right
welcome everyone to the Bexley city
council meeting today is Tuesday
September 24th
2024 uh we are so excited that you could
join us at this time I would invite
anyone who is in the audience that has a
speaker slip to please hand that to uh
the city's um mayor's assistant or to
our city
auditor and I would ask our city auditor
to please call the role
Miss F I'm still here Mr Silverman here
Mr Markham Mr Hurley pres Mr Marcelino
yes Miss sad yes and Miss Lamy here
please rise and join me for the Pledge
of
Allegiance Pledge Allegiance FL United
States of America and to the for it
stands naice
Council I wanted to thank everyone for
getting here at five o'clock um today so
that we could have our budget discussion
I found that to be very informative and
uh we don't have any shortage of good
ideas for the 2025
budget um we are now going to um turn to
our very special guests with us tonight
is is Kanda Benner um and her
16-year-old son who are going to speak
with us about the Pediatric Cancer
Awareness Month mayor um would you like
to welcome our guests welcome guests how
you doing good Ben kler good to see you
hi thanks mayor we were all set to push
the green button ourselves oh you're so
good so we can we have a proclamation
but maybe we'll do that after you speak
sure yeah okay good all right um so as
your council president said my name is
Kanda Benner and this is my son Luke
Benner um at age four Luke was diagnosed
with leukemia and it totally came out of
left field um Luke endured three and a
half years of chemotherapy at our uh
home away from home Nationwide
Children's Hospital um which included
not only daily chemotherapy but 22
spinal taps four bone marob biopsies
several blood transfusions and several
Len lengthy hospital stays he lost his
beautiful curly hair two times and had
to have two ports placed because the
first one malfunction because of too
much chemo being pumped through his body
that chemo by the way is the same chemo
that adults get um for the same type of
cancer that Luke had Luke still has some
long-term side effects that he deals
with um but here he is today standing
totally
healthy p p
okay pediatric pediatric cancer receives
4% of the national funding for research
while 15,000 kids per year in in the
United States are diagnosed with cancer
and it is the leading cause of death by
disease in children there are 150 kids
at Nation children's hospital diagnosed
each year which is where I was treated
and a lot of kids get cancer too today I
am 16 years old and I am Junior at
northmore high school and also taking
welding classes at Pioneer I'm I in the
marshan band and play trumpet in the
tuba I'm I'm on the varsity Golf and
bowling teams and an academic scholar
and the athlete I volunteer for
organizations like nc4k friends of Po
per pin foundation and the practice and
participate in jog at North mo at
school doing work with the northmore
community so we just want to thank you
for allowing us to attend today to tell
Luke's story and to educate all of you
about the importance of recognizing
pediatric cancer awareness month every
September even though kids get cancer
every day what you may be wondering is
why we drove all the way to Bexley um in
1995 I was blessed to be able to
graduate and uh be a lion from uh Bexley
high school it's like my home away from
home I have very fond memories of
growing up here and my husband and I
along with our two other boys would
occasionally come back to Bexley um
after treatment in nation children and
we always just felt like this was home
so what a wonderful Community grew up in
with rabinos and Fourth of July um
parades and definitely Johnson's ice
cream uh so but what we want you to know
is that really pediatric cancer can
affect any child from any background any
race in any City it's important to
continue to fight and honor all of these
amazing kids every chance we get thank
you thank you so much
so I have a proclamation um and through
your leadership and your advocacy we're
here today issuing this Proclamation so
I want to appreciate you for that and
for for raising awareness and I see I
can see the the the look on the faces of
my fellow leaders here at the city of
beex how much this means to us all of us
and how much we really care about the
cause that you are here to support so
I'm going to read this Proclamation but
it kind of pales into comparison with
what you've been through and with the
work that you guys are
doing whereas Childhood Cancer is the
leading cause of death by disease and
children and on average more than 290
children in the United States are
diagnosed each week in addition to the
mental and emotional distress this
disease can cause two-thirds of
Childhood cancer patients will also have
chronic health conditions as a result of
their treatment
toxicity and whereas countless dedicated
researchers Health Care Professionals
work diligently to treat and cure
children with cancer and while the
tireless work in research toward a cure
for cancer continues too many children
and families are impacted by this deadly
disease and more must be done to raise
awareness and to find a cure therefore I
Ben Kessler mayor of the city of Bexley
proclaim the month of December sorry
sure two
sep September 2024 is Childhood Cancer
Awareness Month
next
y want a picture we always
offer
pictures let me get our official camera
okay
you
want all
right there you
go thank you again
you Luke and Kanda I think one of our um
Luke and Kanda I think one of our
council members uh either has a question
or a comment for you Mr Silverman I just
um I wanted to thank you Luke my wife is
a recovery from childhood L kimy herself
she spent her childhood in an out of
Nationwide she went professionally to
work for Nationwide as an adult for 14
years she's now at Ohio State but um she
Advocates every day of her life just as
you are so I just wanted to applaud you
and tell you thank you for what for
doing it's very near dear to me thank
you thank you stories like that also
give us hope so tell her thanks and keep
fighting thank you thank you again so
much for
coming right Mr fishal over to you for
ordinances with special guests couple of
first readings po Jess is not used to
sitting next to me we have a read first
reading of resolution 6-24 approving the
petition for special assessments for
special energy Improvement projects and
affidavit under Ohio Revised Code
chapter 1710 declaring the necessity of
acquiring constructing installing
equiping and improving certain public
improvements in the city of Bexley Ohio
in cooperation with the Columbus
Regional energy special improvement
district and declaring an emergency um
introduced by m sad I guess that's a
second reading my bad um and a second
reading of ordinance
28-24 approving the necessity of certain
public improvements in the city of
Bexley Ohio determining to proceed with
those improvements leving special
assessments for the purpose of paying
the cost of those improvements approving
a Cooperative agreement and a special
assessment mou with respect to the
special assessments and dispensing with
three readings um introduced by Ms sad
as well
all right thank you for being here
tonight absolutely thanks for having
me we will let you go ahead and perfect
appreciate it yes so just want to
introduce thank you Jason uh is Jason I
always mispronounce your last name I'm
not gonna try T Meer T Meer there we go
from Bricker Gren yep uh who is Council
to the uh Columbus Regional energy
special improvement district uh here on
behalf of the regional Eid
um just got to hang out with Jason a
little bit this afternoon at our monthly
board meeting yep um Jason and his
colleagues are experts in Pace financing
and present nationally on it uh and work
very actively within the state of Ohio
so um I we we asked him uh through the
invitation of our council president and
Justa to come and answer your questions
you all had about Pace
financing I explained to Jason we had a
presentation at the last council meeting
and uh that he's here to answer any
questions uh that you might have and or
you know provide any background yep so
kind of open it up to the floor I
suppose makes sense and may maybe before
we get going with questions just one
note um I noticed uh and mayor brought
this up before uh there was a notation
in the ordinance to uh dispensing with
three readings were not seeking
dispensation of the third reading uh the
intention is this will come before
Council for the third reading in pass M
at the first meeting in October however
uh the project is seeking uh immediate
Effectiveness upon execution by the
mayor uh rather than you know waiting
for the 30-day referendum period in
order to allow for the sale of the uh uh
Columbus uh Franklin County Finance
Authority bonds that are financing the
pace portion of this project um so just
wanted to clarify that uh before we got
started but yes happy to answer any
questions that anybody may have about
Pace or this project I'm sure uh you all
are very well versed in this project and
probably know more about the ins and
outs of the development project itself
than I do but uh definitely uh happy to
answer any questions that anybody may
have or uh discuss whatever comes mind
could you maybe just dumb it down for
for me a little bit and give me an
overview of what pace is and how it
impacts Bexley absolutely so Pace
financing or property assessed clean
energy financing is ESS is is
essentially a mechanism that's
authorized by Ohio law by which a
property owner can undertake uh Energy
Efficiency or Alternative Energy
financing or projects on their property
request a special assessment be levied
on that property and then utilize that
special assessment as a form of
repayment and security for financing
that they may receive uh for that
project um so it was originally
authorized in about 2009 uh really
expanded in 2010 2011 to allow for
broader use and has been used heavily in
Ohio since about 2015
2016
yes I think last council meeting mayor
Kesler made mention that it wasn't
available for residential use So when
you say individuals you're talking about
business that's correct uh the the
statute is originally written did not
exclude uh residential property per se
and actually there was a time where we
were seeking to generate a a program
that would allow for it however in the
last couple of years there were some
amendments to Ohio law to make it a lot
more difficult to use on Residential
Properties so that's exactly correct
when we're looking at the pace Market in
Ohio we're really specifically talking
about commercial
facilities what are the financial costs
to Beckley if this Council passes this
resolution and the other ordinance uh
Beckley is not on the hook for any
portion of this uh the role of Bexley in
this transaction is to receive the
petition from the property owner for the
levy of these special assessments uh to
uh consider the legislation to allow for
the special assessments the special
assessments themselves are collected via
the traditional property tax collection
and distribution process with the county
there'll be a line item on the property
owner's tax bill for the amount of the
special assessments that is collected in
those semiannual installments the county
will then distribute those funds uh via
the traditional property tax collection
and distribution cycle and the city's
role would be to receive funds from the
county uh should there be no funds
should be there be an nonpayment there's
no responsibility of Bexley there's no
expectation that Bexley pays Bexley like
I said is not on the hook for any of
this it's solely to receive funds that
is actually received from the county
through the collection process and then
transmit those funds uh to the in this
case the bond trustee uh to ensure the
repayment of the Columbus Franklin
County Finance Authority bonds um for
that uh for the project thank you uh
Miss vible
absolutely well Administration that's a
great question um actually I think
there's a thirdparty administrator that
assists us whenever the assessment
occurs and kind of pushes pushes
everything through to go from the uh any
receipts that are received and then go
back over and Jason could kind of
explain that mechanism more yeah the the
the Columbus Frankl County Authority
will intimately involved with this is it
is their bonds outstanding and will'll
ensure that the process is complied with
there's a trustee bank that that uh
underlies the that you know stands
behind the is involved in the bond
transaction as well um so from the city
perspective there'll be a lot of
administrative support to ensure that
the prop the amounts get paid as they're
