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You will stand for the Pledge of Allegiance first, please.

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Mr.

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Stans, one nation under God.

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April 1st, please.

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Mr. Duffett?

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Yes.

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Mr. Norgay?

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Yes.

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Mr. Nakarato?

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Yes.

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Mr. Nell?

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Present.

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Mr. Pett.

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Here.

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Okay, I'll call the meeting to order.

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The purpose of this meeting is it's an informational meeting to inform residents about the November

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ballots that will be on the ballot this November.

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So, but before we get started with that, I'm going to turn it over to Mayor Duffett.

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He has a little proclamation presentation for us this evening.

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Yeah, Mr. Archer, come forward.

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Many know Mr. Archer is our assistant superintendent.

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Canfield retired, and he's found a new passion which is pickleball,

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and he has brought that instrumental to bringing that to Canfield.

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So we have a proclamation, we have an exciting event this weekend.

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Whereas Rich Archer, a USA pickleball ambassador who is instrumental in bringing this great

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sport to Canfield is a pickleball instructor at the Bourbon and Central YMCA.

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And whereas Rich Archer is generously offering his time to conduct pickleball instruction

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at the newly renovated Pickleball Courts at the city's

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Grecile Park on Saturday, September 25, 2021,

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from 1 to 3 p.m. And whereas

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Pickleball is a sweet sport with a sour name, is the fastest

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growing sport in America. It is an intergenerational

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low-impact and competitive sport that combines elements

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of tennis, badminton, and ping-pong.

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And whereas pickleball is easy to learn, inexpensive to play, and promotes camaraderie, team work, kindness, and enjoyment for all.

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It can be played indoors and outdoors, singles or doubles, on a court smaller than a tennis court.

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Now, therefore, I, Richard A. Dufford, Mayor of the City of Canfield,

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State of Ohio, do hereby proclaim Saturday, September 25th, 2021,

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as Canfield Pick-A-Ball Day, and recognize the health and wellness and

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benefits it provides to Canfield community.

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Here, as you set my hand and witness thereof, I cause to seal the City of

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campus to be the next. Thank you. Thank you for all you do.

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Good. Say a few words. Sure.

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Mayor's Outfit Council, Wade, we've all worked very hard to make this come to be.

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And I appreciate all the support that you have given this pickleball reality here at Greaseville Park.

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You've made Greaseville Park come alive.

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And some of you have been up there in the mornings and you'll see 25 to 30 people up there in the mornings.

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And you'll see 15 to 20 people there in the evenings playing, making Greaseville Park a great park again.

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Because I think it lost some of the oomph that it needed, and pickleball certainly has helped that.

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And by the way, I've heard just some rumblings that the fire department has challenged the police department to a pickleball game in the spring.

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And the winner of that game will play the council for the pickleball game.

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So I hope to see some police in chief get the fire department there on Saturday.

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Council members, please join us if you're able to get a nice event and I appreciate all this court.

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And I would love to thank you very much.

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Congratulations for all of us.

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Okay, at this time, I'm going to turn the meeting over to Mr. Calhoun, our city manager.

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to just explain to you, brief you what's going on in November here.

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Can I jump in for one thing?

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I know that several people have been asking about the nets when they might expect them,

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the additional nets, so we'll cover that.

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I told them we'll get them in the answer.

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Yes, we're waiting on the answer.

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So the poles have been installed.

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Now we're just waiting on the supplier to get out there to direct the nets.

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Perfect.

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So as soon as we know, we'll relay that.

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So, good evening and thank you all for coming this evening.

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So the purpose of tonight's meeting

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is Council President Mormey alluded to

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is we have a number of November ballot items

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for City of Canfield residents,

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voters that they'll see on the November 2nd ballot.

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This is going to be the first of, hopefully,

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a series of three of these type of informational meetings

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so that we can provide the information

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on a number of ballot items

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that you all will see on November 2nd ballot.

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I see a couple of new faces in the crowd tonight, which is good.

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Typically we have a handful of people that come to council meetings,

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so it's really good to see new faces and engage more of our residents,

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because that's what we're all about in the city of Camfield.

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Kind of some quick, I guess, housekeeping items.

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We have a restroom if you need to, that's through the door to the left.

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Men's and women's restrooms are down the hallway on the right.

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If you have questions, so we're going to go through the presentation.

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And then at the end, it will take questions, comments.

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So if you have questions, run down.

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If you have a chance to leave early, you can leave one of us

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and we'll be able to correspond back to you

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and try to answer the questions.

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First and foremost, again, I think the people

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that have been here recognize the faces up here.

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You can read the names, but our current city council,

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council member Tish, council member Neff,

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council president John Morvey,

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council member Anthony Naparato,

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and our current mayor, Richard A. Duffett.

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And so unfortunately, Mr. Duffett has not

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see three election this year,

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so we will have a new mayor in 2021.

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So part of this is to kind of give

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the three mayoral candidates the opportunity

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to introduce themselves to the community,

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talk a little bit about why they're running for mayor,

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and then we've got a couple other items on the ballot.

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10 in total, potentially, for city of Cinnabar Residence.

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So we've got the mayor, we've got the tax channels for

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our police and fire departments.

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There's three proposed charter amendments by petition

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that voters will see on the November ballot.

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Mahoney County Educational Services Center

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has three board positions open

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as well as Canada Local School Board.

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They have three board positions open.

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There's three candidates running.

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They're all incumbents.

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So we won't spend a lot of time on some of the issues that really don't have a lot of information to provide other than what you'll see on the ballot.

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And then finally, Monning County has two issues.

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Issue one is a quarter percent sales tax for roads, bridges, and infrastructure repair.

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And then issue two is a renewal of the Developmental Disabilities Board.

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And then for voters that are increasing one in the city of Canfield, there'll be a local liquor option for beer and wine sales or a restaurant here in town.

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But without further ado, we'll start with the city of Canfield election for mayor.

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So you'll see three candidates on the ballot this year.

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What we're going to do is allow each of the three candidates five minutes.

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Again, to speak about introducing themselves, talking about why they're lying to the Mayor.

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So what we'll do is just start in the order that they are here on the ballot.

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So first up, Mr. Don Dragish.

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Thank you, Wade.

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I'm going to take him off to a meeting.

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Good evening, everyone.

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My name is Don Dragish.

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And I'm going to go through a few things, kind of letting to introduce myself

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and give you a little bit of background about myself and what I've done.

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and some of you might know me, some of you might not,

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so the people that don't.

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I'll give you a little bit of background

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and kind of go from there.

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Again, like I said, my name is Don Dragish.

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I am a graduate of Youngstown State University,

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hold a BFA in design marketing advertising,

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and also emerging leaders.

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SBA, thank you, it was a little dark here, sorry.

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SBA, US Small Business Administration Degree

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from the Warriors School of Business.

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I am self-employed owner of Dragish Marketing,

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a marketing and social media company, and also a partner in the Youngston Marketing Company.

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Where we've worked with some of the most reputable and recognizable brands by providing marketing solutions that generate results.

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We bring a depth of resources and experience that include digital and traditional marketing strategy,

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day-to-day management, creative services, advertising opportunities with unique media partnerships,

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print, networking, and sponsorships of DO Live, a premier marketing event each year in Youngstown, Ohio that we put on.

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this past year we didn't because of COVID and whatnot.

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Like I said, I live here in Brook Park.

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I'm married. My wife is a teacher and I have two kids.

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A son, George, which is 10 and a daughter, Genevieve, who is six

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and they both attend CH Campbell here in Canfield.

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So I kind of want to step in here too now and kind of let everybody know that

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didn't know. I was, I do have experience in the

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Canfield government, where I've been here before.

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I was elected to council in 2014,

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became president of council in 2015,

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and maintained that position until 2017.

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Let's keep Canfield, Canfield.

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This is kind of something that you're gonna hear

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throughout this whole thing today.

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So one of the things that I'd like to kind of get into

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are the things that I'd like to really do

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in C4, the city of Canfield.

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I'd like to expand our tax base

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without imposing extra taxes on citizens

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by bringing in the right businesses to the city of Canfield and on the Green.

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I want to revitalize for commerce purposes

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and to find a way to for retail generation.

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I have spoken to several neighbors in Canfield

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and they shared with me the way that Green used to look

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and only a few years back from 1988.

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It's a drastic difference.

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I know we can make this happen in the community and I believe I can.

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I began also the first successful joint economic development district,

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Jed, for the city formed in Canfield Township to bring the Windsor House

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assisted living home to the area as a major success for the city

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before leaving office in 2017.

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My relationship with businesses like these has shown to be on target

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and will continue to work towards expansion projects.

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that time the district facilitated the construction of Windsor House of

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Skilled Nursing Community with 72 full-time jobs.

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The increase in taxes benefited the community as well as the school district

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generating over 164,000 new tax dollars to our schools.

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At full employment of estimated gross wages of over $2 million,

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totaling new generated taxes will be over $253,000.

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Also, the annexation of Township Land and the purpose of developing Redgate Farm among the city's accomplishments during my time as council president back in 2017.

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I believe the forward movement of the property has put Canfield in a great position.

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It moved forward with the second jet upon my leaving office in 2017.

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I began making a long-term plan for the city, and now that one has been done, I look to put a roadmap to the city that will outlast me and the next generation of Canfield residents.

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I can be instrumental in getting developers and advanced infrastructure and development here to bring revenue back to the city, like we had once before.

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We need to get our city wired with broadband and fiber optics to generate more white collar and technology companies to come here to Canfield so our young residents can work here.

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Now, I believe there's been some disconnect in our city government as we've kind of seen over the past few years.

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And I believe that I can bring our city government to be more cohesive, cooperative and collaborative so that we can run efficiently.

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I also am against outside union forces coming to our community.

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We can't let them destroy our charter and its intentions.

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Let's keep Canfield, Canfield.

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I will continue to also work closely to support our police department,

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which is by far the finest in the area,

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and fire departments to keep the streets and neighborhoods of Canfield safe.

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Again, let's keep Canfield, Canfield.

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I continue to work with zoning and design boards to keep Canfield the best place to live and raise a family as I have two children.

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Again, let's keep Canfield Canfield. And I continue to work with Canfield schools and boards for their needs moving forward also.

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Let's keep Canfield Canfield. Vote on Dragosh for Mary in November. Thank you very much. I appreciate it.

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Next

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up is a familiar face, Mr. Bruce Neff, who is currently a council member.

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Bruce Neff, candidate for Mayor of 68 West Main Street.

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I presently serve on City Council, having been elected in 2017 and again and re-elected in 2019.

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I'm part of the Planning and Zoning Committee. This has been an important experience for the future development of our community.

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I am from one of Canfield's founding families who moved here in 1805 from Pennsylvania and

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that was 216 years ago.

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A seventh generation Canfield resident proud and focused on the continual development of

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our city.

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I cannot stress enough how important our great school system is for our community.

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It's standards and achievements are undeniably superior from athletics to speech and debate.

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Our bands, music and our choirs, our service clubs and the drama department all make our school system the magnet and effective educational system that it is.

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I was the first class to graduate from the new school, which that was nearly 55 years ago, you still call it new.

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our system needs new buildings, perhaps a campus, and needs our support. I attended

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kindergarten through 12th grade in our local schools, class of 67. I graduated

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from Ashland College in four years with a degree in biochemistry and went to YSU

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to attain a teaching certificate. I taught at MCCTC, which back then was

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called Mahoning County Joint Vocational School. I left to start my own

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company in the electrical industry. For more than 30 years I have been in the

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professional video business in system design integration installation and now

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we specialize in LED display sales and rentals. I've lived in many other cities

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in different states and bring those that valuable experience to Canfield. My

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career has taken me from Cleveland to Pittsburgh to Miami for 10 years to

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and Jose for five years, Vegas to Dallas, and then Phoenix to Washington, D.C. Finally

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back to Central Florida. These were wonderful, there were wonderful amenities, good and bad

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policies, and interesting challenge in each of these world class cities.

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We should actively

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promote our community, recruit more new business to help our tax base, new residents

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from Lordstown Motors, LG Chem and Youngstown's new additive manufacturing facilities.

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Since 1999, my wife Claire and I both have run successful businesses in Canfield,

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LED3 and Village Quilts. We know financial and business best practices.

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Now is an important time for Canfield. There are many challenges and new developments,

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new development in the works. Our new comprehensive plan,

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changes in zoning, improvement for parks and recreation, revisions for our design and review

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standards and better communication with our local school board and joint fire district.

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Those are essential. We need experience, sound thinking, wise decisions and fiscal responsibility.

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My commitments are to continue the Mayor's Business Forum that Mayor Duffett began,

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improving policies and conditions in Canfield, recruiting new businesses while promoting our existing ones.

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I feel that we should continue to improve our village green, adding more activities and infrastructure,

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Wi-Fi, improved audio, and perhaps restaurants.

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The most important, which I cannot stress enough, is good planning with smart development.

