[0:00] Evening everyone, I would like to call this September 10th, 2026, regular meeting of the Marine City Council to order.

[0:08] Roll call, please.

[0:10] Mrs. Allen.

[0:11] Dear.

[0:12] Mr. Miller.

[0:13] Here.

[0:14] Mr. Dardi.

[0:15] Here.

[0:16] Ms. Marcus.

[0:17] Here.

[0:18] Mr. Delph.

[0:20] Here.

[0:21] Mrs. Witt.

[0:22] Here.

[0:22] Mayor Murphy.

[0:23] Here. Now, if everyone will please stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance.

[0:28] I

[0:30] pledge allegiance to the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands,

[0:39] one nation, under God, in a fiscal with liberty and justice for all.

[0:51] Council has copies of the August 27, 2026, regular council meeting minutes.

[0:58] Are there any changes or corrections?

[1:01] Hearing none, the minutes are approved as the minute.

[1:07] Now we're going to have, I have a proclamation.

[1:12] The DM Marine Proclamation, whereas September 11, 20, 0, 1,

[1:17] remains a day etched in the hearts and memories of our nation,

[1:21] and whereas on that day, countless innocent lives were lost.

[1:25] Families were forever changed, and communities across our country

[1:29] came together in grief, courage, and compassion.

[1:33] And whereas we remember the victims in honor of their lives while recognizing the extraordinary

[1:38] bravery and sacrifice of the first responders, firefighters, police officers, emergency workers,

[1:47] and ordinary citizens who helped others in the face of a imaginable circumstances.

[1:52] And whereas the patches of time does not diminish the importance of remembering those

[1:57] we lost for the families and loved ones who continue to carry their memory, and where as September

[2:04] 11 reminds us of the strength, hunting, compassion, unity, service, and our commitment to

[2:11] care for one another. Now therefore, I, Terry Murphy, mayor of the city of Moray, Ohio, do

[2:17] hereby proclaim that the citizens of the city of Moray, pause to remember those who were lost

[2:23] on September 11, 2001, honor those who served in sacrifice and stand together in reflection,

[2:31] gratitude, and rememands. May we never forget.

[2:46] Now we'll go into reports for the following.

[2:49] Finance committee, anything to report? No reports. Thank you.

[2:53] Finance Director, anything to report?

[2:56] Mayor, you have the July 20, 26 monthly finance report and your packets, and I'll we have to answer

[3:02] questions that anyone has about the

[3:09] committee of the whole

[3:10] anything to report. Yes, our last meeting was on August 27th

[3:15] and there is another meeting tonight following this meeting. Thank you.

[3:20] Did he manage your anything to report? I'm nothing beyond the written report mayor and

[3:25] lesser questions. Law director anything to report? No mayor, thank you.

[3:30] And I have nothing right at this time, so we will go into,

[3:35] don't have any guest speakers,

[3:38] any one wishing to raise a question about any piece of legislation listed on this agenda. We'll have

[3:44] three minutes at this time. All other topics will be addressed counsel. We'll be heard later in this meeting

[3:51] that we will now go into business.

[3:55] ordinance 2248-26 and ordinance approving current

[4:00] replaced pages to the Marine codified ordinances and declaring

[4:03] and emergency. This emergency legislation approves

[4:07] the second quarter updates to the Marine codified

[4:11] ordinances. I make a motion to suspend the rules to allow

[4:14] or first and second readings at this meeting.

[4:20] Mr. Miller? Yes. Mr. D'Arty? Yes.

[4:25] Ms. Marcus? Yes. Mr. D'Alph? Yes.

[4:29] Mrs. With? Yes. Mrs. Allen? Yes. Mayor Murphy. Yes.

[4:35] Ordnance 2248-26 second reading and ordinance-approving current

[4:39] replacement pages to the Marine codified ordinances and declaring

[4:42] an emergency. Motion to approve.

[4:48] You've heard the motion. Are there any questions?

[4:52] comments?

[4:54] Hearing none?

[4:55] Will we roll call please?

[4:56] Mr. already?

[4:58] Yes.

[4:59] Ms. Marcus?

[5:00] Yes.

[5:02] Mr. Delph?

[5:03] Yes.

[5:04] Mrs. Witt?

[5:05] Yes.

[5:06] Mrs. Allen?

[5:07] Yes.

[5:08] Mr. Miller?

[5:11] Mayor Murphy?

[5:12] Yes.

[5:15] Resolution 8256-26

[5:17] A resolution of studying for the appointment of Jacob Denny as alternate to the Mami Valley Regional Planning Commission Technical Advisory Committee for a term ending December 31,

[5:28] This legislation authorizes the appointment of city planner Jacob Denny as the alternate through the MBRPC technical advisory committee through December 31, 2007 motion to approve.

[5:43] You've heard the motion. Is there any questions or comments?

[5:47] Roll call please.

[5:48] Ms. Marcus.

[5:49] Yes.

