1 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:23,580 I'd like to call the Monday, September 14th, 2026, Oakwood City Council meeting to order, would you please rise and join me with the pledge to the flag. 2 00:00:25,080 --> 00:00:31,700 I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which 3 00:00:31,700 --> 00:00:32,060 it stands. 4 00:00:32,700 --> 00:00:38,480 My nation, under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. 5 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:43,720 May I have a roll call, please, Lori? 6 00:00:44,020 --> 00:00:44,540 Mayor Duncan. 7 00:00:45,140 --> 00:00:45,180 Here. 8 00:00:45,260 --> 00:00:46,120 Vice Mayor Buyington. 9 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:47,360 Mrs. Turbin. 10 00:00:47,900 --> 00:00:48,000 Here. 11 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:48,660 Mrs. Jackson. 12 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:49,840 Mr. Doris. 13 00:00:51,020 --> 00:00:56,500 And may I have a report on our August on the minutes of our August third 14 00:00:56,500 --> 00:01:03,860 regular session and work session and our August 17 work session council member Dorf. Thank you 15 00:01:03,860 --> 00:01:10,640 Thank you, Mayor. Yes, I reviewed the minutes of the August 3rd regular session work session and the August 17th work session 16 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:15,820 But if you mind your corrections, I recommend that we approve those minutes today. Do we have a second? 17 00:01:16,580 --> 00:01:21,660 Second all those in favor signify the saying aye. Aye. Thank you. So ordered 18 00:01:21,660 --> 00:01:27,100 Under status reports, we have no status reports this evening. 19 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:32,200 So we will go immediately to the business portion of our meeting. 20 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:38,040 If anyone here wishes to address council, this would be the time for you to, 21 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:39,860 excuse me, come down to the podium, 22 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:42,540 states your name and address for the record. 23 00:01:43,580 --> 00:01:46,040 We have approximately a three minute limit, 24 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:50,700 and I will use my discretion. 25 00:01:50,700 --> 00:01:58,180 You know, on enforcing, on enforcing that, and so please come down and again state your name for the record, and we welcome you. 26 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:06,580 Because I have to announce for two people two groups. My name is Karen Bartley. I live at 1-2-9, Oak, and all, drive. 27 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:11,360 I'm representing the Oakwood Historical Society, as well as the Shops of Oakwood. 28 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:19,680 We are joining together to announce an event called the Fall Stroll through Oakwood, which will happen on October 3rd. 29 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:30,920 The shops of Oakwood include Park Avenue businesses and the business area from Ptorchard all the way to Dorothy Lane Market and we're trying to get all those groups involved 30 00:02:30,920 --> 00:02:42,120 It just so happens at the Circle Society at one 947 far hills this halfway in between and normally the historical society has their event called 31 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:48,240 classics on the lawn which is a car show in August on a Sunday and this year we decided 32 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:53,460 to have it a little bit later and when we found out about this event we thought we'll have it 33 00:02:53,460 --> 00:02:58,760 on the same day and people could stroll from one end of town to the other. It's only one mile 34 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:05,260 between the two business districts all the way to DLM so that would be a fun thing for people to do. 35 00:03:05,260 --> 00:03:13,200 In addition to seeing cars at the long-romb sport museum, we will also have food trucks, 36 00:03:13,420 --> 00:03:15,260 activities on the sidewalks. 37 00:03:15,940 --> 00:03:19,320 In fact, if anybody knows a good food truck, we'd like another one. 38 00:03:19,380 --> 00:03:21,180 We have only one right now. 39 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:26,260 At Jaffee Jewelers are going to have motorcycles, all different kinds of motorcycles that people 40 00:03:26,260 --> 00:03:31,120 can come and share their own and look at the ones that Jim Grant has. 41 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:37,460 We're going to have activities for children and a lot of other things, and so it's a Saturday 42 00:03:37,460 --> 00:03:44,920 You can come to the event anytime during business hours and you'll be seeing these kind of signs look at the two-sided 43 00:03:47,140 --> 00:03:57,200 So these around town. So October 3rd all day long. Thank you very much. Thank you 44 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:04,940 Can I just say that Karen maybe people don't know Karen is a committed walker and so our committed 45 00:04:04,940 --> 00:04:10,180 stroller I would say so I think it's very fitting that you share this information with us. 46 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:18,080 Well and I think last year nine a gave us like a flyer for what you guys what the business 47 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:23,140 restricted in December we're happy to cross from on our website so if you want to share that with us 48 00:04:23,140 --> 00:04:26,320 we're happy to put it on the city's website and Facebook as well. 49 00:04:32,180 --> 00:04:37,980 Thank you for your comments and Saturday, October 3rd, correct? 50 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:41,540 Okay, make sure the people at home know the date and time. 51 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:43,420 Thank you. 52 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:43,840 Okay. 53 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:47,900 Anyone else wish to address Council? 54 00:04:48,100 --> 00:04:50,940 Again, state your name and address for the record and we welcome you. 55 00:04:50,980 --> 00:04:52,960 This is my first city council meeting. 56 00:04:53,100 --> 00:04:53,640 Very exciting. 