everybody
we are good to go
ladies and gentlemen
good evening welcome to the Tuesday May
9th meeting of Bexley City Council
love to see the uh
love a little chaos here in the city
council chambers it's good chaos all
right like yeah and as always uh thank
you all for your service to our city
Mr mcpeek busy uh busy evening for you
isn't it very exciting evening yeah this
is just the beginning for you tonight
just start just kicking it off here
heading off to the Newport after this
that's correct would you please uh take
uh the role for us be honored thank you
um fiebel
for sure
lampkey here Marcelino here Arkham here
Robinson here inside
here and then I'd like to make a motion
that uh Matt klingler's absence the
excuse tonight he did have something
come up that he was not able to be here
all in favor say aye aye opposed please
rise join for the Pledge of Allegiance I
pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States
indivisible with liberty and Festus
thank you
all right I forget do we have any
special guests here tonight
is there somebody here that's uh maybe
getting sworn in I think we better bring
a whole bunch of people in here
Chief you better you better take charge
of this situation man
good looking group good looking group
here thanks for coming tonight everybody
all right
here yep we got you all right so um it
is always a joyous occasion for us to be
swearing in new officers to our force
and this evening uh we are swearing in
two of our newest officers and then also
uh three officers who have are rising to
the rank of Sergeant
um Chief do you want to add anything
foreign
[Laughter]
probably the one thing first and
foremost thank you friends and family
who have traveled from all over the
state to be here for this we are so
excited to welcome two new officers who
have lateral from other agencies
um one who I am very very particular
fond of the fact that we have a young
lady from Bexley who is now joining the
rank and file so we're excited about
that
in addition to that we have three
officers who went through a extremely
intense process written tests an all-day
assessment center and these three had
reached the top ranking out of all that
had applied and are now being promoted
the rank of Sergeants a lot of what
we've talked about in our three-year
strategic plan dealt with succession
planning development growth and looking
at other opportunities this is what
Bexley PD continues to look like and is
the future of our agency so we're very
excited and truly appreciate all the
support from the mayor and City Council
in the community so thank you
thank you Chief yes
um and to those of you who just heard
officer wundergrad being congratulated
for being a Bexley resident I just want
you to know that all of you too can be
Bexley residents
the accolades can abound all the
directions
um so we are going to do the our
swearing in two phases we're gonna swear
our officers in and then we're going to
swear our sergeants in so if maybe
officer Wintergreen Schwartz you want to
step to the side here a little bit
and we're going to do a bulk swearing in
if you could please raise your right
hand and repeat after me I say your name
do solemnly swear
that I'll support the constitutional
laws
United States of America
and the Constitution laws and the
Constitution
state of Ohio the state of Ohio and the
laws and ordinances laws and the
ordinances of the city of Bexley of the
city of Bexley and I will discharge the
duties
of the office of police officer of the
office of police officer the best of my
ability the best of my abilities welcome
aboard
sergeants if you could please step up
this is a big big moment for our agency
we talked about it this when we swore in
our lieutenants but creating additional
Avenues of growth and professional
development or agency is incredibly
important to us
um it's been wonderful to witness all of
you guys growing through your career so
thank you for being willing to step up
and thank you for taking on this
additional mental leadership if you
could please raise your right hand and
repay that for me
hi say your name
do some we swear
but I will support the Constitution and
laws well support the constitutional
laws of the United States of the United
States and the constitutional laws and
the constitutional laws of the state of
Ohio State of Ohio and the laws and
ordinances and the laws and ordinances
of the city of Baxley the city of Bexley
and I'll discharge the duties discharge
the duties of the office of Sergeant of
the office of Sergeant to the best of my
ability to the best of my ability
congratulations
so if um if if it's okay if it's
acceptable because of the number of
people and stakeholders first I'd like
to say we got to give our mayor a round
of applause for memorizing the illness
but I think it would be helpful if um we
have each of you bring your family up
and we get a photo with you and the
mayor I think that would be helpful
capture this moment because it is really
a special moment so we'll start with
officer Schwartz and then Wintergreen
and move into our Sergeants
oh
yeah
but they also mentioned
it
takes a lieutenant to take the pictures
I know he seems old
ER
all right
oh really
foreign
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and obviously from one sheep to another
I would be remiss if I didn't
acknowledge your presence your legacy
and now this opportunity for yourself so
I'm Sergeant you didn't understand
how many years of service
um
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Society
foreign
thank you
perhaps
yes yes
you know what we'll do
thank you
come on
you're welcome
hey congratulations sergeant
um
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Lawrence
all right we're going to continue with a
uh
swearing in for our land use strategy
Commission
up and raise your right hand please
I I hope he gets a badge right he gets a
badge yeah come on
let's say uh yeah he gets a scaled ruler
and a pencil
it's pretty good it's pretty good
um so Josh uh comes to us as a landing
strategy appointee that we have on our
resolution uh with the backwards brand
and transportation planning Josh you can
tell a little bit about your background
and then answer your questions at
Council has it'd be great sure thank you
initiative
contracts with Ohio Department Transit
Transportation with net land use the
Transportation
uh as well as contracts with the city of
Chicago where about half of my career
was before I moved back step which
thank you
yeah we appreciate that very much
questions comments
yeah Miss sod
I just wanted to say thank you for your
service it sounds like you have a great
resume and background and it's exciting
to have you join and help us with the
city projects so thank you yeah thank
you
hard-hitting questions come on pretend
it's like a supreme court nomination
sort of thing nothing okay
okay Josh thank you so much
I I mean you you guys said it already
but your background is incredibly
impressive and what is really neat about
our Landing strategy commission
membership as it is shaping up is just
the real Rich cross-disciplinary skills
and intelligence that are in that so
thank you for agreeing to join and be
part of it appreciate it
Superman uh
love it I support it
thank you
it's easier than dealing with counsel
yeah
third guest uh indulge me just a little
bit I uh you guys know that I get to
really spend a lot of great time with uh
college students and one of the things
I've started doing this year is running
the internship program for Ohio State
and it's just all these great kids that
are doing uh internships and all
different parts of government uh Jordan
Jordan Whitney Way come on up here uh
one of the students that was Cheryl
Brown's office this year and just ended
up spending a lot of time uh together
this semester uh talking a little bit
about Bexley city council and and he
said he goes I would love to come check
out you know Bexley city council and say
hi to people and I said well definitely
come in and uh definitely make sure that
microphone is on
because you're going to want to hear
Jordan's voice because he's got like the
best boy I got to start out start out
deep here then yeah that's right yeah me
me too Jordan yeah well
um just for the record uh Mr Markham he
uh told me right before I had to get a
little bit of a speech uh introduction
here so uh I appreciate you said
something before me there but uh um yeah
so as it says on the the thing uh
itinerary there I'm with the U.S senator
Sherrod Brown's office this semester on
the legislative intern and I'm not here
officially
um you know don't get me in trouble
um but I'm sure he would be very happy
to see uh the The Honorable
um esteemed proceedings of this Council
the swearing-in and um yeah and like Mr
