[0:26] Welcome. I'd like to call this February
23rd council meeting to order. If you
[0:30] please rise for the pledge of
allegiance.
[0:35] » I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the
[0:41] stands one nation
indivisible with liberty and justice for
[0:47] all. All
[0:55] The clerk please call the role.
>> Coin
[0:57] » here.
>> Dalvo
[0:58] » here.
>> Hair.
[0:59] » Here.
>> Isabella
[1:00] » here.
>> Lamb
[1:01] » here.
>> Simmons
[1:02] » here.
>> Simpson
[1:03] » here. Reading of the minutes.
>> Mr. President, I move that the minutes
[1:08] from the meeting on February 9th, 2026
as prepared and submitted by the clerk
[1:12] of council be approved.
>> Second. Discussion on the reading of the
[1:15] minutes. Clerk, please call the role in
the adoption of the minutes.
[1:19] » Dalvo,
>> yes.
[1:20] » Hair,
>> yes.
[1:21] » Isabella,
>> yes.
[1:22] » Lamb,
>> yes.
[1:23] » Simmons,
>> yes.
[1:24] » Simpson,
>> yes.
[1:26] » Coin,
>> yes.
[1:26] » Motion passes 70.
>> Reports of standing committees. The
[1:29] finance committee met prior to finance
and we'll meet again in two weeks. House
[1:32] safety and sanitation. Mr. Simpson.
>> Thank you, Mr. President. nothing to
[1:35] report tonight, but I would like in
probably the month of May to
[1:41] » uh schedule a update for health, safety,
and sanitation with the police, fire,
[1:45] and sanitation.
>> Uh I'll let depending on we'll do that
[1:49] prior to a finance meeting in May. Uh
I'll let Kathy decide on which is going
[1:56] to be more appropriate time wise. So,
>> okay.
[1:59] » So, be at 5:30 or 5.
>> Okay. health uh public properties. Miss
[2:04] her.
>> Thank you, Mr. President. I have nothing
[2:06] to report and have no meetings scheduled
at this time.
[2:08] » Special legislation, Mrs. Salvo.
>> Thank you, Mr. President. There will be
[2:11] a special legislation meeting um at 5:00
on Monday, March 9th.
[2:17] » Thank you. Streets and sidewalks. Mr.
Isabella,
[2:20] » uh no meetings scheduled yet, but we
still obviously have a lot on our plates
[2:23] for uh for our items, so we'll be
looking to try to get something
[2:26] scheduled soon.
>> Thank you. Water Utilities, Mr. Simmons.
[2:29] » Thank you, Mr. President. No meeting
scheduled. Nothing to report.
[2:33] » Emerging technologies, Mr. Lamb.
>> Thank you, Mr. President. Uh, we have a
[2:36] meeting scheduled on March 12th at 5:00.
>> Uh, request for council action. We have
[2:43] several for finance 2640. Budget
amendments 2641. Ratify collective
[2:46] bargaining agreements. Please patrol uh,
communications and sergeants. 2642 2026
[2:52] membership renewal from Main Street,
Madina. 2643 RFP for lease at 406 South
[2:59] Broadway Street. 2644 C1 district zoning
text amendment 2645
[3:05] uh public bid for city-owned property at
410 East Smith Road 2646 VIP cloud
[3:09] migration and hosting fee software
solutions for IT 2647 amend section 3102
[3:15] seasonal employees pay scale adjustment
2648 amends ordinance 7324 municipal
[3:21] pool rates 2649 new MCRC part-time pay
scale group and activity leader position
[3:27] deletion 2650 50. Job number 1123,
easement to Columbia Gas. 2651, easement
[3:34] for South Huntington Street Bridge.
2652, agreement with Madana County Park
[3:38] District BMW Trail. 2653 expenditure to
Teg Cyber Security software platform for
[3:46] IT and 2654 lease agreement and
construction addendum for Madana
[3:50] Municipal Airport. Reports of municipal
officers. Mayor Shields.
[3:58] Thank you, Keith. Uh, Madina just
wrapped up the Madina Ice Festival, the
[4:02] 32nd annual. Special thanks to Alakan
Ice and Peggy Costic, who we dealt with
[4:07] on a daily basis here in preparation,
and for Main Street Madina for putting
[4:10] this enjoyable event together again this
year. I want to thank the service
[4:14] department and all of their employees
who worked uh during the night to uh get
[4:19] the snow removed and of all things for
an ice festival, but we did have to
[4:23] remove a lot of snow getting prepared
for this festival. the parks and recck
[4:27] department for setting it up and then
the police and fire departments um
[4:31] especially the fire department who had
to make the call on Friday that the fire
[4:34] and ice tower just could not go forward
due the high winds and moved it to the
[4:38] next night. But this is all the
behindthe-scene works that go into
[4:41] getting this event pulled together and
the city staff rallied as always and did
[4:45] just an amazing job of making it look
seamless and and enjoyable for the
[4:49] crowds. and I did talk to many of the
attendees and many were from out of town
[4:53] visiting and frequenting our restaurants
and attending the festival and going to
[4:57] our stores. So, just a great weekend.
