham and North as
North
Havenwood those areas so um yeah
congratulations to all those
neighborhoods who uh participated and
helped make our city a more beautiful
place it was really cool uh and those
were all very deserving winners the UK
one the honorable mention was was a they
had an alley experience and what it was
was this was during the art walk if you
showed up their kids were all out there
was like a pool like near in the garage
and they were spraying you with squirt
guns and they had done a lot of alley
maintenance and the point was like this
is how we use our alley we hang out so
the alley experience was Lally just
socializing which was which was cool I
love it which is really neat um it was a
little bit of performance yeah one to
switch gears um today is the one one
year anniversary of the murder of George
Floyd and so I wanted to acknowledge
that tonight and I want to call for a
moment of silence in remembrance of his
life and the tragic Legacy of his
death thank you in looking back over the
past year we've refle we've reflected
deeply on our own systems and policies
and practices and ways in which we can
continue to press forward and Ruden out
the scourge of systemic racism that is
embedded into to every nook and cranny
of our country past and present I wanted
to talk about what we as a Bexley
Community have done over the past year
in the past year we've added additional
implicit bias training for staff and
elected leaders we've enhanced and
expanded Police anti-bias use of force
scenarios through additional training
options and through investments in
sophisticated scenario-based training
technology we've updated our use of
force policies to comply with eight
can't weit we've allocated more money to
community policing and we've created
additional opportunities for positive
Community engagement with our officers
we've brought in a new prosecutor and
magistrate to our mayor's court and
we've created a fine free court for
Indigent defendants and we've continued
our Landmark public defender program
Beyond its initial pilot period you guys
created a source of income ordinance to
ensure that Bexley is welcoming to
individuals from a broad array of
backgrounds we push forward in
identifying and supporting new mixed
income housing for individuals and
families of all backgrounds
we've created a police Community
listening sessions program to help build
empathy and hone police practice and
policy facilitated with the help of
licensed trauma informed
counselors we've created a citizen
review board to help investigate
unsatisfied allegations of police and
other departmental
impropriety we've created complaint
Liaisons to help citizens navigate the
complaint process we've passed a
diversity equity and inclusion strategy
you passed it with meaningful action
items that have we have been steadfastly
working on we've launched a youth
interaction policy working group in
order to promote the best possible
practices and outcomes when interfacing
with youth in our community some of what
we have done together was already in the
works or was part of internal processes
aimed at constant Improvement some of
what we've done has been a direct result
of Grassroots input from groups and
individuals in the community all of what
we have done has been sincere heartfelt
and earnest what we have achieved over
the past year cannot be done alone and
has it has taken the cloud the
collective work and vision of those
Community advocacy groups and community
members to advance and it has taken hard
work and dedication from all of you at
the Das
tonight but more than anything it has
taken the work and dedication of the
Bexley Police Department whose officers
and whose leadership care deeply about
our community about the Integrity of
their service Justice and Equity cannot
be pursued without their support and
buyin and they have been open and
collaborative throughout this time
despite often being the subject of Mis
misrepresentation and sometimes unjust
accusations we can and we must celebrate
their service dedication and shed light
on the multiple facets of good work that
they do day in and day out even as we
recognize the need for consistent
reflection and Improvement throughout
all of our City's systems and services
including those that they provide last
year around this time I made the
following
statement in watching and feeling the
outpouring of Anguish and rage and the
calls for justice being expressed at
protests across our country it is
clearer it is clear now more than ever
that every community no matter how large
or small needs to do more we need to do
more so that when a black man sees blue
lights in the rearview mirror he does
not fear for his life with the memory of
Floyd brown rice Castile haunting every
Nuance of every
interaction we need to do more so that
the children of every Community wake
every day to the same spark of
opportunity and hope and possibility in
our community with histories that span
back through the era of segregation and
forward to stories of minorities being
targeted by calls and interactions
because of the color of their skin or
the cut of their clothing we need to do
more we have made many many reforms and
launched many initiatives but we need to
do more we have a police force of
uniformed men and women who are
passionate about their job who care
deeply for the community they serve and
who work on Building Bridges to that
Community every day but we need to do
more we have a community of residents
that reflects these values and is hungry
for justice and unity and we need to do
more we need to do more and we will do
more that statement remains as true if
not truer today than it was yesterday
and it will remain true through and
Beyond tomorrow thank you to the to
those who have pushed for Change and to
those whose legacies have forced change
and to those who are working day in and
day out to be the
change thank you for giving me that
opportunity to
speak thank you mayor
Kessler all right
um council members do anyone have any
comments or questions concerning um the
mayor's update prior to us moving on to
um our visiting presenter and resolution
0521 is that is this a second or third
reading this is the second reading of
the bicycle friendly beex all right so a
second reading of resolution 0521 a
resolution approving the 2021 bicycle
friendly Bexley Plan introduced by Mr
Sharp thank you we have a special guest
here Katherine
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gervis and um before she starts her
presentation to walk through her plan um
I emailed Council the
um presentation that she she's going to
have so you can refer back to it later
and
um about my question about attaching it
to the website do you have any do you
may not have seen um I sent you an email
asking if it was uh possible if we could
attach your presentation as a agenda to
the bike plan not as an official part of
it but just as a reference resource on
the website and I didn't want to violate
any in intellectual property rights that
you might have um on this presentation
um but if possible after the the the
meeting tonight it will be added to the
website um and be an integral reference
part to to the plan and um also before
you get started I would like to thank
you for being such a bicycling
Enthusiast and Advocate um and for
realizing that there are more ways to um
our approach a situation than just one
um I think you've listened to the wide
variety of bicyclist interest um
capabilities and desire for involvement
or non-involvement and try to um um
present the most comprehensive plan um
that will benefit uh Bexley the most so
thank you in advance of your preparation
for all the hard work and the meetings
that you've had zoomed over the past
year well thank you
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can you push button yep there we go
thank you and if you're comfortable for
those who may um need lip reading
assistance you're more than welcome to
remove your mask
yes well thank you for inviting me here
tonight and I want to thank the
residents of Bexley um for being such a
joy to work with in this last year and a
half through this very interesting time
uh my name is Katherine gervis I'm a
consultant with uh tool design an
international planning firm that works
on creating bicycle friendly walkable
communities that um focus on human
powerered
Transportation uh I are um so let me
just start
here Bexley is well positioned to become
one of the most bike friendly
communities with the highest ridership
in the region you more more than anyone
else know the assets that Bexley has to
offer this is a manageable 2 and a half
square mile Community with a relatively
flat
topography it's primarily the streets
are primarily made up of low-speed
neighborhood streets but it's still
possible for residents here to get all
of their daily needs met within the City
preschools public and private schools to
serve children from kindergarten prek
through High School
Capitol University Bexley has well
supported Parks recreational facilities
a library and a very diverse business
Community with numerous restaurants
Grocers and a variety of other retail
establishments including a bike
shop there are many places of worship
repres representing a variety of Faith
traditions and a variety of housing
types available at many price points
including market rate homeownership
rental and subsidized rental and group
living facilities employment is
available here in Bexley and it this
city is also positioned to one of the
largest employment centers in the region
Downtown Columbus an easy bike or bus
ride away um which is also connected to
another significant employment center in
the region uh in the University District
by way of the en Tangi
Trail beyond the assets that exist
within the city boundaries of Bexley
there are significant external supports
uh for residents who choose to travel by
bike highfrequency Transit travels
through the community and each vehicle
has a rack for two bicycles The Mid Ohio
Regional Planning Commission provides a
free insurance program for anyone um who
signs up for it which will provide a cab
ride a free cab ride home including tip
from home from work to home up to four
times a year for people commuting by
bike or other SU sustainable means of
transportation uh if they experience an
unexpected
emergency triaa provides bicycle
breakdown Service as part of its regular
membership and Bike Share is part of the
city of Bexley which has a variety of
bike types including pedal assist and
price points that are accessible to
all you have leadership elected
leadership Community leaders even
children when your children pretend to
be adults and come to city council as is
seen in this image what they advocate
for are bike lanes and bike parking this
is a community very well positioned to
be an incredibly bike friendly
Community next slide
please this does not mean that change
will be easy creating a bicycle friendly
community in a national and Regional
environment built for car travel and in
a culture that regularly shames people
who don't drive will not be easy but the
city of Bexley has a history of bold
leadership persistently working to
address impediments and exceed
succeeding at hard
tasks between the fall of
2019 and spring of
2021 amidst many
distractions leaders and residents of
Bexley dedicated time and creativity to
imagine and plan for a more bicycle
friendly community clearly creating a
more bicycle friendly Community is a
priority next slide please let me give
you a little bit of background on the
process in the fall of 2019 the process
for understanding existing conditions
and researching best practices and
Gathering Community expertise was
designed public involvement was
officially kicked off um in October of
2019 in this building at Green beckley's
sustainable Transportation event by by
January of 2020 a steering committee was
convened and met four times between
January and November of 2020 to guide
the process three public meetings were
hosted one at the Bexley public library
in February of 2020 and two virtual
meetings one in November of 2020 and one
in March of
2021 additionally stakeholders
representing a diverse set of
constituencies were invited to
participate in five small group bike
rides and an additional Community bike
ride open to the public was hosted in
the fall of
2020 these planned interactions were
supplemented by dozens of informal
conversations with people who provided
valuable public input into this process
and represented a very diverse group of
stakeholders people who currently ride
bikes for fun or fast pelonia Riders
people who are interested and curious
about riding bikes and people who
frankly are never going to ride a bike
but are interested in creating a
community that is welcoming to
everyone public involvement was
prioritized as the mechanism to drive
this process and the recommendations of
the document that you have before you
are the product of those
efforts next slide
please so we'll start with the
infrastructure recommendations or some
of the infrastructure recommendations
that come out of this document um four
bicycle Boulevard routes are being
recommended and a bicycle Boulevard um
is a street with low motor traffic and
low speeds that is designated and
designed to give people traveling by
bicycle
priority um while these streets continue
to be spaces shared by both people on
bikes and people in cars large pavement
markings and signs clearly communicate
that people on bicycles
belong you'll see the four routes um in
the document you have these four routes
intersect and cover approximately eight
miles about 16% of the streets of
Beckley on low stress streets connecting
residents to Common destinations
including all the public schools the
library Parks swimming pool affordable
housing and they travel directly to or
within a short block of the primary
business districts and nodes within the
city thank you mayor for adding that
slide to the screen
additionally this network connects
residents of Bexley to the larger region
through existing and planned bike
infrastructure at bexley's boundaries
the network also connects the larger
region into Bexley inviting Regional
travelers to stop play and spend money
planned amenities like Fixit stations
and water refill bottle stations serve
both local residents and Regional
Travelers people are invited to stop
fill water bottles and look at a trail
head map which invites Riders off the
trail and into
town next slide
please and I think that takes us to yeah
let's go to the next one this
interconnected system travels North and
South actually go ahead and leave the
map up I'm sorry sir thank you the
interconnected system that we've
outlined here travels north and south at
both the East and the West West End of
Beckley and East and West in North
Bexley and on either side of Main Street
in Central and South
Bexley the addition of wayfinding
signage on the east west routes allows
people on bikes to easily find Main
Street destinations traveling primarily
on more comfortable residential
streets let's move to the next slide
side of Main
Street Main Street is one of the most
destination Rich uh areas in the in the
community it's a destination Rich
business Corridor with low car travel
speeds um which make Main Street
somewhat comfortable for experienced
bike riders to travel alone as well as
some small
groups bike Lanes in this Corridor could
dramatically improve Pro the Comfort
level for people riding bikes but there
is apprehension about that the appetite
to remove on street parking does not
currently
exist there's a concern that the loss of
on street car parking would reduce the
number of customers to local
businesses now let me be clear research
has shown from other communities that
