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Council is now in session. Would you please stand for a moment of silent prayer and the pledge of allegiance? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america. And

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to the republic for which it stands. One nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and

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justice for all. Clerk, please call the roll. Mister. Omar, president. Anderson. Here. Here.

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here. Here. Here. Need a motion to approve the minutes from the previous meeting. I'll move.

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address? Do I have a second? I'm sorry. Second. Omar. Yes. Anderson. Yes. Yes. Barry. Yes.

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yes. Yes. Yes. I'd like to welcome everyone tonight before we get started. The mayor has a

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proclamation, I believe, to present two of them that and. Do we want to do it at the end

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of the meeting then, or. Okay, we'll move that to the end of the meeting. Public works. Okay.

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all right. Building safety. All right. Those will be under new business when we when we come

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around to it. Okay. First readings tonight are lands under ordinance c 1626 under

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service resolution cr 1226 under finance ordinance c 1726. Ordinance c 1826. Ordinance c

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1926 and resolution 1326. That is, the chairs are okay with their agenda items. We're going

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to move directly into lands with chairman hallenga. Thank you, mr. President. The first

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item on the agenda is ordinance c 1626, your honor. C 1626 accept the annexation of 13 of

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15.3 acres located south and west of hahn road and jackson township to the city of grove

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city. This is the first reading and this is the only item I have under lance, mr. President.

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all right. We'll move into service. Mr. Omar. Thank you, mr. President. The item under

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service this evening is resolution cr 1226, a resolution declaring the

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necessity of constructing certain sidewalks on home road, basalt ave, joseph street,

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juniper street, lewis circle, lynn circle, magnolia street, robin street, sequoia ave,

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stephens street and valerie street. And requiring that abutting property owners

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construct same can I. And if I may. We do have. In addition to that is the home road property

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that council added at the last meeting, which is going to be discussed, but I just want to

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clarify that that would be in the piece of legislation that you all have. Thank you. I know

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that's not there. Yes it is. We have mr. Hammonds from the service department. Yeah, I

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apologize. Good evening. Members of council. The resolution several weeks ago,

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which asked for or gave us the permission to go ahead and do the research for the properties

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that we wanted to investigate for the sidewalk program. Included the streets that were

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mentioned here and some in west grove, and then the one on home road. We did our research on

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that and found that the home road property was actually all commercial, and it was the

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highest priced of the parcels. That would be remedied at about $11,000. The others ranged from

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about 400 to about 3000. There were several that were five 6000. One was 7000. But because

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it was a commercial property, I felt as though it did not really adhere to the program as

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it had been operated the last 13 where we did not do any commercial properties. And I

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was a little bit hesitant to put that in. And then when I sent that to the administration

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as my recommendation, I left off home road. I didn't want to start a precedent that we began

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doing commercial property. So that's why it had been added. Then subsequently to the

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program. So be happy to answer any questions you might have. Any questions from council. Is

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that the way the program works is it's intended to be for residential. Not everything

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that I was able to read and the legislation previously in previous years, it always

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referred to homeowner. And I think there was a time, probably pre-covid, that some

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businesses in the town center had asked to participate in the program, and they were told at

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that time that it was actually for homeowners. So the good news is we have enough money to

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cover all the projects. As a matter of fact, we are going to we've already asked mh and t to

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come up with other areas in the west grove area to do some more residents there, so we can

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start finishing out that area of the community. So it wasn't a matter of necessarily the

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cost. It was more of actually the business nature of that commercial property. So but

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anyway, that's why I had forwarded that recommendation to the administration. Thank

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you. No one signed up. All right. Resolution is omar. Yeah. I'd like to comment since I

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asked for that amendment, but I have to do a little history here first so that everybody

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understands why I asked that for that amendment. So every year we do the sidewalk program

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and it's I understand it's contained to a geographical area for expense purposes and

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simplicity of survey and job workmanship. Also, every year, council brings forward, I'll

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call them spot situations where the sidewalk is out of code and we get complaints. And every

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year I've brought up several for that. What happens in those situations is the homeowner

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gets cited for a property out of compliance on their sidewalk, and the homeowner typically

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says, I'm not going to fix it and it never gets fixed. So the safety issue goes on for many

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years. So the property that I brought forward this year is a heavy, heavily traveled, long

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sidewalk on home road. And it's the only method that the entire neighborhood can get to. 62.

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and I work in this area, so I every day I see bicycles, wheelchairs, all kinds of

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things traversing this sidewalk. So it's a safety problem to me more than it is, you know, just

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a sidewalk program as well. Now there's no provisions to add anything to the sidewalk

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program currently, except the amendment that I made last time. This property has been blighted

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for probably 13 years before somebody built a building there. When I was a kid, it was vacant

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and same sidewalks were there. If anybody ever remembers the term cliff woods, I used to

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push my mini bike there and ride my mini bike back in there, so that sidewalk was out of

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compliance for 13 years. Nobody fixed it. The current resident or owner never fixed it.

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nothing ever happened. Now, yes, we do have a business there and it's on the entry into grove

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city right off of 62 and 270 does not look good. And it it's not safe. Yes. The legislation

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on 4113 says that it will assist homeowners. It doesn't exclude commercial. And I know

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there have been other sidewalks improved that represent a strip mall or other common property

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out in front of businesses abutting the street. I contend this is more like public

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property at this point. I guess it's not public property, but it's the only way these folks

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can get from point a to point b safely on home road. And you all know home road is very

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traveled, very congested currently. And so this is my spot sidewalk solution for a

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very heavily traveled area that we can add to the sidewalk program. And it will be

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acceptable to the current owner of the property to be in the home in, in the sidewalk

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program. And it'll solve a current sidewalk issue that we have. Thank you, mr. Holt. Mr.

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burrows. Yes, mr. Holt, I guess I have a question for you, because you're more familiar

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with this property. Is the sidewalk existing, or are there parts of the sidewalk that do

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not exist on that sidewalk? Is existing okay? It's just a very disrepair. Yes. Okay. To mr.

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holt's point, there are some serious deficiencies in the sidewalk. There are 38 panels

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that need to be improved, replaced, and and it abuts grove city property on the end

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of home road, where it makes the corner. I believe grove city has an easement and a.

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there's a creek and a bunch of forest there right on the corner. Just one other point.

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people who are participating in the program can have this. Their 50% of the cost added to

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the their tax duplicate so that they can pay that over 20 year period on their tax duplicate.

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so it's not a instantaneous jolt to their finances. It can be done over a period of time.

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so they have the option to do that. All right. Thank you, mr. Hammons. Mr. Elmore, just a

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little bit more background on this particular property, this particular site, when it was

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being developed, was notified they had a non-compliant sidewalk by the building

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department and they refused to fix it. And I just want to make sure council understands, and

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I'm sure they do, that we're setting a new precedent that we have, even though there have

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been spot arrangements made to do other non residential, most of them have been tied to other

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improvements that are going on there anywhere anyway. For instance, down mcdowell road

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this year you're going to find us replacing sidewalks. But this particular site had been

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notified and I don't think they've been cited. But we have documentation that says they

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were very well aware that the sidewalk was not in compliance. Two years ago, june of 24. So

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just for the record, we're setting a new precedent, including businesses. And it's

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one of the most expensive pieces that we have on this legislation tonight. And may I

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ask the the owner to be here tonight to make his case as well. He's unable to do that.

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but to summarize, his point is basically what I did is that it's been that way for 15 or 20

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years. Why didn't you get the previous people to fix it? Why do I all of a sudden have to

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pay all this money to fix this sidewalk? This is a mom and pop business. It's not walmart or

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dollar general or anybody like that. It's just a local business that bought that

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property. And for anybody around here that might not know, this is the golf cart store on

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home road. So you may recognize the golf cart store. And so his point, if I can represent the

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resident correctly, would be that, you know, this not fair. I bought this property. Now I

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have to spend all this money just to bring the sidewalk up to code. You should have done

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that before. And, and so I worked with him and said, well, maybe I can get you in the spot

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sidewalk program and that'll save you 50% of the money. And that will improve this heavily

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used public sidewalk. So that's how we got here. If I may. Thank you. I just want to add

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some comments. And mr. Holt, I appreciate kind of all the context that you have provided

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for this. And and, mayor, I do appreciate to the thought of a new precedent. And I think

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that's what we're always cautious about as council members not wanting to set a new precedent. But I think even allowing a, you know, an opportunity for a sidewalk here,

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even though it is commercial, doesn't necessarily set a precedence. The commercial

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owner still has to fund 50% as well. And there are sidewalks that we do as you go through

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this entire list, that homeowners don't want to necessarily be asked to do

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sidewalks, but that's the program that we do, and we go through it. And homeowners have

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50% of the cost to cover, and the city covers 50%. And I think as we look at all of our

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areas around town, I think we do need to be cognizant that we are helping to make

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improvements ofem areas. If we chose to do nothing or add home road in. At this point, we

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could probably surmise that nothing would happen to it, and it would continue to be

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blighted for how many more years? And I think, you know, there, there there is shopping

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over there. There. I, I believe is a bus line. And I, I have traveled home road in the

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mornings and I've seen kids out at the bus stop as well. I do wonder, you know, some of the

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elementary schools do bike day, bike bus day, where, where kids are riding bikes. So and we're,

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you know, looking at stuff right now about road safety starts with us and talking

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about, you know, e-scooters and e-bikes. And I think as we continue to want to have a

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community that can get outside and walk around, I just want to make sure that we are thinking

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about all areas of our of our city and making sure that there is accessibility. So thank you,

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mr. Mayor. I got one question, shannon. We've redone in my time. We've redone the

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sidewalks in the town center at least twice. Is that correct, mayor? At least once they've

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been twice. Well, at least once. Did the did the businesses along broadway pay for those

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sidewalks? Well, the thing is, we established this program in 13 as a fairly well defined

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program. As we did the town center. We described it on its own merits and described that

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as here are the parameters and and so forth. So trying to compare it to the town center

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probably isn't totally accurate, because this is under the residential sidewalk program

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that we've had since 2013, this particular request. So I, I don't think you can compare the

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two. The answer is no. May I have one more. Mr. I believe you have a comment on road

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safety. Thank you, mr. President. Chair, just to add to the discussion on the safety

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issue, when we looked at vulnerable road user areas that were high risk for the city,

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obviously, southwest or broadway was a big, big risk in hoover road. And so home road

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is inherently going to be risky for vulnerable road users. So anything that you can do to

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improve the plight of our pedestrians and bicyclists would be well appreciated.