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I'm proud to be able to say, talk to our past five mayors, Richard Duffett, Bernie Kosar,

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Bill Kaye, Lee Frye, and Scott Hunter, they all support me.

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Since I've returned to my hometown, my interest in history and politics has become a passion.

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I'm a founding member of the Canfield Heritage Foundation, a member of the Canfield

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historical society, the sons of the American Revolution national member, and the current

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member of the Canfield Sportsman's Conservation Club. I will strive for smart, controlled

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growth in Canfield, emphasize analysis of budgeting, continue to continue and expand transparency

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and accountability in city management. I encourage and appreciate all your candid input for

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government improvement and moving our city forward and I asked for your vote on

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November 2nd. I'll do a good job for you.

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And lastly we have Ms. Catherine Young.

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How do I follow that? That was great. Hello, I'm Catherine Young and I would like to be

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the next mayor of Canfield. I've lived in Canfield for over 30 years. I've raised

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three grown children and I'm working on the next generation with three

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beautiful grandchildren. When I'm asked what do I do, I reply, I'm a homemaker. My education

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background is in accounting and I have a bachelor's degree from St. Bonaventure University in

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New York. I graduated with an ROTC scholarship and served as a finance officer in the 82nd

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airborne at Fort Bragg. During the late 80s, I served on an extended mission in the Middle

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East as the only woman officer attached to an infantry battalion serving on a multinational

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peacekeeping force, task force in Egypt. So I know what it's like to work alongside

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men of strength and honor.

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I worked in finance, in government, public accounting,

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and smaller local accounting firms here locally.

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I recently, I've been serving as a co-chairman

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on the Parks and Rec Board for the city of Canfield.

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And I have been many homesteading here

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with chickens and honeybees in the city of Canfield

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while attending the council meetings in person

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and remotely for the past five years.

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As a bonus point of interest,

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I recently won the Blue Ribbon at the Canfield Fair

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for my golden amber honey, which brings me full circle as serving for mayor here with

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the understanding and the opportunity for change.

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So what do I bring to the table as a homemaker, a mother, grandmother, a person of a unique

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life experience not found with my fellow candidates?

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If I had to boil it down to one thing is that I dream big.

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I have attended some comprehensive plans that are being worked on and currently by MS Consulting

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and I do believe these plans will bring positive changes to the city of Canfield.

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If I was your mayor, I believe in the people first.

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It is through the people that the city establishment came into being

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and it's through the people that it will succeed.

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I believe I'll be a good mayor because I understand the duties of mayor as it is laid out in the current charter.

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I do believe the current charter can stand improvement.

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And I see that the current items on the ballot as an opportunity for change here in the city.

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I am an advocate for turn limits.

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I do believe that two years would be enough to serve on council.

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It was in this room, the full room of citizens who spoke when the first levy was passed,

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that the people spoke and they wanted term limits.

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I was there when the council said they didn't want that, so they turned around and changed it.

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So currently there is a levy on there to go back to the term limits that the people approved prior to well my coming on board which is 2017.

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I think through term limits you bring fresh ideas.

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It's through stagnation and career politicians that don't leave any room for the younger set of eyes to look at what our city is moving towards.

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And I've spoken to other people on the council that I have served on some of these councils,

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excuse me, boards, where I've seen other people on the boards. They're young, they're smart,

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they're sharp. Any one of them could tap and be a council member. And I believe we're all

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We're all playing the same sheet of music. We all want Canfield to succeed, yet we all

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play different instruments. So that tag team and the knowledge that we can do this together

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in two years, I believe, is an adequate time. When you get reelected, it could be up to

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eight years, excuse me. But under the current system, it's 16 years.

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In my opinion, I would

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take a look at some of the legislation that has been passed in the five years that

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I've seen. Some of the legislation has not been in the full interest of the people.

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And just like some would argue that people from outside are putting a ballot on, I believe

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that some people that initiated our legislation were from other legal districts that maybe

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Maybe it just should be looked into if I was to come on.

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Now as an accountant,

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my life revolves around accountability.

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I would, and I have, gone to meetings where they have the fixed asset budgeting for the

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last two years.

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I've expressed my opinion.

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We talked about Redgate and the money that's spent with that going in and going out.

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I have been an advocate for accountability when it comes to water.

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I was there in the room full of people when they said 20 years is too long.

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I was there when people said why do we pay for water we don't use.

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And I am an advocate for the OP-OUT program for the smart meter.

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I have challenged the COVID money allocations recently.

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And as far as the how the money is spent,

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And I understand how the direction comes from the administrator, and I respect that.

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And I respect that you listen to my opinion, but I do believe there should be more money spent on the village green.

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I do believe there should be public restrooms.

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And I'm very happy that the gazebo will be updated this year, and it will allow for

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the sound system and a bigger display of what can happen there.

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and the activities that will happen on the grains.

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Catherine, to be fair to the other candidates, you're on seven minutes, so you can wrap up.

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Okay.

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I appreciate it.

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This is a great opportunity for the City of Canfield to have their voices heard and their votes counted.

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I believe nothing in this world happens to us, it happens for us.

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Let's grow closer, stronger, and wiser through the events in this point in history.

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I appreciate your vote for me, Catherine Young, on Election Day.

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Thank you.

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Next two items we'll have our police chief and fire chief talk about briefly the renewal levies that you all will see on the ballot this year.

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So first up is the Chief Hutchinson with the Cardinal Joint Fire District.

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Thank you for inviting me. Appreciate it.

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Thank you for showing up here today.

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I'm very much appreciated.

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I'm Don Hutchison, I'm the fire chief here in Cardinal Joint Fire District, Gampard, Ohio.

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I've been the chief since 2011.

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This is a renewal levy that we've had on the ballot since 2006,

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and at that time it was a 0.42 no levy,

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and that was for the general fund.

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At the current taxing rate through the Mahoney County Auditor,

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it is now down to 0.345415, how about that?

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Equalling $12.09 per year for every $100,000

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valuation, so we're dropping it down. Started out at $14.70, but the grand total the money

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brought in by this renewal levy is $226,866. So we get a little bit of a quarter of a million

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dollars every year. So what do we do with this money? Number one, it pays for fuel in

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the truck. Number two, what's it do? It puts tires, especially on the ambulances. The

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ambulances, each ambulance right now is averaging 20,000 miles a year. We're running

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over a thousand calls a year with those ambulances and moving on from there.

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Also with the money we're also, as I said, paying the insurance, also general fund, whether

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it be paper towel in the fire station or medical supplies, we're using it all for that and

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pushing it through there.

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So the one thing I just want to tell you is where's the fire department going?

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Where are we at right now?

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where we're going right now we are an ISO 3 which is 10 is the worst meaning you

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don't have a fire station within 10 miles of your house one being the best and

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there are three ones in the state of Ohio and that's Cleveland just got

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announced there'll be a one in January of next year city of Columbus and the

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City of Toledo. Michael, we're currently a three, we're shooting, working towards a

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two. So what does that do for you the homeowner? Not a whole lot, maybe fifty, seventy-five dollars

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a year off your homeowner's insurance compared to the three, but what it does if you bring

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any industry in, it lowers their insurance ratings considerably whenever you have a

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one or two and going from there so that's that is our goal that's what we're

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looking for also making sure we have enough people on staff to run the calls

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that we need use may have seen we had to close the station for 20 hours but it

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really wasn't closed and I'll tell you why I'm saying this is we had people

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call off people get sick and we couldn't get people to fill in so what

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happens, the deputy chief and I and the few other firefighters then respond from home.

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So, sort of go back on the Chuk Tish Day, right?

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And as a matter of fact, the last hour of the 20 hours, we did have three calls all at once.

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And I was on the ambulance on the third call and we were at the hospital for, well, an hour and a half.

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hospitals with that back. Also responding to COVID calls, our COVID

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calls are up as everybody can imagine. Last month we ran, I believe it was 17 in

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the whole month of August. We've already ran 20 in the first two-thirds of

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September and so it's here back again rearing up and might even be a little

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bit worse because what I'm hearing from the paramedics is they're younger,

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they're sicker and going from that what you're hearing too so otherwise thank

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you for your time the the renewal levy is every five years like it's always been

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and this is our I'm sorry so hopefully you can vote yes for the fire

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levy thank you thank

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you Chief Hutchison next up we have another renewal levy so

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So this is for the City of Canfield Police Department.

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Chief Kalucci with our Canfield Police Department will discuss

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where we started and where we are.

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Good evening.

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My name is Chuck Kalucci.

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I am the Chief of Police for the Canfield Police Department.

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I've been Chief since 2009

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and a member of the Police Department since 1996.

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I can't even imagine my career being anywhere else.

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I love the community.

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I love the students.

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loved the schools and the people we work with and I will say that he ends down I

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think we're blessed that we have three credible people running for mayor,

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residents that anyone of the three are going to do a fine job we're blessed to

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have that choice.

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Chief Hutchison in his fire department is I say the best but

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you know I get I got a little bit of a different perspective because I get to

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to work with a lot of different fire departments

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in the local police departments

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and campfire departments always there,

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they're always in the middle of everything,

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keeping us relevant.

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And I don't know that this topics for now or for later,

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but in an attempt to save money,

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Chief Hutchison and I have been working together

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on something significant,

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that I hope we have the opportunity to present to you

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that will reduce our costs further.

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That's part of our dispatch expansion, and I could get into that in a little bit.

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But let's take it back to 2017.

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We decided that we needed to put a police levy on the ballot.

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I'll be honest with you, I wasn't comfortable with it.

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I'm not a politician.

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And, you know, I feel that the community is very generous in what we get in our income tax

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and allows us to do a great job and provide excellent service to our

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community. It was a difficult decision to have to go out and ask for a police

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levy. However, a lot of it was out of our control. Back in 2017, local government

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funds were decreased by 47 percent. Again, from 2010 to 2015, local

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Well, government funds were decreased by 47%.

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And the inheritance tax allocations were decreased by 95%

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from 2010 to 2015.

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Income tax collections increased by 29%.

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And investment income tax revenue decreased by 98%.

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What did that all mean to us?

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That meant we had to really take a look hard and look

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at where we were at and how we were going to operate,

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how we were going to be more fiscally responsible.

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From the moment that my group, I took over as chief,

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but I'll call it my group, we work together,

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we work collectively.

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We've done everything we can to reduce overtime,

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and we've been successful every year in reducing overtime.

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In fact, one of the glaring stats that comes out to me

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Let's see, over the last five years, we've only experienced a 2% growth overall and personal

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cost for the police department.

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So in 2015 it was 2.1 million, 2020 it's 2.2 million.

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One of the things that we've done, or that the city was faced with a lot of options.

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What could we do to reduce costs?

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And I didn't like the tactic back then, but there was talk about no leaf pickup.

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That turned into be the most significant problem that we've ever faced.

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Our town appreciates leaf pickup, and our town deserves leaf pickup.

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That's what they want.

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Remember, talk about not cutting the local parks grass, let it grow.

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So people could see where it's going, and that didn't sit well with any of us.

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me especially.

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00:42:56,800 --> 00:43:01,960
So we decided to ask for a police levy and we had a couple options. It was a

458
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:10,600
permanent levy where it would be on there forever or asked for a five-year levy. And

459
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:17,760
our group decided that we were going to ask for a five-year levy. One, at the time we

460
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:22,300
needed it to pass really bad and I felt like we were hurting our chances by asking for

461
00:43:22,300 --> 00:43:30,220
are forever levy. Two, I believe in our city government and I believe in what we

462
00:43:30,220 --> 00:43:35,580
could do to bring in more business and generate income in other ways that we

463
00:43:35,580 --> 00:43:41,900
hadn't otherwise done to get that money there. So we knew it was going to take a

464
00:43:41,900 --> 00:43:46,180
little bit of time. Unfortunately I don't have much to do with Redgate but I

465
00:43:46,180 --> 00:43:50,940
do believe that there's a promising future at Redgate. I would have been

466
00:43:50,940 --> 00:43:57,540
naive or maybe even idealistic to think that in 2017 when we asked for this levy

467
00:43:57,540 --> 00:44:03,080
that within five years we wouldn't have to stand up here and ask for it again but

468
00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:06,520
that was the goal you know the commitment that we made we had town we had

469
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:10,760
four or five town hall meetings we went door-to-door we spoke to everybody in

470
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:16,860
my promise our department's promise was if we don't need to ask for this you

471
00:44:16,860 --> 00:44:22,940
For some miraculous reason, the state, besides to give the city a little bit more money, we don't have to ask for it.

472
00:44:22,980 --> 00:44:32,480
I didn't want to ask for it, but the growth at Redgate or anywhere else within the city boundaries, it takes time.

473
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:45,160
And for the most part, we make sure that we let our financial situation, our financial status, kind of be the guiding light to whether or not we needed to do this again.