corridors that
provide uh amenities like bike Lanes you
actually see increases in business
business traffic um as shown through
sales tax um but there are some ways to
move forward conservatively as we think
about what might happen with Main Street
move on to the next slide
please uh increasing bike parking is a
fantastic first step and you're already
moving in that direction um to
accommodate people who are already
willing to travel Main Street by bike if
the demand increases Beyond capacity of
the sidewalk on street bike parking is
an option which allows a single on
street car parking space to accommodate
10 bike car bike uh parking spaces as
seen in this
image adding sherrow um which is a
marking on the street that has a bicycle
and a couple Chevrons on the top with
bikes may use full Lane signs to a
regular travel Lane is another thing
that we could do on Main Street it would
allow those Lanes to remain shared use
Lanes
but the coupling of these tools
reinforces the legit legitimacy of
bicycle traffic on the street to
motorists and it helps recommend proper
lane position for people who are riding
bikes research shows that sherow also
reduce sidewalk riding encourage Riders
to travel in a visible and predictable
Lane position which is good for everyone
and reduces
crashes um that are often caused by
people opening car doors into the path
of people on bikes and encourages safe
passing
Behavior this solution would send a cue
to drivers Riders law enforcement to
everyone that bikes belong on Main
Street let's move on to the next
slide an intermediate step to thinking
about creating a more bike friendly Main
Street um would be to test the idea by
accommodating people um that that
accommodating people who ride bikes
increases customers to businesses
there's a concept called open
streets um this could be done through a
monthly open streets program for one or
two seasons to see what
happens um open streets look like
special events but they're often led by
local governments and partners to
accomplish policy goals like creating a
culture that supports active
transportation and bringing new
customers to local businesses so a
partnership with the Bexley Area Chamber
Of Commerce and other community
organizations as well as a strong
evaluation tool would be important
components to con considering an open
Street program designed to test the
viability of bike infrastructure on Main
Street if accommodating people who bike
can be shown to be beneficial for
businesses in the Main Street Corridor
concerns about removing parking on
street parking to accommodate bike Lanes
on Main Street could greatly
diminish let's move move to Drexel
Avenue thank
you Drexel Avenue is currently planned
for traffic calming initiatives um that
are are coming up protected bike Lanes
would not only accommodate people biking
but would also assist with traffic
calming
measures the case for protected bike
Lanes includes a dramatic Improvement in
how comfortable people would feel riding
bikes on Drexel Avenue there's plenty of
RightWay to add bike Lanes without
having to consider widening the street
or reducing travel Lanes bike Lanes on
Drexel could eventually be extended to
connect to Cassidy Avenue which has a
multi-use path planned for construction
in the Columbus portion just north of
Beckley this would connect Main Street
business Corridor to a wider audience of
potential customers and employees
traveling by
bike the primary case against bike Lanes
is the loss of on street car parking it
would no longer be possible to Park cars
on both sides of the street if we were
to add bike Lanes onto
Drexel on Street barking currently
appears to be highly underutilized by
residents though the Columbus School for
Girls drivers regularly use the on
street parking with significant out
activity happening during school drop
off and pickup
times there are other on street parking
options available in the block
surrounding the school and additionally
there are over 200 underutilized parking
space that exist in three surface
parking lots within a half a mile of
Columbus school for girls during school
hours half a mile is an easy 10minute
walk or 2 to five minute bike ride over
150 of those spaces can be found at the
two public parks at bexley's Jeffrey
Park and columbus' Wolf Park and there's
a bike share station collocated at the
Jeffrey Park
location so if the primary impediment to
considering car is is car parking for
Columbus School for Girls One potential
solution is to create a shared use
agreement that allows the use of these
idle parking
spaces Drexel Avenue is a perfect place
to test to do a temporary demonstration
project to see if bike Lanes might work
um a temporary demonstration project is
an intermediate step that allows
community members and leaders to
understand how a new Street design might
work before committing permanently to
the change temporary protected bike
Lanes could be installed using Planters
which would reduce the width of regular
travel lanes and create a protected bike
lane a protected riding experience for
people on bikes and add Beauty to the
street those Lanes could be placed one
in each Direction on each side of the
street or as a wider by directional bike
lane down the center of the street there
are advantages and dis advantages to
each of these configurations which would
be need to be more closely
examined next slide let's move to Broad
Street so Broad Street is similar in
design to Main Street but has very
different land uses so feels very
different um Broad Street currently has
more capacity than is needed which
induces higher travel speed and
encourages the corridor to function as a
cut through particularly when traffic is
reported to be congested on the
freeways Broad Street is loud and
stressful for even the most experienced
people who bike um and they often use
the underutilized parking
Lanes I'm going to be honest Community
interest was very mixed when we were
talking about investing in the bike
friendliness of Broad Street um a
combination of the lack of destination
and perhaps some hopelessness that
anything could improve the conditions
for people biking might explain the
folks who had a low interest in
investing in Broad Street for bike
friendliness but there were some
residents who were absolutely passionate
about making improvements to improve the
bike friendliness of Broad Street those
residents indicated a preference for a
multi-use path on one side of the street
now if this treatment were considered
thought about how to address the many
driveways in the corridor would need to
be considered to address those
intersections one thing is clear though
Broad Street begs for traffic calming it
is not a pleasant experience to bike on
um it is it's not a fantastic experience
to drive
on the current cheros are faded if they
remain they need to be repainted and
consideration should be given to moving
the placement of those from the outside
parking Lane to the regular travel Lane
and by adding bikes May useful Lane
signs in the
corridor Broad Street is a regional
Corridor and I ideally would be
considered as part of a in a regional
context when thought about in a regional
context Broad Street might be an ideal
priority Corridor for dedicated Transit
as we heard from Kota earlier this
evening or bike Lanes through multiple
jurisdictions this would address missing
East West connectivity for those modes
and for the residents of Beckley um who
would like to travel in some way other
than single occupancy
vehicle let's move to the next slide
Cassidy
Avenue Cassidy Avenue could be
considered for a multi-use path to
connect bike accommodations from the
city of Columbus which are planned north
of Beckley through Bexley particularly
if the lane if bike lanes are added to
Drexel Avenue and or Main Street are
considered Beyond increasing the comfort
for people traveling by bike within
Bexley this would connect Main Street
business Corridor to a wider
audience let's go the next slides um
about the Alum Creek Trail some
interesting ideas came out of the Alum
Creek Trail um first there's a need for
just some basic surface maintenance on
the section of the Alum Creek trail that
runs through the city of Beckley between
Broad Street and Clifton Avenue tree
roots have destabilized the asphalt
creating trip hazards um particularly
for more V able
residents um and uneven Services other
jurisdictions have figured out how to
handle this and um could assist Bexley
in figuring out how to how to address
this maintenance issue um it's it's a
solution that it it's a problem that has
an easy
solution but there are three additional
Big Ideas that also emerged related to
the Alum Creek Trail and let's look at
the next
slide one is an interest in creating a
bicycle and pedestrian bridge on the
south um side of Bexley Crossing from uh
South Bexley to make a better connection
from Main Street business score to the
Alum Creek Trail this could be achieved
by investing in a bicycle pedestrian
only Bridge across Alum Creek South of
Main Street the bridge would connect
Bexley on the east side of the bridge to
a portion of the Alum Creek Trail and
into Columbus on the west side of the
bridge this obviously would require a
partnership with the city of Columbus
but as you're all probably noticing um
we are seeing a very different attitude
at both a federal level and even a state
level for things related to Trails and
investments in Trails um certainly uh
trails are being seen as Transportation
tools but also Community amenities and
as Regional tourism if there is one
thing that people in the Ohio General
Assembly agree about today um both
Republicans and a Democrats is that
trails are good um so thinking about how
to invest in Trails might is is
something to consider which brings me to
the next slide um and the idea of two
new underpasses one at Main Street and
one at Livingston Avenue currently the
alen creek trail has an underpass at
Broad Street but crosses at street level
at both Main Street and Livingston
Avenue both these Crossings are
signalized but people on bikes compete
with frequent motor vehicle turning
activity on each end of these wide loud
intersections ideal improvements would
include an underpass option of these
streets though the Main Street crossing
could also be improved in the short term
with a better
alignment um that would need to be in
partnership with the city of Columbus
that falls just outside the boundaries
of Bexley um both of these projects fall
just outside the Bexley City Limits um
but there's interest within the
community in supporting the city of
Columbus in considering these efforts
and there are opportunities to
participate in the central Ohio Greenway
to have these ideas incorporated into a
long range
plan next slide
please as was mentioned earlier tonight
Transit Corridor planning examining the
regional East West connections is
currently
underway as beex Le leadership is
engaged in this process the impact of
the Comfort level of people biking on or
across potential corridors should be
prioritized the interaction of Transit
with biking as a first or last mile
solution will be an important factor in
determining whether Bexley residents
access these sustainable forms of
Transportation or whether Transit
functionally passes through the
community um these are facilities that
could really help um people in Bexley
live uh car light or for those who want
to Carree so we need to think about how
to make them work um by thinking in
multimodal
modes there are several other
infrastructure recommendations in the
plan that we don't have time to cover
tonight uh next slide they include a
smaller scale W wayfinding signage
that's that's a bicycle size signs the
next slide bike parking and fix it
station location recommendations and
advice on bike parking installation
program with special event Bike parking
next
slide and a section on the role that
stop signs may be playing and creating
speeding behavior in the city of
Bexley next
slide we can't just look at
infrastructure recommendations to create
a more bike friendly Community we also
have to consider education and
encouragement
recommendations creating Safe Streets is
an important component of bicycle
friendly Community but education and
encouragement campaigns also have a role
to play educational and encouragement
campaigns are effective tools for
influencing Community Norms around what
type of people ride a bicycle what P
purposes they ride them for and what
locations and weather conditions are
considered
appropriate to be effective these
campaigns will need dedicated leaders
programs can be operated with paid staff
interns volunteers or a combination of
these but consistency will be necessary
for the for Success investment in
equipment and supplies as well as
insurance and training or other keys to
program success education and
encouragement campaigns can also
typically be instituted much more
quickly than Street infrastructure
changes next
slide this document includes
recommendations on programming for both
children and adults as well as policy
recommendations to make biking an easier
Choice than driving within Bexley next
slide um I do want to call out two
programs in
particular uh there's a section on
Transportation demand management which
is just a fancy way of saying how do we
make it easy given the current
conditions without changing anything for
people to choose to travel in some way
other than alone in a
car currently the Middle High Regional
Planning Commission is running two
pilots on Transportation demand
management campaigns one in the
neighborhood of lynon in Columbus and
one in the neighborhood of Franklinton
in Columbus there is an interest in
investing in transportation demand
management regionally and I think
Beckley is well positioned um given that
it's very different than either of those
neighborhoods um and given that there's
already such interest in the community
around thinking about biking for
transportation to request to be
considered for the next pilot that the
midd ohigh regional Planning Commission
invests in next
Slide the other item I want to call out
in that section is a bicycle friendly
Business program that could pair well
when the community is ready to focus on
Main Street um there are lots of
opportunities in creating a bicycle
friendly Business program that creates
conditions that make it easy for people
traveling by bike to spend money here
whether they're residents or visitors
for the community and there are a
variety of ways to invest in
that next
Slide the final thing I want to say is
evaluation tools are going to be key to
understanding the actual impact of any
intervention you make good evaluation
tools are also useful in helping the
general public to understand the reasons
for or against investment in making
temporary infrastructure projects
permanent
evaluation tools can influence private
investment an educational and
encouragement program and determine
whether these programs are a good use of
public dollars a component of each
intervention will be well served by an
evaluation tools that guides
decisionmaking and
investment final slide I am happy to
answer any questions you all
have and you have my contact
information thank you so much we know
that this uh required lots and lots of
work and um we appreciate all that you
have given to Bexley so thank you so
much and we're excited about getting our
Wheels
moving um Council does anyone have any
questions or comments for
Katherine I would like it to to make a
comment about um the the issue was
raised at the last uh meeting about uh
was we should be passing a a a plan
that's not a funded plan and um I
indicated that time that in the past we
have passed unfunded plants because
they're aspirational go-to documents as
grant opportunities arise it's it's a
