KELLY. GO AHEAD. CANDY IS THIS YOUR TROOP? IS THIS YOUR KIDS? TRUE? I THANK YOU, DONALD.
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APPRECIATE IT. GOOD EVENING, EVERYBODY. WE WELCOME YOU TO TONIGHT'S COUNCIL MEETING AND IT IS SO WONDERFUL TO SEE SUCH A FULL HOUSE AS WE HAVE TODAY. THAT REALLY APPRECIATE ALL OF YOU BEING HERE IN ATTENDANCE. UM WE JUST CAME OUT OF ANOTHER MEETING, AND I BELIEVE WE STILL OKAY WITH THAT, SON. OKAY ALREADY. SO AT THIS POINT, I WOULD LIKE TO IMPEDE LINCOLN WALKER. YEAH AND HE'S GOING TO HELP US. UH HE'S WITH TOP 3 55, AND HE'S GOING TO HELP US DO THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. SO IF YOU WOULD PLEASE TAKE YOUR PLACE, AND IF YOU WOULD PLEASE STAND.BEAUTIFIED UNITED STATES AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC, ONE NATION UNDER GOVERNMENT. AND JUSTICE.
ALMIGHTY GOD, WE ASK YOU TO GUIDE US THROUGHOUT THIS MEETING AS WE SEEK TO MAKE DECISIONS FOR THE GOOD OF THE CITY OF MARYSVILLE AND ITS CITIZENS. AMEN. WELCOME, PLEASE. SEYMOUR PRESENT DEBORAH GROWTH PRESENT DONALD BURGER HERE. DERBY ROUSH DREAMS. AARON CARPENTER. OKAY
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THE HAVE RECEIVED MINUTES OF OUR OCTOBER 9TH MEETING AND WE NEEDED A MOTION TO APPROVE THOSE. MR PRESIDENT MAKE THE MOTION TO APPROVE THE MEETING MINUTES FROM OCTOBER 9TH ALL THE[APPOINTMENT]
PAPERS. I OKAY, WONDERFUL. WE HAVE TWO APPOINTMENTS TO NEED. 14 MICHAEL GEORGE, TO BE REAPPOINTED TO THE PARKS AND RECREATION COMMITTEE FOR A TERM THAT RUNS THROUGH 12 1 2023 11 30 2026. SO IS MICHAEL APPEALABLE TONIGHT, OKAY. OKAY ALREADY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. UM MR PRESIDENT, I'D MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE MICHAEL GEORGE BE REAPPOINTED TO THE PARKS AND REC COMMISSION. OKAY AND THAT REQUIRES A VOICE VOTE. ONLY FAVOR I ANYBODY THAT DOES WANT TO SEE MICHAEL. THANK YOU SO MUCH, MICHAEL. WE REALLY APPRECIATED IT'S ALWAYS THE CITIZEN INVOLVEMENT AND AS HE HAD YOUNGSTERS OUT THERE WITH YOU. THAT MAKES NOT ONLY YOU DO IT FOR YOURSELF, BUT YOU DO IT FOR A FUNERAL FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS AND WOULD ALWAYS VERY GRATEFUL WHEN WE GET THIS TYPE OF APPOINTMENTS AND THIS TYPE OF COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT.SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ACCEPTING THE APPOINTMENT. UM I JUST WANTED TO SAY ALSO FOR ANYBODY THAT DOESN'T KNOW MICHAEL IS A WONDERFUL PHOTOGRAPHER, AND HE USED THE CITY OF MARYSVILLE AND THE TOURISM ACTUALLY USES A LOT OF HIS PHOTOS. AND SO SOME OF OUR PARK BOOKLETS AND STUFF. MICHAEL'S PHOTOS HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN FEATURED IN THOSE. SO WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT FACEBOOK PHOTOS, MOST 99% OF THE TIME. YOU'RE PROBABLY LOOKING AT MICHAEL SO THANK YOU. OKAY THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH. OKAY NOW WE COME TO ANOTHER VERY IMPORTANT ONE, WHICH IS THE INTERIM CHIEF. VERY CHEAP. NATE BURNS TO BE APPOINTED TO FAIL TO ACHIEVE AND THIS IS APPOINTMENT TO BE MADE BY THE CITY MANAGER AND RATIFIED BY THE MAJORITY OF COUNCIL, ACCORDING TO 9.01 OF THE CITY OF MARYSVILLE, SO CLOSE TO YOU. FIRST OFF, YOU KNOW, BEFORE WE.
CONFIRM NATE THIS EVENING. I WANTED TO GO A LONG WAY TOWARD THANKING OUR HR DEPARTMENT WHO DID A VERY NICE JOB IN THE SEARCH PROCESS AS WELL AS OUR COMMITTEE THAT WAS FORMED TO CONDUCT THE INTERVIEWS, PRESIDENT BURBEY VICE CHAIR JR ROUSH WAS A PART OF THAT PROCESS. AS WELL AS MYSELF AND SOME OF OUR EXECUTIVE TEAM, OUR FINANCE DIRECTOR BRAD LUTES, TONY BROOKS, PLEASE CHIEF, AND JEREMY HOID, OUR DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SERVICE. IT WAS A GOOD PROCESS, UH, REALLY APPRECIATE AGAIN. THE WORK OF HR. COORDINATING THAT PROCESS, BUT I THINK WHAT CLEARLY CAME OUT IS A CHOICE OF THE BEST PERSON TO LEAD THIS FIRE DEPARTMENT MOVING FORWARD, SO I'M MAKING THAT RECOMMENDATION TO CITY COUNCIL TONIGHT ALREADY. SO YOU'VE MADE A RECOMMENDATION AND WE DON'T NEED EMOTION ON IT, BUT WE DO NEED TO GIVE IT TO THE POOL
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BALL. SO ALTHOUGH IN FAVOR SAY AYE, AYE. ANYBODY AT ALL TO SAY NO, OF COURSE NOT. IF WE COULD BRING NATE AND HIS FAMILY FORWARD. IF YOU DON'T MIND, I'D LIKE TO GET A PICTURE WITH CITY COUNCIL WITH NATE AND THEN WHAT'S WHAT'S THAT PICTURE IS OVER. I'D LIKE TO HAVE THE FIREFIGHTERS STAY AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. YOU JUST HAD A CALL, THOUGH, DIDN'T YOU? OKAY? YEAH THAT TIME IT'S FOLLOWING THE TIMING ON THERE. THAT'S ALWAYS THE CASE, ISN'T IT? THE TIMING ON THAT ONE? OKAY YEAH. YES NOTHING. YES. I MIGHT ALSO ADD JUST SO EVERYBODY KNOWS A LITTLE BIT ABOUT MADE ITS BEEN WITH OUR FIRE DEPARTMENTS PARADE 18 YEARS HE SERVED IN DIFFERENT CAPACITIES, MOST RECENTLY OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS. HE'S BEEN AFFECTED THE TIMES EACH DEPARTMENT, UM JUST AND HE'S BEEN, UM VERY GOOD AT EVERY STAGE OF THE CAREER HERE. HE IS WELL RESPECTED BY HIS FELLOW FIREFIGHTERS. BY THE WAY, IT'S NOT OFTEN YOU GET THIS, BUT I GOT REPEATED CALLS AND PEOPLE INDICATING TO ME THAT HE WOULD BE THE RIGHT CHOICE. SO DID YOU SHOWS KIND OF THE RESPECT THAT GOES, I NEED 21ST 5, CHIEF OF THE CITY OF ARIZONA.CONGRATULATIONS. THANK YOU. OKAY? PERFECT. PERFECT. THANK YOU. GIVE UP. I'M JUST GONNA LOVE IT. UNDERSTANDING. HERE COME THE VICTORY. YEAH. THREE. HELLO EVERYBODY HAD TO LEAVE. I KNOW YOU GUYS ARE STILL HERE. WE WERE GOING TO DO A GROUP PICTURE. WELL WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU WANT TO GET THIS UP? GENUINELY. YEAH YEAH. BEAUTIFUL. YEAH. IT'S BEAUTIFUL, TOO MUCH SHORTER, INSPECTOR GENERAL. THANKS TO LINE UP. IT'S GOING TO BE THE THANK YOU VERY MUCH. OKAY THANKS. OKAY WAIT. JESUS. HMM. OKAY THANK YOU ALL VERY
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MUCH. APPRECIATE IT AND ADMINISTRATIVELY PUT. OH THANK YOU. I'M GOING TO START TONIGHT.THE ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT BY INTRODUCING IT'S NICE TO SEE OUR COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR BILL NARD UCI HERE, STEVE MADDEN HOBBS HERE. IT'S GOOD TO SEE HIM AND JEFF STOUT, AND THEY'D LIKE TO UPDATE CITY COUNCIL ON SOME OF THE INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH THE MILLCREEK CLEANUP. WE'VE OFTEN REFERRED TO IT AS THE LOGJAM ON MILL CREEK AND I TALKED TO BILL A LITTLE BIT, BILL. IS IT GOING TO BE JEFF? LEAN IN THE CHARGER? OKAY OKAY. SO JEFF, THE FLOOR IS YOURS AND HAVE AT IT. THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING, EVERYBODY, UM. THERE WE GO. SO I HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF A SLIDE SHOW. I'LL TRY TO JUST TAKE 10 MINUTES OR SO AND KIND OF FLY THROUGH THIS LITTLE BIT AT LEAST SOME TIME FOR QUESTIONS. IF THAT'S ALL RIGHT AT THE END, WE DON'T HAVE A BIG AGENDA THAN IT. SO TAKE 23. SO UM, SO YOU KNOW, SOME OF THIS YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD OF THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS. MY THOUGHT WAS JUST DO A LITTLE BIT OF UM, REVIEW A LITTLE BIT OF
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BACKGROUND. YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN FAMILIAR THIS PROJECT OR AT LEAST IN BITS AND PIECES FOR THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS. UM WE ARE GETTING THIS MOVING FORWARD THROUGH THE PROCESS THE AND I'LL TALK ABOUT THIS LITTLE MORE DETAIL AT THE END. UM BUT THE PETITION THIS PROCESS IS IN PLACE IN THE HIGHER REVISED CODE. UM FOR A COUPLE OF REASONS NOT ONLY TO DO THE IMPROVEMENT IF IT'S JUST A TILE OR DRAINAGE PROJECT OR IN THIS CASE, THE LOGJAM PROJECT BUT TO ATTACH MAINTENANCE TO IT. UM, AND NORMALLY, UM. PETITION DITCH PROJECT HAS A CONSTRUCTION COMPONENT WHERE THE PROPERTY OWNERS THOSE BENEFITED ARE ASSESSED, UM FOR THE CONSTRUCTION IN THE MAINTENANCE. UM FOR YEARS AND YEARS DOWN THE ROAD. IN THIS CASE, IT'S A LITTLE BIT OF A UNIQUE ANIMAL BECAUSE WITH THE HELP OF THE CITY IN THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AND THE USE OF, UM KURBAN MONEY, WE CAN TAKE CARE OF THE CONSTRUCTION COSTS UPFRONT, WHICH MAKES THIS A LOT LOT LOT EASIER AS WE GO THROUGH THE PROCESS BECAUSE THAT'S THE THAT'S THE SINGLE MOST DIFFICULT THING ABOUT THESE PROJECTS THAT WE'VE DONE THEM OVER THE YEARS IS WHEN IT GETS DOWN TO WHAT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE ASSESSED AT THE END, THAT'S USUALLY WHAT CAUSES AS YOU MIGHT EXPECT. THE MOST HOT HEARTBURN UM SO IT STARTED BACK IN 2017 YOU KNOW THE LOGJAMS AND MILLCREEK MAINLY BECAUSE OF THE ICE TREES, UM, WE'RE KNOWN COMMODITY OR A THING SO IN WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT, ALONG WITH THE COMMISSIONERS. AND PARIS TOWNSHIP KIND OF HELPED KICK THIS OFF. AND A COUPLE INVESTIGATIONS IN PROBABLY THE WORST EXAMPLE IS VIEWED DR WALDO ROAD JUST OUTSIDE OF TOWN. IT'S A TRIBUTARY TO MILL CREEK. YOU CAN SEE A MASSIVE, MASSIVE WALL GM THERE OF TREMENDOUS PROPORTION. THERE ARE OTHERS NEARLY AS BAD UP AND DOWN THE REACH OF THE CREEK. BUT THAT ONE IS THE WORST EXAMPLE WE PUT TOGETHER, WE'LL COMMITTEE JEREMY HOYT. SERVED ON IT. WE HAD SOME CHALLENGES. TRUSTEES UM, PREVIOUS COUNTY ENGINEER STEVE STORY MYSELF SOME OTHERS WITHIN THE COUNTY AND THE CITY IN SALON WATER, JUST TRYING TO GET OUR HEAD AROUND WHAT THIS WOULD TAKE TO PULL THIS OFF. UM IT WAS DECIDED. AT THAT POINT, WE WOULD WORK WITH SOME, UM, AREA TALENT SHIPS, MAINLY ALONG THE REACH OF THE STREAM TO GATHER SOME FUNDS, ALONG WITH THE CITY AND THE COUNTY TO CHIP IN. BE ABLE TO HIRE SOME STAFF AND WATER TO DO SOME MANDATORY WHAT WE HAD DURING, UM YOU KNOW, ON THE REACH OF THE STREAM. THEY USE SOME DRONE FOOTAGE, UM, PHYSICALLY WALKED THE BETTER PART OF THE MILL CREEK, WHICH AGAIN IS 33 MILES LONG WITH IN UNION COUNTY, UM, AND TRIED TO TRIED TO INVENTORY THOSE LOGJAMS . UM AS THEY WENT, HERE'S SOME AERIAL VIEWS. IT'S A FAIRLY TYPICAL ONE. HERE IN PARIS TOWNSHIP COUPLE OTHERS IN DOVER, ANOTHER ONE HERE IN PARIS. AND THIS IS UP IN LIBERTY TOWNSHIP. THIS IS, UM DOESN'T QUITE RIVAL THE ONE THAT I TALKED ABOUT IT WALTER ROAD, BUT IT'S A PRETTY SUBSTANTIAL JAM. THAT'S OBVIOUSLY GONNA GONNA CAUSE ISSUES. ANOTHER ONE OF LIBERTY. AND HERE AGAIN IN PARIS. JUST EXAMPLES TO KIND OF GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF WHAT? WHAT'S OUT THERE. LITTLE BIT MORE BACKGROUND. UM AS I TALKED ABOUT MULTIPLE AGENCIES KIND OF GOT TOGETHER AND TRIED TO FIGURE OUT THE BEST WAY TO APPROACH THIS, AND WE DID SOME SOME RESEARCH, SOME SOME TOURS UP AND ALWAYS COUNTY. THEY'VE DONE A COUPLE OF THESE LARGER STREAMS. SENECA COUNTY IS DONE ONE THAT'S ABOUT A THIRD THIS SIZE. AND THEY'RE SIMPLE ENOUGH CONSTRUCTION WISE, BUT THERE ARE DIFFICULT PROJECT BECAUSE OF ALL THE COORDINATION OF THE PROPERTY UNIVERSE. WE HAVE 33 MILES TIMES TO THAT 66 MILES OF COORDINATION ALONG THE PROPERTY ENTERS ALONG, YOU KNOW, ALONG THE STREAM. UM SO AGAIN, I MENTIONED THE ART OF FUNDS HERE.THAT'S THAT'S GOING TO BE HUGE. WE ALREADY HAD SOME OPEN HOUSES. LAST WEEK, WE WISHED WE HOSTED THREE OPEN HOUSES IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE COUNTY. UM MAKES IT MUCH MUCH EASIER DECISION WHEN I'M TALKING ABOUT PROPERTY OWNERS OR A STAFF AND WATER WHEN THEY STARTED ASKING ABOUT FUNDS, THE ORANGE MAJORITY OF THAT'S GOING TO BE GOING TO BE HANDLED UPFRONT. IT'S NOT A LOOK AT THE PARTNERS THAT WE HAVE HERE. SO THIS THIS IS KIND OF, UM, YOU KNOW, COMMENTS SENSE LIKE, I GUESS, BUT WE PLACED THIS IN OUR SLIDESHOW AND OUR CONTENT ON OUR WEBSITE JUST TO KIND OF GIVE PEOPLE AN IDEA MAYBE AREN'T FAMILIAR WITH WITH THE IMPORTANCE OF DRAINAGE, YOU KNOW, BEING AN ENGINEER. IT'S UH YOU KNOW, IT'S BEAT INTO ME OVER THE YEARS. HOW? HOW IMPORTANT IT IS FOR JUST NOT ONLY THE ADJACENT FIELDS, BUT UM, PROPERTIES ON FURTHER BACK, WHETHER IT'S TILE OUTLETS, THE ACTUAL SURFACE WATER FLOW, THE WATER QUALITY CROPS THE YARDS AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE NECESSARILY JUST RIGHT ON THE CREEK TO SEE THE BENEFIT. COUPLE OF AERIAL VIEWS HERE WENT OFF TO THE LEFT, YOU KNOW, STANDING WATER IN ADJACENT FIELDS THAT CERTAINLY AFFECTS CROP PRODUCTION. UM AND ON THE RIGHT. THIS IS AGAIN. I BELIEVE IT'S