Morgan said I just wanted to see local
homegrown you know quality government in
action and uh you know I've been
learning about it for a long time and
it's an honor to be here so I appreciate
that but of course my main reason is for
being here is that I promised Mr Mark
mccuppy my book
um I accidentally gave it to Senator
Brown when I met him uh the second time
that at that time but he gave me his
book anyways I want to be a man of my
word and I signed it to him here but
thank you I appreciate that um
you can sit around for as long as you
want or as little as you want and Jordan
has gone to uh Louise Valentine's uh uh
uh yeah group now right yeah so find
time job um so it's a temporary 10-week
thing with this possible possibility for
extension but yeah lead to Ohio uh get
involved in local or democrat politics
sunkar hooks into him pretty good oh
yeah yeah wait Jordan before did you say
that was your book that you just gave oh
what's your what's your book about
um if I can plug it real quick yeah yeah
so uh my family member invented
synchronized swimming and
so I wrote her first official biography
we don't you know what we you know it's
you're born
they have they used to have soloist
synchronized swimmers and so they're
synchronized to the music music that's
right that's cool that's amazing but uh
yeah so I wrote that book um in 2020
that came out after five years of
research and then the pandemic hit and
I'm like well I'm not just gonna sit
around twiddle my thumbs I can go back
to school for political science and then
uh a few years later I met Mr that's
very cool
thanks for asking isn't that great thank
you yeah thanks for coming
make sure it appears on your disclosure
next year
too late I already filled out my
financial disclosure
um do we have any comment uh slips
no speaker slips all right
uh for the president's report just a
couple of things I did want to mention
that uh we did have the first meeting of
and I probably don't have the name right
but the naming rights
committee
anything something like that yeah the
first ever meeting in the history of
Bexley and as this is you're the parks
and there are a lot of uh you know we
had Jim Wilson in here and we passed
that uh that ordinance to create this
this group or whatever so that's a lot
of fun I think it's pretty interesting
and it'll be really neat to uh to be
able to to see that in Action a lot of
great people as well I was uh
you know a few years ago I was on the
city council and I was a little bit
alarmed at the time to see that we made
the Columbus monthly it was a article
that was a little you know
salacious and then I was frightened to
death when I heard that we had made
Columbus monthly again this last month
and I ever heard there was even talk of
murder and stuff like that in it but it
turns out it was just
Natalie uh Natalie's book came out last
week she's featured in the Columbus
monthly
and uh
yeah
great great picture of her outside of
Eastland Mall she was uh right yeah and
I I am reading the book
good book
uh one other thing uh I I will pass on
to you because I I told him I would uh a
little more student type stuff on um
Friday and Sunday we had graduation
rehearsal and graduation and then I went
into work the lines and so you get these
groups huge groups of students in there
in this hot sweaty space and you put
them in order and then you send them out
into the stadium to to graduate or
whatever and I had this I had this great
guy named Maxwell and the head of my
line so Maxwell uh got extended face
time with me which you can imagine what
a great experience that was for him but
uh as we were there was spending that
time you know he was asking me what I
did and and I mentioned I just wanted to
say I said well you know I'm elected
official in Bexley Ohio and he says
Bexley Ohio and I said yeah he goes he
goes I've been to Bexley and he said uh
and he said
you guys have some amazing Park spaces
in Bexley and I was like and I was like
wow I said well this is you're the parks
and uh he said he said make sure you
tell them how impressed I was so little
college guy just came out right there
Maxwell's going to dental school so I
got a good feeling about him
City attorney report I I have no report
this evening although I do want to know
is the air conditioning off on purpose
in here or is just broken
usually it's freezing cold
okay
um it's fine I'm just kidding lorian is
in charge of the temperature right now
well we're in trouble then anyway it's
fine no reports uh City auditor
um just two two quick updates
um one I do continue to do a very
enjoyable monthly audit of invoices
um so just want to rest assured that
looked at four invoices and confirmed
that they all followed policies and
procedures so no concerns
um and then the second thing which is
super exciting for me is that um you
know as you know we have
um uh plethora we'll say of of cash and
Investments within our portfolio over 25
million dollars and with the rising
interest rates
um many of our investments are maturing
at very low rates so quarter of a
percent and they're being placed back in
new Investments at over five percent
which based upon some of the renewals
that's about 60k of additional interest
income over the year so nonetheless
um you know that as these Investments
mature we're putting them back into
higher higher yielding Investments
um that will help out the financials so
certainly if you have questions about
that or more interest just let me know
it's great to hear
more
all right Mr Mayor will you take us
through the administrative update uh yes
thank you uh
president Markham we're going to start
here with uh Mr Hale with the finance
department Beecher do you have anything
to report
this evening next Friday or next council
meeting was we'll have up data Finance
reports
any questions for Beecher
all right one of these days we're going
to fix finally the audio incoming off of
Zoom when we fix some other things one
thing at a time it's all good thanks
Peter thanks man appreciate it bye
uh police department update Chief Lewis
nothing to answer
any questions for the chief
it's not a question but but Chief I just
wanted to say thank you to you and to
Lieutenant overly for coming to uh last
week's Iris event for the Bexley Women's
Club I know that our 50 plus members
really enjoyed interacting with you and
getting to know you uh and I know that
there's a a variety of Civic groups that
have some of us sit on so if there's
opportunities to get you and other
officers further engaged in the
community
um I'm talking to the council members
when I say that please let the mayor and
the chief know but thank you so much for
taking time out of your schedule and for
for visiting with us thank you for the
invite and we will always accept those
any other questions for the chief
masad I was just wondering if you could
highlight for a Super Saturday and what
that's all about program so um what's
going to happen officer Vermont and it's
a Saturday we've established in August
um it's going to be he is in uh Eagle
Scout and is very heavily involved and
so he's going to be working with the
young man in the Boy Scouts in that
particular space and so um he's actually
created some special certificates and
we'll really be working closely with
them so we've captured some of that in
in the report and uh but he is very very
passionate this is really the first for
us as well as the Boy Scouts to be able
to do this type of initiative and we're
going to be sharing that more on social
media as we get closer
any other questions for chief I was um
just going to say Chief as that as it's
you know getting started kind of like
piloting I'm sure that'll gain some
awareness and maybe some participation
from the Girl Scouts as well after that
takes off because we have a pretty
um
very involved um fifth grade and under
uh Girl Scout program here in the
community too so
um great job look forward to hearing
more thank you thank you
um just checking who's next technically
on the agenda uh Mr Price
here
thank you mayor
um no further report other than the
written report but happy to answer any
questions
for Mike Lauren
um
my street was flooded with students
coming to the mansion to have the
pictures taken and it wasn't
there were a lot of vet
sleeping wrong
Pickerington people came from the
contest Villa there were kids from all
over Central Ohio coming to our gems are
our our mansions
I just wanted to share that with
everybody because I kept asking kids and
only once their problems
yeah
anyway I just thought you all would
enjoy that little
because I kept asking yeah
no it is it's it's great that we have a
place that's so sought after I will say
it makes it difficult when we're trying
to rent the building on Saturdays
