Three. I'm going to call the city
council meeting to to order. If you
could all please rise for a moment of
silence.
Thank you. If you could turn and face
the flag for the pledge of allegiance. I
pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the
republic for which it stands. One nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all.
>> You may be seated.
» Clerk, would you call the role of
council members, please?
>> Layman
>> here.
>> Kodak
>> here.
>> Cassidy
>> here.
>> Baker
>> here.
>> Grin
>> here.
>> Mendoza
>> here. Kernie
>> yes here.
>> Everybody's here. Do we have a motion to
approve the minutes from the previous
meeting?
>> So moved.
>> Second.
>> We have a motion by Mendoza. Second by
Baker to approve the minutes of the
previous meeting. Clerk, would you call
the role, please?
>> Layman,
>> yes.
>> Kodak,
>> yes.
>> Cassidy,
>> yes.
>> Baker,
>> yes.
>> Grin,
>> yes.
>> Mendoza, [snorts]
>> yes.
>> Gernzi,
>> yes.
>> The minutes have been approved. Do you
have any communications?
>> I have none. Thank you.
>> Report of the committee's finance
committee.
>> And nothing new to report. However, the
next meeting will be held on Tuesday,
August 18th at 5:30 p.m. in council
chambers.
>> Great. Thank you. Public affairs
committee. The city's website calendar
includes the following upcoming events.
Wednesday, August 5th, lunch on the lawn
from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. at the municipal
building, 213 South Maine. Friday,
August 7th, Space Cats will perform from
6:00 to 9:00 p.m. in the alley at 1:15
South Maine. Friday, August 7th, family
movie night at the Green Space from 8:30
to 11:00 p.m. 10:5 East Tiffen.
Saturday, August 8th, Fostorious Farmers
Market from 9:00 to 1:00 p.m. in
downtown. Saturday, August 8th,
celebrating arts fundraising event from
1 to 5:00 p.m. at 2:14 South Maine.
Wednesday, August 12th, ice cream social
and meet the teams at the green space
from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m. 105 East Tiffen.
And Sunday, August 16th, night session
big band will perform from 6:30 to 8:30
p.m. at Foundation Park. Thank you. That
is all.
>> Thank you very much. Law and Ordinance
Committee.
>> Nothing new to report. The law and
ordinance committee will meet again on
Tuesday, August 18th at 5:15 here in
council chambers.
>> Thank you very much. Report of officers.
Mr. Mayor,
>> I have nothing to report. Thank you.
>> Thank you. Director of Law,
>> thank you. Our levy ballot measure has
been submitted to the board of
elections. They have then sent it off to
the secretary of state. So, we're on our
roll with that. Um, now we just have to
wait for word back from the secretary of
state, but we should be all good to go
for the general election.
Um, also, as far as the new business,
the um EMS
legislation that you see, the second
piece of new business, we would be
asking that that be passed as an
emergency tonight just to meet some
deadlines. Um, I can't recall the exact
deadline, but the fire chief is here and
he can answer any questions you guys
have as far as the purpose of the
legislation or what it is or deadlines
or anything like that. That's all I
have.
>> Thank you very much. Uh, director of
finance.
>> Thank you, Mr. President. Um, I just
have one new uh piece of legislation
tonight. It's a then and now for a an
invoice that we need to get paid. I'd
ask that we wave the three readings on
that, please.
That's all I have.
>> Thank you.
>> All right. At this time, we'll move into
the public portion and we have Deb Tyson
on the docket. For speaking time, we
just ask that you limit your comments to
10 minutes or less.
>> Well,
I'm pretty proud of Fosttory and all the
events that we've had this summer.
I'm excited about tomorrow night, the
school bash. Um,
I also am proud of a lot of community
members. Uh, I would like to see less
negative from the social media part.
uh especially since they don't seem to
be back here uh showing up because
if you have something to say any of you
can be approached I've done it uh before
we ever get here and
if we work together as a community
positivity is contagious but so is
negativity
and I think the positivity
produces better results
and yeah, I'm very proud of this town.