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UH, THE SITE THERE AT WALTER ROAD. THE WATER CAN'T GET THROUGH THE MAIN CHANNEL, SO IT'S GOING TO TAKE ITS OWN COURSE. IN THIS CASE, UM YOU KNOW, SEVERAL 100 FT, AWAY FROM THE MAIN CHANNEL THAT JUMPS OUT INTO THE FIELD AND STARTS FORMING ITS OWN WAY TO GET GET DOWNSTREAM. TALKED ABOUT THE BENEFITS. UM THERE AT THE BOTTOM RECREATIONAL USE. PEOPLE CAN'T GENERALLY, UM, YOU KNOW, KAYAK OR CANOE YOUR CREEK LIKE THEY CAN SECTIONS TO DARBY BECAUSE OF THE OIL JAMS. UM IN EROSION, YOU KNOW THAT HELPS THE WATER QUALITY. IF YOU DON'T HAVE THAT EROSION CONSTANTLY HAPPENING IN IN THE AQUATIC LIFE AS WELL. SO I WANT TO SPEND A LITTLE BIT OF TIME ON THIS, UM HERE IN TOTAL. WE HAVE. YEAH 99 ALMOST 100 SQUARE MILES OF DRAINAGE AREA WITHIN THE. NO PEAK WATERSHED HERE SO THE GREEN LINE THE GREEN AND MAYBE A SHAPED LOOKING, UM, PERIMETER THERE. THAT'S THAT'S THE WATERSHED. WHAT WE CALL THE BENEFIT OF WATERSHED. WITHIN THE UNION COUNTY PORTION. UM THE WATERSHED QUARTERLY GOES UP IN THE LOGAN COUNTY AS WELL DOWN INTO DELAWARE COUNTY. WE DID NOT INCLUDE THOSE FOLKS BECAUSE THE PETITION PROCESS WHEN YOU BRING IN ADJACENT COUNTIES IS VERY, VERY DIFFICULT. THE GOOD NEWS IS DOWN IN DELAWARE COUNTY. IT'S FAIRLY OPEN. THE STREAM IS FAIRLY OPEN. THERE'S NOT A LOT OF CONSTRUCTION THERE. LOGAN COUNTY AT THE HEADWATERS. THERE'S JUST NOT A GREAT DEAL OF, UM UH, PORTION OF LOGAN COUNTY THAT FLOW INTO THIS, SO WE WANT TO FOCUS ON OUR PEACE. IF THE OTHER COUNTIES AT SOME POINT WANT TO PICK THIS UP AND DO THAT THEY CAN UM, SO THEY ALREADY CONCENTRATE IS KIND OF THE GREEN GREEN AREA. EVERYBODY WITHIN THAT AREA IS TREATED AS BENEFITING OWNERS. THEY THEY'RE DRAINAGE GOES INTO MILL CREEK, UM, IN SOME FASHION, SO THEY'VE ALL RECEIVED NOTICES AND ACTUALLY JUST ACTUALLY GOT MINE TODAY AT HOME. THESE NOTICES HAVE BEEN SENT OUT TO THOSE IN THE CITY AND ANYWHERE IN THE WATERSHED THAT KICK OFF THE HEARING PROCESS. 80% OF THE LAND . APPROXIMATELY 80% IS AGRICULTURAL. UM THAT'S TO BE EXPECTED. AND THEN WE THINK THAT ABOUT ABOUT 19 TO 20% OF THE OF THE AREA IS WITHIN THE CITY OF MARYSVILLE, PROBABLY 70 72% OF THE PARCEL, A NUMBER OF PARCELS WHICH WE HAVE OVER 10,000 PARCELS. UM COLLECTIVELY IN THE ENTIRE WATERSHED ABOUT 70 72% ARE IN THE CITY WOULD YOU EXPECT IS BECAUSE OF THE LOT SIZE.TOWNSHIPS HERE THAT ARE AFFECTED AND THEY'RE ALL ON BOARD WITH, UM YOU KNOW WHAT THE NECESSITY OF THE PROJECT. TALKED ABOUT THE DISTINCT BENEFITED PARCELS. IT'S ABOUT 11,600. SO YOU KNOW, THANKS TO THE COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE. THAT'S 11,000 MAILINGS. UM HOPEFULLY NOT 11,000 PEOPLE THAT COME TO THE HEARING. UM AND THAT'S PART OF OUR CHALLENGES WE'VE GONE THROUGH. THIS IS HOW WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO HOST BEAUTIFUL SMALL PERCENTAGE. ARE WE GONNA BE ABLE TO HOST THIS MANY? INTERESTED RESIDENTS, SO WE'RE DOING OUR BEST TO GET INFORMATION OUT TO THEM. WE'VE PUT TOGETHER WEBSITE WITH THIS PRESENTATION IS AN ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. JEREMY PLACED OUR FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION SHEET THAT WE'VE PUT TOGETHER SO FAR THAT WANT TO CONTINUE TO BUILD ON AS WE GET THROUGH THE PROCESS, JUST TRYING TO BRAINSTORM THE MOST TYPICAL QUESTIONS WE MAY GET. WE'VE ALREADY GOING TO ADD SOME AFTER LAST WEEK'S OPEN HOUSES. BUT JUST A PICTURE OF ALL THE PARCELS ALONG THE WAY. THE. PARCELS WITHIN THE CITY. I MENTIONED ABOUT 70 72% THAT'S ALMOST 8500 DISTINCT PARCELS WITHIN THE CITY. IN THE NOSE RIGHT ALONG THE CREEK THAT WILL BE MOST LIKELY IMPACTED THE MOST IN A COUPLE OF WAYS THE CONSTRUCTION ACCESS THE EQUIPMENT. UM THERE'S ALMOST 300 OF THEM. THEY WILL ALSO RECEIVE WHAT I VIEW AS THE MOST BENEFIT. YOU KNOW IF THEY'VE GOT THIS FORM GROUNDS, RIGHT ON THE RIGHT ON MILL CREEK, UM BEING ABLE TO HAVE AN OPEN TILE OUTLET AND FLOWING WATER. SURFACE WATER WILL HELP THEM MOST. IT'S JUST A SNIPPER WITH OUR CONSTRUCTION PLANS ABOUT 80% COMPLETELY HIRED AN ENGINEER. ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF TWO YEARS AGO TO PUT TOGETHER A SET OF PLANS TO BE ABLE TO TAKE TO BID. UM THERE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF LIKE I SAID, 75 80% COMPLETE. HERE'S A SHEET AGAIN JUST OFF OF WATER ROAD. EVERY ONE OF THOSE ROAD DOT RED DOTS IS A LOGJAM THAT WE'VE IDENTIFIED. IT NEEDS TO COME OUT OF THERE. WE HAVE ABOUT 760. PROBABLY MORE BECAUSE THAT THAT
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INVENTORY WAS TAKEN A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO BY THE SALON WATER STAFF. WE'VE GOT AN ESTIMATE OF ABOUT 50. THEY'RE VERY, VERY LARGE JAMS. UM AND A HOST OF DIFFERENT OTHERS, AND THEY'LL BE CATEGORIZED. MAYBE 1 TO 5. AND THE COST OR THE BID COST FOR EACH OF THOSE DIFFERENT TYPES OF LOGJAMS WILL BE PART OF THE PLANS. A LITTLE BIT ON THE TIMELINE HERE. UM SO WE'VE HELD THE OPEN HOUSES LOSE OUR WERE PURELY PURELY JUST KIND OF VOLUNTARY. WE WONDER AGAIN TRY TO GET THE INFORMATION OUT THE BEST WE COULD TO THE PUBLIC. UM NOT ONLY TO HELP THEM UNDERSTAND? BECAUSE THIS LITTLE BIT OF A YOU KNOW WE HAVE SUCH A LARGE AMOUNT, BUT ALSO TO HELP MAYBE KEEP DOWN THE CROWD THAT WE HAVE TO HANDLE DURING THE DURING THE HEARINGS. SO THE VIEW WHAT WE CALL THE VIEW IS ON NOVEMBER 8TH. WE'RE GOING TO HOLD THAT THE 9 40 BUILDING ON LONDON AVENUE. I WANT TO DO THIS IN THREE SEPARATE ONE HOUR SESSIONS, AND YOU CAN KIND OF LOOK AT THE VIEW AS JUST AN INFORMATIONAL SESSION WHERE WE SOMEWHAT FORMALLY, BUT INFORMALLY EXPLAIN THE PROJECT WILL PROBABLY GO THROUGH THIS PRESENTATION WITH SOME ADDITIONAL SLIDES PROVIDE SOME QUESTIONS. GIVE PEOPLE THE OPPORTUNITY TO ASK QUESTIONS. UM AND WE WANT TO DO THIS AND GET IN THREE SEPARATE SESSIONS FROM ONE O'CLOCK ON TILL TILL EIGHT OR OR NINE O'CLOCK AT NIGHT, AND WE'RE GONNA TRY TO DO IT VIRTUALLY AS WELL TO GIVE PEOPLE THE BEST CHANCE TO LEARN WHAT THEY CAN. UM THE VIEW IS PART OF THE PETITION PROCESS. THE REVISED CODE REQUIRES US TO GO THROUGH. THE FIRST HEARING IS THE NEXT STEP. UM, THAT'S ON DECEMBER 20TH. THAT WILL BE AN OFFICIAL PUBLIC MEETING. UM RAN BY THE COMMISSIONERS AND I SHOULD HAVE MENTIONED THE COMMISSIONERS ARE ACTUALLY THE DECISION MAKERS IN THE END THERE, THE JUDGE WILL HEAR ALL THE INFORMATION FROM THE VIEW THROUGH A COUPLE OF HEARINGS WILL PROVIDE A ENGINEERING REPORT THAT GIVES A COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS TO THEM TO HELP THEM MAKE THE BEST DECISION THEY CAN. THEY ULTIMATELY HAVE THE ABILITY TO MOVE THE PROJECT FORWARD. ASK US TO PAUSE. ASK FOR MORE INFORMATION. UM AND AT SOME POINT, THEY WILL MAKE THE FINAL DECISION WHETHER OR NOT TO PROCEED WITH THE PROJECT. UM PREPARATION OF PLANS. IF WE'RE TOLD TO MOVE TOGETHER BEFORE WE'RE AFTER THAT FIRST HEARING, AND THAT WILL BE AT THE COUNTY BUILDING AGAIN. WE'LL TRY TO DO A VIRTUAL SESSION. UM THEY WILL LIKELY ORDER US TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE FINISHING THE PLANS AND SCHEDULE THE FINAL ASSESSMENTS. ASSESSMENTS WILL BE NOT ONLY HOW MUCH THE CITY WILL TOWARDS THE CONSTRUCTION, UH, IN THE COUNTY AND ALSO BUT ALSO THE MAINTENANCE FEES SO EVERY PARCEL WILL BE, UM ON PAPER. WE'LL HAVE A MAINTENANCE ASSESSMENT TO GO WITH IT. IT'S GOING TO BE GENERALLY VERY NOMINAL REVISED COULD REQUIRES US TO DO A MINIMUM OF $2 A PARCEL SO YOU'RE IN A QUARTER ACRE LOT, YOU KNOW, AND LIBERTY TOWNSHIP SOMEWHERE.WE'LL HAVE TO AT LEAST CHARGE THEM $2 PER THE REVISED CODE, UM , AND COLLECT THAT ON AN ANNUAL BASIS. AH THE SOIL WATER WHAT THEY DO THAT THEY'LL DO AN ANNUAL INSPECTION, LIKELY USING A DRONE TO SEE THIS AGAIN. THIS IS POST PROJECT. AND DOING MAINTENANCE ON OUT, THEY'LL DO AN ANNUAL INVENTORY SUBMIT A REPORT TO THE COMMISSIONERS WITH OUR HELP AND WILL DETERMINE IF WE NEED $75,000 IN THE ACCOUNTS 150,000 AND THEY'LL BASE THEIR THEIR ASSESSMENT ON THAT EACH YEAR AND IT CAN GO UP OR DOWN AND TALKING TO THE OTHER COUNTIES ONCE THAT INITIAL CONSTRUCTION IS DONE. IT'S A FAIRLY NOMINAL AMOUNT OF WORK THEY NEED TO DO EACH YEAR. UM THE SECOND HEARING AGAIN WOULD BE THAT'S KIND OF THE FINAL DECISION MAKING POINT. EARLY WINTER, AND THEN WE'D LIKE TO GET THIS TO BID AGAIN EARLY WINTER AND GET THEM STARTED BEFORE WE GET INTO SPRING. OUR BEST GUESS IS GOING TO BE A 18 MONTH TO TWO YEAR PROJECTS.
THERE'S JUST A LOT OF WORK THERE. SO THAT WOULD PUT THE COMPLETION SOMEWHERE IN AUGUST 2025 OR JANUARY 26. AND I BELIEVE BILL WE NEED TO HAVE THE FUNDS ARE SPENT IN 26. SO.
TALKED ABOUT THE MAINTENANCE ALREADY HERE A LITTLE BIT. DON'T THINK THERE'S ANYTHING NEW IN THIS SLIDE. WE WILL MAKE THAT MEANS MAINTENANCE ASSESSMENTS. ESTIMATE AT THE SAME TIME THAT WE GO THROUGH THE HEARING PROCESS. A LITTLE BIT OF THAT IS GOING TO BE BASED ON AGAIN CONVERSATIONS WITH COUNTIES THAT HAVE DONE THIS BEFORE. BUT WE THINK SOMEWHERE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF $8500 WILL BE OUR GOAL FOR THE FIRST YEAR OR TWO TO MAKE SURE WE CAN. WE CAN GET THE TREES OUT OF THERE. AND IT'S NOT JUST THE LOGJAMS, BUT ANYTHING. THAT'S MAYBE A 45 DEGREE OR MORE LEANING TREE IS GOING TO BE CUT AS A PART OF THIS. THEY'RE AT THE BOTTOM. AND
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THIS HAS BEEN OUR UNDERSTANDING. AND WE THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THIS THAT FROM JEREMY AND STAFF THAT THE STORMWATER FEES FROM THE CITY'S PERSPECTIVE WILL GO TOWARDS THE MAINTENANCE FEES INTO THE FUTURE. UM, SO THAT'S KIND OF HOW WE'RE PLANNING OUR DISCUSSIONS WITH THE COMMISSIONERS AND RESIDENTS, UM WE EXPECT THAT FOR THE COUNTY, THEY WILL LIKELY FOLKS WILL BE ASSESSED IN UNINCORPORATED UNINCORPORATED AREAS, BUT THEY WILL BE AGAIN FAIRLY NOMINAL.DISMISS ASSESSMENT FEE. WE HAVE A COUPLE OF PROJECTS. FOLKS THAT ARE KIND OF HEADING THIS UP OUT OF OUR OFFICE DID NOT WORK THERE AT THE BOTTOM. UM HE'LL BE HANDLING MOST AS WE GO FORWARD.
MOST OF THE COORDINATION AGAIN IS THIS IS SOMEWHAT THE EASY PART WANTED TO PETITION PROCESS WE GET INTO THE ACTUAL CONSTRUCTION PLANNING WITH THE CONTRACTOR. THERE'S A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF COORDINATION, JUST FINDING WAYS TO GET THE EQUIPMENT IN THEIR ACCESS POINTS TO DO IT SAFELY. UM AND JUST COORDINATED WITH THE PROPERTY OWNERS ON ON THE BEST WAY TO DO THIS AND CLEAN UP AND PUNCH LIST THAT SORT OF THING. AND THEN THE SOIL WATER FOLKS HAVE BEEN GREAT. GREAT PARTNERS. JOE EADES IS THE DERANGED MAINTENANCE SUPERVISOR. HE WILL ALSO BE TAG TEAMING WITH DEAN AND OUR OFFICE. UM SO THAT'S A REALLY QUICK RUN THROUGH, OR AT LEAST IT FELT REALLY QUICK. HAPPY TO ANSWER QUESTIONS. THE BEST I CAN YES, SIR. HAVE HAVE YOU INVESTIGATED. IS THERE ANYTHING OF THIS SIZE? AND COLLEGIALITY. NATIONALLY I MEAN, IS THIS A ONE OFF? OR IS THIS A COMMON OCCURRENCE IN DIFFERENT AREAS? SO IT'S A GOOD QUESTION. UM THE PROBABLY THE MOST LIKE PROJECT AND THEY DID THIS ACTUALLY, A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO. ALWAYS COUNTY, UM, HAD TWO PROJECTS. I BELIEVE 1 MAY HAVE BEEN A LITTLE LARGER THAN THAN THIS ONE. SO WE UM WE'VE TALKED WITH THEM, UM THEY SHARED A LOT OF THEIR MATERIAL THEIR PROCESS. AND WENT UP INTO THE FIELD TRIP OR TWO UP THERE. SO THAT HELPED US ACTUALLY HAD A FELLOW APPROACHES AT THE MILLCREEK TOWNSHIP OPEN HOUSE. UM NOW RETIRED, BUT WE'VE GOT TO KNOW HIM SOME YEARS AGO ON A BRIDGE REPLACEMENT. HE DID THIS OUT WEST IN A COUPLE OF VERY LARGE STREAMS AND VOLUNTEERED HIS HELP. SO WE'RE TAKING ALL THE INFORMATION WE CAN BECAUSE IT'S A GREAT POINT IS IT'S A DIFFERENT ANIMAL. THE PROJECT FOR US WE'RE ROAD AND BRIDGE, GUYS, UM, AND DRAINAGE GUYS, BUT THE LOGJAMS ARE A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT. UM YOU KNOW, IN A NUMBER OF WAYS, SO YEP. QUESTIONS. THIS WITH REGARD TO THE THEMA FLOODPLAIN, UH, LINES THAT ARE ON THE MAP RIGHT NOW. ARE ARE DRIVEN BY THE CURRENT LOGJAM. SO I'M ASSUMING THIS IS CLEANED UP. THOSE LINES WILL CHANGE. CAN YOU SPEAK TO THAT AT ALL THEY MAY OR MAY NOT CHANGE. THE FLOOD ZONES ARE REALLY DRAWN MORE TOWARDS, UM, TOPOGRAPHY IN MOST CASES, UM, YOU KNOW, BASED ON NOT EVERYWHERE ALONG MILL CREEK OR THE STREAMS, UNION COUNTY, BUT IN A LOT OF PLACES THEY'RE DONE WITH ENGINEERING STUDIES. UM, AND I DON'T BELIEVE MOST OF THOSE TOOK INTO ACCOUNT CONSTRICTIONS THAT MAY TAKE INTO ACCOUNT BRIDGES, THE CONSTRUCTIONS OF BRIDGE OR BRIDGE PIERS MAY HAVE MOST OF THEM ARE DONE ON CALCULATIONS BASED ON YOU KNOW, THIS STREAM SIZED AMOUNT OF DRAINAGE GOING IN THERE. UM IN SOME CASES, THEY'RE DRAWN JUST BASED ON THE TOPOGRAPHIC LINES, UM AND THE ELEVATIONS. UM THERE'S A CHANCE WHEN THE WATER WATERWAY IMPROVES THAT THAT THERE COULD BE MORE DAD AND REDUCED. UM BUT I DON'T KNOW THAT WILL BE A WIDESPREAD, OKAY, CHANGE. MY QUESTION. YOU TALKED ABOUT AN ONGOING MAINTENANCE ASSESSMENT THAT WOULD BE ESTABLISHED IN A MINIMUM OF $2 PER PARCEL. YOU TALKED ABOUT THIS CITY BASICALLY. USING THE STORM WATER FUND, TOO. CONTRIBUTE FOR PROPERTIES WITHIN MARYSVILLE.
DOES THAT MEAN THAT, UM THE STORM WATER FUND WILL MAKE A CONTRIBUTION OF $2 PER PURCELL MINIMUM OR WHATEVER THE CALCULATION IS TOWARDS THIS FUND. YES SO AND I SHOULD HAVE SPENT A LITTLE TIME ON THAT. THE ASSESSMENT. UM THE TECHNICAL ASSESSMENT PROCESS COMES AS A PART OF THE PETITION DITCH HEARING PROCESS, SO ON A WITHOUT GETTING TOO FAR INTO THE WEEDS ON A TYPICAL DITCH PROJEHAVE OND NOW THAT'S THAT'S AN OPEN DITCH AND TILE. WE LOOKED AT, LIKE FOUR OR FIVE FACTORS. IT COULD BE THE AREA. IT WAS THE RELATIONSHIP OR THE PROPERTY WAS IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE STREAM. UM THE TYPE OF RUN OFF YOU KNOW, IS A PARKING LOT VERSUS AN AG
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FIELD. WE ACTUALLY PLUGGED THAT INTO A FORMULA TO DICTATE WHAT THE BENEFIT WOULD BE FOR EACH PARCEL AND WHAT THEIR SHARE WITH YOU, RIGHT? UM WE ARE NOT THERE YET. WITH THIS PROCESS. WE'RE JUST KIND OF GET OFF. WE'RE GOING TO LOOK INTO WAYS ON HOW TO BEST AND MOST FAIRLY DO THE ASSESSMENT. UM YOU KNOW, FOR INSTANCE, YOU HAVE 70% OF THE PARCEL ACCOUNT. BUT ONLY 1920% OF THE AREA. UM YOUR AREA IS GOING TO BE A HIGHER RATE OF RUNOFF, THEN THE FARM FIELDS OUT IN THE UNINCORPORATED AREAS. UM, PROBABLY THE MOST ACCURATE ANSWER. THE FAIREST ANSWER IS SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN THAT 20% AND 70. UM AND THEN WE'RE ALSO GOING TO HAVE TO LOOK AT THE COST. IT'S GONNA BE A LITTLE MORE DIFFICULT FOR THE CONTRACTOR TO ACCESS SOME OF THE AREAS HERE IN THE CITY ADJACENT TO SUBDIVISIONS. SO WE'VE GOT A FIGURE THAT OUT TO BE HONEST, AND WE'LL USE THE COMMISSIONER'S THOUGHTS AND HEARING PROCESS TO HELP DETERMINE THAT I'M JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT COMES OUT OF OUR STRONG WATER BUDGET THAT WE'RE GOING TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE MAINTENANCE FUND. BASED ON THAT FORMULA IS THAT WE'RE SEEING MEAN PROBABLY SO AND THEN JUST THE CONVERSATIONS WITH JEREMY AND KYLE OVER THE YEARS AS WE'VE KIND OF HAD COMMITTEES AND TRY TO TRY TO FIGURE THIS OUT. THAT'S KIND OF WHERE WE WERE LEANING IT TO ME. IT MAKES SENSE THAT IT'S AWESOME TO HAVE A STORMWATER FEE, IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT. IF IT'S $2 PER PARCEL, THAT'S WHAT IS IT? TWO CENTS A MONTH. YEAH YEAH, AND IT IT GOES DIRECTLY INTO YOU KNOW THE CREEK THAT DRAINS PRETTY MUCH ALL OF MARYSVILLE. SO OKAY? IT MAY BE BETTER FAMILY FIELDS. MORNING DIRECTLY RIDICULOUS. TWO LITTLE CRAZY. BUT IF YOU WANT TO ASSESS IT DOES. EVERYBODY WITH HIM. WATER SHE HAD. SCANNING THE ADVANTAGE OF YES. JUST COMMON.THE PARTIALS. IT'S SORT OF TO ME FAIR IN SOME SENSE. THE SCORING WATER OF THIS YEAR. MY MODEL PROPERTY NOT BEING ADDRESSED. BUT PROBLEM IS DAMAGED. RIGHT I THINK THE STORMWATER COMMUNITIES START OVER FACE. YEAH PEOPLE. YEAH I HOPE SO. MAYBE IF YOU LIKE, PART TIME JOB, WE COULD USE YOU ANOTHER DISK PETITION HEARINGS BECAUSE I'VE ALWAYS HERE THAT, YOU KNOW, OKAY, I'LL CHECK IN WITH YOU. ANYBODY ELSE? OKAY SO HOW DID WITHIN THE CITY IS RELATIVELY EASY, BUT THEN YOUR LARGEST ONE IS OUTSIDE THE CITY. YEAH SO IS THAT GOING TO BE ASSESSED THROUGH THE REAL ESTATE TAX SO YEAH, AND THEN THE AUDITOR ALL OUR CURRENT ASSESSMENT ASSESSMENT. UM PROJECTS OR ASSESSMENTS ARE ON THE TAX DUPLICATES SO TWICE A YEAR, UM, WILL SHOW UP AS A SPECIAL ASSESSMENT ON THE TAXES FOR THE RESIDENTS SO JUST IN THE INTEREST OF, UM UNIFORMITY.
