we are live so
um and moving and grooving so i wanna
welcome everybody to the september 14th
um
city council meeting
and i
want everyone to remember that we are
here for the good of bexley i'm thrilled
that all of you are here and we have
some special guests in the audience
tonight and i'm really thrilled that
they're here and
some um wonderful volunteers and then a
very brave family
um that we're gonna
we're going to introduce to you tonight
so
we don't have our sweet auditor with us
tonight or even bill harvey
oh
we don't have our sweet auditor with us
tonight
and so
are maybe not so sweet city attorney is
going to fill in
all right roll call please ms robinson
here here uh mr klingler here mr marco
here ms bible here mr sharp here mrs
lamke here can we please uh
[Music]
with liberty and justice for all
all right
mr mayor i'm going to turn this over to
you to introduce
your appointee to the civil service
commission are you ready rachel yeah
so can hobble
thank you rachel for joining us
um
natalie would you mind turning the mic
just hitting that mic button so that it
turns on
um
so rachel has bravely stepped forward to
uh to participate in the civil service
commission and i thank you as you guys
know rachel most recently for her role
with the charter review committee
and generally just being a super active
super responsive resident of bexley so
rachel i'm delighted to proffer your
name
and
council may have some questions for you
but uh wanted to make sure that they had
a chance to meet you thank you i'm ready
maybe if you wanted to real briefly i
know that i think they've seen your
resume before but real briefly talk
about your background sure thank you
um so i moved to bexley in 2008 and i
live on vernon road with my four
children and my husband
and i have spent my career as a public
service attorney and i am currently at
um the ohio attorney general's office in
the healthcare fraud section
previously um been a prosecutor
specializing in sexual assault so not
relevant necessarily to civil service
but i have worked extensively with law
enforcement
um
anything else mayor kessler
does anybody have i think that um
mr markham has some hard-hitting
questions over here you know i think you
understand that civil service commission
is usually reserved for some of our
you know most respected residents so can
you tell us some of the things that you
especially love about this community
um well thank you for a question mr
markham i am looking forward first of
all to serving with john offenburg again
because he was um he led our charter
review and i recently met and worked
with lee nathan's they invited me to
sit this is not directly responsive to
you but they invited me to sit in
although remain silent during an oral
board
or a board for um a hire for the the
bexley police department so i feel like
i'm gonna work really well with mr and
nathan's and um mr offenberg should you
choose to confirm me but what do i love
about bexley um
we moved from clintonville and so at
first when my husband and i were looking
i said only 4-3-202 i will not look
outside clintonville but then our um our
realtor suggested bexley as a as a
clintonville alternative and it had the
trees it had the north south streets it
had the community feel it was very very
walkable and
and now that we've moved and we're
firmly adhered um even when i was
commuting to delaware for ten years we
were not
lured by olin tangy we stayed firm here
in bexley so um
so i don't know i'm a big bexley fan so
i'm looking forward to serving the city
looking forward to continuing serving
the city because you've just finished a
very big job and i'm i'm thrilled that
you weren't
turned off by
the load that you had there and i love
that you enjoy
mr nathan's and mr offenberg they are
you know stellar stellar committed they
are
they are veteran
servants to our community and and i love
that uh
the idea of you following
sort of in their footsteps and seeing
them as you know quasi mentors so that's
wonderful so thank you so much for all
your work with charter review and thank
you for being willing to take this on as
well and then let the record reflect
that the testimony was bexley
vast improvement over clintonville
yesterday
and ellen tangy councilman markham miss
valchar do you have that in the notes
please thank you thank you
miss lamke and then um mr klingler i had
a quick comment and then a question for
you i was able to see through video your
your great work on the charter review
commission and i i
observe that you are a consensus builder
you are also thorough you are not afraid
to ask the questions that need to be
asked but i wanted to know in all your
years as prosecutor
and folks that you cross-examined or did
direct on some of those probably were
police officers and
government employees how would you
translate your past experience as a
prosecutor to picking the best employees
that would work for us
that's a great question
so i think i don't have that much
authority in my new role but
for the amount that i do have um
i feel like
i am both an advocate and and this is my
experience is really in law enforcement
although it can be broadened i'm both an
advocate for
that
for um for law enforcement offers
officers but i also
want more i'm always like can we do
better how can we do better and so i
think when you join like a deep respect
for people who are engaging in civil
service along with uh
are we doing our best is this our best
like that can be a a happy marriage
because um
people can feel supported but then also
like maybe
empowered that's what my goal is at
least you know when i would um see
opportunities for improvement it was
always i know you have a really hard job
or maybe this isn't the best pain but um
you know thank you for your service and
how can we do even better and so that's
kind of how i don't know i think i'd
probably bring that same kind of
approach again i just don't think i'll
have that much power but um we are
revising the rules so maybe i can
build it in
i'm kidding i i joke
mr klingler
yeah i just wanted to say thank you for
your time
for your
commitment to the city and i had the
privilege
of watching you work on the civil
service commission or no the charter
review um and you're a critical thinker
a consensus builder and i think you're a
huge asset to our community and i can't
wait to uh i'm in favor of this this
appointee i can't wait to watch your
work thanks so much
assad please
rachel you said you have four children
and you're willing to do this for the
city which is amazing and thank you and
it looks like with four kids i hope they
didn't do this
um
were you on the flag football fields on
sunday i was you have a little
cheerleader i do i look forward to
catching up with you on sundays at the
flag football fields but thank you for
doing this um
i mimic what has been said about you i
watched on those charter review
meetings and i was really impressed and
to meet you in person to know that you
have four children
um very very impressed so welcome thank
you i also laugh that i have four
children
that's good humor is important
well thank you thank you we've got
another one i'm sorry mr sharp thank you
rachel um
for um
being interested in this position and
everything you've done like i won't
repeat everything everyone else has said
but um this is a
time when residents maybe get to hear
firsthand what some of the obscure
commissions are in the city and so can
you give a little summary um for the
benefit of the residents and to show
your understanding of what the civil
service commission
does for the city of bexley
sure so my understanding currently is
that we meet quarterly and we
review
and approve
decisions changes in employment and that
could be a hire or a transfer or
a promotion or some kind of a change
potentially a termination
and
we have extensive rules
something i was told i haven't seen them
yet something like 90 pages of rules but
i'm not sure exactly what
they say or do and from what i've heard
from mr auchenberg they might even be a
little outdated um that things have
changed that it used to be one way and
now it's another like when i look at the
code for its civil service commission
it actually includes the city and the
school district
that we would that we would um
oversee them too mr ofenberger said that
that changed a while ago and we don't do
it that way in bexley but i'm not sure
that our rules reflect that and so i'm
