i guess we should get going
good evening
welcome to the uh december 6th meeting
of bedford city council you would please
rise and join me in the pledge of
allegiance
i pledge allegiance to the flag of the
united states of america
and to the republic for which it stands
one nation under god
indivisible with liberty
you can have a motion to excuse
councilwoman mizak from the meeting
tonight
by genus second by sphinx
saunders yes coach yes spanx yes
yes blue party yes
and council you have the minutes of the
work session of november 15 2021
any corrections to that
seeing none and a motion for acceptance
a
geneticist second by blue hardy
of
november 15 2021
any corrections to that
seeing none motion for acceptance
by
saunders second by asbury
call the roll please saunders yes cochi
yes sphinx yes to nudists yes flu party
yes hansbury abstain
and under old business ordinance number
9914-21
okay
being an ordinance to make
appropriations from current expenses and
expenditures of the city of bedford
during the year 2022 and declaring an
emergency you can have a motion for
suspension nice pink second by blue
hardy call the roll please
saunders yes
yes space yes
yes blue party yes
yes promotion for third and final
by asbury second by saunders
um
yes this is our annual appropriation
measure for 2022.
we've trimmed the budget as much as we
can we've had final negotiations with
our unions that are included within this
and uh at this point in time i and we've
had jennifer working on this
continuously with me
and done a great job on this so i asked
council this evening to pass this
appropriation measure for 2022.
thank you
and jennifer our assistant director is
here with us tonight
thanks for your work on this soon
it's done
do you want to mention what our budget's
going to be for next year
the general fund will have a
appropriation measure of 18 million 33
730
the overall budget will be 39 million
348 720
thank you
and i think that says a lot uh and i
think i mentioned it last time we talked
about this that
our budget is 39 million dollars which
is a lot of money
but
a few years back it was 42 million
dollars
so what that
shows us is that
the administration and the department
heads
along with the assistance of council has
trimmed back the budget
we actually are operating
at a high efficiency for less money than
we did just a few years ago and i think
that's a testament
to our administration that uh sitting up
here into our department heads and the
employees for uh
doing their part
to lower their budget and keeping in
line with
running the city as efficiently as
possible so good job though everybody
and call the roll please
saunders
yes cochi yes spanx yes nudist yes blue
party yes hansberry yes
ordnance number 9915-21
which authorizes the city manager to
purchase a john deere 1200a bunker and
field break for the parks and recreation
department and declaring an emergency
motion for suspension nice pink second
by blue hardy i'll roll please
saunders
yes cochi spanx yes
yes blue party yes
for third and final
asbury second by saunders
uh mike
thank you mayor this is a piece of
equipment um
for our ball fields we've typically used
a john deere gator equipment
that is
up there in age
obviously showing it signs it's been uh
parks and recreation department has put
this proposal in
over the last three budget cycles we
have kind of pushed it by to the wayside
we're looking at it now and it's
something that we can fund um and we
wanted to try to get this through by the
end of the year as we can
anticipate based on the vendor that
these prices will go up
um it will need to
amend this piece as the original quote
that came in that we shared with console
um
was about 35
less than what the current one is
so i wanted to mention that but our
recommendation is to
move forward with this purchase
through this vendor and
get the piece of equipment for the
department
yeah i would like to
amend the uh
dollar amount
big increase of some thirty dollars uh
up to fourteen thousand four hundred
twenty four
and eighty cents
motion to amend as such by the asbury
second by saunders
call the roll please saunders yes cochi
spakes yes nudists yes blue party yes
ashbury yes
the roll for the third and final
saunders
yes cochi yes spanx yes
yes blue party yes
and we do have a presentation tonight
as you know it's
one of my favorite things to do is
presentations and
proclamations
this is always a good one
throughout the year
on fridays
people at city hall are allowed to
dress down dress in jeans
and they they put a dollar in the
kitty or
more if they wish but uh
about every six months we do this
and the the proceeds from that dress
down day goes through meals on wheels so
i could ask diana to please join me up
front
oh
[Laughter]
diana is the
executive director i don't know your
formal title but uh
she's our boss on meals on wheels
but i like to present you with this
check for one thousand dollars
that the employees have chipped in and
donate to you i need to do this yes
this is good now what
i do have to ask you to come in tomorrow
is this
really official
the check will be processed in the
morning
but this is a token and i can vote them
out there so you can see frank and get
that amount as well
okay
yeah um
hi everyone
[Music]
you know
a thousand dollars is a lot of money and
a thousand dollars is very small no
longer
um
we have
over 100
people that live in our neighborhood
that we cater to
bring them a hot meal every day
monday through friday and this year
because of
