thank you
oh do you need a microphone sorry about
that
called order welcome everybody to the
Tuesday September 27th Bexley city
council meeting as always our thoughts
are with the people of Ukraine uh Mr
mcpeek can you uh call the roll for us
please I shall
lamke
Bible I'm here Marcelino
here Robinson here Markham here and
Klingler here
oh um yeah and we have a motion to
excuse the absence of Monique she has a
uh
it's selfish with her children tonight
so moved all in favor say aye aye aye
opposed same sign
please rise join me for the Pledge of
Allegiance
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the
Republic for which to stand one nation
under God indivisible with liberty and
justice for all
I thought we had a second
give me a second
you're throwing me off
all right uh we're at the time where we
have special guests and presentations I
think we have two special guests I've
got uh
where's my special guest where'd she go
oh she's back there Dana Watson do you
want to approach the podium here
so I wasn't trying to hide
thank you I really was
Welcome to our city council please
introduce yourself and uh let us know
what you're here for today okay well
first of all uh council president
Markham thank you for the opportunity
and to members of council I would be
remiss if I didn't Salute Your Chief
your new chief of police
um Chief Lewis who's a friend of mine
and uh
good person that's all I want to say now
why I'm here I co-chair with Franklin
count former Franklin County
Commissioner Marilyn Brown
the senior options Levy and that is
issue 10 on your ballot so you got to
note that because it's for senior
citizens I'm one but I like to refer to
myself as a seasoned Citizen and one of
the things that we really should be
proud of in Franklin County is the way
that we treat our seasoned citizens
um the levy is issue 10 it is not a tax
increase it's going to assist in keeping
our seasoned citizens at home because we
don't want them to go to nursing
facilities they always do better at home
it also will continue the transportation
that they need Meals on Wheels home
health care and all of those items we
serve sixty thousand we serve sixty
thousand seniors in the county and
that's a lot sixty thousand and with
it's a three percent increase no tax
increase it's a renewal so I'm here to
ask you to consider supporting the
senior options Levy for seasoned
citizens and it's my hope that you will
consider that not only will you consider
that but you should vote for that on
Election Day November the 8th that's all
I have just a small all request that's
excellent and chief it's it's a
brilliant move to sprinkle in these
endorsements with the speakers
I like I like your style there okay uh
do we have any questions for uh Ms
Watson well she's here
oh thank you so much and if there's
anything you can think of that we can do
to help okay I brought you some
materials would you like them yeah oh
yeah I know your clerk is not here so
he's going to take them you know what
we'll take him in charge my my friend
the new chief of police that makes me
feel comfortable I love it
thank you so much thank you
and our second guests
Darris uh with Columbus marathon thank
you for joining us
hello everyone fantastic mustache yes
thank you councilman yes so thank you
for so
I'm Darris Blackford the race director
the Nationwide Children's Hospital
Columbus marathon and half marathon
which is a marathon name it's so long
um so the race this year is October 16th
Sunday October 16th it's the 42nd year
of the race and at the 42nd year we've
been coming through the streets of
Bexley this is my 12th year as race
director I'm also proud to say it's my
12th year of putting out the door
hangers in Bexley I personally do that I
did it this morning and I have to tell
you
it what's interesting to me is when I
started this back in 2010
I would I would go up to houses and
you'd see the driveway and the chalk
drawing or the or the the kids had been
the kids toys well now those houses have
cars that say University of Miami or you
know Ohio State student and it just to
me it's just it it just says to me that
we're so thankful for the city allowing
us to be a part of of the community for
exactly one hour and 50 minutes every
year so it's not a marathon uh time
frame for Bexley we come in about 7 30
in the morning and we're gone by 9 20.
we also work very hard to not leave a
footprint clean up our trash clean up
all the
clothing that gets discarded things like
that
um since 2012 we partnered with
Nationwide Children's Hospital and at
the Columbus School for Girls mile four
we have a patient uh champion and
um his name is Ethan and his mom is our
top fundraiser this year she actually is
running the marathon because
she said if you're if she told her son
if he becomes a children's Champion
she'll run the marathon so she's so
um as of this year so far before this
year we've already raised 11 million
dollars since 2012. thanks in in part to
places like Bexley which allow us to
come to town so
um same exact course as it's been comes
up Broad Street to Drexel Drexel domain
and leaves the city we're just very
fortunate for the continued support of
the city the residents come out their
cheer they they just the
if you make the trees and and everything
just magically turn colors uh in a
couple weeks but honestly it's just uh I
I ran the marathon many years before I
ran the marathon as a director and
Bexley was always just a great part of
the part of the event so thank you all
and uh if anybody has any questions or
or concerns or thoughts or anybody
running it or walking it
thank you thank you well again it's just
it everything that happens here it we
get people from all 50 states uh 14
countries so when they come to town and
they see Bexley it just uh it it just
means it means a great deal to us so
thank you so much
public comments Mr mcpick do we have
some speaker slips we have two
um
Kevin Acton
Mr Acton please come up here state your
name and address especially if you live
on a really great Street here that's no
idea
thank you hi my name is Kevin Acton I
live at 894 South Remington Road it is
different to hear my voice without a
mask on so that's nice
and I appreciated the presentations
already so I just want to continue that
you know what I mean Bexley it's a
special place and let's keep making it a
nice place for seniors and I do want to
welcome our new chief police chief Lewis
and I do want to acknowledge everybody
involved in the search in the long
process of finding such a well-qualified
you know service member we are truly
truly blessed I'm so glad you're here so
welcome
yes and I mean that so I really come
here as a neighbor and I'm going to be
talking about the Good Neighbor
ordinance and I know my time is limited
I should have started my timer but I'll
just try to keep it going but I am here
as a neighbor looking out for my
neighbors wanting to treat my neighbors
the way neighbors should want to be
treated I never watched Mr Rogers but I
know his message is simple won't you be
my neighbor and he means that in a nice
way won't you look out for me and won't
you be my neighbor I'm a fourth grade
teacher so I mean I never say that but
I'm thinking like I want to set up a
classroom where everybody treats
everybody with respect starting with
themselves where we really treat each
other well we're here for ourselves but
we're here we're part of a bigger group
how are we behaving are we helping the
group or are we parting the group so I
just want to talk briefly about some of
the numbers hard numbers we're not
finished with our study but we have a
group that actually police
accountability group when we are here
again as Neighbors in a friendly Spirit
of transparency and honesty
and we want to just talk about our Good
Neighbor ordinance and why we think this
is still something important that the
council consider and adopt
so I am I'm stated in my name our group
catalog and run statistics on all of the
traffic stops conducted by the Bexley
Police Department which result in a
written citation this information is
obtained through a public records
request and then logged by a category
and analyzed last year our group
presented the first chapter of our study
and this just statistics that they
revealed to many of you here present at
a city council meeting we are in the
process of finalizing the second chapter
of our study these are just some of the
hard numbers we are seeing as we double
check and finalize our work again they
are not final numbers here are some
examples of the numbers you can expect
to see when our work is finalized a
public records request from November of
last year through July of this year
shows the Bexley police department has
conducted 128 traffic stops resulting in
citations being issued from those 128
stops 249 total citations issued of
those 249 citations we were able to pull
data data on multiple areas one example
of data that we pulled is why are people
being issued tickets in Bexley of the
249 citations 59 of them were driving
violations such as speeding running a
red light or having made in a little
left-hand turn the other remaining 190
or 76 percent of citations were given to
people for equipment violations such as
expired tags or having a tail light out
another example of what we look at in
the is who is being issued the citations
what we've found and again these are
just basic numbers of the 128 stops we
have found made in this nine month
chapter only nine Bexley residents
stopped that's an average of one
resident of this town a month that
Bexley police noticed breaking the lower
driving suspiciously the other 119 or 93
of cars stopped in Bexley belong to
people who live outside of Bexley mostly
in the Greater Columbus Syria we
continue our group continues to hear
stories of black people recommending to
their friends and telling us why they or
they recommend people not visit or drive
through Bexley
this brings us to race the demographic
which started this group in our study
that we continue to work on we are
specifically talking about black people
currently when we made our public
records request we are continuously
denied the race of the individuals given
the citations we think we understand why
this is in the first chapter of our
study we found and shared with you all
with many of you here at a city council
meeting that black people made up 69 of
the stops resulting in citations and we
thought that was unacceptable and
disproportionate and the study we are
finalizing now and again these are just
the hard numbers we were able to verify
through the Franklin County Municipal
Court website the race of 114 and 128
stops of those verified stops 82 were
black people that means we can verify 64
of stops made resulting in citations by
the Bexley Police Department were black
citizens this is a five percent decrease
from before a shift in a positive
direction but these numbers still do not
reflect Equitable Leasing in closing
um we ask of you today is to pass the
Good Neighbor ordinance to bring about
real institutional and system systemic
change to Bexley where we promote
equality for all to provide the means
necessary for the police department to
receive the proper training to uphold
the ordinance and to hold the Bexley
Police Department accountable to provide
traffic citation data that includes race
when our public records requests are
made and also finally to review the data
to ensure the numbers are moving in an
equitable Direction proportionate to the
community thank you all very much
genuinely for your time thank you Mr
director that was almost exactly five
minutes thank you Mr acted I just have
Mr act I have one question for you yes
can you give us sort of the timetable
and the means which you'll be supplying
us with your final report or your second
oh yeah I mean I could submit that in
writing should I send you guys on women
say a date now or do you want me to just
reasons
sometime but we are working with Della
chocolates I'm just curious thank you
thank you thank you all Mr mcpick next
speaker and poor Kia
um cortia
um I don't just go back cortia uh I'm
