[0:00] Good.

[0:03] » Welcome to the Brian City Council meeting on March 2nd, 26.

[0:08] » All please stand for the pledge. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the

[0:14] United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation

[0:20] under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

[0:27] [clears throat]

[0:34] Um, I'd like to uh a motion to approve the minutes of the February 16th

[0:40] meeting. [cough] >> I'll make a motion.

[0:43] » I'll second. >> Mary,

[0:45] » yes. >> Steve,

[0:46] » yes. >> Jim,

[0:48] » yes. >> Yes.

[0:50] » Yes. for a hearing of public concerns.

[1:00] Hearing none, proceed.

[1:05] Item number four, an ordinance providing for annual appropriations.

[1:10] John, would you please number and read? Ordinance number 10, 2026, an ordinance

[1:15] providing for annual appropriations for the city of Ryan fiscal year ending

[1:20] December 31, 2026, declaring emergency.

[1:25] There's one item in this ordinance and I'd like uh Chief P to come up and

[1:29] explain what that is. >> Good evening.

[1:33] » Good evening. >> So, I forewarned you when I did the

[1:36] annual report, we may have a more expensive repair with the town. We sent

[1:41] [clears throat] it down for the first repair. They looked at it and uh they

[1:46] came back said, "Yes, you need to do it." The good news is it's not 30 to

[1:49] 40,000. It's about 19 and a half, so almost 20,000

[1:55] uh in this repair. So, that's what we're looking at with

[2:00] this appropriation.

[2:06] » What's the repair? [clears throat]

[2:09] Believe it or not, it's little plastic slide blocks,

[2:13] but they all have to be custom miked and uh they've lasted 31 years. So,

[2:20] yeah, >> it was good plastic.

[2:21] » Yeah, it's good plastic. That's why it costs that much. And they can't work on

[2:25] it until the first repair is done because they have to extend it to be

[2:29] able to get to it. And that is a two week repair. We're about halfway through

[2:33] that right now. So, we're probably not going to see it back until mid-March,

[2:38] even with this repair done. >> So, I assume that's on the ladder.

[2:43] » Yes, that the tower. Yeah, it's in the ladder section itself.

[2:46] » Uh engine wise, chassis wise, we haven't had any issues with this truck. We're

[2:51] just not putting miles on it. So, those are all good parts. It goes in and out

[2:56] when we run it every week to test it. >> Sure.

[3:01] » Well, I'll move. >> I'll second. Jim,

[3:05] » yes. >> Steve,

[3:06] » yes. >> Rick,

[3:07] » yes. >> Mary,

[3:08] » yes. And John, >> yes.

[3:10] » Move to approve. >> And I'll second.

[3:13] » Mary, >> yes.

[3:14] » Rick, >> yes.

[3:15] » Jim, >> yes.

[3:16] » Steve, >> yes.

[3:17] » And >> yes.

[3:19] » Thank you. >> Thank you.

[3:20] » Thank you, >> Chief.

[3:24] [clears throat] Agenda item number five. P's number and read. Ordinance number

[3:28] 11, 2026, an ordinance for the transfer of funds for the city of Brian for the

[3:34] month ending March 31, 2026. [clears throat]

[3:40] An ordinance providing for the transfer of funds for the city of Ryan for the

[3:44] month ending March 31, 2026. All of the items from this transfer um

[3:50] accommodate the closure of the re uh refu and recycling fund, the

[3:56] communications fund, and the communications capital fund. Um, as

[4:00] we've discussed now multiple times, um, those funds are no longer needed because

[4:05] those services are no longer provided, but they hold balances.

[4:09] And, uh, we have determined that the balances in

[4:14] the communications fund rightfully belong to the electric fund, which is

[4:18] where they'll end up in the c in the communications capital fund should

[4:22] belong in the electric capital fund, which is where they'll end up as a

[4:26] result of this. and in the refuge and recycling about a $300,000 balance. Um

[4:35] the logical and arguably best place to put it barring any discussion from you

[4:40] folks is the streets department. Um, and we have asked uh Tyson and others

[4:46] [clears throat] to consider how that might be used uh for a one-time since

[4:50] it's a one-time influx of money um to build it into some kind of a one-time

[4:56] capital project, possibly an improvement to their building facility or something,

[5:01] not just build it into the operating because again, it's a one-time influx of

[5:05] money that the streets fund. Um, all that we accomplished with this

[5:11] simple little ordinance.