a little more generous donations
we've been able to extend that to six
days a week
so
i never could understand that you
weren't hungry on saturday or sunday
you know like your hunger stops on
friday
um
but
we were able to do it this year and
that's
uh we've been able to expand in a lot of
different ways because of the generosity
of our neighbors
and the
terrific work
we have that
it gets your hands dirty kind of work
sticky in our case
from
a couple of our council people behind me
that
show up every week
no fanfare
nobody gets out and claps for them but
they think they came because they care
about our people
and that's a particularly have to
mention
vic on flew party where
we have literally
taken it over his time
he thought he was gonna work one day a
week and it's now closer to four
and
the mayor and
his wife
marilyn
work every wednesday afternoon well end
of the day on wednesday
you're done by noon though which is kind
of an executive kind of hours
compared to things
and sandy
sandy spanx has gone above and beyond
the call of duty
she has endured
she and bob his illness for this last
year
and still they've come
they come often twice sometimes three
times a week
because we're always looking for
volunteers
i hope you hear that that's the plug
we don't pay anybody much except for
tremendous amount of satisfaction
which is pretty cool and there's one
other person back here responsible for
more than a thousand dollars
and uh that's mr cambosi
who um
last summer
was it last summer or seemed even
farther than that anyway he held my hand
through uh my first
grant
i had never done that before
and
he was a good task master
we got the grant that we got four more
that
came from outside the area
so it really helped to have
that kind of help you can't you can't
buy that
and so we want to thank you yes
absolutely for the money
but also
for being the kind of leaders
that we want
that we are happy to vote for
and that we are going to take advantage
of as long as we can
thank you
okay yes
[Applause]
can i also say it's her birthday
tomorrow happy birthday
in 75
all right
[Applause]
[Music]
and many more
[Applause]
we do get paid for this every time we
see uh
one of the people smile when we hand
them their food so
to help we do get that
it's worth more than than any pay we can
get
thank you for doing all
that mr city manager reports
thank you mayor
a few items real quick um our leave
collection is still um continuing
i know that there was something out
there
we made it through town uh
three times already we're going through
a fourth weather permitting um again get
those to the the tree line try not to
get them in the street and our staff
will come around and collect those
um a friendly reminder that this
saturday we're going to be having the
christmas investment falls event um
that'll be downtown in the historic
district
and i also want to mention that we will
be having our shop with a cop event
and i want to thank you know all the
volunteers
all of the officers and all of the
very very generous donations that we've
received from individuals that we
received from businesses we had some
substantial
donations um that'll allow us to help
take the children and then also we will
bring them back and have a pizza party
with them afterwards so um really really
appreciate it and i want to just uh
commend our department normally we work
with a number of different
departments and
they
weren't going to do it this year
however our department felt the need
that we should
and they decided to organize that on
their own and they're doing it for
bedford children so
um
chief stumpful and our guys over there
are doing a great job and thank you to
everybody that's donated honestly it's
it was a lot of money that came in it
really um it's impressive and it's
appreciated
uh
we do this a couple times a year where
we send out our auxiliaries
as well as our officers we make note of
various light poles that are out
with first energy as you know regardless
if they're on or off we're paying for
those polls
we did send in our most recent report
first energy is aware of that there were
about 130
that were out city wide
some of those are marked with the with
the caution tape um and obviously when
those repairs are made we've requested
that first energy remove that tape but
if you're wondering why that that is why
that tape is on some of those polls
and we'll monitor that after the first
of the year and and check on what
progress
they've made to our
through our rep
i also wanted to acknowledge that
it seemed like there was a little bit of
an improvement
in some of the issues with the trains
over the last few months
which i remember we've had the train
stoppage
city council passed legislation
and we sent that information
the ordinance
letters information to all the
appropriate parties and it did seem to
improve
although two weeks ago there was an
incident where there was a train stop
for a substantial amount of time
actually it was almost five hours i
believe based on the reports
blocking those tracks we had another
incident last week both
both times we responded we documented
accordingly
and the line has been billed accordingly
with that civil penalty based on the
ordinance so we are working to try to to
try to resolve that
and obviously after that that billing
and that civil penalty goes out um we
anticipate communication from the rail
lines um
and obviously that's not what we wanted
to get to but we cannot have them
you know stopping at those crossings for
