[0:02] Sometimes we still have seconds before
start.
[0:17] So I guess I didn't get
>> you know how much
[0:20] » or maple syrup
>> because we bor we I was literally from
[0:26] here to the Trump house over there away
if low tide I could walk across the to
[0:32] the bar
>> to Nova Scotia
[0:34] » that was the cool thing
>> but
[0:39] » the uh hotel that's we drove 600 miles a
day
[0:44] cheapest hotel $800 a night. Oh my god.
Wow. I got it for $300. I asked the
[0:50] girls if I can make you laugh a joke.
[laughter]
[0:55] » $300.
[0:59] » I aliance to the flag of the United
States of America and to the republic
[1:06] for which it stands, one nation under
God, indivisible, with liberty and
[1:12] justice for all. Our father in heaven,
we thank you for granting us the
[1:16] privilege to meet tonight. We ask for
your blessing, wisdom, and guidance as
[1:20] we conduct the business of the village.
Amen. Amen.
[1:27] » All right. Roll call. Fisher is absent.
Percy
[1:33] » here.
>> Co
[1:34] » here.
>> Maple.
[1:36] » Mau.
>> Yes.
[1:37] » Yoh.
You must be for a motion to excuse your
[1:42] absent member.
>> Make a motion to excuse Fisher from this
[1:46] meeting.
>> Mau.
[1:50] » Yes.
>> Yoho.
[1:51] » Yes.
>> Co.
[1:52] » Yes.
>> Maple.
[1:53] » Yes.
>> Percy.
[1:55] » Yes.
>> Okay. I'm looking for a motion to
[1:58] approve the minutes of the June 2020 20
22nd, 2026 regular meeting. Motion to
[2:05] approve the minutes of the June 22nd
regular council meeting.
[2:10] » Second
co.
[2:13] » Yes.
>> Maple?
[2:14] » Yes.
>> Percy?
[2:15] » Yes.
>> Yoh.
[2:18] » Mer.
>> Yes.
[2:22] » Okay. For correspondence. I did receive
an email from Sher Jones regarding uh
[2:27] the sewer uh rates. We discussed that in
the committee meeting and we'll let
[2:32] » I'll discuss that a little bit later.
>> Okay,
[2:36] we have no citizens here to comment
unless chief do you want to talk on
[2:40] behalf of the city? Okay. Okay. Moving
on to the committee reports,
[2:45] building and property.
He's not here but we didn't have any
[2:49] discussion on that one.
Community business and development.
[2:54] » I have no new business. want to
apologize that we couldn't get anything
[2:57] going on that thunder in the village at
that time. The rain didn't allow to have
[3:02] the electronics set up for the bands and
for the sound stage and systems and all
[3:08] that. Um looking for possibly another
one before the end of the summer.
[3:14] » Call it sunshine in the village and
maybe you'll summon the right weather.
[3:18] » Yeah, sunshine in the village. But yeah,
that's that's all we're doing.
[3:22] » Uh community relations. Um,
[clears throat] this Saturday, I believe
[3:28] it's Saturday 18th. Is that Saturday?
>> 5:00 pm at Richwood
[3:33] » Softball Field will be the Guns versus
Hoses um softball game. Um, homecoming
[3:41] sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce
will be the 23rd, 24th, and 25th. The
[3:46] parade is on Friday night. Um, there's
still time to sign up. Queen contest is
[3:52] Thursday evening in Burke Park. Uh
fireworks will be Saturday night um 10
[3:57] p.m. around that time, isn't it?
>> 10 p.m.
[4:00] » Okay. Um with viewing from the football
practice field, right? And vendors are
[4:08] still welcome to sign up. Contact
anybody in the chamber. That's all.
[4:13] » Okay. Uh nothing for revitalization
tonight.
[4:16] » No.
>> Finance.
[4:20] » Oh, that's me again.
>> That's you again.
[4:21] » Okay. Um, budget hearing was tonight at
6:45.
[4:26] Um, the Lions Club donated $250 to our
food pantry. Thank you very much.
