[0:17] I would like to call this regular session of sure and city council, or please join me and I'd like to congratulate you this year's flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, why nation, why are you out, and to give us this whole with liberty and justice for all.

[0:41] Thank you, Amy, please call, roll.

[0:44] Mr. Blackwood. Mr. Chuma. Mr. Grawe.

[0:50] Ms. Meen. Mr. Malaskier.

[0:56] move on to agenda item number four approval of minutes, are there any additions or corrections

[1:03] to the July 9th, 2026 public hearing or the July 9th, 2026 regular session in minutes?

[1:21] Does our motion to approve the minutes as presented?

[1:24] Second.

[1:25] Move in a second if we're going to discuss.

[1:28] Call the question.

[1:30] Mr. Blackley?

[1:31] Mr. Johan? Yes. Mr. Gra. Yes. Mr. Martin? Yes.

[1:36] Mr. Maleski? Yes. Mr. Maleski? Yes. Mr.

[1:37] Mr. Dean.

[1:40] Thank you for your next.

[1:44] All right.

[1:45] Move on to the manager's report. Good evening, Ben.

[1:48] Good evening, Council.

[1:51] Sorry to my items from City Hall.

[1:53] Request for proposals. As you know, we had no responses for the City Architect.

[1:57] RFP. However, we did.

[1:59] May contact with a firm after the deadline level heads ink.

[2:04] Their candidate for city architect, Mr. Christopher Toronto, has met with myself.

[2:09] Administrator Holliday and member Blackley in his capacity as chairman of the Planning Commission.

[2:17] And the three of us all liked him, and we've chosen to move forward, so we're in final contract negotiations with Mr. Toronto.

[2:26] Jogathieter is open until August 28th, 2026 as of August 1st.

[2:32] We had had 13 potential respondents to her the facility, and then our annual crack ceiling

[2:39] program went out for RFP to specifically qualified firms who had already responded to our

[2:45] pre-qualls on August 4th, 2026, and we are just awaiting responses.

[2:51] Unless we've gotten them all already dug or...

[2:53] No, they're due to just on the 24th, 24th.

[2:59] Staffing one of our accounting clerks has accepted the visit of director finance position

[3:03] and will be leaving the city after August 14th, 2026.

[3:08] We wish for the best on her future and the position has been posted and is up if you know anybody.

[3:16] Cities 2025 annual audit conducted by Charles Harris has been completed with no findings for recovery

[3:21] material weaknesses or other deficiencies. You'll note in the management letter that there

[3:27] was an issue with filing some paperwork on the state of Ohio's new web portal. We feel this

[3:33] was just an issue with first year of a new web portal and we don't expect this to happen again

[3:37] next year.

[3:40] For capital projects, the foundations for the North and Fifth Traffic Signal are

[3:44] complete and the project is now just waiting for the polls and mass storms to be manufactured

[3:48] and shipped those are not expected until September or October.

[3:53] 2026 sidewalk and street programs for streets,

[3:56] works should begin in the latter half of this month and for sidewalks

[4:00] works should begin in early September.

[4:03] For our pocket park, new plans are on your agenda for Council's review of this evening.

[4:09] On July 31st, 2026, we did receive our grant documents from ODNR.

[4:15] Director Rogers will be at Planning Commission this month for their approval, so assuming both bodies sign off.

[4:21] We should be on track to file our paperwork with the state and complete bidding before the end of the year.

[4:30] The Wilson Mills and Park intersection realignment, our internal kickoff meeting was on July 16th, 2026,

[4:37] and it will now move into the design phase.

[4:39] Actual construction on that project isn't until 2028 in accordance with the grant schedule.

[4:47] For a state route resurfacing, restriping is still ongoing.

[4:51] For a North Street repaving, a credit to Doug and CWC,

[4:55] they got the plans submitted and approved ahead of ODOT schedule.

[5:00] So we are now just waiting on ODOT to bid out the project.

[5:03] And then finally, for our citywide traffic signal project, you have legislation on your agenda tonight for our participation with ODOT.

[5:14] From the departments, I'm going to start with municipal court, beginning September 8th, 2026.

[5:21] The judge has ordered that the open hours to the public, for a short- and municipal court, will be changed to 8am to 4pm.

[5:29] This is to provide more administrative time for staff and reduce instances of over time at the end of the day from getting held up

[5:38] In July the municipal court also adjusted their fees to be more in line with peer courts around us

[5:46] For streets a credit to our street department and just in screws

[5:51] They made two full trips around the city after the July storm and picked up 39 loads of brush

[5:57] approximately

[5:58] 468 square yards

[6:01] and took 280 manhours. Our previous record for loads of brush in one pick-up series was 24.

[6:09] So we blew out of the water, our previous record.

[6:14] And then I'm going to turn it over to Chief briefly.

[6:18] His department has received another grant, which will need a motion to accept that grant for the police department.

[6:26] So we are the recipient of a small grant award for drug education.

[6:37] It's a grant that we get usually every year.

[6:39] And money goes back towards use for the DARE program.

[6:43] So we use it to buy the workbooks and so forth.

[6:47] So it's about $1,500 or about it's maybe a little bit more than that.

[6:53] So you need a motion?

[6:54] We need our love voice.

[6:56] I'll make that motion.

[6:57] That's up to it.

[6:57] Very good.

[6:58] Move to the second hit for the discussion.

[7:01] Chief, great job.

[7:02] Congratulations.

[7:04] It's called a question.

[7:06] Mrs. Tuhah.

[7:08] Mr. Grott.

[7:09] Yes.

[7:09] Mr. Martin.

[7:10] Yes.

[7:10] Ms. Means.

[7:11] Yes.

[7:11] Mr. Maleski.

[7:12] Yes.

[7:13] Mr. Yany.

[7:14] Mr. Mark.

[7:15] Yes.

[7:18] And then on to community events, which

[7:20] are starting to come out of the summer busy season.

[7:23] It's our concerts on the square, traditionally end August 28th, director Rogers.

[7:30] If you remember, we had to cancel one due to the wild virus smoke. He has rescheduled that for the next Friday. So, the new end day is September 4th with that rescheduled.

[7:42] The Perry nuclear power plant graded drill is in September, specifically for the city of Shardin, September 22nd, 2026.

[7:53] I have been working with Chief Geist.

[7:54] We will have some posts about this as it gets closer,

[7:57] but the big thing for us in our residences.

[7:59] If you see a hazmat crew at the high school on the 22nd,

[8:03] it is just the drill.

[8:05] It is not an incident.

[8:08] And then the Shard and Fire Department

[8:10] is having a Gulf outing fundraiser on September 23rd, 26th.

[8:15] Chief did not have many details for me at the time.

[8:17] I wrote this, so please visit their website tomorrow for me.

[8:19] And

[8:23] that's my report from the season.

[8:29] And could you give us a fairly quick idea of when the you mentioned that the feeder closes

[8:42] on August 28th, and then what's going to happen after that?

[8:48] So as the RFP is currently written staff, so myself, Mark and Justin will grade them down

[8:57] to three, assuming we get a sufficient number to worth grading down.

[9:03] City Council, then, interview the finalists and ultimately choose the chosen proposal.

[9:11] Currently, I have, in my mind, scheduling those interviews for executive session after

[9:17] the regular September meeting, if Council wishes to do that in a special

[9:22] some other time, more than happy to accommodate council's work.

[9:32] I don't know yet.

[9:33] Those interviews could be.

[9:36] It could be a half hour each or a little now.

[9:41] We'll come up with a plan on that.

[9:44] The thank you to the crews for cleaning up after the storm.

[9:51] We had another storm within the last few days.

[9:54] What does the city gain communication wise from the companies that are coming out to fix

[10:04] downlines in that?

[10:05] Do we update it on the process?

[10:10] Not as much as I'm sure Justin and I would like to be.

[10:15] I mean we were quite literally told by the first energy rep to check the outage map like

[10:22] videos and that you know we could call her but she won't have any more information to give

[10:29] us than what the outage map will give us.

[10:33] This is our city representative who comes to these meetings every so often.

[10:38] That's what you're saying is she said she couldn't give you anything more than what you

[10:41] could find on the website because of the extensive damage and outages from the storm or

[10:49] because she just doesn't have any other information to offer.