[5:16] » I'll move to suspend. >> I'll second.

[5:23] » Rick, >> yes.

[5:24] » Jim, >> Steve,

[5:27] » yes. >> Mary,

[5:28] » yes. >> Yes.

[5:29] » And I'll move to approve. >> I'll second. [clears throat]

[5:32] » Steve, >> yes.

[5:34] » Jerry, >> yes.

[5:35] » Jim, >> yes. Rick.

[5:36] » Yes. >> Yes.

[5:38] » Thank you.

[5:42] » Agenda [snorts] item number six. >> Resolution number 19, 2026, the

[5:48] resolution approving and adopting the Williams County [cough]

[5:52] Plan and declaring an emergency. >> Uh good evening again. I'll speak to

[5:57] this. Um the there's a requirement within the county to review this plan

[6:03] periodically. uh they've been asking for input from the city, emergency

[6:08] management, LAPC, having several of those hats have been involved with this

[6:13] process over the last 6 months. Uh we've had input from the city ranking where we

[6:18] see uh hazards, natural hazards within the county. They put together this plan.

[6:25] Uh how many pages was >> 771?

[6:28] » Yes. >> So I did not print it for each of you.

[6:31] » Email that to me, would you? >> Sure. [laughter]

[6:34] We will. >> Yeah. A a lot of a lot of it is uh

[6:37] statistical data. Um looking at populations,

[6:42] uh different hazard areas, what are probability for wind storms, tornadoes,

[6:47] worst case scenario, the probability of earthquakes, dam breaks, a lot of those

[6:51] things. And they compile it all into one master plan. And then it requires uh an

[6:58] approval to accept. then it's our turn to uh accept that.

[7:03] » Is part of this plan like of um heaven forbid but a railroad derailment with

[7:10] hazard materials. >> This one is primarily natural disasters.

[7:14] So So they're looking at at things like uh drought uh extreme uh snow events,

[7:23] floods, things of that nature. what covers that that I just spoke of

[7:29] » that is part of the LEAPC we look at as well as the uh u man what they would

[7:35] consider man-made hazards and uh those are addressed in a different uh plan.

[7:41] This is primarily the natural hazard mitigation that is developed and

[7:49] there's a lot of stuff there and a lot of it is charts that you can pull online

[7:54] and then some of it's just compilation of many many um different charts

[8:00] bringing them all together in one place.

[8:06] » I'll move to suspend. >> I'll second

[8:10] » Jim. Yes, >> Steve.

[8:12] » Yes, >> Rick.

[8:13] » Yes, >> Mary.

[8:14] » Yes, John. >> Yes.

[8:16] » I'll move to approve >> and I'll second.

[8:19] » Harry, >> yes. Rick,

[8:20] » yes. >> Jim,

[8:22] » yes. >> Steve,

[8:23] » yes. >> And John,

[8:24] » yes.

[8:31] Item seven, uh, police annual report. Chief, yourself.

[8:38] » Evening, council. Good evening. >> Good evening.

[8:46] » So, yeah, I'll just go through the report. I believe you all had a copy of

[8:50] it in the packet.

[8:55] As you can see, we had handled 264 car crashes, investigations, 563 traffic

[9:00] citations, 605 traffic warnings, a total of 9,22

[9:05] calls for service.

[9:10] Uh these are the personnel changes over the year. We hired three full-time

[9:15] officers, two auxiliary officers, three part-time dispatchers,

[9:19] one full-time officer, and one part-time dispatcher.

[9:23] » So sorry. >> No, you're doing fine.

[9:27] » The bike patrol, uh we had our hours were down on that due to the ones that

[9:33] had applied for it. they were part of our field training for the new hires.

[9:37] So, we weren't able to train those officers to become um new members of the

[9:43] bike team. We are in the process of getting them trained up for or hopefully

[9:48] this spring yet so they're ready to go for summer. So, those are the numbers,

[9:52] the hours, and miles ridden.