474
00:44:46,140 --> 00:44:51,180
I could sit here and I could stand here and tell you that I believe that in five years from now,

475
00:44:51,500 --> 00:44:55,560
we really should be there. I hope we're there. I'll do everything I could do.

476
00:44:56,500 --> 00:44:59,860
The city will do everything they could do. A hard working group.

477
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:06,020
Right here, they put a lot of time in, they put a lot of effort in, and so the past councils,

478
00:45:06,500 --> 00:45:14,220
and I believe we will get there. But currently where we're at is, we need to ask for the renewal,

479
00:45:15,460 --> 00:45:20,520
and I'll say it again, I hope that in five years we don't have to ask for it again. I

480
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:27,740
hope that it can come off. You work hard for your money, and I appreciate that. And

481
00:45:27,740 --> 00:45:29,680
And I know that our officers appreciate that.

482
00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:33,620
So what have we done with the money

483
00:45:33,620 --> 00:45:35,420
that we receive from the police levies

484
00:45:35,420 --> 00:45:36,540
over the last five years?

485
00:45:37,340 --> 00:45:41,120
We filled vacancies and returned our staff to full staff.

486
00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:46,040
Our levy funds five full-time police officers.

487
00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:50,860
We've been able to consistently replace police cruisers.

488
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:54,980
We've also been able to replace

489
00:45:54,980 --> 00:46:03,500
our equipment, such as tasers, portable radios, mobile radios, body cameras, body cameras was

490
00:46:03,500 --> 00:46:12,660
a demand, I'll say it was a demand by the majority of our country. In 1997 we had cameras

491
00:46:12,660 --> 00:46:17,660
in our cruisers, we still have cameras in our cruisers, we now have them synced with

492
00:46:17,660 --> 00:46:25,480
body cameras so we've kept a very strict and clean outline of what we've done

493
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:34,400
with the money and again just to reiterate we only increased our

494
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:40,160
spending by two percent two percent over the last five years it's I don't know

495
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:43,640
I would have told you five years ago would have been higher but we've

496
00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:47,240
done everything we can to reduce spending and make sure that we are

497
00:46:47,240 --> 00:46:51,960
accountable for everything that we do and we're able to explain everything that we

498
00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:52,220
do.

499
00:46:55,060 --> 00:46:57,940
Those were the things that we told you we would do with the money if the

500
00:46:57,940 --> 00:47:04,880
levy was passed that's exactly what we did with the money and moving forward so

501
00:47:08,210 --> 00:47:13,670
one of the talk that you know quite something I've heard quite a bit was we

502
00:47:13,670 --> 00:47:16,790
already have too many police officers why do you need so many police officers

503
00:47:16,790 --> 00:47:24,430
officers and currently we are at, so how it works nationally is they categorize it by

504
00:47:24,430 --> 00:47:30,870
how many officers per 1,000 residents. Is that consistent with fire? Maybe? Probably?

505
00:47:31,330 --> 00:47:39,550
Okay. So we are currently at 2.2 officers per 1,000 residents. The national average

506
00:47:39,550 --> 00:47:43,450
is 2.5 officers for 1,000 residents.

507
00:47:44,170 --> 00:47:47,770
And then the national demographic for cities under 10,000

508
00:47:47,770 --> 00:47:51,990
is 3.1, 3.1 officers per 1,000.

509
00:47:52,630 --> 00:47:54,910
We're comfortable with the number we're at.

510
00:47:55,330 --> 00:47:57,350
We will not be increasing our staff.

511
00:47:57,730 --> 00:48:00,250
We're planning on maintaining and again,

512
00:48:00,330 --> 00:48:04,310
continue to make sure that we are on a recycling,

513
00:48:04,310 --> 00:48:10,970
you're an annual cruiser update or computers or radios so

514
00:48:16,120 --> 00:48:16,940
with that being

515
00:48:16,940 --> 00:48:24,480
said you'll be asked again to support the police level I encourage you that the

516
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:31,360
money is spent for what we need to spend it to keep careful careful that was

517
00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:38,860
probably a common slogan for us in 2017 it is today and I know that

518
00:48:38,860 --> 00:48:41,480
everybody in this room wants to keep Canfield, Canfield.

519
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:43,360
If you look across the country,

520
00:48:43,500 --> 00:48:46,440
the police departments have fallen under great scrutiny

521
00:48:46,440 --> 00:48:49,980
for lack of training, for lack of education,

522
00:48:50,220 --> 00:48:53,000
for putting the wrong police officers out in the field.

523
00:48:55,160 --> 00:48:56,660
It's a liability issue,

524
00:48:56,860 --> 00:48:58,920
not only for the people that are in charge

525
00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:01,000
of those officers, but for the city government.

526
00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:03,760
And we take that very serious.

527
00:49:04,420 --> 00:49:06,780
I've participated in several town hall meetings

528
00:49:06,780 --> 00:49:13,500
in Youngstown, where all our local agencies were down there participating, not all, most of the police departments.

529
00:49:14,420 --> 00:49:21,520
And I am very confident we weathered that storm. Our policies, our procedures are in line.

530
00:49:22,140 --> 00:49:28,180
We are at the highest level in the state of Ohio for policy and procedure compliance.

531
00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:35,560
And we continue, we will strive to do everything we can to stay there and get better.

532
00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:43,100
We have excellent police officers, excellent fire department, and excellent schools.

533
00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:46,680
And we do need to keep Canfield, Canfield.

534
00:49:47,340 --> 00:49:49,320
I like how safe it is.

535
00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:54,760
I'll say this, I was in a council meeting not too long ago.

536
00:49:55,360 --> 00:50:01,240
And the resident was upset about traffic on North Broad and said that they would rather be living in the city of Youngstown.

537
00:50:01,240 --> 00:50:02,980
City of Youngstown is a nice place.

538
00:50:03,500 --> 00:50:05,000
It's a lot of good people, a lot of quality.

539
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:07,680
We will keep you safer.

540
00:50:08,640 --> 00:50:10,780
They're short staffed, they're underpaid,

541
00:50:11,380 --> 00:50:12,940
and they're in a true struggle right now.

542
00:50:14,180 --> 00:50:16,300
We're going to do everything we can to keep camp,

543
00:50:16,400 --> 00:50:17,840
build camp, keep you safe.

544
00:50:18,660 --> 00:50:20,520
And that's our goal, that's our mission,

545
00:50:20,720 --> 00:50:22,080
and that's why we need your support.

546
00:50:23,040 --> 00:50:25,660
And again, in five years, I hope

547
00:50:25,660 --> 00:50:26,760
that I'm not standing here.

548
00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:28,720
And I hope that we don't need it.

549
00:50:28,720 --> 00:50:36,160
and that's our promise to you is that once we get into a situation where we

550
00:50:36,160 --> 00:50:41,100
could support ourselves through outside growth and each and every one of the mayor

551
00:50:41,100 --> 00:50:45,880
or candidate spoke on it and I'm sure either of the three are going to do

552
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:49,280
everything they can to make sure it happens we won't be back up here we

553
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:54,180
won't be asking for additional funds so the goal is to keep it game field keep

554
00:50:54,180 --> 00:51:02,140
safe and I appreciate you passing the levy in 2017 and we look forward to

555
00:51:02,140 --> 00:51:04,820
meeting you again I'm sure we're gonna have more public meetings that are

556
00:51:04,820 --> 00:51:10,500
solely focused on the police department if you have any questions or anything we

557
00:51:10,500 --> 00:51:14,520
can we will talk then where you could contact me at any time otherwise I

558
00:51:14,520 --> 00:51:18,160
appreciate your time I appreciate your support good luck to everybody here

559
00:51:18,160 --> 00:51:23,520
and hats off to the fire department in the schools and you know that's why

560
00:51:23,520 --> 00:51:27,680
I can't throw this camp to schools and your safety services and local government.

561
00:51:27,940 --> 00:51:28,420
Thank you.

562
00:51:28,660 --> 00:51:29,260
Thank

563
00:51:40,170 --> 00:51:40,490
you, Chief.

564
00:51:41,550 --> 00:51:46,850
So the next portion we'll get into are what city of Canfield residents will see

565
00:51:46,850 --> 00:51:52,170
are three charter amendments that have been proposed by petition to change the

566
00:51:52,170 --> 00:51:53,070
city of Canfield charter.

567
00:51:53,710 --> 00:51:57,250
The first one you'll see there is deals with section 3.01,

568
00:51:57,630 --> 00:52:02,910
which is the council terms section adding a new section 5.08,

569
00:52:02,910 --> 00:52:09,550
which looks at a recall of the city manager process and then a new section 11.09

570
00:52:09,550 --> 00:52:15,090
which is restrictions on the use of municipal resources. So before we get

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00:52:15,090 --> 00:52:19,510
into the details of the charter amendments themselves, a lot of people

572
00:52:19,510 --> 00:52:23,870
always ask questions about the city charter. What is the city charter? Why

573
00:52:23,870 --> 00:52:28,270
does camp don't have a city charter? Various number of questions come up

574
00:52:28,270 --> 00:52:32,030
when you start talking about city charters. Basically they're the

575
00:52:32,030 --> 00:52:36,690
constitutions for cities. Charter cities are, they meet the requirements of the

576
00:52:36,690 --> 00:52:41,630
Ohio Revised Code where they can adopt a home rule, we are a city. If I believe

577
00:52:41,630 --> 00:52:47,230
that you have to have at least 5,000 residents before you can declare yourself

578
00:52:47,230 --> 00:52:51,010
as a home rule city and once you do that you adopt a charter. The City of

579
00:52:51,010 --> 00:52:55,710
Canfield residents did that in December 6th of, sorry, December 5th of

580
00:52:55,710 --> 00:53:01,150
1968. So the Charter for the City of Canfield has been in place since

581
00:53:02,170 --> 00:53:25,810
The charter lays out a numerous number of things, basically in the 12 sections describing the form of government, which is a council manager form of government, the powers and duties of the city council, the mayor, the organization of the administration branch, the civil service, taxation, finance, qualifications for office, and the various other general provisions that you find in any of the services that the city of Canfield provides our residents.

582
00:53:25,810 --> 00:53:35,170
It also discusses the requirements of the open meetings, public information laws as well as the charter review process.

583
00:53:36,030 --> 00:53:46,850
So that leads to sort of the next question is with charter amendments, again like the Constitution or like with any document or agreement, there is the ability to amend the charter.

584
00:53:47,350 --> 00:53:52,890
So there are currently three ways that charter amendments can be proposed in the city of Canfield.

585
00:53:52,890 --> 00:53:57,870
The first one being by ordinance passed by a majority of city council members at any time.

586
00:53:58,310 --> 00:54:02,970
So if council wants to amend the city charter, they take a vote.

587
00:54:03,330 --> 00:54:06,350
If it passes, that charter amendments get placed on the ballot.

588
00:54:07,150 --> 00:54:14,590
The second one is the charter review commission, which I believe is typically the most common way that charter amendments are proposed in the city of Canfield.

589
00:54:15,050 --> 00:54:20,010
So from the outset of the charter review commission, the city charter itself back in 1968,

590
00:54:20,010 --> 00:54:22,830
It laid out the parameters of the Charter Review Commission.

591
00:54:23,470 --> 00:54:24,570
They meet every five years.

592
00:54:25,230 --> 00:54:27,690
There are five members appointed by city council,

593
00:54:28,230 --> 00:54:32,450
and they basically have six months when they're appointed

594
00:54:32,450 --> 00:54:36,890
to go through the city charter line by line with our city law director.

595
00:54:37,530 --> 00:54:41,250
And then through those open meetings to the public, work sessions,

596
00:54:41,770 --> 00:54:45,770
they come up with any recommended alterations, revisions,

597
00:54:46,130 --> 00:54:48,550
or amendments to our city charter.

598
00:54:49,590 --> 00:54:51,630
They submit those recommendations to council.

599
00:54:52,150 --> 00:54:57,390
Council looks at it, determines how many, if any, that they want to propose to put on

600
00:54:57,390 --> 00:55:03,170
the ballot for the next election, which is covered under Article 18, Section 9 of the

601
00:55:03,170 --> 00:55:03,870
Ohio Constitution.

602
00:55:05,370 --> 00:55:06,790
The third way is by petition.

603
00:55:07,470 --> 00:55:12,550
And so that petition requires that 10% of the electorates from the last municipal

604
00:55:12,550 --> 00:55:15,570
election sign a petition proposing charter amendments.

605
00:55:16,430 --> 00:55:22,570
So if you look at the November 2019 election, there were 1,684 people who voted in the municipal

606
00:55:22,570 --> 00:55:22,970
election.

607
00:55:23,610 --> 00:55:30,310
So Charter Amendment requires 165 signatures of registered voters in the city of Canfield.

608
00:55:31,610 --> 00:55:33,350
Who can propose Charter Amendments?

609
00:55:34,010 --> 00:55:34,230
Anybody?