[4:43] Anybody wants? Well, that's just budget
hearing.
[4:48] » Yeah, that's anybody here in council
that might want to go.
[4:51] » Yeah. And um we need approval for the
end of the month on of June.
[5:00] So, do we have a motion?
>> I'll make a motion for approval of the
[5:05] end of month June end of month financial
report. Second
[5:11] vote.
[5:18] Yes.
>> Maple.
[5:21] » Yes.
>> Co.
[5:22] » Yes.
>> Percy.
[5:24] » Yes.
>> That's it. Okay. Moving on to ordinance.
[5:30] » Uh good evening. So, as we talked about,
we had an email and uh the question was
[5:36] raised uh regarding our personnel and
rates talking about the sewer rate
[5:40] ordinance that is on our agenda for
legislation this evening. So
[5:47] we are going with studies from ARCAP, a
professional engineering firm that has
[5:54] compared us to similar communities to
our size, population, all that kind of
[6:01] stuff. And
they recommended the 4% increase, which
[6:07] is actually less from previous years.
previous years, we're looking at 10%
[6:12] increases for the sewer rates. Uh grand
total in that is it's an 80 cent raise
[6:21] if you live within the city, $120 if you
live outside of the limits. I said city
[6:28] and village. Uh but that's a$120 if you
live outside the village corporation
[6:34] limits.
>> That's for minimum use.
[6:36] » Yeah, that's minimum use. hadn't gotten
there yet.
[6:42] Uh,
regarding our personnel, we currently
[6:47] have two licensed sewer employees and
one on the street department. Uh, that's
[6:53] just about half of what we had two,
three years ago as far as our village
[6:58] employees. Am I correct on that one?
Well, it's a little
[7:04] we used to have four street department
sewer and a water. So,
[7:08] » so roughly we have
half of that from years past. However,
[7:16] you know, when we talk about our sewer
treatment employees,
[7:21] they do split time with the street
department now. Uh they don't
[7:24] » they always have
>> they always have. It's always been
[7:28] » it's always been kind of a dull role.
Even though they're both licensed, it's
[7:32] nice having them both licensed so one
can show up and the other one can
[7:35] actually have a vacation or a day off or
vice versa. But they have been splitting
[7:41] time with the street department and have
been for well since I've been on council
[7:45] as well. Uh
that's pretty much did I miss anything
[7:51] that we talked about with the sewer
ordinance rate? I did miss speak. I
[7:56] apologize to anyone who was confused
with the
[8:01] the 15 minute prior to this meeting
meeting for the yearly tax budget.
[8:09] I kind of had that mixed up with the
>> thinking that it was going to be a sewer
[8:13] meeting
>> the sewer meeting. So, I apologize for
[8:16] that. That was my error. Uh we did
discuss the pay and benefits ordinance.
[8:21] Uh we're looking at a dollar raise
across the board for all of our
[8:25] employees, which is 14
>> roughly 14
[8:29] » roughly. Uh this includes uh the police
department as well. Uh,
[8:37] one of the main reasons we're looking at
the solid rais is
[8:41] if we continue to carry over 100% of our
budget each year that Amy has worked so
[8:48] diligently at making sure that we are
minding our P's and Q's and carrying
[8:52] over what we need. We could face the
possibility of the county looking at the
[8:58] property taxes that we pay and say,
"Well, the village isn't doesn't need as
[9:03] much as they have in the past." So, if
we can do something to kind of benefit
[9:07] and retain and keep our employees are
doing the best they can for us by giving
[9:13] them a little bit more in their pocket,
that dollar raise, then I think that's
[9:18] kind of a fair trade-off to where we
won't be gigged as hard if the county so
[9:22] chooses.
Uh
[9:30] yeah, that's what I have on that one.
Okay.
[9:33] » Anything else? Did I miss anything?
[9:37] » All right, moving on to park.
