we have a full house tonight welcome
everyone so glad that you're here
um we have a lot of work to do tonight
so i want to get started get moving
right on time
um
so please remember while we're while we
are here we are here for the good of
bexley and i would ask for roll call
please
ms fiable here mr klingler here ms lamke
mr markham here ms robinson here
here mr sharp
here could we please all stand for the
pledge
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um could we um put in the record that
um council person liam k was um excused
absolutely please and thank you i was
going to mention that during my report
but thank you so much for
preempting that i appreciate it
we have two um
exciting special guests with us tonight
one is receiving a proclamation a very
honorable
exciting proclamation that has happened
in our own city which is very exciting
and then we also have a special guest
our own um clerk of course uh marquan
stewart is with us tonight so please
welcome him as well so i'm going to turn
it over to
mr mayer
so uh
the american institute of architects i
didn't recognize you with your masks on
mr barnes's daughter and my daughter
graduated from from csg together so
welcome sir didn't know that that was
you
okay so
has an award ceremony every year where
they recognize and honor
uh
phenomenal architectural achievements in
our region
and uh mr barnes uh designed the ohio
state bank building which received uh
pretty high distinctions at the award
ceremony and so i've asked pete scott
from the arb
to read the proclamation
it's really fun thank you thank you
situated on a long vacant commercial lot
the ohio state bank building was
designed by
jonathan barnes architecture and design
and was nominated for the prestigious
american institute of architects
columbus 2021 architecture awards
and the ohio state bank building
received an architecture honor award for
a large project at the awards event on
thursday
october 8 2021
a remarkable distinction that is
underscored by the quality and quantity
of other projects submitted for
consideration
and the aia architecture awards jury
offered its comments on the design of
this building stating
the architect showed restraint diligence
and rigor in addressing the design and
further saying
this is an accomplished project
demonstrating skill
in aligning interior and exterior design
concept
in this award-winning building which
serves as the ohio state bank
headquarters
and provides space for commercial office
tenants
greatly enhances the western approach to
our city
providing the high quality and
exceptional beauty that bexley cherishes
in its architecture
now therefore
i'm ben jess from the city of excellent
honor and celebrate jonathan barnes of
jbad and ohio state bank on this
remarkable project in the honor of their
aia architecture honor award
congratulations
nothing prepared but i do want to thank
very much thank you for this um and
thank you all thank the
um
uh board of zoning planning and building
and planning department and all those
involved um we enjoyed the whole process
believe it or not we did um at least i
don't have to stand here and argue for
the design today just thank you
but i'm glad you're happy we're happy
and um we hope that you will have more
of these in your future so thank you
very much
guys look my way would you
jonathan
would you look my way
thank you
jonathan i'm sorry i didn't recognize
with you and
i wish
please wish your daughter uh
safe travels as she goes to visit mine
this weekend i don't know if you knew
that but yes
all right and then we are going to
welcome um marquan marquan you want to
go ahead and stand at the podium and let
us know some
information um
about mayor's court thanks for joining
us thanks for uh staying longer after
work
and being with us
thanks and mark juan if you want to just
tell me what when to move the slides
i'll just do it from here oh sure thing
same thing
all right um
so my name is marquan stewart um i work
for
at the pleasure of mayor ben klett mayor
ben kessler and um i wanted to give a
provide everyone with an update um i've
been here since last august i mean last
october and we've really made some
strides to really make some improvements
um
so if you want to go ahead and hit that
there
awesome um
so what we've done um and this is with
under the orders of the magistrate with
the guidance of the
uh bexley mayor's court prosecutor
as well as with the oversight of the
city attorney and the review of the
mayor
we've implemented new court rules
as well as
we are in the process of finishing up
our online payment system
we've already established the payment
processing element of that
we are just finishing up the court
the court software
side and once that is completed
once that's completed um it should be
done by the end of this year
hit the next one
so the first thing i wanted to talk
about um that is outlined in the court
rules
um was the
the prior bond schedule before i arrived
and for example
um all tickets in bexley that are
payable waiverable tickets
are
115 dollars um that is the lowest uh
ticket price
in franklin county um for payable
tickets
um so for example
if
someone was going to get a warrant uh we
don't issue warrants right away um
typically it's a month and a half
after
someone has failed to appear
under the prior bond schedule they were
assessed a 25 late fee
and their warrant their payout would be
150 dollars
um if it was for example
an m1 through an m4 so an m1 let's just
say a theft charge
their bond for their warrant would be
two hundred dollars and then every
subsequent court date they missed they
will be assessed at 25
late fee
under the new court
rules
and this follows uh franklin county
municipal court um
court rules and so
how it is outlined and framed is
uh
if i for example were to get a speeding
ticket
i'll think
if i was to get a speeding ticket and i
were assessed um
a warrant
i would it a speeding ticket in bexley
is an m3 currently
so i would pay
30
plus the state fee
for the warrant which would be a total
of 94
or
i would have the option
to pay that
ticket off for 115
and once again the warrants are not
assessed if you miss the first court
date it takes a month and a half before
you get a warrant i send um three to
four summons out
prior to that occurring
um
so this
looks
kind of intimidating
but once i break it down it's fairly
simple to understand
so the prior bond schedule
you will be assessed let's say if it was
a speeding charge
140 warrant
a 140 payout
under the new
bond warrant schedule bond schedule
you could you would have to pay you
could you have an option you can either
pay out the ticket for 115
or you can post a bond for 164 dollars
cash for the appearance
which means
the hundred dollars you only have to pay
post 25 of that
plus 64 which is a total of 89
so under the new court rules
you can either you can either post a
bond for 89 or pay it out for 115
which is substantially cheaper
um
than the prior uh bond schedule
um and then moving down there are also
other examples
there as well
um
so that just to clear mark on is that
the left column the left dollar amount
is what it would have been before in the
right dollar amount is the
under the new rules correct okay
and
and currently
so for all of the
warrants that we have
we have warrants from 2015
to current
um under the previous uh court rules
the the bond amount
the total bond amount for warrants is
that red indicator there
under the new court rules
that is how much in total
um the the warrants are the bond amount
for warrants are current
another thing that we also
have addressed
over this past year
is
bonds carried so bonds carried is the
amount of money
that the court is holding month to month
and that is money that
defendants
have not whether they have not retrieved
that that money at the end of court
or um when the case was adjudicated the
money was not disbursed back
um so through the course of this year
the court has done a really great job
of reducing the outstanding balance of
bond money from six thousand eighty five
dollars to three thousand two hundred
and ninety nine dollars
and how we were able to do that is we
were able to locate those cases
and summons
whether we summons those people to court
or we were able to
um the magistrate was able to dismiss
those cases and
disperse that money back to
um defendants
or whoever had posted the bond
currently we only have
one case
that actually has bond money
and at the start of next year and it's
outlined in the ohio revised code
we will
take the unclaimed funds money
and that that will be moved to an
unclaimed funds account um i will send
out summons
to all of the people who currently
we are holding their money
and they will have one year to collect
that money from so until 2023 of april
to collect that money and if they do not
that that money will be dispersed to the
state of ohio to the city of bexley
so
there have been some some great things
that we've established here um one thing
i'll let you guys know
is that the city of bexley has the
lowest um parking ticket fees
in franklin county um
forty five dollars
or sixty dollars between certain time
frames
um
so
if someone does not pay their parking
ticket
for it's still three it's a three strike
and you're out rule if they don't pay or
they just don't show up the court
um over a month and a half period they
will be assessed a registration block so
no one will get a warrant or anything
like that and that prevents someone from
getting their tax
if someone appears in court
um and they can show costs to the the
magistrate and prosecutor um they can
certainly get that registration block
removed um
and move forward
another thing that we've been able to
uh institute as well
is a complainant's amendment form
and how this form works is if
i get pulled over
and the officer makes a mistake with my
citation
which happens i make mistakes everyone
makes mistakes
if the officer makes a mistake on the
citation they can come and when they
file the ticket
with the clerk's office
i have an amendment form where they can
make the correction
then i'll send out a summons
with the correct information
this helps alleviate ambiguity
and ensures that
the correct information is being passed
along to the changes
um
another new
a very
a
new procedure that is actually being
established statewide
is that the uniform traffic ticket
um so prior to me working
for bexley mayor's court i worked down
at franklin county municipal court and
several jurisdictions had different
types of formative
outgoing
all right i was just saying if you i i
like that you're turning around but
also i'll have you be uh uh mc and
carrie i'll carry it with you my
apologies you can hold on to it it
doesn't it's not blue there so i got you
no problem
oh sorry that way people can hear better
gotcha awesome
um but the uniform traffic ticket um
what occurred there was
um the supreme court
and also under the guidance of governor
dewine and the warrant task force
they made certain recommendations and
changes to traffic citations and
statewide everyone will have
when they file the their
traffic ticket
it'll be the same statewide
um so this change actually
went into effect
um in 2020 of april
and they gave everyone one year until
july first
to have sorry
they gave everyone until july 1st
to have those changes made july 1st of
this year
um currently due to covet and things of
that nature
the court
um
the court was able
the supreme court provided an extension
through the end of this year to actually
make those changes through all the
jurisdictions and municipalities in ohio
currently
we were able to get those citations out
to long bexley law enforcement prior to
july 1st and bexley law enforcement are
now using those uniform traffic tickets
getting comfortable with uh utilizing
the new format
um another thing that
we
have rolled out with the the assistance
of the mayor
is a really great community service
program
and how this works is for
delinquent i mean indigent and
residents who can't afford uh to pay
their ticket or
if
there's some restorative justice
where the magistrate and the prosecutor
feel as if a monetary uh punishment
um it
wouldn't um
be it be a a
a good remedy
they have established um
community service and so they can go to
these various partners that we've
partnered with
and complete community service
and once they complete it they provide
the court a certificate of completion
and then they show back up on court day
and then the magistrate can dismiss
their case and we've had
several people already go through
the community service program and it's
worked really well
lastly this last
page here looks very intimidating but
this last page illustrates
the clerk of court on the mayor's behalf
every quarter
so every three months i submit a supreme
court report
that um outlines
which cases
were
and how they were disposed essentially
how the cases ended how they resulted
how they were adjudicated and
i started in q4 of 2020
and so what i had to do was go through
and do a manual audit of all the
all the cases that we had just to ensure
that the supreme court reflected
accurately what we currently had and in
that i did find cases that needed to be
updated and needed to actually um
be litigated
and also
we ran into issues with covet so a lot
of courts did run into this problem last
year where
after um
six months
um and if you see a line item there says
pending beyond guidelines so after six
months
cases can be pending beyond guidelines
so when i came in in q4
we got in a
supreme court administrative order that
said
you know due to covet you guys can move
cases
into unavailability of the accused so
when i initially came in we had about 45
failure to file tax cases
um
that we were able to move into that
status
and they were later dismissed
um so that's just some of the things and
the
responsibilities that i have quarterly
to file this report
and
pretty much everything it there
is pretty straightforward violation
bureau just means any waiverable payable
traffic citation
unavailability of the queues those are
cases that stop time from tolling but
also can be warrant status cases
and then other termination is
essentially a bomb forfeiture where the
prosecutor decided not to
prosecute on a particular case
um
so we have made a huge improvement um in
terms of cases pending beyond guidelines
from
q4
and that's all i have
thank you thank you thank you mark
i just want to what's what's obvious
here is marquan has been with us for a
little bit and and you're just your
diligence and and your motivation and
your problem solving it's been so great
to have so we appreciate that and he's
been wanting to provide council's
knowledge for a little bit so it's great
to have you here and he's gonna be
sticking around for a little bit because
one of our ordinances with visiting
guests we also have david ingram here
hey dave
who helped draft the uh scandaling
fees and fines ordinance coming up so
he's gonna stick around for a little bit
thank you
wonderful thank you mark vaughn we know
you're busy in your little cubicle
thank you so much
um all right we are at item number five
public comments i will remind everyone
that um i need for you to share your
name and your address um so that miss
belter can put that in the minutes and i
would like for you to try very hard um
since there's so many of you to keep it
under uh five minutes if you would
please and thank you all right uh mr uh
yes mr hervey go for it
89 north remington road
i feel like i'm uh i kind of feel like
i'm a city council member
at this point
um
i just i i had i had something that i
wanted to say but i think um i'm gonna
abandon what i had to say uh and i just
want to piggyback on your presentation
marquan um
you know i i i
looking at those numbers and uh just
kind of thinking back to a time
uh living in poverty uh being
born into generation of poverty
as a result of institutional systemic
racism and white supremacy okay
um
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i don't think that anybody in my family
could have afforded that any of those
prices
then or
luckily for me i've been able to scrape
and scratch my way out of poverty uh so
i could probably pay for some of those
but
i don't know very many of my family
members that are able to
pay for any of those things
and it's all really just a band-aid or
approach to a a real problem you know
it's kind of treating the symptom
but not the problem
if we treated the problem
we could get rid of
99 of that stuff
and and
that's that's what the good neighbor
ordinance that uh
that we have written will accomplish
actually the good neighbor ordinance
will probably make your your job a lot
easier
because it treats the problem
it doesn't treat
the symptom you see what i'm saying
any doctor a good doctor tell you
exercise
eat your fruits and vegetables
drink your water and all of those things
so that you maintain good health
right
so that you don't have to take the
medicine by the time you get to the
medicine you've already neglected your
health
okay
so if we take a look
and we pass some measures
that are concrete institutional
changes the system
then we don't need
band-aid solutions to it because we
treated the problem
so i brought some of my
neighbors here with me today i got some
i got some young
i got some
older i won't say oh
uh
and uh they they they're they're in
support of this i don't i don't know how
many people that i know that would be in
support of something like this but i'm
i'm willing to see how many of there it
is
and i think they all
want to get up here and say something to
you
david black
excuse me thank you very much david
black727 montrose avenue been a resident
of bexley for 16 years and i'm also here
to voice some support for this
good neighbor ordinance i don't know how
many of you are familiar with the
background on these they're also known
as
driving equality bills
they've been passed in other places
the research has been done for you i'm
not going to bore you with it
the state of virginia has passed one i
think within the last two weeks the city
of philadelphia passed one and i will
note
that this is not an anti-police type
thing this was actually passed in
philadelphia with the support of their
police in collaboration with their
police force
and the reason for that is is that it
cuts down on the number of interactions
the police have which creates more
safety for citizens for the police for
the community at large
what this bill does is addresses minor
misdemeanors that are often used
and and the studies on this that have
led to these other ordinances which
again you can look up for yourselves but
what they found is these studies lead to
these types of crimes these types of
petty offenses minor misdemeanor driving
offenses
actually uh disproportionately target
black citizens they've done the studies
on this it's not something i've
determined this is not something
somebody else is making up for you the
reason these things are passing in other
communities is because they've done
studies that show that these directly
impact adversely black people
they also tend to affect poor people for
the same reason that this gentleman gave
his presentation tonight you start
getting people going to jail because
they couldn't pay a hundred dollar fine
their license got suspended and all of a
sudden now we have somebody incarcerated
for what a hundred dollar fine i know i
feel a lot safer i'm sure all of you do
too when that happens
so these are things that that directly
affect and impact a portion of our
community um that that
doesn't need to be targeted in this way
and you know we look around bexley and
many of us many of you maybe
have yard signs bexley is very big on
yard signs and these yard signs profess
our support
for this group or that group and how
much we care about them
and i would submit to you that those
yard signs they're great
it's nice to drive through back sleeves
everybody cares but they don't do
anything and they don't mean anything
the fact of the matter is that actually
taking action on something that can
positively impact the community
and groups of different groups of people
not just one group or another those are
the kinds of things that make a
difference
to bexley and i would encourage you guys
to take this opportunity to seriously
consider this ordinance and the positive
impacts it can have on everybody in our
community
instead of
you know relying on yard signs to talk
about how great we are
thank you
good evening my name is mike ebeck i
live at 109 north harrington road i've
been a bachelor resident for six years
i've listened to some of the previous
city council meetings
where pereira
presented some data analysis around
traffic stops