57 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:57,360 Yeah, there's a couple things that have brought me here. 58 00:04:57,740 --> 00:04:59,660 One, I know you are all concerned with. 59 00:04:59,660 --> 00:05:04,080 I remember hearing you all talking about it during the last election cycle about businesses 60 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:06,400 just leaving town. 61 00:05:07,500 --> 00:05:12,640 The recent news that graders is going elsewhere is heartbreaking to most of us. 62 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:13,680 I live on Triangle. 63 00:05:13,860 --> 00:05:18,340 I can walk there in a block, but we're losing them. 64 00:05:18,820 --> 00:05:25,260 We're losing, I've been a patient at Orion Physical Therapy for years and years, they're leaving 65 00:05:25,260 --> 00:05:25,660 as well. 66 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:28,620 Now that's sugar camp, which I understand is still equivalent. 67 00:05:28,620 --> 00:05:36,620 So what I want to know is what can we do to keep businesses here in town, especially something like, I mean, 68 00:05:36,740 --> 00:05:40,680 creators is a well-loved community business. 69 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:42,920 We look across the street from creators. 70 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:44,680 We see empty empty empty empty empty empty empty. 71 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:48,400 I mean, we used to love to go to fly boys sit on the roof. 72 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:49,380 It was so fun. 73 00:05:49,820 --> 00:05:51,640 That hasn't been filled. 74 00:05:52,740 --> 00:05:54,900 The barbershop, all that stuff that was, 75 00:05:54,900 --> 00:06:03,080 So I'm concerned about that and I'm wondering if anybody else here is concerned about the recent floods and so forth 76 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:08,520 So that's my other issue, but I'll just be quiet because right now. I want yeah 77 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:13,380 I don't know that's just my concern. I don't know when I speak to you folks. Are you going to say hey Pam 78 00:06:13,380 --> 00:06:18,740 This is what we're doing about those things, but if you want just tell you my concerns 79 00:06:18,740 --> 00:06:20,380 And I leave it with you 80 00:06:20,380 --> 00:06:27,900 That would be fine. We are planning. We are planning on having an update on business district here as 81 00:06:27,900 --> 00:06:33,680 Carter. Can you see that again? We are planning on doing an update regarding what's going on in the business district. 82 00:06:33,860 --> 00:06:39,080 We can several of our council members and our city manager. And that's going to happen later on in the meeting. 83 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:45,720 It requires you to stay till the end of the meeting. Or you can go home and watch it on the cable channel. 84 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:51,680 The news was quite shocking in my neighborhood, so anyway, thanks for listening. 85 00:06:52,120 --> 00:07:00,400 You're quite welcome as, as, was it, Yogi Barra, Casey Stangel, said, it's not over until it's over. 86 00:07:01,280 --> 00:07:01,740 Yogi Barra. 87 00:07:02,140 --> 00:07:02,660 Yogi Barra. 88 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:03,720 Thank you. 89 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:08,700 And again, take your name and address for the record and we welcome you as well. 90 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:09,060 Certainly. 91 00:07:09,060 --> 00:07:16,500 Hey, great to meet you guys. My name is Michael Lopez. I'm at 704, Harmon Avenue. I moved into Oakwood about two years ago 92 00:07:16,500 --> 00:07:23,000 And I'm coming in with my concern that over the last six months, I've seen eight flop cameras come up into Oakwood 93 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:29,300 One's on private property with seven or not on private property. And I'm just curious where the contract is is that with 94 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:43,960 But the police department is there a use of privacy policy as we've seen the flock cameras or I should say, automatic license plate readers, because while all of ours are owned by the flock company, they do make other brands. 95 00:07:44,700 --> 00:07:53,900 So to be PC and automatic license plate reader, one is right next to graders kind of pointed north as you drive pass graders. 96 00:07:53,900 --> 00:08:02,340 So I'm just curious if we know what law enforcement agencies are allowed to access the data from the camera readers in Oakwood 97 00:08:02,340 --> 00:08:10,140 Is it being shared with other outside entities like the insurance companies because I certainly don't want insurance companies knowing every time I go to Ben and Jerry's 98 00:08:10,140 --> 00:08:20,760 Because the other one is over the post office as you drive by Ben and Jerry's and I just knowing that the city of Dayton has had huge issues with their flock readers 99 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:23,140 What are we doing about our flock readers? 100 00:08:23,500 --> 00:08:24,400 That was my concern. 101 00:08:24,780 --> 00:08:25,140 Thank you. 102 00:08:25,220 --> 00:08:26,460 Thank you. 103 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:30,040 We will counsel as aware of this issue. 104 00:08:30,340 --> 00:08:32,440 We are aware of all the pros and cons. 105 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:37,840 And we are currently dealing with that with our public safety officers. 106 00:08:38,140 --> 00:08:41,700 They're the only ones responsible for accessing that information. 107 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:44,380 We share it with other law enforcement agencies. 108 00:08:44,940 --> 00:08:46,440 We do not share it with ICE. 109 00:08:47,560 --> 00:08:49,620 Some of us think we should share it with ICE. 110 00:08:49,620 --> 00:08:56,420 we will we'll leave that to another day but we're taking a look at that issue and 111 00:08:56,420 --> 00:08:59,820 that's something that one council does there budget retreat which is coming up 112 00:08:59,820 --> 00:09:05,540 in October or November in November that's going to be one of the items that we 113 00:09:05,540 --> 00:09:10,620 talk about so we appreciate your comments on that and more to come on that as 114 00:09:10,620 --> 00:09:18,280 well thank you anyone else wish to address council welcome again state your name 115 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:19,320 address for a record. 