WOULDN'T IT BE EASIER TO DO ALL OF THE 11,623. THROUGH THE REAL ESTATE OFFICE RATHER THAN SORRY TO THE TO THE AUDITOR'S OFFICE, RATHER THAN SPITTING IT UP BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE COUNTY? EAT YEAH. SO, UM I UNDERSTAND THE QUESTION. AS FAR AS HOW HOW THE CITY WOULD PAY PAY THEIR ASSESSMENT. IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE ACTUALLY HAVE TO HOW THE RESIDENTS WOULD PAY? YEAH BECAUSE EACH OF THE RESIDENTS IN THE CITY OF MARYSVILLE ALSO HAS INCOME TAX. YEAH AND THE AND IF YOU'RE ASSESSING OUTSIDE OF MARYSVILLE THROUGH THE REAL ESTATE TAX THEN FOR UNIFORMITY, IT WOULD MAKE MORE SENSE TO ALSO DO THAT IN THE CITY OF MARYSVILLE, BECAUSE EVERYBODY ALREADY DOES. GET THE REAL ESTATE TAX BILL FROM THE AUDITORY. YEAH, I MEAN, WE WOULD BE OPEN TO WHATEVER METHOD THIS AGAIN. THIS IS A NEW NEW VENTURE FOR US ON COMBINING, UM YES, YOU KNOW, FUNDS AND HOW WE DO THE ASSESSMENTS. HONESTLY JEFF DOESN'T CARE HOW IT'S COLLECTED, BUT IN OUR IN OUR BEGINNING CONVERSATION ENDS WITH JEREMY. YES, WE DIDN'T FEEL THAT IT WOULD BE RIGHT TO CHARGE OUR RESIDENTS THE FEE THAT WE HAD THE STORM WATER. AND WE WERE GOING TO USE THE STORMWATER MONEY SO THAT OUR RESIDENTS AREN'T BEING CHARGED. PER UM,
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PARCEL MHM AT LEAST THE INTENT OF THE STORMWATER FEE. IN MY OPINION, THIS IS THE PERFECT PROJECT FOR FEET TO GO TOWARDS INSTEAD OF DOUBLE CHARGING THE RESIDENTS WAS THAT, BUT IT WILL BE A TOPIC FOR DISCUSSION. MONTHS. YEAH JEFF AND HIS TEAM CRUNCHES THE FINAL NUMBERS AND LETS US KNOW WHAT THOSE ARE. AND THEN, JEFF. IF YOU DON'T MIND, WE DO HAVE THE MAINTENANCE FEE REFERRED TO IT AS A MAINTENANCE FEE AFTER YEARS OF X PLACE, BUT EITHER I MISSED IT OR HAVE YOU DO YOU HAVE AN ESTIMATE YET, BUT THE WHOLE PROJECT IS GOING TO COST. THANKS FOR BRINGING THAT UP RIGHT NOW. WE THESE ARE BASED ON VERY ROUGH ESTIMATES AND TALKING WITH SENECA COUNTY, THE OTHER PROJECT THAT WE THAT WE'VE KIND OF TALKED WITH. PROBABLY 1.7 TO 2.3 MILLION RIGHT NOW IS OUR RANGE THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT. UM. CONCERNING THING, THOUGH, IS WHAT WE'VE ALL SEEN WITH BIDS.UM YOU KNOW, FOR ANY TYPE OF WORK. AH WE ALL KNOW MUCH MORE WHEN WE WHEN WE GET THE PROJECT NEARLY TWO BID AND WE START HAVING SOME CONTRACTORS. LOOK AT IT RIGHT NOW. WE'RE SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE RANGE OF AROUND 2 MILLION BUCKS. AND THEN UM AND LIKE I SAID, I CAN SEE THE $2 IN MAINTENANCE FREE, BUT THAT INITIAL 1.7 OR 2.3 ANTICIPATE THAT COME FROM. SO THAT IS AS FAR AS PAYING FOR THE INITIAL CONSTRUCTION COSTS. OR DID HE REPAIR OF MILLCREEK? YES YES. SO THAT WOULD BE THAT THERE ARE PYTHONS, UM, IN COMBINATION WITH YOUR FRIENDS. IF YOU CHOOSE TO USE THE RP FUNDS, COMMISSIONERS HAVE ALREADY DECIDED THAT THEY WANTED THEY MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS. THEY'LL USE THEIR RP FUNDS OR SHARE OF THEM TO HELP PAY FOR THE CONSTRUCTION. PART OF IT, ALL RIGHT. HEAR ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS. OKAY? RIGHT? THANK YOU. THANKS VERY MUCH FOR COMING OUT AND MAKING THE PRESENTATION BECAUSE, UM, YOU'RE NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO DIFFICULT TO LETTER YEAH . SO QUICK QUESTIONS ARE NOW BEING ASK, AND THIS DEFINITELY WILL HELP AND ENTER SOME OF THOSE QUESTIONS THAT PEOPLE MAY HAVE SO BE HAPPY TO COME BACK AS WE GO THROUGH THE PROCESS. GET A LITTLE MORE INFORMATION UPDATE YOU WHENEVER WE DEFINITELY WOULD APPRECIATE THAT. YEAH, OKAY.
THANKS, EVERYBODY. OKAY AND THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR ATTENDING AS WELL. SO OKAY WITH THAT TANK, OKAY. WE'LL CONTINUE ON WITH THE ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT. I DID WANT TO THANK JEFF AND BILL FOR BEING HERE FOR THE UPDATE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE IT'S ALWAYS A PLEASURE WORKING WITH THE COUNTY. WE HAVE A GREAT RELATIONSHIP MATTER OF FACT, BELL, AND I KIND OF HAVE A MUTUAL INTEREST. I JUST WANTED TO SAY GO BROWNS BILLS. SO THERE YOU GO. UM UM OKAY, LET'S GET INTO A FEW OTHER ITEMS HERE TONIGHT. PRESCRIPTION DRUG TAKE BACK IS COMING UP THIS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28TH FROM 10 AM TO TWO PM AT WALGREENS, SO PEOPLE NEED TO BE AWARE THEY HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY. FOR THEIR PRESCRIPTION DRUG TAKE BACKS, AND THEY CAN TAKE IT TO WALGREENS AGAIN FROM 10 AM TO TWO PM THIS SATURDAY. UPTOWN SCARY VILLE WILL BE THIS SATURDAY AS WELL. UH OCTOBER 28 10 AM TO NOON. CHILDREN CAN WEAR COSTUMES AND VISIT UPTOWN MERCHANTS FOR CANDY AND OTHER TRAITS, AND THIS IS SPONSORED BY HISTORIC MARYSVILLE BUSINESS DISTRICT ASSOCIATION. SO THIS SATURDAY UPTOWN SECURITIES VILLE TRAFFIC, YOU KNOW, DO YOU JUST NEED TO BE AWARE WE'LL HAVE A LOT OF KIDS IN IN THE UPTOWN BETWEEN 10 AM AND NOON. OUR COMMUNITY TRICK OR TREAT IS NEXT TUESDAY, A WEEK FROM TOMORROW OCTOBER 31ST FROM 6 TO 8 P.M.
UNDER ANY WEATHER CONDITIONS, SO JUST PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW IT IS NEXT TUESDAY FROM 6 TO 8 P.M.
OCTOBER 31ST, ANOTHER NEAT EVENT THAT HAS BEEN VERY POPULAR IN THE CITY OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS. IS OUR PUMPKIN DROP THAT'S COMING UP SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5TH. FROM 1 TO 4 P.M.
AT THE DECKER FIRE STATION OUT ON COUNTY HOME ROAD WATCH PUMPKINS DROPPED FROM 100 FT LADDER TRUCK. DOES IT GET ANY BETTER THAN THAT THAN WATCHING THAT? UM, BRING YOUR PUMPKIN OR PURCHASE ONE AT THE EVENT. ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES INCLUDE FIRE, TRUCK EXPLORATION, BOUNCE HOUSES AND FALL TREATS. ALL PROCEEDS WILL BENEFIT. MARYSVILLE BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK SO NEAT EVENT, NOVEMBER 5TH FROM 1 TO 4. I'LL SHIFT TO JEREMY FOR THE MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS UPDATE. THANKS, TERRY. UH, CITY CREWS CONTINUE TO PERFORM MAINTENANCE ON US 33
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USING MASTIC AND PERFORMING MYLAN PILLS AND SELECTIVE AREAS IN OUR SANITATION CREWS ALSO CONTINUE TO BE HIGHLY FOCUSED ON LEAF PICKUP. PARKS FROM THE PARKS DIVISION HOLDERS GATE PLAYGROUND REPLACEMENT PROJECT IS STARTING THIS WEEK AND SOIL PREPARATION EFFORTS ARE BEGINNING NEAR THE RESERVOIR CONNECTOR BRIDGE AND THEN AMANDA AND HER STAFF ARE CURRENTLY WORKING ON THE 2023 IMPACT REPORT ON THE WATERSIDE CITY CREWS CONTINUE TO WORK ON THE WEST THIRD STREET WATERLINE REPLACEMENT PROJECT BETWEEN MARY PLACE AND GRAND AVENUE. AND THEN FINALLY, BEFORE I TURN IT OVER TO KYLE ARE NEW WASTEWATER SUPERINTENDENT COREY SMITH STARTED HIS WORK WITH THE CITY TODAY. COREY LIVES IN RICHWOOD HAS ITS CLASS FOUR OPERATOR'S LICENSE AND PREVIOUSLY WORKED FOR THE DELAWARE COUNTY REGIONAL SEWER DISTRICT FOREVER 17 YEARS.SO FROM WHAT I WHAT I FOUND OUT TODAY WE HAVE NOT SCARED HIM AWAY, SO HE SHOULD BE BACK TOMORROW. SO THAT CONCLUDES MY REPORT. I'LL TURN IT OVER TO KYLE. THANKS JEREMY GOT SOME UPDATES ON THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS ONGOING. FIRST IS THE STATE ROUTE 31 CREEK FEET AROUND ABOUT PROJECT WORK CONTINUES ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE ROUNDABOUT CONTRACTOR IS HOPING TO PUT THE SURFACE PAVEMENT COURSE DOWN WITHIN THE NEXT WEEK OR TWO. SO WE'RE GETTING CLOSER ON THAT PROJECT. MOVING ON TO THE ELWOOD AVENUE ROADWAY RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT CONTRACTORS HOPING TO WRAP UP ALL CONCRETE WORK TOMORROW AND THEN THEY'LL MOVE ON TO THE FULL DEPTH PAVEMENT REPLACEMENT. I BELIEVE ON WEDNESDAY OR THURSDAY OF THIS WEEK, SO THAT'S AWESOME.
MOVING ALONG NICELY. AND THEN THE LAST UPDATE IS THE CITY HALL PARKING LOT. THERE'S WELL IN QUITE A BIT OF ACTIVITY OVER THE LAST WEEK OVER THERE, STARTING TO PUT THE LANDSCAPING AND THE BRICK PAVERS OUT THERE ALONG MAIN STREET, SO THEY'RE JUST FINALIZE AND PAVEMENT LANDSCAPE AND LIGHTNING ACTIVITIES, HOPING THE WRAPPING UP BY THE END OF NEXT WEEK. WITH THAT, I WILL WOULD BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT CONCLUDES OUR ADMINISTRATIVE REPORTING ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE ADMINISTRATION. OKAY ALREADY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. HMM THE POET
[PLANNING COMMISSION REPORT]
OF CLERK OF COUNCIL. THANK YOU. I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING REPORT OKAY? REPORT OF THE COMMISSION.I BELIEVE KALE IS GOING TO TAKE THE LEAD ON THAT ONCE IN EIGHT. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. GOOD EVENING. THE OCTOBER PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING HAVE ONE AGENDA ITEM THE FIRST ONE OR THE FIRST AND ONLY ONE WAS TO HEAR AN APPLICATION FOR A PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT SKETCH PLAN APPLICATION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT KNOWN AS MARYSVILLE, EAST SECTION TWO. LOCATED AT PARCELS WITH I D NUMBERS. DO YOU WANT ME TO SAY ALL ALL THE PARCEL ID NUMBERS AND YOU GUYS, YOU GUYS ALREADY GUYS FAMILIAR WITH WHERE THE MARYSVILLE EAST ANNEXATION TO IS? THAT PASSED WITH CONDITIONS WITH FIVE YES VOTES AND ONE NO VOTE. SO THAT WAS THE ONLY ITEM AT THE OCTOBER PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING ANY QUESTIONS WITH THAT? ANY QUESTIONS OKAY HERE AND NOW AND
[DESIGN REVIEW BOARD REPORT]
MOVE ON TO THE DESIGN REVIEW BOARD. OKAY THE DESIGN REVIEW OCTOBER MEETING HAVE ONE HOME IMPROVEMENT REIMBURSEMENT GRANT APPLICATION. THAT APPLICATION WAS FOR EXTERIOR IMPROVEMENTS AT 636 WEST HISTORY IN THE VILLAGE RESIDENTIAL ZONING DISTRICT THAT WAS APPROVED 6 TO 0. OKAY? WITH THE NEW BUSINESS. THERE WAS FOUR ITEMS ON THE AGENDA. THE FIRST WAS A LANDSCAPE PLAN APPLICATION FOR A PROPOSED PERFORMANCE LUXURY LOCATED AT 7 37 15 COMMONS CROSSING IN THE REGIONAL MIXED USE ZONING DISTRICT THAT WAS APPROVED WITH CONDITIONS SIX YEARS. ZERO NOW. THE SECOND ITEM WAS AN ACCESSORY DWELLING UNIT APPLICATION. AH FOR A PROPOSED ACCESSORY DWELLING UNIT, LOCATED AT 7 13 WEST EIGHTH STREET IN THE VILLAGE RESIDENTIAL XENI DISTRICT THAT WAS APPROVED SIX.YES. ZERO NOW. THE THIRD ITEM WAS A LANDSCAPE PLAN APPLICATION FOR A PROPOSED CULVER'S. LOCATED AT HER LOCATED ON SQUARE DRIVE IN THE REGIONAL MISSED NEXT YEAR'S ZONING DISTRICT THAT WAS APPROVED WITH CONDITIONS SIX YEARS. ZERO NOW. AND THEN THE LAST AGENDA ITEM WAS FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS IN THE HISTORIC DESIGN REVIEW DISTRICT. THAT APPLICATION WAS WITHDRAWN JUST PRIOR TO THE MEETING. SO THOSE WERE ALL OF THE NEW BUSINESS ITEMS. ANY QUESTIONS ON THE DESIGN REVIEW BOARD REPORT? ANYBODY HAS ANY QUESTIONS? OKAY BEFORE YOU LEAVE , AND USUALLY WE WOULD DO THIS AT THE END OF THE MEETING, BUT I DID RECEIVE AN EMAIL TODAY AND
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THAT HR IS GETTING READY TO COORDINATE INTERVIEW TIMES FOR BOTH BUSY A AND THE DESIGN REVIEW BOARD FOR THE B. C. A. THERE IS ONE INTERVIEW ONE PERSON TO BE INTERVIEWED WITH THE DESIGN REVIEW BOARD TO BE DONE AND WELL BE PETER, TWO OF US. I THINK WE'VE DONE AT LEAST EIGHT OR 10 OF THEM, INCLUDING THE PILOTS. SO IF ANYBODY ELSE HAS THE OPPORTUNITY, PLEASE LET MACKENZIE NO. AND SHE IT IS A VIRTUAL VIRTUAL MEETING. YEAH, AND THIS IS A WAY THAT BOTH COUNCIL WORKS TOGETHER WITH STAFF TO DETERMINE WHO THE BEST PERSON FOR THE COMMISSION FOR THE COMMISSION IS SO BY ALL MEANS, IF YOU DO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY, AND HR IS HUGELY VERY FLEXIBLE IN MAKING THE TIME THAT IS BEST SUITED FOR EVERYBODY, SO I JUST WANTED TO BRING THAT UP AT THIS TIME OF THE MEETING BECAUSE WE DO HAVE SOME OPENINGS THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY DO GET FILLED IN A PUPPET TIME. THANKS FOR BRINGING THAT UP THAT UP.[HEARING OF CITIZENS]
OKAY SO ALREADY NO FURTHER QUESTIONS. OKAY. WE MOVE ON TO HEARING OF CITIZENS. I BELIEVE WE HAVE ONE CITIZEN THAT HAD QUESTIONED TO BE HEARD TONIGHT AND THEN WE GO FROM THERE ON. I THINK IT'S YOUR JOB ON THAT. AND AGAIN THE PORTION OF HEARING OF CITIZENS IS NOT NECESSARILY A DEBATE. IT IS A MATTER OF, UM CITIZENS HAVE UP TO FIVE MINUTES TO BRING SOMETHING TO COUNSEL'S ATTENTION. THAT'S NOT RELEVANT TO TONIGHT'S AGENDA. HEY, JOHN. THANK YOU, MR MURRAY. JOHN MARSHALL 12 11 WOULD LINE DRIVE HERE IN MARYSVILLE AND BEEN WANTING TO TALK TO YOU GUYS FOR A WHILE ABOUT SOME ISSUES ON FOURTH STREET. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IN A WHILE I'VE NOT BEEN ON A VOLLEYBALL, COURT OR FOOTBALL FIELD SINCE AUGUST. UH MY SEASON'S ALMOST OVER, BUT, UM, COUPLE OF THINGS REGARDING FOURTH STREET WON'T MY I'M GOING TO BRING THIS ONE UP. NOT MY PRIMARY POINT TONIGHT. BUT LAST WEEK I WAS GOING DOWN FOURTH NOTICED A CONSTRUCTION CREW OUT ON THE NEW PAVEMENT THERE WHERE WE, UH AND WE'RE DIGGING HOLES IN THE NEW PAVEMENT ALREADY SERIOUSLY. I COUNTED SIX TODAY, BUT, UM, JUST I DON'T KNOW. MAYBE SHAKE MY HEAD A LITTLE BIT. UM HOPEFULLY ELWOOD AVENUE. WE DON'T DO THE SAME, BUT MAYBE PROVIDE AN EXPLANATION OF WHAT'S GOING ON THERE LATER. THE PRIMARY REASON I DID WANT TO TALK TO YOU IS ABOUT THE CROSSWALK THAT WAS INSTALLED KIND OF ALONGSIDE THAT CONSTRUCTION PROJECT THERE AT THE CITY RUN, SO MOST OF YOU PROBABLY REALIZED FOURTH STREET. FOR AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER, NICE, LONG, WIDE STREET FROM BEGINNING TO END, NOT A LOT OF OBSTACLES. AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN THIS POPS UP NOW I GET THE REASON THAT WE WANT TO HAVE A CROSSWALK THERE WITH LIENS GARAGE AND PUTTING THEIR PARKING LOT ACROSS THE STREET. I GET THAT AND TOTALLY UNDERSTAND, BUT AND I'VE SEEN THESE POP UP IN THE UPTOWN HERE TO WHERE WE PUT THESE THESE CURVES OUT INTO THE STREET. MAKE THEM A TARGET FOR PEOPLE TO RUN INTO. I KNOW THE STREET DEPARTMENT HATES HIM BECAUSE THAT MAKES HIM A TARGET FOR THE SNOWPLOWS IN THE WINTER MONTHS UPTOWN. I'VE NOTICED, TOO, THAT WE'RE PLANNING THINGS IN THEM. SO WE'VE INCREASED THE MAINTENANCE SINCE WE'RE PLANTING THINGS IN THEM. I HAVE YET TO FIGURE OUT HOW IN THE WORLD IT MAKES IT EASIER TO PARK GETTING IN AND AROUND THOSE THINGS. UM HERE AND MACKENZIE, IF YOU COULD GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, UM OR ACTUALLY, PICTURES. SORRY DIDN'T PUT THIS, UM KILL MARKS. I PROBABLY CAN'T KILL HIM KILL MARKS, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO CALL HIM. BLACK MARKS ON THE NEW CEMENT. WHAT THAT MEANS.THIS IS EVERY TIME A CAR HAS HIT THESE OR A TRAILER AS THEY'VE GONE BY NOW, IF YOU HAVE GONE THROUGH THIS AREA, I KNOW I TALKED TO KYLE AND IT'S THE REGULATION WIDTH FOR STREET. UM, I'M PULLING A TRAILER AROUND TOWN A LOT OF TIMES AND WELL BASED ON THE TRAILERS WIDER THAN MY TRUCK. AND I GO THROUGH LIKE THIS A LOT, BECAUSE IF I'M MEETING TRAFFIC, IT FEELS REALLY , REALLY TIGHT AND OBVIOUSLY IT'S TIGHT BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE DRINKING THIS ON THE RIG. I HAPPEN TO HAVE A CUSTOMER IN THAT AREA. ONE DAY I WAS MY OWN LOOKED OVER AND THERE'S A CAR SITTING THERE AND SHE'S GOT A BLOWN TIRE BECAUSE SHE MANAGED TO HIT THAT RIPPED THE HECK OUT OF THE TIRE TIRE WAS DESTROYED. THINK SHE'D BEEN A RIM SO THAT PROBABLY HAD TO BE REPLACED? I KNOW SHE, UH, SUBMITTED A CLAIM TO THE CITY WHICH WAS DENIED AND I THINK THAT WAS A SECOND CLAIM THAT HAD BEEN SUBMITTED. UM BUT IF YOU WANT TO GO TO THE THIRD PICTURE THERE, UM I THINK I TRY TO TAKE IT FROM BOTH DIRECTIONS. THESE MARKS ARE ON BOTH SIDES, UM, OF THAT CURB, AND I GUESS