and where brayer and peter wright white
proposed some good neighbor ordinances
as a resident of bexley
i'm requesting that the city council
evaluates enacting these ordinance
through a public and transparent process
in the mayor's statement in the october
12th council meeting he said as long as
there is a feeling by any group such as
prayer or any resident who comes and
speaks the fields of police or profiling
then we need to address those concerns
from all angles
i believe that a transparent review of
all available data will best highlight
these concerns these potential and
issues and examples of police conduct
that we should be championing and that
we should be trying to duplicate
we should celebrate the diversity of
bexley and the surrounding areas and be
willing to make changes to our policies
our practices
to help ensure that everybody feels
welcome and best
thank you
elizabeth
hi good evening john tower 104 north
remington
i've been a
lifelong resident
21 years on my remington address i'm
here in support
of the ordinance
and um
my comments will be brief but i just
want to say that you know i looked at
the
report i believe it was reviewed last
council meeting or the one before but i
looked at it and i thought the
i thought that the data was good i
thought the methodology and analysis
were sound and well thought out
and as i went through the slides and
considered
what i was looking at
it was it was hard for me to reconcile
the disparity
and so
uh i am in support of this i wanted to
voice my opinion
and
uh i just you know
as i think about what this could mean if
we can implement something like this
i just it feels like a win for everybody
and i'm struggling to come up with any
downsides
to trying this
and if the city of bexley
can do this
and be seen
as a leader
in adopting something like this a
proactive approach
that might be the first step
to have the same conversation
at other cities
and i think the report referenced
uh
other suburbs i don't remember arlington
grand view reynoldsburg et cetera this
if this can be one step
in having that kind of conversation
across the city
i just think it is well worth
considering and again i just
i do not see a downside to this
uh and i guess i would finally just
corkia thank you
i've been
particularly over the last couple of
years
a passive supporter
of all the conversations
that we've had around
race and just you coming to my front
door
and sharing this
and getting me out
and speaking in front of a group
if nothing else
i feel good thank you
um so again
that's that's what i wanted to say i'm
in very much support and i
i hope you all will consider this it's a
could be a momentous step forward thank
you
lisa taylor
lisa kaley i live at 198 north remington
road and i'm here to voice my support of
the good neighbor ordinance
my family moved to bexley in 2016 and i
had a sophomore in high school at the
time who was heartbroken about leaving
the state of maryland and when we moved
we visited different high schools and
walked through different communities to
try to get a feel of what our new home
could be and we went to dublin went to
worthington we went to gahanna i mean we
went to lots of different places
but when we walked into bexley high
school first i remember there were these
like they looked like prayer flags in
the front yard my husband and i looked
at each other like that's interesting
that's kind of cool and we walked inside
and there was art everywhere you're like
that's really kind of cool
and when we we spoke to
different people at the school who said
one of the things we love is how
everybody has
the opportunity to stretch themselves
i remember the counselor said something
to my daughter about we have a star
football player who's also in theater
and
you know we have kids who are all you
know in the art wing who are also
um doing
something you wouldn't consider
necessarily an artist to do
and i thought that's great that's a it's
a place with opportunities with open
minds this sounds like a really
wonderful place to move to
but there are some things in bexley that
have been really hurting my heart at the
same time
when my neighbors say things like
i don't really feel safe
with my son
who is a black teenager being alone at
night or driving his car alone at night
here and having to have those
conversations
um and and hearing
adult neighbors who've had experiences
with systemic
racism
through the police department just
because of
um what we are trained to see or look
for
dealing with personal racism is really
uncomfortable
right you got to face a lot of the
assumptions that you know you you may
have not really been taught outright but
those lessons are just kind of we learn
them
and the same thing is true for our
systems and our institutions it's
uncomfortable it can be embarrassing
to say hey you know we really do have a
problem
with institutionalized racism but you
know what we do and we need to be able
to have that discomfort
and move through it
so i'm not sure if i actually made any
sense because i didn't write anything
down
but those are some of the reasons why i
really support this ordinance i want
bexley to be that place that we came to
when we visited here
and felt so much hope
thank you
his name i you know
got it
freeman was a lot easier
um so my friend uh felicia plants me had
to leave to pick up her daughter so if i
can i will read hers and mine i believe
it will be
under the time
well i'm going to do felicia's first so
my name is felicia blansky i am a six
year bexley resident living at 98 north
remington road we moved to bexley for
the schools however we soon learned that
bexley is so much more and we especially
appreciate the great strides the city
has made in community conservation and
equality but as the mayor stated there
is always more work to do and that is
why i am here tonight
to say that for me the number one
priority is to make sure that my black
neighbors and those passing through our
city feel safe and i ask that you make
this your number one priority
by passing legislation like the good
neighbor ordinance ordinances
being recommended by brayer which are
very similar to those in the driving
equality bill that recently passed in
philadelphia
and that you do not stop there
but follow through with the plan for
training evaluation to make sure that
they are effective
thank
you
okay so now my turn
i
my name is flo plagens i'm also a
five-year bexley resident
i reside at 312 north remington road
i am also like so many others here
tonight um here to support and ask that
the city adopts the good neighbor
ordinance as proposed by prayer
as some of my fellow neighbors have
already expressed
i too my family was drawn to bexley
for the school district and also the
forward thinking policies
there are so many initiatives that
bexley has implemented that leads in
central ohio and the state
however
there are practices and policies that
have been in place that are inherently
racist and negatively and negatively
impact our black residents and neighbors
disproportionately
by adopting these ordinances bexley will
be taking steps to dismantle
institutional and systemic racism
and will find itself again leading
central ohio
i for one
am very excited for the very impactful
work that you will do
thank you for your time
hi my name is maddie marsh and i'm a
class of 2017 graduate and a 22-year
fifth generation bexley resident living
at 64 stanbury avenue
i'm here as a bexley community member
and support of the good neighbor
ordinance i request that you enact the
good neighbor ordinance as proposed by
brer at the bexley city council meeting
on october 12th
i reached out to some of my fellow class
of 2017 graduates some of them are here
today um and the following community
members support this ordinance aaron
taurus maggie walker julia cohn sofa
petrov leah pallidi
ben martin lindsey aldridge logan meyer
zoe zigler john corcella nick de la cruz
eric crane ella emrick kyle benson holly
dunn amanda mara
lauren britt lauren woodford wade lewis
simon cruz and here today maggie butler
brie tony olivia weinstock abby sapp and
cape bridge
as young people we recognize the
disproportionate policing that occurs in
our community and want to be the
generation to end it i support this
ordinance because i believe it will
prioritize and enable our community to
feel the same safety that i
as a white woman have always felt in
bexley i want my black and brown friends
and community members to be able to live
with the same level of ease and comfort
with the police that i do
in high school my white friends and i
were able to comfortably make mistakes i
was never scared that i would have an
intense altercation or really any
altercation at all with the police even
if i was breaking the law as high
schoolers sometimes do
um that was never even on my radar
i was always taught that the police
would protect and serve me and i
believed it because in bexley they do
protect and serve me because of the way
that i look
unfortunately that's not the reality for
black and brown folks in our community
they're often looked at as a threat or
as an outsider and that's not fair that
is not just and that is not how policing
should be
i would just like for all community
members to feel the police are there to
protect and serve everyone and not just
people that look like me
that is why i support the good neighbor
ordinance thank
you hi
my name is mary beth henderson i am a 22
year bexley resident i live at 66 north
remington road
and i am here to
encourage you city council to please
adopt this good neighbor paulus
ordinance as that was proposed by
brayer
at last month's city council meeting
i do
i do believe it
that many of my neighbors have
said
the reasons and the benefits
so much more eloquently than i can
in my 22 years in bexley
um
i've
i think it would free up
our police officers to respond
to true emergencies and um like the name
of this ordinance says good neighbor
policies
good neighbor ordinance
when
12 years ago when my husband was
dying of cancer i in his last year of
cancer treatment and life
i called 911
several times from the home when he
collapsed and needed to be transported
to the james
every time a squad arrived at our house
a bexley police officer also
arrived to see if there was any further
service
to
make sure i had a way to get to the
hospital to make sure i secured my home
when i left and under those
circumstances as emergency circumstances
this would be a better use of our
officers time and service
and training
if this ordinance was adopted and
they could be
doing these kinds of services
rather than
stopping someone for a tail light out
that's
again not eloquent but please consider
this ordinance thank you city council
oregon
hi my name is marga corrigan i live at
78 north remington um i've been a
resident of bexley for almost nine years
now um and i'm here tonight you know as
a resident of bexley to request that you
enact the good neighbor ordinance that's
proposed by brayer and peter white at
the last two council meetings thank you
elena smith
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good evening
my name is alita smith i am a six-year
resident of buxley i live at 216 north
roosevelt avenue
i'm married
my husband and i have two beautiful
children that attend maryland elementary
when we moved to bexley we envisioned
joining a city full of momentum and
promise
a city that wouldn't rest on its history
but always strive to improve itself
to become better each and every day year
over year
two years ago and twenty well almost two
years ago in 2020 a career opportunity
came up for me that we couldn't turn
down in pittsburgh
and we made plans to leave this city and
we were very very sad about it at the
time
over the course of the champ pandemic we
changed our minds uh in part because of
the promise of the city and the
connections
that we've made here that we hold dear
and in our belief
in the capability and ability of this
city and its citizens and its leaders
to improve
to make life better
to demonstrate
our hearts through the work that we do
as a community
we felt so strongly that this city's
vision and values aligned with our
families
that we decided to stay
however i've
been deeply saddened by this city
recently
recent events have led me to question
whether this community is indeed
committed to the values
that we hold here as a family
as i watched the previous two city
council meetings i was dismayed and
disappointed
by the responses to the presentation on
traffic citations by peter white and
corchia tony
on behalf of the bexley residence
against institutional racism group
known as brayer
i want to see the city
be the city i dreamt it was to be full
of momentum and promise but to do so we
must be willing
to question our practices our policies
our habits our heritage our legacy to do
so we must be willing to consider new
opportunities new approaches and new
ways of thinking
we must be curious and we must be
willing to embrace change we cannot move
forward as a city
by standing in place where we are
i'm here tonight as a citizen of the
city to request that you enact the good
neighbor ordinance as proposed at the
previous city council meetings
i support the good neighbor ordinance as
an actionable next step
to ensuring equity and fairness and
integrity
respect and empathy not only for the
cities for the citizens of bexley but
for our neighbors
and those in our surrounding communities
i really hope
that we
can seek action that demonstrates our
commitment to our values
and that we have a willingness to tackle
big issues tough issues societal issues
with open hearts compassion and a
willingness to improve the lives
of all
thank you
hello my name is michael vincent i'm a
48-year bexley resident living at 184
north remington road
and i'm here as a bexley resident
to request that you enact the good
neighbor ordinances proposed by prayer
at the last city council meeting
i still stand here with prayer and i
also stand here with the to support
bexley police because this ordinance
does both
now as a teacher the past couple of
years i've had the opportunity to look
at myself
and my relationships with my black and
brown students
it was uncomfortable
but this reflection has helped me
grow so i'm asking the city of council
to look at this uncomfortable
relationship that we have with our black
and brown residents
and our black and brown neighbors
the good neighbor ordinance is a huge
step forward to building a more positive
relationship thank you
candy
that's better than singing
good evening my name is andy plagence uh
i'm a five-year resident of bexley i
reside at 312 north remington road um
i'm also here tonight to demonstrate my
support um
for the good neighbor ordinances as
presented by braer at the previous
council meeting
and then encourage you to take
take action and enact those ordinances
that's it thank you
hi my name is kristen oganowski i live
at 918 chelsea avenue and i think i'm a
12-year resident of bexley at this point
um i am also here to voice my support
for the good neighbor ordinance as
proposed by brayer at the last city
council meeting
i'll keep my remarks brief i think this
is a way to make concrete the values
that bexley purports to hold values
related to fairness values related to
justice
and i think too it's a way for bexley to
be a leader
in responding to not just current
instances of institutional racism but
also a history of institutional racism
one that bexley cannot deny as a city
all right thank you
good evening i'm mary goddessman 893
francis avenue i've been a bexley
resident for 26 plus years now
and no doubt you know that i'm also here
to express my support for the rare
ordinance the good neighbor ordinance
so
earlier we heard mark quan share with us
the many steps that have been taken
to make the
court experience better for people
coming here and i applaud and support
those things but
that is treatment
for an ill
that largely did not have to happen
so most of you know that i am a
pediatric nurse practitioner
and as any good physician or nurse
practitioner will tell you
an ounce of prevention is worth a pound
of cure
and the cure
here
is uh phenomenally large i also know
that
our
police officers tend to direct most of
the
people sighted
who
are not bexley residents to the franklin
county municipal court so all of the
kind and
good-hearted efforts to mitigate harm to
others
never reaches them there's nothing that
reaches them who are assigned to the
franklin county municipal court
so the ounce of prevention
is the good neighbor ordinance and i
strongly urge you to pass it
i want to take this time also to express
my thanks to richard sharp
for his many years of service on city
council
and i know the next council will be the
poor for not having you be part of it
but thank you richard and thank you also
bill harvey for your many years of
service to the city
i want to wish you all a happy
thanksgiving
and i hope that you will reflect on the
fact
that that
a buddhist monk has put forward
that compassion
makes you happy
and the good neighbor ordinance
is
a compassionate ordinance you can add to
your happiness at thanksgiving and
coming into this holiday season
by acting
expeditiously
to pass the good neighbor ordinance
thank you
good evening my name is kevin acton i
live at 894
south remington
i'm here again i'm obviously like all
the people with me here i am in support
of the good neighbor ordinance
and encourage you and ask that you adopt
the good neighbor ordinance it really is
the right thing to do
and it really i don't know like i just
love what's been said it is a win for
everybody it's a win for our city i've
always been so proud of bexley for so
many reasons the schools let's just you
know
we have great schools
i want
great things for all people whether or
not they're residents whether or not
they're passing through i want people to
be safe and feel safe and when we have
traffic stops and things for things that
are not actually causing people to be
unsafe in equipment violation
but what the driver and the people in
that car go through
is not good for their health i'm
positive and when i see somebody stopped
for something that i guess i see an old
car
you know and two cops
i'm nervous and i think that this good
neighbor ordinance would really be great
for all of us i actually know that it
would be thank you for your time thank
you
madam president that's all the names i
have thank you
thank you for joining us this evening we
are going to uh move on to the
president's report
um
i would like to mention that
monique
um
uh
i also wanted to say that we need to
make sure that um
your mic is out
thank you
we need to make sure that don overly
knows that um she's planning on having
the police academy
um
graduation here on the 23rd
and we do not
okay you did awesome okay perfect
wonderful
i
yeah
yes and you will note in our next set
and we'll talk about it when we get to
it but the calendar will will be very
the one that i am proposing um will
reflect um
a
a november
schedule very similar to this one i'm
sorry i'm having problems concentrating
with all the people going in and out and
in and out so
um
i think i feel like there was one other
thing i wanted to say but i will move on
to um
administrative updates if that's what
you want to do mr kessler
oh you
that's right
do you have anything to actually i just
have one quick thing thank you sorry and
you'll have you'll have an ordinance on
this i think next tuesday but some of
you may have heard that the state of
ohio passed a bill and dewine signed it
allowing for fireworks to go off on
certain day that individuals can can set
off fireworks um on certain individual
days including juneteenth diwali july
4th some weekends anyway
but the cities can uh supersede that uh
allowance and still ban
blowing up fireworks and i believe don't
get excited
you will see an ordinance to that effect
coming next week in case you are
thinking about that jen i sent that
draft to you and now we'll talk about
we'll talk about it
awesome awesome
i also want council i i mean perhaps one
of the things that i wanted to make sure
that i said was a big
um
welcome to um to a special people who
will be joining us um in january who
have joined us to tonight um sam
marcelino he's going to be one of our
colleagues
[Applause]
and matthew mcpeek who is going to have
big
shoes to fill with uh mr harvey
welcome guys i'm so glad that you're
here and congratulations i'm i'm really
looking forward to working with all of
you so
thank you so much for joining us um
uh
administrative reports are you okay to
move on with administrative reports or
did you want to yeah i was going to ask
do we have a couple visitors if we could