610
00:55:35,290 --> 00:55:36,990
Anyone can propose a Charter Amendment.

611
00:55:37,690 --> 00:55:40,070
They do not have to be a resident of the city of Canfield.

612
00:55:40,490 --> 00:55:42,430
They don't even have to be a resident of the state of Ohio.

613
00:55:44,070 --> 00:55:48,930
So and then what can be proposed as a charter amendment anything our law

614
00:55:48,930 --> 00:55:55,050
director go gives a good example of if a charter member was proposed that for

615
00:55:55,050 --> 00:56:01,130
every council meeting everybody must ride in a donkey and take a shot whiskey the

616
00:56:01,130 --> 00:56:04,470
charter amendment if it had a hundred sixty five signatures it would go on

617
00:56:04,470 --> 00:56:08,290
the ballot if the majority of us and said yes that's a good idea that would

618
00:56:08,290 --> 00:56:11,370
be written into our charter and then you would have very very interesting

619
00:56:13,150 --> 00:56:17,230
And another question is, all the due charter amendments always have to appear on a ballot.

620
00:56:17,330 --> 00:56:18,030
And the answer is yes.

621
00:56:18,470 --> 00:56:23,530
So whether it's initiated by any of those three means, they always have to go to the vote.

622
00:56:24,010 --> 00:56:24,670
Yes, sir.

623
00:56:25,350 --> 00:56:29,070
They have to meet the requirements of the charter before they go down.

624
00:56:29,550 --> 00:56:32,770
Or the number of petitioners signing.

625
00:56:33,150 --> 00:56:33,470
Correct.

626
00:56:33,950 --> 00:56:41,350
So they have to meet the restrictions or the requirements of Article 18 sections.

627
00:56:41,350 --> 00:56:46,850
9 of the Ohio Constitution. So if they meet all of the status order requirements and again

628
00:56:47,430 --> 00:56:52,350
what we do is, and we'll get into it, there's a process of verifying signatures, how many

629
00:56:52,350 --> 00:56:57,710
signatures are needed, and then those are placed on the ballot. So when was the last

630
00:56:57,710 --> 00:57:02,030
Charter Amendment? The last one was done in November of 2018, which I believe one

631
00:57:02,030 --> 00:57:05,590
of the candidates for Mayors spoke about. So the Charter Review Commission met in

632
00:57:05,590 --> 00:57:08,370
in 2018 and recommended four charter amendments.

633
00:57:09,250 --> 00:57:10,850
Recommended those to city council.

634
00:57:11,270 --> 00:57:13,730
City council looked at those and accepted two

635
00:57:13,730 --> 00:57:16,470
of those charter amendments to be placed in the 2018 ballot.

636
00:57:17,090 --> 00:57:20,550
One was to amend section 3.01 of the charter

637
00:57:20,550 --> 00:57:23,290
regarding the terms of council that previously

638
00:57:23,290 --> 00:57:25,330
had been changed from four year terms,

639
00:57:25,630 --> 00:57:28,670
which they were since the installation of the charter

640
00:57:28,670 --> 00:57:32,490
in 1968 until I believe 2013 or 2014

641
00:57:32,490 --> 00:57:34,690
through petition and on a ballot

642
00:57:34,690 --> 00:57:37,270
but it was passed to change those terms to two.

643
00:57:38,010 --> 00:57:41,610
So in 2018, that measure was put on the ballot once again

644
00:57:41,950 --> 00:57:44,370
through the process of the Charter Review Commission,

645
00:57:44,550 --> 00:57:46,890
excuse me, and then the second one,

646
00:57:46,910 --> 00:57:49,830
another dealing with section 3.01,

647
00:57:50,190 --> 00:57:52,390
which was placing the term limits

648
00:57:52,390 --> 00:57:55,590
of four consecutive terms for council members.

649
00:57:56,110 --> 00:57:59,070
Both those items were placed on the ballot in 2018,

650
00:57:59,350 --> 00:58:01,050
passed by the Canfield voters.

651
00:58:01,050 --> 00:58:10,650
So those amendments became written into the City Charter and again undid or added new sections to whatever wasn't currently written into the City Charter.

652
00:58:12,970 --> 00:58:18,070
Questions regarding this year's amendments, how were these Charter amendments proposed?

653
00:58:18,590 --> 00:58:19,670
They were proposed by petition.

654
00:58:20,210 --> 00:58:28,290
So 10% of the electors from the last municipal election, 165 signatures, 165 registered voters in the city of Canfield,

655
00:58:28,290 --> 00:58:34,530
signed a petition in initiating the three proposed charter amendments. So there's a

656
00:58:34,530 --> 00:58:39,050
petition process. So every petition or every proposed charter amendment must

657
00:58:39,050 --> 00:58:44,730
meet the requirements from the Secretary of State. There's a there's a form 6B.

658
00:58:45,210 --> 00:58:50,890
It requires basically a statutory request to the governing body, the

659
00:58:50,890 --> 00:58:54,490
description of what the proposed amendments going to be, designation of

660
00:58:54,490 --> 00:58:56,150
of persons serving as the committee

661
00:58:56,670 --> 00:58:58,290
to represent the petitioners.

662
00:58:59,070 --> 00:59:01,810
Obviously the signature pages of gathering those signatures

663
00:59:01,810 --> 00:59:03,870
and then the circulator statement of the person

664
00:59:03,870 --> 00:59:07,510
that actually witnesses the signing of those petitions

665
00:59:07,510 --> 00:59:08,450
from each of the residents.

666
00:59:09,890 --> 00:59:14,730
Again, that process, once those signatures are gathered,

667
00:59:15,070 --> 00:59:16,830
it is submitted to the governing authority.

668
00:59:17,610 --> 00:59:19,890
The county then verifies that we hold them

669
00:59:19,890 --> 00:59:22,790
for statutory 10 days to allow for public inspection.

670
00:59:22,790 --> 00:59:25,510
We then send that to my own County Board of Elections.

671
00:59:25,910 --> 00:59:28,230
They verify the valid number of signatures.

672
00:59:29,130 --> 00:59:31,550
Once that's done, it goes to city council.

673
00:59:31,730 --> 00:59:33,350
And again, following procedures laid out

674
00:59:33,350 --> 00:59:36,470
in Article 18, Section 9 of the Ohio Constitution,

675
00:59:36,990 --> 00:59:38,830
city council must pass those ordinances,

676
00:59:39,210 --> 00:59:41,290
placing those proposed charter amendments on the ballot.

677
00:59:42,630 --> 00:59:45,950
As I alluded to, so these 20.1 charter amendments,

678
00:59:46,590 --> 00:59:48,490
the initiator of said charter amendments

679
00:59:48,490 --> 00:59:51,370
is an individual out of Nashville, Tennessee.

680
00:59:51,370 --> 00:59:59,490
He approached City Council back in June to indicate that his organization was going to

681
00:59:59,490 --> 00:59:59,950
initiate the

682
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:05,600
These charter amendments in the city of Canfield. The committee that was representing the petitioners,

683
01:00:05,680 --> 01:00:11,900
we have one Canfield resident and then one that is an Ellsworth Township resident. And

684
01:00:11,900 --> 01:00:17,020
then the circulator of these petitions was a Mr. Chris Hughes out of Columbus, Ohio. So

685
01:00:17,020 --> 01:00:22,400
again, kind of going back to some of the questions, you can see it doesn't have to

686
01:00:22,400 --> 01:00:26,440
be a citizen that wants to initiate change in the city of Canfield. It doesn't have

687
01:00:26,440 --> 01:00:27,320
have to be a state resident.

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01:00:27,840 --> 01:00:31,060
It could be anybody proposing anything at any time.

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01:00:33,800 --> 01:00:35,860
So again, just to walk everybody through the timeline,

690
01:00:36,140 --> 01:00:39,300
June 2nd, Mr. Brooks approached the city of Canfield

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01:00:39,300 --> 01:00:41,680
initiating the proposed charter amendment

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01:00:41,680 --> 01:00:43,240
for section 301.

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01:00:43,820 --> 01:00:46,540
Later that month in June, in discussions

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01:00:46,540 --> 01:00:49,520
with our law director, asked for advisement

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01:00:49,520 --> 01:00:52,580
on any legal or technical issues proposed

696
01:00:52,580 --> 01:00:54,320
with two charter amendments.

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01:00:55,080 --> 01:00:57,980
Then during the week of August 9th through the 16th,

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01:00:57,980 --> 01:01:00,960
Mr. Hughes circulated these petitions to the city of Canfield.

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01:01:02,000 --> 01:01:05,440
On August 18th, Mr. Brooks then returned back to the city

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01:01:05,440 --> 01:01:07,560
and initiated three charter petitions

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01:01:08,100 --> 01:01:09,360
that he submitted to the city.

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01:01:10,180 --> 01:01:12,480
Like I said, we held down for the statutory 10 days

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01:01:12,480 --> 01:01:14,800
and then sent them for the County Board of Elections

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01:01:14,800 --> 01:01:17,520
for verifying those signatures.

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01:01:18,440 --> 01:01:21,960
Once that process was done, on September 1st, 2021,

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01:01:22,440 --> 01:01:24,320
the city council passed ordinances placing

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01:01:24,320 --> 01:01:27,620
and proposed charter amendments on the November 2nd ballot.

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01:01:28,720 --> 01:01:31,280
Anybody that wants the details of that meeting

709
01:01:31,280 --> 01:01:32,680
and sort of some of the comments

710
01:01:32,680 --> 01:01:35,340
that were exposed during that evening,

711
01:01:36,120 --> 01:01:39,320
this September 1st, 2021, council meeting is online.

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01:01:40,440 --> 01:01:43,200
Go to canfield.gov, go to live stream council meetings,

713
01:01:43,380 --> 01:01:45,980
click on the date and you can watch the full meeting.

714
01:01:46,380 --> 01:01:48,060
So you can really understand, I guess,

715
01:01:48,160 --> 01:01:53,400
some of the background as far as the specific charter amendments.

716
01:01:54,800 --> 01:01:58,520
So first, you'll see, so to amend section 3.01,

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01:01:59,140 --> 01:02:02,140
which is years in council terms.

718
01:02:02,700 --> 01:02:04,900
So regarding the number in the term of council members,

719
01:02:05,460 --> 01:02:07,460
the term of council members to provide the council members

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01:02:07,460 --> 01:02:09,060
elected in the next general election,

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01:02:09,340 --> 01:02:12,280
which for city council that will be in November of 2023

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01:02:12,620 --> 01:02:15,640
for an office start date of January 1st, 2024,

723
01:02:16,460 --> 01:02:18,600
changing the council members terms

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01:02:18,600 --> 01:02:22,340
from that municipal election back to a two year term.

725
01:02:23,640 --> 01:02:29,740
Section, a new proposed section 5.08 discusses the process for the city manager to be recalled

726
01:02:29,740 --> 01:02:30,500
by the electors.

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01:02:31,260 --> 01:02:34,780
So the elector shall have the power to remove from office any city manager.

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01:02:35,320 --> 01:02:40,460
The procedure for the removal of office by, of the city manager shall follow the same

729
01:02:40,460 --> 01:02:45,160
procedure as in the case for the removal from office by recall election of any elected

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01:02:45,160 --> 01:02:47,040
official in the city of Canfield.

731
01:02:48,080 --> 01:02:53,160
As provided in Section 8.05 of the City of Canfield Charter.

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01:02:53,320 --> 01:02:57,320
So the city manager position is not currently elected, it is appointed by the governing

733
01:02:57,320 --> 01:02:59,380
body that is elected by the citizens.

734
01:02:59,900 --> 01:03:05,680
And that is the way that the City of Canfield started in 1968 and has functioned substantially

735
01:03:05,680 --> 01:03:08,880
since that point in time under the council manager form of government.

736
01:03:09,840 --> 01:03:12,400
So what does Section 8.05 say?

737
01:03:12,800 --> 01:03:13,900
So what are we talking here?

738
01:03:13,900 --> 01:03:20,820
So a petition of 25% of the total votes cast for the office of mayor in the last preceding

739
01:03:20,820 --> 01:03:24,500
missable election at which a mayor was elected.

740
01:03:24,940 --> 01:03:28,060
So this number will be updated after this year's election.

741
01:03:28,760 --> 01:03:35,560
However, going back, looking at last municipal election, the 25% would be 421 signatures.

742
01:03:35,560 --> 01:03:53,640
So anybody could petition in the City of Camfield if this was to pass that 421 signatures, which would be a substantial voting minority of voters in the City of Camfield could propose a city manager be recalled or placed on a ballot to be recalled.

743
01:03:53,980 --> 01:03:59,060
So then it would be left up to the voters to remove or retain the city manager of the section.

744
01:04:00,690 --> 01:04:08,090
Next, there is the new added section of 11.09, which is the restrictions on the use of municipal

745
01:04:08,090 --> 01:04:09,690
resources for improper purpose.