interested um
it actually reminded me a lot of charter
review i'm like oh my goodness are we
going to be reviewing this all again so
um so i'm interested in
i'm not sure what we can offer the city
because right now it seems like that our
meetings are very short but um if there
is some value that we can add
um by reviewing and then like i said to
mr auchenberg it seems as if we're
supposed to be submitting a shall an
annual report i'm not sure how often we
do that but it does seem it's mandatory
under the code um
so
i think that i might have some
opportunities just from my legal
background from reading it and being
like well i think this is a shell not a
may and um just
offering that
and i appreciate that perspective and
extra effort thank you and i appreciate
it originally i know that you
weren't i mean it's sort of a role that
you know you would start to get good to
grow into as you as you want in it so
we're not expected to have like a
a full uh fledged response to that but
it was a fantastic response also for
anyone listening another thing the civil
service commission does and and in
theory and has not done any time
recently is it here's appeals to
decisions that are made regarding
uh
dispositions of employees or maybe mark
is a better word for that but um you
know
yeah discipline or uh layoffs that sort
of job abolishments so it has a really
critical role in certain circumstances
if there's ever it's a good checks and
balances if there's ever been an abuse
of the employer employee relationship
and and so that's that's a really valid
and vital role that the civil service
commission plays thank you it's helpful
thank you for sharing your time with us
tonight and volunteering the hours we
know that you'll have in this so thank
you so much thank you very much thank
you rachel
mr mayor we have a special family with
us tonight um tracy gold is here with
her
um
daughters she um sadly lost a child
to
a cancer and um i know you have a
proclamation for her
here
we'd love to hear about alex tell us
about her
so alex passed away when
when she was 10 and 10 months old she
got she had leukemia
okay
that's a very brave thing
she was three months old with leukemia
she stayed in children's hospital for
about seven and a half months before she
passed away
at being such a young age 10 and a half
months there's just no options out there
for chemo um
there's most of the funding goes towards
adult cancers as opposed to pediatric
cancer there's less than four percent of
funding
for children um their research so
unfortunately at that point in time
there was nothing until she had a year
old um and at ten exactly ten months old
the doctor saw this we went naked until
uh her first birthday and they gave her
two weeks and we had exactly two weeks
left
so we had to celebrate her birthday um
we celebrate her birthday three days
before she passed away this picture was
taken
um about two weeks before she passed
away he never would have guessed
tracy tell us what you've
how you've tried really to to remember
her and
i guess that's probably in the mayor's
proclamation but i'd love to hear your
words
um so things that we've done um i
started my own small business just doing
crafting um and making things in her
honor or just crafting in general um
named in her honor it's alex michelle
designs um so just doing what we can to
keep her name out there i made the shirt
that i'm wearing i've had their shirts
ordered
so just whatever we can to get it out
there before she was diagnosed i could
never have told you in a million years
that there was cancer that kids could
get cancer
until it hits you you don't see it out
there until you know somebody or hits
your family unfortunately
you don't see it out there there's just
not much funding
so we do we can't keep her name and
other children out there
one thing i'm doing within the next
couple weeks someone that bought cancer
right beside my daughter two little
girls um
from the toledo area identical twins had
leukemia unfortunately one passed away
it's been five years and uh the
remaining twin actually just relapsed
about a week ago
so this past weekend she had to shave
her head after her
leukemia came back in her brain this
time so she just shaved her head and she
asked me to do it with her so in the
next two weeks i'm going to shave my
head for a second time um and donate my
hair to the aj hawk foundation uh to
donate to make a wig for kids for free
well thank you so much for coming today
and that is such a heartbreaking story
we have a proclamation here to declare
september
childhood cancer awareness month in
vaccine i want to read this now and
thank you for your advocacy
whereas childhood cancer is the leading
cause of death by disease in children
and one in 285 children in the united
states will be diagnosed by their 20th
birthday
and whereas there are approximately 40
000 children on active treatment at any
given time
and 80 of those cancer patients are
diagnosed late and with metastatic
disease
and in addition to the mental and
emotional distress this disease can
cause
two-thirds of childhood cancer patients
will also have chronic health conditions
as a result of their treatment toxicity
and whereas countless dedicated
researchers and healthcare professionals
work diligently dedicating their
expertise to treat and cure children
with cancer
and whereas too many children and
families are affected by this deadly
disease and more must be done to raise
awareness and find a cure
therefore we declare the month of
september 2021 as childhood cancer
awareness month in bexley ohio i
encourage all citizens in bexley to
observe this month and support this
cause that so deeply impacts families in
every community across our country and
i'll share that i have a brother who as
a two-year-old was a cancer swag
and i know that that's impacted his life
through uh he's 50 years old has
continued to impact him so this is
incredibly important and i thank you so
much for your advocacy and
and i'm turning turning such tragic loss
into something
positive thank you
thank you thank you for coming
thanks kids
thanks thanks so much tracy
do you wanna
let's get council in the background
rather not be in it
thank you gold family for coming
thank you for your courage
and as i said this would be your cue to
unless you want to stay and we'd love
you too but
bye rachel thank you too
all right
we are
we are to the portion of our agenda
uh
in which we call public comment
um is there anyone who would like to
share with us do we have any slips no
slips for public comic okay
so then um president's report um council
we have some
extra meetings this
month um the 21st am i correct the 21st
we are we are meeting to talk about um
our third our third reading tonight
zoning
um so we are going to be hearing an
appeal so
um jessica's gonna be leading us through
that appeal um next
tuesday
um
on the 23rd
the um
we are going to be talking that my brain
is not
you and ben and i make the you and bill
and i make up the i'm sorry for giving
word of control boulder control my brain
is
it's not with me tonight forgive me so
the board of control is going to be
joining together to speak to talk about
aggregation so that the
three of us are
on the same page um we are going to be
meeting at 11 30 in the morning that day
while we um
well we we want to be on the same page
we would love to include
anybody that wants to join and i
shared with richard because this is
under his
committee i said i want you to feel
um
welcomed and wanted
so if you can come
now realize this is this is a this is a
meeting and so
your role in the meeting would be likely
a listening role am i correct mr
official it would they would be a
listening role as we will have
um
there is a potential for us to have a
majority of counsel at that at that
meeting
so
i just thought we needed to take a
little bit more of a deep dive to make
sure because
both
um this city um both bill and i um the
city auditor and i
were
thought to be on a different page than
the mayor so we just need to to think it
through a little bit and we would love
for you to be with us if you can be
if you
i know you all want to be i know some of
it is it might be a hardship because you
may have
work to do but if you can please feel
wanted and welcome mr klingler
is that meeting going to be posted on
the city website we send out it will be
posted it has to be posted on the city
website 23rd at 11 30. the 23rd at 11
30.