move to the ordinances and resolutions
within presenters just to go through 47
and 21. is that okay is it okay with
everyone
with all of council to allow for our
visitors um
we had a lengthy uh public comment
tonight and i want um
that
the two gentlemen who have joined us um
for presentations to be able to
take their leave at a fairly decent time
so
um
i will then turn it over to you then
thank you second reading of ordinance 47
4721 to amend section 408.01 d of the
codified ordinances in order to allow
for income-based fines reminder
misdemeanors introduced by ms robinson
oh it says this is the second reading
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so yes as i mentioned last week when
this ordinance was introduced um you
know in america we we typically fi or
fines are imposed without regard to
income and the result is a system that
often traps low-income offenders in a
cycle of debt and jail the introduction
of this ordinance seeks to number one
ensure that the system doesn't
disproportionately impact those from
lower income households and two that
we're treating offenders with equity and
proportionality and we are really really
fortunate today to have david ingram and
of course marquan he's going to be
called up again it's a return visit
to talk about this ordinance and give us
a little more detail unless you have
anything more that you want to add
before they step to the mic no maybe
just david if you want to you and mark
one want to come up um
david uh
just you guys might have heard me say
this before but david was our prosecutor
at the time
he quit but uh
at the time and we started talking about
a footnote that we had seen in a
columbus planning document about this
idea of income-based
um
fines
and uh
we you set up a call with the columbus
uh prosecutor's office which was awesome
and and we realized it was sort of like
way not not even close to fruition with
what they were working on so we started
to because of course the first thing we
like to do is steal language from other
people and so we're like
darn now we have to make our own
language so david helped
conceptualize and craft this ordinance
and uh
marquan has been really active and as
we've talked through it and obviously as
you just heard many of our other
approaches so
if you want to
i don't know how you want to do this jen
if you want to have them sort of
talk through it or counsel ask questions
or how would you like to proceed
a little bit first and then um if
council has questions um we can ask at
that point that's awesome
um well council uh woman uh
jenna robertson really summed it up uh
what we were looking to do here in the
court um when i joined mayor myself um
madison kevin shannon and we all really
wanted to provide a greater service uh
to the community the people that came
through bexley and the people that were
currently pending before us
with that we
enhance the court rules we provide the
public defender program which is
innovative as well as the linkages to
the um services provided with community
service
but to be a little bit more innovative
we wanted to have a income based fine
program to again meet people where
they're at and break that cycle of
reoffending you get a warrant because
you don't have the money to pay for a
ticket then you
you're just going back and forth and it
never ends so what we're looking to do
is to break that cycle and by doing this
we are looking at doing the
discretionary income taking 10 percent
of discretionary income
on a chart and saying here's where you
can pay
most of the chart for the lower income
is going to be zero but by marrying this
program with the community service
programs i still think that we'll be
able to meet our end um which is making
sure that justice is done equally in
some way shape or form
thank you
yeah just to
piggyback off of what david said um
i certainly agree with him from my own
anecdotal experience dealing with people
i know this is something that many
people who are engaged in the process
will
definitely
would like to do
so i think
just like he said meeting people where
they are
would definitely go a long way
in terms of
providing equitable justice
for for everyone
does council have questions i do tell
tell me your thoughts on someone who is
a repeat
offender
yes ma'am well i say the prosecutor
always has discretion as well as the
magistrate so i think that's really a
conversation that needs to be had
between
leslie the prosecutor and the master to
figure out what's the appropriate way to
stop
this individual from coming back or
solving the problem maybe because there
is some sort of mental health treatment
that
should be
looked at some sort of linkage to some
other community service or housing that
may really solve that problem so it may
be a deeper dive and really a discussion
as to what should or should not be done
in that situation
but a fine uh may be appropriate in that
situation may be a deterrent but again
thinking about it in a smarter way is
probably the best approach
thank you somebody else have mr harvey
i'm not sure i understood what you said
earlier about the
the reduced price and the opportunity to
work do you anticipate instead of the
zero fine dropping it down say to half
the price and then make them do
community service is that sort of what
you'd see through this you can be
flexible so um if on the scale it's zero
dollars that they can pay they really
can't afford a fine so that spine is
going to be a financial burden to that
specific defendant so that's where it's
going to be more appropriate to have
that community service
to serve out some sort of penalty for
the courts
and
if i may clarify one thing that you said
david so so that is uh
that is a scale concept i mean there
could be a scale the way that this is
drafted the magistrate has ultimate with
the city attorney discretion and how to
form those schedules
so it could be nominal it could be a ten
dollar minimum or something i mean it
wouldn't necessarily scale down to zero
but that might be that might be
approached and we envisioned that
um
the defendants would be given part of
this is they're given this information
at the time that there would be an
offense that occurred
so they would be given information about
income scaling they'd also be given
information right away about options for
community service so it's a uh
you know as opposed to them having to
trip into the information
uh it's it's proactive in advance
can we do a good job as soon as the
finish come in
um unless we practice them we kind of
create a nice pipeline and that's what
it flows in in the morning if you will
after when people come in to really
direct them to leslie to start providing
services
and one thing i'll add to that
i was given the expression to give
allowing fans that kid continues
i don't do that
immediately wesley
and um allow her expertise to be
utilized so i definitely
push defendants right away
to her to get the services and resources
and what that turned into is individuals
have a suspended license
or didn't have a registration um and
that was pretty conditioned
what we started seeing is by giving more
continuances the things were coming in
with that licenses happy that they had
their license the registration block was
lifted or doing those things to get them
back on track so here in fact
in our major support we're actually
solving the problem
so um at our last meeting when we had
our first reading of the ordinance 47-21
my question was the community service
that we currently have available through
mayor's court which was a great step
but when i heard that 150 ticket was 10
hours of community service
it made me reflect on 10 hours it you
know is also taking you out of your
daily job and then the cycle continues
so um this just kind of reiterate this
is another layer
um because it's income based
so 150 ticket
could based off of could you give me
like an idea of what that looks like for
someone who's making 15 000 a year
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i'm over the diversion program
having people take time off of work
especially during coding when people are
getting back on their feet
is uh
have
an amazing ask
for them to take off work to lose money
to actually need to support their their
family so we don't want to do that we
want to make sure that we are getting to
our goal is getting some sort of
sanction
but also not making sure making sure
that they still can maintain their
livelihood and things like that
anybody else have any questions for
david or marcon
gentlemen oh
richard please
yeah so um
there's a lot of
discretion an additional discretion and
how how is that equitably applied as
far as
someone
you know are there will there be rules
to
make sure that
you know with the multiple offenses and
things like that that
um
the the
treatment is
equitable even amongst inc income
classes yes um to be very candid with
you it is based upon the individual and
their approach that was my approach to
solve the problem be equitable what i
can say
um taking off kind of the hat and being
very
honest with you the new prosecutor is
someone who aligns with the way i think
and one of my great friends your current
manager is someone i've worked with as a
prosecutor at the city attorney's office
that thought the same way as well so
what i can say um with the people you
have in place garrison carr mastery
shannon
uh mayor kessler mark kwanz that
discretion is going to have a lens to
where it's going to be an equitable lens
to treat every individual
family as well as leslie as well i
apologize for not mentioning her we all
kind of have that approach as what's the
best thing and being fair um in this
situation so it's really going to be
individual based but the people that you
have here working for you
are focused on in that area
matthew
so i guess
my question would be and i'm asking
because you you're the you guys are the
experts here i'm i'm not if
i love the people we have in place now
but for the longevity of this to make
sure it's rigid you know 100 years from
now or 50 years from now or you know for
a long time
should we have a scale
or like a financial scale
but then also leave it
up to
you know the magistrate or the
prosecutor
for um
uh
volunteer
um time
yeah yeah we should yes i believe that
is the goal of the audience is to allow
that discretion one there is a scale but
there also
is that discretion for uh
is the hard scale in this do we have
that as an attachment the hard scale is
not it was a percentage um so we we
could
i can can we work together on maybe
putting something that
that gives at least an example for you
to look at and kind of understand more
clearly yeah like if you if this is your
income this is it this is
this something like that
yeah okay i haven't seen that well so
that was
to be clear and i think maybe
there has david drafted a a concept for
that
but the ordinance isn't doesn't codify
that right so it doesn't make that law
the ordinance as it's written provides
for the magistrate and city attorney
to agree with that and the and
by design when we wrote that it was
designed to provide them with a little
bit of flexibility so that they could
you know work through the program and
administer it with
their wisdom and discretion um
but if obviously it's it's console's
prerogative so if you guys wanted to
codify a scale
you can do that
um
it's just it's a it's a logical question
yeah i i agree with you
like we love who we have now but we
certainly want to make sure that going
forward that there's an understanding of
how this works and why it was put into
place in the first place so i you know i
love the idea of a scale
and with the magistrate having some
flexibility in terms of how they um you
know potentially deal with repeat
offenders or you know deal with
individual um
cases as they come up i think that's an
important part of this which is what
makes it so special but having that
scale that provides a guideline i think
is is a really good way to approach this
yeah i'm i'd be in favor of that because
i think it makes it just you know here
it is and
i think it would be good
i'm going to give the counterpoint i
think it's a bad idea frankly from a
policy standpoint to put he's shaking he
said yes i want you to see that
um and
believe me i i don't do criminal laws so
but i think from a policy standpoint
it's a bad idea to codify a specific
scale that cannot be
changed or well let me say a couple
things it even if you have wording that
says and the magistrate has discretion
if i'm the magistrate i'm going to feel
that i need to
deviate a lot less and have fewer less
flexibility um if it's if it's codified
number one number two
you know i hear what you're saying that
we have good people now but we might
have crappy people later i'm
paraphrasing um
you know i hear that in collective
bargaining all the time oh we love chief
reinhardt but he's not going to be here
forever so we better put all this
language in a collective bargaining
agreement
first of all hopefully
i mean i i will tell you that i have
immense respect for our current
magistrate and i know nobody is
disagreeing with that no no i know
you're not saying my point is that i
think we could benefit a lot from giving
him the flexibility and learn so that if
necessary down the road if we have a
magistrate that council or a future
council doesn't trust as much you can
always put it in an ordinance then um
but i would strongly recommend that we
let the quote well not quote unquote the
actual professionals meaning the
prosecutor and the magistrate and i'll
help but they know more than i do and
you know having a public defender have
input i i would go that route that's my
recommendation
follow
i guess all i was saying was a financial
sliding scale and leave it up to the
magistrate's discretion as far as
community service or
financial so they had some discretion of
which to apply you know case-by-case
basis but just a
you know you make this it's this you
make this this
i'm sorry
i wouldn't even put that in the
ordinance but again it's obviously if
council wants to it's fine
mr harvey has his hands back
i agree with what mark's saying and
frankly
this is not going to be in place for 50
years
it will
you or a future council should certainly
look at it in two years or four years
and say how is it working do we have the
right people what do we need to do to
change that that would be my
assumption of what's going on if you put
it in and let it go with or without a
scale
you
that council would be uh
not following what i believe would be
their responsibility these are the kinds
of things you you look at
nobody is saying this is the perfect
solution they're saying we think it's a
work let's try for they're not saying
this try it for two or three years and
then say what do we need to do
situations will change the state laws
will change
so
you need to think about that as you go
through these things so
that's just my two cents
is that something that we can put
is that
checking on it every two years is that
something that can go into it
yeah you can but i wouldn't i wouldn't
necessarily put it but it can't i'm just
definitely i don't know i mean you know
we said we were going to revisit the
marijuana this uh dispensary stuff and
you know we really kind of didn't
i mean it's something that needs to be
under everyone's radar probably
primarily the safety chair and the mayor
president
if i
can we get mr sharp and then i'll come
back to you mr sharp
and then that begs the question what's
the criteria for evaluating whether
it's successful or not i mean
there can be
statistics that
you can look at like number repeat
um violations increasing you know
because people feel that they can get
away with it
or
i don't know what else there
there would be to evaluate this success
more accidents or i i don't know and
same thing with the good neighbor
uh policy is you know how how
would it be evaluated we don't get a lot
of
police statistics as it is
um
or analysis of that by council or or
anyone that i'm aware of maybe the mayor
looks at more detailed reports
periodically
but
potentially
along with this process i was con i was
thinking speaking with jen and korkia
the other day going over the good
neighbor policy is that
that there maybe should be
a area that looks at crime statistics
and evaluates them similar to the way
the finance committee looks at our
financial statements on the monthly
basis um you know are there increasing
traffic
crashes are they occurring in specific
areas
and so
that might be something for a future
council to consider maybe an outside
task force
or a commission just to to review
um
crime and traffic statistics and look
trying to be uh proactive
in evaluating where the need is so thank
you councilmember i would definitely say
another measuring or a tool would be a
number of warrants is there a reduction
in the number of warrants that we would
see
as a result of this program that would
be something that you could look at and
reassess
two years three years from now i mean
with the administrative agencies you
have a five year world review maybe
that's something that you can kind of
keep
uh you know floating doctor or however
the city attorney you know advises um to
just review this ordinance and just to
measure its success or failures and how
to tweak it
um just so as a means of comparison the
way that um the way that our code
currently reads uh
a speeding ticket the court has the
ability to set the speeding ticket up to
500 which obviously we don't do that
we you heard we have 115 speeding
tickets so
the way the way our code currently reads
there's a lot of discretion within the
court to determine the fee schedule and
to and to to come up with this this
this would be consistent with how our
our panel is and if you look at 408.01
you can get a feel for
how it's currently worded
um council sets a top end and as you
heard today we
we reside
in a place very much below that
council could at any time you know raise
the ticket
make the court do certain things but
having that discretion has been
successful for us i think
council are you ready for us to give
these gentlemen their leave
any questions for them
no
are you sure thank you so much for
saying thank you for your time thank you
guys
really appreciate it thank you
all right nothing like going to a public
meeting for your for your uh evening
time
the entertainment yes i mean i just want
to point out and again i don't i don't
mean to suggest that this is the only
thing that's not i'm sorry
yeah
this is not to bother you with
thank you thank you david so much take
care be well um
but but again the these are these and
the next ordinance we're about to read
which is kind of a no-brainer in my view
um to pass
are examples of and not the end of the
list but now part of the list of things
that the city really is doing in an
innovative way in an effort to
level the playing field and be more fair
so i don't want that to get lost on the
details that are also very important um
but the big picture thing is that you
know this is just another
example of
how mayor's court has been modified in
the last couple of years in in i think a
really smart and appropriate way
the council and the mayor should be
commended for that
thank you so much and mark
take care
tell valerie said hello
be well
um
was it your thought um
mr mayor that we would continue now
with our um
budget or was it your thought that we
would go back up to
kindness to some directors who are
waiting for the update we might want to
go there okay that's what i was thinking
and um if if my colleagues are okay with
that i'm gonna go
ahead to the administrative back up to
the administrative updates all right
okay
so
andy they sure
he is
he's there yeah he is i'm gonna
oh we know he's there he's he's he's on
for he's on a lot tonight
oh yeah hot seat andy basically hot seat
for the budget tonight
on the hot seat
all right
welcome
as far as my report i do not have
anything to add to it tonight
all right well
we love those leaf picker-uppers so
thank you so much i think that um
richard sharp has a comment or a
question for you i lost half of my
council what happened yeah um
i really appre appreciate the the job
that the street crew has done but are
they a little bit too efficient on the
second round as
the um
i had my neighbors say
they just came by last week and then
they're here again this week and no one
has leaves out so
and a lot of the leaves are still in the
trees so
um
usually richard we do three three runs
around the city
i'm sure it'll probably be more this
year just by the the way the leads are
hanging on
i mean we pretty much plan on every year
running right up till christmas time
um
i don't know
there shouldn't have been a crew there
