[2:18] groups are
[3:40] Mr. Storm will call the uh the role
please. Miss Le here. Mrs. Sweet here.
[3:44] Mr. Bear here. Mr. Whitaker here. Mr.
Dolley here. Mr. Hannah here. We do have
[3:50] enough for a quorum this evening. And if
it can join me in the pledge of
[3:54] allegiance, please.
[3:58] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the
[4:03] republic for which it stands, one nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and
[4:10] justice for all.
[4:15] For those of you new in here this
evening, uh we do have a new member in
[4:19] council and it's Mr. Christian Dvoli. Uh
we appreciate everybody that was here
[4:23] the other night that uh uh that
interviewed. Uh we look forward to
[4:28] seeing you in the future on different
different projects with the village
[4:30] itself. So uh one thing to get a little
house cleaning order is Mayor Howard is
[4:36] out this evening. Whenever he's out, the
council president steps in as president
[4:41] promp and uh we will see uh mayor at the
next meeting. So,
[4:48] do we have any additions to the agenda
this evening?
[4:54] Seeing none,
if I could have you look over the
[4:58] minutes of the prior meetings, and I'd
entertain a motion to uh accept and
[5:02] second, please.
I'll move that we accept the Tuesday,
[5:07] May 27th uh minutes as presented. I'll
second
[5:14] call the role, Mr. Storm. Mrs. Sweep.
Yes. Mr. Bear. Yes. Mr. Whitaker. Yes.
[5:18] Mr. Dvoli. Yes. Mr. Hannah. Yes. Miss
Least. Yes.
[5:23] And then we need one for
special meeting.
[5:30] I'll move that we accept the um meeting
minutes from Thursday, June 5th as
[5:35] presented. Second. Okay. You got three
choices. Pick one. Whoever you want. All
[5:40] right. If we can call the RO, please.
Mr. Bear. Yes. Mr. Whitaker. Yes. Mr.
[5:44] Devoy. Yes. Mr. Hannah. Yes. Miss Le.
Yes. Mrs. Sweet. Yes. Okay. Thank you.
[5:51] And Mr. Storm, do you have a financial
report this evening? Yes. Financial
[5:55] reports and settlements for the month of
May are distributed as of month end. Our
[6:01] fund balances are as follows. General
fund $258,79.96.
[6:08] Street fund $22,746.61.
[6:13] Our police um revenue levy fund
$161,875.70.
[6:20] Our special revenue fund $6,96833.
And water operating has $440,294.19.
[6:30] Total of all funds available 936,64845.
[6:38] Um I will bring your attention to the
police levy balance the 161875
[6:44] um because of being down a levy from
previous years that that balance is
[6:48] lower than um we'd like it to be. So I
am going to start doing payroll for one
[6:53] police officer out of the general fund
starting next pay. Um we had
[6:57] appropriated that. I just hadn't haven't
done it yet. Trying to see how things
[7:00] balanced out. But we will we will move
one pay um over there. Um starting when?
[7:06] Next pay. Next pay.
[7:12] All right. Do you have anything else
notable? Nothing else notable. We're
[7:16] still working through the life insurance
issue. Um the voluntary life invoice
[7:22] came in. It still isn't correct. So,
we're we're plugging along. I know
[7:27] Christiey's deep in the weeds on finding
a new provider, but until that that
[7:31] happens, we've paid the bill for the
voluntary portion at least just to keep
[7:35] that going.
I'll move that we accept the bank
[7:39] reconciliation for May as presented. A
second.
[7:43] All right. And call the roll, please.
Mr. Whitaker, yes. Mr. Doli, yes. Mr.
[7:48] Hannah, yes. Miss Le, yes. Mrs. Yes. Mr.
Bear. Yes. Okay.
[7:53] We'll do that.
