1 00:01:22,799 --> 00:01:28,425 He's a lawyer. >> Good evening and welcome to the Defiant 2 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:32,880 City Council meeting for tonight, [clears throat] September 8th, 2026. As 3 00:01:30,799 --> 00:01:37,840 we get underway, we have Pastor Sam Andrews from King's Cross Church here on 4 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:44,159 Second Street to open us up in prayer. Thanks for being our guest this evening. 5 00:01:40,159 --> 00:01:48,640 Thank you for this on Thank you for uh allowing me to pray and invite the 6 00:01:45,759 --> 00:01:55,200 Lord's uh wisdom and presence into our city. So, Father in heaven, um you are a 7 00:01:52,320 --> 00:02:01,680 God of wisdom. You're a God of justice. You're a God of truth. You're God of um 8 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:07,200 all these strong powerful attributes and yet you're also a God of mercy, God of 9 00:02:04,079 --> 00:02:11,520 kindness, God of love. And you are these things to a degree that we cannot 10 00:02:09,039 --> 00:02:16,160 comprehend with our small minds. And so we we thank you for your character. And 11 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:21,120 we God, we pray that your character would influence our city and its 12 00:02:18,879 --> 00:02:25,280 leaders. Uh you care about the justice of peoples of of families, of 13 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:32,080 individuals, of families, of churches, and of cities and nations. And we pray 14 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:39,200 God that our our our city defiance Ohio would be marked by biblical justice, by 15 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:46,160 truth, by doing what is right. And I pray God for these uh uh city leaders 16 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:52,720 and city servants that they would um be able to harmonize and wise wisely pursue 17 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:59,120 these things together. Um, give them wisdom, give them unity, uh, give them 18 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:03,840 uh a sense of neighbor love and care, help them to listen well and speak well. 19 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:07,680 Um, and Lord, we just pray for this meeting. We pray that the the message of 20 00:03:05,599 --> 00:03:13,360 the gospel will go forth in our in our in our city uh through your people and 21 00:03:10,640 --> 00:03:16,560 there continue to be freedom for that. And we thank you, Lord, for all the good 22 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:20,640 things that are happening in the situations where it's difficult and 23 00:03:18,640 --> 00:03:24,239 tense. I got your your word says be kind to one another uh tenderhearted 24 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:29,200 forgiving one another as God in Christ forgave you and I if there's a need for 25 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:33,599 forgiveness and kindness we just pray God that you would uh work in your Holy 26 00:03:31,519 --> 00:03:37,200 Spirit in that way as well. So we commit this meeting to you and we thank you 27 00:03:35,519 --> 00:03:40,720 that I'm thankful to live in a city that commits it uh its meanings to 28 00:03:39,427 --> 00:03:44,400 [clears throat] prayer and we pray it's in the name of Jesus and for his glory 29 00:03:42,319 --> 00:03:46,560 and his kingdom. Amen. [clears throat] >> Amen. 30 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:49,760 » Amen. Thank you for being our guest and thank 31 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:53,200 you for your service to defiance. >> Thank you for yours. 32 00:03:50,879 --> 00:03:56,959 » Uh this meeting is now called to order. Let the record show that all the members 33 00:03:54,720 --> 00:04:00,840 of council are present. Would you stand with me for the pledge of allegiance? 34 00:04:00,959 --> 00:04:06,879 » I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to 35 00:04:05,627 --> 00:04:12,159 [clears throat] the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, 36 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:15,319 indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. 37 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:23,840 as we get underway this evening. We have a special guest, Cara Potter, who is our 38 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:28,000 special guest this evening here to discuss the library annex. 39 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:32,800 » Yeah. So, I have some logistical questions first. So, when I created 40 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:36,000 this, I was I'm going to need to zoom in on parts of this images that are on 41 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:38,240 there. Am I going to be able to do that, Lisa, from here? 42 00:04:37,759 --> 00:04:41,520 » No. >> Um, yeah, I'll I can try it. 43 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:45,280 » Okay. >> Probably I'll try it. I tried it 44 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:50,240 yesterday when I was making this and I could do it when I had it in slide mode. 45 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:54,720 » Um I just [clears throat] just in case though I'm gonna hand out 46 00:04:52,479 --> 00:04:58,639 » one of the images there's if I can't do that there's no way anybody's gonna be 47 00:04:56,080 --> 00:05:02,120 able to read it. Thanks. Yeah. 48 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:18,720 » So, thank you everybody for making time for me tonight. So, my name is Cara 49 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:23,280 Potter. I am the director of the Defiance Public Library System. So, our 50 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:29,039 main library is the historic Carnegie building. That's oops on the on the 51 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:33,360 front page. Thank you. And then we have branches in Sherwood and in Hicksville. 52 00:05:31,199 --> 00:05:38,800 So we are a city library and we provide countywide services. Our funding comes 53 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:42,880 from the state of Ohio in a countywide levy. We don't get any funding from the 54 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:46,400 city of Defiance, though we cooperate with the city often and I'm very 55 00:05:44,479 --> 00:05:53,120 grateful for all the lawn work and mowing that the city does. Um and um so 56 00:05:50,639 --> 00:05:58,160 anyhow, I'm going to go over um tell you a little bit about why we need this 57 00:05:55,360 --> 00:06:03,539 project and and then show you some images about the the site plan, the 58 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:06,240 floor plan, and um and then interior. [clears throat] 59 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:10,880 They're called renderings, which are computerenerated images of what the the 60 00:06:08,479 --> 00:06:15,840 inside might look like when it's built. So go to the next one. Thanks. So this 61 00:06:13,199 --> 00:06:18,800 is one of the ones I wanted to zoom in on. Can I walk over there, Lisa, or is 62 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:22,160 that gonna mess this up? >> Walk to this one because that's what's 63 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:23,840 going to be on the television at home. >> Okay. 64 00:06:22,479 --> 00:06:28,080 » So, wherever you're pointing the people will be able to see. 65 00:06:24,639 --> 00:06:32,560 » Okay. So, um the attics that we're proposing is going to be built on two 66 00:06:29,919 --> 00:06:37,680 lots that were donated by a very gener generous um donor and then the library 67 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:42,400 trustees bought [clears throat] a third lot that runs along the back of 68 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:47,039 this building. So, it's directly across the street from the Defiance Public 69 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:51,199 Library. And um some of the things that we were thinking about when we started 70 