that amount of time so
i just wanted to share that that we're
aware of it we have a
policy in place as far as how we respond
how we document it it's actually helpful
that we have our cameras in our vehicles
now because we've documented through
those uh videos
and that references the amount of time
so there's video evidence of how long
they've been stopped we don't sit there
for five hours actually the ordinance
states that it's longer than five
minutes so we just basically verify that
um with the cameras
and then we move forward and we it's
documented and then we issued a
civil penalty so
we're trying to resolve that issue we
know it's a concern and i just wanted to
share with the public that working and
we'll continue to keep trying to address
that
uh end of report
thank you
law director mr montello oh report i
would like to thank mrs mo to all the
volunteers for meals on wheels and wish
you all the help and a
safe and healthy
holiday
thank you
finance director mr gambozzi yes i'd
like to thank diana too and the council
and everyone who
helps with that meals at wheels it's a
great cause and i know we've done it for
30 years now help contribute towards
that as employees to your cause and it's
been well worth it great job that you do
it's fantastic that you help that many
people every week
thank you
tonight we also have on our agenda first
actually it's the fixed asset policy uh
jennifer's been busy uh updating the
policies that we have with our auditors
and we'll be putting that on the first
reading tonight is not passing that
and also the
tax department we've been working on the
water discounts
and we have a couple people that still
haven't filed yet that were on our list
last year so
be aware of that the discount program is
still
there that we do get your applications
in on time you can get those discounts
going
for you in the current year of 2022.
that's all i have this evening
thank you
mr saunders
two council meetings in a row i get to
be first
but
that's that's good for me
we have a house on columbus road it's
between drinks auto and shopping center
as you remember uh we've complained
about the fact that they filled their
tree lawn up almost every week with
rubbish
now they just don't take their cans back
in
they sit out there all week
and they've got numerous cans
so we need to get a hold of that
landlord and get them to start adhering
to
some of the policies that we have here
because columbus road is a fairly busy
road and it's somewhat of an entrance
way through the city and it it just
doesn't look good to have those camps
numerous cans sitting out there
all week long
uh
the other thing is
uh later we'll be passing ordinances on
condemning houses
uh
one of much is in my ward 65 talbot
this one has been long overdue it's been
nothing but an eyesore it's a shame
that uh
every time we get to this point
something happens and we end up almost
starting over again but we will be
formally condemning that house so the
neighbors off of talbot and berwin area
we're working on it it's just taking a
while
and
i want to say i'll see you all on
saturday in downtown bedford for
christmas in bedford falls that's always
a great event
and hopefully
we will get a good turnout and
i know the weather's supposed to be
really nice on friday i don't know about
saturday
but uh hopefully it stays put with that
too
uh another issue that we're having is on
the upper end the logan by blaine
we have i think it's the duplexes the
new people that have moved in over there
they parked their car on the street
basically in front of beauty's place
and there's some days where two three
days they haven't moved
so we may want to put some special
attention over there
that uh they're not allowed to park
overnight in that area there's
two cars specifically that seem to be
parked there all the time
and
we need to
that's a dangerous intersection to begin
with
and you come around the corner and
there's the park cars all the time
and one other quick note uh
i know there's been on social media talk
about sewer rate increases
and uh bedford's increasing their rates
four percent
just want everybody to know that if
you've got regional sewer good luck
because theirs is going at the 18
percent summit counties raising their 16
and this is for the next several years
for theirs so
a four percent we're trying to keep it
to a minimum uh
and unfortunately as you are well aware
costs have gone up everywhere
so uh we aren't raising the water rate
this year but uh the sword rate has to
go up so
it's only a few
a little bit of money but i know if
you're on a fixed income a little bit of
money it can be a lot of money but uh
we have to maintain the system
and uh
if be thankful you're not in some of
these other surrounding areas because
they're getting huge increases
thank you
uh this is speaks
good evening
thank you for your compliments and
everything and just uh i always boast
about what a great group
meals on wheels we're like a family
up there we get each other's backs
we always have each other's backs
someone needs a sub or something
and i wish i could wish me and bob could
do five days a week instead of three but
uh eventually maybe we'll get there it's
so rewarding you get to know the people
we do
through different routes so we're
we've seen people different people those
three days monday thursday and friday
and you just get to know them and they
they're waiting at the door for you and
they're so happy and so sometimes you do
sit there and chat with them a little