I'm at 89 North Remington Road
um how's everybody doing tonight
everybody's good okay all right uh Gary
glad to see you and um welcome to Bexley
and welcome and welcome to your new new
position
uh we we've got a lot of work to do so I
think you know you'll be hearing from me
and seeing me a lot all right
um so uh I I just I I I had something on
my mind
um the other day and I wanted to come
here and just kind of share this uh of
course you know I believe that all
criticism is is good whether it's uh
positive negative or constructive and
I'm here to offer some constructive
criticism today
um
I was I was reading a paper uh this was
after the young man was uh struck 100
times by the police up in Akron and I
was
reminded of the um
the
um
Franklin County Board the Franklin
County Board of Health wrote a
declaration declaring racism a Public
Health crisis this was in the sum of
2020 in the height uh the pandemic and
one of the questions that was asked was
what has been done
uh to put an end to this issue of
institutional systemic racism and
um there was no answer to that question
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um
I think it may have been 2021 while
working with the police equity Coalition
Kyle Woodford and I uh co-wrote a piece
um
similar to that where we were declaring
racial profiling or discriminatory
policing
a problem here in our own Community not
something that is my perspective
although it's something that I've
experienced but it's something that the
anecdotal evidence shows as well as the
data okay and I asked myself what had
been done
no there was a list of things that is
recycled around the community when
people are asking this question and I
was drawn to those things and I was
asking myself what were the impact of
those things okay
what was interesting to me is that
um this declaration that we had written
was rejected by city council so there
was
never any issue that was deemed to be a
problem so I asked myself how do we fix
a problem that we have not even
acknowledged exist
and then I want to listen to some of
those things is establishing a Citizens
review board through ordinance
appointing uh complaint Liaisons
changes to police policy
changes to guidance to police regarding
static Patrol and field interviews
launching the police Community listening
discussions program
sweeping reforms mayor court Mayor's
Court to provide legal counsel for
Indigent defendants and to provide
defendants
an alternative to court fines and fees
and also a holiday
Juneteenth
now
when we look at the record the record
does not reflect
that these things changed anything
and I refer to these all the time as
Band-Aids
window dressing that doesn't change the
institutions or the systems they just
sound good and look good
but nothing changes for the people uh
that they're theoretically trying to
help
and so we ask ourselves well if these
are the solutions
uh where where was the tool to measure
the impact
of these
Solutions
and we can we can find no tool to
measure the impact of these Solutions
and so when we go back and we look at
the data to see if things have changed
nothing has changed
and so when we talk about
change
we always say that it takes a long time
or it takes some time
and I don't believe that to be true
it takes some time if you don't want
things to change
if you can't look at yourself
and do some self-reflection
right but if you can do some
self-reflection
right and take some accountability for
an issue change can happen overnight and
we know that as an example for many
cities that have done this
so we do know that
pieces of the Good Neighbor ordinance
have been passed in cities across the
country
and there have been some positive
effects of that
just it's just a courtesy notice you're
at your five but we'll we'll hang here
with you for a little bit up there I'll
I'll I'll be I'll be brief
but
but doing something as simple
and as common sense is passing
The Good Neighbor ordinance
we can effectively
in discriminatory policing
overnight
and it's not a question anymore and I'm
not willing to have the conversation of
if this is something to exist
I would invite anybody to just
look at the record okay
many of my neighbors when I speak to
them
I say to them
this is not just a reflection of the
police this is a reflection of the
community
and if this is the way this is the type
of community that you want to be and
this is what you want to be known for
then
continue in the direction that you're
going
but if not you have to go in another
direction and you had minimum have to do
at least
talk to the people
that you theoretically trying to help
because I'm assuming that all of these
things here if we were talking about
fixing an issue a theoretically designed
to help
black people
who is affected by these policies
so you at least have to you at least
have to talk to the people that you
theoretically trying to help and this
was recycled in an email to Austin Smith
who
email the mayor about inaction and
Austin Smith is a black
activist who led the community
to the state house and and protest the
black lives
and he is a black Citizen who could tell
us whether or not
changes are being made
and every single black person in and
around the city of Columbus are the
people that can tell you if changes are
being made
so my critique today is whenever there
is a solution or you have a solution on
the table there has to be some type of
tool in place to measure the impact of
that tool you can't just say hey we're
doing something and it's solving the
issue
if there is first no
recognition of the problem
you can't possibly have a solution
and if there is a solution there has to
be a tool in place
to measure the impact
of that solution
and if there is nothing to measure that
impact
you you cannot
you cannot say
that is fixing the issue
okay
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so action
moves things forward they don't keep
them stagnant and right now we're in the
same place that we were in
in 2020.
thank you for your comments
Mr mcpeek any more
speaker slips no more speaker slips all
right
where are we at
president's report
are we at the presidency
sweating knowledge we had our budget
meeting this uh this afternoon I think
we just thought it was before the state
council meeting yeah and uh say what a
pleasure it is to uh for us to be able
to meet and talk about that Mr mcpeek
asks a lot of questions which is really
great and I think for us it's some
unstructured time to to brainstorm about
things that we see in the community we
feel are important thank you the mayor
for providing us that audience listening
to us as we give him our lists sometimes
very detailed long lists and also
special thanks to lorianne feibel who uh
pulling some heavy duty here tonight and
I appreciate that very much that's all I
have we can move on to the city
attorney's report
I have no report this evening
and Mr auditor and I have no report
I know the mayor's got something to say
so we'll send him to the administrative
report
uh thank you uh Mr Price is with us and
Mike I will pull up the record box
update
all right yeah I don't have anything to
add to my written report but I'm happy
to answer any questions
let's see
oh sorry it was viable
Mike what's what's what's happening on
the 29th of October
29th of October will be our first ever
adult Halloween bash at Jeffrey Mansion
we are extremely excited about this uh
concept
um we're gonna have
um the building will be decorated for
for Halloween
uh it will be we'll have uh heavy hors
d'oeuvres adult beverages uh some
various uh sort of Halloween themed
entertainment tarot card reader uh
magician uh music so it should be a a
ton of fun uh we do have a limited
number of spots so anyone interested
does need to register in advance
um but we are excited to try to pull
that off our first ever sort of adult
Halloween party if you will here at
Jeffrey Mansion it's it's we're going to
be putting the new space to good use
thank you uh Mr Price I plan on popping
in
great
and I think all of council should as
well
we'd love to have you
Mike it sounds like um it was a
successful Bexley Community campout it
was great to have that back after two
years of a Hiatus
um I know Layla my Layla and my Hudson
and Adam all had a great time at that
event as did our community so it was
great uh Adam said it was just awesome
to see a lot of young families
experiencing it for the first time so
I'm really glad you know
um that that was able to happen and
thank you to Scout Troop 166. I know
every year that I'm out there I rely on
those those Scouts to help put up the
tent light the fire get the s'mores
going help clean up the next day
um so it was great to see that back
happening in our community so great job
yeah Jessica pointed out it was it's one
of our favorite events it's unfortunate
we weren't able to do it the last couple
years with some proven safety measures
but uh we are excited to have it back
and it was it was a ton of fun weather
cooperated for the most part
it really is a it's a unique opportunity
uh for our families in that uh it's a
very
um
you know easy camping experience but the
young people get an opportunity to
experience uh Jeffrey park at night
which is not something that that they
often get to do so that's sort of a cool
experience for them
thank you very much Mike have a good
evening thanks you too appreciate it
um Mr base or service department
good evening
um my report is attached there I do not
have anything to add to it tonight but
more than happy to answer any questions
there might be
any questions for Andy Jen
hey Andy it's Jen Robinson
um quick question for you about the
Grand and water line Street project I
noticed you indicated that that project
has come the bids have come in High and
um you know that the project was about
over 30 percent of the estimate
I I know that you know supply chain
issues have we've we've all discussed
them earlier have been an issue do you
foresee those prices coming back down or
is this something that we should be
um planning for looking forward at that
30 hike
Jen I don't think
um in any time in the near future we're
going to see are any of our materials go
down from you know the projects the
service department is doing to our
street projects
um this project was so far over because
of the our ductile pipe
um everyone's aware of what's going on
in Ukraine and Ukraine has one of the
biggest foundries where this pipe comes
from
um so I would expect that to uh you know
the price increases to be around for a
little while
thank you Andy and just to add to that
Andy we did however break out that
component of the contract so we're
purchasing the pipe separately we are
part of the variance in our bids was
that there was uncertainty about the
market for pipe so we're behind the pipe
and then we're rebidding it where we
take that variable out of it in order to
try to bring down costs correct
anything else for Andy
thank you Andy have a good evening sir
you too
foreign
finance department has a August surprise
I don't actually know what this surprise
is
you there Beecher be a surprise that's a
good point
feature
hey I'm trying to get my technology
going here we are there I am well I
don't have a uh I should say good
evening
um I don't have a lot to add to my
written comments which are come right
after the general fund budget actual
um of course the good news is we're
we're just about I think seven thousand
short of a million over budget and
income tax that's good news
um
and uh
we also are doing a good job of spending
within our budget this year our
operating signatures are 755 000 less
than budget don't know if that's just a
lot of timing issues but hopefully it's
just we're going to end up not spending
all of our budget
um
and also this year we've been able I was
looking it caught it caught my eye so I
thought it might catch your guy's eye
that with all this good news we're still
241 000 Less in our balance than we were
this time last year which is on the um
you know we're we had six million 166 in
our general fund last year this year
it's five nine twenty five
um but really A lot of that is because