okay
right here
okay so um just wanted to make sure that
you were all aware of those two dates
and um does anybody have any questions
for me
because i think that's just wanted to
clarify um the the hearing is a uh it's
a council review of a lots but it's not
a it's not it's not an appeal just to be
clear
correct i'm sorry
i don't mean yes no please thank you so
much special hearing special here thank
you yes thank you
super duper um that also needs to be
posted on our website though right
yes okay do you want me to reach out to
sam you don't need to okay
okay thank you
we're trying to catch those right now
our website isn't leaking up
automatically with our internal calendar
and that's going to get repaired
okay before we get to our um
administrative updates i know that the
city attorney wanted to share some
information
um about um our progress
or or the the must do's
that are really out of council's hands
as far as um
the process with the charter and the
ballot yeah i mean just as a reminder
you know the the we're all approved
everything's everything's been approved
by the board of elections in fact
although i didn't review it um
we even received a proof of the ballot
do you guys get that do you did you get
there as a candidate i was wondering i
got a proof of the ballot
uh the whole what bexley's battle looked
like and that was on there as well um
but anyway um so again pursuant to our
charter we have to set we will be
sending out the actual all
full ballot language to all of the
electors based i believe on the people
who voted in last election um
by mail and then everything will be
posted at least two times in
a newspaper of general circulation
probably the daily reporter but i'm not
sure it's it's not mailed
let me ask a question oh absolutely
please it's not mailed to all households
no this charter says electors
and it defines electors i could look it
up i don't have enough remember it off
the top of my head but that that would
be registered voters not necessarily
those who voted in the
that's you're right you're right about
that i misspoke about that um that would
be mailed to all all registered voters
um and that um
so may not be all households it's just
those who can vote um and then um you
know again city council individual city
council members can do whatever they
want to
promote or oppose although i don't think
there's any opposition given the vote
but
a promoter opposed
the ballot language individually but
this is not up at this point it's not a
city endeavor it's not an endeavor by
the city of bexley to put out a bunch of
publicity saying vote for this because
as i think i mentioned before i'm pretty
sure that some leaders from the charter
review are going to get together and you
know form a committee to promote this i
will be speaking for five minutes and no
more at this september 30th candidates
night on this so at least there'll be a
little bit of publicity that in that
regard so
um everything's on track
there's the bottom line but your speech
is not for or against it's just the
facts well it might just be the facts
that people ask in my opinion i'm going
to share with you
okay
good to know
since it's not supposed to be a city
endeavor other than the publication and
the required notice
um i assume that no city resources are
meant to be
spent on that or no additional city
rights additional city resources correct
that's right
so people ask why why isn't the city out
there promoting this is because they
shouldn't you shouldn't be except as
individual consummators
any questions for mr official on this
we've got we've had a few questions just
i think you've
all uh privy to those questions i think
we've
shared those with you mr um
i was at the
league of women voters uh meeting on the
is that the 30th
there that's right the thing is
and the plug for that
um it's
do you know where it is and what i have
no idea i think it's at the library
oh it's here okay it's here
it's here okay i will be at the wrong
spot clearly
hello
okay
well i'm glad i asked so you didn't get
[Laughter]
all right um if nothing else for um the
city attorney i'm going to move on to
administrative updates and
um
mr another answer oh i'm
are there any legal case updates that we
need to be aware of any movement on any
of the cases that have been uh
downtown the appellants submitted their
brief in the livingston avenue property
the ones who are opposed to the variance
being granted by these app in the case
that you guys decide not to hear um
nothing earth or exciting how much
longer do you suspect before um
there's a decision made on that six to
twelve votes
seriously absolutely i can't remember
which judges assigned and some are
slower than others but our brief's not
due and for another couple weeks and
then
it sits
until they get around to it
i would i would hope that it would be
less than 12
but it won't be less than six
gotcha
okay um so now is it okay we move on to
mr bayshore and administrative updates
um
andy
we're looking for you
madam president
hi how are you sir
i'm doing good um i have nothing to add
to my written report tonight
are your people getting ready for
the leaves falling
they are
they're not excited about it but we're
starting with the machines right now
yeah
hairspray
um i think mr um
mr um sharp and assad have questions mr
sharp please
yeah i see that the tree crews um both
in your report and um from seeing the um
trees disappearing that were dead um
i have a question about
the
trees along francis avenue that were
fairly new there was like six seven
that um were dead along
francis if there was any particular
cause they were relatively new trees i
think they were put in when the street
was redone
a few years ago
and if there are other trends in trees i
notice around central ohio a lot of pine
trees are dying
richard i don't think that was a trend
we had some issues with those trees on
francis but i don't think we've really
seen it on any of the other streets
as far as like the pine trees or the
evergreens we haven't really noticed
anything
we don't have
we have some of those over by the park
but we haven't really seen a trend like
the trees we did on francis
and just to further clarify the trees on
francis were turkish filberts which we
had uh not not had i don't think much
experience within this either they are
supposed to be very good street trees
francis avenue did not find them to be
very good street trees
street
we've
moved on to a different species with the
replacement trees
turkish whatever
what happens when you live in an
arboretum your mayor can just
pop the names of trees out like that
this side question
that's another when i say i'll never
look at the city the same again thank
you
i just wanted to thank andy first time
on friday i know how busy you are and
andy um had
gave some of his time to sit down with
myself and
with dave our city engineer and mr
geiter who's a subcontractor right now
on our vernon
project
and it was a great meeting i was
enlightened to learn a lot more about
all that you and dave do and and how
much goes in to play and it was really
nice of mr geider to take his time too
and i think that this will help us out
on future projects so thank you so much
for your time and
and all you do for the city that was a
great hour meeting for me to uh have a
better understanding what all goes into
these projects so thanks andy no problem
thanks for all uh the extra work on
labor day to make that one of the best
events i think that's ever happened in
bexley so you guys were really on it so
thank you so much
all right anything else for mr bayshore
all right chief reinhardt
there i am madam president good evening
you are chief how are you today sir i'm
very well thank you good happy happy
council tuesday
thank you
i do not have anything beyond my written
report
your department's been busy um for all
those listening
um
reading the chiefs report this week is
worth your time
um
i think we don't realize
some of the things that um
happen in bexley ohio
and some of the you know the the
the scary things that you all take off
of the streets for us so thank you so
much
um i will um urge
those who are
who are listening and hearing me speak
um it would be better if you got the
whole story
from the chiefs report so just go to our
website and take a look at it um you'll
you too will want to thank
the department for what they what
they've done recently
um
is robinson comment question good
evening chief how are you i'm fine thank
you good evening good i just wanted to
say an extra thanks and shout out i know
last night in particular was a busy
night here in bexley and please please
pass on to our officers who i know work
above and beyond that we are all
incredibly grateful that we woke up all
of us safe this morning and didn't have
to think about it because you guys were
doing your job and we really really
appreciate it thank you ma'am i will
pass that on
your department also gets a big thank
you for the labor day it was we couldn't
have done it without everyone and um
we got that uh woman married without a
hitch and uh the trolley out safely
with the bride and groom
and so i am while it sounds silly it was
important you know so
i think um we have ms lamke has a
question for you sir
good evening chief thank you so much for
the reports from uh what miss robinson
accurately described as a very busy
night for our officers
i just wanted to ask obviously in light
of upcoming budget season and given what
still seems to be the uptick in violent
crime especially in certain parts of our
city
to start thinking now as to whether or
not our officers have the best crime
equipment and support that they need
to keep all of our residents
and those who visit us as safe as
possible
i would love to hear
after you've thought about that to make
sure that everyone is is kept safe
whether it's our officers whether it's
our residents um but i i want you to
know that um
i would support making sure that
everyone in bexley stays as safe as
possible
yes ma'am thank you very much and
and
my first blush on that is
uh over the past several years the mayor
and council have
responded favorably to every funding
request that we've had
uh i mean from our equipment to our
training uh to our overtime account
uh you've given us you've given us uh
what we need to do our very best so
off the top of my head
i can't think of any funding shortfall
we've had
that that would keep us from doing our