supposed to functionally is the property
uh tax payments come in through the uh
collection of distribution process it
will be you know through the finance
department uh but it would just be one
to two times a year depending on
property tax a property owner pays their
property taxes once annually or uh
semiannually so it doesn't sound like
it's going to be super time consuming
for and the idea is that we're
supporting this because other
communities obviously think that it's
fabulous and that we think
that
Welles yeah and we we have joined on to
the regional did for this purpose uh so
actually Megan I don't think is really
going to be fortunately a huge piece of
this because I think the funds come in
through the tax taxes that are
distributed the finance director
receives those the finance director will
get a a nice reminder uh hey you just
got a
$600,000 check from the uh Franklin
County Treasurer you need to get that
and push that on over to the Franklin
County Finance Authority uh we would
disperse that appropriately so there's a
little bit more there's a little bit of
administrative oversight but it's um you
know it's it's a process that is pretty
straightforward it's money in Money out
um and uh we will have excellent
reminders coming from the uh the lender
who needs obviously to to capture the
payment it's a powerful tool for for
encouraging energy efficient
improvements it's a you know Ohio is not
alone there's many states throughout the
country that offer Pace financing what
we are doing here is it's it's an
economic incentive that we are providing
this tool to Property Owners to
commercial property owners and you might
remember Beckley led the way in creating
a residential PACE program um we
socialized it too and we were talking
about an entire State weight process and
as Jason referred to it it got a little
bit shot down at the state level but we
had a great thing great idea there um
but back to to commercial property um
the uh the incentive the offer to
Property Owners provides you know the
the runway to really have a successful
program good questions Mr Silverman did
you have a question yeah would this be
something that would be marketed from
the city of Bexley is it is it marketed
from pace and then they just can find
that we have if we choose to pass this
that we're a locality that can benefit
from it so it can be a mix of both um
it's definitely something that we've
seen
communities utilize as a proactive
Economic Development Tool uh you know
when they're talking to local businesses
that may be looking to do development
projects or uh revitalization projects
we've seen communities you know promote
that they you know are aware of pace and
are supportive of pace um the way the
market has grown so far has been a bit
more uh you know there's certain
developers that have utilized Pace in a
number of transactions and like what it
can do like the uh Environmental uh you
know impacts that they can help uh
promote with with their projects and so
utilize Pace to uh continue those
efforts um you know the Columbus
Franklin County Finance Authority has
been a key partner through the growth of
pace in central Ohio uh they've got an
active Pace uh financing uh program and
and I know uh uh you know are often
talking about developers about the
benefits of pace financing um so it's
really you know there's a lot of
different ways that it can grow uh but
it is something that we have seen
communities use in a pro as a proactive
tool um when they're talking with with
developers and property owners and I and
to piggy back off of that we do already
have the mechanism for pace and Beckley
that's how we're a member of the
regional Sid um and we do speak with
developers about it so Continental has
used this in the past in other projects
but it was definitely an early
conversation Point like you know
reminder pace is something that we you
know you can use in Bexley um it was
something we talked to Crawford hin
about back when there was a potential
development a Gateway South so it's
something we actively use with the the
development Community when we're
promoting it Mr Mr mCP um and I know
this was said before who do you
represent in this transaction so my firm
is general counsel to the Columbus
Regional energy special Improvement uh
District in this transaction we are also
serving as bond councel for the pace
bond that is being issued by the
Columbus Franklin County Finance
Authority okay okay okay and then based
on your experience is there anything
unique to what we're looking at with
these or this resolution and
ordinance um that's different than what
you would see in other municipalities or
cities doing this yeah so that's a great
question so this project is a bit unique
in its structure um you know
traditionally with with a pace financing
transaction uh you see a third-party uh
uh Capital provider come in and provide
essentially a loan to the local property
owner to do their project the special
assessments serve as that repayment
mechanism and I also mentioned the
security mechanism you know because
these are special assessments they are
subject to the state's lean for doing
unpaid taxes the remedies involved are
just the same as if a property owner
does not pay their property taxes that's
that super secure lean position that's
why this Market has
grown with uh this transaction one of
the kind of interesting aspects is that
there's a bond financing component as
well um that is something that other
states have as almost a requirement that
there be a bond financing component Ohio
does not have that requirement but there
are certain projects this is not first
project to utilize a bond structure
where an issuer is issuing a bond then
the proceeds of which are going to be
utilized for the project so that's one
of the interesting aspects of this one
and I think part of it is just due to
the size of the transaction it's a
relatively large paac transaction as
well as the fact that the Columbus
Franklin County Finance Authority is
issuing a second Bond uh backed by Tiff
revenues uh so there's kind of already a
bond structure in place so it made sense
to utilize that structure for this past
uh financing as well so it's just so
what's unique is would be the layers of
financing that are on this project
compared to other municipalities that
that's correct from from a legislation
perspective the legislation is fairly
similar okay uh for all all transactions
the Ohio revised code is pretty clear on
the legislative steps for instituting a
special assessment uh one of the you
know interesting things with Pace
financing this exists for any sort of
petition for special assessment that's
not exclusive to Pace you see petition
for special Assessments in all contexts
is there are uh reduced uh needs for
certain of the um uh due process
requirements that otherwise may be
imposed if a c if a local government was
imposing a special assessment without
the request of the pro affected Property
Owners you know in that instance it's a
tax- likee item that's being imposed on
a property owner but if the property
owner is the one requesting it the uh
statutes allow for them to wave some of
those due process considerations which
is what allows for uh you know the
pieces of legislation to be considered
together to have immediate effect to not
have some of these other hearings that
are unnecessary when the property owner
is the one who's themselves coming
forward uh with the amount of special
assessments that's necessary for the
project thank you so much missad can you
give us some examples of the special
assessments oh absolutely so the most
common would be something like streets
or sidewalks um a special assessment is
really a tool to allow for uh localized
uh you know projects to be funded by
localized property owners the idea is
that the properties that are specially
benefited from a project would be the
ones to foot the bill essentially and so
there's a whole swath of items that a
municipality traditionally has powers to
Levy special assessments for uh like I
said sidewalks street lights um you know
certain roadway projects or are some of
the more common ones uh where we see
communities Levy special assessments uh
there's also situations where in the
petition for special assessment cont
context let's say you have uh a street
of property owners that have a privately
owned street that needs certain
improvements they may come together and
request a petition for special
assessment of the local government to
ensure that there's Revenue to pay for
that uh that private roadway uh uh uh
project that needs to be done um another
uh common one we see are non-energy
special Improvement districts so for
instance there's two what we call
special Improvement districts uh in the
city of Columbus Capital Crossroads and
I'm blanking on the other one right now
actually three Discovery thank you and
there's the East Main Street s which is
an East War as East perfect thank you
for the reminder and so in that
situation you'll see Property Owners
come together and request a special
assessment to pay for beautification
projects additional security additional
informational items so there's really a
broad range special assessments
themselves go back centuries uh the use
from them for Pace projects like I said
is a bit of a New Concept uh but it has
been picked up there's I think 36 states
that have PA Pace authorizing
legislation at this point um and and you
know it's tool like I said that's been
around for centuries it's really one of
the oldest Economic Development tools
and and uh uh infrastructure Finance
tools in the state and to bring that to
home to Bexley so we annually have a
special assessments ordinance um in the
past it's often included sidewalk panels
but as you know we stopped doing that
but it's it includes code enforcement
where the work has been performed
because property owner wasn't doing it
and there's a special assessment against
the property for that uh recently with
Columbia place we use special
assessments to recapture the cost of
those improvements and then um with our
our sewer Loan program special
assessments is how we're getting paid
back on that that loan that we're those
loans that we're putting out which is we
haven't done that many of them but um
it's a way that it's like a very secure
mechanism what Jason said if it doesn't
get paid it's a lean on the property
it's not able to be erased other than
being paid out you know through a
foreclosure or auction or that sort of a
process so we will get paid back
eventually M and in this instance we're
not the ones owed the money we are we
are gifting we are not gifting we are
lending the right to use a special
assessment to A lender in this case the
Franklin County Finance Authority to get
get recover the funds that are
owed Mr Hurley Outsourcing that might
just a procedural question um are we
able or can we circulate a copy of the
petition and supplemental plan prior to
third reading that were filed with Clerk
yes and I've also attached we'll get
that attached I've attached to the um
agenda the energy audit and the
improvements that are being um financed
through this okay through this mechanism
I'm just Cur I mean I I have no concerns
with this and Y I just I'm curious what
they're doing so sounds good um any
other questions from Council of our um
special
guest thank you um Mr TM so much for
coming today we really appreciate it you
are certainly welcome to stay for the
rest of our council meeting if you would
like but we understand if you'd prefer
not to I appreciate it thank you very
much for the time appreciate it so much
thank you
Jason yeah see we clap for our
visit yes and and just so council's
aware it looks like we do we have some
maybe amendments coming before the third
reading we've got some uh some things
highlight Ed in some Blanks on these
resolutions and ordinances so just take
a quick look will before the next one I
don't I don't think that their
amendments I think what happened was the
changes that were made by Jason or
whoever else was looking at it showing
up we're showing up so they're not
technically amendments we just need to
clean it up so the the yeah just a
marked up version right it's right now
now I do want to make sure though and I
don't know that this requires an
amendment because it's the not the
actual ordinance but let's make sure we
take off the dispensing with three
readings to be clear and also I presume
I it's been a while since I've looked at
it there is emergency language though
right in the
ordinance I relied so heavily on outside
Council that uh read it think there was
I'll look at it again we'll check for