[10:52] She doesn't have access to any greater detail though.

[10:58] She can't see the dispatch console and where the trucks are.

[11:02] My guess is that's the main thing tool they used to manage all that,

[11:06] so it's probably as dynamic as it's going to get.

[11:11] Well, I will say this past Monday we have a power outage.

[11:14] They had a crew working on the square very quickly,

[11:18] and that was taken care of very quickly.

[11:21] So it was very happy to see that power was restored

[11:24] within maybe two hours on my side of town.

[11:28] So it was actually give kudos to them

[11:30] for being on the job quickly and working efficiently

[11:34] to get that done.

[11:36] They usually get, obviously, first energy's got a lot

[11:39] of criticism in other communities on the count

[11:41] of their response time and that may be justified.

[11:45] The East side of Cleveland has a different,

[11:46] entirely different crew and different management people

[11:50] working out of Auburn, or Auburn Rhodes, that's still a case, Doug.

[11:55] I think it's still a case.

[11:56] Yeah, so they anyhow, they seem to be pretty responsive.

[12:02] But it is unfortunate that their own representative

[12:05] doesn't have more up to the date.

[12:07] I actually walked up to the top of the square and talked to the guys.

[12:11] And they said, yeah, we'll be done in about an hour.

[12:13] Great, thank you.

[12:16] Our big issue, at least lately, seems to be CPE,

[12:19] because they only have the one main line in and out, and so when they lose power,

[12:26] transform goes down there, they tend to be out longer. After the base

[12:31] storm, they were out for 48 hours.

[12:36] I'm going to

[12:39] put it.

[12:41] I request her to come in here at some point in the next, before the end of the year,

[12:46] just so we can have an open line of communication. Ask questions.

[12:52] Just have a similar issue with I'm not sure if it's a spectrum or one stream but all the sudden

[13:02] different yard there's a lot of wire that's just hanging there and it's beating on the

[13:09] He rose Banner as well, right? So it's probably 120 foot long and it's all

[13:18] loted up and I guess there's probably no one that's high priority for them to

[13:24] come out and deal with it. But it's also at risk of knocking out that Banner if

[13:31] it swings back and forth or could get out in the street. So I don't know how we

[13:36] We'll deal with that. I'll reach out to the representative. Thank you. There's other spots. I noticed around the city. They have

[13:43] bunch of wires or something. Okay. One by St. Mary's church. I noticed there was one there too. And it kind of appeasable almost a little bit into the road, but still on the right away.

[13:53] You know, this is not the first time this has been brought to this council. I think we can all agree on that. Yes, Heather. You did bring it up in the past. Many, many times. This has been brought up.

[14:06] So first I'm hearing about it.

[14:08] It's not the first, these are not the only places.

[14:09] If you walk around the city, you'll see there's others, but I think there's even one

[14:12] over by the cemetery and there's their lobe, so sometimes they're whapping, sometimes

[14:16] they're just somebody on a bike could get, you know.

[14:19] So, but I don't believe they're all the same utility, they're all the same thing, it's

[14:24] not all the same lines, it's the same thing.

[14:25] I mean, these are all the voltage that I'm seeing dangling, I mean, they may be, frankly,

[14:31] the cable companies that are extremely sloppy, maintaining their infrastructure, compared

[14:37] to the first energy, first energy will kill people and they're I think they're pretty good

[14:41] about it. I don't think we're not. I'm sure that doesn't happen. We're talking about, I've been told

[14:46] that I'm not allowed to go and just cut them because I could with a stuffed ladder and something.

[14:51] I did that at my house at a dead cable line that was hanging down.

[14:55] It's not the water cutters and kind of rust like that's what you're looking at.

[15:00] It was a day yet. I cut the, I literally cut the cable.

[15:06] I will say that the representative for spectrum and Wednesday have been responsive to me.

[15:13] Especially getting back to emails. So if there are locations, let me know.

[15:18] And I can see what I can do about them.

[15:20] I'm sorry. On the panel, we're lining up for a break.

[15:24] I don't remember.

[15:27] I think it wasn't a doubt.

[15:29] It was one.

[15:32] The last comment.

[15:33] You've been done with the wires.

[15:35] Why are you asking?

[15:37] Why are you asking?

[15:39] I don't care.

[15:41] Well, let's have a shout on everybody.

[15:43] Did you achieve my question on September 22nd to drill at the high school?

[15:48] Yes.

[15:48] That's a Tuesday.

[15:50] So has this...

[15:52] I, you know, there's just still the memory of what took place a long time ago, we need

[15:58] to communicate that, of course, we're talking about it tonight that it's a drill.

[16:03] But there's a school sent out information to all of their families that there's going

[16:09] to be a big, I don't know what size a drill we're talking about.

[16:13] So, the answer to your question, I'm not aware that they have.

[16:17] I think most of them, because they've been off, the school's been out out.

[16:20] And that drill is generally run by EMA, but I can certainly make sure, I'll make some

[16:26] phone calls tomorrow, I'll make sure that they get in communication out.

[16:30] I think you can go on the signboard.

[16:31] They can go on the signboard because they could have, once again, don't know the logistics

[16:35] of what they're trying to do there.

[16:37] If it's one truck, 15 trucks, who knows, right?

[16:40] We don't know yet, but people will be driving by or they'll notice it.

[16:44] And if they haven't been paying attention, but if we get it on our signboard, it's going

[16:48] to be a drill going on.

[16:49] That would be great.

[16:50] Going by a how many questions we've gotten about the right-aid demolition.

[16:54] Oh my gosh.

[16:55] Yeah, it's more communication than better.

[16:58] Okay, I don't know if this is right.

[17:00] If you're done, I want to ask Chief something.

[17:03] It was brought up during our last meeting, during public, during comments.

[17:07] Someone who was speaking, brought it up about e-bikes.

[17:11] And I just had an e-viracum to me.

[17:13] We were talking about e-bikes, and or not e-bikes,

[17:16] or scooters, electric scooters, and how.

[17:18] There's on our where we're at a couple of kids who are awesome going quite fast, no helmets, nothing.

[17:25] I mean, they're going as fast as cars, right?

[17:28] And we were having the conversation about what kind of rules and that was brought up during open before.

[17:33] And I'm just wondering, can you speak to that all like, what are the laws or rules aren't there?

[17:39] Is there something that we can do as a community or...

[17:41] So I could speak to it briefly in a certain way.

[17:48] And we've had quite a few conversations about e-bikes.

[17:52] The challenge is that there's different types of e-bikes.

[17:55] There's different regulations for each one.

[17:58] The state code is definitely confusing when you get into that chapter.

[18:05] My belief is that they're currently working to streamline that to make it more user-friendly,

[18:10] but just like everything else, technology wise,

[18:13] the law is often behind the technology

[18:15] that's available to the folks.

[18:18] The other challenge that we have is that,

[18:20] I think in some cases those vehicles

[18:23] are being purchased from young people,

[18:25] the parents probably are not even aware

[18:27] of what they're capable of in terms of speed

[18:29] and what the kids are actually doing with them.

[18:32] Some communities have gone

[18:34] and passed additional city ordinances

[18:37] to make them stricter in their communities.

[18:39] such as requiring the wearing of helmets and restricting to certain areas.

[18:48] But it's kind of up in the air in a lot of areas that haven't done that.

[18:54] So that's a kind of reception that Ben and I've had about how we can make it tighter for us as well.

[19:02] So, in my streets, it's kids who are middle school just going into the high school, so like,

[19:07] you know, young, they're not bikes, they're scooters, actually, and no helmets consistently, and just be down the road.

[19:14] So, I guess I would be interested in what we might be able to do to we don't want something bad to have to happen before then we would take action in that case.

[19:22] And I think that, you know, think about is that we look at a kid on a child on a two-wheel

[19:28] bicycle. They're very, they're the capability of going just as fast down hill. The difference

[19:37] between that and some of these e-bikes is they'll go that fast up there.

[19:43] So, we're definitely

[19:44] wrestling with it as well, figure out what the right solution is for that. Ben, did I miss anything

[19:50] No, we talk about it.