746
01:04:11,410 --> 01:04:16,150
Again, I'm not going to read verbatim, but again, it lays out no manager or employee

747
01:04:16,150 --> 01:04:20,910
of the municipality may use authorized, the use of funds, resources, including any

748
01:04:20,910 --> 01:04:25,630
staff time for the purposes of supporting opposing denomination of any elected candidate

749
01:04:25,630 --> 01:04:32,030
for the office, any levy initiative, referendum, Charter Amendment, or any petition to place

750
01:04:32,030 --> 01:04:36,650
before the electors, any initiative, referendum, recall or Charter Amendment, and then codifies

751
01:04:36,650 --> 01:04:37,890
a penalty for doing so.

752
01:04:38,510 --> 01:04:43,390
There are already various state laws that deal with the improper use of municipal resources

753
01:04:43,390 --> 01:04:47,810
that cover all employees within any organization in the state of Ohio.

754
01:04:48,390 --> 01:04:53,170
This particular Charter Amendment is only focused on the managerial employees of the

755
01:04:53,170 --> 01:04:53,390
city.

756
01:04:53,390 --> 01:05:02,630
So, again, I would just encourage everybody to look in, educate, inform yourself on these

757
01:05:02,630 --> 01:05:07,770
three proposed charter amendments, the next three slides, or just what you will see on

758
01:05:07,770 --> 01:05:08,670
the ballot in November.

759
01:05:08,990 --> 01:05:12,830
Like I said, there's 10 items, so there's going to be a lot of things on the ballot,

760
01:05:12,950 --> 01:05:16,710
there's going to be a lot of words, there's going to be a lot of reading.

761
01:05:17,090 --> 01:05:22,670
So, with any election, everybody should always have all of the information they need

762
01:05:22,670 --> 01:05:26,950
before they walk into that voting booth and you know punch the tag push the

763
01:05:26,950 --> 01:05:31,270
button whatever the case might be. So again it's first amendment will be

764
01:05:31,270 --> 01:05:35,590
section 3.01 which deals with city council terms. You'll have the question

765
01:05:35,590 --> 01:05:40,010
shall the city of Campfield charter be amended as proposed by the petition.

766
01:05:41,150 --> 01:05:45,310
Same thing with the second one adding the new section 5.08 which deals with

767
01:05:45,310 --> 01:05:49,450
the removal of the city manager shall the city of Campfield charter be

768
01:05:49,450 --> 01:05:55,450
amended as proposed by the petition. And then lastly again you'll see there is a

769
01:05:55,450 --> 01:06:00,070
lot of information that's contained in there but it basically deals with the

770
01:06:00,070 --> 01:06:04,150
restrictions on the use of municipal resources by managerial employees

771
01:06:04,150 --> 01:06:07,790
specifically dealing with the previously mentioned items.

772
01:06:10,000 --> 01:06:11,440
So lastly we

773
01:06:11,440 --> 01:06:17,340
have the other five items that are on the city of Campfield ballot for our

774
01:06:17,340 --> 01:06:25,040
voters. So you have both board educational board elections, the Canfield local school district.

775
01:06:25,540 --> 01:06:30,240
There is three candidates, three open positions. You'll see the names there, Mr. Nader Atway,

776
01:06:30,360 --> 01:06:36,340
Mr. Mack Campbell, and Mrs. Tracy Kinkade, the capital. All of those are current Canfield

777
01:06:36,340 --> 01:06:40,600
Board of Education members, so therefore they're the three running, the three incumbents.

778
01:06:41,860 --> 01:06:46,360
I don't believe there's writing candidates or how that works. Same thing with Mahoney

779
01:06:46,360 --> 01:06:50,600
County Educational Services Board. Vote for Mount Northern 3. You'll see three

780
01:06:50,600 --> 01:06:54,620
names on the ballot. You'll have three choices. Those will fill the three

781
01:06:54,620 --> 01:07:00,120
vacancies on that board. Finally, issue one from Mahoning County, which I

782
01:07:00,120 --> 01:07:05,920
mentioned earlier, it's proposed sales news tax of one quarter percent for the

783
01:07:05,920 --> 01:07:09,160
purpose of repair, maintenance, and improvement of roads, bridges, and other

784
01:07:09,160 --> 01:07:12,400
infrastructure located throughout Mahoning County and Townships

785
01:07:12,400 --> 01:07:17,180
municipalities. And I know that the County Commissioner's Office or the

786
01:07:17,180 --> 01:07:21,680
county engineers had similar type public informational forums that they provided

787
01:07:21,680 --> 01:07:25,900
information as it relates to what that money will go towards and how it will be

788
01:07:25,900 --> 01:07:29,740
utilized in terms of every section of Mahoney County what paving projects

789
01:07:29,740 --> 01:07:34,900
roads or bridges that may get repaired as a result of that. Issue two that you

790
01:07:34,900 --> 01:07:39,020
will see on the ballot from Mahoney County is a tax levy renewal of the

791
01:07:39,020 --> 01:07:44,020
Mahoney County Board of Development Disabilities. Again it's a renewal

792
01:07:44,020 --> 01:07:48,500
levy and then the first collection year to five year levy like I believe the two

793
01:07:48,500 --> 01:07:53,360
other public safety renewal levies are on the ballot and again you'll be able to

794
01:07:53,360 --> 01:08:00,360
vote for the tax levy renewal or against the tax later. And then lastly for

795
01:08:00,360 --> 01:08:05,820
specifically our precinct one residents so on your voter ID card or when you

796
01:08:05,820 --> 01:08:09,420
when you go to vote you see kind of your your precinct you should you

797
01:08:09,420 --> 01:08:14,760
You should know what precinct you're in, but if you're in precinct one, you will have the

798
01:08:14,760 --> 01:08:21,460
option for a local liquor option for beer and wine sales at Broad Street Diner LLC or

799
01:08:21,460 --> 01:08:22,880
doing business at Broad Street Diner.

800
01:08:23,420 --> 01:08:28,560
The applicant for a C1C2 liquor permit and they're engaged in the business of Broad

801
01:08:28,560 --> 01:08:33,440
Street Diner carryout at 464 South Broad Street in Camp Hill, Ohio.

802
01:08:33,660 --> 01:08:37,260
So again, you'll see that if you only, if you live in precinct one.

803
01:08:37,260 --> 01:08:41,640
So if you don't live in Precinct 1, you will see 9 items on the ballot, all of the previously

804
01:08:41,640 --> 01:08:42,580
discussed items.

805
01:08:42,720 --> 01:08:47,540
However, if you are in Precinct 1, you will have the one additional item to consider on

806
01:08:47,540 --> 01:08:48,360
the November ballot.

807
01:08:50,540 --> 01:08:55,460
So like I said, this was sort of the first of, hopefully, we want to do at least 3 public

808
01:08:55,460 --> 01:08:56,980
informational forums like this.

809
01:08:57,580 --> 01:09:02,620
If you know people that are interested in the information, this presentation will

810
01:09:02,620 --> 01:09:03,720
be posted on our website.

811
01:09:04,000 --> 01:09:05,600
It has been live streamed this evening.

812
01:09:05,600 --> 01:09:13,620
So, again, it will also be available for live streaming for anybody that wasn't able to attend tonight can rewatch it at their convenience, as well as the presentation.

813
01:09:14,580 --> 01:09:17,320
We'll have hopefully at least two more of these in November.

814
01:09:17,920 --> 01:09:23,280
We may change venues, change days and times to try to get as much reach as possible.

815
01:09:23,720 --> 01:09:31,360
Again, I think our job as city government is to educate our residents on what decisions they will be making that affects all of city government.

816
01:09:31,360 --> 01:09:32,720
You know, this year is a unique year.

817
01:09:32,860 --> 01:09:35,380
You're talking police and fire safety service.

818
01:09:35,540 --> 01:09:36,580
You're talking school boards.

819
01:09:37,020 --> 01:09:38,360
You're talking city council government

820
01:09:38,880 --> 01:09:40,560
and a couple of Macon and County issues.

821
01:09:40,800 --> 01:09:43,300
So I think this is a unique year

822
01:09:43,870 --> 01:09:46,040
that gives everybody the opportunity

823
01:09:46,040 --> 01:09:49,060
to engage themselves, fully understand

824
01:09:49,060 --> 01:09:51,180
what's happening in the city of Canfield

825
01:09:51,680 --> 01:09:53,980
and what certain things will do

826
01:09:53,980 --> 01:09:55,600
to impact the city of Canfield

827
01:09:55,600 --> 01:09:57,100
in the way we provide services

828
01:09:57,100 --> 01:10:00,100
and the way we operate in the city of Canfield.

829
01:10:00,820 --> 01:10:03,940
So with that, I'll allow council to make any comments

830
01:10:03,940 --> 01:10:04,740
they wanna make.

831
01:10:05,620 --> 01:10:08,500
After that, we can definitely entertain questions

832
01:10:08,500 --> 01:10:09,660
or comments from the audience.

833
01:10:10,140 --> 01:10:11,080
Okay, thanks, Wade.

834
01:10:13,960 --> 01:10:16,700
So, I'm gonna start with council comments first

835
01:10:16,700 --> 01:10:18,380
and then I'll open it up to residents

836
01:10:18,380 --> 01:10:20,200
if you have a question or a concern.

837
01:10:20,760 --> 01:10:22,140
Then I'll start with Mr. Tish.

838
01:10:23,840 --> 01:10:26,600
My comment has to do with the Charter.

839
01:10:27,580 --> 01:10:39,800
I happen to have a copy of the original charter which was passed by the electors November 5, 1968.

840
01:10:40,880 --> 01:10:50,880
However, in November 7, 1967, there was an election to place 15 members on a charter review commission

841
01:10:51,410 --> 01:10:55,020
to establish a charter in the city of Canterbury.

842
01:10:55,020 --> 01:10:58,560
Or, in essence, to decide what kind of government

843
01:10:58,560 --> 01:11:01,800
the city of Canfield was going to operate on here.

844
01:11:02,200 --> 01:11:05,000
Because at that point, Canfield was still a village.

845
01:11:06,040 --> 01:11:08,680
And with the growth in Canfield, it

846
01:11:08,680 --> 01:11:11,400
was going to get close to 5,000 population.

847
01:11:12,400 --> 01:11:14,540
At that point, the local government

848
01:11:14,960 --> 01:11:17,480
would have to make a decision as to whether they were

849
01:11:17,480 --> 01:11:23,240
going to become a charter or a charter village

850
01:11:23,240 --> 01:11:28,300
or Charter Municipal Corporation in Charter City, or whether they're going to be statutory.

851
01:11:29,260 --> 01:11:32,260
And the statutory form of government follows state law.

852
01:11:32,560 --> 01:11:33,360
That's fine and damning.

853
01:11:34,380 --> 01:11:41,760
In the Charter form of government, the local government gets choices in how they want to run their local government.

854
01:11:42,660 --> 01:11:48,800
And overall, these 15 learned people, all except two of them are now deceased,

855
01:11:50,720 --> 01:11:56,140
chose the chartered form of government and did a lot of research in doing that.

856
01:11:56,880 --> 01:12:06,940
They also thought that it was a great idea to have members of council serving four-year

857
01:12:06,940 --> 01:12:07,440
terms.

858
01:12:07,660 --> 01:12:13,040
And they would be staggered in four-year terms in that two members of council initially

859
01:12:13,040 --> 01:12:18,480
were being placed or would be elected for a two-year term and then two

860
01:12:18,480 --> 01:12:23,980
members of council would be elected for a four-year term and then subsequent to

861
01:12:23,980 --> 01:12:29,320
that all members would be recommended for or selected for a four-year term. So

862
01:12:29,320 --> 01:12:35,540
you had four-year terms each two years you had somebody else newly elected

863
01:12:35,540 --> 01:12:40,260
and proceeded in that way. The mayor was always elected for a four-year term

864
01:12:40,260 --> 01:12:49,180
So in essence, what you've had was three members of a five-member council being elected for a four-year term in one year.

865
01:12:49,580 --> 01:12:53,740
Two years later, you had two of those members elected for a four-year term.

866
01:12:53,840 --> 01:13:02,120
So you always had consistency in the terms of office and you had consistency on council of things that were going on.

867
01:13:02,640 --> 01:13:09,620
I think that they showed great wisdom in doing that and having carryover members of city council.

868
01:13:09,620 --> 01:13:16,780
continuing and the whole concept of the charter form of government as it was

869
01:13:16,780 --> 01:13:23,100
established at that time has been something that is adopted by many other

870
01:13:23,100 --> 01:13:30,000
cities throughout the country and has been a very professional way of running

871
01:13:30,000 --> 01:13:34,700
local government. You get away from the situation of having an election every

872
01:13:34,700 --> 01:13:41,680
two years of an individual's order to serve on city council so then you're

873
01:13:41,680 --> 01:13:46,780
always have the question of if in fact you have two-year terms who's going to be

874
01:13:46,780 --> 01:13:52,280
your boss next year how are things going to run if you're an employee and I was

875
01:13:52,280 --> 01:13:59,300
one because I served a city council when they had two-year terms I served on

876
01:13:59,300 --> 01:14:02,580
city council I served as an employee in the city when they have two-year

877
01:14:02,580 --> 01:14:04,360
your counselor, the discussion was,

878
01:14:04,820 --> 01:14:08,300
geez, do we need to support individual A or individual Y?