that yeah I appreciate you're gonna look
at whether not we need to formally amend
it to get rid of that inaccuracy in the
title okay we don't have to formally
amend it we can just get rid of that in
accuracy and then Danny the the
attachments you're looking for the
petition right and the supplemental
plan the the real more just curious what
they're planning I you know I imagine is
pretty sure and we'll get that the the
proposed improvements we have a 19-page
document attached in the it's in the
folder for ordinances with special
guests um it has the financing terms it
has the energy audit the
application all that good stuff so you
can take a look at uh as part of that
sounds great perfect thank you all right
we will keep these off of the consent
agenda and if anybody sees all this and
they say you know what pace is my true
life's passion let me know we could
probably get you on the the regional
[Laughter]
board sounds good okay moving on
to um agenda item number six president's
report I do have a couple things
Council um bear with me just one
moment um I wanted to um share with
Council um some proposed revisions that
uh I wanted Council to consider to our
public speaker policy as well as our
speaker slip um I was able to circulate
that today uh to council um and I wanted
to share a little bit about some of the
highlights and some of the changes that
I wanted uh maybe feedback and input on
um the first was requiring um anyone
who's coming before Council and wishing
to speak to um put on our speaker slip
their legal name and address and
certainly when we have speakers coming
up to the podium uh we are asking them
to share their legal name and address as
well
um the other change that uh is
incorporated um and every council member
should have a proposed and an existing
um but some of the
proposed policy at the end uh it does
include um comments to say that comments
that are abusive disparaging threatening
or intimidating or are considered
personal tax are going to be out of
order um it also clarifies when a
speaker slip is needed versus when it's
not needed
I have heard um over the past year or so
that sometimes it's a little confusing
so one of the other changes that I
proposing is that speaker slips be
required when we are not voting to put
something into legislation so for
example if we are voting on a first or
second reading um given that those are
only first and second readings we would
not be voting on them and putting them
into legislation so in that case a
speaker slip um would be required um a
speaker slip would not be required for
when we are voting on The consent agenda
or a third reading um such as a motion
to adopt um I think if we try to clarify
it for our residents um into that
category are we actually voting into
legislation or not hopefully that would
simplify things um a little as well uh
some members of our um public aren't
able to join us in person so if they
look online and they find our speaker
policy um I've added our city council
email which is city council be.org and
invited them to uh share their thoughts
and concerns with us as as well I think
those are the only potential suggested
changes that um that I put in here and I
would love your input um Mr Hurley I
think I saw your hand up first um I
guess just a couple questions
procedurally will we do we vote on this
I know this is existed this policy do we
actually Vote or is it just kind of
under your PE perview as president a
couple years ago when um well maybe more
than a couple years ago probably 101 15
years ago there was a public speaker
policy put in place um I want to say in
the 2000s it's possible mayor Kessler
may have been on city council at that
time um but the majority of what you see
today is as a result of that previously
enacted speaker policy um certainly in
later years we have tried to uh
modernize it or tweak it um I think last
time we did that probably was when uh
laurianne was our council president and
that was after a subcommittee got
together and worked through some of the
nuances because some of the technology
um and Circumstances had changed so this
has evolved over over time yeah think
that we did vote on it when um um at the
last time um I'm not necessarily asking
that we vote on it tonight if folks
would prefer um but I do want you to
consider it um I don't think the changes
are significant um but at the right time
and when you're comfortable um maybe we
could take a voice if if that would be
the right thing to do um and then just
uh I guess an edit here um uh fourth
Bullet From the Bottom comments that are
abusive disparaging threatening
intimidating you have and our personal
would it be or our personal
attacks yeah just a minor do Andor
that's a good thank you um and then
lastly this is maybe more of just a a
point to you know maybe to Mark is just
do we need to have any language I
mean I I'm not supportive of allowing
just anyone to chime in virtually but do
we need to have some type of
accommodation for I I'm thinking you
know somebody who's maybe confined to
their home but wants to be engaged I
mean I don't want to be
exclusive but I also don't want to get
into a situation that maybe some of our
colleagues in other municipalities have
had recently where people have joined
remotely so I don't know if we need like
a sort of from an I'm guess I'm thinking
from like an ADA standpoint do we need
to have some type
of
accommodation you know you can if you
would like to speak virtually you can
submit a request to count you know
something like that you want to I like
this overall just just a thought so yeah
I think the email you know again if it's
a disability issue that you're obligated
to reasonably accommodate I think the
ability to do it by email is a
reasonable accommodation and doesn't
require us to go any further than that
and I can't see a
thing that Sun's hitting you no those
those are
questions um all right and then I just
thank you Mark that that's that's all
good question then a comment just in
general I mean I I think um our our
existing policy was strong I think these
updates are unfortunately
necessary um I'll say candle is probably
you know I I have been watching I'm
because I'm from Clark County originally
I've watched some of the City of
Springfield City Council meetings and I
think they've got a pretty strong policy
as well and unfortunately it it's a risk
right so um I'm glad we're making these
updates I would say that as soon as it's
practical let's get these in place um
and and I you know I know some folks in
other cities will be eager to look at
what we're doing here because I think we
we set a very good example that thank
you Mr Silverman did I see your hand up
yeah councilman Hurley kind of touched
on I didn't know if we needed a bullet
point to say that we do not allow uh
online comments they are we allow
emailing but I think it was responded
that we're adequately covered here um to
only allow public speakers to come to
council to talk and to avoid
having um speakers on online thank you
for for those comments um does council
feel like they would oh Mr Markham I'm
sorry I didn't see your hand I just I'm
curious is it one change here the
final the final public comment now
requires a speaker slip yes okay so
that's one of the because we are not
voting that's correct um when previously
there's no speaker slip for that that's
correct as I guess I would suggest maybe
you already are doing this but there
would be an opportunity to submit
speaker slips at some point during the
meeting for that those tend to be
comments that would be in reflection of
things that have happened in the meeting
that's just a suggestion okay I
appreciate the
suggestion thoughts from other folks
would would Council like um another
couple weeks to to think about this do
we think that maybe we're ready for both
Voice vote tonight Mr Marcelino I
believe this came through this afternoon
when I was traveling so I'm I'm
especially since we're dealing with the
First Amendment i' would like an
opportunity to take a look make sure
that I've had ample time to review
though I do agree with the comments so
far that I think it's strong but I would
like it a couple weeks that sounds good
thank you so much Council for uh your
input and
consideration um that was the first part
of my president's report um the second
part was to wish our City attorney a
very belated happy 21st
birthday yes you are finally you are
finally finally
21 times three almost that's right um I
also wanted to uh compliment um our land
use strategy folks who have worked so
hard on that commission I know um I
believe council member Markham council
member Hurley are are on that Mr
Marcelino are you on that been there
okay well they had their public Workshop
um just a couple weeks ago and when I
tell you that the amount of expertise
and thought and consideration that has
gone into that public Workshop it was
beyond impressive thank you so
much um I I believe that if memory
serves me correctly the next thing that
would happen over the next couple months
is that the administration and the
commission is going to to take all of
that public input that they received at
that workshop and then start to put
something in writing so uh for for
council's consideration and ultimate
vote when the time is right am I right
about that mayor yeah that's correct and
um first I think the commission is gonna
vote on it and then and forward to
council great great thank you um and
then before our next city council
meeting um we do not meet until after
October 7th
but in just a few weeks on that date we
will be marking the one-year
anniversary of the deadliest attack on
Jews since the
Holocaust and unfortunately the
senseless Slaughter and
execution of our Jewish Community as
well as the taking of innocent
hostages is almost
unimaginable but sadly it did happen and
it's ongoing this
day I said this shortly after October
7th last year and I'll say it again that
I stand with our Jewish Community our
neighbors our
families and that I feel we are so lucky
in
Bexley to have that Community build
every aspect of our daily
lives we are always with
them and in alwayss with our neighbors
and friends and our
family um so just keep that in mind the
next time that we meet as a council that
Oney year anniversary will have
passed and I urge you to keep our Jewish
community and your thoughts and
prayers all right moving on to public
comments regarding items not on the
agenda Mr PE do we have any speaker
slips we do have a speaker slip um Miss
Lewis Miss Lewis would you please give
us your legal name and address Constance
Lewis 663 eclair and I was um able to
listen to all the comments during your
budget meeting and I was just excited
about all the dreams you have and I
think that's wonderful great ideas um
but I would like you to also consider
some funding for historic preservation
process um we have a beautiful city and
I would like you
to help people maintain those beautiful
slate roofs and those lovely leaded
Windows uh it may require some some
monies for funding for surveys part of
the process and education so I would
like you to consider that part of the
process thank you thank you so much
Mr City attorney over to you I don't
have a report but I do have one comment
about one thing to think about that I
was going to call you about but I'll
forget because I already forgot once on
the on the um on the policy the public
speaking policy um perhaps we also want
to make it so there's no requirement for
speaker slips on consistent with what
you said on any first or second reading
that is going to be with suspension and
adoption just again just to keep the be
consistent with that um also again the
other thing I would say is and I know
you know in speaking with Mo'Nique that
part of this is modernization part of
this is a reaction to some of the stuff
we've read about in Springfield and
Worthington and probably other places
too I just would caution everybody as
you're looking at this not to get too
word Smithy and too ultimately what I
would say is too cute and think that
because there are first important First
Amendment issues and I would I I think
think when when all is send done less is
probably more and you know the language
whether it's what's in there right now
or with some slight tweaks would be
sufficient I think to be able to give
the city the tools council president in
particular the tools to shut down some
of that hate speech that we have heard
and thankfully haven't heard you here
yet so again just a couple thoughts as
you're looking at
it good advice thank you Mr auditor over
to you no
report um do want to share with Council
that we've discussed uh maybe in the