[9:57] Uh just touching basis with the police chaplain, that's still Pastor Michael

[10:01] Elkins from New Hope Church. He's been with us now for I believe 6 years. He

[10:05] does a phenomenal job. Anytime we have a traumatic event, we notify him. He'll

[10:09] come in, speak with the officers or speak with family members as needed.

[10:16] Yeah, we are still with the Owens Community College uh police consortium.

[10:21] I I think they raised the rate to $600 this year, which is a phenomenal fee.

[10:26] With that, we can send officers to a vast array of trainings that they they

[10:30] host. Um and it doesn't cost us any additional money. So that's that's a

[10:35] huge benefit. Um overall most officers while the entire

[10:41] department we had over 1300 hours of training in various topics, ethics,

[10:45] arrest, search and seizure, trauma and wellness, domestic violence, vehicle

[10:49] dynamics, report writing, leadership. We had some SWAT training and uh first

[10:54] first responder active shooters as well. Um the state requires 40 hours and I we

[11:01] were well above that for each officer and also the department now has three

[11:07] opata certified instructors so we can teach courses inhouse and we we've been

[11:11] doing that as well as as mentioned I'm you're fine you

[11:17] don't have to go back but the last line on there is we are hosting several

[11:21] courses um locally we we hosted our SWAT basic training um and some courses

[11:27] throughout. So, it's always nice to bring other departments in, let them

[11:31] view facilities, and everybody's always pretty envious of the the police and

[11:34] fire complex. Um, the fleet, not much has changed there. We still have a total

[11:39] of 13 vehicles, nine marked patrol, four unmarked. The the maintenance cost, I

[11:44] believe, was within $100 of what we're where we were at last year. The fuel

[11:49] usage was pretty well spoton, and the fuel cost, I think, was within $1,000,

[11:55] if I'm not mistaken. So that hasn't really changed.

[12:00] » No, it was up. You see that? Because of full staff levels.

[12:09] » Dispatch operations. We had 723 911 calls, 48,257

[12:16] radio calls, and 31,539 phone calls.

[12:24] OVIs were pretty steady with where they've always been. A total of 48

[12:29] subjects subject tests were conducted on the new machine. 27 of those were by

[12:36] Brian officers. There were additional three subjects arrest for OBI, but

[12:39] testing used other methods. Typically, that's a a urine test if the the

[12:45] machine's down for some reason. And there was an increase of 25% in the OVI

[12:50] from the previous year.

[12:55] Uh again, you had the stats with you to review for both the canines. Obviously,

[12:59] we retired Tyson out in um November of last year. So that just leaves Bane and

[13:04] his hair has been out on medical leave. So hopefully we'll we'll start seeing

[13:09] some activity with the dog before too long.

[13:15] uh the multi-air narcotics task force that continues to be a huge asset to

[13:19] Northwest Ohio. These are just uh stats for Detective Rathky. Um but we, you

[13:26] know, we work collectively with Fulton, Henry, Putnham, Pauline, Defiance, um

[13:32] and obviously Williams County, and that's just the ones in the immediate

[13:36] area. Obviously, drug dealers don't care where the jurisdiction lines are, which

[13:39] is why that task force is so important.

[13:48] calls for service. Um, it looks like it's gone up dramatically. It's just

[13:52] really we we changed uh a little bit on how guys were handling calls and

[13:58] actually showing showing their own activity. A lot of times they were

[14:01] trying not to necessarily generate a report for a call they didn't feel they

[14:05] needed to. Um, and that's just a matter of

[14:10] kind of shooting yourself in the foot. So, we expressed, you know, if you're if

[14:15] you have a call for service, you need to make sure you're you're doing the report

[14:19] on it to get the credit for it. That's just a graph to show the uh the

[14:27] call by volume by days and pretty consistent across Sunday. I guess if

[14:33] you'd have to say was a slow day that it would be Sunday. Next slide is okay. We

[14:39] had one for the hours of the day, but that didn't change much. And then grants

[14:43] for the year. Um, we did the bulletproof fest grant program. We received 27 or

[14:49] $2,73.38. And the body worn camera grant was

[14:54] $8,959.25.

[14:57] So that's what we have. Any questions?

[15:03] Okay. Thank you, sir. >> Thank you, Chief.