879
01:14:08,680 --> 01:14:11,660
He's saying that, you know, if I don't get elected,

880
01:14:12,080 --> 01:14:13,000
things are gonna change.

881
01:14:13,140 --> 01:14:17,340
Well, that always created a problem for me in my mind

882
01:14:17,340 --> 01:14:20,480
and for the couple of friends that I had

883
01:14:20,480 --> 01:14:21,520
that I was working with.

884
01:14:21,980 --> 01:14:25,440
And so the concept of the charter form of government

885
01:14:25,980 --> 01:14:29,080
seemed to be a very professional way

886
01:14:29,580 --> 01:14:31,680
of looking at government.

887
01:14:31,680 --> 01:14:38,600
It takes the politics out of it, it establishes a professional administrator with professional qualifications

888
01:14:38,600 --> 01:14:47,300
to make professional decisions and make professional financial decisions on behalf of everybody in the city

889
01:14:47,300 --> 01:14:58,340
and not just in the minds of individual A or individual B who may look at a specific sector of things that they want done

890
01:14:58,340 --> 01:14:59,740
and not the overall benefit.

891
01:15:00,540 --> 01:15:05,800
So I think any change from that, in my view, is a step backwards from the city council.

892
01:15:06,240 --> 01:15:12,120
And I would urge you to defeat every one of these items that are on for charter amendments for this year.

893
01:15:12,440 --> 01:15:21,720
The other thing that really bothered me, and I would recommend that we have a charter amendment with regard to how charter amendments can go on the ballot.

894
01:15:21,940 --> 01:15:27,560
In my view, I don't believe that anybody other than the city can feel to be able to propose a charter amendment.

895
01:15:27,560 --> 01:15:37,380
And I don't care what it is, I don't believe that a representative that represents a union

896
01:15:37,380 --> 01:15:42,180
or any other special organization that's not a resident city should not be able to put things

897
01:15:42,180 --> 01:15:43,160
on the agenda.

898
01:15:43,400 --> 01:15:51,080
I mean, what authority does somebody coming in from Timbuktu have to decide how we're

899
01:15:51,080 --> 01:15:52,000
going to run our local government?

900
01:15:52,520 --> 01:15:53,460
Chuck Tisha's opinion?

901
01:15:53,840 --> 01:15:54,420
My nickels work.

902
01:15:54,660 --> 01:15:54,960
Thank you.

903
01:15:57,240 --> 01:15:57,980
Mr. Nett?

904
01:16:00,260 --> 01:16:07,080
I wanted to clarify, you mentioned that we're going to have several more meetings in November.

905
01:16:07,660 --> 01:16:08,440
You met Octo.

906
01:16:08,600 --> 01:16:11,160
I'm sorry, we're leading out to the November elections.

907
01:16:11,560 --> 01:16:13,480
I think it's too late.

908
01:16:16,520 --> 01:16:23,220
I just want to thank everybody for coming and I think it's wonderful that people were involved in politics.

909
01:16:23,220 --> 01:16:27,100
And I think we're going in a great direction.

910
01:16:27,820 --> 01:16:29,380
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

911
01:16:30,620 --> 01:16:33,840
Yes, I'd also like to thank everybody for coming.

912
01:16:34,400 --> 01:16:37,460
I think we all realize we have a good police department,

913
01:16:37,660 --> 01:16:38,720
we have a good fire department.

914
01:16:39,220 --> 01:16:40,560
These are important renewals,

915
01:16:40,820 --> 01:16:42,760
and I think we need to vote yes for those.

916
01:16:44,040 --> 01:16:48,200
Also, I'm concerned about the charter amendments

917
01:16:48,200 --> 01:16:50,680
that were brought forth, as Mr. Tisch said,

918
01:16:50,680 --> 01:16:55,520
about outside people trying to tell the city how we should operate.

919
01:16:56,080 --> 01:17:01,080
So I would encourage you to vote no for those three that were proposed.

920
01:17:02,540 --> 01:17:03,440
Thank you, Mayor.

921
01:17:04,360 --> 01:17:05,060
Mr. McGrath.

922
01:17:05,640 --> 01:17:09,800
Well, I would like to say I first thank everyone for coming out.

923
01:17:10,480 --> 01:17:12,160
We do have a wonderful police department.

924
01:17:12,300 --> 01:17:17,800
We have a fantastic fire department and I wholeheartedly support the renewals of their levies.

925
01:17:17,800 --> 01:17:23,860
And I echo Mr. Titian in what he said and the way our charter is set up.

926
01:17:26,240 --> 01:17:31,700
It's set up in such a way that the people of our community run our community.

927
01:17:32,840 --> 01:17:41,080
And by their electing us to our positions, that's the only way that I feel that this city can keep moving forward.

928
01:17:41,580 --> 01:17:47,160
For term limiting, down to two years, I'm in my second year as city council.

929
01:17:47,160 --> 01:17:54,900
proposal, and I still have so much more to learn. I cannot say that I could be very effective

930
01:17:55,320 --> 01:18:02,880
if I did not have enough time to learn everything I need to learn in order to serve the people

931
01:18:02,880 --> 01:18:13,640
of our lovely city here. So I also disagree with the amendments and feel that they'll

932
01:18:13,640 --> 01:18:16,080
only be detrimental to our community.

933
01:18:17,380 --> 01:18:18,460
Thank you, Mr. McBrother.

934
01:18:19,400 --> 01:18:21,000
I have a few comments.

935
01:18:22,200 --> 01:18:27,320
First of all, on term limits, we have the right as citizens,

936
01:18:27,660 --> 01:18:32,580
if one of us is not doing our job that come election time,

937
01:18:32,820 --> 01:18:35,100
you pull the trigger and you get rid of us.

938
01:18:35,600 --> 01:18:40,920
So you have that right by enacting term limits.

939
01:18:40,920 --> 01:18:43,760
you actually take that right away from you.

940
01:18:44,220 --> 01:18:45,300
Now I'll give you an example.

941
01:18:45,420 --> 01:18:49,480
I sat on this council and I came in with Mr. Andy Strabola.

942
01:18:49,840 --> 01:18:51,560
I don't know if you know Andy or not.

943
01:18:51,940 --> 01:18:54,840
One of the smartest men that I've ever been around.

944
01:18:55,060 --> 01:18:57,360
He taught me how to read a financial statement

945
01:18:57,360 --> 01:19:04,440
and how to work with non-profit government affairs, financial.

946
01:19:05,480 --> 01:19:09,360
And Andy Rian, a steel company, he was a CFO.

947
01:19:09,360 --> 01:19:14,240
it probably got paid a half a million dollars or more and we're paying them a

948
01:19:14,240 --> 01:19:16,820
hundred dollars a meeting or two hundred dollars a meeting I don't even know

949
01:19:16,820 --> 01:19:22,460
what we get paid but but we don't we don't have health benefits here we

950
01:19:22,460 --> 01:19:30,280
don't have any other perks I don't get out of speeding tickets and so there's

951
01:19:30,280 --> 01:19:35,440
no there's no other reason that these gentlemen are up here and I'm up here

952
01:19:35,440 --> 01:19:42,280
other than we want to serve the city and do right and move it forward. And so by

953
01:19:42,280 --> 01:19:48,580
any kind of a term limit, you're taking away one of your rights because we could

954
01:19:48,580 --> 01:19:53,260
have kept the Indy on council but we had to let him go because he turned out

955
01:19:53,260 --> 01:20:01,360
and that's a shame. So think about that, just think about that. And you

956
01:20:01,360 --> 01:20:10,320
You know, if we were in making some exorbitant amount of profit up here or some gaining, some kind of a gain, I would agree with you.

957
01:20:10,640 --> 01:20:13,320
Maybe there should be, but really think about that.

958
01:20:14,680 --> 01:20:24,420
The fire district, I've been, ever since I've been on this council and even before I was on, I sat on the fire board.

959
01:20:24,740 --> 01:20:28,480
I've worked with Chief Hutchinson for many years.

960
01:20:28,480 --> 01:20:34,720
and we've had a balanced budget every year and every year Hutch comes in below

961
01:20:34,720 --> 01:20:40,460
his budget and he's very frugal with our money and from what he's asking for

962
01:20:40,460 --> 01:20:45,380
this renewal I please I would encourage you to support him we've done a

963
01:20:45,380 --> 01:20:51,300
wonderful job there it was Hutch Chief Hutchison that brought in the idea for

964
01:20:51,300 --> 01:20:56,000
the ambulance we needed ambulance there was several board members that were

965
01:20:56,000 --> 01:21:03,500
against it and but Chief Hutchison showed us that hey this need is real and

966
01:21:03,500 --> 01:21:11,840
God darn it we've proved that we run a lot of EMT calls and if you ever get a

967
01:21:11,840 --> 01:21:16,540
bill from if you're a citizen of the city can't feel and you get a bill from

968
01:21:16,540 --> 01:21:21,800
the fire district rip it up because we will look at your insurance company

969
01:21:21,800 --> 01:21:25,940
we'll take money from your insurance company but you've already paid taxes

970
01:21:25,940 --> 01:21:28,760
because we will not take a dime from you.

971
01:21:29,240 --> 01:21:33,080
So that's a service that we're providing to the citizens.

972
01:21:33,680 --> 01:21:35,760
And so kudos to the fire district chief,

973
01:21:36,160 --> 01:21:37,200
keep doing that job.

974
01:21:38,960 --> 01:21:42,240
Chief Kalerchi, I walk down my street

975
01:21:42,600 --> 01:21:44,600
and I have no fear, nothing.

976
01:21:45,020 --> 01:21:46,520
And I thank you for that.

977
01:21:47,160 --> 01:21:50,380
I live in a city that I'm blessed,

978
01:21:50,960 --> 01:21:54,320
that the people, the safety

979
01:21:57,080 --> 01:22:02,200
And just the environment that we have here in this city, we have to pay for that.

980
01:22:02,560 --> 01:22:07,840
And that's okay. I'm alright with that. And I'm willing to pay for it.

981
01:22:08,160 --> 01:22:10,940
And I'm here to say I'm going to support the police, Levy.

982
01:22:11,760 --> 01:22:16,420
And I'm encouraging everybody to do so. And Chief, keep up the good work.

983
01:22:18,260 --> 01:22:25,120
Chief didn't, I don't know, he doesn't tout this, but every one of our officers is college educated.

984
01:22:26,040 --> 01:22:33,320
I don't know if that resonates, you know, some kind of extra safety services or whatever,

985
01:22:33,540 --> 01:22:42,280
but it tells me that these people that we have employed here are dedicated people of their profession.

986
01:22:42,280 --> 01:22:49,700
And so they're not only a police officer, but they're educated people and can make decisions.

987
01:22:50,900 --> 01:22:55,520
And Chief, I'm going to support you and I hope that the community supports you.

988
01:22:57,500 --> 01:23:05,280
These Charter Amendments, they came from an outside organization, every one of them.

989
01:23:06,180 --> 01:23:13,480
In my personal opinion, this is not my colleague opinion, but I believe it was

990
01:23:13,480 --> 01:23:21,140
invidictive to get back at Wade for negotiating with this union. And Wade, I

991
01:23:21,140 --> 01:23:27,520
applaud you for protecting our city, our assets, and our ability to run this city.

992
01:23:27,960 --> 01:23:34,200
Because Wade didn't give in and was didn't give in to the demands that

993
01:23:34,200 --> 01:23:39,780
union wanted well here we go and so now we got these three charter amendments on

994
01:23:39,780 --> 01:23:48,180
our ballot that can change our charter as Mr. Tish alluded to and puts Wade the

995
01:23:48,180 --> 01:23:57,440
number one the 508 we can recall a city manager so okay you didn't get the

996
01:23:57,440 --> 01:24:01,820
garage variance that you wanted or you got it you didn't get something that

997
01:24:03,180 --> 01:24:09,240
petitioned for and so now vindictively you can go out and get signatures and put

998
01:24:09,240 --> 01:24:13,540
weight on a ballot and get rid of them. That isn't what our Charter wanted it to

999
01:24:13,540 --> 01:24:18,920
do. The Charter wanted the power to be with these people right here to hire and

1000
01:24:18,920 --> 01:24:25,700
fire that guy and keep him out of the political arena. And so by voting yes

1001
01:24:25,700 --> 01:24:31,540
for this amendment change that's exactly what you'll do. You'll put him in a

1002
01:24:31,540 --> 01:24:35,700
political seat, and then he'll make decisions based on that.