we've been doing a good job of planning
here the mayor has been doing a good job
of planning and we've moved a lot of
money 750 000 to the Capital
Improvements fund and 675
000 to the infrastructure development
fund so far this year so
um things look good I'm sure that Matt
the mayor and I will be spending a lot
of time they're trying to figure out
what the projection for next year's
income tax will be given the national
economy
um but realizing that uh bexley's kind
of a unique animal we don't always
follow National Trends as is the case
now with being a million dollar over
budget
but that's about all the commentary I
have anybody have any questions
um thanks Beecher can you elaborate on
the uh delay in collection of
right-of-way feasts being under budget
for that
uh
the mayor might be able to I mean we
because he's more in tune with that
operation I just know that we I think
mayor didn't we budget for 95 000
of uh right-of-way fees coming in and
yet they've been slow to come in and I'm
not quite sure why that is
so my understanding and Andy you can
chime in uh with this is that uh so this
is our first year
billing back the right-of-way fees and
so some of those companies have been
pretty quick to buy in others have been
questioning it so we're just providing
more information and tracking them down
thank you mayor we're still working on
that Andy do you have anything to add to
that
um no no may hit it pretty spot on
um that number will continue to rise but
with this being pretty much the first
year and Kyle getting everything going
you know I expect that number to be much
different
um you know this time next year just
getting some of the utilities on board
and explaining you know what they are
responsible for has been kind of
challenging for Kyle getting everything
started
foreign
5G
permanent applications or I know you
know we've we've received some permit
applications uh over the past year or
two
um
Andy I think none of those have yet come
to fruition and we did we did uh approve
one
um that met the standards but it didn't
get installed so I'm not sure what the
I'm not sure what the holdup is with all
that
um uh mayor and Matt as of right now I
just asked Kyle the other day there's
nothing
um in the works that nobody's applied
for anything on the 5G Towers or
installs uh lately
um you know there's that first one that
you know the mayor is referencing but
other than that
um it's been very very quiet
any other questions for Beecher
foreign
thank you very much sir have a good
evening thanks mayor good night
um Chief Lewis we had we got two for
here
Chiefs update and animal control
nothing additional to answer are you
giving your mic to the chief there Jess
if that's okay any questions uh for the
chief
Sam quick question Chief uh on your uh
in your report here I just noticed and
this has probably been there and this is
probably on me but I see an increase
significantly in business checks um can
you just explain this absolutely so
um our last Council I shared that this
was going to be a new component that we
were adding so we are doing foot patrols
on the day and afternoon shifts
um we are officers are now required at
least once per shift every day to get in
an interface with our business owners up
and down Main Street as well as
Livingston and we're documenting and
capturing this information I want them
out on foot visible proactive I'm just
been extremely well received okay thank
you right now I appreciate that and I
just saw that uptick there and then a
secondary if you don't mind uh obviously
you just heard some information from an
interested group here have you been
provided with the proposed ordinance
um or is it so first time you're hearing
of the statistics from this group
um it is but In fairness week number
four yeah
we'll definitely find some time together
and and and and and I think that
um I hope the community knows that the
door is extremely open and and ready to
receive
um the good bad and and many of the the
critique that was shared today so I took
a lot of notes
um just based on that and and want to
um you know also look at the data but
then look at new best practices and ways
and um to just um kind of sort through a
number of things that were discussed to
include uh Mr Austin Smith I'm curious
is out of Betsy resident is he from
Columbus so just to do some fact finding
even on what was presented today great
thank you very much
anything else for the chief
yes sorry Lauren
um
there was an officer and
um
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uh just disturbing extra hours
just some great questions so one of the
things that Giant Eagle had petitioned
us to provide an off-duty officer in
uniform that would potentially detect
and deter potential crime so that is
something that we're doing
um Thursday Friday and Saturday with
them we're also going to do a little bit
of from an operational perspective you
know we have some predictable indicators
as to where crime is taking place CBS
Speedway and Giant Eagle and so we're
going to start working with our plane
clothes detectives in doing some
initiatives to increase their presence
and to engage immediately and try to
reduce some of those incidents as well
which is a great question
um yeah sure they might share the mic so
Giant Eagle is paying for the special
duty officer that's correct just wanted
to make sure everyone understood them
yes ma'am thank you
all right can I
um yes one thing I know that Council was
mentioned and so I want to just tease
this up there's been some conversation
about the railroad track
Cassidy and Del Mar so that was
presented this morning so I reached out
to a national group called operation
Lifesaver we have a chapter here in Ohio
they're going to conduct a traffic
survey they will have their Engineers
come out and look at what we can
potentially do to address that and
handle it from an engineering
perspective and not a law enforcement
belief and so that's how we're going to
approach that so once their Engineers
come out and look at all the data from
the traffic the patterns they'll provide
us a pretty comprehensive overview as to
what next steps will be okay
that eye contact lets you know that uh
he knows that's a big deal so I
appreciate that thank you yes sir
all right thank you Chief do you sorry
do you want to touch on the ACO uh
report something about
it's like we're talking about rodents
and not leaving
yes sir so really this is just an
opportunity to again from a proactive
perspective here just some some things
to uh address concerns and to be
proactive and and and really some best
practices specific to that especially
this time of the year
okay I also want to remind residents
that we have of course it's sort of
contrary to what Amy Jennings is saying
here about Road insides but we do have a
city program to help with treatment of
certain types of rodents and also skunks
so if there are issues with skunks in
your neighborhood
you can call Amy or our code enforcement
officer Dave herblica and they will
assist
so it's a reminder for that
um
okay
oh one more question sorry Jess go ahead
um not as much a question is just can we
put some of this um information
from Amy Jennings Animal control officer
into our Friday Community yeah
in the last and the blast yeah yep I
think it's a nice reminder right lorian
I love it yeah
okay
all right a couple updates for you
um
cheap am I allowed to break the news
about Friday in the main event and a
special visitor we're going to have
there
is that okay I would I would respect
that uh so we do have a main event
coming up this Friday it is Encanto and
Hispanic Heritage Month
um also we are unveiling our uh
um I I guess we're calling it our police
mounted unit our equestrian programs so
one of the things that uh we had during
the process of actually doing
um some due diligence for the police
chief search I had a chance to ride
along with one of our officers who
trains horses and brought up an idea of
uh you know getting some tack for the
horse and having a a modest budget to
have a kind of you know kind of
community interface through amount of
beliefs it was an idea that I was very
excited about and I brought it to the
chief early on and uh we he ran with it
he knows a lot more about horses than I
do despite having I won a couple weeks
at a horseback riding camp but uh
we should trade notes so uh the
equestrian unit is one horse uh
privately trained and privately owned uh
but that will have Bexley Insignia and
um will be present for a variety of
events to talk a little bit about the
program in general yes sir so we're
excited
um you will meet um so officer Flemings
he and his family have uh three horses
this will be a 18 and a half
um hand Belgian he is amazing he's great
with people
um he'll be completely fully dressed out
we are partnering with a number of other
law enforcement agencies Franklin County
Sheriff's Office Columbus Police as well
as Perry Township who also have mounted
units this is a great opportunity for us
to Showcase really the community
engagement and we'll he'll be in
operation really about April 1st until
October also a part of this initiative
is our officer has been tasked with high
visibility at least once per week with
the other agencies just coming through
town one of the things having worked
with horses in the past tend to leave
behind their remnants and so we're also
working to make sure that we do not uh
create any challenges down our main
street as well and addressing that but
we're really excited what he will um
he'll be there on Friday at 6 pm as well
as some of the other agencies and their
horse mounted as well
thank you Chief Joseph
um
I'll leave the expert panel is tomorrow
evening the library so just want to
remind you guys about that and there's
some more information in the update
about ali of the future our
trick-or-treat is Monday the 31st from 5
37. so put that on your calendars
um big table conversation uh making
Bexley a kind in Connected Community uh
will be happening at the Bexley Public
Library on the evening of October 6th
and we're going to be partnering with
them on that and just to remind you feed
on the street launches next week if you
need more information on that vex.org
fots
uh I do imagine we'll get some further
questions about that and we'll continue
to put information out there
protect them but uh I've also included
uh sort of a broad brush overview of
where we stand with the different year
the parks projects so kind of more
recent updates with them and also where
our targeted completion is on those and
I'd like I will be doing a more
comprehensive presentation as part of
our budget process coming up shortly
finally
um we had a presentation tonight from
some residents and some discussion
um
there's no place for biasing or policing
I believe that I believe that we do need
to continuously improve in all areas of
our city
um Chief Lewis's
one of his charges is to work with me
and work with our city
um to observe and um to look at our
practices and our policies and make sure
that everything we are doing is aligned
uh with with that belief I would
encourage Community groups
um doing data analytics to work with us
ask us to review those and provide
feedback I don't think though that we
need to squabble about numbers because I
think that the overarching concern
exists in terms of what is the
discrepancy between resident
demographics driver demographics traffic
stop demographics
and how are we working to ensure that we
are policing in a way that is equitable
and
but having said all that um I I you know
last time we looked at those figures
there were some discrepancies between
numbers that were pulled and what we
knew to be true from our numbers and I
really encourage you to give the chief a
chance take a look at those figures work
alongside you make sure that they are
accurate make sure that that
benchmarking that measuring is uh is is
something that we can and work on
together so
um thank you for your voice Don thank
you for those comments
and with that I hand it over to Mr
Cleaner who has a question
um quick update either from the chief or
from the mayor