job to the best of our ability but i
will continue to work with the mayor as
we do uh of course we speak every week
about equipment personnel
funding issues but uh
but no council and the mayor have been
very responsive and you've
you've put us in a position to do the
things that we need to do and we're very
thankful for that
we are thankful for you anybody else
have any questions for looks like mr
sharp does richard
it's not a question it's just a
thank you to you and your department
even though crime in the region has gone
up significantly
it looks like in certain categories
things have stabilized here in bexley
and gone down and other categories are
marginally
up but
because of the small numbers it looks
like a large percentage but i'd like to
thank um the force for
for their uh conscientious work and um
being alert for issues that need to be
taken care of
thank you sir
anything else for the chief before we
say goodbye to him
thank you chief so much we appreciate
you please know that thank you madam
president
safe
all right and now we have um michael
price is he on location again tonight no
he's in his office
no no no i didn't get to get away today
i'm going to thank him real quick too
because it took a big herd of people to
make that amazing event
um successful and he's already thinking
about great ways to improve it for next
year and all his fabulous people and
you gave us a great report a great
rundown of where you are as far as the
different um
things that uh you all have been working
on for your strategic plan review
do you have anything to add to your
report
mr price
uh no i do not madam president
thank you thank you for the great report
capital university was really awesome
too and i'm sure that mr mayor will
highlight them when we talk when he
talks about our fabulous event on
on main street
you have a question for for mr price yes
i'm not going to steal that limelight so
that's awesome um yeah mike i just
wanted to say it was great to see in the
report um senior space and adding
athletic field opportunities in there i
look forward to hearing more about that
in the strategic plan
are we going to have to up the budget
for rec to get the pool clean
no no i think the pool will be just fine
but i appreciate it i appreciate the
offer all right i'm just checking
because we have enough we have enough
chlorine to make that happen mike you
promise
yeah right now there's no water in there
at all so we're good okay good
for those listening it was because uh we
had um
our puppy
in the pool for the last hurrah of the
summer
anybody have anything else for mr price
before we move on yes ms lamke
mike now that the pool season's over um
are you doing something or is the
department going to do something to
gather input on
swim safe management and
how parents or students or staff thought
they did with managing the pool this
summer
yes we will we'll do a
full report on the poor hope is to have
that done for
october 6th recreation board meeting
that will include a survey that will go
out which will touch on a number of
different different subjects but will
include
uh pool management questions as
well great thank you
you're welcome
all right any other questions for mr
price
all right so we can move on to um mr
harvey is not with us tonight but he
does not have um he didn't have an
update to share i think that um
is beecher there hi beecher yes i am
here
yes we we
do not have any report this um meeting
madam president
but we should have the august numbers or
we will have the august numbers um at
the next meeting and probably a good
estimate of what september's going to
look like
wonderful thank you for all your work
numbers for us and making sure that
we're on pace where we're supposed to be
so thank you so much sir for all your
work thank you
anybody have any questions for
mr future hail
nope thank you vicher
thank you
you too all right
move on to the mayor's update mayor
madam president uh keep this short your
updates
in front of you i also
wanted to extend a great thanks to our i
even wrote it here so just said you know
i'm not making it up rec department
service department and police department
for
the labor day block party and capital
who did open up their grounds in a very
flexible and
warm fashion to allow that awesome event
to take place and they sent all their
lacrosse kids and all their football
kids over to help set things up so yay
then uh one of my favorite photos is
it's hazy it's not a great photo but it
just kind of shows like the bustle of
activity in the in the bucket truck
there during the egg drop on main street
which i thought was uh
was a hoot um
i have some updates regarding covet 19
and masking of which you guys are all
aware and uh we'll be talking about our
dog park easement later this evening
so i don't have anything beyond my
written report but i'm happy to answer
your questions mr sharp
not a question but it's a notation the
tree commission meeting is the 15th not
the 16th that's it's tomorrow
which
is tomorrow
indeed four to six
thank you richard
anybody else have any questions or
comments for the mayor
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assad please
last farmers market
is october 26th 8th 8th same at night as
trick-or-treat actually oh
so uh we'll make sure they're okay with
that and they're aware of it but uh
because i think last time that happened
they actually ended a week early but
it's either so it's either that that
thursday or the thursday prior thank you
get your last minute pumpkins
all right i had i had one other question
sure mr sharp i'm just
you're not going to are you is there
going to be any special discussion about
your executive order
no
there's certainly
if there isn't
a special time yeah now is a good time
to talk about it um
um i saw where you had your meeting with
um mayor ginther and i saw a new report
on
abc6
august 30th
where it talked about the
dramatic increase in
child
intensive care admissions at children's
hospital
but
a main
point that was that was made and i don't
think was
carried by the rest of the media very
very much was that
the number of children with respiratory
rsp
yeah
was actually
double
the number of childhood coveted cases
and um
and it's
out of season so to speak um for when
the hospitals normally see those spikes
in rsv cases normally they're during the
winter months now i was wondering if
there's been any discussion with the
health professionals
if there is any
correlation with mask using now that
children have gone back to school
having moist
cloth
documents that can
keep various other germs
within your body rather than being
continually expelled if there's been any
research on whether that might be the
cause of those additional
cases because last year when even when
parochial schools went back in session a
lot of them
they were not they were going every
other day or they weren't going
consistently
and so there wasn't the long term
wearing of of mass so that's one of the
um issues that i've
had
problem with
in doing my own research which i don't
have time to do a lot of research on
these medical issues is that
it doesn't seem to me that science is
being
utilized in the traditional sense
of setting hypothesis and testing
it's more like it's a hypothesis and
then find the facts that match that
hypothesis rather than searching for
test strongly testing
and looking for differences
that
channel challenging
in science you challenge the given
assumptions so i just want to make that
clear and i'm raising that um to have
uh and because it's hard for
residents around the country to get
alternative information because many of
the news sources
do not
promote alternative discussion or
differing viewpoints there have been a
number of
medical professionals around the country
that have been
terminated you can remember back
last year when 150 medical professionals
made a statement about
hydroxychloroquine
and they they were on the capitol steps
and they went home and many of them lost
their jobs
i talked to my rheumatologist about
hydrochloroquine
and the cases of covet with
patients that have rheumatology issues
and whether there's been any studies
that he's been approached about there
haven't been so
i just want to make sure that
that we ask
questions of the medical professionals
and many many people like myself are
stressed for time to keep up with
different activities and work
responsibilities
and
um i i would like for us to have
the city
and our leaders to have some skeptical
um
questioning of
what's presented as science i'm done
with my little speech i hopefully i
haven't gone more than three minutes for
a time that i'm allowed thank you
richard uh so i just sent you a calendar
invite to our next coven 19 task force
meeting next week
i can assure you that the
um fairly robust conversation there is
is one that you will enjoy and you'll
hear if you would like to ask those
questions directly from medical
practitioners with responses and i
appreciate that and i have
wanted to come to some of them in the
past but sure yeah feel free to feel
free to realize
i will tell you you know
because as you can imagine i know we've
all gotten questions about this i think
it's pretty simple
cdc
guidelines given the spread within
franklin county in delta is that people
mask in public spaces and so we're
extending that the good news is you and
i do not have to be medical experts to
trust
franklin county public health and the
cdc and columbus public health and those
who are analyzing this data consistently
to come up with suggestions and and
thank god we're also not on the school
board where we have to talk about it at
schools and talk about what you're
talking about and that we're really just
talking about in most instances people
jumping in real quickly to businesses to
uh
to attend and then and then and then
depart so i appreciate that and as as
you all know council i would remind you
you know this so you don't need this
reminder but maybe for the public that
doesn't know this
this order um
at any time can be overturned by council
if it's something that you guys feel
would be appropriate um and i understand
that as
a valid and valuable checks and balances
so that is obviously within council's
purview at any time
madam president if i may i just want to
just chime in here and say that after
doing a little
bit of research very little there's
certainly a belief and again it's only a