[15:09] Hey, Chief. >> I'm [clears throat] gonna I'm gonna put

[15:12] you on the spot for a minute. Sorry, Wes. It's not your turn.

[15:15] » Uh, it is Wes's turn. >> No, [laughter]

[15:19] » I'm going to really put you on the spot. Can you come back to the podium?

[15:22] » Yeah, sure. >> Since there's been a few articles in the

[15:24] paper,

[15:28] there was a call for 911 service that was really low. And I think I want to

[15:32] explain to the council members because they don't know. Um, cell phones and 911

[15:37] calls in the city of Brian automatically go to central dispatch. Um, if you've

[15:42] been reading the paper, eventually we're going to move to a

[15:46] nextgen 911, which actually will geocatch the cell phone numbers. So, if

[15:51] you're in the city limits and you dial 911, it will go to our PAP at Brian PD.

[15:57] So, that will increase those calls tremendously. Um, and and they will come

[16:02] to our dispatch first. So, there's been a lot of stats and numbers that have

[16:07] been thrown out. Um, and if you have questions, please directly call the

[16:12] chief on that or myself. Um, but what I do want you to hesitate on is is those

[16:18] numbers are very preliminary and they're not 100% accurate. Um, especially the

[16:23] estimates and cost. So, you've been working with your team on getting

[16:27] estimates and cost. >> Correct.

[16:28] » Correct. Yep. and um and different versions of software and CAD as well. So

[16:36] um I think one thing that we did discover is if we would relinquish our

[16:41] PAP um in order to get it back, we would

[16:44] have to get permission from the county commissioners and long-term I don't know

[16:48] that that's the best option for our community um when we're all gone. Um so

[16:53] that's something that we have to really take into consideration. Is there

[16:56] anything you would like to add? No, I >> since I gave you no prep time for this

[17:02] discussion at all. >> No, I mean that's that's fine, but yeah,

[17:04] unfortunately we are still waiting on the quotes from the various vendors to

[17:08] to give you accurate numbers, I guess, to say the least. So, but everything

[17:13] else was spot on. >> Do we know where this is headed?

[17:17] » So, from my Brian Times was my witness. I was there

[17:22] to sign a proclamation um and then I got pulled into a room

[17:26] where NextGen 911 was 3 or four years out and then all of a sudden it was Q4

[17:32] of this year. However, we're not sure that that's completely accurate. We're

[17:36] not sure that some of the software is going to be available and

[17:39] » yeah, without going into the fullon conversation with the gentleman from the

[17:43] state, >> they said the Q4 may not even happen

[17:46] this year. So it just like everything else, the state's not 100% whether it's

[17:51] going to happen this year or not. So >> So our hope is that we actually have

[17:54] time to build something into next year's budget and it should be spread across a

[18:00] few years, several year period, not just one year, lots of money. Um and when as

[18:05] we get more details, we certainly will keep you guys involved in that

[18:09] discussion and decision making. Um and and so we don't want you to think the

[18:13] cart got before the horse. Um there was something that was long-term discussion

[18:19] that turned into a we need to make a decision right now that turned into a

[18:24] well we've got some time. So um and in the first time I was in the room they

[18:30] they were not. So in in fairness to them like I no stats I didn't know which CAD

[18:37] software cloud anything other than I knew that we used in digital and I knew

[18:43] that I didn't need to spend half a million dollars and you know like there

[18:47] were some things in there. Um but I will also tell you our dispatch service like

[18:51] there's some I I know you guys know this. I haven't

[18:54] been shy about it. The whole time I've been mayor, I have been talking to the

[18:57] commissioners about either consolidation or working with them to combine things

[19:03] into our building. And I say that because I think the east annex is not

[19:07] something that can be I the public can't access the east annex

[19:13] at the back area where central is. And you know, we

[19:17] um type charges for officers all over the county um in the middle of the night

[19:21] so that no one has to come up from Brian Municipal Court to do that at 2 a.m. We

[19:25] take bond for municipal court. That saves bed um money for CCNO for the

[19:30] county commissioners when they have to pay for that because those people don't

[19:33] go to jail. Um we are the only um agency in the entire county that has the

[19:39] Intoxilizer for the OVIs. On top of that, there's a camera there right into

