take two I'm going to start the
broadcasting now so you are
broadcasting now all right not
yet can you say we're broadcasting now
we're broadcasting on zoom and now on
YouTube okay all right all
right welcome Council and everyone um a
special welcome to Grant bacon who is
here filling in for
um Mr fishell um this is our last um
November meeting our last meeting before
Thanksgiving um John Kennedy always
urged people to be grateful for those
people who make a difference in their
lives and I think that I have shared
with each of you and I hope that I that
I've done it more than just once how
grateful I am to be working with you so
thank you so much and this year during a
year where we've been stress I've been
stressing having patience and and
gratitude I hope that when you measure
your cup as half full or half empty you
look at your cup and just are grateful
to have a
cup so um with that Mr uh Harvey will
you please miss F yeah here Mr
glangler here M Lamy here Mr
Markham here M Rob
son here miss sad here Mr Sharp here all
right if we would please stand for the
pledge pledge allegiance to the flag of
the United States of America and to the
Republic for it stands one nation under
God indivisible liy and justice for
all all right I don't believe we have
any presentations or
extra special special special guests
tonight who are going to present um
certainly we consider Mr bacon a special
guest tonight and we're grateful he's
here um I welcome anyone in attendance
as well so we will move on to public
comments item number five please
remember that we um are so thrilled that
you're here with us and we would like
for you to keep your comments to five
minutes as we have a very large agenda
tonight and and we would also like for
you to give your name um and your um
address so if there's anyone in
attendance who has something to share
with us about a topic that is not going
to be covered on the
agenda I don't see anyone all right I
believe that we can move on to the
president's report which I do not have
one so then we can move on uh Mr bacon
to the consent agenda AGA
please uh are we accepting the council
meeting minutes from oh we time out
because I skipped over the city
attorney's report you don't have
anything for him do you and we don't
have a report thank you I'm sorry thank
you so
much go ahead from the consent agenda
please okay so are we accepting the 1110
2020 minutes is that it's that whole
thing so he would read the council
minutes and then he would read the um
the ordinates 4820 if you don't mind
please okay
uh and so and I apologize here my first
time through this so do you want me to
actually read the whole if you just read
what's in Black would be great under a
and
under small Roman
numeral three is whatever is I'm not
sure what it is those and those okay uh
so Council minutes of 1110
2020 and then we also have ordinance
4820 authorizing the mayor and auditor
to sign a consent and hold harmless
agreement on behalf of the city of
Bexley with a property owner of 346
North Drexel Avenue paral parcel number
020 d004 317 regarding improvements made
upon and within the city owned street
right away adjacent to Maryland Avenue
introduced by missad thank you so much
all right ladies and gentlemen um is
there a motion on the consent agenda
I'll make a motion thank you that was
Miss sad is there a
second the motion was to approve Miss is
that correct the motion is to approve
okay and there's a second I believe that
was by Miss
Robinson um is there any comments from
Council on the consent
agenda any comments from the attendees
on the consent
agenda none thank you Mr Harvey Mr
Clinger yes M sad yes Miss Lamy yes Miss
f yes Mr Sharp yes Mr Markham
yes Miss
Robinson yes passes consent agenda
passes thank you um the administrative
update um financial department update um
Mr
Harvey I have attached the October
report uh we can go through that as much
as in as much detail as you want uh it's
basically sort of where we expect it to
be there are no dramatic changes to it
um it's not attached to the agenda do
you I don't see an
attachment refresh it refresh because I
do have it because it just came out a
few minutes agoes
oh everybody have it there you go don't
touch it without pot
holders I'll be happy to answer any
questions but as I said there's really
not a dramatic change in this from the
previous month uh it looks like we're
keeping our expenses under control as
the mayor has emphasized many times uh
the revenue continues to come in uh
reasonably close to budget so I don't
anticipate any issues uh as you know I'm
assuming the mayor will talk about at
some point we expect some of the
reimbursement from the cares act funding
to fix some of these issues where we are
short in our Revenue but be happy to
answer any questions because we're going
through the budget tonight I'm not gonna
spend a lot of time going through these
items unless somebody wants me
to please please always remember that Mr
Harvick makes himself very very
available to all of us for any kind of
financial questions and and no questions
to smile and he makes you feel really
good about answering them so if you
don't have the questions today you might
later bill it looks like we're up
483,000 in our income tax and that I
wasn't aware of that so it looks like
October was actually better than a bit
stronger than we expected okay thank you
any questions for Mr
Harvey I don't see any hands um all
right can we move on then to um where
are we I'm sorry forgive me we are I
think we are at are we at wreck uh
Police Department police department I
apologize the chief of police is out
sick today so no uh you can certainly
follow with them many questions from his
update which is attached all right all
right um so we'll move on to wreck
Michael price are you there I am can you
hear me we certainly can nice to see you
sir good to see you all as well the only
thing I would point out is um in my
report is the uh we received a grant
from beex Community Foundation for
$155,000 for the installation of an
outdoor ice rink so we are working on
putting that together uh I want to thank
uh councilwoman sad for all of her help
uh we met at least once and I know she's
been doing a lot of research on this as
well so I appreciate that Jessica um but
our hope is to have uh this purchased
and in place by middle of December and
then hopefully Mother Nature will allow
us to get some cold days and some ice so
that is uh end of a
report thank you Mr
Price hockey moms are happy about that
do we have any questions for Mr Price
comments I don't see any thank you all
right moving on to service Mr Andy
bashore hi Madame President um the only
thing I would like to add to my report
that I did not get on the written report
is um I wanted to
highlight um and this is thanks to the
mayor and Elizabeth Elman um that we
were able to collect right between 400
to 450 political yard signs we had a
truck placed in the pool parking lot for
about a week and those will go to suo to
be recycled um and one more thing I just
wanted to brag on our Leaf Crews um
they've been doing an extreme um job
they've been working over and working
Saturdays and uh they're working very
hard right now all right we know that
we're seeing it thanks so much we're
doing great anybody else have any
comments or questions for Mr
bashor all right seeing none I believe
we're ready for you
sir mayor sir mayor okay thank you um
couple things just to highlight in the
written report um I did want to make
sure that you guys read this section
right here I met with the capitol
president this week one of the things we
talked about among others um first off
the dog park uh the long the
longsuffering dog park concept is moving
along we we have some real good progress
on that and I think our easement is
close to uh getting finalized for that
which is good but also they
um about the their their football season
is being provisionally delayed until the
spring so they've had a lot less usage
of the lights than licensed and if you
are familiar with the agreement with the
city and capital they have a certain
number of licens each calendar year and
so they're concerned that increased
utilization in the spring due to
decreased utilization of the Fall might
put them in a bad position relative to
that agreement so I told them I would
take a look at it once they provided
some usage data for the fall and a
proposed schedule for the spring and get
back to them um I need to talk about
that in light of our uh of the way that
that was passed with our City attorney
just to see what sort of options we
might have might require Council Matic
action uh I'll just keep you guys
updated on that as we learn more um the
rest you can
read uh I think is self-explanatory it
looks like we're going to be moving
beyond granicus here pretty soon in the
next month or two so you can read about
that a little bit and I do want to draw
people's attention to Thanksgiving um
health and safety recommendations from
the state of Ohio you can find them all
over the place one of those places is
the front page of our website if you uh
go to that top Banner right there you
can uh look at some uh link it takes you
to holiday celebrations and guidance for
uh safety and I do want Council to be
aware I'm sure you are already but our
numbers in Bexley have
been high uh in the past month they have
been in the whole County um our rate of
uh incidents is a little bit lower than
the county average but still quite high
and so um we've had 47 cases in the past
14 days on Monday we had a Whopper 16
cases reported it set a new record for
us having said that to be fair that
included Friday as well which was not
normally the case so uh but the week
before we had 12 cases that that Monday
so we've continued to see record growth
uh which means we need to continue to
get this me these messages out and the
sense among Public Health officials
you're hearing it everywhere is that one
of the primary perpetrators to spread is
uh you know Gatherings at people's homes
um and so obviously there's concern
about Thanksgiving so please uh practice
a safe Thanksgiving and and encourage
others to do the same and uh I'll take
any
questions I I I think I saw that Mr
Sharp had his hand up Mr
Sharp oh I'm sorry he did then Troy oh
he did
okay Mr
Sharp I my hand I'm
sorry no no worries at all thank you um
Troy Markham
Troy uh yeah I'm just curious looking at
the covid-19 dashboard I know you
unveiled a new metric last time it
doesn't appear to be there I'm just
curious if
yep so what you're seeing here is our
daily
dashboard um weekly we are showing that
incident rate among the 100,000 cases
that's provided by the cats data it's
the same data the school is also using
so we're making sure our numbers align
and that they're crystal clear so every
week we have that metric it's in the
blast this is as of today confirmed
cases in be to date and new cases in the
past 14 days so on the Friday's blast
you'll see that incidence rate as well
as these other for
metric any other questions for the
mayor then is it okay if we move on Mr
Mayor absolutely all right so moving on
to this new section that I called
everyone and discussed this ordinance
resolutions with visiting presenters so
Andy bashore is not necessarily a
visitor but he's going to hang with us
to present um his budget and so I'm
going to ask Mr bacon to please read
ordinance 5220 for us all right we've
got ordinance 5220 to authorize
Appropriations for the calendar year
beginning January 1st 2021 to confirm
appointment of Mark fishell as City
attorney and to authorize a 2020
transfer from the general fund to the
Capital Improvements fund of $200,000
introduced by Mr Markham Mr
Markham turning it over to you yeah
bringing back the most popular show this
fall the budget here in Bey and tonight
we have presenting uh Mr bashore and uh
making a special appearance traveling
here is Mayor Ben Kessler as well I'll
let you guys take it away thanks Troy so
before Andy starts with his presentation
I wanted to just highlight changes since
the last budget that was presented at
Council we've had two revisions uh the
first smaller revision uh was circulated
to you all on Friday um and it it had an
increase uh on in the payroll for cost
of living um Auditor's account was
updated and then some additional changes
in this budget the largest or most
significant change I guess is that the
capital budget was added to this so that
is now part of your budget packet and um
then throughout the different
departments you can see right there in
front of you and in the in the packet
that you have um miscellaneous changes
nothing that was really much of a game
changer in terms of the overall impact
in the budget but those were the changes
um Andy is going to present uh service
department uh budgets and that spans
multiple uh different accounts and funds
and then I'll present general fund uh
budgets under the under my purview so
Andy if you want to tell me what page
you'd like to start on I will navigate
forth with sure mayor the first page
would be uh page 21 uh my street
lighting account
Street lighting all
right so um if Andy if you want to just
kind of talk through the general purpose
of each account and really kind of short
summary and then you know any changes
from the year prior and then I guess if
as council members have questions uh we
can we'll entertain those how's that
that sound good sounds good um so
council at the the top the Personnel
Services that is all um beer does that
for me um there's actually a small
decrease um but but beer puts all that
together for me um we can move down the
page um and I I can go through each line
item but the really the only change in
this account would be um we raised my
repair and maintenance to the street
lights and lowered the alley light
enhancement um account and the reason we
did that um in
2021 um I have a couple large Street
lighting projects and I want to make
sure that account does not run short and
from what I've surveyed so far the
15,000 that is in the Aly light
enhancement um line item right now will
cover the 2021 uh Aly light
project um but other than that there was
there was no increases everything um
stayed flat even um so that was really
the only um increase everything else
stayed the same from last year
any questions for
Andy on this
department Andy just curious where is
the Ali light project in 2021 in 2021 um
I have a few spot locations to finish in
the South End and then uh most of the
2021 project will um PRI prioritize
Central
Backle okay thanks Mark has his hand up
Troy
a question actually uh preed uh Mr
clingers where where were the Aly light
installations uh this year I'm curious
this year we finished up um the south
end and um Troy we pretty much have most
of the alleys done in the South End now
and we started in the central um the
central we had some right around that
would be north of the the school uh so
we kind of covered those alleys start in
the central um I mean I have a list of
the exact alleys I could get to you I'm
just curious I usually I usually
actually go check them out uh personally
I kind of enjoy doing that so the South
Side you have completed all the way to
the Western border is that correct then
correct we actually started on the on
the west I'm sorry yes we started on the
east side and we worked West we have a
few more locations to put going towards
the west but then the South End should
be fairly covered that's awesome I'm a
big fan of this project it makes a huge
difference I think in the uh in the
alleys and the areas here thank
you Miss Lamy has her hand up
onique Andy I had a question about the
salary um I see that the salary is down
approximately 10,000 from the year
before if that's the case why is oers up
um 3,000 from last
year I can explain the salary part
Monique but as far as far as the oers I
would um defer to beeer on that um the
salary is down because we moved um a
couple of the guys around from
departments we actually transferred one
of the guys into um Street lighting
account that's been working on the
street light and traffic lights and he's
at a lower step in the contract so
that's why the salaries
are but I cannot answer the the O's
question Harvey can you help with that
one no okay I can I think I can answer
it um oh is here beer you want to beer
is here oh can you hear me awesome yes
we can we can yeah you're gonna see that
throughout the budget because when you
have um asme workers in because they've
adjust they negotiated in Li of pay
raises increases in pension pickup so
you're going to see pension increases
that don't necessarily coincide with the
wages in those departments all right
that makes sense does that make sense it
does thank you great question question
thank you uh beer for being on to answer