um so there's a balancing act there that
we uh we try to deal with but it's it's
it's always nice to be a place that
people want to be so that's a good thing
but just to comment on that as somebody
from out of town Pickerington actually
came by to take pictures and they
actually work in Baxley but they had
never been over to Jeffrey Mansion but
they were here for prom pictures and
they were asking about renting the
facility out and Etc so it's also a
pretty good marketing opportunity so
there's two sides too
graduation parties come on over
like I I just wanted to give you and
your staff Kudos I saw the impressive
hiring numbers for the summer for summer
camp and the pool and all that and I
know you've been working really hard
um it's great to see such strong numbers
and I wish you a lot of success this
summer no I appreciate it we're very
excited about it we appreciate the
support from from Council as we've had
discussions about increasing pay rates
for seasonal staff I think that's
obviously been helpful and we've been
very proactive in trying to uh with the
hiring event that we had at the senior
center and some other things and it
seemed to have beared some fruit so
we're excited about that for this year
and we feel good about where we're at
right now obviously as we've discussed
in the past
having numbers is is somewhat different
than having people committed to a
certain number of hours but we feel like
we're in a really pretty good position
at this point so thank you appreciate it
I'm going to share a quick story here
with Mr Price and Council for approving
that last year the pay increase so I ran
into a new 15 year old and the community
that I've known for a long time who was
very proud to say he's going to be a
lifeguard this summer and that the pay
was he's very excited about the pay and
that's what got him there and then time
and a half for swim lessons he's gonna
look to do that as well so
um we're doing good things that he's a
great young man and he'll be great to
have on staff and
um it so good job to council for
approving that when we did because it's
going to pay off this summer to get good
uh kids back out there in the community
so
uh Mike uh Mike while we have you uh why
don't you tell us a little bit about the
Prototype sign that we see here in the
lobby
oh
oh what's this
what is that thing over there yeah so
this has been a project we've been
working on for I don't know probably
close to a year
in the range of a year
um and uh Ben Goodman I'm gonna mess up
the company's design path design path
um has been our consultant uh along with
um
Elena Andrews and uh we've been we've
been really focused on creating a
uniform signed package for the park
system the mayor has been really pushing
this effort so I appreciate that mayor
for all your work on it
um and so we have
there's a uh a plethora since that's the
word we're using today a plethora of
different
um types of signs uh in terms of what
we're trying to convey but this is one
of the one of the styles that we'll be
using uh the most
um but there's a whole palette of
different signs that we're looking at
and uh we're excited about I think how
it turned out there's some tweaks as we
look at it that we'll we've already
conveyed
um uh and so it's been really nice to
have a uh a show piece to really see
what it looks like get a sense of scale
um and get a good night some ideas on
some adjustments that we'll make and
hopefully uh we we have we have some
budget for this in in this year and we
will
start to roll out some some sign some
signage throughout really it's focused
Jeffrey Park and Schneider Park
um so if you have any comments like
where would this sign be for instance it
I mean it looks like a street sign but
it's showing
so
yeah so
don't Focus too much on the content of
this specific sign in terms of where it
might locate but this this style of sign
might be located as you um maybe past
the north side of Jeffrey Manchester
heading back into the park which would
give you maybe an idea of you know where
you are in relation to the park uh that
you're in what what specific area you're
entering with in the park
um
it may also have rules on it uh in
certain locations
um
but that would be an example another
example might be in the Clifton parking
lot in that area so as you come into the
income into the into the Jeffrey park
facility you have an idea of sort of
what facilities are there where they
where they live within the park and the
sign clearly says no cats yes yes that's
a cat yes that's a cat
so this is like to highlight the content
like the map is just kind of a sample
map the it's not really about the
content it's about the form so you might
see in the back it's this back is
designed to be modular slotting some
things in and out for schedules but that
would be maybe something you might see
more like it's a tennis court so it's
just it has multiple form elements to it
to try to get a feel physically for how
it works
um and then just the overall aesthetic
in terms of just the the color palette
the size
um is is sort of what we're trying to
prototype out in template um and I think
one of the things that you know we don't
think about as residents uh maybe but
like if you were to say to someone just
go to Jeffrey Park and meet me at the
tennis courts right maybe like it might
come in the top entrance they might go
to the pool and they show up at the pool
and they're like well where am I so this
is this is a way finding which is really
important for Jeffrey also very
important for Schneider how many times
have I been San Antonio people well
where's the dog park again and I try to
tell them and they're like wait Aster
they're like there's Schneider is it
Aster and they're like well yeah that's
where it started which is kind of a
testament to our doing I kind of it
tickles me a little bit but it's it's
like the Lewis and Clark directions to
the dog park you know like
um nonetheless I think uh reinforcing
what's in the park is going to be really
important uh going forward with
Schneider as well so and we see that
there will probably be some so there are
you know if the sign package has
samples for didactic signage or you're
walking through the woods and it's like
this is a Wetlands here's how they work
here's what sort of wildlife is here
these are honeysuckle they're not native
take them down
um and so those might live on some
station of Commonwealth as well even
Havenwood the idea is that we're going
to have a consistent aesthetic
throughout our parks with with the
purposefulness of that signage
so excellent work to Mike and his team
it is a it is a incredible task believe
I mean I just the logistics behind this
room a lot
okay
go ahead just a quick comment I love the
little Accolade of the dog on the side
because I feel like it's getting the
point across but it's not lately because
I have this amendment that I'm covering
for Council I've been looking at every
Park that I'm in every other day
um how they're kind of saying no you
know dog or whatever allowed that feels
much better so good job thank you and
actually we even we're going to ask them
to create us it's just a sticker right
now on a on a metal plate but we're
gonna ask them to create a black and
white version of that so it's not quite
so like
glaringly the only splash of color is
right there so we're just continuing to
work on that a little bit
um thank you Mike
Mr Bayshore I believe you are up next
thank you for joining us this evening
Andy
thank you
I don't have anything else to add to my
report but happy to answer any questions
any questions for Andy
not a question but the curbs and the
work on Drexel is looking amazing I see
your crew out there working really hard
I've heard really good things from the
public even some of the neighbors that
live on Drexel and I can already see
Andy that the the path on that street is
really and the faces are already
changing even with the limited work
we've done so far so thank you it's
looking really good I will be much
happier when it's all done but very
happy with the progress so far so
but this is actually just a quick funny
story I have two brand new
um temporary like temporary licensed
drivers and we hit Drexel for the first
time and it was the first time that I
was really aware of his nervous mom
sitting in the house and her seat
starting out to die and we get down to
the end of the street and it really does
it slows everything down and it really
is kudos to the team and yeah hopefully
it does exactly what is intended
thank you
all right
thank you Andy and Andy we're sticking
around for a little longer because we'll
be talking about the um uh Columbia
Police ordinance
do you want to draw our attention to
Columbia Gas Maine is uh project will be
occurring on I think college and