[9:43] » So, we met tonight. We got the
headquarters being reordered. over
[9:49] threatening
[9:52] east side for now that should be done
this weekend correct
[9:57] » by we are WL and
then we also discuss nature works grand
[10:06] allocation of 13,000 funds for the porch
room to the stage to provide sun
[10:12] protection uh also help sound equipment
we want It is 1,500,600
[10:19] and then we also suggest the land and
water grant to apply for the rest of the
[10:24] other items needed for the water birds
part of the hiking dugout paths and
[10:29] session. So for nature work city 1500 or
15,000
[10:35] 15,000.
[10:39] » Okay. Moving on to planning commission
local.
[10:44] » We did have a little discussion tonight.
Not the actual planning commission
[10:48] group, but we've been discussing some of
the alley issues that we have. the
[10:53] there's been some requests for vacating
alleys and trying to find a good
[10:57] compromise for all parties involved with
that. Uh but it's a lot of whatifs. So,
[11:04] it's kind of up to the property owner at
this point, I believe. So, that's it for
[11:09] tonight.
>> Okay. Planning Commission County.
[11:14] » Oh, not
>> public works.
[11:18] » Uh we just met earlier as usual. Uh,
>> sorry I skipped public safety.
[11:24] » Skipping back to public safety. Sorry.
[laughter]
[11:32] » Uh, we discussed emergency operations
plan.
[11:37] So
recommendation 1120
[11:41] 25 to grade one. If scheduling work
meetings, notify eborn to notify the
[11:48] public of the meeting date and time.
And we talked about cyber security
[11:53] program documents sent uh for review and
will be a continual work in progress.
[12:02] Uh ebikes, e scooter, safety. Uh helmets
must be worn by anyone under the age of
[12:09] 18.
Only one rider per bike or scooter. No
[12:15] riding on sidewalks.
Obey all traffic laws.
[12:22] Current problems with ebikes and e
scooters, dirt bikes, damaging property,
[12:29] water works, park making tracks and the
ground onto private property running
[12:36] over the parking blocks. We wheelies and
the streets, mosquito spray the week of
[12:44] the 20th before homecoming.
Oh, hang
[12:54] » back to me.
County Brown 41 page.
[13:01] [laughter]
>> Uh, so we have
[13:07] we are looking to submit for paving
projects on Fifth, 6th, Indian Circle,
[13:12] West 7th, and Rear 7th. Uh we have the
match funds currently in the 203 fund
[13:19] which is the income tax fund that is
designated for that. Uh we'd be working
[13:25] through the county to get these done. Um
>> it'll be in 2017.
[13:31] » Yeah, that paving would didn't write
that down. That paving would actually be
[13:35] happening in 2027,
which is actually a good thing because
[13:39] if timing is right, we can have some of
our storm basins placed on those roads
[13:44] and be getting the safe route to school
sidewalks in the same areas as planned.
[13:50] So everything would be kind of like
fresh and new.
[13:54] So the big topic tonight with public's
works is uh petition ditch. As we've
[14:00] discussed in the past, we've had a lot
of issues mainly stemming from the Kirk
[14:05] Green
issues that's have collapsed since the
[14:09] 40s.
Uh this is what's leading to a lot of
[14:13] our more recent flooding is the water
has nowhere to go, so it's just finding
[14:18] its way into our village.
The main fix to this would be to do a
[14:25] petition ditch.
Uh there's a lot of information out
[14:29] there with those, but
with this,
[14:34] everybody that's affected by the ditch
would be signing a petition. And
[14:38] currently, it's affecting 985 households
along the ditch route and some of the
[14:48] shootoffs of the main ditch.
Uh this could be combination of open
[14:54] ditch culverts, maybe expanding some
retaining ponds, moving some dishes
[15:00] around. Uh we're hoping to get the
county on board to kind of alleviate
[15:06] some of our personal
hindrances or however you want to say
[15:12] it.
>> The project itself will be a county
[15:14] project. We're just hoping they take
some financial burden off of us. that
[15:18] that was the way I was want to say
without saying wish the county would
[15:23] handle this but the county would be
handling the project
[15:27] uh they would be taking over all
operations maintain maintenance etc.