it um any other
questions beer do you have a question
your hand nope you're just up to answer
it okay awesome um are we good to move
um to the next
page look looks like it all right okay
uh Andy I think we're service
Administration yes sir page
23 so let's just the the comment about
personal services salaries and wages is
is going to be um consistent across all
these
departments um the count notes should
reflect the sorts of employees that are
in there but certainly if you want to
ask more specific questions go for it so
let's let's move to other expenditures
and if there are questions about
Personnel we can field
those um moving on mayor and and uh city
council um and I I can go through each
line item um but again on this on this
account um we we kept everything flat um
I met with Jordan and we think we're
confident you know 2021 um that our
budget from 2020 will will be fine so
there was a zero uh percent increase on
this
account we we were able to keep it
flat questions on this
page all right we'll move
on um we're going to move on to vehicle
and grounds maintenance and urban
forestry which is the best combination
of
things um so this account is U our auto
maintenance and our urban forestry and
grounds maintenance Andy yes sir that
would be page 25 um and this account
covers a variety of um a variety of the
stuff in the service
department
um we had once again a zero % increase
uh the only thing I did want to point
out if it would jump out actually is the
fuel account um it is down this year um
two reasons um we weren't burning as
much fuel or gas when we the service
department was on split shifts and also
the price of gas and fuel um has been
down so far
um any questions I can answer on this or
M yeah universally Andy I think and and
Council we're g to see across these
different budgets that there are lots of
accounts like this where there's been
less utilization due to a variety of
factors covid itself with partial
furlows and less use of fuel and all
that but also um you know we've been in
a we've been in an expense freeze as
much as possible so the year-to-date
numbers that you see reflect an
austerity budget it's a budget where
less has been happening
we've certainly had an increase in
Resident complaints about you know us
taking a lot longer to do certain things
we've told everybody you know it's you
know this is covid things are going to
take a little bit longer we are slower
on our expenditures right now residents
have been understanding of that but it's
not a sustainable environment uh to
provide the level of services that our
residents have have expected expect and
have grown to love so um I just want to
make sure that as we look through this
it's clear that while the historical
year-to date is important it's not going
to it's not a sustainable level of spend
in many of these
departments all right are there uh any
questions on this
page Mr
bore sure Madame President the next one
uh would
be uh State Highway which would be page
31
for new council members um there are
several funds that sort of can meld into
one and the reason they're separated is
the source of income that's coming into
them so there's State Highway fund is
specifically for and it's beer has
described them in these funds for State
highways and so portions of Auto licens
tax and gasoline excise and license tax
are allocated to that fund specifically
for the State Highway and then there
will be other funds with different
allocations just to describe and explain
why these funds exist the way that they
do questions on this one well we're on
now so P page
31 um Andy you want to talk about this
is a pretty straightforward expense line
item yeah yes mayor um it's pretty
straightforward um our operating um that
is P that is only used for you know
basically our rock salt and gravel um
and and that's sometimes concrete and
asphalt but primarily just you know road
salt and and
gravel and that we were able to keep
that the same
also questions
Council okay Andy sure um Madame
President the next uh budget would be
Street Maintenance and that would be
page 33
so this is disambiguated from our street
our alley our sorry Street and Alley
fund and that this is routine
maintenance of streets upkeep of streets
as opposed to capital projects on
streets also um largely funded from uh
Auto and licensed
taxes um anything anything more on this
that we need to explain
and any questions looks like J Robinson
has her hand up
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Jen this may be a beater question but I
I did notice um the 2021 versus 2020
that opers is up 100. 2% that seems
really high um is that taking into
account the uh the wage
freeze uh can you hear me I can yeah
yeah I'm sure um there's part of that in
that pickup but that's one that I'd
probably want to look take a look at
I'll make a note to myself to make sure
I mean we're never going to spend more
oers than we need it's just
automatically driven we just kind of
have to appropriate what we are going to
spend so I will look into that that does
seem a bit high and then
um yep I'll figure it
out and get back to
you thank you
beer anybody anybody else have any
questions looks like Richard does
Richard Mr yeah um when Andy and I met
with the mayor um Monday morning
regarding the budget um we discussed and
it probably hadn't gotten to beer yet
about those that salary in O's
account yeah and to be fair it beer did
we talked about it this morning it's on
it's on Beer's list of things to go
through at least a portion of that was
under allocation in 20 uh coordinate
beer from this
morning all right any more questions on
this page
Council okay Mr bashore sure um Madame
President my next uh budget would be um
The Refuge fund on page
53 any highlights on this page sir um
Madame President the only thing I wanted
to highlight on this page is we were
able to um the trash and recycling line
item we were able to drop that and the
reason um since totor program has been
out for a couple years there's not been
a high demand on new toter or
replacement toter and we currently have
some in stock so I feel pretty
comfortable we are able to cut that line
item other than that um everything will
be the same as
2020 Council any questions on the refuse
fund I don't see anything um Mr
bashore sure um if there's no more
questions on the refuges my next would
be the rodent alley fund which would be
page
59 um before we go into that uh specific
account Andy let's take a look with
council at the overview this is one of
the things that changed in our budget so
if you guys recall uh when we passed the
new Levy we also committed to
maintaining a certain Reserve fund
balance which will grow for several
years and then um as you know expenses
increase that Reserve will start to be
drawn down after like a halfway you know
through the maturity I can't remember
what five years or so and then we start
to draw it down so what changed this
year um that was a little bit unexpected
is that when we refinanced our debt
service we have a one first year kicker
of a higher than the normal Debt Service
payment so you can see this area I've
highlighted here we have about um you
know
$400,000 roughly a little bit less than
$400,000 uh in debt service than the
year prior that is a one-time increase
and in fact in future years Debt Service
will be lower than they had been in the
past than it had been in the past as a
result of
that our operating expenditures which
are the page that um we're about to go
into here you'll see are substantially
lower than in uh the in the past year so
this year we spent around a million
dollars on Street projects and next year
we're going to only spend about 700,000
the reason for that again more Debt
Service being paid but also this is part
of that new debt issuance that is
lowering our debt service costs in
general and it's coming at an okay time
we've we've hit a lot of the streets
that were in in the worst shape um and
so we are we feel after discussing this
that we're able to take a little bit of
a less aggressive Street program and and
2021 allows us to pay that debt extra
Debt Service kicker and then uh in
future years we'll have additional you
know more more funding available to us
than we were otherwise expecting because
of the more favorable debt terms
so Andy I'm sorry I just guess I just
went into your account there but I
wanted to explain that overall fund uh
philosophy mayor I'm very thankful that
you explained that for
me you have anything else you'd like to
add to that Mr bore I do not Madam
president any questions on that
Council let's move on please
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what's our yeah and mayor that that is
all I am showing right now on my list we
uh did we do water and sewer Andy no no
we did I apologize did
not uh that would be um the sewer uh
mayor would be page 50 I apologize I
missed that oh that's fine
um page before the sewer let's do page
44 the water fund okay um actually it
starts the meat of that starts on page
45
um one note that is true of both the
water and sewer funds that you guys are
going to see is we've actually lowered
our contract budget not
because Columbus lowered the rates but
because we have been budgeting too much
for our contracts so over the years for
whatever
reason um in past budgets there's been
too much allocated to that expense and
so for example if you look at the water
contract uh last year we paid out 1.
1458 for that so we're not it's not like
a huge jump to One uh. 7 but it's
actually 1.7 will provide us more
funding than is actually necessary for
that contract so 1.78 this year
definitely it would provided us more
funding than we needed so we're able to
lower that budget amount it has nothing
to do with the fact that the rates are
are going up it just has to do with that
line item having been over budgeted in
the
past uh Richard sherp has his hand in
the air
Richard yeah this was another um issue
from our meeting on Monday that um I
think beer hasn't had opportunity to go
through his list completely yet um but
the on the revenue side the water um
increase will be changed to 2% to match
the city of col us and our water rate
ordinance that's coming up later in the
meeting it's at 3% right
now oh so you're saying it should be a
lower percentage rate be 2% sewer is a
3% increase water is
two good catch and uh Richard I had not
actually shared that comment with beer I
think I I had missed that when we were
talking any other questions for um Mr
bashore or the mayor on um water
Administration uh expenditure
detail can we move on please water
distribution Andy sir that would be page
46 um there are no changes on this
um I do want to highlight the One
account um repair and maintenance
supplies did get overdrawn and we did
have to transfer money
um that was um we had a couple employees
in new positions and some stuff just had
to get moved around so that will be fine
for
2021 other other than that you know
everything will be the same um there was
an increase in personal services um but
that was
um beer could help me with that but
everything as far as the line item and
budget items are all the
same Richard do you have a
question no one one other thing to point
out in the water fund and its entirety
and this is also true of the sewer fund
um there is a capital line item
here uh that ties back to a dump truck
TR and a small dump truck uh which is
partially being allocated to these funds
that are using that equipment so some of
the dump truck and small dump truck are
coming from water fund some are coming
from sewer fund and some of the large
dump truck but not the small dump truck
is coming from the refu fund and then
you'll see in the capital budget when we
cover that where it's coming also from
the general fund so we're just slicing
it up into the different funds that
benefit from the equipment then tell us
what page that is I'm sorry that's page
44 that's the summary a thank you thank
you thank you I just wanted to draw your
attention to that okay so we're moving
on to the Sewer fund
which starts on page
48 48 and you can see the capital budget
there again for
sewer and then you go to sewer
Administration which is the twin to
water Administration you see the same
thing happening with that
contract Andy any comments on this uh no
sir uh everything will remain the same
for 2021 on the sewer Administration
part any questions on on any of these
Pages
Council can move on please um the next
would be the very next page uh page 50
the SE
service the only change to this um Madam
president would be for our residential
inii program um everything else is
remaining the
same
okay does anybody have any questions on
this
page I do want to point out that uh
looks like Monique has her hand up real
quickly the sewer improvements budget is
is like those are our large Capital
sewer items the reason that we've had
limited expenditures here um is because
2019s project was due to be done in 2020
uh it was put on hold that s sessions
Village lining because of health
concerns relative to sewage and the
virus and the fact that when you do
lining there is risk that um there's a
little bit of a uh unpleasant situation
in certain connected Plumbing fixtures
when you're working on that so we've
held off on that that's so we're going
to have a crunch of of a lot of
Improvement projects happening um once
the pandemic is is
over okay
Monique hey Andy um I know that when we
first started discussing um improvements
to our sewer I I believe I asked the
mayor you know the these improvements
they're not going to just take a a
handful of years they're going to take
decades and I think you mentioned that
we've been doing that now for decades
but I think at the last public forum um
I I thought there was a comment that we
are uh maybe increasing our efforts to
try to to move faster than we can where
would I look on this budget to see that
uh commitment to trying to move a little
faster mon that and and first Ben thank
you for for touching on highlighting on
the SE improvements I apologize for not
covering that but uh Monique that would
be in our in our sewer improvements line
item um we are behind on our lining
projects just because of the the virus
like the mayor was talking about so in
2021 we will probably have um at least
two to three projects uh moving forward
um and my plan is if the virus is is
still around that we are going to
concentrate on our storm system because
we need to line both the sanitary and
the storm um and we can and we can start
our lining on the storm system and not
have any impact on the residents or you
know homes so that that would be our
first step is we will probably do two to
three big lining projects next year
that's my
goal and we will update the comments on
that uh those budget comments because
they are out of date
Richard yeah I was going thank you
manique for asking that question because
um the residential I program may also
identify additional areas of City
Concern
and um with our large fund balance we
have depending on the timing and whatnot
we can come back mid year for an
additional
appropriation it's a good point Richard
we have time and the ini program itself
Monique is is further investment
obviously um
right any further questions or comments
on on this can we move
forward I think that covers our service
department and Andy any parting thoughts
on uh your glorious 2021 budget I do not
sir okay um so I'm gonna go into general
fund uh budgets just sort of General
multi multiple different departments
will go in sequential order um beer has
raised his hand so let him beer you have
something muted sir may I think his hand
was just up just testing the system out
yeah oh sorry about that
worries I had a hand up but I had my
phone muted sorry about that no you
answered my question that you were to go
in sequential order because I know you
had me on the list to do the auditor's
office so oh yeah good point yeah I'm
ready to rock and roll with that
so I I'm sure you are so it's such a big
part of the
budget one one comment I want to make
globally that I meant to make at the
beginning of this presentation today
I've had several Council me Members
reach out to me and really press me on
um you know making sure that our budget
is reflective of the financial realities
that are facing us with covid-19 and the
economic Fallout um and uh you know
council president fibel was was uh was
asking a lot of tough and pointed
questions about this yesterday um and
Jen Robinson today many of you through
many of our different conversations have
have said well you know I guess some of
the stuff I've heard is flat spending
adequate are there not areas where we
should be cutting especially in light of
the fact that we see in many of these
line items um you know not a ton of