That's all.
>> Thank you.
>> We also have Renee Vogelong on the
docket. Welcome back.
And we just ask you to limit your time
to 10 minutes or less.
>> I will try. Anyhow, Renee Vogelong, 702
East High Street.
Um, [snorts] first off, I got I got me a
little cheat sheet. memory don't go too
well now. [snorts] Um, the splice pad, I
noticed that when it was first brought
up, there was no age limit. It could be
anywhere 60, 70 years old, be able to
use it. But the stuff they put into it
is for now what? 12 recommended 12 and
under. [snorts] But you look at
Defiance, you look at other other places
and they say 12 and under needs to have
a parent or guardian in the splash pad
with them. Okay. So, we got one that's
just for kids. We still haven't and we
got a nice park. That's a great park
they put up there [snorts] uh for for
inclusive, but uh what's what's the
teens supposed to do? We still haven't
did anything for the teens. Um you know,
uh I brought up a while back and got
some uh little backlash about the why.
Um you know, once or twice a month
during the summer, the city come out. It
was it would be cheaper for the city to
go rent out for the day a couple times a
month for the kids to go in there and
enjoy a swim, you know? I mean, I
understand the the ones that's members
might not like it too well on that, but
they're still getting paid. They'll
still get money through it, you know. I
mean, there's got to be something else.
Uh maybe we can find a piece of property
and put up a little skate park. Uh,
cities are doing that. Um, again, all
over the place getting skate parks up
for the teens. Um, Buckley um courts
over there. Uh, I've went by there a
couple times and there's kids out there
and one day I went by there, he had a
push broom. He was sweeping off the
area. So, they got a quarter court
basketball, not a half court, quarter
court basketball for four kids to play
basketball at. Sit there and watch. four
kids tried to play basketball, I think,
you know, what's wrong? That part of
that could have been cut out. Leave them
have a little at least half court
basketball. Um, so
but that that's uh and and in in the uh
splash pad in the park uh before damages
start. What's wrong with putting up a
couple cameras just like they got out to
the recycle? They don't have to be
looked at or reviewed and unless there's
a problem, they can go back and see
them. That's what they do out there.
They don't watch them all the time 24/7.
If there's an issue, somebody's dumped
something wrong or whatever, they go in,
they call down, they get go back on the
film and look and see who did it. This
could be done there, too. It could be it
could
stop it before it starts on the damage.
The other thing is data centers. They're
talking about them over in Hancock
County. Now, if they start getting too
close to our water systems, which we I
guess do Arcadia, I guess Arcadia gets
our water. Um, what's that going to do
coming backwards? Okay. Um, is there
something that can be done brought up?
Hey, we're going to put a hold data
centers within the the limits uh of of
our water systems, you know, uh keep it
out of there somehow. [snorts] Another
thing is corner of East High and
Springville. A couple years ago, I
brought pictures in and showed everybody
with my car sitting beside the manhole
for the water system how high up it was.
It wasn't just tire height. It was up
quite a bit. It was up to where it was
on my uh I had a PT cruise at the time
and it was up to the side of the car
saying here just not too long ago there
was a pickup that went by there. He sat
in front of our driveway and changed his
right rear tire because he hit it. It's
not off the road that far. There's a
little bit of grass there. I've gave
ideas uh putting up a little guard
around it, different things. Um
nothing's been done except these. I
think there's five of those snow orange
snow sticks so you can tell where
there's something at. There's five of
them around that around it. That don't do anything. Um
these door knockers,
I'm tired of them. I got a sign at my
house and it says, you know, no
trespassing, no soliciting.
They will still come up and ring that
doorbell. And I'll tell them, "Don't
want anything? Go."