belief so you know to richard's point we
don't know for sure a lot of this stuff
because we've never dealt with it before
that rsv has increased because of this
too many people too many places are not
requiring mass
and it's a sudden exposure
that we haven't had for the last year
and a half and and again there's it's
all over the place on it but but i just
want to say that there's certainly
support for that uh
that that conclusion
well i think since none of us are
medical
people i think that um the right place
to have this conversation is with our
task force they are
incredibly knowledgeable and they will
and they and they will give it to you
straight
so
i'm just speaking about some issues that
maybe some residents have and since the
the mayor
has constant access whereas most
residents don't i actually just want to
sure share those thoughts so thank you i
appreciate that
mr klingler you have a comment yes um
mayor kessler encoded in note 5 you say
businesses are encouraged to make face
coverings available for customers upon
request the city will facilitate
sourcing face coverings on an as
available basis who's the contact from
the city to get a hold of for those
elizabeth allman our cares act
coordinator and we've um we've continued
to make sure that businesses know
about that resource in those contexts
thank you so
much mr will they be
available
here for pickup
like they used to be in the lobby they
yes so we've had people come in yes our
masks continue to be available and um i
think we reiterated that most in a
communication recently we've had
residents taking
advantage of that so we now have
upgraded to
kn 95 masks that are being provided so
i've had i've heard a lot of collect all
of them a lot of positive feedback from
businesses because it takes it out of
their hands because it's not
necessarily them
suggesting that it needs to happen but
it's coming from someone else so
um
at least three different places that
i've been recently have said she said
that assad do you have a question or
comment just a quick comment um just
wanted to just
reiterate how important it is to be
patient right now because as everyone
has discussed
and we've discussed offline all of us
that this is a pandemic that we have
never
um endured before so there's no written
manual right now on how to handle it and
you know what was four weeks ago
is different four weeks later and what
was a week ago is different than a week
later so just being patient and
reminding our community and us as
leaders to be civil
and patient
yes i agree
all right
if we may i'm going to ask um that we go
on to the consent agenda please
all right two items in the
consented ordinance 34-21 to appropriate
2700 from the friends of the jeffrey of
jeffrey preschool funds to pay preschool
related expenses in 2021 that was
introduced by mr markham and the august
24 2021 city council meeting minutes
um is there a motion on the consent
agenda
thank you mr markham is there a second
second thank you mr klingler is there
any
discussion about the consent agenda from
council
from those in attendance
mr fishel all right ms robinson yes mr
klingler yes mr sharp
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yes ms lamke yes mizad yes is fibel yes
mr markham yes
all right third readings please all
right we have a third reading of
resolution 10-21
granting area variances with conditions
from the minimum lot requirements for
the property located at 407 north view
drive zoned r3 residential to allow two
non-conforming contiguous lots in single
ownership being used in combination and
considered an undivided parcel under the
bexley city code to be split to permit
two independent lots and parcels that
would not meet existing our three
minimum lot requirements ms saad yes
thank you mr fishel as we discussed in
the president's report this
third reading we will be
um tabling tonight
um because we have a public special
meeting coming up on september 21st at
six o'clock here at city hall
all right any comments before i ask um
assad to take action on this one
assad
i would like to take action um on this
third reading
resolution 10-21
to
table all right is there um
a second
okay i think i heard mr marcum before i
heard mr klingler um all those in favor
signify by saying aye aye
all those um opposed same sign all right
tabled thank you miss sod second
readings all right
second reading of ordinance 35-21
to enter into an agreement with odot for
urban paving project along the u.s 40
including resurfacing and partial
payment repair payment repair along with
other associated work in accordance with
preliminary participatory legislation rc
5521.01 mr markham
thank you this is uh again uh okay in
our agreement with odot and i think we
have an attachment here with some
updated figures is that true
yes so
excuse me
um
this shows uh
for the two different
portions
drexel and broad street
approximately what the bexley twenty
percent match would be on the pavement
note that the drexel avenue portion
would be ostensibly paid for by the ohio
public works commission
funding so it's actually another grant
for the pavement portion
broad street
would be coming out of our street fund
as you would expect so this is what we
local government call a good deal yes
that is correct
um
the city would have any concerns or
questions about
this
piece of legislation
this good deal
has it's been
designated
um
mr markham uh
anything further on this one tonight
uh nothing further from me all right
then we will move on to um ordinance
3621 please all right ordinance 3621 to
establish the american rescue plan
fund and to appropriate one million four
hundred forty two thousand four hundred
twenty two dollars and ten cents from
the arpa fund mr markham an even better
deal is when they give you 1.4 million
dollars uh and so this is just our
ordinance to uh set up a fund to receive
that money
and then
in the near future we will be having
discussions about how we would like to
think about using these funds
thank you mr markham
any questions on this one
all right then if we could move on to
resolution 1121 please all right
resolution 1121 confirming the mayor's
point appointment of rachel lang to the
civil service commission ms lamke
um nothing further to add obviously we
all heard from miss lang earlier tonight
does anyone have any questions about
this resolution
it is it has been very common for us to
put um
these resolutions on the consent agenda
are you comfortable with that are you
slam key yes everyone else is
comfortable with that as well all right
as foulter would you please
note that we will put resolution 11 21
on the consent agenda thank you
um then we will go ahead and um we've
got about four first readings if we
could please mr official all right first
reading of ordinance 37-21 accepting the
donation of a recreation easement
consisting of two sites
adjacent to and west of sheridan avenue
to the city of bexley mr klingler
thank you mr official um
i'll read the whereases um
ordinance number 3721 whereas capitol
university is the owner of certain
property in the city of bexley that is
adjacent to schneider park and upon
which a portion of proposed expansion of
schneider park would be located
and whereas capital university has
offered to grant to the city of bexley a
recreation easement for the easement
area including
the 0.981 acre parcel and
1.471 parcel heretofore described for
recreational purposes conservation
purposes installation of utilities and
all other recreational educational
scientific or conservation resource
management activities the quote
recreation easement end quote as shown
on the attached exhibit a
mayor could you pull up the attachment
whereas it is in the interest and
benefit of the city of bexley in public
at large that the city accept the
donation of such recreation easements
do you want to read the deed or should i
uh just kidding
please start at the top
um
pass that note shake around like this
this is matt let me know if you'd like
me to expound on that at all or yes i i
would please
so this is kind of hard
to read from
uh
yeah exactly put turn your head sideways
like
mr markham is
from the uh actual
well i got too fancy on you guys hold on
one second
give me a second from the actual survey
so i'm trying to pull up the auditor's
map which i had ready to go for this
and essentially uh this this easement
area this this is the um capital
apartments which is the um
right there on sorry astor right uh was
one time a condo became a capital
student housing
and the easement runs you can kind of
see this tree line that goes along here
that's the start of the hill that leads
down to the floodplain so the easement
generally is not at the tree line it's
lower down is kind of where it hits the
bottom it starts to be floodplain and
runs along back here in areas where the
city doesn't currently have access going
up north to capitol commons
so it's a really um
you know we've talked about this in the
context of the dog park which is correct
and appropriate
but
this is more than just that it's a very
generous
contribution of recreational land by
capital
uh
you can see how
it starts here and goes that goes north
and it's kind of misleading
this area we already had a larger
easement area
and this is showing it continuing
further on where it was uh where there
were gaps so
long story short this is the
long-awaited easement gives us the
ability to commence um construction of
the dog park that's been planned
um
you know we started talking about this
with a different president of capital so
it took some time to
resocialize the idea and then i want to
give dave kaufman
a whole lot of credit um and capital and
tiny petite capital
for helping to progress this
gift so
it's very meaningful um if you haven't
been to schneider recently seeing that
trail and the way in which it's impacted
the community
uh and seeing that this would help
fulfill that vision and flesh it out
this is a this is a really big deal so
huge thanks to capital
cheers
mr mr marcum please so this is uh it's
especially exciting for me this is the
first project that i worked on as a new
member of city council six years ago i
hate to i hate to put in those terms but
uh first project and i think a lot of
people in community really
excited about uh the possibility here so
i guess i just have a
i'm just curious i'm not a real estate
person and i'm not a land person so the