So, thank you to everybody involved with
[5:00] that.
Uh, February is Black History Month. Uh,
[5:04] last Thursday night, February 19th,
Fellowship Baptist Church hosted a Black
[5:09] History program focused on
African-American inventors,
[5:12] inspirational readings, and some pretty
wonderful singing. And I know Reverend
[5:15] Wilson is here and M. Peterson, they
were uh part of the whole program. and
[5:20] Reverend Wilson was and they were both
part of the singing too. So, but it was
[5:23] a really interesting evening and just a
great night and I wanted to invite the
[5:28] public and council and administration
again this Thursday, February 26 at
[5:33] Second Baptist Church, 451 Bronson
Street. They're having a black history
[5:37] program 7 p.m. featuring the Claget
Middle School choir. And there'll be a
[5:41] narration on some local Madina history
which is the Porters and the Porter uh
[5:45] family and the shoe store here. And our
it will be presented by our own Madina
[5:50] TV's Miles Reed. So again, 7 o'clock 451
Bronson Street this Thursday the 26.
[5:57] I try to always keep you updated on
America 250 events. They're really very
[6:00] entertaining and just a a great time.
And the the one I want to focus on now
[6:04] is March 3rd. It' be a week from
tomorrow night, 7 p.m. Madina Performing
[6:08] Arts Center. 851 Weaimoth Road, Echoes
of the American Journey. Madina High
[6:13] School choirs. They've devoted their
winter coral concert to music that will
[6:17] span the history of the United States.
Pre-sale tickets go on sale online
[6:21] starting tomorrow, but you can also
purchase at the door. $7 for adults, $5
[6:26] for students and seniors. Veterans are
invited free of charge and will be
[6:30] recognized during a performance of a
tribute to the armed services. We were
[6:34] supposed to do uh one more item tonight
with the career center, but I think uh
[6:39] they're not going to be able to make it.
So, I think I'll hold this until our
[6:41] next one. So, that'll be a little
shorter report, but that ends my report.
[6:45] Thank you.
>> Thank you, Mr. German, Director of
[6:47] Finance.
>> Thank you, Mr. President. I want to
[6:49] remind residents that uh we have a mun
municipal income tax. So, when you're
[6:54] doing your taxes, do your municipal
income taxes, too. Um and then there's a
[6:58] few uh actually most of the agenda came
came from finance. I'll talk about it
[7:01] when we get there.
>> Thank you, Mr. Huber. Law director.
[7:03] » Thank you, Mr. President. I have no
report.
[7:05] » Mrs. Marshall, economic development
director.
[7:09] » Thank you, Mr. President. Just one item
to note for council. As you know, we
[7:13] applied for the Ohio Department of
Development Brownfield assessment grant
[7:17] for the South Elmwood parking lot. We
still have not heard back from the state
[7:22] uh whether we're receiving that grant,
but uh the rumor mill is that the state
[7:26] will start uh releasing bid awards uh
early March. So hopefully in the next
[7:33] couple weeks we'll have a little more
information. Thank you.
[7:35] » Thank you, Chief Kenny, Police
Department. Thank you, Mr. President. I
[7:38] have no report. Thank you, Mr. Fry,
Director of Communications back in the
[7:41] booth.
>> Thank you, Mr. President. Uh just wanted
[7:45] to remind uh visitors to go to our
website. Uh you can go there now and uh
[7:51] catch up on uh the America 250 as Mr.
Mayor Shields just pointed out. um
[7:56] you're able to go there and we have a
page dedicated to all the videos that
[8:00] you can tune in and watch at your own
convenience, whether that be on YouTube,
[8:03] Facebook, or uh the city's web page,
which we stream the videos live. So,
[8:08] we'll be updating those as the year uh
progresses. Uh there's an average of
[8:12] three to four documentaries every month.
So, stay tuned and keep posted there for
[8:16] the latest updates.
>> Thank you, Mr. PCO, service director.
[8:20] » Thank you, Mr. President. Um just real
brief, we had to close Fair Road for
[8:23] like a day, day and a half last week.