future having quarterly reports or
updates to council regarding loan
balances we've discussed
having quarterly or frequent updates on
loan
balances but yeah no you know as follow
up to that and all joking I mean what
what we are talking about constantly is
just how do we create and provide more
visibility to counsil on the things that
are important so whether that's um
investment strategy loan balances
whatever it may be it's understanding
what's important to you and making sure
that the visibility exists there and um
loan balances is one of those items um
so working with Carrie to figure out
exactly just the right Cadence and um
you know how to present it in a
meaningful way that you can get
something out of it and thank you for
suggesting that sort of regular update
into council member sad as finan chair
for wanting Council to have as much
information as possible I really
appreciate that Mr Mayor over to you for
administrative updates thank you Madame
President
um our finance director is at the
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Ohio Society of fiscal
officer conference that works something
like that ohsa oh something no that
doesn't make sense that's the athletic
thing it's close enough anyway so Carrie
is not here this evening uh but she will
be presenting financials at a uh at the
next next meeting which she's present um
however we are joined this evening by
the illustrious development and
administration director Megan Meyer who
has an
energetic colorful and aesthetically
pleasing report for you this evening
thank you for that mayor um so if you
see a big gr on my face it's because we
have um the first year of mural Festival
under our belts it was a huge team
effort um it was really fun to plan my
first Bexley event obviously The Smiling
Faces are great and thank you Monique
for your comment earlier uh president
lampy I'm sorry but um I think what was
even better was getting to know people
from various departments that I would
probably not otherwise get to work with
so early and so just want to really
thank um both Emily Sweet and Emily
perfect who could not have been more fun
um but also energetic and a lot of the
fine details I'm sure that you noticed
were thanks to them um the service
department everybody has a huge um uh
thank you coming from me for all the
many times that they went and helped
artists with various things the number
of times they went and moved bfts for
artists um last minute Logistics
requests um Natalie you were a Saving
Grace in so many ways um and so just
want to say thank you to everybody I
think it was a really fun event I'm
really hopeful that what we set out to
do is happening and from what I heard
from people it is happening it was
really a way to bring energy to Main
Street in an area that we uh think could
see Improvement um people are talking
about it people are visiting places they
may not have been before I know the
businesses are thrilled so thank you to
council for your support of that and of
course the Vexy Community Foundation for
their support as
well um moving on to not is fun things
but no no it's so fun um a comprehensive
sewer analysis
um so um this is I I know long awaited
we have kind of um taken a big step back
um but I think at the same time many
steps forward with um getting closer to
selecting and Engineering consultant to
help us with a very comprehensive
analysis of both our storm and sanitary
sewers um that is to inform a 10year CIP
of course during the budget season we'll
be talking about the state of our water
and sewer funds um and so our purview is
to better
understand with better data what is the
current state of our infrastructure so
be better inform a financing plan um so
that is coming soon um a recommendation
um to council for that contract
hopefully next month if if if we get
everything tied up um link us I want to
thank um Mr Marcelino um Miss sad and
president linky for their contributions
on our internal working group we have
had two meetings um with representatives
from city council bik friendly Bexley
and the Chamber of Commerce um and those
have really actually been very fruitful
and helped to guide pretty significant
changes to what's being planned um for
the Bexley guideway and for the station
location and so there's more to come on
that we're not done but I did just want
to recognize the time that's been put
into that um I'm going to skip ahead to
land new strategy um president lampy
thank you for um bringing that up and uh
you know to add to Mayor kesler's um
kind of next steps we did just recently
received a draft Market a real estate
market analysis um that will help the
commission kind of put a little more
data behind some of the draft
recommendations and so I think we're
really getting to a good Pivot Point
with that project and I'm excited to see
um it all get put down on paper here
soon um with that I will take any
questions Megan could you before we go
to there could you highlight the
Community Builders note that you have
here just so that Council yes absolutely
um so um I know that you all are
probably getting questions about this as
you may or may not be aware the
Community Builders has re-engaged with
the city and they've presented um what
they're calling a public engagement plan
and asked for feedback and input on how
to best engage with um two kind of
streams of groups of course the
community of as a whole but um Senior
Center stakeholders specifically as one
stream and then residents adjacent to
the Livington Livingston site as that
kind of second stream um and so you'll
see and hear more about the proposed
plans for those projects um they are
really taking a step back and looking
for public input before resubmitting
plans um right now the draft timeline
that we've seen has that being submitted
in late fall um based on ARB and Bap
schedules that would likely mean it
would come for consideration to those
boards beginning early next year um we
do not have um a whole lot of extra
information at this point because it
really is in that input phase but we do
expect them to be significantly
different and and so um very interested
to see that go through a healthy public
engagement process
again yes Mr Hurley uh first just just a
a note of of Praise I thought mural Fest
was absolutely awesome I loved
everything from just the location you
know it's a part of uh Main Street that
doesn't get a lot of attention and I
thought that was great I love the way
you Incorporated the alleys I just I
loved everything about it my kids loved
it so yeah that that just you crushed it
um on the Community Builders note I
guess first off can you provide us with
a list of as as it becomes available a
list of dates and locations of those
public meetings because I personally
would as as my scheds would love to be
in as many of those as possible just to
listen in this will obviously get a lot
of attention these next few months and I
just as much as I can be there to hear
those plans I think that helps us um and
then maybe a question on if it's for you
or for the mayor but as it relates to
420 North C what is the
current obviously tcb's plans will
incorporate both these sites but
currently I guess what is the legal agre
the legal structure between the city and
TCB as it relates to 42 North CID or is
there one there is not one okay so this
is it it would be fair to say at this
point their plans are aspirational in
that yes they own 2300 East Livingston
there still needs to be le not from
Council but I think it's the cic would
have to at least agree to something
correct in the future with cour which
which yeah okay thank you that's
all yeah um I think last week the
library hosted a new year issue event
and they had uh link Representatives out
there um there was some concerns brought
up by residents that live on Main Street
um and one of the things that I made
mention with the Linkus representatives
and I'll make mention with you is on
West Broad they have augmented reality
tours and renderings with visualizations
to see the traffic flow some of the
feedback I got from the residents was
concerns about congestion how the brt
runs center lane compared to the number
two that runs on the sidewalk side um
and how Kota would Pace it so if we can
get some of those augmented reality tool
um and visualizations for East Main that
they have on West Broad I think it would
be helpful for the residents to see it
um as it flows with the traffic because
it's not a continuous lane from my
understanding it's going to be allowing
for the traffic hats currently designed
for Main Street but I still think people
are having trouble visualizing to
include myself so if we can continue as
we talked to them bringing up those
tools that could help yeah absolutely
thank you Mr Silverman um really good
question questions and I think that it
would be a really healthy thing to bring
to the Bexley community and I wonder if
that's not yet been developed because
their traffic studies are still underway
um but you're absolutely correct um the
guideway um that the city has um given
feedback on and is leaning towards is
that mixed traffic and so um some of the
concerns would be helped by that of
course um but there are a number of
other items that we are still working
through and so that's a great great
point and West bro is further along in
the process so that might be one of the
reasons that's not there yet other
questions for Megan Miss I just wanted
to sing your praise I wa watched you
work so hard on the mural Fest um this
has been an idea that the Marin I spoke
about four years ago and it was just
awesome to see it all come together and
be even better than I had ever
anticipated it um I can't wait to see
the snow plows out this winter all
painted and decorated and it was just it
was just a very well-received and to
Danny's point a lot of people who have
not spent time on that side of Main
Street we out and about and I'm just
excited for you know that development to
continue to happen and it's happening
with community and artwork and um it was
just very very professionally done and I
think it puts a stamp on our community
that we will be an example for many more
communities because of all the artwork
that I've shared with the mayor over the
last few years I haven't seen anything
like this so kudos to you you made it
happen and it was I'm looking forward to
next year already I think you deserve a
huge round of
applause all
right um on to Andy bashore who's away
medical leave today uh but his update is
attached to the agenda and I'm happy to
answer any questions that you might have
I we'll be covering a couple of his
points in my in my update questions on M
fever and I think
question that CSG I don't know how it's
going to affect CSG and how it's going
to affect St Charles but I have a
feeling it's going to I don't know if
they know about it but they
don't I don't know
yeah there is or there isn't but I think
they need to know so like for
example Charles could all go out the
back in for a while or I don't know what
CH can do to change their thing we'll
touch base it probably won't affect them
uh it's a Mill and overlay so it's going
to be and and we work with we work
around like drop off and Pickups to make
sure
yep asky
is wonderful a lot lately someone in
wheelchair and yes we are some fish guys
big time
yeah so the trees are going to be
replanted I don't know if you guys are
aware but we had a drought this uh this
summer they they and that happens uh
with with spring planting so the they're
being replanted in the fall and in
addition to that I think the plantings
are going to more than double in general
um we are replacing the dead under
warranty we're not replacing the dead
it's part of our contract and there's
additional planting coming so
we
yeah uh they they've quickly replicated
themselves I can tell you that they're
doing great um but if you'll recall we
we modified the pond plans to make it
larger on site that changed the
landscape plan the landscape contractor
was engaged under the old plan so
there's some of the old material but
you'll see like beds that don't have
anything in them those are being planted
in the fall we can't you didn't want to
plant those during the year you saw what
happened already with what was planted
in the spring we also now have
Irrigation in there we didn't have that
before so it will look very different um
next spring yes M said now that we are
looking at the ODOT project for around
October I know we don't always because
it's not you know it's state funded and
so we're at their beck and call when
they're doing it just wanted to make
sure we are mening to them our Beggars
