[0:18] We are going to start the meeting with
the pledge of allegiance.
[0:25] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the
[0:30] republic for which it stands. One nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and
[0:36] justice for all.
>> Have a moment of silence, please.
[0:54] Okay, before we go into our agenda, we
are going to swear in our incoming
[1:01] council people. If you guys would like
to come out in front, Harold, Heather,
[1:05] and
Steve.
[1:10] I almost said Brandon. He always gets
caught. [laughter]
[1:18] All right.
[1:22] Oh, Steve.
>> All right,
[1:25] » I'm going to read this. Um, you guys can
all repeat after me.
[1:29] » I'm going to do this. So, I'm going to
in these way. Um, I'll just read them
[1:34] and you guys can repeat and then um we
can sign these immediately afterwards if
[1:40] you guys want me. Okay.
>> All right. So raise your right hand.
[1:46] » And um I will say I and then you can
state your name. I I
[1:53] » do solemnly swear
>> domly swear
[1:55] » that I will support the Constitution
>> that I will support the Constitution
[1:59] » of the United States
>> of the United States
[2:02] » the Constitution
>> the Constitution
[2:04] » of the State of Ohio
>> of the State of Ohio
[2:06] » and the charter
>> and the charter
[2:08] » of the city of Wasan
>> of the city of
[2:11] » and that I will faithfully
>> and that I will faithfully
[2:13] » honestly
>> honestly
[2:15] » and impartially
>> and impartially discharge the duties of
[2:18] the office. Discharge the duties of the
office
[2:21] » of council member
>> council member
[2:23] » for the city of
>> for the city of
[2:26] » state of Ohio.
>> State of Ohio
[2:28] » during my continuence in said office.
>> during my continuence said office.
[2:33] » Okay. Congratulations.
>> Congratulations.
[2:39] » Here we go. Heather
>> congratulations.
[2:45] » Congratulations.
>> Thanks.
[2:47] » Here you Come on through.
Congratulations. Congratulations.
[2:52] » Congratulations.
>> I like your job. Hey,
[2:58] [laughter]
>> congratulations.
[3:00] » We got you guys
down to me and I'll sign them again.
[3:05] » You might have to get the rest of
>> Steve. Go ahead and sign that and then
[3:10] just pass it down to me if you would,
please.
[3:12] » Okay.
[3:16] Make sure they're signed before we sign.
[3:23] » Yeah.
Do we really need
[3:57] All right, we're all signed in. I will
keep these and hand them to Jan at the
[4:04] end. Now, next, which is not on our
agenda, but we um we needed to put on is
[4:10] we need to vote for a council president.
So,
[4:15] I would like council to open that up.
And if you have anybody that you guys
[4:21] would like to nominate for council
president for 2-year term, 2026 to the
[4:27] end of 2028,
>> I'll make a motion. We have Shane
[4:32] Chamber. I second.
[4:39] [clears throat and cough]
>> No, [laughter] not done yet.
[4:41] » No candy.
>> Any other nominations?
[4:47] Okay,
we don't have anybody any questions. So,
[4:52] let's take a vote. Jan.
>> Okay. I have a motion on the floor to
[4:57] nominate Shane Chamberlain as council
president. Motion by councelor Snyder.
[5:02] Seconded by councelor Galbreth.
Councelor Schneider.
[5:06] » Yes.
>> Councelor Gelbreth.
[5:08] » Yes.
>> Councelor Chamberlain.
[5:10] » Yes.
>> Councelor Torino.
[5:13] » Yes.
>> Councelor Simon.
[5:15] » Yes.
>> Councelor Stigley.
[5:17] » Yes. [cough]
>> I have six ys and zero nays. Motion has
[5:21] carried. Get out. Walk around and come
back.
[5:24] » Oh no. Yeah. My hand. Appreciate it.
[laughter]
[5:27] » Thanks guys.
>> Good job. All righty. Thank you,
[5:30] council. Um and then after that I think
we can move into um voting in the
[5:37] minutes. If everyone has read the
minutes,
[5:39] » we need to approve those.
>> I'd make a motion to accept the meeting
[5:43] minutes as presented.
>> I'll second.
[5:49] » Okay. I have a motion to accept the
minutes of December 30th
[5:55] by Council President Chamberlain, second
by Councelor Sch Snider. All in favor? I
[6:00] have a Simon.
>> I'm sorry. Simon. All in favor?
[6:03] » I.
>> Any opposed?
[6:06] » Motion is carried.
>> Okay. Thank you. We did not have anybody
[6:10] wishing to address council. Um committee
reports. We have none. Brand new year.
[6:17] Uh department head reports. Chief.