resource that we can look look at to
have half the work done um and um other
uh group other plans that we've P passed
uh eventually
a a community Assistant Group rise
arises around it um either organically
like the Historical Society or the rec
board or the esac green green Beckley so
that's what I would be envisioning
eventually um happening uh some sort of
group group eventually being created to
prioritize and to evaluate some of the
options in the
future in the meantime
after if this um plan is uh passed I
would recommend that um the chair of the
Safety Committee and the wre um
Committee just informally meet and set
some initial priorities to present to
council at in our budgeting process for
this fall and also to make sure that you
know we're addressing sa priority safety
issues priority wreck issues as well as
the service and infrastructure issues in
the service environmental committee um
so that would be something that I would
Envision occurring in the fall and then
maybe also a proposal coming at that
time to us potentially if that's um what
we
feel it would be a near-term objective
is uh is potentially establishing an
ordinance for a group um to facilitate
the plan as things come up and as
various departments within the city are
are working on improvements and
amenities
in what we're doing
so are there any questions on that or
additional questions for Katherine that
I might have spurred when I've been
rambling on here and we um can't forget
to ask the um um people who might be
viewing
online there's any questions since we do
have this presenter here I might also
add um to council member Sharp's uh
astute comment that to be eligible for
many funding opportunities having a plan
in place is is one of those things that
uh when dollars become available having
a plan in place positions you well for
an application
sorry do you have a question mad or I
would just say thanks for coming tonight
it was um a privilege to be a part of
the steering committee and already hear
a lot of the spike plan and see the
process and it was really awesome to see
it all come together tonight so thank
you absolutely I want to thank you
Katherine you are a rock star in the
region for biking and your enthusiasm
and your attention to this plan has been
amazing we got through we started it and
then Co hit and we pivoted and we got
through it and thank you for sticking
with us um thank you for sticking with
us and even like I think we we went to a
different uh even planning agency and it
was all good so we all were just very
flexible it has been delightful working
with this community it's it is bitter
sweet ending the process I want to plug
also um that on I forgot to mention this
specifically this
Thursday tomorrow sorry tomorrow
tomorrow at 5:00 pm we're having a
Drexel Avenue track traffic study and
safety workshop for our road project so
we are about to do some some make some
large big enhancements I think to Drexel
Avenue next year and so this is an
opportune time to think about your
recommendations and how they might fit
into that plan and I I know that I'll be
in touch with you as we kind of see what
comes out of that with some of your
thoughts on what residents share so
absolutely to you and to the council and
to the public it's we've advertised this
very uh made sure that the residents on
Drexel know about it it's been in the
blast but it's you know it's it's a
anyone can join so
umn Wednesday it's tomorrow tomorrow is
the 26 right at 5 o'cl y tomorrow and
there's a link on our website and uh it
will be via Zoom
so I don't think we have anyone
registered to speak on this topic right
that's correct okay all right thank you
Catherine so much we really appreciate
it thank you for being a part of for a
while don't be a stranger and um keep
your good ideas flowing if you have any
for us okay thank you thank you thank
you so much be safe wear your helmet we
know you
do all right I
think we are on the consent agenda I
know we are item number
10 all right sorry I just okay scw go
with my computer hang on all right there
we go um two items on the consent agenda
or ordinance 18-21 to appropriate
$50,000 from the general fund for the
purpose of paying legal fees in 2021
introduced by Mr mkam and the minutes
from the May 5th 2021 city council
meeting all right um is there a motion
on the consent
agenda Madame President um Mr Sharp
would make a motion to um approve the
consent agenda thank you Mr Sharp is
there a
second second thank you Miss Robinson
any comments or questions questions from
Council regarding the consent agenda
Madam president um I just have one type
of goal typographical eror that I want
to bring to attention at Council that
I've already discussed with our fine um
minute taker Elizabeth um on page 29 c
the last sentence where it says program
and RightWay planning ordinance that was
actually
planting I G so that was a typographical
error but other that doesn't need a
formal um Amendment but I'm just
bringing it to the
attention what's the wrong date it's not
the consummating I read May 5th but
that's not right it's not May it's May
11th it's May 11th it's it's there it's
just a there okay so another another
call and did any one pick up Mr Sharps
was just a did you get it Elizabeth to
to correct it's just
typographical okay all right um any uh
more anything further
Council and there isn't anything from
the public correct all right Mr auditor
Mr Kingler yes M Lamy yes Mr Markham yes
Miss F yes Mr Sharp yes Miss sad yes
Miss Robinson yes all right right passes
thank you everyone no third readings oh
wait wait we can come up with something
no no third readings all right second
reading ordinance 19-21 an ordinance to
amend 26
20 262.50 2 C13 tuition reimbursement in
order to allow for tuition reimbursement
for employees hired after January 1st
2012 Mr Markham thank you we had uh
forting on this last time uh it's it
does what it says it's doing it just a
uh tuition reimbursement payment for an
employee uh maximum $4,000 per calendar
year questions comments questions
comments Council Mr Sharp Madame
President um just to bring to council's
attention um the there was a question
about whether there is any budgeted um
impact on this ordinance and there
already in our 2021 budget is
$6,000 already um appropriated for this
line item so um there should not be any
additional appropriation required thank
you Mr Sharp um anything further Council
from on this and no one is here to speak
on this one
correct um I don't think so I know what
they're here I know what the gentlemen
in the lobby are here to speak on I'm
just wondering if I think that that
think that uh there might be people
registered to speak for that and there's
no one here yeah just to clarify in the
future we had two registrants online one
of them whom has already spoken on the
topic they said they would have speak on
the other one showed up in person so
we're good well great well good thank
you so much for clarifying that I
believe that Mr Markham and I had a
conversation about this being consent
agenda material for next time around we
did is everyone okay with that okay
hearing no no objections consent agenda
please
Mr official okay now going to Second
reading of ordinance 20121 an ordinance
to appropriate one
$175,000 from the general fund into the
grants account for the purpose of paying
for reimbursable costs associated with
the Livingston Avenue plan and Jeffrey
Mansion HVAC upgrades introduced by Mr
Markham so there's two parts to this um
the uh first part is
$75,000 uh from the general fund into
the grants account uh that pays for uh
costs for the city of Columbus's portion
of our joint plan we get reimbursed for
that so that's not a cost to us uh
section two is
$100,000 uh and that is reimbursable
costs associated with HVAC equipment at
Jeffrey Mansion again reimburse to us
and I do have an update that I think
last if it's appropriate for an update
it is okay um the the
$100,000 um we weren't sure if that was
going to be granted to us for that HVAC
but it looks like that is going to be
granted so we're working on the details
but that seems to be the
case okay would that be safe to place on
the we want to hold on to that can we
would that be safe to place on the
consent agenda does anybody have any
objections to that being on the consent
agenda
all right consent agenda please okay
then a second reading of ordinance
21-21 and ordinance authorizing
participation in the ODOT road salt
contracts awarded in
2021 Mr Markham consent
agenda I I believe this is ripe and
ready for the consent agenda any
questions over this one any concerns
about is it sea salt is it like okay
Himalayan we will keep the we will keep
everybody let's let's at the risk of
getting salty let's move on oh my God
what did you get did you get a pun book
for your birthday this year or something
I believe we've reached the quota on
President ordinance 2221 second reading
of ordinance 22-21 an ordinance to place
proposed amendments to the city of
Bexley Charter for voter approval on the
November 2021 ballot introduced by Miss
lampy great thank you so much Mr
official obviously tonight is the second
reading for this proposed ordinance uh
allive Council now has had an
opportunity not only to uh watch us very
briefly give an overview of this but uh
we also ran through a PowerPoint a few
weeks ago um my suggestion for tonight's
discussion um would be to go through
each of the proposed bundles there are
five and then at the end of that
discussion uh I would like an
opportunity to see if my fellow council
members have any additional suggestions
for additional bundles beyond what is
being proposed and recommended I know
that we have two gentlemen who are very
patiently waiting to give us their
thoughts and feedback um and then at the
end of tonight's discussion obviously
we'll have the third reading and
depending on how that discussion in two
weeks goes it's possible that we could
conceivably Vote or if Council needs
more time to have additional discussion
or potentially table it and then uh take
an extra meeting or so we want I want to
be open to that we want to make sure
that we are as thorough as the charter
review commission was and proposing
these amendments uh to us that being
said and with your permission um if you
can turn to the second bundle I want to
put the first bundle last because I
think when we might spend the most time
on that uh but if my council members
can look at the second
bundle uh which is proposing um a
citizen review board um I do not believe
that we changed any Lang our Council
committee changed any language from what
the charter review commission was
proposing and we felt as a committee
that this was strong and important
enough to be its own stand alone uh
bundle um does anyone have any thoughts
concerns questions about the second
bundle as being proposed in this
ordinance Mr
Sharp uh yes in this I would this was an
issue that I raised when the ordinance
um for the citizen review board was um
brought up I believe that the um there
should be added in addition to um
conduct the policies of the city of
Bexley or its
employees also the phrase and um well
I'm not probably not thinking of the
right phrase right now but we have
certain contract um Representatives that
represent the city in different aspects
that are not considered employees for
example our uh City attorney um um our
staff uh for the board of zoning
appeals and I feel that anyone that is
actually representing the city whether
they're
um whether you can't tell when you're
just attending a meeting if they are a a
person that's employed by the city or a
contractor for on a regular basis I mean
PE people may come in and see um someone
in a in an office or meetings all the
time and think they might be an
employee and those people would not be
held to the same standard as statutory
employees so I I would just consider the
appropriate wording um to includ include
those um specialized contract employees
that are representing the city okay um
maybe Mr sorry to make that's okay maybe
um Mr official I put can put our heads
together for the third reading and see
if we can come up with uh language or if
you have suggested language on what that
that addition could be that would help
I'm not the attorney so I won't go that
way yeah I mean we could talk about it
but off the top of my head I could just
simply say because I think that's a good
idea policy of the city of Bexley or its
employees agents or Representatives or
something to that
effect Richard you good with
that
yeah I don't know whether it that were
terminology would you know fully apply
to all contract um so I don't want to
make it too um expansive that you know
someone tangibly related to the city is
subject to this um same legal
liabilities I mean they they should be
subject to the same
ethical treatment
of um of people they interact with but I
don't think from a a legal liability
um that it should extend that far but
okay I can I can uh get together with Mr
official afterwards um before our next
meeting and see if we can Wordsmith that
does anyone else on Council have any
additional thoughts on the second mle
for the Standalone proposal for the CI
review board to be on um on the ballot
or mayor can I comment on that the
concern that I have about expanding it
to be contractors and and their their
policies so what does that mean now that
like and maybe this is what you were
getting to but like The copier machine
company now we we have crb has of their
policies that's what I was referring to
the difference between someone who's in
a meeting that no one can tell whether
they're a affiliated with the city
representing the city as an employee or
a
contractor there is yeah and I I
understand that there's no reasonable
that that's why first of all I want to
think about it but second of all agents
and rep or Representatives there's no
way a contra uh somebody coming in to
make fix a copy or would be considered a
representative or agent of the city in
any capacity as an example what's that
long care person might and we might want
the LA Care person to be subject to
these things too if the Lung Care person
does something that is inconsistent with
that that engenders a
complaint of course there's other ways
to deal with that too like get rid of
the lung care person in their capacity
working for the city that's the sort of
stuff you guys work well that's why it
says agents are representatives and
their capacity not working for the city
and working for Mark fishell because I
hired them to do my law and wouldn't
apply to
them that's a good suggestion if I could
the only thing that stands out right off
the top of my head is our sewers and
Waters sewers and drain program we have
contractors that we are they're
registered with the city would they be
acting as agents or representatives of
the city because no
okay not at all not not not in this
context well they are they're doing our
inspections for if they're doing our
inspections yes I thought you
contractors on some approved list that
they call and
and if they're doing work on behalf of
the city they should be subject to this
is is what I think Richard is suggesting
I certainly think they should be I mean
again it's no to me it's no different
that if we want if we want our building
inspectors out there who who's employed
by the city is engaging in conduct that
results in a complaint we're going to
investigate that and it's going to make
its way to crb if the complaint end is
unsatisfied with the city's response the
same should also be true of anybody who
is repres who is hired to do work on
behalf of the city in interacting with
the public I think I agree but I feel
like it's it's a it's I'm sorry madam
president pleas it's accommodated by the