Pleasant Ridge is that correct
we spoke about this I think in the past
because they were looking for
um a facility for a high pressure house
essentially and they're going to be
located in that further south of Bexley
so that's no longer a component in
Bexley of this project
okay
um I will try to be quick on my update
uh Mr McPeak uh no promises I'm going to
do my best first off I wanted to start
this uh my update off by presenting the
first ever year of the parks project
hard hat to our City attorney Mark
Bishop oh
you better wear that every meeting
and also I got him uh and I didn't get
it one but somebody gave this to me this
is a yes in my backyard pin that I
thought Mr Fisher you'd appreciate it
hell yeah
Service uh that is doesn't replace the
uh tool
okay we're still working on it
um you better wear that every meeting
I want to see that
um
for sale free cycle was a hit I believe
in the community Sunday put a little bit
of a damp around it with the rain but um
Saturday seemed to be seemed to do well
uh sorry to those of you who were
playing on Sunday
um I do want to say hold on I'll say
that here in a second a couple things we
have our year of the parks tour and
groundbreaking that are coming up
um on Thursday at Commonwealth sorry so
Commonwealth uh there will be the Falcon
guy did he ever text us back
we're gonna yeah Joe Dorian Falconer
we'll be there
in theory with a falcon
um and we will be taking a tour of
Commonwealth and what's going on there
and then we will have a groundbreaking
of the pond afterwards it will be not
super long of maybe 30 45 minutes total
I think so show up there at 4 30. where
where we're at it Commonwealth we'll be
at the East athletic fields I believe is
that correct Mike yeah
all right okay and then
um
the
uh sorry I'm trying to do two things at
once love your alley Festival it's
happening at Clifton Park shelter house
this Saturday we have our one Bexley
Community Workshop that's occurring um
next Wednesday leave Thursday at the
Bexley Public Library thank you for the
correction whoa whoa accept that and
then uh pool opens this month so hurry
up and get your pool passes I know that
was I was I saw that on the calendars
like seriously this month
um also I've been continuing to work
hard on our strategic plan I wanted you
to know that I'm not just blowing smoke
so uh the plan is underway well well
near completion in the draft we are
getting here to the end of that but um
so I I'm projecting that by our next
council meeting I will have a uh a
completed draft for you all to take a
look at
um
a couple of things here that you can
just read about I believe uh
one thing I think I want you to be aware
of that morpsy is organizing a regional
electric vehicle charger Grant uh we've
been kind of waiting for that money to
open back up again and so we're
proposing several sites here's some
photos from the week Nola is uh
uh oh my goodness this was a happy
coincidence I popped in just to say hi
to the business owner and we were chit
chatting and then Brian Drury walks in
and then next thing I know of course he
was they start just unrolling a tabletop
of food so I got a man pressured into
eating a crab leg it was pretty good
yeah there you go but then as disclosure
thing uh it's not I need to put
more stuff on social media our Bexley
Bloomers did a kick out I think uh the
magazine was there I think I'll be in
the backseat magazine yeah
um Troy already broke the news there's
Natalie at her book launch uh I hope you
guys got to enjoy an Arbor Day cocktail
at Giuseppe's uh if you didn't I'd be
happy to make you one uh I didn't make
that one but uh I don't know you looked
just you looked sad Chief I mean I'm
just trying to be responsive here uh
Jane Baldwin was honored with the
proclamation of the Women's Club she has
been a board member since 1967 of the
Women's Club it's intense I kind of want
to pick you back off what was said about
Jeffrey we hosted the central Ohio
Mayors and Managers Association uh there
last week and it was just really you
know sometimes you see what you're doing
through someone else's eyes and so
having like the Mayors and the managers
come in and just look look at the look
kind of odd as they looked around and
they can look you know it was a
beautiful sunny day and the doors were
open and looking out over the park and
the preschoolers playing in the
playground and there was like just a
picnic happening right very organically
at the base and they were just kind of
like wow this is this is pretty sweet
and I was like yeah it is pretty sweet
um and this is Alex and I uh doing some
dueling walks at the API our trash
talking has been going well
um
and chief thanks for joining me today at
Montrose we just spoke with our fourth
graders about uh they're talking about
the executive branch so
that's my report happy to answer any
questions
drilling or making food
Friday night festival it was great uh
Main Street was hopping on Friday night
um Alex and I cooked yakisoba
um Mike and his team was over at the
COSI science festival uh which was
packed
um it was super successful super popular
uh the aapi festival was packed it was
just it was a great night you could
barely move down Main Street there was
so much traffic I think it was just
people kind of gawking what they were
seeing because I doubt they were just
coming and going maybe they were I don't
know cruising it was awesome yeah
working out the sights nice thank you
for asking
any more questions for the mayor I will
say real quickly the next opportunity to
grill if you're looking for an
opportunity
um May 20th at Ferndale Mayfield
um block party which happens at
Schneider Park where we give away bikes
and do some other stuff
so
May 20th
oh May 24th is
yes that's a yet another chance to cook
out right at the where's that at
3D all right
um
can we get that can we get a microphone
on on the chief there oh sorry yes so we
are going to honor retired Mexican
police officers on May 24th from 11 to
1. we're also going to honor I'm one of
our dispatchers after 39 years of
service she's going to be retiring so
we're going to present her with a plaque
during that cookout also so I would love
to have members of city council come out
and we've got a number of RSVPs already
and so we're actually going to just
combine that
with a retirees our active folks as well
so it'd be a nice um just kind of
getting ready for for summer time
11 A.M to 1 P.M
yes ma'am
and what are we cooking Chief do we know
yet
that's the most important question we've
gotten a requests for burgers brats and
hot dogs
okay that's all right we can do that
you don't do like some homemade sushi or
no
that's a joke
yeah that went over real well that was
good stuff guys and I'm sorry for the
heat in here our system it just seems to
be the the theme here it's not really
responding so
saving the environment that's right
we're saving the environment
thank you all right
and uh turn it over now to the City
attorney Mr Fishel all right we have the
meeting minutes from April 25th 2023 on
the consent agenda any comments or
questions over the consent agenda from
Council
comments are questions on the consent
agenda from the audience
if not uh I move to adopt the consent
agenda
second thank you second by MS lamke MR
McPeak
Miss Bible
yes Mr Markham yes Mr Marcelino yes Miss
Robinson yes this link this lampkey
sorry
and Miss hot
yes
consent agenda passes thank you Mr
McPeak
or me
oh thank you thank Oh I thought you were
I'm sorry
I'm so confused I am going to thank you
in advance for what you're about to do I
thought you were turning it over to me
and said the wrong I am turning it over
to you though all right anyway we have a
third reading of ordinance 13-23 to
provide for an advance to the Main
Street streets Main Street streetscape
Tiff fund from the general fund
repayable over a 10-year period
commencing in 2024 in order to provide
funding for Tiff eligible public space
improvements MS lamke
as this is the third reading obviously
we've covered this in Prior detail but
this is a fun a tiff fund to provide
additional funding for our year of the
parks through consultation with the
mayor and the city auditor they believe
that the appropriate amount is what is
listed and that our city
fund can cover this in full correct over
a 10-year period
wonderful are there any questions from
Council
any from the audience
just going to note that uh and this uh
period of high interest rates it's kind
of I think a great thing that we can do
this and also a testament to the fiscal
health and responsibility of the city
that we are also able to do this which
is a great great thing that's true thank
you uh Mr Mayor and thank you Mr McPeak
I have an action questions I'm motion to
adopt ordinance 13-23.