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WHEN I'M LOOKING FOR IS TO TRY AND GET JUST SOME UNDERSTANDING OF WHY WE DID THIS MEAN I TRIED TO COME UP WITH SOME OF MY OWN. I THOUGHT, WELL, MAYBE WE HAD SOME INTERNS THAT WEREN'T SUPERVISED FOR THE SUMMER, AND THIS IS WHAT WE GOT, OR WORSE YET IT'S A FEDERAL PROJECT THAT, UM YOU KNOW, TO GET THE FEDERAL MONEY. YOU HAD TO DO SOMETHING SILLY LIKE THIS, AND I DON'T KNOW WHICH ONE OF THOSE TWO IS WORSE. BUT I WOULD ALSO MENTION THAT ANY OF YOU THAT LIVE IN THE DUBLIN AREA AND HAVE EVER GONE THROUGH THE 2 70 SAWMILL ROAD INTERCHANGE WHERE THEY PUT THE NEW KIND OF X CROSS IN THERE. WHEN THAT WAS INITIALLY OPENED UP RIGHT IN THE CENTER OF THAT THERE WAS A CONCRETE PILLAR THAT WAS PUT IN THERE WITH A FLAG ON IT. AND EVERY TIME I WOULD GO THROUGH THERE, I ALMOST POINTED A COUPLE OF TIMES BECAUSE IT'S JUST NOT WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR. AND EVERY TIME I WOULD NOTICE, UM, THE FLAG WAS A LITTLE MORE BEAT UP. THERE'S MORE MARKS ON THE CONCRETE. IF YOU GO THROUGH THERE NOW IT'S GONE REASON BEING PEOPLE KEPT HITTING IT TEARING UP THEIR VEHICLES. SO YOU KNOW, I GUESS THAT'S PART OF THE REASON I WANTED TO ASK. I KNOW THAT'S NECESSARY ISN'T NECESSARILY COUNCIL. THIS IS MORE FOR THE ADMINISTRATION. UM WHAT'S THE RATIONALE FOR PUTTING THIS IN? UM YOU KNOW, THE CROSSWALK IS MID BLOCK RATHER THAN AT AN INTERSECTION, WHICH PUZZLES ME A LITTLE BIT, TOO. I GUESS IT'S BESIDE THE THERE'S AN ALLEY THERE. UM THERE ARE NO PAINTED CROSSWALKS AT WHAT ARE THE INTERSECTION IS THAT PLUM IN WALNUT? I JUST LIVE AROUND HERE. I DON'T KNOW THE NAME OF THE STREETS BECAUSE I DRIVE BY BY A BY LANDMARKS. TAKE MY LANDMARKS AWAY AND I GET LOST. UM SO YOU KNOW, WE DON'T HAVE THE CROSSWALKS IN ANY OF THE OTHER PLACES, SO THAT'S A CONCERN AND AGAIN WHY THIS AND NO CROSSWALKS THERE. WHY NOT AT THE CORNER? UH, WHY ARE WE PUTTING AN OBSTACLE OUT INTO THE STREET THAT OBVIOUSLY PEOPLE ARE HAVING DIFFICULTY BECAUSE HOW LONG HAS THIS BEEN HERE? LESS THAN SIX MONTHS. UM JUST THIS SUMMER, BASICALLY, AND YOU KNOW, MY CONCERN, TOO, IS WITH MAINTENANCE. THIS IS GOING TO BE SOMETHING THAT IF IT'S IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, IT'S SNOWING LIKE CRAZY. WE'VE GOT A SNOW BERM THERE, AND THERE'S ALREADY A FOOT OF SNOW ON THE GROUND, AND THIS GETS ROCKED BY A SNOWPLOW. NOW WE'RE DAMAGING CITY EQUIPMENT. AND IF IT'S A TANDEM AXLE DUMP TRUCK WITH A FULL LOAD OF SALT. THAT MIGHT TEAR THAT THAT OUT, AND THAT'S DAMAGED AS WELL. WHICH I'D BE CURIOUS TO SEE WHAT THE BUDGET WAS. FOR THIS. I'M GUESSING IT WAS PROBABLY INTO THE SIX FIGURES. UM SO THAT'S KIND OF THE QUESTIONS I HAVE ARE. THE CONCERNS I HAVE IS JUST WHY SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. MUCH APPRECIATED. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I APPRECIATE IT. DO WE HAVE ANYBODY ELSE SAID WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS COUNCIL AT THIS POINT. OKAY HEARING NONE. THEN WE'RE GOING INTO THE BUSINESS SECTION OF TONIGHT, AND WE DO. WE DON'T HAVE ANY RESOLUTIONS, SO WE GO DIRECTLY TO THE ORDINANCES[Ord. A]
ORDINANCE, A FIRST READING TITLE , ONLY TO AUTHORIZE AN AMENDMENT TO ORDINANCE NUMBER 28 04 AS AMENDED BY ORDINANCE NUMBER 62 06 AND FURTHER AMENDED BY ORDINANCE 48 14 TO EXTEND THE TERM OF THE TAX INCREMENT FINANCING PROGRAM FOR THE COMMONS CROSSING CITY GATE TIFF FOR AN ADDITIONAL 30 YEARS FOR CERTAIN TO OHIO REVISED CODE SECTIONS. 57 09.40 B AND 57 09.51 AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION OF AGREEMENTS AND OTHER RELATED ACTIONS PURSUANT TO THE OHIO REVISED CODE SECTIONS. 57. 09.40 B 57 09.4 TO 57 OR 9.43 AND RELATED LAWS. OKAY THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THIS IS FIRST READING SO REAL QUICK. I'LL HAVE BRAD GIVE A BRIEF OVERVIEW TO THIS LEGISLATION. ACTUALLY THIS IS A, UM, SOMETHING THAT I THINK IS JUST BEEN BROUGHT TO US RECENTLY AND WE HAVE A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME TO TAKE ACTION. HOWEVER I THINK BRAD WILL STEP YOU THROUGH A PORTION OF THAT SO THANKS, BRAD. IF YOU HAVEN'T FIGURED OUT ALREADY. YOU'RE GOING TO BE SICK OF ME TONIGHT. UM THIS IS ONLY THE FIRST OF MANY ORDINANCES. SO THE PRESIDENT TRIES TO THIS TIFF EXTENSION THE STATE LEGISLATURE THROUGH THE BITING BUDGET APPROVED A WINDOW IN WHICH TIPS THAT ARE CURRENTLY COLLECTING A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF PROPERTY TAXES , WHICH, BY THE WAY IS 1.5 MILLION. UM ARE ELIGIBLE FOR AN EXTENSION UP TO 30 YEARS. BUT SINCE THIS WAS APPROVED THROUGH THE BIENNIUM BUDGET, WHICH DIDN'T GO INTO EFFECT, 90 DAYS AFTER SIGNING IT WAS NOT EFFECTIVE UNTIL ROUGHLY MID OCTOBER. ANOTHER. INTERESTING COMPONENT TO THIS IS THE STATE.[00:55:01]
DID NOT. ADVERTISE. THAT THEY WERE DOING THIS SO IT ACTUALLY WAS FOUND OUT BASICALLY IN LATE SEPTEMBER TO START TO GO THROUGH THE CIRCLES OF PEOPLE LIKE ANDY BUZZARD WITH BRADLEY PAIN AND MATT STOUT WITH BRICKER GRAYDON, AND THEY BROUGHT IT TO ME AND SAID, WELL, LOOKING AT YOUR TIPS. YOU HAVE ONE OF THESE TIPS THAT WOULD BE ABLE TO FOR THE EXTENSION. AND SUGGESTED THAT WE GO AHEAD AND GET IT ON COUNCIL'S AGENDA FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION. AH THE SIMPLEST WAY TO LOOK AT THIS IS THIS IS THE CITY GATE. COLEMAN'S TIFF WAS ORIGINALLY APPROVED BACK IN 2004, BUT COLLECTIONS DID NOT BEGIN UNTIL 2007. SO THAT MEANS THE TIFF. BEING A 30 YEAR TIFF WILL EXPIRE IN 2037. I SHOULD SAY THAT'S THE LAST YEAR WE WILL COLLECT MONEY ON THE TIP AS IT'S CURRENTLY APPROVED. YEAH IF THERE SHOULD BE AN EXTENSION APPROVED BEGINNING IN 2038, WE WOULD RECEIVE SIGNIFICANTLY LESS MONEY FROM THE TIFF AS THE TIFF WOULD BECOME A NON SCHOOL TIFF.SIMILAR PARCELS IN THE AREA. NOW THIS WAS SENT TO YOU IN AN EMAIL, UM AS WELL, BUT JUST TO REITERATE A COUPLE OF PERCENTAGE IS CURRENTLY IF YOU'RE A PARCEL CLOSE TO THAT AREA ON THAT SIDE OF THE TRACKS, AND THAT'S HOW SPECIFIC IT IS. I NEED TO BE DEFINED A PARCEL AS NOT IN THE TEST. THE SCHOOLS RECEIVE APPROXIMATELY 63. OF THE PROPERTY TAX DOLLARS. UM SO WELL AND I SHOULD SAY THAT'S JUST MARYSVILLE SCHOOLS HIGHER HIGH POINT BUT ALSO RECEIVED MONEY AS WELL. BUT I'M JUST FOCUSING ON ONE ENTITY FOR RIGHT NOW. SHOULD THE EXTENSION BE PAST THAT 63% AND HIGH POINTS PERCENTAGE WOULD GO TO THE SCHOOLS. PERIOD. NO CAVEATS. SO THE ONLY MONEY THAT WE WOULD COLLECT THROUGH THE TIFF WOULD BE THE MONIES THAT WOULD NORMALLY GO TO THE COUNTY.
PARIS TOWNSHIP. MENTAL HEALTH. HER HEALTH DISTRICT RATHER AND THE LIBRARY. THE. THE SCHOOLS HAVE BEEN, UH, TERRY AND I DISCUSSED THIS WITH THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE SCHOOLS SO THEY ARE AWARE OF THE TIFFEN. IT'S UM WHAT IT WOULD BE. UM AND I ASSUME THAT IS BEING COMMUNICATED TO THEIR BOARD. UH I THINK THE OTHER, UM, SIGNIFICANT COMPONENT TO THIS AND IT'S REALLY A NUMBER THAT I CAN'T EMPHASIZE ENOUGH. IT'S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO CALCULATE.
BUT I'LL GIVE YOU THE HIGH LEVEL OF IT. ANY PROPERTY THAT HAS IN A TIFF AND THE STATE OF OHIO. IS NOT COMPUTED AS PART OF THE SCHOOL'S FOUNDATION AID FORMULA, SO THE SCHOOL RECEIVES MONEY FROM THE STATE AND THE FORMER FOUNDATION MONEY. THERE IS A VERY COMPLICATED FORMULA THAT QUITE FRANKLY CHANGES IF NOT ON A BIENNIAL BASIS, WITH EACH BUDGET CHANGES WHEN THEY DO THE MID BIENNIUM BUDGET REVIEW. CHANGES QUITE OFTEN. BUT REGARDLESS IN THAT FORMULA, THEY DETERMINE WHAT THE PROPERTY TAX VALUES OF THE DISTRICT ARE AND BASED ON THOSE PROPERTY VALUES THEY DETERMINE. QUITE FRANKLY, HOW WELL OFF YOUR DISTRICT IS OR NOT BASED ON THIS PROPERTY VALUES AND ADJUST THE FOUNDATION AID ACCORDINGLY. LIKE I SAID, THIS CHANGES ALL THE TIME AND AS ONE SMALL COMPONENT OF THE OF THE FORMULA SHOULD THESE PROPERTIES REMAIN IN THE TIFF, EVEN IF IT'S A NON SCHOOL TIFF? THE SCHOOL WILL CONTINUE TO RECEIVE THAT BENEFIT. SO NOT ONLY WILL THEY RECEIVED THE PROPERTY TAX DOLLARS THEY WOULD NORMALLY RECEIVED. THEY WILL ALSO CONTINUE TO RECEIVE THE FOUNDATION A BENEFIT NOW I PREFACE THAT BY SAYING 2037 IS A LITTLE WAYS OFF. THE STATE COULD DO A LOT OF CHANGES BETWEEN NOW AND THEN. BUT THAT'S HOW IT EXISTS TODAY. UM THOSE ARE HIGH POINTS OF THIS PARTICULAR LEGISLATION. OBVIOUSLY, THIS IS FIRST READING. I'VE SENT YOU PROBABLY SOME VERY VERBOSE EMAILS ABOUT THIS SO YOU MAY STILL BE DIGESTING THOSE FEEL FREE TO CALL ME. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS. WE CAN THEN DISCUSS THOSE QUESTIONS IN THE PUBLIC SESSION AT THE NEXT MEETING. IF YOU LIKE. BUT, UM I THINK ON YOU KNOW, WE OBVIOUSLY HAD A LOT OF DISCUSSIONS ABOUT TIPS THROUGH THE LEVEE CAMPAIGN THIS SPRING.
AND I CAN'T EMPHASIZE ENOUGH THIS DOES NOT CHANGE ANYTHING THAT HAPPENED WAS DISCUSSED AND DISSEMINATE AT THAT TIME. BUT AT THE SAME TIME DOES NOT HARM THE SCHOOLS AND ACTUALLY MAY PUT THE SCHOOLS IN A BETTER POSITION FOR THAT EXTENSION PERIOD. ALSO AS A DIRECT RESULT, JUST SO YOU KNOW,
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BECAUSE OF THE POTENTIAL NECESSARY FUNDING THAT WILL NEED IN THE CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT OF THE AREA OF CITY GATE AND COLEMAN'S CROSSING. WE WILL PROVIDE COUNSEL WITH INFORMATION ON POTENTIAL PROJECTS THAT WILL BE WORTH COMING ENVISIONED TO BE FORTHCOMING IN THE NEXT 10 15 20 YEARS OUT. THAT WOULD BE REQUIRED THAT THIS WOULD HELP FUND AN EXAMPLE. JUST ONE IS THE WIDENING OF COMMONS CROSS AND THINGS LIKE THAT THAT MAY NEED BE NEEDED OR OR SOME TYPE OF TRAFFIC SIGNAL IZATION ROUNDABOUT CONCEPTS THAT MAY NEED TO BE THOUGHT ABOUT IN THE FUTURE. SO THIS WILL HELP PAY FOR THOSE, UH, DOWN THE ROAD AS NECESSARY. I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT BIRD. I APOLOGIZE. I DISCUSSED HOW THIS ENDED UP IN THE BUDGET AND WHY IT BECAME NECESSARY TO DO IT. BUT AT THE SAME TIME, IT REALLY DIDN'T DESCRIBE THE NECESSITY. SO WHILE THE WINDOW OPENED AS SOON AS THE BIENNIUM BUDGET WAS ACTIVE THE WINDOW CLOSES 12 31 OF THIS YEAR. AND BY CLOSES, I MEAN, IT NEEDS TO BE WHAT'S THE PROPERTY EFFECTIVE? BY 12 31, WHICH IS WHY WE REALLY ENDED UP PUTTING IT ON ONCE AGAIN. WE KIND OF PUT IN AN EARLIER MEETING ANYWAY, BUT THE POINT IS, THAT'S WHY IT'S ON THE SAME CYCLE BUDGET, SO SHOULD IT BE APPROVED AT THE THIRD READING AT THE SAME TIME AS THE BUDGET WOULD RECEIVE ITS APPROVAL, THE 30 DAYS WILL EXPIRE BEFORE 12 31, AND THEREFORE WE WILL MEET THE DEADLINE SET BY THE STATE. I WILL SAY, UM, THROUGH THE INFORMATION PROVIDED BY OUR EXPERTS. ONCE AGAIN, ANDREW BELLE STARR MATCHED OUT. UM WE REALLY DON'T KNOW WHY THE LEGISLATURE SET SUCH A NARROW WINDOW. BUT I'M I'M PROBABLY NOT GONNA CALL REPRESENTATIVE AND TRY TO FIGURE IT OUT. IT'S GOING TO WORK WITH WHAT THEY GIVE ME. HMM OKAY. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS FOR ADMINISTRATION? OKAY I HAVE A COUPLE OF ITEMS OR AT LEAST ONE I KNOW ACTUALLY TWO ITEMS IF A READ THE ORIGINAL DOCUMENT CORRECTLY, THERE WAS VERY FREQUENTLY MENTIONED, AND EVEN THE EXTENSION TO IT. THERE WAS VERY FREQUENTLY MENTION OF THE SCHOOL BOARDS. EITHER APPROVED OR AGREED THAT THIS WAS A GOOD SOLUTION. YEAH IT'S YOU KNOW. I DO NOT. I MEAN, I WOULD WANT TO READ MY EMAILS, BUT I FEEL VERY CONFIDENT. NO POINT IN ANYTHING I WROTE TO YOU INDICATE THAT THE SCHOOL BOARD HAD APPROVED ALL I WHAT I SAID IN THE EMAIL. MOST RECENT ONE WAS THAT TERRY AND I WERE ENDEAVORING TO TALK WITH DIANA AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AND HAVE A CONVERSATION AND MAKE SURE THAT SHE UNDERSTOOD WHAT WAS BEING PRESENTED TO US COUNCIL BUT IN BUT LEGALLY WE DO NOT NEED THE SCHOOLS APPROVAL FOR THIS ONCE AGAIN. I'M MAKING AN ASSUMPTION HERE. I ASSUME IT'S BECAUSE IT'S A NON SCHOOL TIFF, AND THEY WOULD RECEIVE THEIR FUNDS AS NORMAL. AND SECOND OF ALL, WE WERE NOT EVEN ASKING FOR THEIR ENDORSEMENT. OKAY SO BUT REFERRED TO MUST ORIGINAL DOCUMENT. I DON'T KNOW WHEN THE ORIGINAL DOCUMENT FROM 2004 BACK THEN BACK TO 2004, AND IN THE MEANTIME, THE WORLD ALSO CHANGES MADE, AND THERE WAS ALWAYS THAT LINE OF COMMUNICATION. WELL DOCUMENTED. YEAH, WELL, ONCE AGAIN WITHOUT WITHOUT ANY FURTHER KNOWLEDGE OF WHY THE LEGISLATURE SET THIS UP THE WAY THEY DID, AND SUBSEQUENTLY THE WINDOWS AND ALL THOSE OTHER COMPONENTS THE LEGISLATURE DID NOT REQUIRE SCHOOL BOARD APPROVAL. BUT ONCE AGAIN, I THINK IT'S PRETTY EVIDENT THAT SINCE THESE WERE ALL GOING TO BE NON SCHOOL TIPS, THEY DIDN'T FEEL THAT WAS NECESSARY. PLUS THEY WERE EXTENSIONS OF CURRENT TESTS, WHICH, OF COURSE THE SCHOOLS WOULD HAVE BEEN VERY INVOLVED WITH, SO THERE REALLY WASN'T ANY NEW INFORMATION TO PASS ALONG, ALL RIGHT? AND THEN YOU MENTIONED PICKED UP AT LEAST THREE OF THEM IN THE COUNTY, THE TOWNSHIP, THE LIBRARY, AND YOU MENTIONED THE FOURTH ONE HEALTH. OKAY WOULD IT BE PRUDENT TO GIVE THEM A COPY OF WHAT WE ARE INTENDING TO DO AND INVITE HIM TO UM, THE PUBLIC HEARING, BUT PROBABLY IS TWO WEEKS FROM NOW, MAYBE THREE WEEKS FROM NOW, I KNOW THAT WAS OBVIOUSLY ALSO PART OF THIS TO GET TO YOU AND WANT TO GO THROUGH ALL THREE READINGS IS TO GIVE WHETHER YOU WOULD LIKE US TO INVITE THEM OR OTHERWISE COMMUNICATE WITH THEM, UH, THAT THIS WAS BEING CONSIDERED BY THE COUNCIL BECAUSE AGAIN I DON'T WANT TO COMPARE IT TO SOMETHING THAT WE WOULD DO IF IT IS, IF IT HAS TO DO WITH ZONING, BUT WE ALWAYS NOTIFY PEOPLE AND FOR THEM[01:05:04]
PERSONALLY, I DON'T KNOW HOW BIG CHANGES FOR THEM THAT THAT'S UP THEM, MEANING THE POTATO THAT FOR THAT THEY UM, CAN DO THEIR OWN ASSESSMENT AND THEN THEY CAN COME BEFORE COUNCIL AND SEE IT AFFECTS US IN THIS WAY, AND THEREFORE AT LEAST IT GIVES US AN OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR FROM THE OTHER. UM UM, THE OTHER GOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES AS WELL. SO I AGREE WITH THAT 100% BUT WHAT I WILL SAY AND, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY, MAX HERE I DO FEEL THAT, UH, THAT WE LEAST HAD A GOOD FIRST COMMUNICATION OUT MHM PUBLICLY ON FRIDAY. MAX ARTICLE WAS THINK SUMMARIZED THIS VERY WELL. YOU MENTIONED THE OTHER ENTITIES THAT ARE IMPACTED BY THIS EXTENSION. SO IF NOTHING ELSE WE KNOW THEY ARE BARE MINIMUM AWARE OF IT, BUT, YES, WE WILL. UM SURELY COMMUNICATING WITH THEM AND THEN, LIKE I SAID, IF IT'S COUNCIL'S DESIRE, UM, FOR US TO INVITE THEM TO THE NEXT AREA, OF COURSE WE WILL DO SO. OKAY SO NO INVITATION FOR THOSE WHO WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, I THINK IT'S ON THIS. I KNOW THAT, UM WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT, AND THAT WE HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING. I THINK THAT'S GOOD. I MEAN, THEY DON'T HAVE TO COME. THEY CAN, YOU KNOW, SEND IT OUR RESPONSIBILITY. EMAIL YEAH, BUT AT LEAST LETTING THEM KNOW YOU KNOW THAT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE INTEND TO DO, BUT THAT THAT IS IN FRONT OF COUNCIL AT THE MOMENT. SO OKAY, I THINK YOU KNOW YOU SAW IT HERE TODAY WITH BILL OBVIOUSLY BEING HERE. UM BUT WE OBVIOUSLY HAVE GREAT RELATIONSHIPS. YOU OBVIOUSLY HUNG OUT WITH NISA WHILE OVERSEAS THERE, SO THANK YOU. UM YOU KNOW, WE HAVE GREAT RELATIONSHIPS WITH ALL OF THEM, SO WE WILL, OF COURSE ENDEAVOR TO CONTACT THEM AND GET THEIR FEELINGS ON THIS WONDERFUL ANY OTHER. WHATEVER. OK, OKAY. AND THIS WILL BE BACK WITH SECONDARY LEADING PUBLIC HEARING ON NOVEMBER 13TH. ORDINANCE BE[Ord. B]
FIRST READING TITLE, ONLY TO AMEND CHAPTER 1 10 FACILITY COSTS AND CITY FEES IN CHAPTER 9 41 CEMETERY OF THE CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF MARYSVILLE, AND I DO HAVE A PRESENTATION TO PULL UP. AND THIS WAS ALREADY BEFORE COUNCIL IN THE PRESENTATION AT THE WORK SESSION. SO UM, I ASSUME THIS IS AN EXTENSION OF THAT PRESENTATION. VERY FORTUNATE TO HAVE AMANDA MORRIS AND BRANDON MOORE HERE TONIGHT. UH TO PRESENT THIS INFORMATION, AND IT'S A GOOD OPPORTUNITY REALLY, FOR US. PROBABLY OUR OUR ACTIVITIES THIS SUMMER IN THE UPTOWN FRIDAY NIGHT EVENTS AND THE WEATHER WE HAD FOR THOSE EVENTS AND THE WORK THAT TOOK PLACE TO PREPARE AND CLEAN UP AND THE VARIOUS THINGS THIS IS A GOOD TIME TO THANK ME AND THEN BRANDON FOR THE WORK. IT WAS PROBABLY THE BEST ATTENDED YEAR FOR UPTOWN FRIDAY NIGHT EVENTS FOR EVERYTHING WE WERE DOING COURSE WE'RE STILL GOING INTO A SEASON NOW WHERE WE'RE GOING TO BE HAVING SOME OF OUR HOLIDAY FUNCTIONS. SO THERE'S STILL VERY BUSY, BUT THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR WORK, REALLY APPRECIATE IT. AND I'M REALLY JUST GIVING AN INTRO PIGGYBACKING ON WHAT COUNCILMAN BURBEY SAID. WE DID PRESENT THIS TO WORK SESSION A COUPLE OF MONDAYS AGO. BUT IN ADDITION TO THAT WE ALSO WENT TO PARKS AND RECOGNITION IN THE CEMETERY ADVISORY BOARD, SO I'LL TURN IT OVER TO, UM AMANDA FIRST AND THEN BRANDON WILL HIT ON SOME OTHER RATES THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT ADJUSTING ESSENTIALLY DUE TO INFLATION AND NOT HAVING UPDATED THEM IN QUITE SOME TIME. YEAH, THANK YOU. UM SO GOOD NEWS IS THIS IS THE SAME PRESENTATION WE DID FOR COUNCIL WORK SESSION AS WELL AS FOR THE CEMETERY ADVISORY BOARD. THAT BEING SAID JUST TO REMIND YOU, UM SOME OF THE HISTORY WITH REGARDS TO CHAPTER 1 10 WAS WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1990 WITH OUR SHELTER FEES.AND THEN IN 2009, WE DID AN UPDATE. AND THAT'S WHEN THEY ESTABLISHED THE POOR FEES THAT WE PRETTY MUCH SEE TODAY. AH IN 2010, THEY ADDED IN SWIM LESSONS AND SWIM TEAM, AND THEN REALLY THE LAST UPDATE WAS IN 13, AND THEY ADDED MILITARY RATES. THEY ROUNDED OFF OUR EXISTING POOL RATES AND THEN THEY UP THE SHELTER RATES. AND SO WE DID, UM, IS GOOD, OKAY? SO WE DID A GREAT REVIEW. WE HAD OURSELVES UM WHERE WE WANTED TO KIND OF FIGURE OUT WHAT THE COST RECOVERY WAS. BUT THEN WE ALSO REVIEWED OURSELVES WITH BOTH FOUNTAIN, HILLIER PLAIN CITY, DUBLIN AND DELAWARE. AS YOU CAN SEE ON THE SIDE. THESE ARE THE RATES THAT WE WERE PROPOSING THAT WOULD HELP US TO CONTINUE TO TREND OF A BETTER COST RECOVERY. SO THIS POSTSEASON, WE'RE SEEING ABOUT A 78% COST RECOVERY PRIOR TO THAT WE WERE GETTING CLOSER TO THE EIGHTIES.
