All right, I'd like to call the
Louisville City Council uh meeting on
Monday, July 6th to order. We will start
with our public eating hearings uh with
ordinance number 26-31.
>> Being an ordinance amending part 11,
planning and zoning of the codified
ordinances of the city of Lewisville.
>> Is anyone here to speak on ordinance
number 26-31?
Okay, moving on to ordinance number
26-33
>> being an ordinance authorizing and
directing the finance director to
execute a contract with a regional
council of governments for the purpose
of administration and collection of
municipal income tax in the city of
Louisisville.
>> Is anyone here to speak on ordinance
number 26-33?
» Okay. Ordinance number 26-34
>> being an ordinance accepting the amended
final plot for Aspire at Orchard Park
Town Homes number two located within the
corporate limits of the city of
Lewisville, Ohio.
Is anyone here to speak on ordinance
number 26-34?
Okay, we'll call this meeting to order
and I'll ask for an approval of the July
6, 2026 meeting agenda.
>> I'll make that motion. Mayor,
>> second. Let's go ahead and vote.
>> Street,
>> yes.
>> Al Jansik,
>> yes.
>> Gdone,
>> yes.
>> Mallister Atkins,
>> yes.
>> Please bow your heads for a moment of
silent prayer.
» Amen. Please stand for the pledge of
allegiance.
I pledge algiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the
republic for which it stands, one nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all.
» Roll call.
>> Street
>> here.
>> Aljans
>> here.
>> Gdone
>> here.
>> Johnston Mallister Atkins
>> here. Please let the record reflect that
council member Johnston is excused uh
from the meeting this evening. Um we do
have a certificate of an open meeting
and I'll ask for approval of the minutes
from the June 15, 2026 special meeting
uh goal setting.
>> I make the motion that we approve the
meeting the minutes from the whatever
meeting for goal setting.
>> Uh second here.
>> Okay, let's go ahead and vote.
>> Street. Yes.
>> Aljanthic.
>> Yes.
>> Gdone.
>> Yes.
>> Mallister Atkins.
>> Yes.
>> Okay. Then next up, the minutes for the
June 15th regularly scheduled council
meeting.
>> Any approvals or
>> did did we approve all three of those or
are we doing them?
>> Can we do all three in one or do they
have to be
>> You you can do all three.
>> Okay. Well, I'll ask for approval for
the remaining uh the June 15th regular
scheduled council meeting as well as the
June 16th special council meeting. Goal
setting.
>> Yes. I'll make that motion. Mayor
>> second.
>> We'll go ahead and vote.
>> Street.
>> Yes.
>> Al Jans.
>> Yes.
>> Gdome.
>> Yes.
>> Mallister Atkins.
>> Yes.
>> That noted noted for next time. Uh
persons preparing for council. Uh we
have Mason, senior project engineer with
OM advisors. Um so you can come on up. I
believe you can. Is the microphone
hooked on the podium?
Okay.
>> Floor is yours.
>> Well, hello. My name is Jason. First, I
want to say this is a great time. I was
actually
building 550.
Yeah, I'm with Advisors. It's nice to
meet everybody. I'm going to give you a
quick history of the firm or quick run
down. I know you got a busy schedule
tonight.
Advisor is a multi-disiplinary
engineering firm. Our mission is
advancing communities and our niche is
really stacking federal and state
funding working with the administration
and the capital improvement plan
marrying the two so we can expand
a firm over 800 right now. We have
experts in all kinds of fields. I would
be your main point of contact. But we
have traffic people, bridges, parks,
planning, corridor studies, you name it.
Anything municipal related
infrastructure, we have expert
help.
I've worked with the city of Massland
before the city of several times. I'm
very familiar with SCW
involved. So it's
hit the street.
If you have any questions, I'd be happy
to answer that.
» We're certainly happy to have you.
>> Thank you very much. Appreciate it.
>> We we should say that the firm was
selected through a a qualificationsbased
selection process um and was selected by
an evaluation committee of of city staff
and they they certainly came out on top
and we're looking forward to working
with them. And I personally have a lot
of experience with
zoning.
Any way I can help, just give us a call.
>> Perfect.
>> Thank you.
very much.
» Okay. Next up is ordinance number 26-31
>> being an ordinance amending part 11,
planning and zoning of the codified
ordinances of the city of Lewisville.
I'll make a motion that um we bring
ordinance 26-31 to the table for its
second reading.
>> Second.
>> Mayor, this is the ordinance second
reading of the ordinance uh that amends
part 11 planning and zoning uh to
streamline and simplify the process for
designating minor subdivisions.
» Know we talked about this before. Is
there any any additional questions,
comments, concerns? I don't think so.
>> Let's go ahead and vote.
>> Street.
>> Yes.
>> Al Janac,
>> yes.
>> Gdone,
>> yes.
>> Mallister Atkins,
>> yes.