year-to-date expenditure so a couple
points I want to make about that is
first off um year-to-date expenditure
does lag a little bit so it's you know
that's showing end of September
expenditure that doesn't necessarily
reflect expenses that have been incurred
through the end of September it reflects
expenses that have been paid through the
end of September um so that's that's
that's one difference the other differen
is obviously I'm not going to repeat
myself about uh partial furlows um and
in general you know not wanting to go
forward with certain types of programs
and projects and being kind of in
lockdown mode but beyond that um in
March we immediately obviously saw the
economic implications of covid-19 and we
put in an immediate hiring freeze except
for essential uh positions and also uh a
freeze on all capital expenditures
Beyond those that already already
occurred and to freeze on any any kind
of expenses that we felt we could delay
and so what you see in our year-to-date
figures and it was highlighted in the
October report that the auditor showed
us earlier this evening is that we have
um incurred a great amount of savings as
a result of those policies that were put
into place and it illustrates the point
that just because there's a capacity to
spend does not mean that we will spend
we're going to be uh flexible and making
sure that we're being responsible and
we're being responsive to the
environment that we're in we have a
track recreators administration of doing
that and we'll continue to do that so um
when we look at a flat budget there have
been very difficult decisions made
throughout that budget where we've had
departments that have felt that certain
line items weren't adequate and the
guidance has been this is not a year for
us to be increased in expenditures we
need to keep those flat now there will
undoubtedly be some line items where as
Co continues to impact us we will
probably see lower than expected
spending even in 2021 but from an
administrative perspective cutting too
far down uh becomes a little bit of a
administrative headache because we're
constantly chasing an adequate funding
and new ordinances going through the
three reading process and um it can be
become uh counterproductive uh to cut
too close to the quick if not necessary
and if not necessary is the key here
because when we look at our budget we
are responsibly estimating that we're
going to see an impact to our figures
our numbers which is comparable to the
Great Recession of 2008 2009 um so we're
indexing off of that but going into that
as we just saw we're up
$400,000 over our projection for
2020 uh so we're were already in a
better financial position than we had
expected to be in this year which is
sort of counterintuitive but it is the
reality and in addition to that we do
have car's act funds which are going to
be helping us with some of the expenses
we've incurred throughout the year so
we're coming into this with a good
financial position we're coming into it
cautiously we have the ability to absorb
more than a 5% loss in our income but it
seems like a responsible estimate and so
we're we're we're budgeting within those
parameters and of course if something
changes throughout the year this is
something we're looking at Super closely
and we will continue to Pivot as we need
to I just want to explain the logic in a
flat budget as opposed to a negative
budget because one thing that's clear to
us is that a negative budget would
negatively impact services and if we
have adequate funding to continue to
provide good services to our residents
it's my belief that we should continue
to do that and so that is reflected in
the budget um as I gave that stirring
rousing speech there have been two hands
raised so I don't know if beer your hand
is still raised or if that's left over
uh
Richard I yes before we get into um beer
section and your uh section the screen
that you have up reminds me of something
that might be affecting um the service
department area and that's the franchise
and row fees um that's relating to
additional fees that we'll be assessing
you U ility companies for RightWay work
um and I believe when we were originally
talking about page 33 the Street
Maintenance does that have it remind me
I didn't write it down my notes but I
think we discuss their uh new position
did so in the interest of full
disclosure did you want to talk about
that before we leave this area so uh the
rideway coordinator is built into
uh the service Administration budget um
that is not the budget that we were
looking at with that huge oers increase
although there is a large oers increase
that's on page 23 and it written in
there is the budget note that includes a
RightWay coordinator position um so the
the thought with that is as we go into
small cell
applications um we are going to need to
have competent focused assistance in
going through those right of way
applications and making sure that we're
really carefully and conscientiously
shepherding them um we're able to do
that through a charge back to our uh
RightWay uh permit holders so the
utilities like a Columbia Gas AT&T um
and others Time Warner I guess Spectrum
wow all of those get will get build
based upon the amount of Miles occupied
within our rideway so that is a wash
that new position is paid entirely from
ride of-way fees but um thank you
Richard that's a really great point and
we did not highlight that there is a new
position here in this budget it is a
paid it's a position that's fully paid
for by fees um and it's one that we uh
feel it's necessary to help us navigate
frankly something we could have used all
along but especially as we expect an
influx of small cell applications to
come
in um
another no that any anything else there
Richard is that cover what you were
thank you for um bringing that to
council's attention yep and then uh Matt
you had your hand
up uh I I could probably send you an
email about this offline I'm just more
curious about the RightWay position and
how how the fees pays for that position
is that based on um an anticipated
amount of per of applications and then
we just you know if if a if a if a
position cost 80,000
or $70,000 we divide it up among you
know how that gets paid throughout the
year and how we collect the fees for
that but yeah actually if I can answer
that real quickly it's it's a
straightforward answer it's not this
isn't based on the permit fees like for
work permits it's based on the RightWay
permit as in the occupier of the
RightWay and so we have the ability to
re to uh collect our costs in
administering the ride of way from the
providers that occupy the RightWay so
annually there will be a set t a fee and
it'll probably be something like $10,000
for this provider 10,000 for that
provider and together those figures will
Mount up to uh pay for that position
we've had the right to do it in the past
and we haven't done it other cities Do
It um our RightWay ordinance uh as
proposed amended continues to give us
that right but it's not a new right that
we didn't have before it's just
something that's become clearly a need
um
it's been a need in the past it's much
more going it's going to be a more
concrete concerted need with the uh
Advent of the small sales and bill has a
comment Mr Harvey and for council's
understanding this will probably be a
fee that we incur through the salary
today and recoup later so there will be
a lag time as we do this and you'll see
that as you probably know we get
franchise fees from these guys all the
time and that's how it'll be added so
there won't be a one there there will be
a one toone wash but there will be a
delay in
it thanks Ben thanks Bill page six
mayor's office and City
Hall um so this this budget was combined
last year there used to be a mayor's
office and a city hall separate budgets
it covers
um myself um my uh Executive
Administrative Assistant Debbie and
uh a Front Desk position which is still
built into that and it whenever we feel
comfortable uh healthwise and budget
wise we will intend to fill that um and
then it covers all sorts of various uh
expenses that relate to the City Hall
physical plant as well as um the global
kind of needs of our employees that go
beyond just City Hall
um as you can see that's flat uh this
year some of those we haven't even
touched some of them we have
comprehensively any questions on
that Mr
Sharp yeah um could just beer double
check that uh salary and wage number if
you're keeping a front test receptionist
I don't think that number does
reflect yeah that's a good point Richard
that you
raise we'll we'll we'll check that
and
then uh it also occurs to me Andy if you
and I can touch base later to follow up
on
utilities uh looks like we've used all
of that this year so I'm not sure quite
how that's working but we we'll figure
it
out anybody else have any
questions uh the next page is Grant
reimbursed expenditures um we are
expecting we are projecting $149,000
in known grant reimbursements for 2021
we usually budget around 100,000 for
Grants such as like the ice rank that we
just talked about that come up
throughout the year that we apply for um
and then BC and is the beex celebrations
events team that's Fourth of July in
community celebration grants uh so
that's that's what those line items
represent last year they were a little
higher because uh it included uh grants
specific to Jeffrey
Mansion questions
Council auditor's office is beat your
hell okay um there's not a lot to talk
about here not a lot of changes the ones
that are there um
are um contract professional we kept
some in there in case we need it that we
mainly used it um for um back up when
when Jessica was on maternity
leave um audit fees you'll see that's up
26,000 from zero and that is because we
are on a biannual audit we actually get
audits for every year but it's done by
annually Rita fees I reduce somewhat to
reflect both our um lower cost of
services from Rita and our
anticipated um lower income
tax and then after talking with um Josh
FY our insurance agent down there on for
insurance City in his um terminology the
market has hardened and we're looking at
um uh he's he's been seeing 10%
increases so I put that in there for now
to be um our anticipated growth um I
should put in the account notes for the
future and I will have for the final
version that and our wages and benefits
up there that includes myself Bill
Harvey and Jessica Witham um the
assistant Finance
director and any
questions beer um the insurance rate
that doesn't have anything to do with
the spontaneous combustion of police
cruisers does
it it could it could they they they
don't like it when we do that kind of
thing
I got to think that the Rita fees going
down also have to do with centralized
collection which we no longer have to
pay for thanks to the Supreme
Court uh that could be
um have I'm
not but mainly we've just been more
efficient or re has been more efficient
our cost of services have been down from
prior years so that's been helpful plus
like I said we're anticipating a
reduction to our income tax
um based on index indexing it to what
happened in
2008 okay moving on to City attorney um
Mark didn't want to be here to cover
this one I get it just kidding um I want
to fully disclose that uh Mark does want
to talk to me about the retainer rate
for 2021 he and I have not done that yet
so this budget shows status quo there
might be request there um appeals
hearings that number uh we just got our
bill from the council Matic uh appeal
that was heard recently so that you're
going to see a year to date that does
reflect a substantial legal fee um and
then we've renamed litigation special
projects to outside Council just seem to
better reflect what that was used for um
that is a figure that uh you know we we
tend to bump up against every year um we
try to use uh those funds wisely but we
also benefit from really competent legal
council in a variety of
areas and is there anything in the
hopper that you think that we're going
to for sure need outside Council for
moving forward well so an example is you
know we're we're going to be talking at
our next meeting with an update about
aggregation uh Community aggregation
that's a specialized type of council
that's been engaged and has been helping
us with that that residential Pace
moving forward um obviously Nicki knacky
zoning questions uh tend to feed that
line item pretty thoroughly
so those are some of the things I can
think of I don't have any reason to
think we're GNA have less utilization of
that questions
Council civil service
is um has to do with primarily hiring
expenses that we have so um
that includes sorry hiring and labor
contract so special Council there is is
specifically focused on labor
negotiation um human resource costs
include uh recruiting testing uh
background checks that sort of thing and
they're spread throughout that account
um we're going to see an increase in
special counsel both this year and next
because of uh the uh negotiation of
contracts coming up
any questions on
that okay here's the doo right here city
council
um these are uh ordinance
codification uh operating expenses can
they kind of vary from year to year
based upon usually if Council has
special type of programming or meetings
or that ort of thing meeting
Refreshments special events was
added a few years ago by a council
member and it doesn't seem to have been
used a whole lot but I think the intent
of that
was um additional Retreats maybe or
something I'm not really sure so there's
capacity uh but as you guys can see
we're not we're not using that a ton and
a part of that drop has been because of
the lack of physical meetings ordinance
codification is deceptively low there
because the bill near the end of the
year I just actually approved that bill
so I think we're we're going to be use
using every piece of that
4500 Council any questions on this
one mayor's court so uh you see a drop
in Mayor's Court expenses on salary and
wages as uh seasoned employees retiring
we're bringing in a a newer employee at
a lower
step um um we are sticking with the
general setup that we established this
year which was the use of uh public
defender um
prosecutor uh magistrate obviously
needed um a lot of these are very fixed
costs so we have a prosecutor that
represents Us at Franklin County courts
um when it comes to prisoner
sustance um that is you know a function
of whether or not uh somebody who been
taken into custody needs health care or
uh you know is is being kept overnight
for a period of time so those numbers
are beyond our control uh municipal
court fees that sort of thing um the one
change that's been rolled out is the
fine free court for indigence that
doesn't show up in this budget because
it it would in theory result potentially
in a lowering of an income line item in
the general fund summary for uh I
believe it's under all other but it
would be mayor's Court's fees and
fines one of the new items from this
year we have not I guess engaged yet it
was a victim advocate for misdemeanor
domestic violence cases um I have asked
our prosecutor to Circle back with our
Franklin County prosecutor and make sure
that we have engaged that victim's
Advocate we had already selected one so
I see that there's not been an expense
I'm going to follow up on
that and any
questions uh Miss
lampy B just to clarify under line item
Prosecutor's contract that's only
Franklin County as opposed then to
Mayor's Court prosecutor correct yep
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okay any other
questions okay moving on to development
and Communications office um
this is uh our Communications managers
paid out of this
account additionally uh Communications
and development related expenses so
memberships related to PR related to
development Middle High development
exchange that sort of thing uh marketing
expenses um development programs so
those are our facade grants on Main
Street and Cassidy we have facade grants
that are provided under certain criteria
to property owners who are refreshing
their facil odds income tax incentive
Grant is contractual um good news here
is that while the number is the
same um what's behind that number is is
is fun which is that our two grants at
the Bexley Gateway are rolling out one
of them already has expired the other
one's expiring early in the year um so
we're going to have additional income on
our income tax end um from not having
those grants not additional income but
additional net income because the new
income that's coming in from Ohio State
Bank is in part driving uh the new
income tax incentive grants which mean
that ultimately we're looking at uh a
level uh Grant there I Pro I think that
in 2021 we will probably be less than
$75,000 because Ohio State Bank will
probably not have matured into their