They stand there. They want to argue
with you. Oh, no. You got You need to go
with us for your electric. You need to
go with us for this, for that. I don't
want that. I got a and and and I'm
staying with it. I ain't going with this
other stuff and having my rates jacked
up. But we need to calm down these
solicitors somehow. They're getting to
be still. I know you're laughing at me.
You think it's funny.
>> No, no, no. I'm not laughing at you,
>> okay? because I've had that scenario,
too.
>> And and it's it's uh it's getting very
bad. They're very pushy. Um had some
other people that they've been pushy,
too. Uh one was an elderly lady. They
don't need to do that. She lives right
down the street from me. Uh her husband
died a few years back and they went down
there and they had her almost crying.
Now, this is ridiculous. You tell them
to get off your property. We want them
off the property or let's stop and only
have certain type of solicitation out
there. these guys just need to be done
with. Um and uh and and can we
[clears throat] find a way to put this
back on the ballot to vote in instead of
voting out on this uh the stuff for
these electrics and that? This is crazy.
We got to get that changed again. Get it
back to like, you know, hey, if we want
it, we will call you and tell you we
want on it. Not know we're automatically
going to be put on it if we don't call
you. Um, the other thing, um, it upsets
somebody, it upsets somebody, but I'm
going to say it. This, uh, doing away
with the, uh, the, uh, three reading
rule. There's a reason to have the three
reading rule.
That that way, if the public hears it,
they can come in, they can talk about
it, or they can just get a hold of a
council person and talk about it. Hey,
why is this being done? Why is that
being done? just because finance
director comes in and everything I think
I might have missed one or two of the
meetings on YouTube that maybe it wasn't
asked for that let's avoid the three
reading rule we need this pass through
because of time constraint you know what
if there's that much of a time
constraint you knew about it beforehand
and if you don't know what this three
reading rule is for and needed for maybe
we got the wrong person in that position
and Maybe maybe we need to start voting
these people in instead of just being
appointed.
Uh the other thing is and I'll be done
with it is there's a number of empty
lots.
Seeing a lot of towns in Ohio, smaller
towns, that's taking these empty lots
that the city ends up with and they're
putting one or two tiny houses on. Does
it meet the zoning? No. because they put
things in there so it can be done. At
least you get a one person or a two
person in a house and at a reasonable
rate. I don't know how you want to do
that, but something needs to be done. We
need to get more housing in town for
singles and couples. So,
thank you for your time. It's good to be
back.
Sorry, but I had to say it. You have a
good day.
>> Thanks, Renee.
All right. At this time, we'll open it
up to members of the general public who
are not on the docket that wish to
address council. We just ask that you
state your name for the record and limit
your comments to three minutes or less.
» Good morning, evening. Jill affiliator,
402 West Culbertson Street. I just want
to touch base real quick. Um, I want to
say that I am appreciative. We had an
issue with um our Friday night event
overlapping with an event that was being
done at the green space. Now I
understand that the city has nothing to
do with the green space. So we all get
denials if we try to use the green space
and we have to go through each
individual person. Totally understand
that. The good thing is is that because
people are working together, we were
able I was able to talk to the library.
We renegotiated the time frame so that
both events can happen and that is the
kind of thing we need to see in
Fostoriia. We know that there might be
overlaps. We all know that we trying to
get things going in the community and if
we all work together, we'll be able to
make it work. That's one example.
Saturday's [snorts]
example is another one. We have farmers
market. We have a person who's assisting
with farmers market because we don't
have that group put together yet again.