116 00:09:21,700 --> 00:09:25,460 Hi, my name is Emily Beginski. I live at 348 Monterey Avenue and I'm one 117 00:09:25,460 --> 00:09:31,480 of the many houses impacted by the sewage flooding of our basements. If you know a photo 118 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:36,540 of our own, I had about a foot of sewage water in my basement. I'm out thousands of dollars 119 00:09:36,540 --> 00:09:41,520 had to throw away memories, had to throw away lots of things. And I just, I've heard very little 120 00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:48,860 from the city about the situation, about about what's being done, about what's being offered, 121 00:09:48,860 --> 00:09:53,460 about what's being done to ensure this does not happen again, because before I go through the expensive 122 00:09:53,460 --> 00:09:59,920 process of trying to replace items and trying to replace memories, what I had, I know this is not 123 00:09:59,920 --> 00:10:06,700 going to happen again. I just I felt very let down by the lack of response from the city government, 124 00:10:06,940 --> 00:10:11,560 and I would just like to hear an update on that and like to hear more about what you guys are doing 125 00:10:11,560 --> 00:10:21,460 for us. Thank you. Thank you. The event in question happened on the night where we received 126 00:10:21,460 --> 00:10:27,860 4.2 inches of rain, which was pretty much unprecedented. The 10 days prior to that, 127 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:36,200 we received 11 inches of rain cumatively. The people that have called and indicated that they had 128 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:43,140 issue with this. We're looking at each one of those cases and are trying to determine if it was 129 00:10:43,140 --> 00:10:49,100 anything related to a sewer blockage or a storm water blockage in Oakwood and we're going through 130 00:10:49,100 --> 00:10:52,340 those one at a time. Do you have anything else you'd like to add to that? 131 00:10:52,780 --> 00:10:58,860 I do know that we have about 90 homes that not necessarily was sewage backup but either had some sort 132 00:10:58,860 --> 00:11:03,700 of water in the basement or a sewer backup or a clean. 133 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:08,340 So if you want to email me with your contact information, 134 00:11:08,540 --> 00:11:10,520 I'll make sure that somebody reaches out to you 135 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:13,380 because the sewer backups are eligible to go through 136 00:11:13,380 --> 00:11:15,140 our Highland, our insurance company. 137 00:11:15,940 --> 00:11:18,400 So that information should have been provided to you. 138 00:11:18,560 --> 00:11:21,480 So if you want to email me, Katie Smithy, 139 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:24,960 I'm happy that they get that information over to public works 140 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:27,060 and get you and talk to them, who can get you 141 00:11:27,060 --> 00:11:29,220 and touch with our insurance company. 142 00:11:30,820 --> 00:11:36,220 I know I had water in my basement not as much as yours and it was storm water and not sewer. 143 00:11:37,060 --> 00:11:43,000 So I feel like I'm rather fortunate, but that's something that we are looking at to determine. 144 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:52,660 Yeah, please reach out to our city and we can take a look at that. 145 00:11:53,700 --> 00:11:54,880 I'm sorry, I'm curious. 146 00:11:55,140 --> 00:11:59,800 Did you reach out to the city and have specific people at city tell you that they? 147 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:47,480 Our city manager, I, we went this week to a regional mayor's manager's meeting and this 148 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:52,380 problem isn't unique to Oakwood. My name is Bird, West Carrollton. Both had some significant 149 00:12:52,380 --> 00:12:59,340 damage. You probably seen the Facebook and Kettering where the water came busting through there, 150 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:06,960 they're ground floor. So it was a rather unprecedented storm, but we're going to take a look at 151 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:13,420 issues and determine what if anything we need to do. Anybody also is to address 152 00:13:13,420 --> 00:13:17,280 Council. Yes. Again, state your name and address for the record and welcome. 153 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:27,080 Hi. Kelly Deal, 344 Monterey Avenue. Also, a victim of the sewer. I live right next 154 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:32,540 door to Emily. Okay. What was your name again? Kelly Deal. Like, let's make a deal. 155 00:13:33,340 --> 00:13:43,660 Okay, do you guys know the property 1313 for Hills Avenue that Oakwood bought my mom and dad that there's it's the 90's so that was our home? 156 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:54,200 So that house Oakwood bought that partly because of the sewer issue because underneath that home was something that they needed to do. 157 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:56,440 Now, their home had this sewer backup. 158 00:13:56,880 --> 00:14:00,000 So it's not just this random thing that happened. 159 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:04,060 They had sewage backup often at that location. 160 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:09,200 One thing, so that is a weird thing storm that happened. 161 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:13,600 But it's two things that's not unique because, like I said, 162 00:14:13,660 --> 00:14:15,120 that happened at my mom and dad's house. 163 00:14:15,760 --> 00:14:18,480 Also, with climate change, if you believe in it, 164 00:14:19,420 --> 00:14:21,720 there are strange things or happening, 165 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:25,660 and whether is strange, and I expect we're going to get more 166 00:14:25,660 --> 00:14:28,380 schools and weird events happening, 167 00:14:28,680 --> 00:14:29,700 whether why, as I think. 