second motion to adopt by Ms lamkey and
seconded by Ms Robinson
and
uh we do need we did offer an
opportunity to comment
okay
I think you did but
[Laughter]
technically I think I still have that
it's thinking I still have that job all
right Mr mcpeek Mr marcellino
yes Miss fiebel yes Mr Klingler Miss
lampke yes Miss Robinson yes Miss sod
and Mr Markham yes yes okay sorry
um this is a really big deal yes
that's not settled here that's a it's a
really it's it's the next 10 years
program out of our Sif and uh something
we've been working really hard on so
thank you for your support thank you
well and if I could also make a comment
you know there have been in Prior
councils accusations of rubber stamping
you guys really vetted as well and it
was explained very well and you know
it's obviously the right thing to do too
so Kudos all around
all right I guess we're on to Second
readings um ordinance uh a second
reading of ordinance 14-23 authorizing
the mayor to accept the donation of real
property from the Columbia Place
Association and providing for the
amendment of the Columbia Place Pur
conditional upon the completion of
certain repairs and upgrades under the
conditions outlined outlined herein
introduced by Ms fiebel
last week
um thank you Sam and uh do you know that
it's the call to section it's just to
the north of um city hall and um the
idea is that it used to be
a well it is currently an association
and the members that the neighbors that
live on that block take care of
all the infrastructure that's related to
keeping it safe and keeping it working
the way it is
we are going to be they they would like
for the city
to adopt all those needs all those
Services
um and and to actually turn that
property over to the city so
um we are blessed with Mr Bayshore
staying with us tonight to kind of give
us
um a little bit more information about
that so if you would we'd be grateful
sure
um this has actually been going on for
quite a while
um
and I've been able to have my staff do
pretty good evaluation of everything
ever there
um all together with concrete and water
and sewer it's a little over 111 000.
but with that includes new water lines
new water services
all the curbs and sidewalks will be
replaced due to
when that was built many years ago it
wasn't following any of the city specs
because it was private and all the cross
slopes on the sidewalks and driveways
are not ADA Compliant so I have to
replace all that
um we also had a outside engineering
firm video the the sanitary and storm
lines there's one repair we will be
doing in the storm line but um overall
this what the mayor has up there pretty
much covers everything and feel pretty
good about
um you know we have everything covered
and ready to go if this would pass we
would probably start to underground work
um in early August and follow that with
the concrete work probably starting in
late August
Annie may I please
um
tell us who is actually going to be
doing so did this work yeah so the the
water in the series C will actually be
done by City staff
and we will use the same contractor
that's doing Drexel and they should be
done with the concrete work on Drexel
late August and we would use that
contractor to do all the concrete work
but City staff will be doing the water
and sewer
yeah no good question and are how how uh
stressed and strained is it going to be
on our service department to be able to
accomplish this
um we'll be since we have you know a
timeline kind of out in advance I'm
pretty comfortable with it you so you
feel good about us doing this oh yeah
yeah and and Council knows that this is
something that's yes we are going to
front this financially and the neighbors
are going to be paying this back over
over 10 years and then whoever
um
should someone move
how I understand it and correct me
um if I'm wrong Mr Kessler that if if
the individuals were to move out of that
it's understood that this the money will
continuously be paid back
it's something that will be inherited
correct so it's an assessment it would
be an assessment on the property and and
one of the questions for Mark that um
was brought up was
in the there's going to be a time period
between this Origins passing and the
work being performed and the assessments
beginning is there a vehicle where we
can record on each property that there
is a assessment process coming almost
like a a lien but not really yeah like a
lien but not a lien yeah I I'll have to
look into that but we should be able to
figure something another another
alternative is uh potentially is that we
could Mount there is currently a private
street sign there we could mount on the
private street sign some sort of like
they won't like it but some sort of uh
prominent signage that says basically
this the Columbia place has been
converted to a city right away the
expenses associated will be assessed
against each property owner or something
like that here in reference you know
sort of something open and notorious
what what specifically is your concern
because we're going to have the current
homeowners sign are you concerned with
somebody sells in the interim yeah the
concern and it's already happened
there's been a sale that's occurred
recently uh where the there was just
proper disclosure okay new owner knows
about it but just that and it's not
really our liability whether or not they
disclose but just kind of a fair's fair
like making yeah
and I I'm not sure there is for I will
figure it out we'll figure something out
on that blog didn't know
correct or if there's some people that
said they didn't really know it was an
association and that they were in charge
yeah
this is protecting
to that point we've made sure that we do
have signatures even in introduced in
this ordinance from every property owner
here so there's awareness we do
um
I don't yeah I don't know that
I don't know that I've had those
specific conversations but I think that
um the next step after this is still to
get I would like an individual letter
sign from each property owner that just
kind of copied the ordinance
copy the rough estimate acknowledgment
you know we could add to that an
acknowledgment that it's their their
lawful requirement that they disclose
the sharing Financial buyers I would
really like that
um
that's part of this ordinance okay
okay it's written in the ordinance that
we would we would have them sign a
contract with us prior to it that's what
that was I was just gonna say subsequent
owners they will be just automatically
build that assessment right there's or
will they not right they will
automatically yeah you could
theoretically buy one of these houses
never really even
pay that much attention it would just
automatically kick in as part of that
yep okay yeah so we're not at risk it's
more what's fair to the you know future
yeah same did you have a question no uh
I think that was I just want to make
sure before
um we pass this that we have that in
writing from each
um otherwise I wouldn't feel comfortable
I miss sad I I completely agree
um with Sam and Lori and but quick
question
um mayor Kessler can you help me out in
the ordinance and show me where their
held accountable to signing that per
individual residence
so this is it's it's that we would
contract with them
um not that we don't have the specific
language in their disclosure but that
could be a piece of our Contracting with
them it's just the section in section
two
and we're I'm happy to do that okay
um I think that's reasonable
for sure okay buddy
um I had a few questions
um Andy what city services do we
currently provide the Columbia Place
even though as of now they're a private
Street
um even though it's a private Street um
in the winter time we still do snow
removal
um as far as leaf collection they really
don't have a whole lot of area to place
or leave so usually they have that done
by their own contractors
um but pretty much right now just
okay
um and this question might be for you or
maybe for the mayor what monies do these
residents already pay into in the city
that we benefit from
okay so they pay into the
through property taxes they pay the
Street sidewalk and Ally Levy they also
pay through their water ability to pay
the water sewer and the water Institute
or Capital charges as well
um so that was kind of one of our
conversations earlier on is that they
are paying for common City
infrastructure now they
when you have a Pur like you choose to
have a private street it's kind of
analogous to your own driveway you can
pay for your own driveway you maintain
your own driveway
um where this is
I think
what's a little different here is that
you know there is
infrastructure behind the or before I
guess the water valves or water water
where the water meters are so that
there's a lot more shared infrastructure
um they have asked to be
you know a part of a public street so
again just to recap where we've been
through all these many years is through
the negotiation said okay if you pay for
the costs to bring this up to the city's
standard then on a go forward basis and
it's no longer any option to make it a
private Street you can't shut it off
there's no there are no Gates there's no
private private Drive sort of aspect to
this
um then we would potentially be willing
to consider uh accepting that space
okay and then my my next question was
um I Heard Andy say the cost
to the seven homes would be
approximately a hundred and eleven
thousand and the homeowners would
completely cover that cost via repaying