and that person didn't have her food
truck people, but I have a food truck
group. We're working together because
we're going from one event to the next
event and we're coexisting so that it
makes it for a really great group event
so more people will come down to partake
weather permitting. We're going to keep
our fingers crossed. So those are the
kind of things that I want to see more
of. That is what the community keeping
it local for the locals working together
to make it happen. But we can't do that
if we don't have cooperation at all
different levels. And we can't get angry
at one another because well, they're
taking my space there. It's all about
making it work. And I was really
appreciative of the library who was able
to we worked it out. We made it so that
it was going to be hopefully a really
good event for both parties. So, I'm
hoping we can see more of that coming in
the future. I'm still putting my
paperwork in to the parks group to see
if they will at least entertain next
year to have the nonprofits come in once
a week and man that concession stand so
that we keep it local. The money stays
local. it stays with the nonprofitt
chairperson and it doesn't have to be me
if they don't want me to be doing it but
at least somebody who could make sure
that it happens so that we can all
community effort community engagement
community thank you thank you right any
other members of the public wish to
address council
chief root were you planning on speaking
or just here for questions on that
resolution
Perfect. So, we'll hit that if if we
have questions when we get to that one,
we'll we'll ask. So, stay tuned. All
right. We will move into um actually
seeing no old business, we will move
into new business. Um and we will start
with the first one,
[clears throat and cough]
>> a resolution approving and ratifying the
prior acts of the department heads and
safety service director and approving
then and now certificates for set
expenditures and declaring an emergency.
Move to suspend the three reading rule.
>> Second.
>> All right. We have a motion by Podak, a
second by Cassidy to suspend the three
reading rule on three separate
occasions. Clerk, would you call the
role, please?
>> Layman,
>> yes.
>> Podak,
>> yes.
>> Cassidy,
>> yes.
>> Baker,
>> yes.
>> Grind,
>> yes.
>> Mendoza,
>> yes.
>> Gernsey,
>> yes.
>> The three reading rule has been
suspended.
>> Move to adopt.
>> Second.
>> We have a motion by Mendoza, second by
Cassidy to adopt. Clerk, would you call
the role, please?
>> Layman,
>> yes. Podak,
>> yes.
>> Cassidy,
>> yes.
>> Baker,
>> yes.
>> Grind,
>> yes.
>> Mendoza,
>> yes.
>> Gernzie,
>> yes. All right, that does carry because
resolution number 2026-5757
[snorts]
[clears throat] in an ordinance to
authorize, direct, and empower the
director of public service and safety to
execute a memorand memorandum of
understanding with the Ohio Department
of Medical ODM for the emergency medical
service EMS. MS supplement payment
program authorizing
intergovernmental transfers IGIS of
permissible public funds and declaring
emergency to exist.
Does
>> anyone wish to have any discussion on
this ordinance?
>> I would like the fire chief to explain
that further.
>> Perfect. Come on up, Chief Root. And
he's [snorts] got a whole folder, so I
think he's prepared.
as long as we're not more confused
afterwards.
>> I was just going to say I'll try to do
my best. Um, so this leads back to the
2024
pro, same program. It's just the state
got a hold of it and the state kind of
put their own little twist to the whole
thing and then the PCG group that we've
signed up with initially to kind of get
our foot in the door is back making sure
that everything's kind of lining up. So
now we're at the point where we have to
get thisou with them to make sure it
moves forward and we participate in the
program. So and essentially what it is it's a Medicaid supplement that comes
in to us that helps to offset the cost
for a Medicaid run. Okay, sorry.
Probably one we're getting right now. Um
so we we run 300 to 350 Medicaid
patient [snorts] runs annually. Um, and
let's say on an average we get $200 to
$300 from Medicaid on that initial run.
Well, there's additional federal funding
that if you get into a program like
this, other states do it and now the
state of Ohio is trying to do it. we can
kind of get into that program and we
facilitate the whole entire thing with
the assistance of PCG the public
consulting group and they help us get
this additional funding you know cuz and
it could be with our run volume that
we're looking you know I don't want to
say exact numbers but it's let's say $40
to $70,000 additionally annually and
it'll be just like an annual submission
that will run through the groups ODM as
well as PCG and then the auditor's
office and stuff like that so it's kind
of still you know obvious Obviously,
this is hasn't occurred yet. It's just
now happening for the state of Ohio.