language so the conduct or policies the
conduct of the city of Bey in that
instance the inspector is working for
the city of Bexley their conduct if if
today we got a complaint about the
inspector we would investigate that
through our complaint policy and we
would respond and the person would have
the right to appeal to crb today that's
no different than the language it's up
here I just I I don't think it
encompasses it adequately from a legal
standpoint cuz when it says the conduct
of the city of Bexley that's not the
conduct of the city of Bexley in your
example and it's certainly not an
employee of the city of beex it's the
conduct of a contractor yeah I don't
want to yeah okay cool I don't want to
muck it up either I feel I feel like it
is still the conduct of the city but I
understand that if we need to Beef It Up
we should beef it up so it's it's easy
to do I I think it just clarifies right
just trying to clarify for example if it
were you know the person who was helping
with our bike plan or nbbj or any of
those individuals correct is that where
you're going with that
right I don't know that I am going with
that but that's where I think Richard
Richard thinks I wasn't going to that
extent that's what I thought you because
Catherine's clearly not
representing the city someone walking in
here seeing her report would clearly see
that she has her own company gotcha okay
for a specialized project um and not
actually work working behind the scenes
with the city I
mean I I think that's true the water
sewer inspectors and that's true of our
building inspector I mean their own
anyway I'm bringing the issue up
and that's a that's a good point mark
and I will get together before the next
meeting and and we thank you and I
apologize I forgot to send an email
about that no that's quite okay that's
why we're discussing this um any other
additions concerns comments from Council
or uh the mayor or Mr Harvey or Mr
fishell on the Standalone for citizen
review
board NOP okay moving on to the third
bundle you'll see that the Common Thread
through these four sections is to create
staggered terms and uh giving authority
to the mayor with a cons cons consent of
council to appoint members for less than
three years throughout the proposed
amendments from the charter review um
they had four different sections
regarding stagger terms so we thought it
made a lot of sense to put the identical
language for those those four sections
into the third bundle are there any
comments or concerns from Council or
mayor or Mark or Bill on including that
third bundle as it relates to language
for uh staggered
terms
okay all right moving on to the fourth
bundle
um all right the fourth bundle uh is
giving authority to remove the City
attorney uh it gives the authority to
our mayor with the concurrence of
council to remove remove the City
attorney our City attorney felt very
passionately that this should be
included um as a standalone bundle and
the council committee agreed with him um
I do not believe that we as a council
committee made any changes to the
proposed language from the charter
review commission but are there any uh
concerns comments additions to the
fourth bundle as a standalone for
removal power of the mayor to remove our
City attorney not not this City attorney
the City
attorney can we see what we're look what
do we the fourth we're at section can go
down a little bit y there is section 14
how is that how's that different from
what where we are
now you want to you want to address that
so currently the language in another
section which we could find if you want
to look at it specifically lists out a
bunch of positions that are appointed by
the mayor with a concurrence of council
who can only be removed for certain
cause okay and I am suggesting
recommending and I don't want to speak
for the smarter attorney in this room
well they're all smart all the attorneys
in this room are smarter than me but
especially Jim Wilson who agrees um who
um Bas the city the city should be able
to choose its own lawyer whether or not
there's alleged misconduct um is the
bottom line and that's why I think
that's important for you guys going
forward
just if they're annoying or something we
get that's exactly right or if they
aren't representing you in in as you
know for a lot of different reasons that
people are uncomfortable with their
lawyers frankly or could be
uncomfortable for
sure
um M um council member uh
lampy um when we're done with this
section can I go back to um the third
bundle I thought one saw one other point
thank
you does
this section 14 mean that you can only
remove the other people for one of these
purposes you can't remove them just
because you don't think they're the
right person for the job kind of
thing that's exactly what it means well
that's there there has to be cause to
remove people so once for example I mean
if I guess we probably should look at
the
section the rest of that provision but
for example board and commission members
can only be once appointed can only be
removed for cause
um God the I can't remember all the
other positions that are subject to that
right there's here they are you're right
boarding commission members but that's
the way it currently is right now we're
not changing anything understand that
but
aren't there times you might want to
remove a board member for example and I
don't know if this is covered if a board
member never comes to a meeting is that
a reason to remove them or do you say
that's for cause that would be one of
the C for cause reasons it would fall
within uh nonfeasance or neglect of Duty
or whatever sure absolutely all right
okay all right can I Riff on that and
ask another question which is when I
think back to board member MERS who have
not been formally removed but who
havec not come back correct resigned um
in in certain situations the really the
most common thread so far historically
has been
rudeness and I don't know how you and I
and I I don't mean to disparage anyone
who's had that it's been I would even
say just like getting worn out and
short-tempered with the public which can
happen to people I guess
soil but other commission M right yeah
of course never never us so I think that
that um I don't think that's
accommodated by this and I think it's an
important one I mean I think if you have
a board member who is f your finding is
consistently getting short with the
public and is being rude whether it's to
an applicant or a member of the public
who wants to testify or a guy who falls
asleep or a person who falls asleep at a
meetings that kind of stuff how do that
person is not covered in that's an
efficiency well maybe you could oh we
any of that could be easily covered
because it while it's a formal process
it's more of a checks and balance
process so if the mayor with and if
Council the mayor comes with a
recommendation that Joe Schmo should be
removed from Bap because he is just not
paying attention at any of these
meetings consistently reminded and
Council agrees it's a it it'll be a done
deal after a hearing before Council and
there's really no right of appeal to for
practical purposes the same concept
would easily apply with the rudess issue
I mean right everyone has an off night
but if it's there's a pattern of of
rudness and disrespect of people
bringing their case to the board that's
something council members will have
heard about and can appropriately that
yeah agree would that be like neglect of
Duty do you think it could be I mean
either way it's GNA fall under that and
I'm not overly concerned about I mean I
think we're covered there under
language so the main point the main
correction here the main change here
only is
that mayor cannot remove the City
attorney without the concurrence of
councel and today he can no he cannot
he'd still have to go through the
process for and have
cause so the mayor still had would yes
and and this proposed change would mean
that he could do it for any reason he
could do it for any reason as long as
Council agrees he can't do it with over
council's objection Mr did you have a
comment I I emailed the mayor my
PowerPoint slide so we could all see the
differences so when it comes
up it probably makes more sense you're
right so mark your opinion here is then
and this makes sense to me if this is
true the mayor should be able to remove
the City attorney not because the City
attorney is neglecting Duty or anything
like that just for p pure personal
preference if if he correct but again
let's make this clear only with
council's concurrence yes just like he
can only appoint yes a City attorney
with council's concurrence okay that and
this would also actually remove the need
technically this would also remove the
need to reappoint the City attorney
every year it's just the City attorney
is a City attorney until the mayor says
I don't want him anymore and and Council
concurs or more likely the City attorney
says I understand I've been fired by
better clients than
you hypothetically speaking moving on we
are we are
hypothesizing um anyone else have any
comments or concerns or suggestions for
this Standalone bundle regarding removal
power of the mayor thank you for putting
that up mayor uh Matt Clint put together
this awesome PowerPoint and you'll see
the differences uh uh on in red on the
side anyone else have any thoughts yes
good job Matt clanger okay um Mr Sharp
before we move on to the fifth bundle
you wanted to go back to the third
bundle yeah if we could go to the last
item creation uh 58 creation composition
in terms in the middle it says each
board um committee or commission shall
consist of electors of the city so
um that means they need to be registered
to
vote they can't just be residents to be
a board
member that's correct so that prohibits
um residents who are we periodically
have um people that come over on work
visas and are part of the community for
a couple years or whatever that they
would not be eligible um to be on the
commission um the I'm sorry to interrupt
but that is current language too just
know well I I don't know not it's
current language for the Planning
Commission for
B oh I'm sorry so the the way this is
written I think is your point it expands
it so that tree Comm it would Now cover
tree commission and tree commission
currently has
nonresidents not only non electors it
has nonresident members which was um
decided that that was
a an area where outside input was uh
valuable right so I just want to call
that to council's attention that the way
it's
word it says it says electors today for
the powers and duties of a City Planning
Commission and to administer the City
Zoning code so right we have read that
as commission okay because we had which
is now be we had the specific discussion
when the at least one person on the tree
commission and lawfully that person can
currently can can serve if this passes
they would have to actually be a
registered voter in Bexley it's also
true though tree commission is taking on
increasing review duties so there's
there they are functioning increasingly
as more of a zoning board than they were
in the past I agree it's an interesting
change so what about other commissions
that
like uh how about the rec that fall
under
this oh I think it absolutely
does shaking his
head I don't read it that way any board
depends on how
you Council no but that's going to that
would go away you mean does that
currently fall under this no
the new oh I see I'm sorry I apologize I
was looking at the old stuff I'm
sorry administer no it would not you're
right I'm sorry that was my
bad I think I think it's arb's app andry
commission right written as currently as
our current boards yeah is that what we
want decision how's the time to think
about that yeah Richard I think that
that's a really good point maybe that
might be another the one that Mark and I
maybe talk with the mayor about to see
as relates to those three boards if we
want to reconsider some of this and and
Boards in the future Commissions in the
future that you might decide
on okay yeah I will tell you that when
we have when we're in the heat of a
planning decision you know it is
important to Residents that they're
talking to Residents and
so and there's never a reason why you
can't can't call in expertise expertise
that is not voting yeah so the tree
commission could have ex officio members
right or it could
have and tree commission did in the past
last this month actually had some of its
more visible and contentious reviews
just because of the nature of those
plans so Ben is there any distinction in
that definition you just gave us
between uh the concern that that person
is arrest president versus an
elector I personally think they should
be electors but that's not it's not my
call I I I think clearly if we have
people making those decisions they not
only need to be residents they got to
have enough skin in a game to be an
elector and vote I would bet you money
that most people think that individuals
who are in those positions already
qualifi ways right but I will I I was
surprised when
I not to get off the topic how many
people I've talked to who said I'm not
registered to vote because I don't want
to be called for jury duty or for
whatever
reason Jessica did you have your hand up
or sure I would just say I I also feel
it is important to be a resident I think
that I agree with uh president FAL that
most you said Resident do you mean
resident or elector both yes but I I I'm
going to higher is is more restrictive
right I'm going to think about the I'm
going to think about the elector a
little bit more because I can think of
people right away in our community um
that have actually become electors but
we're not uh up until the recent
election uh they had different
citizenship but they are definitely
involved in our community um and they
are a resident so I'm gonna have to
think about that but the resident
portion is
important Robinson I completely Echo it
just just said I know many people not
many but several people who yeah
resident not
elector um and I think it's important
that we keep keep engaging people who
live in the community um the more people
there you know the more people are
engaged in the process the more likely
they will be to become electors which I
know is not the point of our Charter but
it certainly could be uh a positive
outcome so I'm I'm all for Resident but
I definitely think we need to
investigate further that that elector
piece there's another scenario too which
maybe you guys were alluding to but we
have several multinational residents who
live here are very invested in the
community have been here for a long time
plann to stay but for other reasons are
not citizens choose not to be citizens
so that's and that's and they've I think
maybe we haven't been fantastic about
well it's it's Planning Commission yeah
we've had we've had architecture riew
board members who are not electors in
the past Mr Sharp um so
just
um I I think I missed something um did
you say that this is only referring to
those boards commissions and committees
that perform the powers of the that
perform the city planning duties or and
administer the code so other boards and
task forces
and there's another section that applies
to appointing and there's other require
there can be different requirements for
those other commissions I think what we
were suggesting I think what I was
hearing by quite a few members of
council that yes you're right that is
what that says but I heard a lot of
other council members say that for
example the rec board should also be
included in this and other boards and
commissions also should be included in
this even though they do not perform
those uh zoning and planning am I
correct is that what I think that's what
I was hearing most of us say I'm seeing
a lot of head shaking did that answer