Before I end my report, I I did include
[7:57] with the minutes and the financials uh a
draft resolution if you would like to
[8:02] proceed with putting the police levy on
the ballot again in the fall. Those do
[8:06] need to be certified at the board of
elections by August 6th. It takes two
[8:10] meetings for us to do everything. So, I
wanted to get it in front of you sooner
[8:14] rather than later if there's still time
to proceed at the next meeting if if
[8:18] that's what you'd like to do. But it is
for you to to look over. I the the
[8:23] numbers that I put in there are are the
same as what was going to be on in the
[8:26] spring. Okay. If anyone would like to
change that at all, that's certainly
[8:29] something we can do. I just wanted to
kick off that conversation so we didn't
[8:33] miss a deadline. And it was August 6th
was the deadline. August 6th is the
[8:36] deadline. Yeah, it's the it's the day
after the Well, if there would be a
[8:41] special election in August, I don't
think anybody's going to have one, but
[8:44] it's 90 days before the November
election if I remember correct.
[8:50] Okay. Would you want to just go ahead
and vote on this this evening? That um
[8:53] that is that is up to you, Mr.
President. I just There's any reason why
[8:57] we would not go ahead and do that and
try to get it rolling? No. I mean, I
[9:01] don't have any issues with that. We we
have to put it back on the levy. It has
[9:04] to go back on. Yeah. Would you like me
to read it into read it? Okay. A
[9:09] resolution of necessity resolution
requesting certification from the county
[9:13] auditor pursuant pursuant to Ohio
Revised Code section 5705.03.
[9:18] I would draw your attention to the be it
further resolve section. This is the
[9:21] purpose of the resolution for providing
and maintaining motor vehicles,
[9:25] communications, other equipment,
buildings and sites for such buildings
[9:28] used directly in the operation of a
police department for the payment of or
[9:32] salaries of permanent or part-time
police communications or administrative
[9:36] personnel to operate the same including
the payment of any employer
[9:39] contributions for such personnel under
sections 145.48 or 742.22 of the revised
[9:44] code or for the payment of other related
costs. This would be a 5-year levy.
[9:48] First levy this year, first collected
next year. Um and the um approximate
[9:53] rate to be or the millage rate would be
1.75 mills,
[10:00] which correct me if I'm wrong, um
equates to the old
[10:06] 2 and 12 mil levy. The what we would
receive would be a very similar number.
[10:11] the receipts would be I can't say
identical but it would bring in an
[10:16] equivalent amount to what the old levy
did which it was generating a higher
[10:19] rate but because of increases in
property valuations since that levy was
[10:23] initially put on it takes a lower
millage rate to collect the same amount
[10:26] of money. Okay. Thank you. Okay.
And if you call roll please. I I need a
[10:33] motion. I make a motion that um do we
need to wave the three reading rule or
[10:38] Okay. I'll make a motion we wave the
three reading rule. I'll second.
[10:47] Mr. Devolley, yes. Mr. Hannah, yes. Miss
Le, yes. Mrs. Sweet. Yes. Mr. Ber, yes.
[10:53] Mr. Whitaker, yes.
Okay, I'll need a motion. We can get
[11:00] moving on that one. So, that takes takes
care of
[11:04] move forward. Make a motion. Need a
motion to adopt motion. I'll make a
[11:08] motion to adopt the resolution of
necessity for putting the putting it
[11:13] back on the ballot and I'll second.
[11:19] Mr. Hannah, yes. Miss Le, yes. Mrs.
Sweet. Yes. Mr. Bear. Yes. Mr. Whitaker.
[11:23] Yes. Mr. Deoy. Yes.
Thank you. You're welcome. And we will I
[11:28] will get you the what resolution number
that will be when we go look through the
[11:32] books to see what so it has a okay
permanent number for us. and then I'll
[11:36] submit that to the county this week.
Thanks. Thank you.
[11:43] All righty.
We have no presentation this evening. Uh
[11:47] are there any communications?
[11:51] Seeing none, staff reports. Kevin. All
right. Thank you, Mr. President. Uh
[11:55] council, residents. Uh first item is the
Mayor's Court Report.
[12:03] For the month of May, we had one case of
zoning case. Uh total funds received for
[12:08] the month $1,252.50
[12:13] year to date 9,39975.
[12:17] Total remitted to the state $141.50
year to date $796.50.
