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[0:00] And or Allen from the meeting tonight.
[0:02] Roll call, please.
[0:04] Mrs. Murphy.
[0:04] Yes.
[0:05] Mayor Allison.
[0:06] Yes.
[0:06] Mr. McGuire.
[0:07] Yes.
[0:07] Mr. Daugherty.
[0:08] Yes.
[0:08] Ms. Marcus.
[0:09] Yes.
[0:12] We have approval of minutes.
[0:14] I'll make a motion to approve the minutes if there's no changes or.
[0:22] Roll call, please.
[0:24] Mrs. Murphy.
[0:25] Yes.
[0:25] Mr. McGuire.
[0:26] Yes.
[0:26] Mayor Allison.
[0:27] Yes.
[0:27] Mr. Daugherty.
[0:28] Yes.
[0:29] Ms. Marcus.
[0:29] Yes.
[0:31] Okay. Topics of discussion. Finance Director?
[0:35] The only thing that I wanted to say tonight was to let the council know that the audit is going well.
[0:42] They've not uncovered any of our secrets. I'm just joking.
[0:50] I talked to one of the auditors that are here performing the non-parallel expenses and parallel
[1:00] expense testing, and he said he's not seen anything out of alignment, so we're doing
[1:06] well in the audit this year.
[1:07] Thank you.
[1:10] Our acting city manager.
[1:12] I have nothing.
[1:14] Mayor Allison?
[1:15] Nothing additional tonight.
[1:17] Thank you.
[1:19] Yes, we if if I could ask for a very short executive session to discuss pending litigation
[1:27] at the end of this meeting with no action to follow.
[1:31] Make a motion that we have executive session at the end of this meeting.
[1:35] No business to follow for matters pertaining to litigation.
[1:38] Will the call please.
[1:40] Mayor Allison.
[1:41] Yes.
[1:41] This is Murphy.
[1:42] Yes.
[1:42] Mr. McGuire.
[1:43] Yes.
[1:43] Yes, Mr. Darien. Yes, please, Marcus.
[1:45] Yes.
[1:48] Business. The first item is a dump truck and accessories.
[1:51] Mr. Campbell?
[1:55] Yes, ma'am. The dump truck will be replacing a 22-year-old version of a dump truck that we have now.
[2:02] We went with International for the Chassis and K.E. Rose for the bed and the control portion of it.
[2:10] Based on a request from the mechanics, they preferred K.E. Rose over Coffin Barber.
[2:14] so we went that route. And it is a 2016 budgeted item.
[2:21] Any questions or comments?
[2:24] Make a motion that we have proper legislation prepared for the purchase of the new dump truck,
[2:30] dumper, and chassis.
[2:33] Roll call, please.
[2:35] Mayor Allison.
[2:36] Yes.
[2:36] Mr. McGuire.
[2:37] Yes.
[2:37] Mrs. Murphy.
[2:38] Yes.
[2:39] Mr. Doherty.
[2:39] Yes.
[2:39] Ms. Marcus.
[2:40] Yes.
[2:42] Liquor license transferred.
[2:44] Ms. Warbridge.
[2:45] We received a liquor license transfer for the family market, and it's from the Department
[2:54] of Commerce, and it's because it is located next to a park, a church that just needs a
[2:59] voice vote.
[3:04] I make a motion, Matt.
[3:05] We approve it.
[3:09] Roll call, please.
[3:11] Mrs. Murphy?
[3:12] Yes.
[3:12] Mr. McGuire?
[3:13] Yes.
[3:14] Mr. Daugherty?
[3:14] Yes.
[3:15] Mayor Allison?
[3:15] Yes.
[3:16] Ms. Marcus?
[3:16] Yes.
[3:18] Donation to the police division by Brightwood College.
[3:21] Do you hear me, please?
[3:23] Brightwood College is done away with their criminal justice program.
[3:26] They have some defensive tactics equipment that they would like to donate to the police department.
[3:31] We could definitely use it, and we very much appreciate their donation.
[3:35] We'd like to accept their donation.