>> Okay, let's move to ordinance number
26-33.
>> Seeing an ordinance authorizing and
directing the finance director to
execute a contract with regional council
of governments for the purpose of
administration and collection of
municipal income tax in the city of
Lewisville. I'll make a motion that we
bring ordinance 2633 to the table for
its second reading by emergency.
>> Second.
>> Uh, mayor, this is the ordinance that
will allow us to transition the
administration of our income tax to the
Rita program.
>> And you had indicated that it's a
contract or a timelines though. Why do
we have the emergency requested?
>> Correct. the the emergency is to meet
their their timeline so that this can be
implemented by 2027,
>> right? Yeah. We wanted to get it
implemented as soon as possible so that
we have a little bit of overlap with
Rita coming on before Lori retires to
kind of help, you know, ease that that
hump a little bit. And um they can't
start doing some of their their data
extractions to make sure everything is
ready to go and and balances are whole
until uh the agreement is signed.
agreement can't be signed until this
goes into
>> Okay.
>> And again, Rita, a lot of local
communities use it. It'll we'll see a
cost savings. Um
>> yeah, that that's really that's really
what this comes down to for me. Um we'll
still have Teresa with us as we
discussed before. So people can still
come into city hall and get that that
personal service. Uh if they want it
face to face, they can also do that
through Rita. They can call Rita.
This will give them, you know, online
filing, a more streamlined online
payment and payment plan structure. Rita
does a really good job keeping all of
their uh technology up to date, things
like that, improving all the time. So,
it'll really keep us on sort of the the
cutting edge and all that at a a cost to
the taxpayers that is less than what it
costs to replace that position.
>> Great. Thank you. Well, again, Matt, we
certainly appreciate you having
experience with this coming from Ripman
where you certainly had that installed
there. Yeah. Yeah, it does help.
>> Okay, let's go ahead and vote.
>> Street,
>> yes.
>> Aljanser,
>> yes.
>> Gdome,
>> yes.
>> Mallister,
>> yes.
>> Okay, I'll make a motion that we suspend
the rules and adopt ordinance number
26-33 by emergency.
>> Second.
>> Let's go ahead and vote.
>> Street,
>> yes. Aljansk.
>> Yes.
>> Gdone.
>> Yes.
>> Mallister Atkins.
>> Yes.
>> Okay. Let's move to ordinance number
26-34.
» Being an ordinance accepting the amended
final plat for Aspire at Orchard Park
Town Homes number two located within the
corporate limits of the city of
Louisisville, Ohio.
>> I'll make the motion that we bring
ordinance number 26-34 to the table for
its second reading.
>> Second.
All right, mayor. This uh amends the
final plot to Orchard Park Town Homes
number two. This is uh the area or the
town homes that are located just north
of Peach Avenue. Uh and really the
difference is that the current builder,
Dr. Horton, intends to build slightly
smaller town homes than what was
originally planned by K. Hovanian Homes.
That's the difference or what the
amendment is about.
>> We're asking for it by emergency. Well,
the the developer asked for it by
emergency and we're asking for it by
emergency. It's well understood what the
need for housing in Stark County is. Uh
so we're hoping not to delay the
amendment so that we can get started on
the construction or they can get started
on the construction of those homes.
>> And it's still single family. It's still
owner occupied.
>> Yes.
Dave, I appreciate what you did for me
today, going over the um the prints and
uh also showing me some of the uh
designs that um Dr. Horton has that
they're going to be put in place over
there. It looks like it's going to be a
nice development and some needed housing
for our community.
>> Okay, let's go ahead and vote.
>> Stre
>> Al Janser,
>> yes.
>> Gdone,
>> yes. Mallister Atkins.
>> Yes.
>> Make a motion to suspend the rules and
adopt ordinance number 26-34 by
emergency.
>> Second.
>> Let's go ahead and vote.
>> Street.
>> Yes.
>> Al Jansk.
>> Yes.
>> Gdone.
>> Yes.
>> Mallister Atkins.
>> Yes.
>> All right. That brings us to ordinance
number 26-37.
being an ordinance authorizing the city
manager to provide a notice of award and
enter into a contract along with
executing all necessary documents for
the 2026 road paving project with Barbus
Paving LLC.
>> I'll make a motion that we bring
ordinance 2637 to the table for its
first reading.
>> I'll second.
This is the 2026 paving program after a bidding process that was delayed a
little bit because we were revamping the
bid documents. Uh Barbus Paving is who
uh was determined to be the lowest and
best bidder and we are asking this one
by emergency so that we don't run into
any weather related issues with with a
little bit of a late start and of course
getting on their schedule is going to
probably not happen right away.
>> Have Have we used them before, Andy?
>> This is the first time um that we've
used them. Uh I know that they're
familiar. Um, is it was it you or Corey
who was aware of them doing other work?
>> Yeah, they've done work up towards
Summit County where I live in the town
of Jack area. I'm familiar with them
from that.