[19:52] Right.

[19:52] Sure, do.

[19:54] Can we move past talking and try to, like, if there is anything we can do, can we, like,

[19:58] We've got two different, I guess, I would call them, other municipal models that we've,

[20:03] Pick and choose what we like.

[20:05] I think it'd be within the realm of possibility.

[20:07] We get some legislation to you.

[20:08] If not for the next council meeting.

[20:10] I think after that.

[20:11] I mean, I don't know how everybody else feels about it.

[20:13] It's just.

[20:14] My concern is, and I've seen,

[20:16] And specifically, there's one or two that go up and down water street.

[20:22] They're going into speed.

[20:23] If someone's coming out of their driveway, they're probably not going to be looking for someone

[20:27] doing that.

[20:28] And my concern is someone's going to get severely hurt or worse.

[20:31] All right.

[20:32] Well, that has happened in other communities.

[20:33] We've had it happen here, but that's equally possible on a bicycle, so.

[20:38] Well, I think the key though is, I mean, technically bicycles probably aren't supposed to

[20:43] on sidewalks but then the ones I'm seeing don't have pedals so I don't think they'd be classified

[20:50] as a bicycle or a e-bicycle because I think a bicycle typically has something that you

[20:57] assist in the precaution so I think we need to probably look at what those classifications

[21:03] are and take it to that out. Thank you do that. I think the two that go up and down on my hill are

[21:09] Yeah, they go up the fast up the hill if they do down.

[21:13] I'm so worried because our street is so steep.

[21:17] But they'll ride two armoured scooters.

[21:19] And I just, oh, I don't want to see it.

[21:25] Oh, just the same kid just sit around the whole neighborhood.

[21:27] Yeah, and I just want to see it.

[21:30] Would you like us to present something to council?

[21:32] Or would you like us to maybe either send it to safety or legislate at first?

[21:36] I'd send it to safety.

[21:39] I see what we're thinking, but there's also going to be an enforcement issue.

[21:46] And that's also certainly a consideration because the majority of what I've just heard

[21:52] here is that these are young people that are doing it so they're doing else.

[21:55] These are all, I'm talking all kids and they're not, they're younger kids, you know, so.

[22:01] But I think in summary, guard, if there's some regulation out there, at least someone

[22:08] have a guideline of if they're buying something for their child, where they could actually

[22:13] operate it, if we're saying you can't operate it on the sidewalk.

[22:16] And they watch YouTube videos, they learn how to get around the governor mechanisms on them,

[22:22] so they can get more speed out of them. Kids are pretty tech savvy,

[22:28] and you know,

[22:30] I think you're outweighs to get away with it, but I don't really can, it's quite a big concern.

[22:37] Okay, put the ready other comments for Ben and his report.

[22:42] Then I've had questions about, you said the restraping has begun.

[22:46] As I'm going, do we have kind of an end date for that?

[22:52] Thank you for the question. So, first, I will say that, you know, chief, both chiefs came to me expressing concern over wrong way

[23:04] drivers crossing over and it's oncoming traffic so they weren't actually supposed to be here

[23:10] until the end of August. I called him up and I said hey we got a situation that we need

[23:16] to address especially in the square so they came out did us a favor and came out and did

[23:21] the square for us before they were slated to be here. So they're technically still on schedule.

[23:28] The rain has hampered their abilities to get it done as well so it is on their radar I talked

[23:33] them Tuesday and they were equally as frustrated because they can't strip, they can't get

[23:39] other jobs done. So the perception is, you know, they're not getting it done, but the actual

[23:46] situation is that I asked them to come in and help prevent a situation that was getting

[23:51] a little dicey.

[23:53] So thank you.

[23:53] Because I was asked, you know, what's going on? And I also was headlights coming right

[23:58] at me when they shouldn't have been. Right. Right.

[24:01] I think it looks great.

[24:02] I do appreciate you getting ahead of that and also if they're on schedule then that's all I need to be.

[24:08] It's all I need to know.

[24:10] And we've made some adjustments to increase safety.

[24:14] So hopefully the potential situation has been alleviated.

[24:20] Thank

[24:23] you.

[24:23] All right.

[24:24] Thank you, Ben.

[24:25] We'll move on to a planning commission report.

[24:27] Good evening, Andy.

[24:28] Thank you.

[24:31] We had just one item on the agenda.

[24:36] We had Marcy Marcelo King and Phil King here representing the applicant.

[24:42] This was for the square of Barbershop is expanding into the second floor at 135 Main Street,

[24:50] which would trigger the need for additional off-street parking.

[24:55] And so the variance, they were requesting a variance to not have to build additional

[25:00] Austrian parking, which, as you view, we're all familiar with the parking situation

[25:06] on the square, which on the face of it would be a ridiculous requirement and planning commission

[25:13] granted the variance.

[25:14] And part of it was based on the analysis that the city manager had already done about

[25:18] availability of parking, so that variance was duly granted, and any Jonathan anymore

[25:26] progress on the expansion of the barbershop. Nothing to report, but I appreciate the

[25:34] planning commission's consideration,

[25:37] and I know the applicants are happy to see that

[25:39] the variance was granted. There's literally no place for somebody to build additional parking

[25:45] on the square unless they're going to put a parking deck in some place.

[25:48] So that was just was not going to happen.

[25:51] And the parking, according to the parking analysis,

[25:55] there is available parking.

[25:56] And I think we've heard good things about the managers,

[26:02] his report and what he's done as far as revising

[26:05] parking.

[26:06] Ben, you want to have any additional input on that?

[26:10] Any other feedback from users?

[26:13] From the most vocal business owners, they all

[26:17] seem to like the new four hour to our split.

[26:22] And from what the county courts have told me the 19 spots

[26:27] for lawyers to park while they're in hearing.

[26:30] So I've been working well.

[26:32] Right now the county is they have an assemblage permit to use those

[26:36] spots while they're doing brick restoration on the backside of the

[26:40] upper house.

[26:41] So you might have seen there's a bunch of temporary signs with the

[26:44] number on them, but that's supposed to be done by the end of the summer and all those signs

[26:49] will be gone again.

[26:53] That concludes the Planning Commissioner report.

[26:55] I guess there's any questions.

[26:58] Thank you, Andy.

[26:59] We're going to Council Committee reports, we'll start with the Finance Committee.

[27:03] Dan and Steve.

[27:05] Yes, the Finance Committee met Wednesday August 5th.

[27:09] We had one item on the agenda, and it was to discuss city fund consolidation, which is aligned with legislation A tonight.

[27:23] So originally, Ben had brought this to a prior finance meeting, and the ask was to, in essence, assess the funds that are out there.

[27:34] look at multiple funds for the same type of thing, look at things that are set up

[27:41] for like one-off things in the past and so they went through a process to understand which funds

[27:50] were there to make recommendations of ones that could be eliminated because they're no longer needed.

[27:57] Look at ones that could be combined together and have a simpler option going forward.

[28:08] And after reviewing it and asking a few questions, the committee made the recommendation to move forward with the consolidation.

[28:18] And we also, is that enough on the funds, Steve and Ben, that they get enough and they're

[28:28] I mean, we can talk further and more detail when we get the legislation as well.

[28:32] If there's questions.

[28:33] Yeah, I think what they brought forward makes a lot of sense, and it's true.

[28:37] It's not streaming in the process.

[28:41] Then, under any other business, we had some discussion to talk about the expenditure review process,

[28:49] which I'll cover some of the highlights of the actual expenditure review and the efficiencies

[28:55] we're gaining there when we get to that section.

[28:58] We had a brief discussion about SRO and SSO, which was something that had been brought to us

[29:07] just to get some thoughts on it and we shared some thoughts on that, and then we talked briefly

[29:14] about the budget process and timing of that because we're getting quite near to budget season.

[29:22] So, yeah, that's pretty much the extent of my record.

[29:27] I don't know if you have anything that add or you want to add anything, Ben.

[29:33] Oh, wait till the legislation.

[29:35] Okay.

[29:36] Have a great day.

[29:37] That's over there.

[29:38] Welcome.

[29:38] That concludes my report.

[29:40] Okay.

[29:41] Thank you, Dan.

[29:41] I'm going to move on to E.K.