one week and back the next week i don't
know if there was something that got
missed or maybe construction or
something but uh that usually is not the
case
stop being so efficient andy okay let
him know
you're on it too much any other
questions for mr bayshore
all right
stay tuned you'll be back soon
moving on
thank you moving on to uh chief
reinhardt
nothing beyond my written report ma'am
we had a an exciting event
today that i was able to uh join our
officers um officer william grant um has
um retired after 33 years of service and
he was
in the military prior to that am i
correct
yes ma'am air force security services
yes so
um a big congratulations goes out to him
from all of us
um
anybody have anything for the chief
tonight
assad hi chief reinhardt um i just
wanted to reiterate in the report as
you've spoken to us at every meeting to
just remind the community to do their
due diligence and lock up their cars
lock up their houses so that it's a
deterrent from crime happening in our
community um
so just wanted to reiterate that as
we're seeing
a lot of activity and some repeat
activity as you say here in your report
as well so just a reminder to the
community to uh
to do their due diligence
lock it
hide it keep it
i'm just gonna keep saying that
important
yep
anybody else have any questions for
is he frozen
or is he just that stiff he's just that
stiff
anybody else have any other questions
for
the chief
thank you chief so much we appreciate it
be safe
thank you
michael price where's michael price
tonight
hello
can you hear me okay
thank you
it's not too far away but
yeah for those of you don't know mike
michael price has an awful looking chair
that is often in the background
and
and we are continuously thinking that we
might need to raise the budget just a
tad just a tad
um
right
yeah or so some doilies or something i'm
not sure
anyway michael
just so you're aware at my budget
presentation next week there might be a
lot of those chairs in the background
but anyway
um i have nothing to add to my written
report
thank you
jen
hey mr price how are you
it's general how are you i'm good i'm
good i had a question i was um i think
excited to see that the board passed the
resolution supporting the recommended
changes to the alcohol framework
um can you speak to that a little bit
more or is that something that you need
to wait until you um
notify residents i'm curious is that are
you allowing more are you allowing less
what does that look like
yeah i mean i can speak to it generally
obviously uh council can't take any
action uh until
we've notified residents but you know
it isn't so much on expanding the amount
of events at this point
um
although it does look at moving uh our
two events per month to 24 events per
year so there's a slight adjustment
there
one of the issues that that addresses or
helps us deal with is
especially during covet is cancellation
and reschedules
where we have a cancellation um you know
as we kind of try to adjust
month to month to what's going on with
covet and somebody makes a decision that
they're not comfortable
uh given mass mandates or given safety
procedures or given the height of you
know the delta variant and they want to
reschedule
out of an abundance of caution for
safety reasons and then we can't get
them into a month that might otherwise
make sense because we've already booked
our two events so that would give us a
little more flexibility to deal with
some of those issues um one of the other
issues that we are are looking at is
around um the language associated with
security measures for events
um
in some of the impacts of kind of the
way the the policy is written that
doesn't give some flexibility
right now because of the limited
flexibility within the policy
for example if a bexie police officer
cannot pick up an event an alcohol event
it goes to the county
uh and currently the county's policy is
requiring two police officers at any
event and so if somebody maybe has this
you know a small shower and wants to
have a toast
you know a baby shower wants to have a
toast
uh and have some champagne they will be
responsible for
uh essentially 100 per hour of security
expenses
and so as we've gone through the policy
there's just some things that we think
we want to tweak to have a little more
flexibility uh to better manage the
space and better you know obviously not
with the intent to eliminate security
and safety measures in place uh but to
have a little more flexibility in how
that's managed
uh to to offer a better product for our
residents and
more accessibility
those are some of the major issues that
we're looking at
all right thank you i appreciate it
anything else for michael price mossad
jessica mike i just wanted to um
say i'm very excited to see that we will
be returning to our menorah lighting and
our tree lighting and i love the
addition of jeffrey mansion preschoolers
coming out to carol
at the tree lining that's super exciting
so it's a great tradition and i'm glad
to see that it's back in person this
year so thanks for uh all you've done to
support and make that happen the
community will
be excited to be out there together
yeah thanks jess the uh the preschool
change was uh again we're still we're
still dealing with uh coveted safety
measures with our preschool and normally
we would have a
you know all classroom holiday event um
but because we have to keep our
classrooms separated especially in the
indoor space
we thought a cool way to have those kids
sort of celebrate the holidays was to
maybe get involved in the outdoor event
and have have their families and parents
be there to be able to support them so
we're excited to be able to do that
right council can we give michael his
leave
thank you michael price
we appreciate you
thanks mike
we'll see you next week for an extended
visit
finance department update
uh i don't have a report but i do have a
question for council at the last meeting
we pre i presented the uh liquor thing
any questions about that can i sign it
mail it back or
richard you'd i think or they want to
ask some questions
i need to respond to the
county about that thank thank you for um
officer bricky i believe who
compiled that the report and i also
asked for comparative information for
cvs and dairy mart a couple of other
high traffic areas
just to see
what what the issues were
in those in um
so
uh the speedway had three pages of of
instances uh nine thefts stops 24
suspicious person's vehicle 21
disturbances and fights which could be
somewhat problematic and due to alcohol
four stolen vehicles three squadrons and
six vehicle crashes
um
so
i'm not suggesting that that council
disapprove anything but um
we might just keep the statistics
with um the application as a comparison
um when it's renewed the next time to
see if there are any trends that we
um
should be considering
okay so i can send it back that's what i
want all right thank you that's what i'm
saying yes
thank you richard for your due diligence
on that and everybody that uh helped to
answer his question
real quick before you i remember the
thing that i forgot
our girls
uh soccer team
are onto states am i right
now they're playing this minute as we
sell the speak they're playing right now
all right they win this game then they
play their next game at lower.com arena
and uh that will be for the state
championship very exciting
gotcha
so do you have someone now that's
texting you if they win
i do
i
i have a drive i have a driver that's
there oh do you
all right we'll stop periodically we'll
stop here periodically
all right mr mayor on to your report
well you stole my thunder because that
was the first thing i was supposed to
say
i was saying i'm kicking it over to jess
to tell you all about it so is there
anything else you want to add to that
it's very exciting it's very exciting
for these young lady lions and scott
james and i who's the head coach of the
bexley lions varsity team
i've had the pleasure of coaching with
him for
four years in softball
teams and in basketball teams so he's
doing a great job and
these ladies their achievements speak
for themselves so go bexley lions and
bring him a win so we can all cheer you
on friday night at the crew stadium
which would be really great so really
excited i guess
all right let me check that out
okay um mayor madison
kessler
it's a good thing i'm leaving right
five laps
um
and not to forget anyone do you also
have didn't i see a sign out in front of
the school about the
cross country
i believe that is also the case very
exciting
yeah uh i i want to a couple things i'll
try to keep this quick i know we have a
long night tonight uh first off
congrats we already said congratulations
to our new uh our new auditor and new
council member welcome and uh looking
forward to serving with you guys um also
congratulations to the school board
candidates
um and to those everybody who ran as we
all know it is
uh it's it's a daunting task to put your
name out and it's a lot of work so
congratulations to everybody
regardless of their finish
um
i want to point out that the turkey trot
is coming up on november 25th i left
that off the calendar but that is at st
albans so make sure to put that in your
calendar
i can attest that no athletic prowess or
physical fitness is actually required
for that so
um it is a it's a fun family event
a couple things to draw your attention
to that i've been working on one of them
we actually have a you know we have a
resolution coming up about the alum
creek bridge so i'll skip that for now
but the bexley city schools and we have
been working on for actually for many
years working on trying to find ways to
patch um broadband broadband inequity in
the city um for the past couple years we
have funded through cares act money um
actual broadband service at residents
homes that were impacted by covid or
actually they didn't just financially
unable to pay for broadband service
because everyone is eligible uh because
of when remote learning was in place so
those funds are
dissipating
or rather no longer applicable as
as students are returning to school and
cares act is expiring all that so
the arp provides funding for broadband
infrastructure
and we're exploring
many different routes for broadband
infrastructure specifically to
underserve areas of our community so um
i don't have anything other than to say
that's something we're working on um we
have multiple quotes multiple concepts
the school district has been engaged and
really helpful as we've worked through
that so
more to come on that i just wanted to be
aware of those conversations happening
natalie has been doing a fantastic job
of compiling the paper version of our
community electricity survey and here is
a
example of where we are today and don't
worry you can still fill one out we've
only
we've only crunched about 500 of them
and correct this is just the paper
results right these are not so but i can
tell you that i looked briefly at the
online results which were about 200 um
people who filled those out
similar similar feedback um especially
that third bullet point and generally
speaking residents were
dramatically in favor of an opt-out
program even if it cost more money and
as you remember those the language of
that was pretty explicit to make sure
that people knew exactly what they were
saying so
500
for this
so our next step i think is to
analyze those as a border control group
or whatever we were talking about and
they come back to council or what we're
going to make a recommendation i think
as a board of control
and uh we and and we will bring it back
to council and i think we're probably
we're receiving less of these yeah so i
think we're probably ready to do that so
let's schedule something in the next
couple weeks it sounds great maybe like
thanksgiving eve or something
while i'm training for the turkey trap
we had a uh we had a coveted 19 task
force last week those task force
meetings have been um as opposed to
bi-weekly they've been called
um sort of just when conditions dictate
so we called it specifically because the
5 to 11 age vaccine was becoming
available
and wanted to just double check where
we're with everything
what we found was that franklin county
by and large
numbers are declining which is awesome
actually
we have mostly
outperformed franklin county and what i
mean by that is we have mostly fared
better than franklin county
in terms of community spread and
incidence rates but that has not been
true over the past
month or two although we are now
starting to taper off and you can see a
chart here that starts to show that this
is just from
august uh through um
last week
so uh the coveted 19 task force um
actually blank asked them what were your
feelings about the mask requirement and
if we should alleviate that at all their
opinion was
that we need to at least follow cdc
guide and cdc guidance continues to be
that if
um
if
our county is with an area of
substantial or high transmission that
people should wear masks indoors and
public spaces uh we are still labeled
high transmission by the cdc even as we
are starting to decline um so they're
they're recommending continued mask
policy within
businesses and public spaces
and
what would change that would be if we go
to a low a low spread or a moderate
spread category or cdc guidelines change
so that's where my head's at with that
um anything to add for those of you i
know lots of you were on that call
yes november 18th is the school
vaccination clinic it's evening hours um
there you go five to eight
i don't know you're
but i believe that you were honed in on
that so yeah
um
uh the
darn has been continuing to administer
our household impact grants uh we're
probably going to be approaching around
250 000 of aid distributed to families
in need uh by the end of the year
um we are out of rapid tests but we're
buying some more we the the free ones
are not readily available anymore
through the state uh program
um anything else
i can't think of anything else okay
it was lively conversation
um and continue if anyone wants to be
involved in those calls let me know so
um hopefully we won't have to have many
more of them but uh that is the update
on that and then the final one is is
we're going to spend a nice evening
together talking about our budget
and uh this is a really subtle cue on
the cover see if you guys can figure out
what that's alluding to
we'll be discussing our capital budget
as well this evening
yes battery-powered street sweeper how
did you know
thank you any questions
any questions for the mayor
saying no
thank you
all right on the transcended january of
the october 26th 2021 city council
meeting minutes
dollar rights transfer from the road and
alley fund of two thousand three percent
ten dollars to the buy retirement funded
to appropriate two thousand three
hundred seventy nine dollars from the
bond repair refund to appropriate forty
three thousand three or seven dollars
from the water fund and to appropriate
one thousand nine hundred four dollars
for the sewer fashion
net service like south roosevelt
dashboard
improvement project that was introduced
by mr marco and ordinance
4321 to authorize the mayor and auditor
to enter into a project between city
bexley and franklin county public health
that was introduced by mr box all right
a lengthy consent agenda
um
are there any comments or questions from
council
on the consent agenda
any comments or questions from those
joining us tonight on the consent agenda
is there a motion
to approve thank you mr markrum second
second second by mr klingwood mr auditor
ms robinson
yes message yes mrs
yes mr markham yes mr sharp yes mr
klingler yes pass
all right moving
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second on
under number 10. well that's what we
need to do right now
please and thank you all right second
reading of
the ordinances
of our official city attorney
and
wait now you know i gotta destroy you
guys with the approval of that charter
where you think it's the last time you
have to approve you get rid of me
right and last time you actually
[Laughter]
an ordinance authorizing appropriations
for calendar year beginning january 1st
2022 to confirm the appointment of mark
fisher's city attorney to create an
infrastructure development fund
pre-authorized transfers to the capital
improvements infrastructure fund and
budget stability fund of 500 000
1 million 100 000 and 100 000 respected
we have a lot of easter eggs in that
ordinance just see who can
we need a period we need a period we
need what's excel so features typing in
excel and i don't think it's solid
all right
so so
troy markham
thank you very much uh
send up your guys
okay um a couple
things before we get going we've got a
lot of fun tonight we're we have andy
bayshore here from the service
department we're gonna talk a capital
budget
and are you covering auditor's budget
tonight feature is great
okay um but on page two of the budget
hand it out
all right
do you guys have copies do we
we we should have extra copies
i'm sorry for only now asking
um i wanted to
so page two shows changes that have
occurred since the uh
last meeting
there was an increase in the proposed
capital fund transfer
a corresponding decrease in the road and
alley fund transfer
and
i'll i think i'll
dive into that real quickly to explain
that
i discussed the road and alley fund
transfer
the purpose of that was to begin to
bring
full funding of sidewalks in-house
as we discussed it some more
uh there is a
we're in the it's a three-year cycle
that we're in we're in we're entering
right now adjudicating the third year so
the
out of equity like getting through the
final it's like the western or sorry
eastern branch of the city
then we everyone would be you know have
had their equal number of times assessed
so that program would start in 2023
wait yeah three
so uh no need to budget for it this year
uh but i'm now on the record stated that
would be the intent as we come into 2023
and future council gets to argue about
that or agree
um
or you
just to be clear
if if
the future council doesn't do that next
year you just continue the same process
so next year is just we we either change
it next year
or it stays the same for another three
years it'll also require a ordinance so
we should probably maybe work on that
first and then let the budget follow
that right so that's something for
future service
chair to uh have fun with
future service chair sam marcelino to
deal with doing this
do we do we get to weigh in on
any comments regarding that future
richard sharp gets to weigh in on the
comments just kidding madam president
if i can be if i can if i can um have
shades of mark master i would not
recommend
doing
what was proposed maybe a cap on the
amount that can be
that a resident is responsible for but i
don't know that we want to get back into
energy pain for all the sidewalk
replacements
that are not city tree created
fully noted
the rita fee estimate revision was just
a change as beecher looked at the
numbers increased traffic and safety's
budget in the street letting account and
you will cover that decreased fuel
budget annual cover decreased automated
meter maintenance annual cover
uh
we corrected our road now income
forecast um it was minor but we received
more we're receiving more tax income
than was forecasted
uh
we
at now in your packet is are the tif
budgets in the capital budget and there
were some typographical corrections
throughout we did not
carry our typographical review to the
ordinance itself so uh that'll be
future fun for future sharp okay so uh
mr bayshore
the time you have been waiting for has
arrived
are you with us andy
there he is
i'm here
um so what we
andy do you have in order what you're
going to be talking about
uh yeah mayor i was just gonna go
through um each one of my uh account
pages and i was gonna start with page 21
which was the street lighting
all right we are taking you to 21.
and magnifying glasses are optional
but maybe necessary
okay
okay i'll try to move through this
fairly quick um our personnel services
that's
beecher takes on all my sheets will go
over tonight beaches
did all that work for me so i'll go over
the um
the account line items and i'll
highlight
any changes
um i have some increases
in the second line item the repair
maintenance supplies
i did raise just because
the street light poles
that's a huge expense out of that
account and the polls have went up the
replacement polls
um
the very next two line items and traffic
and safety studies also the traffic and
monitoring maintenance
um
both those line items i use um a lot of
contractor work for
and the labor rates are starting to
skyrocket so i have
increased both of those accounts
trying to be prepared for 2022.