There was a little confusion public not
[8:27] knowing um there were some potholes that
well we had a few cars with alleged uh
[8:32] damage. So um it required full depth
excavation with some equipment and we
[8:38] can't get hot mix at this time of the
year. So cold patch really doesn't stay.
[8:41] The long and short of it is the fellas
worked and uh made some full depth
[8:45] repairs with uh compacted 304. So we're
monitoring it and then uh I already
[8:50] talked to a contractor uh for chip and
seal. So, we'll address that in the
[8:54] spring once the um once the asphalt
plants open up and see what direction
[8:58] we'll go. Thank you.
>> Thank you, Mr. Patton, city engineer.
[9:01] Thank you. I have no report this
evening.
[9:03] » Oh, thank you. Notices, communication,
petitions, there's none. There's no
[9:06] unfinished business. Introduction of
visitors. Members of the public were
[9:09] permitted the opportunity to speak on
any issue or concern which pertains to
[9:12] the city during the portion of the
council agenda devoted to introduction
[9:16] of visitors. All comments should be
directed to the chair in a reasonable
[9:19] time and limit. Approximately 5 minutes
will be imposed. If there's a group,
[9:22] please appoint a spokes per person.
Speakers should approach the rear
[9:25] microphone and state their name and
address so it can be entered into the
[9:28] minutes. Members of the public will be
afforded the opportunity to comment on
[9:31] other portions of the meetings
determined by a chair by a vote of the
[9:33] majority of council members present. Is
there anybody that wishes to address
[9:37] council at this time?
We got nobody. Okay. Introduction and
[9:43] consideration of ordinances and
resolutions. At this time, I'd entertain
[9:46] a motion to suspend the rules requiring
three readings on the following
[9:49] ordinances and resolutions. Ordinance
3126, 3226, 3326, 3426, and 3526.
[9:56] » Mr. President,
>> uh, Miss Hair,
[9:58] » I move to suspend the rules requiring
the three readings of those ordinances
[10:02] and resolutions.
>> Second.
[10:04] » Any discussion on the motion to suspend
the rules? Clerk, please call the role.
[10:07] » Hair,
>> yes.
[10:08] » Isabella,
>> yes.
[10:10] » Lamb,
>> yes.
[10:10] » Simmons,
>> yes.
[10:11] » Simpson,
>> yes.
[10:12] » Coin,
>> yes.
[10:13] » Dalva,
>> yes.
[10:14] » Motion passes 70. Ordinance 3126, an
ordinance amending sections 16113, 16113
[10:21] C1, 16113 C5, 16113 C6 of the codified
ordinance of the city of Madina, Ohio
[10:27] relative to allocation of income tax
funds.
[10:30] » Mr. President, Miss
>> Move to approve.
[10:32] » Second.
>> Discussion. Uh, this came through um our
[10:36] last finance meeting. I think we talked
about it a couple times ago, a couple
[10:40] meetings ago. Uh this is just a
reallocation and look at every year we
[10:44] kind of look at the income tax to see
where we stand on the income tax
[10:47] collections and if there should be any
modifications made. We did make a
[10:50] modification uh uh modifying 2% uh
income tax from the uh 106 account which
[10:56] is the police fund to the 301 general
purpose capital account and the general
[11:01] fund. Uh some of these things looking
forward are are things that you know
[11:04] from a capital perspective that we need
to do in a city. We need to start saving
[11:08] up. We did deplete the 301 capital
account from uh the Khash project. So we
[11:13] need to build a little bit more in
there. Uh this would not have a negative
[11:16] impact on the police department as they
will still be receiving uh funds that
[11:21] match their uh budget amount uh going
forward and they have a lot of carry
[11:25] forward that they can cover if there are
any shortfalls and things that come up
[11:28] that were unanticipated. So, this is
just kind of an annual thing we look at
[11:31] and next year we'll look at it again to
make a determination if we need to make
[11:34] any further modifications one way or the
other to see if the allocations in
[11:38] various accounts are appropriate. Mr.
Dur, you got anything to add?
[11:42] » That was what I was going to say.
>> Okay. All right. Any other questions?
[11:46] Uh, will the clerk please call roll on
the adoption of the ordinance?
[11:50] » Isabella,
>> yes.
[11:52] » Lamb,
>> yes.
[11:53] » Simmons,
>> yes.
[11:54] » Simpson,
>> yes.
[11:54] » Coin, yes.
>> Dalvo,
[11:56] » yes.
>> Hair,
[11:57] » yes.
Ordinance 3126 pass the 70.
[12:00] » Ordinance 3226 an ordinance authorizing
the mayor to enter an agreement with
[12:03] travelers casually insured company of
America for the city cyber security
[12:07] liability insurance coverage for the
city of Madina.
