Oct 14, 2024 City Council

[CALL TO ORDER]

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FROM CITY COUNCIL MEETING. IT'S THREE MINUTES AFTER SEVEN. WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE DELAY, BUT WE'RE ALL RISE FOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. AND THEN STAND. STAY STANDING FOR THE INVOCATION. I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. ALMIGHTY GOD, WE, WE. ALMIGHTY GOD, WE ASK YOU TO GUIDE HOW MANY? AM I STILL THINKING? ROLL CALL ZACH BORDNER HERE.

STEVEN WOLF HERE. HANK BURBY PRESENT. DONALD BERGER HERE. SCOTT HUNTER HERE. J.R. ROUSH HERE. AND MARK REAMES WILL BE LATE. IS THERE A CORRECTIONS OR ADDITIONS TO THE SEPTEMBER 23RD,

[APPROVAL OF MINUTES]

OKAY. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? AYE. SO THIS MONTH IS MANUFACTURING MONTH. SO A PROCLAMATION

[PROCLAMATION]

[ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT]

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3RD FROM 1 TO 4 P.M. OUT THERE AT COUNTY HOME ROAD 16, 1601 16,300 IS THE ADDRESS. SO SORRY ABOUT THAT. THAT'S AN UNUSUAL ADDRESS, CHIEF. WATCH PUMPKINS DROP FROM A 100 FOOT LADDER TRUCK. BRING YOUR PUMPKIN OR EXPLORATION, BOUNCE HOUSES AND FALL TREATS. ALL EVENT PROCEEDS WILL BENEFIT MARYVILLE. BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK. IT'S REALLY AN AWESOME EVENT. WE GET A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT COME OUT THERE, AND THEY GET A KICK OUT OF WATCHING PUMPKINS. OF COURSE, BEING DROPPED FROM THE LADDER TRUCK. SO WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING A LOT THERE THAT DAY. AND AGAIN, THAT'S ON NOVEMBER THIRD. I'LL SHIFT DOWN TO JEREMY FOR MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS. YEAH. THANK YOU TERRY. CITY STREET CREWS CONTINUE TO PREPARE FOR LEAF PICKUP SEASON. AND THEY'RE APPLYING SEALERS USING A MASTIC MACHINE TO OUR ROADWAYS.

PARKS. THE CITY CREWS SIMILAR THEME ARE WINTERIZING THE PARK SYSTEM. AND WE HAVE SOME URBAN FORESTRY STAFF ATTENDING. SOME WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES IN COLUMBUS. ON THE WATER SIDE, THE GUYS CONTINUE TO WORK ON THE PARK AVENUE WATERLINE REPLACEMENT PROJECT AND OUR LIME HAULERS ARE NEARING COMPLETION OF REMOVING ALL THE LIME FROM THE EXISTING LAGOON AT THE FORMER WATER TREATMENT PLANT. AND THEN WASTEWATER. THE CREWS CONTINUE TO CLEAN PUMP STATIONS, WET WELLS AND CLARIFIERS. THE ONLY OTHER THING I'D LIKE TO WILL BE HOLDING FOCUS GROUPS, MEETING OR FOCUS GROUP MEETINGS IN THIS ROOM TOMORROW. ON WEDNESDAY, AT VARIOUS TIMES IN CITY COUNCIL OR IN COUNCIL CHAMBERS RATHER. I THINK WE'VE HAD A HANDFUL OF SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS ON THAT. THESE INCLUDE LOCATIONS BOTH OR. SORRY, THIS IS A READING RIGHT? BUT WE ALSO HAVE PRESENTATIONS AT PARKS AND REC TOMORROW AT SIX AND AT THE UNION COUNTY PARKS AND TRAILS WORKING GROUP. SO ANY FOLKS THAT WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND, THE MORE THE MERRIER. AND THIS IS REALLY JUST STEP ONE IN OUR OUTREACH THAT WE'RE DOING FOR THIS PARKS AND REC MASTER PLAN. SO STAY TUNED TO ADDITIONAL SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. WITH THAT, I'LL TURN IT OVER TO KYLE FOR SOME CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECT UPDATES. THANKS, JEREMY. THREE UPDATES THIS EVENING. THE FIRST ONE IS FOR THE STATE ROUTE 31 PHASE THREE IMPROVEMENTS PROJEC.

CONCRETE WORK CONTINUES ON THE EAST SIDE OF STATE ROUTE 31 AND WITHIN THE CENTER MEDIAN.

ISLANDS PAVING ONE. JUST A REMINDER. ELMWOOD AVENUE WILL REMAIN CLOSED AT THE MAPLE STREET INTERSECTION UNTIL PAVING IS COMPLETE NEXT WEEK. MAPLE STREET REMAINS OPEN, THOUGH. I'M MOVING ON TO THE PAVING PROGRAM. PAVING OPERATIONS ARE COMPLETE. THE ONLY REMAINING ITEMS ARE SOME PAVEMENT STRIPING AND SOME MINOR PUNCH LIST ITEMS. AND THEN THE LAST PROJECT OF UPDATES IS THE BARRHAVEN STORMWATER IMPROVEMENT IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT.

CONSTRUCTION CONTINUES ON THE NORTH SIDE OF KENNY LANE THIS WEEK. THOSE ARE ALL OF OUR UPDATES. HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. AND THAT CONCLUDES OUR ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT. ANY QUESTIONS? I JUST HAVE SOMETHING I WOULD LIKE TO READ. MATT. MIGHT BE SURPRISED THAT I DO READ HIS ARTICLES THAT HE WRITES AND SO FOR QUITE SOME TIME, I HAVE BEEN ADVOCATING THAT OUR A FOOT GOES UP TO NINE AND WITH ALL THE DEVELOPMENT GOING AROUND IN TOWN, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THIS RAISED TO FROM 7 TO 9. NOW. SO I WANT TO READ YOU WHAT ANDY EVANS SAID. HE'S OUR CITY FORESTER. EVANS SAID THE MOST OF THE MONEY FOR THE STREET TREE FUND COMES FROM NEW DEVELOPMENT.

DEVELOPERS ARE REQUIRED TO PLANT TREES IN THEIR DEVELOPMENT ON THEIR PROPERTY. THEY ARE ALSO REQUIRED TO PAY A FEE PER FOOT OF STREET FRONTAGE. THEY HAVE CURRENTLY $7 PER FOOT. EVANS SAID HE WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT INCREASE. ADDITIONALLY, BECAUSE SOME YEARS HAVE MORE DEVELOPMENT THAN OTHERS, AND BECAUSE EVANS SAID THAT REVENUE DOES NOT SUPPORT A RESPONSIBLE TREE

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[REPORT OF CLERK OF COUNCIL]

[REPORT OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT]

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THANK YOU. DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR MR. PHILLIPS? I DO, THE AVALON SPEAKER SERIES ON THE 22ND. JUST FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC. I I'VE BEEN TO THE AVALON. SEATING IS LIMITED, SO I PRESUME THAT TICKETS ARE AS WELL. IS THERE A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE, IF IS THAT SOME SORT OF. SO HOW DO YOU REGISTER SO YOU CAN GO TO THE WEBSITE GROW UNION COUNTY DOT COM. GROW GROW UNION COUNTY OHIO.COM. AND YOU CAN ACTUALLY SIGN UP THERE. BUT WE DON'T HAVE TICKETS PER SE. IT WOULD BE GREAT TO HAVE A FULL HOUSE AND THAT WOULD BE A PROBLEM WE'D LOVE TO HAVE. SO WE AGAIN ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO COME, BUT GO ON THE WEBSITE AND YOU CAN SIGN UP. THANK YOU. OKAY. ANYBODY ELSE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? HEARING NONE. THANK YOU. COUNCILMAN

[PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION REPORT]

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[HEARING OF CITIZENS]

THIS IS THE TIME OF THE MEETING WHERE ANY CITIZEN HAS UP TO FIVE MINUTES TO SPEAK ON ANY ITEM.

THAT'S NOT RELATED TO TONIGHT'S AGENDA. OKAY. HEARING NONE. OH. I'M SORRY, I'M SORRY. SORRY.

YEAH, I'M GOING TO GO FIRST. GOOD EVENING. AMY POTTER, GRIM 14 294 WEAVER ROAD. GOOD EVENING. COUNCIL STAFF, RESIDENTS AND NONRESIDENTS OF MARYSVILLE. TONIGHT I STAND BEFORE YOU THIS EVENING AS A MEMBER OF THE SMART COALITION. FOR THOSE THAT ARE UNAWARE THAT SUPPORT MARYSVILLE AMEND REFERENDUM AND AT THE SMART COALITION WOULD BE WORKING TO COLLECT THE NECESSARY SIGNATURES TO PETITION FOR SUBMISSION OF PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO OUR CHARTER. SECTION 4.02, AND TO ADD A NEW SECTION 12.10. THIS IS TWO AMENDMENTS TO THE MARYSVILLE CHARTER. TODAY, THE SMART COALITION SUBMITTED OVER 1100 SIGNATURES TO THE CITY OF MARYSVILLE FOR BOTH. THAT IS, OVER 1100 SIGNATURES FOR EACH PETITION. SINCE ONLY A FEW OF YOU SIGNED THE PETITION. THANK YOU TO THOSE. LET ME REFRESH YOUR MEMORY ABOUT THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO AMEND ARTICLE FOUR LEGISLATION. SECTION 4.02 INITIATIVE, REFERENDUM AND RECALL OF THE CHARTER FOR THE CITY OF MARYSVILLE TO ALLOW A REFERENDUM PETITION ON ANY ZONING OR ANNEXATION ORDINANCE ORDINANCE TO BE ORDINANCE MAY NOT BE PASSED BY EMERGENCY AND ENACTING ARTICLE 12. GENERAL PROVISIONS. SECTION 12.10 TO PROHIBIT THE CREATION OF TAX INCREMENT FINANCING INCENTIVES. DISTRICTS FOR DWELLING UNIT IMPROVEMENTS AND PROHIBIT DWELLING UNIT IMPROVEMENTS TO BE A PUBLIC PURPOSE WITHOUT THE APPROVAL OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF EACH CITY, LOCAL AND EXEMPTED VILLAGE. SCHOOL DISTRICT WITHIN THE TERRITORY. WHEN I PRESENTED THIS TO COUNCIL IN MAY, THE SMART COALITION ONLY INCLUDED MARYSVILLE EXEMPTED VILLAGE SCHOOL DISTRICT, BUT AFTER THE CITY ATTORNEY REACHED OUT TO US AND ADVISED, WE REVISED THIS TO INCLUDE CITY, LOCAL AND EXEMPTED VILLAGE SCHOOL DISTRICTS WITHIN IN THE PETITION. THE SMART COALITION HAS SPOKEN TO OVER 1100 PARENTS, GRANDPARENTS, TEACHERS, BOTH ALUMNI AND RETIRED RESIDENTS, NONRESIDENTS AND NEIGHBORS. WE ARE CONCERNED FOR OUR CHILDREN. WE ARE CONCERNED FOR OUR SCHOOLS. WE ARE CONCERNED FOR THE GROWTH OF OUR COMMUNITY. THE SIGNATURES OF OVER 1100 RESIDENTS ON THESE PETITIONS SHOWS THEIR CONCERN. THE SMART COALITION LOOKS FORWARD TO SEEING THESE CHARTER AMENDMENTS ON AN UPCOMING BALLOT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. IS THERE ANYBODY ELSE THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK TONIGHT? JUST COME TO THE PODIUM, SIR. AND STATE YOUR FIRST AND LAST NAME AND YOUR ADDRESS FOR PUBLIC RECORD. MY NAME IS THOMAS HAMPTON, 13 880 WEAVER

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MARYSVILLE IS BECOMING A BEDROOM COMMUNITY. BEDROOM COMMUNITIES HAVE A WITHOUT VERY HIGH TAXES. LOOK AT DUBLIN, LOOK AT HILLIARD. BUT ONE THING DUBLIN AND HILLIARD DOES HAVE IT HAS A GOOD SCHOOL SYSTEM. WHY? BECAUSE THE CITY CANNOT USE MONEY THAT'S SUPPOSED TO GO TO THE SCHOOL. WE'RE GOING TO PAY IT FORWARD AND EVENTUALLY WE'RE GOING TO PAY WE'RE GOING T WITH TAXES. YOU PEOPLE THAT ARE HERE TONIGHT NEED TO TALK TO YOUR NEIGHBORS, NEED TO TELL THEM EXACTLY WHAT'S GOING ON. THIS IS AN IMPORTANT ISSUE. IF WE CARE ABOUT OUR CHILDREN. NOW, I'LL HAVE TO ADMIT, I HAD A FARM IN THIS COMMUNITY, AND I PAID HIGH TAXES, AND I HAD TWO CHILDS, AND I WAS PAYING TAXES FOR ABOUT 20 PEOPLE THAT ALWAYS BOTHERED ME. MY KIDS GRADUATED 45 YEARS AGO. NOW, IF YOU'RE PROUD OF THIS COMMUNITY, THEN LET'S GET OFF YOUR REAR END AND LET'S GET THIS ISSUE PASSED. DUBLIN PASSED IT. HILLIARD PASSED IT. THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS THAT THEY HAVE SOME OF THE BEST SCHOOLS IN OHI. NOW. I KNOW THIS IS A DIFFICULT THING, AND COUNCIL PROBABLY OBJECTING TO WHAT I'M SAYING, BUT OUR CITY COUNCIL IS A GOOD COUNCIL, BUT THEY'RE NOT PAYING ATTENTION TO WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE CITY ITSELF. I WATCH THEM PUTTING SIDEWALKS IN BRICK SIDEWALKS WHILE THEY'RE IGNORING THE PEOPLE THAT OWN THE BUILDINGS THAT NEED TO BE RENOVATED. AND THESE KING IN DOWNTOWN MARYSVILLE. WE CAN'T LET EVERYTHING GO OUT TO THE SHOPPING CENTERS. WE NEED TO STAND UP AND WE NEED TO BUILD.

WHEN I MOVED HERE 50 YEARS AGO, MARYSVILLE WAS A FANTASTIC TOWN. THERE WAS ONLY 5000 PEOPLE IN I.

BUT I THE FIRST TIME I DROVE THROUGH MARYSVILLE, PEOPLE WAVED AT ME. I DIDN'T KNOW THEM.