[3:38] I'll make the motion a proper legislation prepared to accept the donation to the police division from Brightwood College.
[3:54] The next one is July 4 fireworks, Ms. Hoffman.
[3:58] Yes, ma'am, we would like to ask permission for the city manager to enter in a contract
[4:03] with Pyrotechnico for the July 4 fireworks.
[4:08] The total of this contract would be $30,000 and is included in our 2016 budget.
[4:14] In your packet, you can see that we have a total of $30,000.
[4:15] and we did do some research on the differences
[4:18] between what this show would bring and previous years.
[4:22] The majority of the differences between the two contracts
[4:25] would be the length of the finale
[4:26] and the length of the overall show.
[4:29] Increasing the budget for that, of course,
[4:30] will increase the amount of shells that would be fired.
[4:34] So that information is in your packet.
[4:36] It would change the length of the show
[4:38] to around 24 minutes versus the 12
[4:40] that we've had for the past three years.
[4:46] That make a motion.
[4:47] We have legislation drawn up to let the city manager enter into contract to the fireworks
[4:56] Mr. McGuire. Yes. Mr. Gordy. Yes. Mrs. Murphy. Yes. Mayor Allison. Yes. Ms. Marcus. Yes.
[5:05] Dear Meadow Park. Again, Ms. Hoffman. Actually, Mr. Adams has been speaking to you about this week.
[5:12] As Julie brings up last, so you can refer to the aerials as we go through it.
[5:18] Clean Ohio has funding available for various projects dealing with parks and what not.
[5:24] And Metro Parks approached us with an opportunity to link awesome creek
[5:29] with the existing bike path paths in front of Deer Meadow Park.
[5:34] And you can see that immediately south of the lake there.
[5:38] It's kind of odd that the path that ends right there.
[5:42] It's just a natural place where we stopped building it.
[5:44] But, you know, obviously with funding, it hasn't been high on the list of things we need to buy.
[5:50] Now, with, you know, how funding available, it's possible in partnering with metro parks
[5:56] that we can get this path done. The trick at this point that Julie and I are working on
[6:03] along with the property owners in the area and working with metro parks is the precise path of that.
[6:10] One option would be to go due west to Soldiers Home, go up Soldiers Home and over to Shank and connect that way.
[6:17] We could go up Lyleburn and across the north along linking up with Soldiers Home.
[6:22] We could meander around the farmland to the northwest of Deer Meadow Park and then meet up with Soldiers Home and go up and around.
[6:30] We're looking at options with an eye both on costs and on ease of access both for the path itself and also for construction.
[6:40] We're trying very hard not to go around a bunch of private property and cause shenanigans
[6:47] for some of the homeowners that live there.
[6:50] We have talked with one property owner already.
[6:52] We're looking at other options.
[6:55] The time frame of the reason you have this in an incomplete form is that the grant
[7:00] is due on April 1st, so Metro Parks approaches in the last month and we're kind of trying
[7:06] to pull together a proposal.
[7:07] proposal, because of that deadline we would need to have legislation prepared to authorize
[7:12] the same manager to make that application and sign agreements and whatnot for the, you
[7:17] know, Ohio program at the next council meeting so that we could have that application in on
[7:21] the 1st of April. And at that point we would have a firm proposal to make as far as what
[7:27] would be going where and how much that would cost us. The grant itself is a 25% match
[7:32] which we would share with Metro Parks, whether that is cash or in-kind labor or land or what
[7:38] have you depends very much on the route.
[7:42] So 25% match being that we in the Metro Parks room for 25% and then Grant's 75%?
[7:49] That's correct.
[7:50] Okay.
[7:50] Ideally, that would be split 50-50 with Metro Parks.
[7:54] Ideally, we can, as Mike said, utilize labor as part of the match.
[7:57] we can utilize any land that we would donate towards the project towards that.
[8:02] And we realize that this is a little gray and I apologize for that.
[8:07] The timing is a tight window. It's a very large scale grant.
[8:12] It would mean so much to Deer Meadow and the connectivity to Possum Creek would open up that space
[8:19] for people from as far away as downtown to bike to Deer Meadow or to bike to Possum Creek.