>> I did see that they were in Stark County
also in the recent past. At least on
their website, it shows that they have
done some stuff in Stark, but I don't
really have any
background on them other than that
though. They've done good work from what
you've seen.
>> Yeah, from what we've seen other
» Okay. Okay. And
>> then just ask that when we have the
dates that we have everything posted
with the roads that are getting done.
It'd be nice to have that list.
>> Sure.
>> List out there when when we know.
>> Okay.
>> Yes.
>> Okay. Let's go ahead and vote.
>> Street.
>> Yes.
>> Al Jans.
>> Yes.
>> Gdone.
>> Yes.
>> Mallister Atkins.
>> Yes.
>> Okay. I'll make a motion we suspend the
rules and consider ordinance number
26-37
on a second reading.
>> Second.
>> Go ahead and read it again or after we
vote.
>> Street.
>> Yes.
>> Al Janth,
>> yes.
>> Gdone,
>> yes.
>> Mallister Atkins,
>> yes.
>> Okay, now we can read it again. being an
ordinance authorizing the city manager
to provide a notice of award and enter
into a contract along with executing all
necessary documents for the 2026 road
paving project with Barbus Paving LLC.
» I'll make the motion we bring ordinance
number 26-37 to the table for it second
reading.
>> Second.
>> Okay,
no further questions we can go ahead and
vote. Street.
>> Yes.
>> Al Jansek,
>> yes.
>> Gdone,
>> yes.
>> Mallister Atkins,
>> yes.
>> That was a close one.
» Uh, okay. Uh, now we have resolution uh
26-38
>> being a resolution authorizing the city
manager to enter into an agreement with
the Stark County Board of Commissioners
for the purpose of amending the count
community development block grant
program agreement.
I'll make the motion we bring resolution
26-38 to the table.
>> Second.
>> Mayor, this simply um authorizes a new
agreement with the county uh so that we
despite not having been eligible in the
past that we remain eligible for uh
community development block grant funds.
>> Okay.
» You work closely with the county
commissioners on this, right, Andy?
really with the uh regional planning.
>> Yeah, regional planning
>> and they tell us that these continually
change they may have some more options.
>> We just don't want to limit our
>> potential for funding even though again
historically we've not received many.
>> Okay.
>> And that's that's due to income.
>> Yes. It's correct.
>> Things like that. So
>> it's it's and and this is if you'll remember we did not
get much money art money and and those
funds were based on the same formula um
with this grant is that's why we didn't
answer much.
>> Okay.
>> Let's go ahead and vote.
>> Street
>> yes.
>> Aljansk
>> yes.
>> Gdon
>> yes.
>> Mallister
>> yes.
>> Okay. Next up is ordinance number 26-39
>> being an ordinance authorizing the city
manager to enter into an amended
contract with Hammond Construction.
Change order number 16 for the city of
Lewisville Fire Emergency Medical
Services Facility Project. Original
contract authorized by ordinances number
2415 and 2439.
>> I'll make a motion that we bring
ordinance number 2639 to the table for
its first reading.
>> Second.
I know this probably feels like a blast
from the past, but this is the last
change order for this building, and it's
actually a reduction for uh funds that
they didn't use related to their their
fees in their bond. Um, we were waiting
on this and one other final thing uh
that we needed to receive from them
before we could close the contract. And
once we do that, that remaining money
will become available for the city hall
project.
And so, we're asking for it for an uh by
emergency for that purpose to get the
contract closed to free up those funds.
>> We will gladly take their money back
quicker. Our money back.
>> Yes. Yeah.
>> Something we don't see too often.
>> Great.
>> Yep. All right. Let's go ahead and vote.
>> Street.
>> Yes.
>> Al Jans.
>> Yes.
>> Gdone.
>> Yes.
>> Mallister.
>> Yes.
>> Make a motion we suspend the rules to
consider ordinance number 26-39
by emergency. Second.
>> Let's go ahead and vote.
>> Street.
>> Yes.
>> Al Janek,
>> yes.
>> Gdone,
>> yes.
>> Mallister Atkins,
>> yes.
>> Two, three.
>> I'll make the motion that we bring
ordinance number D uh 26-39 to the table
for its second reading.
>> Second.
>> Okay.
>> Further comments or questions?
>> I don't have any further or questions.
>> We can go ahead and vote. Would would
you like that read again for second
reading?
>> Yes.
>> Being an ordinance authorizing the city
manager to enter into an amended
contract with Hammond Construction
change order number 16 for the city of
Lewisville Fire Emergency Medical
Services Facility Project original
contract authorized by ordinances number
2415 and 2439.
>> Okay. Is is what guy did still okay?
Yes.
>> Okay. So now
>> now we can
>> street.
>> Yes.
>> Aljanthic.
>> Yes.
>> Gdome.
>> Yes. Mallister Atkins.