andy also let's just real quickly point
out traffic and safety studies we've
kicked up as well for the livingston
just there are additional studies that
are going into livingston and surveys
and that sort of thing and safe safety
studies so augmenting what we're doing
there we're anticipating
uh those happening next year
correct
um
then the very last one is my alley light
enhancement
we dropped it last year and i was just
trying to raise it back
to where it was
a year prior
just to add some more alley lights to
some of the alleys we're almost done
with the middle section and i will then
move the project to the north north
bexley
before
andy there's uh i want to share
something that we talked through when we
were reviewing this internally which is
um
last year and you like an example of
that is the alley lighting enhancement
and some other other line items last
year
with the uncertainty of covid and not
knowing what was happening with our
income stream we clamped down a lot in
our budget so you'll see some increases
year over year
some of those are because we're trying
to restore funding that got lost
we
are at a point today in november where
we're really hurting on many of our line
items because of that you know because
we we did cut back
so andy's having to use more duct tape
than normal
which is a problem because there's no
money left in the duct tape account
uh but uh yes
all joking aside that's some of what
you're going to see through this budget
process is restoration to pre-co
pre-2021 levels so what seems like a big
increase in some instances is
in some instances is not really
historically
thanks andy
is there any questions i can answer on
this page
hey andy it's jess
um quick question just out of curiosity
because labor wages and you said
skyrocketing is like the common theme
we're hearing right now what
what were we at and then what are we at
now
that um
just what i was referring to is when i
have to use an outside contractor
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we try to do all the work in-house but
some of it we just can't do
but my comment was like some of our
contractors they're just having um
having a lot of problems getting people
to fill positions and
they've already told me that late you
know due to labor increases labor rate
increases that their hourly rate will be
going up
um
i mean i've heard from anywhere you know
where a service call you know
a couple years ago would have been you
know 100 is going to be upwards of 200
this this coming year and that's per
hour
it just varies on the contractor
thank you
andy i'm a big fan of the uh alley
lighting enhancement project um what
point
what phase are we at right now when can
we anticipate this being completed and
coming off the books
um troy i would anticipate i'm hopefully
i'm speculating this will probably be
the last year
um
i i'd want to do this project
you know in 22 and then reevaluate but i
think we're getting towards the end of
it
thank you
um before we go much farther
if the mayor can scroll up to the top i
want to call attention to
council members will see some variation
a wide variation in workers comp going
up and down
and uh some accounts have a big increase
it doesn't look anything in relation to
the payroll account um the city pays one
flat workers compensation
tax rate which is different than private
business which pays different rates
depending on whether people are office
or
a higher risk category and
beecher indicated that
he had used the standard formula for a
number of years
and
he he decided to re-look at the those
allocations and so he adjusted the
allocation
percentages this year
so that's why you're going to see some
funky
numbers
as far as percentage and dollar changes
in the different accounts
mr klingler
i was just curious that the 2020 actual
was the the bottom three line items
um
other under expenditures twenty one
thousand fifteen thousand twenty
thousand i don't know if that's the
those are
are those the actual for 2020 they seem
pretty a whole number
for nashville
the far right column the 2020 actual for
those i didn't
know if that was correct so i would i i
don't know if andy you know off the top
of your head if the outline enhancement
in 2020 of 20 000 is an exact number
what we often see is that it was
budgeted for 20 and maybe the project
was a little bit over that so we had to
use funding from a different line item
but i'm not sure if you recall that
correct
okay
and and one other comment for our
council member elect as he's sitting
through this
we our ordinance budget staff
the total on the staff
line and then the
expense lines so that
um
the individual
line items that we're looking at under
those
categories if they go over or under
budget it does not have to come to
council to reappropriate as long as
the subtotals are within our budget
ordinance
all right can we move on to the next
page please
uh madam president the next page will be
page 23 and that's my service
administration
um
this is a fairly easy one i only have
two um
two changes i have two small increases
one is in my drug testing
we are required for
to do odot random and dot
drug testing and then we also for our
new hires so i did raise that
and then i also raised our office
supplies
we
i raise the office supplies because we
uh tend to borrow a lot of city hall
stuff and this way to uh it'll keep it
all at the shop and we can track that
stuff better
mystery solved natalie
yeah
any questions about this sheet
all right moving on please
um the next page will be page 25. sorry
matthew i just i'm sorry mr klingler has
a just curious
you're decreasing the training budget
for the union by a thousand dollars is
that
what was the um the reason for that
the reason for that a lot of due to the
covet a lot of the training and seminars
and courses and the ccus we've been able
to do um the fellows we've been able to
get them online and through zoom
and
if there has been a fee it has been
much less than going to an actual
conference or seminar
since
we've actually saved money in that due
to the code
go ahead jess
any worry about taking that
out and then not planning to put it back
in when the climate changes or um i was
going to see how but okay
yeah i was going to see how this year
plays out but um i'm pretty confident
we'll be all right this year then i was
going to look at the end of 22
just to see where we're at but
i feel pretty comfortable with reducing
that right now
thank you andy
the next page will be page 25 that's my
vehicle and grouse maintenance
sheet
i have a couple small changes
the first one you'll notice is
the contractual work and grounds
maintenance
that actually was on one po
this past year and we've split it up so
i can better track it
i was actually able to drop it 5000 but
that's
that's where the number is
so it's not actually like a new
a new expense to the city but we just
split it out so i could better track
the contractual work
i did raise um our vehicle maintenance
we're starting to see some of a small
increase just some of the parts um
we've had to pay some extra shipping on
some of the parts for pickups and
cruisers just because they've been back
ordered
i raised that
then the small tools and equipment i did
raise
our street crew right now currently all
of our chainsaws right now that the guys
are using up in the air are electric and
we're trying to get some more of the
electric equipment we do have some now
but we're wanting to
increase that and right now that is a
little more
pricey than traditional
but we are working that way to going all
electric on the tree crew
and then i did raise the fuel
fuel prices are fluctuating and they're
tending to be on the rise
if you lash a lot of electric chainsaws
together can it become a street sweeper
is that an option
yes sir
okay
yeah matt was wondering
any
thing further on this sheet
andy please
okay um our next sheet will be page 33
and that's my street maintenance
andy real quickly before we go into this
for those who are new to watching this
budget process
uh we have i find this can be often
confusing we have a road and alley fund
and we have a street maintenance fund
and so these are different funds that
are funded from different sources which
is why they have their own budgets
so in the instance of street maintenance
fund
as you can see here with the revenue a
lot of that comes from the gas seat gas
excise tax
a little bit from other taxes and fees
so those can be used for a wide variety
of street maintenance related
not just capital but personnel and
supplies
and then we'll be going into the road
nally fund later which is very specific
to the language and the ballot issue or
the rodent alley levy which has to be
specifically
for road alley sidewalk maintenance so
it can be a little confusing so if you
start to think in your head which one
did we just talk about that's very
normal even like you know
15 years into the into the process so
sorry andy
no problem
oh wait one more thing sorry
in in budget orientation so when we have
these funds so these are separate and
discreet from our general fund or
general fund or generalized tax dollars
income tax receipts these these funds
are specifically
income coming in for the specific
purpose
there is a summary sheet andy's not
going to talk about the summary sheet
necessarily we can come back to it that
kind of shows you the overall picture of
money that's coming in money that's
going out and what the fund balance will
carry
andy's then going to go into the
accounts after that which are feeding
into the expenses that are on the
summary sheet so that's how to kind of
interpret that and then of course we can
always answer questions about the
overall summary sheet and some of the
logic behind that
bill would make them up i would answer
them but you know it's just a stylistic
difference
sorry andy all right andy please
continue
no problem um so it's page 33 uh the
straight maintenance
um i have a couple changes on this um
nothing major um the first thing you'll
notice is
to create a line item that says morpsey
invoice
that's an invoice we get every year for
morsi
traditionally we've taken it out of our
one of our street projects
and wanting it to
have its own separate line item just so
i can track that a little better
then right below that are operating
expenses
this was one account we kept flat last
year and we are out of money in that so
i did raise that
we're really starting to notice some of
the supplies and stuff um the materials
are really
rising
um
and then i did raise the sign in marks
i'm trying to get back on schedule
which replaces some of our outdated and
faded signs
per the state requirements
and that would be the only changes on
this on this sheet here
richard
and um i clarified with andy that that's
not um any type of
new
style or formatting like some of the
suburbs are changing their uh street
signs so we're not allocating funds for
doing that other than if there's
like major projects like broad or maine
that it makes sense to do it as part of
those projects
okay andy want to go ahead
sure
our next page will be uh page 45
that's our water administration
as we find that page
water administration is coming out of
the water fund so the water fund is
another enterprise fund funded from
water
water bills so when you pay a water bill
there are three things you're paying
you're paying a water bill you're paying
a sewer bill you're playing a refugee
spill so you're gonna see three funds
coming up here water fund sewer fund
refuse fund respectively
uh what what page was that again andy
on this page
there's one increase and that is
from the city of columbus for our
contract um
that that is raised due to the the cost
from columbus and then the automated
mtu's our automated meter
i was able to drop
right now we have a fair amount of mtu's
in stock and i do not foresee us
needing all the budget we had in the
past for that
so i did drop that
then other than that all the uh linos
remained flat and the same
questions on this sheet
our next sheet will be page 46 that's
our water district water distribution
i do have some changes on this
actually quite a few
i raised our contract professional and
then our regs and compliance
regs and compliance i raised um a little
bit there are going to be some new epa
requirements coming out in 22. i want to
make sure we have enough budget to cover
that
the one major change you'll see is i
have a water meter recalibrate
program
that's a program i'm wanting to start
our meters have not been calibrated
ever since they were installed in 2001
and
every year we we have a water loss that
some could be mystery water leaks or
the meters are out of calibration
so this program would let us
hire a contractor that would come in and
calibrate all the large meters in the
city
to help
see if we actually do have a water loss
or if it actually is a meter problem
and that could
save the city quite a bit of money if we
find
the meters out of calibration
um then i did raise those
repair maintenance supplies
we did notice from not
increasing the budget last year we fell
short in that
account
and also
the taps and meters he's going to have a
large
order at the end of the year
china stock up for 22.
i i have a question for um bill
um
do we have a
a dollar amount quantified as to the
cost of our water
losses between what we bill
residents and what were billed by
columbus do we have a dollar value on
that discrepancy i'm sure we do but i
don't know what it is um but it's not
just the difference between over bill
because there's also regular usage like
from hydrants and stuff that we don't
track
i can tell you that the dollar figure is
probably around three hundred and forty
thousand dollars
because about a 20 loss but it's
um made up in rates so it's being paid
for by the residents the fact that the
system itself
leaks
but it's not a small number it's being
paid for by the residents is that what
you said so our rates our rates cover
our costs
and our costs as a city include a loss
ratio our loss ratio is not unusual
it's pretty normal for a water system or
so i'm told what do i know but um it's
still something that we we constantly
are trying to figure out where it's
coming from
and so the uh
the uh recalibration program is a piece
of that definitely helpful to them and
and and that's a number that i was
interested in too
so the council could gauge
the value of the hundred thousand verses
of potential loss not that's not
uh or realizing that it may not
save the full amount
you know in any one particular year
after this
project has been completed but
you you know that that it
theoretically
you know it could be a
four-month payback you know if the 300
000 was all attributable to
to what
a water main recalibration but um it's
probably like a couple year payback
which is relatively decent
return on an investment
andy are these property owner
recalibrations the meters or is it the
meters that we have coming in
these will be abilities will be all the
large meters so the inch and a half and
bigger meters so be a lot of the
businesses on main street
capital
any large meters is where we're going to
start with
and that this dollar amount should cover
all the large meters
we're not really too concerned with
the smaller meters
we're wanting to focus right now on the
large meters
and also the master meters as well right
eddie
correct
questions on this page
continue andy
the next page will be page 49 and that's
the sewer administration
um there are no changes on this
page other than the increase from
columbus
any questions on this one
mr
uh
yeah i just went back to look at our
ordinance for that's coming up and i
noticed the percentage changes are
different in our projections on the page
one for revenue
the upcoming ordinance shows four
percent and five percent for water and
sewer respectively instead of i think
three and four percent are showing on
our budget numbers
okay but it's
the point is
that we'll need to reconcile those at
some point prior to passage andy you
heard that beecher i'm sure you're
listening you'll we'll fix all that once
we know what those real numbers are
sure we'll take care of it
um questions on that page
all right andy
um moving on will be page 50
and that's our sewer service
um i do have
a couple changes on here um
the first one would be our operating
due to the
remaining flat last year
that account we pretty much drained um
and that would be the the main uh change
on the on this page would just be the
operating
system
one thing i as i'm thinking through this
on the fly a little bit the uh the meter
recalibration we just talked about in
the water fund actually benefits both
sewer and water
uh so i think i split it between the two
funds so we'll
make that change
okay
um the next page would be page 53 the
refuge
before we go beyond page 50 did you
the remediation program we should
probably highlight
so
you want to go ahead andy
i'll let you start
so based upon our historic experience um
and i think we talked about this at a
higher level recently yes kind of
reviewed our numbers with council i feel
like um
we believe that 150 000 in the
remediation program itself
can take us through a second phase
at the very high end of a second phase
of the sewer mediation program that's
assuming that people would that we would
have as many takers as we had the first
phase which is actually not a very
realistic assumption so it's probably
over budgeted
the loan program has yet to
have any takers
last i knew andy has that changed
right
um
the last the last i checked i i don't
think there's been any takers
okay we had uh
500 000 allocated to that up to 500.