1003
01:24:36,320 --> 01:24:38,700
Let's keep our charter, our charter,

1004
01:24:38,840 --> 01:24:40,620
let's keep Canfield, Canfield dying.

1005
01:24:44,990 --> 01:24:48,450
301 is term limits, I addressed that already.

1006
01:24:49,690 --> 01:24:54,030
1109, we already have state laws that regulate this.

1007
01:24:54,430 --> 01:24:58,490
This is nothing more than, again,

1008
01:24:58,490 --> 01:25:06,550
of indicative somebody, you know, that's not real happy with the way the negotiations went

1009
01:25:06,550 --> 01:25:09,750
and put this amendment on here.

1010
01:25:10,030 --> 01:25:14,290
So on all three charter amendments, please vote no.

1011
01:25:16,640 --> 01:25:23,380
The other thing, and I said this at the last council meeting, please get informed,

1012
01:25:24,060 --> 01:25:28,600
get educated, don't take, don't go to the hairdresser

1013
01:25:28,600 --> 01:25:33,560
and take the word of the guy sitting in the next booth or whatever, please read,

1014
01:25:34,020 --> 01:25:42,920
understand what it is that we're doing here. A couple colleagues of mine said,

1015
01:25:43,580 --> 01:25:50,620
well, I signed that. I signed his petition. Well, why did you sign it? And they

1016
01:25:50,620 --> 01:25:55,040
didn't read it. And then later on they said, well, I shouldn't have done that.

1017
01:25:55,040 --> 01:25:56,100
I shouldn't assign that.

1018
01:25:57,440 --> 01:26:02,080
Please get informed, understand where,

1019
01:26:02,300 --> 01:26:05,120
when you go into that booth, what you're voting for.

1020
01:26:05,940 --> 01:26:07,160
That's all I'm asking.

1021
01:26:12,200 --> 01:26:13,080
Take a ball.

1022
01:26:14,520 --> 01:26:17,200
See you on the 25th, September 25th.

1023
01:26:17,220 --> 01:26:18,340
This is a great thing.

1024
01:26:18,440 --> 01:26:21,440
I've kind of been learning the game and understanding it

1025
01:26:21,440 --> 01:26:25,120
and it's, aren't Richard, if you're still here.

1026
01:26:27,880 --> 01:26:32,920
Great, great things are happening with that, so hope to see everyone on the 25th.

1027
01:26:33,160 --> 01:26:37,880
And with that, I'm going to open it up to any comments that residents may have.

1028
01:26:38,300 --> 01:26:44,060
And for the record, when you come up to the podium, state your name and address for the record, please.

1029
01:26:45,520 --> 01:26:46,480
Mr. McKiea.

1030
01:26:48,780 --> 01:26:49,260
Hi,

1031
01:27:03,660 --> 01:27:05,260
Frank McKiea, 220 Glenview.

1032
01:27:06,720 --> 01:27:12,720
I was here when the two-year term limits were passed, and I can tell you that each council

1033
01:27:12,720 --> 01:27:16,940
person said the exact same thing they said tonight.

1034
01:27:17,280 --> 01:27:23,020
We're opposed to it, but it passed, so much for being in touch.

1035
01:27:23,940 --> 01:27:30,180
Then a couple years ago, we had the Charter Review Commission made up of people who these

1036
01:27:30,180 --> 01:27:35,720
people appointed decide we're going to have four-year terms in that past.

1037
01:27:35,720 --> 01:27:42,060
However, nobody has discussed the fact that each of these persons could be in office for

1038
01:27:42,060 --> 01:27:43,200
16 years.

1039
01:27:44,080 --> 01:27:46,320
How do you justify 16 years?

1040
01:27:49,020 --> 01:27:51,700
That's unbelievable as far as I'm concerned.

1041
01:27:52,420 --> 01:27:56,920
So I encourage everybody to pass the two-year term limits.

1042
01:27:57,340 --> 01:28:01,160
16 years is the Achilles heel of this amendment.

1043
01:28:02,460 --> 01:28:03,120
All right.

1044
01:28:03,820 --> 01:28:04,760
going on.

1045
01:28:06,820 --> 01:28:16,620
About two years ago, in September, at a school board meeting, there was an incident

1046
01:28:16,620 --> 01:28:25,140
at the school where a student had threatened to shoot another student. And at the school

1047
01:28:25,140 --> 01:28:31,620
board meeting in September, our safety force has made a presentation that was a bombshell.

1048
01:28:39,260 --> 01:28:39,680
Okay.

1049
01:28:49,730 --> 01:28:51,110
That's all I have to say. Thank you.

1050
01:28:51,370 --> 01:28:51,570
Thank

1051
01:28:57,140 --> 01:29:00,100
you. Open it up. Residents, any comments, questions?

1052
01:29:01,020 --> 01:29:01,440
Ashley,

1053
01:29:08,790 --> 01:29:10,830
just for the record, please name and address it.

1054
01:29:13,050 --> 01:29:14,990
Kim Hooper, 95 Russo Drive.

1055
01:29:15,910 --> 01:29:17,970
I just have a question about the charter review.

1056
01:29:18,930 --> 01:29:23,090
First of all, I know people that were on the charter review that were appointed by our council,

1057
01:29:23,310 --> 01:29:25,970
and they had no idea what they were looking at.

1058
01:29:25,970 --> 01:29:31,430
They went through each and every item on there and they're like, yeah, they did not care about it

1059
01:29:31,430 --> 01:29:35,730
So whoever was appointed did not take it seriously and

1060
01:29:37,170 --> 01:29:43,650
There's there's no way to really review it if people are not taking it seriously better appointed from the council

1061
01:29:46,110 --> 01:29:50,930
Because they specifically said to me that they had no idea what they were looking at that

1062
01:29:50,930 --> 01:29:54,930
They did not know what they were reviewing and they just went right through it. Yeah, sounds good

1063
01:29:54,930 --> 01:29:59,970
They had no idea what they were doing and I'm not going to say the names of the people

1064
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:05,720
People that were appointed. But I spoke to these people and they were like, wow, I had no idea. No clue.

1065
01:30:06,180 --> 01:30:12,980
They didn't even know really what it was for. So to have an outside source come in and put things,

1066
01:30:13,160 --> 01:30:17,860
maybe it takes somebody to do that because a lot of people just kind of walk around and, oh, it's fine.

1067
01:30:18,340 --> 01:30:24,140
It's fine. Another thing, the last thing that was on the, for the charter review,

1068
01:30:24,140 --> 01:30:32,400
Was there a specific situation that people like for the management like waste what was that for for the last one?

1069
01:30:33,340 --> 01:30:37,860
for the management using their time or you would have to speak to the

1070
01:30:38,600 --> 01:30:44,320
The one that we're voting on so so is there information the representatives

1071
01:30:44,320 --> 01:30:50,400
of the petitioners as to what warranted what they believed was a Charter Amendment.

1072
01:30:50,880 --> 01:30:56,240
Okay, so there was no, like, leading up to any of the Charter Amendments.

1073
01:30:56,360 --> 01:31:00,660
There were no situations that occurred for them to bring that up?

1074
01:31:01,040 --> 01:31:04,320
I can't speak to why they initiated the Charter Amendments.

1075
01:31:04,760 --> 01:31:06,020
Okay, that's all.

1076
01:31:08,230 --> 01:31:16,830
I, and I, you know, I respectfully disagree with you because they had this Charter Review

1077
01:31:17,530 --> 01:31:23,630
Commission, they had a structured meeting and so they sat in a room and had a meeting.

1078
01:31:23,870 --> 01:31:24,610
With the city attorney?

1079
01:31:24,830 --> 01:31:31,950
With the city attorney and they, I can't believe that they would say they didn't

1080
01:31:31,950 --> 01:31:37,710
know what the heck they were doing, I just, I find that hard to believe, but, yes

1081
01:31:37,710 --> 01:31:39,730
from the record, please,

1082
01:31:42,160 --> 01:31:43,780
address, and...

1083
01:31:43,780 --> 01:31:46,500
General Lewis, 412 South Bratcliffe.

1084
01:31:48,420 --> 01:31:50,100
The, I was here when they,

1085
01:31:50,320 --> 01:31:53,100
he petitioned for the term limits last time

1086
01:31:53,660 --> 01:31:56,440
and the charter that you read,

1087
01:31:57,280 --> 01:31:59,120
that isn't the way it is anymore.

1088
01:31:59,600 --> 01:32:02,060
So somewhere along the line, it changed.

1089
01:32:02,700 --> 01:32:05,460
And when we were talking about term limits before,

1090
01:32:06,700 --> 01:32:08,860
the room agreed one way

1091
01:32:08,860 --> 01:32:13,480
and the council agreed another way and you said let's have put our faith in the

1092
01:32:13,480 --> 01:32:19,080
people and so I still say that that is exactly where our faith should be in in

1093
01:32:19,080 --> 01:32:23,580
the people and I think that some of your comments were biased to try to sway

1094
01:32:23,580 --> 01:32:28,360
people in a certain way and I get that I understand that but not just you

1095
01:32:28,360 --> 01:32:34,340
everybody and I understand that and but I still believe that we have a voice

1096
01:32:34,340 --> 01:32:37,980
and that we know what we want to do and we know what we can do with our

1097
01:32:37,980 --> 01:32:42,880
money and with our town and it is a good town and nobody has to fluff it up or

1098
01:32:42,880 --> 01:32:47,000
fluff it down. It doesn't matter. It can talk for itself and I think that all the

1099
01:32:47,000 --> 01:32:51,080
people should speak at the ballots on their own and do what they know is

1100
01:32:51,080 --> 01:32:55,960
right and I do think that, like Frank said, that certain term limits should

1101
01:32:55,960 --> 01:32:59,100
apply and I don't think 16 years is, I think that's way too long.

1102
01:32:59,420 --> 01:33:03,940
Do you agree though that if we're not doing our job to vote us out?

1103
01:33:03,940 --> 01:33:10,380
So it's not necessarily a 16-year stay if you don't vote us back in.

1104
01:33:11,520 --> 01:33:14,680
Then, you know, do anything.

1105
01:33:16,080 --> 01:33:18,460
Get elected, get it reelected, you know?

1106
01:33:19,060 --> 01:33:21,460
So I did have a question, too, with the charter.

1107
01:33:22,980 --> 01:33:24,700
Who is human resources?

1108
01:33:25,660 --> 01:33:26,980
HR, human resources.

1109
01:33:28,600 --> 01:33:30,460
For the city, you mean?

1110
01:33:30,520 --> 01:33:30,680
Yeah.

1111
01:33:34,400 --> 01:33:43,800
City manager? You're a human resource. So if somebody wants to complain, they go to you about you?

1112
01:33:44,600 --> 01:33:49,420
Well, if it complains about me, they would have a councilor or a city manager.

1113
01:33:50,180 --> 01:33:53,760
And so human resources, they do the hiring, right?

1114
01:33:53,760 --> 01:33:57,500
City manager, hire and fire all employees in the city.

1115
01:33:57,920 --> 01:33:59,980
If you have a complaint about the city manager,

1116
01:34:00,200 --> 01:34:01,900
come to them and talk to members of council.

1117
01:34:02,420 --> 01:34:04,400
We have the ability to hire and fire the manager.

1118
01:34:04,860 --> 01:34:09,740
Okay, so would that be why somebody put a charter on

1119
01:34:09,740 --> 01:34:13,680
that they didn't feel that they could speak freely

1120
01:34:13,680 --> 01:34:14,260
or something?

1121
01:34:14,460 --> 01:34:14,940
I don't know.

1122
01:34:15,200 --> 01:34:16,580
I wasn't here during those meetings,

1123
01:34:16,740 --> 01:34:19,380
but if he's the city manager and HR,

1124
01:34:19,940 --> 01:34:22,040
there seems to be a conflict there somewhere.

1125
01:34:22,040 --> 01:34:25,920
I think the conflict is that the union didn't get their way with the contract in there.

1126
01:34:26,420 --> 01:34:30,640
So now their repercussion is they're going to try to get to the city manager.

1127
01:34:30,640 --> 01:34:35,500
That's arguable, but so we'll let the people decide on that.

1128
01:34:35,700 --> 01:34:38,440
Collective bargaining is a collective bargaining process, and

1129
01:34:38,440 --> 01:34:41,660
there's a process to go through and reach resolution.

1130
01:34:41,960 --> 01:34:44,500
The city manager doesn't have ultimate control of that.

1131
01:34:44,680 --> 01:34:48,520
You've got boards that they go to if the agreement has not worked out,

1132
01:34:48,700 --> 01:34:49,880
and the board makes a determination.

1133
01:34:50,960 --> 01:34:53,520
And who did the people have to talk to about that?

1134
01:34:53,660 --> 01:34:55,320
The people don't have anybody to talk to.