projected payroll number but this was
calculated based upon their projected
payroll number in the contract that was
approved by council tax sharing is
income tax sharing with the school
district from the Gateway
project Main Street Sid that's the
reduced funding amount of $9,000 but uh
we are proposing continuance of that
program
um happy to answer your questions on any
of
this looks like we can move on
Council
technology
um so the biggest change that we're
seeing in general is that our software
licensing costs are increasing and our
Hardware costs are decreasing as
Hardware lasts longer um and does not
need to be replaced as much but we're
increasingly relying on uh software that
in the cloud that's providing additional
Services uh that it requires more of a
subscription model so that's reflected
in these
figures
um you know I think this is a really
really tight budget uh just despite
having been heavily scrutinized over the
years or because of I guess that um so
software licensing probably it's if if
any of the counts that we're looking at
is the most likely to potentially come
back to you uh next year but we're going
to try to work within these uh within
this existing
spend and then there's nothing else we
need to spend to make sure that we have
our
employees capable of of doing their jobs
remotely and yeah so we are currently
working on our phone system making those
more remote friendly additional
laptops uh Mayor's Court uh remote
payment of fees uh we have multiple
different remote Tech initiatives
underway but that's happeningin the fund
uh not within this fund gotcha great and
it actually in part allows the hardware
number to be a little bit lower next
year questions Council on that one on
technology mayor building and zoning
department Jessica sad sorry Jess oh I'm
sorry Jess yes um no problem guys just
quickly just for education purposes what
laurian just talked about if someone
currently has to be at home um with
covid exposure or whatnot do we have
them set up that they have a laptop they
can take home and they can work remotely
we have those capabilities for all our
employees okay yes so many of our
employees are working remotely it's not
you know we've been we're behind the
curve when it comes to our phone system
it's taken a lot of work to get our
phone system to the point where we can
get those phones or a software version
of those phones into people's homes so
that we can easily transfer calls and
all that so we've we've kind of hacked
that together the cares act funds have
been very welcome in in helping us to
get that more elegantly solved and we're
doing that right now great yes we do
that be my next question with if we're
using the car's act fund for that
awesome
yep all right building and Zoning Supply
uh expenditure sorry um so that this
covers our building director assistant
building director code enforcement
seasonal part-time code
enforcement um and one thing to know is
that this year we are uh anticipating
the retirement of Kathy Rose sadly she's
projecting a May 2021 retirement um so
we have a little bit of budget in here
for cross training for a new director um
when the time comes I'm going to I'm
going to be uh probably slightly
changing that job description I don't
know that there's going to be a change
in required salary but I would also
expect that somebody being brought in is
not going to come in at the top step so
we'll talk about that more in depth as
the time comes um you know this is one
of those accounts that that has expenses
that are often largely offset by income
so Contracting professionals is one of
those that's the biggest one that's like
by far the largest piece of this budget
that covers a whole manner of expenses
associated with uh uh building and
development in the city so our
contracted building official different
Consultants such as our landscape design
and planning consultant our our minutes
clerks relative to those meetings uh
legal counsil that are related to legal
council that can be buildt back to the
applic that's not all of our legal
council unfortunately Engineers on
special projects so um that number you
know gives gives the building department
the leash to uh work through the
different projects that they need to
work through and then those expenses get
build back largely to the applicants and
they show up in the general fund summary
under uh building permits so
last uh this year to date we're at about
$236,000 on building permits um
obviously that that might increase that
number changes dramatically if we have
you know larger commercial developments
it increases quite a bit um so depends a
lot on the
economy I would actually expect that
we're going to see less Contracting
professionals next year um so that is a
line item that we could probably cut
back a little bit if you guys if you
guys wanted
to comments questions Council
okay I'm G to hone that I'm gonna hone
that down a little bit after I discuss
it more with Kathy that's on my
notes boards and commissions is Page
17 two changes to this budget um
we are low our diversity inclusion
appropriation um because we had we had
put quite a bit of funding in that for
uh both the strategic planning process
as well as the launching of the
listening
sessions um and the uh Workshop that's
coming up with
um in no is that's not in November when
is it it's as soon as you fill out your
doodle then then we will know when we're
having it but we don't know I'm so sorry
Debbie could you please fill out the
doodle thank you um I'll just punt that
one uh so that uh that will be covered
under that from to this year's budget so
a little bit lower budgeting budgeting
there but anticipating continuing
listening sessions Charter review
commission largely going to be I
wouldn't say largely wrapped up but you
can see that the budget for that was not
needed at the level that we had budgeted
for so drop that number down so you see
a net reduction in uh boards and
commissions there any questions
our fire contract is on page 19 that's a
negotiated contract based upon an
expense passed through with the city of
Columbus uh beer is estimating an
increase of I believe around 5% beer
there's a small typo right there in 2021
versus
2020 uh when we have Beach is that is
that based upon
um actual number provided to us by
Columbus do you know no I'm I'm still
waiting on that
but I see that the uh the comparison got
formatted improperly but uh Mr I think
his name is marberger um usually
provides me with that and I have not
received that yet so I'm just guessing
5%
okay um health department on page 22 uh
Jen Robinson pointed this out to me and
bear forgot to share this with you but
uh our our health contract number is in
in and so we can input that into this
page okay you're showing an increase on
percentage but it's not showing up on
the budget side so that's just a small
little uh fix there should be pretty
simple we did pay another mosquito
contract invoice recently so you'll see
that number year to date continued to
increase any questions on that
okay
um I believe that gets us through our
general fund
General um and then I'm
gonna cover Capital if I
can um and that way we can reserve our
next meeting for any follow-up items
that Council might want to pursue if
that's okay yep everybody happy with
that
yep okay
and actually it's not just Capital it's
also the Tiff funds so we're
gonna we're GNA go to our first Tiff
fund Which is higher up there it is um
that is uh page
63 that's the main street
Tiff so that's a streetscape tiff part
of that Tiff is used to compensate and
reimburse uh Tiff agreements that we
have we have a new Tiff agement coming
online with um Ohio State Bank we have a
tiff agreement with the Drexel and we
have a tiff agreement with the what we
call the Connells flowers building which
is no longer the Connell flowers
building um also we have Debt Service
that's this line item right here 163,000
that's paid it's a 10-year note paid off
of our 2012 streetcape project so that
should be expiring here pretty soon
there will be about 10 years left in the
streetscape Tiff um and so in the next
couple years we're going to be
reconvening uh to examine potential
additional streetscape projects along
Main
Street in the meantime expenditures
within this fund are paid for they go to
pay paying out contractual agreements
and they go to special projects that
occur year-over-year
within uh the the within the Tiff area
within the Tiff allowable
um sorry within Tiff allowable
expenditures so an example of that is a
there's a staircase that's going to
connect schider park that's um we're
encumbering from our current Tiff year
um that staircase is going to connect
that trail from Main Street down to
Schneider Park there's you know the
pocket park that was recently
refurbished next to the Drexel came out
of the Tiff so projects like that get
funded through uh the Tiff expenses line
item as well as reimbursement to mrj
Drexel and then now Ohio State Bank the
increase here is due to an increase in
Tiff revenue and in and due to the Ohio
State Bank contract having been
executed any questions on
that Mr Markham
Troy yeah I guess so when I see the Tiff
revenue and it stays completely flat but
you're telling us there will be an
increase in Tiff Revenue um and we have
some going offline and new ones coming
online so why is that flat
so it's it's not it's this is an
adjusted budget for 2020 um if you
actually look at the copy of your budget
you got last week you would have seen a
tiff revenue for 2020 budget of
270 something I think 279 is what it so
beer adjusted this based upon our actual
receipts
3041 22 so we had just not been raising
that Tiff Revenue budget line and we
just did in this current version to show
that we are receiving more in receipts
than we had been budgeting
for and then we have that Ohio State
Bank agreement coming in and so we're
providing additional capacity through
that uh line item as well does that make
sense kind of it it still seems like
there would be a more of a dramatic
difference there I see that you made an
adjustment but even with the adjustment
what we would be what we'd be budgeting
for would be different right yeah I
didn't budget so
the hope is that we're also acre some
money in that fund and in fact we have
been um the prior year encumbrances here
I'm not sure what that looks like beer
and I need to explore if any of those
need to be released for example so um
yeah you're right it's not dollar for
dollar we we are bringing in more money
than we're increasing our spend yeah I
guess so I'm just curious how that
breaks down the differences between
those going offline and the new ones
going coming online and you say that's a
net uh positive increase into that tip
yes
yep
okay and then we have our second Tiff
which is the city hall Tiff that's
that's a tiff that was created
specifically for redevelopment of our
city hall it is on the Giant Eagle
parcel only um it's a bigger it collects
a lot more Revenue because it's a
schools are part of that so the schools
are partied to that
Tiff um from that we pay uh our debt
some of from some of that we pay our
debt service for the city hall
Redevelopment but as you can see it's
contributing a lot more back than just
paying Debt Service on City Hall
Redevelopment so last year we put a
placeholder in here
potentially if you'll remember that if
we want to pursue that Senior
Center that would be a place where we
could pay for Debt Service from a senior
center from so there is additional
capacity within that Tiff for a special
project that's still of theory there
might be other special projects but this
is a pretty permissive Tiff it can be
used for a wide variety of City uh
projects um they it can't be ongoing
expenses it needs to be like a capital
item um and then the school district
pilot that's the school district payment
in Li of taxes what that is is a certain
portion of the Tiff revenue is due back
to the school district it gets paid out
of that uh line
item Richard
so the uh the placeholder for the senior
center Debt Service um is that going to
remain encumbered so there would
actually be a 100,000 out there or is
that rolling off and just continuing
with 50 so our fund balance will go up
at the end of this year by the unspent
50,000 it's um it would probably roll
off there is uh I do want to maintain
that in case we have any overage in the
Jeffrey Mansion project that could be a
potential source of funding for that
just short term so and if so I'll let
you guys know about that so right now
obviously I'm not planning on spending
it for a senior center Debt Service and
also not intended to carry it forward
for senior center Debt Service it would
just be an acral in the account
otherwise but I I am it is a potential
emergency relief valve in case we have a
Jeffrey Mansion overage
but Bill Harvey says we don't expect
that so that's good okay uh that is the
Tiff now we're going to Capital
Improvements so how I want to explain
how we're doing this this year it's a
little bit different and years past we
typically then tell us what page it is
sorry this is Page
69 got in years past we uh
typically uh would um
have projects in our Capital fund that
we would move forward with and if we
hadn't completed them by the end of the
year we would carry forward that
encumbrance and and complete them this
year we're closing those books so we
have you know some line items here from
our year-to dat you can see our
year-to-date
expenditures against the budget are in
most instances uh quite a bit lower in
some cases that's because like the
Jeffrey Mansion we just haven't gotten
to that so that that is all going to be
spent uh but in in other cases it's
because we're just not moving forward uh
with those expenditures so we're
releasing those incumbrances and we're
coming back in 2021 and many of the
items in here were already in the 2020
budget we're just basically reenberg
them in the 2021 budget so that includes
uh esec especially spe specifically
Parks capital and that includes um some
of the police equipment that we didn't
move forward with this year as we froze
um and then same with
technology um now it's a little
deceiving because the year-to-date
technology it looks like we almost spend
as much as our budget a lot of that has
to do with prior year incumbrances not
this year incumbrances and that's true I
believe on on Parks Capital as well so
um actually beer what does it mean that
that's negative on Park capital
um I think that means we got some kind
of we either corrected an expenditure
that crossed years or we got is what I'm
guessing happened because there was some
discussion as I recall now earlier in
the year with
Grant and
Mike um perhaps that money had come out
of the wrong account okay so that's all
I can say but it was a correction that
just affected this year
but long long story short we're probably
have about 500,000 is roughly that we
froze on spending that will now be in
the capital fund for next year so the
biggest chunk of that was the uh
Commonwealth Park fields you'll note
that those are not in the capital budget
that's one of the items that we're going
to keep an eye on the uh revenue and our
financial Outlook in general and if
things are looking uh good and stable
we'll come back in the summer
potentially with the second capital
budget request um but you can see when
you look at the overall Capital
fund that we're in good shape we're
looking like we're going
to carry a a balance after this year
that we will continue to have a reserve
in place for the capital fund which is
which is good
news um and that's with a lower
contribution than normal this year so
we're contributing in the the 2021
budget be are the minor minor typle just
there at the top in the 2021 budget
we're uh looking at contributing
$300,000 in your budget ordinance also
there's an additional $200,000 of
capital fund transfer for this year
because we do have a
surplus and we just amended it there's a
proposed amended version in your pack
packet that has also a $100,000 proposed
transfer into the rainy day fund um so
just so you're aware of the those pieces
of the budget ordinance itself back to
the capital fund itself sorry I know I'm
skipping around here a little bit I want
to go through what these are continuance
of the Ferndale Mayfield
program uh police equipment are would be
two Cruisers Animal control officer van
that's one that we held off on this year
window replacements the PD has several
windows with broken seals that need to
be replaced and body armor for officers
service equipment is a third of that
dump truck
uh three4 of the small dump truck those
are the so this is the general fund
portion of those Capital items U
replacement mowers for the uh grounds
crew and uh again the code enforcement
vehicle that we had budgeted for this