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:57,600 working on the design of the building was um the fact that it needed to fit 71 00:06:54,160 --> 00:07:04,639 into the neighborhood um sizewise, um stylewise, and it also needed to 72 00:07:00,514 --> 00:07:10,560 [clears throat] um needed to um reflect some of the um architectural features of 73 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:15,360 the Carnegie building. And uh we needed this this building for a number of 74 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:20,800 reasons. But so this site plan will show you that sorry Lisa can go over this way 75 00:07:18,479 --> 00:07:27,840 a little bit. Yeah. So there's lots of greenery around here and um what we're 76 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:30,160 proposing um is that there be I can't remember what this is called. If you 77 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:34,720 shrink down you can see what it's called, but there's a raised walkway 78 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:39,039 across. It's like a giant wide speed bump. Thank you. Right there. Um, and 79 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:44,319 then we have a stop sign that's been here for years here. So, um, we're the 80 00:07:43,090 --> 00:07:49,360 [clears throat] the point of having this raised walkway is to slow people down. 81 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:52,960 Um, I noticed especially this past year we were having some issues with people 82 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:56,240 running the stop sign or driving on Fork Street very fast and running the stop 83 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:59,919 sign. So, the police have been wonderful and they've come by. they'll sit there 84 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:04,000 and you know that solves the problem temporarily. But we're uh we're 85 00:08:01,759 --> 00:08:08,240 proposing that this raised walkway be there to slow down traffic so it's safe 86 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:12,240 for people to cross [clears throat] and then we'll also be able to paint this 87 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:16,479 appropriately to you know to make it very visible to everybody. So there 88 00:08:14,319 --> 00:08:20,720 would be the ways to get to the banics would from the main library would be 89 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:26,400 across the street here or across up at this at the stop sign up here. 90 00:08:24,639 --> 00:08:30,319 Can you shrink it down again a little bit? 91 00:08:28,639 --> 00:08:32,640 » I think I don't know. >> Looks like they call that a speed table. 92 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:40,560 Car. >> Speed table. Thank you. So, um 93 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:46,000 there you That's fine. Right there. So, um because of this the size of the lot, 94 00:08:43,839 --> 00:08:51,680 what we're proposing is some some um handicap parking parking for delivery 95 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:55,600 services in the back here and a few um parking spots here. will the majority of 96 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:59,120 the parking and we're going to be applying for a variance for this would 97 00:08:57,279 --> 00:09:04,480 be in the municipal lot across the street. So currently if you go to the 98 00:09:01,680 --> 00:09:08,640 library um on any day that it's open usually the lot there's two sections to 99 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:11,680 the lot there and the section closest to the library is usually pretty open and 100 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:16,320 then there's a lot of cars in the lower lot. That's because during co I started 101 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:21,600 letting the staff park in that parking lot. Previous to that, they had parked 102 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:24,640 behind the McDonald building and um during CO it didn't make sense to make 103 00:09:23,279 --> 00:09:27,920 people park over there and walk to the building. So, they started parking in 104 00:09:26,399 --> 00:09:33,200 the lower lot and we've just never changed that. So, once um the annex is 105 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:37,760 constructed, staff will again be parking over by the McDonald building and to 106 00:09:35,839 --> 00:09:41,240 free up space in the municipal lock that's by the building. 107 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:50,519 So, you can go to the next one. 108 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:50,519 Oh, there should be another one. 109 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:58,000 Maybe we skipped over something. Okay, that's okay. Um, 110 00:09:56,399 --> 00:10:06,000 so these are the floor plans. So, I'm starting in the basement. So, one thing 111 00:10:00,399 --> 00:10:09,279 that we are really um short on are um I think I'm missing a whole bunch of 112 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:14,399 slides. Actually, there should have been three written slides before these. 113 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:17,920 » I got there's slide one. >> Okay. One out of 13. 114 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:23,720 There's >> Okay. Can you slide? Go ahead. Maybe 115 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:23,720 they got out of order somehow. 116 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:32,160 » No, they just disappeared. That's okay. That's okay. I'll I can I can 117 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:35,839 That's okay. >> Okay. 118 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:39,160 » That's okay. Um, so we can go to the basement again. 119 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:47,120 So, um, this is our basement floor plan. So, um, 120 00:10:46,492 --> 00:10:49,760 [snorts] this is going to be [clears throat] 121 00:10:47,839 --> 00:10:54,160 largely closed to the public. You'll come down into a corridor here, and 122 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:57,839 these will be locked doors here. There's going to be storage area. Currently, the 123 00:10:55,920 --> 00:11:01,360 library is paying for three sto off-site storage units because we don't have 124 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:06,320 enough storage in the Carnegie building to keep keep things and we um just very 125 00:11:05,040 --> 00:11:10,880 crowded there right now. So, we're going to have storage here. Um, text, this is 126 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:14,480 for all the computer systems for this building will be in there. So like our 127 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:18,160 servers and things like that [cough] and making a large space for the friends 128 00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:22,640 of the library. They currently have no space in the library system. And so this 129 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:26,959 would be for storing these books and sorting them. And then um if they want 130 00:11:25,040 --> 00:11:30,240 to have book sales and they want to do it in the library, they can open this up 131 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:33,279 to the public and they can come down here and stage the book sale right in 132 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:37,760 the basement. So they don't have to carry books to the mall or to other 133 00:11:35,519 --> 00:11:43,920 locations. So that's for the friends of the library. Storage space here. 134 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:48,959 This is a staff break room. This is storage space here. There's a custodial 135 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:52,560 closet, a staff restroom, and then there's a very large mechanical room. 136 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:56,800 So, one of the things that was important to me that was that we didn't that the h 137 00:11:54,959 --> 00:12:00,959 the iron had slipped on the outside as much as it did like much as it could 138 00:11:59,839 --> 00:12:03,200 like the other buildings in the neighborhood. [clears throat] So, we 139 00:12:01,680 --> 00:12:07,200 didn't want to have a lot of mechanical units outside sitting outside the 140 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:11,200 building or on the roof. So, everything's going to be in the 141 00:12:08,399 --> 00:12:15,120 basement. This will also um just make these systems last longer, too. So, 142 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:20,079 there's a large mechanical room in the basement, and then there's emergency 143 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:25,519 stairs that go up here. Go to the next one. 144 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:33,120 So, this is the entrance, the uh first floor. So, you walk in to a vestibule. 