UM ULTIMATELY IN 2009 COUNCIL, SAID THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE PULL OUT 100% IF AT ALL
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POSSIBLE. UM AND TO DATE THAT HASN'T HAPPENED, BUT WE'VE REALLY DONE A GREAT JOB OVER THE LAST DECADE TRYING TO GET THERE. SO THAT BEING SAID, IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON THIS SIDE, LET US KNOW. BUT OBVIOUSLY YOU HAVE THIS INFORMATION IN YOUR PACKET, SO WE JUST WANTED TO KIND OF REFRESH AS WE WENT. UM ON THE NEXT SIDE, YOU CAN SEE OUR PROGRAM AND FIELD USAGE. ONE OF THE AMANDA SORRY. ONE I NOTICED ON THE SENIOR WHAT'S THE RESIDENT RATE? FOUR SENIOR NON RESIDENT UM, YEAH, IT'S IN THE PEOPLE THAT UP REALLY QUICK. OKAY YEAH, THAT MAKES SENSE. SO THE SENIOR RESIDENT RATE WOULD STAY AT 90. I'M SORRY. YEAH, IT DOESN'T CHANGE THE NONRESIDENT RATE WOULD BE THE ONLY CHANGE AT THIS TIME. OH, THE SR 70. I'M SORRY. I'M LOOKING AT THE FAMILY OF TWO. THANK YOU. SO THE SIDE FOR THE MOST PART REFLECTS JUST WHAT HAS THE CHANGES ANYTHING? NOT ON THERE WOULD BE REFLECTIVE OF STAYING THE SAME. GOOD. PERFECT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE, UM, TRIED TO DO WITHIN THIS ORDINANCE WAS TO A LITTLE CLEANING UP WITH REFERENCE TO HOW WE WOULD CAPTURE ARE APPROPRIATION PROGRAM FEES. WE ATTEMPT TO RECOVER 50% AND OR BREAK EVEN AND SO WE WANTED TO DO THE SAME WITH OUR POOL CLASSES AND OUR WORK PROGRAMS AS A DEPARTMENT. IT JUST MAKES EVERYONE'S LIFE EASIER TO EXPLAIN IT TO THE COMMUNITY AS WELL AS FOR OURSELVES. AND SO THAT WAS THE BULK OF WHAT YOU SAW WITHIN THE WRECK AND FIELD USAGE UPDATES. UM WE DID NOT MAKE ANY CHANGES TO OUR FEES TIED TO SHELTERS AT THIS TIME.UH WE KIND OF FEEL LIKE THOSE WERE PRETTY COMPARABLE WITH THE OTHER COMMUNITIES THAT WE SAW IN OUR AREA. UM AND WE ARE CURRENTLY DOING A REFRESH AND OR STARTING TO REPLACE THOSE SHELTERS IN THE FUTURE, SO WE'RE GOING TO KEEP A CLOSE EYE ON THAT. ANY QUESTIONS? SORRY I'M GONNA HAVE IT HAPPEN. AMANDA REFERS TO COST RECOVERY. THAT MEANS THE PROGRAMS PAY FOR THEMSELVES. IF YOU HEAR IT'S 50% COST RECOVERY. THAT MEANS SWIM LESSONS PAID 50% OF WHAT IT COSTS AND THEN THE GENERAL FUND COMES IN WITH THE REMAINING AMOUNT TO ESSENTIALLY SUBSIDIZE IT SO THAT THAT'S REALLY WHAT THAT MEANS. BRANDON, YOU'RE OUT. ALRIGHT SO, UH, PIGGYBACK ON AMANDA, AND WHY WE'RE TACKLING THIS RIGHT REVIEW. WE ALSO TOOK A LOOK AT THE CEMETERY AS WELL.
UM SO WE REVIEW THOSE COSTS ANNUALLY AND KIND OF FIGURE. WE'RE KIND OF STARTING TO TREND BACKWARDS, UH, WITH THE RISING COST OF CONCRETE, MAINLY, SO WE DID ALSO DID A COMPARISON WITH NEIGHBORING AND COMPARABLE CITIES AND FOUND WERE BELOW AVERAGE AND ALMOST EVERY CATEGORY. UM THE BIG ONE. THE BIGGEST CHANGE WOULD BE FOR FOUNDATIONS AND THE COST OF FOUNDATION WORK. SO THIS THE LITTLE HISTORY ON THE CEMETERY? WE HAD SOME MINOR AMENDMENTS IN 2013 AND 2015 WITH CREDIT, THE LAST OF A THE LAST TIME WE AMENDED RATES OF ANY KIND, SO WE'RE ABOUT 10 YEARS OVERDUE. YOU KNOW THE TIME AND TAKE A LOOK AT THIS AND WITH THE RISING PRICE OF CONCRETE THAT'S REALLY CAUSING OUR FOUNDATION COST BE INCREASED SO THAT WE'RE ABLE TO START TRENDING THE RIGHT WAY. AND LIKE THE POOL, WE'D LIKE TO KIND OF FACTOR IN OUR COST RECOVERY. SO WITH PERSONNEL AND, UH OTHER EXPENSES OUT THERE SO WITH THESE RATE INCREASES WILL HELP US GET BACK TO, UH, CLOSE TO 50% RECOVERY AND HOPEFULLY MOVE UPWARDS OF THAT IN THE FUTURE, SO ANY QUESTIONS. FIRST CEMETERY GOES. AND THEN, UM, JUST A FEW OTHER NOTES. WITHIN THAT ORDINANCE UPDATE. YOU'LL SEE IT WAS RECOMMENDED THAT WE, UM, DO A REVIEW EVERY FIVE YEARS OF THIS ORDINANCE CHAPTER 1 10 PART OF THE CHAPTER 9 41 IS IN THERE, SO YOU KNOW THERE'S OTHER CODIFIED ORDINANCES THAT ARE REFERENCED. AND SO WE DID MAKE THAT UPDATE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE CHAPTER 1 10, WHERE IT SAYS THAT WILL SEEK TO DO A RATE REVIEW AT LEAST EVERY FIVE YEARS. UM WE, OBVIOUSLY WE KIND OF INTERNALLY DO THOSE REVIEWS EVERY YEAR AND SO WE'LL GET THAT INFORMATION SHARED BACK TO COUNCIL AS WE DO THEM. THERE ARE A COUPLE OTHER NON PARKS AND REC RELATED ITEMS WITHIN THIS CHAPTER. SO WE DID WHEN WE WERE REVIEWING THIS MADE SURE WE TOUCH BASE WITH THOSE APPROPRIATE DIVISIONS. POLICE DID OFFER SOME RECOMMENDATIONS AS WELL AS FIRES. YOU'LL NOTE THAT THOSE ARE UPDATES ARE REFLECTED IN THAT ORDINANCE AS WELL. THERE WAS A COUPLE OTHER DIVISIONS THAT WERE LIKE NOPE. WE'RE GOOD. EVERYTHING ELSE IS STILL ON POINT. SO AT THIS TIME, UM ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS? OKAY? I ONLY THING I HAD TO SAY IS, YOU KNOW AS UM, THE CHAIRMAN WELL AS THIS COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVE FOR THE CEMETERY BOARD, AND IT HAPPENED FOR THE
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LAST FOUR YEARS, AND I'M GRATEFUL THAT MY COLLEAGUES ON COUNCIL HAS ALLOWED ME TO DO THAT. YOU KNOW, IN THE VERY BEGINNING, OBVIOUSLY. I AM. YOU KNOW, I WORKED WITH MAYBE BECKY AT THAT TIME TO CLEAN UP THE CODE AND ADD A NEW MEMBER TO IT, SO I'M JUST GRATEFUL THAT THEY TOOK THE TIME TO COME TO THE BOARD AND, UM, TELL US ABOUT THEIR NEEDS AND WANTS AND WHERE THEY'RE FALLING BEHIND. AND UM, I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT YOU KNOW THE BOARD. WE ALL APPROVED IT. WE UNDERSTAND THE NEEDS, SO I'M JUST GRATEFUL THAT YOU GUYS ARE ABLE TO DO THIS AND BRING THIS INFORMATION TO US. AND THAT WAS OUR RECOMMENDATION. OBVIOUSLY EVERY FIVE YEARS COME BACK TO CEMETERY BOARD WITH ISSUES BECAUSE THEY HADN'T BEEN RAISED, YOU KNOW, AND I THINK FOR 10 YEARS AND YOU KNOW, BEFORE I WAS EVER A COUNCIL MEMBER I SERVED ACTUALLY, WHEN I WAS A RESIDENT ACTUALLY WENT. DEB, DEBORAH AND COUNCILWOMAN GROWTH WAS ON THERE AND THEN ALSO WHEN NEVIN WAS ON THERE, SO , UM EVEN BACK THEN THERE WAS ALWAYS THESE DISCUSSIONS, SO I'M JUST GRATEFUL THAT WE WERE ABLE TO DO SOMETHING THIS TIME AROUND , REALLY MISSES COAT. QUICK QUESTION. UM COLUMN DARIEN NICHE SERVICES. HOW MANY ARMS. I BELIEVE THEY CAN ACCOMMODATE YOU. YEAH. OKAY? OKAY? HMM. ANYBODY ELSE HAVE A QUESTION? UM OBVIOUSLY NON RESIDENT THERE IS SOMEBODY THAT IT'S NOT FROM MARYSVILLE. BUT WHAT TIME FRAME DO YOU DO? YOU COMMIT TO THAT IF SOMEBODY HAS LIVED IN MARYSVILLE NEEDED TO GO INTO A NURSING HOME? YEAH X NUMBER OF YEARS. IS THAT A CRITERIA FOR THAT? OR DO YOU SOMETIMES TALK WITH WITH THE SURVIVORS AND SAY, OKAY, THIS PERSON HAD LEFT THE MARYSVILLE FORWARD 70 YEARS BUT DUE TO AN AILMENT NEEDED TO BE IN A NURSING HOME FOR FIVE YEARS, BUT WHAT IS WHAT'S YOUR CRITERIA ON THAT ONE? SO WE DEFINED RESIDENT AS LIVER WORK, SO YOU COULD HAVE SOMEONE THAT WORKS AT SCOTT'S AND LIVES IN DUBLIN. AND THEY WILL BE DEFINED AS A RESIDENT, AND THAT'S HOW WE DO OUR RATES WITH REFERENCE TO THE POOL AND THAT WOULD CARRY ACROSS THE BOARD WITH REGARDS TO THE CEMETERY. UM SO I THINK WITH REFERENCE TO YOUR EXAMPLE WHERE, IF THEY LIVED HERE, AND THEN THEY HAD TO MOVE OUT AND COME BACK. I'M GOING TO DEFER THAT TO BRING AND JEREMY BUT AT LEAST WAIT FOR THE DEFINITION OF RESIDENT. THAT'S HOW WE, UM, LINDA, MISS, SINCE YOU MOVE FORWARD ALREADY. SO EVEN IF SOMEBODY WORKS IN MARYSVILLE, THEN THE AND LIVE SOMEWHERE ELSE THEY DO HAVE THE CONSIDERED TO BE MARYSVILLE RESIDENT STATUS AND THEN THE GOOD BENEFIT FOR THE RESIDENT PRICE BECAUSE THEY IN ESSENCE, PAY TAXES, OKAY. RIGHT? BUT WITH REFERENCE TO IF THEY LIVED HERE AND THEN MOVED TO A NURSING HOME. I THINK THAT'S KIND OF A GRAY SPACE. UM OBVIOUSLY, THEY PURCHASED THEIR PLOT WHILE LIVING HERE AND THEN THEY ALREADY HAVE BETTER IF THEIR FAMILY MEMBER DID. I THINK IT'S KIND OF A ESSENCE OF TIME THERE. UM, BUT I DON'T KNOW IF THAT SCENARIO PERSONALLY HAS HAPPENED. YEAH I DON'T THINK THAT IF WE HAVE ANYTHING SET FOR THAT, BUT I CAN'T SAY THERE'S NOT JUST THE NUMBERS OF NONRESIDENTS BEING BURIED OUT. THERE ISN'T SIGNIFICANT. UM SO HAVE ANYTHING SAID WE WOULD USE EXTREME CAUTION WHEN SOMEONE'S IN THE OKAY. LOVED ONE THAT WE'RE NOT GONNA CHECK FOR THEIR W TWO'S OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. KIND OF OKAY. MHM. NO BUT I DO REMEMBER. UM AND IT STARTED. MAYBE ABOUT 10 YEARS AGO THAT WE GET A DISPROPORTIONATE NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT HAD NO ASSOCIATION WITH MARY AS WELL BECAUSE AT THAT TIME WE WERE I THINK IT 500 . WE DID GET A WE DID ACTUALLY HAD TO START IMPLEMENTING THE NONRESIDENT. BECAUSE WE DID HAVE PEOPLE FROM DIFFERENT AREAS COMING TO MARRY AS WELL. UM, AND SOME OF THAT MOST CONTRIBUTED TO THE FUNERAL HOMES THAT FOUND THAT IT WAS MORE ECONOMICAL TO BE DADE IN MARYSVILLE RATHER THAN SOMEONE ELSE, AND THAT'S WHY WE HAVE TO START EVEN PUT A CEMETERY, THE NONRESIDENT POLICY. AND THAT COULD HAVE BEEN AT THE SAME TIME WHEN WE SET UP THE DEFINITION OF WHAT WE DEFINE A RESIDENT AS WELL AS IF THE CEMETERY MAYBE DID NOT HAVE THAT BREAK UP YET, LIKE THE POOL DID THEN, UM, THAT COULD HAVE HELPED BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T HAD THE SCENARIO BEING HERE OVER 10 YEARS NOW, I THINK, UM, WE'RE SEEING THE TREND OF MOST PEOPLE. YOU KNOW, BEING FROM HERE OR FAMILIAR, OR, YOU KNOW, WANTING TO REST HOME HERE. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. APPRECIATE[01:20:01]
IT. MHM. HMM SO THIS WILL BE BACK FOR SECOND READING PUBLIC HEARING ON NOVEMBER THE 13TH[Ord. C]
OKAY, MOVING ON TO ORDINANCE SEE FIRST READING TITLE ONLY TO ADOPT A CAPITAL BUDGET FOR 2024.AND BEFORE I FLIP IT OVER TO BRAD TO GIVE KIND OF AN OVERVIEW OF THE BUDGET REAL QUICK AS WE SAY, EACH YEAR, YOU KNOW, THIS IS THE FIRST READING FOR THE BUDGET AND WE HAVE FOUR PIECES OF LEGISLATION TONIGHT AS COUNSEL REALLY HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK AT. IT STEPPED THROUGH IT A LITTLE BIT. OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS. IF YOU WANT TO SET UP AN APPOINTMENT WITH BRAD OR MYSELF OR US TOGETHER AND GO OVER SOME ITEMS DON'T HESITATE. PHONE CALLS ARE GREAT. IF YOU HAVE SOME THINGS YOU WANT TO CALL US ON ASKED, DON'T HESITATE. IT'S A AGAIN IT'S A IT'S A LARGE DOCUMENT. IT TAKES TIME TO REVIEW AND WE DON'T WANT ANYBODY TO FEEL RUSHED THROUGH THIS PROCESS. SO UM PLEASE TAKE ADVANTAGE OF US IF HE CAN DURING THIS TIME PERIOD WITH THAT, FLIP IT OVER THE BREAD TO GIVE YOU KIND OF A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE BUDGET. SO I'M JUST TAKING A LOOK HERE. I'LL DISCUSS THE CAPITAL BUDGET, AS YOU KNOW AS ITS ORDINANCE, BUT WE CAN DISCUSS IT IN MORE DETAILS. WE MOVED THROUGH THE ANNUAL PROPERTY ANNUAL OPERATING ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS BUDGET, BUT FOR THE SAKE OF THE CAPITAL MADRID ORDINANCE ITSELF, THERE'S TWO ITEMS. I WANT TO KNOW THE FIRST BEING THAT WE'RE TRANSFERRING ALMOST $6.1 MILLION . SCHEDULED TO TRANSFER I SHOULD SAY INTO THE 4 39 FUND, WHICH IS STILL WELL ABOVE AVERAGE OF YEARS PRIOR TO, UM COVID WHEN WE HAD OBVIOUSLY RP MONIES THAT COULD BE ADDED TO THAT AND SO FORTH, BUT STILL A VERY HEALTHY CAPITAL FUND BUDGET WITH. 3.8 MILLION OF THAT BEING FOR STREETS. SO ALMOST TWO THIRDS OF THE BUDGET IS BEING APPLIED TO STREETS, WHICH I KNOW IS A SIGNIFICANT PRIORITY FOR COUNCIL. SO I THINK FROM A CAPITAL BUDGET SIDE. WE'VE WE'VE TAKING YOUR FEEDBACK THAT YOU'VE GIVEN US OVER A NUMBER OF YEARS AND TRIED TO INCORPORATE TO THE CAPITAL BUDGET. BUT I WILL SAY THIS WE DID HAVE A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF REQUESTS THAT CAME IN.