1135
01:34:55,400 --> 01:34:58,680
This is a process, as far as the employees of the city,

1136
01:34:59,040 --> 01:35:01,880
they are bargaining with the city manager.

1137
01:35:02,140 --> 01:35:02,400
Okay.

1138
01:35:02,740 --> 01:35:03,600
And they...

1139
01:35:03,600 --> 01:35:05,200
So why did Union guy come in?

1140
01:35:05,640 --> 01:35:05,900
Why?

1141
01:35:06,260 --> 01:35:09,300
He is the employees representative.

1142
01:35:10,020 --> 01:35:12,080
Okay, so I'm giving you his messages.

1143
01:35:12,840 --> 01:35:16,260
So there's Union rep that represents the employees

1144
01:35:16,260 --> 01:35:17,100
and he does.

1145
01:35:17,100 --> 01:35:17,220
Yes.

1146
01:35:17,960 --> 01:35:24,540
The union representative is bargaining on behalf of the employees of the city.

1147
01:35:24,800 --> 01:35:30,160
He is bargaining with the city manager, who is city council's representative.

1148
01:35:30,560 --> 01:35:30,800
Right.

1149
01:35:31,040 --> 01:35:36,120
If they can't reach agreement, they then go to an arbitration board in the state of

1150
01:35:36,120 --> 01:35:36,380
Ohio.

1151
01:35:36,780 --> 01:35:37,000
Okay.

1152
01:35:37,100 --> 01:35:39,060
The arbitration board makes a determination.

1153
01:35:39,560 --> 01:35:45,720
But you also said he's in charge of the employees, so the employees, if they can't go to him,

1154
01:35:45,720 --> 01:35:51,880
they got to a union rep. That's great. Okay, so then I'm like oh for them let

1155
01:35:51,880 --> 01:36:00,460
them have their union rep. They have their union rep. They are arguing over and I'm not

1156
01:36:00,460 --> 01:36:04,920
sure what all the issues are. They're arguing over whether or not they have to

1157
01:36:04,920 --> 01:36:08,300
come to work on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday or whether they can come

1158
01:36:08,300 --> 01:36:12,600
on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Okay. And if they can't reach

1159
01:36:12,600 --> 01:36:20,920
agreement on that. The manager says no, and they want it, then they go to the arbitration

1160
01:36:20,920 --> 01:36:25,320
board. And the arbitration board is going to make a decision. And we have to live by

1161
01:36:25,320 --> 01:36:32,760
the decision. They did not like the fact that the city manager was not agreeing with their

1162
01:36:32,760 --> 01:36:38,460
representative. And if I was in his position and you didn't agree with me, I'm not changing

1163
01:36:38,460 --> 01:36:41,240
because I disagree with you, as you can tell.

1164
01:36:41,580 --> 01:36:48,980
So you're assuming that if that charter does get amended,

1165
01:36:49,560 --> 01:36:52,480
that he's going to behave differently

1166
01:36:52,480 --> 01:36:56,980
because now he's liable to the union rep?

1167
01:36:58,140 --> 01:37:00,480
I mean, like, he still has to behave a certain way,

1168
01:37:00,580 --> 01:37:03,680
whether he's the manager, the employee size.

1169
01:37:04,240 --> 01:37:07,140
The manager's going to continue to do his job

1170
01:37:08,440 --> 01:37:16,540
So a collective bargaining agreement or a collective bargaining unit does not change the personnel

1171
01:37:16,540 --> 01:37:18,620
management within the city of Canfield.

1172
01:37:18,820 --> 01:37:19,080
Okay.

1173
01:37:19,300 --> 01:37:23,320
But it was insinuated that the police department has a collective bargaining agreement and

1174
01:37:23,320 --> 01:37:26,760
has had a collective bargaining agreement in place for 20 plus years.

1175
01:37:27,220 --> 01:37:31,720
That collective bargaining agreement covers certain conditions related to the employment

1176
01:37:31,720 --> 01:37:34,260
of the members of that bargaining unit.

1177
01:37:34,460 --> 01:37:34,800
Okay.

1178
01:37:34,800 --> 01:37:38,100
But it was insinuated that your decisions on the end

1179
01:37:38,100 --> 01:37:43,440
of if this got passed would be you might behave differently

1180
01:37:43,440 --> 01:37:44,940
because now it's politicized.

1181
01:37:45,200 --> 01:37:46,860
I would disagree with that.

1182
01:37:47,380 --> 01:37:49,020
You should behave the way you behave, period.

1183
01:37:49,200 --> 01:37:49,820
End of conversation.

1184
01:37:51,800 --> 01:37:53,780
Why should that change your behavior?

1185
01:37:53,920 --> 01:37:54,980
It won't change my behavior.

1186
01:37:55,140 --> 01:37:55,380
OK.

1187
01:37:55,820 --> 01:37:57,880
So I operate under the code of ethics

1188
01:37:57,880 --> 01:38:00,100
from the international scene, county managers,

1189
01:38:00,480 --> 01:38:00,920
association.

1190
01:38:01,460 --> 01:38:03,120
And that's the way it should be, yeah.

1191
01:38:03,120 --> 01:38:10,120
So, if the employees feel they need a union rep, something happens somewhere, that...

1192
01:38:10,840 --> 01:38:15,020
All the pieces of those programs have nothing to do with the collective bargaining process,

1193
01:38:15,400 --> 01:38:20,140
or the collective bargaining agreement, or the collective bargaining proposed collective bargaining unit.

1194
01:38:20,660 --> 01:38:25,560
So, any employee or any group of employees can elect to collectively bargain.

1195
01:38:25,980 --> 01:38:27,040
There's a process for that.

1196
01:38:27,040 --> 01:38:37,860
They elect a certain representative or a organization to represent them in collective bargaining unit matters with their employer, public or private sector.

1197
01:38:38,360 --> 01:38:41,360
So that process is collective bargaining.

1198
01:38:42,060 --> 01:38:50,580
Once a collective bargaining agreement is reached, that agreement covers certain aspects of those employees.

1199
01:38:51,960 --> 01:38:54,860
There's, I can't remember the section of Ohio Rights Code,

1200
01:38:55,300 --> 01:38:58,380
certain rights that are guaranteed to management

1201
01:38:58,880 --> 01:39:00,540
as well as the collective bargaining unit.

1202
01:39:00,820 --> 01:39:03,660
So any items that are not subject

1203
01:39:03,660 --> 01:39:06,200
to collective bargaining is managed by rights.

1204
01:39:07,100 --> 01:39:09,640
So we're not anticipating the collective bargaining unit

1205
01:39:09,640 --> 01:39:11,880
process, that's not what this Charter Amendment's about.

1206
01:39:12,800 --> 01:39:15,840
I would encourage you to, again, read that last code.

1207
01:39:15,840 --> 01:39:17,160
So that's all I was gonna ask you.

1208
01:39:17,560 --> 01:39:18,820
There's gonna be more meetings

1209
01:39:18,820 --> 01:39:20,320
about this specific topic.

1210
01:39:21,120 --> 01:39:24,240
For the Charter of Amendments, there'll be more information on it if it's correct.

1211
01:39:24,380 --> 01:39:26,360
So I can go back and see.

1212
01:39:26,520 --> 01:39:33,040
But what I'm asking too is, so all the employees wanted the same thing or no?

1213
01:39:33,420 --> 01:39:39,740
No. And again, we're kind of getting into a whole another topic under the Charter of Amendments.

1214
01:39:40,180 --> 01:39:44,260
The collective bargaining unit proposed was for the sixth public works employee.

1215
01:39:44,260 --> 01:40:05,600
The police department has a collective bargaining unit that is comprised of two units, the rank-and-file police officers, and then there's a bargaining unit that covers sergeants, lieutenants, and then there's a bargaining unit C which covers the dispatchers within the police department.

1216
01:40:05,600 --> 01:40:16,100
That was the only collective bargaining unit the city had since its inception or since the collective bargaining unit was starting from the public safety side.

1217
01:40:16,300 --> 01:40:21,560
All right, I'll read up and I'll educate myself on what happened here.

1218
01:40:21,680 --> 01:40:27,600
Well, it went down because some puzzle pieces aren't lining up here, so I'm going to put my faith in the people.

1219
01:40:28,020 --> 01:40:30,740
That's where I'm putting my faith, because that's where we always had it.

1220
01:40:30,740 --> 01:40:38,220
council meeting minutes online. Everything that we do is open and transparent to the public to get

1221
01:40:38,220 --> 01:40:43,000
any and all information they need to make any and all decisions. And I would encourage more

1222
01:40:43,000 --> 01:40:50,140
people to pay attention and listen and read up and show up. So I think that it needs to be a little

1223
01:40:50,140 --> 01:40:58,540
more like modernized to like why not have like the I mean it live feeds more

1224
01:40:58,540 --> 01:41:04,140
often I mean COVID sort of right I know it created new changes which I

1225
01:41:04,140 --> 01:41:11,540
streaming me completely encourage worry yeah so I applaud that yay so I hope more

1226
01:41:11,540 --> 01:41:16,060
comments are coming on the feed I hope you guys really take notice and and good

1227
01:41:16,060 --> 01:41:22,680
luck all the people running from there. I'm very excited about the feature. Thank you.

1228
01:41:22,880 --> 01:41:32,200
Thank you. Thank you. Okay, anybody? Mr. McKeehan? Oh, go ahead, Catherine. For the record though.

1229
01:41:32,240 --> 01:41:35,500
For the record, I have a 570 bar lift drive.

1230
01:41:37,920 --> 01:41:40,700
In an effort to open

1231
01:41:43,190 --> 01:41:44,890
the books up for truth, I have

1232
01:41:44,890 --> 01:41:55,070
I've been in this council sitting here for five years and I did say it was a conflict of interest to give the human resources to the chief.

1233
01:41:55,710 --> 01:42:00,670
I did say it was a conflict of interest to give the human resource to you. Sir.

1234
01:42:01,030 --> 01:42:02,530
Are these related to the church?

1235
01:42:02,590 --> 01:42:03,890
Yes, yes they are.

1236
01:42:03,890 --> 01:42:05,650
We have to stay on top of that work.

1237
01:42:05,890 --> 01:42:09,530
Because as accountability and an accountant I did open up the books.

1238
01:42:09,530 --> 01:42:14,870
open the books.com. And these six individuals that felt like they needed a

1239
01:42:14,870 --> 01:42:23,370
union, they were being paid less in 2017 than they got paid in 2020. Now they're

1240
01:42:23,370 --> 01:42:28,950
hourly employees, so they count on the hours in order to have a certain amount

1241
01:42:28,950 --> 01:42:33,990
of pay. The collective bargaining unit process was initiated in 2018. Part of

1242
01:42:33,990 --> 01:42:40,610
collective bargaining deals with wages okay but they did have reason why they

1243
01:42:40,610 --> 01:42:49,020
would feel like they were again is this really to determine I would encourage you

1244
01:42:49,020 --> 01:42:55,080
to get to these comments otherwise we're discussing so in the effort well I

1245
01:42:55,080 --> 01:42:58,720
encourage you to come in and sit down with the either the finance director

1246
01:42:58,720 --> 01:43:02,380
or wait and see the wages, Catherine.

1247
01:43:02,500 --> 01:43:02,900
For clarity.

1248
01:43:05,410 --> 01:43:06,030
Mr. McKee.

1249
01:43:16,500 --> 01:43:18,820
Evening again, Frank McKee, a 220 glad to see you.

1250
01:43:19,600 --> 01:43:27,340
Could I ask that each of the mayor or may oral candidates briefly state how they are

1251
01:43:27,340 --> 01:43:29,040
not in control of this forum?

1252
01:43:29,540 --> 01:43:32,360
This is a public forum for the presenting topics.

1253
01:43:32,720 --> 01:43:35,860
This is a question and comment section related to the presentation.

1254
01:43:36,300 --> 01:43:36,660
Okay.

1255
01:43:37,200 --> 01:43:38,160
I'd like to make a comment.

1256
01:43:38,160 --> 01:43:41,700
And we have three May Oral candidates here.

1257
01:43:42,700 --> 01:43:49,960
Would it be out of order to ask each of them to give their opinion on how they were on their relationship with the city manager?

1258
01:43:50,680 --> 01:43:50,960
Thank you.

1259
01:43:54,830 --> 01:43:58,150
Make it address that at the next forum.

1260
01:43:58,510 --> 01:43:59,230
And that's up to council.

1261
01:43:59,510 --> 01:44:04,690
I mean, yeah, I mean, if you guys just want to answer that, you want this forum to be kind of yes, whatever you want.

1262
01:44:06,290 --> 01:44:10,330
Anybody open it up to the residents, anybody else comment, question?

1263
01:44:12,310 --> 01:44:15,310
Okay, with that, stay tuned for our next one.

1264
01:44:15,610 --> 01:44:22,250
And I encourage you to go back, look at minutes, read, understand, and we're adjourned.