>> Okay. The fire department uh ended the
[6:23] old year busy and started the new year
very steady. Uh [clears throat] but
[6:27] nothing uh big that sticks out. Uh we
are still working with Terry Henrix Ford
[6:33] on getting the other ambulances
transmission installed. Uh tenatively it
[6:39] may end up later this week. Um and then
we had our new ZO X monitors arrive.
[6:46] Okay. Um, that's going to be a
I don't want to say a lengthy
[6:51] implementation, but uh we've already
been in talks with uh the educators from
[6:57] Zo. They're going to come in and spend 3
days with staff um and uh FCHC
[7:04] uh certain reps from there to make sure
like all the communications from the
[7:07] devices hit the Kath lab and all that
stuff. Um and the idea is such that uh
[7:13] like at the end of the third day the our
staff are able to take those monitors
[7:18] right into the truck and start using
them in the field. Um tomorrow one of
[7:24] the reps is coming out. We're going to
start unboxing and uh we know there's
[7:28] certain items that haven't been shipped
yet and that's going to be her role
[7:31] between now and February to find where
those items are at and get everything
[7:36] good to go.
So,
[7:40] » these are the items from Z. You said
>> these are the new heart monitors. Yes.
[7:43] The accessories.
>> The accessories that she's going to be.
[7:48] » Okay.
>> Yep.
[7:50] » Questions.
Chief,
[7:54] » uh, holidays
went well, relatively well, steady. Um,
[7:59] nothing too crazy wild. Uh we did have
one OVI arrest over the New Year's Eve
[8:05] holiday weekend. Uh doing that um buted
up right to the weekend. We um could
[8:13] tell if we were going to be busy or not
with that, but we did have one OVR and
[8:18] uh we've just been starting to gather
around year-end reports uh from the
[8:22] different officers and then the guys and
girls downstairs are all excited to
[8:26] spend new money. Mhm. [laughter]
>> Lots of uh purchase orders coming in
[8:31] today. So,
>> new budget.
[8:35] » Yeah. Maybe the weather on New Year's
Eve and stuff.
[8:39] » Yeah. Maybe that a little bit.
>> Yeah.
[8:42] » Any questions for Chief?
>> Jamie, you are know as well as I knew
[8:47] there are a ton of POS coming.
>> Um we did get the 2025 year closed out
[8:53] this morning and are starting to pay
bills for 2026. got the budget um
[8:58] updated in our system. Um I haven't had
a chance to get any reports out to you
[9:04] yet, but I can tell you that our income
tax revenue, we did um we did go over
[9:09] the 1 point or 6.3 million that we had
budgeted. Um we're about 7% over what we
[9:17] um brought in last year. So it was a
little $34,000 increase.
[9:21] » Okay, good.
>> So [clears throat] we did we did well as
[9:24] or as expected.
>> Good. Thank you, Jamie.
[9:29] » Okay. Um Tom,
>> uh so we have this resolution, first
[9:35] resolution of the year up for your
reading. It has to do with the pool levy
[9:39] and it's just a necessary process to get
this to the certification to the
[9:44] auditor's office and then they'll return
certification to us which we can then
[9:49] get back to the um or submit to the uh
board of elections. So, it'll be another
[9:55] in our first meeting in February. It'll
be another piece of legislation that
[9:58] will complete the process. Um, and we'll
be kind of on a tight schedule, but I
[10:02] think we're we're doing fine with this.
So, this one will have to be on
[10:06] emergency and then um yeah, and we'll be
good to go. Um, also just a reminder
[10:13] that uh on the EPA issue that would like
to get a soon as council utility
[10:18] committee can um get a meeting scheduled
so we can start to work on that process
[10:24] um and then we can move forward with
that. Yep.
[10:29] Looking forward to the new year.
Appreciate the chance to represent the
[10:32] city mayor council.
>> Thank you. different boards and
[10:36] commissions
>> probably Tom probably get the committees
[10:38] out probably this week.
>> Okay.
[10:40] » So,
>> yeah. Oh, yeah. That's right. You got I
[10:43] get it.
>> Yeah. And I think we have a few on the
[10:46] on the boards as well. Um
so, is everybody good with the the
[10:54] reading and and on the first
legislation? Do you have any questions?
[10:58] » One question. Is that 1.6 is that going
to be the renewal what we used to have
[11:02] or where was it before? No, this it was
at a 2. Was it a two? It was at a two.
[11:09] This is at a 1.6.
>> It's going to be 1.6 levy for what? Four
[11:13] years or five?
>> Five. Five years.
[11:17] [snorts]
>> Just question.
[11:19] » This is a new one.
>> It's not a renewal.
[11:22] » Yeah, no problem. So [snorts] I I you
know I think Jamie the previous
[11:26] millillage was what?
>> Two two
[11:28] » two or one point. So people are going to
see this as theoretically new money.