145 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:37,360 There's a lobby here, uh circulation desk where you can check out books. 146 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:42,079 There's a circulation work room here. Um, we get book deliveries um from the 147 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:46,959 state of Ohio's uh delivery system. So, the books would get delivered here. 148 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:52,160 There's an elevator here and there's a large community meeting room. So, when I 149 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:56,959 started working in Defiance, it was I started three weeks before COVID hit and 150 00:12:54,639 --> 00:13:01,760 so um I didn't have a lot of chance to meet people or visit other 151 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:06,000 organizations. And so what I did is I spent a lot of time going online and 152 00:13:03,519 --> 00:13:10,240 reading everybody's strategic plan and annual reports and things like that. So 153 00:13:07,680 --> 00:13:14,639 I I looked at the nonprofits, the city, the college, you know, anything I could 154 00:13:12,079 --> 00:13:17,279 find. And the one theme that was recurring was that there was 155 00:13:15,834 --> 00:13:20,959 [clears throat] no uh community meeting room space available. So that's one of 156 00:13:19,680 --> 00:13:25,040 the reasons we wanted to build this annex is to provide fill that niche in 157 00:13:23,680 --> 00:13:28,560 the community. So there's a large community meeting room planned. It will 158 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:34,720 have all the technology you would need to run a modern meeting. Um, according 159 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:38,399 to the architects, it would accommodate 130 people standing. I'm not sure how 160 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:41,440 many people sitting. It probably just depends on how close the chairs are and 161 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:47,519 if you have tables, those sorts of things, but it's 130 people. So, there 162 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:51,839 would be community reading room and then there's two, they call them huddle 163 00:13:49,680 --> 00:13:57,839 rooms, but um small meeting rooms. These would be accessible for the public. 164 00:13:54,959 --> 00:14:01,920 an adult literacy office. Um, again, one of the services we get a we get asked 165 00:13:59,920 --> 00:14:05,680 about a lot is if we provide literacy tutoring for adults and we don't 166 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:10,480 currently do that. We don't have the staff to do it. We don't have space to 167 00:14:07,199 --> 00:14:14,560 do it. So, um, I have done that. I've been involved in a literacy tutoring 168 00:14:12,399 --> 00:14:17,760 program um, when I worked at Boston Public Library and also when I was the 169 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:24,320 director at the library right before I worked here. So we had a coordinator who 170 00:14:20,959 --> 00:14:29,040 um purchased the literacy materials and trained volunteers. And then when people 171 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:32,720 wanted to have a tutor, they would approach the coordinator. She would 172 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:35,760 match the um person, the student, the adult student with one of the 173 00:14:34,079 --> 00:14:40,639 volunteers. [clears throat] And those two individuals then would meet either 174 00:14:38,079 --> 00:14:45,519 in the library or someplace else public in um the community and and tutor. And 175 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:48,800 they would set their own schedule, how many times they're going to meet a week, 176 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:54,959 those sorts of things. So there's an space for an adult literacy coordinator 177 00:14:51,519 --> 00:14:58,800 office space and enough space in the um office to store the m the literacy 178 00:14:56,800 --> 00:15:03,600 materials. So um my previous job we had a part-time 179 00:15:02,079 --> 00:15:07,199 person doing this that was funded but through a grant um through the 180 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:11,040 department of education. I don't know if I don't believe there's such a grant 181 00:15:08,639 --> 00:15:15,120 available in Ohio but um we'll be looking at other ways to to fund some 182 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:19,360 you know that position. And um when I was working at Boston 183 00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:22,399 Public Library, when I participated in this program, I was one of the tutors. 184 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:25,199 And the woman that I tutored, I used to meet at a diner that's very similar to 185 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:28,959 Buds. [clears throat] We would just meet there for breakfast and I would tutor 186 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:35,680 her. So there's um restrooms. This large box 187 00:15:33,279 --> 00:15:40,880 here is an adult changing table. We have a lot of [snorts] developmentally um 188 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:44,079 disabled adults that use the library. And one of the things that the 189 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:47,600 architects suggested to us that we all thought was a good idea was to have a 190 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:53,360 changing t adultsiz changing table in in the building. So that's there. Um and 191 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:57,279 then the maker space will be over here. So if you've been in the defiance 192 00:15:55,279 --> 00:16:02,480 library on one of the mezzanines, we have a department called the maker space 193 00:15:59,519 --> 00:16:08,399 and um it's run by Cara Boli. Uh she's our maker space librarian and she does a 194 00:16:05,279 --> 00:16:14,800 lot of craft programs and technology programs. um primaril the technology is 195 00:16:10,959 --> 00:16:19,839 primar primarily 3D printing so um it's very heav a very heavily used service so 196 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:28,560 we want to give her some more space over here and also the idea was that um 197 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:33,040 if you are need tutoring if you have adult if you need adult literacy 198 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:37,759 services um one of the last places you want to be is in a classroom or a 199 00:16:35,759 --> 00:16:40,079 library because it's very intimidating if you're in a classroom, the library, 200 00:16:38,959 --> 00:16:44,781 and you're an adult, and you have those kinds of issues. So, we wanted to put it 201 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:47,759 in the ant that office in the end [clears throat] because there's a lot of 202 00:16:45,839 --> 00:16:54,160 other things going on here. Um the community room and the maker space. So, 203 00:16:51,199 --> 00:16:58,399 it's not quite as libraryike on this floor, at least [snorts] as the main 204 00:16:56,320 --> 00:17:02,720 library would be if we were having if we were housing those services there. 