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thank you. Mr. Omar. Mayor comment if I could. We have no problem in in adhering to the

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safety issue. I mean, that's the reason we started the program to start with. This should have been a a standalone request. In my opinion. The, the the business owner was

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notified two years ago. They were given a time of compliance, as we do. Everybody who has a

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non-compliant sidewalk. And it seems like the proper procedure should have been. We do an

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ordinance to say, okay, we're going to we're going to bend our rules and say, this particular property is going to come under a different program. That's the only thing I'm

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trying to say, ignoring the safety that that's not that's no because we

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have gone out of our way to make sure that we're taking every street that we can as we

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get the money, to be able to adhere to the safety requirements, including the

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bike path along harden road that had been sitting there for 15 years also. And just to be

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clear, when I saw that home road was not on there, I did have it back included, since

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that is what council voted on at the last meeting. So what you are considering tonight is

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a resolution that does include this. Home road property council added it to it at the

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last meeting. If you don't wish to do it then you can remove it. That is completely up to you.

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but since council approved putting it in here, that's why it's here right now. Just

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wanted to clarify. Mr. Burrows. One final question, mayor, and I 100% agree with many of your

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comments. I think the one other issue in this whole discussion is consistency and compliance.

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right. If they were given notice two years ago and we still haven't done anything

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about that, I think there's room for improvement and making sure that we hold people

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compliant, there's no question. And we got an email that gave reasons why we should do it.

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and we said, no, that we're not going to do it two years ago. And since then it's been in

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limbo. That's all I have. Thank you. This resolution has had its reading and public hearing,

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and I move to be approved second. Mr. Anderson. Yes. Yes. Barry. Yes. Holt. Yes. Sturm.

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no. Burrows. Yes. Omar. Yes. Mr. President, that is all I have under service this evening.

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thank you sir. We move into finance, mr. Sturm. Yes. Thank you. So first we have ordinance

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c 1726. This is authorizing the city administrator to enter into an agreement with a

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licensed competitive retail, electric, electric service provider for the city's

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electric governmental aggregation program and declare an emergency. If I may, mr.

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chairman. Thank you. Yes. As many of you know, the city of grove city has operated a

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electric aggregation program. Now going on. We've been in it three years. In essence, what

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we do is the city sets up a program, we solicit bids, we lock folks into prices. But you

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can get out of them any time and go somewhere else. And for the last three years, we've

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been pretty successful in saving the residents money. And we've been doing that even

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though our program has a green component where ours is from green energy or, you know,

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credits, etcetera. So our program ends in july of this year. So we went forth or went

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out and solicited bids on the market to see what proposals we got for both 12, 24, 36 months.

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and unfortunately, the rates have been crazy, like everything else in the world

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right now. We we have evaluated them, we've looked at them, and we have our expert here who's

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going to tell you all the stuff that I don't understand. But what has happened is when it

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comes to electric utilities, it's basically like the stock market. It changes every day.

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so we got a rate today at 4:00 that ended. And what we are asking, council, if you wish to

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move forward with this program for an additional period of time, is unfortunately, you

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have to pass as an emergency because tomorrow the number is going to be different and we

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don't know what it's going to be. But what we've asked council to do and what we've

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done in the past is you give us a not to exceed amount. And as long as tomorrow's number is

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under that, we will lock it in for the residents for two years. Once again, this is an opt out

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program. We have to send every single one of you a letter saying, you don't have to stay

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with us. You can go play the market yourself or just lock in with aep, whatever their rate

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is at the time, and you have every right to do that. And all. Basically you have to do is

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check a box and you can do that at any time. So like I said, we've been very successful in

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this program in the past, and I know that we don't like giving you emergency legislation

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because it's very, you know, time consuming and it doesn't give you a chance to digest it.

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but this is one of those where, frankly, we don't have a choice just based on how the, how the

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market is, if you didn't pass it by an emergency, this would go to a second reading in two

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weeks. Then we'd have a 30 day waiting period. So that's 45 days later. We would have no

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idea what the number would be that we'd be locking into. Greg is going to give you all the

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specifics. I will tell you, there's been two other projects that have bid recently. Upper

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arlington just did theirs. Our number is lower than what they got locked in at delaware, got

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a number. And frankly, they decided, you know, we don't feel comfortable locking it in

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at this point in time and past. We do have that option. However, if we do pass, we do have to

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sit out a year before we can go back in and do this again. But I'll let. Greg beckert is our

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expert from energy, and he will give you kind of how this market works and kind of how we

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got here. Stephen, I'm almost out of a job. You did a good job. You got this figured out.

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thank you all. Yes, we are at the at the end of the current electric aggregation program,

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which again is a opt out. So in other words, if steven alluded to everybody is included in

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this that is eligible. And if you don't want to participate, you can very easily just tell

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the whoever the awarded supplier is that you want to get out. So and go out and shop

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it on your own. I think when we talk about this program, the key component that we looked at

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when we go back to when this was voted on, it was at grove city, wanted to focus on

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renewable and have the community be utilizing renewable energy. And so

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renewable then becomes the, the key component that we're looking at. And then savings

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can become secondary. But and looking at renewables, that's what we have to do as far as

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this program goes. And we have we had three suppliers that were willing to participate

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from renewable standpoint. Those rates that came back in are unfortunately,

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unfortunately, higher than what we have currently, roughly by about 17%. But again, they

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still provide the ability for the community to say that this is green energy. And if it's

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something that you don't want to participate in, again, you can you can exit very easily.

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I'm going to keep it pretty simple. I want to dive too deep in details. I'll open it up to

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questions if anybody has anything. Yes, I do, just for the public. If you can make it

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that simple. We've been in we've done this twice now, right? Correct. So go back to

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the first time we locked in at what per kilowatt hour and what was the market? I think we were

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roughly in the seven cent range. I think it was just over seven. Yeah. And what was the market

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then. That's a good question. Mark would be right. I mean that was the market at that

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point in time. I mean if you didn't opt in you were paying more than 7% $0.07. Yeah. There

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was a there was a significant savings that we had when we you don't know that you don't I

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don't know, it was roughly. Mr. Ho yeah. The, the first two years that we operated the

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program, when we did the first cycle, we calculated that we believe that we saved each

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resident who in the program, roughly $400, was the estimate that we came up with a couple

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of years ago. Now, this last year has only been a one year cycle, and I think we still

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saved the residents money. Yeah, we're still ahead, but it wasn't anywhere near the $400

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range. So we so far we've beat the market for three years. And then if I were to summarize,

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you could we could say that this is another agreement and we might be at market. We could

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be lower. But we've got the green energy component in there. Correct. So this time we're not

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necessarily saving that much money, but it's still at the green energy qualifier. Correct.

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exactly. And so really, unless the market goes drastically down in electric, which I don't

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think anybody in here thinks your electric bill is going to go down, we're going to lock it

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in at today's rate for two years. And it has green energy in it. That is correct. Thank

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you. That's that's what's up for discussion. And anybody can opt out whenever they like

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anytime. Correct. And not back in. Yeah. Back in. Yeah. So I want to reiterate, when we

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designed this program four years ago and, and everything, the one thing that we did

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that's very, very important, I think, to people is there's other cities, the one to the

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north of us that has that actually has a program like us, but they also tag on fees. Yeah.

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if I may, you do not. So I'll use columbus as an example. They have a monster. It's not

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hypothetical. It's true. They have a monster aggregation program. However, in addition

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to the rates they are quoted by the utility, they have two charges that they've added to

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everybody's bill. One is they pay the person who is there. Greg, in essence, a very small

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percentage of each household pays that person money every month. And then second, they

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have an environmental fund that's separate that they're using that money that goes on

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everyone's utility bill. I don't know what they're using that money for. When we set up

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the program, we do not pass any of those expenses on to our residents on your electric bill.

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greg here is working on a flat rate. We pay him from city funds, a standard rate. It

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doesn't it's not based on, you know, anything in terms of what he gets. He just we pay him to

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do a job for us and he does it. So we do not pass any of those costs on to the residents

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period. So we are more so even if you see a number where. It may have columbus rates, you

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have to think they also have surcharges that are on there that aren't showing up there.

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so it's one of those where it's kind of it's hard to compare apples to apples. When we first

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did this program three years ago, I reached out to about, I don't know how many brokers we

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met with. It was several, and not one of them was willing to to help us without them getting

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a piece of every electric bill of the residents. And we're like, we're not doing that to

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our residents. And frankly, greg was the only one who was willing to do it. Just we pay

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him and he does it for us. So it's it's unique. It's it's weird. But yeah. Yes. One final

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comment. And just to confirm, this is also available to local businesses within grove city

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under a certain power use, certain threshold. Yes, 700,000 kilowatt hours or less. If

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they're not with a supplier, they'll get it. They'll. Thank you. Swept in. Yeah. Yes. Good

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question. If a new resident was to move into grove city after the program has already taken

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off, would they automatically be opted in? Usually what happens, the supplier does a sweep either quarterly or every six months. And so at some point in time they would get

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swept in. Correct. Yeah. And we do have to I don't know if I mentioned this, I apologize,

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but we do have to send everyone in the city a letter explaining this with the form where they

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can opt out. So everyone will be informed of this decision. And, and as we said, you all

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can opt out anytime you desire. And if you realize, oh, wait, this is a good deal, you can

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opt back in. That's your choice. Anyone else? Okay. All right. Great. Thank you. So I move

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that the rules of council be suspended and the waiting period waived second. Mr.