>> Yes.
>> Okay. Next up is ordinance number 26-40.
» Being an ordinance authorizing the city
manager to enter into a purchase
agreement with Miller Builders for the
acquisition of a Salt Dome building.
>> I'll make the motion we bring ordinance
number 26-40 to the table for its first
reading.
>> Second.
Okay,
>> mayor. Uh, so I think all of council is
familiar with the salt shed that exists
behind the police department. It has a
concrete foundation and then a metal
structure that holds the um the canvas
style roof. So the the structure is in poor repair. It's we think roughly 25
years old, but the structure is in need
of replacement, as is the the vinyl. It
was at one point struck by a truck that
was dumping salt in the in the shed and
tore it. Uh but at any rate, this um
ordinance will authorize a purchase
agreement with uh Miller Builders who
was um secured through Sourcewell, which
is a cooperative that satisfies the
state competitive bidding requirement.
Uh so this will authorize a contract for
$99,461
to replace both the the structure and
the vinyl over the salt dome.
>> So like at the same place,
>> same place. It'll everything will be the
same. It'll just be a new frame and new
vinyl or canvas.
>> What's the expected lifespan?
>> That's a good question. Um,
>> yeah, I think it depends on what you're
using it for. Obviously, these you're
using it for a long, they're going to
take a lot more beating. The one that
was there originally was galvanized, but
when they inspected it, they said that
they only galvanized it the outside of
the pipe. So, once it started eating the
welds away and getting inside of it,
sped things up and just kind of brought
it from the inside out. So I I mean I'd
say 25 years on a salt film like that is
probably doing pretty good. I think that
the fact the concrete and stuff still in
great shape is obviously
>> so the new one this would be the same
galvanization issue maybe or
>> the No, the new one is supposed to be
inside and outside the different
processes.
>> Great.
>> Yeah.
So way longer than 25 years is what
you're saying.
>> Yeah. I mean,
>> yeah,
>> I'm pretty sure I was on council when
that went in the first time.
>> We We think it was in the early two Jim
McBth was a service director at the
time. We think it was in the early 2000s
>> because a lot of that was done in house
if I remember right.
>> Yes. Yes, it was.
>> Just nice to know where to point the
finger.
>> Nobody who is currently here was any
talk. So
>> the concrete's held up. So good job.
>> There we
go.
Okay, let's go ahead and vote.
>> Street,
>> yes.
>> Aljansk,
>> yes.
>> Gdome,
>> yes.
>> Mallister Aken,
>> yes.
>> All right, I'll make a motion that we
suspend the rules and consider ordinance
number 26-40
by emergency.
>> Second.
>> Let's go ahead and vote.
>> Street,
>> yes.
>> Aljansk,
>> yes.
>> Gdone,
>> yes.
>> Mallister,
>> yes.
>> All right. Can you read it again? being
an ordinance authorizing the city
manager to enter into a purchase
agreement with Miller Builders for the
acquisition of a salt zone building.
>> I'll make the motion we bring ordinance
26-40 to the table for its second
reading.
>> Second
» Street,
>> yes.
>> Al Jans,
>> yes.
>> Gdone,
>> yes.
>> Mallister Atkins,
>> yes. Okay,
moving on to ordinance 26-41
>> being an ordin ordinance making
appropriations for current expenses and
other expenditures of the city of
Louisisville, Stark County, state of
Ohio for the year beginning January 1st,
2026.
» I'll make the motion we bring ordinance
26-41 to the table for its first
reading.
>> Second. Second.
>> All right, mayor. This uh ordinance does
a couple of things. Uh first, it adds uh
$5,010 in revenue to the general fund uh
that came from two ebike um I believe
one was a donation, one was a grant, but
money that we received for ebikes and
then it appropriates that some same
money in the police budget. It also
transfers $720,000 from the general fund
to the capital fund. uh 622,000 of that
is for the city hall building and it's
that amount because what it does is
bring the um cash balance of the general
fund down to the reserve. This doesn't
take into consideration the end of year
balance. It's just from a cash flow
perspective. It keeps that reserve in
the general fund. And then $98,000
also transferred to the capital fund.
Um, if you'll remember, there were some
when the baseball fields were put in,
there were some issues related to the
contract language and things that we
were purchasing versus the um the
contractor. And so, um, some of that has
to be paid for. So, that's what some of
this money is for. And then there were
also some expenses related to the um
concession standrestrooms
that weren't accounted for when the when
the um estimate for it to be put in um
was done. So these uh funds, this
$98,000
um covers all of those unanticipated
expenses and uh issues stemming from the
completion of the the ball fields with
the the contractor.
>> Okay.
>> Then
thought I was done, but I'm not. Um, it
takes that $720,000 that I just
explained and $221,000
that we received from the Rotary through
the Lewisville Community Foundation and
appropriates it as revenue
um in the capital fund and then
appropriates it for spending on those
two issues as well as the amphitheater
that the Rotary has has funded. So the
amphitheater money will be added to the
money that already exists and we should
be going out to bid here very shortly
for that project. Great.