bit then you got to remember you have
somebody that's waiting for their bill
behind them and so it's just very
rewarding and just such a great team up
there and i don't think they knew what
he was getting into and i was like hey
dick you ought to do this when he got
home uh council and we depend on him he
gives all the he's our heavy lifter at
mills of wills he's uh
that
mike uh the last meeting we had spoken
about uh creswell i see one of my
congressional residents out there um and
you said you were gonna find out about
me about when we had the water main
breaks we of course we had a guest
flying out there and stuff um
they did come back out i had called you
because they had filled in the hole with
the gravel and stuff and i called mike
because my car kind of went in a little
bit
um i saw they did get out there and fix
that did you check in you said you was
going to check in for me to see are they
once the last time because i know it's
been a long time that
that thing has been completely redone
yeah i don't have the exact year when
that water line was completely redone
but i actually met with
our superintendent from the water
department and i'll have a detailed
report on
a number of different things that we've
that we put together from this year from
hydrant replacements to how many breaks
we've had
to a capital program as far as where we
need to focus on line replacements
so there are some areas of town
obviously that that is one area of town
that we're looking at there's another
area of town up on the hill that we're
looking at um it seems that on occasions
where we've had some of our most recent
breaks it's been on
in those areas
so we also have a inquiry out to
cleveland water as far as you know
pressure increases and things like that
when they adjust those so there's a lot
more data that we have to put together
but we are looking at that area um as
far as when i don't have the exact year
when that was um how old that is but
once i get all of that additional
information that is going to be included
okay we appreciate it thank you
i know it's been we've had a lot this
summer that is over there because
they're still at the end of the street
is still kind of the one
hole that was at the time before this
one it's starting to sink a little bit
too so i know the guys with the weather
getting
you know bad
i'll have that that information will be
in
i just appreciate all the residents
being so
patient about that kind of thing and
understanding so they've had a lot deal
with a lot on that street this year
um
very interesting uh article in
yesterday's paper in the plain dealer
uh about the uh everywhere we go we
leave a trail of trash here's what we
can do to help so this of course says uh
bob come running in with this article
because he never telling him about
picking up the trash have been for years
and years and it says
someone called me and said there's
nothing you can do to stop litter bugs
but she can undo their actions by
picking up litter
uh
says a climate activist there's just a
very good article in there just talking
about yeah and i have people just the
other day saying well why are you you
know why are you picking up trash why
are you still picking up trash after all
these years and i was like well you know
someone's got to do it and it feels like
it's my community i care
and it's just the thing to do i know
it's not everybody's thing to do if it's
not
and i've seen more and more people
getting out picking up
mike i do have the information on those
recyclable bags i know we've discussed
in those in the city and using those in
our trash cans the biodegradable bags
it's a great company
very inexpensive
i know the residents that i've given
them out to have enjoyed doing that
so um see trash pick it up please
if that's your thing
in the report
thank you
mr genus
thank you
well i i just have to say that
meals on wheels is absolutely a
wonderful organization and it's it's
just
really touching
we have lived in a place where
we've been able to
take food for granted for uh
for me most of my lifetime but now
things are changing in the world
and
talk of food security and food
sovereignty or big issues now that we'll
be hearing more and more of as time goes
on and i just want to thank
china of course and all the volunteers
but but also the city of bedford that
has done quite a bit to you know do what
they can to feed uh feed the people in
our community and uh the local churches
too it's a big deal it's uh food is
something we take for granted and it's
unfortunate because i can tell you it's
not easy to make it and
we don't
recognize how difficult it is not only
to make food but
how
precarious
the
supplies are and how it comes from the
supply lines which we're beginning to
become more and more aware of and i just
think the meal center also is just a
wonderful organization so that's the end
of my report thank you
thank you mr fluherty
thank you mayor
um mike you said they're coming back out
for the collection of one more time at
least in the years they started last
week on the fourth pass
to be able to go through pretty quick
and not everybody has a mouse so
that will help clear up for the winter
here because things are changing also
it's uh
see everybody going to see everybody not
the uh
um
petra falls this saturday uh another
great event here in the city
uh for every year past few years and uh
hopefully the weather holds off
and
the meals on wheels i also want to thank
don guy and his uh
husband there he does a lot of work with