um cassingham and Broad intersection
with the the new presence there how's
that been going
good
I think
um sometimes you
um the response that we've gotten has
been amazing I think people have really
appreciated the increased visibility in
that presence there and you know we're
doing this up until December and we'll
reevaluate just the effectiveness
looking at some other potential
stakeholders that may be able to assist
us from a volunteer perspective but
we're committed to do this up until that
point
foreign
anything else
that concludes my report thank you all
right I think we go to Mr Fishel
all right consent agenda we have the
meeting minutes from September 13th 2022
city council meeting
uh any questions or comments about the
consent agenda items
any questions or comments about the
consent agenda from the audience
if not I will take uh
take a motion to adopt the consent
agenda second
that'll work uh Mr mcpeek I
did turns out I did
Mr Klingler yes Miss Robinson yes Miss
lampke
Miss feibel yes Mr Marcelino yes Mr
Markham yes and Miss sad yes
all right on to third readings uh third
reading warden's 34-22 to amend the use
variance to 216 South Columbia Avenue to
allow for expansion of the existing
Carriage House introduced by Mr Klingler
Mr Klingler what do you have for us on
this any updates
this is our third reading can you bring
up the ordinance please
um
no updates I just you know I thought
about this one a lot and um
we're only it's it's only could you
clarify why this is coming back to us
because there's a there's a variance
already on the property but in order to
modify the structure we need to approve
that not be that
yes so this is consomatic use variants
um Council council is the only body that
can rule and use variants
um the use variance that exists is from
1997. right it specifies no expansion of
this of the use so it has to follow the
square footage that was approved back in
1997 applicants asking to expand the
square footage by 255 square feet I
think
um and
yep 255 and uh so it requires a
modification of the use variants which
is in all intents and purposes a new use
variance really I mean the pre-existing
one can continue but you're you're
re-examining it
right and and even though we're adding
255 square feet we're still under the
allowable or mean they
um the applicant is still under the
allowable square footage for accessory
use structures as I understand it
correct yeah
so the form of the of the structure as
proposed complies with the code so if
you want to build a garage you could
build one ten percent larger than what
kind of so the garage could be
constructed as proposed
um the existing use variants could be
maintained but they just wouldn't be
able to finish out the second floor
space for that first floor space with
any additional living space
so just so we'll know where we're going
to go with this if it's okay with you I
think we're gonna uh allow some
technical detailed questions here with
Council I know we have people here that
want to speak I'm then going to allow uh
speakers to come up from the community
uh I'll bring it back here to council
for any tie ups comments and then we'll
take action on that is that is that
appropriate Mr Klingler yes I apologize
for going no all right no I'm I think
that's fine we'll just say if anybody
has any questions on the ordinance
before we let uh community members speak
uh I'll allow that right now as well yes
MS fiebel
I I just
um
feel like it's such a small
Edition and that it's going to continue
to be used whether the addition is made
or not would be my understanding and I I
just think it's
not going to even be noticed uh from the
street nobody's gonna know that it had
an addition
um made so I guess that's you know I
I've been in that space and
um
I just think that it's not a significant
enough
amount of space not to and it complies
it has all the compliance that has
suggested by um
I would love for someone to tell me that
they
that was not right
Mr Marcelino well I'm not going to tell
you it's not right and I don't
necessarily disagree with the small I
guess my concern comes down to it is
that what's to stop another property
from making that request and where do we
stop that from happening or do we need
to stop or is this now just going to
take place all throughout the city I
understand that we have a code we have
zoning that protects some of that but
the question is is this a slippery slope
and I don't know that answer that's just
my you know a small a slight concern of
mine as you say it is small I agree with
you it's going to be this use either way
so might as well make it comfortable if
it doesn't impact uh seemingly the the
uh the neighborhood as a whole but I
guess you know with this is that's my
concern in the back of my mind is that
are we now opening floodgates and if the
next neighbor or person in the community
comes before us what's to stop that and
is are we just now okay with accepting
that anybody potentially in with the
within the zoning code anybody that has
a structure or they want to add 829
square feet can do it and if we're okay
with that then then absolutely it's not
a big deal and I'm not saying I'm not
okay with that you know I'm I have a
garage I need more space for my for my
kid I understand that but uh that I
guess is where the difference comes into
and that's where my my head's uh not to
necessarily say I'm voting against it or
anything just to State that's where I'm
going back and forth
yeah that's odd I'm under the
understanding that this is a unique case
that has to come back to council for us
to approve the variance most of these
cases would fall back under b-zap
correct
and not coming to council so how many of
ordinances like this or
housing structures like this do we even
have in 43209 when we're talking about
that we would open up the floodgates to
other properties I don't want you to
have to stay in there waiting for us
right now if you don't want to you can
take a seat over here we like to mix it
up a little bit here in the beginning
and we're going to make sure everybody
gets a chance and I see the Mayors turns
his light green here so I'm going to let
him talk
um so it's it's anytime anyone's asking
to have a dwelling unit in an accessory
structure that is a consomatic variance
so it's it is unique in that
we don't have
a whole lot of those requests
um it is not unique in that there are
other properties that have that
condition in place some of them through
explicit consomatic variances that were
provided others through grandfathered
zoning where those uses pre-exist in our
current zoning could
um the
you know the only thing I would add to
that is just that the the reason I think
because I've sat in some of those
conversations previously when this
code was discussed and deliberated
before being passed is that Council
feels that it's important the context
where a dwelling unit might occur in
accessory structure so there is a format
there's a sorry venue for people to come
and ask for that special uh permit
um but it would you know you would take
into account things like what do people
see from the street what do Neighbors
behind experience what is the extent of
the request what are some of the
conditions that are placed so just like
there are many conditions on this old
variance and in the proposed modified
variants Council has full
ability to deliberate on those
conditions and apply them and so I think
that's why it rises to the level of
consomatic use variance it does not
prohibit anyone else to Sam's Point from
coming and asking for that use variance
and Council would have the same
conversation all over again with the
context of the situation and the actual
plan being proposed
I could try to get you a account of them
in the community but I I'm not really
sure that we have the data to support it
I mean there's incidental
we could come up with some examples but
I'm not sure if we have the number
within the community
could could you throw out a guess an
estimated
you know last time I threw out an
educated uh off the cuff one you don't
feel like comfortable yeah so I think um
I I would imagine and you guys are out
and about I would imagine we have
several dozen examples like this in the
community
um but I could be off
I can think in my head of a half of a
dozen explicitly in my head but I'm not
sure how many there are yeah but how
many have we seen come in front of us
I don't we could I could I could do that
research I could figure that out I I
don't remember one should I remember one
um we have had we have had them come
before Council I think during your time
but again I'd have to pull that I'm the
most seasoned member of council but if
it's more than one or two two right yes
it's not often and and I really
appreciate what you have to say sam and
I and I and I I
yes slippery I can't even say it
slippery slopes are are something we
need to be careful about however I also
would
um press that we are a small enough City
that would unique situations like the
one that we are all you know aware of in
this situation come to us I think that
it's something that we can
maneuver around I really do
so
any more uh let me get like any
clarifying questions or anything like
that I do want to get to the people who
are here and then I'll bring it back to
us if we want anybody wants to make
statements or or clarifying anything
like that I just
saying you look like you're thinking
about I'm thinking in regards to I
completely understand the use for a
family member and I'm supportive of that
completely I guess now we're ex we're
expanding property and ultimately it may
not be
within this and so I'm just working
through that final part in my head where
if one day it is not utilized by a
family member do I agree to this or not
because at some point it might not
necessarily be a family member and
that's where I'm trying to think of now
as we go down and so I almost am
thinking about do we modify the
ordinance to just simply State at this
point for a family member because it's
such a unique situation and it's been
presented as one and that will make it
more tailored towards the use as
requested today and in my opinion
modified to where I feel comfortable
that in the future it won't be abused by
a future owner to the detriment of the
city that's that's just where my head's
at with it
all right let's put a pin on that if you
don't mind and let's see what these
folks have to say and we'll come back go
ahead
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yeah
so the last allows members of the family
it allows uh employees
um
and uh is and it allows for someone
who's living there rent free
and I I guess that's my thought process
the last two is where I you know an
employee or somebody living their rent
free that's not what
just in this request I understand this
request but in terms of what this
property ultimately could be for
Neighbors it might not and that's where
my concern is to think about potentially
that we'll put a pin in it I'll let it
be but that's for my head is that
current and if I can provide it I wasn't
around in 97 when they did this I do
know that there is an example of this
happening in the city where
that accessory structure dwelling unit
is is given to Seminary students rent
free as as a you know
something that the property owner does
and that way they have another set of
eyes on the property when they're out of
town so that's an example of how that
plays out in the real world
we could put that language in there
Seminary students only
rent free
any other any other
questions while we can get ready here
all right we will take comments from the
uh from the audience now go ahead please
state your name and your address and we
will try and limit you to five minutes
sure Nathan Sampson my office is at 990
West 3rd in Grandview yeah
um to your name is Warren I'm sorry no
okay
um so I appreciate council's uh
consideration in this case you know
we've gone through the ARB and the bza
up into this point
um and there are sort of
topics that uh I just want to summarize
quickly for you guys as a recap for the
process that we've gone through thus far