168 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:33,600 So what I would like to propose, if I could, because I had 169 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:38,360 sewage, Belfer cleaning came in and disinfected 170 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:39,600 and cleaned everything for me. 171 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:42,320 You cost $6,700 to do that. 172 00:14:42,660 --> 00:14:44,140 I worked with my insurance company. 173 00:14:44,820 --> 00:14:46,400 So I've got that open and happening. 174 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:48,100 I also lost a washer and dryer. 175 00:14:48,100 --> 00:14:54,200 So I'm almost 10 grand, by the time everything is done. 176 00:14:55,520 --> 00:14:59,980 So one of the things, one of the fixes that I have a pretty dry basement, one of the fixes... 177 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:11,920 Is that a backflow valve? You guys heard of that? Okay. So I'm going to be getting that through correct plumbing. So I'm doing all, you know, I'm doing all the right stuff. 178 00:15:12,100 --> 00:15:22,960 I'm got insurance, getting the plumber, getting all these people. But what I would like, especially my history with Oakwood, knowing that this is a thing and looking forward to the future. 179 00:15:23,740 --> 00:15:29,540 Like, if this is a problem, I know it's impossible for Oakwood to redo their sewer system. 180 00:15:29,660 --> 00:15:30,460 It's not going to happen. 181 00:15:30,460 --> 00:15:31,980 I understand that. 182 00:15:32,700 --> 00:15:41,860 But if you, if it is a way that Oakwood could contract with some plumbers, local plumbers, 183 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:49,400 and say, hey, Oakwood residents, how about 20% off or will match you some funds, or you can 184 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:51,940 a tax deduction of some sort. 185 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:56,800 I think that is something that needs to be thought about. 186 00:15:56,920 --> 00:16:06,040 Some sort of money towards that for the fix. What happens already happened? But for the future, 187 00:16:06,140 --> 00:16:11,540 I think it's important to help us help ourselves. And it would like, like Emily was talking 188 00:16:11,540 --> 00:16:15,980 about, we would feel better. Nobody contacted me. I did call. And they said, talk to your 189 00:16:15,980 --> 00:16:23,380 conference company that they'll go through you guys is that right yeah so we 190 00:16:23,380 --> 00:16:28,260 basically give you our insurance information to talk with them to work out the 191 00:16:28,260 --> 00:16:34,900 clean between you and our insurance company okay I did call nobody said hey here's 192 00:16:34,900 --> 00:16:40,320 the email have your insurance company email this so you use that something about an 193 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:44,420 email yeah if you want to email me your contact information I'll get with our 194 00:16:44,420 --> 00:16:48,420 I'd love to email you. Is that on the site or where you have to do it on our website? 195 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:51,800 It's on the website. Can you tell me what that website is? 196 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:53,440 Just the city of Ewoodwood. 197 00:16:54,460 --> 00:16:56,020 And you're Katie Smitty. 198 00:16:56,440 --> 00:16:57,420 Shitty of Oakwood. 199 00:16:57,940 --> 00:16:58,800 It's just right this down. 200 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:00,400 We'll this over here. 201 00:17:00,900 --> 00:17:01,820 I don't know how to do it. 202 00:17:01,860 --> 00:17:02,980 Dot G-O-V. 203 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:04,240 Oakwood-O-I-O. 204 00:17:04,620 --> 00:17:05,800 Dot G-O-V. 205 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:09,500 I mean, it's a government deal, though. 206 00:17:10,040 --> 00:17:11,100 It's like you said G-O-D. 207 00:17:12,140 --> 00:17:12,680 Okay. 208 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:13,500 It's not yet. 209 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:15,160 We're not that far. 210 00:17:16,140 --> 00:17:16,500 Okay. 211 00:17:17,360 --> 00:17:18,220 Did we cover everything? 212 00:17:19,540 --> 00:17:19,700 Okay. 213 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:20,760 Thank you. 214 00:17:20,900 --> 00:17:22,260 Thank you for your comments. 215 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:27,860 And again, if you know any other folks that, you know, had similar situations and haven't 216 00:17:27,860 --> 00:17:31,060 reached out to the city, please encourage them to do the same. 217 00:17:32,560 --> 00:17:35,600 Anyone else wish to address City Council at this time? 218 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:43,440 Hearing that? 219 00:17:45,860 --> 00:17:46,220 Yeah. 220 00:17:46,900 --> 00:17:47,680 Yes it is. 221 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:49,100 But I know you're name and address. 222 00:17:49,100 --> 00:17:59,700 Please tell please let Lori know that. My name is Pam Badee. Pam Badee. I live at 2016 triangle. I did think I mentioned that because we're down the street. 223 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:05,200 Yes. Thank you. Your daughter grew up in my basement. Your daughter grew up in my basement. 224 00:18:06,980 --> 00:18:07,540 All 225 00:18:09,940 --> 00:18:19,460 right. Well with that we will close the visitor portion of our meeting and we will go to legislation and Vice Mayor Biden has an ordinance. 226 00:18:19,460 --> 00:18:27,920 Yes, Your Honor, this is an ordinance to enact new section 145.10 contract provisions of the 227 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:32,340 Oakwood Administrative Code to prohibit the inclusion of certain terms in the city's public contracts. 228 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:37,500 This is an actually a second reading of an addition to the city's purchasing ordinance. 229 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:40,260 It was introduced at our August 3rd meeting. 