>> What is do we know the timeline for the
amphitheater?
>> So we are waiting for the final big pack
bid package um which again we should
have this week. Once we receive that, we
have roughly 30 days or five five weeks
or so of adver well 30 days of
advertising, but probably a week before
we can get it out. Once the uh bids are
received, we'll select the lowest and
best pretty quickly and then following
that, we're told it should be about a
90day build. So, we're still hoping to
have it done by by the fall.
>> Okay.
>> Um is is still the the goal. I mean,
that's of course subject to everything
going
>> right, but that's that's that's the
goal.
>> Okay.
>> And and I should back up. Obviously, the
Rotary wanted to have this done
>> considerably sooner,
but when we started receiving that state
and federal grant money, uh it then
involved all the the rules and and
requirements that we have to to satisfy
the um the processes that we have to and
that of course slows things down.
So definitely up and running for all of
you this summer. So
>> there's absolutely no reason to think
that it won't be.
>> Nice. All right,
>> I'll say that.
>> It's fair.
>> Any other questions? That's all I have.
>> Let's go ahead and vote.
>> Street.
>> Yes.
>> Aljansk,
>> yes.
>> Gdone,
>> yes.
>> Mallister Atkins,
>> yes.
>> Make a motion we suspend the rules to
consider ordinance number 26-41
by emergency. Second.
>> Let's go ahead and vote.
>> Street.
>> Yes.
>> Alans,
>> yes.
>> Can you read it again?
>> Being an ordinance making appropriations
for current expenses and other
expenditures of the city of Lewisville,
Stark County, state of Ohio for the year
beginning January 1st, 2026.
>> I'll make a motion that we bring
ordinance 2641 to the table for the
second reading. I'll second that.
>> Let's go ahead and vote.
>> Street,
>> yes.
>> Al Janser,
>> yes.
>> Gdone,
>> yes.
>> Mallister Atkins,
>> yes.
>> Okay.
Next up is ordinance number 26-42
>> being an ordinance amending chapter 192
income tax effective January 1st, 2016
of the codified ordinances of the city
of Lewisville.
I'll make a motion we bring ordinance
26-42 to the table for its first
reading.
>> Second.
>> Uh I should point out first this does
not change our income tax structure at
all. What it does is updates the
language in the ordinance uh to reflect
what it will need to be as we transition
to Rita. And then it also adds a
provision that automatically kind of
incorporates any state law changes that
we would be required to uh to adapt to
in the future.
Now, is the 2016 do we have to go back a
certain number of years? Is that a typo?
Do we have to go back like 10 years for
>> No. So, there was a a a large change in
state tax code in 20 well 15 that was
effective in 2016. So, chapter 191 of
our ordinances is actually the tax the
previous tax code that existed through
December 31st, 2015. We only need to
change
here going forward in 192.
>> Okay.
>> And it's uh uh I can read all 60 pages
if you want, but
>> took me all weekend.
>> It's mostly uh changing tag. Most of it
is changing tax commissioner to tax
administrator just as more blanket
language for whoever.
» Yeah,
>> I was hoping for cliff notes.
>> Yeah.
I read it twice.
>> I can throw in some jokes.
>> Always does. always does. Okay, let's go
ahead and vote.
>> Street,
>> yes.
>> Al Janser,
>> yes.
>> Gdone,
>> yes.
>> Mallister Atkin,
>> yes.
>> Okay, next up is ordinance number 26-43
>> being an ordinance authorizing the city
manager to enter into a contract with
Horn and King Architects for
architectural services for the
Lewisville City Hall new construction
project.
>> Make the motion we bring ordinance 26-43
to the table for its first reading.
Second.
>> All right, mayor. So, since the scope of
the contract has changed um relative to
the renovation of the existing city
hall, uh we are doing a new contract
with the architects. The estimated cost
at this time is not 4.4
million24,420,000.
It's slightly less than that. it'll be
just under4 million uh $400,000. So,
consistent with what the estimates to
renovate city hall were. But I I think
it's also important to point out uh the contingency funds that were in the
renovation portion of the um
uh or the funds that were contingency in
the contract for renovation. I think
it's fair to say those likely would have
been used if not more based on what they
found when they got under construction.
With new construction, um it's less
likely, not that they won't get used,
but it's less likely that those
contingency funds would be used because
there's a lot less question marks and
there's over just over $400,000 in
contingency funds in this contract. So I
guess all I'm saying is ideally we will
come in uh below 4 million um in in in a perfect world. Um but that is in
fact the estimate currently for the
construction of a new city hall.
>> We sure have a lot better shot now
anyway. Right.
>> Definitely. Yeah. Yeah. I I and and and
if you'll remember, that was a
consistent warning with the architects
that once renovation on that building
began and and you're you're in it.