205 00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:08,640 So again, there's some mechanical room here and then um stairs up at the 206 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:15,679 emergency staircase there. So if you went up these wider staircases here, you 207 00:17:11,839 --> 00:17:20,000 can go to the next slide, Lisa. Thanks. Um the whole second floor is children's 208 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:24,640 services. So we're moving the book collection that's in the basement and 209 00:17:21,600 --> 00:17:29,760 children's services over here and we're expanding their space for them. So these 210 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:33,679 are book stacks here. Um, we're going to have a much larger craft room. We have a 211 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:36,799 small, very tiny craft room in our children's room right now. Again, it's 212 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:43,600 heavily used, so we're making more space for that. There's the elevator. Uh, 213 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:47,120 children's offices. The staff work room um is where they would put together the 214 00:17:45,679 --> 00:17:50,559 um [clears throat] the supplies for the programs that 215 00:17:49,039 --> 00:17:51,679 they're doing. And also, they do a lot of decorating 216 00:17:51,592 --> 00:17:54,960 » [clears throat] >> um and very creative things in the 217 00:17:53,760 --> 00:18:00,240 children's room. So, that would be happening in this craft this staff work 218 00:17:57,280 --> 00:18:06,160 room. They are having storage have some storage space here, public restrooms. 219 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:10,160 And then over here is the baby preschool and toddler room. So the idea, and 220 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:13,440 you'll understand this more when you see some of the renderings, is if you go up, 221 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:16,640 you're going to be looking out the windows at the Carnegie building and at 222 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:20,320 the fort grounds. And it's almost going to feel like a treehouse on the second 223 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:26,039 floor because it's going to have a ceiling. So we can go to the next. 224 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:32,000 Okay. You have to go back to the You've got to shrink it down because 225 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:37,440 this is this one. >> Yeah. Go back to the regular size. Thank 226 00:18:35,039 --> 00:18:40,559 you. So, if you were standing on the front steps of the Defiance building, 227 00:18:39,120 --> 00:18:45,200 this is what you would see across the street. So, the preschool toddler room 228 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:51,679 that I was talking about, it's right up here. This is the maker space. There's 229 00:18:48,559 --> 00:18:56,720 outdoor seating. These posts will be for um people to plug in and charge their 230 00:18:54,080 --> 00:19:01,120 phones and they get electrical outlets. Um I did have some concerns about people 231 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:04,720 hanging out here at night doing this um because we have a a a homeless 232 00:19:03,120 --> 00:19:08,480 population that spends time around the library. So we'll be able to turn those 233 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:13,919 off and on when the buildings open and closed. And then the main entrance is 234 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:19,240 right here. So that um the raised walkway [clears throat] 235 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:19,240 would be right across here like that. 236 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:30,640 So, this would be a view from um probably the corner of the Defiance 237 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:35,440 building looking over this way. So, you can see we're going to have some bare 238 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:40,480 trees and a fence to um protect the neighbors and that will be over go all 239 00:19:37,360 --> 00:19:45,320 the way around and also on this side between the library [clears throat] and 240 00:19:41,360 --> 00:19:45,320 Mr. Stansel's house. 241 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:54,880 This is what the lobby would look like when you walk in. So, they can't 242 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:58,720 replicate the colors exactly with a computer program, but we're going to be 243 00:19:56,720 --> 00:20:02,640 matching the the red color that's in the Carnegie building when you walk into the 244 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:09,200 main entrance with this this here. And the desk is going to um mimic the color 245 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:13,440 of the wood and the shape of of our horseshoe desk, original horseshoe desk 246 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:17,280 that's over in another building. So, this would be an entrance to the 247 00:20:14,799 --> 00:20:23,919 community room, and these are the two huddle rooms that we were looking down 248 00:20:18,799 --> 00:20:28,240 at. So, we're going to be able to um close off the hallway a little bit 249 00:20:25,919 --> 00:20:32,080 further down so they can be um after hours access for the meeting room. So, 250 00:20:30,159 --> 00:20:36,000 say if city [clears throat] council wanted to use this meeting room after 251 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:40,400 hours, you would be able to have access to it through it to it um because we 252 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:43,679 would be able to close off parts of the hallway and so you would still have 253 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:49,320 access to the restrooms and the community room, but the rest of the 254 00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:49,320 building would be shut off. 255 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:56,880 Uh this is what the inside of the community room would look like. 256 00:20:54,159 --> 00:21:03,840 And again, we're mimicking um what's over at the Carnegie building. Um, these 257 00:20:59,919 --> 00:21:11,159 doors and the shape, these are all um were inspired by the Nelly Gary room 258 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:11,159 over in the in the Defiance building. 259 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:18,880 So, this is the maker space. Um, again, we're kind of in the corner, so you can 260 00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:22,960 see the the library across the street here. So, um, this image shows adults 261 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:29,840 and kids using it, and that's actually very true. We have all ages using this, 262 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:37,120 um, service. So, um she works with Cara Bola works with um elementary school age 263 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:42,440 kids through adults. Um and these are if you've never seen a 3D printer, that's 264 00:21:38,559 --> 00:21:42,440 kind of what they look like now. 265 00:21:44,159 --> 00:21:50,320 So, this is upstairs in the children's room. So, the theme that they picked 266 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:54,080 we've chosen for the children's room is the river and the confluence and the 267 00:21:51,840 --> 00:22:00,080 nature that's around the confluence. So, you'll see a lot of nature themed motifs 268 00:21:56,960 --> 00:22:05,200 in here. Um, this is inspired by the rivers. 269 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:09,760 Um, if this would be the stairway coming up is right here. That's the craft room. 270 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:14,080 That's the elevator. [clears throat] The children's offices are back there. And 271 00:22:11,679 --> 00:22:17,440 we positioned the main desk. So, it's right in the middle of the room. And 272 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:22,720 they have I sight lines for the whole space. So, um, one thing that we, you 273 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:26,400 know, I've had, I started off as a children's librarian, and one of the 274 00:22:24,159 --> 00:22:30,559 things they drill into you when you're go through that training is that, um, 275 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:34,080 public libraries are public spaces. You can't control who's in a public library. 