230 00:18:40,900 --> 00:18:46,800 Currently, Ohio law prohibits municipalities from signing certain contract terms that are otherwise 231 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:51,480 common in the private sector. For example, cities are not allowed to agree to identify 232 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:56,500 another party and they are not allowed to sign a contract that imposes a confidential 233 00:18:56,500 --> 00:19:00,540 reality requirement that violates the Ohio Public Records Act. 234 00:19:01,020 --> 00:19:04,540 Most contractors understand these requirements and take these terms out when they are 235 00:19:04,540 --> 00:19:09,280 dealing with a public entity. But sometimes contractors who work on a national or global 236 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:14,640 scale are unwilling to amend their form documents to comply with Ohio law. The law director 237 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:19,640 here at Oakwood is recommended that we update our purchasing ordinance to prohibit these 238 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:24,300 unlawful contract terms ensuring the city is not bound by provisions that a contractor 239 00:19:24,300 --> 00:19:28,860 may refuse to delete. This is the second reading of this ordinance and I would move the 240 00:19:28,860 --> 00:19:32,440 Council adopted this evening. Do we have a second? 241 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:36,640 Second. Does anyone have any questions or comments for Vice Mayor Buyington? 242 00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:40,740 Hearing none, Laurie, would you please call the roll? 243 00:19:40,740 --> 00:19:47,560 Mayor Duncan. Yes. Vice Mayor Buyington. Yes. Mrs. Turban. Yes. Mrs. Jackson. Yes. Mr. Dwarf. Yes. 244 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:54,920 And that concludes our legislation this evening. So we will now go to our city manager report. 245 00:19:55,600 --> 00:20:03,900 Thank you, Mayor. First I want to recognize our public works employees for the response of the significant storm that occurred. 246 00:20:03,900 --> 00:20:06,360 and impacted Oakland over the Labor Day weekend. 247 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:11,120 Public works initially focused on cleaning up and addressing immediate safety concerns 248 00:20:11,120 --> 00:20:15,820 and now have transitioned to significant amount of storm debris throughout the community. 249 00:20:16,180 --> 00:20:20,260 So we currently have three crews dedicated to storm debris collection, 250 00:20:20,540 --> 00:20:22,920 and they are working systematically throughout the city. 251 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:28,320 Due to the volume of material, our regularly scheduled September debris pickup has been suspended. 252 00:20:28,780 --> 00:20:32,140 So those resources can remain focused on storm cleanup. 253 00:20:32,140 --> 00:20:37,700 Residents should place storm-related debris in the tree lawn or grass area adjacent to the 254 00:20:37,700 --> 00:20:42,580 curb and not in the street. Crews will make one pass through each area so we're asking residents 255 00:20:42,580 --> 00:20:47,720 to have their storm debris out as soon as possible and regular monthly debris collection will 256 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:49,300 resume with the October schedule. 257 00:20:51,580 --> 00:20:55,040 The safety department recently took delivery of a second Chevy 258 00:20:55,040 --> 00:21:01,680 Blazer EV and a new detective vehicle. These vehicles replace a 2018 marked patrol vehicle 259 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:08,580 and a 2018 unmarked vehicle respectively, and we're purchased using seized federal forefinger funds. 260 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:13,800 The Blazer EV will be updated over the next several weeks before being placed into service 261 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:18,580 as a day shift patrol vehicle. These purchases allow us to continue modernizing 262 00:21:18,580 --> 00:21:22,780 our public safety fleet while also supporting the city's sustainability efforts. 263 00:21:25,540 --> 00:21:29,920 We are also continuing our discussions with Oakwood United regarding the condition and future 264 00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:31,720 maintenance of the athletic fields at Old River. 265 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:35,040 Staff recently met with representatives from Oakwood United 266 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:37,980 and were continuing to evaluate several potential approaches, 267 00:21:38,340 --> 00:21:40,600 ranging from maintenance improvement to more significant 268 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:42,680 long-term investment in the complex. 269 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:45,040 We will bring additional information back to council 270 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:46,220 as that work progresses. 271 00:21:47,980 --> 00:21:50,220 In on a lighter note, Gardner Pool has hosted 272 00:21:50,220 --> 00:21:52,940 our annual dogs' flash following the close 273 00:21:52,940 --> 00:21:56,020 of the regular pool season yesterday afternoon. 274 00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:59,000 We had 20 dogs register for this year's event 275 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:02,760 and it was a fun way to wrap up another successful season at Gardner Pool. 276 00:22:03,380 --> 00:22:06,820 This event also received quite a bit of media attention with coverage from the date daily 277 00:22:06,820 --> 00:22:10,620 news, WDKN channel to NBCC and the Oakwood Register. 278 00:22:11,700 --> 00:22:15,220 Thank you to our Parks and Recreation staff for putting together another great community event 279 00:22:15,220 --> 00:22:18,000 and to everyone who came out with their forward-like family members. 280 00:22:18,700 --> 00:22:19,780 That concludes my report. 281 00:22:20,420 --> 00:22:23,220 Does anyone have any questions for the Amanda Smitty? 282 00:22:24,620 --> 00:22:25,020 All right. 283 00:22:25,360 --> 00:22:26,900 Thank you for that report. 284 00:22:28,380 --> 00:22:29,960 We will now go to... 285 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:40,080 Do council comment, council member door? Oh, aye, aye. Well, things. I want to echo the thanks to our public works staff who've been working tirelessly. 286 00:22:41,580 --> 00:22:54,380 I have two other topics I wanted to bring up. One was two weeks ago, I attended the six triple eight kitchens from scratch food summit. This was a great showcase of food entrepreneurs and food startups. 