UM, THEREFORE, IF AS WE MOVE THROUGH THE BUDGET PROCESS OR, OF COURSE, AFTER THE FIRST OF THE YEAR, WE ARE ABLE TO MOVE MORE MONEY TO THE CAPITAL BUDGET. I THINK THAT WOULD BE PRUDENT. UM YOU'LL SEE WHEN WE DO GET THE DETAIL BUDGETS BACK DETAILED CAPITAL BUDGETS, YOU'LL SEE THAT THERE ARE LIKE I SAID, A LOT OF PROJECTS OUT THERE THE BIGGEST DIFFERENCE IN THE CAPITAL BUDGET APPROACH ORDINANCE AS YOU SEE IS THERE ISN'T THAT LEVEL OF DETAIL. AND QUITE FRANKLY, I DISCUSSED THIS WITH FINANCE COMMITTEE TO GET THERE. TACIT APPROVAL THAT THEY APPRECIATE THE IDEA. OBVIOUSLY YOU CAN DECIDE DIFFERENTLY AS A WHOLE, BUT UM, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY, IN THE PAST, WE LISTED EVERY SINGLE CAPITAL PROJECT IN THIS ORDINANCE, WHETHER IT WAS A $2 MILLION PROJECT, OR $5000 PROJECT WHEN WE ALSO ALREADY HAD THE DETAIL OF EVERY CAPITAL PROJECT THAT'S INCLUDED IN THE CAPITAL PLAN. WHEN IN THE FIVE YEAR CAPITAL PLAN, SO IT WAS ACTUALLY IN A BETTER PLACE TO SEE IT AS PART OF THE OVERALL PROCESS VERSUS JUST A ONE TIME WINDOW INTO IT IN THIS ORDINANCE, SO THE ORDINANCE. WE TOOK DOWN TO ITS SUMMARY LEVEL. IF YOU WILL, UH, WE KEPT THE PROJECT CODES IN THERE, SO IT'S NOT LIKE THE 4 39 JUST SAYS $6.1 MILLION TO 6.05 MILLION. IT STILL HAS EACH DEPARTMENT BROKEN DOWN INTO ITS PROJECT CODES. BUT THAT DETAIL WILL BE IN THE FIVE YEAR CAPITAL PLANS THAT WILL HAVE AT LEAST SECOND READING AGAVE ONCE AGAIN, THOSE DEPARTMENTS UM. THERE WERE SOME DEPARTMENTS WE HAD TO MAKE VERY SIGNIFICANT CUTS TO GET THIS CAPITAL BUDGET WHERE IT NEEDED TO BE. SO I GAVE EXTRA TIME TO THE UM DEPARTMENT HAS THE EXECUTIVE STAFF TO WHITTLE DOWN THOSE REPORTS LITTLE DOWN THOSE PLANS AND THEN HAVE A PRIORITY LIST OF PROJECTS THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO MOVE UP IF MORE FUNDS BECAME AVAILABLE BY SECOND READING. THOSE WILL BE DONE IN YOUR BOOKS. I WILL HAND THEM TO YOU SO YOU CAN PUT THEM IN YOUR BOOKS. BUT THAT'S THAT'S IT ON THE ORDINANCE AS PRESENTED , WE'LL DISCUSS IT A LITTLE BIT MORE. WE'RE GOING TO TRANSFERS AND SO FORTH AS WELL. HMM ANY
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QUESTIONS FOR BED ON THIS ONE? OKAY? ALREADY THIS WILL BE THE 1ST 2ND READING PUBLIC HEARING[Ord. D]
ON NOVEMBER THE 13TH HMM. AND WE MOVE ON TO THE ORDINANCE, D FIRST READING TITLE, ONLY TO ADAPT AN ANNUAL OPERATING BUDGET FOR 2024. SO. SEE HERE. JUST MAKING SURE EVERYTHING ALL RIGHT HERE. OKAY SO WE'LL TALK ABOUT THE OPERATING BUDGET NOW, SO I THINK THE BEST PLACE TO GO TO IS THE TAB. SO ACTUALLY CALL IT OPERATING BUDGET AND I WOULD FLIP TO PAGE ONE THAT SOUNDED SILLY, BUT I JUST GET PAST ALL THOSE FIRST PAGES THERE WITH THE ACTUAL ORDINANCE ITSELF AND GET TO THE PAGE. ONE OF THE DETAIL AND LIKE I DID WITH FINANCE COMMITTEE. I'M REALLY JUST GONNA YOU KNOW, STICK TO THE HIGH LEVEL HERE. I'M GOING TO DISCUSS A LITTLE BIT OF THE, UH, GENERAL FUND BUDGET WILL DISCUSS THE 4 39, THE CAPITAL FUND AND THE 2 32 SECURITY PERSONS AND PROPERTY FUND. OBVIOUSLY ALL THERE'S A LOT OF OTHER FUNDS IN THERE. IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THOSE TODAY, OF COURSE WE CAN GO OVER THEM. BUT YOU KNOW, WE CAN ALSO SPEND THESE NEXT FEW RATINGS GOING OVER THOSE AS WELL IF NECESSARY. FROM A REVENUE PERSPECTIVE, AS ALWAYS, OUR MOST SIGNIFICANT REVENUE IS THE INCOME TAX. WERE FORECASTED TO GO OUT AT 24.5 MILLION IN 2023, AS YOU KNOW, WE COLLECTED, UH, YOU KNOW SIGNIFICANT. ACTUALLY INCOME TAX RECEIPTS IN 2022 DUE TO ONE SIGNIFICANTLY LARGE PAYMENT. WE INITIALLY FORECASTED A NUMBER THAT I BELIEVE WAS IN THE $23 MILLION RANGE, BUT WE HAVE CONTINUED TO SEE INCOME TAX AMOUNTS INCREASE MONTH OVER MONTH. AND AS I'VE SAID IN FINANCE COMMITTEE, A NUMBER OF TIMES WE'RE SEEING THESE INCREASES NOT FROM OUR TOP 10 EMPLOYERS. WE'RE SEEING THESE INCREASES FROM THOSE OUTSIDE THE TOP 10, SO IN OTHER WORDS, WE CONTINUE TO ADVERSITY TO DIVERSIFY OUR INCOME TAX BASE.WHETHER THAT'S MY RESIDENT OR BUSINESS OR BOTH, UM, GOING INTO 2024. I HAVE 24.1 MILLION IN THERE. AS ALWAYS, I TRY TO BE AT LEAST A LITTLE BIT CONSERVATIVE WITH THAT NUMBER. I DON'T SEE ANY REASON WHY WE WOULD COLLECT SIGNIFICANTLY LESS THAN WHAT WE COLLECT IN 2023. BUT THAT IS ALSO A NUMBER THAT AS WE GO THROUGH THE READINGS, I MAY ASK FOR A SMALL INCREASE IN THAT NUMBER IF I SEE THE 2023 RECEIPTS CONTINUE TO INCREASE. ANOTHER NUMBER THAT WE HAVE COURSE SAW A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN 2023, ALTHOUGH I DON'T THINK THAT THE INCREASE WILL CONTINUE NEARLY AS MUCH AS A MATTER OF FACT, I KEPT THAT NUMBER FLAT WAS EARNINGS ON INVESTMENT. AND THAT WAS ANOTHER AREA WHERE WE MADE UP A LITTLE BIT OF OUR INCOME TAX LOSS THAT WE EXPECTED GOING INTO THIS YEAR . SO IN 2022 WE COLLECTED ABOUT 220,000 AND EARNINGS ON INVESTMENT THIS YEAR, PROJECTING US TO GO OUT OVER JUST OVER A MILLION, SO IT'S QUITE AN INCREASE. BUT AT THE SAME TIME AS INTEREST RATES HAVE INCREASED FOR INVESTMENTS. IT APPEARS THE FED HAS SLOWED DOWN THE RATE INCREASES, THEY STILL HAVE SOME MORE RATE INCREASES THAT THEY BELIEVE ARE SCHEDULED, BUT OBVIOUSLY NOT TO THE SAME SPEED AS THE PREVIOUS ONES, SO I'VE KEPT THAT AT A MILLION DOLLARS GOING INTO NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET, DEB, ANYTHING THAT AGAIN, GENERAL JUST GENERAL FOUND ALL THESE ARE GENERAL FUND REVENUES. WE DO. APPLY EARNINGS ON INVESTMENTS ARE ENTERPRISE FUNDS , BUT THOSE ARE DIRECTLY DEPOSITED INTO THE ENTERPRISE FINDS. NO YEAH, SO TO THAT POINT OR TOTAL EARNINGS ON INVESTMENT, YOU KNOW, FAR EXCEEDS A MILLION, BUT THE PERCENTAGE OF THOSE FUNDS ARE SENT ARE IN THE WATER AND SEWER FUNDS. WE'RE ALL THROUGH ALL FOUR ENTERPRISE FUNDS, ACTUALLY. SO THEN OUR NEXT TO NEXT BIGGEST REVENUE IS PROPERTY TAXES. THIS HAS BEEN DISCUSSED. UM LIBRARIES APPLIES TO TIPS BECAUSE WE DID SEE TIFF INCREASES. AND THEN, OF COURSE, THAT MEANT MORE MONEY GOING TO THE SCHOOLS. BUT ALL THIS WAS A RESULT OF REVALUATION. SO OBVIOUSLY THIS CITIED INCAPACITY , PROPERTY TAX LEVIES. SO THIS IS ALL INSIDE MILLAGE ON REVALUATION. UM AND ONCE AGAIN, THIS IS THE GENERAL FUND REVENUES ADEPT TO YOUR POINT. I APPRECIATE YOU BRINGING THIS UP FOR, YOU KNOW, PROPERTY TAXES THAT ARE RECEIVED FROM THE TIPS GO INTO A DIFFERENT FUND SPECIFICALLY THE 247 FUND. UH IF IT'S THE COMMERCIAL TIFFS, AND THAT'S ONE OF THE SCHOOLS PAID OUT OF FOR THE COMMERCIAL TESTS, THE RESIDENTIAL TIPS GO INTO THE WASTE WATER FUND BECAUSE THOSE
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TECH MONIES ARE ALLOCATED TOWARDS THE WASTEWATER SERVICE PAYMENT. OR DEBT PAYMENT, AND THEN THE THOSE AMOUNTS THAT ARE PAID TO THE SCHOOLS ARE ALSO PAID OUT OF THE WASTE WATER FUND FOR THE RESIDENTIAL TIPS. THE REST OF THE REVENUES WE EXPECT WILL COME IN VERY CLOSE TO WHAT THEY HAVE COME IN. HISTORICALLY THE ONLY ITEM OF NOTE IS THAT UM FALL INTO GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS.THE BIGGEST PART OF THAT, OR L G F RECEIPTS. IT'S NOT A BIG NUMBER, BUT I THINK IT'S WORTH NOTING THE LEGISLATURE ACTUALLY DID INCREASE THE PERCENTAGE FOR LG F JUST JUST A TINY BIT, BUT THEY DID INCREASE IT. BUT AT THE SAME TIME THE STATE DID DECREASE THEIR INCOME TAXES, SO THAT MEANT THEY DECREASE THEIR TOTAL INCOME TAX COLLECTION ARE L G F AS A PERCENTAGE OF THEIR TOTAL TAX COLLECTION, WHICH DOES INCLUDE SALES TAXES ARE TAXES. BUT THE POINT IS INCOME TAX IS A VERY BIG PART OF THAT, SO ACTUALLY, WE'VE BEEN RECEIVING LESS LG F THEN WE HAVE IN THE PAST, EVEN THOUGH THE LEGISLATURE IN THE BIENNIUM BUDGET INCREASED THE L G F, UM SO I DON'T EXPECT ANY SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN L G F FOR ONCE AGAIN. IT'S ONLY ABOUT UM THOUGH, OVER $500,000 OF OUR TOTAL INCOME, SO IT'S IT WAS TO GO AWAY COMPLETELY ISN'T GONNA HARM US IN THE POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE LIGHT. MOVING ON TO EXPENDITURES AS, UH, COUPLE OF ITEMS OF NOTE HERE. WE. WE MENTIONED THIS EARLIER. UM YOU KNOW, WE ARE PLANNING ON NO ADDITIONAL PERSONNEL OUTSIDE OF SOME VERY LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES. IN 2024. SO MOST OF THE BUDGET INCREASES THAT YOU SEE, IF ANY ARE RELATED TO CHANGES IN TECHNICAL SERVICES OR NON PAYROLL ITEMS. THANKFULLY WE HAD VERY WELL NOMINAL OR NONE INCREASE IN HEALTH INSURANCE. SO YEAH WELLNESS PROGRAM. CONGRATULATIONS TO HR AND PUSHING THAT PUSHING IT TO MY STAFF MOST ANNOYINGLY TO THEM, UM, BY YOU KNOW, THOSE TYPES OF THINGS ARE OBVIOUSLY MAKING A DIFFERENCE. SO THAT WAS VERY POSITIVE. SO I, INITIALLY WHEN I WAS DOING THE BUDGET HAD A 5% INCREASE IN THERE. AND I WAS ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, TAKE THAT DOWN CONSIDERABLY. SO IN THE PAST YEARS, THAT'S BEEN A LARGE INCREASE JUST BY ITSELF. BUT THANKFULLY, THE INCREASES THAT WE DO HAVE A MEDICAL INSURANCE REALLY ARE JUST THOSE RELATED TO CHANGES IN COVERAGE. UM AND THEN WE, OF COURSE, HAVE THE COST OF LIVING INCREASE IN HERE. WE HAVE THAT BUDGET AT 3% AT THIS TIME.
BUT THERE WERE SOME DEPARTMENTS THAT CHANGED CONSIDERABLY FROM HERE TO YEAR AND MOST NOTABLY, THAT'S THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT. SO I BETTER FOCUS ON THAT SINCE THAT'S MY DEPARTMENT AND YOU CAN SEE MY FORECAST TO GO OUT AT 1.2 MILLION, BUT I'VE REQUESTED A BUDGET 2 MILLION LAST YEAR, AND THAT'S NOT BECAUSE I HAVE REQUESTED THE DOUBLE MY STAFF. THERE ARE A NUMBER OF ITEMS THAT WERE PAID OUT OF OTHER DEPARTMENTS, MOST NOTABLY, THANKS FOR SHARED GOVERNMENT EXPENSES, SO THAT WOULD BE THE MONEY THAT WE PAY TO THE PURPORT TO THE TWO CARBS AND ADDITIONAL MONEY TO THE PORTS LIKE, SAY, FOR THE E MC AND SO FORTH. UM SOME OF THAT WAS ACTUALLY PAID OUT OF THE I T DEPARTMENT. I THINK, BECAUSE IN PARTICULAR THE TWO COBS HAVE A VERY STRONG IT FOCUS WITH FIBER AND SO FORTH, SO I THINK THAT WAS THE LOGIC THERE. SOME OF THESE WERE PAID OUT OF TERRY'S BUDGET. UH UM. AND THEN WE ALSO HAD THE INSURANCE THAT WAS PAID OUT OF THE GENERAL FOUNDING. IT WAS PAID, UM, OUT OF THE PARKS DEPARTMENT WITHIN THE GENERAL FUND BUDGET THE WAY THAT SANDY AND I SAW THIS WAS THAT THESE ARE GENERAL GOVERNMENT EXPENSES, AND THOSE SEEM THE MOST LOGICALLY COME THROUGH THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT, ESPECIALLY SINCE ME AS FINANCE DIRECTOR. I AM TREASURER OF THE COG BY DEFAULT AND TREASURER OF THE POOR BY DEFAULT, SO I HAVE A PULSE ON THESE EXPENDITURES, SO I THINK IT MAKES SENSE FOR THEM TO COME OUT OF MY DEPARTMENT. SO WE DO HAVE YOU KNOW WE DO HAVE INSURANCE AND TAXES LINE FOR $114,000 IN MY DEPARTMENT THAT NEVER EXISTED. WE CURRENTLY HAVE $535,000 IN FOR SHARED GOVERNMENT EXPENSES. BUT THAT IS ONE OF THOSE NUMBERS. I MAY COME BACK TO YOU AND DISCUSS FURTHER AS THE SUPPORT AND SUPPORT DID ACTUALLY FINALIZE ITS BUDGET. THE CARBS STILL NEED TO DO SO.
BUT THE REST OF MY BUDGET IS FAIRLY COMPARABLE TO LAST YEAR. WE ACTUALLY DO SEE, UH, SINCE WE'RE JUST ALL MY BUDGET, YOU WERE KIND ENOUGH AS PART OF LAST YEAR'S BUDGET TO ALLOW ELLEN TO STAY ON FOR SEVERAL WEEKS WHILE WE TRAINED MONTANA OR NEW FISCAL CLERK AND THAT WAS EXTREMELY HELPFUL. THOSE ARE THE TYPES OF THINGS FROM A PERSONNEL SIDE THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO CONTINUE.
IN THE 2024. SO THOSE ARE THOSE SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES FOR PERSONNEL. I MENTIONED BUT THAT WAS VERY HELPFUL, BUT ONCE AGAIN THAT OPPOSITE AND CARRY FORWARD INTO 2024. SO I DEFINITELY
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WANTED TO HIT MY BUDGET. ANYONE TO FREAK OUT. BUT THAT ALSO EXPLAINS TO A CERTAIN DEGREE, YOU KNOW, LIKE, OBVIOUSLY, TERRY'S BUDGET WENT DOWN SIGNIFICANTLY. I T BUDGET WENT DOWN SIGNIFICANTLY, UM AND SO FORTH, SO BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THE BOTTOM NUMBER 10.4 MILLION TO 10.6 THAT'S A VERY MODEST INCREASE FROM 2023 TO 2024. SO I BELIEVE THAT THAT IS THE ADMINISTRATION BEING VERY CONSERVATIVE WITH THE TAX DOLLARS THAT WE ARE RECEIVING.AND THEN FINALLY TRANSFERS OUT. SO WHAT I'M GONNA ASK YOU TO DO IS FLIP TO PAGE 13. AND YOU'LL SEE THE WEST OF TRANSFERS. MOST OF THESE TRANSFERS ARE FAIRLY SIMILAR TO THE ONES IN THE PAST.
THERE'S A COUPLE I WANT TO NOTE. THOSE CITY EVENTS AND RECREATION FUND HAS A HALF MILLION DOLLARS BEING TRANSFERRED TO IT. THIS IS CONSIDERABLY MORE. THEN IN YOUR PAST THIS IS DUE TO THE FACT THAT IN 2024, WE ARE PLANNING ON DOING AN EVENT NOT UNLIKE THE BICENTENNIAL EVENT, AND TERRY.