right uh the first would be
architectural appropriateness certainly
you know the ARB
voted unanimously uh that this is an
appropriate structure uh in its design
for the neighborhood and particularly
for this property uh as far as the
zoning considerations with the bees app
um we were approved four to one in that
but the vote in that case wasn't about
the carriage house because there's no
variances requested besides this use the
carriage house is five percent smaller
than the lot would allow us to propose
um and in in that same vein the second
floor space is 25 less than what could
be proposed under the current zoning
um ordinances
um the use is why we're here you know
it's an approved existing use of the
second floor of the carriage house with
the conditions that we've talked about
um and you know in this we're back in
front of you because uh of one of the
conditions which is the expansion of
that use and like we said it's about 255
square feet or about the size of the
seating area back here behind me for a
reference
um
as far as you know
understanding the neighborhood uh and
the neighbor's concerns you know we had
reached out even before the ARB to the
neighbors to the north met with them
twice to discuss the project let them
know it's happening
um after the ARB meeting uh Matt and
they were to the east reached out to us
we talked to him through the project
actually my clients met him on site as
well to help explain sort of what was
being proposed and to see if there's any
questions so we could help answer
um the question about um which is
certainly a Civic question but taxes and
value we tried to get an answer uh for
the board uh relating to you know uh
assessment of value whether you know
separating this Carriage House off was
uh advantageous but not from a tax basis
standpoint
um the recommendation we got from the
appraisal is that uh separation would be
a detriment to the property value that's
the tax base right
um I think that you know uh our clients
were very open and sharing information
about themselves uh to help the city
council understand
um their intention here you know we're
certainly under what would be
permissible to ask for as far as space
and for the carriage house and and for
the second floor and
um
I think that you know I hope that we uh
remain considerate uh uh and uh
appreciative of the information they
shared as we move ahead uh it's above
and beyond what's required in
application uh for amended use variants
or any other applications
um that we have gone through and
received approval for
um I am
sadly fairly well versed in the zoning
questions as well so if anybody has
questions about this particular project
and how it fits into that uh context I'm
happy to answer
I think we're good thank you very much
thank you
anyone else would like to speak uh on
this issue
if not I will bring it back to council
with any comments questions Among Us yes
Mr Klingler yes I'm I'm a little bit I
feel like I'm a little bit like Sam
in the the 1997 ordinance I or use
variance I I don't necessarily agree
with but I'm not retrying that case if
you will or I'm not looking at that the
variance is already exists so whether or
not the the facilities expanded 255 feet
or not they can use it right whatever
regardless of what we say
and so I was conflicted because I'm not
necessarily in favor of mother-in-law
suites or building a massive you know
garage and just having other people live
in it but if um
but the variance is already there
so when I look at if the variance is
already there
and and what they're expanding the
footprint of the facility to be is under
the allowable square footage for an
accessory structure
um
and based on where it is on the property
the sight lines from
um the street and and
the approval of our ARB
um
I I look at it from from I tried to look
at it from all angles so I totally
understand I feel like I understand
where your head's at and I wrestled kind
of with the same thing
anyone else any other comments questions
yes Mr Marcelino I guess you know as as
we thought through this and we've looked
through this project since the onset I
mean I I want this family to be a part
of Bexley and I want them to be
comfortable and happy and Bexley and
feel welcome and Bexley Etc I also think
that throughout the project Mr Samson's
done a great job of sharing information
I asked for the tax information to make
sure that the community wouldn't be
losing anything on the financial aspect
and you provided it that was the main
point there um and so I have no issue
there and just you know look I uh I I
feel you know I plan to be in Bexley for
a long time so I'm just my only concerns
were just wrapping this up with what
will Bexley look like in 15 more years
if we have a hundred more of these
requests that come through
and I guess it's one of these things
where it's I'm just assuming uh or
concerned but I have no basis of that
concern I think I guess that castle can
handle it and after hearing Lorraine
Matt and everybody else talk about it I
I think that I you know it it I just I'm
appreciative of all the information that
we've received to come to this point and
I do feel comfortable I I would just uh
state that I think that this is a unique
case and if one of these situations
presents itself in front of council
again it really needs to be taken on an
individual basis
um but uh certainly I think that I
appreciate all the work that's gone in
to give us the information and answer
all of our questions today so I guess
that's my comment thank you
fair enough Miss sod I think that last
point is very important to reiterate
that each one of these cases that would
come before us we need to treat as
individual cases
um looking back to you know the ARB is
approval of the structure for this
property with the addition of those 255
square feet is kind of what the mayor
talked about a little earlier as far as
you know looking outside the dwelling
how is that affecting you know that that
current residence and how that affects
others and neighbors and whatnot so I
think it is important here too
two really take into account that we
have those expertise
um
residents that serve on the ARB and that
they approve the structure for this
property and then I would just challenge
council with in the future when these
are brought before us that we do our due
diligence like we have here to make sure
that we ask all those questions and
treat it as not looking back at
ordinance 34-22 but whatever that next
property at residence and situation is
to treat these as individual
um
you know um Decisions by Council
Mr Robinson
I'm basically echoing what everybody
else has said but I think the thing
that's making me most comfortable about
potentially voting in support of this is
that knowing that every time something
like this comes up a unique request like
this it comes to council and we have the
opportunity and we've proven that over
the last couple years with all the
things that have come before us we've
really proven that we can look at things
individually and and you know we've laid
that that foundation for for future
councils and that it's not just we're
blanket checking a box and everybody's
getting what they want but that we're
really taking into consideration
um this the specifics about each case so
um I I agree with both uh Jessica and
Matt and I completely appreciate where
you're coming from as well
Mr Clinton already has some action to
take from this
yeah I'll make a motion to approve
ordinance number 34-22
a motion to approve by Mr Klingler
second
by Mrs feibel is it you yep
Mr mcpeek
Mr Marcelino yes Miss feibble yes Mr
Markham yes Miss Robinson yes Mr
Klingler yes Miss lamke and Miss sod
yes
ordinance passes
thank you
Mr official
I also want to just as they depart Mr
President if I can yep I want to welcome
the Frank Hauser family too oh yeah
again thank you
how many how many Council meetings are
they required to come through
first first six months maybe oh yeah
that's in the fine print and the kids
named extra credit for their social
studies that's when not until
support
Mr official move us on please all right
third reading of ordinance 30-22 to
approve the purchase of property located
at 2838 to 2840 Del Mar Drive Bexley
Ohio to appropriate 105 000 from the
capital fund for expenses associated
with the purchase of said property and
to declare an emergency it was
introduced by Ms lamke so I'll turn it
over to you Mr Martin I think that's
going to lorian Fievel tonight I'm
taking Finance tonight how fun I've
never been financing
cool yeah you are too you are overdue
you know anyway this is really exciting
okay there's a spot that that Andy's
found for us for the city to think about
purchasing and we
um we we we would like to do that and
um we need your yes for that to happen I
think it'll be very beneficial for the
service for not only for for storage but
I believe that we're going to use it for
to get some of our trucks off of the
street and into that space so it's a
it's a real win for the service
department so um anything anyone else
wants to add I know we do have a um we
have to make an amendment
um because we want to have this subject
to an appraisal
at or above the contract price to be
secured prior to closing Mr Mayor
anything you have to add that's the
language that's uh that I'd ask you to
amend it to read we do not have an
appraisal back yet we're expecting it
next week
um and this would require us to have an
appraisal that's at our about the
contract price
prior to closing
which I think speaks for itself but
any questions or comments
from Counsel on this
I also open this up to questions and
counsel uh questions and comments from
the audience
if not uh and I would like to make a
motion to amend
um
I'm sorry is this ordinance 30 20. yeah
with the addition of the um
the information about
um an appraisal coming back to us prior
to us motion to amend by Ms Fievel
seconded by Mr Marcelino Mr mcpeek
this Bible yes Ms Robinson yes Assad yes
Mr Markham yes Mr Klingler
yes Mr Marcelino yes and miss lamke
back to you Mrs fireworks let's pass
right then I would like to make a motion
to pass amended ordinance a certain
times motion to approve by Ms Bible
second second by Ms Robinson Mr mcpeek
Mr Markham yes Miss feibel yes Assad yes
Mr Marcelino yes Miss Robinson yes Mr
Klingler yes and Miss Slinky ordinance
passes thank you Mr Fishel all right
moving on to the third reading the
ordinance 31-22 to establish a special
fund designated at the Stanberry Avenue
and Chelsea Avenue improvements funds
record all revenue and expenses
associated with the Stanberry and
Chelsea improvements project to
appropriate 5 million one hundred
seventy eight thousand three hundred
forty two dollars from this fund to pay
but the cost of the project to authorize
transfers from the water sewer and Road
and Alley funds of 137
330.60 742.66
000 24 respectively to the Stanberry and
Chelsea project fund and I guess
introduced by Ms lamke so Ms Bible yes
so this is just a moving around of money
um I think Mark Master would have said
this is not new money this is all being
moved around and put into a special fund
so for administrative purposes to be
able to
take care of the new project on
Stanberry and Chelsea too exciting
anything I've missed
it
I mean that's Council has previously
committed it but it creates this a fund
so it can be all journaled through the
fund it does move funds from water sewer
Road and Alley funds that's the city's
match that we have to do up front it's
part of our design piece but it is part
of this project which is an obwc project
which is a minimum of 25 grants often it
ends up being more than 25 grant uh 75
no interest loan that gets drawn against
those three Enterprise funds
there and in exchange for that we will
have new water lines Stanberry and
Chelsea we will have sewer improvements
sanitary sewer improvements and storm in
fact the Chelsea one's pretty
substantial it's a capacity Improvement
um and uh a fresh roadway at the end of
it
it's all up to date and ready to go
it is any questions or comments
boom
I would like uh to make a motion to
um pass ordinance 31.