[12:09] » Mr. President
>> Merren
[12:11] » move to approve
>> second. Uh discussion Mr. Shields
[12:14] » when we talked to finance I mentioned to
you that was surprisingly this actually
[12:17] went down and one of the reasons that I
found out that it went down is as Darren
[12:21] talked to you tonight about some of the
things that he has put in place to
[12:24] protect us. that made a big difference
and that's uh was rated in our renewal.
[12:30] So, I really do want to thank Darren and
Justin. They're always looking for ways
[12:33] to protect us and they're they're always
on top of things which is really good in
[12:37] this day and age when it comes to all
the threats that are out there in cyber
[12:40] security. So, this is just a renewal but
at a lower rate than it was a year ago.
[12:45] » Thank you. Any other questions? Cler,
please call the role on adoption.
[12:48] » Lamb,
>> yes.
[12:49] » Simmons,
>> yes.
[12:50] » Simpson,
>> yes.
[12:51] » Coin,
>> yes.
[12:52] » Dalvo,
>> yes.
[12:54] » Hair,
>> yes. Isabella.
[12:55] » Yes.
>> Ordinance 3226 passes 70.
[12:58] » Ordinance 3326 an ordinance amending
ordinance number 20 21825 pass December
[13:03] 2025 amendments to the 26 budget. The 20
25 uh 2025 carry forward.
[13:09] » Mr. President.
>> Uh Miss Hair
[13:10] » move to approve.
>> Second.
[13:12] » Uh discussion. Mr. Durham.
>> Thank you, Mr. President. This these are
[13:16] unspent appropriations from 2025 that
are returned to appropriation. So if
[13:20] it's something that they save, they can
save for and spend this year instead of
[13:24] last,
>> right? And and this is a good thing over
[13:27] all these years. Oh jeez, I can't even
remember how much, but 22 years now, uh
[13:31] we're, you know, the department heads
are saving money up for projects that
[13:34] they want to do. We're up to 17.6
million, which is pretty good.
[13:38] » Yeah. Uh um saving up for uh the
quoteunquote rainy day um eventuality
[13:43] that may occur or projects that they're
planning to do. So, uh, we we give a lot
[13:48] of credit to the efforts of the, uh,
department heads and the administration.
[13:52] Uh, any other questions on the
ordinance? Real clerk, please call the
[13:55] role.
>> Simmons,
[13:58] » yes.
>> Simpson,
[13:59] » yes.
>> Coin,
[14:00] » yes.
>> Dalva,
[14:01] » yes.
>> Hair,
[14:02] » yes.
>> Isabella,
[14:03] » yes.
>> Lamb,
[14:04] » yes.
>> Ordinance 3326, passes 70. Ordinance
[14:07] 3426, an ordinance of the council of the
city of Ben, Ohio, certifying that when
[14:10] a municipal obligation was incurred,
sums were lawfully appropriated in the
[14:14] funds to satisfy the obligation and
sufficient sums currently exist to
[14:17] satisfy this obligation.
>> Mr. President, Miss
[14:20] » Move to approve.
>> Second discussion,
[14:23] » Mr.
>> Uh emergency clause is requested. I move
[14:26] to add that.
>> My second includes emergency clause.
[14:28] » Discussion on emergency clause in the
ordinance. Mr. Durham.
[14:31] » Thank you, Mr. President. This uh this
is a purchase order for Wretz Andress.
[14:34] This is for work performed in 2025.
There wasn't sufficient funds on the
[14:38] 2025 PO. So, we're into 26. Now, it's a
then and now. The emergency clause is
[14:43] because, as I said, the work was
performed in 2025.
[14:46] » I don't think you needed then and now.
Uh, I have to abstain because my
[14:49] employer's wrestling, but I wouldn't pay
him. But, okay, that's just my point
[14:52] there. Uh, any other comments or
questions? Will clerk please call the
[14:56] role on the emergency clause?
>> Simpson.
[14:58] » Yes.
>> Coin.
[14:59] » Abstain.
>> Dalvo.
[15:02] » Yes.
>> Hair. Yes.
[15:04] » Isabella.
>> Yes.
[15:06] » Lamb.
>> Yes.
[15:07] » Simmons.
>> Yes.
[15:09] » Motion passes. 6 days. One. Abstension.
>> Clerk. Please call the rolling adoption
[15:12] ordinance.
>> Coin.
[15:14] » Abstain.
>> Dalvo.
[15:17] » Yes.
>> Hair.
[15:18] » Yes.
>> Isabella.
[15:20] » Yes.
>> Lamb.
[15:20] » Yes.
>> Simmons.
[15:21] » Yes.
