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[0:08] Council meeting for the city of Groveport, Monday, September 27, 2021, we'll come to order. Before we start the council meeting, could you all please join me in a moment of silence.
[0:35] Thank you. Chief Adams, would you please lead us in the pledge of allegiance?
[0:40] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, and individual liberty and justice for all.
[0:55] Thank you, Chief.
[0:56] Yes, sir.
[0:58] Roll call.
[1:01] Cleary.
[1:02] Here.
[1:03] Mr. Dilldyne.
[1:05] Mrs. Helbert.
[1:06] Here.
[1:07] Mr. Helglin.
[1:08] Here.
[1:08] Mrs. Hudson.
[1:09] Here. Mr. Lockett.
[1:11] Here.
[1:11] Is there a motion to excuse Mr. Dilldyne from tonight's meeting?
[1:15] So moved.
[1:16] May I have Mrs. Helbert?
[1:18] Second by Mr. Cleary.
[1:20] Roll call please.
[1:21] Mr. Cleary.
[1:22] Yes.
[1:23] Mr. Helbert?
[1:24] Yes.
[1:24] Yes. Mr. Houghlin? Yes.
[1:27] This is Hudson? Yes.
[1:28] Mr. Locke? Yes. Motion passes. Approval of the minutes from the September 13,
[1:34] 2021 Council meeting. Any additions, deletions or corrections?
[1:41] Very none. They'll stand approved as submitted.
[1:45] I know you're all wondering why there are so many people here.
[1:48] We're going to change the agenda a little bit because we have the honor. Mr. Shannon does it.
[1:52] We're going to swear in the city of Groport's three newest police officers.
[1:58] So at this time, Mr. Shannon, if you'd like to join me up front.
[2:02] And first on the list is Mr. Kevin Chauvin.
[2:07] Kevin, do you like to follow us down?
[2:13] I have seen it.
[2:19] Kevin
[2:41] Chauvin, you saw him on the square.
[2:43] Song in freestyle is so important that collaboration at the binds fits.
[2:51] And the long sogenancheur queue.
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[3:00] And I show faithfully I promise.
[3:02] And I prove to believe that we are much more categorization important.
[3:18] So this time we're going to have Kevin introduce all his family member's friends to
[3:23] give tonight the special moments together.
[3:28] We're going to sing up until we know who we are.
[3:31] We're going to sing up until we know who we are.
[3:36] My wife Anna, my daughter Lexi, my daughter Katelyn, my daughter Elise and my father Joe.
[3:56] Definitely female dominating that house.
[4:02] Congratulations.
[4:10] Congratulations.
[4:16] Congratulations.
[4:21] Congratulations.
[4:21] Next we have Ms. Carlson in.
[4:57] Good.
[4:57] Okay.
[5:25] All right. I have my wife, Caitlin, youngest, Cora. This is my oldest ever leave.
[5:34] My mother, Robin,
[5:36] and father-in-law, Bob, mother-in-law, Renee.
[5:52] I was fine.
[5:53] Yep.
[5:54] Come on.
[6:08] Congratulations.
[6:13] Congratulations.
[6:15] Congratulations.
[6:15] Hey, congratulations.
[6:16] Oh, my gosh.
[6:17] I just am now putting an action.
[6:19] Congratulations.
[6:23] Congratulations.
[6:23] Thank you.
[6:23] Congratulations, sir.
[6:27] Last but not least, Adam Gray.
[6:43] We're thinking that people need help.
[6:44] We
[6:51] thought voice is important.
[6:52] We're going to have to come to the end.
[6:55] We're going to have to come to the end.
[6:57] Constitution is available.
[6:58] And in half, this means that the people are going to have a law
[7:00] that's formed in the system church.
[7:02] In the law, it's formed in the new church
[7:03] of the city of Brunel, the city of Brookswell.
[7:06] And I shall finish with you.
[7:07] I shall finish with you.
[7:07] I shall finish with you.
[7:08] You can go on.
[7:10] I'll be
[7:12] right in a moment.