TODAY, NOBODY WAVES. SO WE'VE GONE MUCH BIGGER. AND I CAN ACCEPT THAT. I CAME FROM COLUMBUS. I BUILT MY BUSINESS IN COLUMBUS. BUT THE THING IS, MARYSVILLE IS MY HOME NOW, AND I EXPECT THE PEOPLE IN MARYSVILLE TO SUPPORT WHAT WE NEED TO BE SUPPORTING AND TO STAND WOULD ANYBODY ELSE LIKE TO SPEA? HEARING NONE. WE'LL MOVE ON TO RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION, A ONE

[Res. A]

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SO THANK YOU. BUT I GUESS TO CLOSE, I DON'T I'M IN NO WAY AM I SUGGESTING THAT ANY SORT OF ILL INTENTIONS THAT ANYONE MAY HAVE ON THIS, THIS BODY OF COUNSEL. I WOULD ESTIMATE AND WOULD FULLY BELIEVE THAT YOU HAVE GOOD INTENTIONS OF DOING THIS, BUT FROM MY VIEWPOINT, LIKE I SAY, IT DOES ADD A LOT OF AMBIGUITY TO WHAT'S THERE. IN OUR CODE OF CONDUCT, THAT'S ALL I HAD TO SAY. I THINK THE INTENTION IS THAT AS OUR CITY GROWS AND OUR DEMOGRAPHICS CHANGE, THAT WE REAFFIRM THE FACT THAT WE ARE OPEN, WELCOMING COMMUNITY FOR THOSE WHO INTEND TO COME INTO IT. SO I'M PROUD TO SUPPORT AND INCORPORATE THIS RESOLUTION INTO OUR RULES OF COUNCIL TO AN INCLUSIVE, RESPECTFUL AND FORWARD THINKING COMMUNITY. I BELIEVE MARYSVILLE THRIVES WHEN EVERY RESIDENT FEELS VALUED AND EMPOWERED. THIS RESOLUTION REFLECTS OUR DEDICATION TO CREATING AN ENVIRONMENT THAT CELEBRATES DIVERSITY AND FOSTERS EQUITY AND INCLUSION FOR ALL. BY EMBEDDING THESE PRINCIPLES WITHIN OUR CORE VALUES, WE REINFORCE OUR COMMITMENT TO PROFESSIONALISM, TO RESPECT, TO TEAMWORK, PROACTIVE COMMUNICATION, AND ACCOUNTABILITY THROUGHOUT THE ORGANIZATION. THIS APPROACH WILL GUIDE OUR DECISIONS AND INTERACTIONS, ULTIMATELY STRENGTHENING THE BONDS AND TRUST. EXCUSE ME, THE BONDS OF TRUST AND UNITY AMONG OUR CITIZENS. THAT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT THING. BUT THIS WILL ALSO POSITION MARYSVILLE AS A PLACE WHERE FAMILIES AND OPPORTUNITIES CAN GROW TOGETHER. AND THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY. THANK YOU. I ALSO HAD SOMETHING THAT I WAS GOING TO READ THE PUBLIC TO KNOW THAT WHEN I DID BECOME MAYOR AND WHEN WE DID HAVE A NEW COUNCIL, AND IT WAS SOMETHING THAT PREVIOUS COUNCIL MEMBERS WANTED TO DO TOO, WE WILL BE CREATING THE FIRST JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION IN THE CITY OF MARYSVILLE AS WELL. SO THIS WAS BEEN IN THE WORKS STARTING ON JANUARY FIRST. SO THERE HAS BEEN COMMUNICATIONS BEHIND CLOSED DOORS OF HOW WE CAN MOVE FORWARD IN CREATING EVENTS THAT BRING AWARENESS TO, YOU KNOW, OUR SOCIETY AND, AND, AND BRINGING AWARENESS TO HOW CAN WE AS A COUNCIL AND AS A COMMUNITY LEARN FROM DIFFERENT EVENTS IN OUR COUNTRY'S HISTORY? SO RESIDENTS OF MARYSVILLE, WE ARE CREATING A RESOLUTION WHICH WHICH REAFFIRMS OUR CITY'S CONTINUED COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY, EQUALITY AND INCLUSION. THIS INITIATIVE IS A SIGNIFICANT STEP FORWARD IN OUR ONGOING JOURNEY. OUR CITY IS DEDICATED TO FOSTERING A COMMUNITY WHERE ON. WE BELIEVE OUR STRENGTH LIES IN OUR DIVERSITY OF OUR VALUES AND EXPERIENCES. AS LEADERS OF THIS GREAT COMMUNITY, WE ARE COMMITTED TO ENSURING ALL INDIVIDUALS HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO CONTRIBUTE TO AND BENEFIT FROM OUR SHARED VALUES. WE RECOGNIZE A THRIVING COMMUNITY IS ONE WHERE ALL VOICES ARE HEARD AND ALL CITIZENS HAVE ACCESS TO RESOURCES THEY NEED TO SUCCEED. BY PROMOTING A CULTURE OF RESPECT, FAIRNESS AND OPPORTUNITY, WE HONOR THE PRINCIPLES OF LIBERTY AND JUSTICE. JUSTICE WHICH ARE FUNDAMENTAL, FUNDAMENTAL TO OUR NATIONAL SOCIETY. OUR APPROACH TO UNDERSTAND AND TO UPHOLD THE DIGNITY OF EVERY PERSON, WHETHER WE AGREE OR DISAGREE, IS TO SUPPORT OUR LOCAL ECONOMY AND STRENGTHEN THE BONDS THAT UNITE US AS NEIGHBORS. WE ARE DEDICATED TO WORKING TOGETHER TO CREATE A COMMUNITY WHERE EVERYONE CAN HAVE THE ABILITY TO LIVE UP TO THEIR GOD GIVEN RIGHTS. TO THE RESIDENTS OF MARYSVILLE, THANK YOU FOR YOUR DEDICATION TO MAKING MARYSVILLE A PLACE WHERE EVERYONE CAN

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[Ord. B]

ADMINISTRATION. YEAH. I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO ASHLEY, WHO'S GOING TO BRIEF YOU A LITTLE BIT ON WHAT'S BEFORE YOU TONIGHT AND ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE.

SO JEFF AND I CAN GIVE A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF SOME OF THE INFORMATION THAT WENT TO PLANNING COMMISSION. AND THEN WE DO HAVE ONE OF THE COMPANIES HERE THAT IS ABLE TO GIVE A PRESENTATION AS WELL ON KIND OF WHAT THEY DO AND, AND THEIR TYPICAL PROCESSES. SO THIS WAS BROUGHT BEFORE PLANNING COMMISSION EARLIER THIS MONTH, WHICH WAS APPROVED TO ADD THE DEFINITION OF BIOMEDICAL WASTE STERILIZATION FACILITY. SO THIS COMPANY DEALS WITH NON-HAZARDOUS MEDICAL WASTE. AND THEY WILL GET INTO THAT DETAIL AS WELL IN THEIR PRESENTATION. BUT THEY ULTIMATELY THEY ARE CLEANING IT THROUGH AUTOCLAVING PROCESS, WHICH IS CONTROLLED AND REGULATED THROUGH THE EPA AS WELL AS THE OHIO REVISED CODE AND HAS VERY STRICT REGULATIONS FOR THAT. SO WE HAVE PROPOSED TO INCLUDE THIS WITH A WITHIN A PERMITTED USE IN THE MI DISTRICT. SO THE MANUFACTURING INNOVATION DISTRICT IS WHAT WAS WAS BEFORE WE WANTED TO PRESENT THIS TO YOU THIS EVENING. SO THIS IS THE DISTRICT WHERE YOU WOULD SEE THAT AS A PERMITTED USE. AND CURRENTLY THE LOCATION THAT THEY ARE LOOKING AT IS RIGHT HERE. SO THAT'S THE PIONEER FLEX BUILDING. IF YOU GUYS ARE FAMILIAR WITH THAT ON INDUSTRIAL PARKWAY. DID I MISS ANYTHING? JEFF. NO, JUST THE PREVIOUS MAP. SOME OF THAT IN MY DISTRICT IS CHANGING WITH THE PUD FOR MARYSVILLE SOUTH. SO IT DOES CHANGE SOME OF THOSE BORDERS.

BUT CURRENTLY THAT IS THAT IS THE ENTIRE MANUFACTURING AND INNOVATION DISTRICT. SO THOSE ARE THAT'S THE ONLY LOCATION OF THAT DISTRICT IN THE CITY. WE DON'T HAVE MANUFACTURING INNOVATION DISTRICT ANYWHERE ELSE WITHIN THE CITY. YEAH. SO I WILL TURN IT OVER TO SOME OF THE STERILE WASTE SOLUTIONS REPRESENTATIVE. YEAH. OKAY. BEFORE YOU DO THAT. SO I IDENTIFY WHERE THE BUILDING IS. THE PIONEER BUILDING. YEAH. PIONEER. YEP. YEAH, WE WERE THERE INSIDE OF INDUSTRIAL PARKWAY. YEAH. BETWEEN THE RAILROAD? YEA.

SO IT'S A OKAY. SO YOU HAVE INDUSTRIAL PARKWAY, AND THEN YOU SEE ONE. EXACTLY. OKAY. SO MY QUESTION IS IF MOVING FORWARD, ARE WE ALSO CONTEMPLATING THE SAME RULE TO GO INTO EFFECT IN INNOVATION PARK. IT WOULD BE JUST WITHIN THAT. YEAH. SO ANYWHERE WHERE YOU SEE THOSE LITTLE MI LABELS, IT WOULD BE A PERMITTED USE WITHIN THAT AREA. OKAY. YEAH. AND IT DOES HAVE TO FOLLOW THE, THE EPA. AND SOME OF THOSE ARE OUR ORC REGULATIONS AS WELL. IN ORDER FOR THEM TO

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ACCORDING TO GOOGLE. BELOW IS INFORMATION ON INNOVATION PARK'. AN INNOVATION PARK IS A COLLABORATIVE COMMUNITY THAT PROMOTES IT IS A LIVING LAB WHERE WORK, RESEARCH, LEARNING, CULTURE AND ENTERTAINMENT COME TOGETHER TO INSPIRE NEW WAYS OF THINKING AND COLLABORATING. AN INNOVATION PARK IS, FIRST OF ALL, AN INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNITY OF PROFESSIONALS, RESEARCHERS AND ENTERTAINERS AND ENTREPRENEURS WHO MAKE UP COLLABORATIVE AND PIONEERING ECOSYSTEM TO PROMOTE TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATIVE THINKING. INNOVATION PARKS CAN INCLUDE BUSINESS PARKS, SCIENCE PARKS, TECH TRANSFER OFFICES, AND INNOVATION DISTRICT. SOME EXAMPLES OF INNOVATION PARKS INCLUDE INNOVATION PARK AT PENN STATE, THE INNOVATION PARK AT OSU, THE INNOVATION PARK AT EAST WINDSOR, LSU INNOVATION CAN BENEFIT LOCAL ECONOMIES AND SOCIETIES BY CREATING HIGH VALUE JOBS, REDUCING MIGRATION TO BIG CITIES, AND ATTRACTING PROFESSIONAL RESEARCHERS AND ENTREPRENEURS. OKAY. AND THAT IS THE THOUGHT THAT WE HAVE HAD FOR THE LAST EIGHT YEARS ON INNOVATION PARK. YEAH, WE HAVE AIN'T THAT THE MOMENT THAT WE TALK ABOUT INNOVATION PARK? YEAH. THAT WE PUT IT UP AT THE HIGHER STANDARD. AND TO ME, THIS TYPE OF INDUSTRY IS GOING TO LOWER THE INNOVATION PARK. AND IF WE DECIDE TO MOVE FORWARD, I AM GOING TO ASK TO REMOVE THE WORDS INNOVATION PARK OFF OF THAT LOCATION. YEAH. BECAUSE THEN THAT WHOLE LOCATION THAT WE WORKED ON FOR ALL THOSE YEARS AND THAT TODAY ONLY HAS TO SHOW FOR MAYBE AN IMAC THAT'S A LITTLE BIT. BUT FOR THE REST OF IT. YEAH, IT IS. WE DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS. YEAH. THERE WERE SOME ESTABLISHED BUSINESSES THERE. YEAH, WE HAVE SOME EMPTY BUILDINGS THAT WE HOPE THAT ARE GOING TO BE USED, BUT THE WHOLE IDEA OF INNOVATION COMPLETELY OUT OF THE WINDOW, AND I WOULD JUST AS SOON YOU CALL THAT A MANUFACTURING PARK.

AND PLEASE DO AWAY WITH THE WORD INNOVATION. YEAH, I'M ABSOLUTELY AGAINST MOVING THIS WHOLE DIRECTION. YEAH. INTO INNOVATION WHILE ALL YOU'RE DOING IS MANUFACTURING, IT HAS NO PURPOSE ANYMORE. AND IT IS SO DEGRADING TO THE WHOLE AREA. THAT'S MY, MY VERY STRONG OPINION ON THIS IDEA THAT IS BEING PRESENTED HERE TODAY. OKAY. SO WITH THOSE CORRECT ME, TERRY, IF I'M IF I'M WRONG HERE, BUT ANYTHING THAT WOULD GO INTO INNOVATION PARK ON ANY OF THOSE PARCELS THAT WE OWN WOULD HAVE TO GET APPROVED THROUGH CITY COUNCIL WITH A WITH A LAND AGREEMENT WITH THAT. THAT PROPERTY OWNER. SO YOU KNOW, YOU COULD HAVE THAT AND IF YOU DID NOT WANT THIS USE ON THAT PARCEL, YOU YOU COULD, YOU KNOW, YOU COULD DECIDE THAT AT THAT TIME, RIGHT? AND I KNOW I'M GETTING AHEAD OF MYSELF HERE A LITTLE BIT. SO I SEE YOU STANDING THERE WAITING. YEAH.

BUT THERE ARE DIFFERENT TYPES OF THERE ARE DIFFERENT TYPES OF. I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO CALL THEM.

ALL MEDICAL WASTE. YEAH, BUT I THINK THE CDC HAS DIFFERENT TYPES. SO I'LL BE ASKING YOU A LOT OF QUESTIONS. YEAH. BECAUSE TO FOR US TO REFER TO THIS AS A, TO REFER TO THIS AS A BIOMEDICAL WASTE. NOW WE ARE USING THE WORD BUT THERE ARE DIFFERENT KINDS OF BIOMEDICAL WASTE. THERE ARE

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AND THEY WOULD HAVE TO FALL WITHIN THAT DEFINITION. WHATEVER THEY'RE DOING WITHIN THAT FACILITY. LET'S SEE IF THERE'S. SO BASED ON OUR DEFINITION, THE FACILITY WHERE BIOMEDICAL WASTE MATERIAL IS RECEIVED STERILIZED UTILIZING STEAM SLASH AUTOCLAVE STERILIZATION METHODS ONLY. SO UNDER THE REVISED CODE THERE'S SIX DIFFERENT METHODS TO TREAT BIOMEDICAL WASTE. WE ARE ONLY ALLOWING AUTOCLAVING THE STEAM SLASH AUTOCLAVING PROCESS. SO THAT IS THE ONLY SO THAT IF SOMETHING CAME BACK LIKE YOU STATED, THE INCINERATION, IF THEY CAME BACK, WE WOULD HAVE TO AMEND THE CODE TO ALLOW THAT AS A PERMITTED USE. AND IF IN THE MEANTIME, THE CDC DECIDES TO AMEND THE CODE. WELL, I THINK YOU'D HAVE TO FOLLOW THE ORC. OKAY. AS WELL AS OTHER EPA REGULATIONS TOO. OKAY. YEAH. SO. BUT AGAIN, I'M I'M VERY CONCERNED ABOUT OUR WHOLE INNOVATION PARK BEING INCLUDED IN THIS. AND I DEFINITELY DO NEED TO TALK WITH I BELIEVE WITH MR. CARLTON DEAN, I THINK YOU MAY BE OUT THERE AND I'LL HAVE SOME FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS FOR YOU IF THAT'S OKAY. IT MIGHT BE GOOD TO FOR IF. ERIC. ERIC, CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT LIFE SCIENCE JOBS AND WHAT'S OUT THERE ALONG THE CORRIDOR NOW? AND THIS IS YEAH. I MEAN, SO WE ACTUALLY DID SOME, SOME DATA SETS HERE RECENTLY TO UNDERSTAND THE EMPLOYMENT ALONG THE CORRIDOR. BUT I WAS AMAZED. I WASN'T AMAZED ABOUT THE 14,000 MANUFACTURING AND ENGINEERING JOBS BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE 2700 ENGINEERS ALONG THIS CORRIDOR. BUT WHAT I WAS REALLY AMAZED IS WE HAVE 6300 LIFE SCIENCE POSITIONS ALONG THE CORRIDOR BETWEEN DUBLIN AND MARYSVILLE. THIS IS A LIFE SCIENCE TYPE OF USE THAT IS GOING TO CONTINUE TO GROW AS THE MEDICAL INDUSTRY CONTINUES TO EXPAND. SO THIS USE IS SOMETHING YOU'RE GOING TO SEE MORE OF, NOT LESS, BECAUSE THE MEDICAL INDUSTRY IS EVOLVING. IT'S CHANGING AND SOMETHING THAT'S GOING TO CONTINUE TO GROW. I WOULD ARGUE IT'S A SECTOR THAT WE DEFINITELY WANT TO CONSIDER. WHEN COLUMBUS AND JOBS OHIO HAS HAVE IDENTIFIED LIFE SCIENCE USES AND MEDICAL USES AS SOMETHING A DIRECTION THEY WANT TO TAKE OHIO. SO IT IS SOMETHING THAT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TEAMS AROUND THE STATE ARE WORKING AND ERIC AM I IN PRINCIPLE HAVE NO OBJECTIONS TO THAT? YEAH, BUT UP UNTIL NOW, EVERY TIME WHEN THERE WAS A INTERESTED PARTY IN INNOVATION PARK, YEAH, YOU WOULD COME TO US AND YOU WOULD ENGAGE US IN THE CONVERSATION. YEAH.

AND TO AUTOMATICALLY INCLUDE THAT IN THERE, I THINK WE'VE TAKEN A BIG RISK WHEN WE DO THAT. YEAH. WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS MAYBE A MULTI-TENANT SITUATION IS THIS CASE IS WHAT YOU'RE SAYING. THAT IS TRUE. WE DO NOT CONTROL THE USES. ONCE WE GIVE AN INCENTIVE TO THAT BUILDING, SUCH AS WE'VE GIVEN INCENTIVE. HOWEVER, AGAIN, LOOKING AT THE INNOVATION PARK AND LOOKING AT WHAT WE HAVE DONE SO FAR, YOU KNOW, MORIOKA AND SUMITOMO ARE ALREADY THERE.