[5:51] Mr. Delph.

[5:52] Yes.

[5:53] Mrs. Wet.

[5:54] Yes.

[5:58] Mr. Mellar? Yes. Mr. Dharady? Yes. Mayor Murphy? Yes.

[6:07] And we have no other votes. So, at this time,

[6:10] any person's appearing before Council.

[6:16] Third, you will have three minutes.

[6:29] Mayor Murphy,

[6:30] members of Council, City Manager Davis. I'm David Ezraudy, owner of the next wave marketing

[6:35] innovation and data. I've been buying print and managing commercial printing for 38 years.

[6:42] I'm not here tonight asking you to award the Marine Messenger contract to my firm.

[6:49] That RFP is dead. You receive two proposals rejected both and canceled it.

[6:54] I'm here because before you issue another one, I think somebody needs to ask whether this process

[6:59] was designed to get marine taxpayers the best product for at the best price.

[7:05] Here's the basic problem.

[7:07] Well, you should tell you what the law requires.

[7:09] Pershing staff should administer a fair bidding process, but when you are buying printing,

[7:15] somebody who understands printing really needs to make the technical decisions.

[7:19] Your official bid express answer said the messenger had to be digitally printed because

[7:24] the city supplies the printer with a PDF.

[7:27] That is simply...

[7:30] Technically wrong. PDF is a standard production format for both digital and offset printing.

[7:38] Your specifications

[7:38] called for 100 pound paper on the cover and 80 pound inside. I offered 100 pound throughout at my quoted price,

[7:45] so it was initially told that that made my proposal non-compliant. I proposed offsets to cast it printing

[7:52] because at 4200 copies I believed it provided better quality and value. I also proposed folding smaller

[7:58] conditions for mailing because an eight and half by 11 flat and cost you considerably more

[8:03] to mail than a properly prepared letter-sized booklet. Only after the RFP was cancelled,

[8:09] the city staff started asking the postal service whether the fold-in could reduce the mailing

[8:13] cost. Then there's bid express. You make business pay a private company for the privilege of giving

[8:20] marine a price. You got two bidders. The record showed that the city staff helping the incumbent

[8:26] when it had trouble submitting through BitExpress.

[8:30] I handed each of you a 24-page piece produced by the next wave.

[8:34] It's saddle stitched and printed on 100-pound text.

[8:37] You can feel it.

[8:38] You can print specifications or not abstractions, paper, press,

[8:42] choice, finishing, and mailing all effect quality and cost.

[8:46] I won't marines business.

[8:48] I believe I can give you excellent quality service and value.

[8:51] But whether you eventually hire me or somebody else,

[8:54] Please have someone who actually understands commercial printing and mailing review the next RFP before you issue it

[9:02] Specify the result you need allow equal or better solutions give every bit of the same access

[9:08] Then let qualified companies compete on price quality and total value for the taxpayers

[9:14] That's what competitive bidding is supposed to accomplish

[9:19] and I answer any questions

[9:24] Thank you

[9:29] we will go into any other business our department anything to report

[9:36] just wanted to say that our last safety fest is September 22nd at medical part

[9:47] police department anything to report never report mayor thank you

[9:52] building a maintenance anything to report um the update on the front uh it is happening

[9:58] Mother Nature kind of through a little wrench in our plan, so it kind of postponed us.

[10:03] I'm starting this week.

[10:04] We're hoping to as long as weather permits.

[10:08] Hopefully we can start kicking off the refresh on the front of the building from the

[10:15] from the drainage accident.

[10:17] So that's all I have.

[10:19] Thank you.

[10:24] Parks and Recreation Director.

[10:27] Good evening.

[10:28] Yeah.

[10:28] So I just want to let everybody know about tomorrow, to deal and staff have been spending some time for tomorrow.

[10:39] I know tomorrow is going to be a special and emotional day since it's been 25 years since 9-11.

[10:46] So tomorrow is what we're calling the Patriots Day Walk of Remembrance.

[10:52] I don't necessarily want to call it a celebration.

[10:55] Celebration.

[10:56] remembrance. So, beginning at 11 a.m. tomorrow, we welcome everyone to walk our mile-long timeline

[11:02] of the events from September 11 at the 2001. The timeline starts near the stop sign at the

[11:09] Rec Center. There will be a tent there so you will see where that is. One direction will show you

[11:15] the list of the 2,977 victims names first and the other direction will show you the order of the

[11:26] So be prepared.

[11:28] Everyone who walks will receive a little Pelpin from staff at the beginning of the trail.

[11:34] If you can't attend at 11 a.m. start time, you can still pick up a pin at the Marine Rec Center front desk.

[11:40] We will leave the signs out so people can walk it whenever they so choose tomorrow.

[11:48] We hope to see everybody out there.

[11:50] There won't be a ceremony. It will just be you come and you walk. That's all we're asking for.

[11:56] So city staff anybody please come and be a part of it. It's again, not a celebration. It's a remembrance.