year but did not
purchase and then when Parks Capital
shelter house liting
improvements uh I'm sorry those those
comments are out of date uh but I will
update them it is uh actually does not
have shelter hous lightting improvements
this is the Schneider basketball court
the Jeffrey Camp play
surface
and give me a second while I pull up the
spreadsheet there's a third thing in
here while I'm doing that any questions
on the capital budget Madam president
while mayor's looking we have a question
from the audience and I didn't know what
you were um planning to do regarding
that I'm I'm going going to uh wait
until we are through with um what what
the mayor is is is giving and then at
the very end I will ask for Council
Members if they have any um last
questions and then I will um ask
attendees then is that the soccer
fields money no so there's there's no
soccer fields money in this budget that
would be added uh if we're feeling
pretty good about the financial picture
so the Park's capital is Schneider
basketball court Jeffrey Camp play
surface and then
um this is a program that is very much
in its infancy in theory but we placed
it in here as a placeholder and I don't
want to steal Mike Price's Thunder on it
so uh I'll just tell you it's half of a
piece of equipment that we believe we
can fully pay for by renting it back to
the community and we're looking to get
get the rest of it through a grant and
Mike will tell you more at our next
meeting how's that for
Cliffhanger dangling that in front of
you it was a very fun brainstorm that
occurred in the hallway while we were
wearing masks this afternoon and we
started we started getting creative so
it's there in the right this unspent
money uh it stays in these accounts or
are you saying it is uh released back in
like as brought back in shows up as
Revenue that goes then get reallocated
is
that it's it's released and that's why
you're not seeing a prior year
encumbrance figure on this Budget on
this line for 2021 right here okay so
we're unappropriate the money and then
we're reappropriate it for this year
just to make it clear what we're doing
with those unspent uh Capital
items so that's showing up as new as new
money than this this year though new
expenditure even though even though it
had prior been budgeted for prior many
of these had been prior prior budgeted
budgeted for previously um but we're you
know we're releasing those funds which
means the balance stays in place so it's
still there to spend it but we're just
being really clear about what's in that
capital budget okay yeah I think that's
a I don't think I've seen that before so
I'm just clarify partially inspired by
Mr Sharp he he's I've noticed a
philosophical proclivity of his uh with
this sort of handling of it that that
does have his fingerprints all over yeah
it
does um Miss sad has her hand raised
Jessica yes I'm just still having
problems following the what we had in
2020 budgeted for the Commonwealth parks
and I this goes probably along with what
Troy saying so what was that number and
then where is that number now so that
number was
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um
$221,000 we have since brought it down
we think it's going to be around
$143,000 and then there was also
equipment associated with enhanced
maintenance of
53,500 those are not in this budget and
the reason for that is it's yet another
way that we're just kind of being
cautious we're we're maintaining capital
reserve in case things should be worse
than predicted so if that 5% loss in
income tax becomes worse than that one
of the ways that
we uh make good in future budgets is not
transferring Capital fund dollars so by
keeping a reserve in our Capital fund we
set ourselves up for future stability
that's the theory behind it if we come
into uh the summer and we've gotten
through that you know if hopefully we
have an April tax deadline and we have
uh uh some sort of a
um understanding of where we sit we
might very well come back to you guys
and say hey remember we talked about the
uh the Commonwealth fields and the field
maintenance that if things looked like
we were predicting that we might come
back to you and we'd hope the council
would entertain that um midyear capital
budget request and in fact beer if you
can remind me I'd like to put a comment
in the budget somewhere to that effect
just so it's memorialized um it's not in
the but it's just commented on um
so I understand that there's a lot of
desire to see that project move forward
I I share it but I think one of the
reasons it's not in here is we're trying
to
prioritize you know the most important
uh projects and that one stands out it
is very important but it's not
necessarily urgent we've been living
with those conditions for a while and uh
and also obviously it's a pretty big
dollar amount so um anticipate coming
back with that we have I'll put it say
that if we if we meet our estimates and
if we are on track then we will come
back mid year uh with Commonwealth uh
Fields so just really quickly to make
sure I'm on the same page with the
dollar amount so originally it was 220
221,000 and then we found out that it
would be closer to 143 yeah we value
engineered it down to 143 because we we
actually went through the the hard
planning process with that and remember
some of that and then you're saying for
equipment though it was 5,300 an
additional
53,500 for field maintenance equipment
okay so you know that would be a
275,000 roughly uh request midy year and
there might be some other items in the
capital budget for example right now you
see that there's no Tech capital budget
that's because uh our Tech projects are
really geared now towards car's act
expenses which will tail into 2021 a
little bit
um and you might see a little change in
our next council meeting but uh there
might be additional technological needs
that come up for
example chess are you good yeah I I love
putting it in the notes though so we
just have that to follow when we come
back to it in the spring we will do that
I
agree what's that mayor hates it she
loves it and he hates it I think it's
good it puts our money where our mouth
is you know Mr markam try you have a
question your hand yeah and and and it's
going to annoy you I'm gonna ask you for
probably for the third time just uh can
you say again what was the reduction in
that number that you uh you brought down
on that project what was it you can just
tell me the
total yeah the reduction it went from
221 to
143 roughly so it was about a 78 ,000
reduction uh the 221 number was a broad
estimate and then we got into the design
phase we did some value engineering on
it um it's still providing the same
impact but it's not you know we we know
exactly where the electrical is we know
where the plumbing is we know what the
irrigation system would be specked at so
it's it's just gotten honed that's
exciting I I'm really excited to hear
that and I hope uh to get a good look at
those uh those calculations at some
point maybe next calendar year I also
like to uh show appreciation that you
and uh Mr Price held the Reigns on that
because I think it it's nice that that
gives us that flexibility and and uh
like to offer congratulations to last
year's city council for having the
foresight to appropriate that money as
well good job guys yeah yes so that
concludes my presentation for the budget
and in fact gets us through unless
forgetting something I think the entire
budget I think we just did all of our
presentations between these two meetings
so um thank you for bearing with me and
allowing us to kind of get through this
quickly I think that gives us an
opportunity obviously to delve deeper
into it and maybe Troy your direction
maybe our next meeting we're you know
doing a Q&A and going through like any
open-ended questions that people might
have and any changes that have occurred
over the next couple weeks and I think
especially since that we've got a little
bit of extra time now between the
meetings I know we got jammed up with
two backto back um maybe uh I'll remind
you over the holidays to come back maybe
with some ideas questions and uh I we
can really maybe have an opportunity to
uh to be uh proactive and proficient and
efficient all sorts efficience with this
budget I like that I'll also take any uh
requests in terms of what the photo is
going to be on the next
cover I think you should keep us
guessing as to what it
is and Halloween
costume we gotta have something uh that
reminds us of what this year is Ben yeah
like a a big covid virus spiky I mean
yeah you gota you gota I was expecting
to grab that off of the well maybe maybe
some sweet gum um pods which are sort of
uh analoges for the the covid-19 would
be little double on Tandra we'll work on
that Council anymore um comments on um
the budget ordinance before I ask um our
attendees if they have any
questions all right well write them down
and be ready in three weeks anybody any
of the attendees have any questions
um about the
budget I am not seeing any which means
we can move
on from our item number 10 to our item
number 11 which are third
readings and um I would ask
um Mr bacon if he would please read
ordinance 4720 under third readings
please ordinance 47-20 to approve the
school resource officer agreement with
the Catholic dases for the 2020 21
school year introduced by Miss Robinson
Jen hi all so yes this is uh the
ordinance that we discussed over the
last couple meetings I think the um the
only um conversation that we had about
it was making sure that we all
understood that it would be um if passed
it would be effective retroactive to
this school year so half of uh the
school year being done we just wanted to
make that clear um other than that um I
don't have anything further to present
on it I think we're probably ready to
vote on it so do you have action on that
then I do I uh would like to make a
motion to approve ordinance
4720 we have a first is there a second
I'll second it thank you Mr Markham any
any questions from or or comments from
Council any from our attendees
Mr
Harvey uh Mr Markham yes Miss fibble yes
Miss Lamy yes Miss Robinson yes Mr Sharp
yes M sad yes Mr Kingler yes passes Mr
bacon ordinance 49-20 to amend chapter
888 of the codified orance ordinances
and to appropriate $2,500 from the refu
fund in order for a grant program to
assist businesses with any increasing
costs associated with the prohibition of
single-use plastic bags introduced by Mr
markam uh legislation is so successful
and popular that uh you just keep
reintroducing it right I mean you keep
doing it uh in all seriousness in the
five years I've been here I I've never
had legislative activity that's gotten
uh the positive feedback that this one
has um from the community um I still
regularly hear from other uh City
officials other uh people in governments
other City councils other uh citizen uh
environmental groups I still hear from
uh regularly from teachers and students
uh that uh are are very are so pleased
with uh this legislation that we had
passed uh last year uh and and what it
does
um I uh was super excited to see it
enacted uh in January um I do regular
cleanup uh community cleanups and early
spring out doing cleanups really uh
pleased to see so few of these
single-use plastic bags in our community
I think as a result of this um
unfortunately uh the uh Co virus hit we
had some bumps in the road um when I did
my cleanups in the summer and then just
one here in the beginning of fall maybe
uh just so many so many single-use
plastic bags littered throughout the uh
the community uh and so uh now that the
uh the state has taken uh enacted uh
their uh their law uh we are
reintroducing this um so that it
complies with the new state law um and
really again once again please to get
back on track uh with removing this
really just uh ubiquitous toxic material
from the environment and uh and regain
our uh leadership status in the state
and in the country and in the world and
reducing uh single use plastic
refu thank you uh Mr Markham uh looks as
though Mr Sharp has a question Richard
yeah just a um housekeeping item I guess
um so this would be appropriated in
2020 budget and uh carried over as
unspent
appropriation for next year or will we
um just appropriate it for 2021 as part
of the
budget uh Richard we could really do
either we frankly we have plenty of um
ability within the refuse fund um
programming line item to do the a grant
like this the the intent with putting it
in the ordinance was just making sure uh
that it was extra clear and that we were
being transparent about the desire to
have a grant like this I think it's
helpful to have Council approval of a
concept like this so I I I we could do
either one and and I have determined how
we would do it but I I would be happy if
you would like for us to reappropriate
it next year in the in the suitable uh
remaining residual
funds that would be fine at that it
looks it is appropriated next
year okay according to the auditor you
answered the who wrote this thing thank
you any other um any other questions
Council about this one before I ask for
Action from Mr Markham on
this Mr
Markham uh I would like at this time to
move that we adopt ordinance
49-20 is there a second
second um I'm going to see if there's
anybody from the attendees who would
like to comment
on I don't I don't see any hands raised
um Mr Sharp do you have another question
or comment sir
is your hand just still up okay that's
fine Council anybody else before I ask
Mr Harvey I I do want to say something
really quickly if I can Madam which is
just that uh I think Troy said it very
well but I I believe this is one of the
Hallmark pieces of legislation that
we've worked on over the past several
years I think that this amendment um
elegantly solves the issue of House Bill
242 and I look forward to partnering
with our retailers uh and hope that you
guys will support this thank thank you
all right I am going to excitedly send
this over to Mr Harvey Mr
Sharp yes Miss sad yes Mr Markham yes Mr
Kingler yes Miss lamkey yes Miss
Robinson yes Miss fibel yes passes yay
all right congratulations thank you all
right we're gonna move on to item number
12 second reading and I'm going to ask
Mr bacon to read resolution
1220 resolution 1220 designating June
19th annually as juneth in recognition
of June 19 1865 the date on which
slavery legally came to an end in the
United States introduced by Miss
Robinson M
Robinson
Jen oh are you froze
can't tell I think she had had earlier
in the chat she said she she was having
problems with her with the stability of
her all right
with ah there you are
hooray I'm yelling at my family I'm
madly texting them get off of the
internet so okay hopefully they're
listening to me so um I I take it we've
made it to Second readings we have and
we just read juneth and we're just
waiting for you to share your thoughts
on that if you if you could take one big
breath and and and share yes I actually
would I do have one um amendment to make
actually um after our last council
meeting uh Bill Harvey reached out to me
and made a suggestion about the title of
this
resolution um which would make it um um
more of a I know historically correct
statement um so what I would like to do
now is suggest that we amend the title
and if we could pull it up is that
possible
yep it's a quick and easy
one so uh where it says the date on
which slavery slavery legally came to an
end Jen one second I have
to this is the one that's in Google doc
is that right oh there's okay so there
are two versions floating out there
there's a Google doc and there's a word
dock
okay I know but he cannot edit it on
when it's on granus it's it's there and
it it can't be edited which makes sense
right we don't want everybody going on
granicus and just editing that'd be an
issue little
bit um so give give me a moment or does
it is this something that we can
circulate and we can absolutely
circulate this is just the second
reading but I just wanted everybody to
know that I was going to be changing the
title um to instead of the date on which
slavery legally came to an end to
commemorating the end of slavery in the
United States so that's what the the
change will be and we can have that on
the uh the resolution when we read it
next time perfect and we can we will
amend it then and we will um I will make
a note to have that um uh like a
redlined version of that um ready and
yeah the word doc is throwing us a user
uh privileges error so I'll I'll make
sure that we have that in a an editable
doc document I'm not sure why that's
happening and I think I may have
actually changed it on the Google Doc
that's floating around in any case we'll
make sure that it is ready to go for
next time great does anybody have any
questions or comments on it it looks