night Halloween night and hopefully
that's not affected by when they no I
mean we're this is going to be happening
in the next week or two awesome and it's
going to be happening it will if you
don't drive on dville for a day or two
you'll not even know that it happened
love other than the fact that it's
smooth now I don't want to overpromise I
mean it is a longer stretch but if you
know uh recently grandon and Chelsea got
repaved it happened in a day I mean
these are these are Fast Pro projects
when it goes to the mill stay away from
that one day I know you do I'll let you
guys know when that is you don't have to
experience it
um Sam yep uh just to comment since uh
he's not here uh we will have a
volunteer leaf collection program that
should be announced at the next council
meeting there we've been working on with
chrisen from Parks and W to get
volunteers to assist members of the
community uh that may not be able to
break leaves like they used to um and so
that'll be coming we'll have signups for
community members uh including anybody
on Council that wants to help out look
for that again at the next council
meeting um and also I just want to
comment that uh they are indeed working
on uh the sidewalks at this time uh as I
found out um last week but I joke around
and I kid it was torn up I believe
Thursday and it was paved on Monday so
the speed and planning that went into
that I really do appreciate that um from
the city so thanks to Andy and his team
for making sure it was smooth thank you
that was just
your yeah
well and be thankful that uh it has not
I mean that's the that's the double
that's the good side of the drought is
that it's able you know we're able to
very quickly turn things around without
the rain interrupting um okay I do have
an update in your folder uh one thing's
missing from the calendar is uh this
Saturday the 28th is the world River
cleanup day there is a cleanup at
Schneider park at Alam Creek um it's a
chance to get in and around the creek
and and clean it up I think somebody
mentioned Creek water quality I hope to
see you there uh we are gonna I'll be
have some waiters on I'll have an extra
pair of waiters if anyone wants them um
and uh we have a couple hours there at
the creek on the morning of this
Saturday the 28th um there's also big
bexy big table conversation uh tomorrow
at the library in the evening um that is
a one Beckley supported program um the
one Beckley dinner is slated for October
6th however the the team that's planning
that met today there's some logistical
issues with the six so as you can see it
may change to the 13th we will announce
that by tomorrow I know some people have
already signed up for it um because
because of uh one of our planners who
you guys know and love uh who's very
close to this cannot no longer make the
sixth uh so trying to see if we can
change it to 13th to make that work for
her and uh help the event be
successful um land use strategy is not
probably gonna is not gonna be October
7th uh manique mentioned that that is
the
anniversary um of what happened in
Israel and that tragedy and so I I think
so that people can um commemorate that
and and gather around that event we're
going to hold off on that commission
meeting
um a couple I want to thank the council
members that have been part of the link
us internal working meeting uh I got to
tell you you know we've been in meetings
with that Planning Group uh week in and
week out Megan and I and and some other
staff members and it's very helpful to
have our
perspective um you know grounded by
additional insights so like you know
some stuff they're no longer they're
hearing it from other people not just
from us which is good and uh just having
some fresh eyes on it has been really
great so Props to you guys for working
on that
um Charles and Denver are both receiving
additional sidewalks about eight years
ago we began a program to replace to put
sidewalks in on streets that don't have
them we've been chipping away at that
every year this is the year that we
close the final gap on Charles but we're
not done on Charles Markham because this
past week I visited Charles with some
service department employees and we
determined there's a block that already
has sidewalk that he's better sidewalks
so Charles will continue to get some
love in the future as well we still do
have other areas that don't have
sidewalks they're on the list and we're
moving our way through them um with the
exception of one very small half block
that has a very mature Tree on it that
we're going to have to hold off on for a
while there you put like the golden
spike yeah
exactly I'm not g to tell you where it
is is
Troy um Drexel as we said is getting
underway soon um you might have noticed
that there's some modification happening
in front of State Albin we're we're
reworking that curb area to provide for
handicap accessibility to the handicap
spaces uh better than what was there
before making sure that happens right
before we paav Drexel um Livingston
Avenue Q&A is happening October 1st uh
invit not invitations but awareness of
that has been is being has been and is
being dropped off at residences
properties just north of Livingston
Avenue thanks to Natalie for helping on
that getting that done um aeds are on
order and going in at the locations that
have been shown there on the on the map
um again thank you Natalie for helping
push that it got went very far but we
needed to push that over the over the
Finish Line we're not we'll celebrate
once they're installed there's still
some more work to do on that um we've
already said it I cannot highlight
enough when Megan started with us day
one she was given a copy of the Grant
application that we we' received a grant
from eal Fest uh and it was about a two
paragraph description of what the
project was um it was a project that we
started working on before the pandemic
and got reignited after the pandemic and
I have some charming photos of it some
of them were already in Megan's report
but come on is that not just the cutest
photo right there um I love Andre's very
serious face
uh and uh we had some wonderful
activities at
Johnson's there's Megan um if you really
want to be thankful for her uh you can
see her she's in the Arc of a snow plow
getting ready to paint it in preparation
for it to be a snowplow mural um it
Megan I exchanged glances when um during
the uh Proclamation earlier what were
the two businesses mentioned coming to
beckley's Johnson and rabinos and so we
brought some more energy to those
businesses uh businesses that are super
excited to have those things those
murals there um what I would say though
is it is like has been really
heartwarming is watching the the the
owners of Second Glance really come
alive and embrace that
installation we've met with the owners
over the years um they've you know it's
a minority owned business they haven't
always felt super embraced by our
community it was really a beautiful
moment to watch them and their family be
out there listening
to music that was you know brought To Us
by the Blue Note Cafe and watch their
wall come alive and their little section
of granite and Maine come alive so that
was a real success story
um that's that's it with the mural
photos but at City Hall when we want to
recognize people you already had
Applause Megan Meer two claps for
Megan there you go you guys did pretty
good we'll we'll that up a little bit
more um also the mural on the back of
City Hall there was a photo of that in
progress um it is almost complete very
close to complete uh looking good you'll
notice there's a big gap between the
stay and the cool that's going to be
where the windows go in on the project
to provide some more office space at the
back so that'll make a little more sense
once we finished so we we worked with
our architect to to design that
and uh and actually I think it's going
to be kind of neat the way they all work
together so that will all kind of come
together in in the coming months when
those windows go into place uh curbside
leaf pickup you might think we should
have it today the leaves that are on the
on the ground are drought leaves many
more leaves to come so if anyone asks
you about it you know we have not yet
turned our equipment over that'll still
be the same Cadence residents will need
to bag their leaves uh leading up to
that end of October election start date
and with that I am happy to answer any
questions
Alex can you update where we're at with
the city of Columbus on the North
Cassidy project going from delmare up to
18th and you I believe there was mention
of a sidewalk connection on Caroline to
the
delmare um Cassidy
project um so the Cassidy project
extends nor from the railroad tracks
from Delmar essentially to a degree uh
North to to 7even
um so the the first block north to fifth
um acquisition has occurred from the
city of Columbus I think that they're
trying to do the installation next year
on that there's a multi-use path on the
west side of Cassidy that's going to
extend from seventh down to
delmare um we have uh we are studying
what we can do on Cassidy to tie into
that but even if we do nothing our bike
boulevards uh network is going up to
delmare and so there will be a variety
of marked paths and wayfinding that will
lead we still exploring the wall I know
that there was talk about the wall that
goes um kind of one of those intro
points into Bexley has mentioned earlier
with signage is that something that
we're studying um to so we do have
a the existing wall yeah there's there's
a wall on the east side of passid and
like right with Caroline is that was
mentioned of having to be removed to
create a sidewalk connection Point
through it's been modified and um it's
being modified it doesn't have to be
removed it needs to be reshaped the
plans have already been drawn up for
that and the budget's already been
approved for that so that's already been
Incorporated on a budget um the you know
um the welcome to Bexley uh the intent
of all of the Bexley Gateway features
Stone pillars with the Bexley is to
create that marker welcome to Bexley um
some of those get kind of lost because
you're so used to seeing them you know
um one of them recently got enhanced at
G the Bexley beautification fund
recently gave us a grant to enhance the
college Livingston one and the one on
Broad Street so those are and we
recently actually redid the
one closer to us on Broad there's two on
Broad one is at St Charles and one is
closer up to us so a lot of those
efforts have been around enhancing the
existing Gateway future of that pillar
which is a classic detail that you know
the tree commission and beex
beautification fund have invested a lot
into um continuing to develop so that
that also is at North Cassidy um it's a
little bit further south of the wall
that you're referring to but there is a
a Gateway pillar there but long story
short a few years ago that wall design
was completed to accommodate the project
this is one of those attributable funds
seven-year projects um
and part of the scope of our Engineering
Services right now for Cassidy at the
Cassidy redo which is probably not too
far down the path on North Cassidy the
street is starting to get to the point
where it'll be uh remilled um in the
next few years I think we're looking at
what can we do to more permanently tie
into the multi-use path that's coming
from
Columbus
yep any other questions all right thank
you thank you Mr May Mr official back to
you for consent agenda all right the
meeting minutes from September 10th
2024 Council are there any questions or
comments on the consent
agenda
um there any public comments on our
consent agenda seeing none I move to
adopt the consent agenda could I please
have a second second second by Mr
Marcelino Mr mCP would you please call
the
role Miss Sam key yes Mr Hurley yes Mr
Markham yes Mr Marcelino yes Mr
Silverman yes Miss fibble yes and Miss s
yes consented passes okay under third
reading of ordinance 25-24 to add
chapter 1478 to the codified ordinances
of the city of Bexley entitled securing
and fencing of construction sites to
require the securing and fencing of
building sites during construction
activities introduced by Mr
Marcelino I think we've discussed
the pit ordinance uh a significant
amount so I'll just leave it open for
questions or
comments any questions from Council on
this ordinance missad or I'm
sorry um I would just say that I I
thought it was helpful to have uh
director Kingler here at the last one um
and it sounds like his uh Department
would have um uh capacity to um to do
the inspections and
administer
um the administrative parts of this so I
intend to support this um any other