Mr Klingler yes Mr Markham yes Ms Lampe
Mr Marcelino yes Assad yes Miss Robinson
yes Miss feibel yes and ordinance passes
Mr Fisher
all right we have a third reading of
ordinance
30-22 to certify special assessments for
the repair of sidewalks and or other
required work where the work was not
done by the owner after being ordered by
the city uh in accordance with Bexley
code section 1490.15b4a
or Bexley code section
1492.04 B1 and it was necessary to do
the work to assess the owner I guess
Miss five well you're up again yes okay
so we all know this this happens every
year if we do this often
um we have uh three readings because as
we go oftentimes people pay up so
um
do we have any more amendments to this
we need to amend the amended
and double
so this is a question
everything I know is Association issue
but this one has been amended so we have
to our first of it this is the second
time this one has been amended so we
have to we did not previously amend this
so we did it nope so with it we will be
amending it tonight okay to do the
amendment yep
events
yes
right below
okay so this um the code enforcements
Google
okay the correct all right so
I would like to make a motion to amend
ordinance number 3232 motion to amend by
Miss Bible
talking about Mr Klingler any uh
comments or questions from Council
on the amendment
any comments from the audience on the
amendment forgot to extend that last
time if not Mr McPeak Mr Marcelino yes
Miss lampke Miss feibel yes Mr Markham
yes Miss sod yes Mr Klingler yes and
Miss Robinson yes
ordinance passes ordinance is amended
ordinance is mended sorry thank you so I
would like to make a motion now to
um pass uh 32 22. motion to adopt by Ms
fiebel second seconded by Miss Robinson
comments or questions from Council
comments or questions from the audience
Mr mcpeek Miss Robinson yes Miss lamke
Miss feibel yes Mr Markham yes Assad yes
Mr Marcelino yes and Mr cleanler yes
ordinance passive sorry there we go
that's official
all right we now have a third reading of
ordinance
33-22 to authorize supplemental
Appropriations for calendar year 2020
introduced by Mr Marco always nice to
see my name but this one's not me I
believe this goes back to Monique
it does I know right so so it just the
title of it speaks to it there there are
some things that we did not
um realize we're going to be as
expensive perhaps there were some things
that we didn't
um budget directly
um so this is a makeup ordinance to make
sure that we have enough
um
to pay for all of this oh excellent uh
excellent uh document sent out by the
mayor today that really just really nice
I like that I don't want to now I feel
like we're gonna make you do that all
the time uh please don't just kidding no
please do I think I mean in all
seriousness this is a uh you know that
we we typically have supplemental
appropriation ordinances it's not
abnormal there were for a variety of
reasons I think there have been more
this year so far
um so it's obviously important to make
sure that we're on the same page and
reviewing the reason for this and each
one of them has a little bit of a
different reason some of them are
inflationary some of them are not
um
so I'm happy to further elucidate on any
of those
any questions that people may have
did everybody get a chance to review
that document
can you bring it up do you have it I can
do it real quick give me a moment please
oh it's good and what's that Mr
Marceline do you have a question yeah
it's just more so for uh public
information here uh just because we
approved this amount doesn't necessarily
that it'll all be spent correct this is
correct so to cover just in case it's
okay there's reason to believe I mean
we're not we're not patting these
numbers so I wouldn't I don't want to
mislead you or the public to say that
we're not going to necessarily spend the
money you know there might be less fuel
than we fuel could come down for example
next three months so that could be we're
not going to go spend it on fuel if we
don't need it but that's an example of
where that might not happen but some you
know these are
uh I would say well-educated figures
that we have in front of us thank you
um
and I'm sorry I'm still working on
getting that over that's all right so
while you're bringing that up it's it is
somewhat substantive
um and I feel like if you don't mind
going through this you could do that yep
or if you feel like do we need to
put this on the table for another
meeting so that we have time to review
one of those too
I think we're uh with some of these
we're in a are we banging against that
yeah so so if you don't mind going
through this so Matt you should have
this in your email but the um I do I
just didn't have time so real quick
overview
the fuel appropriation
um and this is we we narratively talked
about this in previous Council meetings
so this is kind of giving a little bit
more information shows that all the
different accounts that fuel comes from
um are diesel costs have exceeded
they've gone up more than 50 percent
over what they had been the year prior
uh many times during the year
um as an example it's currently 414 a
gallon and that's better than you get a
pump uh if you watch diesel diesel
prices are way higher than gas
um whereas it was averaging 277 last
year so we budgeted not expecting that
sort of an increase and we've received
it what we're asking for is similar to
the increase that we've experienced in
fuel there's been a little bit more
consumption this year because during the
winter later part of the winter we did a
lot more salting than we had done the
year prior so we had a little bit extra
fuel but it that most of it happens just
because of Market changes
um
so we look closely at to the best that
we can fuel forecasts no one would have
forecasted this exact issue because a
lot of it was uh culminated from the
Ukraine the war in the Ukraine
um but nonetheless we're gonna
look very closely at those numbers as we
budget
refuse uh is a little bit different and
uh I have expressed to those of you who
have talked to my puzzlement as to how
we arrived at our contract budget for
last year
um I
you know I'll I'll take I'll take the
fall that when we looked at our refuse
contract last year and budgeted it's a
fairly simple equation where we add in
our our contracts and what the cost is
we didn't do it properly I mean it's
plain and simple we appropriated 1.18
million we know that uh our refuse
contracts to Rumpke alone for example is
in the
1.15 ish range for the year so uh that
obviously didn't take into contract
um Organics and some of our other
outside contracts so we didn't a we
didn't budget enough we clearly hadn't
built it off of last year prior budget
where we hadn't budgeted enough so we
ended up paying some of last year's this
year so this catches us up from last
year and this year
and we're gonna it's it's a we're gonna
do that equation properly this year um
clearly alerted to that issue and I'll
pay special attention to that
um kind of already did it in in the in
the process of doing this appropriation
ordinance but this shows you exactly
what's needed for the year as opposed to
what we have and why we're asking for
that supplemental appropriation
I also as I've said to you before I mean
we could in theory only appropriate 110
000 we would be in the same boat next
year we would end up paying uh our
December bill next year when it shows up
on our doorstep
and to be um also clear and I don't have
those numbers exactly in front of me
there are instances where we close our
books for the year we don't carry
forward any Appropriations there's like
a gap of three or four weeks where we
don't have our Books open we open them
back up we get these bills that come in
and we have to pay them so sometimes
that's just a simple timing issue
um
and
I already said that I'm going to look
closely at this uh along with the
service department to make sure that
we're capturing our next budget here
building department professional we
discussed at our last council meeting uh
we we had an issue with our build an
inspector not invoicing Us in 2021 until
2022 we didn't realize that he had
incurred additional expenses that when
we went back and tracked against permits
were actually quite predictable the
permit inactivity had increased
therefore the inspection activity
increased the good news here is we have
Revenue that's up to match uh this
expense but nonetheless the expense
wasn't uh adequately factored into the
budget so we now have been dogging this
contractor who by the way is
is a competent contractor and is a
competitive
it's the really the best the best
contractor that we currently have um to
turn to and I have re-examined that
assumption more recently to make sure
that you know we're we're uh well well
on track for next year for budgeting so
I think we will be we will be catching
up there for this with this with last
year's final
uh piece and also with this year
um outside legal
last year when we budgeted for legal
we've very openly budgeted less than we
had spent last year saying we would come
back if we needed more I believe that
was a request of counsel that's my
recollection of the conversation
regardless of the recollection we
appropriated 75 000 for outside counsel
in 2022 are actual and 2021 was 115. so
uh we budgeted 40 000 less than we had
spent the year prior uh we're asking for
35 000. good news is we're spending less
this year than we were last year even as
legal hourly rates have gone up so we
have successfully curbed our use of
legal hours but we do need that
appropriation to get through the rest of
the year
um we're continuing to in fact I just
had this conversation twice today where
staff uh came to me and said hey I have
this question can I call ex attorney and
I said call Mark official first please
sorry Mark
so uh we're doing that a lot more we're
just like you know our new jerk is not
picking up the phone and and talking
what's that
well there you go it's good to know
well that's because that staff member
was like that no good so
um also you know not that important as
I've dug through these figures uh make
decision on my own then when we were
figuring out the supplemental
appropriation need and I was crawling
through our legal bills a little more
closely
it occurred to me how frequently these
are tied directly to variances
specifically
obviously appeal hearings but variances
which sometimes result in appeal
hearings
um and that our variance fees are
probably not where they need to be so
we're going to be coming back as part of
our 23 budget with a reconstructed
variance fee proposal
um
it would be a way for us to help capture
these legal costs and move some of them
over to that building department where
they're being expended
so I think the future we'll probably
expect to continue to have legal fees
but we're going to get them offset with
the increase in permit fees
City attorney
get so many phone calls that he needs
some more money
we had brought it's not we had brought
through the budget we had had the
previous retainer in the budget when it
started
um we
discussed a higher retainer for Mark
Council agreed to it there was just an
error where the budget didn't reflect
that higher retainer amount so that's
what's showing up here as well as a bill
that came in after the books have been
closed for 21.
So to avoid that in the future we'll
make sure to carry forward any excess
appropriation to pay this year this will
be adequate for this year as well and
um that Mark will discuss retainers with
me prior to us drafting the budget and
then also we'll make sure to incorporate
any changes after the fact
and then we did discuss particularly we
did we did and then supplemental
Appropriations for wages there's um most
of these have to have to do with step
increases that occurred this year that
had not been captured when the finance
department inputted those numbers they
they didn't
input the step increases and and
therefore we had inadequate funding
um so that's something that's going to
be paid closer attention to and uh and
then just tallying these all up
uh total increases to the budget 256 of
this from general fund as I said some of
those do have Revenue offsets
17 000 from sewer fund and 220 000 from
the refuse fund which ultimately is paid
through fees
um and will need to be we'll be talking
about fees as part of our uh refuse
proposal this year
thank you uh you know as Laurie Anne
says supplemental Appropriations we we
do pray regularly each year and it's one
of those things I think nobody really
enjoys but it also shows that I I think
we all
really dedicated to uh fiscal
responsibility here on your part and our
part uh I do uh I was only kidding I
wasn't actually really kidding when I
said I really kind of expect this sort
of format from here on it was so helpful
and I know you're always
you do it shows that you you know the
buck stops with you in terms of where
this money you know goes and why it's
needed and some of those things are out
of your control and some of those things
are in your control but uh it is
appreciated that you do take the time to
to go into all this detail and answer
the questions and I think uh we feel
uh it's our duty to take it very
seriously and go through this as well
and make sure that we all understand it
no matter uh
no matter what any further questions or
comments on these uh
supplemental Appropriations Mr President
if I can highlight one more thing and
that is that uh is the auditor or
Beecher I guess reported this evening uh
we are below
um budgeted expenditures is it's a 2 to