like Richard might have his hand up Mr
Sharp yeah um Bill's issue was what I
was going to had my hand originally
raised for and a further historical
clarification um technically it was when
slavery
um the news of the end of slavery in the
Confederate States reached Texas because
the border states that were under the
union did not um slavery did not
officially end until the 14
amendment I believe that's what it was
13th and 14th somewhere in there um to
those uh union border states that still
had slavery right and I those are
addressed in the recitals I believe um I
don't have my document pulled up in
front of me right now but um I did just
I'm just saying when you're reworking it
to make clearly make sure it's
historically accurate got it I think
that title will cover that and and um
thank you Richard as a former history
teacher I love a history lesson here and
there all right any any further
questions on this one Miss Robinson is
it okay if we move on then absolutely
right thank you Mr
bacon we are moving on to and I can't
find it is it 13-20 I believe so yes
please and thank you resolution 13-20 to
establish the official meeting dates of
Bexley City Council for the 2021
calendar year introduced by President
Fe all right um ladies and gentlemen I
have asked you to look at this and um I
wanted Ben to pull up a calendar I don't
know if you can sir um the only date
that I believe I would like to change I
I tried really hard to make sure that we
were we were missing um missing as in um
um not having
Council meetings on religious occasions
or trying to miss um at least Bexley as
most of us
um Mo well most of us have children the
majority of us who have children have um
their children in the Bexley schools
those who are are um of that age um so I
I try to be careful about the best
Bexley school um uh system and when they
have spring break and when they have
their first day of school and some of us
are not going to will not be able to um
match up that way and so I uh you know
some of us may may or may not be in town
um and and that's G to be have to be
okay um but there is one date and um
it's it's a date that I was looking at
with with um Mo'Nique and then I know
that Jen called about it today as well
it it's the November date it's exactly
what we're doing right now we're having
um we're having Council this week as
opposed to having Council next uh week
Tuesday which would allow all of you to
be able to uh go over the river and
through the woods to your
grandmothers uh except not this
year but maybe next year you'll want to
um so I don't I am going to um
offer an amendment to to change the
November 23rd date to November
16th and I am going to ask for a
second second okay and we have a second
so let's talk about this a little bit
before we move on to vote and I and I
think
um so it would put us if we for example
we will have it back to back then the
9th and the
16th um if we put it on the 30th then I
think we would have uh potentially three
meetings in a row potentially four
meetings in a row so that is why I did
not propose the 30th I'm proposing the
16th Hanukkah day two and plus it's
Hanukkah day two so we will be spinning
the dles at our house under under the
Christmas tree
anyway uh is there any conversation
about about
this um I just think this seems to be a
a good way to um vote on it then um uh
Richard has his hand in the air Richard
I I am for the amendment okay awesome
okay um anybody from the attendees care
about which day of the um
calendar in November we have our
meeting all right then I'm gonna bounce
it back over to Mr Harvey to vote on the
amendment to this
missad yes Miss FIB yes Miss lamkey yes
Mr Kingler yes Miss Robinson yes Mr
Sharp yes Mr Markin yes ask any other
questions about the calendar ladies and
gentlemen is this something we should
put on the consent agenda or should I
let them everybody comfortable with this
being on the consent agenda I am also
going to mention that this just because
this is what our calendar is we can
still vote if something comes up or we
have any kind of issues with these dates
as long as we change our dates
appropriately um with the amount of time
and give the right kind of notice we can
we can always change these so um if
anyone's anxious about putting it on the
con consent agenda please please please
realize that okay all right so we'll put
that one on the consent agenda and
um we can move forward I believe are we
on second are we ready for first
readings is that the last second reading
oh nope we have one
more no we don't no we don't that one
has officially been read I think right
that one has officially been read it's
on there twice yeah all right so we can
move on to first first readings Mr bacon
ordinance 31-20 to establish the salary
for the office of Bexley auditor for the
years 2022 through 2025 introduced by Mr
Markham thank you uh yeah if you pull
this up really quickly uh this is an
ordinance that would update increase and
update the auditor salary um the last
time the auditor salary was increased I
think was
2002 and so there's been no cost of
living increases there's been uh there's
been no change in it for uh almost
coming on two decades now uh the current
auditor salary is at
$24,000 this would bring it up um
immediately uh the new term to
$27,000 but then also uh increase it uh
regularly each year by $1,000 to also
kind of bring it up in steps uh to uh to
a higher level uh this is presented for
you to
discussed uh uh think about um this
these numbers are not written in stone
but uh they are there for you to uh to
consider I think um I think Mr Sharp has
um a question Mr Harvey did you have a
comment first though 26 current it's
currently 26 26k 26 Mr Sharp has his
hand up followed by Miss lampy and then
Miss Robinson Richard
it's a clerical issue but I believe the
ordinance number has to be incorrect
since we're in the 50s or everything
else and this is a first reading um we
saved 31 this one this one has been um
kind of on our back burner Richard and
um we've saved it but thank you so much
and please please stay on top of us with
that because
occasionally we don't count
appropriately so we refer to this as a a
vintage ordinance it is a
vintage um all right thank you um
Richard Miss lampy Monique hey Bill can
you approximate for us approximately how
many hours a week um you do work as our
auditor his wheels are turning just so
you know
I it would only be a guess manique I
can't give you any good number that's
okay I'll take a guess I don't ever
track it
um I mean it varies
I I honestly don't know I mean
it you want to think about it maybe for
the next couple weeks sure I'll I'll do
that
okay all right um Miss Robinson your
hand was up is up yeah um just curious
um is this um salary kind of on par with
other communities uh our size um I know
you know we're always this is a position
of course we would want to attract
people too so I just want to make sure
that this is something that is
commiserate with other communities that
um are you know relatively on par with
Bexley
um I I think that we'll let Mr Harvey
answer that but you know he doesn't part
of part of this is we don't we don't
know because there's a lot of um
differences in what an auditor um in our
community does in comparison to other
communities we're not comparing Apples
to Apples okay um so I think that um Mr
hervey's uh
uh position is a little different than
others we just all we know is that this
has not been by the time that it is
changed if it is changed it will be 20
years since it's since there's been any
kind
of an add in uh to the salary
so um does anybody else want to add to
that did I answer that question okay
it's I think it's very hard I think I
think that's a hard one
to to calculate 26 now and we are
looking to raise it to 27 but you know
understanding that that's gone up over
the 20 years that we haven't addressed
it I just want to make sure that we're
being um mindful of the work that's
being done and making sure that that
salary is something that is appropriate
to the work that's
done I agree
Jen uh Jess
question yeah I'm just looking back here
can we give um an over like package of
what all besides
salary um Bill you receive for your work
is health and benefits a part I believe
that's a part of the package so I get
City I get City paid health insurance
the same as any other
employee okay so then and that's and
that's the only real
benefit do you know what the number on
that would be for 20
20
um I I think somebody asked me to find
that out do you want me to sure I have
an email from beer on that um and uh
it's
$1,966 for the health insurance side of
it $110 a year for vision and $433 a
year in Dental is the
benefit so that I mean that would vary
like you could have an auditor with u
family plus three kids and that number
would go up substantially it just
depends on the particulars of the of
that person in that position Ben what is
that total compensation value that you
have there then feature Supply it's 40
it's give or take
13,500 like 38
39 yeah oh sorry sorry yeah yeah so so
yeah about 395 or whatever just try
$40,000 395 is there anything else
outside of that that we currently offer
well wouldn't there be opers right I say
there's an opers opers just like with
Council so there's a contribution for
oers of uh
15 no what's the city contribute 10 10
percent there you go so the O's
contribution is 10% 2600
bucks today Council needs to also
remember as to do you know does the
public and and um our attendees that we
are not
raising Bill Harvey's salary we are
raising a future auditor's salary we
have to have this in place based on our
Charter a year before the next auditor
election so if Bill decides he's gonna
run it will be Bill's salary but Bill
decides he's not gonna run it'll be I
mean I I if Bill's running it could be
Bill's salary I should say um if Bill
you know decides not to run it it it
would be someone else's salary so I'm
just I just want to make sure that that
is clear I hope I you know for for the
public that is listening as well as our
our council members um Jessica your hand
is still up do you have another question
for us yeah I was just going to say that
um I I always do think it is important
to weigh this to other communi ities um
that we comp pair well with and I think
that now that we kind of know that
number the 395 I think the uh getting
the hours bill would be really helpful
because I think it's important to make
sure that um this is right and I think
that that would be a good way to kind of
establish and support um where we need
to
be um we can ask um Bill to kind of log
it I think I've asked council members to
do um that occasionally with theirs
um knowing that uh this is a holiday
uh time that we're moving to I think
it's going to be kind of hard for for
Bill to be able to to I mean I think
it's going to be a different kind of
three weeks or so um so I think we need
to we need to be cognizant of that but
um uh he'll give us he'll give us our
his closest estimate the next time we
see him Bill I'm gonna do you a Sol and
start calling you every day like chat
hours on end well and fairness in all
fairness Mo'Nique talked to him for I
know that Mo'Nique met with him to talk
about the budget I've H I have him on
the
phone probably two or three times a week
so I mean and and and I I encouraged
Council to do that uh this summer when
we were off the month of July I was so
busy with Council and I logged every
phone call and all I had to do was look
at my iPhone and it tells you exactly
how long you were on the phone with
everyone so so I think that when you
start adding up the time that we spend
it's it's it's it's really surprising so
anyway uh Jess's hand is still in the
air do you have a question Miss lad
you're good Richard you had your hand in
the air before uh we answered your
question or you got it okay great
perfect wonderful all right
um Troy can we move on yeah good
questions everybody I think we're ready
to move on all right
perfect um Mr bacon ordinance uh what
are we on we're on
5620 ordinance 5620 to appropriate
$22,000 from the street fund to pay
opers for the remainder of 2020 and to
reduce appropriation for opers from the
general fund by $22,000 introduced by Mr
Markham thank you and in case you
haven't guessed the magic word tonight
is oers
uh um this is uh this is one of those
exciting uh budget kind of finance
things that I think uh we have to have
uh beer or Bill or uh Ben explain what's
going
on Bill is equipped to explain this one
yeah there were some employees who were
transferred out
of transferred in out of the street
department
into uh a different department so their
money the money that was budgeted to
come out of the um Street Department had
to go to the other one so all we're
doing is transferring this money from
one account to the other it's no new
money it's just it's transfer from the
street fund to the general
fund questions Council Richard has a
question Mr
Sharp I believe it um it's the opposite
that we're appropriating money to the um
Street fund for account and taking it
reducing the general fund
appropriation that's correct thank you
Richard any other comments from
Council any from the
attendees Mr Markham can we move on ah
the excitement of accounting let's move
on to the next one more
purs 5720 please or orance 5720 to
appropriate $15,000 from the street fund
03- 380 to pay operating expenses for
the remainder of 2020 and to reduce
appropriation for fuel from the general
fund 01- 320 by $155,000 introduced by
Mr Markham I believe this is more of the
same bill do you have any it's similar I
don't know if Andy's still on but my
understanding is that uh we needed some
additional money cover these operating
expenses the the the the fuel budget
wasn't isn't not going to be used so
rather than ask for new money we just
lowered the appropriation from the Fuel
Fund to cover the other the additional
expense Mr Sharp's hand
Richard yeah there was um when we were
going over the budget there was one
operating expense and I can't find the
page right now that that the year-to
date numbers were very close it um Andy
brief ly uh highlighted that there'd be
a reclassification ordinance coming
forward and then the other little um
minor thing if the mayor can take care
of it sometime so in the future we're
not um confused when we have the agenda
these file names are backwards between
the two um ordinances that we just um
just
reading just so see that y so we don't
post it in the future on the website
incorrectly uh yep Debbie Debb's on the
call and is making a note as well thank
you thank
you all right um Mr Markham can we move
on let's move
on uh I think we are at 1420 please and
thank you resolution 1420 confirming the
mayor's appointments of members to the
back Community Improvement Corporation
introduced by Miss
sad yes I love how you guys threw me in
here in between all of
Troy's it is the Troy Mark show I mean
he was on a rooll tonight they gotta
keep everybody awake Jess come on you're
good you're good who knew like comedian
the professor's a comedian um okay so
resolution
14-20 is confirming the mayor's
appointments of members to the Bexley
Community Improvement Corporation the
Bexley cic which is um an amazing group
of people currently and these two
nominees um are just that Todd fredman
this will extend his position until
December 30th of
2023 um if you guys have not met Todd
yet I encourage you to do so um we're
very lucky to have him um on the cic and
we're very lucky that he has said yes to
another three years so thank you to Todd
um and Heidi mccab same um Heidi does a
great job on the cic for our city and we
are also lucky that has said Yes again
for the next three years um her position
will um be continuing till December 30th
of 20123 as well so with that I believe
um if everyone is okay with that this is
probably something we could move to the
consent agenda correct mayor we have to
actually this is a first reading so we
actually have to read it a second time
and then after we read a second time if
you're comfortable moving it to the
consent agenda and all of council is as
well we will thank you wonder
y also um I do want to you know I know
that we have some newer council members
um so if anybody would like to uh talk
to Todd or Heidi in advance um you know
I would offer that uh or if you want to
handle it any differently than that I
would reiterate what Jess said which is
that uh these are two incredibly
competent High performing members of our
cic that are very additive and excited
to have him wanting to continue with
they are they're wonderful uh Mr Sharp
has his hand in the air
Richard yes I can't see the bottom of
that the wording of this resolution do
we need any um emergency language um to
make them eligible for their first