[29:43] Economic Development Committee, and that's their end-day.

[29:46] Yes, thank you.

[29:47] We met earlier right before this meeting at 530.

[29:52] We had a Jimmy Precip from Retail Strategies presented to us to give us an update on anything new that they could...

[30:00] Share with us. He said that they have 11 right now 11 prospects, people who are interested. There was not really any things specific that was shared with us.

[30:12] We did have a conversation about the fact that they, one of the services that they offer us, the city and also they offer businesses is being able to provide data about how many people are traffic data, population data and things that can be used for business marketing.

[30:29] or people who are considering coming here and that we needed to do more work to make sure

[30:37] or remind people that this is available. It is said that one company had just recently reached

[30:41] out and asked for that and he had provided it to them. And so we talked about reiterating

[30:49] with the Chamber of Sergeant Square Association and businesses that this is a service that they

[30:53] and utilize anyone who's in the city can utilize.

[30:58] And Jonathan shared that he'd gotten some data

[31:00] on the parks, so you want to speak to that a little bit

[31:03] Jonathan, why you did that,

[31:05] and what you were hoping to get from that?

[31:08] Yeah, I think that request came through the city manager

[31:11] and the parks department, and also retail strategies

[31:16] was kind of enough to provide the visitation information

[31:20] that they were able to gather from there.

[31:23] data bases in terms of visitors to the parks and where they're coming from.

[31:31] So it's great that we have that information now and that they're available for resource

[31:37] not only to our businesses but also to us at the city for our own parks and operations.

[31:45] It started with the pool.

[31:47] So, as you all may remember from Budget Conversations last year, we have a very high number

[31:54] of day passes at the pool, right?

[31:56] So unlike the memberships, we don't know where they're coming from.

[32:00] And so director Rogers and I were having a conversation and he said, oh, only, you know,

[32:04] we could tell if those people are residents or not, and the lightbulb just sort of went

[32:09] off from ahead of us.

[32:10] We could ask retail strategies for the cell phone data to see whether those people are residents

[32:16] or not.

[32:17] And what's interesting and also terrifying about this is, if you don't know, is that they can tell

[32:23] every time you're phone, they can use all the phone data, so your phone is pinging everywhere

[32:27] you go, and so they can tell how many times, and then they can tell from how far you're traveling

[32:33] as well, so that's how they can track how many people go our home depot or our Walmart or

[32:38] our parks.

[32:38] So, and that was the bulk of our conversation today.

[32:45] Do you have anything to add?

[32:46] Yeah, I mean, the only thing that had is,

[32:49] I don't know how feasible it is, but I made a recommendation that we consider

[32:53] doing a, almost like a workshop of if someone got the data, how to use the data

[32:59] because that type of big data is not necessarily inherently intuitive for people.

[33:06] So, I don't know if that's feasible or not, but that was just the thought I had being someone

[33:11] at crunches data is maybe we need to have some sort of training mechanism do it over teams

[33:19] record it and make it available as far as that training.

[33:22] So that was a thought.

[33:23] We also talked about putting a sample report on the website, so people can see what it looks like.

[33:29] Our contract with retail strategies goes to May, and so we'll definitely be hearing from them

[33:36] probably before the end of the year.

[33:41] Are there good any questions for DeCon to be on the cliff?

[33:46] Are they planning on doing their boots on and around again?

[33:50] I know they usually come in November of December.

[33:52] We did not talk about that.

[33:59] Thank you.

[34:00] We've got two hearing of persons before council.

[34:02] We have no one scheduled this evening.

[34:04] If I may, Ann Ball, the new director of GMHA, was kind of to accept my invitation to come

[34:11] tonight if you would be willing to get her some time.

[34:14] Thank you very much.

[34:15] Just wanted to come and say hello.

[34:17] Thank you.

[34:18] Thank you.

[34:18] I'm loud enough.

[34:21] Good evening, everyone.

[34:22] Thank you for the service that you provide to this wonderful community.

[34:25] I'm in my 18th day on the job.

[34:27] So my name is Dr. Annaball.

[34:29] I serve as the Executive Director of the Jogobitch Policy and Housing Authority.

[34:32] I come to you from the Akron Metropolitan Housing Authority, where I served as

[34:36] the Director of Resment Services.

[34:38] So I'm very excited to join this community.

[34:40] I'm really, um, would love to continue to engage in meaningful and crucial conversations with everyone

[34:47] that I'm looking at today in this evening, and so if anybody needs me, please, um, reach out,

[34:53] all my informations on the website. I'm happy to leave my cards here if you'd like,

[34:56] but I've just appreciated the welcome from some of you around the table today that I've had

[35:01] to this community, so just wanted to say hello. All right, thanks.

[35:04] Thank you.

[35:11] If you want to exit, you're escort is waiting right out the door there, so.

[35:19] Thank you.

[35:20] But you also welcome to stay here.

[35:22] Thank you.

[35:24] Okay.

[35:25] Thank you.

[35:27] All right.

[35:27] We'll move on to hearing from the general public.

[35:29] If anybody would like to address council, come on up, Bill.

[35:34] Let's hear from you.

[35:37] I mean it just bill has a little on North Street specifically what I'm interested in talking

[35:43] about is flock cameras, I assume that you people don't know what I'm talking about, okay?

[35:53] Well to start with they seem to be multiplying like rabbits,

[35:59] but my concern is that to start

[36:05] with they do make mistakes, they confuse zeros and o's and twos, they confuse ones and

[36:17] eyes and I'm not ready to get stopped by red and blue lights and be told that my car is

[36:26] stolen because a flat camera made a mistake.

[36:32] I was under the impression when the comment was made by the chief about the fact that there

[36:40] were, I suppose, for going to be installed within the city or close to the city that they would

[36:49] on basically Northeast South and West Street and I don't know I made it there

[36:55] are now but at any rate I feel like I'm being constantly surveilled. I went

[37:05] to tripod today and came home down route 44 and there's one right at the

[37:14] exit of tripod there's one also right south of Gertal Road and there's another

[37:19] one right basically across in the state patrol post. So on my trip home, I got watched

[37:26] three times.

[37:30] And I just don't really know where this is going. Obviously, places not within the city of the city doesn't have any jurisdiction about any of that.

[37:44] But there's some concern, at least on my part, about Fourth Amendment rights.

[37:53] So I don't know what's as far as this is concerned, what's happening within the city.

[38:01] So if you look for me to address that bill, I can tell you that we've not added any cameras since the original last.

[38:09] Yeah.

[38:10] This point don't intend to.

[38:13] The cameras that are in place are not spying on you.

[38:18] They do collect data, picture your license plate, picture the vehicle.

[38:23] But we're not tracking you or following you with that.

[38:26] The only time that the police would stop you, if the plate would be identified in the

[38:34] block system as being a vehicle that's wanted or stolen or some along that lines,

[38:40] and we would vet that information through the law enforcement database or leads.

[38:44] It's called leads prior to stopping you.

[38:48] So that information that's in-flock gets validated prior to us stopping anybody.

[38:56] for any type of other violation, so it's not like it's something that we're monitoring

[39:03] your movements, that's not how that operates, it's not how we use it.

[39:08] Well, after 20-27 it's going to get to the point where your current monitoring.

[39:13] Right, and I think you'd be sort here earlier that the amount of information it's coming

[39:19] from your cell phone that is being collected and used for marketing and other reasons.

[39:24] I mean, you know, that's probably way more intrusive than the flock camera is.

[39:31] For us, there is value in having those cameras.

[39:34] I could just, you know, I could just write off the top of my head.

[39:37] There's been a number of situations where the flock data has been very beneficial.

[39:43] Just this last weekend, we've had a situation where we had a mental health concern for

[39:49] individual that had gone missing.