[19:44] our dispatch. So, our dispatchers witness those. That's a state

[19:46] requirement. I mean, there's a number of things that that our 24-hour or 24/7

[19:52] building provides um that I don't think the community should lose on

[19:58] outside of the dispatch piece. So, there's a whole lot of things in

[20:01] discussion. Um so, I didn't want those millions of dollars discussions. I don't

[20:07] think it's going to end up being like that cost for the city of Brian. I

[20:11] didn't want you to worry about that. I know that our team and and Chief Pool's

[20:15] been involved in the discussion um too. Um we will look for

[20:21] the best service for our community at the best price. Um we'll try to

[20:26] collaborate as much as we can with the county. Um but we have before in the

[20:30] past gone a different way because maybe they haven't spent the dollars that

[20:35] we're willing to spend. So we'll have to see how it all shakes out. But you guys,

[20:39] when we do have estimates, we'll be brought into that discussion and

[20:42] deliberation and decision-m. We just don't have that for you yet.

[20:50] But I didn't want you to keep reading articles and think we're holding out on

[20:53] you. We we truly don't have adequate numbers for any of the dispatch

[20:57] conversations for Brian PD. >> Well, it didn't seem like there were any

[21:00] adequate numbers available, >> right,

[21:03] » based upon the article. the article numerous times indicated that this

[21:07] wasn't available. This wasn't available. So, it wasn't

[21:11] um it didn't seem like anything. It wasn't a Brian Times issue. It wasn't

[21:15] even a City of Brian issue. It was just they didn't have the stuff available for

[21:21] the very scenarios that >> Yeah.

[21:23] » you've been talking about. >> So, just wanted to kind of fill you in

[21:28] » since I put you on the spot. You're welcome. Thank you.

[21:32] Okay, now it's Wes's turn. And he was so excited. I'm sure the anxiety is just

[21:37] bubbling, isn't it? Steam on it. Oh, >> I'm sorry. [laughter]

[21:42] » Good evening, council. >> Good evening.

[21:47] » 2025.

[21:51] Yep. Just the overview that I show you every year.

[21:54] » We got to figure out how to lighten that cuz on my screen it looks delightful.

[21:58] » Yeah. Yeah. Uh operational notes uh for 2025 total

[22:05] flow 525.6 million gallons through the plant. We

[22:11] had uh that's up just a little bit from 2024 but in the scope of things like

[22:17] it's basically the same. So running about the same daily average 1.441

[22:23] million gallons a day through the plant 1.420 in 2024.

[22:29] Uh we ran 1.617 million gallons of digested class B

[22:36] solids were dewatered through the plant. Uh that equates to 228

[22:42] tons of completely dry material. Uh 2024 it was 1.5 and 204. So we're up a little

[22:51] bit there. Uh still within the parameters of just being an average year

[22:56] for us. And if I remember right, the dry material is going to the landfill.

[23:00] » It is. Yeah. >> Yep.

[23:04] » Uh suspended solids removal 94.5 is good number. Uh all of these numbers are are

[23:11] really good numbers and you've heard me in past years say the plant is just a

[23:16] really good design and the thing operates really well once you get it

[23:20] dialed in. Uh CBOD uh 97.8 8 removal which is fantastic.

[23:27] Ammonia removal 98.6 phosphorus which is one of the big

[23:32] drivers for problems in the lake uh 90.9 which is a pretty respectable number

[23:39] too. So plant operates well all over through the cost and cost of treatment

[23:45] per gallon is 2 cents per gallon. And if any of you keep track of the number that

[23:51] I give every year, I'm looking at you, John, cuz you're the likely culprit.

[23:55] Normally, that's a percentage of 1%. It might be 0.5

[24:01] half a cent per gallon or point4. Um, this number is a lot higher this year

[24:08] just because it reflects the the project that's going on out there. So, that

[24:11] money gets folded into the operating cost. So, it's a uh it's a skewered

[24:17] number that we will see go back down at some point here in the next year or two.