[15:36] If the county doesn't take on the
financial burden, we'd be looking at
[15:40] posting a bond of $8,140.
[15:46] Uh that would be coming out of the sewer
fund.
[15:52] And
we'll probably have some more
[15:55] discussions on this before we finalize
anything. But it's kind of a big deal.
[16:00] This is something that we have been
focused on. And I know Jesse has taken a
[16:05] lot of personal interest in this and has
been working very diligently with this
[16:09] and anything report doesn't show what
she's been dealing with for the past two
[16:14] years to get some kind of resolution
here to
[16:21] keep the rain from all the surrounding
hills
[16:24] playing in our little valley here.
>> And this is the one to the south of the
[16:29] village. This does not include the
Lafayette,
[16:32] » correct?
>> Just
[16:33] » Yeah. to the south of the village. And
as she said, that's from County or
[16:37] County Road or Township Road.
>> County Road 151
[16:40] » down to uh Shoemaker Farm.
So, it's a massive
[16:46] long ditch that was maintained years ago
by each farmer and it's been kind of
[16:52] forgotten over the years and here we are
with it now trying to fix it.
[16:58] And I think that's it. Unless I miss
something else.
[17:03] » Okay.
Records retention.
[17:07] » We have a meeting this Wednesday, July
15th at 2 o'clock here at Chambers
[17:14] next time.
>> All right. That would be so exciting.
[17:17] » Yeah.
[17:20] » Department reports fired.
[17:25] Good evening.
[17:36] uh London June the total of 20 calls
building fire grass fire outside rubbish
[17:43] fire two medical
two wrecks with injuries three without
[17:49] injuries search
three aircraft standbys
[17:55] all what's This year today 125 posts
a $500 loss. Last month the old trailer
[18:03] was getting scrapped puts us at 94,550
for the year down about 10 rounds from
[18:11] last year.
[18:15] Uh four calls of village three in
Lafayette Township, seven in Oxford
[18:19] Township, two in Lenu and three.
[18:25] Thank you.
>> Let's talk about the fireworks.
[18:30] [clears throat and laughter]
[18:32] So on Saturday evening, I haven't talked
to the police chief yet, but we will be
[18:38] blocking off the entire road side.
[18:44] There will be nowhere to park where you
can see
[18:49] they're all going to try to get in there
at parking set up. That's within the 800
[18:55] foot river. They will not be allowed in
there.
[18:58] » I personally would like to just close
Waterworks Park.
[19:01] » That's my opinion.
>> That way you don't have any traffic in
[19:05] and out.
>> And my farm is not an option either.
[19:08] » Then you'll be done by them.
>> And my farm is not an option either. The
[19:11] farm's fine.
>> No, it's that's private property. That's
[19:15] all
>> I'm not
[19:20] [laughter]
actually.
[19:25] » So the other thing on fireworks, just as
a reminder, we do have an ordinance
[19:30] preventing fireworks inside the village
limits.
[19:34] Anybody outside village limits needs to
read and understand they are hired fire.
[19:40] There's certain times the nation who are
allowed fire consumer grandf. fireworks.
[19:48] We're having a lot of trouble with
people trying to go outside the states
[19:56] question.
[20:03] I can tell you the biggest one. It was
the weekend before July 4th, the July
[20:07] 4th weekend and the weekend after the
New Year's Eve,
[20:13] June 19th.
That's way more than I would come up
[20:17] with.
>> Yeah.
[20:19] » Memorial Day,
[20:22] » Labor Day.
[20:32] » Thank you.
>> Thank you.
[20:34] » You too.
>> This officer.
[20:39] » Okay. As Christie Christy mentioned in
her report, uh we did have our tax
[20:43] budget public hearing at 6:45 this
evening. Nobody attending to review the
[20:48] tax budget for 2027. Um but I do need to
ask for a roll call vote to have that
[20:55] budget approved so that I can submit it
to the county auditor's office later
[20:59] this week.
>> Motion to approve the 2027 tax budget.