[12:25] Total remitted to the village for the
month $1,16.50.
[12:31] uh year to date $8,574.75
[12:36] brings us back to the total dispersed of
for the month $1,2525
[12:42] and year to date $9,399.75.
[12:51] I'll move that we um approve the mayor's
court report as presented. I'll second.
[12:58] We only had one case in mayor's court.
when zoning appears.
[13:04] Okay, you call the role, please. Miss
Le, yes. Mrs. Sweeten, yes. Mr. Bear,
[13:08] yes. Mr. Whitaker, yes. Mr. Doli, yes.
Mr. Hannah, yes. Thank you. All right.
[13:14] Thank you. Uh, next item, Skyline Drive.
Just want to remind everybody that
[13:17] vacant lot at the uh or let everybody
know, I should say, uh, the vacant lot
[13:22] at the Skyline Drive has been purchased.
Um there was plans submitted for a uh
[13:28] house to put on there. She has had her
plans submitted to the health department
[13:34] for the um septic in Leechfield which
has been approved. Um there is a BZA
[13:42] meeting for a variance for her house um
a square footage variance. That meeting
[13:49] is scheduled Wednesday the 25th at 6:30.
um the minimum square footage in that
[13:55] area, R2 area is 1,300 ft². She wants to
ask for variance for,00 square ft. So,
[14:03] um just a couple hundred square feet
difference. So,
[14:06] um have been having a lot of calls since
I've started working here on that and
[14:11] it's just been an issue with the health
department septic placement and all that
[14:15] kind of stuff. So, when did you say that
meeting was? Uh Wednesday the 25th at
[14:20] 6:30. This is one at the end of Skyline
right by the cemetery. Correct. If you
[14:26] drive up there, you can see the stakes.
Solid underneath
[14:32] that one. Solid. Solid underid. Solid
rock. Under. Yeah, it's wrong. Yeah,
[14:37] it's solid. But it's going to be noisy
for a while when they dig into it to put
[14:42] the underground. I'm just happy to see a
house possibly go in there. You know, it
[14:46] would be forever. Yeah. So, but yeah,
she'd sent all her plans in. Uh,
[14:50] everything uh the setbacks meet our
regulations.
[14:55] Uh, the square footage did not just 200
square ft less. And our minimum pictures
[15:00] of picture, what's that? I'm sorry. Go
ahead. I say our minimum square footage
[15:03] is 1300. 1300. Okay. And she's asking
her house is,00 feet. So, um, yeah, she
[15:10] sent pictures in of what it's going to
look like. It's pretty nice. Pretty nice
[15:14] in my opinion. So but uh like I say the
BCA will have to decide on that. So
[15:20] right uh next item the generator uh for
the water plant uh we have an issue with
[15:26] the tariff issue on that right now. So
it's kind of on hold for now. It's been
[15:33] handed over to um our attorney. Um they
were charging us astronomical tariff on
[15:40] that um in the sum of $14,000.