[7:16] This
[7:25] is my wife, Friannon, and then my daughter's nasal amaz-y, and my mother-in-law Sally, my father-in-law Barry, my brother-in-law Wesley, then over here's my mother Debbie, my father Mike, and my grandmother Diane, and my grandfather Jim.
[7:50] Yeah.
[7:56] Which big stake in there?
[7:58] I should bring a boss if you get.
[8:00] Yeah.
[8:02] Yeah.
[8:02] Thank you.
[8:03] I'm glad you like this.
[8:03] We've got everybody.
[8:04] Yeah.
[8:05] Great.
[8:08] Great.
[8:08] Thank you, thank you.
[8:10] Congratulations.
[8:12] Congratulations.
[8:13] I got more of a sucker of my hand in it.
[8:15] Girls got a map.
[8:20] I'm turning.
[8:20] Let's get the whole herd after Chief.
[8:23] Get them all up there.
[8:25] We'll get them all up there.
[8:26] I never really missed it.
[8:31] I'm gonna have to look for this.
[8:35] What?
[8:35] Don't take stuff.
[8:39] You have to look
[8:49] for my shirt.
[8:54] Look at the shirt.
[8:55] Great picture.
[9:28] Yeah, yeah, if you have nothing else to do you're more welcome to stay if you'd like to leave you're feel free to get
[9:38] Here I'm in the car, Kevin.
[9:48] That worked out good for him.
[9:50] Thank you.
[9:51] Thank you.
[9:52] Well, thank you.
[9:52] I'm going to keep working with you.
[9:56] That's all I can do.
[9:58] Thank you.
[9:58] I love you, take over the debt.
[10:16] Okay, we'll move on. I do have a proclamation this evening. Some guy chief Robinson's here. That's
[10:25] That's why it did the agenda, different.
[10:28] This is a proclamation for claiming fire prevention week.
[10:34] We're asked the City of Groteport Ohio is committed to ensuring the safety and security
[10:39] of all those living in and visiting Groteport.
[10:44] We're asked fire is a serious public safety concern, both locally and nationally, and our
[10:50] homes are where we are at the greatest risk.
[10:53] whereas according to the National Fire Protection Association, home fires
[10:59] killed more than 2,770 people and fire departments responded to 339,000
[11:07] home fires in the United States in 2019. Whereas smoke alarms sent smoke well
[11:15] before you can, alerting you to danger in the event of fire in which you may have a
[11:22] little as two minutes to escape safely. And whereas working smoke alarms cut the risk
[11:28] of dying in recorded home fires in half. Whereas residents should be sure everyone in
[11:34] the home understands the sounds of the alarms and knows how to respond. Whereas families
[11:41] who plan and practice a home fire escape plan are more prepared and will therefore be more
[11:47] likely to survive in fire.
[11:51] Whereas making sure smoke and seal alarms meet the needs of all family members, including
[11:56] those with sensory or physical disabilities.
[12:01] And whereas first responders are dedicated to reducing the occurrence of home fires and
[12:07] home fire injuries through prevention and protection and protection education and residents responsive
[12:15] to public education measures are better able to take personal steps to increase fire safety,
[12:22] especially in their homes. Now, therefore, I-Lance, West Camp, Mayor of the City of
[12:27] Grootwood, Ohio, you hereby proclaim October 3rd through the night, 2021, as fire prevention
[12:35] week, and urge all of our residents to observe this year's fire prevention week theme,
[12:42] learn the sounds of fire safety effectively serving to remind us it is important
[12:48] to learn the different sounds of smoke and carbon monoxide lines tea for
[12:54] obviously on behalf of the city of Groport I'd like to present this
[12:57] proclamation to you and your crew the Madison Township Fire Department you're the
[13:03] best in the business and we appreciate you appreciate it we appreciate it
[13:16] as
[13:19] Thank you very much for the proclamation. It does mean a lot. We appreciate all of your support.
[13:29] Obviously we couldn't do this without the support of the council of the staff of this great city.
[13:34] So we do appreciate the partnership and everything for the recognition.
[13:39] Obviously fire prevention is a big part of what we do. Our fire prevention bureau is kind of the young song heroes of the fire service.