[39:51] We were able to utilize that flock system to determine that that vehicle that look I had left in was well out of state

[40:00] So not only is that helpful for us that we're not spending a lot of resources in the immediate area looking for

[40:06] We also know that our problem now is transferred and gone other places and I can't get into the details

[40:12] Because that's still an open investigation, but I could tell you did help us to know that that person was no longer to write in our immediate area

[40:19] Equally important is that those cameras in some cases give us warning when somebody has come into the area that is wanted and their information has been entered into the system

[40:30] And it identifies when they when they come in will get an warning that that vehicle's here now if that vehicle is discovered by one of our police officers

[40:38] We run it through a completely different database based on the registration on the vehicle to make sure that there is a valid warrant or valid reason to stop the vehicle

[40:48] So before we need to stop the car now, but it's it's it's it's definitely

[40:53] flock cameras are or something that is a very

[40:59] I guess we'd say a controversial

[41:01] Topic right now. We're definitely paying attention to that I get it

[41:06] I see pros and cons on both sides of that. I'll also tell you that

[41:13] Yeah, I don't I don't think that debate's gonna go away anytime soon

[41:17] there's a lot of misinformation out there about how the cameras are being used and also what

[41:24] they're capable of. There's a lot of misinformation being communicated.

[41:29] And then one more comment, you know, spin it back, but there are a number of cameras out there

[41:35] that are also privately owned that are not the municipality, so there's some even those in

[41:40] the businesses of purchase, especially businesses like your big box retail stores,

[41:47] have the ability to purchase flat cameras.

[41:49] Now where that comes, becomes helpful for those types of businesses,

[41:54] that when they're having large amounts of slippage from their stores,

[41:58] that's data that, you know, they're collecting,

[42:01] that also, you know, could be given to us to help us identify

[42:04] who just ran out of their store with, let's say, a whole skid full of

[42:10] So it's from their store, so I'll put it out.

[42:14] But thank you for bringing it up because it's definitely,

[42:16] it's definitely, it has been controversial between me

[42:20] and friends of mine and also between friends of mine

[42:25] and other friends of theirs.

[42:30] And let's say two or three years ago,

[42:32] they basically didn't exist.

[42:34] because this is come on pretty quickly and I just feel like I'm being followed, even though I

[42:47] probably am not, but I definitely don't want to follow you. I probably couldn't keep up with you.

[42:55] really said private businesses could buy flock.

[42:59] Sure, actually flock, one of the ways that flock

[43:02] got started was HOA's.

[43:06] HOA's were purchasing, in effect,

[43:07] that's how the owner started that company was the HOA.

[43:10] He was living in in the community.

[43:12] He was at, they were having a lot of thefts

[43:14] from vehicles within his community.

[43:16] So he came up with this idea to start captioning the license

[43:20] plate data so that when their cars get broken into,

[43:22] he could give it to the police to help them.

[43:24] So that's how that company gets started.

[43:26] I can see how you would think that they're like multiplying like

[43:29] Gremlins, right?

[43:29] But they're you're saying like, you know, that's just private business or some of it is.

[43:34] Some of it is.

[43:34] And municipalities are purchasing them.

[43:37] They're buying in on it because it does in some ways.

[43:41] And I'm not going to say that there's not some of you.

[43:44] But what I can tell you is that we very closely watch how our people are using them.

[43:49] And if there is abuse, what you're seeing now is,

[43:51] enforcement officers in the abuse those are going to be investigated and they could

[43:55] go to jail. So, and they're definitely going to lose their job. So, I'm already asking this,

[44:02] but I'll ask you here. We have a policy related to the flock. Correct? We do. That's correct.

[44:07] So, our policy would dictate how that data could be used by officers, by the officers. In

[44:13] most cases, there's two ways that you have the plates that are being flagged by when they come

[44:19] maybe they've been entered by another municipality of the vehicle that's of interest.

[44:24] The other way we use them in investigations is let's say I'm going to make something off.

[44:29] Let's say we have a robbery at one of our local businesses.

[44:33] And the vehicle description given will immediately put that information in the flock,

[44:38] so that if there's a, let's say it's a great viewic was used in, in the robbery.

[44:43] We put that into flock and it'll start immediately telling us,

[44:46] They work great UX or hitting flat cameras close to us so that helps us to start to spin down

[44:53] and maybe give us some data that will be helpful in solving our problem.

[44:57] And because one of the things that I found out is these people.

[45:00] People that take, well, I'm going to be Joe Kuhl and pretty much obscure my license plate. That doesn't work.

[45:07] Yeah. I don't think that's legal.

[45:09] Well, it's not legal, but it also, because of all the other information that flock together is about your car and the unusualness of it if it has any scratches or dancers, stickers on the bumper or whatever.

[45:24] You can take your plate off the car and it can still figure out who it is, you know, for those people that think they're Joe cool.

[45:34] Surprise. Okay.

[45:36] Okay. Thank you Bill.

[45:37] Does anyone else want to address counsel?

[45:42] All right.

[45:42] Very good.

[45:42] We'll move on to a little business.

[45:44] We have none moving on to new business.

[45:48] Business A is consideration of approval.

[45:50] The pocket park revised plans and events going to take us through that.

[45:55] So as Council Mayor member, we received a state capital award for the pocket part, which

[46:01] will be a ODNR administered grant, and as part of the conditions of that grant, we needed

[46:07] to redesign the pocket part project again to add back some of the amenities that had been

[46:13] previously cut, namely the shade structure, the lighting, and the seat wall, so you should

[46:22] in your packets that new design. What Adam and I had heard from talking to council members,

[46:31] the small group that helped get this project started, the planning commission was that sort of the

[46:37] the greatest interest so to speak were keeping as much green space as possible and

[46:46] obscuring sounds harsh but obscuring the building behind it to make it feel more natural

[46:53] So in adding back the shade structure, instead of making a whole new pad and dining area, instead

[47:01] the architects added it onto the existing dining area that was already in the design, and

[47:07] then it will also help with that obscuring of the building behind.

[47:13] As well as we've added some more shade trees.

[47:16] There's, we'd like to plant one big one sort of right in the middle of the park now, and more trees and shrubbery around the backside of the memorial and that seat wall that we can fully add back.

[47:31] So even with adding all of these things back, it is with the new Odinark grant will be a net savings of $123,000 in out of pocket costs to the city.

[47:44] And you should have in your packets a cost estimate for the design in front of you as well.

[47:51] So as I said earlier, if Council likes this design or has some minor tweaks that don't take too much,

[47:57] Director Rogers will be a planning commission later this month for their approval.

[48:06] That's so great about the grant. It really is. It's really great.

[48:10] good, that's good work.

[48:15] Looks good vended. Are the questions for Ben on a net topic?

[48:19] By the question Ben. So it's brought to my attention by a resident that looked over some

[48:26] of the budget information and they were saying, well, it's just a green space. Why is it cost so much?

[48:32] And I try to explain, look, it's not just planting a few trees and, you know, we'll

[48:38] landscape and call them in a day. It's going to be a proper part. Can you just unrecord

[48:42] just go through some of the highlights of what exactly is going in there?

[48:48] Yeah, so the obviously the grass is not the big expats, right?

[48:53] The big expences are the memorial and the sandstone wall to sort of complete that memorial.

[49:01] The sandstone blocks both for that memorial wall and then also for the Shardin sign at the front of the pocket park sort of right on the intersection.

[49:11] I, if I remember the price quote quickly, are the largest single line item that we're buying.

[49:18] The shade structure itself, which has to have a concrete foundation, built to be built to code,

[49:26] with stand snow load, all those wonderful things is another major line item.

[49:32] And then the concrete work of putting in the sidewalks and the brick inlay's.

[49:39] and then the new cost with this grant is adding back in electric service so there will be some pedestrian lights along the pathway

[49:46] the flag will be lit the shard and sign will be lit

[49:54] and then a buying live trees also isn't as cheap as you might think it should be.

[50:02] that's yeah I didn't have that that time but yeah. Thank you.

[50:09] Well any of the landscaping or such be done in-house?

[50:14] Are we hiring anything out?

[50:16] This will all be bid as a lump sum bid package, so the ultimately chosen contractor will be responsible for all of it.

[50:25] We are, we have had talks with a potential donor who might donate the memorial itself, the stone bedends, but that has not been confirmed yet whether or not they are going to make that donation.

[50:44] Thank you.

[50:48] Don't you have any other questions for Ben?

[50:49] On the top.

[50:51] I'll make the approval to approve the revised plan for the pocket bill.

[50:57] Motion.

[50:58] That's all second, Ben.