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hellinga. Yes. Barry. Yes. Holt. Yes. Yes. Yes. Omar. Yes. Anderson. Yes. Okay. And then I

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move that the ordinance be approved as an emergency measure. Second. Barry. Yes,

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yes, yes. Yes. Yes. Anderson. Yes, yes. And if I may, thank you. And just to clarify, for

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the folks in the audience are not to exceed rate that was passed in this ordinance is

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1102 $0.11 11.00 $0.02. That makes sense. And we will let council know tomorrow when the

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market opens, what we were able to lock in it. Obviously, if we do not get under that number,

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we will not do so, but we will keep everyone updated. Thank you. Thank you. All right. The

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next item is ordinance c 1826. This is appropriating $47,856.78 from the general

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fund for the current expense of assisting with the grove city town center, wine and arts

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festival expenses. This is the first reading, and the second reading and public hearing will

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be on 518 on the 18th. Next item, ordinance c 1926. Authorize the city

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administrator to execute an agreement with axiom ventures, llc for the development of the

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broadway live project. Again, this is a first reading, and the second reading and public

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hearing will be again on the 18th of this month. And the last item is resolution cr1326.

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accepting the donation of $2,000 for plantings in the beulah park conservation

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easement, and thank the berry family for the generous gift. Is there any comments, anything

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signed up? Anybody sign up for that? Okay. All right. Resolution has been read and

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public hearing. I move that we approved. Second, I have a question. Am I allowed to. Okay.

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hold. Yes. Yes. Rose. Yes. Omar. Yes. Anderson. Yes. Yes. Barry. Yes. Thank you. All right. That.

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is that all? Thank you, thank you. That concludes our normal agenda items we've got. Did you

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get the yes sir presentations in line here. So he's got a couple of presentations online.

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and then we've got some other people that want to address the council public works week. Can

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you want to come on. Anybody else from the service? Implied public. The annual proclamation.

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we do and use the mic. Mike the main thing about it it it acknowledges the services that

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are provided by our service department. And I'll just I'll just read a couple of the

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paragraphs. Whereas public works professionals focus on infrastructure, facilities and

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services that are vital and important to the importance of sustainability and resilient

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communities, and to public health, high quality of life and well-being of the people of

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grove city. And I would say one of the one of the key reasons we've won the best hometown

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over three years is due to the way that our city presents itself and the service

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department operates. Now, there's a note tacked on here that says, I don't want to

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forget about may 16th. It's touch a truck day at the town center park, and the service

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department brings out a lot of their equipment, and it's for the kids and adults who they

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want to touch a truck. But we sure appreciate all the work that you folks do, and I'll

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award this to missus fitzpatrick. Yeah. Thank you, thank you, thank you, ma'am.

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the next one is public safety month. Kevin, is anybody here from you're it. Okay. This is

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another one that's done pretty much annually. But it's also just a recognition of our

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commitment to safety and the safety in all, all categories, not only the infrastructure,

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the police and, and all the other attributes of public safety. Whereas the city of

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grove city recognized that our community's growth and strength depends on the safety, safety,

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performance, and resilience of our homes, the buildings, and the infrastructure, both in

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everyday life and when disasters strike. And that's another component that kevin

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has worked very hard on by having meetings with our partners around on the

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periphery, as well as township, talking about if a disaster hits, here's what here's what

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we're going to be doing. So in recognition of building safety month, please forward that to

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your fine folks. Thank you. I believe we have some comments from our marketing department

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regarding some website, some pages they're putting up on the website for for the public. A

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quick transition here. Yes. Just real briefly, I don't know if we have those to show. Sorry.

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yeah, just real quick, just recently we have put up these, these pages for information

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purposes on obviously, we'll be talking about broadway live earlier tonight. And if you

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want to back up there, tammy, to the, the other page of the draft, as we've obviously topic

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of data centers, we will we have been working on an informational page. This is a

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draft that is not live on the site. Just want to reiterate that this is in draft. As you

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can tell with the large draft letters on the page, this is not live on the page, but we

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are working it, working on it right now in the background, informational and its essence.

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but we wanted to make sure that it's easy for folks to use. You want to find information on

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water usage. You want to find information on electricity. This page, when it becomes live,

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it will be the. The ease of use is the key. So you're not inundated with a big wall of

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questions. That is. That is our intent. And from a feedback standpoint, can't see it that

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well. But above that second draft, that is our feedback area. That stuff will come

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straight to me. If you have any feedback. I can't find what I'm looking for. You just click one

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of those links and shoot an email to me directly. So not a whole lot to show right now,

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but we want to show everybody that we're working on it. We have several iterations as

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things come through, but the previous slide showed you we've kind of run out a lot of

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informational pages. We want to make sure that we're kind of getting a steady informational

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flow to everyone, whether it be a project with a community center. Income tax was covered

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in the last city council meeting, broadway live, obviously, as we had that first

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reading today, you can go for information there and then we'll have a coming soon. Grove

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city slash data center faq. So with that, I'll take any questions. I've got one on the

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income tax. One. Did you post the comparison? 35000 house against all the different

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communities that. Yeah, yeah. Lower top five and bottom top five. Excellent. Thank you. Did

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you also include the video of our of our wonderful experts? Yes. They did a great job. Yeah.

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and there's time codes there. So you can you can fast forward through it. Yeah. Any other

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questions about things. I just have a quick comment. Thank you. Thank you for putting this

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together and being diligent. Well, if there are updates that need to be presented for any of

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these sites, how often are you kind of reviewing and looking to make changes if if

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appropriate? Yeah, all these pages are fluid. That's the beauty of it. They can be

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updated the day. We're definitely open to feedback from anyone. Obviously we'll

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vet that through with with leadership, but at any time we can definitely make a change

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when needed as long as it's accurate, obviously. Yeah. Thank you. One more question.

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obviously the data center is a hot topic, and any information out there right now will be for

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data centers in general, since we don't have a specific data center proposal in front of

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anybody right at the moment. So as soon as that gets submitted or whatever to the city, then

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you'll update this in relation to the facts and exactly what kind of data center it is, how

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it's going to be cooled and all those things. Yeah, as much as we can. Yes. Yeah. And I didn't

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intend it to be fuzzy like that. It's just it's a screen grab from the back end of our

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website. So no intent to be haven't present that way. I'm just kind of making that point

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for two purposes. One is, you know, there's a lot of interest in data center and we're asked

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a lot of times to comment on that. And we really can't comment on anything that hasn't

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been submitted officially yet. So we don't have any facts, nor can you put up a website about

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the data center in grove city until we have all the facts. So I'm just counseling everybody

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that that will get updated. If somebody submits a data center plan. Yeah. And this is more to

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just show that we've been working on something. And again, like I said, it is not live. It

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is in draft state and it's still kind of in the queue queue. So. Oh, I'm sorry. Thank

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you so much for putting this together. I think for me, one of my concerns is when I'm,

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when I think of a fact sheet, you can actually go back to the data center page. I understand

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there is more to come, but just glancing at this, like what, as a resident, what exactly am I

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learning? You know, because as, as somebody that wants to know more about data centers, you

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know, I understand there's different types. What information am I gaining from

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this page here compared to right now? It's in an infant state, okay. And a document is

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being worked on to basically populate this page. So what you see now is nowhere near what a

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finished product will be. Okay. So would, would you be able to come back to us before that's

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released? Potentially? Yeah. Mr. Berry, so kind of on that just in general, not just the

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data center page, all the pages, I assume there's some sort of editorial review process that

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these things go through. It might be nice to maybe post that along with those, just so

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everybody knows how information is reviewed and gets out there. Yeah. I mean, obviously the,

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the documents on the back end get reviewed before they get posted. And then we have a

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review process for the page itself. Yeah. Before it goes live. Yes. Yeah, yeah. Folks

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are going to be interested in factual content. Yep. To say the least. Yes. Okay. Thank you.

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and just to echo that, I agree with you 100%. I think there is a lot of perspectives. There's

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a lot of conversations. I mean, just a few weeks ago, there were developers in our

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community that were hosting town halls. So there there is a lot of conversation happening

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in our community. And I don't agree with the, the suggestion that we need to wait until

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there's a proposal in front of us to, you know. I don't agree with us waiting until there's a

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proposal in front of us to talk about data centers. And I know that, you know, that that has

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been expressed a couple different times. I think as a council, we should be able to

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talk about what data centers are, what they look like, at least to get us to a point

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where we feel caught up because I don't feel caught up at all. So that's why I'm really

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passionate about having this. Include a lot of information for our residents, for us to,

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you know, be educated and be able to make confident decisions on what's to come in the future. So that is all for me. If I could. Mr. Berry mayor. Well, when we when we started

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talking about this, we have an obligation to, to the public for, for, for all the

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information we gain the there are three audiences. One, of course, the primary audience is

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our city council, making sure that we're getting data and information up there that will

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be beneficial to you as these proposals come in. It may not be one proposal could be

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multiple proposal proposals we don't know. The second audience is to the folks who are

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adjacent to and part of the one that's being suggested on ranch road. The third one is our

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general public in educating them and understanding about data centers. So this this tool

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here is an educational piece. And as we gain the information, it's got to be factual. It's

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got to be of the things that we know, which there's like 3 or 4 different data centers, for

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instance. And then as we hone it down to the proposal that may be or will be presented to

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us, then you start picking out the pieces that's germane to that. So this exercise tonight

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is to make sure that you're aware, councilor number one audience, that we have this in

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the works and to those who are adjacent property owners, we have it in the works and the

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general public, whoever's watching it, that's that's the tool. That's all it's meant for at this particular point. And I support that 100%. I think the more education we can get out

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there, the better. I still feel that we can do more as a council. Yes. Thank you. Well,

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anytime you have those points, you bring them to us 100%. Thank you sir. Thank you. All

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right, stephen, because you've put a lot of work into a document that to educate, to

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educate the public and everything. Can you explain to can you explain where we are in

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the process of of the data center a little bit? Yes. I have actually not educated the

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public. I've educated council. Right. Some of it I think I read on websites. So I think

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I've educated the public indirectly as of right now. And I know you are all here against

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data centers, I get it. But as of right now, we do not have a current proposal and which has

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been submitted to the city in any way, shape or form. The moment it does, it goes on our

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website so everyone will know, you know, right now our zoning code is based on what's called

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the sic code, standard industrial classification, which, you know, frankly, those

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haven't been updated since the 90s. And in the 90s, data centers weren't a thing. So as

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I read our code right now, I do not believe data centers are permitted use in any zoning

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district in the city, period. So there's two ways that it could get done. First, it has

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to be annexed. At least half of this parcel that everyone's talking about is not in the

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city. There would have to be an annexation as part of the annexation. It'll come in under

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the zoning that it is most akin to in the township, which is not data center. So they would

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have to get a rezoning. And I will caution the general public when it comes to the annexation.