[8:25] So we feel like the use of this would be just huge.
[8:29] Five Rivers is very excited about it.
[8:32] You'll see this multiple times.
[8:33] You would see this again when we come back to you next week,
[8:36] and then you would also, if we would be lucky enough to be awarded the grant,
[8:39] you would see it then in a cow meeting too, in a committee of the whole,
[8:42] to accept the grant, and then again for legislation.
[8:45] So this project could be upwards of, you know, 15 months away.
[8:49] Two questions.
[8:50] Is this something that would all be done within, in-house, us and metro parks or would we have to farm the work out?
[8:58] We would contract the work out. The path would be roughly ten feet wide and it would be paved.
[9:03] So we would contract out. There's a lot of landscaping issues, which is culverts, all those sort of things that would be contract out.
[9:10] But all that is feasibly can be paid for with this clean Ohio money. We're in the scope of the grant award.
[9:16] You see any possible downside on anything on this?
[9:20] The downside is, as Mike said, the challenges that we're working through now
[9:24] in trying to figure out the best route for the least amount of money.
[9:28] Every turn is a few more dollars.
[9:31] So trying to find out that best route,
[9:33] and once we can get those logistical things worked out,
[9:35] I think it's going to be wonderful for us.
[9:37] I mean, for us as a user of Deer Meadow,
[9:39] you can easily cut across the back,
[9:41] you know, pick up the pathway,
[9:42] and use their restrooms or, you know, enjoy their trails.
[9:47] I think that it would only bring to Dear Meadow just another element.
[9:54] As far as the downside, I think the logistics and the money, obviously, there is going to be a match involved,
[9:59] but hopefully we can work out a lot of that so it's very minimal.
[10:03] So is the Metro Park planning on building, so once we get the bike trail over to the Metro Park,
[10:09] Are they planning on building a bike trail in the Metro park because there is no bike trail there now
[10:13] So we would attach to their drives
[10:15] And then they would just drive way right
[10:18] We would attach to their drive with this path and then they are looking to expand their pathways as well
[10:23] We're gonna create pathways because they have no pathways
[10:29] And you're gonna so by the time this comes back next week
[10:32] You're gonna have in two weeks solid numbers have the the dollars in the pathway
[10:39] The price of the project, we have a good idea on, you know, price for, you know,
[10:44] living our foot as well as, you know, engineering things, but the paths that we
[10:49] choose could vary by almost 2,000 linear feet, which drastically changes the cost.
[10:55] So nailing down the path and making sure that that path is feasible, I think
[10:58] will give us the cost.
[11:01] If the numbers came in astronomical, we could deny the grant, couldn't we?
[11:05] Absolutely.
[11:05] Yeah, okay.
[11:06] If the numbers come in here, at very, very high numbers, chances are we would just, you know,
[11:12] say, and if that's the case, the legislation would be withdrawn.
[11:17] But if we can find a good proposal in among the woods here,
[11:21] I think the amount of money we're talking about is worth a shot.
[11:24] Okay.
[11:28] So we need legislation prepared to allow us to enter into a grant with Laila.
[11:33] Can I make a motion to have legislation prepared for the next meeting?
[11:40] We'll call please.
[11:41] Mrs. Murphy?
[11:42] Yes.
[11:43] Mayor Allison?
[11:44] Yes.
[11:44] Mr. McGuire?
[11:45] Yes.
[11:45] Mr. Daugherty?
[11:46] Yes.
[11:46] Ms. Marcus?
[11:47] Yes.
[11:48] Okay.
[11:48] The next one is the CRHC-TIRC Annual Report.
[11:53] Mr. Davis?
[11:54] Yes.
[11:54] Thank you.
[11:54] This is an annual housekeeping measure.
[11:57] The County Auditor's Office has not scheduled the TURC meeting until the 22nd of this
[12:02] month.
[12:03] I have to have all this electronically filed by March 31st.
[12:08] And obviously to make it, to get the legislation approved by all of you at the next meeting,
[12:14] we had to bring it to this committee the whole.