[51:01] Move the second and any further discussion?

[51:05] We've got to, to approving this plan as it is.

[51:09] There's a point that incentives blinding commission.

[51:13] So, per our zoning code, planning commission gets the chance to make recommendations on

[51:22] public improvements.

[51:24] So, I am legally required to take it to the bank.

[51:26] I understand that.

[51:27] So, I'm asking for putting the card before the horse.

[51:32] You mean by having council go first?

[51:36] So, Jonathan asked me the same question and my response to him, which is the same I'll give

[51:41] is I am not comfortable taking to plan in commission.

[51:46] The city would like to build this,

[51:48] no my bosses haven't looked at it and said they like it. So I am bringing it to the people

[51:56] who will ultimately own it. And so, functionally, we are the property owner applying to the bank.

[52:05] Good,

[52:09] good motion and seconded for the discussion of all questions.

[52:14] Mr. Gra? Yes.

[52:16] Mr. Martin? Yes. Yes.

[52:19] Mr. Malaskin? Yes.

[52:20] Mr. Ying? Yes.

[52:21] Mr. Blackhead? Yes.

[52:22] Is this too hot? Yes.

[52:25] Moving on to new business B.

[52:28] Considering the abductions to.

[52:30] All class C&D retail liquor permits, inspiring on October 1st, 2020, 6, and our law director will take us through this.

[52:40] Thank you. Under a high-o-law, the City Council has the ability to object to the renewal of any class C or D retail liquor permits in the city.

[52:52] If you want to object to the reissurance, you have to do so before September 1st.

[52:58] If you want your retail establishments to continue to operate with their C&D permits,

[53:04] you need to do nothing.

[53:09] We have a new concern.

[53:10] Is there a recommendation?

[53:11] He said we

[53:16] can just move along then.

[53:20] Thank you.

[53:21] Very good.

[53:22] We're going to do business C considering

[53:24] objectives to a new C1 liquor permit for Ohio CBS stores

[53:30] to a nine six center street back to then.

[53:34] Yeah, I will say what I said before and also say that

[53:37] in this one for the Ohio CBS stores on center street,

[53:40] I'm not aware of any reason why we would object to their mind.

[53:45] You want permit to do it only.

[53:46] Take it.

[53:47] Believe so.

[53:51] It's a new one.

[53:59] Any objections on that one?

[54:03] Thank you.

[54:05] Those will want to.

[54:08] Legislation.

[54:19] A.

[54:22] On the agenda.

[54:23] Would anyone like this legislation read in its entirety.

[54:26] Hearing none.

[54:29] The ordinance.

[54:30] Can you just.

[54:32] Thank you.

[54:35] And the ordinance authorizing the creation and closure of various city funds and

[54:38] pending chapter 123 Finance Director of the Coutified

[54:41] Organization, the City of Charm, Nohailer, to clarify powers of the office and authorize city funds.

[54:48] This item is brought to us by Ben Young, the City Manager, so Ben will take this through that.

[54:54] Thank you. As member Meleski touched on earlier, we talked about this with the Finance Committee.

[55:01] So the city currently has 59 active budgetary funds, which is a high number for a city

[55:10] our size.

[55:12] So what we have for you tonight is a proposal to where we can consolidate some of those

[55:19] funds close out some that are truly active anymore.

[55:24] And then there are some minor retitling as we were going through with these funds trying

[55:30] match them to their authorizing sections of the R.C. So we have some minor retitling to make

[55:36] it clear or where they come from in the R.C. So examples include, you know, we still have the heritage

[55:44] house fund open from when the heritage house was built. So closing that out, we still have our

[55:51] COVID-19 fund open, our American Rescue Act fund. So those are the examples of things that are

[55:56] past projects that can now be closed out and then examples of some of the

[56:03] consolidations are like we have an EMS fund that just collects EMS

[56:08] billing and then we have a firing MS operating fund. They both just pay a

[56:13] portion of the CFD contract so we could put those together and just have one

[56:18] fire operating fund. So it's all intended to try and make the budget easier for us

[56:25] to use and easier for the public to understand.

[56:30] During the Finance Committee,

[56:31] a member Yany brought up that there had been lawsuits

[56:36] about the wastewater treatment plant fee,

[56:40] which led me to go pull boxes from the back room

[56:43] and read all five lawsuits.

[56:46] I've talked to bearers, they're been about it.

[56:49] I am asking tonight that before you pass this,

[56:52] If you pass it, you strike what was Section 10 in the original draft about the waste part

[56:58] during the Pantheon, and we'll revisit that with water and sewer rates later this year.

[57:04] I make a motion to strike Section 10.

[57:06] Dr. Kent.

[57:08] Who would a second take for the discussion?

[57:10] All the questions.

[57:15] Mr. Martin?

[57:16] Yes.

[57:17] Ms. Maleski?

[57:19] Yes.

[57:19] Mr. Maleski?

[57:20] Yes.

[57:20] Mr. Blackley?

[57:21] Yes.

[57:22] You have? Yes. Mr. Grot. Yes.

[57:26] Happy to answer any specific questions.

[57:30] The one other thing I did want to point out is we are proposing one new fund, which is a permit and licenses fee fund.

[57:38] And that's on the recommendation of Council to help us just make sure everything is kosher.

[57:48] One other thing we did talk about.

[57:50] are currently or two sidewalk funds. One of them would be closed out. My comment was

[58:00] at one point we had two different types of assessments.

[58:07] And the one that I was concerned

[58:10] about would an essence be no more funds in it this year. So based on that I was okay with

[58:19] because the whole purpose of it was there was almost, if I recall with some sort of earmarking type of thing and if we use it then there's no more earmarking to be concerned with.

[58:33] Does that make sense?

[58:34] So we had kept it kept them separate because of this legislation that drove them differently and it's going to be in essence all used up by the end of the year.

[58:47] projected to 0.0.

[58:48] I don't know about that.

[58:52] Can I have a seat?

[58:54] Ben, is there anything that you want to touch on?

[58:57] You're also this legislation.

[59:00] Revises chapter 123 finance director and financial regulations.

[59:05] Anything that you want to highlight in that?

[59:07] So the bulk of it is right now,

[59:10] only some of our funds exist in chapter 123.

[59:13] So the bulk of the red line is making sure that every single fund

[59:16] is in 123 specifically authorized by Council, and then right at the beginning of the chapter,

[59:23] very similar to what we did for the City Manager. We just added a section about setting

[59:29] very clear powers of the Finance Director.

[59:38] The vast majority of the thick redline document is

[59:41] just setting the ORC authorizing provisions for every fund.

[59:48] Any other questions for Ben on that?

[59:50] Is there a motion to suspend the rule requiring three reading meetings for ordinance number

[59:56] three three six five?

[59:58] So moved.

[1:00:07] Mr. Yany? Yes. Mr. Blackley? Yes. Mr. Suha? Yes. Mr. Grah. Yes. Mr. Martin? Yes. Mr. Motion to adopt ordinance 3365 under suspension of the rules.

[1:00:19] The mood.

[1:00:20] The second.

[1:00:22] The second for the discussion.

[1:00:24] Hearing none.

[1:00:25] Call the question.

[1:00:27] Mr. Malaskin.

[1:00:28] Yes.

[1:00:28] Mr. Yane.

[1:00:30] Blackly.

[1:00:30] Yes.

[1:00:31] Mr. Tua.

[1:00:32] Mr. Gra.

[1:00:33] Yes.

[1:00:33] Mr. Martin.

[1:00:35] Yes.

[1:00:37] Motion carries.

[1:00:38] Moving on to.

[1:00:41] Legislation B.

[1:00:45] Would anyone like this legislation ready?

[1:00:47] It's entirety.

[1:00:48] hearing none. Resolution number 19-26. A resolution providing for the control of light

[1:00:57] and disease of shade trees within public rights of weight and for planting maintaining

[1:01:01] trimming and removing shade trees in and along the streets of the city of Shardin,

[1:01:06] authorizing the shade tree commissions that are provided during the year 2022. The

[1:01:10] abyshing a single district for a sit for a visit in accordance with the provisions of section 727.