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how it works is they file an application with the county. The county then says, hey,

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grove city, tell us what services you can provide to this parcel that is statutorily

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required. That is the only time I will tell council you have to vote yes on this. It hasn't

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done anything to do with the annexation. Just what services then the county has to approve

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that annexation. I know I've seen online people are like, we need to lobby the county to

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turn it down. They have no discretion whatsoever as long as they fill the form out

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correctly, the county has to approve it. Then it comes back to the city to make a

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determination. Do we want to accept it or not accept it? That's where council has authority in the annexation process. When it comes to zoning, the land will have to

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be rezoned. That can be done either we have what's called a use approval process where uses

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that aren't in our code right now. Council can approve them as a one off saying, yes, we'll

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allow a data center the other way, and probably the one I think is more likely is it will

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come in what's called a planned unit development. Planned unit development is where, in

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essence, we write a zoning code for a single project. And in that zoning code, we can say

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this is allowed, this isn't allowed, whatever. But we get to specify it in the zoning

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code. So that process will go through multiple meetings, both from planning commission and

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council. There'll be at least three public hearings on that before anything gets approved.

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so the public will be involved every step of the way. The one other thing that I've read

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about online, and I can just give you my $0.02, is everyone wants a moratorium. I'm not a

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big fan of moratoriums for two reasons I. Can I explain why before you boo me? Okay. When

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it comes to rezonings, when it comes to rezonings, council has all the discretion in the world

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to say yes or no. The law is really clear. Okay. We we have a lot of reasons we can say yes

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or no. Moratoriums are meant to be a temporary pause on something while we gather

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information. Generally, the cities that are imposing moratoriums do it because data

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centers are a permitted use in their code, and they have to stop it. It isn't permitted in

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our code. We don't need it. And my fear with the moratorium is it then we don't have the same

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discretion in a moratorium that we do under a zoning decision. And I'll frankly tell you, I've

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represented municipalities for 27 years now. I have been sued on many moratoriums because we

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don't have the same discretion on them in the courts, don't love them. And once again, I

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don't think it's necessary because it's not permitted. We don't need to say stop on

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something that is a maybe or a yes. The answer is already no. Why do I have to put a pause on

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no? Now that ain't my decision. I'm just the lawyer. I just can tell you what I think the law

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says and where I think we could run into issues. That's council's decision. If they say,

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stephen, we're doing a moratorium, the answer is yes, sir, and yes, ma'am. That's my

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job. I'm just you asked me for kind of the summary of where we are, and that's where we are.

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and I'm happy to answer any questions on that. Did I leave anything out? I did annexation,

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I did zoning, I did moratorium. If you need clarity on any of those, I'm happy to do so. All

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right. Thank you. I just thought since that came up that it was good to have that thrown

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out there. Before we get into before we get into those wishing to address council, we

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do have a special presentation by the bcb, so we would like to invite you folks up to to do

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such great. You guys all have a copy of my presentation. I don't think I do, do you? Well

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you would. I'm supposed to give everybody cards for everybody, so I just. Thank you. I don't

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think we have enough. Oh. Tammy's gone. Okay. All right. You have the floor. Okay. Well

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thanks, everybody. Thanks for having me tonight. For those of you I have not met, I'm amanda davis, the director of visit grove city. And tonight with me, I have a few of my board

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members. So I just wanted to have them stand up. If they're not already standing like bev

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babbitt in the back of the room. Marie keys. Anybody else make it tonight? Vihaan patel, do

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you have any other board members? Okay. And then our newest recruit is george.

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george, welcome to the board. Can't wait to work with you. All right. So thanks again for

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having us tonight. I will jump right in as I know you have a lot to do. So we wanted to come

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tonight and give you an update on the next slide, if you don't mind. Tammy, we have our

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mission and then our target, which is a great way of illustrating how we target

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outside of grove city. So our marketing messaging oftentimes is not seen here in the

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community except for on social media, on our website, maybe our visitor guide. You may see

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some of our work there and some of the little more local things like city scene that we work

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with. On to the next slide. We've got a quick financial update for you. It's early in

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the year for us. Q one is not a big spending quarter for us. We do a lot of our contracts for

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marketing that are billed in q2 and q3, but you can see that we are heavily dependent on bed

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tax because as a convention and visitors bureau, that's what we're created for. To take a small piece of that bed tax and drive more growth with bed tax. So again, with our expense

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breakdown, you can see that we have our marketing programs that are not a high expense yet.

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but as you can see from my note on the bottom 72,000 plus in april and may, going out the

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door for marketing contracts, and that's just some of what we're doing. And the next slide,

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we talk about our collaborations and community support. So our team is committed to uplifting and celebrating signature community events. And this is how and

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this is just just a small part of how. But this year we have direct festival investments of

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$8,400 to the chamber of commerce to support arts in the alley and a few of their other

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key events. 7500 committed to grove city town center for wine and arts festival, as well as

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the bourbon and spirits festival. That's just a direct investment. We also invest in

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them through marketing investments. So a total investment for the chamber 1300

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total investment for town center $3,450. And that's through things like

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e-newsletters and the weekend seen through city scene magazine. We'll be doing a full month of sponsor for wine and arts festival, a full month for the arts in the alley, arts in

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the alley, as well as wine and arts in the ohio magazine through their e-blast printed

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in the ohio magazine event listings as well as tourism. Ohio on a statewide level will

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have going out in their e-newsletters as well. This year we're bringing in

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influencers or content creators to come to the events as well, to create awesome content and

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get out into the events, have a vip experience, and then they can talk about it on their

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social media and all their platforms and reach an even bigger audience. Also new this

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year we have what we call right booking tool. It's a direct booking tool on our website

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that allows visitors to book an overnight stay. So through that tool, we can build landing

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pages customized to different events. So we're doing two landing pages for the chamber and two for the town center that will focus on all the content to tell you why you

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should come, and then make it easy for you to just book right then and there, your hotel. We

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will also do added values like lift credits to help people get to and from wine and arts

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festival safely with the lift credit when they book at a grove city hotel and different

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added value options like that. We're also doing landing pages for other community partners, like the book festival posted by the city of grove city. Columbus air show is a partner

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of ours. Aladdin shrine does a lot of different events, so we've got some landing pages

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for them as well, and more brighter. Travel is a passport, a digital passport tool that

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we've invested in and hosted our holiday cocktail trail and some other things on that. This

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year, in partnership with our friends at grove city town center, we've offered to sponsor for passports for them. So we build the passport, we pay for the tool, the mother's

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day walk that just happened last weekend as a an example of that. So we collaborated with

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their team and they went out and helped recruit the businesses. We built the passport and we worked together to create that experience for mother's day last weekend. So

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future metrics that we will have when we have more time under our belt with these programs to try to deliver information to you, to let you know how successful these are,

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would be to measure the number of bookings on partner landing pages at hotels, number of

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bookings of event packages that we create, such as the lyft credit and wine and arts

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overnight stay. And then also we can measure the number of transactions that were made

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during the passports. So for mother's day, we know now, I can't remember off the top of

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my head how many how many different transactions were made. So purchases made in the

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town center at those businesses. So we do meet regularly with the chamber of commerce, as

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well as grove city town center and several other community partners, including all the different departments that we work with here within the city of grove city, to collaborate

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and support them and learn about what they need and how we can help. So that's an ongoing,

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always communication. We are all one big team. So on the next slide, just a little

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overview of some of the promotions that we do. We have a very robust marketing plan to

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determine how we spend our dollars through print, digital website, visitor guide and

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other printed materials such as a coupon booklet to distribute to visitors at the hotels, to

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get them to come to local businesses and keep their dollars in grove city. I will

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just point out, because I won't read this all to you, you all have a copy. In q1, our website

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saw over 31,000 visitors, so that's pretty exciting. Get them on the site and hopefully

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they find our booking tool and book their stay on the next slide. Program sales is another

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piece of what we do. We leverage available meeting spaces, different group

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experiences, sports fields to try to sell groups. A couple of groups that we have on deck.

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one of them actually just was in town. Thank you, mayor stage for greeting the army security

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agency at the american legion this past weekend. But those folks came into town. They had

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25 room nights. They went out to several different businesses, including three brothers diner

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for a meal. They went to the american legion and paid to rent space there, and they

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stayed at a local hotel. And while they were here, they they loved it. They had such a great

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experience. And we got some really great feedback. So we're excited to welcome the american legion. The sons of the american legion are coming into town in a couple of weeks here,

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so that's going to be another great impact for the community. As we're selling grove city,

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we've identified some needs that we don't have. So I'm just going to tell you it's not all

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sunshine and rainbows. It's really exciting to do what we do, but it's important to also

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recognize that we don't have enough meeting space, conference space, sports fields

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to sell to these groups. There's a high demand out there and we just don't have the

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inventory to fill it. We also get asked a lot about restaurants that have a group

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meeting room. We do have a few, but we don't have enough ada. Accessibility is another piece

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of feedback we get, especially here in town center with some of our buildings, which we understand are historic. But that's just a unique challenge. Maybe we can work together to

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try to determine some solutions for also motorcoach sales. We had three really hot leads. We

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call them from heartland travel showcase, which is a group travel show we went to earlier

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this year. We met with a lot of different people, but three of them we felt like was a good,

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good goal to make to try to sell those three. So we're going to keep working on that.