755 000 year today so I'm I can't
promise that that trend is going to
continue but as an example if if anyone
has questions about these sorts of
ordinances that like we are spending 755
000 less currently than budgeted these
are examples of funds that needed more
funding to help get us through the year
but there are lots of areas where we're
under spending and the community is very
fortunate to be in that position as well
comments questions
yep
is our Rumpke guest here to speak about
the refuse contract I'm guessing not oh
okay
uh I saw an article on the business
Recycling Center Program oh yeah
he's here he's here to collect the extra
yeah
thank you
he's ready for that cash go ahead all
right so I would like to make a motion
to pass ordinance what is that 33-22 36
36 no 33 33 27 33 22. Okay motion to
adopt by Miss Fievel second by Ms
Robinson uh any uh comments or questions
from Council and then this is where I
would allow any comments or questions
from the audience and if not Mr McPhee
please Mossad yes Mr Klingler yes Miss
Robinson yes Mr Marco yes Mr Marcelino
yes Miss feibel yes and Miss lamke
ordinance
all right so we are on just second
readings I guess second reading a 7 22
accepting the amounts and rates as
determined oh I'm sorry second reading
of resolution 722 accepting the amounts
and rates as determined by the budget
commission and authorizing the necessary
tax levies and certifying them to the
county auditor MS fiebel this is like
the Mony glamkey show isn't it I mean
it's crazy yeah did you get your uh did
you get your glass of water it's tonight
oh no right okay so this is definitely
something that happens every year we
just have to accept uh the rates that
they put forward to us does anybody
want to Enlighten us more on this we
already talked about this last week I
was not here so I would assume we did
there's nothing much to say about it a
little lengthy discussion about it I
love that we didn't
we often put this on the consent agenda
do you think yes for sure all right
agenda please and thank you that would
be awesome
and then I see a little something coming
up next it's Gloria Fievel but it's Lori
and five
they're all right
so we have ordinance
35-22 to amend section 1060 in order to
require a recycling service to be
provided a commercial institutional and
multi-family properties within the city
of Bexley Ms Bible you know that I am an
Elizabeth ellman wannabe because I want
to make sure that we are as sustainable
as we possibly can
because there is no Planet B but this
was not my brainchild
so this was came out of both of the
mayor and um Mr
um Markham being disgusted that's the
apartment building in which he was
residing for a little bit of time did
not have Universal recycling so this is
a very exciting thing our businesses can
do this we had one a member of our
business Community who was spending an
arm and a leg because she so believed in
recycling so
um this is really exciting for the city
of Mexico
anybody else have anything to add I did
I did speak with another member of the
business community and they were
actually uh he would take home recycling
himself and take for a second from the
office to his house to recycle because
there's nothing to do so I love it very
excited as well I love it that's awesome
great to hear
thank you thank you thank you Lori and
I'm so happy we would have just people
in the apartments carry their bags of
you know they would have to carry them
to recycling centers you know or
whatever or dump them all in the big
dumper trash which is
um
I want to say something on that note
really quickly because it's all a matter
of changing the mindset right so I'm in
Nashville I'm in these hockey rinks that
when you're in these other cities you
want to have here because they utilize
their space so well in fact Nashville
Metro Parks added on to the rinks there
outdoor rink at the Nashville
probably somewhere but um there was a
collaboration between their rinks and
Metro Parks which was really impressive
but guess what there was nowhere to
throw my water bottles so I kept them in
the car to take them back to the hotel
to put them away and this is the work
kind of glory and Bible and Elizabeth
Allman there in my head
um but this is just it's a mindset it's
a way it's a mindset and when you start
getting in the mindset to make that
change it starts to happen I am the
example right here so this is exciting
for these businesses that they don't
have to walk out and find somewhere else
to take their recycling I'm excited to
uh to get this get this going
that's official wait oh oh I'm sorry one
thing to add is it okay if we because we
have a process thing I think we need to
talk about with this just to give
Council a heads up okay or were you
about to move on I was if that's okay
yeah so the um
the thing to know is that this ordinance
talks about a fee schedule
and in order to accommodate the fee
schedule we need to have fees in place
um Rumpke has provided us with some
estimates for the the toter uh service
but we don't have estimates for uh
dumpster service
um and so this the way this ordinance is
drafted it would have that uh that kind
of insertion to it
um
so I think our next steps are we need to
go to request for proposals of the
market looking for rates and
um also once we have those in hand and
have a better feel for what we're
talking about we'd like to engage with
the business Community with actual real
world kind of numbers in front of us to
talk about it before bringing it back
for passage the alternative model would
be you would pass it instruct us to bid
it and then we go ahead and bid it I
think it's smarter to go into the
conversation with costs in hand
um I also would ask Mr President I know
we have a representative of our trash
hauler here I don't know if he has
filled out a public speaker slip or not
but I would wonder if we give him the
courtesy of he's looking like he's
raising his finger there so yeah not the
other finger but just the index finger
um
and while he's coming up we I still have
we stopped that issue the contract and
some that we need to look at with some
of the businesses that we discussed on
Friday on maybe years last week anyway
well because some businesses have
contracts with haulers yeah
so good evening Council my name is Jake
heifer I'm the municipal representative
for Rumpke in the Columbus area uh Mr
Mayor I am not I wanted to bring this to
you guys attention since you are
um speaking on the business recycling
program I'm not sure if you're aware of
the incentive program that swago is
starting up uh we are preparing to
submit a request for application in the
next few days swaco is
providing funding to businesses that are
wanting to start up
recycling at their uh place of business
so I I think it goes up to 500 that
they're willing to or I'm not sure the
exact dollar amount that they're willing
to go up to but
um I'm not sure if you guys were aware
of this program going on but you know
bring this to the attention the
businesses in the area would be
beneficial if you're trying to require
recycling all businesses and like I said
or I believe we spoke on this previously
in meetings
um you know there it's a TR it's a
slippery slope because you know not all
businesses in Bexley use Rumpke as their
shares provider and we don't want to
breach contracts that you know would
legally get us in trouble so that we did
provide quotes for carts that we could
provide we do similar things in Short
North
um in Downtown Columbus with glass
recycling we do similar similar things
in Dublin as well providing them carts
so that that is something that we could
do but you know it it is something that
we are interested in as well and you
know helping the businesses recycle
because you know we need
all the times we can get on the facility
coming so
um I just wanted to make sure you know
you guys were made aware of this
proposition this week it was coming
forward with as well so thank you thank
you so much yeah great Point yeah thank
you and well I
we've spoken to swaco about this
ordinance in the past I don't know if we
know exactly about this program but I'll
see how that drives with what we're
talking about appreciate it
so thanks for doing that yeah thank you
sir because I do have a note here that
says we need to table this but I was
just gonna we don't need a table tonight
I think uh I think I imagine we'll need
to table the next meeting okay
sounds good
sounds like a plan all right now I'll
let Mr official all right second reading
of ordinance 36-22 authorizing the mayor
and auditor to sign a consent and hold
harmless agreement on behalf of the city
of Bexley with the specsley city schools
regarding improvements made upon within
the city owned right-of-way adjacent to
Stanwood Avenue introduced by Mr
Klingler
thanks Mr Fishel do we have any examples
samples did he say there's samples
examples
something for our viewing pleasure well
the attachment should show that no the
location but not the ad what it's going
to look like it doesn't and I'm so sorry
I uh
I meant to have that attached Matt if
you can give me a few minutes I'm gonna
try to get that up there all right
but uh tell us a little something about
it matters
okay good uh we're gonna there's gonna
be some signs by the tennis courts and a
right-of-way
does uh does it Bexley have sort of a
historic successful tennis program that
might
warranty yes yes they do and it's only
growing
um because the Lessard boys are still
coming into the high school as we speak
so
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um
that's all I got
cold cold would have this done
you would have to sign in front of us
he would have done a great job
oh
we've got to get pictures of the new uh
casting ham president because I think
Layla gets to hand off the torch to him
which is kind of fun
that is impressive
poor little poor little honey what's he
gonna do
it absolutely
um
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I can serve you and I can circulate the
images
um
this is only the second reading perhaps
we can um
it's a it's a plaque oh it's all right
no it's a separated
how about if we uh we promise to get
that circulated right excellent decision
Mr executive let's go all right first
reading
ordinance 37-22 authorizing the city of
Bexley to submit a Morsi attributable
funds roadway Improvement project
application applications to the Mid-Ohio
Regional Planning Commission for
consideration for funding within the
transportation Improvement program and
to declare an emergency Ms Bible
thank you sounds very exciting and I'm
gonna kick it over to Mr Kessler
to uh
talk about this
okay so
um ordinance 3722 is an answer to
Monique's budget request this evening
um
I just uh but it sort of is uh so it's
an attributed funding project
um that we are applying for for the
Livingston Avenue improvements
attributive funding is a is a federal
funding
program that is overseen and
administered by morpsey it's a 75
percent Grant uh program roughly
uh in this instance but city of Bexley
is the technical applicant
but the financially responsible party is
primarily the city of Columbus
and I say primarily and that is because
most of the right-of-way that we're
discussing is the city of Columbus
right-of-way and there is agreement that
needs to be completed between the city
of Columbus and Bexley before moving
forward with the project this does not
allow us to move forward with the
project this does not constitute an
agreement between Columbus and us it
allows us it provides us with the
authorization to ask for the money so
it's a grant request we do not need to
suspend and adopt this evening
um which I had if any of you talked to
me about this before I thought maybe
that was the case uh we need we can
allow this to have three full readings
and I'm getting a um the word from
Columbus whether or not it needs
emergency clause or not currently it's
written with emergency language
um
as you can see this is not a small
project but this is this is a occurring
between Kelner and uh Interstate 70
um so most of this again was within
Columbus
we need to apply for the program just so
the grant to see whether or not we get
it
um and as we're doing that and as we
work through the project it will
probably be honed in scope the numbers
will change probably in a downward
Direction and as we do that we will be
negotiating with Columbus as to how much
of any uh share is is going to fall
under the city of Bexley
so stay tuned for that
um we can I can answer any questions you
have about it to the best of my ability
I will tell you that we are not uh often
applying for this type of funding this
is unlike opwc which is like a two to
three year Horizon this is more like a
six to seven year Horizon so
um and in fact I think it says right
there on the screen anticipated
Construction in 2029
um this is a long haul uh sort of
project very intensely engineered that
includes right-of-way acquisition it
includes
um a lot of a lot of things that we
don't normally engage in in our projects
so the first whereas is not accurate any
longer
it is accurate
the the application is is accepted
through September 28th
um the resolution this ordinance is not
needed until later in October but I
thought this resolution or ordinance was
to allow you to us to apply
ooh so
it says the authorization applications
need to be affected by October 29th so I
think it's like similar in the past
where we we go ahead and submit
paperwork to obwc but it's not firm
until we have this ordinance in hand
okay that's fine I'm fine with that I