meeting in January is there a 30-day
delay my understanding and I can verify
with Mark is that a resolution is not
subject to referendum the same way but I
could be wrong we'll we'll we'll verify
that either way I
uh if we need emergency language we'll
add
it thank you Richard John
Robinson just to um wondered if we had
any information about these two um aside
from maybe popping into a cic meeting to
see them in action do we have a resume
or um any kind of something that could
be circulated um around Council just for
those of us who haven't had the benefit
of meeting them before
yeah I'll I'll send you U either resume
or LinkedIn profile information hey Ben
just uh uh an addendum
there would a city council member
legally be allowed to attend a cic
meeting absolutely that doesn't that
doesn't make a quorum of council members
not at all so a city council member
sitting in the cic is sitting in that
role as a cic member um if you had a
another person voting uh that would be a
problem but you're not able to vote so
automatically you're not you know
creating a quorum of a new a new
different body there I know that there
had been some concern about that in the
past my understanding and Mark can speak
to this or and I more more length but
that was not an issue so Presence at the
CAC is perfectly fine even welcome to as
p as a member of the public provide
comment obviously I'm happy to remind
the rest of the council that doesn't sit
on cic when our next meeting is too Jen
um
okay that'd be great thank you um
anybody else um have any questions
Council anybody who is in attendance
with us have any
questions all right with your permission
Miss sad we'll move
on okay thumbs up from her all right
ordinance what are we to we are to D2
thank you ordinance 55-20 to establish
rates for part-time and Casual employees
of the city of Bexley
5420 H 54 we did let's rewind that start
again 5420 to establish pay rates for
full-time non-bargaining unit employees
and officials of the city of Bexley
effective as of January 1st
2021 introduced introduced by Mr Mark
Troy yeah thanks yeah we we threw in
there to keep you guys awake while we
introduce all this Finance stuff so uh
this is our fulltime uh uh the uh pay
rate uh that we have to approve and this
happens every year as part of our budget
process um you can correct me if I'm
wrong here but this is not something we
uh we debate or change or anything like
that it is just subject to your review
and approval I
believe is that true Mr Mr Mayor I
believe that's the case they are all on
a schedule for the uh for the for the
pay
rates step uh rate that you can see uh
the the attachment should be very clear
uh to
follow but you certainly have a right to
do I was going to say that is true but
Council does have the ability to these
are not the the step rates here these
are not Union this is sideways uh I
can't easily put it correct on the
screen but sorry so just turn your head
like that but the um that these are not
Union negotiated steps so these are
established by Council um and so if
there is concern about any of these pay
grades or rates certainly um uh
something we can discuss I would note
that if it's a pay scale tied to a
particular employee probably that's an
executive session conversation but um it
is established by
Council um the mayor uh created this
step uh system or rearranged it um
updated it um how many years ago was
that three or four I think that was four
years ago that was my first year yeah so
we did not used to have a step system
and um the the challenge with that was
you know we would do we would do
increases to employees based upon um you
know maybe longevity or uh maybe change
in job duties but it was um a fair
subjective which is not unusual for many
workplaces it's just problematic in a
public work environment because um
everything is so very public so every
employee is aware of what's happening
with every other employee and it can
create some real issues and so tried to
create stability and consistency and and
um reliability with this pay scale so
the pay scale has been in place for a
while now and it does get adjusted
year-over-year by cost of living
increases um
I think that I think this was I think
this um just just for for Council
especially for our our our freshman uh
budget Council people I think that this
was a real effort um by the
administration to make sure that morale
stayed the same way you know stayed
stayed high and that things seemed to be
fair and there were adjustments made um
a lot of comparisons um as we talked
about with the audit there were a lot of
comparisons made between other um
municipalities and with similar um
employees and and what they did and how
much they got paid just as an FYI so
thatan I want to clarify what I just
said though too I um I just I want to
let you know that if you do have
questions or concerns or you want to
discuss any of these salaries we can
absolutely if you if you let me know if
you let laurianne know uh we can
initiate an executive session to do that
in this is these uh individual salaries
are not something that we tend to debate
or we debate in the open council meeting
but thank you that that is an option to
you I didn't mean to to say that that
wasn't but if that's the case please let
us know we can initiate an executive
session and and we would be happy to do
that
yes um it looks like Mr Sharp has his
hand in the air
Richard uh yes and I want to add on
clarification um for audience and and
council members if you look at the
corresponding exhibit um from last
year's pay ordinance there is like the
mayor said a cost of livion and I
believe that is set at two and a half%
so all the the numbers in that table
should have gone up by an even uh two
and a half% as rounding it um makes a
requirement though um and also for
council's notice I I did have a question
that I offline um presented to Troy
and um bill that he's going to be
discussing with one of the department
managers um an item on the uh schedule
so um since it can be directly
identifiable to one person I didn't want
to specifically bring it up in the
meeting
tonight so that will be for a later date
I'm assuming Mr Sharp
well they'll get back to they'll
give they'll get back to you I back to
me approprate okay thank you thank you
so much Mr Sharp any other questions or
comments um from Council on this um
ordinance any from the
attendees all right Mr Markham is okay
if we move on yep let's get to the next
one okay now we're to 5520 Mr bacon now
we're at ordinance 55-20 to establish
rates for part-time and Casual employees
of the city of Bexley affective as of
January 1st 2021 introduced by Mr
Markham Mr Markham yeah and this is H
the same sort of thing except now we've
got the list of the part-time and Casual
employees instead of the full-time
employees any questions or
comments casual employees are people
that are allowed to wear genes
always right
anyone anybody in the panelists J it was
a bad joke we need it a little bit all
right I'm with Mr markham's um
permission we'll move on to
5820 why not it's still me it's still
you it's the Troy Markham show ordinance
58-20 to establish the water and sewer
rates charged by the city of Bexley
introduced by Mr Markham yeah if you can
open this too uh Mr Sharp has pointed
out a couple that we have a I think a
major typo in
here give me a moment uh the mouse
decided to die on me just now so I was
trying to charge it
shoot see if when the mouse dies the
meeting's over isn't that the rule uh
yeah that's how it works
[Music]
keyboard
shortcuts now I just won't be able to
get back so he is such a tech
nerd uh uh Richard pointed out that the
dates on here would should be
2021 yep and I think also he said his
math did not work out to two and three
percentage uh points but I also believe
earlier today you told us that we had
miscalculated uh last year's increase
and so maybe that is responsible for
that no so that's two separate issues
the there's a calculation of the the
rate that's charged and there's a
calculation of what we end up paying for
that that service and those are those
are intertwined but not totally related
so I I'll let I'll let Richard take the
floor I think he's got some math for
us okay I went back to our 2020
ordinance and the water the Water fee
rate was
6140 so I think there was a typo when it
was uh extended out it's uh at the 2%
increase it should be 62 63 and we've
got 61
62 okay I rounded up to the penny
because it's be 62 63 I'm doing it
62 63 it should be
6263 correct Richard it should be 6263
based on last year's amount of
6140
okay the uh sewer rate works out
correctly
okay well that's that's good though the
202 s rate was 7746 if anyone wants to
multiply it out
themselves
okay we trust your math Mr sherp thank
you all right so are those gonna have to
be amendments next time after we get
this all figured out right is that
correct okay so I will I will make note
amendments um we hey you know we were we
were told there would be no math
[Laughter]
which is
great all right any questions on that
confusion ladies and gentlemen we'll get
it cleared up for next time around looks
like Mr Kingler has um his hand up Matt
yeah I just I had a question because I
saw
um I I saw city council I saw an email
come through Columbus city council
voting for another increase that's what
we're talking about right they they
voted for another increase in water
rates yeah to us I just saw yeah okay
that just gets that gets passed along to
us but it's all a CLS okay I saw an
email come across my I just was making
sure that is what that was okay correct
okay all right um any other comments
from Council on this one any from our
attendees on this
one and attendees I I I've been failing
to remind you that all you have to do is
hit the icon at the bottom of
your your Zoom to raise your hand if you
do all right um again Mr Markham is it
okay if we move on to the medians in
front of St Charles yeah because it's
still me because it's still you 5920 Mr
bacon ordinance 5920 to appropriate $
75,6 191 from the unencumbered general
fund to pay for redesign of the Broad
Street median in front in front for St
Charles Preparatory School introduced by
Mr Markham Mr Markham yeah so I I think
believe I believe this has been uh the
tree and guard commission has worked on
this for a while now uh this redesign I
haven't seen any of the recent ones but
uh I know that uh it's kind of exciting
to get uh something new there and so
this is appropriating money to spend uh
that we are actually I believe receiving
from the
U yes can I Troy can I uh just go go
into this a little deeper first off uh
there's a couple different grammatical
types typos in this that I would just I
think we can change um administratively
but it would be in front of the St
Charles Preparatory School in the title
um and then it would be reimbursed to to
fund or to pay for but not to fund to
pay for so um and uh it's also I I think
um it is in a sense it's the redesign
it's actually the Reconstruction because
the design work has already been done so
this is a this is the
electrical and um landscape component of
the project um the the the purpose of
the project was to shorten the median
slightly on the East End of the median
in order to provide for a better turning
radius out of Wolf Park uh we were
finding that that was the motion that
was resulting in the most of the hits on
the median um so we were losing signs we
were losing irrigation infrastructure
and trees uh but also uh we're adding
some lighting uh and some additional
signage to the medium
it's going to have some cobblestones
leading up to it so the whole design is
and designed to to not just enhance the
beautification aspect of it but also uh
the safety in as much as um it will we
believe will be less likely to become a
attractive nuisance for vehicles hitting
it um so a lot of thought and intent and
purpose has been put into it you'll see
if you drive past it right now that it's
already been torn up that's because the
work that's happening within the street
is already funded through our street
fund um and so the the work this this
grant request is for again the lights
the electrical so that's vertical street
lights that's up Lighting on trees and
um the Landscaping so Rel landscape in
it we have received a grant for it Andy
is asking for a suspension and Adoption
of this in order to move forward with
that uh project I figured that might not
be so controversial since it's money
being given to us for the project um so
that's the background so oh sorry guys Y
no I was probably gonna ask the same
thing you are gonna ask but go ahead so
go ahead Mr Markham no I insist you go I
was just thinking that you're suggesting
that we suspend and adopt it
tonight I I was getting ready to do that
yeah and I was gonna say that I love how
Ben can articulate these things it's why
he's the mayor but the translation of
that is uh cars kept running into the
median so we need
to right we need to fix
it this circumference Radiance whatever
that was people kept driving into the
median
thanks I would uh do we need to are
there any questions we should ask any
questions I think I think Miss Lamy has
her hand in the air
Monique um just two quick questions um
the amount that's in the title and the
first whereas does not match the amount
in section one do do we want to tweak
that that's a good point I'm having a
hard time opening anything in word
tonight for some reason so I'm trying
desperately to get this to open with
something so give me a hot second and
I'm going to try to get a change version
up but for I don't know what's going on
here this computer is not
behaving
um so I would uh I would I don't know if
this is possible but I would ask
to um 691 is in the title that can stay
the same I would ask if Council would be
comfortable with fixing the
typographical error in section one so
that it matches the title uh and and the
typographical errors that were
grammatical that we talked about before
in the past Mr fishell has opined that
typographical errors are okay to fix
without a formal amendment I don't know
if you have an opinion on that I think
if it's clerical that's fine okay
everybody com able with that um please
please uh uh speak up with with without
having to raise your hand if you're
uncomfortable with us just making the
grammatical changes and if not I think
we make Ben give us a 20 out of his
wallet yeah comparable to to section one
grammatically and
typographically thank thank you Mr Sharp
everybody else um can you give me like a
a thumbs up everybody good everybody's
okay with it okay um Miss lampy you're
hand still in the air do you have
another question
ma'am um I was just going to say mayor
was this from the Bexley Community
Foundation yes uh this is do we want to
add um or is bexy foundation sufficient
it's it's a minor Point yes I I noticed
that too I will I will I will fix that
as well okay my apolog great okay thank
you all right any any questions um any
further questions on on this one for
Council we are going to make those
grammatical changes that the the in the
title we are going to make sure that the
typos um in section one match um up with
the whereas and the title as far as the
nine is uh seven will be turned into a
nine um and we will add Community
actually Community Foundation to all of
those okay with that do do any of the
attendees have any questions about this
I don't see any um Mr marham I would ask
you to see if you have um a um action on
this one please yeah I move that we
suspend the three reading rule for
ordinance
59-20 thank you Mr Mark and Richard has
a second any questions on the suspension
Council
attendees hearing none um on the
suspension Mr Harvey Miss sad
yes Mr Kingler yes Mr Sharp yes Miss
Robinson yes Mr Markham yes M Lamy yes
Miss fibel yes passes suspension passes
Mr Markham further action on this
ordinance please I move that we adopt
ordinance 59-20 at this time we have a
first is there a second Mr Kingler
seconds thank you Mr Kingler um any
questions on passage of this um from
Council from the
attendees Mr Harvey Miss Robinson yes Mr
Sharp yes Miss sad yes Mr Markham yes Mr
Kingler yes Miss fibel yes Miss Lamy yes
passes all right no more running into
those all right so now we are moving on
to tabled ordinances
um uh Mr uh sherp do you have any action
on amended ordance
2720 no action on 2720 pending the
mayor's review of all the Resident
comments from the last meeting thank you
so much Mr Sharp um Mr Markham um any um
action um on ordinance
4319 oh it's just my night
I do I do have action on ordinance
4319 uh an ordinance that is so old that
it was introduced by me as a chair of
the service committee I forget who was I
forget who was president back
then I I don't even Donald
Trump yes that is true may have been Mr