your question Mr Sharp let me rephrase
it I guess our existing this is our
existing code that covers all boards
and okay that's what I was confused
about it just there's another section
that covers other boards this yeah this
is specifically in the City Planning
Commission article article eight City
Planning Commission so there are there's
a Civil Service Commission there's a
Board of Health there's a board of
control there's and then I I was looking
for and I'm we have folks in the we were
probably jumping up and down with this
but there are not as there are not
specific requirements for other boards
committees and and commissions which I
think is in my opinion smart because you
have you know Richard you just proposed
a bike a b bike plan committee we've got
the esack and that it's been we've we've
morphed that to meet the needs of the
community in the best way that we can
Council has um I think it's good to have
some flexibility around yeah I just
wanted to make sure I understood yeah
which that we're talking about the
section that only covers these
specialized boards and commissions as
opposed to other boards and commissions
that's where I was getting confused
okay thank you you've UNC confused
me I just want to clarify what Ben said
did you say you don't think Ben people
like the Civil Service
Commission need to be
electors I did not say that oh okay I
said that there are the Civil Service
Commission is covered in the charter
right now now um and today it requires
three electors okay that's in section 50
today right so um what it doesn't cover
is what what does the esac have to look
like what does the you know we created a
land use strategy commission what did
that have to look like and do you think
they should be electors or you don't
think they need to be I think Council
should have flexibility I think that we
should have flexibility in determining
you know we've we've had committees
formed ad for
specific purposes let's take the joint
Livingston Avenue plan this is a good
one so it's that's a committee sort of
of the city sort of but it's a joint
jurisdictional committee who really owns
it like half of those board members are
appointed by Columbus they're not
electors if we had a charter provision
that every single committee we
participated in needed electors we
wouldn't be able to do that plan so
there I just think their flexibility is
important in those context I think here
sorry one more thing here you're you're
making decisions for people's property
so these are review boards and there's
an accountability matrix there that I
think is a little bit more important and
I understand why it has a higher
burden Mark I mean I guess I I was gonna
say somewhat the same thing which is I
mean I think when we start talking about
expanding this to be electors for all
these things I mean I think that sounds
really good but you also have to
understand in effect what you're doing
is you're cutting down the number of
candidates you're going to be able to
have because the percent of voting
population is you know it's it's it's
whatever 50% or you know something like
that so uh I mean I think you have to
take that into account when you're
talking about someone like serving on
the wreck board or these are still
people that are live in the community
and are active in the community if
someone is maybe not registered to vote
you're going to be just limiting you're
going to be limiting the the pool that
we can take this from that doesn't mean
to say that we we couldn't or shouldn't
but in my
mind there is a distinction I think
between sort of a uh what we're calling
requirement for electors on on some on
the planning uh commissions and
extending that maybe throughout a lot of
these boards because
ultimately without a doubt we're going
to lose quality people that way I mean
it's just a it's a numbers
game
all good points thank you um Mark you
and I will be talking and then we'll
we'll Circle back on that as
well all right um moving on to the fifth
bundle um mayor if you're able to uh go
to section 24 um the fifth bundle has
three different sections uh on it um I
shown up on the screen Council wants to
take just a moment to digest the changes
that are made on the right um I know
that the council
committee uh felt that uh eliminating
the cross out language
would uh would make things run smoother
and would eliminate some potential
issues that have come up um in the past
with uh um in the past as well and then
section 66 mayor if you're able to go
down to the next section
um we felt that it was important as did
the charter review commission to uh make
access to the ballot even if it's on an
off year uh to make it easier for folks
to um possibly have things to vote on
and then mayor if you can go to oh
you're already up there yep and then
section 77 um incorporates the prior
section of
66 um given the common sprad through all
of these we felt it was appropriate to
bundle them together any questions
comments or concerns from uh from anyone
on this fifth
bundle Mr
Markham just to clarify that that change
for the um first
Monday what am I wrong what we've done
here is we've cleared up the ambiguity
and when newly elected city council
members are actually City Council
Members right exactly correct okay I
think that's
great as M Mr official told us that our
swearing in is a mere formality I think
is what he has has told
us any other questions or concerns from
Council on this fifth
bundling or mayor or Bill Mark nope okay
all right so let's go back to the first
bundle um May or you're able to go back
to the very beginning um it does
contain uh five different sections
um in section one we kept the exact
language proposed by the
charter review Commission in section
two uh mayor if you're able to to go
down to section two
to uh we did take um the sentence that
begins the city strategic plan shall
incorporate we did take that from um
another uh another section that was
proposed by the CRC and we added that
and then mayor if you can scroll down to
the next slide that section two is a
little bit longer we also uh kept or I
should say we borrowed the sentence
indicating uh regarding Mayor's Court
shall Ensure the defendant's
appearance then mayor if we can go down
to section
three uh we kept that I believe
verbatim and then section
four um I believe our City attorney had
a good suggestion um regarding some W
smithing there so we included section
four and then the last section it
doesn't have a section number but it's
uh regarding gender neutal pronouns and
terminology uh we as a council committee
felt it was important to Mayor if you
can go down to the next
slide perfect uh we felt it was
important to put in um this language to
um amend U any gender specific pronouns
or terminology in the various parts of
the charter um and couple these together
is kind of the diversity equity and
inclusion um and what what I felt was
was the most important message that we
heard from our Charter review commission
um are there any thoughts concerns
questions about the proposed first
bundle as shown up um on the PowerPoint
and in the
ordinance oh did you have you rais is
that a hand no okay no
okay okay all right
um I think then we have gone through all
five of our bundles um and as promised
does anyone else on Council have any
other items or proposed sections that
they uh would want to bring up for
discussion for possible consideration
for this amendment or for this
ordinance Mr
Sharp um at the last meeting I did um
propose suggest not officially propose
um some alternative language um I just
want to make a comment that I respect
the
time residents in the community have not
had the opportunity to participate in or
hear the robust discussions that took
place during uh their months of work and
I appreciate that the subcommittee feels
that this is that what was presented is
the most appropriate wording to put in
front of residents my wording was
suggested to appeal to the majority of
residents who are not activists on
Progressive issues and to be more
positive in tone similarly to the
Preamble of the Constitution we the
people of the United States in order to
perform to form a more perfect union
established Justice ensure domestic and
tranquility and provide for common
defense promote general welfare and
secure the blessings of liberty to
ourselves and and our prosperity do
ordain and establish this constitution
for the United States of America if the
charter commission was drafting a
declaration of independence which is a
listing of complaints and then a series
of act actions then I wouldn't
necessarily have a problem with the the
wording that the charter commission um
included and could be considered
appropriate my problem is that the
statement can mean whatever anyone wants
it to mean many of the systems that are
in place in this country were
established without regard to race and
in many cases instituted by people who
desired to prevent the unequal treatment
of individuals and to rectify prior
systems that had created other
inequities and so to give a blanket
statement that all the systems um in the
city um were created um to promote
racism and um discrimination I don't
feel is historically accurate many of
those Solutions were based on social
solutions that and I use a capital p uh
Progressive have been instituting
instituting during the past 100 years
how will the statement be interpreted in
the future when there is no majority
population and when everyone is a
minority even if you agree with the
premise of the statement I'm ass sure
that you'll agree that there are
different paths to Healing even for for
those who have suffered the same pain
and on an individual basis um
professional counselors will work with
those who have experienced pain to
identify healing strategies that best
suits that person's history personality
and emotional well-being and that one
statement um does not may be
inspirational and appropriate to some
but um it might be discouraging to
others who might be coming from areas
where problems were even bigger than
what we perceive as
here is
um so anyway that's some of the thoughts
uh I was H I was having when I proposed
um making um the wording change to try
to keep it more positive um at some
point when you're officially
accepting um amendments to uh the
document I'll officially proposed
amendment I
don't I am fully aware of um that there
may not be support for that that's fine
I just want there to be a dialogue and
an opportunity for people to to um
discuss you know how we lift up people
in
general all of our residents and um make
Beckley the unifying place that we want
it to be thank you thank you Richard I
know that the dialogue is extremely
important not only amongst Council but
amongst Council and residents um and
other um folks who are engaged in our
city um does anyone else have any
additional thoughts or suggestions
concerns about uh the first bundle as
proposed in the
ordinance no okay what I'd like to
suggest and then maybe we'll open it up
U to to our residents for public comment
is um obviously our next reading is our
third reading um if you do have formal
amendments at that time uh feel free to
to have specific amendments and as
promised Mr Fishel and I will get
together uh regarding the areas that
have been um U brought up today so that
we can maybe have some proposed
amendments if if need be um that being
said president Bible do we want to hear
from our two Brave and very patient
residents we we do have um a a members
of the uh with us tonight who would like
to speak Mr
um
offenberg we all know you but if you
would please your name you know the you
know the
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gig can you push the button sir thank
you
Mr good evening I'm John offenberg I
live at 33 North
Remington I said I'm going to skip the
formalities because of time I do want to
say mayor Kesler that um I very much
appreciate your report on inclusion and
diversity over the last year and I
congratulate all of you on what you have
accomplished um I'm speaking tonight
just for myself these are not
necessarily the thoughts of others the
suggestion has been made that the
language of proposed section number one
should be watered
down that it might make people
uncomfortable well isn't that the point
we should not be
comfortable with the
history
of of racism and
discrimination in this country and and
it has existed historically in this
city um it takes pain sometimes to tell
the truth and the whole truth it takes
courage sometimes to tell the whole
story um tell it openly and
honestly is it not our responsibility
for future generations and for us now um
to tell the whole story so we can get
better as a
society if you sugarcoat or
whitewash language about this issue it
is institutional
racism thank
you thank you for and I hope you get
home in time to get to bed
tonight thanks Mr offenberg
Jim Wilson welcome thank you I'm Jim
Wilson 2404 Bexley Park Road I'm sure
you've heard that address before um I do
want to say that even though John speaks
for himself he gives voice to a lot of
the people that we heard in the charter
review process um the way I look at this
is um that when my kids or someone else
important to me um comes to me and says
want to change something they've done
it's important to me that they recognize
the past and what's being changed and
this opening statement for me is nothing
more than that I realize um that it's a
hard statement but we live in a time
where we have to acknowledge hard things
and I think this city has shown itself
to be different than the world around us
in acknowledging hard issues I read in
the dispatch today that the state
legislators just introduced a bill to
prohibit teaching things like this and
so I think it's important in a time like
this that we give our residents the
chance to acknowledge it there's nothing
that I would like more than in 10 years
to come back and suggest to you that we
add a second sentence that says and
we've gotten past that I don't know if
we can do that in 10 years but I hope
that of us will dedicate the next 10
years the next 20 years however long it
takes for us to get back past that you
know I I I've said for years that it's a
privilege to live in the city of Bexley
but we shouldn't have to be privileged
to live in the city of Bexley and as
someone who has lived a life of
privilege I think I would live a better
life if we become a more diverse
community and for me part of that is
opening the door to that by
acknowledging that we haven't always
been perfect in that regard and it's not
just Bexley we live in a country that's
imposed rules that have reinforc that so
that's what I wanted to say on section
one if my time's not up I do want to
because I'm so capable of the minutia I
do want to come back to the tree and
garden Commission because I do want you
to understand at least it wasn't Charter
reviews intention to change the
requirements for membership on the tree
and public garden commission which does
have not regular members but alternates
who are not residents of the city of
Beckley and what we understood was that
we were not changing that requirements
so as you consider that um that
provision at least it wasn't the
intention to change that requirement at
least my personal view is that those
members of the tree and public garden
commission which I'm also a member
really provide value and I while we are
a little bit like the planning
commissions we're really just making
recommendations for acceptance by those
commissions so residents always have the
ability to take our Landscaping
recommendations which are only on new
builds and Commercial properties and and
take those up so I would urge you to
consider that and if you don't then I
think Susan quintens will be your
visitor at your next