There's no turning
back. Um it's entirely possible that
things could have been discovered that
would have u you know up the price. So
yeah, a lot less question marks with new
construction. Certainly.
>> Right on. Um, does this this price
include the parking lot, include
everything?
>> It's it's it's the entire the entire
package, correct?
>> Entire pick.
>> Okay.
>> I know this has been discussed before,
but I I think it's worth repeating that
the city has been planning for this for
years, so this isn't like pulling money
out of the air. Yes, it it it goes it
goes back over a decade that um previous
councils have attempted to address uh
the issues that we're we're working to
address now. Yes.
>> And if people have questions about why
this is needed, they can reach out to
you.
>> Absolutely. We'll be happy to happy to
provide them with information.
>> Thank you. And there was previous
renderings I think I don't know if it
was six years ago, eight years ago now
that on a much larger scale of of a city
hall and it had a lot of different
components to it and mixed use and I
>> Yes.
>> This is just this is just the city
government essential functions. There's
nothing extra.
>> No, there are no bells or whistles or
extras. Correct. Yeah. But the, you
know, the exterior um is is going to be
done in in such a way that it will
complement the historic downtown
corridor.
>> That'll be nice. Yeah,
>> I mean I just think I think it's
positive when people are coming through
town, you know, they see you see see a
new fire station, you see, you know, if
you're coming up Nickel Plate, the the
library, you know, the you would see,
you know, a city hall building that
would,
>> you know, not not be imposing, but
reflect the, you know, the neighbors
around it and, you know, going back to,
I mean, when we're the fastest growing
community in Stark County, according to
the article in the Rep um last week, I I
mean, that's those are the kind of
things I think that we want to attract
people and people would see and they'd
see
>> momentum happen in the right direction.
>> Agreed, Mayor.
>> And not and not to mention the
current liabilities that we have in our
current city hall. Do you mind outlining
some of those? The so so the way it was
explained to me is there are there are
some public buildings that are not ADA
compliant, but somebody who was either
wheelchair bound or relied on um other means to to for mobility could
still navigate the the building. Uh that
is not the case with ours. I I think
many of the council members have seen
some of what we deal with at city hall.
If someone were to apply uh for an open
position at city hall and they happen to
be wheelchair bound, uh we would not be
able to accommodate them. Um it's it's that bad. Uh it's um
it's it's bad. There's no other way to
describe it. We are the furthest thing
that you could be from uh being
handicapped accessible. And and that is
probably one of the most important
things that we we need to fix. And we
could fix it in this building, but you
saw what the cost was. That was one of
the drivers is the fact that that
building actually exists on four
different elevations and you would have
to make accommodations between each of
those elevations for wheelchair access.
>> Yes.
>> And some of those restrooms are like
three foot wide
>> if Yeah. It's Yes. It's
Yeah, none of the restrooms meet the ADA
requirements. Um, but to your point, one
of them is literally you you walk in
forward and you walk out backward. It's that small.
>> Then you have you and you have asbestous
issues they got into.
>> Yes, there are asbestous issues. As you
know, there's flooding issues in the
basement.
>> Yes. Which could bring mold.
>> They the architects did raise the
concern about uh about mold in the
basement. Um the HVAC system is failing.
>> Yeah. The mechanical systems are are in
very poor repair and failing. The
electrical systems if if we were to have
moved forward with the renovation of
city hall. It literally would have been
stripped down to the to the bare bones
and and everything would have been
replaced.
>> And this is the building that houses the
people that are running our city. So, I
think it's important that it is up to
code and it's, you know, functional and
safe for everybody.
>> And that's that's the other part um is the security factor. Somebody anybody
could walk into city hall and access
quite frankly every part of the
building. And if somebody was, I guess,
savvy enough, they could enter city
hall, not leave and and and be there
overnight. And unless we swept the
entire building every night, we would we
would never know that.
>> Um, so I think we do have application.
Uh first to ensure that we have those
protections in place for our employees
and then secondly that we have those
protections in place for the information
that exists at city hall.
>> Plus, we'll be on Main Street. We're not
going to be hidden behind our downtown
anymore, which I think is a
>> I think it' be it'll be an asset. It
should be an asset.
>> Absolutely.
>> Agreed.
>> Okay.
>> Thank you.
>> All right. Let's go ahead and vote.
>> Street.
>> Yes. Al Jansik.
>> Yes.
>> Gdone.
>> Yes.
>> Mallister.
>> Yes.
>> And
Andy, do you mind explaining just real
quick why we're requesting this or why
it's requested by emergency as well?
>> Uh essentially it's so that we can uh
continue to move forward at you know any delays in times, risk, cost
escalation. And we're actually you know
the contract already exists. A a
contract already exists with the with
the architects. This is just changing
the terms of it a little bit to
accommodate the new building versus the
renovation. So, uh, our I I think one of
our biggest interest is to again control
the cost as much as we can to
potentially get it under um under
underway before before the winter.