an assessment so there would be no
financial detriment to the city is that
correct
that is correct so it's it's actually
the number is a little higher I think
it's I have 119-ish
let me pull that up here
119 319 and it might be that Andy's
doesn't have the contingency or the
inspection I'm not sure but the in the
number we shared with the property
managers is this higher number
um and
I'm gonna I'm just also going to show
you guys just as an additional piece of
information for you to be aware of this
is a copy of the letter that was sent by
and signed by
the uh
owners
so
mayor Kessler are we able to get a copy
of that and the the uh finances
yep okay thank you
good questions everybody good questions
Lori and I know you almost got your
Master's thesis on this piece of
legislation
because
we did yeah we did have this on the
agenda for a whole year and you and me
and Jess worked on us I remember and I
think it's a testament that we did kind
of persist and redo this and make sure
that we think we've got something that's
Equitable and fair for for everybody
thank you other questions for Andy or
the mayor
or anybody
all right if not that's official please
all right we move on to Second reading
of ordinance 15-23 to amends 6 18.15 of
the city code dogs on city park and
recreational property introduced by Miz
sod
thank you so this amendment is um
basically to help keep dog waste off of
our athletic fields in the city so this
would go in effect for our athletic
fields including Schneider Park
basically where we love our dogs in
Bexley and we love to see them out there
but we want to keep them off of our
athletic fields so that we can run have
our cleats on and not have dog waste on
the bottom of them that might or might
not have happened last week at Wolf park
with a bunch of nine-year-old baseball
players four of them got in my car and
it reminded me of how important this
ordinance is goodness and when a couple
of the Grandview parents looked at me
and said just
um what can you do about this and I said
I I would love to do a lot of things
about this but this is Wolf Park and
it's the city of uh Columbus but
in fact I am working with my fellow
council members to do something on our
local parks so uh I think you're going
to see your runner for Columbus city
council now all right so good job to our
Council and again uh this has nothing to
do with the fact that we do not love our
dogs we have a wonderful dog park that
mayor Kessler's worked so hard on and
the city is ecstatic about
um but this will uh serve us well to
keep everybody in a good place to
Love Thy Neighbor love thy dog owner
neighbor
no signs
they had no cat sign
like a tongue out yeah
[Music]
um any more questions for uh the dog
the dog thing
if not the dog no it's not an anti-dog
Assad no oh no she's got a there's a
social media post she's gonna run for
re-election this year don't throw stuff
like that
that was inappropriate during meetings
but jeez that was a very didactic
comment you know don't you think I love
dogs I love dogs I had to have Mark look
up didactic for me
I have a dog all right let me uh let's
move along okay
um would everyone be okay if we put that
on the consent agenda
or would you like it I still I I think
Troy and I are um Advocates of saying
let's give the public the opportunity if
someone has not seen it yet and they
want to come in so okay thank you for
bringing it up but I think it needs to
have a third reading all right we'll
bring it around thank you
all right first reading resolution 2-23
to adopt the tax budget for calendar
year
2024 attached here to is exhibit a
introduced by Ms lamkey
um thank you once a year we are required
to file our tax budget with the
auditor's office
um so this just does what we are
required to do
um it does say 20 23 text budget should
that be
2024 or am I reading that wrong
no I'm looking at the whereas
that's that's better
hey good news it says 2024 an exhibit
cool and it said later in the in the
ordinance too
okay thank you
any any questions from Council
all right all right if not we move on to
tabled ordinances I'm thinking there's a
chance we're going to clear the table
tonight is that sound possible
um no I think we might
all right I'm all right so I'm I'm
looking for subtle eye contact no yeah
okay
do we just okay
Robert's Rules motion go ahead
I was gonna say a motion to remove
35 22 from the table for discussion
second all in favor say aye aye
opposed same spine all right go ahead oh
well uh so we are still waiting to see
if because we there there are things
that need to happen
um for before let me start this over
the date
says September that it'll start in
September we would very much like to
change the date
um the effective date to be uh January
so that we can do a few things so we can
make sure that we can get the toters in
so that we can make sure that we have an
opportunity for to you know to to talk
to
um some of the businesses to make sure
that they have you know their plan all
set
but before we can do that we want to
make sure that Rumpke is going to honor
the pricing that they've set for us for
this September when we started in
January
um so that's that's some of what we need
to check in on first
um we did have a meeting
um with um like an open house for any of
the businesses that we sent all the
letters to all the businesses the only
person that showed up was
um the gentleman who um uh manages the
Gateway Alexander
um and um
he just felt like he was doing his due
diligence being there so
um
and we did receive some uh
correspondence phone and an email with
some business owners that we reached out
to and talked through and it was really
constructive so we have some amendments
it was helpful for us and helpful for I
think that is there anything I didn't
cover there
um just that the amendments are are
fairly minimal they involve
um
add in a commercial property uh
definition
uh having a having a calculation for
mixed use properties because it was
silent on that and then Mark is still
doing a little bit of research on uh
some contract potential contractual
issues just making sure we've really
navigated all those properly so I think
we have those things that to button up
right there on the final piece in the
screen here and then also just double
checking that our pricing is good
um for January
but if we're feeling good and I think we
will definitely be ready
um by our next meeting be awesome
because we've been working on this for a
while too have it like I was gonna say
Trey was in an apartment when we started
talking about I was gonna say if if
these are if we're going to see like the
first run like January first week of
January
I am leading a field trip out to some of
these places ain't no doubt about it all
right yeah
it's it's not gonna be the other Parks
anymore
that's the spirit buddy we'll get some
Rumpke uh hats and go out and do it
it'll be fine
um the any more comments or questions
for Lori anime or anything if not uh May
uh move to a place ordinance 35-22 back
on the table for the time being
I get a second
thank you Miss sod all in favor say aye
aye aye all opposed Samsung
all right now uh I know
wait wow okay
we have uh heard from all of our land
use strategy people except for Ken Gold
um and I know
we have some options if we would like to
keep this on the table we can have Mr
Gold and it maybe is not going to be
super easy to do that is that what we're
thinking
it would be wonderful to move forward uh
Ken's had some conflicts over the past
couple Council meetings
um and uh if you'll recall he served on
the landing strategy back in 2011.
um and so he's one of uh two members who
have that institutional knowledge and
experience
um
it's neither here nor there but his
daughter Sarah serves on the cic
um so I think you know he's a he's a
well-established very experienced voice
in the commercial real estate
development world and I think would be
great on the commission if there are any
concerns uh then I think it would be
wise to I guess maybe I should have
taken this off the table I'm sorry I I
was kind of just looking are we going to
talk about this or not but yeah you're
right go ahead
I would Mark says we're good I would say
I'm I mean you need to tell me if you're
comfortable moving forward it would be
great to move forward and get more
importantly if anybody's uncomfortable I
think is what I really want to get at a
if not I am going to propose that we're
gonna take this off the table and vote
on it so give me any threatening looks
if you want to right now before I do
that otherwise I will uh move to uh to
move ordinance 11-23 off of the table at
this time
second second by Ms Robinson all in
favor say aye aye all opposed same sign
all right and um given that the uh
information at the mayor has just given
us do you guys have any comments or
questions or anything on on this
grouping
I would extend that no comment I'm just
very excited for what they're going to
do
um they have a lot of work to do it's
always going to be the most interesting
and some of it might be kind of dry but
I think that the amount of talent and
resources on this commission is really
going to benefit the city I think it is
fair to say that maybe there's one
person more excited than you and I think
that is Matt Klingler unfortunately he's
not here to uh tell us of his excitement
as well but um I would throw that out
there as well and extend the opportunity
to comment to the audience as well at
this time before uh I move to adopt
ordinance debt 11-23.
