[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.

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