[12:16] Again, this is something that we do every year to gauge how the incentives are doing
[12:22] from the Community Reinvestment Act as well as the Enterprise Zone.
[12:27] I can answer any questions.
[12:33] Questions or comments?
[12:37] I make a motion that we have legislation drawn up whatever Mike needs to complete
[12:44] It would be two CRHC resolution and then the one for the enterprise zone.
[12:50] That's what I meant to say.
[12:54] Roll call please.
[12:56] Mr. McGuire.
[12:57] Yes.
[12:57] Mrs. Murphy.
[12:58] Yes.
[12:58] Mayor Allison.
[12:59] Yes.
[13:00] Mr. Doherty.
[13:00] Yes.
[13:01] Ms. Markins.
[13:01] Yes.
[13:03] The last item is WCR Incorporated Forgiveness Loan.
[13:07] Mr. Davis.
[13:08] Yes, thank you.
[13:10] Many of you know the back story. WCR was in part of the facility that Fuihao purchased back in 2014.
[13:20] And unfortunately, part of that effort, we wanted to try to retain them. Fuihao worked out an agreement to allow them to be in the building for a while,
[13:27] but ultimately the expansions that are going on over at Fuihao, they needed the 60,000 square feet of space.
[13:33] We worked with them to try to find them another facility in Moraine. We were not able to do that.
[13:38] So in reality, we kind of encouraged them to move into another location.
[13:44] It was outside of our boundaries.
[13:47] They ended up in the City of Fairborn.
[13:49] And understanding that we did this for the greater good of the Puyalli project,
[13:54] I'm here to ask you to forgive the remaining forgiveness loan.
[13:57] It was originally for $20,000.
[13:59] It was a five-year agreement.
[14:02] And they actually met three years' worth of the agreement.
[14:06] Their last contribution to the city was in November of 2015.
[14:11] January of 2016 would have been the third year.
[14:15] They had met their payroll pledge early within that final year or the third year,
[14:20] which means that we're just asking for forgiveness of the remaining two years of the agreement.
[14:27] And I can answer any questions that you may have.
[14:31] So they're actual dollars that we're forgiving to?
[14:34] Yeah, it's about $8,000 if you don't consider the accrued interest.
[14:37] Just if you consider that, working with Richard, I think we came up to about 8,900, but we've
[14:43] already received more than the money that we contributed as part of the effort, because
[14:48] again, they were here for three years.
[14:51] And they did not initiate the move.
[14:54] We encouraged them to...
[14:56] In fact, they didn't want to move.
[14:57] and
[15:00] The uniqueness of this was, you know, a big fan of WCR, right? I call them the pioneer
[15:04] tenant. They were first ones to really commit and go in on that site. I have a lot
[15:10] of love for them, but unfortunately they were in the side that Fuihao purchased
[15:14] to secure WCR. IRG had to enter into an agreement with them where they would
[15:20] not relocate them after the investment that they put in there. All the other
[15:24] tenants that are in that facility or were in that facility signed leases where
[15:28] they could be relocated as long as if they stayed somewhere on the site.
[15:33] And we did not have that agreement with WCR or IRG did not have that agreement with WCR.
[15:42] I'll make a motion that we have proper legislation prepared to forgive the rest of the forgiveness
[15:48] loan.
[15:49] Thank you.
[15:52] Roll call, please.
[15:54] Mayor Allison.
[15:55] Yes.
[15:55] Mr. Daugherty.
[15:56] Yes.
[15:56] Mr. McGuire.
[15:57] Yes.
[15:57] Mrs. Murphy.
[15:58] Yes.
[15:59] Ms. Marcus.
[15:59] Yes.
[16:11] I have no further report. Thank you.
[16:14] Economic development?
[16:16] Yes, it's my understanding in working with DE that several of you may want to attend tomorrow's event.