[12:06] So if there's any questions on that, I'm here to answer those.

[12:09] But I also wanted to let you know that we did get the survey put together for Penical Park Improvement.

[12:17] So we finalized this. We're ordering the signs and we'll start putting them out and all the neighborhoods up there

[12:24] Starting next week once the signs come in. So you'll probably see those in

[12:28] front of some of the parks maybe a couple yards, but we did get that done, and you'll see that next week. So

[12:35] Thank you. That's all

[12:38] Building and zoning administrator anything to report. I'm nothing to report. Thank you

[12:43] Did he engineer anything to report?

[12:46] Nothing further, thank you.

[12:48] Did he plan or anything to report?

[12:50] I just want to thank Council for the appointment to the NVRPC technical advisor committee

[12:55] Beyond that, nothing else to report.

[12:59] Community developed director.

[13:02] No further report, Mayor, thank you.

[13:04] Did he manage or anything further to report?

[13:07] I have no items, Mayor. Thank you.

[13:10] Law director, anything further to report?

[13:12] No, Mayor, thank you.

[13:13] by an instructor anything further to report of nothing further. Thank you, Mayor.

[13:18] Clerk of council anything to report.

[13:20] Yeah, I just want to remind everyone that we are one month away from the Schredding event at the

[13:26] Rock Center on October 10th. So if you have anything to bring out, please start packaging it up and

[13:32] get in the ready. Thank you.

[13:36] Mr. Delph, anything to report?

[13:39] I have never report, Mayor. Thank you.

[13:41] And so, don't worry, I need to report.

[13:45] Just, it was nice to see that Marine was actually

[13:48] feared in the National League of Cities.

[13:51] We put out an article and featured us

[13:53] for our use of our census data,

[13:56] and especially considering our comprehensive plan and our

[13:58] works plan, and just kind of need to see some, you know,

[14:02] national spotlight for us.

[14:04] As of that, also, I attended the NVRPC Board of Directors

[14:08] meeting this past Thursday.

[14:10] One of the things that was discussed is actually the Miami Conservancy District is looking at changing the way that they are implementing their, basically the, not the taxes, but the word of my looking for Mike, the assessment, so the assessment won't be based on, as if it goes through it won't be based on property taxes, property values going forward.

[14:38] would be based on the actual need of the residents based on how close they are to the Miami

[14:44] Valley or Miami River watershed. But and then also coming up on October 7th at 2 p.m.

[14:53] It's a Wednesday. I guess my wife is organized with fire marshal Hatcher.

[15:00] A firehouse walk through, and they're going to go through, they're going to get dressed up in their gear, kind of show kids around, so she wanted to make sure that I mentioned it that any kids go ahead and go on out and see what we have going on.

[15:17] Mr. Miller, anything to report?

[15:19] Just want to wish Andy Parrish from Police Division a happy retirement and thank him for his 25 years of service.

[15:28] Thank you.

[15:30] Miss what anything to report?

[15:32] Yes, I did attend Andy Parrish's retirement party, the Police Department.

[15:37] They did it upright and we're going to miss Andy.

[15:40] He's been a fixture around here for 25 years.

[15:43] We've seen him grow.

[15:44] He did a marvelous job, also Penny Saben retired, I believe, after 30 years, and I was able to come over for hers.

[15:55] And we appreciate all of our employees.

[15:58] And when we see them attain the, get to the place where they retire, it hurts.

[16:06] And always tell them, can't you stay a little bit longer?

[16:09] And they never do.

[16:10] I don't know what I mean.

[16:13] Anyway, we do have a great staff. We have great employees. Thank you. Miss Marcus, anything to report? No report. Miss Allen, anything to report? Nothing to add. Thank you. Okay, and I want to say that I went to Andy Perry's retirement, and it was a really nice, the police department really do go overboard.

[16:38] But he had a lot of achievements that didn't know about, I mean, it was really, too, yeah,

[16:45] you couldn't have listed all of them that he got over the years, and it was sad to see

[16:51] Penteco at a finance and a fixture here for a really long time.

[16:56] We're going to miss her, and I had a mayor's a manager's meeting last night, we had it in

[17:06] And just like you, we had the Miami Valley Conservatory come and do a slide.

[17:14] Yeah, the slide show, the little bit.

[17:16] So we got to see that too.

[17:18] So I'm got to see it twice.

[17:20] You know, and that, so I'm sorry for them.

[17:24] But so I would also like to, and oh, and everyone come for the Walk tomorrow.

[17:29] I think it's a really big deal.

[17:31] If you can make it, the remember, the September 11th and everything that happened that day

[17:38] just take a little bit of your time, Marum.

[17:42] I would also like to thank the Miami Valley Communications Council for broadcasting this meeting

[17:47] as live as well as any future rebroadcast and this regular council meeting is adjourned

[17:54] at 617.

9/10/26 Moraine City Council Meeting

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