ORUKU IS 100% R&D. SUMITOMO HAS AN R&D COMPONENT, THEIR SUPPLIER TO HONDA. MURUKU IS A SUPPLIER TO HONDA. YOU HAVE SOUTH GATE, WHICH BUILT THE BUILDING, WHICH TAKES UP 66,000FT■!S. THEY'VE SINCE ADDED A 300,000 SQUARE FOOT BUILDING, OF WHICH A 30 TALK ABOUT TONIGHT IS OPUS, WHICH IS MORE MULTI-TENANT. AGAIN, WE CAN'T CONTROL THE USES. BUT AGAIN, LIFE SCIENCES.

YOU'RE GOING TO SEE MORE OF THESE PROJECTS, NOT LESS, AS WE GO FORWARD BECAUSE IT'S A

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IS NEEDLES AND SHARPS DISPOSABLE MASKS, USED BANDAGES AND DRESSING, BODY PARTS REMOVED DURING SURGERY. YEAH. AND THAT IS ALL IN WHAT DEFINITION OF WHERE YOU'RE GETTING THAT DEFINITION FROM. HANK. BUT BUT I THINK LET THE COMPANY SPEAK TONIGHT ABOUT THA.

BUT OKAY. MR. PRESIDENT, I GUESS I WOULD JUST SAY THAT MIGHT BE A DEFINITION OF MEDICAL WASTE, BUT THAT'S THAT'S NOT THE DEFINITION OF WHAT WE'RE BEING ASKED TO APPROVE. RIGHT. YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT GOING TO STERILIZE BODY PARTS, YOU KNOW, THAT ARE REMOVED OR NEEDLES, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, WELL, MAYBE, BUT THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, JUST BECAUSE SOMETHING'S MEDICAL WASTE DOESN'T MEAN IT'S HANDLED. THIS FACILITY, THIS STERILIZATION THAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT. THE OTHER POINT THAT I MIGHT SUGGEST IS IF WE WANT TO MANAGE THE ZONING OF INNOVATION PARK DIFFERENTLY, THAT MAYBE WE LOOK AT CARVING THAT OUT AS A SEPARATE ZONING DISTRICT. OKAY.

BECAUSE RIGHT NOW IT'S I MEAN, WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT ADDING THIS. THEY DON'T THEY'RE NOT ASKING TO LOCATE AN INNOVATION PARK. THEY'RE ASKING TO LOCATE ACROSS THE STREET FROM INNOVATION PARK. NEW ZONING DISTRICT IS A POSSIBILITY. IF THERE ARE CERTAIN USES THAT WE DON'T THINK SHOULD BE IN THERE, I THINK THAT WOULD BE THE SIMPLEST SOLUTION.

SURE. BUT TODAY WE'RE BEING ASKED TO CONSIDER THAT. YEAH. AND I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT IT DOES NOT GET INCLUDED. THAT'S ALL. OKAY. SO I'M COMING AT IT FROM KIND OF A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT ANGLE. ACTUALLY, IT'S A WHOLE DIFFERENT ANGLE. YOU KNOW, BIOMEDICAL WASTE, STERILIZATION FACILITIES. IN ANY A NUMBER OF RISKS, RIGHT? THAT WE NEED TO CONSIDER WHEN WE'RE EVALUATING THIS PROPOSAL. RIGHT. SO WHEN I THINK OF IT I THINK ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL. I THINK ABOUT PUBLIC HEALTH CONCERNS. AND THEN GENERAL COMMUNITY CONCERNS FOR EXAMPLE, AS IT PERTAINS TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS. YOU KNOW, WE THINK ABOUT THE AIR POLLUTION AND WHAT TYPE OF, YOU KNOW, POLLUTANTS GO INTO THE AIR AS A RESULT OF THE EMISSIONS THAT ARE, YOU KNOW, EMITTED FROM FROM THE FROM THE PROCESSES IN THIS PARTICULAR OR IN A PARTICULAR SITE, BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW WHAT WHAT TYPE OF, OF FACILITY WE'RE TARGETING. AND MAYBE THAT'S FOR THE YEAH, WE MIGHT GET SOME. AND I'M JUST GOING TO I'M JUST GOING TO READ MY CONCERNS AND ASK SOME QUESTIONS. YOU GUYS CAN TAKE NOTES AND THEN MAYBE YOU CAN ANSWER THEM WHEN YOU, WHEN YOU ADDRESS THE COUNCIL. THAT'D BE GREAT. I WORRY ABOUT WATER CONTAMINATION. CONTAMINATION.

YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS IF, YOU KNOW LIQUID SEEPS OUT WATER SOURCES. I WORRY ABOUT

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BUT ANYWAY AND THEN I ALSO WORRY ABOUT PROPERTY VALUES. AND WE NEED TO CONSIDER HOW PROPERTY VALUES COULD COULD BE IMPACTED, ESPECIALLY THOSE WITHIN CLOSE PROXIMITY OF THIS OF THIS PARTICULAR OPERATION. SO THOSE ARE KIND OF IN GENERAL, MY HIGH LEVEL CONCERNS AND THEN QUESTIONS, FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS THAT I MIGHT HAVE ARE, YOU KNOW, FROM AN ECONOMIC IMPACT, WHAT ARE WE LOOKING AT IN TERMS OF JOBS AND, AND LOCAL INVESTMENT AND ALL THAT? HOW WILL THE FACILITY, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S THE ANTICIPATED IMPACT ON PROPERTY VALUES? YOU KNOW, THE CONCERN WAS WHAT HAPPENS IF IT BUT MAYBE YOU CAN SHARE WHAT YOU'VE SEEN HISTORICALLY ON THE BENEFIT TO SURROUNDING PROPERTIES THAT THAT THEN, YOU KNOW, AS IT RELATES TO LIKE REGULATORY COMPLIANCE. I'M NOT FAMILIAR WITH THIS INDUSTRY WHATSOEVER. SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT TYPES OF LOCAL, STATE AND FEDERAL REGULATIONS WOULD, WOULD, WOULD HAVE TO BE IN COMPLIANCE OR THE COMPANY WOULD HAVE TO BE IN COMPLIANCE WITH AND THEN TO ALSO, HOW DO WE MONITOR, YOU KNOW, IS THERE SOME SORT OF LIKE REPORTING MATRIX OR FUNCTIONALITY THAT WE WOULD HAVE TO PUT IN PLACE TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS ORGANIZATION IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THOSE LOCAL, STATE AND FEDERAL REGULATIONS FROM AN ENVIRONMENTAL PERSPECTIVE, WHAT MEASURES DO WE HAVE IN OR WOULD WE NEED TO HAVE IN PLACE TO MITIGATE OUR, YOU KNOW, AIR, EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS. LOOKING MAYBE OVER TO CHIEF BURNS. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? WHAT EMERGENCY PLANS WOULD HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, BE IN PLACE IN THE EVENT LIKE A SPILL OR A LEAK OR OTHER FAILURE. AND WHAT IMPACT DOES THAT HAVE ON, YOU KNOW, THE BROADER COMMUNITY AS IT RELATES TO EMERGENCY SERVICES AND FUNDING AND BLAH, BLAH, BLAH. AND THEN OBVIOUSLY, THE COORDINATION BETWEEN THE TWO ORGANIZATIONS, WHETHER IT'S, WELL, BETWEEN THE TWO ORGANIZATIONS TO COORDINATE LOCAL EMERGENCY SERVICES. SO I GUESS WHAT I'M WHAT I'M GETTING AT IS THAT WE HAVE TO ENSURE THAT FROM A HEALTH AND SAFETY PERSPECTIVE, WE'RE NOT PURSUING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, THAT WE AS A CITY AREN'T FAMILIAR WITH AND ARE UNABLE TO CONTROL. SO THOSE ARE MY, MY LISTS OF HIGH LEVEL RISKS THAT I SEE. AND THEN THE QUESTIONS THAT I HAVE. SO I APPRECIATE IF YOU WANT TO ADDRESS THEM TODAY, THAT'S GREAT. IF NOT, YOU? PROBABLY. YEAH. I THINK IT'D BE GOOD IF THEY COULD SPEAK AND SPEAK TO SOME OF YOUR ISSUES, AND THEN MAYBE WE CAN CONTINUE THE DIALOG. THANK YOU. CARLTON DEAN, 14 711 INDUSTRIAL PARKWAY. HOME ADDRESS 4195 GLEN WATER LANE, HILLIARD, OHIO. VIJAY SINGH I LIVE IN DUBLIN, 6909 WATSON STREET, APARTMENT 303, DUBLIN, OHIO 43017. SO IT'S BEST TO WALK YOU THROUGH JUST THIS QUICK SLIDE FOR THE SAKE OF TIME OR TRY TO GET RIGHT TO QUESTIONS. IS THERE ANY GUIDANCE? THIS IS A GENERAL PRESENTATION JUST ON WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE DO AS A COMPANY, BUT I KNOW WE HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BUSINESS. SO YOU CAN GO AHEAD. YOU CAN DO YOUR PRESENTATION. I THINK IT'D BE GOOD FOR PUBLIC RECORD IF YOU JUST DO YOUR PRESENTATION AND THEN YOU ANSWER THE QUESTIONS.

ALL RIGHT. PERFECT. SO I DON'T WANT I THINK THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF

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WE ARE SEEKING THE APPROVAL SO THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY HAVE OUR OWN, OUR OWN TREATMENT AND CONTROL THAT WASTE STREAM. SO I'M ACTUALLY MAYBE I'M GOING THE WRONG DIRECTION. SO HERE WE GO.

ALL RIGHT. SO OUR TEAM IS COMPRISED OF ABOUT 150 YEARS OF EXPERTS WITHIN OUR COMPANY EVS.

SO I SEPARATELY OWN A COMPANY THAT HAS ABOUT 200 EMPLOYEES THAT CLEANS, WE CLEAN HOSPITALS FOR THE MOST PART. SO CLEAN 26 OHIO HEALTH FACILITIES, HOSPITALS, ORGANIZATIONS ALL THE WAY ACROSS ZANESVILLE, UP INTO CLEVELAND. WE HAVE SEVERAL PARTNERS THAT WORK HIGH LEVEL FOR WASTE MANAGEMENT AND RUMPKE. THEY OWN THE COMPANY IN TOWN CALLED CAPITAL WASTE AND HAVE BEEN IN THE WASTE INDUSTRY FOR 40 PLUS YEARS. WE TOTAL OWNERSHIP GROUP OF SEVEN INDIVIDUALS. TWO OF THEM ARE REPRESENTED HERE TODAY. EVERYBODY ELSE COULDN'T MAKE IT.

AND THEN WE HAVE ALSO PEOPLE WITHIN OUR TEAM THAT ARE FAMILIAR WITH SUPPLY CHAIN AND LOGISTICS. SPEAKING OF DIVERSITY, WE ARE A MINORITY OWNED BUSINESS AND THE DIVERSE PIECE I SEPARATELY SERVE ON THE STATE OF OHIO BOARD WITH CARDINAL HEALTH, BATTELLE OHIOHEALTH PROCTER AND GAMBLE. A LOT OF OTHER FORTUNE COMPANIES. AND I'M THE CHAIR FOR CENTRAL OHIO. SO IT'S NEAR AND DEAR TO MY HEART THE FACT THAT THE COMMUNITY ONE IS SUPPORTING DIVERSE BUSINESSES, WHETHER THAT'S LGBTQ PLUS MINORITY WOMEN OWNED, YOU NAME IT. SO IT'S A BIG DEAL FOR US TO BE A DRIVING FORCE IN THAT DIVERSITY PIECE. GIVE EVERYBODY EQUAL OPPORTUNITY TO GROW AND SCALE WITHIN OUR BUSINESS. SO WHAT IT IS ON THE ON THE ON THE MEDICAL WASTE PIECE RIGHT. SO YOU UNDERSTAND. SO MEDICAL WASTE COULD BE PHARMACEUTICAL WASTE. IT COULD BE SHARPS THAT WOULD COME OUT OF A COMPANY R.M.W. IS WHAT WE CALL IT REGULATED MEDICAL WASTE.

INFECTIOUS WASTE. SO THAT COULD MEAN DURING COVID, RIGHT. PANDEMIC. IT'S A BIG PROBLEM, ESPECIALLY FOR NURSING HOMES AND A LOT OF ORGANIZATIONS. WHERE DID THAT WASTE GO? HOW DID MASKS AND GOWNS AND GLOVES AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE. IN ADDITION, WE ALSO DO WE HELP MANAGE UNIVERSAL WASTE, WHICH WILL BE BATTERIES AND AN E-WASTE COULD BE HALOGEN LIGHT BULBS AND DIFFERENT THINGS LIKE THAT. AS COMPANIES LOOK TO RETROFIT THEIR BUILDINGS MORE INTO LED LIGHTS.

WE DO DOCUMENT SHREDDING. THAT'S MORE ALONG THE LINES OF HIPAA, SO WE DO NOT SEARCH OUT, JUST SHREDDING OPPORTUNITIES. WE SUPPORT MEDICAL COMPANIES THAT HAVE HIPAA RECORDS THAT NEED TO BE SHREDDED. AND THEN LASTLY WE DO COMPLIANCE TRAINING. SO COMPLIANCE WHEN IT COMES TO HIPAA, WHEN IT COMES TO HAVES, WHEN IT COMES TO DOT IN AND AROUND THE REGULATED MEDICAL SPACE, WE SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS THAT DO THAT. AND THESE ARE ADDITIONAL THINGS THAT WE HELP.

SO SOLID WASTE COST REDUCTION. SO WE DON'T DO SOLID WASTE. BUT WE DO HAVE PARTNERS THAT DO IT.

SO WE HELP REDUCE COST FOR SOME OF OUR CLIENTS. AGAIN, UNIVERSAL AND E-WASTE SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAMS, LANDFILL DIVERSION INITIATIVES. SO YOU BROUGHT A POINT ABOUT INNOVATION. SO I DON'T KNOW IF ANYBODY HERE WILL BE FAMILIAR WITH WHAT'S CALLED BLUE WRAP. PROBABLY NOT IT'S ACTUALLY IT'S POLYPROPYLENE. IT'S PLASTIC, BUT IT COVERS EVERY SURGICAL KIT.

BEFORE YOU HAVE ANY SURGERY, WHETHER IT'S A SHOULDER, TOTAL KNEE, YOU NAME IT, THAT IS ASSEMBLED AT THAT TOOLING THAT'S GOING TO BE USED IN YOUR SURGERY HAS BEEN STERILIZED. SO ONCE IT GETS STERILIZED, THEY WRAP IT IN THIS BLUE MATERIAL. THEY TAPE IT. IT HAS YOUR NAME ON IT, AND IT GOES ON THE CART FOR WHEN YOUR SURGERY COMES UP. HISTORICALLY, THAT BLUE PLASTIC MATERIAL, IT'S AGAIN, IT'S 100% POLYPROPYLENE. IT'S ALWAYS GONE TO LANDFILL. UP UNTIL WE CREATED A PILOT PROGRAM LAST YEAR FOR OHIO HEALTH. SO WE PILOTED MARION HOSPITAL. WE GATHERED, I THINK IT WAS SEVEN AND A HALF TONS OF BLUE WRAP THAT WOULD HAVE ENDED UP IN SOMEBODY'S LANDFILL. AND WE FOUND A PARTNER CALLED CIRCULAR BLUE THAT TAKES THAT BLUE MATERIAL. THEY MELT IT DOWN AND THEY PROCESS IT. THEY CREATE PELLETS, AND THEN THOSE PELLETS MAKE TOYS. YOU MAKE BARBIE DOLLS, ACTION FIGURES. THEY CAN MAKE NON SURGICAL GOWNS AND MASKS. YOU CAN MAKE TOTES, HANDBAGS. SO WHAT OHIOHEALTH DID WITH THIS IS THEY TOOK ALL THE BLUE WRAP AGAIN HISTORICALLY THAT THEY THREW AWAY. THEY PROCESSED IT. AND THEN ALL OF THEIR NEW EMPLOYEE HIRE BAGS ARE MADE OUT OF THIS MATERIAL. NOW NON SURGICAL GOWNS AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE. SO WE TOOK A PRODUCT AGAIN FROM IT'S NON-HAZARDOUS. IT'S JUST A PLASTIC MATERIAL. BUT WE ARE NOW RECYCLING THAT. THAT PILOT PROGRAM HAS LED TO US GETTING 13 ADDITIONAL HOSPITALS. AND RIGHT NOW THE STATE OF OHIO IS TRYING TO WRITE A GRANT FOR US TO SUPPORT EVERY SINGLE HOSPITAL IN CENTRAL OHIO, BECAUSE NOBODY'S DOING THIS. IN ADDITION TO COMPLIANCE, MOST OF YOU GUYS

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COLUMBUS ZOO SO WE MAKE SURE ALL THEIR NEEDLES ARE PROCESSED AND TREATED PROPERLY. NATIONAL CHURCH RESIDENCES, WHICH IS A NURSING HOME GROUP. WE DO DERMATOLOGY. EMBASSY. NURSING HOME. ERIE COUNTY UP IN SANDUSKY. THEIR ENTIRE HOSPITAL SYSTEM. WE HAVE AS A WEEK AGO, WE JUST WERE AWARDED THE STATE OF OHIO CONTRACT, WHICH IS 3000 CUSTOMERS. SO THAT'S EVERY SINGLE STATE AGENCY IN OHIO AND EVERY EVERY HIGHER EDUCATION THAT BUYS OFF THE STATE'S PO. WE ALSO HAVE THE CITY OF DAYTON, WHERE WE DO SOME WORK FOR OHIOHEALTH. AND THEN WE HAVE TRILOGY HEALTH SERVICES. WHAT'S THAT FOR? THE SLIDE. WHAT DO YOU DO WITH THE CITY OF DAYTON?