[1:01:15] 1.01 of the Ohio revised code, providing for the assessment of the cost and expense of such

[1:01:21] planting maintaining, trimming and removing upon benefiting property and said district and

[1:01:26] declaring an emergency.

[1:01:28] This is brought to us by Ben Chernecki.

[1:01:32] Thank you. This is the legislation we do every year,

[1:01:35] contemplating for the control and removal of light and disease and shade trees within the

[1:01:40] public rights way.

[1:01:44] Are there any questions for Ben?

[1:01:51] Is there a motion to suspend the rule requiring free reading reading is for ordinance number?

[1:01:57] Sorry for resolution

[1:01:58] 19-26 so moved

[1:02:03] Move the second it for the discussion called a question

[1:02:07] Mr. Jamie? Yes, Mr. Blackley. Yes, Mrs. Chu. Yes, Mr. Gra. Yes, Mr. Martin. Yes, Ms. Means. Yes, Mr. Maleski. Yes, is there a motion to adopt

[1:02:19] Resolution number nineteen dash twenty six under suspension of the rules

[1:02:23] Who do second it for the discussion hearing none call the question?

[1:02:29] Mr. Blackley. Yes, Mrs. Suha. Yes, Mr. Grah. Yes, Mr. Martin. Yes, Ms. Means. Yes, Mr. Maleski. Yes, Mr.

[1:02:38] Haney. Yes. Motion carries moving on to the legislation C.

[1:02:44] On the agenda with anyone like this legislation red and it's entirety hearing none.

[1:02:51] Resolution number 20-26, a resolution of necessity for the assessment of street lighting and

[1:02:57] declaring an emergency.

[1:03:09] This is brought to us by a law director.

[1:03:12] Thank you.

[1:03:13] This contemplates the assessment of street lighting, assessment of properties for street lighting

[1:03:18] within the city.

[1:03:21] Are there any questions for law director on this issue?

[1:03:24] I would question if it would go to the law director or to the finance director, but the assessment

[1:03:30] $130,000, how does that compare to what we're being charged by first energy?

[1:03:37] That is slightly lower, but we do have a carryover balance so we are covered.

[1:03:44] Have you seen, is that number, can you see any trends decreasing or increasing?

[1:03:52] A lot of power costs are increasing, but in theory we have, not in theory in practice, we have streetlights that consume less power than previously.

[1:04:03] Yeah that did occur a few years back but yes rates are increasing so that number is increasing

[1:04:10] and eventually we'll need a assessment we'll need to be increased but for now carry over

[1:04:14] balance does cup does cover so that amount that we've used in the past is sufficient.

[1:04:20] Okay.

[1:04:20] We're good.

[1:04:21] Thank you.

[1:04:21] Our strategy had also submitted a new terrorist plan that proposed building street lighting

[1:04:27] at the same basically getting rid of the special lower rate for government street lighting.

[1:04:33] which thankfully Puko rejected, but they are trying to make us pay more.

[1:04:42] No surprise there.

[1:04:47] Are there any available grants to look at solar-street lighting?

[1:04:54] I'm using Moonlight.

[1:04:55] They're certainly asking no.

[1:04:57] Capture the power during the day.

[1:05:00] Yes, absolutely.

[1:05:01] You have to get the battery power.

[1:05:02] And he might be something that considered some point to help off set.

[1:05:06] I tell you, I agree.

[1:05:07] I like the idea of sustainable power of generation.

[1:05:12] Years ago, we had a city electric utility.

[1:05:17] We should go re-establish that.

[1:05:20] Did we ever actually generate?

[1:05:22] No.

[1:05:23] No.

[1:05:23] The idea was, so there was a thought at one point about it.

[1:05:27] actually, because of, again, charges being levied by

[1:05:32] Cleveland Electric eliminating, as it was known back then, that the

[1:05:35] city was contemplating, creating his own electric utility, if

[1:05:38] nothing else, to bring power into the city at a lower rate.

[1:05:43] And then, so the question always came down to, who owns the

[1:05:46] infrastructure? And of course, illuminating company owns it.

[1:05:48] And they're not just going to let you use it for free.

[1:05:52] And then with things with subsequent to that, there were

[1:05:56] changes in legislation and it was just, it was no longer really an issue.

[1:06:00] But it was a good leverage in working with, with them to let them know that we were serious

[1:06:05] about the costs that we were being charged.

[1:06:09] I think that helped us get a little more, a little more respect or a little more respect

[1:06:15] from that right word.

[1:06:17] But a little more consideration as far as what we were being charged for electricity.

[1:06:24] That was 30 years ago or in a far, far different situation now than it was back then.

[1:06:30] Again, we don't own the distribution infrastructure.

[1:06:37] And I'm not proposing that we string our own lines and polls like City Cleveland.

[1:06:43] That would be tedious.

[1:06:49] Any other comments?

[1:06:51] There are emotions used to spend the rule requiring three readings for resolution number

[1:06:59] twenty- twenty-six.

[1:07:01] Second.

[1:07:03] Second.

[1:07:04] For the discussion.

[1:07:05] Call a question.

[1:07:07] Mrs. Chua.

[1:07:08] Yes.

[1:07:08] Mr. Gra.

[1:07:09] Yes.

[1:07:09] Mr. Martin.

[1:07:10] Yes.

[1:07:12] Mr. Maleski.

[1:07:13] Yes.

[1:07:13] Mr. Yany.

[1:07:14] Mr. Blackley.

[1:07:17] Is there a motion to adopt resolution 20-26 under suspension of the rules?

[1:07:25] Okay.

[1:07:26] Move a second for the discussion.

[1:07:28] Hearing none.

[1:07:29] Call the question.

[1:07:30] Mr. Grant? Yes. Mr. Martin? Yes. Yes. Mr. Maleski? Yes. Mr. Yane? Yes. Mr. Blackley? Yes. This is too hot. Yes.

[1:07:42] Moving on to legislation D. Would anyone like this legislation read in its entirety? Hearing none. Resolution number 21-26, a resolution of necessity for the assessment of sidewalks and declaring an emergency.

[1:08:00] and this is brought to us by Dan Channaki once again.

[1:08:05] Thank you. This is a resolution and necessity for the assessment of sidewalks throughout the city.

[1:08:18] What about it?

[1:08:20] What about this here?

[1:08:25] One minute of meeting.

[1:08:26] I'm reading answer there.

[1:08:29] Stop it.

[1:08:35] Is there a motion to suspend the rule requiring three readings for resolution 21-26?

[1:08:44] It will move.

[1:08:46] Who was the seconded for the discussion?

[1:08:48] Call the question.

[1:08:50] Mr. Martin.

[1:08:51] Ms. Means.

[1:08:52] Yes.

[1:08:52] Mr. Milesky.

[1:08:54] Mr. Yaney.

[1:08:55] Mr. Blackley.

[1:08:55] Yes.

[1:08:56] Yes.

[1:08:56] Yes, Mr. Grant. Yes. Is there a motion to adopt resolution 21-26?

[1:09:03] The suspension of the rules.

[1:09:06] Okay.

[1:09:07] So the second tip for the discussion.

[1:09:10] All the questions.

[1:09:11] Ms. Means? Yes. Mr. Mileski? Yes.

[1:09:13] Mr. Yani? Yes.

[1:09:15] Mr. Blackley? Yes.

[1:09:16] Mr. Tuhah? Yes. Mr. Grant? Yes.

[1:09:22] Moving on to legislation E.

[1:09:24] Would anyone like this legislation red in its entirety hearing none?

[1:09:30] Number 22-26.

[1:09:33] A final resolution approving the city's contract with the Ohio Department of Transportation

[1:09:37] for the construction of city-wide traffic signal upgrades.

[1:09:41] Project identification number one two zero eight one five.

[1:09:45] Thank you. This is brought to us by Justin.

[1:09:48] Thank you Mayor. This is a final resolution approving up.

[1:09:52] It's the last ODOT requirement to keep our singleization project running.

[1:09:57] I was going to pull up and see there.

[1:10:00] So this will authorize us the amount to cut the checked ODOT and then they can go out to

[1:10:05] it.

[1:10:10] Any questions to Dustin?

[1:10:13] Is there a motion to suspend the rule requiring three readings for resolution 22-26?