276 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:38,640 So, you kind of have to treat it like a shopping mall. And, um, when you have 277 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:41,520 kids in there, a lot of times parents feel very comfortable in libraries and 278 00:22:40,159 --> 00:22:46,480 think they can leave their kids in there or not really be paying attention. And 279 00:22:45,039 --> 00:22:51,600 um where our children's room is right now, there's a lot of little nooks that 280 00:22:49,360 --> 00:22:55,840 people can hide in because it's was not designed as a children's room. It was 281 00:22:53,280 --> 00:23:00,960 office space and I think a community room at one time. So, um there's just no 282 00:22:59,360 --> 00:23:05,039 good sight lines down here. So, we specifically designed this space so that 283 00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:13,280 there's sightelines and it's a very um easily supervised space. 284 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:19,360 So this is the preschool toddler area and um again the colors were selected 285 00:23:16,159 --> 00:23:23,679 from um you know the colors of the trees and 286 00:23:21,120 --> 00:23:28,799 other nature natural items around the the confluence. And this would be more 287 00:23:26,159 --> 00:23:34,440 of a play area and it would have um picture books and um board books. 288 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:40,799 Okay. Okay. And I've got one more slide, I think. So, this is the slide that I 289 00:23:39,360 --> 00:23:45,440 was going to go over. So, these are the facts about the levy. So, um I'm a 290 00:23:43,919 --> 00:23:50,240 public library employee, so I'm not allowed to ask people to vote one way or 291 00:23:47,919 --> 00:23:54,559 the other on the levy, but um I can provide you with facts about it. So, um 292 00:23:53,039 --> 00:24:01,039 this is the same sheet that I just handed out to you. Um, so there's going 293 00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:07,039 to be a levy on the ballot in November and um [clears throat] 294 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:12,240 it's going to be um renewing our our 75 mil levy that we've had for I think 295 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:16,799 it'll be 25 years uh next year. So that levy has gone to operating cost for 296 00:24:15,279 --> 00:24:21,520 library and it's been the number has been unchanged for 25 years. So this is 297 00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:25,840 the first time we've come back for a a change in a levy in 25 years. So what 298 00:24:24,159 --> 00:24:32,960 we're doing is we're going to be asking po for a 09 mil increase and that will 299 00:24:29,360 --> 00:24:38,320 be backfilling the library budget. Public libraries in Ohio um according to 300 00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:41,679 Ohio revised code can borrow against our state income to do construction 301 00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:44,960 projects. So that's what we're we're doing. We're borrowing against what's 302 00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:51,039 called the public library fund money that we receive each month. So um the 303 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:56,159 debt payment will come right out of that um public library fund money that we 304 00:24:52,640 --> 00:25:01,919 get. So this le this levy increase is to back we typically use that for our 305 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:07,360 operating costs. So this um 0.9 mil increase will be backfilling our 306 00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:12,960 operating budget so that we can pay we can pay the um the construction debt and 307 00:25:11,279 --> 00:25:18,880 it will also be covering the operating cost for the new building. 308 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:23,440 So we're going to be fundraising also. Um, our fundraising goal is 30% of the 309 00:25:21,279 --> 00:25:29,039 total construction cost, which is 2.5 million. And the library had saved over 310 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:33,520 the years, we had saved $1 million, which we've already partially used to do 311 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:39,360 some of the property purchase and pay the architects and things like that. 312 00:25:36,559 --> 00:25:44,720 So, um, I think I'm at an end here. I'm happy to 313 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:47,919 answer any questions. And all this information is also on the library 314 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:52,720 website. And um 315 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:56,480 I [clears throat] um as Cathy said, I'm happy to answer any [cough] questions um 316 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:59,679 or entertain any comments. >> Mr. Hancock, 317 00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:03,600 » first question I Hi, Cara. First question I had was the currently I 318 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:08,480 believe there's some parking >> on the street there. Um will that be 319 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:12,320 will that be removed? >> Do you know? 320 00:26:09,279 --> 00:26:17,039 » Well, it will be where the uh table where the speed table is. There won't be 321 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:20,720 parking there of course, but I I don't I mean really the parking is going to be 322 00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:25,360 determined by the city. That's a zoning issue. Um currently, like you said, 323 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:29,120 there's on street parking. Um what'll happen is that um the library will have 324 00:26:27,360 --> 00:26:30,960 to go to the zoning and ask for a variance. 325 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:34,159 » Okay. >> So [clears throat] we haven't we haven't 326 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:40,840 done that yet. And the second question when um we speak of the levy um is it 327 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:40,840 the.75 328 00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:46,960 and the 0.9 together as one levy? >> Yes. 329 00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:49,360 » 1.65. >> Yes correctly. 330 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:55,200 » Yes. >> Um and there's a is there a term for 331 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:59,520 that levy? Is there like let's say a 5year 10 year 15 year? 332 00:26:57,200 --> 00:27:03,679 » It's a 35 year levy. So the reason we did that is to spread the cost to the 333 00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:09,360 taxpayers out over as many years as we can. So it would have less impact. And 334 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:13,919 we also have um we anticipate that levy amount diminishing as we get more paid 335 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:18,828 off. We'll just be reducing reducing it each each year that we get more of the 336 00:27:16,159 --> 00:27:21,679 principal more of it paid off. [clears throat] And also if we're very 337 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:24,799 successful in fundraising that could also reduce the le. 338 00:27:23,039 --> 00:27:31,279 » Okay. Thank you >> Mr. Mast. I had two questions. curious 339 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:34,240 on sizewise compared to your your current building. What's the the new 340 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:39,039 building square footage? >> It's about 14,000 square