us too he doesn't get enough credit he
does a lot so i want to say thanks to
you guys you helped us all out too so
appreciate you
um
i'm now a new member of the lions uh
what's it called alliance club
that's the live stream alliance club so
i am now official lion
so whatever that means but
you start out as like a conference yeah
i guess
uh i get actually sworn in tomorrow i
think it is
so uh
sam pardons i'm one of the youngest guys
in the club that's the same part
so but anyhow it's another organization
that does a lot for the community so
in the report
thank you
mr esri
good evening everybody um please excuse
my voice i'm i'm trying to finally get
back to myself after having that nasty
virus that's going around
so
i want to thank the service department
for the job that they did down on the
square
the lights are fantastic i didn't get a
chance to go in person to the tree
lighting because i was under the weather
uh but we got out this saturday and was
able to take the grandson down there and
he was just in awe i had a blast running
around and
we got some really good pictures and
some videos so service department thank
you you did a fantastic job as always
um
christmas and bad footballs was
mentioned i just want to mention some of
the things that are actually happening
uh from noon to three santa and mrs
claus will be there bring the kids down
um they're gonna have crafts for the
kids i actually got a picture was posted
uh bet for downtown alliance
um they're doing their make and take
craft table at 661 broadway that's right
next to the broadway cycle ring the old
saw city dance studio so bring your kids
down there they can make their own
crafts and take them with them
they're going to have an ice sculpture
dj's going to be down there the bedford
historical society will also be open
from noon to three with some uh
with some people selling their wares uh
the dental house also across the street
will be open from noon to three
and it sounds like they're gonna be
decorated for christmas back in 1876 so
that should be kind of cool if you got a
chance to uh to stop down there at the
dunham house
um there's going to be some some local
businesses with deals
it's still kind of uh you know you got a
couple weeks left to do your christmas
shopping hopefully we can do some
in person
downtown area we've got some nice local
specialized shops that
that would really love your business
this year it's been a tough year all
around for everybody so if we can shop
local and shop small and give these
people some business that's that's a
great thing
um
bda bedford duncan alliance also has
gnomes on their own so what they did was
they hit 10 different gnomes in 10
different store windows downtown and if
you go and find at least five of them
and you email your entry into
uh
i didn't write down the address but it's
uh the email for the bedford downtown
alliance um you'll be entered to uh win
a 24-inch uh hd smart fire tv
so go down there check out the gnomes i
guess if you can get all 10 of them you
get an extra chance so good luck there
um de pompe's is having their ugly
christmas sweater contest on saturday 11
7 p.m so if you got an ugly sweater go
check them out you might win a prize
um
mike there was uh had some residents
concerned about a large pole that was
put up on lamson uh near east
east grace
so we're under the understanding that
that's that's first energy's pulled
and they're going to be using it there's
some kind of a signal up on top of it
and what happens i guess is when the it
transmits signals other switching to the
switching yard which should help reduce
the impact during power outages
something like that correct yes correct
so um i believe that is the only one
that's going up in bedford um it's part
of a federal mandate that first energy
is under they're going to be going up up
around
all over the area
they're large what it does is
um first energy part of this mandate
they're really working to upgrade their
their grid all together and how it
communicates
councilman mentioned
that
these switching yards when there's a
power outage these things these towers
communicate with one another they'll
open and close switches where if there's
a power outages by them utilizing this
technology they can reduce the amount of
individuals impacted by a power outage
and thus they can get
they can get power turned back on
quicker
it is first energy's pull it is their
right to install those um i believe what
i found out the next closest one is
um on walton road
right near along the hills city hall
there's one put up there
they're just starting to go around it
it's a tall pool it's a tall
and at first
i was concerned there's been a lot of
discussion over the previous years about
small cell towers going up
to communicate you know everything we
live our lives on these
and data and everything is data driven
and especially when it comes to vehicles
a lot of these vehicles the self-driving
vehicles they're all going to rely on
data which is a huge push to start
installing all of these small cell
towers around at the time i thought
that this was one of them
and we have very specific ordinances
law director montello worked with a
number of other law directors throughout
northeast ohio
on drafting this small small cell tower
legislation
to prohibit in certain areas
you know they gotta they gotta
submit applications so there's a lot
that goes into that i was concerned that
it was that
but it wasn't our rep got back to us