IF YOU'D LIKE TO SPEAK A LITTLE BIT MORE REAL QUICK. THERE'S BEEN SOME INTEREST OF SEVERAL COUNCIL MEMBERS THAT WE HAVE A WEEKEND EVENT AGAIN IN THE UPTOWN SOMEWHAT SIMILAR TO WHAT WE DID WHEN WE DID THE BICENTENNIAL. IT'S BEEN FIVE YEARS. BELIEVE IT OR NOT, SINCE WE HAD THAT BICENTENNIAL EVENTS, SO WE WILL HAVE A WEEKEND EVENT COMING UP IN 2020 FOR AS LONG AS THIS AREA IS APPROVED, SO IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN START PLANNING AND GETTING EXCITED ABOUT THE GENERAL ACTIVITIES THAT WILL COME BACK. PEOPLE REALLY ENJOYED BACK DURING THE BICENTENNIAL, AND I KNOW AMANDA LAUGHED. BUT THOSE GUYS ARE HAVE ON THEIR MINDS RIGHT NOW EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANT TO BEGIN PLANNING FOR, BUT WE GET THIS BUDGET PASSED FIRST. AH THE STREET TREE FUND HAS $165,000 BEING TRANSFERRED TO THAT. UM THAT IS SOMETHING WE EXPECTED WHEN COUNCIL APPROVED NEW STAFFING IN THAT AREA THROUGH PREVIOUS BUDGETS. SO UM, NOT UNEXPECTED, BUT THIS WILL CONTINUE INTO THE FUTURE AS LONG AS THE STREET TREE FUNDERS FUNDED AT THE SAME AMOUNT AS CURRENTLY FUNDED. THE INCREDIBLY PAYOUT FUND IS TREND. WE'RE TRANSFERRING $100,000. WE HAVE HAD, UM, A NUMBER AT LEAST THIS PAST YEAR OF SIGNIFICANT RETIREMENTS THAT SEEMS TO BE CONSISTENT FROM YEAR TO YEAR. WHEN I FIRST STARTED, WE WERE TRANSFERRING $40,000 INTO THAT FUND THAT HAS PROVED TO BE SITTING SIGNIFICANTLY INSIGNIFICANT. SO WE ARE. MOVING THAT UP TO $100,000 SECURITY AND PERSONS AND PROPERTY FUND. 14.8 WILL PUT THAT INTO CONTEXT. WE TALKED ABOUT THE 2 30 TO FUND THAT SERVICE ACTUALLY DROPPED A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE AS WE CONTINUE TO MAKE THAT SERVICE PAYMENTS, THEY DECREASE AND THEN FINALLY THE CAPITAL PROJECTS FUND 6.1 MILLION. SO IF THERE ARE NO FURTHER QUESTIONS, LET'S SKIP TO 2 32 PAGE 30. SO IN THE 2 32 FUND. WE DO RECEIVE OTHER REVENUES BESIDES OUR TRANSFERS IN, BUT THEY ARE COMPARED TO THE TOTALITY OF THE BUDGET. UH, RATHER SMALL. NOT SMALL NUMBERS, JUST SMALL TO 14.8 MILLION, UM, AMS SERVICE CHARGES HAVE SEEMED TO LEVEL OUT ABOUT THE $900,000 LEVEL. OBVIOUSLY THAT'S DEPENDENT ON PEOPLE UTILIZING THE EMS SERVICES AND INSURANCE PAYING FOR THAT TRANSPORT. SO I SUPPOSE, TO SOME DEGREE, IDEALLY, WE'D LIKE THAT NUMBER TO GO DOWN. BUT IT HAS REMAINED CONSISTENT THERE. WE STILL YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THE FIRE CONTRACTS AT THE VARIOUS FIRE, LOCAL AGENCIES OR LOCAL GOVERNMENTS THAT WE PROVIDE FIRE SERVICE TO THOSE CONTRACTS ARE STILL IN PLACE, AND THEN WE DO HAVE THE SCHOOL CONTRACT FOR THE SORROWS IN THERE AT THE $634,000. THE NEXT LARGEST ITEM AFTER THAT MUNICIPAL COURT FINDS JUDGE PAIR WOULD YOU LIKE TO TALK ABOUT? UM SO WE HAVE, UH, ALL THOSE ITEMS THAT GO IN THERE FOR A TOTAL REVENUES OF THE OF THE FUND AT 17.7 MILLION ON THE EXPENDITURE SIDE? UM YOU KNOW, THE COURT IS RELATIVELY FLAT, MOVING IN FROM 23 TO 24. BUT POLICE AND FIRE, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY, POLICE, MOSTLY IN THIS CASE. ARE SEEING SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN. THAT'S JUST DUE TO THE S R O S COMING ON BOARD AND BEING FULLY INTEGRATED INTO THE BUDGET. UM YOU KNOW, WE OBVIOUSLY HAVE ADDED A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF POLICE AND FIREFIGHTERS SIGNIFICANT BY PERCENTAGE OF OUR DEPARTMENTS OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS, SO THIS IS ONE AREA IN PARTICULAR, ESPECIALLY FROM REVENUE SIDE OF THINGS WE'D LIKE
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TO YEAH, KEEP THE HIRING OR KEEP THE STAFFING LEVELS AT WHERE THEY'RE AT CURRENTLY MOVED THROUGH 2024 AND THEN SEE WHAT, UM, REVENUES LOOK LIKE GOING INTO 2025 AND RE EVALUATE THE STRATEGIC WORKFORCE PLANNING AT THAT TIME, SEE WHAT COUNCIL'S DESIRE IS MOVING INTO THAT BUDGET YEAR? WHEN IT COMES TO CHANGES IN THESE BUDGETS ONCE AGAIN IN THE POLICE, IT'S REALLY JUST THE STAFFING OF POLICE OFFICERS AND THEN THE HOSPITAL, MEDICAL INSURANCE AND VARIOUS TIMES THAT COME WITH THAT. UM FIRE DOES, UM SHOW SOME INCREASES AS WELL. BUT ONCE AGAIN THAT'S DUE TO EITHER CONTRACT RELATED ITEMS OR JUST DEPARTMENT FULLY STAFFED. HMM.AND THOSE TYPES OF THINGS, BUT ON THE UM, THAT WE ARE SEEING SOME INCREASES IN SOME TECHNICAL SERVICES LINE ITEMS FOR BOTH FIRE AND POLICE. THIS IS JUST AS A RESULT OF MORE ITEMS THAT GO THROUGH WHETHER IT'S A CONTRACT OR TECHNICAL AS INANITY TYPE CONTRACT. UM THOSE COSTS CONTINUE TO INCREASE SIGNIFICANTLY. I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S FAIR TO SAY THAT YOU HAVE MANY, LIKE SUBSCRIPTION TYPE ITEMS THAT ERIN HAS, BUT IS THAT WHAT IS ALSO CONTRIBUTING TO THE COST? I WOULD ASSUME MOST OF THOSE ARE LIKE THE MAINTENANCE CONTRACTS THAT WE PAY SO THAT IF SOMETHING DOES BREAK, WE GOT THE TECH SUPPORT TO GET BACK UP AND RUNNING. YEAH. I CAN MAKE A COMMENT ABOUT HOW, UH, I T COMPANIES FIGURED OUT A NICE WAY TO KEEP THEIR REVENUE STREAM GOING. HMM WHAT AM I? I DON'T KNOW. I'M NOT AN EXPERT IN THAT AREA. ANY QUESTIONS ON THE 2 32 FUN? BEFORE 39 FUNDS, WHICH IS PAGE 49. SO WE DISCUSSED THIS AT A HIGH LEVEL. WE'RE STILL WORKING THROUGH THE DETAIL ON THAT, BUT I THINK YOU KNOW WHEN WE HAVE THOSE SIGNIFICANT INCREASES TO SAFETY SERVICES COMBINED WITH BEING ABLE TO PUT TWO THIRDS OF OUR CAPITAL BUDGET IN THE STREETS WERE REALLY HITTING WHAT I WOULD THINK ARE THE BIG THREE FOR THE CITIZENS OF MARYSVILLE, POLICE, FIRE ROADS AND STILL IN THE FACT THAT WE'RE STILL ABLE TO PUT SO MUCH MONEY INTO THOSE OTHER RESOURCES. I THINK SAYS A LOT ONCE AGAIN ABOUT THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF THE TAX DOLLARS AS WE'RE SPENDING THEM SO, BUT YOU CAN SEE THERE THAT WE DO HAVE A FORECAST TO SPEND. UH YOU KNOW, $11 MILLION IN THE CAPITAL FUND. YOU KNOW, AS I SAID EARLIER, THAT NUMBER WAS BOLSTERED BY THE FACT THAT THE MONEY THAT WE RECEIVED DURING THE COVID YEARS AND BEING ABLE TO MOVE SOME COSTS THAT PROBABLY WOULD HAVE PAID OUT OF OUR NORMAL CAPITAL, TOO. 2 77 FUND, THE COVID AID FUND. UM BUT ONCE AGAIN IF YOU GO BACK EVEN FURTHER IF RYAN HID THOSE COLUMNS THAT I HAVE HIDDEN IN THIS SPREADSHEET, YOU WOULD SEE 6 MILLION ONCE AGAIN. IT WAS A FAIR NUMBER FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN ON COUNCIL FOR A LONG TIME.
I THINK YOU KNOW THAT SO VERY HAPPY WITH THAT NUMBER, BUT I DO FEEL LIKE THERE'S PROBABLY SOME SOME MORE. WE CAN ADD TO THAT ONCE AGAIN THE WEEKS OR EVEN MONTHS AS WE MOVE INTO 2024 HAPPENED. MHM THERE'S ARE REALLY THE FUN. I THINK THE MOST IMPORTANT FUNDS TO HIT. I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY WE DO HAVE THE ENTERPRISE FUNDS. THE ENTERPRISE FUNDS, PARTICULARLY, UH, STORM HAS BEEN REPLENISHED NICELY WITH THE CHANGES IN THE FEES AND WE ARE CONTINUING TO COLLECT FUNDS INTO THEIR TO DO SIGNIFICANT, UH , STORMS WATER PROJECTS AS WE DISCUSSED PREVIOUSLY, SO IT'S ROUGHLY, YOU KNOW, I WANT TO SPEAK FOR JEREMY, BUT IT FEELS LIKE WE TRY TO DO ONE LARGE PROJECT ROUGHLY EVERY THREE YEARS. YOU'LL SEE THAT IN THE CAPITAL PLAN AND WE ARE SAVING MONEY IN THAT FUND. TOWARDS THAT END, THE WATER AND SEWER FUNDS ARE STILL DOING QUITE WELL. UM BUT I WILL SAY THIS, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE SPENT A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF MONEY FROM THOSE ENTERPRISE FUNDS ON SEWER AND WATER ENHANCEMENTS. WHETHER IT'S OBVIOUSLY THROUGH, YOU KNOW. YOU KNOW THE NOT REALLY. THE WATER PLANT IS OBVIOUSLY THAT'S BEEN DONE AND PAID FOR THROUGH DEBT.
BUT THE WATER TOWER AND THOSE TYPES OF THOSE TYPES OF STATIONS AND WELLS AND WHATNOT, BUT ESPECIALLY ON THE SUICIDE WITH THE NEW PUMP STATIONS, SO WE OBVIOUSLY CONTINUE TO INCREASE THE CAPACITY AND AVAILABILITY OF OUR WATER SEWER SYSTEMS, SO YOU WILL SEE IF YOU TAKE A LOOK AT THE CAPITAL FUNDS OR CAPITAL SPENDING IN THOSE FUNDS. THAT WE ARE SPENDING DOWN THOSE CAPITAL FUNDS, BUT THAT'S EXACTLY HOW THEY WERE INTENDED TO DO THESE TYPES OF PROJECTS. SO I HAVE NO CONCERN WITH THOSE THOSE CAPITAL FUNDS. WHAT THE SANITATION FUND, IT WILL SAY IS STILL RUNNING A BIT TIGHTER THAN I WOULD LIKE, UM, BUT WE WILL CONTINUE TO ENDEAVOR TO FIND WAYS TO BE AS EFFICIENT AT THAT FUND IS POSSIBLE AND IN ORDER TO STAY WITHIN THE RATES AS READING AS
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RECENTLY APPROVED BY COUNCIL AND I THINK WE'RE STILL WAITING TO SEE KIND OF SOUTH. SOME OF THOSE RATES REALLY FLOW INTO THIS FUND AS THEY BECOME ACTIVE IN 20 AS WE HAVE THE NEW RATE IN 2024.THAT IS ALL I HAVE ON THE OPERATING BUDGET. AT THIS TIME, OKAY? ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS ON THAT? MR PRESIDENT NOTE. THAT ALL OF THESE SCOUTS OUT HERE WE'RE PAYING SO CLOSE ATTENTION OF THOSE NUMBERS. NOT ONE OF THEM. I'M SORRY. NO IT'S GREAT. HERE I PROBABLY EXACTLY WHAT BRAD SAID THAT MAYBE MAYBE, MAYBE SOME DAYS SHE CAN BE AN INTERN. ACH. IT'S ALWAYS IT'S ALWAYS A POSSIBILITY, YOU KNOW, JUST. YEAH NO, I AGREE WITH MR SEYMOUR. UM AND I THINK WE CAN BE VERY PROUD OF OUR YOUTH OF MARYSVILLE. SO DEFINITELY STUFF TO SIT THROUGH. SO ANY OTHER QUESTIONS. THIS WILL BE BACK FOR SECOND READING PUBLIC HEARING ON NOVEMBER 13TH. I HOPE THAT THE CHANGES ARE GOING TO BE MINIMAL SO WE DON'T HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE WHOLE. THING AGAIN, BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH TO BE CLEAR. ANY CHANGES THAT WE MAKE FROM THIS POINT FORWARD WILL BE MINIMAL AND ONCE AGAIN, HOPEFULLY MOSTLY IN THE 4 39 MOVING ON TO THE NEXT ONE. FOCUS SORRY. I'M SORRY. THIS PAGE 55. SANITATION. I HAVEN'T YEAH, THE SUPERINTENDENT LINE ITEM. UM WELL, I GUESS I DON'T KNOW 100% FOR SURE, BECAUSE ONCE AGAIN, SOME OF THESE LINE ITEMS ARE CONTINUED. EVEN SINCE I'VE BEEN HERE, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN MY ASSUMPTION THAT THE EMPLOYEES LINE WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN MAYBE INCLUDED IN THERE. WE HAVE TRIED TO UM, I WILL SAY THIS WE HAVE TRIED TO AS TIME HAS GONE ON, OR AT LEAST HAS BEEN MY GOAL. SOME OF THESE PAYROLL LINE ITEMS TO COMPRESS THEM. YOU KNOW, WE DON'T REALLY EVEN FROM AN AUDIT STANDPOINT, WE DON'T NEED EVERY TYPE OF EMPLOYEE LISTED OUT AND EACH INDIVIDUAL LINE. I THINK HAVING SOME SEPARATION IS GOOD, SO IT COULD BE THAT THAT LINES IN THERE AND JOE JOE TRACY FUNCTIONS AS THE SANITATION SUPERINTENDENT. IT IT APPEARS AS SALARY MAY NOT COME OUT OF THAT, BUT THAT THAT'S HIS ROLE, OR IT'S A PORTION TO RECORDING. I WILL FIND OUT BEFORE THE NEXT MEETING JOE TRACY'S ALLOCATION.
OKAY ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? OKAY THIS WILL BE BACK FOR SECOND READING PUBLIC HEARING ON
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NOVEMBER 13TH ORDINANCE E TITLE, ONLY TO ADAPT ANY APPROPRIATIONS FOR 2024. NO FURTHER COMMENT, OKAY? REALLY? THERE'S TWO WILL BE BACK WITH SECOND READING AND ORDINANCE F FIRST READING TITLE,[Ord. F ]
ONLY TO AMEND ORDINANCE ANNUAL COMPENSATION FOR ALL CITY EMPLOYEES. 2024. UH I DID DISCUSS OBVIOUSLY FROM JUST A ALLOCATION STANDPOINT APPROPRIATION STANDPOINT. WHERE, WHERE WHAT WE WERE TRYING TO DO WITH SALARIES AND PERSONNEL COSTS AND SO FORTH. IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE ANNUAL COMPENSATION, LAWRENCE, OF COURSE TERRORISTS HERE. I BELIEVE SHE WOULD PROBABLY BE BEST ABLE TO ANSWER THOSE DETAILED QUESTIONS BECAUSE SHE'S SO GOOD AT HER JOB. ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS. OKAY THIS WILL BE BACK, ALSO FOR SECOND READING PUBLIC HEARING ON NOVEMBER 13TH. OKAY? UM. OKAY, THAT THIS COUNT OF ALL THE VARIOUS ORDINANCES.[POTENTIAL MOTION TO AMEND ORDINANCE 057-2023]
THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS POTENTIAL MOTION TO AMEND ORDINANCE 57. THERE'S 23. YEAH.AND UM. MR SEYMOUR HEALTHY QUESTIONS TO SPEAK ON THIS. UM WHAT THE ITEM IS, IS A MOTION TO RECONSIDER ORDINANCE OR BY 7 2023 OCTOBER 9TH AND EUN ORDER TO GET THE MOTION ON THE TABLE.
IT DOES REQUIRE THE MAJORITY PRESENT, UM IN FAVOR TO PASS. SO UM, WE NEED TO WE NEED TO GET
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IT. YES. MAKE SOME REMARKS, WHICH IS YEAH, BUT THEY WOULD PROBABLY HAVE TO FOLLOW THE LOCAL 10. OKAY I MEAN, WELL, WELL. THE REQUEST HAS BEEN SOMEBODY KNOWLEDGE. WHAT CONSIDERATION, OKAY. REMARKS. LEADING UP TO THAT. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. AS AS AS YOU'LL RECALL THE LAST MEETING MY VOTE REGARDING JUNETEENTH. JUNETEENTH AS A PAID HOLIDAY WAS CONDITIONAL ON THE TOPIC, RETURNING TO THIS BODY FOR FURTHER REVIEW IN THE SPRING.SHORTLY AFTER I MADE THE MOTION TO BRING THE ISSUE BACK ON ON THE FEBRUARY 1ST IN THE WORK SESSION. WELL AHEAD OF THE PROPOSED HOLIDAY. THE MOTION PASSED BY A MAJORITY VOTE. MY REASON FOR THIS WAS I FELT I NEEDED TO LEARN AND UNDERSTAND MORE ABOUT THE RAMIFICATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH ADDING JUNETEENTH AS A AS A NEW PAID HOLIDAY THAT I DID NOT HAVE ENOUGH INFORMATION AT THE TIME OF THE VOTING TO BE COMFORTABLE WITH MY CHOICE. AND I WANTED TO STAGE THE OPTION FOR RECONSIDERATION. SINCE THAT MEETING, THOUGH, I'VE ALREADY HAD THE OPPORTUNITY. UM, TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE ISSUE. AND BASED ON THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS ISSUE, I MET WITH CITY MANAGER EMORY LAW DIRECTOR AS LINEAR. AND MEMBERS OF THE HR TEAM, INCLUDING TERROR. AND DONALD WAS ALSO PRESENT IN THIS REVIEW. THEY WENT THROUGH THEIR PROCESS, THE FACTS AND FACTORS THAT THEY CONSIDERED WHEN ARRIVING AT THE RECOMMENDATION OF ADDING JUNETEENTH AS A PAID HOLIDAY. HAVING STUDIED THEIR POSITION. AND WHY OUR ADMINISTRATION HAS RECOMMENDED THIS TO COUNSEL. I WITHOUT WAITING UNTIL FEBRUARY. 1ST NOW FIRMLY BELIEVE THAT JUNE JUNETEENTH SHOULD BE ADDED AS A CITY RECOGNIZED AND PAID HOLIDAY. FOR A FEW REASONS. ONE IS. OUR STRATEGIC PLAN HAS ADOPTED BY THIS. CITY COUNCIL REQUIRES. HUMAN RESOURCES DETRACT, PROMOTE AND PROVIDE TRAINING IN THE AREAS OF DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION.