comments or questions from Council any
comments from the audience given this is
a third reading Mr Marcelino do you have
action on this
ordinance yeah I move to uh pass
ordinance
25-24 motion to adopt by Mr Marcelino
seconded by Miss fible Mr mCP would you
please do roll call Mr Marcelino yes Mr
Silverman yes Mr Markham yes Miss F yes
Mr Hurley yes Miss lampy yes and missad
yes ordinance 2524 passes all right
third reading of ordinance 262 24 to
establish the position of assistant
Finance director and to establish the
pay range at 2835 per hour to 4328 per
hour to reduce Appropriations in the
contract professional line item of the
auditor's office account by 10,000
to appropriate $10,000 into the salaries
and wages line item of the auditor's
office account and to declare an
emergency introduced by Miss
sad so that one snuck up on me a little
bit because of H where we had that
originally but um so we discussed this
at our first reading and it is basically
that we had used um this role as a
contracted role and now we're looking to
bring it in housee and
um this ordinance describes just that so
this is just uh strengthening our
finance department and um current
consultant did not want to uh to be the
contractor who came in house so we are
we are looking to fulfill that role are
there any questions from
Council I I think this is a proposed
amended version that we have up there
yes I did did pull up proposed amended
um there was inconsistency between the
title that suggested 10,000 and the body
that said 20 the correct number is 10
good news um so that is amended proposed
to be amended I mean you could
technically pass it as written we
wouldn't spend it but I think it's
cleaner to have it Beacon
system thank thank you for that and it
also um online we've got the job
description that incorporates with this
um any questions from Council on the
proposed amended
changes missad do you have any action on
the proposed
amendments um would like to motion to
approve the proposed amendments of
ordinance
26-24 okay motion to amend by Miss sad
seconded by Mr
Marcelino
um are there any comments from Council
on the proposed
amendments okay uh Mr mCP would you
please do a roll call on the proposed
amendments Mr Silverman yes Miss sad
Miss viable Miss lampy yes Mr Hurley yes
Mr Marcelino yes and Mr Markham yes
opposed
amendments
passed Miss s do you have action on
amended ordinance 26-24
are we well this is a third reading yes
so would like to um move to approve
ordinance
26-24 motion to approve um amended
ordinance 26-24 by missad is there a
second second second by Mr Marcelino any
questions from Council this is a third
reading any questions or comments from
the
audience Mr mCP would you please call
the rule on the motion to approve
amended ordinance
26-24 Miss lamkey yes Miss sad yes Mr
Markham yes Mr Silverman yes Mr
Marcelino yes Miss fible yes and Mr
Hurley yes amended ordinance
passes okay third reading of ordinance
2724 confirming the mayor's appointments
of members to the board of zoning
appeals and planning and the tree and
public gardens commission and to amend
section 20 122.0 3 membership term and
organization of the board of zoning and
planning introduced by Mr Hurley thank
you um we've talked about this at length
uh mayor do we have an alternate member
identified for the tree and public
gardens commission that we need to
insert into this no um
so the the chair pointed out that they
she feels they have adequate number of
alternates and there's no need to
currently appoint an additional
alternate so and I'm supportive of that
so as it reads there's a
blank um my my feeling and I would like
to make sure that Mark agrees with this
is that that doesn't need actual
Amendment because it's just shows
nothing so uh you know I think we we
could go ahead and vote on it as it
is right in that case I move that we
favorably adopt ordinance
27-24 motion to adopt by Mr Hurley is
there a second second second by Mr
Marcelino any questions from
Council any public comments given this
is a third
reading Mr mCP would you please call the
rule Miss sad yes Mr Hurley yes Mr
Markham yes Mr Marcelino yes Miss fibble
yes Mr Silverman yes and Miss lamkey yes
ordinance 2724 passes
okay onto second readings or second
reading of ordinance 29-24 to transfer
$55,000 in Appropriations from the
Personnel Services portion of the
building and zoning department account
to the other expenditures portion of the
account and to appropriate $65,000 from
the general fund in order to provide
supplemental Appropriations to operating
expenses within the building department
account introduced by Miss
sad thank you Mr official um still
waiting to hear back on the answer of
matching are we at 55,000 or
57,000 on this in this ordinance did we
get an answer sorry what was that Miss
so in section one we say 57,000 but ah
in the ordinance we say 55 so I was just
looking today asking for the number are
we at 55 or 57 yep that is a fantastic
question um I will get you that answer
forth with as I look it up on the
spreadsheet
um you guys are all waiting hold
on in real time
so
the
57,000 I believe 57,000 is the correct
number but we'll confirm it and we're
going to need an amended version
obviously because somebody fat fingered
that one too somebody 7,000 I don't
think we need a formal Amendment just to
change the title okay title can be
changed to conform to the body it's the
other way around we would
do I'll confirm I need to confirm that
all right and we'll confirm that um any
any questions from Council on this
one Mr MC any any speaker slips on
ordinance
29-24 no speaker slips okay we will
missad you want to let this go to a
third reading or yes
okay sounds
good all right so we are on to First
readings then first reading of ordinance
30-24 to appropriate $3,800 from the
general fund to the mosquito contract
fund to pay the remainder of mosquito
control treatments for 2024 introduced
by Miss
this ordinance has to do with a vendor
change the vendor the new vendor is an
has improved testing results so the
money they're asking for is a little
more for the service that they're
giving any questions on the mosquito
ordinance but I would just add real
quickly to that that we've also had a
whole lot more sprayings this summer for
whatever reason we've had more positive
results so it's a combination of
increased fees from this year
we would be fine if we budgeted the same
as last year and the same number of
Springs but because we've had more
Springs that's really
what's well that was uh thank you that
was one of my questions uh the other is
just I mean is there any sense of
urgency here do we need to suspend and
adopt this or is
it just in normal of course it doesn't
as I just my um
fantastic administrator of bills tells
me that we're fine not to suspend and
adopt
but good
question uh any other questions from
Council Mr mCP are there any speaker
slips on this ordinance no speaker slips
great all right moving on to a first
reading of ordinance
31-24 to appropriate $65,000 from the
general fund to the grants and donations
account in order to provide supplemental
Appropriations for grants that have been
awarded Miss
sad so this ordinance is um basically
kind of breaking it down in 2024 some
examples of grants that we received was
Hearts safe Bexley the Bexley mural Fest
um The Alley uh love your alley and the
um projects that we received grant
funding for as a total uh in 2024 was
$577,500
78 so what we're looking to do here is
to bring $65,000
over for supplemental Appropriations for
these
grants straightforward I don't know if
the mayor wants to elaborate
specifically the projects that are
listed here are not don't have a we
don't have a additional appropriation
for them because we've received so many
grants that are every year at the front
end of the year we estimate like how
many grants might we receive based upon
past performance and what we know is
coming through I think our Baseline
estimate is 200,000 I think um and so we
have outperformed this is a good thing
this means we're getting more money in
and these are all grants that are one
for one grants they're not these are
full-on dollar Ford dooll uh
reimbursement grants for example beex
and mural Festival we knew that Grant
was there but we had subsequently
received additional grant money for it
um and um love your alley received
outside additional grant money art safe
uh is is coming in so those are things
those are examples of what the 65,000
needed for uh Natalie uh who does a
great job overseeing our grant posos um
you know has increasingly over the past
couple months been like I think we're
about to uh hit hit our hit our grant
ceiling so good job to staff uh for
receiving the grants uh now when we get
the grant money we need to spend the
grant money so that's what this is all
about thank you for the additional
explanation the fact that we received
$577,000 so far in Grant revenue for
this year and it's only September that's
wonderful most of that is year the Parks
from past expenditures but it looks
great I agree let's celebrate great
let's let's absolutely run with that hey
what's your the par huh Mr Hurley did
you have a question or comment I want to
make sure I'm hearing correctly so
65,000 that's that's coming from the
general fund but this is not taxpayer
dollars these are grants the city's
received we deposit to the general fund
then we're moving it to Grants and
donations fund
right so in order these amazing purposes
yeah in order to spend money at all we
have to appropriate the expenditures
regardless of where the money comes from
so in this instance money comes into our
general fund for Grant expenditures and
then it goes out of the general fund so
there's an income line to to offset this
most of these
grants are
income that um comes in after we get
reimbursed but a couple of the ones that
are up here especially the additional
mural Festival the money came in ahead
of time um there's a backyards program
where money came in ahead of time uh and
so some that's you know that's a little
bit different but BCF is always
reimbursement after
fact
um can you share the uh AE systems that
are coming the AED systems hey thank you
yeah yes the AED systems the ones that
were selected the if you share the model
and and what they're all the going to be
contained yeah um so the the ads are a
save
station you might be looking ahead Mr
it's actually both to be fair they're
related sorry I just know the next one's
also ad
[Laughter]
related yeah um the ad is a uh oh I just
almost pulled up the right one hold on W
well now that I have it just give me a
moment so it's going to be a modified
version of this wall mount the wall
mount the unit that you see right there
will be within a sun shade because we
have so many outdoor locations the sun
shade protects the equipment better than
this particular unit that you're looking
at it is monitored um by
camera uh it will call 911 when you open
it up the sun shade will be mounted on a
pole it'll be kind of at this height um
um and it'll rest on Main Street at
Parkview in Maine near the
Gateway um near the Drexel Theater uh
near at Cassidy and Maine and then at
Schneider Park and Jeffrey Park and
Commonwealth Park uh and uh we're also
working with city of Columbus to get it
to Wolf park so anywhere where we have
programmed athletic activities um as
well as areas of you know heavy
population
so the next one we'll explain how that
interacts with this one but there is
grant funding for some of some of these
8s great thank you um Mr Marcelino and
just because we're talking about now we
have uh Havenwood obviously and just I
know it wasn't there an electrical issue
that kind of prevented that from going
in there we could put one at Havenwood
electrical is fine for that okay um
actually it's better suited from
electrical perspective than some of the
other locations okay it's more that we
were focused on areas where we program
Athletics first and that could be a that
could be a future phase okay yeah I
think just because you do have jazz in
the park there in the middle of the
summer and I will add that to the list
of budget ideas and attribute it to you
thank
you sounds good any other questions or
comments from Council on ordinance
31-24 Mr mCP any speaker slips on this
ordinance no speaker
slips all right moving on to First
reading of ordinance 32-24 to
appropriate $10,000 from the general
fund in order to provide funding for
public AED device installation
introduced by
missad so this ordinance is the second
tier to ordinance
43-23 which was uh approved by Council
mandating the install of AED and bleed
control kits so this ordinance