can I get a second so
I miss Bible
Mr mcpeek can you call the role
yes Miss lamkey
yes
Mr Markham yes Mr Marcelino yes Miss sad
yes Miss Robinson yes Mr Klingler and
miss feibel
thank you ordinance basses Mr President
I dare to say there is somebody more
excited than Mr Klingler
when I was a council member I helped
craft The Landing strategy commission
process and then share it and it was a
great privilege of my My Life as a
council member and I am super excited to
see this next generation of talent and
vision and uh help see that process sir
Point well taken you and Klingler are
both a little giddy on this so we're
both excited yeah nice we like to see
that at this time also I believe again
unless there is
some objection or I'm getting that Vibe
I am going to uh move to uh to remove
ordinance
12-23 from the table
second a second by Ms fiebel all in
favor please say aye
aye all opposed same sign
all right
um do we have
any more work to do on this is there an
amendment or anything so yes Mr
President up at the screen is a proposed
amended ordinance and I can quickly walk
you through the proposed amendments
please do based upon the
city attorney's review he he noted that
it should be chapter 886 not section
886.
um
housing officer uh is the correct term
in lieu of
um director which is used in Columbus's
ordinance
so that was a carryover so you'll see
how he's an officer in red in several
places
um and I believe
okay
sorry yeah sorry and there were a couple
because of the change
of this or of this ordinance where
numbering was
changed therefore uh Mark had flagged
that we correct numbering so 86.04 C
0.10 chapter nut section
um this uh section in the original
talked about
uh new development properties all caps
it was a alluding to a
uh definition that didn't exist and
really doesn't need to exist um so it
just explained it anything that's newly
constructed
um
and I believe that's it let me double
check
so a little cleanup but the rest of it
is as it was when we
um
there's housing officer like
I was in Council we're good thank you
the rest of it as it was when we
presented it um Mr Klingler has seen
these and uh Mr President I believe you
were in that email as well it's rested
support of voting on it tonight yeah and
I I really I think we definitely need to
do a shout out to Matt Klingler for all
the work he's done on this and also
thanks to you for the presentation that
you did last meeting two weeks ago I'm
super excited to have something like
this I think it really says something
important about
are um
you know about the nature of our
community about our philosophy on these
sorts of things
um I think it shows our commitment to
affordable housing that that remains a
uh a real a real goal that we don't just
give lip service to that we we are
looking for real ways to make this
happen and and so I'm really happy about
the work that you guys have all done and
if I can just share there were a couple
articles in the dispatch last week
um the most recent one was on Saturday
that focused on the communities doing a
lot which were Whitehall Grove City and
Bexley the other ones earlier in the
week Dublin and New Albany especially
looked terrible in my opinion about
their reluctance to diversify
economically is really what they got
kind of nailed on so this is great so
yes in my backyard yeah perfect timing
but this this I mean again I just want
to share that in case you haven't seen
the Articles and I think they even
referenced that this was coming they did
in the article so I mean this is
phenomenal only thing I think you got
wrong is you list the cities in the
wrong order
okay Bexley Whitehall that's they spent
most time with white dog though sorry
all right let's go room to develop
comments or questions from City Council
yes Mossad I also uh just want to
acknowledge this work it's important and
I'm proud of all of us for doing our due
diligence asking a lot of questions
diving into it and I think it helps
people not just us who are investing in
our city with those who are coming in
and want to do investment projects in
our city know that we're serious about
this and that we want to get creative
and I'm uh I'm excited about this
ordinance so
good work yes Mrs fiebel I just want to
Echo
um what you all have said um you know
that my work with move to prosper
um
by cities like ours doing great things
like this
great organizations like move to prosper
are able to do what they do so thank you
so much it's really really important
I would invite a comment from the yes
please make sure that microphone's on
please tell us your address
Don Lewis 663 you Claire like you don't
know
under the whereas is
it says the city wishes to refine the
affordable housing criteria of these
cras can somebody give me a definition
of what that means specifically
I'm I'm happy to is that a legal
question
okay so chapter 886 which is what this
is amending and I'm pulling it up right
now so I can make sure I'm quoting this
to you exactly correctly
currently has Provisions for 100
abatement within uh developments that
are more affordable it uses the
terminology let me let me pull it up
exactly
that
any new construction property with an
average investment of two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars per unit or less
that still is at least 1500 square feet
on average is eligible for 100 abatement
anything in excess of that dollar amount
is eligible for a 70 abatement so all
the developments we've seen on Main
Street have not passed that
affordability threshold and they've been
to the 70 Mark and the intent of that
affordability threshold was it was a
2015 version of
incentivizing mixed income housing
written by Yours Truly uh trying to be
and Richard Sharp and I worked on it
together at the time trying to create
this idea that it might be a unit that's
a little more accessible to an empty
nester who's not in a mansion you know
um it had not attracted uh it hadn't
attracted any interest for a couple
reasons first off you're like averaging
a cost out and you're averaging a size
out and it would really mean that the
whole development would have to kind of
hit a certain threshold what I think is
better about this approach that we're
talking about here is it allows it
allows for luxury apartments and luxury
condos as long as a section of it has
some sort of affordability so that's the
difference there was there is today an
affordability it's threshold it's just
more of a blunt instrument this is a
little bit more refined and More in
keeping with what the Market's doing
yeah yes please
Constance Lewis 663 you clear
does this have anything or any
um
effect on the lawsuit
that the city is involved in with TCB
the property development on Livingston
would this have any effect on that or
the judge's decision or anything they're
having to do with that it's a City
Attorney question absolutely nothing
it's totally unrelated
okay
thank you
uh at this time I would move to amend
ordinance
12-23 as shown
second to buy it uh Ms Robinson Mr
McPeak please
Miss Bible
yes
yes Miss lamke yes Miss Robinson yes Mr
Markham yes Mr Marcelino yes Mr Klingler
proposed amended ordinance passes
um I will just since we're doing this in
two parts open this up for any questions
or discussion again just before my next
motion to anybody
if not uh move to adopt ordinance 12-23
second second vitamins fiebel Mr mcpeek
please
Miss sod yes Miss lamke yes Mr Marcelino
yes Miss Robinson yes Mr Klingler Miss
Bible yes and Mr Markham yes ordinance
passes thank you
foreign
we didn't quite clear the table but we
did we did move some stuff tonight so uh
time for uh committee uh reports and
we'll start off with MS Jen Robinson
with strategic committee please it's Jen
Robinson um my computer just died so the
notes that I was going to read now going
to wing I know it's it's fine um I just
wanted to reiterate that our next one
Bexley project event is next Thursday I
know we had asked everybody to mark
their calendars it's at 6 30.