[21:05] » Second.
>> Co.
[21:08] » Yes. Maple,
>> yes.
[21:10] » Percy,
>> yes.
[21:11] » Mau,
>> yes.
[21:12] » Yoho,
>> thank you. Um, and the county budget
[21:18] commission will be having their meeting
on Monday, August 3rd at 5:30 at the
[21:23] community room in Koshakton. And I will
be attending that, and I believe, yes,
[21:28] Jesse will be attending that with me.
>> Um, the single audit should be resuming
[21:34] later this month. I haven't heard on an
exact date yet, but they should be back
[21:38] later this month to finish wrapping
things up with that. Hopefully that'll
[21:42] be done soon. And that's all I have for
this evening. A bill for approval.
[21:48] » All right. Please.
>> Good evening.
[21:51] » Good evening.
>> Of course. My name is Patrolman King.
[21:55] I'm this evening to read the monthly
report for June 2026.
[22:00] Uh, cost for service 565, business
checks 373, reports taken 22, felony
[22:07] arrest zero. Uh, misdemeanor arrest 12,
juvenile arrest three, traffic stops 31,
[22:13] citations issued, nine, traffic crashes,
two, ov two, warrants, warrant arrest,
[22:20] zero, civil paper services, uh, zero,
and fuel use $900.
[22:27] Any question? Is that a new mustache?
>> I'm working.
[22:33] » I mean, you know. [laughter]
[22:41] » All right. Solisser,
[22:46] » I don't have anything. Tammy, I sent you
a text earlier though. Um, we're going
[22:52] to have a a hearing coming up this week.
So, uh, if you could just stick with me
[22:56] and, uh, let me know what the current
status is,
[23:00] uh, for that case, I'd appreciate it.
>> I will.
[23:04] » Thank you.
>> You're welcome.
[23:05] » Thank you.
>> Village administrator, you're up.
[23:09] » Good evening.
>> Good evening.
[23:10] » I have uh just a couple things. The
first is some items from the police
[23:17] department to declare surplus. They're
up on the screen if you wanted to see
[23:22] pictures. It's old cruiser, the back
seats of cruisers and
[23:28] tool boxes,
old refrigerator,
[23:33] old printer,
mailboxes, things like that. And some of
[23:38] the items are definitely
[23:43] not usable, not sellable. So those will
be disposed of and then the other items
[23:48] we'll try to sell on gov deals. So, if
we could have a roll call vote for those
[23:53] items, that would be good
to approve me to to declare them surplus
[24:00] and approve selling or disposing.
>> Make a motion to uh declare the police
[24:06] items as surplus or disposal. Thank you.
>> Mau,
[24:13] » yes.
>> Yoh,
[24:14] » yes.
>> Co,
[24:16] » yes.
>> Percy,
[24:17] » yes.
>> Maple,
[24:18] » yes.
Thank you. Then I don't have a picture
[24:22] of this one regrettably, but we have our
old street sweeper
[24:26] uh that
we sold and thought we could try it out
[24:33] again and tried to repair it. Uh we
exhausted the repair efforts on that and
[24:39] it's still not um
[24:44] in functioning. It won't function. So,
we're going to have to get rid of it
[24:48] again. I could try to sell it for parts
on gov deals. I'd like that declared
[24:52] surplus. We're We are I have rented a uh
attachment that fits on this uh skid
[25:00] steer that will sweep and pick up debris
from the streets and it's working out
[25:06] very well for them. It's 1,400 or
something a month to rent that. And um
[25:14] finally for
the first time in a long time we're
[25:18] getting things cleaned up and don't have
to rely on somebody else to come up and
[25:22] do it. So, and the sewer and street guys
have been working on that for the last
[25:28] couple weeks and they're very happy with
the the results it's getting them. So, I
[25:34] think we can go this route for the next
few years. It's pretty inexpensive
[25:40] than buying a whole new piece of
equipment. So, or a new used piece of
[25:44] equipment. Say you need a motion to
declare the street sweeper surplus.