feet. So, it's 341 00:27:36,799 --> 00:27:41,760 about almost doubling our space. >> Doubling what you have now. 342 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:45,919 » So, what we'll be doing with the space that's freed up in the main library is 343 00:27:43,919 --> 00:27:49,120 um again, if you've been here on a Tuesday or Thursday night, you'll see 344 00:27:47,360 --> 00:27:53,120 that we're overrun with teens. We have a very successful teen program and 345 00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:58,240 sometimes there's 50 kids and they're on one of the mezzanines, which is not 346 00:27:55,120 --> 00:28:01,760 good. So, it's very noisy. So, we're going to be moving them down probably 347 00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:06,640 into where the children's room is now. So, they'll have more space. Um, and 348 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:10,720 they won't they're if they're loud, they won't impact as many people. And then 349 00:28:09,039 --> 00:28:15,039 some of the mezzanine space we're going to be turning into office space and 350 00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:20,559 possibly small meeting room space for the public. So, um, that still has is 351 00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:25,360 being figured out. And we and the the intent is also to expand our local 352 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:28,480 history offerings, too. So, we'll be um expanding some of that into the Nelly 353 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:31,360 Gary room probably. >> Will this will the annex require 354 00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:34,399 additional staffing or do you have staffing to cover? 355 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:37,279 » It will require I mean some of the staffing will just move over there like 356 00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:41,760 the children's room staff will just go over there. We will have to hire um more 357 00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:47,600 circulation staff to work at the circulation desk. And um I anticipate 358 00:28:44,799 --> 00:28:50,880 having to hire probably the equivalent probably two part-time 359 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:56,000 people, the equivalent of one full-time person to help staff the maker space. So 360 00:28:53,840 --> 00:29:00,880 that's those staffing costs have all been calculated into the levy amount um 361 00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:04,080 to cover the staffing. >> So that's part of the operational cost 362 00:29:02,559 --> 00:29:08,720 that's in building the ley. >> Yes. So the operation costs would are 363 00:29:06,399 --> 00:29:13,760 you know the the utilities um maintenance and staffing. 364 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:18,080 » Thank you. Do we have any other questions or comments for Miss Pome? 365 00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:23,279 » Mr. Posey. >> Yes sir. I think we have a building 366 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:28,559 already in place. that could accommodate whatever you 367 00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:32,240 junior high school. >> Yeah, we did we did actually look at the 368 00:29:30,399 --> 00:29:35,919 junior high school four or five years ago and it's much larger [cough] than 369 00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:41,200 what we [clears throat] need. We would need like one quarter of the first floor 370 00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:45,279 and the envelope of the building is um quite damaged. it would need a lot of 371 00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:48,880 work and it's also not handicapped accessible and because of the way it's 372 00:29:47,039 --> 00:29:53,919 constructed with the bricks and the mortar. It's um be very difficult to 373 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:57,520 enlarge the bathrooms or the doorways to make them handicapped accessible and 374 00:29:56,000 --> 00:30:01,679 also the entrance. I don't know if you walk you probably have walked up the 375 00:29:59,039 --> 00:30:06,640 steps there. Um we would have to have quite an extensive exterior ramp to make 376 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:09,840 it handicapped accessible too and we're required to be handicapped accessible 377 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:17,679 because we're a public building. I can understand that, but I mean a school I 378 00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:20,720 had to handicap people. >> I I think one of the reasons they moved 379 00:30:19,279 --> 00:30:27,080 out of that building is because it was not meeting ADA requirements. 380 00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:27,080 » Nice question. 381 00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:31,600 » Um I would have to disagree. I'm sorry. [clears throat] 382 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:35,440 » I'm going to disagree. >> I love Don't get me wrong. I love the 383 00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:40,000 building and I would love to see something happen to it. Um, but I don't 384 00:30:38,159 --> 00:30:43,840 think this we don't we just don't have the amount of money it would take to 385 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:47,919 restore that building. It would be probably four to five times the cost of 386 00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:51,600 doing this building. >> It's historical one thing. 387 00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:55,760 » Oh, I know. And I would encourage anybody who's interested in historical 388 00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:59,760 buildings in town to do some fundraising maybe to help help bring that that 389 00:30:57,919 --> 00:31:02,880 building back. [clears throat and cough] >> And do we have any other questions for 390 00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:03,760 Miss Potter? >> All right. 391 00:31:03,279 --> 00:31:05,919 » Thank you. >> Well, thank you for being our guest this 392 00:31:05,039 --> 00:31:08,960 evening. Thank you. >> Thank you. 393 00:31:08,081 --> 00:31:13,919 » [clears throat] >> I've reviewed the index minutes for our 394 00:31:11,679 --> 00:31:16,880 city council meeting of August 25th. Do we have a motion to correct or amend 395 00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:20,399 these index minutes as they're presented? 396 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:27,840 » Without such a motion, I'll endorse them. And do we have any liaison meeting 397 00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:31,440 uh reports or requests? Do we have any comments from council? 398 00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:35,760 » Mr. Mr. Wax, >> I was glad to see they got the house 399 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:40,159 over on Harrison tore down and cleaned up. That looks good over there. 400 00:31:38,399 --> 00:31:43,200 » Thank you. I think we're not too far from a couple 401 00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:50,240 others. Correct. >> Correct. 402 00:31:46,159 --> 00:31:54,960 Any other comments? >> Okay, I'll move to the administration. 403 00:31:53,919 --> 00:31:59,840 Mayor McCann, >> just one item. I'll be very important. 