um I believe the mayor may have said the
library that's where our last one was
this one will be at Capitol
um but we had a meeting today kind of to
hash out what that event is actually
going to look like and I am I'm so I'm
so proud of the work that's being done
and I'm really really excited for for
next Thursday
um I think
um the event itself will be really great
we are finalizing communication you will
be getting communication from me and
potentially others hopefully but we
really do this work will only work if we
have a true Community conversation about
about our City's history and about
Reckoning with that and moving forward
and I encourage those of you who have
any questions to please reach out to me
or Mr Kessler although I know he's busy
so reach out to me and I'm happy to uh
to answer any questions that you may
have and I will be
um asking each of you to invite some
people who don't normally show up to
these kinds of events we really are
working really hard and very much
committed these are groups that don't
always work together and we are working
together and what we are doing is really
important and the we have wonderful
Parks we have beautiful new signage we
have all of these beautiful gems in in
the city of Bexley and none of that
really matters unless we have engaged
and committed and
and welcomed residents in our community
and I am very very excited for next
Thursday so next Thursday the 18th
6 30. yes
um it will be a capital we're still
working out the specifics of where it
will be at Capital but we will let all
of that everybody know will be in the
communication that hopefully will be
finalized this evening so we can start
sending things out yeah I think we're
sending a special blast out tomorrow too
amazing I think it's at the Student
Union right yes I thought but I just I
knew that there was some conversation
about just double checking that that was
where it was so yes cool yes look for
that and invite your friends cool thanks
to all of you for your work on that
uh Mr klingler's not here tonight he did
not
putting a report with me I don't know if
he did with anybody but he left a report
with me that he just uh he wanted to
note that President Markham was smart
good looking and a fantastic leader and
that he enjoyed uh he's going to enjoy
listening to council meeting after the
fact Natalie did you get all of that do
you should he do you need him to repeat
any of that all right thank you Miss
feil
service and environmental
what is hours
um
please join us on a Thursday please
um we went to the um
Thursday is the day that the the
bluebirds do their thing at Jeffrey
Mansion and they are trying so hard guys
to get a thousand hours this year of
volunteer time saves our our city a lot
of money and it helps us really
um and it's fun to build community it's
a really a good time you learn all kinds
of stuff uh I did my hours this week
um for city council and I didn't have a
single somebody coming but then
we'll keep thinking about this and um it
was suggested that maybe and maybe we'll
we'll give it another month or so maybe
it would be something we did once a
month or some such thing so we'll keep
thinking about it um it was fine I got
lots done which was good
um
if you have time and a talent the bestly
celebrations and events
um group is doing our main event on June
the second and it's basically's Got
Talent question mark you decide and
we're doing adults
and we're doing kiddos and it could be
any kind of
theatrical or or musical or any kind of
talent so
um love to see you on the main lawn at
Capitol University doing that and please
check out all the other things that my
wonderful team has been putting together
as far as we have a great lineup for
jazz in the park this year
um Alex Silverman is really working hard
on our um barbecue smoke a fire good
thing smoking fire it's going to be
great this year so
um parade we're looking for remember
people to be in the parade so be
thinking join us join us to make
um shared memories and build community
and a report thank you Ms sod Recreation
and Parks please
yes thank you
um so this Friday night
um Bexley Rec will be sponsoring their
first teen party 70 kids have registered
um and it's from six to ten and
currently it's at the senior center
so super excited to see how that goes
there's going to be
um Kona Ice and the rec Department's
done a nice job with getting
um gift cards so the kids will come in
and they'll get a raffle ticket just for
being there and they could get an Apple
gift card they could get a um Starbucks
gift card a bubble tea
um they're going to have you know live
music playing it's just it's a nice uh
gesture by park and rec to recognize
team space and opportunity for kids to
get out there and know that it's a place
that they're welcome to be and these
kids are needing that social time as
we've kind of discussed more than ever
and you're really seeing it in the teen
world and I think this is a great mental
health piece to get these kids out
socializing together outside of the
school all good things I'm excited to
report on how that goes hopefully the
weather cooperates
um I got great feedback I had
participated in the Sunday version yes
mayor Kessler who was so kind to drop a
sign to me at the house
um in the yard sale free cycle I had six
people come to my garage during the rain
and then at one o'clock when you know
you could do the free cycle of course
the sun came out and it was beautiful
um but I got great feedback from the
community saying that they love the
two-day option because it gave them the
opportunity to get out there either on
Saturday or Sunday I also had more
people talking about the yard sale free
cycle and then I this is my third year
participating than ever before so I
think that having it those two days just
brought a little bit more awareness
um I saw a lot of teens even wanting to
go out with their five dollars or or ten
dollars get on their bikes and go
participate so there were some things
that came back in my home that I was
trying to get rid of
um but it was great and it's great to
see that event get bigger because it's
uh it's very well done and if you
haven't participated
um in the past I highly recommend it for
next year we have a park and rec meeting
tomorrow night at 5 30
um and that's end of report
thank you Ms lanky Finance no report
this evening
Mr marcelino's Safety and Health uh two
things uh first there I can't remember
if I said this the last time so I'm just
going to say it again there was a Board
of Health meaning that took place a
couple weeks ago uh during that we
discussed potentially an ordinance that
would force those that spray privately
to notify uh their neighbors um putting
that into the code because as we heard
we are not currently going to be doing
anything
um in in terms of uh Banning private
spray at this time until we get some
more information and perhaps another
lengthy uh presentation about those
mosquitoes uh Mary Kessler you look
perplexed by that maybe it was something
else I just want to make sure you didn't
want to ask okay no that's great I just
want to make sure it wasn't something
that's all right I feel like a teacher
you know when somebody's not really
paying attention and then all of a
sudden you know that's okay attention
eyes up here Mr Kessler thank you very
much uh secondarily I would like to uh
draw some attention to office hours we
have Miss Jen Robinson joining us on uh
May 17 2023 uh from 8 30 to 10 30. so if
you have any questions about strategory
or juice specially in general please
come visit her she will be ready willing
and Naval we still have a couple slots
the next floor baking maybe so please
feel free to get back on there and sign
up if you haven't yet
um and I apologize for Lori and I assume
it's just because you didn't have me
hyping up the session for you right
you'll be flooded now so yeah it gets
you happy yeah absolutely enjoy uh
we're gonna we're gonna start stepping
up our blast promotions too or we'll
just sort of like promise stuff exactly
that you guys don't have to figure out I
want to get that I want to give that big
sign out front and just says today only
San Marcelino lorian fiebel and like a
little arrow dogs
that's what I want to say
uh
at this time we invite public comments
on anything yes
literally anything
Constance Lewis 663 clear I just want to
say that we participated in the yard
sale on Saturday not Sunday
and we had people from Logan and from
Circleville we had a great turnout we
had beautiful weather and
um the only thing we don't do venmo or
Apple's coin or whatever that is so we
were kind of old school at our location
but there may be some people that that
do venmo not not at the Lewis household
but we did great and it was the
beautiful day and we got rid of tons of
stuff and we're looking forward to
another one so we can get rid of more
stuff so thank you very much and now
you're on the clock you got a whole year
to Gig at the venmo going
all right any other public comments if
not I know mayor Kessler has real
quickly Mr President I put a cic update
in writing my Mayors update I know you
guys haven't talked about that so just
take a look at it I forgot to highlight
that just a few just what happened at
cic last night oh okay in terms of and
also
um I did note leaving the CST last night
that Jen Robinson was belting out a song
in her car at the stoplight I think we
might have a talent contestant hit a
town show that's all I'm saying I was
like
thank you
at this time I move that this Council
move into executive session to consider
the purchase of property both real
personal tangible and intangible to
consider the sale of property either
real or personal by competitive bid if
disclosure of the information would give
a competitive advantage to The Other
Side by division G2 of section one two
one point two two of the revised code
can I get a second second second by Miss
sod please give us the Roll Call
Mr Robinson yes Mr Marcelino yes Miss
feibel yes Mr Markham yes Miss lamke yes
and Miss odd yes we are set to move into
executive session we must ask you to
leave
yeah
things
hi
I don't think
um I didn't I didn't know I was supposed
to be miked for that but I moved to exit
executive session seconded by Jen
Robinson
aren't we still an executive session
when that happens
I'll share that with all right okay uh
motion to adjourn
same sign