287 00:22:54,380 --> 00:22:59,440 I got to reconnect with some regional food and beverage leaders, meet new folks, or looking 288 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:01,060 to launch their business right here at Oakwood. 289 00:23:01,180 --> 00:23:06,540 We're talking about vacancies this week if you want to join me. 290 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:10,460 You can see me popping in and out of the launch date and start up week programming, which 291 00:23:10,460 --> 00:23:11,600 will also be at the Hub. 292 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:17,760 I believe strongly that supporting Oakwood's business community requires not only supporting 293 00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:24,340 the current businesses but also nurturing the future businesses that we want to call Oakwood. 294 00:23:24,340 --> 00:23:34,340 So this week I'm really excited to meet entrepreneurs and make sure they know that Oakwood is open for business, and I'll also probably see you on October 3rd as well. 295 00:23:35,140 --> 00:23:46,980 The second issue is just some thoughts. City leaders I think we have a responsibility to ensure that the city of Oakwood is a safe and welcoming community for everyone who lives, works, shops, 296 00:23:46,980 --> 00:23:49,320 learns our travels in our city. 297 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:53,260 It's an idea I just want to affirm that I am committed to being a welcoming community, 298 00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:57,380 that discrimination of any kind is not compatible with who we are. 299 00:23:58,180 --> 00:24:02,740 I recently talked with a colleague, Lauren Kauai, of the Oakwood City School Board, 300 00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:07,260 and we share this affirmation. She's speaking probably right now that the school board meeting. 301 00:24:08,220 --> 00:24:14,400 And I share this and we share this together because rates of hate are stubbornly high in our region. 302 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:24,200 Ohio is above average, according to the FBI Crime Data Explorer database, with 287 bias offenses in the state so far this year. 303 00:24:24,540 --> 00:24:30,960 And it's critical that we work together as a community, not the city alone, not the schools alone, not the library alone. 304 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:36,220 But we must work together, not only to affirm our values, but to meet our shared goals. 305 00:24:36,220 --> 00:24:42,680 And so I think it's easy to condemn things, but it's hard to think about what to do. 306 00:24:42,900 --> 00:24:46,540 So I wanted to offer three suggestions of things that we can do as a community. 307 00:24:47,260 --> 00:24:51,800 One is to attend OIC, that's the Oak Inclusion Coalition sponsored events. 308 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:57,480 You can go to their website and find events that you can learn about, where you can show up. 309 00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:05,600 The second is to learn about upstander programs, a program designed to help community stand up against bullying and bias that 310 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:11,200 that helps you prevent being just a bystander and watching it passively, and the last is 311 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:16,400 encouraging everyone to talk to their kids, talk to their parents about these incidents because 312 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:23,080 we cannot let these incidents just go by without acknowledgement or response so that when you 313 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:24,540 see something, you say something. 314 00:25:26,660 --> 00:25:29,680 Thank you, Council Member Jackson. Thank you, Mayor. 315 00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:41,200 At our January 5th, 2025 council meeting, the council adopted a resolution supporting the Ohio Commission for the United States to America to 50 celebration. 316 00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:50,220 And the Commission was tasked with coordinating programs, projects, and events throughout the year and throughout the state. 317 00:25:50,220 --> 00:26:04,020 I just want to recognize, and to thank, the Open Historical Society and the Library who have really taken the lead in our community to coordinate these events. 318 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:13,140 Some of the things that the Open Historical Society has done just to recap is they have a tree planting mayor you were there. 319 00:26:13,140 --> 00:26:21,040 as a family party featuring a revolutionary ban, participation in that day in May in costume, 320 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:28,240 of the revolutionary times, and several lectures that have enriched our community. 321 00:26:29,120 --> 00:26:38,520 So I want just to express a heartfelt thanks to all the board members, particularly, of the Oakwood Historical Society. 322 00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:47,600 On a different note, if Chief Hill were here tonight, I'd have to ask him whether he received 323 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:54,520 any calls from U.D. students reporting unreasonable noise disturbances coming from the 324 00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:56,360 Volugia block party. 325 00:26:57,280 --> 00:27:04,260 The organizers went all in, renting an inflatable outdoor movie screen that stretched the 326 00:27:04,260 --> 00:27:07,760 of the street for viewing the Ohio State Games. 327 00:27:08,460 --> 00:27:09,640 It was so massive. 328 00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:12,480 It made the road closure a barricade 329 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:15,160 that the city provides looked like crops 330 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:17,420 from a miniature construction site. 331 00:27:18,020 --> 00:27:18,600 They weren't needed. 332 00:27:18,740 --> 00:27:20,220 No car was going to get through that. 333 00:27:20,260 --> 00:27:20,860 They liked writing. 334 00:27:21,780 --> 00:27:24,980 So the entertainment lineup included two inflatables, 335 00:27:25,300 --> 00:27:27,620 a bounce house for the preschool crowd 336 00:27:27,620 --> 00:27:30,560 and a giant inflatable obstacle course 337 00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:31,760 for the future athletes. 