[13:45] They don't get to ride around on the flashy loud trucks and wear all the cool gear and do all those things
[13:51] But they truly are the heart and soul of what we do
[13:53] They're the ones that get out and they expect to inspect the businesses every year to make sure that those occupancies are safe
[13:59] For not only those that are working there, but the customers and patrons that are there
[14:04] they're doing
[14:06] foster
[14:07] inspections and people's homes adoption inspections
[14:10] just trying to keep everything from
[14:13] having a catastrophic effect. So they kind of are behind the scenes but probably work in the hardest when it comes to that as well as educating our youth and in the schools and everything like that.
[14:22] So it truly does mean a lot that you recognize us this week. We do appreciate it. Unfortunately as we announced at the last meeting we are for going this year's open house just because of everything that's going on with the variant right now.
[14:35] But we will be out of the schools, we will be seeing our youngsters, we'll be seeing everybody out at Trick or Treat, and we're looking forward to that.
[14:43] And on a side note, I would like to, I know they've left, but congratulate the three officers tonight.
[14:48] Hats off to law enforcement, you guys have a tough job right now, a lot of respect for what you do.
[14:53] I wish all three of them success in their careers, and I hope it's a rewarding career, so congratulations to them.
[14:59] Thanks.
[15:00] Thank you, thank you. I do have another event, so I am going to scoot as well. So thank you very much. Appreciate it.
[15:10] I heard a mess with not mess with dollar. Before we move on, we do have a township trustee candidate in the audience. Debbie, would you like to come up and introduce yourself to the council?
[15:27] So my name is Debbie Miller for those of you that don't know me. I am running for a Madison Township trustee, and in case you can't hear me, I printed it.
[15:38] I've lived in the township, the unincorporated part for 46 years, I've been very active in
[15:44] the black like estates area and with the school district and 38 years running a little
[15:49] league to give the kids something to do and keep them off the streets.
[15:53] My ambition is to build the unincorporated part of the township up like you guys have done
[15:59] to your city and like canal is done to their city.
[16:01] We can be better. We can do better for the people. We just have to have people in there
[16:06] who want to do it. And their whose decisions affect them as well. Because I live there,
[16:14] the decisions that are made will affect me too. So I hope I can have your support. And I
[16:21] look forward to working with all of you.
[16:23] Thank you for coming out.
[16:25] Thank you, Debbie.
[16:30] Okay. We'll move on to the ordinances and resolutions.
[16:33] 3rd readings, there are none in this evening.
[16:37] 2nd readings, ordinance 2021-043.
[16:44] Organist number 2021-043, ordinance approving the final flat for
[16:50] 5740 Greenpoint Drive North, Fed 1 Dublin, LLC applicant,
[16:55] parcel number 185-002202.
[17:00] Okay, ordinance 201-047, ordinance number 201-047 and ordinance amending Part 9, Part 9 streets, utilities, public services code, Title 1, street and sidewalk area, Chapter 9-11, trees and shrubs of the codified ordinances for the City of California.
[17:22] We'll move on to the first readings, ordnance2021-048, ordnance number 2021-048, and ordnance
[17:37] authorizing the administrator to execute a right-of-way and easement instrument with
[17:42] AEP and the Declaration of an Emergency Sponsor, Councilmember Helver.
[17:46] At this point in time, I'll just say committee, and we'll see what happens later on.
[17:52] Committee please.
[17:52] Okay, that goes to committee of the whole. Thank you, Mrs. Hilbert.
[17:57] We'll move on to the reports. Under the mayor's report, thanks to Casey. We're going to
[18:03] talk about beggars now. I think with what Chief Adams is brung forward and BJ, you don't
[18:11] have any problem with it. I know we spoke to snow in the middle that we're going to shoot
[18:17] for a Thursday, the 28 from 5.30 to 7, that's the hours that the city of
[18:25] report usually does. So do we need a motion on that, Kevin? Mr.
[18:29] Hogan, you would like to make that motion. I do so move.
[18:32] Okay. I'll second that. Motion made by Mr. Hogan. Second by Mrs.
[18:37] Hilbert. Roll call please. Mrs. Hilbert, yes. Mr. Hogan. Yes.