404 00:31:57,919 --> 00:32:07,679 Mr. President, members of council, uh, this Friday is the 25th anniversary of 405 00:32:03,039 --> 00:32:13,279 the 911 attacks on our country and the fire department will be hosting a 406 00:32:09,279 --> 00:32:18,880 ceremony at Defiance High School at 9:00 in Fred J. Brown Stadium, 9:00 a.m. 407 00:32:17,519 --> 00:32:22,880 Okay. >> Thank you, M. 408 00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:25,279 And that's all you have? >> That is, sir, 409 00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:30,080 » Mr. Mack. >> Yes. Thank you, Mr. President. Uh, I 410 00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:34,080 actually, um, so Friday we had a great drone show and I will let our finance 411 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:39,440 director probably get more into that. Um, but most people went home after that 412 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:42,880 or after football game, went to bed, woke up the next morning realizing there 413 00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:48,559 had been a storm. And I just want to thank our city crews. uh between police, 414 00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:52,880 fire, water, sewer, parks, streets, even the engineering division, they were 415 00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:58,159 fielding phone calls by 1 and 2 am. We had a significant portion of the city 416 00:32:55,200 --> 00:33:02,159 workforce who came to work Saturday morning at 1 or 2 in the morning to try 417 00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:05,919 to make sure when everybody woke up the next day that toilets were flushing, 418 00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:09,200 water was running, and the streets didn't have trees in the middle of them. 419 00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:12,640 So, just wanted to point that out and and thank them in front of all of you so 420 00:33:11,039 --> 00:33:15,760 you were aware of it. >> And that's all, Mr. President. Thank 421 00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:20,399 you, Mrs. Suran. 422 00:33:17,519 --> 00:33:24,880 » Thank you. Council did request planning commission to review our current zoning 423 00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:30,640 code to strengthen zoning amendments for data centers at the meeting on August 424 00:33:27,519 --> 00:33:36,080 25th. I just wanted to provide an update about that. 425 00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:40,000 Procedurally, here's what to expect. The zoning commissioner and planning 426 00:33:37,519 --> 00:33:44,559 commission clerk Nikki Waricki is actively working on recommendations for 427 00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:49,200 zoning code amendments related to data centers based off the research that she 428 00:33:46,799 --> 00:33:54,480 started back in February. Those will be on the planning 429 00:33:51,519 --> 00:34:01,039 commission's next agenda, which their next meeting is September 21st, 2026. 430 00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:07,919 They meet every third Monday of the month here in council chambers at 4:30m. 431 00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:13,760 So those will be on that agenda. They can make recommendations 432 00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:17,520 back to council at that meeting or they can continue it to another meeting if 433 00:34:15,679 --> 00:34:22,720 there's still a lot of things that they need to review. Once they make 434 00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:27,919 recommendations back to council, it'll trigger kind of how we started with the 435 00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:32,480 first zoning amendments with the definition for data centers. 436 00:34:29,823 --> 00:34:37,200 [clears throat] So, she would submit a request for legislation to the law 437 00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:41,280 department. I would draft something and it then would be put on council's 438 00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:48,159 agenda. Would be needing a public hearing after that. So, just an update. 439 00:34:45,679 --> 00:34:50,240 » Nothing additional. Well, thank you very much. [clears throat] 440 00:34:49,119 --> 00:34:55,359 » And Miss Spray, >> um, as to what Ryan said, we did have 441 00:34:52,720 --> 00:35:00,640 the drone show Friday night, um, to celebrate America's 250th birthday. It 442 00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:06,000 went over really well. We didn't have any hiccups. The weather stayed away 443 00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:09,520 until 1 2:00 and then it came in and did did its thing. So, we were I was 444 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:15,599 grateful. The guy that did the drone show was very happy. Um, but thanks to 445 00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:20,160 all our employees. there was somebody from every department that pitched in 446 00:35:17,839 --> 00:35:25,760 and helped out to make it a a success. Um, I heard a ton of positive u from the 447 00:35:23,359 --> 00:35:29,359 community and that pulled in people from all over. So, I think it went over 448 00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:32,560 really well. >> Excellent. Well, thank you. 449 00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:37,119 » Yep. >> Uh, we do have four items of legislation 450 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:41,200 for this evening. Would you read the caption [clears throat] for the first 451 00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:47,680 » third reading by caption only vacating the rideways located directly north of 452 00:35:43,359 --> 00:35:53,520 330 332 334 and 338 Dford Street in the fellow Adams edition city of Defiance 453 00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:56,240 Defiance Township Defiance County, Ohio. >> Mrs. Sigan, 454 00:35:54,640 --> 00:36:03,359 » thank you. There is an application requesting the vacation of an alley 455 00:35:58,720 --> 00:36:08,320 located directly north of 330, 332, 334, and 338 Danford Street. There's a 456 00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:12,880 description up on the screen. It's a paper alley. No utilities were located 457 00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:17,920 on site. Planning commission heard this request July 20th. Voted unanimously to 458 00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:21,520 recommend approval to grant that vacation request. This is the third 459 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:24,240 reading. >> Mr. Waxler. 460 00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:28,800 » No further question. Motion spending call. Nope. Always can't do that. Adopt 461 00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:30,640 or adopt. I'm sorry. Yes. On the table. I'm sorry. I 462 00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:33,599 » motion to adopt. >> Motion to adopt. Mr. Waxler. 463 00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:37,359 » Second. >> Second. Mr. Engel. I forgot it was on 464 00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:40,599 the table. >> Mr. Engle. 465 00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:42,480 » Yes. >> Mr. Engle. 466 00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:44,640 » Yes. >> Okay. [clears throat] Mr. Wexler. 467 00:36:44,240 --> 00:36:45,839 » Yes. >> Mr. Mass. 468 00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:47,040 » Yes. >> Mrs. Crutch. 469 00:36:46,720 --> 00:36:48,880 » Yes. >> Mr. Hancock. 470 00:36:48,240 --> 00:36:50,160 » Yes. >> Miss Kaufman. 471 00:36:49,839 --> 00:36:52,560 » Yes. >> And Mr. Corbett. [clears throat] 472 00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:56,079 » Yes. >> All right. 473 00:36:53,599 --> 00:37:00,240 » With that, this ordinance is adopted. >> Second reading by caption only. 474 00:36:59,165 --> 00:37:06,880 [clears throat] in Orange Bay vacating the rightways located to the rear of the 475 00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:12,480 properties of 610, 616, 622 Nicholas Street, and 611, 613, and 623 Gibson 476 00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:16,000 Street in Ho Gates Edition, City Defiance, Defiance County, Ohio. 477 00:37:15,119 --> 00:37:20,960 » Mrs. Sigan, >> thank you. There is another application 478 00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:27,330 requesting vacation of an alley located to the rear of the properties at 610, 479 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:33,680 616, 622 Nicholas Street and the rear [clears throat] of 611, 613, and 623 480 00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:38,960 Gibson Street. The alley does have power lines, but there is an existing easement 481 00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:43,760 within the OC for public utilities. Planning Commission did hear this 482 00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:48,160 request at their August 17th meeting and they voted unanimously to recommend 483 00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:52,320 approval to council to grant this vacation request. This is the second 484 00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:56,720 reading. >> Do we have any questions or comments for 485 00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:59,920 Mrs. Surigan and Mr. Mass? 486 00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:05,599 » Motion to let this lie. >> Motion to second Mr. Corbett. All those 487 00:38:03,359 --> 00:38:11,520 in favor of letting this issue lie until next time say I. I. All those opposed. 