338 00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:38,580 So, congratulations to Amanda Cross for organizing a fantastic turnout when the fire 339 00:27:38,580 --> 00:27:45,140 engine and I arrived at 630, the party was going strong, but I suspect that the crowd, 340 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:51,420 the volume, and the buck-eye spirit only grew as Ohio State battled it out on the field. 341 00:27:52,340 --> 00:27:57,520 And as word gets around, I suspect property values on the Lucia, around the way up. 342 00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:00,860 That's all I have Mayor. 343 00:28:01,120 --> 00:28:04,280 And what was the score of that Ohio State game? 344 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:07,800 All I could say is it was after 11 o'clock when it ended. 345 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:11,020 But I just say, come to the back. 346 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:14,000 All right, as I say, thank you for a full report. 347 00:28:14,900 --> 00:28:16,300 All right, Councilmember Turbin. 348 00:28:16,900 --> 00:28:17,120 Yes. 349 00:28:17,140 --> 00:28:17,900 Thank you, Mayor. 350 00:28:18,620 --> 00:28:21,680 Well, I wanted to give an update on the business districts. 351 00:28:22,500 --> 00:28:25,760 As payment indicated, I'm sure most of us have heard that 352 00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:28,840 is considering moving to another location. 353 00:28:30,120 --> 00:28:31,980 They have not made a decision yet. 354 00:28:32,020 --> 00:28:35,160 And you should know that the city has been in communication 355 00:28:35,740 --> 00:28:38,720 with greater retail broker for several months. 356 00:28:39,180 --> 00:28:41,480 So this has been going on for a while. 357 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:43,800 And again, decision has not made, 358 00:28:44,020 --> 00:28:45,860 but I also heard they may be looking at 359 00:28:45,860 --> 00:28:47,880 another location here in Oakwood. 360 00:28:48,380 --> 00:28:50,440 So this is yet to be determined. 361 00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:54,100 So just stay tuned for more on that. 362 00:28:54,100 --> 00:29:03,160 You know, and sometimes it's really easy to focus on the negative, but honestly, there are a lot of good business things happening in our town. 363 00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:08,740 You know, the last Friday, the Shops of Awong Park had party on park. 364 00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:12,300 You heard Karen talk about the, the auger. 365 00:29:12,580 --> 00:29:22,140 I'm sorry, the October 3rd stroll through Oakwood, where they're going to have food trucks and entertainment and sidewalk sales. 366 00:29:22,140 --> 00:29:28,840 And as well, our retail district in Far Hills has brought on several new businesses. 367 00:29:29,660 --> 00:29:36,620 I was at the Hay Neighbor Market, Grand Opening on Saturday at Marolona, and she had the 368 00:29:36,620 --> 00:29:43,260 grand opening, and she's bringing heirloom quality clothing to Oakwood, and the owner's name 369 00:29:43,260 --> 00:29:50,560 is Caitlin Benton, and then we have Dayton Powder Browse, which is a permanent makeup studio, 370 00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:57,320 and they're moving into where Baha Reza is. In fact the owner shud shud shud shud 371 00:29:57,320 --> 00:29:58,980 shud shud shud shud shud shud shud. 372 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:08,540 The Americans started her career on that location, so she's really excited about coming back. They're relocating it and they will be opening up soon. 373 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:17,640 We have a youth driving school that opened in the 2533 Farhills Avenue, which I affectionately call the Sherman Barbershop Building. 374 00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:28,840 And I'm delighted to report that Marissa Ford and her husband, who live in Oakwood, purchased the Indy West Building, and there's now mindful movement Pilates. 375 00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:36,700 And then to complement her Pilate studio, along triangle, there are four other spaces in her building, 376 00:30:37,140 --> 00:30:39,420 and she has leased them to health professionals. 377 00:30:40,140 --> 00:30:46,900 So she has a physical therapist, a massage therapist, two estheticians coming in, 378 00:30:46,940 --> 00:30:51,360 and so that'll kind of complete her wellness boutique idea for Oakwood. 379 00:30:51,780 --> 00:30:56,940 And of course, we can't forget the very fashionable and ever popular swoon books and wine, 380 00:30:56,940 --> 00:30:58,900 which is just such a hit. 381 00:30:59,540 --> 00:31:02,240 It was the brainchild of our own Lindsay Wagner, 382 00:31:02,660 --> 00:31:06,740 who is the owner of Mara Luna, and Lauren Gay, 383 00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:08,680 and she's a certified Somalay, 384 00:31:09,180 --> 00:31:11,860 and the owner of a Juit wine in Dayton. 385 00:31:12,860 --> 00:31:16,340 So Swan has already become a great meeting place 386 00:31:16,340 --> 00:31:17,800 for us here in Oakwood. 387 00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:20,220 And while these aren't typical stores, 388 00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:23,580 the one thing they do is that they provide something 389 00:31:23,580 --> 00:31:25,120 that you can't get online. 390 00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:32,520 And so it makes people come in to Oakland and to shop and isn't that what we're really all looking for. 391 00:31:32,860 --> 00:31:37,240 And so please welcome these new businesses into Oakland and shop local. 392 00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:38,300 Thank you. 393 00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:40,040 Thank you, Lee. 394 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:41,280 Vice Mayor Biden. 395 00:31:42,180 --> 00:31:45,720 Yeah, hopefully mine will be the same type of comments. 