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HERE. AND ARE YOU READY? CURRENTLY OPERATING IN THE. NO, WE'RE NOT TREATING ANY WAYS HERE. SO RIGHT NOW WE JUST HAVE AN OFFICE AND WE HAVE A CONTINGENCY ON ADDITIONAL 10,000FT■!S FOR TREATMENT. IF TS GETS APPROVED. SO RIGHT NOW TO DATE, WE HAVE 5000FT■!S UNDER LEASE FOR THE NEXT SIX YEARS. IF IT'S APPROVED, WE HAVE AN ADDITIONAL 10,000FT■!S. THAT WIL ACTUALLY DO TREATMENT. THE OTHER PIECE TO US RELOCATING IS WE RECEIVED MONEY THAT WAS BACKED BY THE STATE OF OHIO FROM AN ENHANCED CAPITAL, WHICH HAS STATE TARGETED MONEY TO MOVE BUSINESSES FROM A LIKE A BUSIER COUNTY TO A RURAL COUNTY. AND THEN ALSO THERE'S A JOB CREATION FUNCTIONALITY THAT WE HAVE TO HIT. AND THAT'S HIGH PAYING JOBS. SO THAT'S JOBS OVER $60,000 A YEAR. SO EVERYBODY WITHIN OUR COMPANY MAKES MORE THAN 60,000 A YEAR. OUR SALES REPS START AT 80,000 PLUS COMMISSION. SO THERE'S ANOTHER COMPONENT BEHIND THAT COMPONENT TO THAT. SO YEAH I APOLOGIZE I DID NOT. I DID WANT TO DO THAT. YOU HAVE A VERY IMPRESSIVE WAIST OR WEBSITE. AND AGAIN, IT IT DEALS WITH DOCUMENT DESTRUCTION SERVICES. AND THE THING THAT I'M MOST WORRIED ABOUT IS THE MEDICAL WASTE DISPOSAL SERVICES.

YOU DO THE ONLINE COMPLIANCE TRAINING PROGRAMS REGULATED WASTE AND THEN OF COURSE, ALL THE INDUSTRIES THAT YOU SERVE. AS YOU MENTIONED, AIRLINES, DENTISTS, FEDERAL HOSPITALS, MANUFACTURING, MILITARY. I MEAN, YOU GO ON AND ON AND ON. SO PUT OUR MIND AT EASE AS TO WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING HERE AND HOW IT IS NOT GOING TO AFFECT OUR COMMUNITY. THAT'S MY ONLY QUESTION TO YOU. YEAH. GO AHEAD. OKAY. SO THE BIGGEST PART THAT YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY I UNDERSTAND THE CONCERN IS THAT WE DO NOT NOT AT ALL. IT NECESSARILY WE DON'T BRING IT INTO THE BUILDING. WE DON'T BRING IT TO OUR TRUCKS. YES. SOME OF OUR CLIENTS GENERATE HAZARDOUS WASTE. SO ANY NARCOTIC DRUG THAT YOU WOULD GET FROM A HOSPITAL SYSTEM IS CONSIDERED A HAZARDOUS WASTE. AND THAT FITS IN A HAZARDOUS WASTE CLASS CODE. WE DON'T TOUCH IT. WE HAVE A PARTNER WHICH THE LARGEST HAZARDOUS WASTE COMPANY IN THE US CALLED CLEAN HARBORS. THEY MANAGE THAT PROCESS FOR US. SO, FOR EXAMPLE, AT LICKING COUNTY MEMORIAL, WE HAVE ALL THE ARMS AND SHARPS AND SHREDDING, BUT WE DO NOT TOUCH ANY OF THEIR HAZARDOUS WASTE THAT IS MANIFESTED, HANDLED AND ULTIMATELY INCINERATED BY CLEAN HARBORS. THAT'S UP IN GRAFTON, OHIO, STRONGSVILLE AREA. SO WE DON'T WE DON'T TOUCH. WE DON'T TOUCH THAT. YEAH. WE DON'T EVEN TRANSPORT IT. WE DON'T. ABSOLUTELY. FROM A REGULATED MEDICAL WASTE PERSPECTIVE, AGAIN, I UNDERSTAND THE CONCERN. THERE ARE PEOPLE THEIR MIND AUTOMATICALLY GOES TO, OH MY GOD, THERE'S BODY. WE DON'T. FIRST OF ALL, I WOULDN'T GOALS. IT COULD BE NEEDLES, THINGS OF THAT NATURE THAT WOULD, YOU KNOW, COME FROM GIVING BLOOD. IT WOULD COME FROM GIVING BIRTH. IT COULD BE ANY OF THAT STUFF THAT WOULD COME FROM A GENERAL HOSPITAL PROCEDURE. WE WOULD TREAT. THERE ARE SEPARATE COMPANIES THAT TREAT. AGAIN, I KNOW IT'S TOUGH, BUT FETUSES THAT WE DO NOT GET INTO THAT SPACE. THERE ARE OTHER COMPANIES THAT DO THAT. WE DO NOT DO THAT.

CAN I ASK A QUESTION? SO BUT WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE HAZARDOUS WASTE, IF WE APPROVE THE ZONING, EVEN THOUGH YOU DON'T DO IT, DOES THAT OPEN US UP TO A DIFFERENT COMPANY RENTING SOME OTHER FACILITY THAT WOULD DO IT? NO, POSITION TO COME TO THE CITY AND THAT HAZARDOUS WASTE CLASSIFICATION IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. DESIGNATION THAN WHAT

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CORRECT. OKAY. SO THAT'S THAT'S THE ONLY 4 OR 5 COMPANIES IN THE COUNTRY THAT OKAY. YEAH. AND THEY ARE WELL ESTABLISHED. THEY DON'T NEED TO COME HERE. YEAH. THANKS. OKAY. SO HOW WOULD IT BE IF WE JUST APPROVE IT FOR THIS PARTICULAR LOCATION? SAY THAT ONE MORE TIME. I'M SORRY. SO HOW WOULD IT BE IF WE INSTEAD OF DOING THE WHOLE OVERLAY, HOW WOULD IT BE IF WE APPROVE IT FOR JUST THIS PARTICULAR LOCATION THAT YOU PLAN TO TO SAY SOMETHING. I THINK WHAT YOU'RE ASKING IS MAYBE INSTEAD OF GIVING YOU THE BROAD, GIVING YOU THE BROADER ZONING TEXT, COULD WE DO LIKE A PUD FOR THAT PARTICULAR PARCEL? IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE ASKING? MR. THINK THAT'S WHAT MR. KIRBY'S ASKING. I THINK GOTCHA. I THINK THAT WOULD BE CONSIDERED A SPOT ZONING. OKAY.

IT'S NOT PERMITTED. BUT, YOU KNOW, I THINK MAYBE WE COULD LOOK IN THE FUTURE. IT MAY BE CHANGING THIS FROM PERMITTED TO CONDITIONAL. CONDITIONAL OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. IF THERE WERE CONCERNS, THEN IT WOULD THEN IT WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, REVIEWED ON A CASE BY CASE BASIS. OKAY. AND TO BE QUITE HONEST, I WOULD FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE WITH THAT IN MIND THAN A BLANKET, BECAUSE AGAIN, AS YOU MENTIONED, THERE ARE SIX OTHER TYPES OF CAN BE DONE, AND WE DON'T ALL OF A SUDDEN WANT TO BE BLINDSIDED. TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE YEARS FROM NOW AND SOMEBODY SAYING THAT, WELL, MARYSVILLE, THE LAW NOW ALLOWS US TO DO HERE SOMETHING THAT WE DON'T FEEL TODAY IS IN THE BEST INTEREST. YEAH. AND IT WOULD ALL START HERE TODAY. SO. AND YOU'RE EXACTLY RIGHT. I MEAN, YOU HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD. I THINK JEFF AND THE TEAM HAVE TRIED TO DRILL DOWN ON THIS DEFINITION TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE ONLY ASKING FOR AUTOCLAVE APPROVAL. WE ARE NOT ASKING FOR AUTO, FOR MICROWAVING OR INCINERATION OR ANY OTHER APPROVAL FOR THAT. JUST HOLD ON ONE SECOND, MISS GARBER. YES. JUST TO CLARIFY, THOSE OTHER USES OR THE OTHER PROCEDURES AND PROCESSES OF THOSE FIVE, FIVE OTHER WAYS, WE WOULD ONLY BE REQUESTING THE AUTOCLAVING JUST ONE OF THOSE PROCESSES THROUGH THAT. OKAY. SO DOES THAT MAKE DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? SO EVEN IF SOMEONE WAS DOING ONE OF THOSE OTHER PROCESSES, IT WOULDN'T FALL UNDER THE DEFINITION THAT WE HAVE. SO THEY WOULD NOT BE PERMITTED. OKAY. AND IF WE DO AUTOCLAVING, COULD WE DO IT JUST ON SHOW ME. I THINK THE BEST WAY WOULD BE WHAT MR. REMES RECOMMENDED ON THAT CONDITIONAL USE, AND THEN IT WOULD BE PARCEL BY PARCEL AND EVALUATE WHETHER THAT MAKES SENSE IN A LOCATION.

OTHERWISE, YOU WOULD HAVE TO DO THE PUD PROCESS FOR THAT ONE PARTICULAR PARCEL. OR WE COULD GO THE REZONING ROUTE ON INNOVATION PARK TO DO A WHOLE PUD ON INNOVATION PARK OR, OR REZONE THAT TO A SEPARATE NEW DISTRICT OF SOME SORT. I THINK THE CONDITIONAL USE IDEA WOULD BE ADDRESSED. BOTH CONCERNS WITH ONE, YOU KNOW, WITH ONE TOOL, YOU KNOW, IT WOULD ALLOW US TO HAVE THE REVIEW OF THEM CASE BY CASE. AND IF WE DIDN'T WANT SO CONDITIONAL USE COULD DO BOT.

THANK YOU. MR. PRESIDENT, I HAVE A QUESTION. SO A QUESTION SO COUNCILMAN RAMOS HAD MENTIONED THAT THE SPOT ZONING IS NOT PERMITTED. SO I WOULD ASK, IS IT NOT PERMITTED OR IS JUST NOT A BEST PRACTICE TO TRY TO AVOID BEST PRACTICE? WHEN WE WENT THROUGH AND WE DID OUR NEW ZONING CODE, THAT'S SOMETHING WE'VE BEEN WE'VE TRIED TO ELIMINATE THAT. AND MOVING FORWARD, WE'RE TRYING TO NOT DO THAT. SO THAT IS NOT PERMITTED. AND I KNEW YEAH, OUR OUR PROGRESS THUS FAR HAS ALWAYS BEEN TO TRY AND AVOID THAT BECAUSE IT DOESN'T TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE BIGGER PICTURE. ONE THING ABOUT THE CONDITIONAL USE IS IT DOESN'T BRING IT NECESSARILY BEFORE US. RIGHT. THAT GOES THAT'S THEN A DECISION IT GOES TO THE PLANNING

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IT'S ABOUT SIX MONTH PROCESS TO GET APPROVED FROM EPA, AND IT'S DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY FOR THAT BUILDING. SO IT'S NOT A YOU CAN'T HAVE A GENERAL PLAN. IT'S GOING TO DEAL WITH THE LAND. THE EASEMENTS, WATERWAYS, ALL OF THAT. SO THE FULL VERSION I WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO GIVE TO YOU YET, BUT I CAN DEFINITELY GET YOU SOME INFORMATION. YEAH, JUST KIND OF AN EXAMPLE. AND I PRESUME THAT YOU'D HAVE TO WORK WITH, YOU KNOW, PUBLIC SERVICE SAFETY, FIRE CHIEF, ALL THAT STUFF TO OR ALL THOSE FOLKS TO GET THAT ALL ALIGNED AND APPROVED OUT. OKAY, COOL. THANK YOU. ONE THING WE DO WANT TO DO SEPARATELY FROM THAT IS SUPPORT CHIEF BROOKS AND CHIEF BURNS. SO WE'RE LOOKING AT BEING ABLE TO TAKE ALL THE WASTE ANY OTHER REGULATED MEDICAL WASTE THAT THEY WOULD GET RIGHT FROM ANY CASE. ALSO, THE PARAMEDICS HAVE SUPPORT AND WE WOULD TREAT THAT WASTE SO THAT'S A BIG THING FOR US. IS ANYBODY ELSE ON COUNCIL QUESTIONS. MR. PRESIDENT SO JUST ONE QUESTION. SO WE HAVE ORDINANCES FOR SMELLS THAT ARE OF NUISANCE. IS THAT CORRECT? LIKE PROBLEMATIC SMELLS. AND WE DO FOR NOISE AS WELL. CORRECT.

KIND OF I KNOW I'M PRETTY CERTAIN WE DO FOR NOISE ORDINANCE THAT MAKES DISORDERLY CONDUCT A VIOLATION. IT'S FROM THE ORC FOR NOISE. IT CAN BE NOISE. YEAH, IT'S PRETTY BROAD STATUTE. SO IT CAN BE NOISE OR NOXIOUS ODORS AS WELL. OKAY. BUT WE'VE NEVER REALLY ENFORCED. I MEAN, THERE HASN'T BEEN A CASE WHERE WE'VE TAKEN IT TO THE EXTREME OF, OF WE'VE ENFORCED NOISE ISSUES ON MANY OCCASIONS, BUT NOT LOUD MUSIC, THINGS LIKE THAT. THOSE THINGS GET ENFORCED.

WHAT ABOUT THE ODOR? OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, I DON'T KNOW. I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW, THERE'S PROBABLY BEEN I GUESS, YEARS. 1 OR 2. YEAH, I MEAN, I DON'T I COULDN'T TELL YOU. WE'RE GOING TO HEAR THIS AGAIN. BUT MAYBE JUST A QUESTION. DOES IT SMELL AND IS IT LOUD. YEAH. SO THE PROBLEM WHERE YOU GET IN YOU CAN GET A TEMPORARY HOLD FACILITY FOR 7 TO 10 DAYS. SO YOU HAVE COMPANIES OUT THERE NOT US, BUT THAT WOULD BRING IN MEDICAL WASTE AND THEY COULD SIT IN THEIR BUILDING FOR TEN DAYS. AND TRUST ME, IF IT'S NOT A REFRIGERATED BUILDING AND IT'S NOT TEMP CONTROL, IT'S GOING TO SMELL. SO OUR WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO IN OUR OPERATION IS ALL THE WASTE THAT WE BRING INBOUND IS TREATED WITHIN 24 HOURS. SO ALSO WE'RE LIMITED ON SPACE. WE DON'T HAVE A 50,000 SQUARE FOOT FACILITY. SO OURS IS TO TURN WASTE EVERY SINGLE DAY. OKAY, BUT IF WE HAD WASTE. YES. IN THEORY, WE'RE SEVEN, TEN DAYS. WE'RE SITTING. YOU COULD. YOU COULD GET MOTOR FROM IT. WE WON'T BE ABLE TO FIND ANY EMPLOYEES TO WORK THERE. YEAH, YEAH. AND, AND I KIND OF KNOW FROM I GUESS EXPERIENCE THAT IF YOU'RE DEALING WITH THE EPA, WHETHER IT'S AT THE STATE OR FEDERAL LEVEL OR AND YOU'RE DEALING WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION IN REGARD TO ANY SORT OF HAZARDOUS, YOU'RE BASICALLY REGULATED VERY HEAVILY AND YOU'RE SUBJECT TO VERY INTENSE FINES. IF YOU WERE TO VIOLATE THOSE THINGS. SO BUT I THINK ON A DAY TO DAY BASIS, THE SMELLS AND THE NOISES, WHICH I DON'T KNOW HOW LOUD THIS WOULD BE, BUT THE SMELLS AND THE NOISES WOULD BE OF MOST THAT THAT RUNS. RUNS AT. WE'LL GET THAT FROM OUR MANUFACTURING COMPANY. AND THEN WE'RE JUST AS NERVOUS AS YOU THAT WE DON'T WANT TO GET IN TROUBLE FROM THE EPA. ONE FINAL PUT US OUT OF BUSINESS. WE ACTUALLY JUST HIRE.