easement is not a donation of land right
is a donation of rights on the land is
that correct
it's a donation it's allowing us access
for a specific purposes
are there any risks that we take by
accepting this and working on the land
that
still remains someone else's property
so there's all sorts of easements right
you can have a non-exclusive easement
just access something which is kind of
what we talked about a lot over our
conservation easement this is an
exclusive easement so
if you look at the bundle of rights here
and then you look at
even though it's an easement it still
has to fit one of the purposes
but if you read the purposes you'll see
they're fairly expansive um
and while i mentioned skateparks for
example i don't think that's our intent
but it the except for matt uh it might
be our intent uh but not in this
particular area matt but the the reality
is that they've this is a very generous
easement it's exclusive
it's broad
obviously recreationally based but
utilities that would support that
and so
it gives us that it gives us that bundle
of rights that i think is really key to
this i mean you'll forgive me for not
reading the isma but uh is there a time
period specified
he's
it's not easement is a type of title so
it's it's a
they are giving us a section of the
property rights okay um we don't have
the ability to go sell that
uh we don't have the ability to
go beyond the area but an exclusive
easement is a pretty powerful piece of
property and so there's really no
conditions here where it'd be revoked is
that
not that really as long as we use it for
one of the reasons enumerated which is
mayor says very broad and if
theoretically if they sold the property
they sell subject to the easement okay
thank you right
mr sharp question please um
does
seed
language allow capital university
to have access
to that area for
things that they want to do like if they
want to add recreational activities or
i i mean they they have access to the
land but i don't believe they have the
ability to build on the land in any way
that negates our easement right use
of the easement
yeah i think that's that's the key the
difference between an exclusive versus
non-exclusive exclusive
exclusive is a property right only to
the holder of the easement
so it actually does really restrict
capital's ability to do anything with
that portion of the land
ms lamke please
my question is really more for mark
even though the city would have the
easement and we anticipate we're going
to use it for a dog park what happens if
there's an accident or something happens
on the property liability wise given
that we're not the property owner
depends who call it causes the accident
if we cause the accident we're
potentially liable if if somebody else
like capital causes it then they're
going to be liable keep in mind we have
incredible
um statutory immunity
that a private entity like capital
doesn't have so the chances of us being
held liable
other than outside of a situation where
there's an obvious
problem that we ignore is very it's
unlikely
and my second question is would we we be
responsible by accepting this easement
to maintain that property such that it's
um
well while mowed and free from new ins
uh nuisances and things like that
yeah i mean we have we have the
obligation to maintain that property the
same as any other property we would own
outright essentially and that's that's
the key from a liability perspective
maintenance all that it's it's
tantamount to ownership of that that's
that area
so it's no different than us taking on
another park space
mr markham
so i have to ask this question mr mayor
uh and i would be remiss if i did not uh
given this uh assuming the passage what
sort of timetable would you see for
construction of the dog park well we've
already
i can't say we've already started
clearing but that might be true um
so
the uh just maintenance regular
maintenance
i i was i i hesitate to put out any time
frames because the lewis has surprised
me give all sorts of optimistic time
frames but i do feel like we have
indulgences
in a fantasy you know we have we have
grant funding lined up for the park we
have a po set aside for the park
we have uh finally columbus's sanitary
project has cleared the area so we're
able to actually do what we need to do
that was as of like a month or two ago
so
um
you know i would love to see us get in
there this fall and winter to start into
the drainage in the park and then
hopefully get it
put in place in the spring
so i would love an optimistic spring
early summer timeline for for opening
for that portion of it
but
i'll keep you apprised of what's going
on
thank you
anything further on this piece
all right if we could please
move on to
the ordinance i'm sorry resolution 1221.
all right first reading of resolution
1221 to accept the tax amounts and rates
as determined by the budget commission
and authorizing the necessary tax levies
and certifying them to the county
auditor mr markum
i mean they tell us what the tax rates
will be and we say okay pretty much i
think right
anybody have any questions about this
right sorry i i i don't mean to be
cynical that's that's my yeah this is a
routine thing we don't have much of a
say something i don't want to come
across as being really troll about it
but yeah there's not much to this
any questions
all right moving on to 13 21 all right
first reading of resolution 13 21 to
adopt the 2021 recommendations of the
bexley tax incentive review council
regarding tax abated properties in the
city of bexley mr markham we call this
the turk yes the turk and uh i i i have
to admit that i always have to be
reminded of all this uh stuff so uh mr
mayor why don't you remind us what this
is more drill stuff um
yes so this is the taxis interview
council uh reviews
abatements that exist in the city and um
tiffs so real estate tax incentives uh
that exist and
double checks that any agreements in
place are being followed
and then votes each year on whether or
not to continue those
programs
so the turk met in june and voted to
continue uh the different various
abatements and
and to approve the tiff
funds and there is actually an
attachment that we need to add to this
which is the uh the report of the turks
so we will do that in uh future agendas
but uh
it's the same ordinance you've seen in
the past we did this last year and again
it's worth your time to take a look at
the attachment when it comes up just
yep
tax incentive review count council
one of the hard-working committees of
the city any comments on um
on this one
okay moving on to
all right we now have first reading of
ordinance 38-21 to amend chapter 12
30.42 impervious cover definition and
chapter 12 30.49 lot coverage overall
definition in order to specify the
treatment of artificial turf as
impervious cover for the purposes of
lock coverage calculations ms side
yes thank you mr fishel so impervious
cover um
this is basically helping give a
definition
to um
um artificial turf as an impervious
material an example of an impervious
material would be like asphalt or cement
so this ordinance is
helping make sure that
the lot coverage overall means that the
ratio of the lot coverage um
you know
for the yard would not be all just an
impervious material with the definition
of that now with this ordinance being
artificial turf is the way i read it
sessandra
all right
questions we went from turks to turf
anybody have any questions about the
turf
a little more
specifically if i can't
limits where turf can also occur where
it can be installed so it would limit
artificial turf to the rear yard not the
front yard
um and it would in becoming a part of
lot coverage ratio i apologize if i'm
being uh duplicating what you just said
it is encompassed in our block coverage
ratio calculation so it's treated like
concrete essentially or asphalt would be
in our code
so there's a limit to how much
artificial turf you would be allowed to
install on your property
logic
first off there's just a question mark
so kathy gets these questions
if you read impervious cover and you
read
exhibit five two of the middle ohio
regional planning commission stormwater
design manual larger coefficients
produce an increased rate of runoff
within a given time period your head
kind of explodes because what that's
telling you is that turf may or may not
be impervious cover
and so this just says we're presuming
that it is because it often is and even
if it's not impervious cover it's
certainly not absorbent so it's not
it's not retaining water the way that
plant plant material does and certainly
it is counter to our overall you would
you could argue that it's not in keeping
with our stormwater
desires as a community to retain more
stormwater so
this helps clarify staff's
job no matter what i think it would be
nice to clarify it so if you guys are
like yes astroturf everywhere that would
be helpful too because it would clarify
it so
this is our attempt to interpret what
council might want to do with the
regulation of artificial turf
mr markham
so i guess what does this change right
now did we currently just allow
any kind of artificial turf under
and and covering any amount is that what
we're saying and now we're restricting
that
i think it's more complicated than that
i think we've we have uh discouraged it
and suggested that it may be impervious
cover and so there have been times when
we've it's been inquired and we've given
sort of nebulous answers to be frank
with you
is that an arb thing does that go it's
not
it could i mean it's stat it's a staff
review if it meets if it's not
impervious cover then staff could
approve the installation issue the
permit
and it wouldn't be a b zap issue where
it would be a variance it would only be
a b zap as a variance not a b as a
review of the site plan and it depends
on the type of artificial turf too right
they take that into consideration
because some of that is better than
others right
so that's where you get into
coefficients of runoff
so i reached out to franklin soil water
conservation district as i was working
on this and just asked like hey
i'm trying to understand this language
does this mean that artificial turf is
indeed a previous cover and that's when
they said well it depends on the
engineering specification to your point
of of that ohio stadium had uh our first
tour for a long long time and there was
high quality stuff
how much call do we get
how much uh well