meeting thank you very much for your
attention ma Madam president can I
address the one point Mr Wilson I
Council through bold action over the
past couple years has actually given
tree Commission a much more direct
administration of the code with new
builds that you are not in my unless my
recollection is serving me incorrectly
you are not an Advisory board with new
builds you are a you are a primary board
when it comes to new builds and
Landscaping I could be wrong but I think
that's worth it's worth exploring so if
I if I may all I will say is that in our
five new builds at the last tree and
public Harden commission meeting which I
hope never to experience again uh it was
um we were I think the report we got
said we were asked for a recommendation
um by others but I you were also asked
for recommendation and because of habit
and even staff I think is getting used
to the new rule but we and we'll we'll
visit that carefully and and consider
your intent the intent of the charter
Review Committee thank you I would say I
think I and Mr Wilson I just wanted to
thank you and Mr offenberg for for
sitting through tonight's meeting and
for showing up so consistently and for
leading the charter review commission to
give us the proposed amendments really
appreciate your input and your time and
your
thoughtfulness a
guys you're welcome to
stay we are grateful for all your hard
work um not just Charter review but you
both have a history of um being Stellar
volunteers and amazing policy makers so
um thank you thank you and and please
keep helping
us thanks
guys all right
Monique anything further um nope I look
forward to our third reading at our next
meeting and depending on how much
discussion and um thoughts there are
then we could either uh take a vote or
further it for additional discussion
thank you so much um Monique for walking
us through this so thoroughly and yet so
efficiently um I was not sure exactly
how this would happen but it it it was
pretty you're you Rockstar so thank you
so much and hopefully everybody has
their marching orders um for the next
two weeks I do think that Miss Robinson
had her hand in the air I do I'm sorry
I'm I'm thinking as as you were were
speaking I do want to and I'm sorry that
they've left the bill building now and
can't hear me thank them for coming I'll
make sure to knock on some doors
um something has keeps kind of playing
through my mind because I so appreciate
Richard and and the the points that you
bring up um but especially on this year
um Oney year anniversary of the passing
of George Floyd this language takes
on greater importance and and greater
weight I think um and for any of you who
have tuned in to any of the pre-june
teth programs that we've been doing dko
did an amazing
presentation um last Wednesday and um
shed some light on things that I don't
think a lot of us were aware of uh
things that were happening um post Civil
War post Emancipation Proclamation right
here in in the city of Columbus um I
think sometimes we think that we weren't
a part of it because we were in the
North or you know if you're thinking in
you know those those broad terms but we
somehow think that it couldn't have been
that bad it could couldn't have been
what what it was elsewhere and I just
encourage everybody over the next couple
weeks as we we consider proposed uh
amendments or you know changed wording
to just take a minute and and and really
do some investigating on what it is that
we need to be responsible to in our past
and um I I this language is is important
to me I think it's important to a lot of
people I know all of us have received a
number of communications from people in
our community
and um you know it is our duty to listen
and it is our duty to to do the work to
make sure that we're being responsible
to the the requests of our citizens um
and I just I really really encourage
everybody over the next couple weeks to
really do that deep dive to really
understand what it is that and why it is
that we're saying what we're proposing
to say in in that first section so thank
you for just allowing me to to say that
out loud I want to make sure that
everybody um you know understands why I
at least I feel it's that's important
and that we all do the work that we need
to do over the next couple weeks so that
we're doing the right thing for the
charter and for the city so that's it
and thank you Monique and and Matt and
laurianne for all of this work in
addition to the Charter Review Committee
it was not an easy lift and you guys
have done a great job so thank you and
Madam president I I do want to um say
that I I too agree to listening to
people
and as some of you may know I
periodically forward information from
other voices in the
um African-American and other
communities that that I have see that
have other viewpoints that aren't always
aren't always heard and so I just want
to make sure that we're not sitting on
our perch feeling that we're making the
solution that that is told To Us by
activists when the major maybe a large
number of people who
um we haven't talked to we haven't heard
you know I don't know whether the
charter uh commission surveyed any any
um people who work in Bexley um what
their feelings have been what their
actual needs are how they feel that they
would be valued as human beings so I
look at everyone as a human being that
deserves respect and value and I don't
feel that a
constant
um brow beating
of saying that um people every single
aspect in your life is
um built against you and that you can't
can't succeed I want people to succeed
and I want them to feel confident in
their their relation not just because
they're a victim but because they have
value and purpose so thank you and
that's where I'm coming
from thank you Mr
Sharp all right um all of that being
said and being having been given our
marching orders I feel comfortable if
it's okay with the rest of council to
ask our City attorney to move
on to the next um second reading which
is ordinance
2321 please all right an or ordinance
2321 an ordinance accepting the donation
of an access easement conservation
easement and
1.75 Acres of real property adjacent to
in east of alen Creek to the city of
Bexley introduced by Mr
Kingler thanks Mr official uh we went
through the history of this last time um
I I don't know if we need to rehash that
I did see I don't know if there's a typo
or not if you could bring it up it says
1.75 in that title of real property but
in the title of the ordinance it says
like 3.1
something 3167 Acres of real
property I don't have a first name
either I'm just
Kingler I like it
like it's like high school high school
basketball game like L there's only
one like that I didn't but in the first
paragraph it says 1.39 down three lines
up
1.3 okay Kingler may I may I speak Madam
president please my
okay yeah so clearly this is uh needs to
be shorted up a little bit we are still
waiting for the finalized version of
this so there's amendments to this yeah
there are going to be amendments so
obviously not a good consent agenda item
and I don't have any updates from our
last
meeting but all right anybody have any
questions about this um ordinance Mr
Clinger that
Clinger Clinger cling you like it we'll
leave
it all right
everybody comfortable moving moving on
all right we have amendments we will
have everything shorted up next time
around we are on to a second reading of
resolution
06-21-18
and informally I propose yes we have a
question do Richard really there's a
question behind me I'm sorry and so is
Richard he's also we don't have the
exhibit a attached oh you know what we
were supposed to have exhibit a so it
can't you know what agenda I think it
still could be consent agenda if we see
exhibit a prior
to our voting on it next time
around you know you know what I think I
think I had please and on my and I
forgot it is my fault I will I will take
because I forgot to remind those that
needed to provide that
so so so maybe maybe consent agend yeah
I think it can be consent agenda we'll
just assume that that is consent agenda
and we will make sure that the exhibit
is shared with all of you and um we can
always decide at the next meeting hey I
don't want that on the consent agenda
let's look at it further okay we deserve
the right to do that if can always um
consent agendas can always be amended
and we can always revisit them in
whatever during a third reading Mr Sharp
I'm fine with that okay great how would
you uh thank you I appreciate that all
right um how would you feel about
another
proposal that maybe we could take a
quick break before we get into first
reading I I I'd be great with that okay
but let's make it snappy okay it's 5
it's
8:37 I would like us to all try really
hard to be back here by 8:40 41 and a
half I said
8:40
start welcome back to First readings all
right first reading of resolution
0721 confirming the mayor's appointments
of members of the Architectural Review
Board the board of zoning appeals and
planning the Recreation and Parks Board
the tree and public gardens commission
the Board of Health the Civil Service
Commission the community reinvestment
Area Housing Council the tax incentive
review Council the board of tax review
the records commission and the Bexley
Community Improvement corporate Inc
Improvement Corporation that's
introduced by Miss
LAN
that's another reason to terminate the
City attorney y I think you made it
pretty close thank you Mr official uh
I'm going to turn this over to the mayor
to kind of walk walk us through um some
of the specifics you're going to notice
there's a difference in the um term
expiring dates and then I think uh there
might be some insight to provide on a
couple of these appointments Mr Mayor
you want to take it over yes thank you
councilwoman lampy okay so we have uh
this is our super year every three years
um The Turk the CRA Housing Council
Board of tax review records
commission has a Full Slate of
appointees they don't have staggered
terms because somewhere somewhere along
the line they never had staggered terms
um and so that what you're seeing here
is our normal commissions and boards and
also ones that are less utilized and
less known and we'll talk through those
uh for some council members who might
not have heard of them before so first
up ARB includes a new uh applicant as an
alternate member Keith Hall is a is an
architect and planner um who lives in
Beckley and has is moved here a little
bit more recently and is part of a a
large firm that is establishing Columbus
roots and what's great about him is his
firm largely works in the space of
stadiums and some other kind of large
Civic infrastructure that we do not see
in Bexley and therefore no conflicts of
interest which is nice so uh that's a
attractive uh uh aspect for that
candidate it's hard to find design
professionals who don't practice and are
you know and are good who don't practice
in Bexley um so that's that's he's an
exciting H potential potee um Larry
Helman and Joanne straser are existing
members Joanne is a first-term member
right now as an alternate she has been
incredibly uh productive and staff has
really appreciated her Insight so
profing to her as a full member there's
a companion ordinance we're about to
read it talks about some changes to the
airb and Bap composition if we didn't
have that companion ordinance we would
have more alternates to look at today
and I'll explain that in a
second um so plan Bap here Alicia
Mitchell is a first term this would be
her second term reappointed Sean Turner
would be uh a second or third term Rick
LaVine second term so these are some
newer newer uh board members who have
been productive help board members um W
board these are two brand new members
you just appointed and remember they
just happened based on where they fell
to be appointed into terms that we about
to expire so CLA sabios and Jessica
Sparks Claire has had I think one or two
Rec board meetings Jessica a few more
than that so you're essentially
continuing brand new appointments with
rboard uh tree and public garden
commission um actually we do need to get
a little firm and or crisp I guess on
the the elector question because Ellen
Bowen and Molly O'Donnell are alternates
that are both there are two non-resident
alternates um we can appoint them now
since they correct under the current
code it does not I don't you know Mark
an opine but I'm not sure there's an
issue Dave wakan this will be his second
term he's uh he's been a great addition
and Jim Wilson you guys know is a
fantastic member of the TR commission is
that a typo on Ellen's no year uh it's
not a typo um there are a couple of
these and I have to go back to my notes
there a couple of these where the the
staggered
terms which existed got a little messed
up somehow and I'm I'm restoring it back
I I think it was maybe a past typo or
something but I I'll have to look back
at my notes on some of those Dr harand
Meyer is the current chair of the Board
of Health and would like to continue on
that capacity uh which he does he does
well in the board of tax review when's
the last time the board of tax year you
met Bill uh I don't ever recall the Mee
okay they've never met and in fact
that's the running joke I called Leslie
and Bob and I said hey would you like to
continue as a hardworking member of the
board of tax review did they get an
invite to the mayor or solicitor party
then yeah they do they get invites there
I don't think Bob I'm not sure they show
up but they get
invites um John offenberg is Civil
Service Commission
member um we might have another position
that but I'll Circle back with you guys
wait is that correct civil service is
more than three years at a time it's so
civil service is pro High Revised Code
and Monique lampy picked up on this
quite appropriately has three members
right one for a two-year term one for a
four-year term and one for a six-year
term what which is well it's built in
for
St okay it's built in for staggering
purposes I I believe that the revised
code code means the first time you're
appointing them okay but I I I will I'll
look at that yeah if you could double
check that yeah yeah it's possible that
your amateur look didn't look past the
first sentence so Community reinvestment
Area Housing Council this is another
funky board that uh is appointed some
members are appointed directly by me
there's no council confirmation process
some are appointed by you guys just
directly and traditionally those have
been council members currently Troy mark
and Richard Sharp are the council
appointed CRA Housing Council Members
and then two more members are appointed
by the Housing Council itself this is
all through higher Revised Code um this
is a a board that meets once a year for
about 30 minutes you know and literally
their job which is really important in
larger cities but here it feels almost
comical is to verify that the properties
that are Abit are being used as they're
supposed to be for abatement so for
example is grammarcy occupied by a
residence or is it now being used as a
retail or something whatever elev uh so
basically this applies in Bexley today
applies to Residential Properties on
Main Street and there is an abatement
that's about to go away for commercial
property at the gateways that's that
those are the only abatements that we
have um and the C housing council's job
what we do is we go to the property and
we talk to the people who manage it and
we say hey is this still being used as
condos and they say yes it is and then
we say are you sure no I mean it's
notorious we know that they're being
used as condos so um it's not the most
glamorous role but I think that if there
are council members who would love to
take a little tour then
um that's your job to figure out who you
can also appoint someone from the