[18:46] Mrs.
[18:46] Thank you, Mr. Cleary.
[18:47] Yes.
[18:47] Motion passes.
[18:49] Well, thanks for getting back with us and the only other thing I want to add, if you
[18:54] have any questions for BJ and his group, he's having budget meetings all week, so if you
[18:59] have anything to add or they're pretty busy, especially if you stop in down here.
[19:06] And then that's all I have this evening and I'll turn it over to BJ.
[19:10] Thank you, Mayor.
[19:11] I just wanted to mention again about the budget meetings.
[19:13] We're doing the individual department budget meetings picked up today, but it is a busy week. It's a good week of work
[19:21] Going through each department's every line and everything to create the budget that I look forward to us presenting to council for discussion
[19:29] Happy to answer any questions
[19:33] Thank you VJ
[19:35] Chief Adams
[19:37] Thank you mayor just a couple things
[19:40] So we're preparing for Apple butterday, Sergeant Gailer, and Lieutenant Short
[19:45] have been working on a schedule. We found out last week that East and
[19:48] Career Center will not be able to bring in students for Apple butterday
[19:52] or Halloween, but Sergeant Gailer may contact with Fairfield Career Center's law
[19:57] enforcement program, and they're going to end up bringing in.
[20:00] Seven are their students to help direct traffic for the vendors that morning on that Saturday morning around. They'll start around 6, 6, 30 in the morning. Go up to about 10, 30 or 11. So that's pretty good news for us because they actually help out a lot with that. Last week I got an email letter from the state of Ohio on new mandates for training for 2022 that kind of hit me a little bit. They're going to require every police officer in the state of Ohio.
[20:29] higher under this mandate to take 24 hours of continuing educational opportunities through
[20:36] the Ohio Peace Officer's Training Academy. The letter states that they allocated $15 million
[20:42] for the entire state. I'm just picturing, yeah, I just think in the larger departments.
[20:50] So they're saying we'll give you up to 50% of that money back. Well, that tells me don't
[20:56] on the 50% is what I'm guaranteeing.
[20:59] So I've kind of figured out on their prices,
[21:01] that's almost gonna cost us $21,000
[21:03] to send all 25 officers to that training next year,
[21:06] just for basic training and all that.
[21:09] And I also have the three new sergeants
[21:11] that are gonna go into training.
[21:12] So those are some things.
[21:15] Hopefully we'll get some of that money back,
[21:16] be able to allocate some other specialty training
[21:19] when it comes to the new de-tethe bureau
[21:21] that could be coming up in the next couple of years
[21:23] and stuff like that.
[21:23] also the new officers who need training.
[21:27] The other part is we had a bob meter come in, did
[21:31] four hours of training on Wednesday night, four hours training Saturday with all the officers
[21:35] on legal updates. And what was nice about that, he incorporated our new policies and procedures
[21:40] into his legal updates training. So he made sure our guys knew what was going on just with our
[21:46] district court locally but also internationally and then also what are how our policies
[21:53] comply with those orders. That was pretty nice. And then I've got to hold up one of the
[21:58] Massachusetts firefighters who's actually going to run us through that CPR training and tactical
[22:04] first-aid training. We're looking to do three different sessions in November. Every officer will be
[22:09] mandated to do that. So I'm looking forward to that. I can tell you the officer was actually excited
[22:14] about that and they really appreciated this past training because it actually was something that
[22:19] was grew for how was our policy implemented and all that with this training and all that. So
[22:24] they liked that rather than a generic training, it was actually grew for oriented. So the other
[22:30] thing is I'm going to be having a meeting with on Zoom with Imagine Schools, try to talk about
[22:35] the traffic problems tomorrow, around one o'clock. I sent over a lot of pictures to them of some of
[22:41] the issues and concerns I have.
[22:43] And I went around, spoke to all the businesses
[22:45] on Venture Place Friday to listen to their concerns
[22:48] and their issues that they're having.
[22:50] So hopefully we can kind of come to some temporary
[22:54] and then long-term solutions of how to alleviate
[22:56] some of this traffic, is that fair?