SHE STARTED LAST WEEK THE HEAD OF ALL WASTE AND COMPLIANCE FOR OHIO HEALTH. SHE SPENT HER LAST THREE YEARS AT OHIO HEALTH, AND BEFORE THAT, SHE SPENT 19 YEARS AT BATTELLE. AND THEN SHE DID THE SAME THING FOR THE MILITARY. SO SHE HAS 24 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN THE SCOTIA. YOU SAID CURRENTLY YOU'RE RUNNING THIS OPERATION IN CINCINNATI IS THAT YOU'RE TAKING IT THERE? YEAH, WE'RE A LICENSED HAULER RIGHT NOW, SO WE CAN AGGREGATE IT AND TAKE IT TO CINCINNATI FOR TREATMENT. WE DON'T HAVE A TREATMENT, SO YOU DON'T HAVE TH. MR. HUNTER? YEAH, WE DO HAVE A

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YEAH. OKAY. OKAY. YEAH. THANKS. ANYBODY ELSE? I JUST HAD I JUST HAD THREE. SO YOU'RE CURRENTLY LOCATED IN WESTERVILLE, BUT YOU'RE PROCESSING, SO YOU HAVE OFFICES IN WESTERVILLE. YOU HAVE AN OFFICE NO LONGER IN WESTERVILLE. NO LONGER. WE HAVE RELOCATED OUR OFFICES. WE MOVED IN ABOUT A MONTH. AND A HALF, TWO MONTHS AGO. SO OUR NEW OFFICE IS HERE. YOU WERE IN WESTERVILLE. YOU WERE IN WESTERVILLE. AND WHERE WERE YOU LOCATED? DRIVE WE SHARED SHARED THAT SPACE WITH A COMPANY CALLED COOKIE TECH. OKAY. AND YOUR FACILITY WHERE YOU PROCESS IS IN CINCINNATI? NO, WE DO NOT HAVE. YEAH, YEAH. SO IT'S OUTSOURCED A THIRD PARTY THAT TREATS THE WASTE IN CINCINNATI. OKAY. WE CURRENTLY DO NOT HAVE ANY WASTE TREATMENT. WE'RE JUST A LICENSED HAULER. OKAY. SO THE LICENSE. SO WHERE? SO YOUR LICENSE HAULER OF WHERE YOU GO. BECAUSE. SO IF I UNDERSTAND. SO IF I UNDERSTAND IF I UNDERSTAND THIS WHOLE PROCESS WHAT YOU'RE DOING. SO YOU IF YOU MOVE TO MARYSVILLE YOU WILL NOT BE GOING TO CINCINNATI. WE WON'T HAVE TO DRIVE TO CINCINNATI. OKAY. SO MY QUESTION IS, WHAT'S THE ADDRESS OF THE FACILITY IN CINCINNATI THAT YOU CURRENTLY TRAVEL TO? YEAH. OKAY. YEAH, IT'S RIGHT ON THE CINCINNATI KENTUCKY BORDER. YEAH. OKAY. I WOULD THIS IS NO FAULT TO YOU, BUT THE BIGGEST CONCERN THAT RESIDENTS HAVE ABOUT INNOVATION PARKWAY INTO HIS POINT IS THAT YOU KNOW, A LOT OF RESIDENTS BELIEVE THAT INNOVATION PARKWAY. AND THERE'S NO DISRESPECT TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, BUT THEY'RE WORRIED THAT IT'S LOOKING LIKE ROBERTS ROAD AND THEY DON'T. AND THERE'S THERE IS A THERE IS A UNDERGROUND. THERE IS A MOVEMENT IN THE COMMUNITY WHERE THEY WANT TO SEE THINGS ELEVATED ACROSS THE BOARD. AND SO I WAS JUST CURIOUS ON WHAT THAT AREA LOOKS LIKE. AND SINCE CINCINNATI AND WHERE THAT WHERE THAT'S LOCATED. AND THEN ALSO SO YOU'VE ONLY BEEN AROUND FOR YEARS AND HOW MANY EMPLOYEES DO YOU CURRENTLY? WE CURRENTLY HAVE SIX ON PAYROLL, SIX ON PAYROLL. SO MOVING TO MARYSVILLE, HOW DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA OF HOW MANY PEOPLE YOU WOULD EMPLOY? THE BUSINESS GROWS, RIGHT? RIGHT. SO YOU GROW WITH IT, AND YOU ALWAYS COME. SO IT'S HARD TO TELL WHAT IT WILL BE TOMORROW OR IN A YEAR'S TIME. BUT JUST TO OPERATE THE FACILITY, YOU'LL NEED AT LEAST THREE PEOPLE TO JUST INTERNALLY OPERATE THE FACILITY. SO SIX, LET'S SAY SIX PLUS THREE PLUS THREE PLUS. THEN AS WE START TO BRING MORE BUSINESS, WE NEED TO HAVE TRUCKS AND DRIVERS. AND THAT WOULD BE 30 PLUS. OKAY. AND THEY'RE ALL ALL, YOU KNOW, WORKING AROUND TWO THREE HOUR RADIUS FROM YOU. OKAY. SO THEY COULD BE LOCAL EMPLOYMENT. THEY COULD BE PREFERABLY PEOPLE SOMEWHERE HER. OKAY. AND SO THEN ALSO OTHER THAN GIVING ME THIS BECAUSE I AM TOO. BUT I WANTED TO. WHAT? WHY? WHY? MARYSVILLE? OUT OF ALL OF CENTRAL OHIO. WHY MARYSVILLE? YEAH, HONESTLY, IT'S CLOSE PROXIMITY FOR US, RIGHT? IT'S ALL OF OUR OWNERS. I MEAN, MAJORITY OF THEM LIVE HERE. LIVE RIGHT AROUND HERE. SO I. I LIVE IN HILLIARD. I HAVE ANOTHER BUSINESS HERE IN DUBLIN. WE HAVE TWO EMPLOYEES. TWO OF OUR PARTNERS LIVE IN WESTERVILLE. HE LIVES IN DUBLIN. SO FOR US IT WAS IF WE HAD TO OBVIOUSLY CHOOSE A COUNTY THAT THAT IS CLOSE TO OUR PROXIMITY ONE. SO THAT MAKES SENSE BECAUSE WE LOOKED AT OTHER RURAL COUNTIES AND SOME OF THEM LOGISTICALLY DIDN'T MAKE SENSE. RIGHT. I HAVE TO RUN AND OPERATE THIS BUSINESS, MAKE SURE WE STAY COMPLIANT. CAN'T BE DRIVING TWO HOURS EVERY DAY BACK AND FORTH. SO THAT WAS A BIG PART OF IT. AND THEN ALSO TOO LOGISTICALLY.

RIGHT. SO YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT TALK ABOUT LOGISTICS. YOU TALK ABOUT ACCESS. THERE'S 33 CORRIDOR 270. LOGISTICALLY WE SERVICE EVERYBODY US. SO WITH US BEING CENTRALLY LOCATED HERE, WE COULD TOUCH CLEVELAND. YOU CAN TOUCH DETROIT, INDIANAPOLIS, PITTSBURGH AND NORTHERN KENTUCKY. SO IT'S JUST IDEAL SPACE FOR US AS A LEGIT.

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SO 15,000 IS MORE THAN ENOUGH TO SUSTAIN WHAT WE WANT TO DO, LET ALONE IF WE HAD 40 OR 50,000FT■.

ABOUT HOW MANY TRUCK TRIPS PER DAY DO YOU. YES. THERE'S NOT A LOT OF BACK AND FORTH BECAUSE THIS IS EFFICIENCY OF LOGISTICS, RIGHT. SO I DON'T LIKE SPENDING MONEY ON FUEL. AND AGAIN, ANYTIME A TRUCK COMES BACK THAT'S RISK RIGHT. SO WE SEND OUR DRIVERS OUT WITH THEIR THEIR ROUTES AT THE BEGINNING OF THE DAY. AND WE DON'T WANT DRIVERS BACK TO OUR FACILITY UNTIL THEIR ENTIRE ROUTES RAN. SO IT'S AT THE END OF THE DAY THAT COULD BE A TYPICALLY THEY GET OUT ABOUT 630 OR 7:00 IN THE MORNING. SO THEY GOT TO GET OUT BECAUSE AGAIN, THEY HAVE TO GET TO A PITTSBURGH OR CLEVELAND OR CINC, INDIANAPOLIS, THEY'LL RUN DOES ANYBODY ELSE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? HEARING NONE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU BOTH. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANKS. SO THIS WILL BE BACK FOR SECOND READING. PUBLIC HEARING ON OCTOBER 28TH, 2024. ORDINANCE C

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WE'RE BACK AGAIN. OKAY, SO THIS IS A REZONING REQUEST FOR THE PARCEL LABELED SO THIS ORANGE PARCEL AND THIS IS A REQUEST TO REZONE THIS TO MANUFACTURING INNOVATION OVERLAY. SO THAT GIVES SOME ADDITIONAL REGULATIONS AND USES ON TOP OF THE MI DISTRICT. SO WE'RE ADDING ANOTHER DISTRICT ON TOP OF THAT EXISTING DISTRICT. THIS PARCEL IS ABOUT 55.5 ACRES.

LOT COVERAGE WOULD GO TO 60% WITH THAT OVERLAY DISTRICT. AND THIS WAS HEARD AT PLANNING COMMISSION EARLIER THIS MONTH ON OCTOBER 1ST. AND THAT VOTE WAS SEVEN. YES. ZERO. NO. SO THAT WAS A UNANIMOUS VOTE FOR APPROVAL FOR THE REQUEST FOR PROJECT COSMOS. AGAIN, TO GO TO REZONE TO MANUFACTURING INNOVATION OVERLAY. I BELIEVE WE HAVE AN APPLICANT HERE TONIGHT THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ABOUT THE PROJECT. SO WE CAN TURN IT OVER TO THEM. IF YOU GUYS DON'T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS. YEAH. OKAY. DO WE HAVE A LIST OF APPROVED USES? SO THE USES I CAN READ IT.

SO THE MI OVERLAY, THE ADDITIONAL USES, THERE WOULD BE TWO ADDITIONAL. SO DATA PROCESSING CALL CENTER LIGHT IN MY OVERLAY OR ALSO IN MANUFACTURING, WHICH IS PROFESSIONAL OFFICES, LABORATORY AND RESEARCH FACILITIES, WAREHOUSING, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE, AND THEN WHOLESALE AND DISTRIBUTION. SORRY, I DON'T HAVE THOSE. I DON'T HAVE A I DON'T HAVE A SLIDE FOR THE USES TONIGHT, BUT THAT'S WAREHOUSING OR PRIVATE WAREHOUSING. WAREHOUSING THAT WOULD NOT BE WHAT I REFER TO AS STAY IN BOXES. STORAGE AREA.

PRIVATE? NO, I BELIEVE THAT THAT'S AN INDIVIDUAL COMPANY. WAREHOUSING INDIVIDUAL COMPANY WAREHOUSE. I BELIEVE WE HAVE AN APPLICANT HERE TONIGHT. YEAH. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO COME UP, WE

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LOCATE HERE IN MARYSVILLE. AND AGAIN THE INCREASED USES GIVE US FLEXIBILITY THAT WE FEEL IS IMPORTANT FOR OUR USE OF THE PROPERTY. DOES DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? SO IF I LOOK AT THE NOTE AND I SEE LITTLE YELLOW STICK AND IT HAS A CONNECTING ROAD THERE. THERE ARE TWO OUT TWO CONNECTIONS THAT ARE AVAILABLE TO THE SITE. THERE'S INNOVATION WAY. AND THEN I THINK IT'S SULTAN WAY. YEAH. SO THERE ARE TWO ACCESS POINTS THAT ARE AVAILABLE TO THAT 55 ACRES. AND THIS WILL ALL BE FOR ONE LARGE LARGE BUILDING OR THIS WILL BE DEEPLY UP. AND THEN IF THERE IS A ROAD CONSTRUCTION IN BETWEEN BUILDINGS, THAT'S ALL THE RESPONSIBILITY OF COSMOS. YEAH. I CAN'T SPEAK TO, YOU KNOW, HOW MANY BUILDINGS ARE GOING TO BE ANYTHING ALONG THAT LINE? WE'RE SIMPLY HERE THIS EVENING TO ASK FOR THE APPROVAL. OR AT LEAST YOUR CONSIDERATION FOR THOSE SIX ADDITIONAL USES, ALONG WITH THE OH, YES. ERIC, DO YOU HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL. I WOULD JUST SAY THAT THAT THIS PROPERTY WE OWN. SO YOU WILL BE HAVING A PURCHASE CONTRACT AT SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE, SO YOU CAN SAY YAY OR NAY TO THAT PURCHASE CONTRACT AT SOME POINT. SO YOU WILL HAVE A FINAL SAY AS YOU OWN THE PROPERTY. I'LL PUT MY GREEN THUMB ON IT. I WOULD ASK THAT WE PROTECT THE ONLY WOODED PATCH OF TREES THAT ARE ON THAT SIDE OF TOWN NOW. IT USED TO BE ANOTHER PATCH THAT WAS REMOVED. SO THIS IS THE LAST PATCH OF OLD GROWTH THAT'S OVER THERE. I THINK IT WAS DISCUSSION. GOOD. YES. AT THE PLANNING COMMISSION. THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. THERE'S ACTUALLY A SMALL WETLANDS ON THE EAST SIDE, TOO, THAT WE HAVE TO KEEP, KEEP DEVELOPMENT AWAY BAKERS. THE DESIGN TEAM IS AWARE OF YOUR CONCERNS. GOOD. WELL, I HAVE ONE REQUEST. MISS GABLER, IF YOU COULD MAYBE JUST SEND THE CURRENT ZONING VERSUS THE PROPOSED. YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. WE CAN SHARE THAT. WE CAN JUST SEE IT SIDE BY SIDE. THANK YOU.