community I will tell you that we did
put out a call for volunteers for this
we did not receive any application for
the community in very reinvestment Area
Housing Council which is true typically
we don't invol and you got to push the
elevator button yeah that's
true yeah I think Matt Monique would
like to
volunteer Clinger Clinger yeah
Clinger Kingler for Housing Council
[Laughter]
2021 thank you you are correct sir all
right so the tax incentive review
Council is another exciting one uh where
they take the work of the CRA Housing
Council and then once a year they meet
and they review the different abatements
and the tiffs and the numbers associated
with them and you guys see that report
and then you approve of that report so
the existing members here are Deborah
cutesy and Mark wer uh Deb is a business
owner she owns um touch therapy medical
massage in Bexley Mark wer is an
attorney um and I'm offering them for
continuance um in this highly
specialized once a year board um Kate
mosa is a current member of the records
commission she works in the AG's office
uh specifically in the division that
deals with records law so she is like a
gem to have on our records commission
and she has been kind enough to continue
in that role for for a while now I
think I talked to her I was like as long
as you don't aren't just frustrated with
us at this point
um and then uh the cic members here we
have some newer members being
reappointed and some longer standing
members but Z been David Sarah gold Andy
madis and Jeff Walker um I will tell you
I didn't get a ton of applications this
year for for um I didn't get any new for
cic so there it was you know always
interested in new applicants always
encourage people to proper their names
and you don't have to wait for an email
you can at any time put your name for it
so that is the current
uh ordinance as it stands there might be
a couple more names because there are
some question marks about some members
that are existing whether or not they're
wanting to continue in their existing
current term um that might get added
in Miss laning mayor I know that the the
past couple years obviously we have
asked a lot of our volunteer members on
these various boards a lot of them have
um multiple obligations they sometimes
sit on multiple boards sometimes they
have meetings that go well past midnight
uh we ask a lot of these volunteers um
are you sure that the ones that we're
proposing now or do you have a sense for
they actively do want to continue I'm
just afraid that we might burn some
folks out because uh we've asked so much
of them lately yeah I appreciate that so
um I have had a chance to personally
speak with 80% of the people here I am
still closing the loop on some of them
where we haven't had a chance to connect
so I it's an important question uh
especially with our zoning boards I
think they've had they've had some
pretty rigorous meetings so and I I you
know I see some of those names shaking
her
head yeah so by by the time you see this
next meeting we'll have for sure close
the loop on that perfect great thank you
anything further on this one ladies and
gentlemen all right Mr um City
attorney okay um we are now on a first
reading of ordinance
24-21 to award the Bexley electricity
aggregation program contract to a energy
based on the terms and conditions
provided for in the their R RFP as
Modified by the board of control
introduced by Mr
Sharp okay I'll let the mayor give an
update on this he does have um now
attach to to the agenda the um revised
RFP is that what what it is that I ask
you about today it's the original RFP so
okay yeah go ahead go ahead so the the
RFP is attached um we don't have a
revised like a marked up RFP we have
some revisions that are shown in the um
ordinance itself uh I'm I'm not prepared
to walk through the whole RFP right now
um I wanted to get this going and was
hoping to
get um a
a and uh Bricker to the next meeting but
I have also been recently really
curtailing too many legal bills so uh
don't have them here tonight to talk
about it but essentially the board of
control has met multiple times we've
looked at the RFP we have more
information today than we would have
even possibly had when you initially got
the RFP for example the price to compare
is now out
for uh May and it wasn't before and so
we're seeing kind of how energy is
trending right now we were we are
currently coming out of the lowest
Energy prices that we've experienced as
a state in like 10 years or something
like that so it's a little hard for us
to analyze this with that environment
today that we're at but the highlights
are that the Midwest renewable energy
credit program is is different than the
green choice reck that we had specked in
the first three years of the aggregation
period and because of that we're able to
save money it's the same credit program
that Columbus is using um it's
competitive with price to compare which
was our hope um and we'll have even more
information at our next meeting from a
on that and then the specification that
residents May opt out of the program any
time I actually think if that wasn't
explicit in the RFP that was already the
intent going into it but we're stating
that specifically um um and it any Bard
control members have anything else to
add you want to talk for 30 seconds
about why we're coming back because
initially the plan was yeah we would
make the decision but I think it's
important for these people to understand
that so when we came into this a had
come to council last summer and they
presented some possible pricing and what
we got in the RFP was higher than what
they had proposed and so we're at a
point now where we're looking at pricing
that's pretty comparable to the market
for energy but it's not a great savings
um which was kind of what we expected
going into this so which you know I
guess this the saying is you can't have
your cake and eat it too but uh we kind
of were hoping that we could and um that
does not seem to be the case with the
aggregation program it's a long-term
commitment even though residents can opt
out you know there are residents that
might not choose to do that and be tied
into it and so we felt it really
important the council look very closely
and scrutinize heavily the concept um
because we are looking at a you know a
horizon of something like 13 years with
some ability to adjust pricing in the
future but not a ton and so there's risk
if the market should go even lower than
it is today then we might have we would
have residents that start to get pretty
ticked off that they have to opt out and
maybe they didn't know that and maybe
they didn't know it for a year or two
even if we've communicated pretty
clearly and we don't have the right
because we're in the contract
necessarily to encourage people out of
it so it's a little bit different than
you might think the other thing is um
however that the opposite Could Happen
we're in the lowest point in the market
like I said in for a very long time
already there's Market fluctuation going
upwards on energy costs and that will
result in higher electricity costs and
we lock into a rate today for Renewables
that doesn't fluctuate upwards it's it's
fixed because the cost of that energy
does not increase over time so there is
upside to it as well there's risk
there's upside and so then I think
Council needs to decide is
the sustainability component of this
where we are truly helping develop new
renewable energy and bring that to every
door in Beckley worth that risk and
potential reward so that's a decision we
didn't feel comfortable making just as
three people given the economics of it
being a little bit different than we had
thought going into it so we want Council
to take a look at it and make the
decision and I think the I think Ben's
first comment if I may was you know the
price was different and I think it was
significantly different I thought we
would I thought the anticipation was
there'd be a reasonably significant
savings and uh it looks like that's not
going to be there today so um it's you
know like is this too much effort for
what might not be
much benefit for the residents and the
residents expect us I think to make
those decisions for them and if we say
this is a good deal for you they expect
it to be a good deal and as Ben said if
we find out in a year that you know
they're or two years that for that past
two years theyve been paying you know
$10 a month higher or whatever and that
not not that that's not that's not a lot
of money but it's still some money and
you know anyway we thought be good to
have a conversation with the rest of
council and isn't there another price
change coming out at the end of this
month that wetip we'll continue to get
some more so we'll that's another thing
that there's a number coming out at the
end of this month that we thought would
be I mean one one of the advantages is
we're tied to we're not tied to Columbus
but we're kind of locked up with what
Columbus is doing so we're not alone in
the region which um you know we can't
claim the superlative but that's great
and then the other thing is like AP had
expected based upon prior experience
that they would have double the amount
of opt outs that they received in
Columbus even though when Columbus had
their opt out window their initial opt
out window they had a higher rate than
the price to compare the price to
compare has subsequently shifted so
Columbus actually was going into it in
in in more adverse conditions than we
would be and A's calculations for opt
outs was really they really
overestimated number of opt outs so
there was broad community support for
columbus' valid issue we don't we didn't
have the same benefit because we'd
already had the program in place and
then they had a low opt out rate so it
tells you something about the consumer
climate right now at least in the
central Ohio
region I think um Mr Markham has a
question or comment I'm not sure it
looked like maybe Mr Sharp does as well
Jess go so currently um so is what
you're saying uh currently the Columbus
residents
that have opted into this are paying
higher than market
rate well they they don't go live till
June oh okay they're not which point in
time they are a little more similar but
when they had the opt out the their
initial opt out before the program went
live so they get everything kind of
calculated their rate of
5499 was comparing to like five lower
fives the market at the time okay so
they haven't opted out but they didn't
opt in either they're forced in and they
can opt out which is what our which is
what our model that's right
yeah Richard then Jess so um two two
items
the
5499 per kilowatt hour
that's for the three-year period and
then beyond that it can adjust kinda I'm
gonna let AP talk about that at the next
meeting because it gets really
complicated okay the second Point might
be pretty complicated also is that when
we started this process um I thought the
generation charge on our electric bills
and gas bills were was a higher
percentage than what it actually is I
thought it was like 60 or 70% but now
the since a deregulation and they have
different components on your power bills
the generation charge which is creating
the the energy is only about 30 35% of
your bill the rest of the bill is
transmission and distribution charges
and I don't know whether those are the
the same category but there's two other
two categories besides uh generation
so what so
if AP has to build these facilities a
long ways away are our distribution
costs going to be higher um our
transmission costs I think the answer is
no and I think that AP will confirm that
at the next meeting so keep that
question but that's one of the reasons
why unless this gets way out of whack
it's not like people are going to see
$100 a month more in bills not the
average household they did tell us that
Bexley residents because their actual
term was or their ual comment with
something like we use more air
conditioning and that drives our
electric cost up because we probably
have a higher percentage of homes with
air conditioning and people opt to do
that so that does Drive some of these
numbers up but because it's like you
said
35% even if there's a swing there that's
not going to end up being a dramatic
difference in your bill so for residents
who have been considering the pace Pro
program or other
uh residential
solar installations in their own home
they'll be more likely actually if they
continue with those plans to save more
money um on their bills because they
would be reducing their transmission and
distribution cost I'm not giving a value
judgment on any but it's something that
people shouldn't think oh well I we're
we're participating in the Solar
aggregation plan then I don't need to
look into solar for my home or some
other option that someone might be
interested in geothermal or whatever but
um those opportunities still would exist
that might be more beneficial to
individual Hummers
laurianne and I created a little bit of
a cheat sheath with acronyms and
definitions and whatever and I think I'm
going to have Ben look at it for
correctness and then I will pass it on
to you in preparation I think it would
be a good idea to get this out to
because it's a big learning curve it was
for me I just was not familiar with a
lot of the Acron they do throw a lot of
acronyms please tell them right just me
and it's and it's it's confusing and
it's you know it's not this this is the
price because there's all the varibles
there's all kinds of things that go into
that price and they'll tell you what
goes into that price and how it created
and it's and it is confusing um so the
bottom line was explained to you today
but if you want to take a little bit of
a deeper dive there's lots on the
internet so and I will I I will try to
dig up my cheat sheet so for that and
Jess did you have something to add good
Richard question and ready for great
super wonderful anybody have anything
further about this piece of legislation
I I would ask Richard if um if maybe we
want to Bill and you the next council
meeting is a public hearing to discuss
it so it we have AP there but we also
make sure the public knows to come and
here's what it's that would be great is
it your attention and Richard's
attention is your yours is the tabled
ordinance am I right is that a youu
that's this is related but it it doesn't
it's not pertinent unless this
passes right right but so we should wait
on we're gonna okay I was just
looking down down the agenda at that I
if the mayor while we're talking about
this issue and general wants to get say
how the tabled ordinance relates and
timing to this that would be an we can
do that now without untable that that
was my kind of my thought the other so
the other ordinance my understanding
let's confirm with Bricker when they're
here but is that the that's our sort of
our guiding document for administering
the plan that would happen if this is a
approved and so you can take it off the
table it's had more than three readings
and you can pass it concurrently with
this and I think that timing is just
fine I understand it
and that document is attached to our
ordinance now attached yeah
okay um you will be talked about a
public meeting is this a public meeting
that is we have to provide a required
notification for or can we just just do
the we don't have a statutory
requirement to understanding so we're
just advertising it hey trying to make a
big some of these require 30 days and I
okay all right anything further on this
before I ask City attorney to do the
last first reading the
attorney okay attorney evening get yeah
the the lawyer that's two syllables
offal first reading of ordinance 25- 21
to amend sections 122.0 3 12205 12 23.0
6 and 12
23.08% came from a late night of a