>> Yeah. Because you could you could
potentially have at least another 45
days, right? you know
>> well what what'll happen at this point
assuming this passes uh we are prepared
to go out to uh to to do what's called a
request for qualifications to ultimately
hire a construction manager at risk and
then that that company that firm will
work side by side with the architects in
the interest of keeping costs down with
their expertise and knowledge about
materials and the availability of
materials and things like that. So that of course is a little bit of a
process but we'll start that here very
quickly
and then again the engineering will be
done within a couple of months and we we
obviously need to get it going as
quickly as possible.
>> Okay,
>> there's several more steps to take and
we we don't want to just sit and wait.
And last thing before I make a motion
here, I just wanted to double check, you
know, the few things that we had come
back with like uh you know, there's no
need for a mayor's office and things
like that. Have they already addressed
that or will they address that when it
goes out before it goes out to bid?
>> This this cost does incorporate the
modifications or the changes that were
requested. So, I'm sorry to say that the
mayor's office does not exist in the
most recent rendering.
>> The mayor's office is not needed. Does
not exist. Sounds great. the other side
of the building that airlock area is
also uh the size was also reduced.
>> Okay. All right.
>> So, it's a smaller footprint than what
was originally
>> correct here.
>> I should point out that this,
>> you know, ultimately we'll get a
guaranteed maximum price. These numbers
are the engineers estimate. If in the
end it comes in at some, you know,
outrageous price, this contract only
binds us to the architectural work.
There will be several steps where
council will have the um or be in a
position to continue the process or stop
the process if in the unlikely event
something would would cause it to need
to stop.
>> Good to know.
>> I'll make a motion we suspend the rules
to consider ordinance number 26-43
by emergency.
>> Second.
» I'll make the motion when you bring
ordinance number
three.
Just a minute.
>> Oh, we have to vote on the suspension of
the rules, right?
>> Just a moment. You're ready. Okay.
Street.
>> Yes.
>> Aljansk.
>> Yes.
>> Gdone.
>> Yes.
>> And Aken?
>> Yes.
>> All right. Can you read it again,
please?
>> Yes. Being an ordinance authorizing the
city manager to enter into a contract
with Horn and King Architects for
architectural services for the
Lewisville City Hall new construction
project. Well, now I'll make the motion
that we bring ordinance number 26-43 to
the table for its second reading.
>> Second.
>> Any further discussion?
>> Okay, let's go ahead and vote.
>> Street,
>> yes.
>> Al Jans,
>> yes.
>> Gdone,
>> yes.
>> Mallister Atkins,
>> yes.
>> All right, that brings us to new
business.
>> Fine.
>> Nothing like a thin agenda right after
the 4th of July,
>> right?
>> New business. We would, mayor, if you
would be so kind, we'd like to recognize
two employees for their accomplishments.
The first is assistant fire chief Hinkle
and Chief Border will read his citation.
Okay. Uh, this certificate is where
Assistant Chief Henle has recently
completed 12week program of the NFPA
1021 fire officer 3 and four
certifications online through the
Cleveland State University. This is in
conjunction with what he has previously
done of officer 1 and two that he had.
this which will help assistant chief hle
to acquire his fire credentiing
certification.
The Ohio fire credentiing certification
is completed through the Ohio Fire
Chiefs Association and the Ohio Fire
Emergency Foundations to where they have
identified the need to further enhance
the professionalism of the chief fire
officers through the state of Ohio to
the establishment of the uniform
credentiing program. So this was a
12-week program that was pretty easy for
assistant chief Hinkle, at least I think
so. He does not. He wrote numerous papers on this on this process.
He done very very well with it and I
congratulate him for this.
» The next is finance director Matt Bup.
If you come to the center,
>> please.
» Is Matt a fireman then?
In a continuing effort to bring the
highest level of financial
responsibility to the city of
Lewisville, finance director Matt Bup
earned the certified public funds
investment management credential after
successfully completing a comprehensive
investment training program that meets
the standards established by the
Association of Public Treasures of the
United States and Canada.
Wow,
that's
» not going to lose you to the Canadians
now, are they?
already got booted out of the World
Cup, so
on to page four, city manager report. Uh
just a few things, mayor. Um the
documents from the impact group, you
should have from the email last week. Uh
if you want to review them, uh and and
let us know if it in fact captures what
you intended it to capture. And then uh
and you can let me know throughout the
week if it if it does, we can bring them
back at the next meeting for for
>> Can I get copies of them or do I have to
>> Oh, that's Yeah, we Yes, we'll give you
copies. I
>> Thank you.
>> We'll give you copies. Matter of fact,
I'll give them to you tonight.