ANYBODY ELSE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? OKAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. HEARING NONE THIS BE BACK FOR SECOND READING. PUBLIC HEARING ON OCTOBER 28TH. ORDINANCE D. FIRST READING TITLE ONLY TO

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SO SOME OF THESE ARE FOR THAT. AND THEN SOME OF THESE ARE FOR STRAIGHT UP APPROPRIATIONS OF LINE ITEMS TO GET THEM THROUGH THE YEAR. THERE'S LITTLE EXPLANATIONS THERE WHERE WE HAVE THAT. ULTIMATELY, WHAT REALLY PLEASES ME ABOUT THIS 1 IN 2024 IS A SMALL SUPPLEMENTAL. I THINK WE HAVE JUST HAD A REALLY GOOD YEAR WHERE THINGS HAVE STAYED WITHIN BUDGET AND REALLY A VAST MAJORITY OF WHAT WE'RE DOING IS TRYING TO MOVE MONEY AROUND WITHIN THE FUNDS. AS I'VE SAID IN THE PAST, SOMETIMES WE HAVE MONEY THAT, YOU KNOW, I NEED LITERALLY LIKE $100 HERE, $100 THERE, $100 THERE. AND INSTEAD OF GOING THROUGH THAT NOW, I JUST SAY, LET'S PUT IT IN THIS ONE LINE ITEM. AND THEN ONCE IT'S WITHIN, SAY, THE 51 OR 50 TWOS, I CAN MOVE THAT AROUND ADMINISTRATIVELY. SO THAT AVOIDS THE HEADACHE OF HAVING SOMETHING THAT COULD BE MANY, MANY PAGES LONGER JUST TO MOVE. LITERALLY. WHAT COULD BE $10 AT THE END OF THE YEAR TO A DIFFERENT LINE ITEM. SO OBVIOUSLY THIS IS FIRST READING I'M HAVING. I HAVE NO REQUEST TO MOVE THIS FORWARD ANY FASTER, SO I WOULD JUST ENCOURAGE YOU TO REACH OUT IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, WHETHER DURING THE COUNCIL MEETING OR FEEL FREE COUNCIL. OKAY. WE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW THIS AND I AGREE WITH BRETT THAT ESPECIALLY THE PORTION THAT COMES OUT OF THE GENERAL FUND IS THE LOWEST THAT I'VE EVER SEEN. YEAH. THE OTHER THING THAT MOST PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE, I KNOW WE'RE NOT DONE WITH CONSTRUCTION YET, BUT KYLE WAS KIND ENOUGH TO GIVE ME AN UPDATE AS TO WHERE WE ARE TODAY. AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE CITY OF MARYSVILLE. SO OUR STREET PAVING PROGRAM, THERE WAS $1.6 MILLION. AND YOU MENTIONED THAT IT IS IN THE PROCESS OF BEING COMPLETED. I KNOW YOU'VE DONE A REALLY NICE JOB ON IMPROVING STORM, IMPROVING PAVING. I'M NOT SAYING THE ROADS THAT YOU'VE DONE ARE COMPLETELY WHO KNOWS? AND OUT OF THAT 1.6 MILLION IN PAVING, 158 OF THAT WAS FUNDED BY WATER WITH THE PAVING OF WEST THIRD STREET. THE AREA KNOWN AS ROUTE 31, PHASE THREE. MOST OF US KNOW IT BETTER AS BEING BETWEEN THE SCHOOL AND THE FAIRGROUNDS. THAT WAS A $4 MILLION PROCESS OF A PROJECT, A 2.6 MILLION OF THAT AMOUNT WAS FUNDED BY ODOT. WHEN IT COMES TO WATER, WE HAD THE CHESTNUT WATERLINE REPLACEMENT AND FLAT ROAD WATER TOWER WATERLINE CONNECTION TO THE TUNE OF 500,000 AND THEN PUMP STATION NUMBER FOUR REPLACEMENT. WE'RE LOOKING AT 10,250,000. AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, HICKORY DRIVE, BARRHAVEN STORMWATER IMPROVEMENT. WE'RE GET ALL THOSE AMOUNTS. IT JUST JUST I DON'T WANT TO USE THE WORD MIND BOGGLING, BUT IT TAKES A LOT TO MAKE IT HAPPEN. YEAH. AND THEN TO SEE THAT SOME OF THOSE THAT WE DO HAVE, ESPECIALLY THE ENTERPRISE FUNDS. I THINK IT'S A VERY HEALTHY SUPPLEMENTAL THAT WE HAVE WITH ALL THE THINGS THAT WE'VE HAD TO DEAL WITH. SO KUDOS TO THE ADMINISTRATION FOR THE BRINGING IT TO US IN A TIMELY FASHION, BUT IN THE WAY THAT YOU DO. THANK YOU. ANYBODY ELSE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? HEARING NONE. THIS WILL BE BACK FOR SECOND READING PUBLIC HEARING ON OCTOBER 28TH,

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IF THEY DO NOT SATISFY, WE CAN ACTUALLY DECREASE THE ABATEMENT. THOSE WERE BUILT IN THERE IN DISCUSSIONS AND NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE CLIENT. IT'S ALSO, I THINK, IMPORTANT TO NOTE WITH THE PSA APPROVAL THAT CITY COUNCIL MADE, WE DID AGREE TO OFFER INCENTIVES TO A PROCESS AS LONG AS THEY SATISFIED THE INCENTIVE POLICY. WE WORK TOGETHER WITH THEM ON THAT AS WELL. AS I SAID EARLIER, THEY OPUS DESIRES TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE INCENTIVE APPROVALS.

THE GAME PLAN OR THE SCHEDULE IS THE FIRST READING AGAIN ON OCTOBER 7TH. TONIGHT, SECOND READING, THIRD READING AND POTENTIAL APPROVAL WOULD BE ON OCTOBER 28TH. OKAY, THIS SHOWS YOU KIND OF A TAX REVENUES. AND I THINK THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT SLIDE TO SHOW THIS EVENING AND GIVES YOU AN IDEA OF WHAT WE CAN ANTICIPATE OF DIFFERENT TAXING AUTHORITIES, THE CITY AND THE SCHOOLS, PARTICULARLY IN THIS CASE, WHAT THEY WOULD RECEIVE. I WOULD TAKE YOU TO THE FOURTH COLUMN TO BEGIN WITH. TODAY, THE PROPERTY IS GENERATING ABOUT 2000, $2,100 A YEAR. WE HAD 3000 OVER A TEN YEAR PERIOD. THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, EXCUSE ME, IT'S $2,700 FOR THE SCHOOLS, BUT OVER A TEN YEAR PERIOD, THE SCHOOLS WOULD BE AT ABOUT 2800 $28,000. THE CITY WOULD BE AT 2100. SO IT'S REALLY NOT GENERATING A LOT OF TAXES AT ALL. WITH THE ABATEMENT, THE CITY WOULD RECEIVE ABOUT $74,000 IN TAX OR, EXCUSE ME, PROPERTY TAXES, INCOME TAXES, ABOUT 338,000 TOTAL ABOUT 412 OVER THAT TEN YEAR PERIOD. MARYSVILLE SCHOOLS WOULD RECEIVE 1 MILLION VERSUS 28,000 OVER THAT SAME TEN YEAR PERIOD. THEY WOULD ALSO RECEIVE 50% OF THE INCOME TAX FROM THE CITY. THE NUMBERS ARE DIFFERENT BETWEEN OURS AND THEIRS BECAUSE THE FIRST COUPLE OF YEARS, WE'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE $2 MILLION IN $2 MILLION IN ANNUAL PAYROLL. THAT'S WHY THAT NUMBER IS SHOWN THAT WAY. ALSO TO THE RIGHT. IT SHOWS YOU WITH THE ABATEMENT HOW MUCH MORE IN TAXES THAT THIS ACTUALLY SCHOOLS AND THE CITY WOULD RECEIVE AS A RESULT OF INVESTING ON THIS PROPERTY. ALSO IMPORTANT TO NOTE THE AT THE BOTTOM, THE SCHOOL DISTRICT WILL ACTUALLY AFTER THIS ABATEMENT EXPIRES, WILL RECEIVE ABOUT 430 $400,000 ANNUALLY IN PROPERTY TAXES. IT WILL BE GENERATED.

THEY WILL NOT RECEIVE INCOME TAXES WHEN THEY WHEN THE ABATEMENT EXPIRES, BUT A PRETTY SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE FROM RECEIVING $2,700 ON AN ANNUAL BASIS. THAT'S THE PRESENTATION.

MR. SPENCER, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY A FEW WORDS ON BEHALF OF THE APPLICANT? JUST A FEW. MR. PRESIDENT, MEMBERS OF COUNCIL, THANKS AGAIN FOR HAVING US. THE OPUS FOLKS ARE STILL IN OREGON FROM THE OHIO STATE GAME, SO THEY COULDN'T MAKE IT BACK. BUT JUST REAL QUICK POINT. WE STARTED TALKING WITH THESE FOLKS IN JANUARY, AND THEY WERE VERY ADAMANT ABOUT TRYING TO BREAK

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SO THE TAXES WOULD KICK IN ON JANUARY 1ST OF 2026 IS WHEN THEY WOULD KICK IN. IT'S NOT GOING TO BE 40% COMPLETE BY JANUARY 1ST OF 2025, SO IN 26 IS WHEN THAT WOULD KICK IN FOR THOSE TAXES.

OKAY. AND THEN INCOME TAX, IT'S GOING TO BE MORE GRADUAL OVER TIME WHEN THE WHEN THE SPACES GET FILLED UP. SO OVER THE NEXT YOU KNOW 2 TO 3 YEARS THEY'LL ACTUALLY MEET THE INCOME TAX LEVELS. OKAY. THE PAYROLL LEVEL. AND THEN BACK TO THE JOBS. I JUST WANT TO BE CLEAR. SO YOUR BASELINE IS 80 JOBS THAT THIS PARTICULAR DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY WOULD GENERATE AT A ROUND. I'M TRYING TO DO MATH IN MY HEAD. SO I'LL SAY 60 K A YEAR ISH IN PER HEAD PAYROLL. JUST TO CLARIFY, ONE THING, IN THE EVENT THAT THE DEVELOPER ISN'T MEETING THAT PAYROLL TARGET, WE DO HAVE THE ABILITY TO RETRACT THAT BENEFIT FROM THE DEVELOPER, CORRECT? ABSOLUTELY. SO WE HAVE WHAT WE CALL A TAX INCENTIVE REVIEW COUNCIL THAT MEETS ON AN ANNUAL BASIS. THE CITY HAS, OF COURSE, REPRESENTATION AS WELL AS THE COUNTY. AND WE HAVE A HOUSING COUNCIL AS WELL THAT THE CITY COMPRISED OF. SO WE REVIEW EVERY ABATEMENT EACH YEAR AND REVIEW IT BASICALLY ON, YOU KNOW, THREE MAIN FACTORS, BUT OTHER FACTORS AS WELL JOBS, PAYROLL AND INVESTMENT. IF THEY DO NOT SATISFY ANY OF THE THRESHOLDS ESTABLISHED IN THE AGREEMENT, WE CAN MODIFY, YOU CAN TERMINATE, YOU CAN CONTINUE. YOU'RE HOPING YOU'RE GOING TO CONTINUE EVERY YEAR AS THEY MEET THOSE THRESHOLDS. BUT YES, YOU HAVE THAT ABILITY. THE HOUSING COUNCIL WOULD MAKE A RECOMMENDATION AND COME BACK TO YOU ALL ALSO THROUGH THE TURK. THE TURK ALSO REVIEWS THIS AND MAKE A RECOMMENDATION TO, TO MAKE, YOU KNOW, TO, TO MODIFY OR TO TERMINATE. THERE'S ANOTHER FACTOR WE INCLUDE IN THAT AGREEMENT. WE ALSO REQUIRE A SCHOOL PARTNERSHIP OR RELATIONSHIP. THAT'S SOMETHING I DID MENTION EARLIER, WHICH COULD BE AN INTERNSHIP SOMETIME TYPE OF PARTNERSHIP OR DIALOG WITH THE SCHOOLS. WE DON'T HAVE TO REQUIRE THAT, BUT WE ALWAYS REQUIRE THAT IN THE SENATE BECAUSE IT'S TO THE COMPANY'S BENEFIT AS WELL AS THE SCHOOL'S BENEFIT FOR THEM TO HAVE SOME TYPE OF RELATIONSHIP BECAUSE THEY PROVIDE THE WORKFORCE OF

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ADMINISTRATION. I THINK I'M GOING TO DEFER TO HOLLY. I THINK DO YOU HAVE A COMMENTS TO MAKE? I DEFER TO HOLLY AND LET HER. KNOW WE'RE GOING TO BE A TWO PART PRESENTATION. SO I'M JUST GOING TO BE VERY BRIEF. A COUPLE OF MINUTES, AND THEN WE HAVE ANOTHER GROUP THAT'S GOING TO PULL UP RIGHT BEHIND ME. GOOD EVENING MEMBERS OF COUNCIL. AND THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK WITH YOU THIS EVENING. MY NAME IS HOLLY ZWEIZIG. I SERVE AS THE ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF THE MENTAL HEALTH AND RECOVERY BOARD OF UNION COUNTY, AND I ALSO SERVE AS A MEMBER OF THE UNION COUNTY DRUG FREE COALITION. SINCE 2016, MARYSVILLE CITY COUNCIL HAS ENGAGED IN NUMEROUS DISCUSSIONS REGARDING STATE LEGISLATION AS IT RELATES TO MARIJUANA PRODUCTION, CULTIVATION, AND SALES. WE APPRECIATE YOUR DILIGENT EFFORTS AND ONGOING COMMITMENT TO THOROUGHLY ASSESS THE POTENTIAL BENEFITS AND IMPLICATIONS OF PERMITTING MARIJUANA BUSINESSES WITHIN THE CITY OF MARYSVILLE. THE CURRENT MORATORIUM HAS PROVIDED ESSENTIAL TIME TO OBSERVE HOW STATE LEGISLATION HAS EVOLVED. ALTHOUGH A CONSENSUS ON ADDITIONAL REGULATORY MEASURES HAS NOT YET BEEN REACHED. IT IS NOTEWORTHY. NOTEWORTHY EXCUSE ME THAT 54% OF AMERICANS NOW RESIDE IN STATES WHERE RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA IS LEGAL. WE ACKNOWLEDGE THE SIGNIFICANT SHIFT IN PUBLIC ATTITUDES TOWARD MARIJUANA LEGISLATION. HOWEVER, IT IS IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THAT INCREASED ACCEPTANCE DOES NOT ALWAYS CORRELATE WITH POSITIVE OUTCOMES. SOME CITIES HAVE SEEN INCREASED LAW ENFORCEMENT AND FIRST RESPONDER ACTIVITY AS IT RELATES TO THESE DISPENSARIES. UNION COUNTY HAS INVESTED SUBSTANTIAL EFFORT IN DELIVERING HIGH QUALITY, RESEARCH BASED SUBSTANCE USE PREVENTION EDUCATION, YOUTH LED PROGRAMING AND HEALTH PROMOTION INITIATIVES. LOCAL STUDENT SURVEY DATA CONSISTENTLY INDICATE LOW RATES OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE AMONG OUR YOUNG PEOPLE, COMPARED TO BOTH STATE AND NEIGHBORING COUNTY AVERAGES. WE ARE COMMITTED TO SUSTAINING THIS PROGRESS. WE ALSO RECOGNIZE THAT A STUDENT'S CHOICE TO ABSTAIN FROM SUBSTANCE USE IS HEAVILY INFLUENCED BY ACCESS, AVAILABILITY, AND THE PREVAILING SOCIAL NORMS OF THE COMMUNITY THAT THEY LIVE IN. WE UNDERSTAND THAT THE DECISIONS FACING COUNCIL REGARDING MARIJUANA RELATED BUSINESSES ARE COMPLEX AND MULTIFACETED. WE APPRECIATE YOUR DEDICATION TO ENSURING THAT THESE DECISIONS PRIORITIZE THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF OUR FAMILIES. THANK YOU. DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? OKA.

JUST STATE YOUR FIRST AND LAST NAME AND YOUR ADDRESS, PLEASE. AWESOME. HI. MY NAME IS TRENT HOGUE. 18271 BURGER ROAD. AND I'M WITH THE UNION COUNTY DRUG FREE COALITION. AND I'M ONE OF THE FACILITATORS OF THE. OH, I DID THE THING AGAIN. AND ONE OF THE FACILITATORS OF THE TEEN PREVENTION LEADERSHIP ACADEMY, OR TEPLA, THE UNION COUNTY DRUG FREE COALITION HAS BEEN AROUND SINCE 2009. AND IN THAT TIME, OUR MISSION HAS BEEN TO EMPOWER UNION COUNTY FAMILIES AND YOUTH

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ONE OF THE MAIN GOALS OF THE COALITION IS TO CONTINUE TO MONITOR RISK FACTORS RELATED TO YOUTH SUBSTANCE USE, CHANGES TO MARIJUANA LEGISLATION SIGNIFICANTLY IMPACT ACCESS, AVAILABILITY AND ATTITUDES RELATED TO MARIJUANA USE. AS RECENTLY AS JULY, THE OHIO DIVISION OF CANNABIS CONTROL RELEASED A CONSUMER ALERT WARNING THE PUBLIC ABOUT CANNABIS PRODUCTS PACKAGING AND THAT TARGETS CHILDREN. LAST YEAR, WHILE THE TPLF WAS CONDUCTING OUR YEARLY ENVIRONMENTAL SCAN, THEY SAW EXAMPLES OF CANNABIS PRODUCTS BEING SOLD IN MARYSVILLE WITH CARTOON MASCOTS AND OTHER KID TARGETED PACKAGING. THE OYEZ SURVEY IS A QUESTIONNAIRE GIVEN ANNUALLY TO SEVENTH, NINTH AND 11TH GRADE STUDENTS IN UNION COUNTY AND ACROSS THE STATE. OVER 900 STUDENTS IN UNION COUNTY PARTICIPATED IN THE MOST RECENT SURVEY WHEN ASKED ABOUT MARIJUANA USE, STUDENTS IN UNION COUNTY SHOW MUCH LOWER RATES OF USE THAN STUDENTS WHO LIVE IN COUNTIES WHERE A DISPENSARY IS LOCATED. WHILE WE UNDERSTAND THAT THERE ARE MANY FACTORS THAT IMPACT US AT IMPACT USE, ACCESS AND AVAILABILITY REMAINS SOME OF THE STRONGEST INDICATORS. WHEN CONSIDERING THE COUNTIES DIRECTLY SURROUNDING UNION COUNTY THAT ALREADY HAVE DISPENSARIES. THIS GRAPH SHOWS THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS WHO INDICATE HAVING USED MARIJUANA. UNION COUNTY IS BY FAR THE LOWEST. HI, I'M RILEY ZORTMAN.