32-24 basically just secures the
finances for this to happen for the
installations and uh Monique lampy was
the one who during the budget process
said please can we set aside
$110,000 foru ads and we said that we
would as a placeholder until we knew
exactly what we were doing we now have
the details the program Nathan's also
educating Lee Lee had something to do
with this yes um so we we put it as a
placeholder in the budget it shows that
when we looked at our bottom line um you
know whether or not we had a deficit
this 10,000 was in it but the budget
ordinance didn't appropriate it we held
off in appropriation until we knew the
exact plan sounds good um any questions
from Council on this one Mr Hurley um
two questions the first uh is this
$10,000 also going to go to cover the
cost of procuring bleed control kits or
is this just ads and the actual box
installation we actually already have
the bleed control kits okay um so
I I don't think we need to purchase anym
okay and just my experience with
is they're often collocated yep in the
same module and the other question I
have is just maybe more of a technical
one the first we as Clause is December
12 2023 the right date from when we
adopted that ordinance because I seem to
recall voting on that but I was not on
Council or would not been on Council
then I tried to look it up real quick is
that I feel like for some reason it
spilled over into 20124 but I could be
wrong term that can be looked up yeah
yeah yeah we'll double check it for for
crack fact checking team will get on it
but they also wrote that line so I feel
pretty good about it okay that's fine
good good catch Mr cley it's it's if I'm
wrong then I'm a little embarrassed so
um any other questions or comments from
Council on ordinance
32-24 Mr mCP do we have any speaker
slips on this ordinance no speaker
slips all right all right moving on to
or first reading of ordinance
33-24 approving a tax increment
financing and Cooperative agreement with
the Columbus Franklin County Finance
Authority the city of Bexley Ohio and
CAG Apartments Bexley apartment LLC for
the issuance of bonds by the Columbus
Franklin County Finance Authority in
support of the CAG Bexley Apartments LLC
pledging net service payments received
by the city from the Trinity apartment's
Tiff for the payment of bonds to be
issued by the Columbus Franklin County
Finance Authority pursuant to that
Cooperative agreement and declaring an
emergency Miss sad thank you Mr official
um I always like a good tip and what it
brings to our community and city um I am
going to let the mayor elaborate on this
one a little more and do a deeper so
this is this is the big one um when
council member Markham said now wait a
second are we actually approving this
Tiff I said no councilman mark
but in the future you will get that
opportunity and that's what this is this
is ordinance
3324 the uh the way was paved at a prior
ordinance that uh discussed the school
compensation agreement and uh the
overall um the overall concept of it
established the the Tiff on the parcel
but it didn't this like activates the
Tiff specific to this project um but I
am going to pass it on to Megan Meyer to
give you any further insight as our
development
director um I mean if you were thank you
here um if you were thinking just high
level terms um it is proposed as a
30-year 100% Tiff um I hope that doesn't
come as a surprise I will um let you
know that the agreement as written is a
draft and we do anticipate language
which I'm sure if you read it you're
probably looking for language that um
takes what we're putting into the
easement agreement um for cross access
and free and public parking in exchange
for that cross access making its way
both into the easement and into the Tiff
language um it did not get finalized in
time for it to make it into this version
of the draft so that would be added and
I'm sure that maybe raise an eyebrow or
two um but with that I'd be happy to
answer other questions about particulars
that that was one comment that what was
the other was there another comment that
I that we had um or was it specific to
the parking oh well no that's a great
question and I think this is a you know
great time to reiterate like with the
pace agreement that did have a
third-party administrator of um the of
of the financing to help us stay on top
of payments um not just to the developer
but to the schools as well and so that's
a nice lift administratively to have
somebody else running the numbers for
you of course we would then check and
confirm um with the finance department
but it is a good reminder um when
somebody else is doing that so having ad
ministered these for the past 14 years I
have become incredibly protective about
the way that we have
to chase or not Chase information yep
remind me are we taking this to three
readings or was this one that we needed
to possibly look at a second reading to
spend and adopt
we are looking
at I'm I'm getting this in the pace
mixed up what what would they say the
developer request was consideration on
the second reading that puts you on
October 8th um and by emergency that
request was because they intend to close
on October
14th um now of course um Council has the
right to refuse um or to ask for more
time um and or to hold another meeting
to consider it an additional time in
advance of that date and so all of those
are on the
table so then I would just ask if we
could get this state as possible
sooner than later so we know the
language that's in front of us and then
I would also encourage Council ask as
many questions as you can on a first
reading which I know can be a lot
tonight can I make a suggestion um and
and thank you for reminding me where
their head was at because that syncs up
with the the pace because that's it's
kind of a dual financing thing going on
there
um my recommendation would be that we
have and you're not going to likee this
and I haven't talked to Monique about
this but have a special meeting uh with
our Development
Council to go deeper in depth at which
point I would like to make sure that we
have a draft that reflects what we've
asked for um in terms of the uh well
defined public parking component of this
it's obviously been very important from
day one the draft that we received and
it was like literally a day two ago it
was it was late coming from them uh did
not include uh specific Provisions for
the public parking I think it's
incredibly important detail I don't
think this is something we rush um I
understand though they do have you know
you know they they have many many many
many parts of this project so I'm
somewhat sympathetic to the fact that
they're trying to to juggle those but I
would ask that Council consider special
meeting to to be able to delve into
it Mr Marcelina um a quick question if
we choose not to and they're closing on
the
14th uh what impact do they believe that
might have on their
project this is where to honestly guess
my my general feeling and I could
confirm with council is that they would
actually delay closing
okay um if we're talking special meeting
uh given I mean I I was going to
announce but I I won't be here on the
8th but I'm thinking about a special
meeting uh and just looking at October
1st we do have the CPD BPD uh meeting
scheduled at 6 pm
here that might be something that we
could consider if people are available
that's A tes it's next Tuesday I'm just
saying to Workshop yeah to to move
things up a little bit give us time to
consider before the 8th I can at least
then weigh in with any comments to pass
along um by the eth um but we'd O then
have probably some members of the
community that might be interested as
well already planning to be at City
Council on that evening I'm just
throwing that out there because I was
looking at the calendar we don't have
many days between now and when they're
expecting a vote so yep um how does
council feel about October 1st as a
special meeting for the second reading
of this
ordinance is actually
5:30 so you might want to say
6:30 understanding that it could be
seven it could run a little longer well
we think seven we we advertise 5:30 to
6:30 absolutely I totally agree with you
but I'm saying we could advertise 6:30
and it would uh you know if we start a
little later than advertised that's Mr
official I believe okay I think if we
start earlier than advertised that's
when we have issues yeah if we start an
hour and a half after advertised that
would be a problem if it's 15 or 20
minutes I'm okay with
it Council are we good um October 1st
6:30 or 7th and maybe you'll check with
Development Council to see if that date
would work for them yeah and just so I'm
clear this would constitute a second
reading on October 1st and then that
would get us to a third reading on
October just making sure y leg Yeah
second just because there be a sole
purpose of the meeting yeah no that's
okay that's good I just you know
candidly we wouldn't have to adopt and
suspend then if we have that right I
don't I don't mind an escalated uh
schedule but I do have an issue with the
significant Tiff going forward um off of
essentially two readings so I think that
would be great if everybody can make it
understood I'm seeing some head nods
Council are we good for October 1st 6:30
or 7 mayor will let us know if
Development Council is available that
day and time and we'll send out and also
Megan I'd like to make sure that we have
the property the developer represented
uh so they can you can speak directly
with them you know be great Mr
Silverman so October 1
so the easement is
continuing to evolve these are
independent they're legally independent
Concepts yeah absolutely correct um so
what we want to do is make sure that the
Lang language relating to the free and
public parking is exact or nearly exact
between the two um just to reinforce
that idea and so because it's not been
finalized in the easement we didn't have
that language for the Tiff if that makes
any
sense y yeah it it from our perspective
it's separate if I'm an
underwriter I'm G to want that easement
prior to finalizing the debt so I feel
like um it's possible that the fire will
be lit for them to finalize the easement
language and that you'll be looking at
that on October 8th uh under the
currently tabled
ordinance yeah that's a really good
question Alex Mr Hurley you had your
hand up building on Mr Silverman's um
line of questioning because I had the
same thought does cicc still need to
adopt easement language the
contract I'm trying to figure out what
all needs if if our goal is to get all
this WRA up by the eth I'm just trying
to what needs to happen between now and
the eth cic also does yeah yeah so we
need we need a cic meeting potentially
which and we're kind of speculating this
point in terms of the timing but yeah I
mean what it's uh it's a lot of this is
happening all at once sure Mr Markham
can you go back over the kind of what
goes into the rationale behind when you
say you know you make this a 30-year for
instance a projection you have you know
I assume there's some sort of budget
laid out for or what what's expected and
what's expected to be spent that sort of
thing so um the 30-year is the is the
maximum allowable length of a tiff um
and when when the agreement that we have
in front of us was structured it was
structured in mind with school
compensation agreement which has already
been ratified by Council and so some of
the Tiff proceeds will go to paying the
schools with a payment and L of taxes
essentially the remainder goes directly
to Debt Service associated with the
bonds that are being issued to pay for
the construction of the parking garage
component of the project um they'll have
a debt schedule
and it is a it is I think it's
seven-year Bond so they'll show how that
payoff occurs and the reason it's
shorter is because the payoff starts I
think a little bit later that's all the
sort of stuff I would expect our bond
Council or sorry our Development Council
and uh the property owners
representative to explain um when
they're going over this at our next
meeting but those proceeds will go
directly to Debt Service long story
short The Debt Service will apply
directly towards the cost of
constructing the public parking garage
component and if that that Tiff amount
exceeds The Debt Service what happens to
those
funds
then I I I don't want to speak out of
hand with because I haven't read it
carefully I think that Megan do you know
the answer to that I actually don't
don't yeah um but we can we can break it
down a little bit more clearly for the
next meeting yeah if you know there are
lots of ways to structure that but we'll
look we'll look can look at that