[16:24] I will share more when I, essentially, what I know at this point in working with one of K-6 Reds,
[16:29] for his run for president is that we can show they will have some seating if we
[16:38] are trying to determine the number of chairs whether it's 300 or 800 and
[16:42] anywhere in between they've indicated to me they will set aside about six
[16:46] chairs I believe there's five of you wanting to go and I will go with you and
[16:52] we are to try to arrive by five o'clock and then I will call that
[16:57] gentleman on his cell phone, and they will direct us to where the seating will be available
[17:02] for us.
[17:03] They indicated that if no one was in those seats by 515, that they would be replaced with
[17:08] someone else.
[17:11] Where should we meet you at 5?
[17:12] I would think that because there's six of us in total, everybody should – unless
[17:18] you want to – there are, you know, a few of you want to ride with me, but otherwise
[17:22] you're going to enter in off a strupe road.
[17:24] They're going to direct you.
[17:25] I don't know much more other than they'll direct you in somewhere to park and then I would suggest that
[17:31] I'll have to give you my cell phone if you don't have it already and then we'll meet in the parking lot
[17:36] I'll call Frank and they'll direct us in from there as far as the logistics and getting in and where you may end up parking I
[17:42] Unfortunately, I think that's left up to you know us
[17:45] And not then there's not going to be special parking
[17:48] At least from what I've been told from way out specifically and then Frank
[17:53] with Casey.
[17:56] Well why don't we just plan on meeting you then over in the backside at five? Does that work?
[18:02] Over at the facility.
[18:04] No, over here.
[18:05] Here.
[18:06] Over so we're at least all trailing.
[18:08] You could be getting it. I would suggest that you meet me a little bit before five.
[18:12] So that we actually pull into the gate at five, maybe ten to.
[18:15] Ten to? Okay.
[18:17] In the back.
[18:17] I'll have my vehicle parked out, you guys can just back up behind me and then we'll all head out from there.
[18:24] Okay. Thank you.
[18:26] And your tickets should be in front of you.
[18:27] I'm sorry.
[18:28] I printed off your tickets and should be in front of the ones that I registered.
[18:33] Oh, okay.
[18:39] Now let's just hope he answers his cell phone when I call him, right?
[18:43] Right.
[18:44] Thank you.
[18:46] Parks and Rec?
[18:48] Nothing further, ma'am.
[18:49] Street Department?
[18:50] Nothing further, thank you.
[19:00] I want to let council know that Doug Saunders came in and put in his resignation to both
[19:06] the BZA and the Merit System Commission.
[19:09] He and his wife are moving or in the process of moving to Inglewood, so he submitted his
[19:16] resignation.
[19:17] On the flip side of that, I actually talked to Doug Quillen, who's a long-time resident
[19:23] former street department student at the superintendent, and he is interested in the BZA position.
[19:28] He wants to get more involved in the city now, and he said he would start off with
[19:34] the BZA if we couldn't find anybody.
[19:35] He may do the merit system, but he brought it in to me today, so I told him I would
[19:41] say something to you all.
[19:42] We could put it on the next committee of the whole and have legislation prepared
[19:45] for April, but I wanted to let you know where it was with that.
[19:50] The life insurance policies that were handed out last meeting need to be turned back, and
[19:55] I think I've got most of yours now.
[19:57] Sherry came and got me for that.
[20:02] I'm in training next Friday in Maysville, so I will not be here next Friday.
[20:09] And then Kim wanted me to remind everybody that my evaluation is due and to not shoot
[20:17] It will take a while. It's long, lengthy, you know.
[20:20] I know, I know. It's all bad, too. I know. That's all I have. Thank you.
[20:25] A law director?
[20:27] Nothing to report. Thank you.
[20:29] Finance director?
[20:31] Nothing to report. Thank you.
[20:32] Majority?
[20:33] Nothing to report.
[20:34] Mr. Replyer?
[20:35] Nothing to report.
[20:36] Mayor Allison?
[20:37] Nothing further.
[20:39] Acting city manager?
[20:41] Nothing further.
[20:44] I have nothing to report.
[20:45] Thank you.
[20:46] I have nothing to report.
[20:47] I have nothing at this time.
[20:48] At 6.44 we'll adjourn to the executive session with no business to follow.