>> And if you just let us know that it it
does or doesn't capture what you
intended and then if it does, we'll
bring them back for formal adoption. And
then also
uh to make sure the the public is fully
aware, the mayor and I talked about pro
providing a statement to the public
regarding the city hall building. So you
have that same thing. If you can uh let
me know if you feel that captures the
reasons why you're moving forward with
the new city hall, well then we'll we'll
make that available to the public or
publish that.
>> Great.
>> Yeah.
>> Okay.
And that is all I have.
>> Okay. Any questions for Amy?
>> Oh, no. That's all I have. Mayor.
>> Okay.
Um, Chief,
>> thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Um, the
only thing I got is is Friday, July 3rd
was the busiest day that I've had or we
the department has had that I've known
of. We had 17 runs back
>> in a 24-h hour period.
>> Um, so that's that's extremely busy. Um,
we've had EMS calls to accidents to to
everything. So,
>> is it holiday related?
>> No, none of it is related to Fourth of
July type firework incidents. Even on
Fourth of July, we only had three runs.
>> Uh, nothing related to fireworks. But
Friday, July 3rd, for some reason, was
really crazy. And it wasn't just
Lewisville. Osberg was busy. New
Michelle was busy. Camp Township was
busy. We were pulling ambulances out of
Quad, which is down on the other side of Camp South. So,
>> wow.
>> Um, it was it was a crazy day for us. I
commend the ladies and gentlemen that
ran that day and and they worked hard
for their money.
>> So other than that, that is that is all
I have.
>> Okay.
>> Wow.
>> All right, Dave.
>> Mayor, council, I really don't have
anything. I just wanted to thank you
again for council for passing the minor
subision requirements to make. I think
it it will streamline the process and
make it more efficient for our citizens
with regards to the process timely as
far as
to do extra steps. I anticipate that
we're going to bring some additional
amendments to the major subdivision
which deals with development rules and
stuff. Uh clean we're in the process of
developing some new legislation for that
just to clean up with regards to these
develop.
Well, you certainly make it easy to
pass, Dave, because you're you're always
there with the information that I'm
looking for, and I appreciate that.
>> I appreciate that.
>> Okay, Darl.
>> Yeah, just uh couple quick things. Just
pointing out the the guys in the service
department have been working hard lately
setting up for events. I think a lot of
them have gone well from what I've
heard. I know that the fire department's
done a lot with the fireworks and things
for chamber. From everything we heard
it, it all went pretty well. So, um,
thank you to them. Well, I'm excited.
Um, I don't know that I got to say it at
the time when we were at goal setting,
but I appreciate you guys letting me
give
and speak to you about what's going on
in the public works department and what
we see that needs to happen moving
forward. So, thank you for that. But,
yeah, otherwise I don't really have
anything else to report.
>> Thanks,
Rie.
>> Don't have anything else.
>> Fourth of July, you don't have anything.
Wow.
>> I was good.
>> Wow.
>> Okay.
>> Apparently, we gave it all to
>> Ro.
As I was hearing booms, I thought, "Oh,
the police the police department must be
busy."
>> Okay.
>> No news is good news for police
department.
>> Yeah.
>> All right, Matt.
>> Um, yeah, just a couple quick things.
First of all, uh, as far as the
transition to Rita goes, I want to thank
council for working with me on that and city manager and everybody else. And
I also wanted to um thank Lori uh for
being a a very important part of this
process. She's been extremely helpful.
She has a really good relationship with
um our current uh income tax software
vendor to make sure that that data is
shared with Rita and everything. So
she's been uh invaluable. So I want to
say thank you to her. Uh also just real
briefly um the the Ritman officer uh who
was tragically
killed in the line of duty last night. I
knew him. Uh he was a really really good
guy and it's it's just always sad. So
thoughts thoughts and prayers with his
family and and the victims of that as
well.
>> That's terrible.
» Anything else?
>> Uh yeah. The only thing I'd like to
mention is I I thought we had a great
goal setting session. I was glad to see
it come back. I appreciate the teamwork
that we have here like you can't
believe. I've been to a lot of goal
setting sessions. We've had a lot of
good productive ones over the years, but
this one was really, really done well.
Um I just appreciate the teamwork, the
department heads, Andy and Tiffany. The
way it was put together was fantastic.
>> Yes. A lot of great information.
>> Thank you.
>> Yes.
>> Okay. I echo that as well. Um and I'll
entertain a motion to move into
executive session for the purpose to
consider the appointment, employment,
dismissal, discipline, promotion to
motion, or compensation of a public.
>> I'll make that motion. Mayor
>> second.
Go ahead and vote.
>> Street,
>> yes.
>> Alexander,
>> yes.
>> Gdon,
>> yes.
>> Mallister,
>> yes.
>> And no, no action to follow. Um, hope to
see everybody at second Friday.
>> This is going to be a fun one.
>> It will. And who? Who do you want to
stay?
>> Take our time in executive session. I
want to go out.
Everybody else should be good.