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but you can just see the economic impact of even just the hotel rooms at over $17,000

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if we're able to book those. So that's something we're working on. And a really important part

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of what we have on the next slide is our tools and technology. So putting funds to

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work, investing in this technology and these tools to help actually track the visitor spending, it's really hard. And what we do is a lot of awareness. It's a lot of the

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top of the funnel telling people we're here, we exist, we hope you come. But actually

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tracking whether they saw our ad in a magazine or our website and then came into grove city

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has always been very hard for us. And that's a that's a every cvb problem, not just a grove

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city problem. So thankfully, in this modern day, we have tools like ripe where we can actually

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put a booking tool on our website and we can see how many people booked so and early

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results, which is about the last six months of last year, $10,000 in revenue in grove

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city, lodging bookings from our right tool, tourism economics, which is an oxford economics

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company, they have a tool called the website impact calculator that we recently invested in. And this one actually shows visitors to your website who then come into

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market and spend dollars. So we're able to see that over $660,000 was spent by visitors

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who came to our website in the last six months of 2025, which is really exciting because I've

567
01:00:08,719 --> 01:00:08,719
been doing this for 13 years and we've never had this kind of measurement where we can say,

568
01:00:13,124 --> 01:00:13,124
hey, we made this direct monetary impact. So this is all really exciting. Good news,

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brighter travel. As I mentioned before, it's a digital passport tool for our holiday cocktail trail. Over 600 purchases were made. That's over $16,000 in purchases for nine local

570
01:00:27,671 --> 01:00:27,671
businesses. People like the holiday cocktail trail. We noticed alcohol trails could do

571
01:00:32,376 --> 01:00:32,376
a lot better than the other ones, but it's just a really exciting way to try to partner

572
01:00:36,880 --> 01:00:36,880
up different things, bundle them together, and market it so we can get more people to come

573
01:00:41,652 --> 01:00:41,652
to the community. So our next one is tempest, and tempest is a website platform, a content

574
01:00:47,557 --> 01:00:47,557
management system like wordpress, except for it's made for destination marketing. So

575
01:00:52,929 --> 01:00:52,929
we now have this fantastic website that's about to launch in a tool called idss, which is

576
01:00:58,035 --> 01:00:58,035
a customer relationship manager management tool, so we can manage the entire destination.

577
01:01:02,605 --> 01:01:02,605
hundreds of businesses, hundreds of partners and events, all in that tool that then

578
01:01:06,676 --> 01:01:06,676
automatically will populate our website. And this website is great because it allows people

579
01:01:10,880 --> 01:01:10,880
to plan a trip, build an itinerary, then directly book so we can do everything all in

580
01:01:15,785 --> 01:01:15,785
one place instead of they got some inspiration maybe on our website. And then they went off

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01:01:19,989 --> 01:01:19,989
to booking.com and we kind of lost them in the shuffle. Then they found a hotel somewhere

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01:01:25,094 --> 01:01:25,094
outside of grove city, and we didn't win that business. So we're hopeful that this new

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01:01:29,131 --> 01:01:29,131
site and all of these great tools are going to help us keep the business in grove city and

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01:01:33,368 --> 01:01:33,368
measure the business. And so without further ado, I want to introduce you to viren patel.

585
01:01:37,373 --> 01:01:37,373
viren is in the lodging seat on our board, and he is heavily vested in the lodging community

586
01:01:42,277 --> 01:01:42,277
here in grove city. So he's going to give you an update on lodging. Thank you. Hey. Good

587
01:01:50,485 --> 01:01:50,485
evening. So going over, we have about 1600 rooms in the area. They're fall from economy brand

588
01:01:57,393 --> 01:01:57,393
midscale, upper mid-scale and upscale. The trailing 12 months occupancy rate, which is from

589
01:02:04,533 --> 01:02:04,533
april to last may, is was 71.2%. The adr, which is the average daily rate, was $110 and the

590
01:02:12,408 --> 01:02:12,408
rev par was $78 rev par factors in empty rooms too, so each hotel was bringing in $7,878

591
01:02:20,148 --> 01:02:20,148
per room per day, per average. One third of our hotels hotel rooms fall in the economy

592
01:02:26,221 --> 01:02:26,221
midscale category, and the 25% are considered upscale. Everything else is in the

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01:02:31,126 --> 01:02:31,126
middle during the week. We have a lot of corporate travelers. We have a lot of logistics

594
01:02:36,231 --> 01:02:36,231
truckers, and our team is there to support all, you know, all the gaps that all the customers

595
01:02:41,903 --> 01:02:41,903
we get during the weekends. Usually we get a lot of ball teams, a lot of wedding groups,

596
01:02:46,807 --> 01:02:46,807
a lot of church groups. The things we're working on right now are coupon books that are

597
01:02:51,345 --> 01:02:51,345
coming out later this month for all the hotels, billboards being worked on for this fall,

598
01:02:57,385 --> 01:02:57,385
there's a link for the columbus arts festival that's being put together, too, which is the

599
01:03:01,756 --> 01:03:01,756
second weekend in june. Tammy, next slide please. What's next? So we the grant, I think the

600
01:03:09,964 --> 01:03:09,964
alumni tournament is getting one of the grants coming up. The new website is launching in

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01:03:14,768 --> 01:03:14,768
may, so keep an eye out for that. We've partnered with the ota to host a regional workshop

602
01:03:20,240 --> 01:03:20,240
at the hilton garden inn on june 30th. And then, like amanda mentioned, we're hosting

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01:03:26,046 --> 01:03:26,046
a american travel archives in may, which have they have about 380,000 followers through

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01:03:32,719 --> 01:03:32,719
tiktok. So we're excited for them to check out your city. And then sons of american

605
01:03:37,791 --> 01:03:41,762
legion, which you had mentioned as well. So we have a lot of exciting things coming up later this year. And I think that's going to be it. So any questions or anything for

606
01:03:47,567 --> 01:03:47,567
amanda or I questions. I do. Well, first, thank you very much for such an informative

607
01:03:57,210 --> 01:03:57,210
presentation, so much information. And I appreciate hearing, you know, some of the

608
01:04:01,614 --> 01:04:01,614
upcoming things as well. Question about what the 250th anniversary has that given an

609
01:04:08,688 --> 01:04:08,688
opportunity? Not even sure about events or partners potentially traveling,

610
01:04:12,758 --> 01:04:16,462
traveling in for that or other things that are going on around columbus that could bring people potentially to the hotels and the properties at that time frame. I think I

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01:04:22,101 --> 01:04:22,101
think in mid-july we will get some because of the all the races and tournaments, like the

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01:04:27,473 --> 01:04:27,473
alumni association tournament has one, I think. I don't think we we're not getting any world

613
01:04:32,878 --> 01:04:32,878
cup stuff around that time, but I think some of the other cities are going to have a lot

614
01:04:37,517 --> 01:04:37,517
more tighter on the world cup as well. Yeah. Thank you. Any other questions? Hey, thank you

615
01:04:46,558 --> 01:04:46,558
very much, amanda. Thank you. Thank you and your team. Very, very nice job. I really

616
01:04:51,497 --> 01:04:51,497
appreciate that. Thank you. All right. We excuse me. We have for well 1234. We have five

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01:05:03,108 --> 01:05:03,108
speakers tonight. First one on the list list is patricia spillman. And patricia when you

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01:05:08,781 --> 01:05:08,781
get to the speaker, if you could there give us your address, your phone number,

619
01:05:13,885 --> 01:05:13,885
your address, only 4965 beatty road. Okay. You have three minutes, ma'am. Okay. Thank you.

620
01:05:22,560 --> 01:05:22,560
good evening, council members and mayor stage. I would like first to say how grateful we

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01:05:27,633 --> 01:05:27,633
are for the development and new building of the tractor supply at the corner of 62 and beatty

622
01:05:32,304 --> 01:05:32,304
road. I only wish my father in law, roger, were here to see this. In 1974, he sold those

623
01:05:39,177 --> 01:05:39,177
ten acres to the carter jones lumber company. He would be pleased to see another

624
01:05:43,814 --> 01:05:43,814
productive contribution to our neighborhood. So you see, we in the townships are not totally

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01:05:48,553 --> 01:05:48,553
opposed to progress. That is beneficial and appropriate for the agricultural district that

626
01:05:53,090 --> 01:05:53,090
we live in. The proposed development site on richmond road is, for the most part

627
01:05:58,562 --> 01:05:58,562
within pleasant township. On february 24th of this year, the pleasant township board of

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01:06:04,001 --> 01:06:04,001
trustees passed a resolution placing a moratorium on building data centers in

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01:06:08,906 --> 01:06:08,906
pleasant township. I find it utterly disgusting that grove city council may even be

630
01:06:14,011 --> 01:06:14,011
considering the idea of acquiring existing, protected township land solely for the

631
01:06:20,117 --> 01:06:20,117
construction of a data center. I'm asking you to follow pleasant township's lead and

632
01:06:25,556 --> 01:06:25,556
place a moratorium on the building of a data center until we can further gather

633
01:06:31,262 --> 01:06:31,262
information as to the permanent destruction it will cause on the agricultural district you

634
01:06:35,699 --> 01:06:35,699
are forcing it into. I, along with many of my neighbors, are requesting the chance to have

635
01:06:41,371 --> 01:06:41,371
town hall meetings with city council instead of the three minute no questions asked limit

636
01:06:46,743 --> 01:06:46,743
placed here. I recently emailed taylor ogilvie, the site and project development manager

637
01:06:52,182 --> 01:06:52,182
with headquarters, requesting that he guarantee in writing that the facilities not be

638
01:06:57,153 --> 01:06:57,153
closed loop and indeed air cooled with no tapping into private wells used, thus

639
01:07:02,892 --> 01:07:02,892
causing intrusion into the aquifer. His reply, and I quote as the project is still in the

640
01:07:09,465 --> 01:07:09,465
early planning phase, we can't commit to much on what our end users will look to employ,

641
01:07:15,204 --> 01:07:15,204
because even within this same type of cooling, there is much variation from user to user. I

642
01:07:21,310 --> 01:07:21,310
personally feel that once we let them in, they will have too much freedom with zoning

643
01:07:26,416 --> 01:07:26,416
variances, and the end result will be devastating. Again, I implore the city council to

644
01:07:31,053 --> 01:07:31,053
place a moratorium on the construction of any data center in our community. Once they get

645
01:07:35,825 --> 01:07:35,825
the foot in the door, we're doomed. Thank you. Our next speaker. Our next our next

646
01:07:51,206 --> 01:07:51,206
speaker is jen belt. Is that correct? Okay. Hello, I'm jen belt. My address is 5266

647
01:08:03,485 --> 01:08:03,485
kinglet court. I live in orient. I am actually in pleasant township as well. Hello, patti.