WE ON THIS COUNCIL HAVE EMPHASIZED THIS IMPORTANCE IN THE PAST. AND BY ADDING THIS HOLIDAY TO OUR POLICY REINFORCES TO OUR EMPLOYEES AND OUR COMMUNITY. THAT WE ARE SERIOUS ABOUT THESE HUMANE ISSUES. SECONDLY THIS COUNTRY, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THOSE WHO WE ELECTED. IDENTIFIED JUNETEENTH AS A HOLIDAY. THAT MAKES IT LAW. THE STATE OF OHIO AND 27 OTHER STATES SO FAR. HAVE MADE IT LAW. IN A RECENT SURVEY 11 PEER COMMUNITIES AROUND CENTRAL OHIO HAVE ALREADY EMBRACED IT, WHILE OTHERS ARE IN THE PROCESS OF EVALUATING IT. THIS IS THE FIRST EDITION OF A FEDERAL HOLIDAY SINCE 1983. HR DIRECTOR HAS REPORTED THAT APPLICATIONS FOR VARIOUS POSITIONS ARE DOWN, WHICH IS WHAT ORGANIZATIONS ARE EXPERIENCING NATIONALLY. MAKING THIS DAY A PAID HOLIDAY CONSISTENT WITH WHAT WE ARE SEEING IN OTHER COMMUNITIES WILL AT LEAST KEEP US COMPETITIVE IN THAT BENEFIT CATEGORY. WE'VE HEARD OUR LEADERSHIP AND PRESSED UPON US THE VALUE OF ADDING THIS 12 HOLIDAY. AND LISTENING TO THE FINANCIAL IMPACT AND I SIT ON THE ON THE FINANCE COMMITTEE. UM AND LISTENING TO THIS FINANCIAL IMPACT IN THE REDUCTION OF SERVICES AND COST. FOR THAT NEW PAID HOLIDAY AS WELL AS UNDERSTANDING THAT SOME CITIZENS IN THIS COMMUNITY MAY NOT APPROVE OF US MOVING FROM 11 TO 12 HOLIDAYS. ALL THOSE CONSIDERATIONS. I BELIEVE THOSE FACTORS DO NOT OUTWEIGH THE FACTORS IN FAVOR OF ADDING THE HOLIDAY. FOR THESE REASONS, OUR VALUES AS A COMMUNITY. AS WELL AS THE ETHICS AND PERCEPTION OF THE MATTER. I RECOMMEND WE BRING THIS ORDINANCE BACK FOR RECONSIDERATION AND LIMIT OUR CONVERSATION OVER THE TOPIC. SINCE WE'VE ALREADY HASHED IT OUT AT THE LAST SESSION. SO AS NOT TO REHASH. TO THAT END, ADDING JUNETEENTH AS THE 12TH CITY PAID HOLIDAY. IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO. THOSE WERE MY REMARKS. OKAY? AND WITH THAT. TO REQUEST A RECONSIDERATION. OKAY B BEFORE WE DO THAT, UM I, TOO HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO REFUTE THIS. AND I HAVE TO ADMIT
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IT. I SINCERELY APOLOGIZE FOR THE JUNE KING'S COMMENTS THAT I MADE DURING THE OCTOBER 9TH COUNCIL MEETING. HAVE RECEIVED THE LONG, VERY DETAILED EMAIL COME, JUDGE BARRETT AND I APPRECIATE YOUR TAKING THE TIME AND BEING HERE TONIGHT. AND I REALIZED NOW HOW INSENSITIVE AND INAPPROPRIATE MAY MARCH WORRY. AND I SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN THOSE THOSE COMMENTS WERE MAIN. AND YOU KNOW, WAY ASSOCIATED WITH EITHER A COUNCIL OR THE CITY OF MARYSVILLE. AND I SINCERELY WISH THAT I HAD BEEN MORE THOUGHTFUL IN MAY IN MY COMMENTS, SO WITH IT, UM THOSE ARE MY COMMENTS BEFORE WE MAKE THE MOTION ALRIGHT TO AMEND OTHER THAN IS THERE ANYBODY ELSE THAT BRITISH MAKE SIMILAR COMMENTS. GO AHEAD. THANK YOU, MR PRESIDENT. I WILL MAKE THIS TRY TO MAKE IT QUICK.I DON'T THINK WE NEED TO BELABOR THE TOPIC ANYMORE. UM BUT I JUST WANTED TO ADD THAT I DID SOMETHING SIMILAR TO ALLEN MET WITH CITY STAFF, MR EMERY AND TERROR WAS IN THE MEETING AS WELL AS LAST WEEK. UM LEARN MORE ABOUT HOW THIS WOULD IMPACT THE CITY BUT ALSO. I REALLY JUST WASN'T FULLY EDUCATED ON THE TOPIC AT THE TIME THAT WE VOTED. YOU KNOW A COUPLE WEEKS AGO, AND WHICH IS WHY I SUPPORTED DELAYING UNTIL NEXT SPRING. BUT AFTER LEARNING LAST WEEK, UM ABOUT THE HOLIDAY AND HOW IT IMPACTS THE CITY, THERE'S REALLY NO REASON AT ALL TO WAIT. AND I'M READY TO RECONSIDER TONIGHT. SO THAT'S ALL. THANK YOU. OKAY SO WE HAVE A MOTION TO RECONSIDER ORDINANCE. OH BY THE WAY, SCREWED ME. YOU MET GOVERNMENT ANYBODY ELSE? OKAY IF NOT, THEN WE WILL MOVE FORWARD WITH THE LOCAL TO AMEND THE MOTION OF 57. THERE'S 2023 CONSIDER, CONSIDER THIS ORDINANCE RECONSIDER THE VOTE. OKAY? MR SEYMOUR MADE IT. I BELIEVE, BECAUSE THE RECORD MR REEMS? YES. MR CARPENTER? YES MR SEYMOUR WROTE. YES, MR BERGER? YES MR BURPEE. MR. ROUSH YES. SEVEN? YES. SO ACCORDING TO THE RULES THAT WE GO BY, AND WE NOW NEED TO HAVE A MOTION TO RECONSIDER THE VOTE THAT AMENDED ORDINANCE ALL 57. THERE'S 2023, WHICH WAS COUNCIL AND CAPITAL MOVED TO REMOVE THE REFERENCE OF JUNETEENTH IN POLICY PAPER 100 IN A MENTAL WHERE 12 HOLIDAYS WERE THE REFERENCE TO 11. AND AT THAT TIME THAT QUESTION STOOD PUT SO AGAIN, WE WOULD NEED TO HAVE A MOTION. TWO. RECONSIDER THE VOTE WITH HIM AMENDMENT AND I CORRECT THAT'S CORRECT. THREE AMENDMENTS MADE AND WE'RE ONLY CONCERNED WITH THIS ONE AMENDMENT. OKAY AS FAR AS I KNOW, AND SOUTHERN NEEDS TO BE A MOTION TO RECONSIDER. OKAY ALREADY A. I ASKED FOR CLARIFICATION. IF THERE IS A MOTION TO RECONSIDER. WHAT DOES A YES OR A NO VOTE DO IT PUTS THE PUTS THE, UH, THE ORDINANCE BACK ON THE TABLE. AND REMOVES THAT AMENDMENT SO THEY WOULD HAVE TO BE ANOTHER VOTE ON THE MOTION TO AMEND WHICH IS BEING RECONSIDERED. AND THEN SUBSEQUENTLY, DEPENDING ON HOW THAT TURNS OUT A MOTION TO VOTE A MOTION ANOTHER MOTION TO VOTE TO PASS THE ORDINANCE. AND ALSO THE MOTION TO RECONSIDER HAS TO COME FROM ONE OF THE FOUR THAT VOTED IN FAVOR OF THE AMENDMENT. THE FIRST TIME THE THREE OF US THAT VOTED AGAINST CANNOT MAKE THAT MOTION TO RECONSIDER THE AMENDMENT. I THOUGHT, MR SEYMOUR . YOU MAKING THAT? WELL I'LL LET YOU GUYS DON'T HAVE EMOTION, YET. IT'S NOT BEEN MEDIA. OKAY THIS IS NOT A MOTION TO AMEND. YET THIS IS JUST A MOTION TO RECONSIDER THE VOTE ON THE AMENDMENT THAT WAS MADE TO REMOVE JUNETEENTH. OKAY WE HAVE A MOTION TO RECONSIDER RECONSIDER VOTE. THE MONUMENT. OKAY ONE THAT MADE IT. OKAY CAN I CONSIDER I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE THE MOTION TO RECONSIDER THE VOTE? HMM. THAT AMENDED HE SAID ORDINANCE. OKAY. THE LOCAL POLICE. MR CARPENTER? YES MR SEYMOUR. MR YES, MR BERGER? YES MR BURPEE. MR ROUSH? YES MR
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REEVES? YES OKAY, AND THIS WOULD BE THE TIME TO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS IT. THERE HAS ALREADY BEEN ONE COMMENT BY MR CARPENTER AND OTHERS TO NOT BELIEVE IN THIS ANY FURTHER. IS THERE ANYBODY THAT AS ANY PRODUCT COMMENTS. OKAY SO I JUST WANTED TO SAY LIKE AT THIS POINT . WE'RE DISCUSSING THE ORIGINAL MOTION, WHICH WAS TO AMEND REMOVE THAT HOLIDAY, SO JUST TO CLARIFY WHEN THIS GOES BACK FOR A VOTE WERE VOTING ON THAT MOTION TO A MAN IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO STRIKE JUNETEENTH. YOU WILL VOTE. NO. IF YOU UM. IF YOU IF YOU WANT TO KEEP JUNETEENTH, YOU WOULD VOTE. NO UM, YOU WILL VOTE. YES. IF YOU WANTED TO. KEEP JUNETEENTH AND 11 HOLIDAYS INSTEAD OF 12. MHM. WAIT THAT'S CORRECT. THIS IS THE EXACT SAME MOTION TO AMEND THAT WAS MADE OVER DOING IS HAVING A REVOTE ON THAT MOTION TO AMEND. YES MOTION TO AMEND WAS TO GO FROM 12 HOLIDAYS TO 11 HOLIDAYS BECAUSE THE ADMINISTRATION IN ITS ORIGINAL AUDIENCE THAT WAS PRESENTED TO COUNCIL HAD 12 HOLIDAYS IN THERE. SO WHAT WE'RE DOING NOW ON THIS, IF, IF ONCE ANOTHER ONCE A MOTION TO AMEND IS MADE, IT'S THAT'S IT'S A MOTION TO AMEND. THAT'S VERY SAME AMENDMENT THAT WAS VOTED ON TWO WEEKS AGO. SO A YES VOTE. WOULD REMOVE JUNETEENTH. AND A NO VOTE WOULD KEEP IT THE WAY THE ADMINISTRATION PRESENTED TO COUNCIL. WHO DID THE 12 HOLIDAY RIGHT VOTE. 12 HOLIDAYS? YES FOR 11 HOLIDAYS. OKAY CLEAR AS MUD ALREADY. DO WE HAVE A MOTION? OKAY SO ACTUALLY, THAT'S THE MOTION. WE'RE RECONSIDERING THE MOTION RIGHT NOW SO WE CAN CALL THE QUESTION. OKAY, EVERYONE'S OKAY. THIS POINT IF THERE'S NO MORE DISCUSSION OKAY, I'LL CALL THE QUESTION. ALREADY GOAL CALL POLICE MR SEYMOUR. MRS GROPE? NO, MR BERGER. NO. MR BURBEY. MR ROUSH. MR REEMS? YEAH. SAID THE SENSE ANY QUESTIONS. MR PRESIDENT. MAKE A MOTION TO WAIVE THE THIRD READING. OKAY? WE HAVE A GREAT REQUEST TO WAIVE THE THIRD READING LOCAL PLACE, MRS GROPE? YES MR BERGER. MR KIRBY, MR ROUSH REAMS, MR CARPENTER? YES MR SEYMOUR? SEVEN YES. OKAY THEN WE NEED A MOTION TO PESTER LEGISLATION. OKAY, MR. JAMES MAKES THE MOST. OH MR IMUS. MIXED EMOTION. LOCAL PLACE , MR BERGER. YES MR BURBEY? YES MR ROUSH? YES YES, MR CARPENTER.YES, MR SEYMOUR. MRS. GROW SEVEN. YES. THAT TAKES CARE OF ALL THE BUSINESS FOR TONIGHT,
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COMMENTS OF THE CITY MANAGER. ONLY THAT, UH, VERY PRODUCTIVE MEETING TONIGHT, BUT I WANTED TO AGAIN CREDIT OUR NEW FIRE CHIEF NEIGHBOR NUNS, UH, APPRECIATE COUNCILS CONFIRMATION. CHIEF BURNS MOVING FORWARD AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD, YOU KNOW, ACTUALLY, I HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO BRING APPOINTMENTS BEFORE COUNCIL. BUT I AT THIS POINT, THIS IS MY FIRST FIRE CHEESE TO BRING FORWARD STEP, SO IT'LL BE. IT'LL BE NICE TO WATCH THE PROGRESS OF THE DEPARTMENT. OVER TIME WITH THIS WITH DISAPPOINTMENT. I THANK CITY COUNCIL TO THEIR CONFIRMATION. WITH THAT PERFECT, OKAY, WE START ON THE RIGHT ONES . UM KUDOS AGAIN.CONGRATULATIONS. CHIEF BURNS. THERE WAS. WOULD 38 THAT I DID I HEAR 21ST 21ST 21ST CHIEF IS EATING CHIEF PUSHED TVS AND YOU KNOW OUT OF THE 38. MAYBE 38 OUT OF THE HISTORY OF MARYSVILLE.
REALLY? NOT VERY MANY SO GREAT PROFESSIONAL PARKWAY. UM I SNAPPED. INTO THROUGH PEACE IS A KEYSTONE CROSSING. YES AND TOOK A PEEK DOWN THERE. LOOKS PRETTY GOOD DOESN'T LOOK LIKE IT WOULD TAKE MUCH TO BREAK THE BARRIERS DOWN. WE'RE STILL WORKING WITH THEM TO MAKE SURE THAT
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CONSTRUCTION ENTRANCE TO THE APARTMENT COMPLEX THERE, IT GETS FIGURED OUT SO ALL THAT CONSTRUCTION TRAFFIC, OKAY, WE'RE CLOSED NYLON AND THEN BE SAFE FOR HALLOWEEN. LOT OF LITTLE KIDS OUT THERE, AND IT'S A FUN TIME FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE. ADULTS INCLUDED, SO EVEN BE CAREFUL FOR THE ADULTS, THAT'S ALL. OKAY? THIS IS GOOD. NOTHING FURTHER, SIR. MR BERGEN. I JUST WANTED TO ECHO ALAN'S COMMENTS AND SAY, YOU KNOW, TRICK OR TREAT AND SCARY COMING AROUND.YOU ARE GOING TO SEE A LOT OF CHILDREN UP AND DOWN THE STREETS. THE WEATHER IS ACTUALLY CALLING FOR A VERY COLD HALLOWEEN THIS YEAR. SO UM, OBVIOUSLY YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO BUNDLE UP. AND, UM. YOU KNOW, I YOU KNOW, I ALSO JUST WANTED TO SAY, YOU KNOW, FOR PUBLIC RECORD HERE. UM. YOU KNOW, JUNETEENTH WAS NEVER A DISCUSSION ON WHETHER OR NOT IT SHOULD BE A HOLIDAY. IN MY OPINION, THERE WAS A DISCUSSION OF WHAT WILL THE TAXPAYER AND OUR BUDGET HANDLE? AND THEN HOW MANY MORE HOLIDAYS DO WE EVENTUALLY ADD TO THE GENERAL FINE IN THE FUTURE. THIS IS WHERE YOU NEED STRONG COUNCIL MEMBERS, UM AND IN THE FUTURE TO SAY, WHAT HOLIDAYS DO WE KEEP OUR NOT HAVE IN THE FUTURE? I WILL ONLY SAY THIS ABOUT PRESIDENT BURPEES, UM COMMENTS. THIS GENTLEMAN HAS A TON OF RESPECT AND LOVE FOR THIS COMMUNITY. AND IF YOU JUST TAKE FIVE MINUTES TO LISTEN TO HIM, YOU WILL KNOW WHERE HIS HEART IS. SOMETIMES AND THESE MEETINGS THINGS ARE SAID WITHOUT REALLY THINKING ABOUT HOW IT AFFECTS THAT PERSON. AND WE ALL IN LIFE, HAVE THOSE SITUATIONS AND IT TAKES A STRONG LEADER TO OWN UP TO WHAT IS SAID AND APOLOGIZED FOR THOSE COMMENTS. SO FOR THAT, I AM GRATEFUL THAT YOU ARE THE PRESIDENT OF THIS COUNCIL. SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, OKAY? YEP NICE. UM AS WAS MENTIONED EARLIER, I HAD THE HONOR AND PRIVILEGE TO BE ON THE INTERVIEWING COMMITTEE. AND I, TOO WANT TO GIVE KUDOS TO THE HR DEPARTMENT. IT STARTED OFF WITH A LOT OF APPLICANTS, AND THE HR DEPARTMENT DID SOME VIRTUAL INTERVIEWING. WE ENDED UP WITH FOUR EXCELLENT APPLICANTS THAT WE INTERVIEWED. THIS WAS NOT A CAKEWALK. FOR OUR NEW FIRE CHIEF , UM, THE COMPETITION FOR THAT POSITION WAS VERY, UH, INTENSE. SO WE GOT THE BEST ONE. AND WHAT'S REALLY GOOD IS HE WAS HOME GROWN, AND HE SPENT HIS CAREER HERE. I LOVE IT WHEN WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PROMOTE FROM WITHIN. WE DID THE SAME THING. THE LAST TIME WITH OUR POLICE CHIEF AND AGAIN IN THAT PROCESS, WE WOULD LOOK AT SOME VERY GOOD CANDIDATES. AND WE SELECTED THE BEST ONE AT THAT TIME THERE TOO. UM SO I THINK YOU'RE GOING TO SEE SOME SOME CHANGES WITHIN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND, UH, THEY'RE ALL GOING TO BE POSITIVE AND WE'RE REALLY SETTING UP. UH WITH THE AGE OF OUR CHIEFS ARE SAFETY SERVICES ARE GOING TO BE SET UP FOR QUITE A WHILE HERE IN THE CITY OF MARY'S ALSO, I WAS REALLY PROUD TO BE A PART OF THAT. AND THANK YOU FOR ASKING ME IT'S JUST ONE THING. I MIGHT ADD, UH, CHIEF BROOKS IS A LITTLE UPSET THAT WE HAD ICE CREAM TONIGHT. YEAH AND WE DIDN'T WHEN WE CONFIRM CHIEF BROOKS. HE IS TRYING TO GET OVER THAT RIGHT WHEN YOU'RE FROM KENTUCKY. WHAT DO YOU GET THEM? WE COULD HAVE GOT SOME KFC. THAT WAS GOOD. MORE OF THE LEAVES FAMOUS RECIPE. BIRDS OF MONITOR. HE WAS A PANTHER. YEAH HE WAS A PAINTER AND HIS WIFE IS FROM NORTH UNION. SO YOU KNOW, HIT BOTH ENDS OF THE COUNTY, MR JAMES. I, YOU KNOW, UH, WE HAD SOME COMMENTS ABOUT HOW IN COMING UP YOU KNOW THIS TIME OF YEAR WE'VE GOT HALLOWEEN AND WE'VE GOT THE TIME CHANGE COMING UP HERE IN A COUPLE WEEKS WHERE IT GETS DARKER SOONER, SO I LIKE TO REMIND PEOPLE TO AT THIS TIME OF YEAR TAKE A LOOK AT THE STREET LIGHTS. BECAUSE THERE'S SOME THAT ARE OUT. AND WE SEE A STREET LIGHT. THAT'S OUT.
THERE'S A NUMBER ON THE POLE MAKE A NOTE OF THAT NUMBER GO TO THE CITY WEBSITE. IF THE TRAFFIC
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IS TOO BUSY, AND YOU CAN'T STOP AND GET THE NUMBER, GET THE ADDRESS. YOU KNOW SOMETHING THAT IDENTIFIES WHERE THE LIGHT IS THAT I LIKE TO REMIND PEOPLE THIS TIME OF YEAR BECAUSE IT'S ABOUT TO GET DARK SOONER AND WE'VE GOT HALLOWEEN. LET'S GET THE ANY LIGHTS THAT ARE FIXED IF YOU SEE THEM. YOU KNOW, JUST GO TO THE CITY WEBSITE REPORT THEM. THEY SHOULD GENERALLY YOU FIXED WITHIN A FEW DAYS. SO UH, RIGHT. AND THEN, YOU KNOW ALSO, UM, BEFORE YOU KNOW, IT GETS TOO DARK AND WE'RE STILL IN A GREAT TIME. I JUST SAW THIS MORNING THAT THIS WEEK IS PEAK. RELIEF COLOR, AND WE'VE GOT SOME GREAT PARKS. JIM SIMONS TRAIL. UM, KYRA WOODS IS A GOOD PLACE RIGHT NOW IS A GREAT TIME. THE WEATHER THIS WEEK LOOKS AWESOME. YOU KNOW, I LIKE TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO GO OUT THERE AND ENJOY WHAT WE HAVE. UM AND YOU KNOW, THOSE ARE ALL GOOD PLACES. THE RESERVOIR, YOU KNOW, NOT SO MUCH BY ANY OF THOSE OTHER PLACES GREAT PLACES TO ENJOY THE GREAT FALL WEATHER. YOU CAN AT LEAST. WALK OVER A BRIDGE NOW EXPERIENCE THE NICE COLORS OF THE LEAVES AS YOU'RE ON YOUR WAY TO THE RESERVOIR. BUT ANYWAY, I'LL KEEP THIS QUICK SHOUT OUT TO OUR NEW FIRE CHIEF, MR BURNS. I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO CONGRATULATE MICHAEL GEORGE ON BEING REPORTED TO THE PARKS AND REC COMMISSION WORK WITH MICHAEL . HE'S A TREMENDOUS ASSET TO THE GROUP. UM AS WELL AS A VERY TALENTED PHOTOGRAPHY. I BELIEVE YOU CAN FIND THEM FIND HIM AT YEOMAN'S WORK PHOTOGRAPHY BUT ANYWAY, PLUG FOR HIM FOR WHATEVER. HE'S NOT PAYING ME, BUT HE'S HE'S THAT GOOD. I THINK YOU SHOULD SHOULD CHECK HIM OUT. I HAVE A LOT OF RECREATIONAL EVENTS GOING ON THIS FALL, SO ENJOY AND HAPPY HALLOWEEN. BE SAFE OUT THERE. THANK YOU. OKAY? YES BUT THEY ARE MEANS. I JUST WANTED TO REMIND YOU TO VOTE IN TWO WEEKS. I THINK WE'LL BE TOGETHER. ONE TIME OR NOT. WE WILL HAVE A MEETING ON MONDAY. THE SIX AND THE MEETING BUT EVEN MORE IMPORTANT THAN VOTING FOR YOUR FAVORITE WARD COUNCIL MEMBER IS THE THREE ISSUES THAT WILL AFFECT YOUR LIFE. YOUR CHILDREN'S LIVES YOUR GRANDCHILDREN'S LIVES FOREVER.THESE THESE ISSUES ARE CRITICAL TO ME. PLEASE RESEARCH WHERE YOU STAND AND PLEASE VOTE AND I'M SORRY FOR CHANGING MY MIND. OKAY ALREADY. THANK YOU SO MUCH AND AGAIN WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL OF THE BOY SCOUTS TO BE QUITE HONEST WHEN WE HAD THE COVID AND YOU WERE NOT ALLOWED TO ATTEND THE REALLY MISSED YOU. IT'S YEAH, IT'S JUST FUN TO. UM SHE SEE HOW BY BEING HERE. YOU SEE HOW THE SYSTEM WORKS. WE HAVE. WE SHOULD HAVE SOME BROCHURES BACK THERE THAT TALKS ABOUT RESOLUTION VERSUS AN ORDINANCE AND ALL OF THAT GOOD STUFF. BUT AGAIN, WE APPRECIATE YOUR BEING HERE TONIGHT. IT WAS VERY NICE TO SEE SO MANY OF THEM AND KNOWING THAT YOUR BALANCE YOUR PATH, HOPEFULLY TO BECOME AN EAGLE. SO ANYWAY, WITH THAT, UM, A. HAVE NOT NOTHING FURTHER, SO MAKE A MOTION TO ADJOURN ALREADY. OKAY THANK YOU SO MUCH.
* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.