forget it
we could go on or not i could go on and
on i think
this is his thing
that was the future of what happened was
kathy came to my house and said can i
get some clarity on this this is really
confusing and so i said i will try to
help you get clarity on this uh and by
the way they did eventually tear all
that out and put in regular grass again
um but uh
how much call do we get for artificial
turf i i feel like it i hear about it a
couple times a year i just don't know
that comment but it's also becoming a
more common concept i think like you see
it like in design magazines and that
sort of thing and
maybe a putting green yeah putting
greens yeah i mean
and do they and and does that
those tire things do those make a
difference is that it as well that
people put under
their like their play equipment you mean
the petroleum-based toxins yes those are
what it ends up in your kid's shoes and
you're not sure how good that is for
them that's why i say wear socks
children and they think inhaling it
could cause in your kid's hair i mean
cancer yeah it
seems it could be problematic but we're
not scientists no we are not that's not
what we're doing here tonight
does anybody have any other questions
about this richard do you do
so
this only applies to residential it
doesn't apply to
institutions or commercial
like the school um the high school
complex would clearly be in violation of
this clearly um
and capital universities
turf probably would too
so it says residential but i mean
there's not a corresponding phrase in
other
areas
right i mean that's not a definition
that carries over to other
zoning areas
so that's an excellent question and i do
think lot coverage can come into play if
it's if it's
i think that the residential lot
coverage is where there's strict
regulation over it because commercial is
such a case-by-case basis uh but i mean
when it comes to front yard that is
truly limited to residential
because commercial property has site
review of their site plan on every
installation that occurs
okay and
and then for
so existing installations that would be
grandfathered like the putting greens
that's
on property
correct
currently in existence yeah any
pre-existing condition would be
grandfather i also can't think of one
that would violate this
unless there's something i'm missing i'm
not aware of one that would violate this
but
anything further on
turf
there's one more
mr markham so where do these so what are
we looking at where do these
recommendations come from like where
who's building this
who's building this for us this these
guidelines
right here yeah yeah
so these are the yard requirements that
are in our residential zoning code okay
so currently and then the gold is the
bold is the only thing that's changing
right
and so to richard's question section two
is a section of our residential code
that's a
there's a typo section three
is a section of our residential code
when it comes to
um
sorry sorry for scrolling back and forth
additional yard requirements that is a
residential zoning district section of
code the other
two definitions impervious cover and
lock overall
our definitions that are our entire
zoning good definitions so if there is
any restriction on impervious cover a
lot coverage within our commercial code
which i
i have to double check that i get back
to you if there is then that would apply
to that
all right so this so this makes sense
then what we're saying is we're defining
this as in previous cover and then and
allowing it to go along those guidelines
and then we're adding
only in a backyard uh are we allowed to
install artificial turf okay thank you
all right
your permission council i'm going to ask
um
mr official to move us on to the uh
i believe our last first reading all
right so first reading of ordinance
39-21 to amend the bed and breakfast
i guess i'm reading the title but the
title doesn't make a sense to amend the
bed and breakfast at 519 south drexel
avenue in the city of bexley introduced
by ms saad which i think mr fischoeder
to bend the bed of breakfast variants
very insane right exactly that's right
we'll get that fixed right so this is
the first reading and um
this just all
kind of
came in front of us today
because um
there was a meeting with capital
university on this so
basically
i am also seeing this for the first time
today
this ordinance is looking at the um
the purchase of
from capitol university
to contract with our bexley bed and
breakfast with the intent to continue to
operate as a bed and breakfast with use
available to the public in
much the same manner as it is currently
operated
so what is kind of important to look
down upon is um you know section one
that a variance is hereby provided to
permit a bed and breakfast use at 519
south drexel avenue in the city of
bexley
i am going to from here let the mayor
do a deeper dive into this since i just
saw this today and um
i'll let you take it from there thank
you so section one is
other than those portions that are
bolded or struck out is the language
from the previous variants which was
granted in 2013 by council
so the bed and breakfast at the time
that the variance was provided was not
an allowable use anywhere in the city
since then our zoning code's been
changed and there are some conditional
use areas for bnb
um so this site itself has its own
variants um the variance accrues to the
property not to the owner so it can be
it can be transferred with that variance
in place subject to the conditions
the conditions that are enumerated in
items one through eight already exist
today the one change is the couple
changes are we've added some language
here except as per the otherwise
provided when it comes to owner and
employees and we'll get to that in a
second
we have changed 14 consecutive days to
14 consecutive nights that was at the
request of the applicant for this change
variance i don't think it's material
and then in section 9 um there's a new
section in it and it's it might seem
kind of goofy until you think about the
fact that this is a very special request
it's very unusual and it's again a
variance that's targeted directly to one
property in one use
so
we've added this language after mark and
i met with capital university capitol
university is in contract to purchase
and i will tell you there have been
other there were other interested
purchasers that reached out to us and
everyone kind of needed a little bit of
a tweak to this variance language in
order to operate it so
it's turned out that this is a a very
special language tailored uh to the
current ownership uh which is awesome um
and obviously the bnb has been such a
successful amenity to our community so
we presumed the council would want to be
protective of that amenity um and so
this kind of speaks to that
um first off it does allow for an
employee of the university to be the
occupant the way that the old variants
read for the existing one
it really required it was like a sole
owner occupant sort of model so this
allows an employee of capital to occupy
it and operate it
it
specifies that it remains available to
the public that it doesn't become
some sort of non or some sort of
exclusive bnb that's not a public
amenity that it doesn't become student
housing
basically it has an ongoing operation
clause to that variance so if at any
time they start to really change the
character of it to the point where it
doesn't satisfy
items b and c in this proposed language
then it would be
an unlawful use it would be outside of
the zoning code
so
i think the important thing to
understand with this is that you know
this is council's 100 your domain you
know there is not an illegal zoning
right to
uh
have anything but what the pr applicant
already or the property already has with
experience so council gets to
discuss any terms that they think might
apply to this
on the positive side we have a user
in capital university who really does
want to see this continue to
operate as a bed and breakfast and be an
amenity to the community i think they
feel they've seen it such an advantage
to them to be able to have a place for
their families
to come that they really want to make
sure that it continues and so i think
that might be their motivation but we'll
let them speak to that they're going to
be coming to the next meeting
and i'm
happy to answer any questions or
i know i see some folks that joined us
that might have a vested interest in
this as well so
mr sharp
um this strikeout reference
for the standard architectural review
process why was that struck out rather
than
then modified to
accommodate our current
approval boards
because the proposed improvements have
been built uh the old variants was
written before it had been
it was a concept of use not
architectural
so
it was frankly initially redundant
anyway because anything has to go to arb
at the time but back to the
environmental review board
because it's already been built
it's it's done
any future alteration or change to it
would still have to go to a or b and b
zap
mr markham
i particularly uh
particularly like the inclusion of
section two because i think
uh
may not be well known that if capital
university were to purchase this they
would the city would lose tax
taxable revenue currently get from this
and as much as i appreciate this as a
part of bexley and i think it's a great
part of actually i think we also want to
retain that so i am and support this
have a question for our council
mr official
on could you scroll down just
just a bit down i'm sorry up
9a
so when i read 9a mr official i
understand that i understand the the
intent behind that
an employee of capital universities
shall occupy and live full-time on the
premises
is
is that legally does that legally do for
us what we want it to do which is
to me
it doesn't necessarily mean that would
be the same person there 24 hours
necessarily as just an employee is on
the premises 24 hours a day
so i do think that
two things one is
i need to think about all of these
questions and comments because again as
the mayor said and you guys know it's
just hit us so i don't know on on that
part of it and i don't know if we can
mandate that they have one person all
the time although i certainly understand
that to be their intent i do think
though now that you brought it up a
related issue is an employee of capitol
university shall occupy and live full
time on the premises and serve as the
point of contact or the manager or