[22:58] So that's all I have here.
[23:01] On that imaginary school, I think somebody,
[23:05] I think it was B.J. brought it up.
[23:06] But in the original, the original plot, whatever, the traffic was an issue and the
[23:14] they were not supposed to, I don't know the exact order you want to use, cause that
[23:19] type of a problem.
[23:20] That was part of their deal.
[23:22] That's your right.
[23:24] So when they got there, and council passed their use variance for there, one of the conditions
[23:28] was that they could, and I'm paraphrasing negatively impact traffic on any public roadways.
[23:34] I think when wasn't they beginning when it started didn't they do some pickups and drop-offs at the high school side?
[23:45] Originally that was that alleviated some of the traffic but now the other issue that they were
[23:51] What I'm hearing from the parents who called in today because I sent officers up there to make them aware of the no parking on that street because they're lining up an hour before school
[24:01] is they said we cannot get busing and they try to contact the
[24:05] Groport Madison School District for busing and they said we have no bus
[24:09] drivers to bring your kids so that what has happened is instead of one bus
[24:13] bringing in 10 15 20 30 kids whatever now we got 10 15 20 cars coming in and
[24:20] that's what's causing a lot of these issues right I didn't know since we built
[24:24] the new high school if that was still an option for them to be able to
[24:29] Unload and load or somehow the traffic when the high school is my understanding from
[24:34] imagined schools that no that's not an option. Okay. Thank you Chief keep us
[24:42] updated on it. That's a big issue.
[24:48] Mr. Car. Thank you Mayor. I just want to let
[24:51] council know that in a curriculum myself recently it's ended training last week to
[24:57] to get some of our...
[25:00] CPE hours for continuing education. Along with that, we also met the six hour requirement by the Treasurer State for the Center for Public Investment Management. Those six hours are required in order for the city to invest in the type of investments that we currently have in our portfolio. So, we are compliant. And there's any questions other than that. I'd be happy to answer those questions.
[25:29] questions. Any questions? Mr. Car. Thank you, Jason.
[25:39] Well, director, Mr. Shannon. I have nothing further to you. Thank you. Thank you.
[25:43] We have a development director, Mr. Green. Real quick. I just wanted to bring up the
[25:47] speed on conversation, followed conversation I had with Matt Yerkis from
[25:50] Caldevate. Following the discussion we have of counsel, he's still very interested
[25:55] working with the city and we talked about kind of a phased approach starting out
[26:00] with just an entrepreneurship technical assistance program with office hours where you can do one-on-one
[26:08] mentoring and training and by weekly or sorry by monthly seminars or workshops probably held
[26:17] with golf boards. We need to provide him some kind of office space here which I don't think is going
[26:22] to be too much of a problem. And then following up when the time is right if we can find a space
[26:28] we signed the second floor. He would like to maybe start small with trying to find some
[26:34] place for some businesses, maybe three or four businesses, to get off the ground. So we've
[26:39] started this program of incubation here in the city and then followed that up when the time is
[26:44] right to convert one of the second floor spaces. So he's still interested, it'll be a part of my
[26:50] budget for 2022. So just want to let you know that. Any questions for Jeff? Thank
[27:00] you, Jeff.
[27:02] Council members, Mr. Hogan. I have nothing. Mr. Lockett. Last week, Mr.
[27:10] Claire and I were invited to have a chance to meet the one of the new police officers. The
[27:18] the other two are like that young man.
[27:21] They are just tickled pink to be here.
[27:24] Could not be happier to be in a growth port
[27:28] and in our system.
[27:31] He just went on and on about how excited he was
[27:36] that the, how good benefits were.
[27:40] And he's just happy to be here.
[27:42] So whatever we're doing with those guys to bring him in,
[27:46] I mean, they're happy and excited to be here, which I think is a good thing.
[27:51] Right.
[27:51] And I think it all stems on, and chief correct me if I'm wrong, with going that we can
[27:56] hire laterals and kudos to the police department because they did all the legwork for me.
[28:04] And I think they made the right choices, and I think the other two will feel the same
[28:10] way as you said, Mr. Lockheed.
[28:13] Hope so.