yep just say
7M
livar represent
any other questions or
comments no speaker
slips all right final first reading is
resolution 0 7-24 to schedule the backas
city council meeting dates and times for
2025 Miss Lamy woohoo I finally get to
introduce something um Council in terms
of uh planning ahead I'm going to give
all the credit to Natalie B for putting
this together she keeps us in line and
she uh took a stab at uh coming up with
some proposed council meeting dates for
2025 um I encourage you to look at this
draft look at your calendars um we have
tried to stay away from um significant
events such as uh religious holidays or
spring breaks first days of school
things like that um and while we
typically meet the second and fourth
Tuesdays of the month from time to time
and during various months sometimes we
meet um on off Tuesdays instead uh most
notably here you'll notice that uh I did
change the dates in November given
Thanksgiving um to have our meetings on
November 11th and 18th but I'm happy to
consider U amending it weing it so just
take it home look at your calendar and
we'll talk about it next meeting any
questions or comments from
Council any speaker slips on this one Mr
mCP no speaker
slips okay moving on to tabled
ordinances um do we have any action on
tabled ordinances Mr Hurley yes um I
would move to bring ordinance
16-24 off the table motion to remove
from the table by Mr Hurley is there a
second second by Miss sod Mr mCP would
you please call the rule on the motion
to remove from the
table Miss
FAL yes Mr Markham yes Mr Silverman yes
Miss lampy yes Mr Hurley yes Miss sad
yes and Mr Marcelino yes right um thank
you all my intention is to ask you all
to adopt an amendment and to hopefully
report or pass um this ordinance tonight
um we've talked about it at length I um
I have to say from where this started to
where it is now is is very much the
benefit of um good a good process and
lots of discussion and feedback from you
all it has my name at the top but it has
I think a lot of other people's
handprints on it and I really appreciate
that um so my intention in this uh just
to re dated is to update our uh bike
helmet law that has been in place since
2010 to um make a few notable changes
again just for sake of the public um we
are going from age 16 to age 18 we are
expanding the list of vehicle types we
are incorporating passengers on bicycles
which we have currently have no
requirement that a child riding say in a
trailer or a you know an auxiliary seat
would have to have a helmet and then
lastly we are expanding the places which
um you need to wear a helmet current law
is Street alley or sidewalk we are also
saying recreational path or city park I
think this is very important considering
we're going to open a skate park next
year it seems a bit wild to me that we
would have a skate park with no
requirement people using the skate park
kids especially we
helmets um there certainly is a lot we
can do in the space of injury prevention
and keeping Kids Safe um you know we had
some conversation around you know making
sure you know promoting that parents
properly used
uh the various seats and things like
that um you know in my conversations you
I have the benefit in my professional
life of working with a lot of uh ER
pediatricians and the biggest thing they
said when it comes to kids whether it's
bikes scooters whether they're being
used properly or not is it's head
injuries um and they said you know that
that's the single biggest thing you know
if kids uh kids fall off a bike and
break their arm that's not a big deal
but those head injuries can really be
problematic so that's why this is
focused on um
on helmet today you know I will say
council member sad had some suggestions
around really encourage people to
properly use the various passenger
attachments I think that's mer that
merits more discussion um on his drivein
uh Mr Marcelino called me because he um
brought up a good point about uh he saw
some kids who were riding their bikes
who were wearing helmets but then
they're looking at their phones and and
sort of erratically pedaling all over
and that led me down a rabbit hole of
looking at our current um mobile device
law and it actually only applies to car
usage not necessarily driving other
non-rop devices so I think there's you
know there's a lot of other ways we we
can look at to keep people safe and
again some of that might be another
ordinance in the future some of that
might just be some awareness um you know
I work with a lot of folks that do a lot
of that injury prevention Outreach so I
think this is really important um but I
think I'm I'm happy with the language
again I think it's pretty
comprehensive um and I think a lot of
communities are going to look to us and
say wow this is a really good thing we
should update this um we're certainly
not alone in having a helmet ordinance
but I think we're going to be the first
to really update it to how kids are
getting around and all the different
places they can get around today so with
that um I guess I'd take any any
questions or comments before I make a
motion to amend any comments or
questions um for Mr
Hurley okay well there is a document um
16-24 final proposed ordinance dated
today I would move that we amend with
that document is that what's up on the
screen mayor can
you okay quick title change up the top
okay great um there is a motion to amend
ordinance
16-24 by Mr Hurley could I have a second
please second wait did you say second I
said second okay thought I was imagining
something a second by Miss fibble on the
amendment uh any questions from Council
Mr mCP would you please do a roll call
on the proposed amendments Mr Marcelino
yes Mr Hurley yes Miss fible yes Miss
sad yes Miss slanty yes Mr Markham yes
Mr Silverman yes Amendment
passes thank you all well I uh don't
don't applaud yet we're not out of the
woods um I would say I would move to
favorably adopt ordinance 16 a proposed
amended ordinance
16-24 all right motion to adopt amended
ordinance 33-2 oh no which uh 16-24 by
Mr Hurley second by Miss sod any
questions or comments from
Council um any comments from the
audience seeing n Mr mCP please call the
role Miss fible yes Mr Silverman yes Mr
Markham yes Mr Hurley yes Mr
Marcelino yes Miss sad yes Miss l
yes amended ordinance passes great job
Danny great
job um and I don't think we have any
other action on table other tabled
ordinances so we are moving now to
committee reports missad for
finance yes just um to let Council know
that the beex Education foundation's
First full Foundation meeting of the
year is tomorrow night 7M at Montrose
end of report
great thank you so much uh Parks and Rec
Miss fible I just have a couple updates
about some of the parks um skate park um
the contract is in front of Michael but
um I think the mayor is reviewing
funding to see if it's covered um in the
year of the parks um so they're looking
I think at more of a fall completion of
um the construction documents with a
Breaking of ground potentially in the
spring um Jeffrey Woodlands is having a
uh meeting on October 2nd um at 4
o'clock uh to discuss the draft of the
Woodland management plan um Commonwealth
unification has been kind of on a on
hold because the designer had uh hip
surgery and so they're waiting on a new
draft
um uh there's been because there's been
lots and lots of uh new programming and
lots of people people that want to
participate in the programming we have
more to pay the instructors so you might
be looking at
um a cleanup ordinance but know that um
there's going to be a balance of income
so that might be coming in the next few
weeks um preschool and before and after
care are off to a great start quote Mike
says it's a it has been a great Mojo
reset so um and they're on Pace to do
better than they did last year um in the
black um not quite as great as they were
preco um but then but the net is is is
going to be good so moving into their
new Norms is what he said so and a
report um Mr Silverman service and
environmental thank you president lampy
uh I shared a picture of the stay cool
for anybody that parks in the back
parking lot it is almost complete um I
just wanted to reiterate the we've had
there it is uh with the windows that are
coming uh my favorite part though you
know representing um green Beckley is
the meter on the left side that shows
how to read the climate Stripes that we
incorporated if anybody remembers the
initial proposal from uh green Bexley
was to have the climate stripes in a
kind of a rectangular formation this was
a redesign by the artist and I think it
came out really well um adds to to
public information but also is a
beautiful art piece uh I will have to
say for the BC and September's been a
very busy month we've had seven events
this month um City service city
employees volunteers staff um have have
done an amazing job yeah look at that
that video is pretty
cool
um oh sorry I didn't mean to I no you're
fine the video I didn't see the video
there's a better one that's from
yesterday in report yeah
sorry sorry
sorry thank you very much Mr
Silverman is this you do you want me to
keep it plugged in no are you good all
righty um Alex to highlight what you
said if I may m madame president um I I
neglected earlier on when we were
talking about mural Fest a lot of our
staff contributed a ton to this
Elizabeth Elman pitched the the climate
Stripes as a mural on City Hall early
early on like like over a year ago I
think when we were talking about this
and so um Alex haly who's the local
designer that we talked about uh took
that sort of interpreted a new Fresh way
so it's kind of neat to see that evolve
we plan on our fourth snowplow has not
been painted yet it's our climate strip
snowplow so we plan on having a green
Bexley kind of driven final mural Fest
event with that
uh bingo bango you got it that's what's
gonna happen done and
done all right it's gonna be great
mushroom Mr Marcelino to zoning and
development yes uh one thing just to
note for uh Miss Lewis earlier you asked
about a historic preservation uh budget
increase we just met uh it was uh Ben
Matt Karen and I about a revamp of that
group it's been in existence but we're
looking to formalize it a bit which
could obviously come with some increased
re you know budget items towards it but
just to touch on that from earlier thank
you for the comment um I was going to
mention October 1 but now we're all
aware of it so rock on
thanks uh Mr Hurley strategic and health
um thank you well a couple non-committee
things first and foremost um we talked a
lot about mural Fest but I also had the
uh privilege to volunteer at smoke and
fire and that was another awesome event
so congratulations to our colleague Mr
Silverman for pulling off just an
outstanding event um yeah absolute blast
um uh we had I we've talked about the
land uh use commission um uh public uh
workshop last week I'm not going to go
through I have pages of notes on that
but that was just really fascinating um
um so the way that's going to take shape
and what it means you know I would just
use the example of talking about North
Cy and even as we think about what we're
going to do with our part of North cidy
there's a piece the city's doing now we
have the schools potentially acquiring
this property and what that means for
that strategy is just really exciting so
good stuff uh Board of Health meets
October 15th I will be hosting office
hours this Thursday 3:30 to 5 on
Starbucks I know I'll see you two there
but if anyone else wants to come by I'll
I'll put that out um huh yeah I'll buy
um I have no problem buying Starbucks uh
and then lastly um you know Madam
president I appreciate your comments
about the October 7th event I I would
just note that Jewish Columbus will be
having a remembrance ceremony at The JCC
from 7: to 9: that evening and they are
for what it's worth offering
complimentary child care so I'll be
taking my kiddos so they can experience
that sense of community and also have a
little bit of fun with their friends
while we all thank you for
mention so thank you end of report Mr
Markham for safety
uh Beckley Library Thursday night uh the
final Centennial author series it's a
good one Maggie Smith she's a friend of
Council in uh conversation with S Jones
at the library uh come check it out
that's all I got sounds good all right
we are to public comments no speaker
slip required any comments from the
public all right seeing
none I second that Council before I move
to adjourn quick reminder we are going
to have a special meeting October 1st 7
PM stay tuned via email with that I move
to adjourn can I please get a second
second second by Mr