648
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I am going to because she already spoke on some of the things I want to address the

649
01:08:13,462 --> 01:08:13,462
council members directly regarding what mr. Smith said about the unnecessary need for

650
01:08:20,001 --> 01:08:20,001
a moratorium. Regardless of what he says, the people that voted, all of you in here are

651
01:08:27,209 --> 01:08:27,209
counting on a moratorium simply because they need to hear from you that you are actually

652
01:08:32,580 --> 01:08:32,580
listening to them, that you care about their future, their property value, their health,

653
01:08:39,387 --> 01:08:39,387
their community, and that you actually are going to promise to do your due diligence and

654
01:08:45,493 --> 01:08:45,493
carefully evaluate the long term impact that any data center will actually have on

655
01:08:49,930 --> 01:08:49,930
this community. That's what a moratorium will send to the the message that it will send to

656
01:08:55,636 --> 01:08:55,636
the people who voted you in here. So please keep that in mind. On april 24th, I attended

657
01:09:02,243 --> 01:09:02,243
a town hall and heard from a panel of experts who explained how data centers like this

658
01:09:07,147 --> 01:09:07,147
affect small communities like ours, such as hilliard. And here the. Here are the

659
01:09:11,486 --> 01:09:11,486
questions that city council should be asking. According to headwaters, this data center

660
01:09:16,090 --> 01:09:16,090
will feature an air cooling system using numerous industrial hvac units on the

661
01:09:20,094 --> 01:09:20,094
rooftop. How loud will it be? How much electricity will it need? Will it affect higher

662
01:09:25,933 --> 01:09:25,933
spikes in utility prices? Will rolling blackouts be required to prevent a grid collapse?

663
01:09:30,971 --> 01:09:30,971
what type of contaminants will be offloaded into the air? Soil, water around the center? Will

664
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neighboring wells, streams and rivers be affected? If so, who will be responsible for fixing

665
01:09:40,747 --> 01:09:40,747
it so that we can continue to have affordable, safe drinking water? Once the data center is

666
01:09:46,419 --> 01:09:46,419
built, will a fuel cell be required to power it? If so, where will that go and what

667
01:09:51,024 --> 01:09:51,024
type of plant will it be? Nuclear natural gas. Solar wind. Is city council aware of house

668
01:09:57,598 --> 01:09:57,598
bill 15, which authorizes data centers to build on site power plants or fuel cells to support

669
01:10:03,770 --> 01:10:03,770
their projects without local, municipal or township approval? Are you aware of that? Data

670
01:10:10,109 --> 01:10:10,109
center companies based on house bill 15 that already passed can build whatever they need to

671
01:10:16,282 --> 01:10:16,282
generate power, and the city can do nothing about it. Once the data center has been

672
01:10:20,953 --> 01:10:20,953
approved, what regulations will city council impose on the developer of the data center,

673
01:10:25,791 --> 01:10:25,791
and how will they be enforced? Over the past two weeks, we have gathered signatures, we

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01:10:30,330 --> 01:10:30,330
have shared collected information, and we have created calls to action. And in

675
01:10:34,433 --> 01:10:34,433
the process, we have learned that many residents here in grove city are not even aware

676
01:10:39,672 --> 01:10:39,672
that a project of this size is being pursued. This includes the residents in the autumn

677
01:10:44,710 --> 01:10:44,710
grove subdivision, located directly across the street from where the data center is

678
01:10:50,148 --> 01:10:50,148
proposed to be built. Some property owners have already received paperwork from the

679
01:10:54,353 --> 01:10:54,353
county, as mister smith has has indicated from the county commissioners for inspections

680
01:10:59,257 --> 01:10:59,257
of their wells and septic systems. This indicates that headwaters has submitted

681
01:11:04,497 --> 01:11:04,497
annexation paperwork. We are asking for the city to deny annexation. We have over 300

682
01:11:10,302 --> 01:11:10,302
signatures, and I also have copies of the pleasant township's moratorium. Thank

683
01:11:15,507 --> 01:11:15,507
you, thank you. We have brant bailey, brant bailey. Hi, I'm brant bailey. I live at 3590

684
01:11:36,561 --> 01:11:36,561
park street. I'm a lifelong resident here in grove city. I'm also a stream quality

685
01:11:41,199 --> 01:11:41,199
monitor for odnr. My station is at darby creek at darby park, and my concern is the watershed

686
01:11:50,208 --> 01:11:50,208
to the big darby. If this data center gets in hell, branch run is at least about 2000ft away

687
01:11:59,216 --> 01:11:59,216
from this project, and that is a major contributory to darby creek. Darby creek is the most

688
01:12:06,424 --> 01:12:06,424
pristine ecosystem in all of the midwest. It is a national and state scenic river. And if

689
01:12:13,631 --> 01:12:13,631
this gets in, I'm afraid it's going to destroy the ecosystem of darby creek. Here's what

690
01:12:20,804 --> 01:12:20,804
here's my job. So I literally go out into the water and I look for macro invertebrates.

691
01:12:26,877 --> 01:12:26,877
and you can see group one is sensitive to pollution. These are under attack, such as the

692
01:12:34,485 --> 01:12:34,485
hellgrammite, such as the cattle fly larvae, the gilded snail, the water penny, the

693
01:12:39,923 --> 01:12:39,923
rife beetle. Now we have two other ones. Group two, somewhat sensitive to pollution. And if

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01:12:47,163 --> 01:12:47,163
this data center gets in, there is no question it's going to eliminate these species. And

695
01:12:53,237 --> 01:12:53,237
that's going to go down the line and hurt the ecosystem. I'm also a volunteer for

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01:13:00,043 --> 01:13:00,043
appalachian ohio alliance, and they have 12 properties in pickaway county. 12 nature or

697
01:13:06,215 --> 01:13:06,215
nature preserves. And so you have all this beautiful nature, the most scenic river in all of

698
01:13:14,457 --> 01:13:14,457
ohio, the most biodiverse. And it is, it's a fact, most biodiverse area, body of water

699
01:13:21,298 --> 01:13:21,298
in all of the midwest. I'm talking all of the midwest. That's a lot. We're talking

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01:13:25,968 --> 01:13:25,968
darby creek. Please save my darby creek. Don't hurt my darby creek by allowing this

701
01:13:32,108 --> 01:13:32,108
data center to go in. That's all I have. Thank you. Bob, we don't have any entry music, but

702
01:13:47,856 --> 01:13:47,856
you're up. I'm bob ruth 7474, four count, fleet drive, grove city. My guess is that the data

703
01:14:04,506 --> 01:14:04,506
centers texas developer wants this mega project approved as quickly as possible. While that

704
01:14:11,347 --> 01:14:11,347
may be good for the out of state developer, it could be very detrimental to grove city

705
01:14:17,085 --> 01:14:17,085
and our residents. This is a large and controversial project involving not only an

706
01:14:24,259 --> 01:14:24,259
annexation and major rezoning, but also tax incentive and serious environmental and

707
01:14:30,098 --> 01:14:30,098
health issues. I respect mr. Smith's comments and informal understanding would suffice.

708
01:14:38,039 --> 01:14:38,039
what's important is that we have a 12 month pause in any approval. I don't care what you

709
01:14:45,813 --> 01:14:45,813
call it, unfortunately, the grove city records ceased publication years ago. Staffs

710
01:14:53,521 --> 01:14:53,521
at the dispatch and tv stations have been cut to the bone. I don't they don't cover local

711
01:15:00,394 --> 01:15:00,394
news like they used to. That's probably one of the reasons most residents haven't heard

712
01:15:06,000 --> 01:15:06,000
many details. If they've heard anything at all about this project. A 12 month pause,

713
01:15:13,675 --> 01:15:13,675
moratorium, whatever you want to call it, would allow word of mouth to circulate throughout

714
01:15:18,545 --> 01:15:18,545
the city. It would give people, including you folks, time, to become familiar with the pros

715
01:15:24,752 --> 01:15:24,752
and cons of this hyper scale project. The city could hold a few town hall meetings like was

716
01:15:32,726 --> 01:15:32,726
suggested. Town halls allow the audience to ask follow up questions and allow more back

717
01:15:38,499 --> 01:15:38,499
and forth feedback from the audience. The city's development department, along

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01:15:42,937 --> 01:15:42,937
with an outside council hired for their expertise in environmental law, could study

719
01:15:50,777 --> 01:15:50,777
how other ohio municipalities have enacted rules to regulate. At the local level health and

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01:15:58,285 --> 01:15:58,285
environment concerns, maybe even hire our own independent environmental engineer to help.

721
01:16:05,124 --> 01:16:05,124
this way, neither supporters nor opponents could accuse city hall officials of not studying

722
01:16:12,164 --> 01:16:12,164
the issues thoroughly and not fully informing the public. Let's make sure we get this

723
01:16:18,838 --> 01:16:18,838
right. Let's have a 12 month moratorium or pause or whatever you want to call it. Thank you.