Other states have been doing this for a
decade, you know. So, that's the bare
bones, I guess, easy description. I wish
I had more, you know, answers to some of
it, but I can try to answer any
questions if you guys have it.
So this ordinance as I understand it we
are actually becoming a provider within
ODM for Medicaid reimbursements
which is step one. We would still we
have this separate contract with IGT to
actually be the
like the party the third party that
takes care of the billing for us.
Correct.
PCG PCG take 10% of the federal
collected funds.
>> Right. So, but what we're agreeing to
tonight is we're actually going into a
memorand of understanding or a
cooperative agreement with med the Ohio
Department of Medicaid. That's what this
is.
>> Are we going to need to
sign a new agreement with that
>> with PCG? No. Okay. that that one we did
before to start this whole thing up that
is still in effect.
>> We already have that piece in place.
>> Mhm. Yep.
>> I'm trying to connect the dots on why
this is an emergency. Um
>> so their de PCG has a deadline of I
believe the 16th of August to get them
all in from the participating parties
that signed up early.
>> Okay.
>> And that's why I just got the email last
week
>> from them. I you know how that works. I
do know how it works.
>> It's crazy. So,
>> but we have a deadline of
>> they want it by the 6
>> of August.
>> And you just received it within the last
two weeks. So,
>> and that's a federal program and that's
the time table they like to work on.
>> Yep.
>> Exactly. Okay.
>> So, it's it's a little bit early. I
think it's the end of August for ODM,
>> but PCG's got to get everything
together, get it collected, make sure
they're everything drives, and then they
so they want it quicker. So, we wouldn't
be able to achieve it within three
readings.
>> Okay. I think that information is
helpful for people to understand.
>> And I apologize. I mean, trust me, they
I wish they had they they've been
keeping up with things from time to
time, but ODM
is their their own entity. We don't
really hear a whole lot from them unless
I need something from us.
>> Right.
>> Okay. All right. Well, thank you. Yeah.
>> Anything else? [snorts]
No. Good seeing everybody.
>> Thank you, Chief Root.
>> Thank you.
>> Stay safe. Any
further discussion
at this point? We can entertain a motion
to suspend if you anyway so inclined to
do so.
>> We have a second.
>> Second.
>> We have a motion by Cassidy, a second by
Baker. Clerk, would you call the role,
please?
>> Layman,
>> yes.
>> Kodak,
>> yes.
>> Cassidy,
>> yes.
>> Baker,
>> yes.
>> Grime,
>> yes.
>> Mendoza,
>> yes. Currenty.
>> Yes.
>> All right. The three reading rule has
been waved.
>> Move to adopt.
>> Second.
>> We have a motion by Cassie, a second by
Baker to adopt. Clerk, would you call
the role, please?
>> Layman,
>> yes.
>> Kodak,
>> yes.
>> Cassidy,
>> yes.
>> Baker,
>> yes.
>> Grind,
>> yes.
>> Mendoza,
>> yes.
>> Grenzy,
>> yes.
>> Right. That does carry. It becomes
ordinance number 2026-58.
58.
» Thank you.
» [clears throat]
>> An ordinance enacting new section 145.10
of chapter 145 of the codified
ordinances of the city of Australia,
Ohio entitled regulations of special
events within city limits and declaring
emergency to exist.
>> That was the first reading of that
ordinance and concludes new business. Is
there any need to go into executive
session this evening?
Seeing none, is there any miscellaneous
business this evening?
Also seeing none, I would entertain a
motion to adjurnn.
>> I'll move.
>> Second. Have a motion [snorts] by
Cassie, a second by Baker to adjourn.
Clerk, would you call the role, please?
>> Layman,
>> yes.
>> Podc,
>> yes.
>> Cassidy,
>> yes.
>> Baker,
>> yes.
>> Grind,
>> yes.
>> Mendoza,
>> yes. Gernzy,
>> yes.
>> We are adjourned at 6:27.