right away um they're permitted to do it
i believe that's the only one going up
in town
i'm waiting for them to verify that
but it ultimately is
i forget the term they use but it's uh
on
i'm sorry i don't have it off the top of
my head but there's a term and it's um
it's basically new technology that
they're using to limit the amount of
people impacted by power outages and
these towers will communicate with one
another
sorry for that long drawn out
but if you see it it's huge it's huge
uh one other thing real quick um the the
shop with a cop program i've been
involved with it for the past three
years
can't really do with it this year uh but
it it's a great event and the kids and
the families really enjoy it so i'm glad
they're getting back to in person this
year and
the pizza party afterwards um to tie
into that
magna wine boutique downtown bedford
this uh for the rest of this week up
till
the 11th is
accepting toys for the the uh
oh my gosh
toys for tots program
so they're accepting any uh new
unwrapped toys you'll be
if you bring down a new unwrapped toy to
magna wine boutique this week you'll be
entered into a raffle
and items collect will be uh donated to
choice for tots so i just wanted to
mention that um has there been any word
about this in car show i had a lot of
people ask me now yeah i actually asked
our building commissioner last about a
week and a half ago actually he was
reaching out to the owner and one of the
contractors but i have not connected
with family members i'll share that
there's a lot of people interested so
other than that and a report thank you
thank
you um
i don't have much to add so we're going
to get right on to business
for december 9922-21
which is an ordinance adopting the city
of bedford fixed ass asset capital asset
policy to conform with the requirements
of the ohio vice code
clarify procedures and declaring an
emergency
motion for
suspension saunders second by asbury
saunders yes coaching yes space yes
mutis yes blue party yes hansberry yes
vote for third and final
think second by blue army
um frankly i'll address that
uh had jennifer work on this and update
the policy we've uh
worked on this in regards to what gfoa
recommends it's your government finance
officers association
and also with our
approval of basically the auditor's
office and so forth we've looked at our
thresholds of what we record for fixed
assets versus what we do for insurance
we still record insurance levels at a
lot lower level but we're going to raise
our minimums for financial reporting
from 2500 per asset to 5 000 and we're
also going to be looking at the new
aggregation rules and
of accounting that we have abide by and
that will be when we buy things in
aggregate such as like 10 computers at a
time
those if they exceed 10 000
and
we will then be booking those as assets
as well there's a couple other rules and
regulation changes in here and years and
things like that but what we'd like the
council to do is approve this so that we
could put that into effect for a 2022 21
with a retro
and we'll have it for this year as well
as for next year
and
saunders yes
cochi yes spanx yes
yes flute party yes yes furry yes thank
you
report is number
9923-21
an ordinance declaring the property and
structure located at 32 maple del maple
dale avenue a nuisance and therefore
condemning the property ordering action
and declaring an emergency
i have a motion for suspension i spin
second by clue already
call the roll please
saunders yes coaching yes spanx yes
yes blue party yes yes
third and final by asberry second by
saunders
uh mike
i might address this in the next yeah
i'll touch on all three there's three
properties as
councilman saunders mentioned earlier
that we've been trying to
uh work with property owners or in some
cases they've been abandoned
we
usually partner with the land bank where
we can
one of these properties the land bank
did have on their radar and they were
working with us to try to
address it and get it cleaned up
we start looking at obviously if there's
tax issues that's where they really can
help
we've gotten really no movement from the
property owners or
individuals only owning the home
or
in control of the home if it's in
a trust or whatnot so this is actually
actually our first step that we take it
allows us to then communicate with the
property owner and try to further push
this along to try to get these
properties cleaned up
in some cases they've been abandoned
two of these
are
one of them we can't locate the owner
as of right now though they're not all
of them are not occupied
thank you
call the rule please saunders yes cochi
yes spanx yes
yes blue party yes raspberry yes
number 99 9924-21
declaring the property and structure
located at 65 talbot drive a nuisance
and therefore condemning the property
ordering action and declaring an
emergency
motion for suspension saunders second by
asbury
call the roll please saunders yes
coaching spanx yes nudist yes
yes yes yes
vote for third and final
like flew hardy second by sphinx
um again mike explained these
please call the world
saunders yes cochi yes spanx yes
yes blue party yes ashbury yes
and ordinance number 9925-21
declaring the property structure located
at 132 green crop road a nuisance and
therefore condemning the property
ordering action and declaring an
emergency
motion for suspension
speak second by
party call the rule please saunders yes
yes space yes
motion for third and final
saunders second by asbury
uh again mike explained this with the
other ones