[24:21] Show up a little bit. >> So, you wanted to do it that way so you

[24:23] didn't scare me, >> right? It's still 2 cents a gallon. It's

[24:28] a bargain. Okay. So, the the only thing that I

[24:33] really included tonight was just the secondary treatment improvement project

[24:37] because that's where all the actions happening this year. Uh this is an

[24:41] overview. The uh colored spots that you see are where we're adding buildings or

[24:47] tankage out there. Uh the next slide will be what's getting

[24:53] demoed. That is the old 1940s plant with a little bit of that. The north tanks

[24:59] that you can see inside that rectangle are uh where those those tanks were

[25:04] built I believe in 60 to 62. And all of them are are failing obviously. That's

[25:11] why we kicked this project off. So, all that will be gone when we're done with

[25:16] the uh new equipment buildings that come in.

[25:21] This is uh a little bit of that tankage that was in that rectangle there is

[25:26] being demoed out. And where the excavators are sitting, that's basically

[25:31] the footprint of the new control building is right there. So, we had to

[25:34] take that old tankage all the way down to the bottom. Was down there about 12

[25:39] feet. we had to go and crushing concrete with this this equipment. Uh LJ Irving,

[25:45] they're out of Napoleon and they they do demo work and they do it very well. So

[25:50] this is this is us opening the ground. Uh next slide, please. This is when they

[25:56] got done. They've just taken a chunk of of the tankage out. Pretty much

[26:00] everything you can see in the forefront of that that photo is still yet to be

[26:05] removed as we get a little bit further on.

[26:10] uh backfilling that hole. We had to to back fill everything with with uh

[26:15] compactable material, stone in there. So, we we put hundreds and hundreds,

[26:21] probably thousands of tons of stone in there to give a foundation for the new

[26:25] building. Speaking of foundation, that's what this

[26:30] is. This is also the control building as it's going up.

[26:35] the control building itself. Uh we're getting a lot closer to completion on

[26:40] that. The the timeline we're looking at right now is roughly maybe the end of

[26:46] March, the first week or two of uh April, we'll we'll be moving into that

[26:52] building. Then they can get on with the demo of the old building.

[26:57] Uh this is the chemical building that we're building out there. Um you can see

[27:01] it's just just a plain jane block structure. Uh nothing too fancy. All the

[27:07] equipment sets inside and we'll get to a picture of that.

[27:11] The inside of the building kind of see where the tankage is going to set in

[27:15] there. Uh two tanks installed. Each of those

[27:20] are 5,000 gallons. We use uh alum, which is aluminum sulfate material. And what

[27:26] that's used for is it's a um a coagulant in the water that will cause particles

[27:33] to stick together and get heavier. So they drop out of out of the the waist

[27:37] stream. But it also has the effect of of taking soluble phosphor or insoluble

[27:44] phosphorus and turning it into a form of soluble phosphorus that can settle. So

[27:49] that's how we achieve a lot of the the phosphorus removal that we do through

[27:53] the plant. Do you think it's going to increase then

[27:58] the percent from 90 up? >> No, it'll probably ride right about the

[28:03] same. That's that's generally where we run in that range year in and year out.

[28:07] Phosphorus is not terribly hard to remove. You know, again, we can add

[28:13] alum, which is an expensive product, but it also is the the best product for the

[28:18] job. So that's why almost every plant has some form of chemistry that they add

[28:24] to get at phosphorus at the end of the day because otherwise biologically it's

[28:29] a little bit harder to break down. In the future, at some point, somebody will

[28:34] be standing here as as things go forward,

[28:40] nutrient removal will become a bigger and bigger deal as as far as regulatory

[28:45] goes because we're now really starting to see the effect that it can have on

[28:49] large bodies of water that that these waterheds drain into. And so they will

[28:55] they will require treatment of other things like nitrates, different

[29:00] different nutrients, but nitrogen is is a good example. And so there are

[29:06] biological ways to do it. In this project, we actually set the design up.

[29:12] So if 10 years from now, EPA were to say, "Okay, you've got to meet a lower

[29:16] standard." We've already designed the tankage that we're building around being

[29:21] able to just take the next step with it and and get into operation instead of

[29:25] having to reinvent the wheel and build new tankage, things like that. So, we

[29:30] did get out in front of that. Timeline wise, might be two years, might be 10

[29:35] years, might be 20 years, we don't know. But my my personal feeling on it is a

[29:40] decade or so. You'll start hearing a little bit of rumbling about it. So

[29:45] hopefully we've got things set up where it'll be a pretty much just a shoehorn

[29:50] in there the equipment that we need. It won't be ridiculously expensive or

[29:55] anything like that if we played our cards right here. So

[30:01] uh it's the outside of the chemical building getting the brick wrap on it so

[30:05] it matches [clears throat] everything else that we got out there already.