[1:10:28] Yes.

[1:10:31] Mr. Blackley?

[1:10:32] Yes.

[1:10:33] Mr. Martin?

[1:10:36] Yes.

[1:10:37] Is there a motion to adopt resolution 22-26 under suspension of the rules?

[1:10:46] The rule, the second.

[1:10:49] in a further discussion.

[1:10:50] All the questions.

[1:10:52] Mr. Yany?

[1:10:53] Mr. Blackley?

[1:10:54] Yes.

[1:10:55] Mrs. Tuhah?

[1:10:56] Yes.

[1:10:56] Mr. Graud?

[1:10:57] Yes.

[1:10:58] Mr. Martin?

[1:10:59] Yes.

[1:10:59] His name?

[1:11:00] Yes.

[1:11:00] Mr. Melissa.

[1:11:01] Yes.

[1:11:06] It's good.

[1:11:07] Moving on to review of expenditures.

[1:11:10] Who's it?

[1:11:12] Come to now.

[1:11:17] So I'm happy to report the expenditures are in order.

[1:11:21] And I just wanted to give an update

[1:11:23] on, Mark and I had been working on trying to be more efficient and implement workflows.

[1:11:32] So if you recall, whoever's been an expenditure reviewer in the past, the big part of the task

[1:11:39] was looking forward to someone in the initial design, the expenditure that's now moved over

[1:11:45] to an electronic process.

[1:11:48] So, out of, and I, sorry, didn't do a full count, but out of all of them, which is probably

[1:11:54] in the neighborhood of 120.

[1:11:57] There were three that hadn't gone through that flow this time.

[1:12:01] So, to go through that, this time was like two minutes.

[1:12:05] The other part that I look at is the threshold of spend and there's different requirements.

[1:12:12] And so, what I did is I pulled and booked in the system to find

[1:12:17] and make sure that that was satisfied and everything blind there.

[1:12:22] So based on some of these improvements, I'm probably going to have during a finance committee

[1:12:30] look at the potential of changing the requirement on the expenditure review and then making

[1:12:37] a recommendation to council because of like literally there would have been a 15 minute exercise

[1:12:47] with some of the ways that I'm pulling the data in and comparing it now.

[1:12:52] So that's what I'm looking at because it's really, and there were everything was completely

[1:12:57] in order this time, and there were only three then and now, and that to, I went through

[1:13:03] the data, it told me which ones to look at, one and look at them, and that was probably another

[1:13:10] two minutes.

[1:13:11] So that's my update, and I know it's a little bit more than normal, but from my

[1:13:17] standpoint, it's a good progress along the way of trying to improve the process as well.

[1:13:22] It's excellent.

[1:13:24] Going to that process, I appreciate after you're putting into this and Mark is well over

[1:13:29] a team from the finance department.

[1:13:32] Yes, thank you so much, Mark, for the support on.

[1:13:34] Thanks.

[1:13:34] Jessup, it too.

[1:13:36] Yeah, I mean, Jessup.

[1:13:38] Yeah.

[1:13:38] I mean, the purpose of every view of expenditures, we've provided some council oversight

[1:13:42] on that.

[1:13:44] You would feel satisfied that the finance committee would still feel comfortable in signing

[1:13:51] off, essentially, on what's being spent.

[1:13:54] Well, so from a standpoint, and I had that thought as well, it may come more of either

[1:14:01] every other month or quarterly where you could actually throw that net out there make sure that

[1:14:07] I mean, if you can do it that fast, I think you could do it quarterly and have something

[1:14:12] in all in those lines so that's a thought that I had as well as there's a purpose for it and

[1:14:19] I think based on some of those improvements it's pretty quickly done and to do a quarter would

[1:14:26] not be that difficult to do and most of it. I mean, let's see, the only things I was looking

[1:14:33] for physically were three that then have workflows, so three actual paper copy signatures

[1:14:40] and three that were missing then, or I needed then and now is which they all three had done

[1:14:46] house, or maybe it was too, but so all that to say, one could ask for it. One could review

[1:14:57] electronically, quarterly, and you could actually probably, yeah.

[1:15:00] I ask for, I want to see these five items type of thing. So, to your point, yeah, I think we could do, if we

[1:15:09] didn't eliminate it, we could do it orderly or do it ad hoc, whichever we, I understand your

[1:15:17] thoughts there.

[1:15:22] Okay, thanks, Dan. We'll move on to executive session. We do have

[1:15:29] the reason for executive session for the following reasons.

[1:15:34] Consider the appointment and appointment of this

[1:15:35] and this whole discipline, the motion, will

[1:15:38] compensate for the public or the official.

[1:15:42] And preparing for conducting overview

[1:15:45] negotiations regarding sessions for public employees,

[1:15:49] concerning their compensation.

[1:15:52] For other terms and conditions of their

[1:15:55] into the second session I would like to talk to you today for the Council of

[1:16:01] the Young and City Manager, the convention I can talk to the recorder, so it's

[1:16:06] got an ESG for please.

[1:16:11] I need a motion to go into the second session.

[1:16:17] So, the second question? Question yourself.

[1:16:22] Mr. Blackley? Yes.

[1:16:23] Is this Suha? Yes. Mr. Braw? Yes.

[1:16:26] Martin? Yes, Mr. Malay. Yes.

[1:16:30] Yeah, all right we are an executive session at 74 cents.

[1:16:47] We're a Barnett taxes.

[1:16:49] All right, the 57 and we are back and open session.

[1:16:52] They're all for adventuring.

[1:16:55] Can't focus.

[1:16:58] Any other business to come before Council?

[1:17:02] Well, it was time for our city manager's first

[1:17:07] review in his position, all of Council participated to a high level of reviewing his leadership

[1:17:18] skills and all the things that he does to contribute greatly to our city, as we've said

[1:17:24] to him

[1:17:28] many times that we greatly appreciate what he's doing, we hear nothing but could

[1:17:33] views from different organizations, such as the county and the

[1:17:37] Charlotte local schools and the business community here in

[1:17:41] Sheridan. And relative to that, then we would like to increase

[1:17:48] him from step 1.2 over thereabouts to 3.

[1:17:53] Step 3 is his new compensation level. And we're very happy to do that.

[1:17:58] So thank you, Ben. Thank you.

[1:18:02] I'll make that motion.

[1:18:04] I'll sign it.

[1:18:05] Move the second it for the discussion.

[1:18:08] Call the question.

[1:18:09] Mrs. Tura.

[1:18:10] Yes.

[1:18:11] Mr. Braw.

[1:18:12] Yes.

[1:18:12] Mr. Martin.

[1:18:14] Yes.

[1:18:15] Yes.

[1:18:15] Mr. Malaski.

[1:18:16] Yes.

[1:18:16] Mr. Yany.

[1:18:18] Yes.

[1:18:19] Mr. Blackley.

[1:18:19] Yes.

[1:18:21] Motion carries.

[1:18:22] Once again, thank you, Ben, for what are you doing?

[1:18:24] Thank you.

[1:18:25] Thank you, Ben.

[1:18:25] Is there any other business to come before council?

[1:18:31] Just a public thought is school starts next week, so I'm just going to see the same thing on Wednesday.

[1:18:40] I believe it is.

[1:18:42] Yes.

[1:18:42] In the first football game is actually next Thursday, not next Friday, so.

[1:18:48] But just driving patterns will be a little different in school buses.

[1:18:53] And we had the ribbon cutting for the new test course, and there was the ribbon cutting for the library, very big week for that.

[1:19:03] And I'll just say, like, thank you to the 1.2 million anonymous donation to build those tennis courts.

[1:19:11] That's pretty remarkable.

[1:19:16] By one family.

[1:19:21] Multiple donors from what I've been told by the school.

[1:19:24] Well, thank you to them, but yeah, it's a remarkable gift.

[1:19:29] Yeah, it's a remarkable gift.

[1:19:31] Yeah.

[1:19:32] It did a nice job.

[1:19:34] Any other business?

[1:19:37] Go to adjourn.

[1:19:39] Second, all the favors signify by saying aye.

[1:19:44] We are adjourned at exactly nine.

Chardon Council Meeting 08-13-2026

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