just that's what we talked about it goes
It goes it gets submitted it goes in
front of a committee it gets discussed
it gets honed it gets ranked it gets
changed uh and then they double check
that we are or all the Ducks are in
around so applicants can decide if once
they've changed it not to even apply if
it's not worth the time okay I mean
that's fine I just making sure
any other questions
all right
next up
all right first reading of ordinance
38-22 to revise the Bexley codified
ordinances for the projection of poll
workers and to declare an emergency Mr
Marcelino
poll workers are arguably the most
important people involved in the
Democratic process they keep it true and
honest and unfortunately there has been
a rise of incidences uh incidents of
people harassing and causing problems at
polling stations across the country this
gives us some teeth to make sure that we
can hold anybody in violation of this
ordinance accountable for that we do
have an election coming up here in this
November and we'd like for this to be in
place by the time that election takes
place so as a result I will be uh asking
us to declare an emergency and approve
it tonight but I'm welcome to accept any
questions in regards to it
um
well I did I didn't think it had to be
approved tonight it just or just an
emergency yeah just the emergency so
would go so it could still have three
readings but it would go into effect
upon signing by the mayor so would be in
effect before the election that is fine
by me as well and we can just look
through it briefly and come back to me
with questions I was under the
impression had to be approved tonight
but if it no longer has to be then take
a good look through and let's get this
baby pushed through
blind leading the uh
and just FYI it's modeled after an
ordinance that was recently passed by
Upper Arlington
um and it gives it it gives us it gives
the Bexley Police Department
um if should there be a problem a little
bit of extra oomph and teeth to be able
to take action immediately and not deal
with it
after the fact and how does this change
like what would potentially have been
the penalty before with what the penalty
would be now I have no idea what the
penalty would have been at uh you know
because there's there's federal laws
that protect these folks too in state
laws I don't know what the penalty would
have been I could I could let you know I
do know that I I certainly believe that
the
um let me open it here again
I believe that the penalty for harassing
a Precinct election official if you look
at
um paragraph
um paragraph g under section one
um that a misdemeanor of first degree
again is that's a serious penalty and
there is a mandatory prison term of
three days which cannot be suspended
that is certainly
uh potentially harsher penalty than a
general harassment or you know
depending on what the action is is it
and so does this is this one of the main
advantages of this is it gives our local
police Authority much more ability to
act or what yeah I mean I think it does
I mean you know it's cumulative just
like a lot of our criminal ordinances
are with State statutes but it does give
the ideas to give more an ability to the
police in Bexley to not just enforce
um any misconduct which they currently
have the right to the authority to do
but it also the threat of a more
significant penalty open is hopefully a
deterrence accumulative and they would
they would have our local and then
possibly federal state proudly so on top
of that could be Federal too I'm not
saying sure to be honest and also
looking at it in the prosecutorial sense
I mean if it adds additional charges we
all know that certain people will plea
down in certain cases Etc this might
remove enough and hold them more
accountable for their actions at say a
state level if there's a municipal that
you you know so I think it gives you
more strength on that end too when you
prosecute these
this is new new news to me
um so would love to know so
um Upper Arlington
put it into place you just did it yeah a
few months ago then where is this just
enlighten me where is this happening to
but this for municipalities like Upper
Arlington I'm here with us with Bexley
wanting to
have a ordinance for our municipality
where where is it where in the country
is this taking place yes yeah I I will
be happy to present at the at the next
meeting certainly I mean if you just
Google whole worker harassment there are
numerous stories in here from various
organizations we'll just take Reuters
for one uh you know the Trump world's
assault on U.S election workers and it
goes through several examples of these
um it has unfortunately been
um something that's been increased in
the past I would say it's not just in
the past couple years it's the past six
seven it's a aggressive climate and so
um certainly I'll be happy to provide
examples throughout the country but
again uh looks like back on September
6th is when Upper Arlington past their
measure so
yeah I just find it especially
frightening because
you know other than a cousin who I know
is
my age a lot of the poll workers are are
retired people who are doing this out of
the goodness of their heart they're the
last people that you would want to be
harassed so anyway thank you for
bringing this
I was gonna say you know and frankly no
matter what your political affiliation
is and all of that what you find is
these are people who are working I don't
know like 14-hour days 16 hour days
yeah it's it really is a volunteer
service and and there's sort of these
they're sort of these front line you
know coming in contact the people after
people with people and it's a service
you know and just a numbers game I think
is you know because my wife does this
and she says you'll just find there are
just certain people who are just
they they are rude and harassed they
harass people like this just because
whatever you know the personality type
or or whatever it's it's it is puzzling
to see that it's frustrating to see that
but they are often you know people there
they're very tired they're they're older
people they are doing this because they
believe that they're you know performing
service to all of us and so I think
that's I think that's great
all right
about this ordinance yep I just for Mark
the uh misconduct an election is that
also
provided for Bio Iris code
I'm pretty sure it does
okay sorry I hadn't done that yet I
should I will okay I was reading it as
like I feel like that 100 foot yo that
absolutely is what you're I'm sorry yeah
642.11 absolutely is and and again I'll
double check but I believe it mirrors
what the revised code says just like
many of our other misdemeanor or
criminal ordinances right thank you
uh we are at tabled ordinances and I
believe we have some action on table
ornaments
I'll make a motion to remove ordinance
14-22 from the table second
I have a motion to remove uh ordinance
14 to 12 22 from the table by Mr Klinger
second by Mrs Robinson all in favor say
aye aye
I'll post save sign
yes please
we have so the developments
we've had a lot of developments
um ARB has seen and reviewed this bezab
has seen and reviewed this
um to my knowledge it was unanimous from
both
um organizations is that correct Ben
that's
that is correct um but specifically it
was they reviewed proposed amended
ordinance 1422. yeah I was gonna bring
that up which I have just brought up
thank you sir uh
they have both reviewed up the ARB is
not required to review zoning changes at
the request of Mr wingler myself and
BB's app they did review it
um end of the request
and after uh a lot of discussion about
it uh they voted to recommend it this
passage which was a really a big show of
faith and trust in the process that we
had outlined
um and a lot of good work on Mr
Klinger's part and then bizap voted to
uh recommend it to council
at their last meeting
yeah I think a couple things I could
just say on this a couple things that we
need to
or just highlight here and I don't I
don't know if we
need to vote on it tonight I would
probably be in favor of you guys
reviewing it the proposed amended
ordinance and
coming back maybe next meeting or in the
future but it's important we give a lot
of
um I'll say jurisdiction to staff review
in this so we're essentially making
solar panels
um like a window or a roof that are
how do I say
um easily passable right they they meet
sort of our city criteria but the really
important thing and it was I thought it
was a great ad to the end an ARB
um put it in there's the last it's the
last note that if
we have Karen Boker and we have other
staff and we have Kathy Rose and they do
a really good job so it's very important
that we have competent staff to review
these things but in the event that there
is
sort of a um a question for staff isn't
sure about something it can go back to
uh the ARB for their
expertise for their review and
you know we anticipate more of these
coming in the future
um it seems to take up a lot when
it when they do come it seems to take up
a lot of the arb's time uh during
meetings so uh we hope that
um by making a change to this
code
with this ordinance
um we can help expedite
make things more efficient
so where we are with this this has
received two readings and it has been
placed on the table so we have two
options tonight one is we must either
vote on this or we can place it back on
the table
with the intention of bringing it off at
some point to vote on and I guess I'll
kind of look around and see what the see
what the the eyes of city council is
telling me here
um and uh I only say table because I
think the one that was in the link to uh
everything else is the old one so I
actually I'm just kind of seeing this
for the first time yeah
I agree with that I've had a lot of um
people approach me about this ordinance
and so I want to make sure we get it
right and I'd like to digest it a little
more all right now that it's off the
table that sounds reasonable to me uh
you want to uh ask any more questions
while it is off the table right now we
can do that or any comments uh since it
is here
as long as we can get a copy of this
maybe before the next agenda goes out if
we can get a copy of this proposed
amended so I will email that right now
I'm also going to attach it to tonight's
agenda so that it's because if it's on
tonight's agenda then it'll get copied
over to the next agenda pretty easily is
there any sort of uh
time table that we need to be worried
about with this
um I think that this was initially
introduced in April yeah so I think
we're okay okay but I mean well I know
it's not going to roll off I'm just
talking about Administration yeah not
not an administratively uh
there's nothing burning you know people
aren't invested into the code and until
it's passed and ratified so
be good to get it going I will I will
send you guys the resources we're just
talking about I'm gonna put that back
into your hands then to uh communicate
and decide how that goes then I will
I will motion to that will make a motion
to uh put ordinance propose amended
ordinance 14-22 back on the table all
right and I'll second that uh all in
favor please say aye aye aye opposed
same sign thank you just so there's also
one of those housekeeping notes uh we
have ordinance 41-21 and the table it
will fall off the table tomorrow at
midnight uh so just for your FYI
assuming that there's no
action on that tonight which I'm pretty
sure there is not right that's correct
yep uh
and uh we can move on to committee
reports and we can move to finance
committee Monique lampkey slash lorian
she's given me the no sign I have no
report sign no report has Monique lampke
at least
safety and health uh Mr Marcelino uh
just that you can go out and get your
additional boosters I can tell you that
code did get to our family and we had
made it two and a half years without it
so I would just state that if you can
get your booster anytime soon I would
recommend that you do so because there
is a contagious way of going around
right now
um so uh everybody go out and do that
otherwise nothing further thank you
excellent thank you uh Mr klingler's
owning and development nothing to report
and Mossad Recreation and Parks nothing
to report wow what's going on here
tonight Miss Robinson strategic it
sounds like a broken record but nothing
to report everybody's a little tired Ms
Fievel you get the the second second
come around
I do not oh I met I met with Mrs seals
today who is the new CSG head she will
be checking her calendar to come visit
she is really excited to get CSG that's
exciting more involved in the community
I'm excited about that she wants to be
in the parade she wants dad get some
kids into the to the bexley's Got Talent
um true or false Council the fashion
industry in 2018 produced four percent
of the world's greenhouse gas emissions
false higher
true the fashion sector in 2018 was
responsible for approximately 2.1
billion metric tons of greenhouse gas
emissions which is about four percent of
the global total and if we don't clean
up our act soon it's going to be
2.7 billion tons by 2030.
we can we can send our clothes to be
recycled reused uh one more true false
uh true or false or that true or false
um about 50 of a washing machine's
energy goes towards heating the water
false nearly 90 of the Washington's
energy goes towards heating the waters
so households that switch to laundering
solely in cold water which works guys
could eliminate nearly 1 600 pounds of
carbon dioxide a year
cold water
okay
that's all I got
cold water
it's clean anybody got a motion to
adjourn yeah
all in favor say