first step in uh possibly condemning
these properties so
call the roll please saunders yes cochi
yes spanx yes
yes too party yes hansbury yes
ordinance number 9926-21
amending ordinance number 9894-20
making additional appropriations for
current expenditures of the city during
the year 2021
and declaring an emergency
motion for suspension
i think second by blue hardy call the
roll please
saunders
yes coaching yes space yes
the party yes yes
yes
for third final
especially second by saunders
uh frank yes this ordinance uh as you
know we update our answers all the time
uh we've been able to i'll just go over
a few areas that are highlighted here
real quick the regards to our recreation
environment we did some construction
this year to improve the building so
we'll be adding 30 000 but we're also
going to take that from the payroll area
that's not needed this year so we'll be
balancing the budget there
the
mini court had hospitalization claims we
have to add 50 000 to those claims some
major ones this year
we have grants that we're getting from
cdbg from our steel funds we have more
donations and grants from our eagles our
federal task forces for fire for police
we've had quite a few of those we're
adding those to the budget
we had a lot of overtime and fire this
year that we're going to be adding 110
000 in the budget as well as for
police another 45 000 in their overtime
we also had some projects working on the
broadway engineering as we start off
we'll be increasing the budget there 50
000 to
come
to handle some of the engineering fees
same thing on our streets program about
61 000 we're going to need on the
between union
ellenwood and our road program i'm going
to be adding that to the budget for what
we're finalizing with our programs
and we have finalization or health our
health insurance for the city employees
we do need another 100
in regards to claims for their families
and dependents
and uh at this point i'm asked council
to approve this ordinance
this evening
thank you
clerk call the roll please saunders yes
coaching yes space yes nudist yes blue
party yes yes
yes
orders number 9927-21
authorizing the city manager to enter
into a contract between the city of
bedford and the firefighters local 1683
international association of
firefighters
adopting the terms of the attached
tentative agreement and ordering
ordering them into effect and declaring
an emergency
motion for suspension like flu hardy
second by genetics
call the rule please
saunders yes coaching yes spanx yes
yes blue party yes asberry yes
almost for third and final my saunders
by asbury
mike
thank you mayor uh this is the um
last of our three union
contracts that we are
finalizing the first two obviously
police
and afscme
the firefighters recently
we
mutually came to an agreement and they
voted and accepted that
our recommendation is that the city
council passed uh this this evening
it mirrors the last
the first two contracts
as far as health care
changes
moving to an eight percent of the
premium costs
and then obviously there's
it matches the
wage increase over the next three years
which is six and a half percent
two percent retroactive
this year
uh two and a half percent next year and
two percent in 2023. um i believe it's a
fair
contract and we recommend
approving
thank you
sanders
yes coachy yes space yes gennudis yes
blue party yes raspberry yes
gorgeous number 99 28-21
again
it's uh an ordinance accepting the
dedication of hubble circle and hubble
way extensions and declaring an
emergency a motion for suspension
by asbury second by saunders call the
roll please saunders yes coaching space
yes blue party yes yes yes motion for
third and final
flew hardy second by sphinx
uh mike
uh these next two are
developing developments that have been
in the works we've
put these streets in they had to be
constructed per
um
city specs
which they have then our engineer
inspected them when they went in
obviously we maintain them we plow them
we patch them we have to file this
through
cuyahoga county and they request as
being dedicated that there's
councilmatic action on that so that's
why this is here
thank you call the rule please saunders
yes cochi yes spakes yes nudist yes blue
party yes ashbury yes
orders number 9929-21
accepting uh
the dedication of bell court
the bell cord extension and declaring an
emergency
motion forward suspension
saunders second by asbury
saunders yes cochi yes space yes yes the
party yes yes yes
for third and final
i flew already seconded by sphinx
um
same same reason yes that's before
something we need for the county
um
call the rule please saunders yes
coaching yes spanx yes nudist yes blue
party
raspberry
yes according number 9930-21
authorizing a contract with a
cutie
vct for a new server a new server video
capture system
for surveillance and video management
software for the municipal complex and
declaring an emergency
motion for suspension
a sphinx second by genetics
call the roll please
senders yes kochi yes spanx yes
yes blue party yes yes yes
third and final by saunders sector by
asbury
uh mike
thank you mayor and we have the
assistant and city in the municipal
complex already
obviously this is a necessary upgrade to
that system with a new server as this
references
thank you call the rule please saunders
yes
it comes to that portion of the meeting
for the hearing of citizens
if you wish to speak please come forward
state your name your address
and your comments
saunders yes cochi yes space yes yes
yes
thank you all for coming