[11:34] Uh but so I I really hope for the local
media coverage to offer an explanation
[11:39] to the community that it looks like new
money but really it's not intended to be
[11:44] new money,
>> right? And with us missing that deadline
[11:48] for November although it see sounds like
a negative in the end it could be a
[11:53] positive because the millage came down,
>> right?
[11:55] » Okay.
>> What was once a renewal at two is now a
[11:59] 1.6 as a new
>> as new money.
[12:02] » New money. Yeah.
>> And it's not added to, it's the renewal
[12:06] is over there.
>> So, I think I think we just have to do
[12:09] our due diligence at educating folks
that this this money is important. It's
[12:14] going to operate our pool for us. And
although it should have been in
[12:18] November,
>> we missed it. But with that miss, it's
[12:21] actually our our millillage that we're
asking for is less than what it was.
[12:25] Okay. All right. Thank you.
>> Okay. [clears throat]
[12:31] Do we need a motion?
>> Uh, no. I'm going to go ahead and read
[12:36] this first. I'm going to tentatively try
to read this. So, okay. Um, we've gone
[12:42] through everything. So, first reading um
for the first of the year. Uh,
[12:47] resolution 2006-1
is a resolution declaring it necessary
[12:52] to levy an additional 1.6 six mill tax
levy for park and recreational purposes
[13:00] for requesting the Fulton County Auditor
to make certain certifications pursuant
[13:05] to section 5705.03
of the revised code and declaring an
[13:11] emergency and that additional is what is
going to be confusing but it is not.
[13:18] » I'll make that motion.
>> I'll second it.
[13:24] I use this to place it on emergency
reading. Is that what you're making your
[13:27] motion to?
>> Yes. Okay.
[13:28] » I'm sorry I did not state that.
>> All right. I have a motion by council
[13:33] Arena and seconded by councelor Simon to
place resolution 2026-01
[13:40] on emergency. Is there any discussion?
[13:46] » Councelor Tarina.
>> Yes.
[13:48] » Councelor Simon.
>> Yes.
[13:49] » Councelor Chamberlain.
>> Yes.
[13:51] » Councelor Gilbreth.
>> Yes. Councelor Snder.
[13:53] » Yes.
>> Councelor Stickley.
[13:55] » Yes.
>> Six. Yay. Zero Naz. Motion is carried.
[13:58] » Final.
>> Second.
[14:04] » Okay. Place resolution 2026-01
on final reading. Any further
[14:09] discussion?
Councelor Sch Snider.
[14:12] » Yes.
>> Councelor Chamberlain.
[14:15] » Yes.
>> Councelor Gilbreth.
[14:17] » Yes.
>> Councelor Tarina.
[14:19] » Yes.
>> Councelor Simon.
[14:20] » Yes. and councelor Stickley.
>> Yes.
[14:23] » Six yays, zero nays. Resolution is
carried on and final reading. Thank you,
[14:28] councel. So, it'll be our job to educate
everybody when it goes to balance. So,
[14:34] we have nothing under second or third
reading. Um, anything under new
[14:38] business? Anybody?
I mean, it's the beginning of the year.
[14:42] We don't have much.
>> Anything under old business? Was there a
[14:48] date set, Phil, for the new floors yet?
Did that?
[14:53] » No, I reached out to them late Friday
and said, uh, if you could get me the
[15:00] colors that we can choose from, then we
can that
[15:04] » we're not chosen.
>> Oh, okay. So, we haven't even picked
[15:07] that yet.
>> Yeah.
[15:08] » Okay.
>> So, they were going to do that. We just
[15:11] went through the quotes and who had the
best quote and stuff about that. [cough]
[15:15] » I didn't know we were where we were at
at the time. Okay, cool.
[15:20] » Deeperating is always so fun.
>> Yeah.
[15:22] » Mayor, have you heard anything any news
about our building feasibility study?
[15:27] » Nothing.
>> Nothing.
[15:28] » I have not gotten anything on my email.
So, I probably Thank you. Tomorrow
[15:33] morning, make a call.
>> Thank you.
[15:36] » Anybody else?
>> One thing there you you have a
[15:40] um public works director yet or not yet?
>> No, we have not even put out the job app
[15:46] for that. We wanted to finish out the
year before we do that because we are
[15:49] going to be looking at possibility
changes in the job description and
[15:53] stuff. So, not not lots, but just kind
of see which route we go. That's
[15:58] probably going to be going out very
soon.
[16:00] » Understand?
Nope.
[16:06] » All right. Well, there's nothing else. I
just need a motion for an adjournment.
[16:10] » I'll motion.
[16:15] » I'll second.
[16:19] » Steve, that was your second. Steve, was
that your second?
[16:22] » I have a motion to watch.
>> Any discussion? [laughter]
[16:27] » All in favor?
>> Any opposed? Motion is carried.
[16:31] » Jan says no.