[28:14] Thank you.
[28:15] This is Hudson.
[28:16] I have nothing to say now.
[28:18] Thank you.
[28:19] Mr. Clary.
[28:20] I started working on my neighborhood today on the sidewalk projects.
[28:24] And those guys fly out.
[28:26] Knockings.
[28:27] I mean, they work.
[28:28] Oh, yeah.
[28:29] They knock them out and stuff like that.
[28:30] The only other suggestion I make with our street sweeping on track.
[28:35] With Monday being trash day.
[28:37] We might want to bump that to you today.
[28:40] Because I've seen you coming down the road and I put my company truck in the park.
[28:44] in a lot but everybody's got the trash cans off right there all like if you
[28:49] go and you just see that just might be a good idea yeah absolutely yeah probably
[28:52] don't realize that either we just move to a Tuesday and they did the neighborhood
[28:55] twice so oh I'm talked about a lot about that okay that's all I've got thank you
[28:59] Sean thank you Sean this is Hilbert hi nothing sir thank you I come back yeah
[29:06] Mr. Hova, it's a wow for it to come.
[29:09] That's all right.
[29:11] Jeff, at the time, the credit union
[29:13] built that they're building on the corner and the expansion,
[29:20] there's a second floor there that was originally, I think,
[29:24] designated to be used for businesses
[29:29] to come in and start just as you're discussing.
[29:32] Might be something to talk to the CEO about and see
[29:36] if that space might still be available.
[29:39] Can you give me a call about that tomorrow?
[29:40] I can get more information.
[29:42] I'm sorry.
[29:43] Can you give me a call about that tomorrow?
[29:44] Sure.
[29:44] Can you give me a call about that tomorrow?
[29:45] Can you give me a call about that tomorrow?
[29:47] Sure.
[29:47] I remember that now.
[29:48] I remember that.
[29:49] Yeah.
[29:51] Thanks, John.
[29:52] You're the one out of all, but remember that.
[29:54] Good for you.
[29:54] And you're all the way down to you.
[29:56] It's just kind of hard for me to hear sometimes
[29:58] with the masks.
[30:00] My right hearing aid isn't working correctly, so, if you can call back any. Any standing committees?
[30:12] Any other business? Mayor. Yes, staff is requesting the council consider going into executive session tonight under one to one to two G. One to consider the appointments, employment of a public employee and also to read.
[30:33] We view negotiations with our public employees, our police officers, specifically with our collective bargaining agreement to include all members of council, the mayor, myself, Mr. King, Mr. Carr.
[30:49] I'll make that motion.
[30:52] Motion made by Mrs. Hilbert. Second by Mr. Clary. Roll call, please.
[30:57] Mr. Hogan?
[30:58] Yes.
[30:59] Mr. Hudson?
[31:00] Yes.
[31:00] Mr. Lockett?
[31:01] Yes.
[31:01] Mr. Cleary. Yes. This is silver. Yes. Motion passes. Let the record state we're going into executive session at 7.01 PM to discuss what law director Shannon just stated.
[31:17] Okay. I wasn't doubted. Okay. Yeah, he was very good.
[31:23] Thanks. I can go on now.
[31:29] Come on. We
[31:35] all back. I believe Kevin.
[31:38] Second, second.
[31:39] Second.
[31:40] On the second.
[31:42] Second.
[31:43] Second by Mr. Clearing.
[31:45] Roll call, please.
[31:48] Mr. Clear.
[31:49] Yes.
[31:52] Mr. Souver?
[31:53] Yes.
[31:55] The Bhagavan.
[31:56] Absolutely.
[31:59] Yes.
[32:01] Motion passes.
[32:03] Let the record state we come out of the second session at 75
[32:06] 155 p.m. with no action taken any other business. I move to adjourn
[32:12] I'm gonna use a guy second. Okay, motion made by Mrs. Hilbert second by Mrs. Hudson roll call please
[32:23] This will walk it
[32:24] Yes, Mr. Cleary. Yes, yes, yes motion passes meeting adjourned
[32:42] I don't know where you going, look at that, I'm fine, where are we?
[32:45] I don't know.