>> Simpson.
[15:22] » Yes.
>> Ordinance 3426 passes. 6 days. One
[15:26] abstension.
>> Ordinance 3526. An ordinance amending
[15:28] ordinance number 21825 pass December 8,
2025. Amendments to the 26 budget.
[15:33] » Mr. Mr. President, Miss
>> Move to approve.
[15:35] » Second. Discussion. Mr. Durham.
>> Thank you, Mr. President. There's three
[15:38] passroughs. There's an increase in
appropriations in court funds that are
[15:41] generated from court costs uh associated
with their move and then there's a
[15:46] reduction to get within uh revenues.
>> Questions?
[15:50] » Clerk, please call the role.
>> Dalvo,
[15:53] » yes.
>> Hair,
[15:54] » yes.
>> Isabella,
[15:55] » yes.
>> Lamb,
[15:55] » yes.
>> Simmons,
[15:56] » yes.
>> Simpson,
[15:58] » yes.
>> H,
[15:58] » yes.
>> Ordinance 3526 passes 70. Council
[16:02] comments. Mr. Simpson.
>> Thank you, Mr. President. Uh,
[16:07] I just wanted to compliment again
uh not all our our city employees, but
[16:14] uh I've I've had a constituent in in
Ward 2 on Northeast Street that there
[16:22] there was a couple water main breaks a
couple weeks ago that caused some severe
[16:28] flooding to I think three or four
different basements.
[16:31] on uh East North Street.
The this one individual uh after getting
[16:39] everything repaired and and and spending
a lot of time and money uh got a second
[16:46] uh flooding of her basement.
She contacted me and contacted uh the
[16:52] Mr. Polei from the service department
and the superintendent from the water
[16:56] department, the mayor and and I just got
to compliment them.
[17:01] they've they worked together to make
everything
[17:07] I shouldn't say easy, but more more uh
manageable for this resident. Uh and I I
[17:14] talked to her. She's got small children.
She wasn't able to to live at her house
[17:18] for a few days because uh it was fear
more of flooding, flushing toilets and
[17:23] running water and so forth. But uh the
city went out of their way. I feel the
[17:28] city went out of their way to
accommodate this this resident and
[17:32] helping her uh solve this problem. Uh
and I talked to her the towards the end
[17:39] of this last week and she was couldn't
have been more complimentary. Again,
[17:43] Mayor Shields and Mr. Polei and the
water superintendent.
[17:47] Uh it it just again goes to show how the
the city and its employees will go out
[17:53] of their way to assist any resident that
that that is uh in need. Uh and it just
[18:00] makes me proud to be not only a member
of this board but a a resident of the
[18:05] city with that that type of response.
Other than that, it was a great ice
[18:10] festival weekend, great last two weeks
of watching the Olympics and just
[18:15] remember to be kind to one another.
Thank you. Thank you, Miss Hair.
[18:18] » I just want to thank the city
departments for doing all the things
[18:21] that they do. Uh, and I've said this
before, when the various departments do
[18:27] their job well as they do and the
administration, it makes my job as a
[18:31] city council person so much easier and I
truly appreciate that. So, thank you.
[18:36] » Thank you, Mr. Simmons. Yeah, just a
shout out to Reverend Wilson and Cisa
[18:40] Patterson for such a great uh program
last Thursday and uh we've got one this
[18:46] Thursday as the mayor talked about at
Second Baptist. So, hope hopefully you
[18:50] can come and uh and and hear some great
programs. Also, uh always America 250.
[18:57] The library this month has an exhibit on
first ladies. Uh and then tickets are on
[19:02] sale for an event at Williams on the
Lake Glitz and Glamour in the White
[19:06] House. So those programs will be very
very well done and encourage you to
[19:10] participate if you're interested.
>> Thank you, Mrs. Delville.
[19:15] » Um yes. So um Mr. Worley had to leave,
but I just wanted to say thank you to
[19:19] his staff for um recovering my Kindle
that I left sitting on top of the coat
[19:24] rack after I walked out leaving it
there. So I appreciate them. Um and um
[19:31] thanks Nino for get the guys down the
street said it this morning. It made
[19:35] things a lot easier.
>> Thank you, Mr. Isabella. Uh, thanks as
[19:40] always to our city departments. Uh,
obviously weather's been awful again.
[19:47] Hopefully, we're done with this. Uh, I
know Nino would probably appreciate
[19:50] that. Um, but again, thanks to thanks to
the service department and everybody
[19:53] that works for the city.
>> Thank you, Mr. Lamb. No, I'm
[19:56] » good. All right. With that, the meeting
is adjourned.
[20:01] All right.