396 00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:55,100 One, I'd just like to reiterate Mr. Dorf's comments about our public service folks who are out there doing 397 00:31:55,660 --> 00:32:01,920 young ones work with all of the different branches and trees and all of the different things 398 00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:07,240 that are out there, they are working virtually around the clock to make sure that Oakwood 399 00:32:08,580 --> 00:32:15,820 is clean, safe, and the way that we would like it to be. The other thing I wanted to mention 400 00:32:15,820 --> 00:32:20,880 is I just wanted to say thank you to the folks who came to this meeting this evening to talk 401 00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:28,560 about issues, what I'd like, more of the reason I ask the question about how was your interaction 402 00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:36,660 with folks from the city is because, you know, as a representative of the city and my 403 00:32:36,660 --> 00:32:42,760 constituents, I want to make sure that you feel comfortable going to our city staff and asking 404 00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:47,200 them questions. I mean, it's fantastic when people show up for these meetings, but you know, 405 00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:52,820 would really like it if you had that comfort level of feeling like you could just come to 406 00:32:52,820 --> 00:32:57,740 the city building at any time and ask to meet with whoever might be the engineering 407 00:32:57,740 --> 00:33:05,620 department, Katie or so, for whoever it might be, you know, we want to make sure that this 408 00:33:05,620 --> 00:33:10,840 city is one that is interacting with our citizens and providing the level of service that you 409 00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:16,820 expect. You know, that is my sole reason for being on city councils, making sure that we 410 00:33:16,820 --> 00:33:22,700 the right staff here to provide the services that I know that we were capable of providing. 411 00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:28,940 So if you feel like you're having issues with not getting enough information or those type of things, 412 00:33:29,380 --> 00:33:34,140 please do come to these meetings, but please also make the effort to reach out, 413 00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:42,320 check out our website, come and set up a meeting, or all of our email addresses and our phone numbers are on the website. 414 00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:50,880 We would prefer to have a dialogue, you know, these meetings are, you know, for the most part it's a meeting and, you know, there's parliamentary procedures and that type of thing. 415 00:33:51,340 --> 00:33:55,580 I would much rather have a dialogue with somebody and say, hey, what's going on? 416 00:33:55,620 --> 00:33:57,900 How is it that we can provide the services to you? 417 00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:04,660 So I really hope that you take away the fact that we're trying to do the best that we can. 418 00:34:04,660 --> 00:34:14,540 We're all, you know, professionals here and we're all trying to make sure that you're getting the level of service that, you know, you expect in the City of Oakwood. 419 00:34:15,420 --> 00:34:24,720 So please come to these meetings with much of you. You want to, but also please reach out to our staff and we're to us so that we can have individual dialogues with everybody. 420 00:34:25,900 --> 00:34:33,740 Thank you. I would also like to echo the other members of Council on their comments tonight. 421 00:34:35,460 --> 00:34:40,380 We had 70 mile an hour straight line winds come through a good on that Labor Day weekend. 422 00:34:40,980 --> 00:34:45,740 I talked to many people in Catering and Centerville that didn't even know we had a storm, 423 00:34:45,900 --> 00:34:50,720 much less debris that rivaled that hurricane hike back in 2008. 424 00:34:52,340 --> 00:34:54,780 I had lost power for 24 hours. 425 00:34:54,860 --> 00:34:57,340 Some people lost it for a day and a half. 426 00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:02,120 And I remember back when I happened, some people lost power in Oakwood for 10 days. 427 00:35:05,620 --> 00:35:29,350 I also learned back in 2008 that the difference between civilization and an anarchy is 72 hours without electricity, water, water, water, yes, and so the staff, you know, doing their work in this cleanup mode, you know, is outstanding and I think that 428 00:35:29,350 --> 00:35:38,290 I want to also point out that we get little giddy males from Oakwood residents and normally 429 00:35:39,130 --> 00:35:45,450 we rely on our city manager to have an initial response to those people and I want to make 430 00:35:45,450 --> 00:35:50,770 a personal comment to Katie that sometimes when I read these emails you know I get 431 00:35:52,610 --> 00:36:14,210 and I am not the person that should be the initial responder, but Katie does an outstanding job of responding to our citizens understanding what their concerns are, explaining to you, explaining to them where we are in that process, and she's very empathetic, and I don't use that word often. 432 00:36:16,370 --> 00:36:22,090 But I want to just thank the staff for everything that they're doing. 433 00:36:23,230 --> 00:36:28,890 And one other thing, you know, we'll talk about this more next month, but we put something 434 00:36:28,890 --> 00:36:34,730 out on Facebook talking about a property tax renewal level that we have coming up in November. 435 00:36:35,010 --> 00:36:37,730 It does not increase taxes. 436 00:36:38,410 --> 00:36:43,350 It's been renewed since 1991, every five years, because we like our citizens to have an 437 00:36:43,350 --> 00:36:48,510 to use a vote on the taxes that they used to want to pay for all of our excellent city 438 00:36:48,510 --> 00:36:54,570 services and there were immediately to totally false posts that say, well, because of this 439 00:36:54,570 --> 00:36:59,970 revaluation, it's absolutely going to increase taxes. Nothing can be farther from the 440 00:36:59,970 --> 00:37:08,130 truth. We'll talk more about that next month. And so, excuse me. And so, that concludes 441 00:37:08,130 --> 00:37:14,890 my council comments and our next meeting is going to be on Monday, October 5th, it's coming 442 00:37:14,890 --> 00:37:19,450 up. So hopefully you all can come back and visit with us because we enjoy it when we have 443 00:37:19,450 --> 00:37:22,890 we have actually constituents in the meeting. We are adjourned.