724
01:16:34,286 --> 01:16:34,286
ron, is ron still ron mcclure is still in the room. Oh, there you are. You were hiding behind

725
01:16:39,692 --> 01:16:39,692
bob. Welcome, ron. My name is ron mcclure. I live at five, four, four, six horn road,

726
01:16:49,768 --> 01:16:49,768
grove city, ohio. Good evening to all of you. I think mr. Holt had it right in regards to the

727
01:16:55,941 --> 01:16:55,941
data centers. It's a very, very, very hot topic. I would like to respectfully ask you each to

728
01:17:01,180 --> 01:17:01,180
consider the will of the people which you represent. So I would like to ask this. So who is in

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01:17:07,319 --> 01:17:07,319
attendance tonight that does not want data centers in grove city? Please stand. If you

730
01:17:12,024 --> 01:17:12,024
don't want them, please stand. Thank you. You may be seated. Who is in attendance tonight

731
01:17:22,768 --> 01:17:22,768
that does want data centers. Would you please stand? Okay. Fair enough. There's someone up

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01:17:37,148 --> 01:17:37,148
here. I would ask this. I would also ask that you seek legal counsel in regards to creating

733
01:17:44,723 --> 01:17:44,723
an ordinance which states a data center cannot locate in the city of grove city without

734
01:17:50,961 --> 01:17:50,961
a two thirds majority vote of the citizens. Yes. That way you would be getting the will of

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01:18:10,347 --> 01:18:10,347
the people, whatever that would be. Thank you for your time. Thank you for your attention to

736
01:18:17,054 --> 01:18:17,054
this matter and I hope you have a great evening. Thank you. Thanks, ron. All right, mayor,

737
01:18:33,003 --> 01:18:33,003
your report, sir. Thank y berryi actually have two mayor's court reports this evening. I did

738
01:18:41,794 --> 01:18:41,794
bring those with me, one for march 50th 1000 $407.35 in fines and other assessments for

739
01:18:56,175 --> 01:18:56,175
april 50th 4700 6215. In fines and waivers. And I'd ask that you approve both of those

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01:19:06,918 --> 01:19:06,918
submissions as as submitted move to accept second. Sturm. Yes. Yes. Yes. Henderson. Yes.

741
01:19:19,497 --> 01:19:19,497
yes. Yes. Oh, yes. Mayor, a couple other points. We did have a very, very busy weekend

742
01:19:26,404 --> 01:19:26,404
this last weekend in grove city. As amanda pointed out, the ohio army security agency. I mean,

743
01:19:34,045 --> 01:19:34,045
I've been in service and I never know this this group existed, but they are an

744
01:19:40,118 --> 01:19:40,118
intelligence group that goes back to 1945, very active during the vietnam war. They

745
01:19:46,590 --> 01:19:46,590
had a conference in the american legion building. And it was interesting. I sat

746
01:19:52,263 --> 01:19:52,263
through about half of it and hearing some of their experiences and what, what they

747
01:19:58,135 --> 01:19:58,135
were sharing from their work environment. We had the opening day, little league, over a

748
01:20:06,743 --> 01:20:06,743
thousand people, right, jack? That's unbelievable. Just absolutely unbelievable. And

749
01:20:13,617 --> 01:20:13,617
we've got some footage from our drone that covered that. And what was really, really

750
01:20:21,525 --> 01:20:21,525
rewarding was seeing the parents there supporting their children. And then the next day

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01:20:26,196 --> 01:20:26,196
we had a, an unveiling of three additional one organization and two individuals to our wall of

752
01:20:33,703 --> 01:20:33,703
fame there at windsor park. Also, the annual mayor's cup was today it was sold out,

753
01:20:43,046 --> 01:20:43,046
which we've been able to do now for probably about 6 or 8 years. Except for the expenses

754
01:20:51,020 --> 01:20:51,020
incurred. All the proceeds go to life care alliance, meals on wheels, and we probably in the

755
01:20:57,460 --> 01:20:57,460
$15,000 range. And I appreciate anybody who attended that today, thanks to the berry family for

756
01:21:04,067 --> 01:21:04,067
their contribution. Very much appreciate it. And then tomorrow is the election day

757
01:21:09,672 --> 01:21:09,672
primary election day. And certainly encourage, encourage all of our folks to participate

758
01:21:15,044 --> 01:21:15,044
in that particular freedom. Any questions of council? Any questions for the mayor? Thank

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01:21:21,317 --> 01:21:21,317
you mayor. Thank you. I have nothing this evening. Thank you. Any of the department heads

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like to address the council? Thank you, mr. Berry. In conjunction with the national

761
01:21:37,432 --> 01:21:37,432
honoring of our law enforcement officers who were killed in the line of duty police week. We

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are participating in light ohio blue campaign, which starts may the 6th through the 16th. We

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01:21:47,476 --> 01:21:47,476
ask you and members of our city to display a blue light on the outside of their home in. In

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support of those officers who died, who paid the ultimate sacrifice with your. With your

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permission, mr. Mayor, I would like to pause for officers in ohio to offer their names. A

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special deputy sheriff, larry henderson, with the hamilton county sheriff's office, deputy

767
01:22:10,499 --> 01:22:14,469
sheriff daniel weston shire with the monroe county sheriff's office. Police officer phillip wagner from the lorain police department, and trooper nicholas clayton of the

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ohio state highway patrol. Just remember the. Their families this time. Also, I left on your

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desk on your. The new or the continuing. Keep it cool right by the rules campaign. We're

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continuing to educate our citizens, especially our kids, about the safety of writing

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01:22:39,260 --> 01:22:39,260
responsibly on e-scooters and e-bikes. In addition to the flier campaign, the. On the

772
01:22:45,499 --> 01:22:45,499
backside of that document actually classifies class one, two, and three bicycles, gives

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you an idea what the scooters look like, who needs a license, who needs to wear a helmet, age

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restrictions and then the usage area. Who can write on bike paths and roadway sidewalks and

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multi-use paths. And there's a scan bar at the bottom for a link to our website to get more

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01:23:08,088 --> 01:23:08,088
information on it. We're going to be putting up signs and parks that promote this

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01:23:12,726 --> 01:23:12,726
campaign. And also we filmed public service announcements where we're editing those, and

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those will be out on social media very soon. I'd be happy to answer any questions. For

779
01:23:23,236 --> 01:23:23,236
any questions, please. May 6th through 16th. Yes, sir. And also on the e-bike I've

780
01:23:32,579 --> 01:23:32,579
actually fielded, this is pretty timely. Fielded several resident questions and comments

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on e-bikes buzzing down the sidewalk and stuff. So I was just curious what what we were

782
01:23:48,094 --> 01:23:48,094
doing. So I guess this gives me some insight into that. But based on that, there are up to

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20 miles an hour on a sidewalk, or their motor must be disengaged on a sidewalk. Yes,

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that's correct. You cannot ride any of the bikes with the motor engaged. You have to be

785
01:24:08,814 --> 01:24:08,814
pedaling on a sidewalk. So it's pretty easy to see that there's a bunch of kids not pedaling on

786
01:24:16,889 --> 01:24:16,889
e-bikes, right? That is correct. Yes, sir. What is your enforcement methodology here?

787
01:24:23,829 --> 01:24:23,829
yep. Our police officers are monitoring the neighborhoods. And if they do see violations,

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they're stopping and reminding our kids to ride safely. And in fact, we had three crashes just

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01:24:35,407 --> 01:24:35,407
in the last month involving e-bikes riding on sidewalks, entering intersections without

790
01:24:41,046 --> 01:24:41,046
yielding the right of way. Yeah, I think this is going to be an issue or it's becoming an issue.

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I believe. So, sir. Just let me know how I can help and how we can help here. Thank you. Pass

792
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the word. Keep it cool. Right by the rules. So are you. Is this going to be out on is this

793
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on the net? Any place it is, it's on the internet. And and I have be happy to give provide

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01:25:10,842 --> 01:25:10,842
any any of you a number of copies of this document. It's it is on the internet. It's on

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our website. You can monitor there. And also I gave you a few small stickers. Can we keep

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it? We're just about done. Then you can talk. Go ahead. Stickers for helmets. As well,

797
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if I may. As a parent of school aged children, I believe I have seen posters in our school

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building. So thank you for doing that as well. And being right there where kids are so

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they can see that and spreading that message there too. Thank you ma'am. And one quick

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question. Am I correct in saying even on bike paths, a motorized motorized scooter has

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to give way to the biker. That motorized scooter has to give way to pedestrians and also

802
01:25:54,085 --> 01:25:54,085
provide an audible signal if they are passing a pedestrian. Okay. All right. Well, thank

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01:25:59,256 --> 01:25:59,256
you very much. This is this is good. Yeah. Please, just real quick. This is up to 20 miles

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an hour. I know I have seen these things going a lot faster than the motors are designed to

805
01:26:09,700 --> 01:26:09,700
stop at 20 mile an hour. You can if you can pedal faster, you can go faster than 20 mile

806
01:26:14,771 --> 01:26:14,771
an hour. That's the design of the bike. Is there any general, you know, with manufacturers

807
01:26:19,643 --> 01:26:19,643
even conversations going on, you know, even nationally about. Yeah, this is a this is not

808
01:26:25,515 --> 01:26:25,515
just a grove city issue. It's happening obviously across central ohio and across the

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01:26:30,053 --> 01:26:30,053
state. So there are there continue to monitor and come up with ways of making these safe.

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the best thing you can do is wear bright colors, make sure you're wearing a helmet when

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you're driving these. Keep your eyes up. I saw a a child writing to the parking lot last

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01:26:46,335 --> 01:26:46,335
week with a phone, watching a movie, and then be bright and be seen. Make sure that you're.

813
01:26:52,442 --> 01:26:52,442
and stay to the right and a starbucks on the other hand. Okay. Hey. Thank you. Good

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information. Thank you. Any other department heads? All right with that, steven, do you

815
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have any more comments for this evening? No, sir. Thank you. Amy, any business with the

816
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council? Yes. Closing comments, miss burrows. Thank you, mr. Mayor. So I'm going to follow

817
01:27:15,965 --> 01:27:15,965
up from mr. Tedford since I'm the chair of safety. And thank you so much for handing these

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01:27:22,471 --> 01:27:22,471
out and getting on the website. I know we just wrapped up the bike bike bus as well last

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tuesday. I know that wasn't in the month of may, but I hear that was very successful.