Um so we're kind of deciding well that
[15:50] puts us over the bid amount. So it'll
have to go out for bid and I talked to
[15:53] the contractor uh where we ordered it
from letting him know that you know
[15:57] unless they want to
reduce the tariffs you know um I have
[16:02] not heard from him. I sent them a shared
a letter with them from our attorney
[16:07] explaining that that they would have to,
you know, reduce the tariffs a bit to
[16:10] get it underneath the bid or it'll have
we can't accept it and it'll have to go
[16:13] off a bid. So, I haven't heard anything
back from him since I sent that letter
[16:18] to him uh late last week. So, we'll see
what happens. So, but we were supposed
[16:23] to get it delivered
this week, but it's not happening. So,
[16:27] till that till that gets resolved. So,
kind of a shock, you know, they had it
[16:32] broke down. Uh I asked if they could
break down, you know, what costs, you
[16:36] know, we had to pay for the tariff, you
know, but they broke it down for each
[16:39] country that parts came from. Well,
that's not what we wanted and that's not
[16:42] what the attorney asked for. He wanted
to see what parts cost, you know, so
[16:48] we're waiting to see if they can break
that down. And we know they can, but
[16:52] they say they can't, but they can't. So,
we're waiting. uh Green Vista. I met
[16:58] with the third contractor out there
today for the um uh just the portion
[17:03] that we're trying to get under the AT&T
uh conduit there at the intersection of
[17:07] Green Vistas. So, um I'm hoping to get
uh his quote here uh either later this
[17:14] week and uh we'll uh go from there. But
uh we're trying to get that that portion
[17:19] of it done and then uh I'll be like I
said before, I'll be putting in for the
[17:23] rest of the project for OPWC. So,
In your packet, you have a uh it says
[17:30] 2024
village or enan fees. In the one column
[17:35] is what we currently uh are charging
fees for the various items. Um, and I
[17:41] know I mentioned sometime last year
about uh, you know, looking into raising
[17:46] those fees,
uh, especially like the BZA. Just for
[17:50] example, the ad that we just put in uh,
for this BZA meeting is costing us $90
[17:56] to $95
to put in the paper. Um, and it's not a
[18:01] large ad. It's a small one of the
smaller ones we had to put in. And I
[18:05] remember one ad last year we had to put
in. It was more extensive. I think it
[18:10] was a legal notice. Uh it was well over
$150. So um so it varies. I think it,
[18:16] you know, from $90 to $125,
uh usually for a ad for BZA, planning
[18:22] commission, things like that. So but
that just gives you the first column,
[18:25] like I say, is what we're charging. Now,
this uh the column to your right is uh
[18:30] uh what Christy and I just kind of
discussed a suggested increase. I I
[18:36] would like you to uh maybe review those
at your leisure and you know have a
[18:41] discussion at a future date to possibly
raise some of those if not all of them.
[18:47] So take a look at that if you please
that'd be great. What's the uh golf cart
[18:54] fee? Is that like an inspection? Yes
vehicle to get the decal. We get a lot
[18:59] of them coming. The BMV
lets people know out of out of town
[19:04] people know, right? Hey, Enan inspects
while they come down here and it's, you
[19:08] know, only $10 currently. So, it's like
they know we're cheap and they bring
[19:13] them down and but that's up to you guys
if you want to increase it. But they
[19:16] that's So, that's just for the sticker
and to
[19:22] fill out the sheet that then you have to
return to the BMV to get to get the
[19:27] title. Mhm. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.
Okay. Also in your packet there is the
[19:35] uh land use agreement. Um I know the
last meeting we talked had the gentleman
[19:41] come in or a couple meetings ago
gentleman come in talking about he
[19:44] wanted to set up a 10 x10 you know like
a vendor and um I was called our
[19:50] insurance company to get their input on
what their thought was and they you know
[19:57] naturally said you have to have some
sort of land use agreement which we
[19:59] already had in place and uh and she
listed out some uh things that they
[20:05] require um especially item number three
which we already had that in place as
[20:10] well. So we have something in place if
if council so desires to um pursue that
[20:17] where you know people are allowed to set
up in a public on public property like
[20:22] in the park or something like that. I
know that Jeremy mentioned about uh you
[20:26] know maybe doing it uh uh once a month
or certain days of the month or
[20:31] whatever. So, that's up to council to
discuss, but we do have the the uh
[20:36] agreement in place already that people
use. Okay. Have you seen this already?
[20:41] Okay.
We'll make sure and get you a copy of
[20:45] that before we Yeah. before we finish
up. Um office will be closed Thursday,
[20:50] June 19th.
And on June 19th, um Brent Huntsman will
[20:57] be here with the BCA committee, uh to do
a training, BCA training. Um anybody can
[21:04] come. It's open to the public. Um he's
just going to come in and kind of run
[21:08] through maybe how a meeting should be
ran and, you know, things to look for,
[21:14] things like that. So um he's willing to
come in and do that. I think it's going
[21:18] to be a good beneficial
uh training for for the people involved.
[21:23] 19th of what time, Kevin? Uh, 6:00 to 7.