Weber let's let's you know I would I
would like to move at this time to
remove ordinance
43-19 from the table all right is there
a second oh second thank you Mr Kingler
all those in favor please say
I I I those oppos same
sign okay it's it's all yours Mr Markham
well I'm gonna turn it over to uh mayor
Ben Kesler at this point because I think
he wants to talk about this a little bit
all righty yeah so I appreciate that
what I'm asking this evening is if we
can amend uh 4319 to be as uh attached
it was attached the same way to your
last agenda uh proposed amended 4319
this is the one that Lindsey Miller
presented on um uh and then if Council
chooses to do that and votes to amend I
would like to then circulate this to the
utility providers uh that use the right
of way for any comment that they might
have which would put us in a good
position at the next council meeting to
to uh adopt uh the amended
ordinance lovely all right well
um with the mayor's suggestion I will
turn it back over to Mr Markham and ask
Mr markam if he has any action on um
amended ordinance number
4319 so I would like to uh move that we
amend amended ordinance number
4319 as shown in the redlined uh version
before you thank you thank you Mr
Markham is there a second I will second
thank you Mr um Kingler um are there any
conversations any questions about um the
Amendments on this document that we've
been looking at for almost a full
year any from the
attendees okay then Mr Harvey on
amending Miss
Robinson yes Miss Lamy yes Mr Markham
yes Miss fibel yes M Miss sad yes Mr
Kingler yes Mr Sharp
yes okay so it's second amended
ordinance
4319 now
and yes Mr Richard sure I would move to
um table the ordinance we just were
looking at before we move
on um
27-20 amended ordinance
27-20 we pass the Amendments and the
mayor wants it to be tabled again until
the next meeting I think 4319 is is what
you're referring to 4319
sorry yes okay um is there a second on
um on tbling 4 319 I'll second thank you
Miss sad all those in favor please
signify by saying I I I those oppos same
sign Mr Mr uh Kingler has his hand in
the air Mr Mr Kingler Matt yeah I
thought we were gonna have well I guess
it was questions um Ben I saw you met
with
AT&T this week in your uh what you did I
didn't see what I did yeah you said you
met with AT&T re small cell location and
before we put it back on the table I
just had a
question it how the meeting went or is
there request for permit or I don't know
if we're allowed to talk about that now
since it's back on the table I I don't
think you're specifically talking about
the ordinance I think you're allowed to
I'm happy that's informative yeah if
that's fine yes so AT&T is proposing a
location at Maryland and
Columbia um they it's a single one small
sale location
uh we had a pre permit meeting with them
this week where they sort of discussed
the logic and what they were looking at
and they walked through our uh design
guidelines with some questions um our
next step is to our staff will visit the
site and provide them with some on-site
feedback um but they are anticipating a
submitt um so it should be an
interesting test of the uh of the uh
guidelin
answer okay thanks
y all right so then we um move on to if
we may to third amended ordinance uh
4320 Mr Sharp um action on this one
sir mam president I'd like to take a
third amended ordinance
43-2 off the table we have a first is
there a second second
there second by Mr Kingler all those in
favor please signify by saying I I I all
those opposed same
sign Mr Sharp um the attached third
amended um ordinance
has um a incorrect uh ordinance title in
the document I think the mayor had the
original document to edit I emailed him
and Jessica in response to to a question
Jessica had this evening about that um I
emailed him a Word document that has the
the um words proposed and second removed
and the word third just remaining with
no question mark or parentheses and
everything else um is on this document
the way it was um mended at the last
meeting Richard I'm I'm I'll be get that
will be on the screen here very
shortly so basically just the title um
is not appearing correctly on the screen
from what we amended last week um and
what I would like to do is
um have any final discussion um on this
ordinance before I would make a motion
um for further
action any comments on on um this
ordinance or any questions
uh ladies and
gentlemen one one thing I I will be um
getting with the um Bexley Community
Foundation their
um
2020 21 schedule is not on their website
yet but um in 2020 letters of intent
were due um in the middle of January so
I'll be um filling that out in order to
um
uh try to get a a grant from the
Community Foundation they expressed some
members have expressed interest in um
helping the city offset this the cost of
this program with the Grant application
um at least last year due in
mid-march and so that would be my intent
even though we we're currently
appropriating the um money in advance of
that Grant application
are there any questions or comments um
regarding
this is that the correct version Richard
yes that looks like
it and any questions or comments from
the attendees on this on this um
all right I I just want to comment that
Richard I I really struggled with the
idea of passing this $110,000 without um
um asking the um Community Foundation
First for some of the money and I um
appreciate the fact that you're
um willing to step forward with that I
guess I would like to know from from the
mayor from from from the auditor whoever
ever is that a kosher way of doing this
I mean are we able to take a grant for
money that's already allocated I'm
guessing that would be a yes we are we
are
okay um any other questions or comments
from Council any from the
attendees all right Richard do you have
any action on this one yeah Madam
president I would um make a motion to
pass
third amended ordinance
43-20 is there a second I'll second
thank you Miss
sad um questions again from panelists
from Council sorry from
attendees all right turning it over to
Mr Harvey Miss Miss lamkey yes Mr
Markham
yes M Robinson yes Mr Sharp yes Mr
Kingler yes Miss fibble yes Miss sad
yes um thank thank you council members
um I think this is important um even
though I'll I'll be um working for
um um the Grant application I think it's
important that the city can um put some
investment towards
um being inclus inclusive and helping um
our uh single family or double um unit
Property Owners to
um um encourage more diversity in their
uh rental
um in their tenants and making it easier
for them to um be inclusive like this so
thank you Mr Sharp I would love to help
you out with that Grant so please let me
know how I can do
that thank you
um uh there is my computer just died so
Mr um mayor if you could please put um
the appropriate yeah on the screen
perfect Madam president I just had one
quick question um did we actually take a
vote on retaing the previous ordinance
which was the small sale
guidelines yes yes I believe we did yes
okay okay it would have been yeah it was
a Voice vote and I'm almost positive we
did okay thank you I'm pretty sure we
did maybe we did I think we did do do it
again okay let's just no we we did
because I ask a question you asked for
Voice vote and I was gonna ask for a I
was gonna have a question when when you
if it was roll call and then I didn't
get to ask my question so then I asked
it okay thank you thank you you Mr
Clinger we appreciate that all right so
um that is all with the tabled
ordinances though it looks like we have
one we are waiting for that one and so
then I believe that we are if I'm
looking at this correctly he went to go
get me a charger but I don't need the
charger because I've because I know that
there are um we are just um to our um
reports and so we would move to our
service report um Mr Sharp do you have
any old business new business or report
for us
sir I really am okay without it I'm so
sorry Richard yes um the ESAT committee
met this evening um so I don't have a
current report from them they were
meeting simultaneously as us uh tree and
public garden commission has a meeting
tomorrow uh one of their agenda items is
a tree camp P study to umk you so to to
measure the coverage of the the city's
um tree growth on private as well as um
public property and so that uh we can
tell if we're contributing to a positive
Greening of Central Ohio on an ongoing
basis um and oh
and you may see a little
experimental uh light display in a
couple of the medians um compliments of
the mayor and the service department um
in the next coming
weeks or
days hours who knows don't know G be
surprised a little bit of Joy during
covid if you're out taking walks I want
you I'm urging you to look at a tree on
P pal no the corner of pal and Dawson
talk about a Heritage Tree Troy you all
need to go look at it it's
[Music]
gorgeous Richard are you finished with
your
report yes ma'am thank you thank you sir
Finance
Troy no I don't think
so no no no you don't think so nothing
you got nothing maybe a few more uh math
quiz questions for everybody I I will
say and the I'm now I feel like I know
less about the city than when we started
between the Mike's mystery project and
the lights with the the light things and
the tree uh I feel like I need to learn
a little more about the city before we
come back you know it's founded at 1908
updated
daily apparently that's how we do it
keeping us in suspense safety and health
Miss Robinson old business new business
report I just have one thing to make
everybody aware of um and this was
mentioned um a couple weeks ago at a
council meeting but tomorrow evening at
7 o'clock um coming to a zoom near you
is the third part of our covid-19 ask
and expert discussion panel um and this
one will be covering the topic of of
contact tracing and case investigation
which is very timely considering uh we
have students coming back from colleges
and we are heading quickly into the
holiday season um and I know I for one
was shocked to get my fourth notice from
the high school today that there were uh
covid cases discovered um within the
schools so always uh it will be very
interesting very timely and hopefully
you all can make it the link can be
found um in the Beckle blast on our
website and also on the city's Facebook
page 7 PM
sharp that is it thank you Jen thank you
thank you zoning
missad yes um mine are not zoning mine
are just some Community things um at
beckley.wv
Turkey Trot which will take place it
starts this weekend through the next
weekend
virtually um I would love for everyone
to you know join my family we do it
every year um it's right down the street
for me really easy to get to it's
wonderful event and all proceeds um as I
believe all of council knows you've seen
them the family come in and with the big
check go to Mid Ohio F food bank and um
they could they could use our help right
now so I hope everybody can uh sign up I
encourage you to sign up and get your
family out on their own and do the
virtual 5K um also wanted to remind uh
Council and the community about dar's
needs at the Holiday times if you
haven't done this in the past I think
Council we we've sponsored darn family
or sponsored Bexley families through
darn um for years um it's it's a night
neat thing that darn does and to get
your kids out shopping for others but I
believe laurian does council do
something as a group as well sponsoring
darn we haven't done it um we have not I
I don't know that we've done that in the
past I think we've collected food or
something no last year last year um we
did collected
yeah last year I signed I signed us up
and uh was partially successful and uh
yeah we we put something together sort
of um I I I will ask Council though that
that um there's there's a group that's
really starting to to to try to really
get out the word and it's on the blast
and I would ask that everybody um uh
share uh Sam's post I don't know that
whether or not Sam has has created a
Facebook post but there will be a link
um this year we're doing it a little bit
differently
um we have uh this small group has
decided to um ask for gift cards um or
um or money so that gift cards can be
purchased so that there are there's
fewer um opportunities for contact um so
that children will be able to feel as
though they are I know a lot of times
families like to go shopping for
families
um uh this this year we're gonna have
like a a like a sort of a drive-thru
cards for cards for uh for uh candy
canes so cards for canes um and you drop
off and so look for the date I think
that's going to be on giving Tuesday
which is always the Tuesday after after
Thanksgiving so um there's a small group
of people who put their brands together
and created some of those ideas after
hearing about the great need um during
during one of our our covid task force
meetings so so thank you for mentioning
that though Jessica and and if there's
an interest in all of us going together
and and and doing that that's great or
we could all you know kind of uh follow
the link and do it on our own
so um Jess anything more from from you
that's all I got thank thank you so much
for all of your information um reck and
Parks Mr Kingler nothing to report all
right thank you so much um then we are
to um Judiciary um
Monique um just wanted to share that I
recently had a great meeting with the
Bexley anti-racism project lots of
energy lots of good ideas I'm going to
be following up with them um over the
next couple weeks and months and a
report uh Monique how did your um
backyard um meeting with your neighbors
go good did it go well you know what our
block watch went great um I I wish that
you guys had heard all the great
questions from my neighbors uh we are
formalizing our block watch and hoping
to get uh the next street over to also
join in um but with uh winter coming and
darkness coming earlier uh I think it's
a great idea for anyone listening to
consider forming their own blog watch
thanks Miss Lamy so much um please make
sure that if you have any comments um or
questions about the organization of this
um of this agenda I'm I'm liking it so
I'm thinking that we could move forward
with it using it at least one more time
before we vote on on continuing it um
but you could direct your questions to
either muor to miss lampy please and
thank you um we are to um public comment
once again
um number 20 oh I'm sorry Richard you
have your hand in the air forgive me uh
sorry I
I under Judiciary and strategic I
thought it was best to make disclosure
that um I had done this with you several
um months ago I've told you that I was
not going to be in attendance into
December 8th meeting um if we have a
legislative approval for continuing by
Zoom I will make arrangements to attend
but regardless I will try to watch
whatever is available if you guys are
meeting in
person thank you Mr Sharp for the
reminder I have one thing before um
before we go to public comment Mr um the
mayor has something yeah it slipped past
without me having a chance to say it
real quickly but the um at our last at
our special Workshop on the sewer um
program I uh said I would get back with
an FAQ of the questions we had received
I have that in draft form I've
circulated to the city engineer and our
service director to make sure that they
agree with my answers also just
forwarded it to Richard uh so once I get
consensus on that I will circulate that
to council to take a look at and I will
circulate it to the um folks who were
asking the questions and to those who
had filled out our basement
questionnaire just wanted to update you
on that all right public comments um
attendees is there are there are there
any comments or
questions seeing none I'm going to thank
um Grant bacon for being here tonight we
are ever so grateful that you're here um
Mr Sharp has a comment again sir he
can't get enough of
us sorry but I've been watching the
attendees and I saw um earlier GV had a
question and then left and I think it
looks like that person came back so I
just wanted to make sure their um
original question was addressed if they
still wanted to raise their hand so they
had time to do that and GV we GV we
would love love love to hear from you
for them and if they don't that's fine
but I want to give them the opportunity
all you have to do is raise your
hand let us know
and then give us your address and your
name if you
would all right I guess GV is not caring
to speak to us tonight so maybe another
night um any other comments
council is there a motion to adjourn
I'll make a motion we adjourn oh people
are
quick I don't even know who the third
second fourth I know it was Matt but I'm
not sure who the second was I'm just
gonna play random and say it was Jen all
those in favor
hi know
guys Happy Thanksgiving everybody Happy
Thanksgiving