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01:27:34,883 --> 01:27:34,883
complement the safety department. And also jed plank I believe also was helped

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escort a couple students home that wanted to finish out the ride. So thank you for going

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01:27:45,059 --> 01:27:45,059
above and beyond and making sure all those children were safe. I think that's the main

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point of this, and that's what I've been saying in my closing comments for the last couple

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01:27:53,168 --> 01:27:53,168
council meetings is that we have a lot of pedestrians walking, biking, scootering on

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01:27:57,372 --> 01:27:57,372
our streets. They don't always stop at crosswalks. And so we have to have grace and give

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space, especially with the warmer weather. So thank you 100% for this. This is awesome.

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I also wanted to say congrats to the upcoming grove city citizen police academy next

828
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tuesday. The 10th is the 10th. I don't know whatever tuesday is next week we will be

829
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graduating another class of residents that took the ten week class, so I'm looking

830
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forward to attending that graduation. And just as far as our town center, I know brant,

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you're in the audience tonight, our executive director of grove city town center. We have the

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first food truck friday coming up this friday, along with the chamber market, farmers market,

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and the book festival that the parks and rec department is putting on. So I hear there's going to be over 30 authors throughout downtown and in different businesses. So please

834
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make sure you come out and check those out. It's going to be a busy mother's day weekend

835
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with mother's day being on sunday. And my final comment is vote for issue to support our

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library. Thank you. Mr. Sturm. All right. I won't repeat half the stuff you said there, but

837
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happy star wars day. May the 4th be with you. If you if you celebrate that. The the the

838
01:29:22,255 --> 01:29:22,255
visit grove city presentation. I wanted to say I love that we're actually seeing data and

839
01:29:28,362 --> 01:29:28,362
metrics to be able to measure the, the impact and that that is awesome. And it looks like

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there's a lot of impact. So I just wanted to say thank you. I didn't say that when you were

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up there on the america 250 in may, back in 1775, on the 10th, delegates from the 13 colonies

842
01:29:45,612 --> 01:29:45,612
gathered in philadelphia for the second continental congress, where they established the

843
01:29:50,717 --> 01:29:53,787
continental army, appointed george washington as the commander in chief, and eventually adopted the declaration of independence. Also, the. The america 250.org

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site. Of course, you can go to. And there's all kinds of stuff nationally, but there's also the. America. 250-ohio.org site. So make sure you go in and and see that as well. The the theme

845
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for this month is, is ohio creates arts, culture and literature celebrating ohio's

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01:30:16,509 --> 01:30:16,509
amazing, amazing symphonies, museums, artists and more. Includes ohio goes to the

847
01:30:21,914 --> 01:30:21,914
movies and ohio arts council programing. So all that can be can be seen on the website. So

848
01:30:26,119 --> 01:30:26,119
make sure you're checking that out. A lot of lot of really great stuff and interesting

849
01:30:30,189 --> 01:30:30,189
history that you might not, might not know. That's all I have. Thank you. Thank you, mr.

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omar. I just wanted to thank everybody for being here tonight, for coming to this

851
01:30:41,767 --> 01:30:41,767
council meeting to express your concerns or support for, you know, us on council and and

852
01:30:48,607 --> 01:30:48,607
really coming to talk about issues that matter most to you. I know I repeat this often, but

853
01:30:54,012 --> 01:30:54,012
the more new faces that we have here, it means a lot to me personally. I know it means a

854
01:30:59,484 --> 01:30:59,484
lot to all the council members to see that our community is actively engaged in the

855
01:31:03,488 --> 01:31:03,488
conversations that are, that are happening in our community. When I ran for the seat, I made

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01:31:07,825 --> 01:31:07,825
a commitment to residents of ward five that I would continue to amplify the voices of

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01:31:11,829 --> 01:31:11,829
residents in my community, and I'm going to continue to do that, even if it means asking

858
01:31:15,934 --> 01:31:15,934
the same questions over and over again. So thank you to those who have been emailing us

859
01:31:20,672 --> 01:31:23,908
and and reaching out consistently. I think I had like over 50 emails. Your emails matter. I've been making it through as many of them as I can, but continue to reach out

860
01:31:28,746 --> 01:31:28,746
to us to continue to, to share your concerns because it really does make an impact. So thank

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01:31:32,983 --> 01:31:32,983
you all for being here tonight, miss anderson. I want to echo that. I do appreciate everybody

862
01:31:43,995 --> 01:31:43,995
being here and coming forward and, and sharing your opinions with us. And also, please

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01:31:49,633 --> 01:31:49,633
remember to get out and vote tomorrow. Thank you, mr. Linga. Yes. Also echoing what everyone

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01:31:56,674 --> 01:31:56,674
said, I appreciate the public input. I, I was elected to this office to represent everyone in

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01:32:04,848 --> 01:32:04,848
the city, and I can assure you that any decisions that I'm involved with are very

866
01:32:11,321 --> 01:32:11,321
analytical. That's how I tend to be on the data centers. I travel outside the city,

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01:32:18,262 --> 01:32:18,262
outside the county, and to other metropolitan areas to get information that is pertinent

868
01:32:25,202 --> 01:32:25,202
to the decisions that will be made. But when it comes down to the final decision making

869
01:32:31,841 --> 01:32:31,841
process, I'm sure I'm the same as everyone else on the board. We really take into

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01:32:37,347 --> 01:32:37,347
consideration what our constituents feel about various issues, and I think that's very

871
01:32:43,853 --> 01:32:43,853
important to represent you. And as far as representing everyone or selecting the people that

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01:32:51,695 --> 01:32:51,695
represent you, once again, I'd like to echo the thoughts. Tomorrow's primary day, please

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01:32:56,699 --> 01:32:56,699
show up and vote and select the candidate that would best serve you and give you the the

874
01:33:05,775 --> 01:33:05,775
representation that you're looking for. Thank you, mr. Holt. Well, it's pretty hard to

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01:33:11,547 --> 01:33:11,547
beat all that stuff. That's pretty much everything I can think of. Smokey bones closed.

876
01:33:21,223 --> 01:33:21,223
so what's going to go in smokey bones? That's always the question. And I, you know, just

877
01:33:28,096 --> 01:33:28,096
for fun, I'll just remind you, we don't decide what goes in for smokey bones. That's that's

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01:33:36,705 --> 01:33:36,705
capitalism. So whatever restaurant thinks they can make it go for that. We'll make it

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01:33:41,443 --> 01:33:41,443
go for that. And it may not even come in front of council if they don't remodel or

880
01:33:46,415 --> 01:33:46,415
rebuild or anything like that. So, but I'm with you on most of everybody else's restaurant

881
01:33:53,622 --> 01:33:53,622
requests and ideas, but it's what the market will bear. And with that, on to you, ted. Well,

882
01:34:04,166 --> 01:34:04,166
I gotta, I gotta mention one thing though. You know, kevin, when you mentioned the our

883
01:34:09,838 --> 01:34:09,838
wonderful bike paths and everything, I often remember my father when he was alive 15

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01:34:14,576 --> 01:34:14,576
years ago. They lived in florida for the longest time. And he went. I remember going,

885
01:34:19,180 --> 01:34:19,180
we were going to, of course, bob evans. And we were going down the road. And my dad

886
01:34:24,218 --> 01:34:24,218
looked over at those, the bike lanes and he goes, well, that's really nice that they put put

887
01:34:29,089 --> 01:34:29,089
passing lanes up there like that. In florida. Those are passing lanes for for senior

888
01:34:34,362 --> 01:34:34,362
citizens. So anyhow, at least at least at least we don't have cars on them yet. But I want to

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thank everybody for coming tonight. I can promise you this. There's nobody on this council.

890
01:34:46,807 --> 01:34:46,807
I believe I'm not. Hopefully I'm we're nobody's in a rush on anything that's introduced. So

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01:34:53,113 --> 01:34:53,113
as soon as something is introduced, we plan on having many, many, many meetings to

892
01:34:58,085 --> 01:34:58,085
inform you, to have your questions asked to, to talk and everything like that. So our

893
01:35:03,157 --> 01:35:03,157
commitment to you and the community is this is not going to be a fast process. Whatever

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01:35:08,495 --> 01:35:08,495
is introduced, I don't know exactly what it is going to going to be yet, but there will

895
01:35:13,299 --> 01:35:13,299
be many, many, many meetings. And I'm hoping that you all stay with us during the process

896
01:35:17,904 --> 01:35:17,904
and come out and have your voices heard and ask questions. Some great questions in the

897
01:35:22,576 --> 01:35:22,576
testimony tonight. I'm hoping wherever she is, she can give us that list. Please give us

898
01:35:28,614 --> 01:35:28,614
that list. I would appreciate that. But I again, this is not a fast process. And and, and it

899
01:35:35,222 --> 01:35:35,222
won't be. So we are committed to that. Also, I wanted to mention on the bike, there's

900
01:35:41,795 --> 01:35:41,795
several people that always ask me if there's a bike lane. Why are people why are bikers on

901
01:35:46,099 --> 01:35:46,099
the streets? So those of us that do bike for transportation tend not to use bike paths. So,

902
01:35:52,772 --> 01:35:52,772
you know, we're on the we're on the road quite a bit. So that's why you see a lot of bikers

903
01:35:57,844 --> 01:35:57,844
maybe biking by a bike path because they're exceeding speed and things like that to get to

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01:36:04,116 --> 01:36:04,116
and from. So please keep the distance vote tomorrow. The I wanted to oh, community center.

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I wanted to ask chuck, when, when will we see that study back? We're targeting by the

906
01:36:18,564 --> 01:36:18,564
end of the month, by the end of the month. So as soon as we know when that study is back,

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01:36:23,669 --> 01:36:23,669
will and will immediately schedule a meeting, an early meeting to, to get everybody in

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01:36:28,440 --> 01:36:28,440
to listen to what that study report has to say. So stay tuned for that. Other than that,

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01:36:34,512 --> 01:36:34,512
have a safe weekend and