6 to 7. Okay.
[21:33] All right. Um, we probably get that on
our Facebook page so that way. Yes.
[21:39] Yeah. Thank you. Last thing I have is
welcome Mr. Debully and and I'd like to
[21:45] invite you uh at your leisure at a time
where it's good for you to maybe pop in
[21:51] during the day and meet the employees
and I can take you down to water plant
[21:55] and just kind of show you around down
there or street department just kind of
[21:59] let you know what's how things go. All
right. I appreciate that. Thank you.
[22:03] Yep. Just let me know. Have we heard
anything or have any updates on the uh
[22:07] uh West Main Street property with the
realtor or anything? Have not. Have not.
[22:13] Okay.
Any questions for uh village
[22:17] administrator Kevin?
Thank you, Kevin. Thank you,
[22:22] Lieutenant Wise.
Glad you made it back tonight. Good
[22:27] evening, Mr. President. Council, um
we'll start off with the May 2025 stats.
[22:36] Um
there was 74
[22:40] total calls.
uh 19 assists with uh other law
[22:46] enforcement, three assists with
other agencies, and two assists with
[22:52] fire and EMS.
Um there were 39 traffic stops,
[22:59] 34 issued warrant warnings,
four citations went to municipal court,
[23:06] and one to mayor's court.
Uh there was
[23:12] three reports taken, one of them being
an assault.
[23:17] Um,
and we had
[23:21] 92 business checks and 82
details that the officers done
[23:27] throughout their shifts.
Um, I spent the last two days up in
[23:33] Columbus for the
uh, school safety summit. uh lot of
[23:40] interesting businesses that we talked to
and different things. We did I did speak
[23:44] with a uh business about the metal
detectors. Um he wants to set an
[23:51] appointment to come down to see what
what the area is and what we're what
[23:55] we're needing it for. Um I told him it
would be definitely next year before we
[24:01] even considered
uh
[24:04] making the purchase. So, but he still
wants to come down and see the area.
[24:08] what we're what we're wanting. Um,
they're very portable. They're battery
[24:13] powered, so we're not plugging running
electric cords. Um,
[24:18] the
uh the one he had up there, uh, they're
[24:25] 18 hour batteries, but you can we could
take them different locations. So, like
[24:29] if with National Night Out being at the
park, we could actually take it down
[24:32] there to to have it there or any of the
events that we have, we can uh run
[24:39] people through metal detectors if we
needed to.
[24:43] So,
but that's about it. Okay. Any questions
[24:47] for Lieutenant Weise? Is there any word
from the school yet on the cameras? I
[24:53] got the I've got the uh signature for
from the superintendent. Um, I just got
[24:59] to reach out to Flock and get every all
the information to them. Yes. Okay.
[25:02] Good.
Okay.
[25:06] Thanks, Jeff. Any committee reports this
evening? None.
[25:12] Uh, old business.
Real quick blurb about the park. Thanks,
[25:18] Kevin. And tell our people in the
township we appreciate what they did to
[25:21] get the uh the pathway around the back
of the park. Uh, it's now accessible.
[25:26] It's uh uh rough, but it's still where
you can make laps around the uh the
[25:31] north side of the Warden's Ditch. So,
that's about 1.8 mile if you want to
[25:36] take the entire circumference or or um
per perimeter. So, it's uh make sure you
[25:45] got your your boots on once you get back
in the back corner. It's a little little
[25:48] soft back there, but but working with
that now. But the guys did a good job
[25:52] back there and uh and cutting out a
couple different options even in the
[25:56] path and back in the back corner. So,
thank you.
[26:01] Okay, we have no executive session at
this point. Do we have any comments from
[26:06] the public? If so, raise your hand and
step up to the microphone.
[26:13] Nothing.
I'd entertain a motion to uh adjourn.
[26:17] Motion to adjurnn.
Second. Second. No, do it. All those in
[26:22] favor say I. I. I. Opposed. Same sign.
No.
[26:28] Okay. Thank you. Appreciate everybody
coming out this evening.
[26:32] Here we go. Here we go.