zoning board and like he does in his
fashion when you call him the next day
and you have a couple questions he says
it's funny that you ask that I actually
have something that I'm thinking about
and so I'm going to let him take this
but it really is um in you know
reflection of a busy year of zoning and
kind of looking at these boards and how
we can um improve upon them and this
ordinance I believe does just that so um
mayor C if you want
Tok you yes so this ordinance attempts
to solve two problems one problem is um
continuity of board members between
decisions that are being made so um many
of our most contentious zoning topics
take multiple meetings so it'll be two
or three months of hearings on the same
property it is difficult when a member
comes on board on the second meeting and
they even if they've tried to review the
record maybe they didn't quite fully
review the record and they don't have
everything in front of them and so it
has made we we've had several instances
where it's been a little bit difficult
where there hasn't been continuity and
it's not just alternates or or full-time
members it's just simple continuity
between boards so the way this tries to
address that is to lessen the number of
alternates so we're ratting down from
from Bap to two alternates as opposed to
four and two alternates on architectural
as opposed to three
we initially talked about just getting
rid of alternates but the reality is we
have alternates that are serving today
who are productive members and our F
potential future full-time members and
instead I think what we're talking about
is like kind of
overtime transition away from alternates
we're not required to use alternates so
my intent would be to transition away
from alternates over time the second
thing it accommodates is the way the
wording is currently for votes it's that
for bap four votes of the board
membership and attendance is required
now it's a seven member board so a
quorum is four members right yeah okay
so if four people show up and have a
quorum because three people had
something else going on or whatever all
four of them have to vote affirmatively
for for a hearing which is really in my
opinion unfair that's probably not the
right legal word to the applicant
because the applicant shows up and now
they're in a pressured position every
time this happens where there notified
just so you know you need unan unanimity
on this decision or else it
fails so you can table if you want to
well some applicants might have a slam D
case but they just feel like oh gosh I
don't want to risk it so I get tabled
you get
tabled you then have your project
delayed by 30 more days not the end of
the world but not friendly to applicants
we we don't want to be friendly to
applicants to the to the compromise and
compromise the process like to the
detriment of the process but it doesn't
have to be like that so the way that
this is worded is that a majority of the
board membership in attendance so if you
if you only had four members in
attendance that would be three votes if
you had five that would be three votes
but at least you have a situation where
the applicant is not subject to this
sort of bizarre risk Matrix that they
have to think about on the fly when
they're presented with it and it often
is on the fly it could be like I had to
take my parent to the hospital or
whatever I mean it's just like you know
last minute stuff that could pop
up I want to be fully transparent that
when we went through this
process back in
2016 the the Planning Commission at the
time felt strongly that they wanted to
keep this language so we're going to
have to socialize it with them again uh
with some of this rationale because they
are part of this process they do need to
uh have some input on it and there does
need to be a public hearing associated
with this formally for because of the
zoning change same thing with airb same
idea so it's down to two alternates
they're five members and it just changes
it to majority of the board membership
and
attendance and it's I mean it makes it
consistent with the way this Council
operates that's what I was gonna say you
have to have four council members
president and three of the four vote on
the thing it it passes so we've had so
many situations this year as a council
where we've been put in these same
situations and and being a part of those
meetings and watching things until 2
a.m. and knowing that night with those
big decisions and Alternate was there
not that they weren't completely capable
but I want everyone on Council to think
of the times that we have been at
multiple meetings this year and also
been tasked with a lot of new things or
um you know um constantly being brought
up to speed on something that was all of
a sudden very important and I think that
we can really resonate with those boards
and what they um have gone through and
been through because we've done the same
and so just reflect upon that when
you're looking at this ordinance um I
think that this is something that's good
that came from all that time and work
that they've put into um and all those
hours I think this is going to make the
boards um stronger and more efficient
and I think it's a great way to also um
help the resident for their time and and
you just to riff real quickly on that
you might you might expect that in a
situation where you have say a a
contentious zoning hearing you've got a
meeting coming up staff is trying to
organize who's coming and who's able to
come all first email always goes out to
all the full full board members they
find out that four of the five can
attend and they know that the alternates
weren't present at the last meeting they
might say and they have a discretion to
say you know we're not going to try to
fill this board just because we want to
fill the board we want to fill the board
with people who were at the last hearing
have the information on hand and two
things happen you get a better decision
and secondly you don't necessarily go to
2: amm because you're not re-educating
people who hadn't been to the meeting
before so that's the
logic the wording of section B under the
second part if I'm reading that
correctly your change doesn't make any
difference because of the last sentence
it says fewer than three so constituted
denial so if three is a is a quorum you
still need all three good
point so you needan to need change both
of those or something man our legal
review did not catch that no it did not
fewer than three affirmative votes shall
constitute a denial should go away
because that's really bad wording now
that I look at
it okay we will look at that all right
any more conversation about this another
reason
Mr was it
was was
there so was there
any consideration to make the
requirement of the alternates to
attend every
meeting or to have alternates at every
mean tree and public garden commission
they have there are alternates regularly
attend the meetings alternates are
encouraged to and they often do I think
the difference is the tree Public
Gardens commission meeting typically is
very predictably between four and six
and it's done whereas not typically yeah
it's been an atypical no they are
not no they are not we had
two like improbably and unbelievably two
months in a row where beap went to you
know two or 300 am it's hard it's sounds
ridiculous saying it now but that's
that's what happened and that's not good
for anyone that's not good no and I
don't it's good for the city I mean I
don't think it's good decision making is
not made post a certain time of the
night speaking of which shall we move
forward yes any more questions about
this one I I okay yeah well I just want
another thing we're looking at with
those boards I'll forget
is scheduling a a kind of rollover date
so you hit like 10 or 11 o'clock yes
that would be so nice and you have a
rollover date and it encourages them to
get their business done and it also
gives them some really everybody's brain
gets tired after a certain amount of
time and I don't think it's healthy for
anyone and more importantly the city and
residents sometimes are paying for
attorneys and so they're paying for
those attorneys longer as they're
waiting I mean there's a lot of lot of
Dynamics yeah yeah and that makes
afterwards
yes all right I'm understanding that
there's no action on the tabled
ordinance um and so that we can please
move on to our um committee updates and
we will start off upates pardon me you
said the very short committee updates
yes so we'll start with Kingler who
Recreation and Parks committee nothing
to
report we love Kingler Judiciary and
strategic
committee um two quick things as
president fible mentioned at the
beginning at our next meeting at 6
o'clock I'm going to be bringing Dr
Jason fine who is bexley's new
superintendent um he's going to be with
us uh just a bit of time because he's
got another important meeting at 6:30
but I'd love for you all to meet him if
you haven't already
um I had the pleasure of interviewing
him along with the other superintendent
candidates and he was fantastic and then
second as mayor Kesler mentioned the
Bexley Pride group is putting together a
community crosswalk painting you saw the
um rendition up on the mayor's report um
on June 3rd I now at 7 pm. I invite you
all and really encourage you all to
please consider attending we're going to
have rainbow snacks chalk art bring your
your shirts bring your Tut get wild get
fun and uh celebrate with our community
that's all I have thanks Monique um
moving on to Mr Sharp service
environmental
committee well um this relates a little
bit back to uh Judiciary and strategic I
just had a question for Mr official it
related to one of the residents comments
at the beginning of the meeting as far
as um council's ability to
um plan for
contingencies
um for any issue that might come to
council either after
an an appeal is heard at a a county
level or if there are um negotiations
that might need to be made prior to um
something going to appeal as a city what
we could talk
about um either an exective session
relating to land or legal
cases well well first of all I'm trying
to be nebulous but not yeah I hear you I
understand absolutely um the first of
all I think I think the answer will be
easier there will be more detail to the
answer to your question after the cic
meets on Tuesday I think um uh because
really the
ball's mostly in their court but not
exclusively and then the next part of
that I would say is again if cic if if
if if a determination is made that
nothing can happen with this we're done
it's a done deal and the and the appeal
is dismissed then I think that there are
some things that city council can
discuss whether in open session or or or
private session or executive session
will it'll it'll be easier to answer
that question the other part of it is
though if the appeal is pending and
there is a desire to discuss you know
while the appeal is pending how could we
maybe move forward with some things that
would be have to fall within Catherine
Cunningham's Bailey wixon she's
representing the city on that appeal and
clearly you can Council can go into
executive session to consult with their
attorney on pending litigation um which
would apply in that situation but again
think we'll know a lot more be before
the next council meeting we might and I
want to be careful about that because
remember the the ball is in the cic's
court for some of it but the property
that's actually under appeal is not
that's exactly right in any way by so
you've got a private developer with a
contract on a site that we actually
don't even know the details of so it
could continue past anything we talk
about next week and you know we we so I
just want to temper expectations in
terms of what we might know
so we need to be guarded until until
we've heard further from from our City
attorney on our conversations relating
to these developments because because
there's a third party involved I don't
want the city to
right Terry and miss any opportunities
that otherwise might have been available
but you also because there's a third
party involved we can't we have to be
careful about not stepping on their
rights that they have and again so I I
think I I think the the we hopefully we
know more in two weeks but the mayor's
right we may
not okay um Richard do you have anything
further for your
committee I don't believe
so that's a
no Troy anything for finance committee
Mr
Markham no Jen Robinson safety and
health committee I do have a quick
update um on behalf of the juneth
planning committee I have a super
exciting announcement that we have
entered a partnership with the Frederick
Douglas Family Institute um out of
Rochester New York and we will be
presenting to the community uh the
Wednesday before our juneth observance a
um a community conversation on the life
and work of Frederick Douglas um this is
super exciting um this partnership is
one that I see ongoing um that will will
live beyond this year's observance of
juneth and um I'm super super excited
thank you to Mana Williams who knows
everybody how is that possible um but
she is she's amazing and has been
working hard even though she no longer
works in the city of Bexley anymore
she's in Montgomery Alabama so she's
working from all sides of this but we're
super excited to present this um and
then my only other shout out is um
please for anybody who's interested in
getting more information on what we're
actually doing for juneth which is super
exciting um please visit vex.org
juneth um because it would take me about
a half an hour to go over everything
that we're doing and the time no bill go
go get a glass of water put your feet up
let's talk um so anyway um please um or
or email me and ask I'm happy to share
with you it's going to be an amazing day
and we have Buy in from so many
wonderful organizations and people from
not just Beckle but all around um and a
our big um MC for the day is none other
than Senator Hershel Craig who has been
instrumental in um passing or presenting
legislation at the state level to make
juneth um a Statewide observed holiday
so um that's it for me for now and uh
stay tuned or that presentation by the
way that Frederick Douglas presentation
is on June the 16th at 7 um which is
also a tree and garden commission
meeting but fear not the library is
going to be working with us to sponsor
this one so we don't have to share the
zoom
account and potentially not get on the
meeting when we need it so uh that's it
thanks guys thanks for all your hard
work um for our for our community j s
zoning and development committee yes
real quick uh the Bap which we were just
discussing meets this Thursday at 6
o'clock hopefully it's a short meeting
for them and then um next Tuesday as
we've discussed tonight the cic will be
meeting at 6 p.m that's it thanks Jess
uh that's it I forgot to mention in my
report that the Drexel is opening this
weekend popcorn in a movie let's do it
okay um I don't think we have any
speaker uh Mr auditor just a reminder
next Monday 11:00 Memorial
Day event at the Drexel Circle the mayor
will be intro introducing our keynote
speaker who is rear Admiral Fab a female
person in charge of the uh dcsc and
she'll be our keynot speaker 11 o'cl I
love it and it's beautiful please come
join us it's it's beautiful thank you I
love that thank you for remembering that
I don't know he and and he does it every
year so thank you Mr auditor um I don't
believe we have anyone here for a public
comment no one registered for public
comment is there a motion to adjourn you
don't have to register for oh you don't
but there not there is nobody here
there's nobody on uh is there a motion
to adjourn a motion to adjourn thank you
m is there a second second I think that
was Jen Robinson all those in favor say
I