um so this is just lowering that
allocation it's the program would exist
still
um but
we don't need to fund it as much as we
had which will then free us up to
um as you can see substantial investment
in sewer improvements so we're really
fast tracking our sewer infrastructure
work
line and above
and
um i think i asked um
andy when we met
but for bill to clarify it in the mayor
um we are not going to be
carrying forward any
encumbered funds from the three and 500
for the remediation program we're not
going to do what with them carrie ford
encumbered funds to
from this year's budget to next year
because there's nothing encumbered right
that
i don't i don't share that
you think we are so i
so the remediation program itself we
will have some of those two thousand
dollar reimbursements and we will know
by the end of the year exactly who those
people are and we'll have pos written
out to them but they might not be paid
out until okay next year it'll be
quantified we're not gonna have an
open-ended additional appropriation if
that's what you mean
right the full 300 won't be
yeah carry
only those
only specific purchase orders to
households that have already gone
through the page and just yeah i just
want to make that clear okay
any other questions on that sheet
andy please
okay the next page will be my refuge
fund
page 53
the only change i have on this page
would be the contract and that would be
due to the price increases from rumpke
and also
our food composting program
other than that everything i kept the
same kept flat
andy you want to talk real quickly about
the personnel changes up in salary and
wages
well i can't if you'd like
i'm trying to
so this is
this is blank um okay yeah so we
remember we've added a dedicated litter
and street sweep into this
that's
responsive to
during our council budget retreat
through his talk about that and also um
business input that i've received on
main street
up our
assistance with you know public spaces
that have litter
and then
this budget does propose a new part-time
position of sustainability programs
coordinator
half of that position would be funded
through the refuse fund
the other half would be funded through
the development
communications and community affairs
account which
we'll talk about at our next council
meeting
and i have a dollar figure for that but
of course it's not at my fingertips so
i'll look it up but it's
30 hour position
and i will tell you what that is in a
second
um the addition of the employee to the
service department will help
just having a dedicated
employee for the sweeper and
you know trash collection
right now that that is all handled from
one of the street department
employees and
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at times you know like right now during
leaf season it's very challenging to uh
to always pull a guy off one of the
crews so this will this will help in the
workflow
any questions on this sheet
yes it's not a question it's just a
highlight um the trash and recycling
receptacles that's what in the past the
cities um used to
purchase the
the new
resident toters and
that are given that that were given out
and sold at a discounted price
um we
i asked andy to keep 5000 in that
account he was originally going to
reduce it to zero so that for small
businesses on main street as we as the
esac and the administration roll out
commercial recycling that that there's
funds to at least initially give some
small
tutors or reduce price tenders to
those businesses
that may not be
want
the big
containers
thank you richard
anything anything from anyone on this
one
andy
please uh madam president that is all i
have that would conclude my budget
that's wonderful oh wait hold on andy
you're not gonna get a let off that easy
i'm going to pull up the capital
perfect budget and have you talk through
the service items and we'll pitch hit a
little bit on this because i know not a
present
yes quick question is it 240k from the
refuse is that the street sweeper and
this one
down in the bottom of the revised budget
for 2021
2020 yes street sweeper but
uh 240 refuse capital yep that's the
street sweeper now the 20 that you're
seeing in there
is what andy's about to talk about
no yeah i was just confirming the 240
was that thing okay i forgot your
peanuts
um
this
has uh this is attac it's a separate uh
attachment on your agenda
but i'm also pulling up on the screen
and i'm also gonna share it so that andy
sees what we're looking at one second
okay so um
coming to the service department
wait let me do something real quick
of course
ignore that okay
um
for service department
uh andy you want to go through those
lines line on them start with pickup
trucks
right now we have three of the electric
f-150s
reserved
um we do not have a build bait on them
yet
we're hoping
we're at the mercy of ford um but this
was the best electric um
pickup i found
hoping um
next summer next fall that we would
actually have these trucks um
and receive them and actually deploy
them in the fleet
um the next one would be
our our backhoes
can you real quickly you want to talk
about the condition of existing pickup
trucks and why that's a need
our pickup trucks um
from not replacing them over
the last several years we've kind of got
behind
behind the ball
we have right now currently
i think our oldest one right now is like
a 2003 we have some 2003
2005
service pickups that are in very uh very
bad shape
um
mechanically we've we've been able to
keep them running and keep them in
service
appearance wise
they're really starting to rust out and
not look very good
we're keeping them running but it's it's
been challenging just because they're
getting so old right now
andy
what's the comparison price of the
electrics to a
diesel or gas whatever you're going to
use
um this would be a half-ton
f-150 um and right now they're telling
me right about 45 000
um
it would be
versus a traditional gas a half ton
i would say probably right around 12 000
more for the the electric version just
half time a half ton
um you know if you would go three
quarter ton uh right now they don't
offer
um you know electric version um in the
three-quarter ton so this would just be
half ton pickups just a normal
normal pickup the the electric models
are
are a little more
and did you look at the
operating cost
between the fuel and the on the gas or
the electric
um
i've tried to it's it's been challenging
just because the the electric
pickups there's not
there's not a whole lot on out there and
we don't have any so it's kind of hard
right now for me to compare them
um
it will require
you know send a couple of the attacks
and mechanics to
some training for the the electric
pickup models just because we don't have
any right now
um so that will be
an additional cost um
that i've been looking into so we could
buy so we could buy four gas or three
electrics roughly
roughly
so there's a lots of reports of
lots of reports of cost savings over the
years with electric first there are also
something to say the others
okay well so it's consumer reports has
done a pretty detailed analysis suvs and
pickup tricks are particularly uh cost
advantageous and electric
um
a few questions um comment do you have
the infrastructure where you store these
pickup trucks to
like the electrical vehicle electric
vehicle infrastructure if we get pickups
to charge
currently we do not um
the f-150 uh which i mean we're planning
on um if we get these you know
installing a couple chargers at the shop
but these these ford models um actually
can just be charged off a
regular extension cord and outlet which
it would take longer
to charge but overnight if they were
plugged in
ford's telling me they would would
charge
and be ready for the next day
but we would look into uh getting at
least a couple chargers
so level two is about 650 bucks to two
heads
so we're
we're that's within the budget
correct
uh quick question question might impress
you
so even though we don't currently have
um
we you know there's different reports
and i get that we would be able to look
at what we currently spend on
maintenance on our
gas
vehicles currently so we would know what
we spent on oil changes routine
maintenance and how much we spent on gas
so we could pull that number to get an
idea
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do you know that
what we spend per half ton pick up on
gas and oil and
i i don't have that info that
information right now matt
we can i mean that's something i could
pull and put together but yeah i don't i
don't have that right now
having said that mr harvey could also
put together analysis we'll probably say
something that's the opposite of our
analysis but nonetheless we will uh
right
any further
on
we have any more
line items that we need to move on to i
think we do right
past the pickup trucks
um
the next line item would be uh it's
titled tobacco buckets and skid loader
attachment and tar kettles
um this would help us our backhoe
buckets our backhoes are in good shape
but our buckets are in need of
replacements um
and the skid loader attachment and the
tar kettle that would help the street
department when when we're doing our
asphalt patches um from our water leaks
or just um
potholes or sinkholes um
this would help them do a little better
job and keeping
it would help to keep all that work
in-house and i wouldn't have to contract
some of that out um
you know for that the big asphalt
patches this would help us
be able to
perform larger larger patches
i'm excited about these stand on leaf
blowers tell us about those
we actually demoed one um two weeks ago
um
it looks like a stand-on um like one of
the mowers uh you know service
department has but it's actually a leaf
blower um
i was looking at getting two of them it
would help
it would decrease our backpack blowers
and a guy would be able to ride on it
and blow
from the tree line right out to the
street in front of the truck
it would decrease on the on the
backpacks but i also think it would uh
increase our speed um
so that's why i was putting in for those
so with the fourth of july could you
have braces with those things like you
do with the
egg toss i'm thinking a main event fun i
would love to um i would love to offer
my um
my my time and yeah try one of those out
[Laughter]
sounds like fun
from from an ergonomic standpoint the
guys probably would like it more right
instead of carrying the backpack lowers
on their backs all day long
um the guys were um yeah they were um
there was quite a bit of disagreement
what crew got to take the demo model out
when we had it in stock so yeah
these would ride up like up and down the
sidewalk right
correct yeah we would be able to go
right down the sidewalk and blow it from
the tree line right
right in front of the truck or out in
front of the truck
i was really surprised on how much
power i mean we did find a couple
decent sized piles that were wet
and where the backpack blowers you know
they'll do it but you know it just takes
the guy a little longer where these um
shot it right off the tree line right
right out into the street
yeah i'd request a presentation with a
special guest at our next meeting yeah
that would be awesome
well i had to send the demo back so i
currently don't have i think we need to
take a council field trip to some very
leafy
street in bexley
all right zero admission grounds crew
equipment
what do you got for me
oh we missed the three studies
yeah
do you want to tell us about the
three-sided shed
yeah the three-sided shed we were going
to put down um at the new uh build down
at del mar and stanwood
um it would be on the back side of the
current
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and it would just help us keep some of
the stuff
out of the weather
we just kind of ran out of space that
was under roof
so that's
we're just trying to keep some of the
stuff out of the weather and give us a
little more
under roof storage
and just to further confuse that andy i
had put 2808 which is the tree uh
building so i think we'll just compare
the amount of available
uh frontage there on the north side to
see what would make most sense maybe
right
and then the zero emissions ground screw
equipment we are looking
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we're trying to get a demo but i would
like to get
one of the battery
electric lawnmowers
it would be the same
comparable size to one of the current
mowers we have
and we're wanting to
try one out um
are those quieter than the regular
yeah
i have some neighbors who will really
love that yeah
actually we talked to him so we've been
talking we've been talking about this we
started
piloting battery-powered blowers and
trimmers and some of them
there's lots of advantages one a primary
advantage is employee health and one of
the things i think i've heard from our
employees
especially with the electric chainsaw
which you guys will be surprised to hear
was not really a major initiative of
mine but it was just the the
benefit of not breathing in the fumes
from those uh chainsaws all day with
tree crews are they lighter are some of
those things lighter
that the the saws that the guys are
actually using in the bucket truck the
electric saws are actually lighter um
and no
no fumes but they are
lighter in weight so the guys really
like that also
and they hold the charge long enough to
do their thing
awesome
all right
i think what else do we have that's
annie that's that right that's andy
really is that all
yeah
are you hoping for something more and
you want to talk about some other
budgets
would you like to cover the budget
sure
thank you
thank you sir be well
thank you me too
all right where'd we go from here mr
kessler
um
because that is late so
uh i think i believe beecher the auditor
and i was gonna cover extra the rest of
the capital budget that will not take
long okay so i will don't worry
good all right
but actually i was thinking matt mcpeak
maybe present that budget instead just
to keep things interesting
i think matt and stammer i remember my
first
after the election i came into the
budget and i was thinking
what did i do
[Laughter]
and she says that every year
so madam president can i give a quick
update because i feel if i say something
maybe they'll score okay so
bexley has been controlling the game we
had three four shots on goal but didn't
go in and then all of a sudden
they got across tipped it in so they're
up one zero five minutes left in the
game so
no not next like
wyoming so
fingers crossed
[Laughter]
yeah let's go let's move on
is beecher there
i am here good evening
i will take uh much less time than andy
as i only have one sheet
um
that's all my own although i touch i
think every other sheets in some way um
so
starting at just the auditor's office
budget um
mine's just page one because i printed
it out in a single sheet i'm not sure
exactly it's right there near the
beginning
okay so if you the first big change
you'll notice up in salaries and wages
we're going down 31
um that is because you'll see a
corresponding increase down contractual
services and that is because we are
going to
um
be contracting with angio kelly um she's
filled in every time that we've had a
maternity leave or something like that
done and has done just a wonderful job
and
now she has a complete remote job we
think we can get this done in less than
the full-time hours also we'll be saving
opers and health insurance and all those
kind of things we're going to try trying
i think it's been working really well so
far
so be contracting with angie
so you see the wages and the benefits
going down the health insurance i just
put about the highest i think it could
possibly be
um i think it'll actually be less than
that
but if you go down then and contract
professional services you'll see it's
going up to 84 000 at 75 000 for angie
nine thousand dollars to have a asset
reappraisal done we have not had one
done in quite some time
and
we had some
i didn't think very significant
discrepancies in our capital assets
during the audit
had discussions with the
the auditor thought having an appraisal
would be a good idea to get a good
starting point
and along with that
back on capital mayor you can
take it when you get there fifteen
thousand dollars for a new
um
capital asset program which will be
integrated with our accounting system it
really
will be
much better than um
than um
than what we have now which is an
antiquated system which sits on one
computer this way angie and i will both
be able to access it real time
be able to add assets as we purchase
them
um and keep track of them better
depreciation
the rest of it's pretty non-descript
pretty flat i will say rita fees are
going up because obviously
while we were in us
just like everybody else waiting and
seeing what our income tax was going to
do during cova and we budgeted for a
five percent decrease well lo and behold
it went up probably because a lot of
people telecommuting i tell a
telecommuting i don't know
um
but um
so that's that went up
and a slight increase in an insurance
for property and casualty because my
brokers told me we're in what they refer
to as a hard market now and um
so i've raised that by
six percent
um
and that's about all i have that i think
significant i'll take questions
anybody have any questions for beecher
all right thank you beecher oh you're
welcome have a good evening thank you so
much
be well
bye-bye
thanks beach
budget mr mayor back to the uh
back to the capital budget um
so the
police budget
did the chief talk through this yet i
don't want to be repetitive no i can't
remember okay
um has um
three three police vehicles plus the
full police packages for um getting
those police vehicles with whites and
outfitted and ready to go
uh two of those being cruisers and one
would be an unmarked uh chief or
captain's car
um range cleaning and remediation is a
uh
a periodic expense but it's it's not
just cleaning so like when in the firing
range um there are panels that need to
be removed and replaced there's lead
mitigation happening so it's a pretty
intense
uh not super common cleaning
um
personally i was thinking about this
some more
i might need some water
i uh
have a peanut
cough
um
i'm really gonna have to go get some
water uh
no
natalie could you snag some from here
quickly
thank you i know i drink it all
um
new docking stations for patrol car
computers are for uh our mtus and they
are have changed size so they need new
dac stations
and then fix speed signs
again even though we just budgeted for
some more of these they've already been
allocated so uh we're continuing to roll
out activated speed science and some of
those busier streets
we've last time i studied them it was a
75 decrease when they were active
but that's that wasn't early on so we
need to go back and study long term
yeah i mean they they are they certainly
are they do change driver behavior and
there are some drivers whose behavior
will not be changed by them some drivers
you know we hear
gun it when they see the signs just to
see how fast they're going
i think you said that bill actually
so thank you natalie
then um
the big capital budget this year and i'm
gonna we're gonna preview this here and
then i think mike price
will have the distinction of getting to
talk about it some more to you guys
next week when he presents
so uh
as you as we've talked about we're we're
trying to invest more into our parks and
the quality of our park experience and
programs
we have several projects uh anticipated
here one is the commonwealth park
restrooms utility building and north
gateway
and the reason we're focusing on that