I'M A SOPHOMORE AT EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL. AND BEFORE I STARTED, I WANTED TO POINT OUT THE STATISTIC 30% OF UNION COUNTY YOUTH DO NOT PERCEIVE REGULAR MARIJUANA USE TO BE HARMFUL. SO JUST LIKE ACCESS AND AVAILABILITY, ACCEPTANCE AROUND MARIJUANA ALSO INCREASES RISK OF USE AMONG YOUTH, STUDENT STUDENTS HAVE A LOWER PERCEPTION OF HARM REGARDING MARIJUANA USE THAN THEY DO OF ALCOHOL VAPING, OR TOBACCO USE. WE EXPECT THAT INCREASE IN DISPENSARIES WILL CONTINUE TO LEAD SOCIAL NORMS TO BE MORE ACCEPTING OF USE. AN INFORMAL SURVEY OF LOCAL STUDENTS AT MARYSVILLE FOOTBALL GAME FOUND THAT STUDENTS WE SPOKE TO ALREADY BELIEVE THAT MARIJUANA IS MORE COMMON AMONGST TEENS THAN IT ALREADY IS. WE ALSO FOUND THAT THE TEENS WE SPOKE TO ARE NOT EXCITED ABOUT A DISPENSARY IN MARYSVILLE, AND A CLOSING. MARYSVILLE IS A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE, AND I LIKE HOW OUR COMMUNITY IS NOW. WE RELY ON ADULTS TO MAKE DECISIONS TO HELP KEEP YOUTH SAFE. WE ALSO HOPE THAT THAT THE COUNCIL MAKES A CAREFUL DECISION ABOUT DISPENSARIES. I HAVE A HANDOUT OF OUR PRESENTATION FOR COUNCIL. IT'S OKAY. DOES COUNCIL HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? NO, NOT AT THEM. I, I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU. I'M ASSUMING IT'S A SCHOOL NIGHT. SO SORRY IT'S SO LATE, BUT IT TAKES A LOT OF COURAGE TO STAND UP TO THE PODIUM AND SPEAK, ESPECIALLY AT YOUR YOUR YOUNG AGE AND THE PASSION THAT YOU DO HAVE, WHEN SOMETIMES IT CAN FEEL LIKE YOU'RE ALONE IN A ROOM. AND NO MATTER WHAT AGE YOU ARE, WE ALL HAVE THAT FEELING SOMETIMES THAT WE ARE ALL ALONE IN A ROOM SOMETIMES. SO I APPRECIATE YOUR DEDICATION, YOUR TIME, AND YOUR EFFORT TO NOT ONLY COME IN FRONT OF US, BUT TO SPEAK ON THE BEHALF OF MARYSVILLE RESIDENTS WHO WHO AGREE WITH YOU. SO IT TAKES A LOT OF COURAGE. SO THANK YOU TO THE BOTH OF YOU. DOES DOES COUNCIL HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON ANYTHING. YEAH. OH I'M SORRY CITIZENS WHO WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS TOPIC. HI I'M JEFFREY REED, 560 DOVE STREET IN

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THANK YOU. WOULD ANYBODY ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK ON THE TOPIC? PETER SZABO, 1581 VALLEY DRIVE.

FIRST OFF, I'D LIKE TO THANK THE STUDENTS FOR COMING HERE TODAY. I DO THINK THE EDUCATION REGARDING SUBSTANCE ABUSE IS VERY IMPORTANT. HOWEVER, I WOULD LIKE TO ECHO WHAT THE PREVIOUS GENTLEMAN JUST SAID. THE VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE IN UNION COUNTY VOTED IN FAVOR OF ISSUE TWO. THAT OPENED UP A CAN OF WORMS THAT WE NOW HAVE TO DEAL WITH. WE CAN BAN THE SALE OF MARIJUANA AND CANNABIS PRODUCTS WITHIN THE CITY, OR WE COULD TRY TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE SITUATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN PRESENTED BEFORE US THROUGH SALES TAX AND VARIOUS OTHER THINGS. WE COULD INCREASE REVENUE TO THE CITY INSTEAD OF RIGHT NOW. IF SOMEONE WANTS TO CONSUME THESE PRODUCTS, THEY HAVE TO DRIVE 25 MINUTES TO THE DISPENSARY IN FRANKLIN COUNTY.

THAT'S NOT VERY FAR. IF YOU'RE TRYING TO KEEP IT OUT OF THE CITY, IT'S NOT GOING TO DO ANYTHING. SO LET'S TRY TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT WHILE IT'S HERE, INSTEAD OF BANNING IT OUTRIGHT AND JUST COMPLETELY ELIMINATING THE POSSIBILITY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. WOULD ANYBODY ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK ON THE TOPIC? OKAY. HEARING NONE COUNCIL. MR. I APPRECIATE ALL THAT YOU DO FOR THE DRUG FREE COALITION. AND I THINK THAT IN THE EVER CHANGING WORLD, YOUR JOB IS MORE DIFFICULT. I AGREED WITH OUR TEMPORARY MORATORIUM TO ALLOW STATE TO ISSUE FINAL RULES ON THE MARIJUANA LEGISLATION. JUST AS A SIDE NOTE, I'VE BEEN LISTENING TO RONALD REAGAN'S DIARIES, AND IT'S AMAZING TO ME HOW MUCH TIME BACK IN THE EARLY 80S, THE JUST SAY NO CAMPAIGN WAS IN FULL SWING, AND HE AND NANCY REAGAN SPENT A LOT OF TIME RUNNING AROUND THE COUNTRY SAYING, JUST SAY NO. AND THAT INCLUDED MARIJUANA. HOWEVER, IN THE YEARS SINCE THEN, UNFORTUNATELY, THIS COUNTRY'S VIEWS HAVE BECOME MUCH MORE RELAXED ON MARIJUANA TO SUCH A POINT THAT, AS WE HEARD, 54% OF THE STATES ALLOW RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA JUST LIKE OHIO DOES NOW, IT DID NOT SURPRISE ME THAT OHIO RESIDENTS PASSED THAT BECAUSE OF OUR LARGE CITIES. I WAS REALLY SURPRISED UNION COUNTY PASSED IT AND ABSOLUTELY FLABBERGASTED THAT OUR VERY CONSERVATIVE MARYSVILLE, OHIO PASSED THE USE OF RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA. SO ALTHOUGH I COMPLETELY DISAGREE WITH THAT STANCE, AND I VOTED AGAINST RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA, THE FACT IS, IT DID PASS NOT ONLY IN THE STATE OR COUNTY AND OUR CITY. I'VE HEARD NOTHING BUT THE CITIZENS HAVE SPOKEN SINCE LAST NOVEMBER, AND I THINK THEY HAVE SPOKEN. THE PUBLIC HAS SAID THEY WANT TO BE ABLE TO USE RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA HERE IN MARYSVILLE. WELL, TO BE ABLE TO USE IT HERE, YOU NEED TO BE ABLE TO BUY IT HERE INSTEAD OF BANNING DISPENSARIES. I THINK WE

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I WOULD THINK THAT YOU WOULD NEED AT LEAST TWO BECAUSE I DON'T LIKE ONE BECAUSE THAT'S A MONOPOLY. AND THEN WE COULD BE EXTREMELY STRICT ON WHERE THEY ARE LOCATED. PLANNING COMMISSION MET LAST WEEK AND EXPRESSED THEIR FEELINGS THAT THEY, YOU KNOW, DIDN'T LIKE HOW WE AS COUNCIL WERE HANDLING IT AS WEL. SO WE'RE ALSO HEARING IT FROM OTHER INTERNAL BOARDS THAT WE'VE APPOINTED. IF WE WERE TO GO THE DIRECTION THAT I'M RECOMMENDING, THEN, HOLLY, YOUR JOB BECOMES EVEN MORE IMPORTANT AND I'LL BE THERE AND HELP YOU. BUT I WILL BE VOTING AGAINST BANNING MARIJUANA DISPENSARIES IN THE CITY BECAUSE I BELIEVE OUR CITIZENS HAVE SPOKEN. AND THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE TOUGHEST SPEECH I'VE EVER GIVEN. ANYBODY ELSE. HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? MR. PRESIDENT? I HAVE A FEW COMMENT. OKAY. IT'S ABOUT A FEW WEEKS AGO. I READ AN ARTICLE IN OUR LOCAL PAPER AND THE QUESTION WAS POSED, WHAT IS COUNCIL SMOKING? SO I WANT TO CLARIFY WHAT MAYBE PEOPLE THINK I'M SMOKING OR ANY ONE OF US ARE SMOKING WRITTEN BY MAC. JUST YEAH, IT'S AN EDITORIAL. YEAH. SO I WANT TO ADDRESS JUST ALLOW I WANT TO GIVE AN OPPORTUNITY, I GUESS, FOR ME TO EXPLAIN KIND OF MY THOUGHT PROCESS UP TO THIS POIN. SO IT WAS MENTIONED ISSUE TWO, I THOUGHT IT WAS ISSUE ONE, BUT APPARENTLY IT WAS ISSUE TWO. ISSUE TWO. IN 2023 IT WAS MENTIONED AND THAT HAS CHANGED THINGS IN OHIO. SO WHAT DID WHAT WERE THE PRIMARY COMPONENTS OF ISSUE TWO LAST YEAR? AND IT WAS TO ONE ALLOW THE USE AND TWO TO EXPAND REGULATED ACCESS. SO ARE WE AS COUNCIL, ARE WE CHANGING ANY OF THOSE? ARE WE CHANGING THE ALLOWING USE? WE ARE NOT EXPANDING REGULATED ACCESS THAT WILL HAPPEN REGARDLESS OF MARYSVILLE ALLOWING IT OR NOT.

THERE IS GOING TO BE AND THERE IS AN EXPANSION OF REGULATED ACCESS. WE ARE NOT CHANGING WHAT PEOPLE VOTED ON. PEOPLE VOTED AT A MACRO LEVEL. NOW WE HAVE TO DECIDE DETAILS AT THE MICRO LEVEL AND THAT IS OUR CITY. SO ANOTHER POINT I'M GOING TO JUMP TO IS THAT VOTERS HAVE SPOKEN.

YOU NEED TO LISTEN TO THEM. IT'S KIND OF WHAT I'VE HEARD AS WELL TIME AND TIME AGAIN. AND I THINK I HEARD A PERCENTAGE, 57%, OR MAYBE I'VE SEEN THAT 54% AROUND THERE. IF YOU MULTIPLY THAT TIMES SEVEN, WHICH IS THIS BODY HERE THAT EQUATES TO ABOUT BETWEEN 3 AND 4. OKAY. AND WHAT THAT MEANS IS, IS THAT THERE SHOULD NOT BE BY MATH CALCULATIONS, THERE SHOULD NOT BE A UNANIMOUS DECISION ONE WAY OR THE OTHER ON THIS. IF YOU JUST TAKE THE MATH AND THEN OF COURSE MATH, THE SAMPLE SIZE COMES INTO ACCOUNT AND WHATNOT. BUT WE IF WE LISTEN TO THE VOTER, THERE SHOULD BE DIFFERING OPINIONS ON THIS BODY. AND ALREADY I'M UNDERSTANDING THAT THERE ARE DIFFERING OPINIONS GOING TO THE NEXT PIECE THAT I'VE HEARD IS THAT IF THIS DOESN'T HAPPEN OR THIS IS NOT ALLOWED IN MARYSVILLE, WE ARE FORGOING SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF REVENUE THAT WOULD COME TO THE CITY, PERHAPS AS AS A RESULT OF ALLOWING THESE. SO IF I THINK ABOUT THIS AND MAYBE SOMEONE EDUCATE ME, BUT ON IN A DISPENSARY, I CAN'T IMAGINE THAT THE SALARIES ARE SIGNIFICANT. I CAN'T IMAGINE THE STAFFING WOULD BE SIGNIFICANT. WE AS A CITY, WE MAKE MONEY ON INCOME TAX. I DON'T THINK THAT THIS OFFERS SIGNIFICANT BENEFITS IN TERMS OF REVENUE. FROM A CITY VIEWPOINT. AND ACTUALLY, I, I RECALL, I THINK THIS WAS PRIOR TO MY TIME ON COUNCIL, THE UNION COUNTY DRUG FREE COALITION HAD ACTUALLY PRESENTED SOME FACTS. MAYBE IT WAS A YEAR OR MORE TIME FRAME WHERE THEY HAD ACTUALLY TALKED ABOUT, GIVEN THAT THIS COULD BE IS NOW A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE, A BURDEN OF PAYING SOME OF THE COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH ADMINISTERING TESTS IS TESTING AND SO ON AND SO FORTH. IT ACTUALLY FALLS ONTO THE CITY. SO WE ACTUALLY BEAR MORE COSTS WITH THIS BEING ALLOWED AT THE AT THE LOCAL LEVEL. THAT'S WHAT I RECALL HEARING. SO THOSE ARE SOME POINTS OF MY THOUGHT. LET'S SEE HERE. WE HAD ALSO HEARD ABOUT INCREASED USAGE AND ACCESS AMONGST MINORS. WE HEARD TESTIMONY ABOUT THAT. AND THAT IS OF CONCERN TO ME. AND WHAT IS ESPECIALLY PROBLEMATIC IN MY MIND IS THE MARKETING OF SOME OF

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PROPERLY GUIDED OKAY. BUT THE STORES THAT ARE NOW BEING PRESENTED AND THE YOUNG PEOPLE, YEAH, THEY HAVE GONE TO THOSE STORES WHERE THEY SELL CANNABIS AND THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO IDENTIFY THEMSELVES. THEY WERE UNDER THE AGE OF 21. SO WE ARE NOT COMPLETELY THERE WHERE WE NEED TO BE. YEAH, I THINK WE'RE GETTING THERE WITH THE MEDICAL. YEAH. BUT WHEN IT COMES TO

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SO ALL OF THOSE THINGS CURRENTLY ARE NOT POSSIBLE TO DO THAT. YEAH. SO YOU CAN SAY, YEAH, IT'S FREE. BUT WE ALSO HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE CONSEQUENCES. AND TODAY THE CONSEQUENCES STILL OUTWEIGH THE MAYBE INTENT. YEAH I DON'T KNOW. BUT THE TODAY IS NOT THE RIGHT TIME YET TO START OPENING UP DISPENSING CENTERS. MEDICAL. I THINK WE'RE NOT THAT FAR AWAY FROM IT. THERE'S PRIVATE OR USE.