[25:49] » Motion to declare the street sweeper
surplus again.
[25:54] » Thank you.
>> Thank you.
[25:57] » Co,
>> yes.
[25:59] » Percy,
>> yes.
[26:00] » Maple,
>> yes.
[26:01] » Yoho,
>> yes.
[26:02] » Mau,
>> yes.
[26:04] » Thank you. Uh, the last thing I had was
um the sidewalks for this year are
[26:10] coming along very well. the we do have
one last section to complete. It's the
[26:16] 100 block of South Kirk Street and we're
actually
[26:22] um going to take out the curve lawn in
that section and it will allow us to
[26:28] widen the street a little bit. It's that
section we're talking about right now.
[26:32] We're waiting on utility poles to be
moved and that should happen hopefully
[26:38] very soon and
they'll get back in there and finish
[26:43] that section of sidewalk. Yeah. Um
the if
[26:49] if you have cones around your homes, if
you had sidewalk done, cones with in
[26:54] front of your driveway approach or
something, you can move those cones and
[27:00] use your sidewalk or your driveway
approach. The crew just left town and
[27:04] didn't take those up because there were
still things drying when they did leave
[27:08] town. So,
they can just be moved out of your way
[27:12] for now for anybody that would have
those.
[27:15] And the um when they're done pouring the
concrete in that last section is when
[27:22] they will come back and back fill along
the edges of this new sidewalk. And then
[27:27] they will seed it and put straw down to
regrow the grass. So the back fill will
[27:32] be a little bit yet, but total project
they have until actually the end of
[27:36] July. So it should be finishing up
pretty quick. That's it. Thank you.
[27:44] Okay, moving on to the introduction of
ordinances and resolutions. 2026-34,
[27:51] an ordinance establishing 2026 pay and
benefits scheduled for the village of
[27:55] West Lafayette and repealing ordinances
and resolutions in conflict here with
[27:59] this is the first reading. 2026-35,
an ordinance establishing sewer rates
[28:04] and sewer regulations for the village of
West Lafayette, amending ordinances and
[28:08] resolutions in conflict here with this
is the first reading. 2026-38,
[28:14] a resolution authorizing the mayor of
the village of West Lafayette to prepare
[28:17] and submit an application to participate
in the Ohio works public works
[28:21] commission OPWC small government fund
program and to execute contracts as
[28:26] required. This is the second reading at
an emergency. Um,
[28:31] no other business
bills have been around.
[28:36] » Yes. Motion
[28:40] second.
Maple,
[28:44] » yes.
>> Mau,
[28:45] » yes.
>> Co,
[28:46] » yes.
>> Yoho,
[28:48] » yes.
>> Percy,
[28:49] » yes.
>> And with no other business, just looking
[28:52] for a motion to
>> I'd like to say something real quick.
[28:55] Just want to say thank you to that um
village member that wrote the email with
[29:01] her concerns about the uh tax thing.
That's the kind of thing I was talking
[29:05] about the last meeting we had, but it
was occurring people to get involved. So
[29:09] um it was a very polite letter um just
asking questions. So just encourage
[29:15] everybody else if they have questions do
the same thing
[29:17] » and very valid questions.
>> Very valid question. Yes. And so I just
[29:20] want to say thank you for doing that.
That's the only way we can know what
[29:24] your concerns are. And it also helps us
become better too. We sit here and we
[29:29] sometimes can't see the forest through
the trees because we're we're talking
[29:32] but without your input. We really don't
know what sometimes you really wander to
[29:36] look look at. So feel free to get a hold
of us and we'll look a little deeper and
[29:43] approve ourselves as well.
>> And I do hope that I answer the
[29:45] questions that they had.
>> No, [snorts]
[29:51] no other business.
>> Make a motion to second.
[29:56] » Second
[29:59] fight over it. [laughter] Percy,
>> yes.
[30:03] » Co.
>> Yes.
[30:04] » Maple.
>> Yes.
[30:05] » Mau.
>> Yes. vote.
[30:07] » We are adjourned.