because as we're designing the fields
the east and west fields they have
irrigation
irrigation has a water and electric
infrastructure
and so we're thinking through how to
best house that water in electric
infrastructure
and shield it now we certainly could
shelter the infrastructure with plant
material
um and or maybe
really that's kind of the only way to do
it i think in an appropriate way
but um it's it's fairly sizable
infrastructure in order to get these
fields irrigated and have electricity
so
our concept here is to go ahead and with
the portion of the commonwealth park
master plan
that calls for permanent restrooms so
that instead of the port-a-potty would
have restrooms in there
and then also uh the utility build and
handle the utilities to the fields
and the park
and some
walls flanking off of those
this is a placeholder because we are
currently get getting more uh detailed
schematics
uh for what that would cost
i wanted to
highlight exactly what we're talking
about here so
this is kind of water
but um
if you'll remember in the commonwealth
park master plan
uh columbia is to have some on street
parking in a median
and then
these what they're called follies would
be sort of stone-out buildings
that would house a restroom on one side
storage slash uh utilities on the other
side
and um
would
be placed in a way that they'll start to
kind of stitch together both sides of
the park
and create a presence there
our opwc project upcoming is for
columbia
and um columbia and
i'm blanking on the other street there's
the street i think it's chelsea chelsea
in columbia
um so
the opdwc funding will help us to start
to realize the vision here of this um
bridge through the median that kind of
connects both sides of the park and
creates a safer pedestrian experience
but
that is the thought behind the 300 000
so what that would get us we think
is these two buildings and the walls
that flank off of them
and the restrooms inside and one of them
and the utilities in the other
realize that's expensive uh these are
expensive things to construct even if
it's just the simplest of park restrooms
um but they are they are architecturally
more you know appropriate to
commonwealth park so just the stuff on
the north but not the walls on the south
correct okay yeah unless we're surprised
by lower budget but that does not seem
to be the way that things are headed
right now with contracting so
um it's a placeholder we think it's
realistic we have enough
other projects that we've looked at that
it feels realistic but we don't know
that for sure
havenwood park landscape installation um
so haven't park plan was
uh adopted by council this year right as
we all remember yep um with the big
stage and the
that's a joke that was a joke
uh but again uh our landscape designer
has put an estimate on fully executing
that plan of 150 000 so that isn't here
as in
all of the landscape all of the
hardscape
um
site furnishings
does that sound lower high to you
i'm not going to say okay
hold your cards close
uh and then um commonwealth east field
so i heard loud and clear through our
budget discussion that commonwealth east
field was desired
to be worked on obviously we would need
to stagger those projects based upon
everything we talked about but at least
this gets this funding locked in for it
that is based upon our designers
estimate with with some inflation built
in for the past couple years that have
passed
um and then
the if anyone has been on a ride with
mike price and the rec department
minivan recently and and uh observed the
condition of the same
you'll realize it's uh long overdue
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so uh
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in keeping with the theme of the evening
this is a pacifica hybrid that is being
quoted here
um that receives about 25 miles of
battery only range which is really great
for most day-to-day stuff in bexley
um
and much more fuel efficient but
more expensive than the baseline model i
think the baseline model is in the 30s
um
possibly yeah yeah which
you know again we can we can accommodate
within the appropriations that we have
the uh
one thing i think we need to look into
is there's a 7 500 tax credit on these
which we can't get as a city but you can
get if you lease them so we should
probably do like a an analysis of what
makes the most sense
um which i'm usually anti-leasing as you
know but i think that this might be an
instance where it makes sense
so
that's the that is the budget for
capital
as proposed
yeah it depends on the purchase option
at the end probably so
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column oh sorry that's great so column f
is uh
there's the capital fund yeah which is
the primary piece but then some of these
items
are expensive to the water sewer and
refuse funds
and those are all obviously service
tobacco equipment
is an example of that and then the skin
only flowers will be fully refused
any questions on where we're at with
that
that's
obviously a proposal and we obviously
have more time to talk about so i i
attempted to take
projects we're working on and also the
feedback that we received through the
retreat try to capture all that
i may editorialize
and and for everyone's certification
this is
really just
he
these are putting the money in there
doesn't mean he's going to spend it it's
just an allocation in there and then
you counsel will have to later allocate
that money to be spent for those items
but we don't we need to have us
a
written sheet
for
questions now but you can have your
question at the end of the meeting
but
we're appropriating
the funds
so
so what
what you just said i don't think is
accurate
uh
capital funds they correlate to that
scripture
but to your
point if i may add madam president is um
there's expenditures being appropriate
at 1.16
million and
transferred from the general fund of 1
million
added to the prior year
fund carryover there's still 700 000
that the mayor could come back and
ask a future council to spend that's not
currently appropriated
there's a balance in the capital fund
yep
all right are we ready to
move on with this miss lewis we we take
questions
for second readings
only if you have signed
a sheet
for the first
comment i'm sorry it's fine please
please join us but for future reference
i think
unless we're out of them public comment
sheets from the table right as you come
in and you just type you just write in
the ordinance that you're coming to
speak about okay i'm i'm sorry i thought
that for public comment you had to sign
a form for the first section not for the
last section but as counsel this isn't
the last section this is this is an
ordinance and for each ordinance for
each first reading each second reading
you have to also
share with us that you plan on speaking
those are the rules that are at the end
of the
okay my apologies
um
but thank you for allowing me to speak
i was just curious about the capital
improvements
on uh
the ferndale mayfield you have 130 000
minus 100 so you're not asking for 130
000 this year right so i was just
wondering has your focus changed are you
not
pursuing purchase of properties down
there there have been five properties
that have sold
since cic purchased in 2018
and cic has not purchased those so
now it's taken out of the budget
has your focus changed on
frienddale mayfield
madam president can i can i answer that
yes please um so
actually it's it's a much more robust
investment so we've moved it from the
capital fund
to a new fund that we're proposing this
budget called the infrastructure
development fund
which we're proposing funding up to 2.2
million dollars fernando mayfield is a
major target for that as um
but that's something we're discussing at
our next council meeting so we're
covering the infrastructure development
fund as well as the rest of the budget
and rec stuff at our next meeting okay
and if i wish to speak on that i need to
fill out a
slip okay thank you thank you very much
technical third reading technically it's
the third reading so the third reading
you don't need a slip
okay so i don't need to slip next i
don't need a slip for the first or the
second reading yes a slip if it's a
third reading or the consent agenda
which we are voting on so
things that we are
up for a vote
potentially up for a vote that night are
things that you all can
join us and ask a question thank you
very much
that was connie lewis 663 you clear
um are we done with and can we move on
question just um
the 300 000 and
i'd like to
think about putting a little more into
that for commonwealth okay a lot of
projects are coming back
30 40
percent more right in the past
year and a half so just
i'd be in favor of
upping it
and my other my question should go along
with what he
mentioned
might it be less expensive
for example those walls that we talked
about would it make more sense if we
were going to have people there doing
that project anyway would it make more
sense to do it
i don't know we don't see a ton of
economies with heartscape okay so um i
personally don't feel like it would make
a huge difference um and in fact
smaller hardscape projects down the road
are often less expensive because we
don't get into prevailing wages and
other things like that so
but having said that um
we are at a schema like we haven't even
done the schematic design yet so
i'm happy to budget more my take on it
was to do this as a placeholder so
there's sort of
support of it and then to come back if
it's a higher number
i'm fine starting higher like i think we
can do that
um and then just save money and we have
a history of of saving money on projects
when we're able to so
either whatever way you guys want to
handle it
i would support
uh matt's comment
and go a little higher
all right
matt and i maybe can work out
we can broker a budget just based on
seriously like just the size of what
we're talking about it wouldn't you and
i can kind of
with our designer talk through an
educated guess with where we're at right
now
mr markham i'm gonna bounce the budget
back to you to see if you have anything
you want to say before we move on to
third readings
uh no i don't have anything to say i
think we're uh
we're gonna be
back here next week so just keep that in
mind what's what's
can you remind us what's left
so uh
parks and rec
is next
um and then a lot of our city hall
budgets so we'll go through city
council's budget mayor's boards and
commissions that sort of thing
um
talk about the proposed infrastructure
development fund and its purpose
um
and also
we'll talk about american rescue plan
appropriations
so
and
cover the tiff as well so it's you know
we'll have some stuff to cover i think
we are anticipating we're tabling it
um i'd like to at least get through
the presentations at the next meeting
and then
i'm assuming we're gonna have some
follow-up questions and information to
provide
more meetings yeah so yeah solidify that
schedule kind of in your mind which is
we'll finish the presentations
next week we'll be here next week so
keep an eye on your assignments if
you've got those last
his last readings you'll have a week to
kind of get on that
um
at that point we'd anticipate tabling
the budget and then we actually have two
weeks until the next meeting it won't be
until december so there will be a large
time period in there for you to
digest this large meal that should be
three weeks well it'll be three weeks
november 30th to the last tuesday i know
we'll we'll miss each other so much
all right moving on
moving on
oh jen you haven't
now that they lost
no i'm i have no soccer update i'm just
wondering if we might be able to take a
really quick break before we head to the
next i'll keep going you guys just leave
five minutes we'll take a quick
five-minute recess that would be great
i remember watching the boys play there
too
in america
i was kind of hoping we'd get a penalty
kick i was like can someone just put
their hand up
and all of a sudden they get across
yeah
i remember the big thing that i was
supposed to do yeah
and
actually i'm gonna
i'm gonna ask the time during your
committee because
issue
yeah yeah
so right and this conversation we just
had is a good lead then that like we
have these budget wrong meetings coming
up we're trying to get the budget
approved yeah right so it'd be great to
see this
because the dates are getting crazy and
when you finally january but the problem
is we're going to go back to we're going
to go back to them and ask for them some
january dates nope but that's fine we'll
get january
but i'm not just
i'm gonna see if they can give us some
updates
is
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is
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all right ladies and gentlemen let's get
moving
i think we should go let's go moving on
all right third readings
we have a third reading of ordinance
4421 to authorize the transfer from the
general fund to the city hall tiff fund
fund 52 in the amount of 20
250
introduced by mr marco
thanks i think we have
this is we've had two readings on this i
know we've had some questions on it and
i think the mayor has a quick synopsis
on this but take any more questions
so
in the first year of this tif we had we
had a catch-up year where we got two
years worth of income because of that
we had we had more income forecasted in
the future than
was appropriate and that wasn't caught
in our budget
i actually was very optimistic because
from that i thought that would be our
future source for debt service on a
senior center so when i came to you guys
a couple years and ago and i said i
figured out how to fund a senior center
turns out i did not figure out how to
fund a senior center but i was really
hopeful about that
in that in that first year because we
didn't yet have a senior center we put
some money aside for senior center due
diligence we also put some money aside
for jeffrey mansion those are both
allowable costs under our main street
under the city hall tiff
so the money was appropriated for
jeffrey manchin as part it was one of
our sources of funds in the project
the miami didn't come in because we
forecasted incorrectly so it needs to be
augmented by a transfer from the general
fund we've fixed that issue going
forward and we'll discuss that in our
review of our tif budget next week
this is a one time thing
any questions ladies and gentlemen about
this
any questions from those who are joining
us tonight about this
do i have a motion on this mr markham
motion to adopt ordinance 44-21
all second
that's okay i heard jessica seconded um
mr auditor mr markham yes mr klingler
yes ms robinson yes mr sharp yes assad
yes that's bible yes
all right second readings all right we
have a second reading of ordinance 48-21
to amend chapter
434.03 j
to amend the penalty associated with the
violation of 434.03 maximum speed limits
assured clear distance ahead
ms robinson
hello again
um yeah as i mentioned this
this time last meeting when this was
being introduced this actually is just
bringing us into
compliance with ohio revised code
and making
maximum speed limits and acda
infractions a minor misdemeanor
fairly straightforward unless yes
it's not
we don't have to do this to come in
compliance is that correct
wrong word
any more questions on this one before we
move on
mr robinson is it okay if we move on it
is would this be something that would be
appropriate to put on the consent agenda
or is this something that we feel needs
another reading council is
fine with the consent agenda it's up to
you guys that's fine i'm fine with
consent agenda
um all right second reading of ordinance
49-21 to create chapter 270 board of
control to specify contracting
procedures in accordance with section 59
of the city charter and to establish
encouraging diversity growth and equity
edge procurement policies mr markham
thank you uh can we take a look at this
can we bring it up
did we make change we made change to
this last time right did we or did we
not
all right obviously my memory is bad on
this one
not stop
i think there was there was definitely a
conversation about it yeah because yeah
mr klingler had a lot of input into this
i believe right
all right maybe i don't remember
yeah it was that conversation
yeah so what we're doing is giving uh
some power to the board of the control
here to uh to take in contract bids um
uh fifty thousand dollars to does it go
to two hundred fifty thousand is that
right
yes under 250 000
correct with going through competitive
bids
competitive sorry bid's not the right
word term of art competitive quotes
um which would be reviewed by the board
of control similar to how the border
control reviews competitive bids which
just wouldn't be this the statutory
public bidding process that the right
it's good
it's going to be le it would be less
formal but still
you would be asking a request for um
just loves the word in rfps rfqs or
yeah requests for qualifications or
whatever prices
but the bottom line is it will be less
formal than it that required
the bidding requirements now at 50 000
plus and likely give the city uh more
options at a better price
is the idea
i i guess i thought matt had come in
with this uh some of this edge policy or
whatever is that not true
actually i thought matt's questions were
more
uh
talking about whether this should be
haven't had counsel do some of these
things and not he's not the board
is trying to say
what matt is trying to say
i'm gonna rank this in if i could please
thank you
unless matt has something to say i think
we're just gonna move on with this
i just brought up a few things um
i asked how many times
um
things are over 50 000 and i thought you
know
council could
have some sort of review
in addition to
the board of control
and then i i did back in the day i did
work a little bit with the
thought process of the edge
participation
um
for bexley
that that was the only part no that's
not what you said okay
all right never mind
my mind is wandering
to say about what matt had to say last
week
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i think it's people need to understand
that the big issue is we're raising this
from 50 000 to 250 which i mean that's
the big exactly that's the biggest
there's some other things that we're
doing as well but that's a
big issue
okay any further questions before
we move on
right i do have one quick question um
just because i'm i didn't take notes on
when matt did ask how many projects did
we have that we generally during a
calendar year
fall into that criteria
i thought you said 10 i thought the
answer was 10. that was the answer real
rough
even as i said that last time and as i
think about it now
it's kind of like
you know there are probably things that
i'm not thinking about when i say that
you know like uh
for example right now we don't have uh a
border control
role
for
uh the livingston avenue study or
commonwealth studies where it's
professionals it's not a professional
service as opposed to a an actual
like construction hard hard construction
project
that's because we don't need to but this
actually creates that process so this
this expands what the border control
would look at
so part of what i would need to do is
look back at some of the things that
wouldn't traditionally fall underneath
that umbrella
um i'm not
i guess i can pull my directors and try
to see if we can come up with a better
estimate
i will make note of that
i will i figures are better
but okay
all right any other questions
troy's okay move on
okay first reading of ordinance 40 14-21
to schedule the city the bexley city
council meeting dates and times for
2022.