488 00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:14,960 All right, we'll let this one lie. >> First reading by caption only a 489 00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:19,440 resolution accepting amounts of rates determined by the budget commission and 490 00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:22,400 at the authorizing necessary tax levies and certifying them to the county 491 00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:25,200 auditor. >> Mr. Brick, 492 00:38:23,119 --> 00:38:29,520 » thank you. Um, this is just a routine resolution. It's brought to you once a 493 00:38:27,119 --> 00:38:34,320 year um asking you to accept the rates and amounts determined by the budget 494 00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:42,160 commission. Um, this these amounts are down about $4,000 over 25, but still up 495 00:38:39,119 --> 00:38:47,359 roughly 150 over 24. You can see these get split between the general fund, 496 00:38:44,240 --> 00:38:52,119 police, and fire pensions. >> Do we have any questions for Miss Bragg? 497 00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:56,720 » Mr. Question call. >> Motion to suspend call. 498 00:38:56,240 --> 00:38:59,119 » Second. >> Second, Mr. Mast. 499 00:38:58,079 --> 00:39:00,480 » Miss Coffin. >> Yes. 500 00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:01,920 » Mr. Waxler. >> Yes. 501 00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:03,440 » Mrs. Crutch. >> Yes. [clears throat] 502 00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:04,640 » Mr. Corbett. >> Yes. 503 00:39:03,839 --> 00:39:06,000 » Mr. Mass. >> Yes. 504 00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:07,520 » Mr. Engel. >> Yes. 505 00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:09,680 » And Mr. Hancock. >> Yes. 506 00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:12,000 » Motion to adopt. >> Motion to adopt. Mr. Hancock. 507 00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:14,560 » Second. >> Second. [clears throat] Mr. Mast. 508 00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:16,079 » Mrs. Crutch. >> Yes. 509 00:39:15,119 --> 00:39:17,440 » Mr. Mass. >> Yes. 510 00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:18,800 » Mr. Engel. >> Yes. 511 00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:20,240 » Mr. Corbett. >> Yes. 512 00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:21,440 » Mr. Hancock. >> Yes. 513 00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:22,800 » Mr. Waxler. >> Yes. 514 00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:29,760 » And Miss Kaufman. >> Yes. 515 00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:33,680 » With that, this resolution is adopted. First reading may caption only a 516 00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:38,560 resolution accepting the defiance county budget commission's alder plan and 517 00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:41,280 approach approach improment [clears throat] 518 00:39:39,599 --> 00:39:45,592 of the undefied or local government funds. All 519 00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:45,592 » set. [laughter] 520 00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:53,440 » Thank you. Um same thing. This is a routine resolution brought to you every 521 00:39:50,000 --> 00:40:00,480 year um asking you to approve the local government funds. Um, these funds are up 522 00:39:56,320 --> 00:40:04,320 roughly $15,000 over last year and these these funds all go into the general 523 00:40:02,240 --> 00:40:06,880 fund. >> All right, Mr. Corbett. 524 00:40:05,599 --> 00:40:12,119 » Motion to suspend and call. >> Motion to suspend and call. 525 00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:12,119 » Second, Mrs. Crutch. 526 00:40:14,079 --> 00:40:16,640 » Mr. Corbett. >> Yes. 527 00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:17,839 » Mr. Hancock, >> yes. 528 00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:19,040 » Mr. Ingo, >> yes. 529 00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:20,240 » Miss Coughlin, >> yes. 530 00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:21,760 » Mr. Mass, >> yes. [clears throat] 531 00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:23,200 » Mr. Wexler, >> yes. 532 00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:25,119 » And Mr. Scratch, >> yes. 533 00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:30,160 Motion. >> Motion to adopt. Second. 534 00:40:26,720 --> 00:40:32,800 » Second. Mr. Mast. >> Mr. Hancock. 535 00:40:32,240 --> 00:40:34,000 » Yes. >> Mr. Engel. 536 00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:35,119 » Yes. >> Mr. Mass. 537 00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:36,720 » Yes. >> Mrs. Scratch. 538 00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:37,920 » Yes. >> Miss Kaufman. 539 00:40:37,599 --> 00:40:38,960 » Yes. >> Mr. Corbett? 540 00:40:38,720 --> 00:40:42,640 » Yes. >> And Mr. Waxley? 541 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:48,160 » Yes. >> With that, this resolution is adopted. 542 00:40:45,599 --> 00:40:52,640 Do we with the items of legislation addressed? Did we have any citizens 543 00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:58,839 concerns before we adjourn for the evening? Mr. Posie. 544 00:40:55,839 --> 00:40:58,839 » Hey. 545 00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:16,680 » Good. 1917. 546 00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:29,280 And my question tonight is about veterans homes or place we can get like 547 00:41:26,240 --> 00:41:34,800 a veterans hospital here in the plan. We've got problems that you know 548 00:41:31,839 --> 00:41:42,480 veterans saying things need addressed. Sorry about this. I had two strokes. 549 00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:48,560 Okay. So I just wondered what how I have the issue for mayor. What's the 550 00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:54,079 what's the update going on? There is a gentleman that is working on 551 00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:59,040 a small number of veterans apartments or homes. Uh, Miss Posey, I don't know too 552 00:41:56,880 --> 00:42:02,720 many more details than that, but stay tuned because I believe something will 553 00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:04,800 be coming before planning commission very soon. 554 00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:08,000 » Thank you very much. >> You're welcome. 555 00:42:05,599 --> 00:42:12,400 » For the veterans and people of the United States, 556 00:42:10,720 --> 00:42:17,359 we thank you very much. >> Yep. Thank you, Mr. Posey. 557 00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:21,599 » Yeah. Do we have any other citizens concerns? 558 00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:24,880 No. All right. With the items of legislation addressed, do we have a 559 00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:29,119 motion to adjurnn for this? So move. >> So move, Mr. Corbeck. 560 00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:36,440 » Second, Mr. Mast. All those in favor of adjourning this evening say I. I. 561 00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:36,440 » All those opposed. We are ajourned.