something like that and again that's the
intent but i think it does need to be
modified um i i have to give some
thought to the the main your your actual
question about whether we could
stipulate that it's going to be the same
person all the time or whether they
would have you know
i mean again this is the intent
is that it's going to be that person's
resident
is so that residents i should say so
they're going to be living there as just
like you and i live in our homes um but
in our brain we want someone that's
vested and accountable we don't just
want a 24-hour
hotel manager necessarily right and if
and by saying shall occupy and live
full-time on the premises i think covers
it but
i definitely will give it some more
thought okay
because i'm not positive
any other questions i know we'll have
more questions
as we have more of an opportunity to
digest it but are there any initial
mr sharp
um
counselor person um markham indicated
i made a comment about the tax revenues
staying to the city
um
is capital this would be is kepler
university going to be applying for an
exemption or
for from real estate tax
or because it's not
related to their
charter
or to their primary purpose as a
university so right so arguably they
wouldn't even
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be able to get one but nonetheless this
language further bolsters and they're
they're willing to agree to it
yep
right is everyone comfortable for now to
move on
all right so we will um
i believe that um correct me if i'm
wrong mr sharp but we um are going to
leave the tabled ordinances on the table
oh are there speaker slips for that last
ordinance
519 south drax lab owner operator bexley
bed and breakfast with my husband mike
we just want to thank you for
hopefully approving this with tweaks yes
thing i know capital's intent is to have
someone it will be someone's residence
but if you know wordsmith it to make it
sound better this will ensure that it
remains a bed and breakfast maybe the
name will change a little bit
um but it ensures that it's been great
we've enjoyed doing it we think the city
has been appreciative
of what we've been able to offer and
mike and i can go on to our next phase
of life but this will continue so thank
you for your consideration and i
hopefully hopefully your approval in the
future
thanks thanks thank you leslie
all right so the table ordinance are
going to remain on the table um am i
correct mr sharp
yes ma'am all right and then if we could
please let's um
go ahead and move on to our committee
reports we'll start with mr sharp and
the service and environmental committee
please
um
he sex next week tree and public garden
commissions tomorrow um that's about all
i have to report all right thank you mr
sharp um
mr markham finance committee sir
just like in the calendar reminder
next cic meeting is
next week when it's on a wednesday which
is very different usually it's it's on a
different evening so wednesday the 22nd
at 6 p.m
what's that
gets delayed
there's a couple things going on that
night there are a few things going on
that night
it's marcus's birthday is it really
we buried the lead then i mean that's
the big thing
safety and health committee jen robinson
um i have i just have one
um just something that i
want to bring to everybody's attention
the new albany uh community foundation
is doing a one of their book reads as
part of their conversations on social
justice on october 5th at 7 pm it's a
virtual event and they will be welcoming
isabel wilkerson
who is the author of cast which i know a
number of people have read it's an
incredibly powerful book and i just
thought i'd make everybody aware other
than that i do not have anything to
report
thank you jen
i'm zoning in development committee
jessica saad
yes just um reiterating some dates that
are upcoming um bzapp will be meeting
next week september 23rd on thursday at
6 p.m um troy just talked about cic arb
will next meeting is october 14th
and as we discussed we have our special
um
council meeting coming up um september
21st at 6 pm that's all i've got
all right thank you mossad and so we'll
move on to matthew klingler recreational
sir just one item i just wanted to thank
everyone for coming out to the um bexley
block party and as and also the roof
vest
raised a lot of money for alzheimer's
research and a cure for alzheimer's
just to give you a number the first year
of the event they raised around 12 000
second year was around eight thousand
dollars mostly due to the pandemic and
this year he uh tim pitts is still
totaling the final number but he said
somewhere between 45 to 50 000
this year
and uh they sold they had 500 tickets uh
sold
up until 24 hours before the event and
they sold like 600 in the 24 hours
leading up to the event so we ran out of
cups but uh
we're ready for it again next year
so happy so happy
all right madam president
while we're talking about parks and rec
uh
i i was remiss and not mentioning that
they taste of bexley and so someone else
said this already i apologize
is next thursday the 23rd a lot
happening next thursday
again busy calendar but uh unless they
kicked us off already the bexley cookout
trailer
is going to be an entrant
so if for no other reason
i can tell you i've been doing some
taste testing and you will not want to
miss what we have to throw your way
i don't know if they still need
volunteers i will be volunteering i
don't know if you all are are available
that night to do so um i'm sure uh
elaine phelps would appreciate it if
if you have a minute so
to do a little volunteering and then do
a little tasting
judiciary and strategic committee money
glam keychair
thank you um two quick announcements
first of all uh some of you may have
visited the bexley
i'm sorry the bac's trash trash and
treasure sale that was this weekend at
jeffrey and due to
covet i can tell you that there was a
big benefit and that was that people
were constantly cleaning out their
houses and thinking of things that they
wanted to donate
um they've had their biggest success
ever and they netted um 10 500
which is a gigantic so thanks to all of
you for buying stuff
and thank you for everyone else who
donated stuff
um the second announcement is that
starting tomorrow
the bex
city is hosting hispanic heritage
celebration
in conjunction with the bexley public
library the bexley minority apparent
alliance and the bexley celebration and
events committee
um
lots of announcements going out shortly
but i hope that all of you will partake
in some of the
events
starting with our food truck celebration
on october 8th we'll have some salsa
dancers some food trucks
and due to our new dora
it will be a very good time in the
parking lot of the bexley library
that's right and it's it'll be uh jen's
birthday so especially just for you and
a report margaritas for the mama
all right um
i'm going to
we're going to move on to 21 public
comments if there's anyone
in
attendance who would like to speak
please give us your name and your
address even though we have it memorized
constance lewis 663 euclair first of all
i want to thank you for installing the
bench
from south bexley neighborhood
association at havenwood park thank you
very much it made it there before the
last jazz
fest that we had so a big thank you to
you all mayor
and also just curious when will the
refresh start for havenwood i understand
it's in the budget but just curious as
to when that's going to take place
well
madam president if i may i don't mean to
be the bearer of bad news the refresh
itself is not yet in the budget
uh there was the plan was in the budget
um
but
uh i think
i think i might have talked to council
about the concept of having a big push
for our parks coming up and so we are
hoping to incorporate havenwood refresh
along with some other park improvements
throughout the city in a big year of the
parks concept which you'll be hearing
about more
and
that is something we're shooting for in
the next year or two
year or two year or two
and i know you're looking for next year
i know that that's what you're using
your mind or maybe even next week
but um
we are hoping to have like a big amount
of energy around some refreshes of parks
throughout throughout the uh the city so
i'm i'm we're open to hearing any ideas
about how much that upsets you but also
contributions about how we can make it
really exciting for the whole community
i think it would be very exciting to get
schneider park connected to main street
get the dog park get the
water going on at commonwealth park get
havenwood refresh
we got a lot to do you made the list
like you read the spreadsheet already
good well um i'm i'm happy to help if
you need some help thank you so much
thank you
all right so we are just so everyone
knows that is with us tonight or is
listening tonight
we are about ready to go into executive
session we will vote to go into
executive session
um
and when and then we will have to come
back and we are only coming back to
adjourn so you are welcome to stay but
all that you will miss
is us voting to adjourn
um border control
but we have a border control meeting we
have a board control meeting to follow
this though so with that bill
without bill
okay but just certainly
it'll be a quick one welcome to stay for
the world
okay so we are going to um i am going to
move that we go into executive session
and i am guessing it's section
um
223.03
a
to consider the appointment employment
dismissal discipline promotion demotion
or compensation of a public employee or
official or the investigation of charges
or complaints against the public
employee or official
second second
i think we have to do this by uh
roll call roll call oh
so that's you uh yes mr shark yes yes
yes
yes mr marcos yes
yes
we are so um everybody please turn
all right um motion to is there a motion
to
exit executive session i'll make a
motion we exit executive session second
by mr sharp thank you this can we do
voice vote for this all those in favor
aye aye aye aye opposed
same sign okay just for the record that
was matt klingler who made the first and
it was richard sharp who made the second
and just in case natalie can't hear what
who it was
um okay is there a motion to adjourn
motion to adjourn thank you is there a
second a
okay
on your birthday
that was every second
matt klingler made that
first and jessica did the second all
those in favor signify by saying aye aye
all right