WE STILL HAVE TO LEARN TO TRUST BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH THE STATE IS BEGINNING TO DEVELOP, SITE IS BEGINNING TO DEVELOP GUIDELINES. YEAH, THEY ARE NOT PROPERLY AND AGAIN, WE ALSO HAVE TO CONSIDER ABOUT THE PEOPLE THAT SLOWLY BUT SURELY AS THEY CONTINUE TO NEED A HIGHER DOSES OF THE THC, WHICH AS I SAID, STARTS AT 20 AND GOES AS HIGH AS 38, AND IT MAY TAKE A WHOLE YEAR BEFORE YOU GET TO THAT POINT WHERE YOU CAN GET THAT WHEN YOU SMOKE IT OR VAPE IT, WHICHEVER WAY YOU WANT TO DO IT, THAT IT GIVES YOU THAT PARTICULAR BUZZ, HOW SOON OR HOW CLOSE ARE YOU TO BEING ADDICTED TO COCAINE? AND THEN THERE'LL BE ANOTHER EMPTY SEAT AGAIN OVER AT THE AVALON THEATER, BECAUSE SOMEBODY ELSE DIED HERE IN THE CITY OF UNION COUNTY. SO WE'RE NOT THERE YET. WE'RE GETTING CLOSE. YEAH, BUT OF THE THREE ITEMS THAT WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH. YEAH, ONE OF THEM BEING PRODUCTION, THE OTHER ONE BEING PROCESSING, AND THOSE ARE CURRENTLY STILL WITH THE PLANNING COMMISSION. YEAH. THE QUESTION FOR US IS TO BAN FOR THE TIME BEING. YEAH. IT'S NOT A MORATORIUM. SO WE DON'T HAVE AN END DATE YET. BUT 1 OR 2 YEARS FROM NOW THERE COULD BE A DIFFERENT COUNCIL, THE SAME THINGS COULD BE CONSIDERED DIFFERENTLY THAT IT WOULD BE A SAFER USE THEN IT COULD ALWAYS BE CHANGED. SO THAT'S MY TAKE ON WHAT I'VE SEEN. AND HAVING BEEN

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NOW, DISPENSARIES ALSO OFFER OR SHOW TO OFFER ECONOMIC ADVANTAGES BY GENERATING LOCAL EMPLOYMENT AND ENCOURAGING BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT. NATIONALLY, THE CANNABIS INDUSTRY HAS CREATED AROUND 450,000 FULL TIME JOBS, WITH MANY COMMUNITIES SEEING GROWTH NOT ONLY IN DISPENSARY POSITIONS BUT ALSO IN RELATED SECTORS LIKE REAL ESTATE AND CONSTRUCTION COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE CHOSEN TO REGULATE DISPENSARIES CAN DIRECT SOME OF THIS REVENUE TOWARD CRITICAL SERVICES, SUCH AS MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION SUPPORT, THEREBY INVESTING A STRONGER SOCIAL SAFETY NET. SO WITHOUT WITH THE BENEFITS, THERE ARE CLEAR AND SUBSTANTIAL RISKS THAT WE HAVE TO CONSIDER AS WELL. REPORTS FROM THE NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION, AKA NHTSA, NOTES A DOUBLING INCREASE IN IMPAIRED DRIVING INCIDENTS WHERE MARIJUANA WAS A FACTOR IN STATES WITH LEGALIZED MARIJUANA USING COLORADO AS THE EXAMPLE. HENCE, I GUESS WE'LL CALL THEM THE PIONEERS FATALITIES INVOLVING DRIVERS WHO TESTED POSITIVE FOR MARIJUANA NEARLY DOUBLED, DOUBLED AFTER LEGALIZATION. THIS RISK TO PUBLIC SAFETY ON OUR ROADS IS A SERIOUS CONCERN. ADDITIONALLY, INCREASED MARIJUANA ACCESSIBILITY HAS BEEN LINKED TO RISING HEALTH CHALLENGES, ESPECIALLY AMONG OUR YOUTH. THE CLEVELAND CLINIC HIGHLIGHTS THAT MARIJUANA USE IN YOUNGER POPULATIONS IS LINKED TO MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES, SUCH AS ANXIETY DEPENDENCY AND IMPAIRED COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT, ADDING PRESSURE ON HEALTH CARE RESOURCES AND IMPACTING FAMILY WELL-BEING. WHILE I UNDERSTAND THE BENEFITS AND THE EVOLVING VIEWS ON MARIJUANA, MY PRIMARY MY PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY IS TO PRIORITIZE THE HEALTH AND SAFETY AND WELFARE OF OUR RESIDENTS. I'M LEANING AGAINST PERMITTING DISPENSARIES IN OUR MUNICIPALITY BY TAKING THIS STANCE. I AIM TO PROTECT OUR COMMUNITY FROM POTENTIAL ADVERSE EFFECTS WHILE STILL RESPECTING THE STATE'S DECISION AND THE VOICE OF THE OHIOANS WHO VOTED IN FAVOR OF LEGALIZATION. BUT AS ALWAYS, I'M OPEN TO HEARING YOUR THOUGHTS AND CONCERNS, AND YOU'RE WELCOME TO REACH OUT TO ME TO HAVE FURTHER DISCUSSIONS AS NEEDED. THANK YOU. WOULD ANYBODY ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK ON THE TOPIC? HEARING NONE. THIS WILL BE BACK FOR THIRD READING. OCTOBER 28TH,

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ADMINISTRATION. NOTHING FURTHER. COUNCIL. THIS WILL BE BACK. OH! A MOTION TO MAKE. A MOTION TO PASS THE LEGISLATION. ROLL CALL, MR. BERGER. YES, MR. HUNTER? YES. MR. REMES YES. MR. RAUCH.

YES. MR. BORDNER YES. MR. WOLFE NO. MR. BURPEE YES. SIX. YES. ORDINANCE I, THIRD READING TITLE

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SIX. YES. ORDINANCE K, THIRD READING, TITLE ONLY TO APPROVE PLANNING COMMISSION'S

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COUNCIL. WELL, WE CAN'T REALLY DO THIS UNTIL WE ADDRESS THE PREVIOUS ORDINANCE AND TAKE

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MR. REAMES. YES. MR. RAUCH. YES. SEVEN. SIX. YES. I'M SORRY. ORDINANCE M, THIRD READING,

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[COMMENTS OF THE CITY MANAGER AND COUNCIL PERSONS AND GENERAL DISCUSSION:]

SO HAVING SAID THAT, IF THERE IS A LEGAL IMMIGRANT THAT'S HERE WORKING AT A JOB THAT PAYS VERY WELL AND THEY'RE ABLE TO AFFORD THAT RENT, THEN YEAH, THEY COULD PROBABLY LIVE THERE. BUT WE ARE

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I GRADUATED IN 82. MY TWO DAUGHTERS GRADUATED IN 2007, 2010 PUTS ME IN RAREFIED AIR UP HERE, BECAUSE I'M THE ONLY ONE THAT CAN SAY THAT NOBODY ELSE HERE HAS HAD A FATHER THEMSELVES, AND CHILDREN GRADUATE FROM MARYSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL. I ALSO SERVED AS AN ASSISTANT BASKETBALL COACH, VARSITY COACH FOR SEVEN YEARS WITH HEAD COACH KENNY CHAFIN AND RYAN GROSS. MY WIFE IS A RETIRED SCHOOL TEACHER FOR AFTER 35 YEARS. 28 OF THAT WAS HERE IN MARYSVILLE. SHE WAS ALSO THE HEAD SWIM COACH FOR MORE THAN A DECADE AT THE HIGH SCHOOL. I'VE GOT A SISTER THAT'S STILL A TEACHER IN MARYSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL, AND SHE'S HOPING TO RETIRE THERE FAIRLY SOON. SOME OF OUR BEST FRIENDS ARE STILL WORKING IN THE MARYSVILLE SCHOOL SYSTEM. I BELIEVE EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY HAS RECEIVED AN EXCELLENT EDUCATION HERE IN MARYSVILLE, AND STARTING WITH MY DAD, EVERY ONE OF US HAS ATTENDED COLLEGE. BOTH OF MY SIBLINGS, ALL OF THEIR CHILDREN, ALL OF MY CHILDREN. WELL, BOTH OF THEM, HONEY, I DON'T HAVE MORE THAN TWO. ONLY GOT TWO. SOME OF THEM HAVE EVEN GOTTEN ADVANCED DEGREES, MEANING THE BASE THAT THEY GOT HERE AT MARYSVILLE WAS TREMENDOUS. YOU KNOW, I GREW UP IN A TIME WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE OLD HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL FIELD BEING ON LEWIS ON GROVE STREET. BUT I GREW UP IN A TIME WHERE ON FRIDAY NIGHT, NOTHING WAS OPEN IN TOWN BECAUSE EVERYBODY WAS AT THE GAME AND THE SCHOOL AND THE COMMUNITY WERE INTERCHANGEABLE. THEY WERE ONE AND THE SAME. OVER TIME, OUR SMALL TOWN HAS GROWN. IT'S GOTTEN BIGGER. IT'S GOING TO CONTINUE TO GET BIGGER. THERE WAS AN EXCELLENT ARTICLE. SORRY, MAC. THERE WAS AN EXCELLENT ARTICLE IN THE DISPATCH YESTERDAY ABOUT CENTRAL OHIO, ACTUALLY, ABOUT ALL OF OHIO. THE FACT THAT CENTRAL OHIO IS GROWING AND THE REST OF OHIO IS NOT GROWING, IT'S GOING THE WRONG WAY. AND THEN THERE WAS ANOTHER ARTICLE TODAY ABOUT NOT RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT, BUT COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT. SO TAKE A LITTLE TIME AND READ THOSE. BUT EVEN THOUGH OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM IS GROWING, OUR COMMUNITY IS GROWING. OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM HAS TO GROW WITH WITH THE COMMUNITY AS WELL. THE OPPORTUNITIES THAT EXIST FOR OUR STUDENTS NOW ARE SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT THAN THE OPPORTUNITIES I HAD WHEN I WAS HERE, WHEN THERE WERE ONLY 5000 OF US IN THIS TOWN. AND I WOULD SAY THAT THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUR CITIZENS ARE SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT THAN THEY WERE BACK IN 1982. I ALSO BELIEVE THAT IF YOU WANT A STRONG COMMUNITY, IT'S IMPERATIVE THAT YOU HAVE A STRONG SCHOOL SYSTEM. AND THANKFULLY, WE DO HAVE ONE. I SAY ALL THIS BECAUSE OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM IS AT A CROSSROADS. THEY DO HAVE SOME ECONOMIC CHALLENGES THAT AWAIT THEM, AND SOME OF THEM ARE CREATED BECAUSE OF A GROWING COMMUNITY THAT I, AS A CITY COUNCIL PERSON, HAVE VOTED FOR. WE WANT A STRONG SCHOOL SYSTEM WHERE STUDENTS RECEIVE AN EXCELLENT EDUCATION AND HAVE OPPORTUNITIES AND EXPERIENCES THAT WE DID NOT. THAT'S WHAT EVERY PARENT WANTS FOR THEIR CHILD. THAT'S WHAT I WANT FOR MY GRANDCHILDREN. WE MUST PASS THIS LEVY SO THAT THOSE OPPORTUNITIES AND EXPERIENCES ARE THERE FOR THIS GENERATION AND GENERATIONS TO COME. MY WIFE HAS ALREADY

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AND YEAH, IT OPENED MY EYES TO THE OPPORTUNITIES THAT THAT ARE IN THIS COMMUNITY THAT ARE IN THE SCHOOLS. AND I DO BELIEVE THAT, YOU KNOW, MY DAUGHTER AND AS WELL AS MANY OTHER STUDENTS ACROSS THE DISTRICT ARE POSITIONED TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THEIR ADULT LIVES. SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I'M GRATEFUL FOR, AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I'M HOPEFUL CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH THE PASSING OF THE LEVY. SO THAT'S ALL I HAD TO SAY. THANK YOU, MR. BORDNER. YOU GUYS ARE REALLY GOOD. REALLY GOOD. YOU KNOW, I, I'M A BELIEVER THAT THE ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT THAT WE CREATE IS THE FOUNDATION OF OUR COMMUNITY. HOWEVER, THE SCHOOL SYSTEM IS THE CENTER PILLAR, HOLDS EVERYTHING TOGETHER, KIND OF LIKE A TEEPEE. AND, YOU KNOW, IF EITHER OF THOSE INSTITUTIONS START TO CRUMBLE OR AREAS START TO CRUMBLE, EVERYTHING SURROUNDING IT WILL WILL CRUMBLE AS WELL. SO IT'S IMPORTANT THAT, YOU KNOW, AS WE'RE GROWING, WE'RE BALANCED, WE'RE DOING THE RIGHT THING, MAKING THE RIGHT DECISIONS. YOU KNOW, I SAID IT BEST, THE DECISIONS THAT I MAKE TODAY, I'VE GOT TWO YOUNG CHILDREN, SEVEN AND NINE. SO FOURTH GRADE AND SECOND GRADE AND MY DECISIONS ARE ALWAYS GOING TO BE IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE BROADER COMMUNITY, BUT SPECIFICALLY FOR MY FOR MY CHILDREN, BECAUSE THE DECISIONS THAT WE MAKE TODAY ULTIMATELY IMPACT THEIR TOMORROW. SO I APPRECIATE EVERYBODY COMING OUT TONIGHT, ALL THE SUPPORT AND LOOKING FORWARD TO HEARING, HEARING EVERYBODY GET OUT AND VOTE. THANKS. COUNCILMAN WOLFF.

SO I'LL ALSO SPEAK AS AN INDIVIDUAL HERE AND AS THE ONLY OTHER MEMBER, MEMBER OF COUNCIL TO GRADUATE FROM MARYSVILLE AND I TRULY REALIZE THE ACADEMIC AND ATHLETIC ABILITIES OR OPPORTUNITIES THAT I WAS GIVEN IN GRADUATING IN 2017 AND, YOU KNOW, RECEIVING A GREAT SIXTH GRADE MATH EDUCATION FROM YOUR WIFE AND GROWING UP IN THIS COMMUNITY AND, AND SEEING THE IMPORTANCE OF A GOOD SCHOOL SYSTEM AND SEEING OTHER AREAS OF THE STATE AND COUNTRY WHERE, YOU KNOW, A SCHOOL SYSTEM ISN'T HELD IN AS HIGH REGARD OR, YOU KNOW, DOESN'T GET SUPPORT FROM THE COMMUNITY, HOW THEY KIND OF FALL APART. AND THAT BRINGS THE COMMUNITY DOWN WITH IT. IT'S A VERY IMPORTANT LEVY, A VERY IMPORTANT ELECTION COMING UP AND FOR MULTIPLE DIFFERENT REASONS.

BUT I WOULD ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO, YOU KNOW, MAKE SURE YOU GET OUT AND VOTE. VOTE YOUR CONSCIENCE, VOTE BASED ON, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S GOING ON IN YOUR LIFE. BUT I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU TO SUPPORT A VOTE OF THE SCHOOLS LEVY. MR. BURBANK. OKAY. WELL, AS YOU KNOW, EARLY VOTING HAS STARTED. YEAH. AND MOST EVERYBODY HAS THEIR MIND ON THE SCHOOL. THEY GET 63% OF WHAT WE

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ALSO, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW IT'S ONE OF THE AS A YOUNGER INDIVIDUAL AND AS WE HAVE CITY STAFF WITH MORE WISDOM THAN I DO, YOU KNOW, WE ARE NOTICING MORE AND MORE RETIREMENTS. I'M NOTICING MORE AND MORE RETIREMENTS FROM A YOUNG 12 YEAR OLD TO WHERE I AM NOW. AND I BROUGHT UP THIS TODAY ABOUT HOW CAN WE AS A CITY RECOGNIZE OUR CITY EMPLOYEES FOR THEIR ACTIVE SERVICE. AND SO FAR, WE CURRENTLY GIVE THEM A MARYSVILLE FLAG AND WE LIST THE YEARS OF THEY OF THEIR SERVICE. I BROUGHT UP THE POSSIBILITY OF MAYBE PLANTING A TREE TO CELEBRATE

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AND I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT RESIDENTS FULLY UNDERSTAND THE NECESSARY, THE NECESSARY STEPS WE HAVE TAKEN AS A COUNCIL TO REMOVE TIPS FROM RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENTS TO ENSURE THAT ALL NEW FUNDING THAT IS PASSED THROUGH THE LEVY GOES GOES TO THE SCHOOLS TO. ALSO, WE ARE DEDICATED TO UPDATING OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVE PACKAGES AND WE ALSO HAVE SHARED INCOME WITH OUR WITH WITH OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM. THE REALITY IS, IS THAT COUNCIL IN MY OPINION, HAVE DONE AN EXTRAORDINARY AMOUNT OF WORK SINCE JANUARY 1ST TO ENSURE THAT OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM IN THIS COMMUNITY IS VIBRANT, HEALTHY AND HAS HAD A VOICE. SO I AM HOPING THAT RESIDENTS WILL GET BEHIND COUNCIL AND THE SCHOOL DISTRICT TO ENSURE THAT MOVING FORWARD, THERE. IS A CONTINUED GROWING PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN BOTH ENTITIES AND WE CONTINUE TO PROSPER TOGETHER AS A COMMUNITY. SO IN IN THOSE STATEMENTS, I WOULD LIKE TO ADJOURN THE MEETING. SO MOVED. ALL

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