overall first round
uh
shall i take that
well since since i wrote it okay
introduced by ms fibel
all right i i ask that you guys take a
look at these obviously look at the
dates um i tried really hard um
and i did have the auditor eyeball these
dates but it it would not hurt for
others to eyeball them as well
um
i don't know why that's first day of
school is out of whack but it is
yeah there's a lot of this looks a
little while back but it's so it's fine
whatever um
if you notice i'm doing that i i propose
that we do the same thing in november
and december
um
as we are doing this year um
and uh
then we have the 20th if needed so
um
i dodged the holidays we didn't really
need to dodge the um the high holy days
and nice question about that ben can you
go back up to september
it says september 26 rosh hashanah is
that mean it's it starts on the 25th
or it starts on the 26th
that would be the 27th would be the
second
night
of rosh hashanah so the it would
so russia it starts on the 25th okay
sundown on the 25th that's perfectly
fine i just wanted to make sure because
sometimes that gets confused and i think
if it was started on the evening of the
26th we shouldn't meet on 27th but i
think the 27th is safe if it's the
second day of russia agree that it's
safe to do it yes absolutely 25th is eve
27. okay so we're good we're good i just
wanted to i looked i looked at that very
carefully
yeah
okay
all right and i did do this first and
second nights of passover because
perhaps people do a seder
both nights okay
um
all right
does anybody have any comments questions
everybody is are people pretty okay with
the thanksgiving being
up so that we don't have a thanksgiving
week
and um
the auditor suggested that so we have
more time in december it's a better idea
to do it
back to back guys yes are you good too
with those
what'd you say august yep yeah yeah see
august but we're off in july
we could be off any summer months but
july is generally where you could be off
like 11 months and only meet in july all
right um does anybody have
anything okay look at it look at it so
that we can talk about it uh potentially
next week okay
all right i'm done please all right
first reading of ordinance 50-21 to
establish the water and sewer rates
charged by the city of bexley
water sewer and rapid street radishes
and refuse to raise charged by the city
of bexley mr markham all right as
richard pointed out there's an increase
in these rates of course we get these
from city of columbus we pass them on
we have not passed them on though
recently
i know we didn't last year right has it
been
that is correct last year uh we did not
pass them on even though there was an
increase from the city of columbus i
believe it was three percent for both um
we do need to for richard's point there
seems to be discrepancy between
what the budget was showing and what
this is showing so got to figure out
what that what's correct
um this shows a pass-through of the
increase in water passed through
increase in sewer refuse rate's more
complicated oh look it's
highlighted
we're gonna have to amend this ordinance
yep um it's more complicated because of
exactly this i think uh we need to talk
through it some more before we have a
dollar figure here but yeah the
the refuse contract currently that we
are currently on is five years old so
we're coming into a new contract with an
eighteen percent increase
but then that eighteen percent that rate
is static for three with smaller bumps
and in the option for year four option
year five
so we're trying to stabilize
i think we can do a three percent
increase
and get to where we need to get at um by
year five of that new contract
um but we don't know we'll pick four and
five of them
likely will we'll assume that we are i
mean we can at least assume that
because it would assume that if we
didn't pick it up we
made a better deal maybe i mean why
would we not execute it
so um
but also you know there's our refuse
fund uh
ha has a pretty substantial balance in
it we have this conversation all the
time so
do we keep the rate
exactly where it should be or do we have
it do we allow it to be artificially low
and draw down the balance a little bit
so that's the sort of thing we need to
talk through again and so it's okay it
can easily absorb three four or five
years of slightly lower rates as they
catch up that's not a problem but the
problem is
by year five do we want to be at exactly
the right point where we're even because
we'll get a big increase in again after
that correct yep
we're going to see a substantial
increase it's just how we
face that out
and the water and sewer rates are going
to continue to increase
i mean i think we
yeah we i think we will see i think the
as you guys know the trucking logistics
industry was already reeling when we
were going through this bid process so
rumpke's had a really hard time getting
drivers the price the pay has gone way
up
so with some of that's definitely baked
into this new rate but maybe not all of
it and the good news is
long term over the long term which is
what five years or something like that
we actually have locked in
a pretty good rate here
yeah i mean
you saw that i mean it is 18 in year one
it is
and what is it year two and three do you
remember same no change it's fixed
for three years
the new rate is the same years two and
three
i mean that's really that's really not a
bad deal in this environment and given
the history
that i recall back when bill dortmund
was here about you know there isn't a
whole lot of competition out there for
this bill
we're bringing out which is good to see
so like waste management is picking up
communities that's good
it's good it's important because there
was for a while it was like the absolute
only gig in town i do feel like if we
went to bid today that we would have
suffered
compared to having gone to bid six
months ago so i think our timing was
still better
also we went through a lot of different
scenarios and price points at that time
and i think we really ended up getting a
pretty good long-term deal for everybody
with that
with with
the level of service maintaining the
level of service especially
please
does the new contract provide
lower rates for senior seniors as well
new contract is identical in terms of
the service provision and the other
features of the of the contract
anything further on
on this one
is there okay if we move on yep okay
all right so we have now resolution
15-21
a
resolution i'm sorry sorry
right here there it
financial is from the state of ohio and
the ohio department of natural resources
for funding of a pedestrian and bicycle
bicyclist bridge at schneider park near
astor avenue introduced by mr klingler
mr klingler
yeah thanks because we have a city
administration that constantly seeks
different avenues of funding for
improvements in our city
this is a resolution
uh to authorize
the mayor to go after money for us
for a new
walking and biking bridge down to
schneider park
and there's an application attached that
he has filled out already
as you can see
was
i noticed uh
was your meeting with representative
boggs that you noted on your
uh report was that regarding this uh
honestly it was just to touch base but
ended up this was a piece of it yeah
because that's part of our outreach with
capital dollars is we'll be reaching out
to hershel craig as well and
representative boggs right you know
recommended a couple other reps to reach
out to
yeah that's great
so we'll be doing that and and and then
also visiting
leadership at the state house over the
next couple months it'll probably become
earnest
in january
so i'm sure you have a presentation if
you wanna
yeah so i'm trying to see if i can find
the appropriate page here but you guys
remember the rapid five presentation
yeah so rapid five
uh talked about um
cutting main street down to one lane uh
cutting mainstream no no oh no
uh different different ways to
uh
approach connectivity
so one of the things that um we have
actually had in our planning process for
a while it's in the almond creek park
plan which alum creek park by the way
that referred to as an expanded
schneider park since then we've just
continued to call it snyder park
um and then
uh i believe it's in our strategic plan
as well talking about um
improvements to the schneider park
one of which we've talked about over the
years is a pedestrian
cyclist bridge midpoint between maine
and livingston or somewhere along that
line
what was brought to the table with the
rapid five project which
i had not had on my radar and it's
really an interesting twist to it
is that hanford village park is the park
located right here
and if if you've seen an alum creek the
new pedestrian crossing the rapid beacon
that gets you right to hanford village
park from our from the multi-use bike
path
uh that
is on the west side of elm creek
but it's still a park that's sort of
like isolated from everywhere else and
it's part of the history that was
discussed with the hanford village
historic black village
was bisected by the i-70 uh freeway and
that park is sort of a remainder of what
used to be homes
it also lines up though interestingly
and i should
i'll pull up the other exhibit which is
attached no that's my calendar
which is
working on better exhibits but this
shows you alignment so here's hanford
village park
here's astor this is the traditional
entrance to schneider park
and
it aster is as you know halfway between
main and livingston so it's a really
logical spot to
place a pedestrian bridge
lines up to the multi-use path right
here there aren't any commercial
properties in the way so it is a really
easy access point
and then the the pedestrian beacon is
right here
so you can picture this expanded aster
which by the way is also in the
southwest specially master plane master
framework talking about aster going east
and west which by the way is also
already something we discussed in our
infrastructure
fund that we're going to talk about more
next week
all of this comes together so all this
is designed
for better connectivity east west
better access to the bike path right now
the access to the bike path if you live
in
south or
central south of wolf park bexley you're
you know you're going down main street
jogging around it's not a very safe
interface same with livingston avenue
so this lets people have a point that's
paved schneider park is paved in this
area
access point continuous over a bridge to
the multi-use path to hanford village
park to all those other places so
all good stuff
and what we are doing right now is we
have put in an application to the state
capital fund
um and
it's attached it's not super detailed
but it tells you what and they're not
normally it tells you
the idea and then um we're also looking
to odnr for some some grant money we
think
it's very possible we can 100 fund this
through grants so
uh
the time is right lining up pretty
nicely
this uh the
neighborhood interconnectivity community
community internet interconnectivity
not only meets all of our strategic
objectives that we've talked about but
is also a really attractive candidate
for state capital dollars so we think we
have a really good shot with this
and the resolution we haven't done this
in the past um i don't think
but it's similar to like opwc where we
say we're we're you guys are okay with
us applying for the money
um it helps strengthen the application
um it's
it's a process procedurally more
important for the odnr grant but i think
it's helpful obviously for both of them
we'll also be seeking letters of
endorsement from
mayor ginther and and columbus city
council and others
because of the fact that it is creating
connection between the two communities
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artificial turf i've ridden on some of
those bridges myself and i understand
exactly what you're talking about
right here
we're going to design it exactly the
same as the one bridge that's close to
the sisa fields at easton
the one that y'all the wipeout bridge
any more questions or comments on
resolution 1521 if not mr klinger may i
move on
thanks for going after this mayor i
appreciate it i may be asking you guys
for suspension adoption at the next
meeting i was going to say consent
agenda but it was i think
it's separate
based on the time
i
okay
all right moving on to tabled ordinances
is there there isn't any i i'm under the
understanding that there is no uh action
on the columbia place um and
uh
but i am guessing
am i correct in saying that there's
action on the july 4th
no not yet okay and then there are no
there's no action on the aggregation yet
so we will move on to service and
environmental committee richard sharp
okay um
i don't have any existing
business under our category
but um
because this is the only place we're
allowed um i believe to introduce
ordinances and that
aren't necessarily
in
our specific area but that we have an
interest of doing
and um i want to give everyone a heads
up
that um
at the next meeting i'll be requesting
that these ordinances
be introduced as a first reading
the first one housing voucher grant a
program extension
would be to
extend the housing grant voucher program
that council enacted last year for
a period of one year
it's a really simple ordinance we
just
rolling forward the dates one year
keeping the
terminology that's included in the
original 4320
with the exception that section 4 that
ordinance is excluded from the extension
and is not that's uh the appropriation
of ten thousand dollars because i would
anticipate that our
budget would include a line already so
we wouldn't need an additional
um
appropriation so
that's one aspect that when we go to
approve our budget i'll look to see that
that's
in there and make a motion for that as
well
and then um just simplifying the
reporting process
um
things
i think this um
program uh which
the
mayor um
indicated that he felt it was
administratively he
his office would be administratively
responsible for
because when it was originally
proposed
um that it was to complement the
source of income housing ordinance that
council passed
and i had offered to kind of run
meetings and do things like that
and then covet hit and
the mayor indicated that he felt that
was a administrative aspect of the city
to handle and so um
those things um
through events didn't occur so i don't
think that
there are a lot of single family or
duplex properties that have actually
applied to
the voucher recipient properties
i'm
trying to get information
at the next meeting to indicate
that that fact is true that there are
still not
properties that have registered with
um the
community housing
columbus metropolitan housing authority
so that we can make sure that we're
actually putting action into our words
for being inclusive with
housing
programs
so that's all i have to say about
that ordinance and
or proposed ordinance and then the next
one
is an ordinance um
to
declare an end for council to
declare an end to the
state of emergency that is currently in
effect in the city of
bexley regarding the coven
19
condition you can read the whereas is
and what not
and if you go to the state
report
on
by county
and and you can look at the graphs you
can see that the the peak of the current
wave
actually occurred three days before
columbus whitehall and
actually imposed certain
mitigation
requirements
mandates
and
the other counties around us and
municipalities within franklin county
a lot of them did not
go forward with those mitigation
mandates
and their
curves were almost
exactly the same as the county as a
whole
so um
i i think that after
20 21 months
a state of emergency
is not necessary i think we're adapting
to
the condition
and
i think people are responsible enough at
this point to make their own health
decisions and i encourage them
included in one of the warehouses that
the city of vaccine council encourages
people to do what they feel is best for
their businesses and
families for um
their uh
individual health and their employees
health so
all to consider and thank you very much
thank you richard
financial committee
troy uh i do have i'm sorry i do have
some more under my liaison report um the
historical society is and in conjunction
with the bexley public library is going
to be celebrating montrose's
100th anniversary beginning in
january there's going to be kickoff
events in january for that
so thank you thank you richard
finance committee mr markham no no
report from finance thank you safety and
health committee jen robinson i have no
report today thank you zoning and
development committee jessica sod
i have something to report
okay so arb is meeting this thursday at
six pm and i wanted to um just let
everybody know that such a great group
of representatives that we have serving
on that committee they just met on
monday um for a couple hours in a
workshop they as mayor and i've
talked to you guys about that they have
done
a few workshops to get everybody
together to to better their committees
so one of the big discussions on monday
was uh design guidelines and how during
a meeting to kind of come up with facts
and findings so if something does come
back to council we have something to go
off of from the experts so it was a
great meeting and
everybody was taken away from their day
jobs to serve the city so that was
really productive and
i'm very proud of the people that we
have on that community who serve the
city
um be zapp will be meeting on november
25th at 6 pm
uh the cic will um
uh
begin meeting again in january 2022
and um
did we want to discuss i do okay i do we
have an appeal sorry go ahead there's no
way
is that thanksgiving yeah
sorry i didn't even compute just
december 2nd
december 2nd they are i mean what night
did they meet recently halloween so oh
my gosh
it's crazy
we said yeah
we uh okay so that is december 2nd at 6
pm and then uh president fibal yes we
have um i think i indicated some dates
um that um
are a potential for hearing our appeal
and i did put them forward
um
we also have the option which i guess i
didn't really realize
that we could collect some dates um
some of the dates that some of the
attorneys for this appeal
um
are not capable of meeting
after the first of the year so we could
push this into january if that is
something that council
would like for me to investigate dates
in january i would love to buy a raise
of hands
just tell me would you rather january or
or would you rather me look at the
november december was that a yes you do
i don't know
new council members on in january yeah
that means
sorry i was confused i i think it
doesn't i think it doesn't matter um
just really quickly because they allowed
us to waive the time of when we make the
meeting right and then we have to keep
in mind that we have to give 15 days
advance notice of of the hearing to the
attorneys the person's required to be
notified
on our city website so there's
some of those dates that were even sent
out wouldn't
well some of the november dates right
that i sent out right right but i
recently sent the 29th yep um of
november i set out i set out that the
second of december um it would have to
be at seven for me to be able to be uh
present for that one or we could do the
the the 15th of december i think what
i'd like to do first before we look at
these
um
dates
would council prefer to wait till
january to do this by a by a show of
hands
okay it looks like most everybody would
like to get it over with yes okay well
then let's let's first look at november
29th
who is free who is who is there
who is free
on the 29th
what time
what time can you do it six
uh yeah yeah jess
i'm waiting for you lady
yes everybody's available
okay we're doing it the 29th
at 6.
do we know about monique
i do she sent she was she was such a
good chap and sent all of those dates
for all three dates that i had were
available for her
the only other thing to also consider
and mark
as a city attorney you could speak to
this from the lawyer
perspective but we would have to get
they would have to get everything to us
seven days prior
so that falls for them
the
22nd right
so so what should happen is and and
maybe if somebody besides me could do it
because i won't be around tomorrow to do
it that get the information to catherine
cunningham so she can
informally let the lawyers know so they
can start planning for that but can you
shoot her or or natalie will you shoot
okay that's awesome that's true i could
do it right now okay no it's all good
it's all good
it's all good okay
and natalie just email me copy me so
that i know that the two of us are on it
okay
i think that's a date that they've
already indicated they're available
right well they didn't say they weren't
available they gave us dates
right and the notices are
since they went out for the other one
they just have to have the new date put
in right and
as an fyi if for some reason the 29th
doesn't work for all of them
i will be bringing this back next
tuesday i will not be trying to email
everybody and figuring it out okay
just as you know just so you know um
matt klingler recreation and parks did
you have anything else i'm so sorry
you're good okay matt klingler there's a
couple um
did you want to check as an alternate
back update for us right now december
2nd uh we we we we could we could do
that for sure
is it a backup
possibility a bee zap is happening here
okay so that's the no
what about december 15th and do we
really want to do it december 15th
if we're gonna do it that late
i can do it you can do it i can do it on
the 15. okay
yes
i know you and i don't really want to
but we will
so and that's perfectly fine
okay okay troy you're okay on the 15th
he already had that again
hopefully it's a non-issue in november
29th works but but if it's on the 15th
that means a decision has to be another
meeting has to be scheduled sometime
before the end of the year or you decide
that night other or richard will hear
the hear the case but not get to vote on
it so just keep that in mind if it's the
15th you're going to have to issue a
decision
so richard can participate in the vote
before
january 2nd
before january 1st let's hope it's
november 20th right exactly i'm just
okay letting you know
december 28th
that's right
all right
uh
matthew klingler recreation and parks uh
just a couple things i wanted to
highlight um we highlighted the
candidates that were elected but i don't
think we mentioned all of the amendments
that were passed so all the amendments
for the
city charter got passed including
amendment number four which allows us to
move remove the
um city attorneys that was big huge
um that was clearly a plot
by many people liaison report st charles
broke ground on their new frank e murphy
convocation center uh this past week so
if you see a lot of construction going
on over at st charles it's a new
convocation center that'll include a
1200 to 1400 seat arena with flexible
space to accommodate athletic events
public presentations educational
programs and cultural activities
to benefit not only st charles but the
community
so and then i wanted to experience with
their space yep they are um and i wanted
to commend council member lampke on
graduating from the fbi citizens academy
uh tonight that's where she is this
evening real happy for her that's all
right
all right thank you
mr
klingler
and uh our fbi agent is not with us
tonight nor did she give me any um
judiciary or strategic committee report
um we will
really quickly allow the mayor to give
really quick updates that he failed to
do earlier
please go for it one of them taught off
the press okay which is that the school
board voted to
start to meet here
uh next year so they're going to be
using council generally happy that
they're doing it uh and
i told them they're in charge of the uh
refreshments
no they need to refill it refill that's
true
um
the turkey tried out was wrong the
turkey trout's over a week it's not at
any one event
i didn't realize that that's kind of i
know i i i'm can we just
yes
saint albans i think would be more
fitting but okay
um
this mayors and solicitors holiday party
is a grand old tradition it is slated
for december 9th oh i didn't know that
yeah i'm sure i didn't it's same same
every year but um
it will be
it's on
in some way shape or form so just put
put that on your calendar
last year we did a virtual event this
year i think it'll be in person but
maybe not looking exactly the same as it
normally does
and yes we are late in those details but
just make sure it's on your calendar
december 9th
uh also i would encourage our new our
new incoming members
if you have something you want to say uh
you know you
say it so feel free to chime in as as
you have thoughts or
feelings
mostly thoughts but feelings too
so
anyway thank you
21 is public comment is there anyone who
would like to share any thoughts or
comments
or feelings
all right
if not then um
i we are going to vote um to go into
executive session to review collective
bargaining strategies to discuss the
investigation of public employee and to
discuss the purchase of property for
public purposes
um
would anyone like to i guess that would
i guess make a motion making a motion to
do
that which i just said a second
all right um voice vote
no i think it's got to be roll call
doesn't it that's what i meant i'm sorry
uh mr markham yes ms fiable yes mr
klingler yes ms robinson yes ms sod yes
mr sharp yes
and the record quickly wrong mr mcpeak
and mr mercelina are invited in so the
record should reflect that yes and um
just so everyone who is joining us
all the others who are joining us know
that we are going to come
right out of that and adjourn
there will be no other action
all right
okay
if if they're leaving we could meet here
or we can come here
okay
we are meeting here right now
yeah you can sit next to me come on big
come on big boy
um
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motion to adjourn
second okay