[30:11] Uh this is a thickening tank. Um the the current tank that we have was repurposed

[30:18] from a 1940s tank and that was repurposed in the mid80s.

[30:24] The repurposed part is doing good. The shell is falling apart around it. So it

[30:28] was in failure mode. So we're we're replacing that here with this tankage.

[30:34] Another look as the walls go up on that thickening tank.

[30:40] That's total outer shell is poured there. Uh doesn't have the railing on it

[30:45] yet. That's all safety and concrete forming that you see there.

[30:51] Little look at the inside of it.

[30:56] Uh the rebar in the outer ring of the uh overflow for the tanks called a

[31:01] launderer. That's what we're getting those guys were getting ready to pour.

[31:05] Then >> how deep is that? 20 30 feet.

[31:08] » No. No, it's actually not. I think that is 12 ft deep. Yeah. Yep.

[31:16] Uh finished concrete poured there. It does not have the the collecting

[31:20] equipment. There's a a u a geared drive that's in there to to collect the

[31:26] solids. Pull it towards the center and that's where you pull the solids out of

[31:29] the tank at as they settle.

[31:33] Uh this is the hole that's open for the new aation tanks. That's about They're

[31:39] probably down there about 16 or 17 ft there.

[31:44] See the rebar getting laid in for what's called the mud mat, which is basically a

[31:49] concrete foundation that sets underneath the tank to spread the weight of it out.

[31:55] Walls going up on that tank.

[32:00] Another shot as they move on down through. And there's actually two tanks

[32:03] there being poured. So, what we're what we're looking at there is a is the uh

[32:09] outer wall to the right hand side there. There's no forming there, just rebar,

[32:13] but that's where the center divider is between the two tanks.

[32:18] A lot of rebar in these things. Takes forever to build them for sure. We're

[32:23] still pouring concrete. They were pouring concrete on them today. So, it's

[32:27] this these photos were taken very early fall, I believe.

[32:35] just doing her one big bucket at a time. That's concrete going in. And then you

[32:40] can kind of see they they've got the the exposed walls of the tank finished

[32:45] there. There's still decking as you can see all that bent over rebar. That's all

[32:50] decking that's being poured. That's what they were working on today.

[32:56] I guess that's it. If anybody's got any questions.

[33:03] All right, I'll wrap it up then. Thank you.

[33:06] » Thank you.

[33:12] » Agenda item number eight. Mark, if you want to give the correct wording, I

[33:16] appreciate it for the executive session. >> Sure. So, somebody

[33:20] » somebody will need to make a motion um to go into executive session pursuant to

[33:26] RC 121.22 22 G2 to consider the purchase of property for public purposes, the

[33:34] sale of property at competitive bidding or the sale or other dis disposition of

[33:39] unneeded, obsolete or unfit for use property in accordance with section

[33:44] 505.10 of the revised code. If premature disclosure of information would give an

[33:49] unfair, competitive or bargaining advantage to a person whose personal

[33:53] priv private interest is adverse to the general public interest.

[33:58] Somebody can just say so moved. >> So moved

[34:01] » if you agree. >> I think that was Steve, but I don't know

[34:05] who Steve was. >> I'll second.

[34:09] » Steve, >> yes.

[34:11] » Rick, >> yes.

[34:12] » Jim, >> yes.

[34:13] » Eric, >> yes. John,

[34:14] » yes.

[34:18] At this point, go. Is there anybody? >> Well, I I think you missed going around

[34:25] the room. It's okay >> cuz we're in executive session now.

[34:28] » Okay. [clears throat]

[34:31] » Byebye. >> I'm going [laughter] to take the stump

[34:34] out. >> Hey, there's a burn ban. Look at

[34:39] Facebook if you want to know what that's

Bryan City Council Meeting - Bryan, Ohio - 03/02/2026

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